Investigations on low carbon (non- and low-alloy) steels were conducted in form of load increase tests (LIT) and constant amplitude tests (CAT) to find the correlation among material behaviour, mechanical load, and the type of NDT method. With the he...
Tensile tests and fatigue tests on differently heat-treated low carbon (non- and low-alloy) steels were conducted and accompanied by non-destructive electrical resistometric (ER) and magnetic Barkhausen noise (MBN) measuring devices, in order to esta...
Within the scope of this contribution, a method for the determination of a strain limit for designing components made of elastomeric polyurethane systems is presented. The knowledge of a material-specific strain limit is essential for the structural-...
Non-small cell cancer (NSCLC) has been identified with a great variation of mutations that can be surveyed during disease progression. The aim of the study was to identify and monitor lung cancer-specific mutations incidence in cell-free DNA as well...
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global public health concern, and animal food production contributes to its spread. This study compared antimicrobial resistance gene (ARG) profiles in Salmonella spp., Escherichia coli, and Enterococcus spp. isola...
Main prognostic factors of anal squamous cell carcinoma (ASCC) are tumor size, differentiation, lymph node involvement, and male gender. However, they are insufficient to predict relapses after exclusive radiotherapy (RT) or chemoradiotherapy (CRT)....
Graph neural networks are often applied to load forecasting on the assumption that electrically related meter points should be modeled jointly, but this is rarely tested against a graph-free control, and building the graph usually requires a network...
A novel hantavirus, named Kiwira virus, was molecularly detected in six Angolan free-tailed bats (Mops condylurus, family Molossidae) captured in Tanzania and in one free-tailed bat in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Hantavirus RNA was found in dif...
Infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) commonly produces a range of genetic sequences during replication, particularly in the spike 1 (S1)-coding portion of the S gene, leading to distinct subpopulations within the broader viral population. It has been sh...
Diblock copolymers of polyhistidine are known for their self-assembly into micelles and their pH-dependent disassembly due to the amphiphilic character of the copolymer and the unsaturated imidazole groups that undergo a hydrophobic-to-hydrophilic tr...
In this paper, a distributed randomized gradient-free algorithm (DRGF) is employed to solve the complex non-convex economic dispatch problem whose non-convex constraints include valve-point loading effects, prohibited operating zones, and multiple fu...
Path planning to generate an appropriate time sequence of positions for a complex trajectory is an open challenge in robotics. This paper proposes an optimization method with the integration of an improved ant colony algorithm and a high-order spline...
This paper addresses the control of load demand and power in a battery energy storage system (BESS) with Boolean-type constraints. It employs model predictive control (MPC) tailored for such systems. However, conventional MPC encounters computational...
Heterogeneous robot fleets transport items that differ in shape and weight, and robots differ in what they can handle and where they can pass. Conventional task allocation methods often compute allocation costs and routes on a single load-invariant s...
In this study, nanoparticles prepared by the heat-induced self-assembly of bovine serum albumin-dextran conjugates (BSA-DX) were utilized as an effective delivery system for the immunoregulatory peptide Gln-Leu-Asn-Trp-Asp (QLNWD) from Meretrix meret...
The research presented in this paper explains how the complex-vector-filter (CVF) method can help in minimizing the current harmonic of a grid-tied photovoltaic system. In fact, the harmonic-free positive sequence (HFPS) load current is used to produ...
This study proposes a multi-stage decomposition framework for auxiliary power prediction of underwater vehicles to support energy management. Isolation Forest first removes outliers from the load record; Complete Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition...
Neonatal sepsis remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the first month of life, yet its presentation is nonspecific, and its microbiological confirmation is uniquely difficult. Low-circulating bacterial loads, small obtainable blood vo...
This study systematically investigates the optimization design and mechanical performance of carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) load-carrying structures for subway driver cabins to meet the lightweight demands of rail transit. Through experimenta...
Accurate short-term load forecasting is essential for reliable power system operation under increasingly nonlinear, volatile, and multi-scale load patterns. This study proposes a VMD–BayesXGB–BiLSTM hybrid forecasting framework that integ...
Auxiliary power units (APUs) of aircraft undergo continuous performance degradation during service due to the coupled effects of operating environment and load. Accurate prediction of their remaining useful life (RUL) is of great significance for avo...
Shearer trailing cable faults are difficult to distinguish from terminal measurements because their signatures coexist with changes in load, source imbalance, cable temperature, and sensor error. This study presents a physics-guided categorical Mamda...
Poultry is the most likely source of livestock-associated Extended Spectrum Beta-Lactamase (ESBL) and plasmid-mediated AmpC (pAmpC)-producing E. coli (EC) for humans. We tested the hypothesis that farming methods have an impact on the load of ESBL/pA...
In the context of autonomous vehicles, proper lane merging is critical as it can reduce the traffic bottleneck and lead to safer road transportation. To obtain a collision-free and efficient lane merging, advanced control algorithms need to be design...
Foamy viruses (FVs) are the only exogenous retrovirus to date known to infect neotropical primates (NPs). In the last decade, an increasing number of strains have been completely or partially sequenced, and molecular evolution analyses have identifie...
In this study, the nonlinear forced vibration response of fiber-reinforced laminated composite beams coated with functionally graded materials (FGMs) is investigated under the combined action of aero-thermoelastic loads and a concentrated harmonic ex...
Prerequisite for an efficient cooling energy system is the knowledge and optimal combination of different operating conditions of individual compression and free cooling chillers. The performance of cooling systems depends on their part-load performa...
Catheter-associated urinary tract infections are often caused by biofilm formation on device surfaces. This paper presents an antimicrobial catheter-coating hydrogel comprising p(HEMA) and carboxyl-functionalized p(HEMA-co-MA), loaded with benzalkoni...
The article analyses the impact of wind suction on roof coverings glued with polyurethane adhesives to flat roofs, i.e., roofs with an up to 20% slope. The impact of the cyclical wind was simulated in fatigue tests, gradually increasing the test pres...
Nowadays, functional foods supplemented with health-promoting microorganisms have attracted consumer attention due to their health benefits. However, maintaining high cell loads, which consist of an essential requirement for conferring the health eff...
Simian foamy virus (SFV) is a retrovirus that infects primates. However, epidemiological studies of SFV are often limited to captive populations. The southeastern Brazilian Atlantic Forest is home to both an endemic, endangered species, Leontopithecu...
The search for stress-tolerant producer strains is a key factor in the development of biological mycoherbicides. The aim of the study was to assess the herbicidal potential of phoma-like fungi. Morphological and physiological features of two Antarcti...
Purpose: To characterize microbial keratitis diversity utilizing species richness and Shannon Diversity Index. Methods: Corneal impression membrane was used to collect samples. All swabs were processed and analyzed by Biolab Laboratory (level V&mdash...
Generating air-conditioning system load data is crucial for tasks such as power grid scheduling and intelligent energy management. Air-conditioning load data exhibit strong non-stationarity. Their load curves are influenced by seasonal variations and...
Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) is currently the gold standard for evaluating right ventricular (RV) function, which is critical in patients with pulmonary hypertension. CMR feature-tracking (FT) strain analysis has emerged as a technique to detect...
Bentonite buffers at temperatures beyond 100 °C could reduce the amount of high-level radioactive waste in a deep geological repository. However, it is necessary to demonstrate that the buffer surrounding the canisters withstands such elevated temper...
Adhesion to extracellular matrix proteins is an important first step in host invasion, employed by many bacterial pathogens. In mycobacteria, the secreted Ag85 complex proteins, involved in the synthesis of the cell envelope, are known to bind to fib...
This article presents a suboptimal nonlinear control strategy to improve the dynamics of a three-phase alternating current (AC) motor. Using dynamic programming, the calculation of the Bellman function is avoided by determining a suboptimal control s...
Proteins have long been considered to be the most prominent factors regulating so-called invasive genes involved in host-pathogen interactions. The possible role of small non-coding RNAs (sRNAs), either intracellular, secreted or packaged in outer me...
Background: The emergence of multidrug-resistant bacteria presents a significant global health threat. Liposomal antibiotics have shown a potential to improve antibiotic delivery and efficacy. This study aimed to develop liposomes encapsulating tobra...
Cell-free RNAs have the potential to act as a means of gene expression regulation between cells and are therefore used as diagnostic markers describing the state of tissue environment. The origin and functions of such RNAs in human ovarian follicle,...
The performance of passive battered piles resisting the embankment-induced lateral soil movements may differ from that of the active battered pile and axially loaded existing vertical piles adjacent to embankment constructions. This study was part of...
Selective aerobic oxidation of styrene to value-added oxygenated products remains challenging because of the limited activity and difficult recovery of many homogeneous catalysts. Herein, an N,N′-dihydroxypyromellitimide (NDHPI)-functionalized...
Liquid-ammonia mercerization is commonly used to enhance the quality of cotton fabric in the textile industry, resulting in a large amount of liquid-ammonia mercerization wastewater (LMWW) containing high concentration of ammonia to be disposed of. T...
A transient numerical framework incorporating dynamic mesh techniques was developed to simulate the launch process. On this basis, a thermal–fluid–structural multi-physics coupling paradigm was proposed to interpret the evolution of the f...
DNA is an excellent programmable polymer for the generation of self-assembled multivalent nanostructures useful for biomedical applications. Herein, we developed (i) folate-functionalized nanocages (Fol-NC), very efficiently internalized by tumor cel...
Wire breakage alters strand continuity, interwire contact, load redistribution, and modal response. This study evaluates normalized frequency changes as a laboratory fingerprint of persistent mechanical changes in unloaded seven-wire helical strands....
AT11-L0 is an aptamer derivative of AS1411 composed of G-rich sequences that can adopt a G-quadruplex (G4) structure and target nucleolin (NCL), a protein that acts as a co-receptor for several growth factors. Hence, this study aimed to characterize...
Reusable enzyme carriers are valuable for proteomic workflows, yet many supports are expensive or lack robustness. This study describes the covalent immobilization of recombinant trypsin on micrometer-sized corundum particles and assesses their perfo...
Preterm infants in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) experience impaired neurodevelopment and dysregulated stress responses, partly due to a lack of tactile stimulation. Although massage therapy offers proven therapeutic benefits by stimulating C...
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