Design and Simulation of Ornithopter based on Four-bar Mechanism by Zhao Zhifang, Qi Mingsi, Feng Jingkai, Zhang Wei, Wang Junyuan, Zhang Jiping

“…The brushless motor driving two stage reducer,provides input for four-bar mechanism. The robot has a function of the periodic flapping motion,the frequency change and size of the attitude angle adjustment. …”
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Analysis Method of Agricultural Total Factor Productivity Based on Stochastic Block Model (SBM) and Machine Learning by Yanzi Li, Cai Chen, Fuqiang Liu, Jian Wang

“…It uses the SBM direction distance function and the Luenberger productivity index to measure the agricultural efficiency, total factor productivity, and their components. …”
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Locomotive Syndrome Digital Therapeutics Provided via a Smartphone App: Protocol for a Single-Group Trial by Tatsuru Sonobe, Yoshihiro Matsumoto

“…We evaluated the participants’ objective motor function using the timed up and go (TUG) test, and we compare the results using a 3-way ANOVA with the TUG test at the 3 evaluation time points as the dependent variable. …”
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Numerical and Experimental Study of a Hydrodynamic Analysis of the Periodical Fluctuation of Bio-Inspired Banded Fins by Chonglei Wang, Qihang Liu, Junhao Yang, Chunyu Guo

“…By using a method of controlling variables, such as wave number, swing angle, and frequency, where only one independent variable is changed at a time while the others remain constant, the impact on thrust coefficient function and the obtained periodic variation laws governing hydrodynamic performance are studied. …”
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How to personalise ventilation of infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia? A simulation study by Barbara Stankiewicz, Magdalena Mierzewska-Schmidt, Krzysztof J. Pałko, Marek Darowski, Maciej Kozarski

“…The T1/T2 and CW/CL correlated with defect size (gamma coefficient: 1; P < 0.05), duration of mechanical ventilation and hospitalization (Spearmen’s coefficient: 0.99; P < 0.01). …”
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Model Construction of InSAR-based Rainfall Thresholds for Landslide Hazards in Yanhe Basin, Chinese Loess Plateau by WANG Zhenliang, CHEN Manyu, ZHAO Jianlin, YUAN Ke, YANG Jie, ZHANG Chen

“…Then the correlations between rainfall factors and landslide shape variables were calculated to determine the rainfall days and effective rainfall attenuation coefficient in the early period. …”
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Development Research on Integrating CNC Machine Tool with Plasma for Online Surface Heat Treatment by Shao-Hsien Chen, Bo-Ting Wang

“…However, for online heat treatment of cast iron FC25, it is important to study the parameters of the lathe and plasma, and the research method is used eventually to optimize the process and reduce the machining cost and machining error. The variable factors in the surface online real-time heat treatment are spindle speed, feed rate, and current, and the objective function is the hardness of mechanical properties. …”
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Utilizing a Transient Electromagnetic Inversion Method with Lateral Constraints in the Goaf of Xiaolong Coal Mine, Xinjiang by Yingying Zhang, Bin Xie, Xinyu Wu

“…Through an OCCAM inversion approach, the regularization factor is dynamically determined by evaluating the norms of the data objective function and model objective function in each iteration, thereby reducing the reliance of inversion results on the initial model. …”
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A novel unified variational finite difference (VFD) solution method for optimal control problems by Amir Norouzzadeh, Nader Nariman-zadeh, Reza Ansari

“…To do so, the general form of quadratic performance index function and nonlinear state equations are considered first. …”
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Comparison and System Development of a Two-Coil and Three-Coil Inductive Link for Transcutaneous Power Transfer by Maarten Schelles, Ward Lievens, Laurens Goyvaerts, Frederik Ceyssens, Rikky Muller, Michael Kraft

“…Keeping all geometric constraints constant, we investigated the differences between a two-coil and three-coil inductive link, showing that the two-coil system has a higher peak efficiency of the inductive link of 84%, while the three-coil system displays a flatter efficiency curve with a peak of 78%, as a function of the variable power consumption. …”
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Root‐Zone Water‐Storage Capacity and Uncertainty: An Intrinsic Factor Affecting Agroecosystem Resilience to Drought by Nunzio Romano, Caterina Mazzitelli, Paolo Nasta

“…Root‐zone water‐storage capacity (SR) is a commonly used variable of agroecosystem functioning, representing the maximum value of water stored within the root zone and accessible to vegetation for its productive growth. …”
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A Quality Soft Sensing Method Designed for Complex Multi-process Manufacturing Procedures by Kaixiang PENG, Xin QIN, Jiahao WANG, Hui YANG

“…Objective Accurately perceiving key quality variables in complex manufacturing processes is essential for achieving system optimization control and ensuring safe and stable operation. …”
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Relación entre comunidad íctica y cobertura vegetal riparia en dos períodos hidrológicos (Eje Cafetero, Colombia) by María Angélica Pérez-Mayorga, Saúl Prada-Pedreros

“…Therewere no significant differences (P>0.05) among the structural variables, the HYPE and the RVC. According to r and r2 the diet of most fish species did not vary as a function of RVC and HYPE; however, according to the CCA diet varies as a function of HYPE but not of RVC. …”
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An Investigation on Health Literacy and Its Impact on Health-Promoting Behaviors among the Residents of Mashhad by Mohammad Hasan Sharbatiyan

“…The beta regression findings indicate that the functional, relational, critical, and fundamental components significantly influence the dependent variable, with a percentage correlation value of 69% respectively. …”
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Research on Side Lobe Suppression of Time-Modulated Sparse Linear Array Based on Particle Swarm Optimization by Lei Liang, Jie Sun, Hailin Li, Jialing Liu, Yachao Jiang, Jianjiang Zhou

“…An efficient pattern synthesis approach is proposed for the synthesis of a time-modulated sparse linear array (TMSLA) in this paper. …”
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High-accuracy solution of pantograph differential equations subject to mixed boundary conditions via shifted Vieta–Lucas polynomials by R. M. Hafez, H. M. Ahmed

“…A Galerkin method (GM) is formulated for constant coefficient-type equations, and a spectral collocation method (SCM) is given for variable coefficient cases. …”
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A Bayesian-Weighted Inverse Gaussian Regression Model with Application to Seismological Data by Ehsan Mesdaghi, Afshin Fallah, Rahman Farnoosh, Gholam Hossein Yari

“…In the proposed model, the complementary reciprocal of the location parameter of response variable is considered to be a linear function of the explanatory variables. …”
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Decomposed Linear Dynamical Systems (dLDS) models reveal instantaneous, context-dependent dynamic connectivity in C. elegans by Eva Yezerets, Noga Mudrik, Adam S. Charles

“…Abstract Mounting evidence indicates that neural “tuning” can be highly variable within an individual across time and across individuals. …”
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Accelerating charge estimation in molecular dynamics simulations using physics-informed neural networks: corrosion applications by Aditya Venkatraman, Mark A. Wilson, David Montes de Oca Zapiain

“…This demonstrates the excellent accuracy, computational efficiency, and validity of the developed model. Lastly, even though developed for corrosion, these protocols are formulated in a phenomenon-agnostic manner, allowing application to various variable-charge interatomic potentials and related fields.…”
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A design-based framework for optimal stratification using super-population models with application on real data set of breast cancer. by Faizan Danish

“…This study investigates the determination of stratification points for two study variables within the framework of simple random sampling, with a focus on estimating the population mean using a closely related auxiliary variable. …”
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