This study sought to determine the relationship between body mass index (BMI) fluctuation and cardiovascular disease phenotypes, diabetes, and depression and the role of genetic and environmental factors in individual differences in BMI fluctuation using the extended twin-family model (ETFM). This study included 14,763 twins and their relatives. Health and Lifestyle Questionnaires were obtained...

The nonambipolarity of the fluctuation-driven particle transport is demonstrated experimentally. Convective radial transport of electrons by fluctuations is found to be significantly stronger than that of ions, leading to a mean fluctuation-driven radial current balanced in steady state by other bipolar particle losses. Fluctuation suppression leads to a sudden disappearance of this current and...

A direct method called fixation is introduced for solving the general motion vision problem, arbitrary motion relative to an arbitrary environment. This method results in a linear constraint equation which explicitly expresses the rotational velocity in terms of the translational velocity. The combination of this constraint equation with the Brightness-Change Constraint Equation solves the gene...

We report a new approach of 2D regional correlation analysis capable of analyzing fluctuation dynamics of complex multiple correlated and anticorrelated fluctuations under a noncorrelated noise background. Using this new method, by changing and scanning the start time and end time along a pair of fluctuation trajectories, we are able to map out any defined segments along the fluctuation traject...

As is well known, a vehicle’s speed fluctuation has significant impact on traffic capacity, road safety, fuel consumption, and exhaust gas emission. Considerable microscopic traffic models have been developed in past decades, while the ability of describing the realistic speed fluctuation has rarely been examined. With the data from real traffic, in this study we investigate the performance of ...

Heterodyne interferometry is a high-precision method applied in roll angle measurements. Phase metering is essential for high precision. During a high-precision measurement, a phase fluctuation appears even when the roll angle does not vary, which has never been analyzed before. Herein, the reason for the phase fluctuation is revealed, which results from the frequency-difference fluctuation and...

The turbulent flow in a Kenics Static Mixer (KSM) was intensified under the mutual-coupling effect between the twisted leaves and the tube-wall. In order to understand the intrinsic features of turbulent flow in KSM, the Hilbert-Huang Transform based on Empirical Mode Decomposition were first introduced to describe the time-frequency features of the pressure fluctuation. The Hilbert spectra of ...

To explore the influence of tip clearance on pressure fluctuation in a low specific speed mixed-flow pump, tip clearances δ of 0.25 mm, 0.75 mm and 1.00 mm, along with no tip clearance, were selected. The reliability of the simulation was verified by comparison with the experimental data of external characteristics and fluctuation in the guide vane passage. Through ANSYS-CFX, MATLAB code and fa...

In order to solve the problems of blind spot and time-consuming laborious monitoring in manual inspection power information communication rooms, a kind active compliant control system for intelligent robots rooms is proposed. This research includes noncontact detection method robot room based on machine vision; optimization environment room; through terminal; automatic visual network transmissi...