Online Structural Health Monitoring and Parameter Estimation for Vibrating Active Cantilever Beams Using Low-Priced Microcontrollers by Gergely Takács, Ján Vachálek, Boris Rohal’-Ilkiv

“…A fault signal is generated upon its departure from a predetermined nominal tolerance band. The algorithm is implemented using automatically generated and deployed machine code on an electronics prototyping platform, featuring an economically feasible 8-bit microcontroller unit (MCU). …”
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Shock Wave Attenuation Characteristics of Aluminum Foam Sandwich Panels Subjected to Blast Loading by Jinglin Xu, Jianqing Liu, Wenbin Gu, Xin Liu, Tao Cao

“…The apparent overall “X” crushing band is produced in the aluminum foam core, and scanning electron microscope (SEM) observation clearly shows the collapse of the cell wall. …”
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A Case Report Demonstrating How the Clinical Presentation of the Diffuse Sclerosing Variant of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Can Mimic Benign Riedel’s Thyroiditis by Jennifer Walsh, Tomas P. Griffin, Carmel B. Ryan, James Fitzgibbon, Patrick Sheahan, Matthew S. Murphy

“…These findings raised the differential diagnosis of diffuse sclerosing variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma (DSV-PTC) with metastasis to lymph nodes. …”
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Extraction and Characterization of Tunisian Quercus ilex Starch and Its Effect on Fermented Dairy Product Quality by Youkabed Zarroug, Mouna Boulares, Jamel Mejri, Bechir Slimi, Ghaith Hamdaoui, Saida Djebi, Fatma Saidi, Hanen Nasri, Dorra Terras Sfayhi, Mohamed Kharrat

“…The FT-IR spectra of isolated native starches have shown the main bands characterizing the starch. However, X-ray diffractograms exhibited an A- and B-type diffraction pattern. …”
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High-Performance MAPbI3-Based Perovskite Solar Cell: Design, Simulation, and Analysis of Optoelectronic Properties and Efficiency Metrics Using SILVACO TCAD by Rashique Hamjah Chowdhury, Hojaifa Daiyan Chowdhury, Muhammad Johirul Islam, Iqbal Bahar Chowdhury

“…Simulations have been carried out to obtain the energy band diagram and the electric field profile as well as the contour and 2D plots of photon absorption rate, the recombination rate and the photogeneration rate to gain a physical insight of electronic and optical behavior of the proposed solar cell. …”
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Vajravārāhī in Khara Khoto and Prajñāpāramitā in East Java: Connected by Pearl Ornaments by Lesley S Pullen

“…A thangka of the goddess Vajravārāhī found in Khara Khoto, dated to the late 12th century, shows the bodhisattva decorated with a pearl-chain girdle and upper-arm bands. This form of pearl-chain jewellery, which appears on Vajravārāhī and other Sino-Tibetan-style bodhisattvas, also appears on three stone statues of the goddess Prajñāpāramitā in East Java, all of which depict a near identical use of this pearl-chain ornamentation, as well as on a statue of Prajñāpāramitā at the Muara Jambi Buddhist site in Sumatra. …”
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An Alternating Variable Step-Size Adaptive Long-Range Prediction of LMS Fading Signals by Xi Liao, Rui Xue, Dan-feng Zhao, Yang Wang

“…We propose a linear alternating variable step-size adaptive long-range prediction (AVSS-ALRP) scheme to predict fading signals which is especially suitable for a versatile two-state land mobile satellite (LMS) channel model at S-band. …”
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A Study on the Seismic Response Characteristics of an Oblique Pile Group-Soil-Structure with Different Pile Caps by Desen Kong, Yifei Bai, Yongpo Chen, Meixu Deng

“…In the same model, the maximum bending moment of inclined piles is greater than that of vertical piles. …”
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Radio Follow-up Observations of SN 2023ixf by Japanese and Korean Very Long Baseline Interferometers by Yuhei Iwata, Masanori Akimoto, Tomoki Matsuoka, Keiichi Maeda, Yoshinori Yonekura, Nozomu Tominaga, Takashi J. Moriya, Kenta Fujisawa, Kotaro Niinuma, Sung-Chul Yoon, Jae-Joon Lee, Taehyun Jung, Do-Young Byun

“…We report on radio follow-up observations of the nearby Type II supernova SN 2023ixf, spanning from 1.7 to 269.9 days after the explosion, conducted using three very long baseline interferometers (VLBIs), which are the Japanese VLBI Network, the VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry, and the Korean VLBI Network. …”
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Theoretical Study on the Photoelectric Properties of a Class of Copolymers Based on Benzodithiophene for Solar Cells by Xiao-Hua Xie, Xin-Wei Zhao, Ming Li

“…Periodic boundary conditions method is employed to simulate the polymer block and calculate effective charge mass from the band structure calculation to describe charge transport properties. …”
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Microstructured Liquid Metal‐Based Embedded‐Type Sensor Array for Curved Pressure Mapping by Haoyu Li, Chengjun Zhang, Hongyu Xu, Qing Yang, Zexiang Luo, Cheng Li, Lin Kai, Yizhao Meng, Jialiang Zhang, Jie Liang, Feng Chen

“…Abstract Human hands can envelop the surface of an object and recognize its shape through touch. …”
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Effect of Selenate on Viability and Selenomethionine Accumulation of Chlorella sorokiniana Grown in Batch Culture by Živan Gojkovic, Carlos Vílchez, Rafael Torronteras, Javier Vigara, Veronica Gómez-Jacinto, Nora Janzer, José-Luis Gómez-Ariza, Ivana Márová, Ines Garbayo

“…Unlike control cultures, SDS PAGE electrophoresis of crude extracts from selenate-exposed cell cultures revealed appearance of a protein band identified as 53 kDa Rubisco large subunit of Chlorella sorokiniana, suggesting that selenate affects expression of the corresponding chloroplast gene as this subunit is encoded in the chloroplast DNA. …”
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Using selective NIR wavelengths in portable devices to evaluate the chemical composition of cattle feeds by Lorenzo Serva, Luisa Magrin, Giovanni Chillemi, Giorgio Marchesini, Daniele Pietrucci, Francesco Renzi, Riccardo Valentini, Igino Andrighetto, Marco Milanesi

“…Results demonstrated that using a few spectral bands is suitable for instrument calibration.…”
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3D Printed Multi‐Cavity Soft Actuator with Integrated Motion and Sensing Functionalities via Bio‐Inspired Interweaving Foldable Endomysium by Zhonggui Fang, Shaowu Tang, Yinyin Su, Xiaohuang Liu, Sicong Liu, Juan Yi, Zheng Wang, Jian S. Dai

“…Performing elongation, contraction, and bidirectional bending, the McFI actuator senses its spatial position, orientation, and axial force, based on the kinematic and sensing models built on multi‐cavity pressures. …”
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Characterization of Escherichia coli outer membrane vesicles and the impact of pathogenic ones on NLR signaling pathways by Roghayeh Mohammadzadeh, Ava Behrouzi, Farzam Vaziri, Seyed Davar Siadat

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Evaluating the Impact of Starter Fertilizer on Winter Canola Grown in Oklahoma by M. Joy M. Abit, Katlynn Weathers, D. Brian Arnall

“…Diammonium phosphate was banded with the seed at planting at 0, 17, 34, 51, 67, and 84 kg DAP ha−1. …”
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Evaluation of Antimony Tri-Iodide Crystals for Radiation Detectors by Toshiyuki Onodera, Koei Baba, Keitaro Hitomi

“…SbI3 is a compound semiconductor with an AsI3-type crystal structure, high atomic number (Sb: 51, I: 53), high density (4.92 g/cm3), and a wide band-gap energy (2.2 eV). In addition, crystalline SbI3 is easy to grow by conventional crystal growth techniques from melting phase because the material exhibits a low melting point (171°C) and undergoes no phase transition in the range of its solid phase. …”
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Integrated Bioinformatics-Based Identification of Potential Diagnostic Biomarkers Associated with Diabetic Foot Ulcer Development by Long Qian, Zhipeng Xia, Ming Zhang, Qiong Han, Die Hu, Sha Qi, Danmou Xing, Yan Chen, Xin Zhao

“…GO analyses revealed these DEGs to be significantly enriched in biological processes including sarcomere organization, muscle filament sliding, and the regulation of cardiac conduction, molecular functions including structural constituent of muscle, protein binding, and calcium ion binding, and cellular components including Z disc, myosin filament, and M band. …”
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Wavelet Correlation Feature Scale Entropy and Fuzzy Support Vector Machine Approach for Aeroengine Whole-Body Vibration Fault Diagnosis by Cheng-Wei Fei, Guang-Chen Bai

“…The wavelet coefficients were known to be located in high Signal-to-Noise Ratio (S/N or SNR) scales and were obtained by the Wavelet Transform Correlation Filter Method (WTCFM). …”
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TOOL WEAR STATE MONITORING BASED ON WAVELET PACKET BP＿ADABOOST ALGORITHM by ZHU Xiang, XIE Feng

“…Aiming at the problems of less tool wear state data,low diagnostic efficiency,high maintenance cost and lack of effective diagnostic methods during CNC machine tool processing,A method of extracting features by wavelet packet analysis and kernel principal component analysis,and using BPAda Boost algorithm to diagnose tool wear state is proposed.The tool vibration signal and the cutting force signal are collected by installing an acceleration sensor on the machined workpiece of the numerical control machine tool and a force gauge on the workbench; Then the wavelet packet decomposition is performed on the signal to pass the signal through the low-pass filter and the high-pass filter of different dimensions,so that the conditional selection can be performed to form the energy value corresponding to the different frequency bands. The data after the dimension reduction of the kernel principal component analysis is taken as the characteristic parameter of the tool wear state; Finally,the eigenvectors are used to train and validate the BP _AdaBoost classification model. …”
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