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- Li, Xuebing, et al.
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A data-driven approach for tool wear recognition and quantitative prediction based on radar map feature fusion
- 2021
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In: Measurement. - : Elsevier BV. - 0263-2241 .- 1873-412X. ; 185
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- Tool wear monitoring during the cutting process is crucial for ensuring part quality and productivity. A datadriven monitoring approach based on radar map feature fusion is proposed for tool wear recognition and quantitative prediction, aiming at tracking the evolution of tool wear comprehensively. Specifically, the sensitive features from multi-source signals are fused by a radar map, and health indicators capable of characterizing the tool wear evolution are obtained. For the recognition of tool wear state and the quantitative prediction of tool wear values, the Adaboost Decision Tree (Adaboost-DT) ensemble learning model and stacked bi-directional long short-term memory (SBiLSTM) deep learning network are established, respectively. Experimental results demonstrated that the proposed approach could recognize the current wear state quickly and accurately whilst predicting wear values based on limited historical data available. Combining tool wear recognition and prediction results contributes to making a more flexible tool replacement decision in intelligent manufacturing processes.
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- Omar, Ruba Kal, et al.
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A Prognostic Score for the Prediction of Local Treatment Failure in Plaque Brachytherapy of Uveal Melanoma
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In: ADVANCES IN RADIATION ONCOLOGY. - : ELSEVIER INC. - 2452-1094. ; 8:3
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- Purpose: To develop a prognostic score that correlates to a low, medium, and high incidence of treatment failure after plaque brachytherapy of uveal melanoma (UM).Methods and Materials: All patients who have received plaque brachytherapy for posterior UM at St. Erik Eye Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden from 1995 through 2019 were included (n = 1636). Treatment failure was defined as tumor recurrence, lack of tumor regression, or any other condition requiring a secondary transpupillary thermotherapy (TTT), plaque brachytherapy, or enucleation. The total sample was randomized into 1 training and 1 validation cohort, and a prognostic score for the risk for treatment failure was developed.Results: In multivariate Cox regression, low visual acuity, tumor distance to the optic disc & LE;2 mm, American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) stage, and a tumor apical thickness of >4 (for Ruthenium-106) or >9 mm (for Iodine-125) were independent predictors of treatment failure. No reliable threshold could be identified for tumor diameter or cancer stage. In competing risk analyses of the validation cohort, the cumulative incidence of treatment failure, as well as of secondary enucleation, increased with the prognostic score: In the low, intermediate, and high-risk classes, the 10-year incidence of treatment failure was 19, 28, and 35% and of secondary enucleation 7, 19, and 25 %, respectively.Conclusions: Low visual acuity, American Joint Committee on Cancer stage, tumor thickness, and tumor distance to the optic disc are independent predictors of treatment failure after plaque brachytherapy for UM. A prognostic score was devised that identifies low, medium, and high risk for treatment failure. & COPY; 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of American Society for Radiation Oncology. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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- de Boer, Hugo J., et al.
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Botanical Repellents and Pesticides Traditionally Used Against Hematophagous Invertebrates in Lao People's Democratic Republic : A Comparative Study of Plants Used in 66 Villages
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In: Journal of medical entomology. - 0022-2585 .- 1938-2928. ; 47:3, s. 400-414
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- Hematophagous parasites such as leeches, ticks, mites, lice, bedbugs, mosquitoes, and myiasis-producing fly larvae are common health problems in Lao People's Democratic Republic. Several arthropod-borne infections, e.g., malaria, dengue fever, and Japanese encephalitis, are endemic there. Effective vector control methods including the use of pesticides, insecticide-treated bed nets, and synthetic and plant-based repellents are important means of control against such invertebrates and the pathogens they may transmit or directly cause. In this study, we documented traditional knowledge on plants that are used to repel or kill hematophagous arthropods, including mosquitoes, bedbugs, human lice, mites and ticks, fly larvae, and blood-sucking leeches. Structured interviews were carried out in 66 villages comprising 17 ethnic groups, covering a range of cultures, throughout Lao People's Democratic Republic. A total of 92 plant species was recorded as traditional repellents (including plants for pesticidal usages) in 123 different plant-ectoparasite combinations. The number and species of plants, and animal taxa repelled (or killed) per plant species differed per region, village, and ethnic group. Traditional use was confirmed in the scientific literature for 74 of these plant species, and for an additional 13 species using literature on closely related species. The use of botanical repellents and pesticides from many plant species is common and widespread in the Lao countryside. In the future, the identification of the active components in certain plants to develop more optimal, inexpensive repellents, insecticides, acaricides, or antileech compounds as alternatives to synthetic repellents/pesticides against blood-feeding insects, ticks, mites, and leeches is warranted.
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- Kerkelä, Leevi, et al.
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Comparative analysis of signal models for microscopic fractional anisotropy estimation using q-space trajectory encoding
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In: NeuroImage. - : Elsevier BV. - 1053-8119. ; 242
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- Microscopic diffusion anisotropy imaging using diffusion-weighted MRI and multidimensional diffusion encoding is a promising method for quantifying clinically and scientifically relevant microstructural properties of neural tissue. Several methods for estimating microscopic fractional anisotropy (µFA), a normalized measure of microscopic diffusion anisotropy, have been introduced but the differences between the methods have received little attention thus far. In this study, the accuracy and precision of µFA estimation using q-space trajectory encoding and different signal models were assessed using imaging experiments and simulations. Three healthy volunteers and a microfibre phantom were imaged with five non-zero b-values and gradient waveforms encoding linear and spherical b-tensors. Since the ground-truth µFA was unknown in the imaging experiments, Monte Carlo random walk simulations were performed using axon-mimicking fibres for which the ground truth was known. Furthermore, parameter bias due to time-dependent diffusion was quantified by repeating the simulations with tuned waveforms, which have similar power spectra, and with triple diffusion encoding, which, unlike q-space trajectory encoding, is not based on the assumption of time-independent diffusion. The truncated cumulant expansion of the powder-averaged signal, gamma-distributed diffusivities assumption, and q-space trajectory imaging, a generalization of the truncated cumulant expansion to individual signals, were used to estimate µFA. The gamma-distributed diffusivities assumption consistently resulted in greater µFA values than the second order cumulant expansion, 0.1 greater when averaged over the whole brain. In the simulations, the generalized cumulant expansion provided the most accurate estimates. Importantly, although time-dependent diffusion caused significant overestimation of µFA using all the studied methods, the simulations suggest that the resulting bias in µFA is less than 0.1 in human white matter.
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- Li, Xuping, et al.
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A three-dimensional ratiometric sensing strategy on unimolecular fluorescence-thermally activated delayed fluorescence dual emission
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In: Nature Communications. - : NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP. - 2041-1723. ; 10
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- Visualized sensing through fluorescence signals is a powerful method for chemical and physical detection. However, the utilization of fluorescent molecular probes still suffers from lack of precise signal self-calibration in practical use. Here we show that fluorescence and thermally activated delayed fluorescence can be simultaneously produced at the single-molecular level. The thermally activated delayed fluorescence serves as a sensing signal with its wavelength and lifetime both altered correlating to polarity, whereas the fluorescence always remains unchanged as an internal reference. Upon the establishment of a three-dimensional working curve upon the ratiometric wavelength and photoluminescence lifetime vs. polarity, disturbance factors during a relevant sensing process can be largely minimized by such a multiple self-calibration. This strategy was further applied into a precise detection of the microenvironmental polarity variation in complex phospholipid systems, towards providing new insights for convenient and accurate diagnosis of membrane lesions.
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- Panchbhai, Gayatri, et al.
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Mononuclear Iron Complexes with Tetraazadentate Ligands as Water Oxidation Catalysts
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In: European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry. - : Wiley. - 1434-1948 .- 1099-1948 .- 1099-0682. ; 20, s. 3262-3268
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- Two iron(II) complexes with tetraazadentate ligands have been synthesised, characterised and evaluated as water oxidation catalysts. The two ligands, N,N′-diisopropyl-N,N′-bis(2-pyridylmethyl)-1,2-diaminoethane (1), and N-methyl-N-(2-pyridinylmethyl)-2,2′-bipyridine-6-methanamine (2), both give iron(II)complexes (1Fe and 2Fe, respectively) with an octahedral coordination geometry with two labile triflate ligands in a cis configuration in the crystal structures. When treated with cerium(IV) as a chemical oxidant in aqueous solution at room temperature the complexes form semi-stable FeIV(O) species that can be detected in the UV/Visible region. Both 1Fe and 2Fe can act as catalysts for water oxidation when treated with a large excess of oxidant, but 1Fe is a better catalyst than 2Fe. Possible geometrical factors behind this difference in reactivity are discussed and compared with literature data.
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