Published in Digital Biomarkers
We conducted a pilot study using a passive radio-wave-based home monitor in individuals with Parkinson disease (PD) with a focus on gait, home activity, and time in bed. We enrolled 7 ambulatory individuals to have the device installed in the bedroom of their homes over 8 weeks and performed standard PD assessments at baseline. We evaluated the abi...
Additive manufacturing (3D printing) has significantly changed the prototyping process in terms of technology, construction, materials, and their multiphysical properties. Among the most popular 3D printing techniques is vat photopolymerization, in which ultraviolet (UV) light is deployed to form chains between molecules of liquid light-curable res...
A shoeprint is a valuable clue found at a crime scene and plays a significant role in forensic investigations. In this paper, in order to maintain the local features of a shoeprint image and place a pattern in a block, a novel automatic method was proposed, referred to as Modified Multi-Block Local Binary Pattern (MMB-LBP). In this method, shoeprin...
The proposed new rotor support element consists of a hydrodynamic bearing and a magnetorheological squeeze film damper. The damping is controlled by the change of resistance against the flow of magnetorheological fluid due to action of a magnetic field generated by electric current powering the electric coils. This paper deals with the study of the...
Introduction: Biomechanical rupture risk assessment of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) requires information about failure properties of aneurysmal tissue. There are large differences between reported values. Among others, studies vary in using either axially or circumferentially oriented samples. This study investigates the effect of sample orienta...
The problems that decision-makers face can escalate under imbalances, turbulent development, risks, uncertainties, disasters, and other influences. The development of processes in technical and economic structures is generally considered complex and chaotic, and it usually expands into innumerable dynamic influences. The paper focuses on the evalua...
The aim of the research was to characterize the soldering alloy type Zn-Al-Cu and study the fluxless ultrasonic soldering of the combination of aluminum alloy type Al7075 with copper substrate. The Zn-Al-Cu solder is of the close-to-eutectic type with two phase transformations: the eutectic transformation at 378 degrees C and the eutectoid transfor...
This paper deals with the fractional-order modeling, stability analysis and control of robotic manipulators, namely a single flexible link robotic manipulator (SFLRM) and 2DOF Serial Flexible Joint Robotic Manipulator (2DSFJ). The control law is derived using Pole Placement (PP) method. This paper uses Mittag-Leffler function for the analysis of SF...
Intermetallic compounds based on Ti-Al- (Si) are attractive materials with good thermal stability and low density. However, the production of these materials is quite complicated. Partially modified conventional methods of melting metallurgy are most often used due to availability, possible high productivity, and relatively low production costs. Th...
An influence of carbon vacancies and substitutional oxygen impurities on the phonon dynamics and thermal properties of uranium monocarbide is investigated within the density functional theory incorporating strong local Coulomb and spin-orbit interactions. Anharmonicity of lattice vibrations is taken into account via the quasi-harmonic theory. Resul...
