Applied Sciences, Volume 12, Issue 17

L-asparaginase (ASNase, EC 3.5.1.1) is an amidohydrolase enzyme known for its anti-cancer properties, with an ever-increasing commercial value. Immobilization has been studied to improve the enzyme’s efficiency, enabling its recovery and reuse,...

Edge computing constitutes a promising paradigm of managing and processing the massive amounts of data generated by Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Data and computation are moved closer to the client, thus enabling latency- and bandwidth-sensitive...

High-resolution and wide-swath (HRWS) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a promising technique for applications such as maritime surveillance. In the maritime environment, normally only a few targets such as ships are interested. However, before detec...

COVID-19 has deeply impacted clinical strategies in dentistry and the use of surgical masks and respirators has become critical. They should adapt to the person’s facial anatomy, but this is not always easy to achieve. Bellus3D Company proposed...

Geoacoustic inversion is important for seabed geotechnical applications. It can be formulated as a problem that seeks an optimal solution in a high-dimensional parameter space. The conventional inversion approach exploits optimization methods with a...

Outliers that deviate from a normal distribution are typically removed during the analysis process. However, the patterns of outliers are recognized as important information in the outlier detection method. This study proposes a technology trend scre...

This article describes the research carried out on six thin-walled groups of samples produced from the aluminum alloy 6060 T4 by a turning and milling operation. Additionally, the analysis of the surface topography was carried out, focusing on three-...

The cotton bollworm Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) is a notorious agricultural pest with world-wide distribution, extreme polyphagy, high mobility and fecundity, facultative diapause, and significant resistance to chemica...

Pulses have desirable nutritional properties and a wide range of applications in the food industry as meat-free, casein-free, gluten-free, and functional food products. Unfortunately, the legume raw material contains some anti-nutrients and allergeni...

The development and approbation of a superconducting local oscillator based on a long Josephson junction made it possible to create a fully superconducting integrated receiver in sub-terahertz frequency range, which was successfully tested both on bo...

In this paper, a compact broadband planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) with dual-resonant modes (TM_1/2,2 and TM_3/2,0) is proposed for 5G applications. By loading a pair of horizontal slots on the patch, the TM_3/2,0 mode can be shifted downward and combi...

This study deals with the technology of autonomous mobile robots (AMR) and their implementation on the SmartFactory production line at the Technical University of Ostrava. The task of the mobile robot is to cooperate with the production line, take ov...

Demand-side management (DSM) is a significant component of the smart grid. DSM without sufficient generation capabilities cannot be realized; taking that concern into account, the integration of distributed energy resources (solar, wind, waste-to-ene...

The roll eccentricity signal is a weak and complex periodic signal that is difficult to be identified. To improve the detection accuracy of the roll eccentricity signal and to compensate effectively, this study proposed a roll eccentricity signal det...

Time series data are significant, and are derived from temporal data, which involve real numbers representing values collected regularly over time. Time series have a great impact on many types of data. However, time series have anomalies. We introdu...

The cooling performance of automatic transmission fluids (ATFs) plays an important role in hybrid electrical vehicles, in which the electric motor (EM) is placed inside the transmission housing due to their mission of cooling the EM. The cooling perf...

Aeration is a key post-harvest grain processing operation that forces air through the pore volume of the grain bulk to establish favorable conditions to maintain grain quality and improve its storability. However, during storage, grain bulk experienc...

With the rapid development of the geographic information service industry, point cloud data are widely used in various fields, such as architecture, planning, cultural relics protection, mining engineering, etc. Despite that there are many approaches...

This paper presents an approach to validate a wind tunnel propeller dynamometer applicable to Group 2 unmanned aircraft. The intended use of such a dynamometer is to characterize propellers over a relevant range of sizes and operating conditions, und...

The development of novel methods for industrial production of metal-matrix composites with improved properties is extremely important. An aluminum matrix reinforced by “in situ” α-Al₂O₃ nanoparticles was fabricated via direct chemic...

This paper investigates the trajectory tracking control problem for underactuated underwater vehicles, for which a model is expressed in terms of quasi-velocities arising from the inertia matrix decomposition. The control approach takes into account...

The aim of the current study was to evaluate the changes in body posture in pubertal subjects characterized by Skeletal Class II with mandibular retrusion pre- and post-Fränkel II (FR-2). The treatment of Skeletal Class II with functional therap...

The broad availability of connected and intelligent devices has increased the demand for Internet of Things (IoT) applications that require more intense data storage and processing. However, cloud-based IoT systems are typically located far from end-...

A lightweight rolled steel strip surface defect detection model, YOLOv5s-GCE, is proposed to improve the efficiency and accuracy of industrialized rolled steel strip defect detection. The Ghost module is used to replace the CBS structure in a part of...

At the end of 2018, a call for papers was made for the Special Issue called “Applied Engineering to Lean Manufacturing Production Systems”, whose objective was to bring together different articles with industrial applications of the diffe...

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), also known as Speech-To-Text (STT) or computer speech recognition, has been an active field of research recently. This study aims to chart this field by performing a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) to give insig...

Traditional radar calibration methods often use one standard sphere as the standard calibration object, but researchers seldom discuss the size and the material content of the calibration sphere. We propose using a pair of different-sized spheres to...

This paper proposes a systematic control design method for active damping control of grid-connected voltage source converters (VSCs). The proposed control method considers the conventional cascaded control loops and improves them by including additio...

Carbon dioxide geological utilization and storage (CGUS) is an effective way to mitigate climate warming. In this paper, we resorted to Lo’s model to analyze the dispersion and attenuation characteristics of unsaturated porous media. Based on t...

Sea fog is a particular kind of atmospheric aerosol that often poses hidden risks to ship navigation, ocean exploration, human productivity, and life. In light of the aforementioned issues, this research conducted a thorough investigation of the pola...

In this paper, a high-density gas–liquid discharge plasma is obtained combined with nanosecond pulse voltage and a floating electrode. The discharge images, the waveforms of pulse voltage and discharge current, and the optical emission spectra...

A Chinese commercial kitchen fume exhaust (CCKEF) system mainly consists of a wall-mounted canopy hood, air duct and terminal electrostatic purifiers, the capture and purification performance of which should be guaranteed to obtain satisfactory indoo...

The task of processing natural language automatically has been on the radar of researchers since the dawn of computing, fostering the rise of fields such as computational linguistics and human–language technologies [...]

The modified goniometric platform (MGP) is a novel instrument used to measure trunk rotation while sitting. A lack of reliable and valid evidence has been reported to measure trunk rotation using MGP. Therefore, this study was aimed to investigate th...

$H_{\infty }$ control approaches are widely investigated in various application fields and in the robotics area, too, for their robustness properties. However, they are still rarely adopted in the industrial context for the control of robot manipulators,...

The scarcity of attack samples is the bottleneck problem of anomaly detection of underlying business data in the industrial control system. Predecessors have done a lot of research on temporal data generation, but most of them are not suitable for in...

Single-stationed geomagnetic vertical intensity polarization (GVIP) anomalies have demonstrated good predictions of the occurrence of large earthquakes in Japan. Nonetheless, due to the lack of a previously densified geomagnetic network, how the mult...

We present the technical realization of a high-speed hard X-ray single-photon counting-detection scheme based on a commercial avalanche silicon photodiode and high-speed oscilloscope. The development is motivated by the need to perform pulse-resolved...

This paper presents a method of fast computations of waveforms of the junction temperature of power SiC-MOSFETs (silicon carbide metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor) operating in switched-mode circuits at the steady state. T...

People with cerebral palsy (CP) suffer primarily from lower-limb impairments. These impairments contribute to the abnormal performance of functional activities and ambulation. Footprints, such as plantar pressure images, are usually used to assess fu...

Anaerobic digestion is one of the technologies that will play a key role in the decarbonization of the economy, due to its capacity to treat organic waste, recover nutrients and simultaneously produce biogas as a renewable biofuel. This feature also...

Strain elastography (SE) determines the level of tissue stiffness and thus helps in the diagnosis and differentiation of various pathologies. This paper aims to study the elastographic differences between healthy thyroid parenchyma and ones affected...

In this study, the water quality change in a stagnant controlled river containing hard management structures due to pulsed flow was simulated. The Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code (EFDC) model was used for the water quality change simulation, and th...

An effective path-planning algorithm in three-dimensional (3D) environments based on a geometric approach for redundant/hyper-redundant manipulators are presented in this paper. The method works within confined spaces cluttered with obstacles in real...

A semi-automatic wheelchair allows disabled people to possibly control in an indoor environment with obstacles and targets. The paper proposes an EEG-based control system for the wheelchair based on a grid map designed to allow disabled people to rea...

Objectives—Cochlear implantation has been suggested to be associated with an air-bone gap, possibly secondary to increased middle- and inner-ear stiffness. To explore the effect of possible changes in mechanics due to cochlear implantation, we...

The authors present the unsolved issue of the contextual design of urban intersections (UI) from the point of view of traffic noise emissions around residential buildings in the Slovak context. Noise barriers are very rarely used in urban areas, due...

(1) Background: In endodontics, anatomical complexities and irregularities in the root canal system may interfere with sealer penetration, increasing the risk of treatment failure. This work aimed to investigate the effects of sonicated Thermafil (De...

The present work studies the electrical and electrothermal properties of CNT/GNP-doped nanocomposites for optimizing their anti-icing and de-icing capabilities. Here, a comparison between 3D-printed circuits and coatings based on these materials is c...

We examine the nonlinear response of two planar pendula under external and kinematic excitations, which are very relevant as paradigmatic models in nonlinear dynamics. These pendula act under the action of an additional constant torque, and are subje...