Complex fluids, such as polymer melts and concentrated suspensions, are foundational materials for industrial products, ...

Researchers from Skoltech Engineering Center's Hierarchically Structured Materials Laboratory have developed a new method to ...

The Q-matrix serves as a bridge that links items and attributes, and its accuracy affects the results of cognitive diagnosis. Inaccuracy of the Q-matrix are a common issue frequently encountered in ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

Abstract: We propose a systematic and efficient extension of the multimodal transfer-matrix method to obtain the dispersion diagram of structures with 2-D periodicity specifically targeted to ...

In the heart of Chiang Mai, a city rich in history and the cultural heritage of northern Thailand, the Panyaden Hall, completed in 2017, carries a story of technical innovation and reverence for ...

Structural equation modeling (SEM) is a widely used statistical method in social science. However, many published articles employing SEM appear to contradict its underlying principles and assumptions, ...

1 School of Urban Construction, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, China. 2 Aeronautics Department, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang, Jiangxi. This research investigates the problem of performing ...

Under physiological conditions, proteins continuously undergo structural fluctuations on different timescales. Some conformations are only sparsely populated, but still play a key role in protein ...

Overlapping and weak fingerprints pose challenges in criminal cases. A new study offers a solution and brings hope for using chemical residues in fingerprints for personal profiling. A groundbreaking ...