Contest rules are set up by administrators who frequently have discretionary power in specifying
the details of these rules, ie, they can bias the contest rules toward specific contestants …

In the automotive industry, cost estimation of components to be purchased plays an important
role for price negotiations with suppliers and, therefore, for cost control within the supply …

Industry 4.0 (I4.0) is accompanied by a variety of technologies which offer great potential for
optimizing the manufacturing of electric motors. However, the application of I4.0 …

Automated detection of cancer metastases in lymph nodes has the potential to improve the
assessment of prognosis for patients. To enable fair comparison between the algorithms for …

The regeneration of bone tissue is the main purpose of most therapies in dental medicine. For
bone regeneration, calcium phosphate (CaP)-based substitute materials based on natural …

This paper is a summary of the "Best Practice Guideline" (BPG) document (Franke et al.,
2007) produced in the framework of the European COST Action 732 "Quality assurance and …

Recommendations on the proper use of CFD for the prediction of pedestrian winds are
presented. They are restricted to statistically steady turbulent flows modelled by the RANS …

The scientific discussion on the Digital Twin gained substantial momentum within the last
couple of years. In the context of Industry 4.0, the Digital Twin in the broadest sense refers to …

External forcing and internal dynamics result in climate system variability ranging from sub-daily
weather to multi-centennial trends and beyond 1 , 2 . State-of-the-art palaeoclimatic …

Maximal voluntary contraction changes the mechanical properties of skeletal muscle. Using
ultrasound, we investigated whether these changes are reflected by changes in muscle …