Peirong Jiang¹, Zhensen Chen², Daniel S. Hippe², Hiroko Watase³, Bin Sun¹, Ruolan Lin¹, Zheting Yang¹, Yunjing Xue^1,*, Xihai Zhao^4,*, Chun Yuan^2,4

Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.16, Suppl.2, pp. 34-35, 2019, DOI:10.32604/mcb.2019.07394

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Jidong Zhang^1,2,*, Wentao Sui², Jaspreet Dhupia³

Sound & Vibration, Vol.53, No.2, pp. 38-49, 2019, DOI:10.32604/sv.2019.04362

Abstract Occurrence of gear rattle in transmission systems can result in severe vibration and noise, which in applications such as automobiles is an important source of user discomfort. As a result , the reduction of the rattling noise has attracted lot of concerns. The rattling noise level is affected by several gearbox parameters, an understanding of which is essential to prevent the expensive design modifications at later stages of product development. To develop such understanding at the gearbox design stage, this paper analytically evaluates the gear parameters’ effect on the root mean square of the wheel More >

Akisue Kuramoto^1,*, Hitoshi Kimura², Norio Inou²

Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.16, No.4, pp. 235-243, 2019, DOI:10.32604/mcb.2019.08123

Abstract Comfortable bedding is usually designed subjectively because of the difficulty in performing a quantitative evaluation. This paper proposes a quantitative evaluation method of comfortableness of beddings. The bedding shape determining how comfortable an individual may feel in using it depends on the body shape and normal posture of individuals. The internal physical load is expected to relate to the comfortableness of bedding. However, only a few quantitative discussions exist on the relation between the comfortableness of bedding and physical load. This study proposes a new evaluation method of physical load in a relaxed posture. The… More >

A. Cruz-Estrada^1,2, E. Ruiz-Sánchez², I.L. Medina Baizabal¹, E. Balam-Uc¹ and M. Gamboa-Angulo^1,*

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.88, No.2, pp. 161-170, 2019, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2019.05809

Abstract The development of plant-derived products to control Bemisia tabaci Genn. (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) is an urgent need for production of horticultural crops. Plant extracts and essential oils of several species of the genus Eugenia (Myrtaceae) have shown insecticidal activity. In southern Mexico, leaf extracts from Eugenia winzerlingii showed nematicidal effect but its insecticidal properties have not been explored. Therefore, the objective of this study was to evaluate the insecticidal effect of aqueous and organic extracts from E. winzerlingii leaves on B. tabaci egg, nymph and adult stages, and else to explore its nursery propagation. Then, extracts… More >

Hernandez-Trejo A¹, B Estrada-Drouaillet¹, JA López-Santillán¹, C Rios-Velasco², SE Varela-Fuentes¹, R Rodríguez-Herrera³, E Osorio-Hernández¹

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.88, No.1, pp. 47-54, 2019, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2019.04611

Abstract The control of Spodoptera frugiperda is based on synthetic insecticides, so some alternatives are the use of entomopathogenic fungi (EF) and neem extract. The objective of the study was to evaluate in vitro effectiveness of native EF and neem extracts on S. frugiperda larvae. Six EF were identified by DNA sequencing of ITS regions from three EF (Fusarium solani, Metarrhizium robertsii, Nigrospora spherica and Penicillium citrinum). They were evaluated in concentrations of 1 × 10⁸ spores/ mL. In addition, a second bioassay was carried out evaluating only F. solani, M. robertsii and N. sphaerica and… More >

Wen LI, Junli YANG, Dong ZHOU, Jinghui ZHANG, Qingcui ZHUO

BIOCELL, Vol.43, No.1, pp. 7-12, 2019, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2019.04763

Abstract The efficacy and safety of ganglioside in the treatment of neonates who suffer from hypoxic–ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) needs to be fully evaluated. We searched the following databases: PubMed, ScienceDirect, LISTA, CNKI, Chinese biomedical literature database and Wanfang digital journals of full-text database to determine the inclusion and exclusion criteria of papers and a total of 12 papers were included after quality evaluation. Then we conducted the meta-analysis with RevMan5.0 software. The results showed that compared with the control group, the abnormal rate declined in the ganglioside-treated group (relative risk (RR)=0.27, 95% confidence interval (CI)= 0.05– More >

Takayuki Shiraiwa*, Fabien Briffod, Manabu Enoki

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.22, No.2, pp. 124-124, 2019, DOI:10.32604/icces.2019.05311

Abstract The purpose of this study is to evaluate fatigue performances of welded structures using numerical simulations. The fatigue life of welded joint is complicatedly affected by various factors such as geometries, defects, residual stress and microstructure. Conventional fatigue life assessments are generally based on fracture mechanics and predict the fatigue life for long crack propagation. In order to predict the total fatigue life more accurately, it is necessary to consider the lifetime for crack initiation and microstructually short crack (MSC) growth. In this study, a numerical framework to predict the fatigue life including crack initiation,… More >

Akira Matsumoto^1,*, Taku Itoh², Soichiro Ikuno¹

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.21, No.2, pp. 43-43, 2019, DOI:10.32604/icces.2019.05496

Abstract In this study, an improvement technique of convergence property of Communication Avoiding (CA) Kyrlov subspace method is proposed, and parallelization efficiencies of CA Krylov subspace method is numerically investigated. As is known that most of all the procedures of the Krylov subspace method are constituted by addition of vectors, inner products and multiplication of matrices and vectors. These operations are very easy to derive a parallelization efficiency. However, the candidate coefficient matrices of linear system obtained from the numerical analysis such as Finite Element Method are large sparse matrices, and communications occur between Processing Units… More >

Yabin Yang, Guangyu Shi^*

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.21, No.2, pp. 35-35, 2019, DOI:10.32604/icces.2019.05623

Abstract The efficient and high performance orthotropic steel decks have been widely used in long span bridges over the world. The initial defects at welded joints of orthotropic steel bridge decks will undergo fatigue failure under the action of live load of moving vehicles on the bridge decks. And the fatigue cracks at the rib-to-deck welded joints are the most dangerous cracks for the orthotropic steel bridge decks. Therefore, the fatigue life evaluation of the rib-to-deck welded joints is very important for the safety of orthotropic steel bridge decks. This paper presents a crack propagation-based model… More >

Yingchun Gong^1,#,*, Fenglu Liu^2,#, Zhaopeng Tian¹, Guofang Wu¹, Haiqing Ren¹, Cheng Guan²

Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.7, No.10, pp. 941-956, 2019, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2019.07354

Abstract Japanese larch is one of the main plantation tree species in China. A lack of engineered wood products made by Japanese larch , limits its application in wood structures. In this study, based on optimum process para meters, such as pressure (1.2 MPa), adhesive spread rate (200 g/m 2 ) and adhesive (one component polyurethane), the mechanical properties of Japanese larch made cross laminated timber ( with different lay ups were evaluated by means of the static method . Results of this study show ed that variations in lay ups significant ly affected the mechanical… More >