2022 August-1 - 601 articles
In this paper, the authors, based on a case study of the Polish healthcare IT system being deployed to the cloud, show the possibilities for limiting the computing resources consumption of rarely used services. The architecture of today’s devel...
The Internet of Drones (IoD) is greatly developed and promotes many civil applications. However, it can still be prone to several security problems which threaten public safety. The issue of security poses further problems upon linking the IoD to the...
The second volume of the Special Issue New Industry 4 [...]
A brain tumor (BT) is an abnormal development of brain cells that causes damage to the nerves and blood vessels. An accurate and early diagnosis of BT is important to prevent future complications. Precise segmentation of the BT provides a basis for s...
Laser cooling, or refrigeration, is a physical process in which a substance is maintained at a temperature below that of its surroundings [...]
At the present time, the entire world is suffering from global climate change due to emissions caused by the combustion of fossil fuels. Thus, it is necessary to look for alternative power sources to generate clean electrical energy. Thermoelectric g...
Footwear properties can influence physiological and biomechanical variables, which may lead to positive changes in distance running performance. One innovative development in running shoe technology is adding carbon fiber plates to increase midsole b...
Citrus harvesting is time-intensive and labor-intensive, relying mainly on manual harvesting. The automatic harvesting of fruit and vegetable crops can not only reduce the physical labor of fruit farmers in the harsh field environment but also greatl...
As three-dimensional (3D) printing technology is widely used, security issues have arisen, especially in the terminal parts of automobiles, aircraft, and 3D-printed military equipment. If the original design models or the STL (stereolithography) file...
Variable-period scanning beam interference lithography (VP-SBIL) can be used to fabricate varied-line-spacing (VLS) plane gratings. The exposure phase modulation method to pattern a VLS grating with a desired groove density must be carefully devised....
Having an accurate and easily accessible geochemical database is crucial for a correct groundwater management. Here, for the first time in Italy, chemico-physical data of groundwater collected by different Environmental Protection Agencies during the...
Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring (IONM) is being applied to a wide range of surgical fields as a diagnostic tool to protect patients from neural injuries that may occur during surgery. However, several contributing factors complicate the...
The possibility of cyber-attacks against critical infrastructure, and in particular nuclear power plants, has prompted several efforts by academia. Many of these works aim to capture the vulnerabilities of the industrial control systems used in these...
Water scarcity is one of the major concerns of this century. The photocatalysis through TiO2 can be suitable for improving liquid wastewater treatment. However, TiO2 is used as a powder (nanoparticles), which is a drawback for full-scale applications...
In order to study the damage evolution law and failure mechanism of mudstone under different stress states, with the help of high-resolution CT scanning equipment, in situ CT scanning experiments of mudstone under uniaxial compression were carried ou...
A computational scheme is suggested to estimate neutral excitation energies in the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) states. The FQHE states are systematized according to the Farey-number hierarchy structure. We show that besides the widely known...
Application of a vibrational model of heat transfer to a fluid made of hard spheres is discussed. The model was originally proposed to describe heat conduction in fluids with soft pairwise interactionsHere, it is shown that only minor modifications a...
An efficient transfection is a crucial step for the introduction of epigenetic modification in host cells, and there is a need for an optimized transfection process for individual model systems separately. Mouse pancreatic αTC1-6 cells, which a...
Virtual coupling uses wireless communication instead of mechanical coupling to ensure that trains are easily reconnected or disconnected. This technology can shorten the interval time between trains, give full play to the carrying capacity of lines,...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of hydrodynamic cavitation (HC) as a pre-treatment method for selected organic wastes. In these HC experiments, municipal wastewater (MW) and mature landfill leachate (MLL) as well as mixtures o...
Tor serves better at protecting users’ privacy than other anonymous communication tools. Even though it is resistant to deep packet inspection, Tor can be de-anonymized by the website fingerprinting (WF) attack, which aims to monitor the websit...
A fall is an event where a person unintentionally and traumatically finds themselves on the floor or a lower level. Falls are very common, especially in the older adult population. One in four people falls at least once a year after age 65. Because o...
Hybrid composite laminates are manufactured by using technologies and raw materials of the aeronautic sector with the aim to improve the damping behavior of composite structures. Matrix hybridization was achieved by laminating carbon fiber reinforced...
Among the various components of a tire, this study explores the tread portion, which has the longest contact with the ground during the summer, all-weather, and in the winter. The mechanical properties of three types of tread crack specimens were mea...
Parsley leaves (PL) are a rich source of many bioactive compounds and show many health-promoting properties. The aim of this study is to analyze the effect of the addition of PL to wheat flour on the physical, antioxidant, and sensory properties of w...
The Jinan Jiluo Road Crossing the Yellow River Tunnel North Extension Project will intersect the Queshan reservoir, which currently supplies 60% of the domestic water in Jinan City. During the excavation process of the large-diameter slurry type shie...
The roundhouse kick is the most commonly executed kick in Taekwondo competitions. Because it is the fastest kick among kicking techniques and can easily change its motion on the basis of the opponent’s motion, the roundhouse kick is suitable fo...
In recent years, adversarial examples have aroused widespread research interest and raised concerns about the safety of CNNs. We study adversarial machine learning inspired by a support vector machine (SVM), where the decision boundary with maximum m...
Background. Arrival times at the scene and provision of initial emergency treatment have importance in pre-hospital care settings. Donning proper protective equipment by medical personnel, as was needed during the COVID-19 pandemic, prolongs the time...
In order to analyze the explosion accidents of the CRH5 EMU roof arrester in recent years, an internal temperature measuring platform based on fluorescence fiber was established, and the temperature distribution characteristics under the continuous o...
Emerging technologies in biomedicine and bioinformatics are generating an increasing amount of complex and heterogeneous data [...]
Feelings significantly affect organizations in a variety of circumstances and areas. Many major events that affect people and organizations cannot be discussed without an understanding of the essential roles of feelings. In addition, work-related fee...
The vehicular ad hoc network is an emerging area of technology that provides intelligent transportation systems with vast advantages and applications. Frequent disconnections between the vehicular nodes due to high-velocity vehicles impact network pe...
This study explores the extension configuration methods of complex product conceptual design, seeking to improve the product design efficiency and design quality. The paper firstly reviews the literature on element representation models of multi-type...
(1) Background: The present pilot in vitro study evaluated, physically and biologically, the effects produced by the wear of the titanium surface using different drill models. (2) Methods: Titanium disks were subjected to wear using four different bu...
Molecular cavities play a critical role in our understanding of molecular phenomena. Recently, a number of works on the visual analysis of protein cavity dynamics have been developed to allow experts and users to interactively research dynamic cavity...
Torsional deformities of the lower limb are common in children with cerebral palsy (CP)-determining gait problems. The mechanisms underlying transverse plane gait deviations arise from a combination of dynamic and static factors. The dynamic elements...
Background. Cardiac contractility modulation (CCM) is a novel device-based therapy for patients with heart failure with reduced and mild reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF/HFmrEF). CCM increases cardiac performance and produces reverse left ventricular...
Knowledge transfer has become very popular in recent years, and it is either based on a one-way transfer method used with knowledge distillation or based on a two-way knowledge transfer implemented by deep mutual learning, while both of them adopt a...
A Wavestar-type Wave Energy Converter (WEC) on an elastic foundation structure was investigated using an author-developed coupled dynamic analysis computer program. The program included an elastic foundation structure composed of beam elements, a mul...
Antibiotics are increasingly used to treat certain bacteria that are harmful to humans. However, their inadequate or excessive use can lead to the proliferation of certain more resistant strains, which ultimately reduces their effectiveness. To count...
Control panels for kitchen appliances have been designed in various forms and with different design parameter values. Among these design parameters, the panel angle is one of the most important factors influencing the usability and user preference. H...
Medical data contains multiple records of patient data that are important for subsequent treatment and future research. However, it needs to be stored and shared securely to protect the privacy of the data. Blockchain is widely used in the management...
Advances in nanotechnology have led to the development of antimicrobial technology of nanomaterials. In recent years, photocatalytic antibacterial disinfection methods with ZnO-based nanomaterials have attracted extensive attention in the scientific...
This paper is focused on the performance analysis of protection mechanisms utilized in common wavelength division multiplexing-based passive optical networks. The main aim of the proposed research is providing an option of comparing different traffic...
Metaverse is a compound word of “Meta” and “Universe”, meaning a world that transcends reality, a new virtual world. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, non-face-to-face further accelerated the activation of the Metaverse. The Metav...
In terms of gait recognition, face recognition is currently the most commonly used technology with high accuracy. However, in an image, there is not necessarily a face. Therefore, face recognition cannot be used if there is no face at all. However, w...
This paper presents a dynamic analysis of the ParReEx multibody mechanism, which has been designed for human wrist joint rehabilitation. The starting point of the research is a virtual prototype of the ParReEx multibody mechanism. This model is used...
The world of food microbiology, and by extension that of food safety, has evolved significantly at the turn of the century [...]
The Chao Phraya River basin is located in the central area of Thailand, which experiences many land subsidence issues due to groundwater pumping. The Department of Groundwater Resources (DGR) has been recording data on the changes in the groundwater...
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