Noise-immune zeroing neural dynamics for dynamic signal source localization system and robotic applications in the presence of noise by Yuxin Zhao, Jiahao Wu, Mianjie Zheng

“…The NIZND model is a brain-inspired algorithm that incorporates an integral term and an activation function into the traditional zeroing neural dynamics (ZND) model, designed to effectively mitigate noise interference during localization tasks. …”
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Enhanced Carbon Neutral and Performance Characteristics Cookstove for Energy Sustainability by Samson Kolawole Fasogbon, Emmanuel Segun Durowoju, Theophilus Chibuzo Uzoh, Kubiat Edeheudim George, Mark Onons Ikhifa, Timilehin Daniel Adegoke, Ibrahim Ademola Fetuga

“…The article is aimed at designing an enhanced carbon neutral and performance characteristics cookstove for energy sustainability. …”
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A Two-Phased Guidance Law for Impact Angle Control with Seeker’s Field-of-View Limit by Haoqiang Zhang, Shengjing Tang, Jie Guo, Wan Zhang

“…The PN-typed guidance law is designed for each guidance phase with a specific switching condition of line-of-sight. …”
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Detailed Nonlinear Modeling and High-Fidelity Parallel Simulation of MMC With Embedded Energy Storage for Wind Farm Grid Integration by Bingrong Shang, Ning Lin, Venkata Dinavahi

“…In the meantime, components of an identical attribute are designed as one kernel despite inhomogeneity. The proposed modeling and computing method is applied to a multi-terminal DC system with wind farms, and significant speedups over CPU-based simulation are achieved, with the accuracy validated by the offline simulation tool PSCAD.…”
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The teacher's role in the interaction between software and mathematics education theories and its effect on the creativity of Sampad students by Seyed Mostafa Hamidi, Ali Zaeembashi, Mehrdad Namdari, Ashraf Karamzadeh

“…By using the Van Hiele’s Theory in mathematical education, by designing an educational scaffold and dialogue between the teacher and students and with the help of Variation Theory, the answer of the problem was guessed by several students and a creative student gave a complete answer. …”
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Macro Modeling of Column Removal in RC Frames with Consideration of Importance Factor and Infill Walls by Seyed Ali Hassanzadeh, Hamid Reza Ashrafi, Mehdi Komasi

“…For this purpose, RC building with the intermediate moment frame system for three levels of importance factor that these levels are intermediate, high, and very high IF is designed. OpenSees program is utilized for modeling RC frames. …”
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Numerical Simulation of Fragment Separation during Rock Cutting Using a 3D Dynamic Finite Element Analysis Code by Zhenguo Lu, Lirong Wan, Qingliang Zeng, Xin Zhang, Kuidong Gao

“…In the simulations, a damage material model and erosion criteria were used for the base rock, and the conical pick was designated a rigid material. The conical pick moved at varying linear speeds to cut the fixed base rock. …”
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Writing essentials and checklist of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine nursing ward round case report (中西医结合护理查房案写作要点和核对清单) by LI Ye (李野), GUO Hong (郭红), E Haiyan (鄂海燕), YE Zhenhua (叶振华), TANG Ling (唐玲)

“…Focusing on the purpose, organization, implementation and evaluation of nursing ward round, the checklist was designed to help nursing workers write high quality nursing ward round case report, and promote the standardization and application of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine nursing case report. …”
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Nonlinear conductive behavior of MoS2/PDMS composites for self-adaptive electrostatic protection by Hongfei Li, Zhaoming Qu, Yazhou Chen, Wei Cao, Kaihui Li

“…The electrostatic discharge experimental system designed to examine the ESD protection efficiency of MoS2/PDMS composites confirms that the composite can effectively achieve fast switching from the off state to the on state of electrostatic protection. …”
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Impact of Vehicular Countdown Signals on Driving Psychologies and Behaviors: Taking China as an Example by Fuquan Pan, Lixia Zhang, Changxi Ma, Haiyuan Li, Jinshun Yang, Tao Liu, Fengyuan Wang, Shushan Chai

“…A questionnaire survey with 32 questions about driving psychologies and behaviors was designed, and an online survey was conducted. A total of 1051 valid questionnaires were received. …”
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Prediction of tuberculosis-specific mortality for older adult patients with pulmonary tuberculosis by Sihua Wang, Ruohua Gu, Pengfei Ren, Yu Chen, Di Wu, Linlin Li

“…BackgroundThis study aims to identify risk factors associated with tuberculosis-specific mortality (TSM) in older adult patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) and to develop a competing risk nomogram for TSM prediction.MethodsWe conducted a retrospective cohort study and randomly selected 528 older adult pulmonary TB patients hospitalized in designated hospitals in Henan Province between January 2015 and December 2020. …”
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Extracellular matrix re-normalization to improve cold tumor penetration by oncolytic viruses by Geofrey F. Soko, Geofrey F. Soko, Benson K. Kosgei, Stephene S. Meena, Stephene S. Meena, Ying Jing Ng, Huihui Liang, Bing Zhang, Qingjun Liu, Tielong Xu, Xinju Hou, Xinju Hou, Ray P. S. Han

“…This review explores the latest advancements in strategies designed to improve the intratumoral penetration of OVs to facilitate the penetration of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) into cold tumors. …”
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Dispersion Performance of Polycarboxylate Terpolymers with Different Alkyl Side-Chain Lengths in Pesticide Suspension Concentrate by Xiaodong Yang, Tianrui Ren, Bo Zhang

“…Herein, a series of novel acrylate ester-based polycarboxylate terpolymers (PTs) were designed as dispersant for pesticide suspension concentrate and successfully synthesized in aqueous solutions from the copolymerization of α-methacrylic acid, allyl polyoxyethylene ether, and acrylate (methyl acrylate, ethyl acrylate, and n-butyl acrylate). …”
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Joint Active/Passive Beamforming Optimization via RWMMSE and Gradient Projection for Downlink IRS-Aided MU-MISO Systems by Seraphin F. Kimaryo, Eduard E. Bahingayi, Kyungchun Lee

“…These two techniques undergo a novel restructuring process, where the RWMMSE framework, originally designed for MIMO systems, is transformed to work with a MISO system. …”
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A Mechanism Framework for Clearing Prices in Electricity Market Based on Trusted Capacity of Power Generation Resources by Yuanyuan Lou, Jiekang Wu, Zhen Lei, Xinmiao Liu, Junlei Liu, Xun Lu

“…In response to the challenges faced by the existing capacity market mechanism under the background of energy transformation, such as the unreasonable quantification of the support effect of different power generation resources on the power capacity of power system and the imperfect pricing mechanism of power capacity, a capacity market mechanism for power systems with high proportion renewable energy has been designed. To quickly clarify the capacity support effect of different power generation resources, a capacity credibility factor is introduced to quantify the actual contribution of different power generation resources in capacity supply and to deeply explore the capacity value of power generation resources. …”
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Thermal performance analysis of a parabolic trough collector based solar water heater using revolving absorber tube by Rasaiah Naveenkumar, Pradeep Kumar Singh, Manickam Ravichandran, Vinayagam Mohanavel, Rajaraman Venkateshkumar, Ankit Kedia, Sathish Kannan, Manzoore Elahi M. Soudagar

“…Parabolic trough is designed in such a way, which tends to tilt at variant angles like 10°, 20°, 30° respectively towards North and South directions. …”
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Amygdala Nuclei Atrophy in Cognitive Impairment and Dementia: Insights from High-Resolution Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Evija Peiseniece, Nauris Zdanovskis, Kristīne Šneidere, Andrejs Kostiks, Guntis Karelis, Ardis Platkājis, Ainārs Stepens

“…Additional research with larger sample sizes and longitudinal designs is needed to confirm these findings and determine their diagnostic value.…”
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The influence of mutually beneficial and self-beneficial situations on the lying behavior and cognition of Chinese 4- to 5-year-old children by Dan Kang, Yingjie Zhang, Xiwu Xu, Jiajia Li

“…However, relatively few studies have investigated whether the sociocultural context affects children’s lying behavior and cognition and the relation between them.MethodsThe present study was designed to examine this question in two experiments by posing two moral dilemmas: lying is good for mutually beneficial (honesty conflicts with mutual interests) and lying is good for self-beneficial (honesty conflicts with self-interests). …”
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Predicting Earthquake Casualties and Emergency Supplies Needs Based on PCA-BO-SVM by Fuyu Wang, Huiying Xu, Huifen Ye, Yan Li, Yibo Wang

“…The original data are first subjected to dimensionality reduction using PCA, with principal components contributing cumulatively to over 80% selected as input variables for the SVM model, while earthquake casualties are designated as the output variable. Subsequently, the optimal hyperparameters for the SVM model are obtained using the Bayesian Optimization algorithm. …”
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Calcium Phosphate Nanoparticles Functionalized with a Cardio-Specific Peptide by Federica Mancini, Lorenzo Degli Esposti, Alessio Adamiano, Jessica Modica, Daniele Catalucci, Dora Mehn, Otmar Geiss, Michele Iafisco

“…This study introduces two distinct strategies for loading a cardio-specific mimetic peptide (MP), previously designed to modulate L-type calcium channel function in cardiomyocytes, onto calcium phosphate nanoparticles (CaP NPs). …”
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