Computed Tomography Evaluation of Morphological Types of Femoral Trochlear Dysplasia in Small-Breed Dogs—A Retrospective Study by Radka S. Garnoeva

“…The morphological type of trochlear dysplasia (TD) was evaluated on axial scans and 3D reconstruction images according to the four-type classification of Déjour, sulcus angle, trochlear depth, and lateral/medial inclination angles. …”
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Experimental analysis of flashover characteristics for overhead power lines based on the lightning fractal model by ZHAN Jintao, YANG Tianyi, GUO Jun

“…A negative polarity impulse wave of 160/2 500 μs is applied to investigate the relationship between flashover probability, spatial distribution, and protection angle. Based on the WZ model and finite difference method, a lightning fractal model is established, and the characteristics of line flashover are simulated and analyzed under the configuration of the scaled experimental gap. …”
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A novel feature extraction method based on dynamic handwriting for Parkinson's disease detection. by Huimin Lu, Guolian Qi, Dalong Wu, Chenglin Lin, Songzhe Ma, Yingqi Shi, Han Xue

“…First, built on the kinematic, pressure, and angle dynamic features, we propose a moment feature by composed these three types of features, an overall representation of these three types of features information. …”
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Study on Catastrophe Information Characteristics of Water Inrush in Karst Tunnel by Drilling and Blasting Method by Jiaqi Guo, Erbo Wang, Yongbiao Lai, Zhenyu He, Fan Chen

“…In order to study the disaster process of water and mud resistant rock mass with the quasi-masonry structure and the accompanying catastrophe information of water inrush in karst tunnels by the drilling and blasting method, a new method based on the DEM and fictitious joint technology is adopted to simulate the evolution process of water inrush and study the evolutionary characteristics of catastrophe information like seepage pressure and displacement under the conditions of different joint inclination angles, tunnel depths, and thickness of the water and mud resistant rock mass. …”
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Torque and d-q axis current dynamics of an inverter fed induction motor drive that leverages computational intelligent techniques by Shaswat Chirantan, Bibhuti Bhusan Pati

“…The results distinctly illustrated the robust adaptability of the Sequential Model methodology, outperforming the ACO and Nelder-Mead techniques in certain aspects such as minimum current errors, better speed regulations, and rotor angle trajectories.…”
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Biomechanical Analysis of Foot–Ankle Complex during Jogging with Rearfoot Strike versus Forefoot Strike by Yaoyong Zhang, Dan Zhang

“…First, RFS jogging and FFS jogging were experimentally studied, so as to acquire kinematic and kinetic data, including foot strike angle, knee flexion angle, and ground reaction force (GRF). …”
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Anisotropic shock response in oriented omnidirectional TATB supercells based on reactive molecular dynamics simulations by Guan-chen Dong, Jia-lu Guan, Ling-hua Tan, Jing Lv, Xiao-na Huang, Guang-cheng Yang

“…However, the overall chemical kinetics response intensifies, as the angle between the shock direction and molecular layer decreases. …”
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Optimization of Seed-Receiving Mechanism in Belt-Driven Seed Guide Tube Based on High-Speed Videography Experiment by Chengcheng Ma, Zhihuan Zhao, Xiaomei Chen, Youyuan Tang, Ning Song, Yanfeng Xiao, Xu Yang

“…When the seed-receiving angle is set at 85°, the seed speed fluctuation becomes less apparent, resulting in a smoother seed displacement trajectory. …”
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Effect of the Number of Nozzles of Swirl Flow Generator Utilized in Flat Plate Solar Collector: An Entropic Analysis by Yan Cao, Hamdi Ayed, Tuqa Abdulrazzaq, Taza Gul, Abdul Bariq, Belgacem Bouallegue

“…For evaluating the proposed system based on the entropy concept, the effect of injection angle and mass flow rate has been considered. The selected injection angles were 30°, 45°, 60°, and 90°. …”
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Simulation Analysis of the Aerodynamic Performance of a Bionic Aircraft with Foldable Beetle Wings in Gliding Flight by Caidong Wang, Yu Ning, Xinjie Wang, Junqiu Zhang, Liangwen Wang

“…The effects of elastic model, rigid and flexible wing, angle of attack, and velocity on the aerodynamic characteristics of the aircraft in gliding flight are analyzed. …”
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Stability prediction of circular sliding failure soil slopes based on a genetic algorithm optimization of random forest algorithm by Shengming Hu, Yongfei Lu, Xuanchi Liu, Cheng Huang, Zhou Wang, Lei Huang, Weihang Zhang, Xiaoyang Li

“…Based on 80 sets of typical slope samples, weight (γ), slope height (H), pore pressure value (P), cohesion force (C), internal friction angle (φ) and slope inclination angle (°) were selected as characteristic variables for slope stability evaluation. …”
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Mechanisms of transverse cracking induced by adjacent ply matrix cracks in composite laminates by Carrère, Nicolas, Doitrand, Aurélien, Conan, Mathilde, Martin, Eric

“…The numerical simulations also highlight that debonding between adjacent plies may occur as it becomes more favorable that adjacent ply crack re-initiation for sufficiently large adjacent ply mismatch angle.…”
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Magnetically Guided Capsule Endoscopy in Pediatric Patients with Abdominal Pain by Mingping Xie, Yuting Qian, Shidan Cheng, Lifu Wang, Ruizhe Shen

“…The subjective percentage visualization of the gastric cardia, fundus, body, angle, antrum, and pylorus was 84.8%, 83.8%, 88.5%, 87.7%, 95.2%, and 99.6%, respectively. …”
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Axial Uplift Behaviour of Belled Piers in Coarse-Grained Saline Soils by Jian Xu, Jianwei Ren, Songhe Wang, Long Jin, Jun Yuan

“…An empirical equation was developed with a critical parameter of an uplift angle in design. Results indicate the range where the ground uplift shows circular extension at higher loads and the overall shear failure finally occurred. …”
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Binocular Video-Based Automatic Pixel-Level Crack Detection and Quantification Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Concrete Structures by Liqu Liu, Bo Shen, Shuchen Huang, Runlin Liu, Weizhang Liao, Bin Wang, Shuo Diao

“…Results indicate that using the proposed quantification method can achieve low quantification errors of 2%, 4.5%, and 4% for the crack length, width, and angle of orientation, respectively. The proposed method can contribute to crack detection and quantification in practical use by being deployed on smart devices.…”
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Research on Dust Suppression Technology of Shotcrete Based on New Spray Equipment and Process Optimization by Pengcheng Li, Zhi Zhou, Lianjun Chen, Guoming Liu, Wei Xiao

“…Finally, the dust suppression technology was optimized by using an accelerator and adjusting wind pressure and spraying angle. Results indicated that the application of the accelerator reduced the dust production efficiently; moreover, when the wind pressure was 0.2 MPa with 1 m spraying distance and 90° angle of spraying, the dust concentration and rebound reached the minimum.…”
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Effect of Cyclic Freezing-Thawing on the Shear Mechanical Characteristics of Nonpersistent Joints by Daxing Lei, Hang Lin, Yifan Chen, Rihong Cao, Zhijie Wen

“…When freezing-thawing cycles are constant, the friction angle decreases slowly with persistency at first and then decreases rapidly, and the friction angle is the dominant factor that controls shear strength.…”
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Analysis of Refractive Index Sensing Properties of a Hybrid Hollow Cylindrical Tetramer Array by Meng Wang, Paerhatijiang Tuersun, Aibibula Abudula, Lan Jiang, Dibo Xu

“…In this paper, a hybrid hollow cylindrical tetramer array was designed, and the effects of the hole radius, external radius, height, period, incidence angle, and polarization angle of the hollow cylindrical tetramer array on the refractive index sensing properties were quantitatively analyzed using the finite difference time domain method. …”
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Influence of the Dry Friction Suspension System Characteristics on the Stick-Slip of Vertical Vibration of a Three-Piece Bogie by Dali Lyu, Qichang Zhang, Kewei Lyu, Jiaxing Liu, Yulong Li

“…The reduction of the wedge angle and the friction coefficient are conducive to eliminating sticking. …”
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“An Essay on Thunder and Small Beer”: a Systemic Approach to Thackeray’s Preface to The Kickleburys on the Rhine by Maxime Leroy

“…Using systemic triangulation will consist in reading it from three different but complementary angles: its functional, structural and historical aspects. …”
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