Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease that often comes with symptoms such as muscle stiffness, slowness of movement, and tremors at rest. Since this disease negatively influences the quality of life in patients, an early and accura...
Conventional means of Parkinson’s Disease (PD) screening rely on qualitative tests typically administered by trained neurologists. Tablet technologies that enable data collection during handwriting and drawing tasks may provide low-cost, portable, an...
Essential tremor (ET) is a common movement disorder affecting the performance of various daily tasks, including drawing. While spiral-drawing task characteristics have been described among patients with ET, research about the significance of the draw...
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder affecting millions worldwide. Early detection is crucial for improving patient outcomes. Spiral drawing analysis has emerged as a non-invasive tool to detect early motor impai...
Among neural disorders related to movement, essential tremor has the highest prevalence; in fact, it is twenty times more common than Parkinson’s disease. The drawing of the Archimedes’ spiral is the gold standard test to distinguish betw...
Biomedical systems produce biosignals that arise from interaction mechanisms. In a general form, those mechanisms occur across multiple scales, both spatial and temporal, and contain linear and non-linear information. In this framework, entropy measu...
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive movement disorder caused by the death of dopamine-producing cells in the midbrain. There is a need for frequent symptom assessment, since the treatment needs to be individualized as the disease progresses. Th...
Essential tremor (ET) is a movement disorder that may cause functional disability in daily activities, such as drinking from a cup or drawing. This study aims to characterize effects of varied cup-grip types and measured axes on the actual performanc...
A visual graphic called Spiral Strip is presented consisting of color-coded segments arranged in a spiral. The width and length of each individual segment can be different, which can be used to convey additional information (besides the color coding)...
Forward osmosis (FO) technology has increasingly attracted attention owing to its low operational energy and low fouling propensity. Despite extensive investigations on FO, very few module-scale FO studies on the operation and design of the FO proces...
Nowadays, an important research effort in healthcare biometrics is finding accurate biomarkers that allow developing medical-decision support tools. These tools help to detect and supervise illnesses like Parkinson’s disease (PD). This paper co...
A challenge for the clinical management of advanced Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients is the emergence of fluctuations in motor performance, which represents a significant source of disability during activities of daily living of the patients. There...
In this work, reverse osmosis and forward osmosis membranes were prepared using base cellulosic polymers with ZrO2. The prepared membranes were rolled on the spiral-wound configuration module. The modules were tested on a pilot unit to investigate th...
Background: Parkinson’s disease (PD) diagnosis benefits significantly from advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and image processing techniques. This paper explores various approaches for processing hand-drawn Archimedean spirals in ord...
We compared two representative forward osmosis (FO) modules—spiral-wound (SW) and plate-and-frame (PF)—to provide practical information for the selection of FO element for a large-scale FO process. The FO operating performance of commerci...
The link between black holes and star formation allows for us to draw a connection between black holes and the places and times when extraterrestrial intelligences (ETIs) had a greater chance of emerging. Within the context of the gap paradigm for bl...
A 2D mechanical metamaterial exhibiting perfectly auxetic behavior, i.e., Poisson’s ratio of
This work presents fabricated silica microstructured optical fiber with special equiangular spiral six-ray geometry, an outer diameter of 125 µm (that corresponds to conventional commercially available telecommunication optical fibers of ratified ITU...
When carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), an entrapment neuropathy, becomes severe, thumb motion is reduced, which affects manual dexterity, such as causing difficulties in writing; therefore, early detection of CTS by screening is desirable. To develop a s...
The present study examines the association between team incivility climate and team members’ perceived support for innovation. To extend findings on the negative effects of incivility (which are low intensity deviant behaviors, such as rudeness) in s...
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that impairs motor function, often causing tremors and difficulty with movement control. A promising diagnostic method involves analyzing hand-drawn patterns, such as spirals...
Youth experiencing homelessness have seldom had the opportunity to contribute to conversations about policies and practices that impact their day-to-day lives. Brinegar highlighted middle level education research’s contribution to the lack of r...
Whip restraints based on thin-walled structures are widely used for protection against high-energy pipe breaks in nuclear power plants due to their excellent impact resistance. Recently, biomimetic and hierarchical structures have emerged as focal po...
Academic freedom is formally supported but often challenged, through activities like no-platforming and through a sentiment of sensitivity and an understanding that ideas can be harmful. This development is discussed here as a reflection of the rise...
We present a case study of a early-type galaxy (ETG) hosting a kinematically distinct core (KDC) formed in a binary high resolution 1:1 spiral galaxy merger simulation. The runtime of the simulation is pushed up to
Human civilization embodies a rich cultural heritage shaped over long historical periods by numerous ethnic groups, each employing distinctive motifs and patterns in religious spaces, architecture, clothing, utensils, and other artifacts. Such motifs...
In our current building design philosophy, structural design is based on static predictions of the loads a building will need to withstand and the services it will need to provide. However, one study found that 60% of all buildings are demolished due...
The use of forward osmosis (FO) for water purification purposes has gained extensive attention in recent years. In this review, we first discuss the advantages, challenges and various applications of FO, as well as the challenges in selecting the pro...
This study explores the application of Eastern philosophy in craft innovation education, identifying opportunities for interdisciplinary learning. Drawing on the I Ching and Laozi’s thought, it examines human needs in craft across three dimensi...
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To achieve sustainable development goals, it is necessary to establish a positive organization so that employees can pay attention to their strengths and talents and engage in more proactive behaviors, such as taking charge behavior. Taking charge be...
In this study, pressure-retarded osmosis (PRO) performance of a 5-inch scale cellulose triacetate (CTA)-based hollow fiber (HF) membrane module was evaluated under a wide range of operating conditions (0.0–6.0 MPa of applied pressure, 0.5&ndash...
This paper focuses on the spiritual and gendered experiences of dwelling-in-uncertainty in the context of Bengali char lands. Chars are temporary sandbanks in the river that continuously erode and re-emerge as the river changes course, thereby subjec...
Drawing on data from 133 Chinese New Energy Vehicle (NEV) policy documents from 2007 to 2023, this study utilizes Dynamic Topic Modelling (DTM), social network analysis and a quantitative model to investigate the evolutionary path of policy themes an...
Pressure-retarded osmosis (PRO) has recently received attention because of its ability to generate power via an osmotic pressure gradient between two solutions with different salinities: high- and low-salinity water sources. In this study, PRO perfor...
This entry examines how wage-setting institutions (WSIs) shape wages across advanced economies. It focuses on four core mechanisms—minimum wages, collective bargaining, wage coordination, and wage centralization—drawing on theoretical ins...
Patriarchy has long structured Christian life and practice. In many Baptist settings, even formal affirmations of women in leadership leave a gap between stated commitments and women’s lived experience. This study investigates how Baptist congr...
This article examines how digital media discourse mediated Germany’s secularization between 2020 and 2024. Drawing on a corpus from Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, and other outlets, this study combines text mining, sentiment profiling, and frame analys...
The global demand for energy is on the rise, accompanied by increasing requirements for low-carbon environmental protection. In recent years, China’s “double carbon action” initiative has brought about new development opportunities...
This study centers on retirement planning achievement, examining its impact mechanism on older adults’ mental health and its boundary conditions. Drawing on self-determination theory (SDT) and conservation of resources (COR) theory, we tested a...
This research work primarily focused on investigating the effects of changing rotational speed on the forming temperature and microstructure during incremental sheet metal forming (ISF) of AA-2219-O and AA-2219-T6 sheets. Tool rotational speed was va...
The traditional method for seismic earth pressure calculation has certain limitations for retaining structures under complex conditions. For example, when the soil width is small, the results obtained by the traditional method will be much larger. Th...
Aiming at the problem that the Osprey Optimization Algorithm (OOA) does not have high optimization accuracy and is prone to falling into local optimum, an Improved Osprey Optimization Algorithm Based on a Two-Color Complementary Mechanism for Global...
Essential tremor (ET) negatively affects neuromuscular control and hand function in older adults. Resistance exercise may enhance musculoskeletal and functional capacity, yet its modality-specific effects in ET remain unclear. This study compared the...
In the context of Disease X risks, how governments and public health authorities make policy choices in response to potential epidemics has become a topic of increasing concern. The tightness of epidemic prevention policies is related to the effectiv...
The availability of sugar has expanded over the past 50 years, due to improved industrial processes and corn subsidies, particularly in the form of sweetened beverages. This correlates with a surge in the prevalence of cardiometabolic disorders, whic...
This study investigates an inlet design for a gravitational vortex turbine (GVT), drawing inspiration from the ancient Nazca puquios. The puquios are ingenious subterranean aqueducts constructed by the Nazca culture (c. 100 BC–800 AD) in southe...
Background: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most prevalent neurodegenerative disorder worldwide. People suffering from PD exhibit motor symptoms that affect the control of upper and lower limb movement. Among daily activities that depend...
Due to climate change, the electric vehicle (EV) industry is rapidly growing and drawing researchers interest. Driving conditions like mountainous roads, slick surfaces, and rough terrains illuminate the vehicles inherent nonlinearities. Under such s...
The Hunger Games Search (HGS) is an innovative optimizer that operates without relying on gradients and utilizes a population-based approach. It draws inspiration from the collaborative foraging activities observed in social animals in their natural...