2022 June-1 - 474 articles
In recent years, the application of cow manure waste as an adsorbent of heavy metals in water and soil has increased. The analysis of the most effective adsorbents from cow manure as materials that can reduce heavy metals, while being low-cost and ea...
This article is a continuation and extension of research on a new approach to the classification and recognition of EEG signals. Their goal is to control the mobile robot through mental commands, using a measuring set such as Emotiv Epoc Flex Gel. Th...
The geomechanical parameters in underground engineering are usually difficult to determine, which can pose great obstacles in underground engineering. A novel displacement back-analysis method is proposed to determine the geomechanical parameters in...
Flashed glasses are composed of a base glass and a thin colored layer and have been used since medieval times in stained glass windows. Their study can be challenging because of their complex composition and multilayer structure. In the present work,...
Aiming at solving the problems of large calculation, time-consuming, and low segmentation accuracy of multi-threshold image segmentation, an adaptive threshold value based differential evolution algorithm is proposed in this paper. Firstly, an opposi...
Given the global threats towards coral reefs, this conference’s central theme, “Reef coral biotechnology”, is particularly timely. Our goal is to promote communication and dialogue in this field among marine researchers within and o...
In the medical world, with the innovative application of medical informatics, it is possible to enable many aspects of surgeries that were not able to be addressed before. One of these is contactless surgery planning and controlling the visualization...
This study aimed to find out the incidence of impacted third molars and associated pathologies in people who live in the North Cyprus population. Dr. Burhan Nalbantoglu State Hospital is the only hospital that has an oral and maxillofacial surgery de...
In this paper, the nonlinear effects of the built environment on bus–metro-transfer ridership are explored, based on Shanghai metro data, with an extreme gradient-boosting decision-trees (XGBoost) model. It was found that the bus-network densit...
The inhibition effect of rapid variations of pH in wastewater on activated sludge was investigated in laboratory-scale sequencing batch reactors (SBR). The toxic influence of pH 6.5 and 8.5 was examined. The experiment with pH 8.5 was preferable to f...
Accurate diagnosis of acute appendicitis from abdominal ultrasound is a challenging task, since traditional sonographic diagnostic criteria for appendicitis, such as diameter, compressibility, and wall thickness, rely on complete identification or vi...
With the development of new cement-based raw materials, foaming agents and fillers used for special applications of foam concrete, the use of foam concretes has become widespread. Foam concrete is a type of concrete that stands out with its lightness...
Background: Northern Italy has an enormous heritage of hop biodiversity that need to be exploited and studied. The preservation and valorization through the characterization of the existent biodiversity is a primary goal of the European Green Deal 20...
Our research examined the nest-building characteristics of two mouse species native to Hungary, the mound-building mouse (Mus spicilegus) and the house mouse (Mus musculus), under laboratory housing conditions. In indoor housing, the nest-building ma...
Early-stage detection of cardiac autonomic neuropathy (CAN) is important for better management of the disease and prevents hospitalization. This study has investigated the complex nature of PR, QT, RR, and ST time segments of ECG signals by computing...
The p53 pathway has been the focus of many researchers in the last few decades owing to its pivotal role as a frontline cancer suppressant protein. It plays a vital role in maintaining cell cycle checkpoints and cell apoptosis in response to a broken...
Due to energy efficiency, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have gradually been considered as an alternative to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in various machine learning tasks. In image recognition tasks, leveraging the superior capability of CNN...
The electron density profile on a plasma surface has a decisive influence on the mechanism and characteristics of the plasma high-order harmonic generation. When the pre-pulse has a similar spatial and temporal distribution as the main laser pulse, t...
Rolling bearings are some of the most crucial components in rotating machinery systems. Rolling bearing failure may cause substantial economic losses and even endanger operator lives. Therefore, the accurate remaining useful life (RUL) prediction of...
The early automated identification of brain tumors is a difficult task in MRI images. For a long time, continuous research efforts have floated a new idea of replacing different grayscale anatomic regions of diagnostic images with appropriate colors...
In order to enhance the fluid mixing in the stirred tank and reduce the power consumption under the condition of full baffle, a sinusoidal sawtooth baffle was established in the present study. Based on the Eulerian–Eulerian method, a numerical...
Quantifying industry consumption or production of resources, wastes, emissions, and losses—collectively called flows—is a complex and evolving process. The attribution of flows to industries often requires allocating multiple data sources...
Traditional construction machinery’s full hydraulic steering system has high energy consumption. An electro-hydraulic flow matching steering system for electric wheel loaders based on closed-circuit pump control is proposed to solve the proble...
In waterproofing mountain tunnels, the tunnel joint is the weak link. To explore the waterproof failure mechanism of the tunnel joint waterstop belt and to propose an optimization method for the waterstop belt, this paper combines tests and numerical...
In this article, activated carbon was produced from Lantana camara and olive trees by H3PO4 chemical activation. The prepared activated carbons were analyzed by characterizations such as scanning electron microscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray spectrosc...
Shale gas is a promising new energy source stored in shale. This research aims to study the laws of rock crack initiation and propagation under the low-temperature fracturing of liquid nitrogen, explore the influencing factors of the shale reservoir...
Three-dimensional ground penetrating radar (3D GPR) is a non-destructive examination technology for pavement distress detection, for which its horizontal plane images provide a unique perspective for the task. However, a 3D GPR collects thousands of...
Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) is a highly promising 3D imaging modality for breast diagnosis. Tissue overlapping is a challenge with traditional 2D mammograms; however, since digital breast tomosynthesis can obtain three-dimensional images, tiss...
In this present paper, the dynamic stiffness method (DSM) was formulated to investigate the out-of-plane natural vibration of a thin orthotropic plate using the classical plate theory (CPT). Hamilton’s principle was implemented to derive the go...
The primary goal of this research was to study transmission loss and absorption of fluted PVC panels using experimental and theoretical methods. During these studies, the link between panel size, thickness, transmission loss, and absorption was consi...
Heat transfer through tube walls can be promoted using a ribbed tube configuration. Most of the ribs used in previous reports have equal height along the tube length. In this numerical study, we investigate the heat transfer and pressure drop in a tr...
The induced polarization method has become a popular method for evaluating formation permeability characteristics in recent years because of its sensitivity to water and water-bearing porous media. In particular, the induced polarization relaxation t...
Multivariate time series forecasting has long been a subject of great concern. For example, there are many valuable applications in forecasting electricity consumption, solar power generation, traffic congestion, finance, and so on. Accurately foreca...
The design and implementation of a car’s black box system using a Raspberry Pi microcomputer and an Internet of things module is presented in this research. This system was built using a Raspberry Pi microcomputer and different sensors, includi...
Gas sensing for dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) based on rotational absorption spectroscopy is demonstrated in the 220–330 GHz frequency range using a robust electronic THz-wave spectrometer. DMSO is a flammable liquid commonly used as a solvent in the foo...
Diversity in date palm (DP) cultivars plays a crucial role in the agroecosystems of several countries, such as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). This study aims to map and analyze the spatial distribution of the most grown DP cultivars (Khlas, Ruziz...
One of the most promising technologies that is driving digitalization in several industries is Digital Twin (DT). DT refers to the digital replica or model of any physical object (physical twin). What differentiates DT from simulation and other digit...
Carbon capture is one of the recently raised technologies to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. Adsorption was introduced as an energy-efficient carbon capture process, and the literature primarily shows the utilization of circular cross-sectional ad...
The formation of Ag nanoparticles on the surface of TiO2 (AgNP/TiO2) to enhance photocatalytic efficiency was studied. The Ag nanoparticles (AgNP) size, form, and distribution dependence on the initial thickness of Ag thin films, annealing temperatur...
Organic carbon isotopic composition (δ13Corg) in loess deposits is an important indicator of terrestrial paleovegetation, and it has been widely used for paleoenvironmental reconstruction in aeolian sediments around the world. However, little r...
The aim of the present study was to induce malolactic fermentation (MLF) after alcoholic fermentation (AF) of must of the Moschofilero cultivar, the only ‘gris’ native grape variety that is cultivated in Greece. For this purpose, Oenococc...
EPSP synthase is the target enzyme of glyphosate herbicides. Due to the extensive use of glyphosate, it is very important to obtain EPSPS genes with high glyphosate resistance for the development of transgenic crops. GR79-EPSPS is a class I EPSP synt...
A train–tunnel–surrounding rock numerical model was established by using ABAQUS to analyze the dynamic response of a heavy-haul railway tunnel in hard rock, quantify the influence of the train axle load on the tunnel dynamic response and...
Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) has gained increasing attention from researchers and practitioners as it has proven to be an invaluable technique in natural languages processing. This is mainly due to its unique feature...
In bit-patterned media recording (BPMR) systems, two-dimensional (2D) interference, which includes intersymbol and intertrack interference from down- and across-track directions, respectively, increases when the distance between the islands is reduce...
The shift quality is one of the most important criteria for evaluating the operation and transportation of a hydro-mechanical continuously variable transmission (HMCVT) tractor. In this study, a comprehensive shifting control strategy of a hydro-mech...
Web texts typically undergo the open-ended growth of new relations. Traditional relation extraction methods lack automatic annotation and perform poorly on new relation extraction tasks. We propose an open-domain relation extraction system (ORES) bas...
Premature damage to heavy-duty pavement has been found to be significantly caused by the vehicle–highway alignment interaction, especially in mountainous regions. This phenomenon was further verified by field pavement damage investigations and...
Over the years, several machine-learning applications have been suggested to assist in various clinical scenarios relevant to oral cancer. We offer a systematic review to identify, assess, and summarize the evidence for reported uses in the areas of...
Melanoma is a fatal type of skin cancer; the fury spread results in a high fatality rate when the malignancy is not treated at an initial stage. The patients’ lives can be saved by accurately detecting skin cancer at an initial stage. A quick a...
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