Computational Fluid Dynamics Modelling of Microfluidic Channel for Dielectrophoretic BioMEMS Application by Wan Shi Low, Nahrizul Adib Kadri, Wan Abu Bakar bin Wan Abas

“…However, further bifurcation will reduce the volumetric flow rate, thus causing undesirable deposition of cell suspension around the chamber. Finally, an improvement of microfluidic design with rounded corner is proposed to encourage a uniform cell adhesion within the channel.…”
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Intratumor heterogeneity in KRAS signaling shapes treatment resistance by Oleksi Petrenko, Varvara Kirillov, Stephen D'Amico, Nancy C. Reich

“…Selective targeting of mutant KRAS suppresses the growth of tumor cells with high RAS/mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) activity while sparing pre-existing subsets with low RAS signaling activity, necessitating alternative treatments. …”
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Guidelines for Implementing Innovations in Hospital Organizations by Josiano Cesar de Sousa, Miriam Borchardt, Murilo Barros Alves, Edithe Oliveira Nogueira

“…It presents managerial contributions by proposing a set of guidelines for the implementation of innovations in hospital organizations. Finally, the article presents its limitations and recommendations for future research.…”
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A NEW MULTIAXIAL FATIGUE LIFE PREDICTION MODEL AND ITS APPLICATION (MT) by REN Zhong, QIN XianRong, ZHANG Qing, SUN YuanTao, LIU Yuan

“…The results show that the proposed model has a good prediction effect. Finally, the model is applied to the fatigue life prediction of a big pendulum boom, and the results show that the boom meets the fatigue life requirements.…”
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Myoglobin Cast Nephropathy Diagnosed on Renal Biopsy in a Patient Treated for Malarial Infection by Ramya Varadarajan, Ashmi Patel, Haneen Salah, Neil Sutaria, Roberto Barrios, Luan Truong, Lillian Gaber, Ziad M. El-Zaatari

“…Myoglobin cast nephropathy occurs in cases of acute renal injury in which large amounts of myoglobin accumulate in the renal tubules, presenting as muscle pain, reddish-brown urine, and elevated creatine kinase levels. Our case describes a 60-year-old male who came to the emergency department with fevers, mild abdominal pain, and constitutional symptoms one day after returning to the United States from a trip to Nigeria. …”
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Prediction of Drought Risk Based on the WRF Model in Yunnan Province of China by Chunhong Zhao, Xiangzheng Deng, Yongwei Yuan, Haiming Yan, Hong Liang

“…Given the fact that severe drought in Yunnan province is mainly due to much-less-than-normal precipitation and much-warmer-than-normal surface temperature, this study focused on the future spatiotemporal heterogeneity of the temperature and precipitation, which have great impacts on the drought. Finally, the influencing factors of drought in Yunnan province were simulated with the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, and the risk of drought was spatially analyzed with the meteorological drought composite index. …”
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An Improved Fast Flocking Algorithm with Obstacle Avoidance for Multiagent Dynamic Systems by Jialiang Wang, Hai Zhao, Yuanguo Bi, Shiliang Shao, Qian Liu, Xingchi Chen, Ruofan Zeng, Yu Wang, Le Ha

“…Compared with other technologies to perform the localization of quad-rotor helicopter, this paper innovatively constructs a smart environment by deploying some wireless sensor network (WSN) nodes using the proposed localization algorithm. Finally, the proposed FMOA algorithm is used to conduct the formation flying of these quad-rotor helicopters in the smart environment.…”
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Multifractal Analysis and Compressive Strength Prediction for Concrete through Acoustic Emission Parameters by Zhiqiang Lv, Annan Jiang, Jiaxu Jin, Xiangfeng Lv

“…Moreover, damage mechanisms were further distinguished by FCM. Finally, the results showed that the parameters of AE can further expand the application of AE for predicting compressive of concrete. …”
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Research on the Trajectory Model for ZY-3 by Yifu Chen, Zhong Xie

“…Meanwhile, the differential equation is derivate for the bundle block adjustment. Finally, the correction and practicability of piece-point with weight polynomial model for ZY-3 satellite are validated according to the experiment of geometric correction using the ZY-3 image and orbit and attitude data.…”
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Effectiveness of Using Polymer Bumpers to Mitigate Earthquake-Induced Pounding between Buildings of Unequal Heights by Jian He, Yu Jiang, Qichao Xue, Chunwei Zhang, Jingcai Zhang

“…Secondly, differences between viscoelastic and elastic pounding force models are compared and discussed. And finally, parametric studies are carried out to investigate influences of different pounding parameters. …”
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A multi‐level coordinated scheduling strategy for shared energy storage systems under electricity spot and ancillary service markets by Qing Dou, Xiang Gao, Yuheng Wu, Yu Chen, Rui Xie, Jialin Chen

“…Furthermore, the lower level aims to correct the coordinated scheduling strategy for minimizing the intra‐day scheduling cost under the uncertainty of renewable energy sources and load demand. Finally, a linear relaxation method is applied to transform the proposed strategy into a mixed‐integer linear programming problem for enhancing the computation efficiency. …”
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Identification of the Hub Genes Involved in Stem Cell Treatment for Intervertebral Disc Degeneration: A Conjoint Analysis of Single-Cell and Machine Learning by Jianfeng Chen, Fuwei Qi, Guanshen Li, Qiaosong Deng, Chenlin Zhang, Xiaojun Li, Yafeng Zhang

“…In addition, the results of single-cell sequencing demonstrated the critical function of stem cells in IDD. Finally, we found that aging is significantly associated with the rate of stem cells. …”
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LQG control-aware resource scheduling method for IEEE 802.11ax networks by Meng ZHENG, Lei ZHANG, Wei LIANG

“…Due to the advantages in low cost, ease of maintenance and license-exempt spectrum, etc, IEEE 802.11ax is widely adopted in industrial control applications.For a wireless networked control system based on IEEE 802.11ax, a control-aware resource scheduling method was proposed to support the wireless high-speed control of multiple control systems.Firstly, considering the packet dropout problem of sensing data in IEEE 802.11ax, the optimal state estimator and the linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control of the studied control system were given.Secondly, the dependency between the LQG performance and the transmission reliability of IEEE 802.11ax was analyzed, the expected LQG performance minimization problem of resource scheduling was formulated, and further, an LQG control-aware resource scheduling (LCARS) method was proposed.Finally, the effectiveness of the LCARS method was demonstrated via extensive simulations.LCARS can be applied to smart factory applications including navigation of automated guided vehicles, remote control of robots and so on.…”
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Networking Method for the Structure of a Large Modular Deployable Space Antenna by Dake Tian, Xiaodong Fan, Junwei Zhang, Lu Jin, Rongqiang Liu, Yu Zhang

“…Then, a networking model of structure that includes 61 modules in the fully deployed state is established. Finally, the established model is verified via a numerical simulation method, and the influence law of structural parameters on networking characteristics is analyzed and studied. …”
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Study on the hydrothermal effect in ice materials under the polar glacier runway dynamic load by Zhiyuan Wang, Shengrong Zhang, Ze Zhang, Chunlei Xie, Kunchao Zhou, Mingyang Yuan

“…In the group A test with faster load frequency, it was found that the temperature fluctuation was small during the test, but the amount of water migration increased. Finally, the experimental results are discussed from the perspective of hydrogen bond compression relaxation of the basic unit (O:H-O) composed of ice and water.…”
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Efficient synthesis of phosphorus-promoted and alkali-modified ZSM-5 catalyst for catalytic dehydration of lactic acid to acrylic acid by Ainur Syeitkhajy, Mohammed Alfatih Hamid, Mehtap Safak Boroglu, Ismail Boz

“…Comprehensive analytical techniques, including XRD, BET, FT-IR, TGA, XPS, SEM, ICP-MS, DRIFT spectra, NH3, and CO2-TPD, were employed to elucidate the structural and acid-base properties of the ZSM-5/P-Na catalyst. Finally, an experimental design was developed to optimize the important operational variables in the LA dehydration reaction. …”
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Update on Comprehensive Management of Cholera. Recommendations of the Expert Workshop. Cienfuegos 2014 by María Lina Valdés Gómez, Víctor René Navarro Machado, Edelys Molina Moreira, Joel Torres Ros, Ada Lozano Leblanc, Joseline Cesar Carrero, Alain Morejón Giraldoni

“…Group techniques including brainstorming and focus group were applied. Finally, the groups met to present their recommendations and approve the document. …”
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Elastoplastic Analysis for Circular Tunnel Based on Modified Lade Criterion considering Strain Softening and Dilatancy by Yansheng Deng, Jianxiu Wang, Baoping Zou

“…The comparisons of stress, displacement, and plastic zone radius are carried out between the presented method and published literatures under axisymmetric and nonaxisymmetric original in situ stress field. Finally, a series of parametric analyses are executed and discussed. …”
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Interval-Valued Intuitionistic Fuzzy Ordered Weighted Cosine Similarity Measure and Its Application in Investment Decision-Making by Donghai Liu, Xiaohong Chen, Dan Peng

“…Furthermore, we present an application of IVIFOWCS measure to the group decision-making problem. Finally the existing similarity measures are compared with the IVIFOWCS measure by an illustrative example.…”
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A Markov Chain Position Prediction Model Based on Multidimensional Correction by Sijia Chen, Jian Zhang, Fanwei Meng, Dini Wang

“…Secondly, the influence of check-in period, space distance, and other factors on the position prediction is linearly weighted and merged with the position prediction of the n-order Markov chain to construct MDC-MCM. Finally, we conduct a comprehensive performance evaluation of MDC-MCM using the dataset collected from Brightkite. …”
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