Ocular choroidal melanoma (OCM) is the most common ocular primary malignant tumor in adults, and there is an increasing emphasis on its early detection and treatment worldwide. The main obstacle in early detection of OCM is its overlapping clinical f...
This study designs a trigger to determine the number of layers of a multi-layer adaptive Kalman filter and applies it to optoelectronic infrared payload system vision. This feature reduces the number of mechanically stabilized motors, equipment weigh...
A single-shot three-dimensional measuring method based on quadrature phase-shifting color composite grating projection is proposed. Firstly, three quadrature phase-shifting sinusoidal gratings are encoded in red (R), green (G), and blue (B) channels...
Asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants are central concepts in news coverage of immigration. However, these three terms refer to distinct groups with different meanings and potentially different frames, which could be negative, victim-based, or posit...
14 February 2023
To explore the influence of the construction and presentation frames of visualization information for safety (VIS) on people’s situation awareness (SA), we designed a three-level user interface (UI) of VIS based on the three-stage SA theory, in...
This paper reports on a study of car drivers’ assessment of a sustainability policy involving increased car parking fees in Swedish city centers. The aim of the study was to investigate how framing of information in text and pictures influences...
As the stress of the frame, especially the bottom side rail supports and bottom inclined supports, of a traditional LNG tank container could be significantly greater than its allowable stress, and the container cannot meet the strength requirement of...
It is important to reduce the time cost of video compression for image sensors in video sensor network. Motion estimation (ME) is the most time-consuming part in video compression. Previous work on ME exploited intra-frame data reuse in a reference...
Reinforced concrete (RC) frames are designed based on the strong column-weak beam (SCWB) philosophy to reduce structural damage and collapse during earthquakes. The SCWB design philosophy is ensured by the required minimum flexural strength ratio of...
With the increasing environmental pollution and resource consumption caused by automobiles, a lightweight design of automobiles is the best solution at present. In this paper, the load-bearing frame of pure electric SUVs is taken as the research obje...
To address the question of why corporate executives adopt diverse corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies, this conceptual paper proposes a decision-frame model to explain how differences in executives’ information-processing templates...
Often expressed teacher beliefs are misaligned with observed instructional practices. We propose that instructor beliefs do not solely exist as isolated entities within instructors’ minds, but that instructors’ classroom decisions and act...
Based on the incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) method, this paper conducts seismic fragility analysis of a CFST plane frame, a CFST spatial frame under 1D (one-dimensional) ground motions, and a CFST spatial frame under 2D (two-dimensional) ground m...
The current state of the art shows that unbalance and distortion on the voltage waveforms at the terminals of a grid-connected inverter disturb its output currents. This paper compares AC linear current regulators for three-phase three-wire voltage s...
Abstract: How do policy analysts perceive the various roles that Models, Simulations and Games (MSG) have, or can have in Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)? Fifty-five policy analysts in water management in The Netherlands and China were i...
Imaging sonar is a crucial tool for underwater visual perception. Compared to 2D sonar images, 3D sonar images offer superior spatial positioning capabilities, although the data acquisition cost is higher and lacks open source references for data ann...
This study establishes a sensitivity evaluation system based on the E-TOPSIS method and combines it with the MORIME algorithm for the optimization design of the frame. First, a three-dimensional model and a finite element analysis model of the frame...
Implicit flexible multibody dynamics using three-dimensional continuum finite elements remains computationally demanding due to repeated nonlinear iterations in large-scale simulations. The component-level co-rotational (CR) continuum finite element...
4 August 2022
Insufficient sleep is a severe social public health problem that can adversely affect the physical and mental health of young people. This study examined risk perceptions for unhealthy sleep behaviors and intentions for healthy sleep behaviors under...
The dynamic response of multi-story steel frames under impact loading exhibits a complex nonlinear behavior. This study develops a three-story, multi-scale spatial steel frame finite element model using ABAQUS 2023 software, and the contact algorithm...
An experimental method to characterize the magnetic properties of Grain Oriented Electrical Steel in the rolling direction is proposed in this paper. It relies on the use of three 25 cm Epstein frames combined to generate three test-frames of differe...
When studying signal reconstruction, the frames are often selected in advance as encoding tools. However, in practical applications, this encoding frame may be subject to attacks by intermediaries and generate errors. To solve this problem, in this p...
Blink detection is considered a useful indicator both for clinical conditions and drowsiness state. In this work, we propose and compare deep learning architectures for the task of detecting blinks in video frame sequences. The first step is the trai...
Base-isolated frames supported by stepped foundation in mountainous areas possess their own particularity, so its progressive collapse dynamic response performance and dynamic effect propagation path are very different from those of ordinary flat gro...
With the improvement of building technical requirements and the updating of standards, the demand for the reinforcement of existing buildings is increasing. In order to solve the problem regarding the low economic applicability of the traditional sei...
This study examines how major newspapers in South Korea and China portrayed national crisis management during the COVID-19 pandemic. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach that combines quantitative content analysis with qualitative interpretation, this...
Three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction using video frames extracted from spherical cameras introduces an innovative measurement method in narrow scenes of architectural heritage, but the accuracy of 3D models and their correlations with frame extracti...
Without any prior knowledge, it has always been a serious challenge to accurately detect infrared targets under a maritime harsh environment (MHE). To solve this problem, the main contribution of this paper is to use the improved visual attention mod...
The research presented is directed to identify the ways to reduce stress state in critical areas of the C-frame of mechanical presses. Ribbing is a way to increase rigidity and a means to reduce energy consumption in operation. Hence, the objective i...
Pseudo-dynamic tests were conducted on a 2/5-scaled, three-story, two-span frame with steel-reinforced recycled concrete (SRRC) columns and steel beams. The El-Centro earthquake waves, Taft earthquake waves, and Lanzhou artificial earthquake waves we...
Dynamic three-dimensional (3-D) reconstruction of small objects moving at high speed is fundamentally limited by the number of viewpoints that a fixed camera array can provide at any single time instant. When the camera count is insufficient, single-...
We solve the problem of how to densely align actions in videos at frame level, with only the order of occurring actions available, in order to save the time-consuming efforts to accurately annotate the temporal boundaries of each action. We propose t...
Image and video manipulation has been actively used in recent years with the development of multimedia editing technologies. However, object-based video tampering, which adds or removes objects within a video frame, is posing challenges because it is...
Damage assessment techniques based on entropy measurements have been recently proposed for the structural health monitoring of civil structures and infrastructures. A quasi-real-time approach, based on the use of instantaneous spectral entropy (ISE)...
The media coverage of religious communities can have an impact on society and contribute to the manifestation of certain images in society. Since recent surveys show social tensions concerning Muslims and Jews, it is important to monitor media covera...
The steel rib and the lattice girder are two typical steel arch frames used in the primary lining of the New Austrian Tunnelling Method (NATM) highway tunnel. In the process of tunnel construction, it is necessary to choose the support method accordi...
We aimed to examine the effects of framed mobile messages (messages emphasizing losses or gains because of a behavior) on young adults’ beliefs about their daily Inhaled Corticosteroids (ICS), intentions to take their ICS, adherence, and asthma...
Most reinforced concrete (RC) frames would exhibit different degrees of damage after mainshock excitations, and these mainshock-damaged RC (MD-RC) frames are highly vulnerable to severe damage or even complete collapse under aftershock excitations. I...
The neutral-point potential balance issues in three-level converters have obtained great attention. The popular view thinks that the neutral-point voltage deviation can be suppressed by regulating the injected zero-sequence component, whether via car...
A signal processing-based procedure is proposed for calibrating an experimental sensor-based test system used to identify material model parameters. A standard dynamic mechanical analyzer (DMA) sensorized test apparatus is considered, enabling the me...
Robot hand-to-eye calibration is a necessary process for a robot arm to perceive and interact with its environment. Past approaches required collecting multiple images using a calibration board placed at different locations relative to the robot. Whe...
Evaluation of the effect of three dimensional (3D) coronary plaque characteristics derived from two dimensional (2D) invasive angiography images (ICA) on coronary flow determined by TIMI frame count (TFC) in acute coronary syndrome (ACS) has not been...
As the study of the negatively expressed news on sports constitutes a scientific area that has not received proper attention by researchers yet, the purpose of this study was to investigate the framing of the Greek national men’s basketball tea...
26 September 2026
Hotel executives publicly describe generative AI (GenAI) as their route out of dependence on online travel agencies (OTAs), while OTAs treat the same technology as a threat to be absorbed. The emerging disclosure literature cannot detect this opposit...
Eccentrically braced frames are renowned for their capacity to absorb seismic forces while offering greater adaptability. These frames incorporate bracings that are joined to the beams with an intentional offset, forming a connection within the beams...
In moving society towards more sustainable forms of consumption and production, social learning must play an important role. Making the assumption that it occurs as a consequence of changes in understanding, this article presents a methodology for ma...
In this paper, we present several new inequalities for weaving frames in Hilbert spaces from the point of view of operator theory, which are related to a linear bounded operator induced by three Bessel sequences and a scalar in the set of real number...
Recycling can benefit our community and the environment to a considerable degree through the link between collection and processing. Governments and companies make substantive efforts to develop effective communication strategies that encourage peopl...
The application of folding arch frames is deemed crucial for unmanned arch frame erection, with the selection of the joint form being a determining factor in the overall mechanical performance of the folding arch frame, particularly in influencing th...
This paper develops a unified Lorentzian framework for persistent rigid motions generated by slant helices in three-dimensional Minkowski space and investigates their geometric and kinematic properties. Persistence is characterized by the constancy o...
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