Evaluation of 2D concentrically braced frames with cylindrical dampers subjected to near-field earthquake ground motions by M. Mirtaheri, M. Salkhordeh, S. M. S. Kolbadi, H. Mirzaeefard, M. R. Razzaghian

“…Results show that there is a direct relation between the optimal slip load and the intensity of the input earthquake. In the next step, the structures are analyzed by selecting the optimum slip load for the damper. …”
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A Mechatronic Shape-Shifting Reflector System With True Independent Reflection Magnitude and Phase Control for Dynamic Beamforming by Keigan Macdonell, Debidas Kundu, Shulabh Gupta

“…The reflector system consists of a 1D array of panels of sub-wavelength split ring resonators (SRR) loaded with PIN diodes for reflection magnitude control and a stepper motor array that de-embeds each panel to achieve column-by-column phase control, thus offering excellent decoupling between magnitude and phase. …”
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Damage Identification of a Derrick Steel Structure Based on the HHT Marginal Spectrum Amplitude Curvature Difference by Dongying Han, Shimin Wei, Peiming Shi, Ying Zhang, Kai Gao, Nengyuan Tian

“…The results show that the index can accurately determine the location of the damage element and weak damage element and can be used to qualitatively analyze the damage degree of the element; under the impact load, the noise hardly affects the identification of the damage location. …”
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Fault analysis on deep groove ball bearing using ResNet50 and AlexNet50 algorithms by Vedant Jaiswal, Narendiranath Babu T, Pandiyan Murugan, Rama Prabha D

“…The input parameters are represented by using 14 features in the evaluation. Next, a feature ranking method is established to classify the bearing fault and contribution of each of the features is used as input conditions. …”
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Monitoring method⁃based guided wave for hole-edge crack in key attachment structure of helicopter by WANG Huaji, SHI Liming, DAI Yushan, QIU Lei

“…ObjectiveThe harsh operational environment of helicopters renders their structures highly susceptible to the initiation and propagation of hole-edge cracks around bolt holes, thereby compromising structural integrity and load-bearing capacity. To monitor hole-edge cracks in helicopter attachment lug structures, piezoelectric guided wave-based structural health monitoring (SHM) techniques are commonly employed. …”
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The theory of mind construct in adulthood: perspective taking in relation to language and executive function by Derek E. Montgomery, Virginia Tompkins, Xin Feng

“…The Strange Stories, Higher-Order False Belief, and Frith-Happé Animation tasks loaded onto the factor. Its defining feature is the ascription of mental states to predict and explain protagonists’ actions that take place within a narrative structure. …”
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An improved multiscale fusion dense network with efficient multiscale attention mechanism for apple leaf disease identification by Hui LIU, Dandan DAI

“…Incept_EMA_DenseNet consists of three crucial parts: the inception module, which substituted the convolution layer with multiscale fusion methods in the shallow feature extraction layer; the EMA mechanism, which is used for obtaining appropriate weights of different dense blocks; and the improved DenseNet based on DenseNet_121. …”
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Monitoring method⁃based guided wave for hole-edge crack in key connection structure of helicopter by WANG Huaji, SHI Liming, DAI Yushan, QIU Lei

“…The harsh operational environment of helicopters renders their structures highly susceptible to the initiation and propagation of hole-edge cracks around bolt holes, thereby compromising structural integrity and load-bearing capacity. To monitor hole-edge cracks in helicopter attachment lug structures, piezoelectric guided wave-based structural health monitoring (SHM) techniques are commonly employed. …”
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Secure Delivery Method for Preserving Data Integrity of a Video Frame with Sensitive Objects by You-Rak Choi, Yunhee Kang

“…In order to reduce the processing load for data integrity verification, a hash tree configured for each stream of sensor data is used to minimize the verification time. …”
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Experimental Study on the System Performance of Adjacent Precast Concrete Box Beam Bridges by Yanling Leng, Jinquan Zhang, Ruinian Jiang, Yangjian Xiao

“…The full-range load test performed in this research verified the previous research results on bridge system safety that were mainly based on theoretical analysis and simulations.…”
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A corpus-based assessment of vocabulary in interpreting textbooks by Dandan Sheng, Xin Li

“…This study addresses this gap by evaluating the English vocabulary of undergraduate interpreting textbooks from the perspectives of vocabulary load, frequency distribution, and repetition patterns. …”
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A study on the multidisciplinary diagnostic approach of leprosy: Can we prevent the recrudescence in the post-elimination Indian scenario? by Mala Mukherjee, Dhimoyee Ghatak, Deblina Bhunia, Dipmala Das, Ranwir K. Sinha, Nikhil Kumar, Asitava Deb Roy

“…It remained a major public health issue due to associated case load, morbidity and stigma attached to it. India declared elimination of leprosy in the year 2005. …”
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Dynamics of a Self-Excited Vibrating Thermal Energy Harvester with Shape Memory Alloys and PVDF Cantilevers by Ivo Yotov, Georgi Todorov, Elitsa Gieva, Todor Todorov

“…Research has shown that from a heater with a constant temperature of 70 °C, the maximum power obtained is 3.6 μW at a load resistance of 4 MΩ, and a maximum voltage of 5.8 V was generated at a load resistance of 13 MΩ. …”
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Modelling of Functional Interaction of Hybrid Energy Storage System Battery Units by K. V. Dobrego, I. A. Koznacheev

“…A specific feature of this dependence is a sharp increase in economic efficiency at small values of a £ 0.01 and a further slowdown in the growth or fall of the graph. …”
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Low Voltage AC Series Arc Fault Detection Method Based on Approximate Entropy for Low Computational Performance Device by Kyoung-Tak Kim, Min-Ho Yoon, Chan-Muk Park, Joung-Hu Park, Sung-Hun Lim

“…Additionally, key parameters for Approximate Entropy are carefully selected to ensure effective differentiation between pre- and post-series arc conditions across various load types and configurations. The computed Approximate Entropy values for each load and configuration are then used as features in the proposed algorithm. …”
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Design of an Improved Model for Gear Fault Diagnosis Using Acoustic Data and EfficientNet-Based Deep Learning Process by Bundele Shubham, Kane P.V.

“…Hence, this proposed method gives a systematic analysis of various gear conditions, including cracks, misalignment (under load and no-load conditions), broken teeth, and normal operational conditions, under varying RPM and load conditions. …”
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Fault Diagnosis Method of Rolling Bearing Based on 1D Multi-Channel Improved Convolutional Neural Network in Noisy Environment by Huijuan Guo, Dongzhi Ping, Lijun Wang, Weijie Zhang, Junfeng Wu, Xiao Ma, Qiang Xu, Zhongyu Lu

“…The model is verified through experiments under different signal-to-noise ratios and loads. The results show that the accuracy of 1DMCICNN is 98.67%, 99.71%, 99.04%, and 99.71% on different load and speed datasets. …”
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DetectEV: A functional enzymatic assay to assess integrity and bioactivity of extracellular vesicles by Giorgia Adamo, Sabrina Picciotto, Paola Gargano, Angela Paterna, Samuele Raccosta, Estella Rao, Daniele Paolo Romancino, Giulio Ghersi, Mauro Manno, Monica Salamone, Antonella Bongiovanni

“…Compared to conventional methods that assess physicochemical features of EVs, our single‐step analysis efficiently detects batch‐to‐batch variations by evaluating changes in luminal cargo bioactivity and integrity across various EV samples, including differences under distinct storage conditions and following diverse isolation and exogenous loading methods, all using small sample sizes. …”
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Performance improvement of data offloading using Krill herd optimization algorithm by Maryam Jawad Kadhim, Rasool Sadeghi, Ahmad Shaker Abdalrada, Behdad Arandian, Reihaneh Khorsand

“… The new pattern of user traffic generation in recent years and the variety of traffic services including data, voice and video have led to  a large load in the access of cellular networks. One of the promising solutions in the field of reducing this traffic load is data offloading, which is based on exploiting the unused bandwidth of wireless technologies overlapping with the cellular network. …”
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Medical and Social Peculiarities of the Health Condition of Pupils of Lviv and Lviv Region by Nyankovskyy S., Iatsula M., Senkevich O., Pasichnuk I., Kulik I.

“…To evaluate the medical and social features of the health status of schoolchildren in Lviv and Lviv region, to determine their dependence on age and place of residence. …”
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