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Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is a minimally invasive technique that is widely used to ablate solid tumors. Achieving precise personalized treatment requires feedback information on in situ thermal effects induced by RFA. Although computer ...

• Real-time prediction of thermal effect during RFA.
• Experimental validation using bovine liver tissue.
• Incorporating multiphysics simulations.

Transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS) is an emerging non-invasive therapeutic technology that offers new brain stimulation modality. Precise localization of the acoustic focus to the desired brain target throughout the ...

• Achieved real-time prediction of intracranial pressure map with high accuracy.
• Developed network models to effectively process multi-modal information.
• Enabled prediction of intracranial pressure maps solely based on MR images.

Computer simulations of emergency departments (EDs) are tools that can support managing and optimising ED operations. A core component of ED simulation models is patient trajectories, defined as the series of activities patients undergo in the ED ...

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• Acuity inadequately characterises patient trajectories in the emergency department.
• Retrospective patient indicators improve the accuracy of simulated trajectories.
• Validation on retrospective patient indicators makes model ...

With the rapid growth of cross-border e-commerce, transaction risks have increasingly become a major barrier to its sustainable development. This paper presents a design and implementation proposal for a risk control system that leverages machine learning ...

High-performance polymers are used in different fixed prosthesis treatments due to their many advantages such as biocompatibility, shock absorption ability, high fracture resistance. The effects of marginal design on the forces on high-...

• A tomography of an utterly edentulous adult patient was taken to create the geometric model of the maxilla.
• During modeling, the alveolar crest width was 6 mm, and the height was 25 mm. After decomposition, a 3D model was obtained ...

This study focuses on the design and simulation of an international transmission path for Chaozhou Opera, a traditional Chinese performing art form. The goal is to optimize the transmission path using an improved genetic algorithm to ensure efficient and ...

• We present a numerical model of the mechanical behaviour of lumbar spine at healthy and after total disc replacement under low-energy impacts equivalent to physiological loads.
• The mechanical behaviour of bone tissue is described using ...

Degenerative diseases of the spine have a negative impact on the quality of life of patients. This study presents the results of numerical modelling of the mechanical behaviour of the lumbar spine with patient-specific ...

Despite national curricula and instructional reforms calling for collaborative problem-solving skills (CPS), however, there is an absence of a theory-laden model showing how to effectively construct CPS for science learning. We therefore developed ...

We propose a dynamical low-rank algorithm for a gyrokinetic model that is used to describe strongly magnetized plasmas. The low-rank approximation is based on a decomposition into variables parallel and perpendicular to the magnetic field, as ...

• First dynamical low-rank framework for strongly magnetized plasmas.
• Drastic reduction in the memory and computational cost due to a decomposition motivated by the underlying physical problem.
• We show that exact dispersion relation ...

The purpose of this study is mainly to solve indoor acoustics problems, with the goal of optimizing indoor sound field practice as the guidance, for complex topics such as room types and material properties, put forward effective module to ...

Entrepreneurship education has traditionally been based on business management education, which has been ineffective in teaching the complex, dynamic, and non-linear nature of entrepreneurship. Recent attempts at entrepreneurship education have ...

This paper uses continuous time computer simulation tools to analyze the maintenance scheduling problem of a fleet of assets that is subjected to a CBM (Condition-Based Maintenance) program for critical components under a maintenance ...

• Foster the use of dynamic simulation to study the scheduling of CBM activities.

In this paper we develop an approach to modeling and simulating the process of infection transmission among individuals and the effectiveness of protective counter-measures. We base our approach on pedestrian dynamics and we implement it as an extension ...

• The impact of using smart technologies in ship evacuation is evaluated.
• An ...

The cruise ship industry has faced in recent years a continuous increase in the number of passengers, reaching 28.5 million passengers in 2018, 60.11% more than in 2009. In this context, the research literature has acknowledged the key ...

• A predictive model for heterogeneous length-of-stay of nursing home residents.
• A predictive analytics integrated simulation model for heterogeneous service demand.
• Effective and flexible evaluation of staffing strategy for ...

Nursing homes (NHs) are critical facilities for caring frail older adults with around-the-clock formal care and personal assistance. To ensure quality of care for NH residents, an adequate staffing level is of great importance. Current NH ...

Numerical simulation methods are among the most used techniques to evaluate the stochastic response of engineering systems subjected to random excitations. In many practical situations the system should be integrated over long time ...

The spiking neural network (SNN) simulators play a significant role in modeling neural systems and the study of brain function. Currently, many simulators using CPU or GPU have been developed. However, these simulators usually show low efficiency, ...

This study investigated the nature of knowledge use during collaborative explanation activities through a laboratory experiment and a computer simulation. We focused on how relevant knowledge is used in individual learning and how the use of such ...

• A computational effective discretization scheme for nonlinear dynamical systems is developed in the context of simulations in a digital computer.

Numerical methods are essential to investigate and apply nonlinear continuous-time dynamical systems in many fields of science and engineering and discretization schemes are required to obtain the solutions of such dynamical systems. ...

• A type 2 diabetes simulator allows testing treatments in a cost-effective way.
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The increasing incidence of diabetes continuously stimulates the research on new antidiabetic drugs. Computer simulation can save time and costs, alleviating the need of animal trials and providing ...