Aortic valve insufficiency is a life-threatening condition. The primary treatment approach is the replacement of the native valve with prosthetic valves in severe cases. However, current prostheses often lead to compl...
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(数字)9798350393002
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(纸本)9798350393019
Aortic valve insufficiency is a life-threatening condition. The primary treatment approach is the replacement of the native valve with prosthetic valves in severe cases. However, current prostheses often lead to complications such as durability issues, the need for lifelong anticoagulation medicine usage, and tissue rejection. As a result, multiple surgical interventions are frequently required for prosthesis replacement. This study highlights the importance of a comprehensive prosthetic design process by encompassing patient-specific design, careful material selection, and advanced three-dimensional fabrication, which is essential for addressing these challenges. To enhance the mechanical durability of polymeric heart valve prostheses, we introduce a framework that combines fluid-structure interaction (FSI) simulations to obtain hemodynamic properties prior to advanced structural analyses. While our methodology is based on determining hemodynamic loads with FSI simulations and transferring them to an additional finite element model (FEM) that captures the detailed mechanical properties of valve tissue, the results presented in this study are obtained using more traditional loading conditions in FEM to ensure the validity and comparability of our findings. These results serve as a foundation for future studies incorporating full FSI-driven structural simulations. These analyses lead to the creation of a geometrically optimized design, fabricated with a digital light processing-based (DLP) method. Subsequently, mechanical testing was conducted to evaluate the effects of this manufacturing technique on material behavior, producing more realistic material model coefficients for use in numerical simulations. Consequently, different ratios of material rigidity in fiber-reinforced models are investigated with FEM analysis. An important novelty of this approach is to be able to detect stress accumulations by taking hemodynamic indices into account to optimize the stress di
In frequency domain, wavelet coefficient is one of the characteristics of ERG signal which is hidden in frequency-domain. This paper aims to develop a tool for analyzing the constituent frequencies and time of interes...
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Recovery of signals with elements defined on the nodes of a graph, from compressive measurements is an important problem, which can arise in various domains such as sensor networks, image reconstruction and group test...
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The increasing adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) necessitates the efficient management of large EV parking facilities to prevent them from exceeding grid capacity and to improve the overall user experience. This pap...
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ISBN:
(数字)9798350390421
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(纸本)9798350390438
The increasing adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) necessitates the efficient management of large EV parking facilities to prevent them from exceeding grid capacity and to improve the overall user experience. This paper introduces a data-driven approach for coordinated control of EV charging in an office parking facility, integrating Early Departure Buttons (EDB) into the system. These buttons provide a binary option for users to indicate an earlier departure than a predefined time. We employ the EDB data to improve departure time estimations and to address issues where EVs receive no or only very low energy. We utilize three datasets originating from different geographical locations. One dataset displays a user pattern where users leave shortly after completing their charging, unlike the other datasets which follow typical working hours. Our simulations show that the unique user pattern significantly increases fairness among users, and integrating EDBs improves fairness for the other datasets to levels similar to those of quick station turnover.
Wind speed is a powerful source of renewable energy, which can be used as an alternative to the nonrenewable resources for production of electricity. Renewable sources are clean, infinite and do not impact the environ...
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Colorectal cancer is the third most diagnosed cancer in the world, but it has a higher mortality rate in men compared to women. However, we are not close to understanding how and why sex influences the outcome of the ...
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The recent availability of consumer head-mounted displays (HMDs) for virtual reality (VR) provides an immersive and affordable platform to study sound perception and action outside laboratory settings. While tradition...
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ISBN:
(数字)9798331514846
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(纸本)9798331525637
The recent availability of consumer head-mounted displays (HMDs) for virtual reality (VR) provides an immersive and affordable platform to study sound perception and action outside laboratory settings. While traditional perception-action studies rely on complex systems like motion capture, HMDs integrate dynamic sound delivery and real-time movement tracking. In this study, we adapted the experimental protocol from Geronazzo et al. (2023) to test the feasibility of measuring user behaviour with a consumer-grade HMD. Instead of muscular activity measured from surface electromyography, we analysed reaction times using kinematic data from the HMD’s onboard sensors and controllers. Data from ten participants showed that spatial properties of looming sounds influence auditory perception-action loops, aligning with findings from the original study. Our results demonstrate that reaction time is a scalable and meaningful measure for studying space perception through sound, providing a possible alternative to muscular activity measurements and showcasing the potential of consumer-grade VR for accessible and robust experimental research despite current limitations.
The Knowledge Graph Entity Typing (KGET) task aims to predict missing type annotations for entities in knowledge graphs. Recent works only utilize the structural knowledge in the local neighborhood of entities, disreg...
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Traditional adversarial attacks typically aim to alter the predicted labels of input images by generating perturbations that are imperceptible to the human eye. However, these approaches often lack explainability. Mor...
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ISBN:
(数字)9798350368741
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(纸本)9798350368758
Traditional adversarial attacks typically aim to alter the predicted labels of input images by generating perturbations that are imperceptible to the human eye. However, these approaches often lack explainability. Moreover, most existing work on adversarial attacks focuses on single-stage classifiers, but multi-stage classifiers are largely unexplored. In this paper, we introduce instance-based adversarial attacks for multi-stage classifiers, leveraging Layer-wise Relevance Propagation (LRP), which assigns relevance scores to pixels based on their influence on classification outcomes. Our approach generates explainable adversarial perturbations by utilizing LRP to identify and target key features critical for both coarse and fine-grained classifications. Unlike conventional attacks, our method not only induces misclassification but also enhances the interpretability of the model’s behavior across classification stages, as demonstrated by experimental results.
Blockchain has shown tremendous growth in the past few years because of its decentralized and immutable architecture, which makes transactions transparent, making it a feasible choice for authentication and security p...
Blockchain has shown tremendous growth in the past few years because of its decentralized and immutable architecture, which makes transactions transparent, making it a feasible choice for authentication and security purposes. Federated learning is a collaborative model training method that can benefit from Blockchain Technology. It is vulnerable to a single point of failure while performing aggregation in a centralized server architecture. Blockchain-aided Federated Learning can be proposed for enhancing the security and privacy of user data together with removing a single aggregator. It also supports a mechanism of giving rewards to users in the form of cryptocurrency to encourage users to follow the protocol. This paper introduces a framework named Blockchain-Aided privacy preserving framework for Federated Learning (BPPF) that helps in model training on the user side with added security and privacy.
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