Balance performance in children with borderline intellectual functioning and specific language impairment by Aivars Kaupuzs, Viesturs Larins

“…There are limited body of research on motor performance in children with borderline intellectual functioning (BIF) that manifesting as cognitive and behavioural problems and specific language impairment (SLI) that is a developmental disorder involving delayed language. …”
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The depressive symptoms are moderators of cognitive and functional performances in normal and pathological aging? by Jonas Jardim de Paula

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Performance of Monotonic Pile Penetration in Sand: Model Test and DEM Simulation by Jianxue Feng, Ruiqi Luo, Xiaoyu Dong, Xiaoyong Zhang, Quan Shen

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Perfluorotetradecanoic Acid as an Additive for Friction Reduction in Full-Film EHD Contacts: The Role of Functional Group, Base Oil Polarity, Additive Concentration and Contact Pre... by Marko Polajnar, Tomaž Požar, Mitjan Kalin

“…The carboxylic acid functional group plays a crucial role in the observed friction-reducing effect. …”
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How the fluorographene replaced graphene as nanoadditive for improving tribological performances of GTL-8 based lubricant oil by Xiaojing Ci, Wenjie Zhao, Jun Luo, Yangmin Wu, Tianhao Ge, Qunji Xue, Xiulei Gao, Zhiwen Fang

“…In this work, fluorinated reduced graphene oxide nanosheets (F–rGO) with different degree of fluorination were prepared using direct gas-fluorination and they were added into gas to liquid-8 (GTL-8) base oil as lubricant additive to improve the tribological performance. According to the results, the coefficient of friction (COF) reduced by 21%, notably, the wear rate reduced by 87% with the addition of highly fluorinated reduced graphene oxide (HF–rGO) compared with rGO. …”
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Analysis of Friction Stir Welding of Aluminum Alloys by Ikram Feddal, Mohamed Chairi, Guido Di Bella

“…Friction Stir Welding (FSW) is a solid-state joining technique that has gained widespread adoption, particularly for aluminum alloys, due to its ability to produce high-quality welds without melting base materials. …”
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Transferability of Model-Based Static Coefficient of Friction by Jonathan Schanner, Friedemann Reiß, Erhard Leidich, Alexander Hasse

“…The accurate determination of static coefficients of friction (COFs) is crucial in engineering design, yet standard reference values often show considerable variability. …”
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Advances in friction of aluminium alloy deep drawing by Yiren Gao, Hongxia Li, Danyang Zhao, Minjie Wang, Xiaobo Fan

“…Therefore, the study of AADD friction is essential for manufacturing high-performance aluminium alloy parts. …”
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Frictional Resistance of Three Types of Ceramic Brackets by Claire L Williams, Khaled Khalaf

“…Objectives: To investigate the static frictional resistance at the bracket/archwire interface in two recently introduced bracket systems and compare them to conventional ceramic and conventional metal bracket systems. …”
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Decorin levels and cardiometabolic function after endurance exercise by Antônio Alves de Fontes-Junior, Cesar Augustus Zocoler de Sousa, Leandro Barbosa de Oliveira, Ana Paula Renno Sierra, Maria Fernanda Cury-Boaventura

“…The role of decorin levels in cardiometabolic function after endurance exercise was investigated.MethodsFifty-six male amateur runners, aged 30 to 55 years, participated in this study. …”
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Optimization of Micro-Texture Parameters for Machine Tool Guide Rail Combination Based on Response Surface Methodology and Research on Its Anti-Friction and Lubrication Performance by Youzheng Cui, Bingyang Yan, Minli Zheng, Haijing Mu, Chengxin Liu, Dongyang Wang, Xinmiao Li, Qingwei Li, Hui Jiang, Fengjuan Wang, Qingming Hu

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Peak Cardiorespiratory Performance can be Achieved during a Maximal 60-sec Effort as Compared to Traditional Exercise Tests in Healthy Individuals by Andrew S. Perrotta, Rona Herzog, Nicholas Held, Elizabeth Gnatiuk

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Wear Resistance Improvement in the Friction Wedge - Friction Plate Pair of a Freight Car Bogie Wedge-Type Shock Absorber by A. V. Sukhov, B. V. Borsch, A. V. Gabetz

“…Comparative outcomes analysis of the experiments conducted to assess wear resistance of the selected friction pairs demonstrates that with the specified service life indice performance of rig tests only is just enough to determine the amount of contacting surfaces wear of the examined materials and to arrive at a preliminary decision on the materials to be used for friction parts of the freight car bogie wedge-type shock absorber.…”
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Epidermal microstructures on the paired fins of marine sculpins suggest new functional hypotheses supporting benthic station-holding by Emily A. Kane, Austin M. Garner, Shubham Yadav, L. Ann Hume, Tom Pesacreta

“…We suggest the hypothesis that these previously overlooked features contribute to sculpin station-holding performance via enhanced mechanical interactions with the substrate, suggesting new taxa within which to explore potential mechanisms of underwater friction enhancement and adhesion.…”
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Passive Shock Isolation Utilising Dry Friction by Mohd Ikmal Ismail, Neil Stuart Ferguson

“…A novel shock isolation strategy for base excited system is presented by introducing a two-degree-of-freedom model with passive friction, where the friction is applied to an attached mass instead of directly to the primary isolated mass. …”
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Multiscale analysis of friction behavior at fretting interfaces by Zhinan Zhang, Shuaihang Pan, Nian Yin, Bin Shen, Jie Song

“…To bridge these research gaps, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations on Al-Al, diamond-diamond, and diamond-silicon fretting interfaces were performed while considering bidirectional forces. This paper also proposes new energy theories, bonding principles, nanoscale friction laws, and wear rate analyses. …”
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METHOD OF SIMULTANEOUS OPTIMIZATION OF RADIO DEVICES PERFORMANCE IN FREQUENCY AND TIME DOMAINS by A. V. Smirnov

“…These tasks cannot be solved by analytical methods. The searching was performed in the coordinatespace of transfer function poles and zeros. …”
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Physical functional performance, body composition, strength, and cognitive function in aged 60 years and older from North of Brazil by Ewertton de Souza Bezerra, Andreza dos Santos Silva, Geovanna de Paula Martins de Souza, Walbert Menezes Bitar, Jean Carlos Constantino Silva, Leandro Augusto Pereira de Souza, Jéssica Naveca de Abreu, Rômulo de Oliveira Sena, Luis Mochizuki

“…Two-hundred and thirteen women did partially (handgrip strength test, 6-m walking test, and timed up and go) and 126 did all the measurements (MoCA, Montreal Cognitive Assessment), anthropometric and body composition measure, SARC-F (strength, assistance with walking, rising from a chair, climbing stairs, and falls) questionnaire, handgrip strength; and physical functional performance (timed up and go and 6-m walk test). …”
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Performance Evaluation of Activation Functions in Deep Residual Networks for Short-Term Load Forecasting by Junchen Liu, Faisul Arif Ahmad, Khairulmizam Samsudin, Fazirulhisyam Hashim, Mohd Zainal Abidin Ab Kadir

“…The findings demonstrate that activation functions significantly influence the predictive performance of DRN-based STLF models. …”
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Dynamic Analysis of Resilient Rocking Wall Structures: A Numerical Study on Performance Demands by Soheil Assadi, Ashkan Hashemi, Nicholas Chan, Pierre Quenneville

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