Symmetry between mathematical constructions is a very desired phenomena in mathematics in general, and in algebraic geometry in particular. For line arrangements, symmetry between topological characterizations and the combinatorics of the arrangement...
In this paper, we develop the notion of the basis for a smooth neutrosophic topology in a more natural way. As a sequel, we define the notion of symmetric neutrosophic quasi-coincident neighborhood systems and prove some interesting results that fit...
Tau, a microtubule-associated protein, plays a critical role in the pathophysiology of neurons. However, whether tau protein is expressed in smooth muscle cells is unknown. Thus, we tested the hypothesis that tau protein is expressed in the primary c...
Recently a Delaunay refinement algorithm has been proposed that can mesh piecewise smooth complexes which include polyhedra, smooth and piecewise smooth surfaces, and non-manifolds. However, this algorithm employs domain dependent numerical predicate...
The ceca play an important role in the physiology of the gastrointestinal tract in chickens. Nevertheless, there is a gap of knowledge regarding the functionality of the ceca in poultry, especially with respect to physiological cecal smooth muscle co...
This paper demonstrates that the space of piecewise-smooth bivariate functions can be well-approximated by the space of the functions defined by a set of simple (non-linear) operations on smooth uniform tensor product splines. The examples include bi...
In this paper, a double pendulum model is presented with unilateral rigid constraint under harmonic excitation, which leads to be an asymmetric and non-smooth system. By introducing impact recovery matrix, modal analysis, and matrix theory, the analy...
This article deals with the extraction of a new original parameter to characterize a railway traffic driving smoothness indicator, and its investigation is based on data obtained from a neural train emulator. This indicator of driving smoothness is a...
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Since COPD is a heterogeneous disease, a specific anti-inflammatory therapy for this disease has not been established yet. Oxidative stress is recognized as a major predisposing factor to COPD related inflammatory responses, resulting in pathological...
In some applications, one is interested in reconstructing a function f from its Fourier series coefficients. The problem is that the Fourier series is slowly convergent if the function is non-periodic, or is non-smooth. In this paper, we suggest a me...
In this paper, the bounded variation property of fuzzy models with smooth compositions have been studied, and they have been compared with the standard fuzzy composition (e.g., min–max). Moreover, the contribution of the bounded variation of th...
Three-dimensional (3D) simulations using the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method were performed for smooth and stepped spillways with converging walls, in order to evaluate the influence of the wall deflection and the step macro-roughness on...
The isomorphism of Karoubi-Villamayor K-groups with smooth K-groups for monoid algebras over quasi stable locally convex algebras is established. We prove that the Quillen K-groups are isomorphic to smooth K-groups for monoid algebras over quasi-stab...
Smooth muscle tissue (SMT) is one of the main structural components of visceral organs, acting as a key factor in the development of adaptive and pathological conditions. Despite the crucial part of SMT in the gastrointestinal tract activity, the mec...
The smooth variable structure filter (SVSF) is a new-type filter based on the sliding-mode concepts and has good stability and robustness in overcoming the modeling uncertainties and errors. However, SVSF is insufficient to suppress Gaussian noise. A...
This study explores the methods to de-trend the smooth structural break processes while conducting the unit root tests. The two most commonly applied approaches for modelling smooth structural breaks namely the smooth transition and the Fourier funct...
Spatial working memory (WM) and spatial attention are closely related, but the relationship between non-spatial WM and spatial attention still remains unclear. The present study aimed to investigate the interaction between color WM and smooth pursuit...
Zipper-coupled tubes are a broadly applicable, deployable mechanism with an angular surface that can be smoothed by attaching an additional smooth sheet pattern. The existing design for the smooth sheet attachment, however, leaves small gaps that can...
The tunica muscularis of mammalian esophagi is composed of striated muscle and smooth muscle. Contraction of the esophageal striated muscle portion is mainly controlled by cholinergic neurons. On the other hand, smooth muscle contraction and relaxati...
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Vascular remodeling is a prominent feature of pulmonary hypertension. This process involves increased muscularization of already muscularized vessels as well as neo-muscularization of non-muscularized vessels. The cell-of-origin of the newly formed v...
Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a complex autoimmune disease characterized by heterogeneous changes involving numerous organs and systems. The currently available data indicate that muscle injury (both smooth and striated muscles) is widespread and leads...
This paper proposes a hierarchical Fourier extension framework for the accurate reconstruction of piecewise smooth functions with mixed-order singularities. To address key challenges in spectral approximation–namely boundary-induced artifacts,...
Turbulence intensity profiles are compared for smooth- and rough-wall pipe flow measurements made in the Princeton Superpipe. The profile development in the transition from hydraulically smooth to fully rough flow displays a propagating sequence from...
Path smoothing is an important part of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) path planning, because the smoothness of the planned path is related to the flight safety and stability of UAVs. In existing smooth UAV path planning methods, different characterist...
Advancements in astronomical telescopes and cutting-edge technologies, including deep ultraviolet (DUV) and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography, have escalated demands and imposed stringent surface quality requirements on optical system components....
Today, mobile robots have a wide range of real-world applications where they can replace or assist humans in many tasks, such as search and rescue, surveillance, patrolling, inspection, environmental monitoring, etc. These tasks usually require a rob...
Designing blades for efficient energy transfer by turning the flow and angular momentum change is both an art and iterative multidisciplinary engineering process. A robust parametric design tool with few inputs to create 3D blades for turbomachinery...
Nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) has been shown to be a strong data representation technique, with applications in text mining, pattern recognition, image processing, clustering and other fields. In this paper, we propose a hypergraph-regulariz...
Structural alterations of pericytes in microvessels are important features of diabetic retinopathy. Although capillary pericytes had been known not to have α-smooth muscle actin (αSMA), a recent study revealed that a specific fixation met...
We introduce a smoothed variant of the Smoothly Clipped Absolute Deviation (SCAD) thresholding rule for wavelet denoising by replacing its piecewise linear transition with a raised cosine. The resulting shrinkage function is odd, continuous on
Network attack detection is a crucial issue in cyber–physical systems. One classical type of network attack is the replay attack. Although the watermarking scheme has proven to be effective in detecting replay attacks, it may confront numerous...
Navigation is an indispensable component of ground and aerial mobile robots. Although there is a plethora of path planning algorithms, most of them generate paths that are not smooth and have angular turns. In many cases, it is not feasible for the r...
Oriented object detection (OOD) can more accurately locate objects with an arbitrary direction in remote sensing images (RSIs) compared to horizontal object detection. The most commonly used bounding box regression (BBR) loss in OOD is smooth L1 loss...
This paper mainly studies the distributed optimization problems in a class of undirected networks. The objective function of the problem consists of a smooth convex function and a non-smooth convex function. Each agent in the network needs to optimiz...
In this paper, we consider a generalized inexact Newton-Landweber iteration to solve nonlinear ill-posed inverse problems in Banach spaces, where the forward operator might not be Gâteaux differentiable. The method is designed with non-smooth c...
Vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) are major components of blood vessels. They regulate physiological functions, such as vascular tone and blood flow. Under pathological conditions, VSMCs undergo a remodeling process known as phenotypic switching....
Hyperproliferation of pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cells is a key component of vascular remodeling in the setting of pulmonary hypertension (PH). Numerous studies have explored factors governing the changes in smooth muscle cell phenotype that le...
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is characterized by intermittent hypoxia (IH) and is a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases (e.g., atherosclerosis) and chronic inflammatory diseases (CID). The excessive proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells...
Tourism forecasting has garnered considerable interest. However, integrating tourism forecasting with volatility is significantly less typical. This study investigates the performance of both the single models and their combinations for forecasting t...
To enhance the service life of shipping equipment and minimize surface wear, this study employs biomimetic principles, integrating fitted structures with jet dynamics to model three configurations: non-smooth structures, single jet structures, and no...
Since smooth pursuit eye movements can be used without calibration in spontaneous gaze interaction, the intuitiveness of the gaze interface design has been a topic of great interest in the human-computer interaction field. However, since most related...
Oxytocin produces an excitatory effect on gastric muscle through the activation of receptors present on stomach smooth muscle cells. However, the intracellular mechanisms that mediate oxytocin excitatory effects are still largely unknown. Therefore,...
With the development of infrastructure construction in mountainous areas, the number of new extra-long tunnels is increasing. However, these tunnels often face the challenge of complex and variable surrounding rock grades, resulting in a large number...
Category theory allows one to treat logic and set theory as internal to certain categories. What is internal to SET is 2-valued logic with classical Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, while for general toposes it is typically intuitionistic logic and...
Total variation (TV) is widely used in many image processing problems including the regularization of optical flow estimation. In order to deal with non differentiability of the TV regularization term, smooth approximations have been considered in th...
We present a one-parameter family of smooth generalized pinball loss functions to overcome the challenges of non-differentiability, noise sensitivity, and resampling instability inherent in traditional loss functions such as hinge loss. These functio...
This in vitro preliminary study investigated the attachment of Fusobacterium nucleatum and Porphyromonas gingivalis on titanium alloy healing abutments, which differed in their surface macro-morphology: one was groove-marked while the other was compl...
Smooth pursuit (SP) was explored in dyslexics and non-dyslexics. Dyslexic children show similar gain of SP, and number and amplitude of catch-up saccades (CUS) as non-dyslexic children. The quality of binocular coordination is good for both groups; t...
Leonurus japonicus Houtt is an exceptional medicinal herb used to treat obstetrical and gynecological diseases in traditional Chinese medicine, and it has significant effects on the treatment of dysmenorrhea and postpartum hemorrhage. This study inve...
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