Hao Yue¹, Di Gao², Jin Gao¹, Chengmei Wei¹, Jiali Duan³, Shaocheng Mei^3,*

Energy Engineering, Vol.122, No.12, pp. 5091-5109, 2025, DOI:10.32604/ee.2025.069140 - 27 November 2025

Abstract Against the backdrop of regional coordinated development and China’s “dual carbon” strategic objectives, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) region faces an urgent need to transition from its traditional economic growth model, which is heavily reliant on resource consumption. This study investigates the decoupling dynamics among economic growth, energy consumption, and carbon emissions in the BTH region, along with the underlying driving forces, aiming to provide valuable insights for achieving the “dual carbon” targets and fostering high-quality regional development. First, the Tapio decoupling model is employed to analyze the decoupling relationships between economic growth, energy consumption, and carbon… More >

Ana M. Vela-AlcáNtara¹, Diego J. HernáNdez-SáNchez^1,2, Elisa Tamariz^1,*

BIOCELL, Vol.49, No.9, pp. 1663-1695, 2025, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2025.066201 - 25 September 2025

Abstract Cells are exposed to various mechanical forces, including extracellular and intracellular forces such as stiffness, tension, compression, viscosity, and shear stress, which regulate cell biology. The process of transducing mechanical stimuli into biochemical signals is termed mechanotransduction. These mechanical forces can regulate protein and gene expression, thereby impacting cell morphology, adhesion, proliferation, apoptosis, and migration. During cancer development, significant changes in extracellular and intracellular mechanical properties occur, resulting in altered mechanical inputs to which cells are exposed. MicroRNAs (miRNAs), key post-transcriptional regulators of gene and protein expression, are increasingly recognized as mechanosensitive molecules involved in More >

Wen Qi¹, Yu-Fei Du¹, Bo-Han Chen², Gui-Lei An^1,3,*, Chun Lu^4,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.85, No.2, pp. 2763-2780, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.069505 - 23 September 2025

Abstract In the production process of silicone sealant, mineral oil is used to replace methyl silicone oil plasticizer in silicone sealant to reduce costs and increase efficiency. However, the silicone sealant content in mineral oil is prone to premature aging, which significantly reduces the mechanical properties of the silicone sealant and severely affects its service life. At the same time, there are few reports on the simulation research of the performance of silicone sealant. In this study, three mixed system models of crosslinking silicone sealant/plasticizer are constructed by the molecular dynamics simulation method, and the effect… More >

Zhensen Wei¹, Penghui Jiang^1,*, Zhen Chen²

Revue Internationale de Géomatique, Vol.34, pp. 461-485, 2025, DOI:10.32604/rig.2025.065814 - 29 July 2025

Abstract Urban sprawl affects the sustainable development of the world’s economy and society. Confirming urban sprawl trends and proposing countermeasures have received significant attention. Cities are self-organizing systems with dissipative attributes, and city development is accompanied by urban entropy changes. Urban entropy change reveals the essence of urban sprawl; thus, it can be used to measure urban sprawl and better understand its phenomena. However, the literature on entropy change in urban sprawl research is limited to qualitative descriptions, and no convenient or effective quantitative metrics exist. This study bridges entropy changes and urban form metrics, analyzing… More >

Linlin Sun^1,2, Zihui Wang³, Shukun Cui^1,2, Ziquan Yan^1,2,*, Weiping Hu³, Qingchun Meng³

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.142, No.1, pp. 555-577, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2024.056023 - 17 December 2024

Abstract Rail weld irregularities are one of the primary excitation sources for vehicle-track interaction dynamics in modern high-speed railways. They can cause significant wheel-rail dynamic interactions, leading to wheel-rail noise, component damage, and deterioration. Few researchers have employed the vehicle-track interaction dynamic model to study the dynamic interactions between wheel and rail induced by rail weld geometry irregularities. However, the cosine wave model used to simulate rail weld irregularities mainly focuses on the maximum value and neglects the geometric shape. In this study, novel theoretical models were developed for three categories of rail weld irregularities, based… More >

Miao Huang¹, Maedeh Lotfi¹, Heyang Wang⁴, Hayley Sussman⁵, Kevin Connell¹, Quang Vo¹, Malisa Sarntinoranont¹, Hitomi Yamaguchi¹, Juan Guan², Xin Tang^1,3,*

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.32, No.1, pp. 1-2, 2024, DOI:10.32604/icces.2024.011130

Abstract Mechanotransduction, i.e., living cells sense and transduce mechanical forces into intracellular biochemical signaling and gene expression, is ubiquitous across diverse organisms. Increasing evidence suggests that mechanotransduction significantly influences cell functions and its mis-regulation is at the heart of various pathologies. A quantitative characterization of the relationship between mechanical forces and resulted mechanotransduction is pivotal in understanding the rules of life and innovating new therapeutic strategies [1-3]. However, while such relationship on the cell surface membrane and cytoskeleton have been well studied, little is known about whether/how mechanical forces applied on the cell interior nucleus (“headquarter… More >

Haitao Hei¹, Jian Wang¹, Yonggang Zheng¹, Hongfei Ye^1,*

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.30, No.1, pp. 1-1, 2024, DOI:10.32604/icces.2024.011298

Abstract Micro- and nano-scale collisions are widely involved in molecular movement, drug delivery, the actuation of micro-nano devices, etc. They often exhibit extraordinary behaviour relative to the common macroscopic collisions. A deep understanding on the scale reduction-induced novel collision phenomenon and the related mechanism is rather crucial. In this work, the comprehensive impact behaviour of metal projectiles on graphene is investigated on the basis of molecular dynamics simulations. It is found that besides the common penetration and rebound behaviours, the impacting metal projectile can also be captured by the ultrasoft two-dimensional materials, i.e., the adhesion behaviour.… More >

FREDERICK H. SILVER^1,2,*, TANMAY DESHMUKH²

BIOCELL, Vol.48, No.4, pp. 525-540, 2024, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2024.047965 - 09 April 2024

Abstract All tissues in the body are subjected externally to gravity and internally by collagen fibril and cellular retractive forces that create stress and energy equilibrium required for homeostasis. Mechanotransduction involves mechanical work (force through a distance) and energy storage as kinetic and potential energy. This leads to changes in cell mitosis or apoptosis and the synthesis or loss of tissue components. It involves the application of energy directly to cells through integrin-mediated processes, cell-cell connections, stretching of the cell cytoplasm, and activation of the cell nucleus via yes-associated protein (YAP) and transcriptional coactivator with PDZ-motif… More >

Xudong Chen^1,2, Quanzi Yuan^1,2,*

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.27, No.4, pp. 1-1, 2023, DOI:10.32604/icces.2023.09318

Abstract The wetting and instability of liquids on the surface of soluble solids is a problem of interface stability at multiple scales, which is coupled by mechanics and chemistry. This problem is crucial to application fields such as micro-nano processing and microscopic observation. In this work, the instability process of moving contact lines on the surfaces of soluble solids is investigated in experiments, theories, and simulations. Based on the unique shapes of the surfaces of soluble solids caused by instability in experiments, the concept of pagoda instability is proposed. Then the Cahn-Hilliard interfaces are developed to… More >

Yuqi He^1,2,3, Shirui Shao¹, Gusztáv Fekete³, Xiaoyi Yang¹, Xuanzhen Cen^1,4, Yang Song^1,4, Dong Sun^1,*, Yaodong Gu^1,*

Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.19, No.4, pp. 221-235, 2022, DOI:10.32604/mcb.2022.027285 - 27 December 2022

Abstract Introduction: Footwork is one of the training contents that table tennis players and coaches focus on. This study aimed to gain a thorough understanding of the muscle activity of the table tennis footwork and creating a musculoskeletal model to investigate the muscle forces, joint kinematic, and joint kinetic characteristics of the footwork during topspin forehand stroke. Methods: Six male table tennis athletes (height: 171.98 ± 4.97 cm; weight: 68.77 ± 7.86 kg; experience: 10.67 ± 1.86 years; age: 22.50 ± 1.64 years) performed chasse step and one-step footwork to return the ball from the coach by… More >