Statistical Modeling of Ultrawideband Body-Centric Wireless Channels Considering Room Volume by Miyuki Hirose, Hironobu Yamamoto, Takehiko Kobayashi

“…This paper presents the results of a statistical modeling of onbody ultrawideband (UWB) radio channels for wireless body area network (WBAN) applications. Measurements were conducted in five different rooms. …”
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Correspondence between grey-body factors and quasinormal frequencies for rotating black holes by R.A. Konoplya, A. Zhidenko

“…Although the proper oscillation frequencies of black holes (quasinormal modes) and the grey-body factors, which determine the scattering properties of black holes, represent two distinct spectral problems with different boundary conditions, a recent study has revealed an intrinsic connection between these quantities. …”
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Body Percussion: Active and inclusive teaching oriented to disciplinary knowledge and transversal skills by Antinea Ambretti, Mariapia Mazzella, Wouter Cools

Subjects: “…body percussion…”
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“Thinking along the margins”: the choreography of trauma in The Body Artist, by Don DeLillo by Sylvie Bauer

“…The two structuring events of The Body Artist, Rey Robles’s death and the performance of Laura Hartke, his grieving wife, are the indissociable ellipses around which Don DeLillo’s novel is built. …”
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Effects of Surfactant Warm-Mix Additives on the Rheological Properties of High-Viscosity Asphalt by Jingtao Shi, Weiyu Fan, Yi Lin, Pinhui Zhao, Jian Ouyang

“…The results indicate that the addition of WMA can decrease the viscosity and softening point but improve the penetration and ductility of warm-mix HVA. …”
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Fuzzy Stability of a Functional Equation Deriving from Quadratic and Additive Mappings by Sun Sook Jin, Yang-Hi Lee

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Design and Production of Innovative Turbomachinery Components via Topology Optimization and Additive Manufacturing by Enrico Meli, Andrea Rindi, Alessandro Ridolfi, Rocco Furferi, Francesco Buonamici, Giuseppe Iurisci, Simone Corbò, Francesco Cangioli

“…The present paper proposes a methodology to design and manufacture optimized turbomachinery components by leveraging the potential of Topology Optimization (TO) and Additive Manufacturing (AM). The method envisages the use of TO to define the best configuration of the rotoric components in terms of both static and dynamic behavior with a resultant reduction of overall weight. …”
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Performance-Based Seismic Design of Steel Frames Utilizing Colliding Bodies Algorithm by H. Veladi

“…A pushover analysis method based on semirigid connection concept is developed and the colliding bodies optimization algorithm is employed to find optimum seismic design of frame structures. …”
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Impact of Emulsifiers Addition on the Retrogradation of Rice Gels during Low-Temperature Storage by Zhe Yang, Xue Han, Huiying Wu, Lijuan Zhang, Lanwei Zhang, M. Javed Iqbal

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To Enhance Light Extraction for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes by Body Modification of Substrate by Jun Wang, Chong Wang, Yadong Jiang

“…A facile approach of body modification on substrate is introduced to enhance the light extraction for organic devices. …”
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Analysis of Static Narrowband On-Body Channel Polarization Distribution at 2.4 GHz by Lingfeng Liu, Peng Zhang, Xiaonan Wang, Xiaoyan Zhang, Nan Jiang

“…The polarization of on-body propagation channels has shown significant spatial selectivity and full-space distribution in numerous measurements due to the near-field characteristics and strong body scattering effect. …”
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Research on the Rockburst Tendency and AE Characteristics of Inhomogeneous Coal-Rock Combination Bodies by Yun-liang Tan, Wei-yao Guo, Qing-heng Gu, Tong-bin Zhao, Feng-hai Yu, Shan-chao Hu, Yan-chun Yin

“…In order to research the influence of homogeneity on the rockburst tendency and on AE characteristics of coal-rock combination body, uniaxial compressive tests of inhomogeneous coal-rock combination bodies obeyed by the Weibull distribution were simulated using particle flow code (PFC2D). …”
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Genetic background of body reserves in laying hens through backfat thickness phenotyping by Bédère, Nicolas, Dupont, Joëlle, Baumard, Yannick, Staub, Christophe, Gourichon, David, Frédéric, Elleboudt, Le Roy, Pascale, Zerjal, Tatiana

Subjects: “…Body composition…”
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Oscillations Control of Rocking-Block-Type Buildings by the Addition of a Tuned Pendulum by Luca Collini, Rinaldo Garziera, Kseniia Riabova, Mariya Munitsyna, Alessandro Tasora

“…The theoretical part of the work consists of a Lagrange formulation and Galerkin approximation method, and dry friction has also been considered. From the analytical/numerical simulations, we derive some important conclusions, providing us with the tools suitable for the design of absorbers in practical cases.…”
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Additive-manufactured ceramics for dental restorations: a systematic review on mechanical perspective by Yuqing Lu, Anouk van Steenoven, Amanda Maria de Oliveira Dal Piva, João Paulo Mendes Tribst, Li Wang, Li Wang, Cornelis J. Kleverlaan, Albert J. Feilzer, Albert J. Feilzer

Subjects: “…additive manufacturing…”
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RF communication between dual band implantable and on body antennas for biotelemetry application by Yara A. Kamel, Hesham A. Mohamed, Hala ELsadek, Hadia M. ELhennawy

“…On the other hand, the wide-band receiving antenna is designed on flexible material for patients’ comfort with a compact size of 134.6 ( $$20\times 26.5\times 0.254$$ ) $$\hbox {mm}^3$$ . In addition, the implantable antenna performance is evaluated in a chicken slab as well as a saline solution, while the on-body antenna is placed on the chicken slab to measure its reflection coefficient. …”
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An Asymptomatic Foreign Body in the Nose in an Eighteen-Year-Old Patient: Button Battery by Merih Onal, Gultekin Ovet, Necat Alatas

“…Foreign bodies lodged in the upper airway are a common occurrence in children. …”
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Increasing of C/N ratio with addition of tapioca starch in Oligochaetes culture substrate by Yani Hadiroseyani, Ardina Puspitasari, Tatag Budiardi

“…ABSTRACT   This study was aimed to improve the productivity of sludge worm (Oligochaetes) in culture systems using the addition of tapioca flour to the substrate to increase C/N ratio up to 10, 20, and 30. …”
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Coupling Interaction of Surrounding Soil-Buried Pipeline and Additional Stress in Subsidence Soil by Yahong Ding, Heng Yang, Ping Xu, Minxia Zhang, Zhenguo Hou

“…In addition, the smaller the burial depth, the earlier the unloading phenomenon occurs; and the additional stress in buried pipe in cohesion-less soil is significantly less than that in cohesive soil, and the unloading phenomenon occurs earlier. …”
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Stability Analysis of Additive Runge-Kutta Methods for Delay-Integro-Differential Equations by Hongyu Qin, Zhiyong Wang, Fumin Zhu, Jinming Wen

“…This paper is concerned with stability analysis of additive Runge-Kutta methods for delay-integro-differential equations. …”
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