Mitral valve regurgitation (MR) is one of the most prevalent valvular heart diseases. Its quantitative assessment challenging but crucial for treatment decisions. Using computational fluid dynamics (CFD), we developed a reduced order model (ROM) describing relationship between MR flow rates, transvalvular pressure differences, and size shape regurgitant orifice. Due to its low cost, this ROM co...

Abstract Attributed to its high capacity by alloying with lithium, silicon is considered be new generation of anodes that can replace graphite and receives much attention. Alleviating the electrode failure caused volume expansion during lithiation shrink delihiation in plays a pivotal role promoting industrial application anodes. In this article, we proposed facile carbon coating strategy on su...

The North China Plain (NCP) is one of the places where the groundwater is most over-exploited in the world. Currently, our understanding on the spatiotemporal variability of the cones of depression in this region is fragmentary. This study intends to simulate the cones of depression in the shallow aquifer across the entire NCP during the whole period from 1960 to 2011. During the simulation, th...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate, through a nonlinear Finite Element (FE) analysis, the structural behavior of Reinforced Concrete (RC) beams externally strengthened by using Steel Reinforced Grout (SRG) and Steel Reinforced Polymer (SRP) systems. The parameters taken into account were the external strengthening configuration, with or without U-wrap end anchorages, as well as the streng...

36 Computer Toward a More Reliable Theory of Software Reliability S oftware development and testing is an error-prone process. Despite developers’ best attempts at checking every detail, errors made during development often cause postrelease software failures. Software reliability theory is one of industry’s seminal approaches for predicting the likelihood of software field failures. Unfortunat...

An erratum on: Shrivastava C, Crenna E, Schudel S, Shoji K, Onwude D, Hischier R and Defraeye T (2022) To Wrap Or to Not Cucumbers? Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 6:750199. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2022.750199An omission the funding section of original article was made in error. The following sentence has been added: "Open access provided by Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories For Materials Science And Tec...

Nowadays, functionally graded materials (FGM) are widely used in many industrial, aerospace and military fields. On the other hand, the interest in the use of shrink-fitted assemblies is increasing for designing composite tubes, high-pressure vessels, rectors and tanks. Although extensive researches exist on thick-walled cylindrical shells, not many researches have been done on shrink-fitted th...

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The purpose of this study was to determine whether sinoaortic deafferentation (SAD) alters the severity of hypertension or sympathoadrenal contribution to mean blood pressure (MAP) during renal wrap hypertension. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were implanted with radiotelemetry transmitters for 24-hour recording of MAP and heart rate. All rats underwent either SAD or sham SAD (Intact) surgery and wer...