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Applied Sciences, Volume 10, Issue 20

October-2 2020 - 377 articles

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Cover Story: Photonic devices based on optical fibers are becoming more important. One of the factors in making more effective devices is by having greater control over the fabrication of specialty optical fibers. In this paper, we discuss the fabrication of alumina-doped preforms using a modified chemical vapor deposition (MCVD) vapor phase chelate delivery system with Al(acac)3 as the precursor. The objective of this work is to study the deposition process, efficiency of the fabrication process, and quality of the fabricated fiber preforms. View this paper

Articles (377)

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,759 Views
17 Pages

21 October 2020

Currently, the seismic designs of reinforced concrete (RC) bridges with tall piers are often accomplished following the ductility-based seismic design method. Though the collapses of the RC bridges with tall piers can be avoided, they are likely to e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
11,943 Views
12 Pages

Illegal Logging Detection Based on Acoustic Surveillance of Forest

  • Iosif Mporas,
  • Isidoros Perikos,
  • Vasilios Kelefouras and
  • Michael Paraskevas

21 October 2020

In this article, we present a framework for automatic detection of logging activity in forests using audio recordings. The framework was evaluated in terms of logging detection classification performance and various widely used classification methods...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,732 Views
19 Pages

Sorption of Organic Electrolytes and Surfactants from Natural Waters by Heterogeneous Membranes

  • Irina Bejanidze,
  • Oleksandr Petrov,
  • Volodymyr Pohrebennyk,
  • Tina Kharebava,
  • Nunu Nakashidze,
  • Nato Didmanidze,
  • Nazi Davitadze and
  • Anton Petrov

21 October 2020

The widespread use of surfactants increasingly requires the development and application of reliable methods for the demineralization of wastewaters, preventing environmental pollution. One of the most reliable and effective methods of demineralizatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,487 Views
25 Pages

21 October 2020

Typhoons Soudelor (2015) and Dujuan (2015) were two of the strongest storms to affect the Taiwan Strait in 2015. This study investigated the response of the waters on the western bank of the Taiwan Strait to the passage of Soudelor and Dujuan. This i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,887 Views
21 Pages

21 October 2020

This paper develops a totally new appointed-time integral barrier Lyapunov function-based trajectory tracking algorithm for a hovercraft in the presence of multiple performance constraints and model uncertainties. Firstly, an appointed-time performan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,012 Views
16 Pages

21 October 2020

Silica microparticles made of diatomaceous earth have become particularly attractive materials for designing drug delivery systems. In order to investigate the use of natural diatoms as drug scaffolds for carbon monoxide releasing molecules (CORMs),...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,861 Views
30 Pages

Personalized Exergames Language: A Novel Approach to the Automatic Generation of Personalized Exergames for Stroke Patients

  • David Vallejo,
  • Cristian Gmez-Portes,
  • Javier Albusac,
  • Carlos Glez-Morcillo and
  • José Jesús Castro-Schez

21 October 2020

Physical rehabilitation of stroke patients is based on the daily execution of exercises with face-to-face supervision by therapists. This model cannot be sustained in the long term, due to the involved economic costs, the growing number of patients,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
129 Citations
15,016 Views
32 Pages

Micro-LED as a Promising Candidate for High-Speed Visible Light Communication

  • Konthoujam James Singh,
  • Yu-Ming Huang,
  • Tanveer Ahmed,
  • An-Chen Liu,
  • Sung-Wen Huang Chen,
  • Fang-Jyun Liou,
  • Tingzhu Wu,
  • Chien-Chung Lin,
  • Chi-Wai Chow and
  • Gong-Ru Lin
  • + 1 author

21 October 2020

Visible Light Communication (VLC) technology is an emerging technology using visible light modulation that, in the modern world, will mainly facilitate high-speed internet connectivity. VLC provides tremendous advantages compared to conventional radi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,537 Views
24 Pages

21 October 2020

In this paper, we propose a preprocessing strategy for denoising of speech data based on speech segment detection. A design of computationally efficient speech denoising is necessary to develop a scalable method for large-scale data sets. Furthermore...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,597 Views
12 Pages

The Design Development of the Sliding Table Saw Towards Improving Its Dynamic Properties

  • Kazimierz A. Orlowski,
  • Przemyslaw Dudek,
  • Daniel Chuchala,
  • Wojciech Blacharski and
  • Tomasz Przybylinski

21 October 2020

Cutting wood with circular saws is a popular machining operation in the woodworking and furniture industries. In the latter sliding table saws (panel saws) are commonly used for cutting of medium density fiberboards (MDF), high density fiberboards (H...

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