Facial Mobility after Maxilla-Mandibular Advancement in Patients with Severe Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome: A Three-Dimensional Study by Laura Verzé, Francesca Antonella Bianchi, Niccolò Barla, Serena Maria Curti, Giovanni Gerbino, Guglielmo Amedeo Ramieri

“…The functional results of surgery in terms of facial mobility are key elements in the treatment of patients. Little is actually known about changes in facial mobility following surgical treatment with maxillomandibular advancement (MMA). …”
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New Lung Cancer Panel for High-Throughput Targeted Resequencing by Eun-Hye Kim, Sunghoon Lee, Jongsun Park, Kyusang Lee, Jong Bhak, Byung Chul Kim

“…The total length of the target regions is 107 kb, and a capture assay was designed to cover 99% of it. This method exhibited about 97% mean coverage at 30× sequencing depth and 42% average specificity when sequencing of more than 3.25 Gb was carried out for the normal sample. …”
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Analysis Methods for Aerodynamic Instability Detection on a Multistage Axial Compressor by Baofeng Tu, Xinyu Zhang, Jun Hu, Ming Zhong, Bing Xiong

“…Compared with the traditional harmonic Fourier analysis methods, the harmonic Fourier mean amplitude analysis method can capture the detail of the pressure signal more accurately and it can effectively prevent instability misjudgment. …”
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Research on Characteristic Stress and Constitutive Equation of Confined Sandstone during Damage Evolution Based on Energy Evolution Analysis by Xiaobin Yang, Hongming Cheng, Xin Hou, Chaogang Nie, Jiaqi Lv

“…In addition, the dissipation energy proportion behavior is captured by fitting function and established a relationship with elastic modulus of sandstone, and then the damage evolution constitutive equation of sandstone is established based on energy proportion. …”
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Operational Efficiency Evaluation of Intersections with Dynamic Lane Assignment Using Field Data by Jing Zhao, Jiao Yao, Shengxue He, Yin Han

“…A total of 63488 vehicles were captured, which were divided into four groups according to the lanes they drive on: Group 1, the variable approach lane; group 2, the lane adjacent to the variable lane with the same lane-use; group 3, the lane adjacent to the variable lane with different lane-use of the variable lane; and group 4, the lanes with the same lane-use as the variable lane at other approaches of the intersection. …”
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A Novel Complex Event Processing Engine for Intelligent Data Analysis in Integrated Information Systems by Dong Wang, Mingquan Zhou, Sajid Ali, Pengbo Zhou, Yusong Liu, Xuesong Wang

“…Novel and effective engines for data analysis in integrated information systems are urgently required by diverse applications, in which massive business data can be analyzed to enable the capturing of various situations in real time. The performance of existing engines has limited capacity of data processing in distributed computing. …”
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Assessing the Capabilities of Three Regional Climate Models over CORDEX Africa in Simulating West African Summer Monsoon Precipitation by A. A. Akinsanola, K. O. Ogunjobi, I. E. Gbode, V. O. Ajayi

“…Results show that two of the RCMs (RCA and REMO) simulated the main features of the rainfall climatology and associated dynamics over the three subregions (Guinea Coast, Savannah, and Sahel) of West Africa. The RCMs also capture the African Easterly Jet (AEJ) and Tropical Easterly Jet (TEJ) with little variations in position and intensity. …”
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Failure Probability Analysis of Coherent Systems using Intuitionistic Fuzzy Fault Tree Approach by Mintu Kumar, S. B. Singh, Monika Manglik

“…This limitation arises because classical fault tree analysis relies on precise data and probabilistic measures, which may not adequately capture inherent uncertainties and vagueness in real-world environments. …”
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Bayesian Inference of Hidden Cognitive Performance and Arousal States in Presence of Music by Saman Khazaei, Md Rafiul Amin, Maryam Tahir, Rose T. Faghih

“…Specifying a model and decoder to infer the cognitive arousal and performance contributes to arousal regulation via non-invasive actuators such as music. <italic>Methods:</italic> We employ a Bayesian filtering approach within an expectation-maximization framework to track the hidden states during the <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$n$</tex-math></inline-formula>-back task in the presence of calming and exciting music. …”
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A Modified Asymmetric Bouc–Wen Model-Based Decoupling Control of an XY Piezoactuated Compliant Platform with Coupled Hysteresis Characteristics by Xubin Zhou, Weidong Chen, Qing Xiao, Xiangsen Kong, Xingtian Liu, Liping Zhou, Yichong Dong, Quan Zhang

“…Especially in multi-degrees-of-freedom (MDOFs) compliant manipulators driven by multismart actuators, the cross-coupled hysteresis among MDOFs decreased the positioning accuracy of such compliant platforms significantly. …”
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A Master-Slave Haptic System for Neurosurgery by Vanni Zanotto, Paolo Boscariol, Alessandro Gasparetto, Albano Lanzutti, Renato Vidoni, Nicola Di Lorenzo, Pasquale Gallina, Aldo Dalla Via, Aldo Rossi

“…The design of the proposed system is based on LANS (Linear Actuator for NeuroSurgery), which has been developed by our Research Group. …”
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Exploration of novel NSM methods to achieve stronger FRPs with minimal epoxy by Wei Sun, Handong Yan, Jianli Yin, Xinan Zhu, Tiejiong Lou, Haifeng Li

“…FRP models were developed to capture the softening behavior caused by slip. Cracking models that incorporated the tensile contributions of filler material and cracked concrete was proposed to describe the post-cracking behavior. …”
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Isolation, identification, and characterisation of the malachite green detoxifying bacterial strain Bacillus pacificus ROC1 and the azoreductase AzrC by Shanza Bibi, Callum W. Breeze, Vusqa Jadoon, Anum Fareed, Alina Syed, Rebecca L. Frkic, Habiba Zaffar, Muhammad Ali, Iftikhar Zeb, Colin J. Jackson, Tatheer Alam Naqvi

“…AzrC was crystallised and MG was captured within the active site in a Michaelis complex, providing structural insight into the reduction mechanism. …”
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Adat tapsila representation of the transformation of communication, information, and education of local wisdom wetu telu in efforts for environmental conservation in North Lombok,... by Sutama I Wayan, Pawito Pawito, Hastjarjo Sri, Demartoto Argyo

“…The ethnographic approach is used, with in-depth interviews and participatory observation of rituals and environmental management practices. The study aims to capture the complexity of meaning in the Tapsila customs and their role in conserving the environment. …”
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Machine Learning-Based Detection of Anomalies, Intrusions, and Threats in Industrial Control Systems by Denis Benka, Dusan Horvath, Lukas Spendla, Gabriel Gaspar, Maximilian Stremy

“…We generated a dataset by capturing both normal and manipulated ICS communication patterns, including TCP/IP traffic. …”
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Optimal Bus-Bridging Service under a Metro Station Disruption by Haodong Yin, Jianjun Wu, Huijun Sun, Yunchao Qu, Xin Yang, Bo Wang

“…The passengers’ travel behavioral responses to the alternative station disruption scenarios and the corresponding controlling strategies are complex and hard to capture. This can lead to the hardness of estimating the changes of the network-wide passenger demand, which is the basis of carrying out a response plan. …”
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Potential for Vertical Heterogeneity Prediction in Reservoir Basing on Machine Learning Methods by Hongqing Song, Shuyi Du, Ruifei Wang, Jiulong Wang, Yuhe Wang, Chenji Wei, Qipeng Liu

“…Machine learning models were established through deep neural networks, which learn and capture the characteristics better between dynamic production data and reservoir heterogeneity, so as to invert the vertical permeability. …”
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Numerical and Experimental Stability Investigation of a Flexible Rotor on Two Different Tilting Pad Bearing Configurations by Weimin Wang, Qihang Li, Feng He, Paul Allaire

“…In this paper, the weighted instrumental variable (WIV) based system identification method for rotating machinery stability is investigated based on a sine sweep forward excitation with an electromagnetic actuator. The traditional multiple input multiple output (MIMO) frequency response function (FRF) is transformed into a directional frequency response function (dFRF). …”
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ViT-DualAtt: An efficient pornographic image classification method based on Vision Transformer with dual attention by Zengyu Cai, Liusen Xu, Jianwei Zhang, Yuan Feng, Liang Zhu, Fangmei Liu

“…The model adopts a CNN-Transformer hierarchical structure, combining the strengths of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Transformers to effectively capture and integrate both local and global features, thereby enhancing feature representation accuracy and diversity. …”
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On a data-driven mathematical model for prostate cancer bone metastasis by Zholaman Bektemessov, Laurence Cherfils, Cyrille Allery, Julien Berger, Elisa Serafini, Eleonora Dondossola, Stefano Casarin

“…Our findings align well with experimental evidence, demonstrating that our model effectively captures the therapeutic potential of $ ^{223} $Ra, yielding promising results that support our model as a powerful infrastructure to optimize bone metastasis treatment.…”
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