Academic Articles & Research Papers

Optimizing Post-Curing Protocols for 3D-Printed Dental Models: A Long-Term Evaluation of Mechanical and Physical Properties

This study evaluated the influence of post-polymerization duration and a 14-day aging period on the mechanical and physical properties of 3D-printed standard resin models. Methods: Specimens were printed using Anycubic resin (50 µm layers) ...

Virtual Reality-Based Center of Mass-Assisted Personalized Balance Training System

Poststroke hemiplegic patients often show altered weight distribution with balance disorders, increasing their risk of fall. Conventional balance training, though powerful, suffers from scarcity of trained therapists, frequent visits to cli...

Cascaded Dual-Observer-Based Decoupled Estimation of Mass and Track Gradient for Permanent-Magnet-Driven Electric Monorail Cranes

Precise data regarding the overall mass of the machinery and the gradient of the track are crucial for optimizing the control of monorail cranes and enhancing energy efficiency. Within the context of electric monorail cranes (EMCs), accurat...

Robot-Aided Neurorehabilitation: A Robot for Wrist Rehabilitation

In 1991, a novel robot, MIT-MANUS, was introduced to study the potential that robots might assist in and quantify the neuro-rehabilitation of motor function. MIT-MANUS proved an excellent tool for shoulder and elbow rehabilitation in stroke...

4D printing of semi-crystalline crosslinked polymer networks with two-way shape-memory effect

This paper introduces a novel approach to 4D printing tailored structures with reversible two-way shape-memory effect (SME) through material extrusion technology. To this aim, methacrylated poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) was synthesized and eva...

Soft robotics: a bioinspired evolution in robotics

Cryo-CMOS Circuits and Systems for Quantum Computing Applications

A fault-tolerant quantum computer with millions of quantum bits (qubits) requires massive yet very precise control electronics for the manipulation and readout of individual qubits. CMOS operating at cryogenic temperatures down to 4 K (cryo...

Integrating Quantum Computing into De Novo Metabolite Identification

Tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) is a widely used technology for identifying metabolites. De novo metabolite identification is an identification strategy that does not refer to any spectral or metabolite database. However, this strategy is ...

Review of Deployable Endogenous Security Technologies for Smart Grids

The smart grid is a critical infrastructure in the modern energy system that couples cyberspace with physical operation processes, and it has become a key pillar of national energy security. With the widespread use of massive heterogeneous ...

Remarks on the light ring images and the optical appearance of hairy black holes in Einstein–Maxwell-dilaton gravity

Abstract The behaviors of null geodesics in the spherical symmetric black holes in Einstein–Maxwell-dilaton (EMD) theory with coupling function $$f(\Phi )=e^{-2\alpha \Phi }$$ f ( Φ ) = e - 2 α Φ are meticulously analyzed. We investigate th...

Antenna Array Thinning Through Quantum Fourier Transform

Thinning antenna arrays through quantum Fourier transform (QFT) is proposed. Given the lattice of the candidate locations for the array elements, the problem of selecting which antenna location has to be either occupied or not by an array e...

Quantum Structure for Modelling Emotion Space of Robots

Utilising the properties of quantum mechanics, i.e., entanglement, parallelism, etc., a quantum structure is proposed for representing and manipulating emotion space of robots. This quantum emotion space (QES) provides a mechanism to extend...

Noise-augmented chaotic Ising machines for combinatorial optimization and sampling

Abstract Ising machines are hardware accelerators for combinatorial optimization and probabilistic sampling, using stochasticity to explore spin configurations and avoid local minima. We refine the previously proposed coupled chaotic bits (...

Quantum Computing: An Introduction for Microwave Engineers

During the past decade, quantum computing has grown from a field known mostly for generating scientific papers to one that is poised to reshape computing as we know it [1]. Major industrial research efforts in quantum computing are currentl...

The impact of quantum computing on cryptography

Quantum computing has been heralded by some as the death of cryptography as we know it. Yet the quantum computers that exist today can't perform more complex operations than tasks such as factoring 15 into 3×5, so they're pretty useless. A ...

The engineering challenges in quantum computing

Quantum computers may revolutionize the field of computation by solving some complex problems that are intractable even for the most powerful current supercomputers. This paper first introduces the basic concepts of quantum computing and de...

Quantum computing at the frontiers of biological sciences

FUNDAMENTAL DESIGN PROBLEMS OF DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS FOR THE HARD-REAL-TIME ENVIRONMENT

Software designed to function in a hard-real-time environment where strict timing constraints must be met often entails implicit assumptions about a programming language and the underlying system which supports it. Programs which are logica...

Contracts in distributed systems

We present a parametric calculus for contract-based computing in distributed systems. By abstracting from the actual contract language, our calculus generalises both the contracts-as-processes and contracts-as-formulae paradigms. The calcul...

Epidemic information dissemination in distributed systems

Easy to deploy, robust, and highly resilient to failures, epidemic algorithms are a potentially effective mechanism for propagating information in large peer-to-peer systems deployed on Internet or ad hoc networks. It is possible to adjust ...