Evaluate the Probability of Failure in Rainfall-Induced Landslides Using a Fuzzy Point Estimate Method by Ya-Sin Yang, Hsin-Fu Yeh

“…Hence, the aim of this study is to examine the uncertainty in soil mechanical parameters. The membership functions between soil mechanical parameters, i.e., cohesion and angle of internal friction, were constructed based on the fuzzy theory. …”
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Fast arbitrary-oriented object detection for remote sensing images by Jingxian Liu, Jianfeng Tang, Fan Yang, Yingqi Zhao

“…Then, a new loss function with sine function is designed to avoid the boundary problem for rotational box prediction. …”
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Effectiveness of an object moving depending on its orientation in the environment: a kinematic analysis of motor planning and execution by A. O. Vyazmin, A. A. Ragimova, G. L. Si, S. Behera, O. I. Shevtsov, M. Feurra

“…The results showed statistically significant differences:total movement time as a function of turning angle: F(3.45) = 5.014, p = 0.004;time to reach the grasping target: F(3.45) = 61.79, p = 0.001;object motion time: F(3.45) = 14.641, p = 0.001;time to reach maximum capture aperture: F(3.45) = 8.559, p = 0.001.Conclusion. …”
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Effect of Graphene Warm Abduction Orthosis on Hip Joint Development in Children with Spastic Cerebral Palsy by CUI Meiyu, LIU Jianjun, ZHANG Yan, ZENG Fanyong

“…The migration percentage (MP), acetabular index (AI), neck shaft angle (NSA), gross motor function measure (GMFM) and modified Tardieu scale (MTS) were measured before and after treatment, and the differences were calculated.ResultsCompared with before treatment (47.67±3.56), the GMFM (49.9±13.08) after treatment in the control group significantly improved (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05), and the change of MP, AI and MTS were not significant (<italic>P</italic>&gt;0.05), and NAS (152.20±8.72)° was progressing (154.27±1.03)° (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05). …”
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Influence of Normal and Pathologic Windlass Mechanism During Dorsiflexion of the Hallux by Takumi Kihara MD, Corey Wukelic MS, Eric Thorhauer PhD, Bruce Sangeorzan MD FAAOS FAOA, William R. Ledoux PhD

“…It has also been reported that the WM is associated with hallux valgus and hallux rigidus. Although this function has been known for a long time, there are few reports on the movement of the foot bones under pathological conditions. …”
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Robot-assisted percutaneous pedicle screw fixation in thoracolumbar burst fractures: a comparative study by Peng Liu, Jiang Hu, Wei Zhang, Shu Lin, Yang Yu, Liuyi Tang, Fei Wang

“…We evaluated surgical time, intraoperative bleeding, radiation dosage, accuracy of screw placement, fractured vertebral height, Cobb’s angle, surgery efficacy (pain relief and limb function), and implant failure to assess the potential advantages of robot-assisted PPSF. …”
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Robot-assisted versus fluoroscopy-assisted kyphoplasty in treatment of severe osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures in the old patients: a retrospective study by Peng Liu, Jiang Hu, Wei Zhang, Fei Wang, Liuyi Tang, Weijun Zhou, Shu Lin

“…However, postoperative limb function (P = 0.612), reduction in vertebral height (P = 0.068), and rectification of the Cobb angle (P = 0.243) were similar in both groups. …”
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An experimental optimization environment for developing an intracycle pitch control in cross flow turbines by Stefan Hoerner, Roberto Leidhold, Shokoofeh Abbaszadeh, Karla Ruiz-Hussmann, Timo Bennecke, Zhao Zhao, Paul Joedecke, Christian-Thoralf Weber, Pierre-Luc Delafin, Cyrille Bonamy, Yves Delannoy

“…Local high dynamic systems control the speed of the generator and the pitch position as a function of the azimuth angle. A superimposed governing system performs an experimental optimization process. …”
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Determining the radiological indices of the third phalanx in the forelimbs of ponies by Darioush Vosough, Ali Mohiti, Mahdi Paryad, Arsalan Safaei

“…It is essential to monitor the condition and assess the functionality of motor organs in horses. The aim of this study was to use radiology to ascertain the biometric characteristics of the third phalanx in ponies, as there has been no comparison with other horse breeds and no detailed information regarding the size and angles of this structure has been obtained. …”
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Deviatoric Stress Evolution Laws and Control in Surrounding Rock of Soft Coal and Soft Roof Roadway under Intense Mining Conditions by Dongdong Chen, Chunwei Ji, Shengrong Xie, En Wang, Fulian He, Qiong Cheng, Qing Zhang

“…Angle and bottom angle of coal pillar are the key points of support control. (3) The plastic failure line of the surrounding rock of the gas tailgate is always between the inner and outer contours of the PDSZ, and the rock mass in the PDSZ is in a stable and unstable transition state, so the range of anchor cable support should be cross plastic failure line. (4) The theoretical calculations and numerical simulation results agree well with the drilling peep results. …”
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Efficacy of virtual reality balance training on rehabilitation outcomes following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: A systematic review and meta-analysis. by Chao Du, Nei-Meng Gu, Tian-Ci Guo, Ai-Feng Liu

“…In the rehabilitation training following ACLR and lower-limb balance training, the application of VR might be advantageous for the recovery of patients' knee joint function, lower-limb muscle strength, proprioception, and pain management. …”
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Influence of hip morphology on gluteal muscle biomechanics: a computational modeling study by Shangcheng Wang, Ryan Serbin, Kirby Bonvillain, Josef Jolissaint, Nahir Habet, Durham Weeks

“…Abstract Background Hip morphology variations, particularly in femoral neck shaft angle (NSA) and iliac wing width (IWW), have been associated with gluteal tendinopathy. …”
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Multiscale investigation of collagen structure in human skin and gel matrices using polarization resolved second harmonic generation microscopy by Mengyao Zhou, Madalena Pinto Gomes, Anouk Elgersma, H. Ibrahim Korkmaz, Bouke K. H. L. Boekema, Marie Louise Groot

“…Abstract Collagen is critical to the structure and function of skin tissues, with the collagen I/III ratios influencing fibrillogenesis, fiber organization, and skin mechanics. …”
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Tunnel rockburst with a single set of joints under true-triaxial stress condition by Mingliang Li, Kegang Li, Shunchuan Wu, Qingci Qin, Zhi Zheng

“…The rockburst incubation and evolution characteristics and acoustic emission evolution characteristics under different joint directions and joint dip angles were studied. The Weibull function was used to fit rockburst debris with different particle sizes and a single set of joints to obtain statistical results. …”
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Comparing the efficacy of ankle arthrodesis performed through anterior or lateral approaches in end-stage ankle arthritis treatment by Hongbin Cao, Nan Li, Guixin Wang, Jun Liang, Haijing Huang, Jinquan He

“…The ankle osteoarthritis score (AOS), the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS) ankle and hindfoot scoring system, and alignment changes (medial distal tibial angle (MDTA), anterior distal tibial angle (ADTA), and Talus tilt angle (TTA)) were used to evaluate ankle function before surgery and at the last follow-up. …”
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Unlocking Gait Analysis Beyond the Gait Lab: High-Fidelity Replication of Knee Kinematics Using Inertial Motion Units and a Convolutional Neural Network by Stefano A. Bini, MD, Nicholas Gillian, PhD, Thomas A. Peterson, PhD, Richard B. Souza, PhD, PT, Brooke Schultz, MS, ACE-CPT, Wojciech Mormul, MS, Marek K. Cichoń, MS, Agnieszka Barbara Szczotka, MS, Ivan Poupyrev, PhD

“…Sequence to sequence convolutional neural networks were trained to map IMU data to three motion capture kinematic outputs: right knee angle, right knee angular velocity, and right hip angle. …”
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Search for upward-going air showers with the fluorescence detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory by Emanuele De Vito

“…Finally, the exposure and sensitivity for the specific scenario of a signal being ascribed to tau lepton decay are calculated and the corresponding upper limits are shown as a function of primary energy and in different zenith angle ranges.…”
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An Improved Quantum-Behaved Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm Combined with Reinforcement Learning for AUV Path Planning by HanBin Zhang, XianPeng Shi

“…Finally, considering the complexity of underwater environment, the fitness function is designed, and the route length, deflection angle, and the influence of ocean current are considered comprehensively, so that the algorithm can find the solution path with the shortest energy consumption in underwater environment. …”
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Weak Scattering of Young's Diffractive Light Wave From a Spatially Deterministic Medium by Jia Li, Feinan Chen, Liping Chang

“…We study the modeling of the scattering of Young&#x0027;s diffractive light wave from a 3-D medium of which the refractive index is a deterministic function of position. Within the validity of the first-order Born approximation, the spectral density of the scattered field is derived as the analytic form. …”
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Temperature Effects on Physiochemical Characteristics of Sugar-Based Natural Deep Eutectic Solvents by Mohammad Tarikuzzaman, Viral Sagar, Mark James Wong, Joan G. Lynam

“…These mixtures, called sugar-based natural deep eutectic solvents (NADESs), were investigated as a function of temperature. Contact angle measurements indicated that NADES exhibited slightly lower wettability but higher surface tension than water. …”
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