Recently, Automatic Program Repair (APR) has shown a high capability of repairing software bugs automatically. In general, most of the APR techniques require test suites to validate automatically generated patches. However, the test suites used for p...
Background: Combination devices to monitor heart rate/rhythms and physical activity are becoming increasingly popular in research and clinical settings. The Zio XT Patch (iRhythm Technologies, San Francisco, CA, USA) is US Food and Drug Administratio...
A novel wearable smart patch can monitor various aspects of physical activity, including the dynamics of running, but like any new device developed for such applications, it must first be tested for validity. Here, we compare the step rate while runn...
In this study the electromechanical response of a cantilever composite beam with surface-bonded piezoelectric patches is examined, focusing on interface stresses that may initiate delamination. A thermodynamically consistent electroelastic framework...
This paper presents a compact wearable patch antenna operating in the 2.4 GHz ISM band for biomedical Internet of Things (IoT)-based healthcare monitoring applications. The proposed antenna is intended for integration with wearable biomedical sensors...
Non-contact monitoring of human vital signs using microwave radar has attracted increasing attention due to its capability to operate unobtrusively and through clothing or light obstacles. In vector network analyzer (VNA)-based radar systems, vital s...
This work introduces a new mathematical model designed to describe the glucose–insulin dynamics associated with a glucose-responsive smart microneedle patch reported in the literature. The model captures the complete sequence of the patch behav...
Although program repair is a tremendous aspect of a software system, it can be extremely challenging. An Automated Program Repair (APR) technique has been proposed to solve this problem. Among them, template-based APR shows good performance. One of t...
A fiber Bragg grating (FBG) strain patch specially adapted for long-term and high-strain applications has been developed and characterized. The design concept for the patch is based on a glass-fiber reinforced plastic (gfrp) carrier material. The dev...
This paper presents a versatile metasurface (MS) structure for enhancing the radiation performance of multiple microstrip patch antenna topologies operating in the 5.8 GHz ISM band. Unlike conventional metasurface-assisted antenna designs that are op...
Pathologic diagnosis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) can be challenging since most cases are nonkeratinizing carcinoma with little differentiation and many admixed lymphocytes. Our aim was to evaluate the possibility to identify NPC in nasopharynge...
We evaluated the feasibility of using aerial photo-based office methods rather than field-collected data to validate Landsat-based change detection products in national parks in Washington State. Landscape change was performed using LandTrendr algori...
Due to the explosive growth of software quantity and the mixed ability of software developers, a large number of software defects emerge during the later stages of software maintenance. The search method based on genetic programming is one of the mos...
Offset tracking based on normalized cross-correlation (NCC) of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) intensity imagery serves as a critical technique for monitoring large-scale ground deformations. However, traditional NCC of SAR intensity imagery is suscep...
We investigate how the size, the number, and the spatial arrangement of identical nonoverlapping reactive patches on a sphere influence the overall reaction kinetics of bimolecular diffusion-limited (or diffusion-controlled) reactions that occur betw...
Adversarial patch attacks threaten the reliability of modern vision models. We present PatchMap, the first spatially exhaustive benchmark of patch placement, built by evaluating over
Scale effects are inherent in spatial analysis. Quantitative knowledge about them is necessary for properly interpreting and scaling analysis results. The objective of this study was to systematically model patch area scaling and the associated uncer...
Although sample matrices are available for assessing cortisol output over hours/days (serum, saliva, or urine) or months (hair or nails), there is no current method for measuring integrated cortisol output over a period of 1 week. Therefore, the prim...
Background/Objectives: Pneumothorax, caused by air accumulation in the pleural space, can lead to lung collapse and, if diagnosis is delayed, respiratory or cardiovascular deterioration. Most deep-learning studies on pneumothorax address classificati...
Monitoring tree cover loss at national scale requires methods that are weather-independent and operationally scalable. Here, we evaluate Sentinel-1 SAR interferometric coherence as a conservative alert layer for tree cover loss in Estonia, using mult...
5-fluorouracil (5-FU), commercially available as a topical product, is approved for non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) treatment with several clinical limitations. This work aimed to develop 5-FU-loaded topical patches as a potential alternative to over...
A comparative study to determine the most highly sensitive resonant frequency among the first four resonant frequencies of a conventional patch antenna and defected ground structure (DGS)-loaded patch antennas using commonly used DGS geometries in th...
Background/Objectives: Microsatellite instability (MSI) is clinically important in colorectal cancer, but definitive assessment requires molecular or immunohistochemical testing. This study developed a leakage-safe, calibration-aware patient-level fr...
This paper proposes a validation method of the fabrication technology of a screen-printed electronic skin based on polyvinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene P(VDF-TrFE) piezoelectric polymer sensors. This required researchers to insure, through non-d...
Artificial neural networks have been widely used in many studies, such as the prediction of the piezoelectric effect of the plate of engineering structures in vibration and noise reduction. In this paper, an artificial neural network (ANN) model was...
This study investigates adhesively bonded composite patch repair to enhance the load-carrying capacity of damaged metallic structures, introducing a novel FE-augmented machine learning (ML) framework that addresses the limited availability of experim...
The presence of aggressive agents (such as chloride ions brought by seawater) in reinforced concrete structures is responsible for the corrosion of the steel rebars. A Structural Health Monitoring technology is developed as a new passive preventive m...
Monolithic patch antennas for deformation measurements are designed to be stressed. To avoid the issues of incomplete strain transfer ratio and insufficient bonding strength of stressed antennas, this paper presents a passive wireless crack sensor ba...
In this paper, a method to reduce mutual coupling between an E-plane and H-plane coupled microstrip patch antenna is presented. Two dual differentially fed square patches are designed in a 1 × 2 antenna array configuration. To minimize mutual c...
This study numerically investigates how a finite, circular patch of emergent vegetation alters microplastic (MP) transport, concentration, and retention in open-channel flow. A validated numerical model was developed to represent the vegetation patch...
High-value recycling of waste textiles requires accurate fiber-composition identification, yet similar blends often exhibit overlapping near-infrared absorption bands and substantial within-class variation. Using 291 waste-textile swatches, this stud...
Aggregates of floating materials detected in North Adriatic in six Sentinel-2 scenes of August 2020 have been investigated. Most of the floating materials were identified by the chlorophyll red edge and consisted of vegetal materials, probably convey...
There is a need for continuous, non-invasive monitoring of biological data to assess health and wellbeing. Currently, many types of smart patches have been developed to continuously monitor body temperature, but few trials have been completed to eval...
Bonded patches are widely used in several industry sectors for repairing damaged plates, cracks in metallic structures, and reinforcement of damaged structures. Composite patches have optimal properties such as high strength-to-weight ratio, easiness...
Ultrasound is one of the most promising methods for blood pressure monitoring due to its harmless, non-invasive, and high-precision characteristics. To further enhance the biocompatibility of ultrasound blood pressure monitors, this work reports wear...
Electrical radiation pattern reconfiguration for textile antennas using diode-based bias circuits is challenging, as most textile materials cannot withstand high soldering temperatures. Metallic snap buttons, widely used in garment manufacturing, can...
10 July 2020
Preanaesthesia health assessment is gradually transitioning from paper-based, face-to-face assessment to digitized assessment, self-administered by the patient. This transition could potentially optimize the various goals of assessment, notably facil...
Recently, the Vision Transformer (ViT) model has been used for various computer vision tasks, due to its advantages to extracting long-range features. To better integrate the long-range features useful for classification, the standard ViT adds a clas...
1 November 2021
Purpose: The Iowa Oral Performance Instrument (IOPI) is commonly used to measure tongue strength and endurance. The tongue, however, is reported to periodically move from its intended placement on the IOPI bulb during measurement. This study sought t...
Breast cancer remains one of the most serious diseases threatening human health globally. To address diagnostic subjectivity and insufficient classification granularity in pathological screening, this study proposes a lightweight complementary convol...
Although deep learning has received extensive attention and achieved excellent performance in various scenarios, it suffers from adversarial examples to some extent. In particular, physical attack poses a greater threat than digital attack. However,...
Nitric oxide is an endogenous gas released by endothelial cells that induces vasodilatation and plays other important roles in the wound-healing process. Nitroglycerin preparations are liberators of nitric oxide. Podiatric physicians have used nitrog...
Reconstructing a standard 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) from signals received from electrodes packed into a patch-type device is a challenging task in the field of medical instrumentation. All attempts to obtain a clinically valid 12-lead ECG using...
This article presents a compact wideband high gain patch antenna for CubeSat. The proposed metal-only antenna mainly consists of an upper patch, a folded ramp-shaped patch and shoring pins connecting the antenna with the ground plane. By adjusting th...
Research on the development of dissolving microneedles (DMNs) has focused on bolus drug delivery, with little attention on sustained release. Here, we evaluated the sustained release, absorption pattern, and effective drug permeation of a novel donep...
This paper investigates the stability of predator–prey models within multi-patch environments, with a particular focus on the influence of cross-dispersion across patches. We apply Kirchhoff’s matrix tree theorem and Liapunov’s meth...
The Welded Bead Bending Test (WBBT), used in Germany to assess the crack-arrest capacity of structural steels, is conducted in accordance with ZTV-ING Part 4 or Deutsche Bahn Standard 918 002-02 and specified in Stahl-Eisen-Prüfblatt 1390. Three...
This paper presents a method to design a compact high-gain multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) patch antenna. In a one-dimensional large-scale MIMO array, the conventional approach of using multiple patches and decoupling networks significantly in...
The additive Gaussian white noise (AGWN) level in real-life images is usually unknown, for which the empirical setting will make the denoising methods over-smooth fine structures or remove noise incompletely. The previous noise level estimation metho...
A new method for the determination of the dynamic modulus of elasticity (Ed) of pine wood, based on the transverse vibration excitation and electromechanical impedance (EMI) response of the lead zirconate titanate (PZT) transducer is proposed. The in...
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