This paper tackles a core challenge in reverse engineering: high-fidelity reconstruction of continuous B-spline surfaces from discrete point clouds, where optimal knot placement remains pivotal yet not fully resolved. We propose a new fitting method...
The ship line often describes by the offset table of discrete data points, which leads to the problems that three view coordinates may not correspond, the fitting error is large and the fitted curve cannot be easily modified. This will seriously affe...
Defect repair on custom-curved glulam beams is still performed manually because knots are irregular, numerous, and located on elements that cannot pass through linear production lines, limiting the scalability of timber-based architecture. This study...
Acute and chronic gastric volvulus (ACGV) is a rare event in infants and children. Its prompt treatment is needed to avoid gastric ischemia and perforation. A laparotomy or a laparoscopic/endoscopic reduction with or without the gastrostomy formation...
Background: The Versius® is a recently approved robotic surgical system for general surgery procedures in adults. Before any application in children, data of its feasibility and safety in small cavities has to be compiled, beginning with inanimat...
The defensive use of cone snail venom is hypothesised to have first arisen in ancestral worm-hunting snails and later repurposed in a compartmentalised venom duct to facilitate the dietary shift to molluscivory and piscivory. Consistent with its plac...
The primary objective of this study was to assess the novel fixation method of a frameless copper-releasing intrauterine device inserted following placental delivery during cesarean section and analyze its impact in reducing device displacement and e...
(1) Background and Objectives: Mitral regurgitation is a common valve disease requiring surgical repair. Even with satisfactory results, repair techniques may underlie subjectivity and variability and require long learning curves. A novel approach, t...
Although cranial growth has been extensively explored, forensic and biological anthropology lack a formal incorporation of how cranial growth processes impact the adult phenotype and downstream biological profile estimations. Objectives: This researc...
Examining climate-related satellite data that strongly relate to seasonal phenomena requires appropriate methods for detecting the seasonality to accommodate different temporal resolutions, high signal variability and consecutive missing values in th...