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Reliability analysis of thin-walled ring gear based on tooth surface fatigue and wear
Based on the Hertz contact theory, the criterion of local yield strength value and the Archard wear theory, reliability analysis models of two failures are established and validated by the Monte Carlo simulati...
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FSI Analysis of Delivery Catheter Impact on Carotid Artery in AIS
Acute ischemic stroke (AIS) is a global health issue requiring effective treatments like mechanical thrombectomy. In the realm of in vivo neuro-interventional procedures, Fluid–Structure Interaction (FSI) anal...
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Optimization Design of Dynamic Stiffness of Rolling Bearings for High-Speed Electric Spindles Using the Box-Behnken Response Surface Method
The dynamic stiffness of high-speed angular contact ball bearings has a direct effect on the precision and stability of machine tools, and numerous parameters influence the bearing stiffness under complex work...
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Time-Dependent Reliability Analysis of Random Vibration Based on Deep Neural Operator Surrogate Model
A deep neural operator (DNO) is a neural network representing map** relationships between function spaces, rendering it highly valuable in investigating dynamical systems, vibrations, and other time-dependen...
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Open AccessAssociation between first-line antidepressant use and risk of dementia in older adults: a retrospective cohort study
Prior studies suggested that antidepressant use is associated with an increased risk of dementia compared to no use, which is subject to confounding by indication. We aimed to compare the dementia risk among o...
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Open AccessAphid cluster recognition and detection in the wild using deep learning models
Aphid infestation poses a significant threat to crop production, rural communities, and global food security. While chemical pest control is crucial for maximizing yields, applying chemicals across entire fiel...
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Open AccessEstablishment of a potent weighted risk model for determining the progression of diabetic kidney disease
Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is a severe complication of diabetes. Currently, no effective measures are available to reduce the risk of DKD progression. This study aimed to establish a weighted risk model to ...
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Design, Analysis, and Optimization of a Novel Stent Retriever for Acute Ischemic Stroke
Acute ischemic stroke (AIS) is a leading global cause of disability and death. Stent retrievers, which enable quick reperfusion of blocked arteries, have transformed the way that AIS is treated. The limitation...
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Sensitivity analysis of rolling bearing fatigue life under cyclic loading
Rolling bearings are regularly subjected to cyclic loading, and the load changing sequence has a significant influence on bearing fatigue life. The study offers a cumulative fatigue damage theory based on the ...
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Risk of migraine contributed by genetic polymorphisms of ANKDD1B gene: a case–control study based on Chinese Han population
Early studies have indicated that the risk of migraine is contributed by both genetic and environmental factors. We aimed to evaluate the association between the risk of migraine and genetic polymorphisms in the
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Open AccessA potent weighted risk model for evaluating the occurrence and severity of diabetic foot ulcers
Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is a serious chronic complication of diabetes. This study aimed to establish weighted risk models for determining DFU occurrence and severity in diabetic patients.
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The **’an longitudinal mother–child cohort study: design, study population and methods
The large-scale **’an longitudinal mother–child cohort study has started to enroll pregnant women who attended Northwest Women’s and Children’s Hospital (NWCH) for antenatal care in early pregnancy (less than ...
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Six-Channel Image Representation for Cross-Domain Object Detection
Most deep learning models are data-driven and the excellent performance is highly dependent on the abundant and diverse datasets. However, it is very hard to obtain and label the datasets of some specific scen...
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Open AccessGenetic susceptibility of common polymorphisms in NIN and SIGLEC5 to chronic periodontitis
Chronic periodontitis (CP) is a common oral disease characterized by the slow progression of alveolar attachment loss and bone destruction. Genetic components have been reported to play an important role in th...
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Robust reliability-based optimization with a moment method for hydraulic pump sealing design
Reliability-based design (RBD) is widely applied to meet the reliability requirement at a reduced cost. Current RBD methods require complete distributions of basic random variables, but in real applications, s...
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Reliability analysis for k-out-of-n systems with shared load and dependent components
Many structural systems require a minimal number of components to be operational, and predicting the reliability of such systems is a challenge because surviving components share the original system workload w...
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Reliability-Based Robust Optimal Design of Structures with Variable Cross-Section
The paper discusses reliability problem of variable cross-section structural components with uncertain parameters of normal distribution, including the sensitivity analysis and robust optimal design. It also s...
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An improved high-moment method for reliability analysis
For reliability analysis, there may be several potential distributions for a random variable due to limited samples available. For the same reason, a distribution may not be available. Simply assuming a normal...
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Matrix description of differential relations of moment functions in structural reliability sensitivity analysis
In a structural system reliability analysis that lacks probabilistic information, calculating the numerical characteristics of the state functions, especially the first four moments of the state functions, is ...
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Open AccessTwo-stage association study to identify the genetic susceptibility of a novel common variant of rs2075290 in ZPR1 to type 2 diabetes
The SNP of rs964184 in ZPR1 has recently been associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in Japanese individuals. To comprehensively investigate the association of common variants in ZPR1 with T2DM in Han Ch...