Preparation and characterization of a porous silicate material from silica fume
AbstractA porous silicate material derived from silica fume was successfully prepared and characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Fourier-transform infrared...
View ArticleInfluence of Alloying Elements and Effect of Stress on Anisotropic Hydrogen...
AbstractThe presence of hydrogen (H) can detrimentally affect the mechanical properties of many metals and alloys. To mitigate these detrimental effects requires fundamental understanding of the...
View ArticleA Collaborative Neural Model for Rating Prediction by Leveraging User Reviews...
AbstractProduct images and user reviews are two types of important side information to improve recommender systems. Product images capture users’ appearance preference, while user reviews reflect...
View ArticleProbabilistic Local Matrix Factorization Based on User Reviews
AbstractLocal matrix factorization (LMF) methods have been shown to yield competitive performance in rating prediction. The main idea is to leverage the ensemble of submatrices for better low-rank...
View ArticleRisk factors and treatment of pneumothorax secondary to granulomatosis with...
AbstractObjectivesTo investigate the risk factors and treatment strategies for pneumothorax secondary to granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA).MethodRetrospective analysis of cases with pneumothorax...
View ArticleThermal behavior and kinetic analysis of halloysite–stearic acid complex
AbstractThe thermal behavior and kinetic parameters of halloysite–stearic acid (SA) intercalation complex were investigated by thermogravimetry and derivative thermogravimetry (TG–DTG), X-ray...
View ArticleFibroblast growth factor 21 induces lipolysis more efficiently than it...
AbstractFibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) potentially regulates glucose and lipid metabolism in energy homeostasis. We investigated dynamic changes in goat adipocytes treated with 75 nM FGF21 for 24,...
View ArticleInfluence of Alloying Elements and Effect of Stress on Anisotropic Hydrogen...
AbstractThe presence of hydrogen (H) can detrimentally affect the mechanical properties of many metals and alloys. To mitigate these detrimental effects requires fundamental understanding of the...
View ArticleThermal behaviors of a porous calcium silicate material prepared from...
AbstractThe thermal behaviors of a porous calcium silicate (PCS) material prepared from coal-bearing strata kaolinite were investigated by thermogravimetry and derivative thermogravimetry (TG–DTG),...
View ArticleAn Enhanced Coupling PD with Sliding Mode Control Method for Underactuated...
AbstractAn enhanced coupling PD with sliding mode control method, called ECPD-SMC in short, is presented for double-pendulum overhead crane systems in this paper. The proposed method replaces the PD...
View ArticleA preliminary study of lung abnormalities on HRCT in patients of rheumatoid...
AbstractObjectiveThis retrospective study evaluates lung abnormalities on high-resolution CT (HRCT) and clarifies which abnormality can predict the progressive fibrosis of rheumatoid arthritis...
View ArticleOre Extensions of Automorphism Type for Hopf Algebras
AbstractThe aim of this paper is to study bialgebras(Hopf algebras) on the skew polynomial algebras \(R[z;\sigma ]\) of automorphism type, which comultiplication defined on the variable z is extended...
View ArticleMesoscale Modeling of High Burn-Up Structure Formation and Evolution in UO 2
AbstractA phase-field model was developed to simulate the high burn-up structure formation and evolution in UO2. The model takes into account the interfacial energies of grain boundaries and bubble...
View ArticleModeling and Adaptive Control for Tower Crane Systems with Varying Cable Lengths
AbstractTower cranes are highly underactuated nonlinear systems with five degrees-of-freedom (trolley displacement, jib angle, cable length, payload swing angles), and only three control inputs (one...
View ArticleModeling Temporal Dynamics of Users’ Purchase Behaviors for Next Basket...
AbstractNext basket prediction attempts to provide sequential recommendations to users based on a sequence of the user’s previous purchases. Ideally, a good prediction model should be able to explore...
View ArticleA retrospective study on the predictive implications of clinical...
AbstractBackgroundRheumatoid arthritis (RA)-associated interstitial lung disease (ILD) is associated with significant morbidity and is a critical cause of mortality in patients with RA.ObjectiveOur aim...
View ArticleAdaptive integral sliding mode control with payload sway reduction for 4-DOF...
AbstractAn adaptive integral sliding mode control (AISMC) method with payload sway reduction is presented for 4-DOF tower cranes in this paper. The designed controller consists of three parts: The...
View ArticleSymmetry breaking during defect self-organization under irradiation
AbstractOne of the most intriguing phenomena under radiation is the self-organization of defects, such as the void superlattices, which have been observed in a list of bcc and fcc metals and alloys...
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