2 March 2020
The continuously occurring problems of forest depletion have resulted in the deforestation of countries and climate change. In order to resolve this problem, the development of innovative wood substitutes is essential. This research strives to develo...
The global cruise industry has demonstrated remarkable growth, with modern ships functioning as large-scale floating resorts. Effective food provisioning is a critical operational function that directly impacts both cost efficiency and passenger sati...
The development of integrated public transportation networks has received widespread attention in recent years. Especially in global northern cities, improving the substitution of subways for buses could meet population travel demand during snowstorm...
Hyperlipidemia is a chronic disease that seriously affects human health. Due to the fact that traditional animal models cannot fully mimic hyperlipidemia in humans, new animal models are urgently needed for basic drug research on hyperlipidemia. Prev...
Background/Objectives: Night shift workers (NSWs) are at a high risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, the association between CVD risk factors and lifestyle behavior (sedentary behavior [SB], physical activity [PA], and sleep) is unclear amo...
The global shift towards sustainable energy and stringent climate policies has underscored the need for decarbonizing energy systems, electrifying transportation, and transforming supply chains. In this context, China’s new energy vehicle (NEV)...
Diverse phylogenetic methods require a substitution model of evolution that should mimic, as accurately as possible, the real substitution process. At the protein level, empirical substitution models have traditionally been based on a large number of...
Today’s stamping simulations are realized by ignoring the elastic deformation of the press and tooling system through the assumption of a rigid behavior and a perfect press stroke. However, in reality, the press and tool components deform elast...
The purpose of this work was to develop a substitute material model for the analysis of reinforced concrete structures. This paper presents proposals to solve the problem of limited calculation time, both to perform simulation models and to perform e...
26 November 2024
In the emerging field of computational gastronomy, aligning culinary practices with scientifically supported nutritional goals is increasingly important. This study explores how large language models (LLMs) can be applied to optimize ingredient subst...
Black-box attacks against deep neural network (DNN) classifiers are receiving increasing attention because they represent a more practical approach in the real world than white box attacks. In black-box environments, adversaries have limited knowledg...
Background/Objectives: Eggs, a nutritious and affordable food, are not widely consumed by adolescents, who show many nutrient inadequacies. Modeling dietary substitutions with eggs and their costs can provide dietary insights while considering econom...
Alveolar cleft is a common congenital deformity that requires surgical intervention, notably using autologous bone grafts in young children. Bone substitutes, in combination with mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), have shown promise in the repair of thes...
Which intensity of physical activity (PA) is associated with type 2 diabetes (T2D) prevention remains unclear. Isotemporal substitution models assess the relationship of replacing the amount of time spent in one activity for another. We aimed to asse...
High sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption has been linked with obesity. The present study examined the associations between adolescent SSB intake and body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), and overweight status in early adulthood, and...
Hydroxyapatite (HAp) possesses exceptional compositional flexibility, allowing for extensive cationic, anionic, and coupled substitutions that can modify its structural, mechanical, electronic, magnetic, catalytic, and biological properties. However,...
A modelling approach based on the Substitutive Coefficients Network (SCN) is developed to predict the thermal behavior of a system in the dynamic state-space, without requiring knowledge of the thermal mass. The method can apply either to large- (bui...
Purpose: To develop and preliminarily evaluate a hyaluronic acid–1,4-butanediol diglycidyl ether (HA-BDDE)/polyethylene glycol–tyramine (PEG-Tyramine) dual-hydrogel designed as a transparent and injectable vitreous substitute with suitabl...
An electricity substitution strategy that replaces fossil fuels such as coal and oil with electricity in end-use energy consumption, can effectively contribute to an energy transition and the early achievement of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality...
The demand of bone graft materials has been increasing. Among various origins of bone graft materials, natural coral composed of up to 99% calcium carbonate was chosen and converted into hydroxyapatite (HA); silicon was then substituted into the HA....
In this work, over 500 structures of tri-ring aromatic Schiff bases with different substitution patterns were investigated to develop a unified description of the substituent effect on the intramolecular hydrogen bridge. Both proximal and distal effe...
5 March 2019
Isotemporal substitution model was first developed in 2009 [...]
3 March 2022
The aim of the current study was to provide new evidence for the associations between physical activity (PA), sedentary behavior (SB), and fear of falling (FOF) by investigating the impact of replacing 30 min SB with both light-intensity PA (LPA) and...
The phylogenetic tree is a widely-used tool to show the evolutionary relationship between taxa. There are many types of phylogenetic trees proposed in the literature such as maximum likelihood, neighbor-joining, and UPGMA trees. The topologies of dif...
This study aimed to model how substituting foods consumed by Canadians for alternatives with more favourable nutrient profiling (NP) scores would impact dietary intakes. The Ofcom NP system, developed to help the UK Office of Communication differenti...
5 April 2020
This study used an isotemporal substitution (IS) model to determine the potential reallocation effects of sedentary behavior (SB) and physical activity (PA) on subjective health and stress in South Koreans with data from the Sixth Korean National Hea...
In the article, an identification method of railway track stability model parameters based on energy equilibrium is presented by the authors. A study of two parameters directly influencing the continuous welded track (CWR) stability is described by t...
We aimed to investigate associations between dietary macronutrient proportions and prospective visceral adiposity index changes (ΔVAI). The study included 1254 adults (18–74 years), from the Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study (TLGS), who were followed fo...
Lexical substitution aims to generate a list of equivalent substitutions (i.e., synonyms) to a sentence’s target word or phrase while preserving the sentence’s meaning to improve writing, enhance language understanding, improve natural la...
In many applications, such as the miniaturization and cooling of high-power electronics in aerospace, a new thermal management solution is needed, and metal foam radiators may be a valuable solution. In this work, X-ray scanning was applied to obtain...
With the increasing “resource curse” phenomena relating to energy resources in China, research concerning energy substitution policies has become more meaningful. In this paper, a dynamic CGE model was built to evaluate the impacts of ene...
With climate change being a certainty, which today is probably the biggest challenge humanity is facing, and also accepting that greenhouse gas emissions are the main cause accelerating climate change, there is an urgent need to find solutions that l...
Scholars have claimed that artificial intelligence can be used in education to transform learning. However, there is insufficient evidence on whether intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs), a representative form of artificial intelligence in education,...
A compensatory base change (CBC) that coevolves in the secondary structure of ribosomal internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) influences the estimation of genetic distance and thus challenges the phylogenetic use of this most popular genetic marker. T...
Non-unions continue to present a challenge to trauma surgeons, as current treatment options are limited, duration of treatment is long, and the outcome often unsatisfactory. Additionally, standard treatment with autologous bone grafts is associated w...
Understanding the substitution effect and creation effect of digital transformation on the manufacturing industry is crucial to safeguarding employment stability and advancing manufacturing sophistication in China’s contemporary context. In thi...
Background: Dietary patterns impact blood pressure (BP) levels, but the potential impact of replacing specific types of fats with proteins or carbohydrates, in isocaloric models, on BP remains unclear. Objective: This study evaluates the longitudinal...
The efficacy of skin substitutes is established for the treatment of burn injuries, but its use is not limited to this condition. This technology has the potential to improve the treatment of various conditions by offering highly advanced and persona...
Background/Objectives: There are limited data on the dynamic changes in daily composition of movement behaviors (sleep; moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, MVPA; light physical activity, LPA; and sedentary time, SED) and their associations with b...
A crucial problem which China faces is how to improve its energy consumption structure. In this paper, a system dynamic model of energy substitution based on energy capital and putty-clay theory is adopted, in order to explore the substitution effect...
The expression of the Fasciola hepatica carboxylesterase type B (CestB) gene is known to be induced upon exposure to the anthelmintic triclabendazole (TCBZ), leading to a substantial rise in enzyme-specific activity. Furthermore, the nucleotide seque...
Ingredient substitution has become a multidimensional challenge in modern food systems, where sensory authenticity, functional performance, nutritional equivalence, and cultural or regulatory compliance must be satisfied simultaneously. This review e...
Against the backdrop of the global energy transition toward deep electrification, the natural gas industry faces challenges, including increased load forecasting uncertainty and frequent extreme weather impacts. To enhance natural gas load forecastin...
Our simple Meisenheimer model for predicting the principal site for nucleophilic substitution in aromatic perfluorocarbons is further tested on a series of recently published reactions in liquid ammonia primarily from Malykhin and coworkers. The mode...
Balancing food security with fertilizer-driven climate impacts remains critical in intensive agriculture. While organic–inorganic substitution enhances soil fertility, its effects on nitrous oxide (N2O) and nitric oxide (NO) emissions remain un...
Background: White brined cheese is one of the most frequently consumed cheeses that is accepted among a large group of consumers, which is largely related to its unique sensory properties, which are characterized by specific technological processes i...
In this paper, we investigate the class of quasi-homogeneous production models, obtaining the classification of such models with constant elasticity with respect to an input as well as with respect to all inputs. Moreover, we prove that a quasi-homog...
Pansharpening is a method of image fusion that combines a panchromatic (PAN) image with high spatial resolution and multispectral (MS) images which possess different spectral characteristics and are frequently obtained from satellite sensors. Despite...
In this paper, the density functional theory accompanied with linear combination of atomic orbitals (LCAO) method is applied to study the atomic and electronic structure of the Ti3+ and Ti2+ ions substituted for the host Al atom in orthorhombic Pbnm...
Silicon-doped C60 fullerenes represent a distinctive class of heterofullerenes with tunable structural, electronic, and chemical properties arising from substitutional incorporation of Si atoms into the carbon cage. This review provides a comprehensi...
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