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According to our previous study, the motion and adhesion of individual NPs are modelled through the Brownian adhesion dynamics. Subsequently, this paper establishes a particle-cell hybrid model in the flow-based MC, which focuses on the RBC deformation, aggregation, and dispersion in the blood suspension. Based on the state of the RBC deformation and aggregation in the vessels with different flow rates, this paper proposes a novel methodology for detecting the deformability of the cells. The blood state in terms of RBC deformability is determined by the difference in NPs' concentration at the receiving end., this paper sheds some light on the influence of RBCs on the motion of NPs, which provides new insights on the design of targeted drug delivery and the detection of vascular diseases.Misalignments between powered exoskeleton joints and the user's anatomical joints are inevitable due to difficulty locating the anatomical joint axis, non-constant location of the anatomical joint axis, and soft-tissue deformations. Self-aligning mechanisms have been proposed to prevent spurious forces and torques on the user's limb due to misalignments. read more Several exoskeletons have been developed with self-aligning mechanisms based on theoretical models. However, there is no experimental evidence demonstrating the efficacy of self-aligning mechanisms in lower-limb exoskeletons. Here we show that a lightweight and compact self-aligning mechanism improves the user's comfort and performance while using a powered knee exoskeleton. Experiments were conducted with 14 able-bodied subjects with the self-aligning mechanism locked and unlocked. Our results demonstrate up to 15.3% increased comfort and 38% improved performance when the self-aligning mechanism was unlocked. Not surprisingly, the spurious forces and torques were reduced by up to 97% when the self-aligning mechanism was unlocked. This study demonstrates the efficacy of self-aligning mechanisms in improving comfort and performance for sit-to-stand and position tracking tasks with a powered knee exoskeleton.Sensory abnormalities are experienced by 90 - 95% of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), a developmental disorder that impacts at least 1 in 132 children worldwide. Virtual reality (VR) technologies can precisely present sensory stimuli and be integrated with human sensing technologies to automatically detect sensory responses, and thus has a potential to improve sensory assessment objectiveness and sensitivity, compared to traditional questionnaire-based methods. However, there is a lack of evidence to demonstrate this potential. Therefore, we designed and developed a preliminary sensory assessment VR system (SAVR) to objectively and precisely evaluate the visual and touch sensory processing differences between adolescents with ASD and their typically developing (TD) peers through game playing. A controlled experiment was conducted with 12 adolescents with ASD and 12 TD adolescents. Participants' sensory pattern was assessed by SAVR and a widely used traditional questionnaire-the Adult/Adolescent Sensory Profile (AASP). We hypothesized that 1) compared to AASP, SAVR can find more significant differences between the two participant groups, and 2) there are significant and strong correlations between the SAVR results and the AASP results. Statistical analyses of the experimental data supported the hypotheses. The implication and limitations of this preliminary exploration as well as future works are discussed.Contour trees are used for topological data analysis in scientific visualization. While originally computed with serial algorithms, recent work has introduced a vector-parallel algorithm. However, this algorithm is relatively slow for fully augmented contour trees which are needed for many practical data analysis tasks. We therefore introduce a representation called the hyperstructure that enables efficient searches through the contour tree and use it to construct a fully augmented contour tree in data parallel, with performance on average 6 times faster than the state-of-the-art parallel algorithm in the TTK topological toolkit.With the prevalence of embedded GPUs on mobile devices, power-efficient rendering has become a widespread concern for graphics applications. Reducing the power consumption of rendering applications is critical for extending battery life. In this paper, we present a new real-time power-budget rendering system to meet this need by selecting the optimal rendering settings that maximize visual quality for each frame under a given power budget. Our method utilizes two independent neural networks trained entirely by synthesized datasets to predict power consumption and image quality under various workloads. This approach spares time-consuming precomputation or runtime periodic refitting and additional error computation. We evaluate the performance of the proposed framework on different platforms, two desktop PCs and two smartphones. Results show that compared to the previous state of the art, our system has less overhead and better flexibility. Existing rendering engines can integrate our system with negligible costs.This paper addresses the tensor completion problem, which aims to recover missing information of multi-dimensional images. How to represent a low-rank structure embedded in the underlying data is the key issue in tensor completion. In this work, we suggest a novel low-rank tensor representation based on coupled transform, which fully exploits the spatial multi-scale nature and redundancy in spatial and spectral/temporal dimensions, leading to a better low tensor multi-rank approximation. More precisely, this representation is achieved by using two-dimensional framelet transform for the two spatial dimensions, one/two-dimensional Fourier transform for the temporal/spectral dimension, and then Karhunen-Loéve transform (via singular value decomposition) for the transformed tensor. Based on this low-rank tensor representation, we formulate a novel low-rank tensor completion model for recovering missing information in multi-dimensional visual data, which leads to a convex optimization problem. To tackle the proposed model, we develop the alternating directional method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithm tailored for the structured optimization problem.read more