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Swimming muscles power suction feeding in largemouth bass Open
Significance Over one-half of all vertebrate species are ray-finned fishes. Across this extraordinary diversity, the most common feeding mode is suction feeding: rapid expansion of the mouth to suck in water and food. Here, we find that th…
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Shark skin-inspired designs that improve aerodynamic performance Open
There have been significant efforts recently aimed at improving the aerodynamic performance of aerofoils through the modification of their surfaces. Inspired by the drag-reducing properties of the tooth-like denticles that cover the skin o…
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Modelling hydro-mechanical reinforcements of plants to slope stability Open
The study investigates plant reinforcement to the stability of coarse-grained soil slopes, exploring the relative contribution of mechanical root reinforcement and hydrological effects of plant-induced matric suction. A numerical model is …
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Suction-based propulsion as a basis for efficient animal swimming Open
A central and long-standing tenet in the conceptualization of animal swimming is the idea that propulsive thrust is generated by pushing the surrounding water rearward. Inherent in this perspective is the assumption that locomotion involve…
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Measurement of airborne particle exposure during simulated tracheal intubation using various proposed aerosol containment devices during the COVID‐19 pandemic Open
Summary The COVID‐19 pandemic has led to the production of novel devices intended to protect airway managers during the aerosol‐generating procedure of tracheal intubation. Using an in‐situ simulation model, we evaluated laryngoscopist exp…
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Blue-ringed octopus-inspired microneedle patch for robust tissue surface adhesion and active injection drug delivery Open
Intratissue topical medication is important for the treatment of cutaneous, mucosal or splanchnic diseases. However, penetrating surface barriers to providing adequate and controllable drug delivery while guaranteeing adhesion in bodily fl…
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Three-dimensional flow field over a trailing-edge serration and implications on broadband noise Open
The three-dimensional flow field over the suction side of a NACA 0018 airfoil with trailing-edge serrations was studied by means of time-resolved tomographic particle image velocimetry. Mean flow results show that the boundary layer thickn…
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Suction Cups‐Inspired Adhesive Patch with Tailorable Patterns for Versatile Wound Healing Open
Medical patches play an important role in wound healing because of their tissue conformality, drug release capacity, and convenient operation. Great efforts have been devoted to developing new‐generation patches with distinctive features p…
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Evaluating aerosol and splatter following dental procedures: Addressing new challenges for oral health care and rehabilitation Open
Background Dental procedures often produce aerosol and splatter which have the potential to transmit pathogens such as SARS‐CoV‐2. The existing literature is limited. Objective(s) To develop a robust, reliable and valid methodology to eval…
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Octopus‐Inspired Soft Arm with Suction Cups for Enhanced Grasping Tasks in Confined Environments Open
Octopuses have impressive manipulation capabilities empowered by the intrinsic adaptation of their soft arms combined with distributed suckers. Drawing inspiration from the arm morphology and abilities of the octopus, the integrated design…
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Origins, Innovations, and Diversification of Suction Feeding in Vertebrates Open
We review the origins, prominent innovations, and major patterns of diversification in suction feeding by vertebrates. Non-vertebrate chordates and larval lamprey suspension-feed by capturing small particles in pharyngeal mucous. In most o…
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Heat generation/absorption influence on steady stretched permeable surface on MHD flow of a micropolar fluid through a porous medium in the presence of variable suction/injection Open
In this investigation the impact of heat generation or absorption on steady MHD flow of stretched semi-infinite vertical plate through porous media in the involvement of the variable suction/injection, magnetic field, and thermal radiation…
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Influence of Induced Magnetic Field on Free Convection of Nanofluid Considering Koo-Kleinstreuer-Li (KKL) Correlation Open
In this paper, the influence of induced magnetic field on free convection of Al2O3-water nanofluid on permeable plate by means of Koo-Kleinstreuer-Li (KKL) model is reported. Impact of Brownian motion, along with the properties of nanoflui…
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Active control of vortex-induced vibration of a circular cylinder using machine learning Open
We demonstrate the use of high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics simulations in machine-learning based active flow control. More specifically, for the first time, we adopt the genetic programming (GP) to select explicit control laws, i…
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Numerical treatment for Carreau nanofluid flow over a porous nonlinear stretching surface Open
The impact of magnetic field and nanoparticles on the two-phase flow of a generalized non-Newtonian Carreau fluid over permeable non-linearly stretching surface has been analyzed in the existence of all suction/injection and thermal radiat…
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Chest Tube Drainage of the Pleural Space: A Concise Review for Pulmonologists Open
Chest tube insertion is a common procedure usually done for the purpose of draining accumulated air or fluid in the pleural cavity. Small-bore chest tubes (≤14F) are generally recommended as the first-line therapy for spontaneous pneumotho…
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Soil-water retention behaviour of fine/coarse soil mixture with varying coarse grain contents and fine soil dry densities Open
The interlayer soil identified in conventional French rail track corresponds to a mixture of fine soil and coarse grains. To investigate the role of fines in the soil-water retention property of such a mixture, different coarse grain conte…
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Resettable skin interfaced microfluidic sweat collection devices with chemesthetic hydration feedback Open
Recently introduced classes of thin, soft, skin-mounted microfluidic systems offer powerful capabilities for continuous, real-time monitoring of total sweat loss, sweat rate and sweat biomarkers. Although these technologies operate without…
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Direct Numerical Simulations of a High-Pressure Turbine Vane Open
In this paper, we establish a benchmark data set of a generic high-pressure (HP) turbine vane generated by direct numerical simulation (DNS) to resolve fully the flow. The test conditions for this case are a Reynolds number of 0.57 × 106 a…
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Active flow control for power enhancement of vertical axis wind turbines: Leading-edge slot suction Open
Vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) suffer from a poor power performance at low tip speed ratios, where their blade aerodynamics are dominated by unsteady separation and dynamic stall. Therefore, to enhance their aerodynamic performance, s…
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Hybrid nanofluid on mixed convective radiative flow from an irregular variably thick moving surface with convex and concave effects Open
The analysis explores the significance of thermal radiation on mixed convective boundary layer flow of a hybrid (SiO2–MoS2/H2O) nanofluid. The permeability of the stretched/shrinking surface is allowing the wall fluid suction, whereas radi…
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Dual Solutions and Stability Analysis of a Hybrid Nanofluid over a Stretching/Shrinking Sheet Executing MHD Flow Open
In this paper, the unsteady magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow of hybrid nanofluid (HNF) composed of C u − A l 2 O 3 /water in the presence of a thermal radiation effect over the stretching/shrinking sheet is investigated. Using similarity tra…
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Models of wound healing: an emphasis on clinical studies Open
Background The healing of wounds has always provided challenges for the medical community whether chronic or acute. Understanding the processes which enable wounds to heal is primarily carried out by the use of models, in vitro , animal an…
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MHD flow of Ag-water nanofluid over a flat porous plate with viscous-Ohmic dissipation, suction/injection and heat generation/absorption Open
The goal of the recent article is to identify the consequences of heat generation/absorption and suction/injection on MHD flow of Ag-water nanofluid past a stretching flat plat in a porous medium with Ohmic-viscous dissipation. The set of …
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An Origami-Inspired Reconfigurable Suction Gripper for Picking Objects With Variable Shape and Size Open
Gripper adaptability to handle objects of different shape and size brings high flexibility to manipulation. Gripping flat, round, or narrow objects poses challenges to even the most sophisticated robotic grippers. Among various gripper tec…
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Endoscopic ultrasonography guided-fine needle aspiration for the diagnosis of solid pancreaticobiliary lesions: Clinical aspects to improve the diagnosis Open
Endoscopic ultrasonography-guided fine-needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) has been applied to pancreaticobiliary lesions since the 1990s and is in widespread use throughout the world today. We used this method to confirm the pathological evidence…
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Morphology, Kinematics, and Dynamics: The Mechanics of Suction Feeding in Fishes Open
Suction feeding is pervasive among aquatic vertebrates, and our understanding of the functional morphology and biomechanics of suction feeding has recently been advanced by combining experimental and modeling approaches. Key advances inclu…
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Subglottic secretion suction for preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia: an updated meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis Open
A protocol of this meta-analysis has been registered on PROSPERO (registration number: CRD42015015715 ); registered on 5 January 2015.
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Field study on influence of root characteristics on soil suction distribution in slopes vegetated with <i>Cynodon dactylon</i> and <i>Schefflera heptaphylla</i> Open
Vegetation evapotranspiration (ET) induced soil water suction reduces hydraulic conductivity and increases shear strength of slopes. Several field studies have been conducted to investigate suction distribution in vegetated slopes. However…
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Investigation of plant growth and transpiration-induced matric suction under mixed grass–tree conditions Open
Although evapotranspiration-induced matric suction for single species has been widely studied, little is known about how mixed-species planting would affect plant growth and induced matric suction. This study aims to explore the effects of…