Living with Marfan Syndrome: Ambulatory Blood Pressure Measurement during lifting and Carrying infants

This study investigated the effects of lifting and carrying activities on ambulatory blood pressure (BP) responses in healthy adults. Participants performed simulated infant carrying tasks with different weight loads (0kg, 5kg and 10kg) using two lifting techniques (stoop and flat). Continuous BP was measured using the Finapres NOVA ambulatory...

Prediction of mechanical solutions for a laminated LCEs system fusing an analytical model and neural networks

This paper presents a convenient and efficient method to predict the mechanical solutions of a laminated Liquid Crystal Elastomers (LCEs) system subjected to combined thermo-mechanical load, based on a back propagation (BP) neural network which is trained by machine learning from a database established by analytical solutions. Firstly, the...

Teaching data analysis for building performance simulation – Series: Building simulation and calculation tools in teaching

Abstract The Erasmus+ project, entitled ?Digital Erasmus ? a roadmap to using building performance simulation to achieve resilient design? (DesRes), seeks to transform the learning experience of students in built environment disciplines using a continuous digital learning cycle. Three universities play a part in this project: Graz University of...

Machine-Learning Assisted Prediction of Spectral Power Distribution for Full-Spectrum White Light-Emitting Diode

The full-spectrum white light-emitting diode (LED) emits light with a broad wavelength range by mixing all lights from multiple LED chips and phosphors. Thus, it has great potentials to be used in healthy lighting, high resolution displays, plant lighting with higher color rendering index close to sunlight and higher color fidelity index. The...

Optimization of submerged floating tunnel cross section based on parametric Bézier curves and hybrid backpropagation - genetic algorithm

The cross-section geometry of a submerged floating tunnel (SFT) has a large effect on hydrodynamic characteristics, structural behavior and service level, making the tunnel cross section the primary factor in optimizing efficiency. Minimizing the mean drag and the dynamic variability in the lift of the SFT cross section under bi-directional ...

Analytical Threshold. Integrating Energy Modelling in the early stages of the Design Process: From a Perspective of Architects

EnergyFacade - Operational energy optimisation for conceptual facade design

This paper presents the results of the investigation into the possibilities for the implementation of a Building Performance Simulation design toolbox during the early stages of façade design, based on the sustainability-open framework [2]. The background and development of the EnergyFacade toolbox will be discussed which has been built on the...

Thermochemical data of boron subphosphide