Larynx cancer patients receive radiotherapy as a non-invasive alternative to surgery and cure rates are high. Inevitably this impacts vocal fold functional-ity. Hence, voice recovery as a prerequisite for resuming normal life is of special interest. Voicing recovery following radiotherapy is studied in this paper. Complexity analysis, using approximate entropy to concisely quantify the collecti...

in this research three-dimensional free vibration analysis of functionally graded circular plate with various boundary conditions is achieved. a semi-analytical method, which makes use of the state space method and the one-dimensional differential quadrature method, is used to obtain the vibration frequencies and dynamic responses of circular plates. numerical results are given to demonstrate t...

This paper presents a convergence analysis of particle swarm optimization system by treating it as a discrete-time linear time-variant system firstly. And then, based on the results of system convergence conditions, dynamic optimal control of a deterministic PSO system for parameters optimization is studied by using dynamic programming; and an approximate dynamic programming algorithm – swarm-b...

Purpose Rapid sensitivity analysis and near-optimal decision-making in contested environments are valuable requirements when providing military logistics support. Port of debarkation denial motivates maneuver from strategic operational locations, further complicating Simulations enable rapid concept design, experiment testing that meet these complicated logistic support demands. However, simula...

progressive collapse is a chain reaction of failures propagating throughout a portion of the structure disproportionate to the original local failure occurring when a sudden loss of a critical load‐bearing element initiates a structural element failure, eventually resulting in partial or full collapse of the structure. both general services administration (gsa) and united states department of d...