Reliability and Accuracy of Standard Reference Procedures for Measurements of Trunk and Arm Postures in Ergonomics by Carl M. Lind, Ida-Märta Rhen, Mikael Forsman

“…Adequate reference procedures for obtaining the reference zero-angle position are important for precise and accurate posture measurements, but few studies have systematically investigated these. …”
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Single-Use Flexible Bronchoscope in Facilitating Endobronchial Valve Treatment in Severe Emphysema by Sakaguchi T, Slebos DJ

“…The ability to navigate into sharply angled airways may be limited by the maximal flexion capability of bronchoscopes. …”
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Study on transportation and stress distribution of the overburden rock of gob side entry with cutting top and unloading pressure by Yunlin Shuai, Zhenqian Ma, Xiaolei Feng

“…The results show that: ① the establishment of lateral suspension mechanical model analysis found that, with the increase of coal seam dip angle, the reduction of the coal pillar bearing capacity before and after cutting the top gradually decreases, the dip angle of coal seam is 30°, Compared with the reduction of coal pillar bearing capacity before roof cutting is 2164 KN; with the increase of the overburden rock caving angle, the reduction of the coal pillar bearing capacity before and after cutting the top increases continuously, the caving angle of overburden rock is 63°, Compared with the reduction of coal pillar bearing capacity before roof cutting is 2218 KN. ② After the implementation of roof cutting and cutting off the overhanging roof structure, the stress of the surrounding rock of the coal pillar gang in the roadway has significantly decreased by 18.87%, and the stress of surrounding rock of roadway solid coal gang, roof and floor is reduced by 8.48%,5.79% and 4.81% respectively, which relieved the concentration in the surrounding rock stress of the roadway and improves the stress condition of the roadway. …”
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Study on Crack Resistance Mechanism of Helical Carbon Nanotubes in Nanocomposites by Zhiwu Bie, Xuefeng Liu, Yajie Deng, Xian Shi, Xiaoqiao He

“…Moreover, the shear resistance of HCNTs increases with the increase in the helix angle, which remains at a high level when the helix angle reaches the critical value. …”
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Significance of Broken μ−τ Symmetry in Correlating δCP, θ13, Lightest Neutrino Mass, and Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay 0νββ by Gayatri Ghosh

“…Probing CP violation in light neutrino oscillation is one of the challenging tasks today. The reactor mixing angleθ13measured in reactor experiments, LBL, and DUNE with high precision in neutrino experiments indicates towards the vast dimensions of scope to detect δCP. …”
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Experimental Study of the Effect of the Expansion Segment Geometry on the Atomization of a Plain-Jet Airblast Atomizer by Yi Jin, Kanghong Yao, Xiaomin He, Kai Zhang, Yunbiao Wang

“…With an increase of the length, angle, and throat area of the expansion segment, the droplet axial velocity decays.…”
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Theoretical Analysis on Distribution Pattern of Plastic Zone in Surrounding Rock of High-Gas-Coal Roadway by Chao Yuan, Liming Cao, Lei Fan, Jianqiang Guo

“…Additionally, the lateral pressure coefficient, gas pressure, cohesion, and internal friction angle are found to jointly determine the distribution and range of the plastic zone. …”
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Observer-Based Sliding Mode Control for Path Tracking of a Spherical Robot by Majid Taheri Andani, Zahra Ramezani, Saeed Moazami, Jinde Cao, Mohammad Mehdi Arefi, Hassan Zargarzadeh

“…Due to mechanical technicalities, it is assumed that these angles are immeasurable. First, a neural network observer is designed to estimate the pendulum angles. …”
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Effect of Direct Current on Solid-Liquid Interfacial Tension and Wetting Behavior of Ga–In–Sn Alloy Melt on Cu Substrate by Limin Zhang, Ning Li, Hui Xing, Rong Zhang, Kaikai Song

“…It is found that there is a critical value for current intensity, below which the decrease of contact angle with increasing current intensity is approximately linear and above which contact angle tends to a stable value from drop shape. …”
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Effect of Moisture Content on the Shear Behaviour of a Completely Decomposed Granite: An Experimental Study by Pan Liu, Jinhong Lin, Yang Wang, Xueqiang Yang

“…The test results showed that the increasing moisture content could obviously weaken the shear strength, cohesion, and frictional angle. Two linear equations were proposed for estimating the cohesion and the frictional angle at any moisture content in the field. …”
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Fabrication and characterization of superhydrophobic and superlipophilic silica nanofibers mats with excellent heat resistance by Gao S., Watanabe H., Nakane K., Zhao K.

“…The effects of heat treatment time on properties of modified SNF mats were investigated by scanning electron microscopy, nitrogen absorption analysis, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and contact angle measurement. With high specific surface area 240.1 m2/g, the optimal modified SNF mat approached water contact angle (WCA) 153.2° and fuel contact angle (FCA) 0°, furthermore, even after annealing by 450°C in air for 1h , WCA remained at 135.5° and FCA kept at 3.8°, which opened a new way to improve heat resistance of fuel-water filter paper.…”
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Numerical Investigation on Bubble Growth and Sliding Process of Subcooled Flow Boiling in Narrow Rectangular Channel by De-wen Yuan, Zejun Xiao, Deqi Chen, Yunke Zhong, Xiao Yan, Jianjun Xu, Yanping Huang

“…The character of dynamic contact angle during bubble growth and movement is also obtained in different working condition.…”
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Blade pitching in vertical axis wind turbines: A double multiple stream tube theoretical approach to performance enhancement by Antim Gupta, Ussama Ali, Hamid Ait Abderrahmane, Isam Janajreh

“…The efficiency of two pitching models is investigated on 3-bladed NACA0015 rotors, where the blade's local angle of attack is cyclically adjusted below the stall angle to maximize the lift force and torque throughout full revolution. …”
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Determination of Palatal Soft Tissue Thickness and Safe Zone for Palatal Soft Tissue Harvest Using CBCT: A Retrospective Study by Hanan Aldhanhani, Bhavna Jha Kukreja, Sesha Reddy, Jovita D’souza, Hossam Abdelmagyd

“…For other teeth, cases with deep angles had significantly higher mean values than other angles (p<0.001). …”
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Machine learning analysis of cervical balance in early-onset scoliosis post-growing rod surgery: a case-control study by Bo Han, Junrui Jonathan Hai, Aixing Pan, Yingjie Wang, Yong Hai

“…The mean thoracic curve Cobb angle was 67.00 ± 22.74°. The mean age at the first operation was 8.5 ± 2.6yrs. …”
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Assessment of Pain Response in Capsaicin-Induced Dynamic Mechanical Allodynia Using a Novel and Fully Automated Brushing Device by Kristian G du Jardin, Lise S Gregersen, Turid Røsland, Kathrine H Uggerhøj, Lars J Petersen, Lars Arendt-Nielsen, Parisa Gazerani

“…There are still limited data available with respect to the optimal stroke number, length, force, angle and speed. Therefore, an automated brushing device (ABD) was developed, for which brushing angle and speed could be controlled to enable quantitative assessment of dynamic mechanical allodynia.…”
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A Real-Time and Closed-Loop Control Algorithm for Cascaded Multilevel Inverter Based on Artificial Neural Network by Libing Wang, Chengxiong Mao, Dan Wang, Jiming Lu, Junfeng Zhang, Xun Chen

“…In the first step, hierarchical particle swarm optimizer with time-varying acceleration coefficient (HPSO-TVAC) algorithm is employed to minimize the total harmonic distortion (THD) and generate the optimal switching angles offline. In the second step, part of optimal switching angles are used to train an ANN and the well-designed ANN can generate optimal switching angles in a real-time manner. …”
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Three-Dimensional Target Localization and Cramér-Rao Bound for Two-Dimensional OFDM-MIMO Radar by Xingxing Li, Dangwei Wang, Xiaoyan Ma

“…To realize joint estimation for range and angle in azimuth and elevation, the range-angle-dependent beam pattern with high range resolution is produced by the OFDM-LFM waveform. …”
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Study of Complex Helical Drill with a “S” Type Chisel Edge Tip Orient to Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastics by Yu He, Xiaolong Zhou, Ping Zou, Kun Liu

“…The effects of experimental parameters, such as apex angle, chisel edge incline angle, and structure circumference rear angle, on the quality of the drilling hole and the machining force were studied from the orthogonal experiment compared with the ordinary drill bit. …”
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Static Characteristics of Improved Composite Box Girder with Corrugated Steel Webs by Shijin Wang, Genhui Wang, Zichen Zhang

“…With the increase of the corrugated steel web bending angle, the fold effect is obviously enhanced, but the change of the bending angle has little effect on the shear lag effect.…”
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