This paper proposes a pressing method for wall-climbing robots to prevent them from falling. In order to realize the method, the properties of the utilized suction cup are studied experimentally. Then based on the results, a guide rail is designed to...
Bgl2p is a major, conservative, constitutive glucanosyltransglycosylase of the yeast cell wall (CW) with amyloid amino acid sequences, strongly non-covalently anchored in CW, but is able to leave it. In the environment, Bgl2p can form fibrils and/or...
Mass attachments may exist in the design and use of an aircraft panel, such as sensor layout, internal wiring, surface icing, etc. These mass attachments can change the flutter characteristics of the panel in supersonic flight and have important impa...
Channel fire poses a great threat to personnel safety and structural strength, in which the temperature profile is worthy of attention. In this paper, the longitudinal temperature profile of a ceiling jet induced by a wall-attached fire with differen...
A wall-climbing robot is an electromechanical device capable of autonomous or semi-autonomous movement on intricate vertical surfaces (e.g., walls, glass facades, pipelines, ceilings, etc.), typically incorporating sensing and adaptive control system...
Glucan linked to proteins is a natural mega-glycoconjugate (mGC) playing the central role as a structural component of a yeast cell wall (CW). Regulation of functioning of non-covalently bound glucanosyltransglycosylases (ncGTGs) that have to remodel...
Obstructions of the ureter lumen can originate from intrinsic or extrinsic factors, such as kidney stones, tumours, or strictures. These can affect the physiological flow of urine from the kidneys to the bladder, potentially causing infection, pain,...
Because they are in enclosed underground buildings, the generator layers of hydropower stations have limited ventilation. In order to reduce the influence of a hot and humid environment on equipment and staff health and create a good thermal environm...
The superior performance of single-point attached commissures (SPAC) molded valve design has been validated by several numerical, in vitro and in vivo animal studies. However, the impacts of the SPAC molded valve design on aortic hemodynamic environm...
A 9-year-old, 4.7 kg, spayed female Chihuahua presented with a 3.5 cm soft tissue sarcoma on the dorsal right thoracic wall. The tumor was resected, including the 11–13th ribs, resulting in a caudal dorsal thoracic wall defect. The defect was r...
In whole-cell based biosensors, spectrophotometry is one of the most commonly used methods for detecting organophosphates due to its simplicity and reliability. The sensor performance is directly affected by the cell immobilization method because it...
Lid-driven cavity (LDC) flow is a significant area of study in fluid mechanics due to its common occurrence in engineering challenges. However, using numerical simulations (ANSYS Fluent) to accurately predict fluid flow and mixed convective heat tran...
In this paper, the effect of house envelopes including thermal bridges on the daily, monthly, and annual consumption of the air conditioning system of a detached house and an attached house, with a façade in the east, west, north, or south dir...
Numerical simulation is carried out to investigate the effect of the boundary condition of two lateral end-plate walls on the flow structure in the wake of a flow crossing a yawed circular cylinder. Two typical boundary conditions, nonslip and period...
Wall attachment has great potential in a broad range of applications such as robotic grasping, transfer printing, and asteroid sampling. Herein, a new type of underactuated bionic microspines gripper is proposed to attach to an irregular, rough wall....
This paper presents the design and development of a new modular wall-climbing robot—Modular Wall Climbing-1 (MC-1)—for solving the problem of autonomous wall switching observed in wall-climbing robots. Each modular robot is capable of ind...
Compared with the traditional radiant cooling combined with a displacement ventilation air conditioning system, an air conditioning system of radiant cooling combined with an attached jet can not only effectively prevent dew on the surface of the rad...
This study proposes the use of symmetrical ogive-shaped ribs on the walls of microchannel heat sinks (MCHS) to improve their thermal performance with minimal pressure drop. The ribs are arranged in three different configurations: ribs attached to all...
In conventional light microscopy, the adjacent cell walls of filamentous moss protonemata are seen from its narrow side thereby obscuring the major area of cell–cell connection. Optical sectioning, segmentation and 3D reconstructions allow the...
The construction of large-scale water diversion projects has effectively alleviated the current situation of the uneven distribution of water resources in China. However, due to the siltation of very fine sediment and organic matter on the side wall...
(1) Background: The most important part of an orthodontic attachment (bracket or tube) is the tube or slot for the insertion of the orthodontic wire. Aligning teeth along the archwire according to angular values preadjusted in the bracket slots (or t...
Easy detachment is as important as reliable an attachment to climbing robots in achieving stable climbing on vertical surfaces. To deal with the difficulty of detachment occurring in wheeled and track-type climbing robots using bio-inspired spines, a...
Citrus postbloom fruit drop, caused by Colletotrichum spp., is an important disease in the Americas. The pathogen infects citrus flowers, produces orange-brown lesions on petals, and may cause the abscission of young fruit. In diseased flowers, the c...
We investigate the flow over a breached dam through combined measurements and numerical simulations, revealing key topological features of the mean flow, including separation and stagnation surfaces, attached vortices, secondary currents, and boundar...
Dark matter bubble chamber detectors use piezoelectric sensors in order to detect and discriminate the acoustic signals emitted by the bubbles grown within the superheated fluid from a nuclear recoil produced by a particle interaction. These sensors...
The deposition of ultrafine aerosols with a size range of 3–20 nm in a needle charger has been studied numerically by simulating the flow field and the particle trajectory. The calculation model explored the particle deposition in the needle ch...
Aiming at the inspection of rough stone and concrete wall surfaces, a grasping module of cross-arranged claw is designed. It can attach onto rough wall surfaces by hooking or grasping walls. First, based on the interaction mechanism of hooks and roug...
Functional endoscopic sinus Surgery (FESS) is a form of safe and effective management for chronic rhinosinusitis. Nevertheless, although FESS is minimally invasive, it poses a risk of rare orbital complications. This study aims to investigate the var...
The interaction mechanism of multi-physical fields in a 330 MW tangentially fired boiler is explored by coupling the CFD (computational fluid dynamics) model and the working fluid side hydrodynamic model under steady-state conditions. The research fo...
Phelipanche ramosa is a root parasitic plant fully dependent on host plants for nutrition and development. Upon germination, the parasitic seedling develops inside the infected roots a specific organ, the haustorium, thanks to the cell wall-degrading...
To study and analyze the performance characteristics and the effectiveness of the system under practical application scenarios, the present work compares the performance of solar energy phase change material storage wall systems suitable for building...
The all-steel attached lifting protection platform widely employed in recent years has always suffered from self-weight issues and corrosion. Aluminum alloy is the ideal option for steel owing to its low bulk density and resistance to corrosion and r...
An attached sunspace is a partially or fully glazed enclosure, usually located on the first floor, facing south (in the Northern Hemisphere) and adjacent to a conditioned room. Because of the length and orientation of the glazed area, the temperature...
To study the vibration characteristics of viscoelastic slurry pipe structures under fluid–structure interaction (FSI), we constructed a three-dimensional FSI pipe model based on the finite element method to systematically investigate the effect...
For potato crops, host resistance is currently the most effective and sustainable tool to manage diseases caused by the plasmodiophorid Spongospora subterranea. Arguably, zoospore root attachment is the most critical phase of infection; however, the...
The paper presents experimental research on hydrodynamic forces generated on a ship moored at a long quay wall, modeling the solid-type berth, by a passing ship. The proper prediction of interactions between the moored and passing ships is important...
Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) exhibits broad variations in cultivar resistance to tuber and root infections by the soilborne, obligate biotrophic pathogen Spongospora subterranea. Host resistance has been recognised as an important approach in potato...
Sortase A (SrtA) is an enzyme which attaches proteins, including virulence factors, to bacterial cell walls. It is a potential target for developing anti-virulence agents against pathogenic and antimicrobial resistant bacteria. This study aimed to en...
The spatiotemporal evolution of the flow structures and coolant coverage of double-row film cooling with upstream forward jets and downstream backward jets, having a significant impact on film-cooling performance, is studied using the simplified ther...
This work reports on the application of a distributed fiber-optic strain sensor for long-term monitoring of a railway tunnel affected by an active earthflow. The sensor has been applied to detect the strain distribution along an optical fiber attache...
The surface of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae spore wall exhibits a ridged appearance. The outermost layer of the spore wall is believed to be a dityrosine layer, which is primarily composed of a crosslinked dipeptide bisformyl dityrosine. The dityrosi...
In this paper, we describe a method for improving the quality of fingerprint images at long sensing distances by reducing the fringe capacitance formed between a pixel and surrounding fingerprint patterns. Air-walls were applied to the glass attached...
In plant cell wall, ferulic acid (FA) and p-coumaric acid (pCA) are commonly linked with arabinoxylans and lignin through ester and ether bonds. These linkages were deemed to hinder the access of rumen microbes to cell wall polysaccharides. The attac...
Living walls are a nature-based strategy to enhance climate resilience in urban areas. There is a need to study the possible influence of living walls on the thermal performance of building façades, given the rising temperatures in 2022 across...
An experimental technique was developed for two-dimensional Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) measurement of wall shear flow around a bubble growing under dissolved gas supersaturation. Carbonated water was used as dissolved-gas-supersaturated liquid,...
Colonoscopy has a limited field of view because it relies solely on a small camera attached to the end of the scope and a screen displayed on a monitor. Consequently, the quality and safety of diagnosis and treatment depend on the experience and skil...
A cantilever block wall-panel attachment strip (CBW) flexible connection node was designed to connect precast concrete (PC) exterior wall panels to steel frames. To investigate the performance of the CBW flexible connection node and PC exterior wall...
The present study provides a detailed macroscopic examination (with some microscopic insights) of the genital apparatus of seven adult and intact male sugar gliders, as well as one castrated individual. The scrotum is pendulous and attached to the ve...
Single-lane tunnels, characterized by narrow and high cross-sections with limited ventilation, present significantly higher fire hazards than conventional multi-lane tunnels. To investigate flame morphology and ceiling temperature evolution in such c...
Both single-skin and double-skin glass facades are extensively employed in commercial high-rise buildings and are gaining increasing popularity. However, the capability to deploy firefighting agents in such ultra-high structures remains limited and h...
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