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Raising the profile of pilot and feasibility studies in relation to the development, evaluation and implementation of patient-reported outcome measures
This editorial introduces a new special series on the pilot and feasibility testing of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in the on-line open access journal Pilot and Feasibility Studies. Pilot and feasibi...
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Crop 3D—a LiDAR based platform for 3D high-throughput crop phenotyping
With the growing population and the reducing arable land, breeding has been considered as an effective way to solve the food crisis. As an important part in breeding, high-throughput phenotyping can accelerate...
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Constructing backbone network by using tinker algorithm
Revealing how a biological network is organized to realize its function is one of the main topics in systems biology. The functional backbone network, defined as the primary structure of the biological network...
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Event-based automated refereeing for robot soccer
The RoboCup Small Size League (SSL) is a robot soccer game with robots that play on a customized field with overhead cameras. The majority of the research effort to date has been on the performance of the auto...
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Curved convex slot: an effective needleless electrospinning spinneret
Slot electrospinning that uses narrow slot as a spinneret combines the advantages of both needle and needleless electrospinning with precisely controlled solution condition. Most of the existing slot electrosp...
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BV Quantization of the Rozansky–Witten Model
We investigate the perturbative aspects of Rozansky–Witten’s 3d \({\sigma}\) ...
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Numerical assessment of the efficiency of fenestration system and natural ventilation mechanisms in a courtyard house in hot climate
This paper presents an assessment of the efficiency of the fenestration system in a courtyard house in hot climate. The empirical work draws better understanding of the wind behavior inside and outside the bui...
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Preparation and characterization of highly conductive polyurethane composites containing graphene and gold nanoparticles
Two series of gold nanoparticles/graphene/polyurethane composite films were prepared using a solution mixing method. The first series was of constant loading of graphene/polyurethane with varying levels of gol...
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Giant strain response in 2 mol% Nb-doped (Bi0.5Na0.4K0.1)TiO3 lead-free ceramics
A series of Nb-doped (Bi0.5Na0.4K0.1)TiO3 lead-free piezoelectric ceramics were fabricated by a conventional solid-state reaction method. The X-ray diffraction patterns reveal a pure perovskite structure for all ...
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Numerical study of the early injection parameters on wall wetting characteristics of an HCCI diesel engine using early injection strategy
Wall wetting in the early injection period has been proved to be unavoidable in the HCCI (Homogeneous charge compression ignition) diesel engine using early injection strategy, which directly affects in-cylind...
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A review of Geographical Dynamics and Firm Spatial Strategy in China by Shengjun Zhu, John Pickles and Canfei He
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Thermal stability, structural and electrical characteristics of the modulated HfO2/Al2O3 films fabricated by atomic layer deposition
Atomic layer deposition is adopted to fabricate HfO2/Al2O3 multilayer thin films to study the sub-layer-thickness-dependent thermal stability. The nano-laminated structure with too thin sub-layer might degrade in...
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Equivariant Verlinde Formula from Fivebranes and Vortices
We study complex Chern–Simons theory on a Seifert manifold M 3 by embedding it into string theory. We show that complex Chern–Simons theory on M 3 is equivalent to ...
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Autonomous exploration of motor skills by skill babbling
Autonomous exploration of motor skills is a key capability of learning robotic systems. Learning motor skills can be formulated as inverse modeling problem, which targets at finding an inverse model that maps ...
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The CTTC model for predicting courtyard air temperature in South China
Courtyards are very popular in South China. They are considered to be micrometeorological modifiers and have great impacts on human thermal comfort and building energy consumption. Micrometeorological conditio...
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Towards high-performance hybrid hydrophilic membranes: chemical anchoring of hydroxyl-rich nanoparticles on PVDF membranes via a silane coupling agent
Physical blending with hydrophilic nanoparticles (NPs) is generally adopted to improve the performance of hydrophobic membranes. Stable immobilization of the NPs remains challenging due to the weak bonding. C...
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Numerical modeling and dynamic simulation of automotive power window system with a single regulator
Door glass position errors that occur when an automobile door glass goes up and down not only reduce the basic performance of the door glass in terms of sound- and water-proofing, but also decrease the life sp...
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Discontinuity in the Asymptotic Behavior of Planar Orthogonal Polynomials Under a Perturbation of the Gaussian Weight
We consider the orthogonal polynomials, \({\{P_n(z)\}_{n=0,1,\ldots}}\)
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Numerical method for simulating tire rolling noise by the concept of periodically exciting contact force
For the numerical simulation of tire rolling noise, an important subject is the extraction of normal velocity data of the tire surface that are essential for the acoustic analysis. In the current study, a conc...
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The mechanism of barrier river reaches in the middle and lower Yangtze River
Alluvial channel has always adjusted itself to the equilibrium state of sediment transport after it was artificially or naturally disturbed. How to maintain the equilibrium state of sediment transport and keep...
