Face Alignment Algorithm Based on an Improved Cascaded Convolutional Neural Network by Xun Duan, Yuanshun Wang, Yun Wu

“…The algorithm steps are as follows: 3 groups of lightweight CNNs are designed; the first group takes facial images with face frame as input, trains 3 CNNs in parallel, and weighted outputs the facial images with 5 facial key points (anchor points). …”
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A Mathematical and Numerically Integrable Modeling of 3D Object Grasping under Rolling Contacts between Smooth Surfaces by Suguru Arimoto, Morio Yoshida

“…Geometrical conditions of pure rolling contacts are described through the moving-frame coordinates at each rolling contact point under the postulates: (1) two surfaces share a common single contact point without any mutual penetration and a common tangent plane at the contact point and (2) each path length of running of the contact point on the robot fingertip surface and the object surface is equal. …”
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Arc-Surfaced Frictional Damper for Vibration Control in Container Crane by Gongxian Wang, Yang-Yang Wang, Jianming Yuan, Yi Yang, Dong Wang

“…Performance of AFD control system is assessed though various parameters including displacement and maximum portal frame drift angle. Results prove a feasible application of AFD control system to absorb large amounts of seismic energy and significantly reduce the structural responses.…”
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Unprecedented Integral-Free Debye Temperature Formulas: Sample Applications to Heat Capacities of ZnSe and ZnTe by R. Pässler

“…The isochoric (harmonic) parts of heat capacities, CVh(T), are described within the frame of a properly devised four-oscillator hybrid model. …”
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Brivaracetam to Treat Partial Onset Seizures in Adults by Dustin Latimer, David Le, Evan Falgoust, Patrick Ingraffia, Alaa Abd-Elsayed, Elyse M. Cornett, Rupin Singh, JooHee Choi, Giustino Varrassi, Adam M. Kaye, Alan D. Kaye, Latha Ganti

“…# Purpose of Review Seizures are a hyperexcitable, and hypersynchronous imbalance between excitatory and inhibitory factors (E/I imbalance) in neurotransmission, and epilepsy is the recurrent manifestation of seizures within a reasonable time frame and without being attributable to a reversible cause. …”
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Nicotine Has a Therapeutic Window of Effectiveness in a Drosophila melanogaster Model of Parkinson’s Disease by Brady T. Mannett, Braden C. Capt, Krista Pearman, Lori M. Buhlman, John M. VandenBrooks, Gerald B. Call

“…In support of our hypothesis, we show that in order for nicotine benefits on climbing and flight to happen, nicotine administration must occur in a discrete time frame following adult fly eclosure: within one day for climbing or five days for flight. …”
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Fabrication of Hybrid Diamond and Transparent Conducting Metal Oxide Electrode for Spectroelectrochemistry by Jingping Hu, James Hodge, Arthur J. Boff, John S. Foord

“…As a second route, a diamond membrane in silicon frame was prepared by selective chemical etching, and a diamond optically transparent electrode (OTE) was constructed by assembling the diamond membrane on the top of an ITO-coated substrate. …”
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Syntactic and semantic variations in negative interrogatives: Contracted vs. uncontracted forms by Khalsiah Khalsiah, Burhanuddin Yasin, Muhammad Yusuf, Fatmawati Fatmawati

“…The research employs a descriptive method with a synchronic time frame, utilizing distributional analysis, including immediate constituent analysis and mark reading techniques, to categorize and analyze the data. …”
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A Matrix Formulation for the Moment Distribution Method Applied to Continuous Beams by Arlindo Pires Lopes, Adriana Alencar Santos, Rogério Coelho Lopes

“…It was formulated by Professor Cross in an era where computer facilities were not available to solve frame problems that normally require the solution of simultaneous algebraic equations. …”
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Un aménagement de berge antique sur l’Auron, pour la villa de Lazenay à Bourges (Cher) by Alain Ferdière, Emmanuel Marot

“…The port development consists of a “quay” with a wooden frame and a rubble stone structure, forming the corner of a small basin set back from the left bank of the Auron river. …”
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Flexural-Torsional Vibration of Thin-Walled Beams Subjected to Combined Initial Axial Load and End Bending Moment: Application to the Design of Saw Tooth Blades by Van Binh Phung, Anh Tuan Nguyen, Hoang Minh Dang, Thanh-Phong Dao, V. N. Duc

“…The research results obtained here are useful for those creating tooth blade designs of innovative frame saw machines.…”
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Globalization, Cosmopolitanism and Environment: Critical Review of Ulrich Beck by Niloofar Hashemi, Mohammad Saeid Zokaei

“…This article will take a look at one of the most diverse ideas in this field, the concept of Ulrich Beck’s cosmopolitanism, with an emphasis on its ecological dimensions, which he considers to be a worthy alternative to the concept of globalization, and goes so far as to it re-creates a different frame of reference for contemporary sociology. The article deals with the description of Beck’s ideas on the concept of global risk society and its characteristics, the fundamental differences between globalization and cosmopolitanism, the cosmopolitanism process and the sociology of cosmopolitanism, and finally, a brief look at several critiques of his theory. …”
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Multiagent Systems Based Modeling and Implementation of Dynamic Energy Management of Smart Microgrid Using MACSimJX by Leo Raju, R. S. Milton, Senthilkumaran Mahadevan

“…Initially, Java agent development environment (JADE) frame work is used to implement MAS based dynamic energy management of solar microgrid. …”
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Hasonlóságok és különbségek a pályázati projektek sikerében - az Ausztria-Magyarország határon átnyúló együttműködési program sikervizsgálata (Similarities and Differences in the S... by Zoltán Birkner, Nikoletta Kaszás, Tamás Kovács, Kornél Németh

“…In the course of our research we studied the success of projects in the frame of the Austria-Hungary Cross-border Cooperation Programme 2007-2013. …”
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Design and Analysis of Backplane Mechanism for New Nursing Bed Chair by Zhongren Zhou, Chengtao Yu, Xiangyu Zhou, Xuebin Sun

“…The target size is parameterized，and the optimal position of the support connecting rod，backplane and support frame hinge is obtained using the minimum inclusive area method. …”
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Analysis of high-rise building safety detection methods based on big data and artificial intelligence by Jiaojiao Xu, Chuanjie Yan, Yangyang Su, Yong Liu

“…When the experimental model frame is stable under normal environmental conditions, a nonstationary vibration is artificially produced for a period of time from the outside world, which is about 60 s higher than the traditional method, and the efficiency is also increased by about 80%, a situation where a building has a reversible tilt change.…”
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Mechanical Analysis and Kinematic Simulation of Reversing Mechanism for Gear Guide-rod Pumping Unit by Jun Shao, Guodong Hu, Wei Yang, Dewei Wang

“…The reversing mechanism is mainly composed of a long rod incomplete gear，a rack moving frame，a roller and the like. Firstly，the gear guide-rod pumping unit reversing mechanism and its principle are introduced，and then the mechanical model of the reversing mechanism is established. …”
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Multimodal Deep Feature Fusion (MMDFF) for RGB-D Tracking by Ming-xin Jiang, Chao Deng, Ming-min Zhang, Jing-song Shan, Haiyan Zhang

“…The optical flow image is calculated for every frame and then is fed to motion-specific CNN to learn deep motion features. …”
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Nouveaux modes de coordination des acteurs dans le développement local: cas des zones rurales au Bénin by Bernard G. Hounmenou

“…Otherwise, it is also to favor the local populations capacities reinforcement, in order to make them able to well support their own matters management, in the frame of the participative governance, through the decentralization process. …”
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Migración de catéter ureteral doble-J a vena cava inferior, una complicación inusual by Marta Gallego-Verdejo, Ma. Esther Gómez-San Martín, Mercedes S. González-Fuentes, Ana Peña-Aisa

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