In this paper we propose a soft-hard combination scheme, called SHC scheme, for cooperative spectrum sensing in cognitive radio networks. The SHC scheme deploys a cluster based network in which Likelihood Ratio Test (LRT)-based soft combination is ap...
Tunnels excavated in a combination of hard and soft rock strata with high ground stress are prone to large deformations, collapse, and other disasters. The Yongfeng Tunnel, a reconstruction and expansion of the G544 line, suffered severe high ground...
Weakly cemented soft rock mines in the Ordos Basin are susceptible to mining disasters, including roof collapse and substantial deformation of surrounding rocks, during coal mining operations. Researching the damage characteristics of structures comp...
Sufficient wound closure of large soft tissue defects remains a challenge for reconstructive surgeons. We aimed to investigate whether combined perforator propeller flaps (PPFs) are suitable to expand reconstructive options. Patients undergoing PPF r...
Background: Localized soft tissue sarcoma (STS) is primarily treated with surgical resection with or without radiotherapy (RT), while the role of chemotherapy (CT) as a radiosensitizer remains unclear. We report our single-institution experience with...
In this article, we propose a novel concept of the single-valued neutrosophic fuzzy soft set by combining the single-valued neutrosophic fuzzy set and the soft set. For possible applications, five kinds of operations (e.g., subset, equal, union, inte...
In the distributed detection system with multiple sensors, there are two ways for local sensors to deliver their local decisions to the fusion center (FC): a one-bit hard decision and a multiple-bit soft decision. Compared with the soft decision, the...
Questions: In adult patients with inoperable locally advanced or metastatic soft-tissue sarcoma, do combination chemotherapy regimens containing ifosfamide have an advantage in terms of response rate, time to progression, or survival, as compared wit...
While research on the sustainable built environment has acknowledged the need to integrate multidisciplinary perspectives in the early planning phases, few studies have focused on early-phase meetings and how these can support such co-creation of sus...
Because of hyper-complexity, a difficulty to define, multiple stakeholders with conflicting perspectives, and a lack of clear-cut solutions, wicked problems necessitate innovative and adaptive strategies. Operations research (OR) has been a valuable...
Heating extraction steam (HEXTR) flow rate is the key parameter to determine the heat load of a combined heat and power (CHP) plant and the safe operation area of the steam turbine of CHP plant. Due to the difficulty of direct measurement, a soft mea...
(1) Background: This study investigated the safety and efficiency of adriamycin and ifosfamide combined with anlotinib (AI/AN) as a neoadjuvant conversion therapy in uSTS. (2) Methods: Patients with uSTS were eligible to receive AI/An, including adri...
This paper presents an improved local ternary pattern (LTP) for automatic target recognition (ATR) in infrared imagery. Firstly, a robust LTP (RLTP) scheme is proposed to overcome the limitation of the original LTP for achieving the invariance with r...
Dual-layer recording doubles the effective areal density of bit-patterned magnetic media, but because both layers are sensed by a common reader, interlayer interference (ILI) is the dominant impairment. This paper presents a two-reader detection meth...
In order to effectively address stability control technology issues of soft surrounding rock roadways in deep mines. This study analyses the deformation and failure characteristics of the surrounding rock of a −962 m horizontal track roadway wi...
Large deformation and failure of soft rock are pressing problems in the mining practice. This paper provides a case study on failure mechanisms and support approaches for a water-rich soft rock roadway in tectonic stress areas of the Wangzhuang coal...
The combination of the mammalian target of rapamycin and proteasome inhibitors is a new treatment strategy for various tumors. Herein, we investigated the synergistic effect of everolimus and bortezomib on tumor growth and metastasis in bone and soft...
Due to the heterogeneity of soft tissue sarcomas (STS), the choice of the proper perioperative treatment regimen is challenging. Neoadjuvant therapy has attracted increasing attention due to several advantages, particularly in patients with locally a...
Background: Evaluation of the potential efficacy and safety of combination therapies for advanced soft tissue sarcomas (STS) has increased substantially after approval of trabectedin and pazopanib. Trabectedin's introduction in Europe in 2007 depende...
In order to study the stability control mechanism of deep soft rock roadway and the active support technology of the anchor-grouting flexible bolt, this paper takes the west wing transportation roadway of Yuandian No. 2 Coal Mine of Huaibei Mining Co...
Vehicle active safety control is attracting ever increasing attention in the attempt to improve the stability and the maneuverability of electric vehicles. In this paper, a neural network combined inverse (NNCI) controller is proposed, incorporating...
Deep lacustrine–fluvial soft ground at the Songyanghu Terminal (Phase III), Yueyang Chenglingji Port, was treated using vacuum wellpoint dewatering combined with dynamic compaction. A two-dimensional coupled solid-mechanics-Darcy model in coupl...
We present new analytical developments that contribute to a better understanding of the (soft) fusion of classifiers. To this end, we propose an optimal linear combiner based on a minimum mean-square-error class estimation approach. This solution all...
This randomized controlled clinical trial compared a conventional combined screw- and cement-retained prosthesis (CSCRP) workflow (control group) with a fully digital cementless screw-retained prosthesis (CL-SRP) system (test group) for single poster...
The current investigation evaluated the discharge coefficient of a combined compound rectangular broad-crested-weir (BCW) gate (Cdt) using the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling approach and soft computing models. First, CFD was applied to t...
In light of the advancement of vehicle electrification and intelligence, four-wheel independent drive (4WID) electric vehicles (EVs) have garnered significant attention as a promising platform. Integrating advanced torque-vectoring (TV) strategies in...
Background/Objectives: Evidence regarding associations between local therapy before an indexed systemic regimen and subsequent outcomes in advanced soft tissue sarcoma (STS) remains limited. We evaluated outcomes within four regimen-defined cohorts a...
We investigated whether the long-term intake of a typical sugar-sweetened soft drink (sugar-sweetened beverage, SSB) alters markers for taste function when combined with a standard diet (chow) or a model chow mimicking a Western diet (WD). Adult male...
Background/Objectives: Locoregional therapies (LRTs), including transarterial embolization (TAE), transarterial chemoembolization (TACE), and transarterial radioembolization (TARE), have become integral in the management of hepatocellular carcinoma (...
Through soft robotics, flexible structures confer an elevated degree of protection and safety in usage, as well as precision and reliability. Using theoretical models while combining different types of soft components opens a wide variety of possibil...
All over the world, especially in Western societies, table salt intake that is inordinately higher than the acceptable level has been observed. An excess of Na in the human diet, mostly from processed foods, is becoming the “number one killer&r...
Soft Pneumatic-Network (Pneu-Net) Actuators (SPAs) have been used extensively in making soft grippers, due to their simple driving forms and large bending deformation. However, the capabilities of the regular SPAs in complex soft gripping application...
Pneumatic soft grippers have been widely studied. However, the structures and material properties of existing pneumatic soft grippers limit their load capacity and manipulation range. In this article, inspired by sea lampreys, we present a pneumatic...
There is a lack of understanding whether plasma levels of anticancer drugs (such as pazopanib) correlate with intra-tumoral levels and whether the plasma compartment is the best surrogate for pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic evaluation. Therefore,...
Background: The combination of gemcitabine and dacarbazine has exhibited efficacy in terms of progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) for aSTSs, albeit without robust confirmation from larger clinical trials. Methods: We conducted a...
A combination of hard-templating (HT) and soft-templating (ST) approaches was studied to obtain MWW-type materials with intermediate physicochemical properties. The HT methodology involved the introduction of carbon particles as hard templates during...
Gemcitabine plus docetaxel is an effective treatment regimen for advanced soft tissue sarcomas (STSs). However, the prognosis for patients remains poor, and thus there is an urgent medical need for novel and effective therapies to improve long-term o...
This paper presents the design, development, and testing of a robot that combines soft-body grasping and crawling locomotion to navigate tubular objects. Inspired by the natural snakes’ climbing locomotion of tubular objects, the soft robot inc...
The utilizing of traditional chemical stabilizers could improve soil engineering properties but also results in brittle behavior and causes environmental problems. This study investigates the feasibility of the combined utilization of an ecofriendly...
In this paper, we propose a new spectroscopic method to explore the behavior of molecules near polymeric molecular networks of water-containing soft materials such as hydrogels. We demonstrate the analysis of hydrogen bonding states of water in the v...
The determination of the rock elasticity modulus (EM) is an indispensable key step for the design of rock engineering problems. Traditional experimental analysis can accurately measure the rock EM, but it requires manpower and material resources, and...
We introduce a soft computing approach for automatically selecting and combining indices from remote sensing multispectral images that can be used for classification tasks. The proposed approach is based on a Genetic-Programming (GP) framework, a tec...
Artificial ground freezing (AGF) is a widely used method in coastal tunnel construction and reinforcement. With more and more underground construction in coastal areas, clay–sand combined formation, which is common in coastal areas, brings more...
In medical texts, temporal information describes events and changes in status, such as medical visits and discharges. According to the semantic features, it is classified into simple time and complex time. The current research on time recognition usu...
Background/Objectives: The aim of the study is to present middle-term results of tailored bone and soft-tissue surgeries in subluxated and dislocated hips in children affected by cerebral palsy. Methods: A total of 87 medical records belonging to 73...
Induction motors (IMs) have been extensively used for driving a wide variety of processes in several industries. Their excellent performance, capabilities and robustness explain their extensive use in several industrial applications. However, despite...
Potato soft rot, caused by the pathogenic bacterium Lelliottia amnigena (Enterobacter amnigenus), is a serious and widespread disease affecting global potato production. Both salicylic acid (SA) and proline (Pro) play important roles in enhancing pot...
Stiff equinocavus foot deformities are challenging clinical entities that may be treated with osteotomies and extensive soft-tissue release. The most common causes of such lesions are neglected trauma and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease; other causes inc...
Washing soft fresh produce such as strawberries, baby leaves, and sliced onions with sanitizing agents is challenging due to their fragile texture. Thus, treatments like aerosolization using slightly acidic electrolyzed water (SAEW) and ultraviolet C...
The present review covers combination approaches of antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) plus antibiotics or antifungals to attack bacteria and fungi in vitro (both planktonic and biofilm forms) focused on those microorganisms that cause infecti...
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