Compression of the Femoral Vessels by a Pseudotumor after Metal-on-Metal Total Hip Arthroplasty by Yasuaki Tamaki, Tomohiro Goto, Takahiko Tsutsui, Tomoya Takasago, Keizo Wada, Koichi Sairyo

“…A 63-year-old man presented with pain, swelling, and redness of the left leg 5 years after primary metal-on-metal THA using the AML-Plus stem, Pinnacle® acetabular cup, and 36 mm diameter Ultamet™ metal head system (DePuy Orthopaedics, Warsaw, IN). Enhanced computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging revealed a large cystic lesion extending from the left hip anteriorly to the intrapelvic region and compressing the left femoral vessels. …”
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Multifocal Pulmonary Granular Cell Tumor Presenting with Postobstructive Pneumonia by Samid M. Farooqui, Muhammad S. Khan, Laura Adhikari, Viral Doshi

“…An initial chest X-ray (CXR) showed a right middle lobe consolidation with follow-up Computed Tomography (CT) scan showing a mass in the right bronchus. …”
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Continuous Probabilistic Skyline Queries for Uncertain Moving Objects in Road Network by Shanliang Pan, Yihong Dong, Jinfeng Cao, Ken Chen

“…After defining the notion of dominant probability and probabilistic skyline, we put forward a novel algorithm to deal with continuous probabilistic skyline query on road network. Firstly, we compute the dominant probability and skyline probability to get initial permanent p -skyline set. …”
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Optimal Robust Time-Domain Feature-Based Bearing Fault and Stator Fault Diagnosis by G. Geetha, P. Geethanjali

“…In industrial applications, it is necessary to identify the optimal number of features to differentiate various types of fault characteristics with less computational complexity and cost. However, motor fault diagnosis for real-time applications has challenges in capturing characteristics due to variations in speed, load, force, run-to-failure state as well as the type of the motor and its parts. …”
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The war inside your mind: unprotected brain battlefields and neuro-vulnerability by Robert McCreight

“…Experts in neuromedicine, technology, societal security, and strategy must grasp that a variety of technologies that arguably enhance brain function, influence or augment intelligence, link brains with computers, and enablenon invasice access to the brain-are highly attractive. …”
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Kinetics of oil palm empty fruit bunch fiber pyrolysis by Bashar Abdullahi Hadi, Abdullahi Muhammad Sokoto, Aminu Bayawa Muhammad, Yahaya Alhassan, Chika Muhammad

“…The changes in entropy (−123 to 135), Gibbs free energy (150–156 kJ/mol), and activation enthalpy (63–71 kJ/mol) were computed using the best-fitting model. The maximum apparent activation energy was found using the FD iso-conversion technique.…”
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Brain Midline Shift Measurement and Its Automation: A Review of Techniques and Algorithms by Chun-Chih Liao, Ya-Fang Chen, Furen Xiao

“…Midline shift (MLS) of the brain is an important feature that can be measured using various imaging modalities including X-ray, ultrasound, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging. …”
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Pulmonary Embolism and Intracardiac Type A Thrombus with an Unexpected Outcome by João Português, Lucy Calvo, Margarida Oliveira, Vítor Hugo Pereira, Joana Guardado, Mário Rui Lourenço, Olga Azevedo, Francisco Ferreira, Filipa Canário-Almeida, António Lourenço

“…A 79-year-old woman, with a history of recent total hysterectomy with adnexectomy and a Wells procedure, presented to the emergency department following an episode of syncope. Computed tomography revealed bilateral PE and the presence of a right atrial thrombus. …”
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Modeling of Surface Drainage during the Service Life of Asphalt Pavements Showing Long-Term Rutting: A Modular Hydromechanical Approach by Stefan Alber, Barbara Schuck, Wolfram Ressel, Ronny Behnke, Gustavo Canon Falla, Michael Kaliske, Sabine Leischner, Frohmut Wellner

“…In the second step, information about the long-term material behavior of the asphalt mixtures is integrated on the structural scale via a finite element (FE) tire-pavement model for steady-state rolling conditions and time homogenization in order to achieve a computationally efficient long-term prediction of inelastic deformations of the pavement surface (rut formation). …”
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Mathematical Modeling and Simulation of Online Teaching Effect Evaluation Based on Decision Tree Algorithm by Pingli Sun

“…The results show that compared with the traditional data mining algorithm, the decision tree algorithm has obvious advantages in computing speed and accuracy.…”
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Pulmonary Histoplasmosis in a Referral Hospital in Mexico City by Alejandro Hernández Solís, Javier Araiza Santibáñez, Jazmín Guadalupe Tejeda Olán, Andrea Quintana Martínez, Alejandro Hernández de la Torriente, Rocio de la Torriente Mata

“…Twelve patients were identified, 8 males and 4 females; the predominant symptoms were fever (83%), dyspnea (75%), chest pain (66%), hemoptysis (41%), and weight loss (33%). The computed tomography of the chest showed the following findings: patchy consolidation 12 (100%), hilar adenopathy 6 (50%), pleural effusion 6 (50%), caverns 3 (25%), and solitary pulmonary nodule in one patient (8%). …”
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Development and Validation of an Age-Specific Lower Extremity Finite Element Model for Simulating Pedestrian Accidents by Jing Huang, Yongcheng Long, Yu Yan, Lin Hu

“…Finite element (FE) models have been used as a versatile tool to simulate and understand the pedestrian injury mechanisms and assess injury risk during crashes. However, current computational models only represent certain ages in the population, the age spectrum of the pedestrian victims is very large, and the geometry of anatomical structures and material property of the lower extremities changes with age for adults, which could affect the injury tolerance, especially in at-risk populations such as the elderly. …”
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A multi-band spectrum sensing method based on sticky hidden Markov model by Zhongjie JIA, Ming JIN, Xiaoqun SONG

“…Existing multi-band spectrum sensing methods often use the sparsity of broadband spectrum.However, high spectrum occupancy rate of primary users degrades their performance severely.To address this issue, a novel multi-band spectrum sensing method was proposed by exploiting the state correlation among adjacent frequency bands.Firstly, a sticky hidden Markov model (SHMM) was established by regarding the multi-band states and measured energies as hidden and observed variables.In the SHMM, a sticky factor was introduced to represent the state correlation among adjacent frequency bands.Secondly, iterative expressions for the parameters of SHMM were derived.Finally, multi-band spectrum sensing was implemented by obtaining the posterior mean of observations from every frequency bands.Simulation results show that the proposed method outperforms existing methods, and when the false alarm probability is 0.1, the average frequency band occupancy rate is 50%, and the average signal-to-noise ratio is -12 dB, the detection probability can reach close to 0.99, which is about 30% higher than the detection probability of other methods.In addition, the proposed method had a faster convergence rate than existing methods and therefore has lower computational complexity.…”
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Optimization progress of large-scale radiation shielding Monte Carlo simulation software based on AIS variance reduction technique system: MCShield by Wu Jiajun, Wu Zhen, Hu Ankang, Hao Yisheng, Pu Yanheng, Zhang Hui, Qiu Rui, Li Junli

“…It incorporates a system of variance reduction techniques based on Auto-Importance Sampling (AIS) to address the deep penetration problem commonly encountered in the field of radiation shielding. The accuracy and computational efficiency of MCShield have been validated through benchmark problems and real-world applications. …”
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Research of Inverse Kinematics Algorithm of 6 DOF Manipulator based on Geometry with Arm Adjacent Three Joints Axes Parallel by Wang Yang, Wang Ben, Mai Xiaoming

“…The experiment results with an UR3 manipulator shows that，the method is able to compute the joints positions，in comparison with by applying the algorithm of the UR3 controller，the end-effector positioning accuracy of the manipulator by applying the presented method is up to millimeter-scale in linear and 1 degree in angular.…”
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Cross Section Prediction for Inclusive Production of Z Boson in pp Collisions at s=14 TeV: A Study of Systematic Uncertainty due to Scale Dependence by Hasan Ogul, Kamuran Dilsiz

“…Theoretical prediction of the fiducial cross section is further computed with the latest modern PDF models (CT14, MMHT2014, NNPDF3.0, HERAPDF2.0, and ABM12) at NNLO for QCD and NLO for EW. …”
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A Space Vector–Based Long-Range AOA Localization Algorithm With Reference Points by Chenxin Wang, Wenxing Fu, Tong Zhang, Guangyu Yang

“…This method can be adapted to the rapid positioning task for high-speed and high-mobility targets without iteration, low computation, good correction effect, and the need of prior known data set reference.…”
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Investigation into forces on offshore piles with constant and linearly varying diameters using CFD and extended Morison equation under separate wave and current loadings by Kemal Bal, Deniz Bayraktar Bural

“…This study presents a comparative analysis of hydrodynamic forces on cylindrical offshore piles with both constant and linearly varying diameters utilizing computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. The classical Morison equation is evaluated alongside an extended version to address limitations in predicting forces on geometrically complex structures. …”
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The levelized cost of energy in the presence of uncertainty on the offshore wind speed by J. Pablo Arenas-López, Mohamed Badaoui

“…Utilizing 40 years of recorded wind speed data sourced from the MERRA-2 reanalysis, we derive the input parameters of the models from fitting to 4-parameter Dagum and Johnson SB probability distributions, which shows that accurate modeling of offshore wind speeds requires dealing with complex mathematical functions that need numerical computation. The findings show that the stochastic approach can estimate an uncertainty interval around the result obtained via the deterministic approach. …”
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Kinetics of potassium release and fixation in some soils of Ogun State, Southwestern, Nigeria as influenced by organic manure by A. A. Taiwo, M. T. Adetunji, J. O. Azeez, K. O. Elemo

“…Potassium fixation and release kinetics were computed from the analytical data. Results Experimental soils was sandy, slightly acidic, low in nutrients with 80% fixed potassium. …”
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