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Impact of Urban Historical Parks on Physical Activity and Public Health in Beijing
Publisher: ASCE
Abstract: It is believed that having urban parks that residents are keen to visit will promote walking and daily exercise, thereby impacting the general health of the population. We conducted studies on three historical parks in ...
The Patient-Specific Brace Design and Biomechanical Analysis of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: Brace application has been reported to be an effective approach in treating mild to moderate idiopathic adolescent scoliosis. However, little attention is focused on the biomechanical study of ...
Parallel Inverse Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification for Computationally Demanding Groundwater-Flow Models Using Covariance Matrix Adaptation
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: This study investigates the performance of the covariance matrix adaptation-evolution strategy (CMA-ES), a stochastic optimization method, in solving groundwater inverse problems. The objectives of the study are to evaluate ...