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Applied Sciences, Volume 10, Issue 3

February-1 2020 - 463 articles

Cover Story: Our research asserts that roof-top opaque photovoltaic panels installed in greenhouses, shading over 15% of the area, reduce inside radiation to harmful levels for crop yields and fruit quality. High percentages of outside shading in greenhouses also reduce early-yields and delay production at the end of the cropping season. View this paper.
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Articles (463)

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,530 Views
12 Pages

10 February 2020

Acoustic underwater communication systems designed to work reliably in shallow coastal waters must overcome major limitations such as multipath propagation and the Doppler effect. These restrictions are the reason for the complexity of receivers bein...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
4,733 Views
12 Pages

10 February 2020

Longjing tea is one of China’s protected geographical indication products with high commercial and nutritional value. The geographical origin of Longjing tea is an important factor influencing its commercial and nutritional value. Hyperspectral...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,196 Views
16 Pages

Hybrid Flow Shop Scheduling Problems Using Improved Fireworks Algorithm for Permutation

  • Xuelian Pang,
  • Haoran Xue,
  • Ming-Lang Tseng,
  • Ming K. Lim and
  • Kaihua Liu

10 February 2020

Prior studies are lacking which address permutation flow shop scheduling problems and hybrid flow shop scheduling problems together to help firms find the optimized scheduling strategy. The permutation flow shop scheduling problem and hybrid flow sho...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,418 Views
12 Pages

New Ecological Solutions Involved in the Cleaning of a 19th Century Icon

  • Tudor Cosmin Iurcovschi,
  • Viorica Vasilache,
  • Ion Sandu,
  • Marius Zaharia,
  • Olga Pintilie and
  • Andrei Victor Sandu

10 February 2020

Cleaning of old icons requires special attention to selecting the processes and systems compatible with the chemical nature and adhesions of the deposits, to not affect the polychrome layer or their conservation status. The study was carried out on a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,099 Views
11 Pages

Optimal Design of the Vertical Earthing with Electrodes Arranged in Line

  • Sorin Gheorghe Pavel,
  • Virgil Maier,
  • Claudiu Ciorca,
  • Horia Gheorghe Beleiu and
  • Iulian Birou

10 February 2020

The design methods of earthing from standards recommend the choice of electrode lengths and propose that the distances between electrodes to be 1–3 times larger than their length. The number of electrodes is determined from the condition of ach...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
10,188 Views
13 Pages

Blob Detection and Deep Learning for Leukemic Blood Image Analysis

  • Cecilia Di Ruberto,
  • Andrea Loddo and
  • Giovanni Puglisi

10 February 2020

In microscopy, laboratory tests make use of cell counters or flow cytometers to perform tests on blood cells, like the complete blood count, rapidly. However, a manual blood smear examination is still needed to verify the counter results and to monit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,028 Views
17 Pages

10 February 2020

Maglev vehicles have become a new type of transportation system with higher speed, lower noise, and commercial appeal. Magnetic-suspension systems, which have high nonlinearity and open-loop instability, are the core components of maglev vehicles. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
5,072 Views
13 Pages

Facile Solution Synthesis, Processing and Characterization of n- and p-Type Binary and Ternary Bi–Sb Tellurides

  • Bejan Hamawandi,
  • Sedat Ballikaya,
  • Hazal Batili,
  • Viking Roosmark,
  • Martina Orlovská,
  • Aminu Yusuf,
  • Mats Johnsson,
  • Rafal Szukiewicz,
  • Maciej Kuchowicz and
  • Muhammet S. Toprak

10 February 2020

The solution synthesis route as a scalable bottom-up synthetic method possesses significant advantages for synthesizing nanostructured bulk thermoelectric (TE) materials with improved performance. Tuning the composition of the materials directly in t...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,023 Views
11 Pages

FT-IR Characterization of Antimicrobial Hybrid Materials through Sol-Gel Synthesis

  • Michelina Catauro,
  • Simona Piccolella and
  • Cristina Leonelli

10 February 2020

Silica/polycaprolactone and titania/polycaprolactone hybrid organic/inorganic amorphous composites were prepared via a sol-gel method starting from a multi-element solution containing tetramethyl orthosilicate (TMOS) or titanium butoxide (TBT), polyc...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
4,526 Views
23 Pages

10 February 2020

The evaluation of the structural health of a bridge and the monitoring of its bearing capacity are performed by measuring different parameters. The most important ones are the displacements due to fixed or mobile loads, whose monitoring can be perfor...

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