To achieve accurate 3D path tracking of a foot-wing hybrid-driven amphibious biomimetic robot under periodically varying forces, this study analyzes the periodic propulsion forces generated by the flapping motion of the robot’s feet and wings,...
This work studies a two-time-scale functional system given by two jump diffusions under the scale separation by a small parameter
We study the optimal performance of Feynman’s ratchet and pawl, a paradigmatic model in nonequilibrium physics, using ecological criterion as the objective function. The analysis is performed by two different methods: (i) a two-parameter optimization...
2 March 2018
Based on grey language multi-attribute group decision making, a kernel and grey scale scoring function is put forward according to the definition of grey language and the meaning of the kernel and grey scale. The function introduces grey scale into t...
The performance of deep learning-based object detection methods is heavily dependent on the characteristics of training data. However, real-world detection datasets often exhibit severe imbalance in object-scale distributions, resulting in insufficie...
A method for quantifying the role of dynamic storage as a physical buffer between snowmelt and streamflow at the catchment scale is introduced in this paper. The method describes a quantitative relation between hydrologic events (e.g., snowmelt) and...
Research Highlights: this study developed additive biomass equations respectively from nonlinear regression (NLR) on original data and linear regression (LR) on a log-transformed scale by nonlinear seemingly unrelated regression (NSUR). To choose app...
Overlooked diseases in agriculture severely impact crop growth, which results in significant losses for farmers. Unfortunately, manual field visits for plant disease diagnosis (PDD) are costly and time consuming. Although various methods of PDD have...
Of all the neoplastic sites, colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common cancers in the family. Studies estimate that approximately 30% of all the CRC cases are a hereditary form of the disease with a potentially high impact on the quality of l...
This paper presents a study to evoke rat cortical functional activities, including hemodynamic and neural tissue signal changes, by monopulse electrical stimulation with a microelectrode array using functional optical coherence tomography (fOCT). Bas...
Background and Objectives: The goal of this study was to evaluate the functional outcomes of patient treatment using an allograft after chronic locked posterior shoulder dislocation associated with a bony defect of the upper edge of the humerus that...
In this paper, we investigate robust model averaging for high-dimensional data with outlier contamination. Most existing model averaging methods rely on ordinary least squares (OLS) estimation and are therefore highly sensitive to outliers. Moreover,...
22 September 2022
Introduction: To analyze the relationship between pain, the fear of falling and functional performance in older people living in a long-stay institution (LSI) in the interior of northeastern Brazil. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with...
The registration of optical and SAR images has always been a challenging task due to the different imaging mechanisms of the corresponding sensors. To mitigate this difference, this paper proposes a registration algorithm based on a pseudo-SAR image...
Background and Objectives: Current psychiatric care is increasingly focusing on patients’ quality of life (QoL). Research is still trying to determine the main factors which influence QoL. The present study aims to assess the QoL of patients wi...
Objective: To prospectively evaluate possible decline of cognitive functions in adult patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) and identify associated factors. Patients and methods: We performed a 24-month prospective observational study of...
In this paper, the sharp Hille-type oscillation criteria are proposed for a class of second-order nonlinear functional dynamic equations on an arbitrary time scale, by using the technique of Riccati transformation and integral averaging method. The o...
The upcoming satellite mission EnMAP offers the opportunity to retrieve information on the seasonal development of vegetation parameters on a regional scale based on hyperspectral data. This study aims to investigate whether an analysis method for th...
Determining the operation scenarios of renewable energies is important for power system dispatching. This paper proposes a renewable scenario generation method based on the hybrid genetic algorithm with variable chromosome length (HGAVCL). The discre...
Background: Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture is a frequent injury among athletes, particularly women. Various techniques have shown effectiveness, but their impact on laxity and clinical outcomes varies. This study aims to compare the rupture...
Background: Rapidly progressive osteoarthritis of the hip (RPOH) is a rare syndrome that involves the femoral head and acetabulum. Methods: We analyzed the incidence of RPOH in 2022. The inclusion criteria included a clinical history of pain for 1&nd...
Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate clinical outcomes of arthroscopic resection of extraarticular knee osteochondroma. Methods: A retrospective analysis was performed in 74 patients with extra-articular knee osteochondroma treated by...
Zebrafish is a well-established model organism for cardiovascular disease studies in which one of the most popular tasks is to assess cardiac functions from the heart beating echo-videos. However, current techniques are often time-consuming and error...
Background: Magnetotherapy applied to patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) produces anti-inflammatory, analgesic and antioedema effects. Observations suggest that the beneficial and adverse effects of magnetotherapy are related to the parameters o...
Background: We have applied an anterior locking compression mini plate in addition to a conventional superior locking compression plate for the treatment of wedge or multifragmentary clavicular fractures. Methods: Medical and radiologic data were ret...
Background: Varioaus methods are available to address fingertip injuries, which are becoming increasingly common. Coverage should ideally involve both functional and aesthetic improvements. The second toe pulp-free flap is useful because of its simil...
Background: Intelligence scores in males with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) and Becker Muscular Dystrophy (BMD) remain a major issue in clinical practice. We performed a literature review and meta-analysis to further delineate the intellectual fu...
In the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era, as the scale of existing quantum hardware continues to expand, the demand for effective methods to schedule quantum gates and minimize the number of operations has become increasingly urgent. To add...
With the rapid growth of remote sensing data, efficiently managing and retrieving large-scale remote sensing images has become a significant challenge. Specifically, for multi-label image retrieval, single-scale feature extraction methods often fail...
Precipitation is an important meteorological indicator that has a direct and significant impact on ecology, agriculture, hydrology, and other vital areas of human health and life. It is therefore essential to monitor variations of this parameter at a...
Sow body condition scoring has been confirmed as a vital procedure in sow management. A timely and accurate assessment of the body condition of a sow is conducive to determining nutritional supply, and it takes on critical significance in enhancing s...
An efficient algorithm to simulate dynamics of open quantum system is presented. The method describes the dynamics by unraveling stochastic wave functions converging to a density operator description. The stochastic techniques are based on the quantu...
Fault diagnostic techniques can reduce the requirements for the experience of maintenance crews, accelerate maintenance speed, reduce maintenance cost, and increase electric energy production profitability. In this paper, a new hybrid fault diagnosis...
The aim of this study was to critically evaluate and compare the different methods to assess overall hangover severity. Currently, there are three multi-item hangover scales that are commonly used for this purpose. All of them comprise a number of ha...
To improve the seeding motor control performance of electric-driven seeding (EDS), a genetic particle swarm optimization (GAPSO)-optimized fuzzy PID control strategy for electric-driven seeding was designed. Since the parameters of the fuzzy controll...
(1) Background: This study investigated the feasibility of conducting a two-week “real-world” trial of the Self Grasping Hand (SGH), a novel 3D printed passive adjustable prosthesis for hand absence; (2) Methods: Single-group pilot study of nine adul...
Feature matching is to detect and match corresponding feature points in stereo pairs, which is one of the key techniques in accurate camera orientations. However, several factors limit the feature matching accuracy, e.g., image textures, viewing angl...
Differential Evolution (DE) is a method of optimization used in symmetrical optimization problems and also in problems that are not even continuous, and are noisy and change over time. DE optimizes a problem with a population of candidate solutions a...
In rock mechanics, the study of shear strength on the structural surface is crucial to evaluating the stability of engineering rock mass. In order to determine the shear strength, a key parameter is the joint roughness coefficient (JRC). To express a...
In this paper, gelatin was extracted from the scales of Coregonus peled, Carp and Bighead carp by the acid method, and the structure and functional properties of the obtained scale gelatin and food-grade pigskin gelatin (FG) were compared. The result...
Background: Primary malignant bone tumors are most commonly associated with mutilating surgical procedures that can significantly disturb the motor development of a young patient and are frequently affiliated with major postoperative complications. U...
Clinical genomics sequencing is rapidly expanding the number of variants that need to be functionally elucidated. Interpreting genetic variants (i.e., mutations) usually begins by identifying how they affect protein-coding sequences. Still, the three...
In ground-based infrared optical remote sensing systems, the target signal is very weak due to the dynamic strong light background and the movement of dim and small targets. To improve the limit detection capability, background suppression and target...
The digital image correlation (DIC) method is widely used in deformation measurement due to the advantages of being non-contact, high precision, full field measurement, and requiring simple experimental equipment. Traditionally, the grayscale speckle...
As complex system engineering involving multiple stakeholders, multi-objective collaboration, and multi-spatiotemporal scales, the components, logical structure, and functional mechanisms of production equipment operation management and control (PEOM...
Super-resolution (SR) is a technique that restores image details based on existing information, enhancing the resolution of images to prevent quality degradation. Despite significant achievements in deep-learning-based SR models, their application in...
The very large eddy simulation (VLES) method was investigated for supersonic reacting flows in the present work. The advantages and characteristics of the VLES model and the widely used improved delayed detached eddy simulation (IDDES) method were re...
In this study, a method based on the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and azimuth-scale expansion is presented to retrieve the sea-surface wind direction from a single X-band marine radar image. The algorithm first distinguishes rain-free and rain-co...
Background: The partial dislocation of the talus from the calcaneus and navicular bones is a primary factor leading to a prolonged overpronation during weightbearing. This study aimed to assess the possibility of returning to physical activity and lo...
Accurate multi-scale object detection in remote sensing images poses a challenge due to the complexity of transferring deep features to shallow features among multi-scale objects. Therefore, this study developed a multi-feature fusion and attention n...
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