Soil compaction associated with mechanized wood harvesting can long-lastingly disturb forest soils, ecosystem function, and productivity. Sustainable management requires precise deep knowledge of logging operation impacts on which be attained by meta-analysis studies covering representative datasets. We performed a the impact logging-associated soils microbial biomass carbon (MBC), bulk density...

A landslide located in northern Sichuan Province, China was investigated. series of numerical models the stabilized with piles and anchor cable frame beams were developed using a three-dimensional finite-element method. The Strength Reduction Method employed to investigate stability slopes, internal forces piles, axial cables. parametric study consisting pile position, length, spacing carried o...

Differentially driven skid-steering vehicles are often considered for navigation in outdoor terrains. However, the control of such vehicles is challenging because the wheels must skid laterally to follow a curved path, and motion stability can be lost as a result of excess skidding due to the position of the instantaneous center of rotation (ICR). To accommodate for the potential loss of stabil...

In the paper, a mathematical model assembling a "driver-mobile vehicle-road environment" system and capable of simulating the process of mobile vehicles skid in traction movement mode is proposed. The usage of non-linear drift models allows the development of efficient algorithms for mobile vehicles dynamic stabilization systems. INTRODUCTION The traction loss between the vehicle and the road a...

The Cryogenic Carbon CaptureTM (CCC) process is a retrofit, post-combustion technology that desublimates CO2 in the flue gas, separates the resulting solid from the remaining light gases, pressurizes the solid CO2, melts the CO2 and warms the light gas, and completes the CO2 pressurization with liquid CO2. This skid-scale CCC system has demonstrated successful carbon capture of 90–99% from simu...

In this paper motion analysis on a winding stair-climbing is investigated using our proposed rotational arm type of robotic wheelchair. For now, the robotic wheelchair is operated in an open mode to climb winding stairs by a dynamic turning, therefore, the dynamics model is required to ensure a passenger’s safety. Equations of motion based on the skid-steering analysis are developed for the tra...

Data centric analysis using direct measurements has been established as a successful performance analysis technique. The information gathered with this technique can be used to address data locality problems and other issues. Existing approaches rely on special hardware support which is needed to negate a ‘skid’ factor. Our approach is viable on hardware where the skid factor is an issue. Prior...

The tumour necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) is a potent inducer of apoptosis in many cancer cells. However, a significant proportion of tumours are TRAIL-resistant erecting a major hurdle for a successful TRAIL-based treatment regimen in the future. In this context, it would be a major advantage to be able to identify the tumours that respond to TRAIL. The existence of ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to investigate the utility of an internet-based version of the trail making test (TMT) to predict performance on a speech-in-noise perception task. DESIGN Data were taken from a sample of 1509 listeners between ages 18 and 91 years old. Participants completed computerized versions of the TMT and an adaptive speech-in-noise recognition test. All testing was c...