Background/Aims: This study analyzed the diagnostic accuracy of endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) for pancreatic solid masses in patients with or without chronic pancreatitis as well as the clinical parameters relevant to a malignancy when EUS-FNA was negative or inconclusive.Methods: A total of 97 patients, who underwen

Abstract Background Nowadays, automated phenotyping of plants is essential for precise and cost-effective improvement in the efficiency of crop genetics.In recent years, machine learning (ML) techniques have shown great success in the classification and modelling of crop parameters.In this research, we consider the capability of ML to perform grain

This paper proposed a braking torque controller via two-time-scale design with a sliding mode for electric vehicles with four in-wheel motors.According to the different changing rates between the vehicle and wheel motion during the braking process, the design of the braking controller is carried out in two steps.In the first step, a nominal braking

We considered the problem of determining the singular elastic fields in a one-dimensional (1D) hexagonal quasicrystal strip containing two collinear cracks perpendicular to the strip boundaries under antiplane shear loading.The Fourier series method was used to reduce the boundary value problem to triple series equations, then to singular integral