2021 December-2 - 591 articles
Carbon nanotubes have emerged as a versatile and ubiquitous nanomaterial, finding applications in industry and biomedicine. As a result, biosafety concerns that stimulated the research focused on evaluation of carbon nanotube toxicity. In addition, b...
Data science and machine learning are buzzwords of the early 21st century. Now pervasive through human civilization, how do these concepts translate to use by researchers and clinicians in the life-science and medical field? Here, we describe a softw...
In this study, Portable Document Format (PDF), Word, Excel, Rich Test format (RTF) and image documents are taken as the research objects to study a static and fast method by which to detect malicious documents. Malicious PDF and Word document feature...
Nanoporous structures have attracted great attention in electronics, sensor and storage devices, and photonics because of their large surface area, large volume to surface ratio, and potential for high-sensitivity sensor applications. Normally, elect...
Adaptive cruise control (ACC), as a driver assistant system for vehicles, not only relieves the burden of drivers, but also improves driving safety. This paper takes the intelligent pure electric city bus as the research platform, presenting a novel...
This study presents two new approaches based on Weighted Contourlet Parametric (WCP) images for the classification of breast tumors from B-mode ultrasound images. The Rician Inverse Gaussian (RiIG) distribution is considered for modeling the statisti...
In the context of energy conservation and sustainable development, building design should take into account the energy efficiency criteria by using renewable energy sources. Double-skin facades (DSF) represent innovative energy-efficient techniques t...
In electrical machines, laminated steels are commonly adopted as soft magnetic materials, while for permanent magnets, sintered ferrites and NdFeB are the most common solutions. On the other hand, the growing demand for volume reduction with the incr...
Stiffness of ankle joint has been investigated in a wide range of biomechanical studies with a focus on the improvement of performance and reduction in the risk of injury. However, measuring ankle joint stiffness (AJS) using the existing conventional...
In order to study the residual strength of buried pipelines with internal corrosion defects in seasonally frozen soil regions, we established a thermo-mechanical coupling model of a buried pipeline under differential frost heave by using the finite e...
The heel-to-toe drop of running shoes is a key parameter influencing lower extremity kinematics during running. Previous studies testing running shoes with lower or larger drops generally used minimalist or maximalist shoes, where the factors outside...
To meet the requirements of charging the mainstream rechargeable batteries, in this work, a dual-bridge resonant converter (DBRC) is operated as a battery charger. Thanks to the features of this topology, the required high efficiency can be achieved...
The decreased rate of children’s vaccination has resulted in outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, and vaccination hesitancy is being brought about by the uncertainty caused by the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. With this study, we aimed to...
In multi-label learning, each object is represented by a single instance and is associated with more than one class labels, where the labels might be correlated with each other. As we all know, exploiting label correlations can definitely improve the...
The prediction of settlement during tunneling presents multiple challenges, as such settlement is governed by not only the local geology but also construction methods and practices, such as tunnel boring machine (TBM). To avoid undesirable settlement...
This study conducts research on an architectural design based on energy harvesting technology. The research subject is a pergola-style structure to be built in a square in Arrecife, the Spanish territory of Lanzarote Island. The architectural design...
The innovation-driven Industry 5.0 leads us to consider humanity in a prominent position as the center of the manufacturing field even more than Industry 4.0. This pushes us towards the hybridization of manufacturing plants promoting a full collabora...
High impedance faults present unique challenges for power system protection engineers. The first challenge is the detection of the fault, given the low current magnitudes. The second challenge is to locate the fault to allow corrective measures to be...
Nowadays, the enhancement of the existing building stock energy performance is a priority. To promote building energy renovation, the European Committee asks Member States to define retrofit strategies, finding cost-effective solutions. This research...
In view of the dynamic response of geogrid-reinforced gravel under high-speed train load, this paper explores the dynamic characteristics of geogrid-reinforced gravel under semi-sine wave cyclic loading. A number of large scale cyclic triaxial tests...
The type and concentration of dissolved gases in transformer insulating oil are used to assess transformer conditions. In this paper, an online detection setup for measuring the concentration of multicomponent gases dissolved in transformer insulatin...
This study aims to develop a prestressed concrete steel (PC) strand with an embedded optical Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensor, which has been developed by the Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology since 2013. This new strand is...
Rock damage caused by its microcrack growth has a great influence on the deformation and strength properties of rock under compressive loading. Considering the interaction of wing cracks and the additional stress caused by rock bridge damage, a new c...
At the Department of Management and Engineering (DTG) of the University of Padova (Italy), the research team led by Prof. Renato Lazzarin, formed by the authors, worked during the first fifteen years of the millennium on different topics focused on s...
The miniaturization of electronic devices and the inefficiency of CMOS technology due to the development of integrated circuits and its lack of responsiveness at the nanoscale have led to the acquisition of nanoscale technologies. Among these technol...
Wetlands are hotspots of CH4 emissions to the atmosphere, mainly sustained by microbial decomposition of organic matter in anoxic sediments. Several knowledge gaps exist on how environmental drivers shape CH4 emissions from these ecosystems, posing c...
Reducing ear damage is the key to improving the quality of maize harvests. In order to reduce the impact and damage of the ear caused by the ear snapping mechanism, this paper proposes a method to convert ear deformation energy during collision into...
In the global wave of automation, logistics and manufacturing are indispensable and important industries. Among them, the related automatic warehousing system is even more urgently needed. There are quite a few cases of using robotic arms in the curr...
This paper deals with optimizing the location of ambulance stations in a two-tiered emergency medical system in an urban environment. Several variants of station distribution are calculated by different mathematical programming models and are evaluat...
Key-dependent message (KDM) security is of great research significance, to better analyse and solve the potential security problems in complex application scenarios. Most of the current KDM security schemes are based on traditional hard mathematical...
In this work, feather keratin was extracted from the waste feather of chicken via alkyd pretreatment and reduction method, the extraction rate is above 85%. The molecular weight and aggregation morphology of feather keratin in an aqueous environment...
Crop growth and development is a dynamic and complex process, and the essence of yield formation is the continuous accumulation of photosynthetic products from multiple fertility stages. In this study, a new stacking method for integrating multiple g...
The traditional method for sparkling wine making consists of a second fermentation of a base wine followed by ageing in the same bottle that reaches the consumers. Nitrogen metabolism is the second most important process after carbon and takes place...
The use of the tapered Gutenberg-Richter distribution in earthquake source models is rapidly increasing, allowing overcoming the definition of a hard threshold for the maximum magnitude. Here, we expand the classical maximum likelihood estimation met...
Orbital angular momentum (OAM) of optical vortex beams has been regarded as an independent physical dimension of light with predominant information-carrying potential. However, the presence of scattering environment and turbulent atmosphere scrambles...
We have simulated a monolithic three-dimensional inverter (M3DINV) structure by considering the interfacial trap charges generated thermally during the monolithic three-dimensional integration process. We extracted the SPICE model parameters from M3D...
Non-destructive testing (NDT) is a broad group of testing and analysis techniques used in science and industry to evaluate the properties of a material, structure, or system for characteristic defects and discontinuities without causing damage. Recen...
The article deals with the determination of the resistance to cyclic loading of the threaded joints of pressure vessels and defective elements according to the failure mechanics criteria. Theoretical and experimental studies do not provide a sufficie...
Internet traffic classification is a beneficial technique in the direction of intrusion detection and network monitoring. After several years of searching, there are still many open problems in Internet traffic classification. The hybrid classifier c...
With the wide application of distributed generations (DGs) and microgrids (MGs), the inverter control becomes a hot research topic. For the inverter control in MG applications, first, a complex variable state-feedback-based switch control frame is pr...
Throughout history, natural products have afforded a rich source of compounds that have found many applications in the fields of pharmacology [...]
Natural language interfaces to databases (NLIDB) has been a research topic for a decade. Significant data collections are available in the form of databases. To utilize them for research purposes, a system that can translate a natural language query...
In engineering, the fault data unevenly distribute and difficultly share, which causes that the existing fault diagnosis methods cannot recognize the newly added fault types. An intelligent diagnosis method for machine fault is proposed based on fede...
The problems with the information overload of e-government websites have been a big obstacle for users to make decisions. One promising approach to solve this problem is to deploy an intelligent recommendation system on e-government platforms. Collab...
The article is focused on the approach based on the discrete mathematical analysis conception and continues a series of studies related to the application of the previously developed methodology to geophysical data analysis. The main idea of the stud...
This paper proposes a novel hybrid power system to improve the shift quality of a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV). After selecting a typical shift scheme, the study focused on the motor rotary velocity control algorithm and coordinated control strategy...
Software testing is undertaken to ensure that the software meets the expected requirements. The intention is to find bugs, errors, or defects in the developed software so that they can be fixed before deployment. Testing of the software is needed eve...
Breast cancer detection using mammogram images at an early stage is an important step in disease diagnostics. We propose a new method for the classification of benign or malignant breast cancer from mammogram images. Hybrid thresholding and the machi...
In the past two decades, many studies reported the efficacy of upper limb robotic rehabilitation in patients after stroke, also in its chronic phase. Among the possible advantages of robotic therapy over conventional therapy are the objective measure...
This article presents a solution for the quantitative evaluation of the stress–strain state (SSS) and the bearing capacity of rectangular foundations, factoring in the unit weight of the soil mass and different values of pre-overburden pressure...
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