2022 April - 17 articles
Free and open-source hardware (FOSH) development has been shown to increase innovation and reduce economic costs. This article reviews the opportunity to use FOSH as a sanction to undercut imports and exports from a target criminal country. A formal...
The commonly employed mathematical functions in constitutive models, such as the strain hardening/softening model, strain-rate hardening factor, and temperature-softening factor, are reviewed, and their prediction characteristics are illustrated. The...
The discretization of continuous attributes in a dataset is an essential step before the Rough-Set-Theory (RST)-based classification process is applied. There are many methods for discretization, but not many of them have linked the RST instruments f...
This article describes the coaching strategies of the NESTORE e-coach, a virtual coach for promoting healthier lifestyles in older age. The novelty of the NESTORE project is the definition of a multi-domain personalized pathway where the e-coach acco...
International need for water quality is placing a high demand on separation technology to develop advanced oxidative processes for polyethersulfone (PES) membranes to help improve water purification. Therefore, VUV photo-oxidation with a low pressure...
Robots are being increasingly used in the fight against highly-infectious diseases such as the Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). By using robots in place of human health care workers in disinfection tasks, we can reduce the exposure of these workers to...
Man overboard is an emergency in which fast and efficient detection of the critical event is the key factor for the recovery of the victim. Its severity urges the utilization of intelligent video surveillance systems that monitor the ship’s per...
Face-swap-attacks (FSAs) are a new threat to face recognition systems. FSAs are essentially imperceptible replay-attacks using an injection device and generative networks. By placing the device between the camera and computer device, attackers can pr...
Polymer composites are becoming an important class of materials for a diversified range of industrial applications due to their unique characteristics and natural and synthetic reinforcements. Traditional methods of polymer composite fabrication requ...
This paper discusses the challenges towards designing an educational avatar which visualizes the future learning-self of a student in order to promote their self-regulated learning skills. More specifically, the avatar follows a negotiation-based int...
Deep learning solutions for hand pose estimation are now very reliant on comprehensive datasets covering diverse camera perspectives, lighting conditions, shapes, and pose variations. While acquiring such datasets is a challenging task, several studi...
The detection and prevention of workers’ body straining postures and other stressing conditions within the work environment, supports establishing occupational safety and promoting well being and sustainability at work. Developed methods toward...
In this paper, a robotic Multitasking Intelligent Nurse Aid (MINA) is proposed to assist nurses with everyday object fetching tasks. MINA consists of a manipulator arm on an omni-directional mobile base. Before the operation, an augmented reality int...
The use of renewable energy sources is the need of the hour, but the highly intermittent nature of the wind and solar energies demands an efficient controller be connected with the system. This paper proposes an adept control algorithm for an isolate...
Due to the increased use of memristors and their many applications, the use of emulators has grown in parallel to avoid some of the difficulties presented by real devices, such as variability and reliability. In this paper, we present a memristive em...
In this paper, we present a thorough analysis of parasitic coupling effects between different electrodes for a 3D Sequential Integration circuit example comprising stacked devices. More specifically, this study is performed for a Back-Side Illuminate...
At the end of 2019, a severe public health threat named coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spread rapidly worldwide. After two years, this coronavirus still spreads at a fast rate. Due to its rapid spread, the immediate and rapid diagnosis of COVID-19 is...
