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This study explored the three-dimensional flow characteristics in a recirculation zone near a permeable buttress in curved channels with varying curvatures. Understanding these characteristics is crucial for managing natural river bends, as rivers of...

Large language models (LLMs) pose significant challenges to content authentication, as their sophisticated generation capabilities make distinguishing AI-produced text from human writing increasingly difficult. Current detection methods suffer from l...

Generative design is a system that automates part of the design process, but it cannot evaluate psychological issues related to shapes, such as “beauty” and “liking”. Designers therefore evaluate and choose the generated shape...

In the last few years, much attention has been paid to the exotic properties that graphene nanostructures exhibit, especially those emerging upon deforming the material. Here we present a study of the mechanical and electronic properties of bent hexa...

To address the challenge of predicting lubrication states and reliability caused by the uncertainty of gear materials and structural parameters, a lubrication reliability analysis method considering the randomness of gear parameters is proposed. Firs...

The current engineering structural design code employs a direct probability design method based on the Taylor series expansion of the performance function at verification points, retaining only linear terms. This approach ignores the curvature and ot...

The nonextensive entropy of Tsallis can be seen as a consequence of postulates on a self-information, i.e., the constant ratio of the first derivative of a self-information per unit probability to the curvature (second variation) of it. This constanc...

The aims of this study were to describe the sagittal integral morphotype (SIM) of classical ballet (CB) dancers, and to establish predictor factors and their cut off values for high risk of experiencing sciatica or low back pain (LBP). This retrospec...

Graphene nanostructures have attracted a lot of attention in recent years due to their unconventional properties. We have employed Density Functional Theory to study the mechanical and electronic properties of curved graphene nanoflakes. We explore h...

Csiszár’s ƒ-divergence of two probability distributions was extended to the quantum case by the author in 1985. In the quantum setting, positive semidefinite matrices are in the place of probability distributions and the quantum generalization is cal...

The effects of Lewis number on the physical mechanisms pertinent to the curvature evolution have been investigated using three-dimensional Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) of spherically expanding turbulent premixed flames with characteristic Lewis...

The properties of the ballistic electron transport through a corrugated graphene system are analysed from the symmetry point of view. The corrugated system is modelled by a curved surface (an arc of a circle) connected from both sides to flat sheets....

The vacuum transition probabilities for a Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker universe with positive curvature in Hořava–Lifshitz gravity in the presence of a scalar field potential in the Wentzel–Kramers&ndas...

The Weyl curvature constitutes the radiative sector of the Riemann curvature tensor and gives a measure of the anisotropy and inhomogeneities of spacetime. Penrose’s 1979 Weyl curvature hypothesis (WCH) assumes that the universe began at a very low g...

Grassland degradation poses a serious threat to ecosystem stability and the sustainable development of human societies. In this study, we propose a framework for grassland degradation risk assessments and early warning based on key ecological factors...

By replacing the internal energy with the free energy, as coordinates in a “space of observables”, we slightly modify (the known three) non-holonomic geometrizations from Udriste’s et al. work. The coefficients of the curvature tens...

Divergence functions are the non-symmetric “distance” on the manifold, Μθ, of parametric probability density functions over a measure space, (Χ,μ). Classical information geometry prescribes, on Μθ: (i) a Riemannian metric given by the Fisher informat...

Contrast-enhanced ultrasound could assess whether cancer chemotherapeutic agents work in days, rather than waiting 2–3 months, as is typical using the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST), therefore avoiding toxic side effects...

Image corner detection is a fundamental task in computer vision. Many applications require reliable detectors to accurately detect corner points, commonly achieved by using image contour information. The curvature definition is sensitive to local var...

The aim of the study was to determine the relationship between idiopathic asymmetry in infants and body posture in children at an early school age. The study included 45 girls aged nine. The Diers Formetric III 4D device was used to assess body postu...

Port wine stains (PWSs) are congenital dermal vascular lesions composed of a hyperdilated vasculature. Purpura represented by local hemorrhage from water vaporization in blood during laser therapy of PWS is typically considered a clinical feedback, b...

Aiming at the insufficient accuracy and accumulated error of the point cloud registration of LiDAR-inertial odometry (LIO) in an urban environment, we propose a LiDAR-inertial-GNSS fusion positioning algorithm based on voxelized accurate registration...

The deep sea is gradually being exploited, yet research on the stability of the deep seabed is scarce. In this study, the seafloor stability of the Jiaxie Seamount Group in the western Pacific Ocean was assessed using the weight-of-evidence (WoE) met...

This paper proposes a method for obtaining driver’s fixation points and establishing a preview model based on actual vehicle tests. Firstly, eight drivers were recruited to carry out the actual vehicle test on the actual straight and curved roa...

Continued construction of reservoirs around the world promotes socio-economic development and severely affects the ecological and hydrological processes of rivers and floodplain wetlands. In this study, the Yimin River in Inner Mongolia, China, was t...

Objective: The purpose of the study was to compare the pressure pain threshold (PPT) of soft tissue and the curvatures of the spine in a sitting position and to estimate associated physical risk factors with low back pain (LBP) in young adults. Subje...

This study presents an empirical investigation of the impacts of real-time weather conditions on the freeway crash severity. A Bayesian spatial generalized ordered logit model was developed for modeling the crash severity using the hourly wind speed,...

A probabilistic version of geometry is introduced. The fifth postulate of Euclid (Playfair’s axiom) is adopted in the following probabilistic form: consider a line and a point not on the line—there is exactly one line through the point wi...

This study aims to use particle level simulation to simulate the breakage behavior of glass fibers subjected to simple shear flow. Each fiber is represented as a chain of rods that experience hydrodynamic, interaction, and elastic effects. In order t...

Entropic dynamics is a framework in which the laws of dynamics are derived as an application of entropic methods of inference. Its successes include the derivation of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory from probabilistic principles. Here, we...

Shallow landslides are destructive hazards and play an important role in landscape processes. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the shallow landslide susceptibility and to investigate which predisposing factors control the spatial distribution...

Quantitative 3D spatial association of geological factors and geophysical fields with orebodies is critical for ore prediction. The Anqing orefield, a principal Cu–Fe orefield in China, is closely associated with the Yueshan intrusion. By compi...

The eastern region of India, including the coastal state of Odisha, is a moderately seismic-prone area under seismic zones II and III. However, no major studies have been conducted on earthquake probability (EPA) and hazard assessment (EHA) in Odisha...

We develop a unified analytical framework that systematically connects kinetic theory, optimal transport, and entropy dissipation through the novel integration of hypocoercivity methods with geometric structures. Building upon but distinctly extendin...

We present evolution equations for a family of paths that results from anisotropically weighting curve energies in non-linear statistics of manifold valued data. This situation arises when performing inference on data that have non-trivial covariance...

Lung cancer is one of the most dreadful cancers, and its detection in the early stage is very important and challenging. This manuscript proposes a new computer-aided diagnosis system for lung cancer diagnosis from chest computed tomography scans. Th...

In statistical models, the contact of two surfaces is typically replaced by the contact of a smooth, flat, and an equivalent rough sum surface. For the sum surface, the zeroth, second, and fourth moments of the power spectral density m0, m2, and m4 r...

Modal analysis is an effective tool in the context of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) since the dynamic characteristics of cement-based structures reflect the structural health status of the material itself. The authors consider increasing level l...

The objective of this study is to present a novel fragility analysis method that combines principal component analysis (PCA) and the K-means clustering algorithm for a probability assessment of seismic damage in high-pier bridges undergoing pulse-lik...

This paper presents four incentivised experiments analysing jointly the separate role of immediate integral emotions and knowledge in individual decision making under ambiguity. Reactions to a natural source of uncertainty (i.e., forthcoming real-wor...

The Einstein action for the gravitational field has some properties which make of it, after quantization, a rare prototype of systems with quantum configurations that do not have a classical analogue. Assuming spherical symmetry in order to reduce th...

This paper systematically presents the λ-deformation as the canonical framework of deformation to the dually flat (Hessian) geometry, which has been well established in information geometry. We show that, based on deforming the Legendre dualit...

A new control algorithm was designed to solve the problems of actuator physical failure, remote network attack, and sudden change in trajectory curvature when a port’s artificial intelligence-based transportation robots track transportation in...

Background: Pisa syndrome, also known as pleurothotonus, is a neurological condition characterized by more than ten degrees of constant lateral curvature of the spine when upright. In this way, the present manuscript aims to systematically review Pis...

This work numerically investigates the fully nonlinear evolution of the free surface of a deep non-conducting liquid in a strong tangential electric field based on the method of dynamic conformal transformations. Direct numerical simulation revealed...

Cold-water coral reefs are rich, yet fragile ecosystems found in colder oceanic waters. Knowledge of their spatial distribution on continental shelves, slopes, seamounts and ridge systems is vital for marine spatial planning and conservation. Cold-wa...

Phytoplankton movement patterns and swimming behavior are important and basic topics in aquatic biology. Heavy tail distribution exists in diverse taxa and shows theoretical advantages in environments. The fat tails in the movement patterns and swimm...

Coarse-grained molecular dynamic simulations are employed to investigate the spatiotemporal evolution of vesicles (polymersomes) via self-assembly of randomly distributed amphiphilic diblock copolymers PB-PEO (Poly(Butadiene)-b-Poly(Ethylene Oxide))...

A severely atrophied maxilla presents serious limitations for rehabilitation with osseointegrated implants. This study evaluated the biomechanical and long-term behavior of titanium hybrid-plates in atrophic maxilla rehabilitation with finite element...

Currently, there is a growing interest in biomedical research in the use of inorganic nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery, as biosensors, and in theranostic applications. This review examines the interaction of inorganic nanoparticles with prote...