{"title":"Vibration transmissibility at male and female wrist of the human hand-arm system and modeling","authors":"Mingzhong Wu, Ming-Zhong Wu, Zhi-Hong Lin","doi":"10.1142/s1793962323500502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1793962323500502","url":null,"abstract":"The determination of standard values of vibration transmissibility at the wrist of the human body is very important to understanding vibration exposure and developing a valid model. In this work, the effects of human weight, gender, and other factors on the transmissibility of hand–arm vibration and vibration transmissibility in the [Formula: see text]-axis direction at the wrist site were randomly collected from 200 subjects (154 males and 46 females) as per the requirement of the standard ISO 10819. Moreover, the envelopes of the maximum and minimum values, as well as the mean and standard deviation of the vibration transmissibility at the wrist site, were obtained for both genders. Second, the effect of gender differences on the mean value of vibration transmissibility was analyzed. Finally, two three-degree-of-freedom (3-DOF) models of the hand–arm system were developed based on the average values of vibration transmissibility at the wrists of male and female subjects, respectively. The study revealed that the mean value of vibration transmissibility was greater in males than in females in the frequency range of 14–39 Hz. For the rest of the frequency ranges of females, their mean vibration transmissibility is greater than that of males, especially in the range 17–30 Hz. It was also observed that the vibration transmissibility of females is 10–18.5% smaller than that of males. The vibration transmissibility of females is greater than that of males by 40–83% when the frequencies are between 150 Hz and 250 Hz. The novelty of this proposed model is the prediction of model differences between males and females compared to other models that do so without considering gender differences. It is validated that the proposed modified model can be used to predict the vibration transmissibility of the wrist.","PeriodicalId":50871,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Complex Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136272244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chathura Jayalath, Chathika Gunaratne, W. Rand, Chathurani Seneviratne, I. Garibay
{"title":"A Generalization of Threshold-based and Probability-based Models of Information Diffusion","authors":"Chathura Jayalath, Chathika Gunaratne, W. Rand, Chathurani Seneviratne, I. Garibay","doi":"10.1142/s0219525923500054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s0219525923500054","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50871,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Complex Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43615245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Uncertainty Visualization for Characterizing Heterogeneous Human Behaviors in Discrete Dynamical System Models","authors":"Xueying Liu, Zhihao Hu, Xinwei Deng, C. Kuhlman","doi":"10.1142/s0219525923400015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s0219525923400015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50871,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Complex Systems","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48943377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Crime hotspot emergence in mexico city: a complexity science perspective","authors":"D. Hernández, Marco A. Jiménez, J. A. Bautista","doi":"10.1142/s0219525923500042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s0219525923500042","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50871,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Complex Systems","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46989124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Game of Life Shifted toward a Critical Point","authors":"Tomoko Sakiyama","doi":"10.25088/complexsystems.32.1.57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25088/complexsystems.32.1.57","url":null,"abstract":"The Game of Life (GoL), which produces complex patterns of life, has been employed to describe biological systems through self-organized criticality and scale-free properties. This paper develops two novel GoL models. One model allows each cell to update the time for the state update following interactions with other local cells using parameter tuning. Thus, individual cells replace their behaviors from intermittent state updates with continuous ones. The system evolves unpredictably close to a critical point and occasionally close to extinction for the alive population if an adequate parameter is chosen. This event occurs with a power-law tailed time interval and presents synchronous behaviors, since individual cells modify their state-update intervals and create time continuity. The other model is the same except that the system evolves unpredictably without any parameter tuning. In the second model, actions of individual cells are tuned not by a fixed parameter but by the surrounding situation. We found that the GoL system in the second model behaved in a similar manner in the first model, which suggests that that model shifts toward a critical point autonomously.","PeriodicalId":50871,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Complex Systems","volume":"44 1","pages":"57-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85226848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Use of Recurrence Plots to Find Mutations in Deoxyribonucleic Acid Sequences","authors":"D. E. Rivas-Cisneros","doi":"10.25088/complexsystems.32.1.89","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25088/complexsystems.32.1.89","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the use of recurrence plots to find changes in the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequence. The DNA sequence is entered into the recurrence plot algorithm in codons and not consecutively, in order to make it easier to find the nucleotide change. The results show that the codon arrangement makes it easy to identify two types of mutations, insertion and deletion, by means of the recurrence plot. It is also shown that the recurrence plot of a short codon sequence has a homogeneous structure. Similarly, a comparison is made with the digital signal processing methodology. Some limitations are the number of codons that can be entered into the algorithm because computationally it becomes very slow and matrix issues, which are mentioned in the discussion section.","PeriodicalId":50871,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Complex Systems","volume":"48 1","pages":"89-100"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78239324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marlon N. Gonzaga, Marcelo Martins de Oliveira, A. A. Faria
{"title":"Spatial Scale Effects in COVID-19 Spread Models","authors":"Marlon N. Gonzaga, Marcelo Martins de Oliveira, A. A. Faria","doi":"10.25088/complexsystems.32.1.71","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25088/complexsystems.32.1.71","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted epidemiological models as important forecasting methods and planning strategies, with studies conducted using a wide variety of analytical and computational techniques. Knowing that more pandemic episodes may occur, it is essential that epidemiological modeling present increasingly credible results. From this perspective, this paper aims to highlight the influence of spatial distribution on an epidemic dynamic, using agent-based modeling. To calibrate the behavioral profile of the population, data was taken on mobility, population pyramid, individual behavior and government policies of a real population during the pandemic. Two different initial spatial distribution scenarios are tested and the robustness of the infection is analyzed. Totalistic rules were designed to assess the influence of infected individuals in the vicinity of an agent, a factor that must not be ignored in modeling respiratory diseases with viruses capable of spreading by aerosols, such as SARS-CoV-2. It is shown that the scenario with nonuniform distribution of agents is much more robust, generating an epidemic process even when uniform distribution, for the same parameters, did not propagate the infection. Our results also suggest that herd immunity is attained in different levels of recovered individuals, showing higher values in denser regions. In conclusion, it is reinforced that the nonuniform feature of the spatial distribution of individuals plays a key role in the infection dynamics and should receive more attention when building epidemiological models.","PeriodicalId":50871,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Complex Systems","volume":"6 1","pages":"71-87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88926465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A lightweight DPT-MAC protocol to increase the network lifetime in wireless body area networks","authors":"A. Roshini, K. V. D. Kiran","doi":"10.1142/s1793962324410113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s1793962324410113","url":null,"abstract":"Evolution of Wireless sensor networks (WSN) has found its identity in Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) to monitor the health status of adults undergone a surgery, etc. In addition, the mobility of the sensor nodes deployed on/in the human body plays a vital role in maintaining the accuracy of the physiological signal. In this paper, a Distributed Posture-based Traffic-Medium Access Control (DPT-MAC) protocol is proposed where the sensor nodes follow the Disc Communication model for the detection of neighbor nodes based on the proximity of the sensing range. Further, the modified IEEE 802.15.4 superframe structure determines the potential sleep posture of a subject to ensure a collision-free data transmission and prioritize the data traffic based on the criticality of the data like critical, periodic and nonregular data. The critical data detection occupies the channel on high priority and will have the probability to access the other channel space during the contention period of the noncritical data. The regular guaranteed time slot (GTS) is reduced from the tradition number of slots to five, which allows the nodes to handle the throughput. This uninterrupted data transmission minimizes the delay rate and collision ratio with any number of sensor nodes as the channel synchronization is strictly followed using the Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Avoidance mechanism. Here, the optimization of the network quality parameters like energy consumption, throughput, delay and collision ratio assures a guaranteed increase in the Network Lifetime. The results show that the distributed topology outperforms the conventional star topology in sustaining the Network Lifetime.","PeriodicalId":50871,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Complex Systems","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135239162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bi-Community Detection method based on both intra- and Inter-Correlation: an Applied Research of International Relations","authors":"C. Zhang, Boyu Chen, Wenlian Lu","doi":"10.1142/s0219525923500029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/s0219525923500029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50871,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Complex Systems","volume":"23 1","pages":"2350002:1-2350002:48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84681359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}