The micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS)-based sensor technologies are considered to be the enabling factor for the future development of smart sensing applications, mainly due to their small size, low power consumption and relatively low cost. Th...
One of the challenges in inertia sensor applications is the need for a class of devices that operate at one of the ring resonant frequencies to achieve large amplitudes of vibration. However, large amplitudes tend to produce undesirable nonlinear eff...
Background/Objectives: Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is multifactorial, and longitudinal evidence isolating early predictors remains limited. We investigated predictors of incident KOA in community-dwelling older adult Japanese women. Methods: We analyze...
Patient-prosthesis mismatch (PPM) causes a high transvalvular pressure gradient and residual left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy, consequently influencing long-term results. This study aimed to find the relationships between hemodynamic parameters and...
Superfluidity has been predicted and now observed in a number of different electron-hole double-layer semiconductor heterostructures. In some of the heterostructures, such as GaAs and Ge-Si electron-hole double quantum wells, there is a strong mismat...
In order to eliminate the frequency mismatch of MEMS (Microelectromechanical Systems) gyroscopes, this paper proposes a frequency tuning technology based on a quadrature modulation signal. A sinusoidal signal having a frequency greater the gyroscope...
Background and Objectives: Current recommendations and treatment regimens in breast cancer are a reflection of its heterogeneity on multiple levels including histological subtypes, grading, molecular profiling, and numerous prognostic indices. Althou...
Wind tunnel tests of scaled model trees provide an effective approach for understanding fluctuating wind loading and wind-induced response of trees. For decurrent trees, vague multimodal dynamic characteristics and ineffective estimation of leaf mass...
Assessment of influenza vaccine effectiveness (VE) and identification of relevant influencing factors are the current priorities for optimizing vaccines to reduce the impacts of influenza. To date, how the difference between epidemic strains and vacc...
Metallic substrates and polymer adhesive in composite-metal joints have a relatively large coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) mismatch, which is a barrier in the growing market of electric vehicles and their battery structures. It is reported tha...
A novel method is described for evaluating the colorimetric accuracy of digital color cameras based on a new measure of the metamer mismatch body (MMB) that is induced by the change from the camera as an ‘observer’ to the human standard o...
Tuning the stiffness balance is crucial to full-band common-mode rejection for a superconducting gravity gradiometer (SGG). A reliable method to do so has been proposed and experimentally tested. In the tuning scheme, the frequency response functions...
The outcome of patients underwent to allogeneic stem cell transplantation (allo- SCT) is closely related to graft versus host disease (GvHD) and graft versus leukemia (GvL) effects which can be mediated by mHAgs. 23 mHAgs have been identified and rep...
Background and Clinical Significance: Tumefactive demyelinating lesions (TDLs) are large demyelinating lesions that mimic intracranial tumors, posing a diagnostic challenge in both clinical presentation and conventional imaging. Distinguishing TDLs f...
Passerine nestlings frequently suffer from sub-optimal food conditions due to climate change-induced trophic mismatch between the nestlings and their optimal food resources. The ability of nestlings to buffer this challenge is less well understood. W...
Background and Objectives: The selection of the optimal distal level of fusion in long-level fusion surgery remains controversial. Fusion ending at L5 preserves motion but increases the risk of L5–S1 disc degeneration. The L5 laminar hook has b...
Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is one of the most promising techniques in current ground-penetrating radar (GPR) inversion methods. The least-squares method is usually used, minimizing the mismatch between the observed signal and the simulated signal....
Originally, sensors based on surface acoustic waves are fabricated using photolithography, which becomes extremely expensive when a small series or even single elements are needed for the research. A laser thin film local evaporation technique is pro...
Ensuring access to quality social housing is a major challenge for developing countries. The problems of standardized mass housing are well-known. However, this type of provision is ubiquitously used for its advantages when addressing pressing shorta...
Gluten content labels inform food choice and people practicing a gluten-free diet rely upon them to avoid illness. The regulations differ between jurisdictions, especially concerning fermented foodstuffs such as beer. Gluten abundance is typically me...
Soft-tissue sarcomas (STS) are a rare subtype of soft-tissue mass and are frequently misinterpreted as benign lesions. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the primary recommended type of diagnostics. To assess the quality of primary radiology reports...
Bee nutrition studies have focused on food quantity rather than quality, and on details of bee biology rather than on the functioning of bees in ecosystems. Ecological stoichiometry has been proposed for studies on bee nutritional ecology as an ecosy...
Sarcopenia has recently been studied in both adults and children and was found to be a prognostic marker for adverse outcome in a variety of patient groups. Our research showed that sarcopenia is a relevant marker in predicting outcome in children wi...
A novel deterministic method to harvest energy within a broadband frequency (0~25 kHz) from a mass-in-mass metamaterial is presented herein. Traditional metamaterials are composed of multiple materials (named as resonators and matrix) with different...
Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells were analyzed to investigate changes in the structure of the flow field and operating conditions. The cell performance, which was controlled by adjusting the width of the cathodic channel, improved as the backp...
The self-consumption without surplus to the grid is one of the aspects of the new Spanish law for prosumers. Increasing the share of renewable energy sources into the grid inherently leads to several constraints. The mismatch between the energy deman...
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Background: Managing mass casualty or disaster incidents is challenging to any person or organisation. Therefore, this paper identifies and describes common challenges to managing such situations, using case and lessons learned reports. It focuses on...
Background/Objectives: Influenza A virus undergoes continuous antigenic drift, necessitating annual vaccine reformulation. Saudi Arabia faces unique epidemiological challenges owing to mass gatherings during religious pilgrimages and the dynamic move...
This study investigates the impact of etching trimming parameters on the multiple harmonics of the mass distribution in hemispherical resonators and proposes a novel 1st harmonic trimming scheme. As mass balancing technology advances, the extension o...
Platinum (Pt), a precious metal extracted from minerals, plays an important role as a catalyst in energy conversion and storage devices. However, Pt is expensive and a limited resource, so it is crucial to maximize its utilization. In the electrocata...
Ge and its alloys are attractive candidates for a laser compatible with silicon integrated circuits. Dilute germanium carbide (Ge1−xCx) offers a particularly interesting prospect. By using a precursor gas with a Ge4C core, C can be preferentially inc...
This paper investigated the tracking problem of mixed H∞ and L2−L∞ adaptive fault-tolerant control (FTC) for continuous-time interval type-2 fuzzy systems (IT2FSs). For the membership function mismatch and uncertainty between the mo...
Background: Postoperative sagittal imbalance, including hyperextension and flexion contracture after total knee arthroplasty (TKA), adversely affects long-term outcomes. Conventional techniques depend on surgeons’ visual estimation, which may v...
A digital excitation-calibration technique of dual-mass MEMS gyroscope for closed-loop mode-matching control is presented in this paper. The technique, which takes advantage of the symmetrical amplitude response of MEMS gyroscope, exploits a two-side...
Cold energy storage devices are widely used for coping with the mismatch between thermal energy production and demand. These devices can store cold thermal energy and return it when required. Besides the countless advantages of these devices, their f...
To address the large temperature difference in the air heater (AH) inlet of a traditional exhaust heat utilization system and energy grade mismatch problems during the heat and mass transfer processes, this study proposed a new multi-level waste heat...
Concatemeric viral DNA is packaged into bacteriophage P22 procapsids via a headful packaging mechanism mediated by a molecular machine consisting of small (gp3) and large (gp2) terminase subunits. Although a negative stain reconstruction exists for t...
The MEMS gyroscope is one of the basic units of inertial navigation, whose performance and accuracy is noteworthy. Because of the limitations of processing technology and other factors, the relative manufacturing error of MEMS gyroscopes is usually l...
In this paper, a model to estimate minibands and theinterminiband absorption coefficient for a wurtzite (WZ) indium gallium nitride (InGaN) self-assembled quantum dot superlattice (QDSL) is developed. It considers a simplified cuboid shape for quantu...
This paper addresses the significant variations in model parameters observed in autonomous commercial vehicles in comparison to passenger cars, with a disparity noted largely due to changes in load. Additionally, it tackles the issue of path tracking...
Influenza A virus is a respiratory pathogen that is responsible for regular epidemics and occasional pandemics that result in substantial damage to life and the economy. The yearly reformulation of trivalent or quadrivalent flu vaccines encompassing...
Among the most critical health issues, brain illnesses, such as neurodegenerative conditions and tumors, lower quality of life and have a significant economic impact. Implantable technology and nano-drug carriers have enormous promise for cerebral br...
In spite of annual mass vaccination programs with polyvalent inactivated vaccines, the incidence and economic impact of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in Egypt is high. Viruses of the A, O and SAT 2 serotypes are endemic and repeated incursions of new...
The capacity limits of fiber-optic communication systems in the nonlinear regime are not yet well understood. In this paper, we study the capacity of amplitude modulated first-order soliton transmission, defined as the maximum of the so-called time-s...
B4C/TiB2 ceramic composites reinforced with three size scales (average particle size: 7 μm, 500 nm, and 50 nm) of TiB2 were prepared by using a pressureless sintering furnace at 2100 °C under Ar atmosphere for 60 min. The results demonstrated that du...
Vascular replacement is one of the most effective tools to solve cardiovascular diseases, but due to the limitations of autologous transplantation, size mismatch, etc., the blood vessels for replacement are often in short supply. The emergence of art...
The most common scale-up approach for gas–solids fluidized beds is based on matching the governing dimensionless parameters. In the literature, this approach has been validated only by means of measuring global parameters between different size...
Chelonus inanitus (L.) is an egg-larval parasitoid of noctuids Spodoptera exigua (Hübner) and S. littoralis (Boisduval), whose mass rearing or real potential has not been targeted yet. To improve the rearing in the factitious host Ephestia kuehn...
Following the large-scale 2015–2016 migration crisis that shook Europe, deploying big data and social media harvesting methods became gradually popular in mass forced migration monitoring. These methods have focused on producing ‘real-tim...
Round window (RW) stimulation is a new application of middle ear implants for treating hearing loss, especially for those with middle ear disease. However, most reports on it are based on the use of the floating mass transducer (FMT), which was not o...
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