Design, development, and performance study of a PWM based thermostat system for viscosity measurement by Md․Saidul Islam, Md․Sadequl Azam, Mahedi Hassan, Atish Bhathacharjee, Shahin Aziz

“…Kinematic viscosity quantifies the inherent reluctance of a fluid to flow in response to gravitational forces. …”
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Design and Testing of a Whole-Row Top-Loosening Stem-Clamping Seedling Extraction Device for Hole Tray Seedlings by Zehui Peng, Fazhan Yang, Yuhuan Li, Xiang Li, Baogang Li, Guoli Xu

“…The tensile and compressive mechanical properties of the stems were obtained, and the kinematic model of the seedling spacing process and the mechanical model of the seedling clamping process were established. …”
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Research on Motion Trajectory Planning and Impedance Control for Dual-Arm Collaborative Robot Grinding Tasks by Lu Qian, Lei Hao, Shuhao Cui, Xianglin Gao, Xingwei Zhao, Yifan Li

“…To this end, a dual-arm grinding system is first constructed, and the kinematic constraints in the cooperative motion are analyzed, based on which the motion trajectories of the dual manipulators are planned according to the grinding task objectives. …”
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Modeling the Effects of Land-Cover Change on Rainfall-Runoff Relationships in a Semiarid, Eastern Mediterranean Watershed by Noa Ohana-Levi, Arnon Karnieli, Roey Egozi, Amir Givati, Aviva Peeters

“…A 1989 Landsat TM-derived classification map was used as input for a Kinematic Runoff and Erosion (KINEROS) hydrological model along with the precipitation data of an extreme rainfall event. …”
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Development of a Pressure-Sensitive Conductive Rubber Sensor for Analyzing Meniscal Injury in Porcine Models by Shunsuke Sezaki, Shuhei Otsuki, Kuniaki Ikeda, Nobuhiro Okuno, Yoshinori Okamoto, Hitoshi Wakama, Tomohiro Okayoshi, Masashi Neo

“…The assessment of the distribution of contact pressure on the meniscus is important in the elucidation of kinematics, etiology of joint diseases, and establishment of treatment methods. …”
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Research of Simulation in Character Animation Based on Physics Engine by Yang Yu, Jucheng Yang, Xiaofei Zan, Jiangang Huang, Xiangbo Zhang

“…The paper deeply studied the kinematics, dynamics technology, and production technology based on the motion data. …”
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Physicochemical Characterization of Thermally Treated Chitosans and Chitosans Obtained by Alkaline Deacetylation by Ana Maria de Oliveira, Telma Teixeira Franco, Enio Nazaré de Oliveira Junior

“…The depolymerization rates (DR) measured by kinematic viscosity (KV), apparent viscosity (AV), and GPC (Mw) until 4 h of treatment were DRKV=21.9, DRAV=25.5, and DRMw=23.3% h-1 and for 5 to 10 h of treatment they decreased slowly to produce of DRKV=0.545, DRAV=0.248, and DRMw=1.11% h-1. …”
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GAIT ASSESSMENT IN ANKLE FRACTURES WITH SYNDESMOSIS LESIONS UNDERGOING SURGERY by Romero Montenegro Nery, Giovanni Dela Bianca de Ataide, Rafael Clark Gomes, Dallianny Gonçalves de Sousa Martins, Giovanni Ítalo Gomes de Almeida, Lucas Amaral Shizue Suassuna, Epitácio Leite Rolim-Filho

“…Methods: Case series of 13 patients who underwent surgical treatment for ankle fractures associated with syndesmosis injuries, evaluated postoperatively in the gait clinic using the BTS GAITLAB hardware program. Kinetic and kinematic data using a three-dimensional movement system were collected and analyzed. …”
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Predicting Early Bulbar Decline in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A Speech Subsystem Approach by Panying Rong, Yana Yunusova, Jun Wang, Jordan R. Green

“…Physiologic speech subsystem (respiratory, phonatory, articulatory, and resonatory) functions were evaluated longitudinally in 66 individuals with ALS using multiple instrumentation approaches including acoustic, aerodynamic, nasometeric, and kinematic. The instrumental measures of the subsystem functions were subjected to a principal component analysis and linear mixed effects models to derive a set of comprehensive predictors of bulbar dysfunction. …”
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Predictions of Muscle Forces During the Cross-Body Adduction and Hand-Behind-the-Back Tests to Assess Osteoarthritis of the Acromioclavicular Joint by Kamal Gautam, Mohamed Samir Hefzy, Kyle Behrens, Abdul A. Mustapha

“…This work redefined the joint kinematics for the tests and performed an inverse dynamics analysis to solve the muscle redundancy problem using the generic upper extremity dynamic models available in OpenSim and AnyBody Modeling System™. …”
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Shocked POststarburst Galaxy Survey. IV. Outflows in Shocked Poststarburst Galaxies Are Not Responsible for Quenching by Antoniu Fodor, Taylor Tomko, Mary Braun, Anne M. Medling, Thomas M. Johnson, Alexander Thompson, Victor D. Johnston, Matthew Newhouse, Yuanze Luo, K. Decker French, Justin A. Otter, Akshat Tripathi, Margaret E. Verrico, Katherine Alatalo, Kate Rowlands, Timothy Heckman

“…Using their internal and external kinematics, we argue that 22 galaxies host outflows with ionized gas masses ranging from 10 ^2 M _⊙ to 10 ^5 M _⊙ . …”
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Integrated-Hybrid Framework for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Microscopic Traffic Flow Modelling by Ammar Jafaripournimchahi, Yingfeng Cai, Hai Wang, Lu Sun, Jiancheng Weng

“…Our numerical results demonstrated that the IH model can capture the velocity fluctuations, delay times, and kinematic waves efficiently in traffic flow.…”
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Autonomous Real-Time Smoothness Control for Reliable DDQN-Based UAV Navigation Using Cellular Networks by Ghada Afifi, Yasser Gadallah

“…For this purpose, we formulate the smooth trajectory planning problem as an optimization problem to provide a probabilistic guarantee on the success of the UAV mission considering the UAV dynamic and kinematic constraints. We utilize proper optimization-based techniques to determine the optimal bound of the solution for benchmarking purposes. …”
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Design and experiment of impeller seed guide device for rice internal suction hole direct seeding device by Yansong Shang, Bo Zhou, Jitao Yang, Shun Zhang

“…The main structural parameters of the impeller seed guide device were analyzed by constructing the kinematics model of the rice seed in the impeller seed guide process. …”
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Research on Mechanical Aging Behavior of Grease in Rolling Bearing by Jialong Yang, Yuhao Zhang, Zongzheng Wang, Wei Pu

“…Additionally, a grease lubrication and friction model were proposed to further evaluate the lubrication performance of aged grease, using measured rheological parameters and the kinematic velocities of the disk-ball-disk device as inputs. …”
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On-shell approach to black hole mergers by Katsuki Aoki, Andrea Cristofoli, Yu-tin Huang

“…This three-point amplitude and the spectral function of the final state are fully determined by kinematics and the model-independent input about the black hole merger which is described by a complete absorption process. …”
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Microclonal propagation of elite industrial grape cultivars (<i>Vitis vinifera</i> L.) by A. Yu. Fizikova

“…The industrial grape cultivars ‘Malbec’, ‘Merlot’, ‘Chardonnay’, and ‘Riesling’ from the field collection of the All-Russian National Research institute of Viticulture and Winemaking “Magarach” were used for the work.Results. …”
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Initial Contact with Forefoot or Rearfoot in Spastic Patients After Stroke—Three-Dimensional Gait Analysis by Inês Mendes-Andrade, Miguel Reis e Silva, Jorge Jacinto

“…Spatiotemporal descriptors, joint kinematics, kinetics, and EMG patterns were compared across groups. …”
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Design and Analysis of a Parallel Elastic Shoulder Joint for Humanoid Robotics Application by Sharafatdin Yessirkepov, Timur Umurzakov, Michele Folgheraiter

“…The dimension of the central elastic limb, made out of Thermo-Plastic Polyurethane (TPU), is optimized using Finite Element Analysis (FEA). The kinematic behavior of the proposed mechanism is approximated as a combination of linkages equipped with two universal joints, and its motion evaluated through numerical simulations and real experiments.…”
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Position/Force Tracking Impedance Control for Robotic Systems with Uncertainties Based on Adaptive Jacobian and Neural Network by Jinzhu Peng, Zeqi Yang, Tianlei Ma

“…In the inner-loop, an adaptive Jacobian method is proposed to estimate the velocities and interaction torques of the end-effector due to the system kinematical uncertainties, and the system dynamical uncertainties and the uncertain term of adaptive Jacobian are compensated by an adaptive radial basis function neural network (RBFNN). …”
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