Static Wind Load Evaluation under Steady-State Wind Flow for 2-Edge Sloped Box Girder by Using Wind Tunnel Test by Hoyeop Lee, Jiho Moon

“…Results showed that the lateral wind force is considerably reduced with the increase of the box slope angle except the case with the physical angle of 8°–11°. …”
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Numerical Simulation of Characteristics of Wind Field at Bridge Sites in Flat and Gorge Terrains under the Thunderstorm Downburst by Peng Hu, Yilin Chen, Yan Han, Fei Zhang, Yongjian Tang

“…Later the wind speeds at each point in the gorge terrain are much higher than those in the flat terrain. Most wind attack angles are negative at the monitoring points in the flat terrain, but the farther away they are from the midspan point, the greater the wind attack angles will be. …”
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Neovascular Glaucoma from Ocular Ischemic Syndrome Treated with Serial Monthly Intravitreal Bevacizumab and Panretinal Photocoagulation: A Case Report by Hassaan Asif, Zhuangjun Si, Steven Quan, Pathik Amin, David Dao, Lincoln Shaw, Dimitra Skondra, Mary Qiu

“…To describe a case of open-angle neovascular glaucoma (NVG) secondary to ocular ischemic syndrome (OIS) treated with a planned series of 6 monthly anti-VEGF injections with interspersed panretinal photocoagulation (PRP) sessions. …”
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The head position and cervical alignment in patients with Chiari malformation: A retrospective case–control study by Resul Karadeniz, Zeynep Dağlar, Emin Çağıl, Göksal Günerhan, Buse Sarıgül, Yılmaz Aslan, Ahmet Deniz Belen, Ali Dalgıç

“…The CS angle was lower in CM patients (P < 0.05), reflecting a more flexed head position. …”
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Kinematic Alterations with Changes in Putting Distance and Slope Incline in Recreational Golfers by Shawn M. Robbins, Philippe Renaud, Ukadike Chris Ugbolue

“…A Vicon motion capture system measured kinematic data. Joint angles, putter angles, and spatiotemporal variables were calculated. …”
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Fractal Study on the Failure Evolution of Concrete Material with Single Flaw Based on DIP Technique by Lulin Zheng, Hao Liu, Yujun Zuo, Quanping Zhang, Wei Lin, Qing Qiu, Xiaorong Liu, Ziqi Liu

“…The wing crack's initiation position moves closer to the tip as the crack inclination angle increases, and the length gets shorter; Acoustic emission(AE) evolution characteristics are similar in samples with varying dip angles. …”
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Automated potato tuber mass estimation and grading with multiangle 2D images by Ayush K. Sharma, Lincoln Zotarelli, Alina Zare, Lakesh K. Sharma

“…The tuber mass estimation was higher when combined with the image-extracted features from both angles (R2 = 0.99), followed by an volume based on the image-extracted including all geometric dimensions from both angles (R2 = 0.98) and top angle image-extracted features based stepwise regression (R2 = 0.98). …”
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Bi‐Directional Spectro‐Polarimetry of Olivine Sand by Chris H. Lee, Charles M. Bachmann, Nayma Binte Nur, Rachel M. Golding

“…As a function of azimuth, we measured a significant degree of anisotropic scattering, that depends directly on polarization angles, resulting in a distribution that cannot be accurately described solely using phase angle. …”
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Deflection Laws of Gas Drainage Boreholes in Interbedded Soft and Hard Seams: A Case Study at Xinzheng Coal Mine, China by Xiaoyan Sun, Zhiheng Cheng, Liang Chen, Zhenhua Li, Hongbing Wang, Shuaifeng Yin

“…The regularity of the change in the azimuth angle during drilling is not obvious when the angle of the encountered layer is less than some critical value. …”
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Parametric Study of the Borehole Drilling in Jointed Rock Mass by Yanan Gao, Yudong Zhang, Zetian Zhang, Minghui Li, Yingfeng Sun, Donghao Lan, Feng Gao

“…The von Mises stress has a trend of increasing with the number of joints when the joint angle is less than 30°, while it has a decreasing trend when the joint angle is larger than 30°. …”
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Determination of Effective Factors on Power Requirement and Conveying Capacity of a Screw Conveyor under Three Paddy Grain Varieties by Ezzatollah Askari Asli-Ardeh, Ahmad Mohsenimanesh

“…An experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of screw speed, inclination angle and variety on the required power, and conveying capacity of a screw conveyor. …”
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Study on the Stress–Strain Relationships and Deterioration Modes of HTPB Propellant with Prefabricated Cracks by Bo Gao, Zhuo Li

“…Penetrating cracks with different crack angles were prefabricated in viscoelastic hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene propellant specimens. …”
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Computationally Efficient Compressed Sensing-Based Method via FG Nyström in Bistatic MIMO Radar with Array Gain-Phase Error Effect by Jurong Hu, Evans Baidoo, Lei Zhan, Ying Tian

“…In this paper, a robust angle estimator for uncorrelated targets that employs a compressed sense (CS) scheme following a fast greedy (FG) computation is proposed to achieve improved computational efficiency and performance for the bistatic MIMO radar with unknown gain-phase errors. …”
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Posterior Occipitocervical Fusion for Unstable Upper Cervical Trauma in Old and Elderly Population, Although Decreases Upper Cervical Rotation, Does Not Significantly Increase Neck... by Panagiotis Korovessis, Vasileios Syrimpeis, Evangelia Mpountogianni, Ioannis Papaioannou, Vasileios Tsekouras

“…C2-C7 lordosis, C2-C7 SVA, spinocranial angle (SCA), T1-slope, neck tilt (NT), thorax inlet angle (TIA), cervical tilt (CT), cranial tilt (CrT), and C0-C1 angle were measured. …”
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Wearable Sensors Measure Ankle Joint Changes of Patients with Parkinson’s Disease before and after Acute Levodopa Challenge by Zhuang Wu, Xu Jiang, Min Zhong, Bo Shen, Jun Zhu, Yang Pan, Jingde Dong, Pingyi Xu, Wenbin Zhang, Li Zhang

“…We observed a reduction in the heel strike angle (HS), 3-plantarflexion (3-PF) angle, and 4-dorsiflexion (4-DF) angle of ankle joints. …”
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MEMS Smart Glass with Larger Angular Tuning Range and 2D Actuation by Md Kamrul Hasan, Mustaqim Siddi Que Iskhandar, Steffen Liebermann, Shilby Baby, Jiahao Chen, Muhammad Hasnain Qasim, Dennis Löber, Roland Donatiello, Guilin Xu, Hartmut Hillmer

“…However, to allow personalized light steering for arbitrary user positions with high flexibility, two main limitations must be overcome: first, limited tuning angle spans by MEMS pull-in effects; and second, the lack of a second orthogonal tuning angle, which is highly required. …”
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The Effect of Reduction Mammaplasty on the Vertebral Column: A Radiologic Study by Onder Karaaslan, H. Gokhan Demirkiran, Ozlem Silistreli, Erhan Sonmez, Yagmur Kaan Bedir, Melih Can, Gorkem Caliskan, Cem Aslan, Meltem Ayhan Oral, Yuksel Kankaya

“…All were evaluated and compared for thoracic kyphosis angle and lumbar lordosis angle both preoperatively and postoperatively. …”
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A Study on the Dynamic Performance for Hydraulically Damped Rubber Bushings with Multiple Inertia Tracks and Orifices: Parameter Identification and Modeling by Chao-Feng Yang, Zhi-Hong Yin, Wen-Bin Shangguan, Xiao-Cheng Duan

“…The dynamic stiffness and loss angle of an HDB are crucial and it is significant to investigate the relations between the design parameters with the dynamic stiffness and loss angle. …”
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A New Jammer Suppression Method in MIMO Radar Using Matrix Pencil Method and Generalized Likelihood Ratio Test by Kang-in Lee, Wonjune Kang, Young-Seek Chung, Hoon-Gee Yang, Jong Mann Kim

“…The conventional GLRT divides the visible region into small angle samples, suppresses the jammer signals at each angle sample, and then estimates the DOA of the SOI. …”
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Experiment Research on Bonding Effect of Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) Device by Surface Treatment Method by Xiaopeng Wang, Kun Lian, Tianning Chen

“…The results show that all three methods can reduce the surface contact angle of PLGA films, the contact angle increases with time at room temperature, and the PLGA films contact angle is almost unchanged under refrigeration. …”
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