We give a vacuum description with zero-point density for virtual fluctuations. One of the goals is to explain the origin of the vacuum permittivity and permeability and to calculate their values. In particular, we improve on existing calculations by...
Emotions play a crucial role in human life and affect mental health. Understanding the neural patterns associated with emotions is essential. Previous studies carried out some exploration of the neural features of emotions, but most have designed exp...
Background: Haptic virtual simulation (HVS) has emerged as a promising tool in dental education, yet evidence comparing its performance to conventional preclinical training remains limited. Establishing its effectiveness is essential to support its i...
This experiment examined whether pre-exposure to an electrical stimulus from electric fencing attenuates associative pairing of audio and electrical stimuli in dairy heifers. Two treatments were applied to 30 weaned heifers naive to electric fencing....
We propose a new method for constructing a virtual sound source (VSS) based on the direct-to-reverberant ratio (DRR) of room impulse responses (RIRs), using multiple pairs of parametric-array loudspeakers (PALs) and conventional loudspeakers (hereaft...
This paper studies the planning of conflict-free and efficient crossings of antagonistic vehicles’ movements at lightless intersections. A fully automated infrastructure environment is considered, where all vehicles that enter the intersection area a...
With the increasing demands for better transmission speed and robust quality of service (QoS), the capacity constrained backhaul gradually becomes a bottleneck in cooperative wireless networks, e.g., in the Internet of Things (IoT) scenario in joint...
Virtual-force algorithms (VFAs) have been widely studied for accurate node deployment in wireless-sensor-network (WSN) applications. Their main purpose is to achieve the maximum coverage area with the minimum number of sensor nodes in the target area...
How to effectively deploy all wireless sensors and save a system’s energy consumption is a key issue in current wireless sensor network (WSN) applications. Theoretical analysis has proven that a hexagonal structure is the best topology in the t...
Wireless sensing improves the flexibility of condition monitoring but introduces additional uncertainty from sensor faults, packet loss, and communication degradation, which can resemble genuine physical degradation. This study proposes a symmetry-aw...
Application-level evidence is needed to evaluate communication-related delay, processing, reliability, and hosting cost when selecting cloud virtual machines for geographically distributed database-backed applications. This study presents a communica...
Background/Objectives: Sentinel lymph-node biopsy (SLNB) may be omitted in selected patients with clinically node-negative, early-stage breast cancer; however, the extent to which nodal information still influences contemporary adjuvant-treatment pla...
Virtual Try-on is the ability to realistically superimpose clothing onto a target person. Due to its importance to the multi-billion dollar e-commerce industry, the problem has received significant attention in recent years. To date, most virtual try...
Objectives: To clarify the need for a kidney exchange program (KEP) in Japan by conducting a questionnaire survey on KEPs and simulated KEPs by virtual cross-matching based on past cases of transplantation avoidance. Methods: In addition to the conte...
The current paper aimed to comparatively scrutinize some key dimensions apposite for the dynamics of traditional versus virtual teams in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Emphasis was laid on the positive leadership perception, communication effe...
In this paper, we introduce a two-variable parity polynomial invariant for virtual knotoids, defined on oriented virtual knotoid diagrams. The construction is based on the parity of classical crossings, where each crossing is classified as even or od...
UAV-enabled Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) systems simultaneously support target sensing and communication and, combined with their abilities in autonomy and control situations, they have the potential to be deployed for search and rescu...
Binocular rivalry is the perceptual dominance of one visual stimulus over another. Conventionally, binocular rivalry is induced using a mirror-stereoscope—a setup involving mirrors oriented at an angle to a display. The respective mirror planes...
Molecular docking is a computational chemistry method which has become essential for the rational drug design process. In this context, it has had great impact as a successful tool for the study of ligand–receptor interaction modes, and for the explo...
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Concussions are caused by a hit or blow to the head that alters normal brain functioning. The Success in College after Concussion with Effective Student Supports (SUCCESS) program was developed to provide students with psychosocial support and resour...
Chemical features of small molecules can be abstracted to 3D pharmacophore models, which are easy to generate, interpret, and adapt by medicinal chemists. Three-dimensional pharmacophores can be used to efficiently match and align molecules according...
Global Positioning System (GPS)-based virtual fences offer the potential to improve the management of grazing animals. Prototype collar devices utilising patented virtual fencing algorithms were placed on six Angus heifers in a 6.15 hectare paddock....
The PLAYshop program is a parent-focused physical literacy intervention for early childhood. This single-group mixed-methods pilot study aimed to explore the feasibility of virtually delivering and assessing the PLAYshop program. The virtual PLAYshop...
Recently, intuitionistic fuzzy pairs have been used as uncertainty estimations of the request services in service systems. In the present paper, three intuitionistic fuzzy characterizations of virtual service devices are specified: intuitionistic fuz...
In quantum field theory, the vacuum is popularly considered to be a complex medium populated with virtual particle + antiparticle pairs. To an observer experiencing uniform acceleration, it is generally held that these virtual particles become real,...
The specific purposes of this study are (1) to analyze whether there is a difference in the recognition of tourists in the functions of currency according to the type of currency spent by tourists before and after COVID-19; (2) to identify why touris...
Sparse arrays can effectively reduce antenna cost and implementation complexity. However, most existing research in sparse array design mainly focuses on far-field scenarios, which cannot be directly applied to near-field (NF) source localization, wh...
In this paper, a penalty virtual element method (VEM) on polyhedral mesh for solving the 3D incompressible flow is proposed and analyzed. The remarkable feature of VEM is that it does not require an explicit computation of the trial and test space, t...
This study concerns the combination of the permanent and the variable loads in the structural design. The Eurocodes are used as a reference. Three new findings are presented: (1) In each physical structure, and in every load pair of the permanent loa...
The gearbox is essential for power transmission in high-speed trains, and its reliability directly impacts operational safety. Accurate monitoring data and effective assessment methods are crucial for accurately assessing its reliability. This study...
The augmented reality (AR) system requires markers to recognize and locate virtual objects on the screens of mobile devices. However, both markers and objects must be registered via the online platform in advance. In addition, an AR marker can only p...
We present a theoretical study of forward-angle Delbrück scattering of light by the Coulomb field of a target nucleus. Special attention is paid to the Coulomb corrections, which take into account the interaction of the emerging virtual electron...
Propellers are a vital component to achieve successful and reliable operation of drones. However, the drone developer faces many challenges while selecting a propeller and a common approach is to perform static thrust measurement. However, the select...
Pasture management in Australia’s dairy industry requires the manual shifiting of temporary electric fences to maintain pasture quality and growth. Virtual fencing presents an alternative to save time and labour costs. We used automated virtual...
Background: The Double Empathy Theory proposes that communication difficulties between autistic and non-autistic individuals arise from mutual misunderstandings rather than individual deficits. This study examines how autistic–autistic, non-aut...
We used an interbehavioral model of teacher–student didactic performance with six pairs of criteria, as follows. Exploration of competencies and precurrent for learning, explicitness of teacher criteria and identification of student criteria, t...
Background: Taking inspiration from the classical 1974, “moving room experiment” by Lee and Aronson, a “virtual moving room paradigm (Vroom)” was designed using virtual reality (VR) to assess postural control behavior. Methods...
With the introduction of new devices, industries are turning to virtual reality to innovate their product development processes. However, before the technology’s possibilities can be fully harnessed, certain constraints must be overcome. This s...
Traditional training methods for first responders are often limited by time, resources, and safety constraints, which reduces their consistency and effectiveness. This study focused on two main issues: whether exposure to virtual reality training sce...
The resonant trident pair production process in the collision of ultrarelativistic electrons with a strong electromagnetic wave was theoretically studied. Under resonant conditions, the intermediate virtual gamma-quantum became real. As a result, the...
This work details the design, technical deployment, and empirical validation of X-MAIN (eXtended Reality for Maintenance and Inspection Training), an Extended Reality (XR) environment designed for preventive maintenance and safety protocols in indust...
Extended use of permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs) has brought the need to design motors that can comply with the latest requirements in terms of efficiency. This paper presents different configurations in the case of a 3 kW PMSM with two po...
Point cloud registration is a key process in multi-view 3D measurements. Its precision affects the measurement precision directly. However, in the case of the point clouds with non-overlapping areas or curvature invariant surface, it is difficult to...
The effects of display parameters and devices are examined on spatial ability test times in virtual environments. Before the investigation, completion times of 240 and 61 students were measured, using an LG desktop display and the Gear VR, respective...
In this paper, an improved two-dimensional (2-D) direction of arrival (DOA) estimation algorithm for L-shaped nested arrays is proposed. Unlike the approach for a classical nested array, which use the auto-correlation matrix (ACM) to increase the deg...
The pandemic highlighted the need for alternative, more accessible access to mental health interventions that can be readily administered remotely. The purpose of this pre-post-interventional study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a virtual mind-...
The process of encoding the structure of chemicals by molecular descriptors is a crucial step in quantitative structure-activity/property relationships (QSAR/QSPR) modeling. Since ionic liquids (ILs) are disconnected structures, various ways of repre...
Temporal modulation of the quantum vacuum through fast motion of a neutral body or fast changes of its optical properties is known to promote virtual into real photons, the so-called dynamical Casimir effect. Empowering modulation protocols with spat...
We discuss possibilities of generating a Majorana mass for the neutron from topological quantum gravity effects which survive at mesoscopic scales from decoherence. We show how virtual micro-black hole (BH) pairs with skyrme/baryon hairs induce a neu...
Millimeter-wave FMCW radar has been widely used in joint range-velocity estimation of multiple targets. However, most existing algorithms are unable to estimate the range-velocity information with high accuracy simultaneously and fail to discriminate...
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