Pinch-outs refers to the gradual thinning of the thickness of the sedimentary layer laterally until there is no deposition and are a major topic of modern research on the automated drawing of geological profiles. The rapid development of smart geolog...
The analysis of line broadening in X-ray and neutron diffraction patterns using profile functions constructed on the basis of well-established physical principles and TEM observations of lattice defects has proven to be a powerful tool for characteri...
This research work presents results obtained from the simulation of natural convection inside a concentric hexagonal annulus by using the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). The fluid flow (pressure and velocity fields) inside the annulus is evaluated by...
Members of the California Air Resources Board (CARB) participated in the odor profile method (OPM) training program. The OPM is the flavor profile analysis (FPA) standard method applied to air samples. The FPA method is a widely used standard method...
Tapered roller bearings (TRBs) are widely used in heavy-load rotating machinery. One of the technical problems in TRBs is the existence of sharp spikes of the contact pressure in the vicinity of the two ends of the tapered rollers. To suppress the pr...
This study introduces the profile method as a simple and less expensive approach for estimating the surface energy balance of green roofs, addressing the limitations of costly monitoring systems based on measurements at two vertical points. Four sepa...
A third-party-trained “Odor Patrol” program was conducted at a school that is about a one-mile distance from a landfill to clarify the odor nuisance problems from the landfill. Every 20 min from 6 to 9 a.m. on school days, the “Odor Profile Method” (...
The sound speed profile (SSP) is a necessary prerequisite for acoustic field computation and underwater target localization and monitoring. Due to the dynamic nature of the ocean, the reconstruction of SSPs with surface characteristics is a big chall...
Prediction of rock fracturing capacity demands particular requirements for the exploitation of mineral resources, especially for the parameter design of conical pick performance for hard rock fragmentation, which must take into account differences in...
The instrumental analysis of complex mixtures of sugars often requires derivatization to enhance the method’s selectivity and sensitivity. 1-Phenyl-3-methyl-5-pyrazolone (PMP) is a common sugar derivatization agent used in high-performance liqu...
Based on the three-dimensional (3D) finite element method (FEM) and Taguchi method (TM), this paper analyzes the tooth surface contact stress (TSCS) of spur gears with three different influence factors: tooth profile deviations (TPD), meshing errors...
Solar photovoltaic (PV) generation technology stands out as a scalable and cost-effective solution to enable the transition toward decarbonization. However, PV solar output, beyond the daily solar irradiance variability and unavailability during nigh...
Formed milling is one of the most commonly used methods for machining the helical surfaces of various screw rotors. The profile of a formed cutter is designed according to the profile of the helical surface, which is usually represented by discrete p...
With the development of tracer technology and the improvement of fine management in oil fields, chemical tracer monitoring is widely used to analyze the production profiles in commingled wells and horizontal wells. However, most existing tracer techn...
Background/Objectives: Executive function (EF) impairments are common in neurodevelopmental disorders but are often examined using group-level approaches that may overlook clinically meaningful cognitive heterogeneity. This study explored EF heteroge...
The heart is an essential organ in the human body. It contains various types of cells, such as cardiomyocytes, mesothelial cells, endothelial cells, and fibroblasts. The interactions between these cells determine the vital functions of the heart. The...
Straight bevel gears are widely used in mining equipment, ships, heavy industrial equipment, and other fields due to their high capacity and robust transmission. Accurate measurements are essential in order to determine the quality of bevel gears. We...
Traditional manual horizon picking is time-consuming and laborious, while automatic picking methods often suffer from the limited scope of their applications and the discontinuity of picked results. In this paper, we propose a novel method for automa...
This study introduces the fuzzy theory approach as an enhancement to the traditional failure mode, effect, and criticality analysis (FMECA) method in order to address its limitations, which primarily stem from subjectivity and a lack of quantitative...
The low participation of men in primary education is a persistent and structural phenomenon that cannot be adequately understood through homogeneous views of teachers’ motivations and experiences. This study is conducted in the Chilean context,...
The temperature and humidity profiles within the planetary boundary layer (PBL) are crucial for Earth’s climate research. The Atmospheric Sounder Spectrometer by Infrared Spectral Technology (ASSIST) measures downward thermal radiation in the a...
The use of the USP IV apparatus (flow-through cell) has gained acceptance in recent years due to its versatility and ability to discriminate due to its hydrodynamic conditions. Therefore, the objective of the present study was to develop a discrimina...
This work presents a methodology for horizontal soil stratification and a device for 3D soil mapping using the discretization of the Wenner’s method. The methodology starts from the application of the lateral profiling method in conjunction wit...
Strawberries are the most popular berry fruit in the world, due to their distinctive aroma, flavor, and known health properties. Because volatile substances play a large role in strawberry flavor, even little alterations can have a big impact on how...
The purpose of this work was to demonstrate the use of the AQbD with the DOE approach to the methodical step-by-step development of a UHPLC method for the quantitative determination of the impurity profile of new CPL409116 substance (JAK/ROCK inhibit...
A new type of structural material has begun to be used in the reinforcement of deformed shield tunnels, known as filament wound profiles (FWPs). The FWPs are formed by wrapping carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) around steel tubes that are groute...
Distributed fiber optic temperature sensing (DTS) monitoring technology is increasingly widely applied in oil reservoir water injection development. However, existing DTS interpretation methods for layered water injection processes have insufficientl...
The smooth area on the rail surface causes abnormal exposure in the laser section image, resulting in measurement errors of the rail profile. To address this issue, a novel rail profile measurement technique based on polarization fusion imaging is pr...
In this work, we revise the retrieval of extinction coefficient profiles from Raman Lidar. This is an ill-posed problem, and we show that methods like Levenberg–Marquardt or Tikhonov–Phillips can be applied. We test these methods for a sy...
Distributed temperature sensing (DTS) has been widely used in downhole dynamic monitoring. How to analyze its data and accurately interpret the flow profile using DTS data are still great challenges. Quantitative interpretation of downhole temperatur...
The strawberry (genus Fragaria) is a plant from the rose family (Rosaceae). As the fruits are likely to be picked mechanically, they are grown close to consumption centers. The aim of this work was to develop a suitable method for detecting as many m...
This paper presents an approach to a new engine calibration method that takes the engine’s operational profile into account. This method has two main steps: modeling and optimization. The Design of Experiments method is first conducted to model...
According to the requirements of point cloud simplification for T-profile steel plate welding in shipbuilding, the disadvantages of the existing simplification algorithms are analyzed. In this paper, a point cloud simplification method is proposed ba...
The tooth profile modification of cycloidal gears is important in the design and manufacture of precision reducers or rotary vector (RV) reducers for robots. The traditional modification design of cycloidal gears is mainly realized by setting various...
COVID-19 related morbidity and mortality have been often attributed to an exaggerated immune response. The role of cytokines and chemokines in COVID-19 and their contributions to illness severity are known, and thus their profiling from patient bronc...
The non-coplanar lasers on both sides of the rail during full-section rail profile measurement based on line-structured light vision will cause the measured profile to be distorted, resulting in measurement errors. Currently, in the field of rail pro...
Arterial stenosis will reduce the blood flow to various organs or tissues, causing cardiovascular diseases. Although there are mature diagnostic techniques in clinical practice, they are not suitable for early cardiovascular disease prediction and mo...
The design of gamified experiences following the one-fits-all approach uses the same game elements for all users participating in the experience. The alternative is adaptive gamification, which considers that users have different playing motivations....
Irreversible curing distortion represents a significant limiting factor in the application of high-performance composite structures. Curing distortion is the deviation of a component’s profile from the theoretical profile after demolding. Intro...
Range-resolved CH4 concentration measurement is important prior data for atmospheric physical and chemical models. Ground-based differential absorption lidar (DIAL) can measure the vertical distribution of CH4 concentration in the atmosphere. The tra...
The commonly used reference atmospheric profiles for the validation of retrieved atmospheric profiles for microwave sounders have bias compared with real atmospheric profile values, which is detrimental to the validation of the retrieval. Microwave s...
There are many ways of machining gears; the world’s manufacturers of machine tools have patented many methods that allow for the production of gears in an accurate and efficient way. In general, the patented methods require the use of kinematic...
In the field of deep-sea positioning, this paper aims to enhance accuracy and computational efficiency in positioning calculations. We propose an improved method based on layered clustering of sound velocity profiles, where the profiles are stratifie...
Magnetic flux leakage (MFL) detection is widely used in the non-destructive testing of pipelines. Inversion is a key step in MFL detection, and iterative inversion based on an optimization algorithm is an effective method for constructing the 3-D pro...
The speed of sound in seawater plays a crucial role in determining the accuracy of multibeam bathymetric measurements. In deep-sea multibeam measurements, the challenge of inadequate longitudinal coverage of sound speed profiles arises from variation...
Any 3D AFM image is a convolution of the geometry of the AFM tip and the profile of the scanned sample, especially when the dimensions of the scanned sample are comparable to those of the AFM tip shape. The precise profile of the scanned sample can b...
The profile of the globoidal indexing cam is a spatially undevelopable surface. It needs a special computer numerical control (CNC) machine tool to finish batch production, and its machining quality will be affected by the motion error of each part o...
This paper presents a kind of thermal flow meter designed to measure downhole fluid flow at production profile logging. A computational fluid dynamics model is established to study the variation of temperature field in Downhole Thermal Flow Meter wit...
Lipid profiling is a key element of modern biology and medicine, providing information on the structure, function, and dynamics of lipid metabolism in health and disease. This review presents the latest state of the art in the application of matrix-a...
Classical link prediction methods mainly utilize vertex information and topological structure to predict missing links in networks. However, accessing vertex information in real-world networks, such as social networks, is still challenging. Moreover,...
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