To address the significant challenges associated with achieving precise target tracking and engagement of high-energy laser systems operating under complex atmospheric conditions, this study proposes an indirect detection strategy based on the charac...
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms have shown substantial potential to enhance operational efficiency and reduce strike costs, presenting extensive applications in modern urban warfare. However, achieving effective strike performance in complex urb...
Based on the growing clinical evidence on the benefit of very low LDL-C levels in combination with the availability of highly effective lipid-lowering therapy (LLT) options [...]
Bird activity levels present an increasing trend in China. Bird strike risks for the aviation industry are positively correlated with bird activity. Migratory birds pose greater threats to airplanes due to their broader distribution and larger mass....
The Tazhong No. 2 fault zone is a major fault zone in the Tazhong area, and studying its structural characteristics is of great significance for hydrocarbon exploration. Based on detailed structural interpretation of 2D and 3D seismic data, this stud...
Ubiquitous Radar has become an essential tool for preventing bird strikes at airports, where accurate target classification is of paramount importance. The working mode of Ubiquitous Radar, which operates in track-then-identify (TTI) mode, provides b...
Vessel speed reduction measures are a management tool used to reduce the risk of whale–ship strikes and mitigate their impacts. Large ships and other commercial vessels are required to publicly share tracking information, including their speed,...
The strike of vertical fractures is a key geometric parameter for interpreting subsurface structures. However, conventional single-polarimetric ground-penetrating radar (SP-GPR) provides limited information on subsurface targets, making it difficult...
The substrate that adheres between the teeth of the traveling track plate during the operation of a deep-sea polymetallic nodule mining vehicle affects the driving performance, so this study aimed to investigate the effect of the water jet on the cle...
Martial arts, boxing and combat sports such as mixed martial arts participation have gained popularity in recent years internationally. One common aspect to these sports is the training and skill in maximizing strike impact of punches and kicks, refe...
The largest carbonate condensate field in China has been found in the central Tarim Basin. Ordovician carbonate reservoirs are generally attributed to reef-shoal microfacies along a platform margin. However, recent production success has been achieve...
Emerging smart devices have gathered increasing popularity within the sports community, presenting a promising avenue for enhancing athletic performance. Among these, the Rise Dynamics Alpha (RD
Recently, the “sweet spot” of a fractured reservoir, controlled by a strike-slip fault, has been found and become the favorable target for economic exploitation of deep (>4500 m) tight gas reservoirs in the Sichuan Basin, Southwestern...
Bird strike prevention in civil aviation has traditionally focused on the airport perimeter. Since the risk of especially damaging bird strikes outside the airport boundaries is rising, this paper investigates the safety potential of operational bird...
This study aims to elucidate the developmental characteristics of strike-slip fault-controlled Ordovician fault-karst reservoirs (FKRs) in the Yuman area of the Tarim Basin. By integrating regional tectonic settings with high-resolution 3D seismic da...
The dynamic behavior of projectile–fuze systems under high-velocity penetration is extremely complex, which causes great challenges in fuze performance evaluation and design. Existing research mainly relies on numerical simulation, while the co...
The ricochet phenomenon has been studied worldwide for a long time in consideration of its significance in ballistics. A ricochet projectile has proven to be worthless to its launcher, as warheads fail to penetrate the interior of targets and strike...
As semi-airborne mineral exploration has a limited budget, it is critical to design experimental procedures that generate data to maximize desired information. We investigated the effects of transmitter–receiver geometries for a variety of anom...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming more and more widely used in battlefield reconnaissance and target strikes because of their high cost-effectiveness, but task planning for large-scale UAV swarms is a problem that needs to be solved. To so...
A diversified energy portfolio may include marine energy in the form of current energy converters (CECs) such as tidal or in-river turbines. New technology development in the research stage typically requires monitoring for environmental effects. A s...
In modern warfare, achieving strikes against military targets commonly involves utilizing methods such as fire coverage and missile precision guidance. While effective, fire coverage requires significant ammunition support, and missiles can be costly...
Slip-induced falls, responsible for approximately 40% of falls, can lead to severe injuries and in extreme cases, death. A large foot–floor contact angle (FFCA) during the heel-strike event has been associated with an increased risk of slip-ind...
In Kendo, there is no consensus as to which hand should produce more pressure when attacking the opponent with the bamboo sword, let alone how to teach the pressure distribution during coaching. There is the theory that a Kendo attack can be divided...
This paper addresses the challenge of ineffective coordination between terminal maneuvering and precision strike capabilities in hypersonic unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). To resolve this issue, an intelligent spiral maneuver trajectory generation m...
To achieve pest elimination on leaves with laser power, it is essential to locate the laser strike point on the pest accurately. In this paper, Pieris rapae (L.) (Lepidoptera: Pieridae), similar in color to the host plant, was taken as the object and...
Kicking strikes are fundamental in combat sports such as Taekwondo, karate, kickboxing, Muay Thai, and mixed martial arts. This review aimed to explore the measurement methods, kinematics such as velocities, kinetics such as impact force, determinant...
The target can deceive the flight vehicle by releasing an infrared decoy to make the line-of-sight (LOS) angle rate deflect greatly, thus causing the flight vehicle to miss the target. Therefore, in order to accurately strike the target in complex ad...
The largest ultra-deep (>6000 m) strike-slip fault-controlled oilfield in the world is found in the Tarim Basin of Northwestern China. The localized fractured reservoirs are the major production targets along the strike-slip fault zones. Different...
(1) Background: The kick of the ball in soccer is considered one of the most important technical gestures in soccer. Despite this, there is little evidence on ball-striking performance factors in base soccer. The main objectives of the present study...
Multiple laser scanner hardware configurations can be applied to Mobile Mapping Systems. As best practice, laser scanners are rotated horizontally or inclined vertically to increase the probability of contact between the laser scan plane and any surf...
This study compares the complete-perforation response of flax/aramid–epoxy laminates manufactured with a fixed nominal 12-layer hybrid architecture while varying the manufacturing route and the reinforcement placed at the strike face. Laminates...
To achieve the “dual-carbon” target and ensure energy security, there is an urgent need to promote the transformation of the energy system, of which the coal industry is the main battlefield. In order to study the spatial and temporal cha...
The central inversion tectonic belt of the Xihu Sag is a typical inversion structural zone in the East China Sea Shelf Basin and a key target for hydrocarbon exploration. The Ningbo structure underwent five evolutionary stages—rifting, post-rif...
The global prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) continues to rise, yet effective treatments are lacking due to the complex pathogenesis of this disease. Although recent research has provided evidence for the “multiple strikes&...
Kendo is one of the most ancient swordsmanship arts in Japan. The aims of this study are to develop and test an innovative smart Kote glove for assisting the Kendoka to distinguish scoring from non-scoring Kote (wrist) strikes. An in-house developed...
As one of the busiest airports in East China, effective bird-strike prevention is of paramount importance for Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport. Ground-dwelling insects in airport grasslands serve as a critical food source for insectivorous bir...
A new distributed leaderless cooperative guidance algorithm is suggested for multi-directional saturation strikes against maneuvering targets. First, the finite-time disturbance observer (FDO) is used to estimate the target’s unknown maneuvers....
Extracts of frankincense, the gum resin of Boswellia species, have been extensively used in traditional folk medicine since ancient times and are still of great interest as promising anti-inflammatory remedies in Western countries. Despite their comm...
Twenty-seven methods of estimating vertical ground reaction force first peak, loading rate, second peak, average, and/or time series from a single wearable accelerometer worn on the shank or approximate center of mass during running were compared. Fo...
Strike-slip faults and their associated fractures in the ultra-deep marine carbonate reservoirs of the Fuman Oilfield, Tarim Basin, hold significant petroleum geological importance, with the developmental characteristics of fractures being a key fact...
Endowed with distinctive natural ecosystems and abundant biodiversity, regional environmental governance in developing countries, especially the environmentally sensitive areas (ESAs), is facing the daunting task to ultimately divert their regional d...
To understand the influence of the length–diameter ratio (L/D) of explosively formed projectiles (EFPs) on the energy spatial distribution of behind-armor debris (BAD), three EFPs with different L/Ds were designed in this study. The scattering...
In known environments, vehicles plan paths to the target and take precautions to minimize risks. Due to limited dynamics, bounded turning radii, and unfavorable initial conditions, they may be momentarily exposed to threats. In this study, we propose...
Large gas reserves have been found in the Permian platform margin of the Kaijiang-Liangping area of the Sichuan Basin in SW China. They are assumed to be a widely developed reef–shoal reservoir. However, the tight matrix reservoir cannot suppor...
Currently, it appears that there is a lack of understanding related to the role of SSF, in the two-phase behavior of the deceleration history, which is an issue discussed recently in the impact dynamics field. This paper analytically and numerically...
The macroscopic structural fractures (joints) and geostress distribution characteristics of coal reservoirs are important factors affecting the exploitation of coalbed methane (CBM). In this study, the joints in the sedimentary strata of the Dahebian...
Non-invasive geophysical exploration methods a play key role in the exploration of ore deposits. In the present study, the audio-frequency magnetotelluric (AMT) method was applied to metallic mineral exploration. The metallic mineral deposit targeted...
The paper proposes a method that analyses the dynamic damage probability of laser systems to address the shortcomings of the quantitative model for the damage probability of laser systems. Firstly, the far-field energy density distribution model is c...
This paper describes a system for the automatic determination of rock-breaking target poses for impact hammers used in underground mines. The rock-breaking target pose is defined as the position and angle at which the impact hammer must strike a rock...
In the study of collision processes, a series of conditions is usually assumed. One of them is that the beam of projectiles is coherent in lengths greater than those of the targets against which it strikes. However, recent experimental results and th...
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