2021 October-2 - 421 articles
The understanding of ergonomics is a vital competency for all peripheral nerve block operators. The essence of physical ergonomics for peripheral nerve block procedures can be summarised into three significant components: brain, musculoskeletal and n...
Earthquakes lead to enormous harm to life and assets. The ability to quickly assess damage across a vast area is crucial for effective disaster response. In recent years, social networks have demonstrated a lot of capability for improving situational...
Sichuan bacon is one of the most popular types of Chinese bacon in the domestic market. High-throughput sequencing was used to characterize the bacterial diversity of 39 Sichuan bacon samples collected from 3 geographical regions. The results showed...
The dynamics of the particle size distribution (PSD) of polydispersed fuel spray is important in the evaluation of the combustion process. A better understanding of the dynamics can provide a tool for selecting a PSD that will more effectively meet t...
For the dynamic collision avoidance problem of an unmanned surface vehicle (USV), a dynamic collision avoidance control method based on an improved cuckoo search algorithm is proposed. The collision avoidance model for a USV and obstacles is establis...
Electronic nicotine delivery systems first appeared on the market in 2003 and have been promoted as healthier alternatives to conventional tobacco cigarettes. The rapid evolution of technology for these products generated a wide variety of models, an...
The leaching of metal ions from orthodontic appliances is a problem for their use in patients with metal allergies. Despite the development of a number of non-metal orthodontic appliances, including brackets, non-metal wires are not yet available. Th...
(1) Background: Due to the aging population in industrialized countries and due to the increase in the number of traffic or sports accidents, the number of artificial joints and implants for osteosynthesis will increase in the coming years. Therefore...
Models@runtime (models at runtime) are based on computation reflection. Runtime models can be regarded as a reflexive layer causally connected with the underlying system. Hence, every change in the runtime model involves a change in the reflected sys...
As the interaction between companies becomes more and more complex, the problems of asymmetric information, weak traceability, and low collaboration efficiency in the traditional centralized supply chain are becoming increasingly prominent. To solve...
Nowadays, optimizing wind farm configurations is one of the biggest concerns for energy communities. The ongoing investigations have so far helped increasing power generation and reducing corresponding costs. The primary objective of this study is to...
Acceptance testing and commission are essential elements of the quality assurance program for imaging equipment. We present the results of a performance evaluation of Flat Panel-Based Cardiovascular Fluoroscopy X-ray Systems as a part of acceptance t...
Many air pollutants are inhaled by human breathing, increasing the prevalence of respiratory disease and even mortality. With the recent COVID-19 issue, the number of air pollutants affecting humans is demands further investigation. However, there ar...
The depressurization method is known as the most productive and effective method for successful methane recovery from hydrate deposits. However, this method can cause considerable subsidence because of the increased effective stress. Maintenance of g...
Advection-dispersion experiments (ADE) were effectively designed for inadequate transport models through a calibration/validation process. HTO, selenium (Se), and cesium (Cs) transport in crushed granite were studied using a highly reliable, dynamic...
In past decades, ultrafast spin dynamics in magnetic systems have been associated with heat deposition from high energy laser pulses, limiting the selective access to spin order. Here, we use a long wavelength terahertz (THz) pump–optical probe setup...
Interactions between humans and systems need to be designed appropriately for safety, usability, productivity, health, and/or wellness [...]
The deep learning technique has turned into a mature technique. In addition, many researchers have applied deep learning methods to classify products into defective categories. However, due to the limitations of the devices, the images from factories...
Automated detection of impurities is in demand for evaluating the quality and safety of human cell-processed therapeutic products in regenerative medicine. Deep learning (DL) is a powerful method for classifying and recognizing images in cell biology...
Applications based on Long-Short-Term Memory (LSTM) require large amounts of data for their training. Tesseract LSTM is a popular Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine that has been trained and used in various languages. However, its training be...
To improve the detection efficiency and safety of the tractor, the research proposed a device for detecting the loading–lifting performance of the lower link of the tractor based on the four-bar mechanism. According to the actual use requirements and...
This study investigated the outgoing and pollen-gathering foraging activities of Apis mellifera jemenitica (AMJ) and Apis mellifera carnica (AMC) under a hot-arid environment in the presence of nectar-rich melliferous Ziziphus nummularia flora. The d...
The growing population and increasing demand for surface transportation have highlighted the importance of maintaining safe and reliable civil infrastructures for daily use. Among all civil infrastructures, bridges are one of the most important eleme...
This paper presents a Pareto-based multi-objective optimization for operating CO2 sequestration with a multi-well system under geological uncertainty; the optimal well allocation, i.e., the optimal allocation of CO2 rates at injection wells, is obtai...
The main objective of this study is to propose an artificial neural network (ANN)-based tool for predicting the cantilever wall deflection in undrained clay. The excavation width, the excavation depth, the wall thickness, the at-rest lateral earth pr...
Rebars corrosion phenomena can modify the structural behaviour of reinforced concrete (RC) members and consequently the seismic performance of RC structures. Since many existing RC structures are affected by this phenomenon, the influence of the rein...
This study investigated the antioxidant and immunomodulatory potential of six blue whiting soluble protein hydrolysates (BWSPHs, BW-SPH-A to -F) and their simulated gastrointestinal digests (SGID, BW-SPH-A-GI to -F-GI) in murine RAW264.7 macrophages....
(1) Background: agriculture practices adopt homogenization-farming processes to enhance product characteristics, with lower costs, standardization, mass production, and production efficiency. (2) Problem: conventional agriculture practices eliminate...
Functional electrical nerve stimulation (FES) is a non-invasive technique for neuromodulation and may have the potential for motor rehabilitation following incomplete spinal cord injury (iSCI). Axonal degeneration in motor fibers of lower extremity n...
This work presents a novel approach to detecting stress differences between experts and novices in Situation Awareness (SA) tasks during maritime navigation using one type of wearable sensor, Empatica E4 Wristband. We propose that for a given workloa...
This paper presents the simulation and calculation-based aspect of constructing a dynamically stable, self-balancing electric monowheel from first principles. It further goes on to formulate a reference model-based adaptive control structure in order...
Conducting physical attendance exams during pandemics is a challenge facing many educational institutes and universities. Our study’s main objective is to numerically simulate the expected transmission of the harmful exhaled droplets of aerosols from...
The seat dip effect (SDE) is an acoustic phenomenon of low-frequency band attenuation that occurs in the music halls when the sound of the music passes at a near grazing incidence over the seats. In this paper, the numerical simulations on the basis...
Wafer maps provide engineers with important information about the root causes of failures during the semiconductor manufacturing process. Through the efficient recognition of the wafer map failure pattern type, the semiconductor manufacturing process...
There are efficient sampling methods to accurately estimate behaviour with a moderate or long duration. For short behaviour, observing animals continuously is recommended although there is no recommended minimum observation time. In most studies, sam...
With the surge of motor vehicle ownership and land intensification, plenty of large parking lots emerge as the times demand. Although it solves the problem of insufficient parking spaces, it intensifies the interaction between dynamic and static traf...
Understanding microorganisms in terms of their functionality, diversity, and interactions with other organisms is crucial for better understanding of our Biosphere [...]
The method of searching for an optimal solution inspired by nature is referred to as particle swarm optimization. Differential evolution is a simple but effective EA for global optimization since it has demonstrated strong convergence qualities and i...
Beyond the importance of ponds for aquatic and terrestrial life, pond networks seem to be crucial to providing a vital spatial resource in response to global climate change for all migrating and spreading taxa. Additionally, ponds offer sustainable s...
A reduced reference quality assessment algorithm for image retargeting by earth mover’s distance is proposed in this paper. In the reference image, all the feature points are extracted using scale invariant feature transform. Let the histograms of im...
Prions are highly resistant to physical or chemical damage, although previous studies have shown that STERRAD®, a hydrogen gas plasma sterilizer using radiofrequency (RF) discharge, has an inactivation effect. Here, the effect of hydrogen peroxide ga...
The issue of movement stability remains highly relevant considering increasing vehicle speeds. The evaluation of vehicle stability parameters and the modeling of specific movement modes is a complex task, as no universal evaluation criteria have been...
Rotation search and point cloud registration are two fundamental problems in robotics, geometric vision, and remote sensing, which aim to estimate the rotation and transformation between the 3D vector sets and point clouds, respectively. Due to the p...
This paper investigated the effect of task complexity on time estimation in the virtual reality environment (VRE) using behavioral, subjective, and physiological measurements. Virtual reality (VR) is not a perfect copy of the real world, and individu...
This review aimed to explore whether studies employing a convolutional neural network (CNN) for odontogenic cyst and tumor detection follow the methodological reporting recommendations, the checklist for artificial intelligence in medical imaging (CL...
Understanding public opinion towards immigrants is key to prevent acts of violence, discrimination and abuse. Traditional data sources, such as surveys, provide rich insights into the formation of such attitudes; yet, they are costly and offer limite...
The interest in visual-based surveillance systems, especially in natural disaster applications, such as flood detection and monitoring, has increased due to the blooming of surveillance technology. In this work, semantic segmentation based on convolu...
One of the crucial projects underway in Egypt is the lining of watercourses to withstand the outflow of water through their beds and flanks. Various materials have been used in this project, including limestone, sandstone, basalt, and dolomite, along...
Incineration bottom ashes (IBA) are the main waste from municipal solid waste (MSW) incineration. In the Iberian countries (Portugal and Spain), MSW incineration with energy recovery (WtE) plays an important role in MSW management. IBA is highly prod...
For urban streams, wastewater inflow makes water quality management difficult. This study attempted to analyze the water quality characteristics and pollution sources for the efficient management of water quality in the upper, middle, and lower Gul-p...
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