Earthquake-Induced Domino-Type Progressive Collapse in Regular, Semiregular, and Irregular Bridges by Amir Seyedkhoei, Reza Akbari, Shahrokh Maalek

“…Then, the progressive collapse of the box girder bridge was investigated. In the next step, progressive collapse process of the same bridge with posttensioned voided slab under earthquakes was studied using nonlinear time history analysis. …”
Get full text

Balancing Technology, Ethics, and Society: A Review of Artificial Intelligence in Embryo Selection by Roberto Aufieri, Francesco Mastrocola

“…The reviewed literature identified further potential ethical concerns associated with this technique, including possible bias in the selection criteria, lack of transparency in black-box algorithms, risks of “machine paternalism” replacing human judgment, privacy issues with sensitive fertility data, equity of access, and challenges in maintaining human-centered care. …”
Get full text

Characterizing out-of-distribution generalization of neural networks: application to the disordered Su–Schrieffer–Heeger model by Kacper Cybiński, Marcin Płodzień, Michał Tomza, Maciej Lewenstein, Alexandre Dauphin, Anna Dawid

“…However, ML models are also known for their black-box construction, which hinders understanding of what they learn from the data and makes their application to novel data risky. …”
Get full text

The Meso-Analysis of the Rock-Burst Debris of Rock Similar Material Based on SEM by Manqing Lin, Lan Zhang, Xiqi Liu, Yuanyou Xia, Jiaqi He, Xiaosu Ke

“…It was found that the fractal dimensions of the crystal contours of the specimen’s detrital section had fractal characteristics, and the box-counting dimension based on the SEM image could quantitatively describe the rock-burst failure characteristics. …”
Get full text

FBXO31-mediated ubiquitination of OGT maintains O-GlcNAcylation homeostasis to restrain endometrial malignancy by Na Zhang, Yang Meng, Song Mao, Huiling Ni, Canhua Huang, Licong Shen, Kun Fu, Lu Lv, Chunhong Yu, Piyanat Meekrathok, Chunmei Kuang, Fang Chen, Yu Zhang, Kai Yuan

“…CRISPR screen and biochemical characterization reveal that tumor suppressor F-box only protein 31 (FBXO31) regulates O-GlcNAcylation homeostasis in EC by ubiquitinating the O-GlcNAc transferase OGT. …”
Get full text

Pax6 regulates neuronal migration and cell proliferation via interacting with Wnt3a during cortical development by Bichao Zhang, Meihua Hou, Jiayan Huang, Yunfei Liu, Ciqing Yang, Juntang Lin

“…Abstract The paired box 6 (Pax6) gene encodes a highly conserved transcription factor, involved in the development of eyes, brain, and endocrine glands. …”
Get full text

A Study on the Prediction of House Price Index in First-Tier Cities in China Based on Heterogeneous Integrated Learning Model by Yaqi Mao, Yonghui Duan, Yibin Guo, Xiang Wang, Shen Gao

“…Finally, to solve the issue of unintelligible black boxes in machine learning models, we have used the state-of-the-art interpretation method SHAP combined with the LightGBM algorithm to interpret the model, and the result can be used as a basis for real estate policy planning and adjustment and even guide the demand of home buyers, thus improving the efficiency and effectiveness of government policy making.…”
Get full text

YOLOSeg with applications to wafer die particle defect segmentation by Yen-Ting Li, Yu-Cheng Chan, Chen-Che Huang, Yu-Chang Hsu, Ssu-Han Chen

“…YOLOSeg can predict not only bounding boxes of particle defects but also the corresponding bounding polygons. …”
Get full text

Research on the evaluation method of cooperative jamming effectiveness based on IPSO-ELM by A. Tianjian Yang, B. Xing Wang, C. Siyi Cheng, D. You Chen, E. Xi Zhang

“…On this basis, the cooperative jamming decision schemes and their corresponding cooperative jamming effectiveness values are solved at different locations in the target space, and the results are detected as outliers using box plots, thus constructing sample data for cooperative jamming effectiveness evaluation. …”
Get full text

Upregulation of FOXO3 in New-Onset Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus by Magdalena Zurawek, Marta Fichna, Piotr Fichna, Maria Czainska, Natalia Rozwadowska

“…Forkhead box O (FOXO) transcription factors have been implicated in the development and differentiation of the immune cells. …”
Get full text

Influence of Steatite and Fly Ash on the Fresh-Hardened Properties and Micromorphology of Self-Compacting Concrete by S. Christopher Gnanaraj, Ramesh Babu Chokkalingam, G. Lizia Thankam, S. K. M. Pothinathan

“…The fresh concrete properties were studied using the slump flow test, T500 test, L-box test, and V-funnel test, whereas the hardened properties of SCC were studied by the cube compression test, splitting tensile strength test, and flexural strength test on various days (7 days, 14 days, 28 days, and 90 days). …”
Get full text

Experimental Research on Mix Ratio of Construction Waste Cemented Filling Material Based on Response Surface Methodology by Weixin Chen, Guohua Zhang, Qin Tao, Liangliang Yu, Tao Li, Xianhua Guan

“…A ternary quadratic regression model was created using the Box-Behnken design (BBD) based on the response surface methodology (RSM), using slump, bleeding ratio, and 28 d uniaxial compressive strength of the filling material as response variables, and the model’s accuracy and reliability were confirmed. …”
Get full text

Habiter la mémoire à la frontière de l’oubli : la maison comme seuil by Joana Duarte Bernardes

“…According to Gaston Bachelard, the house is sometimes our box of souvenirs, sometimes a state of mind. It means that even before becoming a dream figure or an imagined place of our past-future, the house all at once holds and makes possible the process of memory. …”
Get full text

A Globally Optimal Robust Design Method for Complex Systems by Yue Chen, Jian Shi, Xiao-jian Yi

“…Second, it can be used for both analytically known and black-box performance functions. Third, it guarantees that any point selected within the obtained hyperbox satisfies the performance criterion as long as the performance function is continuous. …”
Get full text

Experimental Study on the Spanwise Correlation of Vortex-Induced Force Using Large-Scale Section Model by Chunguang Li, Yu Mao, Yan Han, Kai Li, C.S. Cai

“…To investigate the spanwise correlation of vortex-induced forces (VIF) of a typical section of a streamlined box girder, wind tunnel tests of simultaneous measurement of force and displacement responses of a sectional model were conducted in a smooth flow. …”
Get full text

Ground Wheat Grain for Midlactation Cows: Challenging a Common Wisdom by A. Nikkhah, F. Amiri, H. Amanloo

“…Eight midlactation cows in 3×4 m individual boxes were used in a 4×4 replicated Latin square design study with 4 21 d periods. …”
Get full text

TomatoGuard-YOLO: a novel efficient tomato disease detection method by Xuewei Wang, Jun Liu

“…Additionally, the incorporation of the Focal-EIoU loss function refines bounding box matching accuracy and mitigates class imbalance. …”
Get full text

The role of mineralogical and textural complexity in the damage evolution of brittle rocks by Özge Dinç Göğüş, Elif Avşar, Kayhan Develi, Ayten Çalık

“…Thin sections were prepared from uniaxially loaded core samples at these stresses and crack patterns were captured under a polarizing microscope. The fractal box dimension method was used to quantitatively analyze the crack patterns for each rock type at each stress level. …”
Get full text

Tracking Nonlinear Correlation for Complex Dynamic Systems Using a Windowed Error Reduction Ratio Method by Yifan Zhao, Edward Hanna, Grant R. Bigg, Yitian Zhao

“…Current methods either are like a “black box” that is difficult to understand and relate back to the underlying system or have limited universality and applicability due to too many assumptions. …”
Get full text

An interpretable semi‐supervised system for detecting cyberattacks using anomaly detection in industrial scenarios by Ángel Luis Perales Gómez, Lorenzo Fernández Maimó, Alberto Huertas Celdrán, Félix J. García Clemente

“…Secondly, the use of black‐box ML and DL techniques makes it impossible to interpret the decision made by the model. …”
Get full text