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Applied Sciences, Volume 12, Issue 22

2022 November-2 - 567 articles

Cover Story: In recent years, gesture recognition and speech recognition, as important input methods in Human–Computer Interaction (HCI), have been widely used in the field of virtual reality. In particular, with the rapid development of deep learning, artificial intelligence, and other computer technologies, gesture recognition and speech recognition have achieved breakthrough research progress. The realization of gesture interaction and voice interaction in HCI is summarized, and the advantages brought by deep learning are selected for research. Then, the progress of gesture recognition and speech recognition interaction is analyzed. Finally, the current HCI in the direction of natural language processing is investigated. View this paper
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Articles (567)

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,931 Views
20 Pages

21 November 2022

In recent years, a lot of researchers’ attentions were concentrating on imaginary speech understanding, decoding, and even recognition. Speech is a complex mechanism, which involves multiple brain areas in the process of production, planning, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,759 Views
16 Pages

Laboratory Experimental Study on Polymer Flooding in High-Temperature and High-Salinity Heavy Oil Reservoir

  • Fujian Zhang,
  • Youwei Jiang,
  • Pengcheng Liu,
  • Bojun Wang,
  • Shuaishuai Sun,
  • Daode Hua and
  • Jiu Zhao

21 November 2022

Polyacrylamide (HPAM) and other traditional polymers have poor temperature resistance and salinity tolerance and do not meet the needs of high-temperature and high-salinity reservoirs. In this study, a new temperature-resistant and salinity-tolerant...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,619 Views
33 Pages

21 November 2022

This paper presents a new triple phase shift (TPS) closed-loop control scheme of a dual active bridge (DAB) LCC resonant DC/DC converter to improve wireless charging power transfer efficiency. The primary side inverter phase shift angle regulates the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
5,842 Views
20 Pages

Improving the Robustness and Quality of Biomedical CNN Models through Adaptive Hyperparameter Tuning

  • Saeed Iqbal,
  • Adnan N. Qureshi,
  • Amin Ullah,
  • Jianqiang Li and
  • Tariq Mahmood

21 November 2022

Deep learning is an obvious method for the detection of disease, analyzing medical images and many researchers have looked into it. However, the performance of deep learning algorithms is frequently influenced by hyperparameter selection, the questio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,062 Views
14 Pages

21 November 2022

Digital images are very popular and commonly used for hiding crucial data. In a few instances, image steganography is misused for communicating with improper data. In this paper, a robust deep neural network is proposed for the identification of cont...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
1,968 Views
14 Pages

21 November 2022

Because of the problem that the size of a coal pillar is difficult to determine and it is easy to waste coal resources, taking the Sangou Xindu coal industry as the engineering background, this paper examined the roof cutting and pressure relief tech...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,272 Views
20 Pages

Experimental Study and Numerical Simulation of W/O Emulsion in Developing Heavy Oil Reservoirs

  • Kaixuan Wang,
  • Pengcheng Liu,
  • Bojun Wang,
  • Chao Wang,
  • Peng Liu,
  • Jiu Zhao,
  • Junwei Chen and
  • Jipeng Zhang

21 November 2022

In the process of waterflooding development of heavy oil, W/O emulsion has a strong ability to improve the mobility ratio and block the high-permeability layer, which can effectively improve the sweep coefficient and enhance oil recovery. In this pap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,398 Views
23 Pages

21 November 2022

Slope stability is one of the main problems encountered in MSW (municipality solid waste) landfill designs. Slope stability calculations become difficult due to the heterogeneous structure of MSW landfills and leachate, and therefore, slope geometrie...

  • Review
  • Open Access
42 Citations
16,584 Views
34 Pages

Modern Techniques for Flavonoid Extraction—To Optimize or Not to Optimize?

  • Ana Jurinjak Tušek,
  • Dunja Šamec and
  • Anita Šalić

21 November 2022

Flavonoids, specialized metabolites found in plants, have a number of beneficial properties and are important for maintaining good health. Efficient extraction methods are required to extract the most bioactive compounds from plant material. Modern t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,631 Views
20 Pages

21 November 2022

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a new breakthrough in technological advancements based on the concept of simulating human intelligence. These emerging technologies highly influence the diagnostic process in the field of medical sciences, with enhance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,547 Views
17 Pages

21 November 2022

The emergence and development of systems of systems (SoSs) have expanded the complexity and adaptability of systems engineering. Due to the heterogeneity of its constituent systems, designing and analyzing an SoS faces enormous challenges. Therefore,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,702 Views
10 Pages

21 November 2022

Recently, increased public interest in pollution caused by fossil fuels has prompted studies on various renewable energy sources. As it is important to ensure power generation efficiency in energy harvesting, research in this area continues. Therefor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,344 Views
22 Pages

21 November 2022

Detecting the communicative intent behind user queries is critically required by search engines to understand a user’s search goal and retrieve the desired results. Due to increased web searching in local languages, there is an emerging need to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,687 Views
25 Pages

Multivehicle Point-to-Point Network Problem Formulation for UAM Operation Management Used with Dynamic Scheduling

  • Zin Win Thu,
  • Dasom Kim,
  • Junseok Lee,
  • Woon-Jae Won,
  • Hyeon Jun Lee,
  • Nan Lao Ywet,
  • Aye Aye Maw and
  • Jae-Woo Lee

21 November 2022

In this paper, we introduce a new formulation of the multivehicle point-to-point network problem to be utilised in urban air mobility (UAM) vertiport-to-vertiport network operations. Vehicle routing problems (VRPs) and their variants have previously...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,873 Views
22 Pages

21 November 2022

Artificial intelligence in games is one of the most challenging tasks in academia and industry. In action role-playing games, how to manage combat effectively is a key issue related to game development and the player’s experience. The Belgian a...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,260 Views
14 Pages

Effects of Surgically Assisted Rapid Palatal Expansion on Facial Soft Tissues: A Systematic Review

  • Fotis Vogiatzis,
  • Petros Roussos,
  • Ioannis Doulis,
  • Georgia Palikaraki,
  • Panagiotis Christopoulos and
  • Iosif Sifakakis

21 November 2022

Surgically assisted rapid palatal expansion (SARPE) is a successful method for treating transverse discrepancies in adult patients. The relocation of maxillary segments may induce changes at the surrounding soft tissues as well. The aim of this syste...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,946 Views
14 Pages

Balance Stability and Cervical Spine Range of Motion While Wearing a Custom-Made Mandibular Splint with Special Consideration of the Sex

  • Florian Göttfert,
  • Johanna Herzog,
  • Christian Maurer-Grubinger,
  • Gerhard Oremek,
  • Fabian Holzgreve,
  • David A. Groneberg and
  • Daniela Ohlendorf

21 November 2022

Introduction: An altered dental occlusion can also affect balance stability or mobility. Thus, the aim of this study was to examine whether wearing a mandibular splint, which retains the occlusion close to the centric occlusion, can increase or decre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,649 Views
19 Pages

21 November 2022

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been envisioned as one of the promising solutions for enhancing signal transmissions in high-speed communications (HSC). In this paper, we present a time-varying channel model with distance-dependent Ricia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,174 Views
13 Pages

A DDoS Detection and Prevention System for IoT Devices and Its Application to Smart Home Environment

  • Khalid Al-Begain,
  • Murad Khan,
  • Basil Alothman,
  • Chibli Joumaa and
  • Ebrahim Alrashed

21 November 2022

The Internet of Things (IoT) has become an integral part of our daily life as it is growing in many fields, such as engineering, e-health, smart homes, smart buildings, agriculture, weather forecasting, etc. However, the growing number of IoT devices...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,526 Views
20 Pages

Adaptive Feature Fusion for Small Object Detection

  • Qi Zhang,
  • Hongying Zhang and
  • Xiuwen Lu

21 November 2022

In order to alleviate the situation that small objects are prone to missed detection and false detection in natural scenes, this paper proposed a small object detection algorithm for adaptive feature fusion, referred to as MMF-YOLO. First, aiming at...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,755 Views
18 Pages

Analysis of Optimal Loading Angle in Dynamic Flattened Brazilian Disc Splitting Test for Concrete

  • Benjun Shi,
  • Haozhe Xing,
  • Chaomin Mu,
  • Jie Li,
  • Tianhan Xu and
  • Wei Liu

21 November 2022

The mechanism of crack expansion in conventional Brazilian discs is clearly obtained with the help of numerical simulations, and the direction of crack expansion is related to the loading speed. Then the relationship between the stress field and the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,010 Views
19 Pages

Pavement Distress Initiation Prediction by Time-Lag Analysis and Logistic Regression

  • Hao Liu,
  • Yishun Li,
  • Chenglong Liu,
  • Guohong Shen and
  • Hui Xiang

21 November 2022

Pavement condition prediction plays a vital role in pavement maintenance. Many prediction models and analyses have been conducted based on long-term pavement condition data. However, the condition evaluation for road sections can hardly support daily...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,223 Views
16 Pages

Development of an Ontology-Based Solution to Reduce the Spread of Viruses

  • Djamel Saba,
  • Abdelkader Hadidi,
  • Omar Cheikhrouhou,
  • Monia Hamdi and
  • Habib Hamam

21 November 2022

With the sudden emergence of many dangerous viruses in recent years and with their rapid transmission and danger to individuals, most countries have adopted several strategies, such as closure and social distancing, to control the spread of the virus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,280 Views
19 Pages

21 November 2022

In this paper, we propose a channel assignment method that can mitigate the inter-WBAN interference when the density of WBANs is high. To achieve the goal, we group the coexisting WBANs into a set of clusters by using the Louvain algorithm and alloca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,945 Views
11 Pages

Improving the Performance of an Ultrashort Soft X-ray Free-Electron Laser via Attosecond Afterburners

  • Lingjun Tu,
  • Zheng Qi,
  • Zhen Wang,
  • Sheng Zhao,
  • Yujie Lu,
  • Weijie Fan,
  • Hao Sun,
  • Xiaofan Wang,
  • Chao Feng and
  • Zhentang Zhao

21 November 2022

In this study, we implement attosecond afterburners in an ultrashort soft X-ray free-electron laser (FEL) to improve the performance of generating attosecond pulses. In this scheme, the FEL pulse produced in the normal radiator section is dumped whil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,943 Views
11 Pages

Conscious Inhalation Sedation with Nitrous Oxide and Oxygen in Children: A Retrospective Study

  • Lucia Memè,
  • Gianni Gallusi,
  • Enrico Strappa,
  • Fabrizio Bambini and
  • Francesco Sampalmieri

21 November 2022

Dental anxiety is a common problem in younger children, especially those who have had traumatic or perceived traumatic dental treatments. Nitrous oxide (N2O) and oxygen (O2) have been recommended by the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry as the...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,622 Views
9 Pages

Developing an Electrical System toward the Prevention of Heat Ventilation Air Conditioning Contamination

  • Sang Kuy Han,
  • Young Wook Kim,
  • Bon-Sang Koo,
  • Hae Won Choi and
  • Soonbum Lee

21 November 2022

Biofilms comprise diverse bacteria and fungi with slime material, especially in humid conditions. The surface of the heat ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system, especially at the evaporator, is in high moisture conditions due to the compress...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,983 Views
14 Pages

Influence and Control of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission under Two Different Models

  • Xubin Gao,
  • Shuang Chen,
  • Qiuhui Pan,
  • Mingfeng He and
  • Leilei Qu

21 November 2022

SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted by contacting; however, the virus is so active that it can attach to objects and be transmitted from objects to humans via such contacting. The virus, which spreads through some living or inanimate-mediated processes, is mor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,125 Views
18 Pages

YOLO-T: Multitarget Intelligent Recognition Method for X-ray Images Based on the YOLO and Transformer Models

  • Mingxun Wang,
  • Baolu Yang,
  • Xin Wang,
  • Cheng Yang,
  • Jie Xu,
  • Baozhong Mu,
  • Kai Xiong and
  • Yanyi Li

21 November 2022

X-ray security inspection processes have a low degree of automation, long detection times, and are subject to misjudgment due to occlusion. To address these problems, this paper proposes a multi-objective intelligent recognition method for X-ray imag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,531 Views
25 Pages

21 November 2022

The human–machine interaction of existing agricultural measurement and control platforms lacks user-friendliness and requires manual operation by trained professionals. The recent development of natural language processing technology may bring...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,495 Views
17 Pages

Configuration Design and Gait Planning of a Six-Bar Tensegrity Robot

  • Siqi Hao,
  • Ruiwei Liu,
  • Xuntao Lin,
  • Chenxiao Li,
  • Hongwei Guo,
  • Zhiwen Ye and
  • Chunlong Wang

21 November 2022

Due to their high kinematic characteristics, six-bar tensegrities have great potential application value in the field of robotics, especially in the field of deep space exploration robots. In this paper, an ultralight six-bar tensegrity robot is desi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,464 Views
14 Pages

21 November 2022

There are many healthcare possibilities for the elderly, such as hospitals, nursing homes, and home-based care. However, in times of COVID-19, most home-based elderly people did not have sufficient supplies or healthcare as usual. Fulfilling their de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,336 Views
19 Pages

21 November 2022

To solve the bottleneck problem of low deep coal seam permeability and difficult coalbed methane (CBM) mining. Combining hydraulic splitting technology and directional drilling technology, a directional hydraulic splitting enhancement method of deep...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,092 Views
16 Pages

21 November 2022

System software for interactive human–computer data processing based on the IASP91 Earth model was designed. An interactive data processing system for visualizing earthquake data was designed and implemented via the Intel Fortran platform. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,567 Views
15 Pages

21 November 2022

Generally, ground-coupled floor heat transfer is supposed as annual periodic, which is reasonable for conventional buildings. However, for emergency housing with a short life cycle, the influence of initial soil temperature needs to be considered. In...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,813 Views
24 Pages

21 November 2022

In this study, the liquid sloshing in a cylindrical tank considering soil–structure interaction and undergoing horizontal excitation is investigated analytically. Multiple rigid annular baffles are positioned on the rigid wall to mitigate the l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,758 Views
20 Pages

Is There an Influence of Electrically Stimulated Osteoblasts on the Induction of Osteoclastogenesis?

  • Franziska Sahm,
  • Ana Jakovljevic,
  • Rainer Bader,
  • Rainer Detsch and
  • Anika Jonitz-Heincke

21 November 2022

Bone is a highly dynamic tissue characterized mainly by the interactions of osteoblasts and osteoclasts. When the healing ability of bone regeneration is disturbed, targeted biophysical stimulations such as electrical stimulation are applied. In this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,922 Views
18 Pages

Geological Distribution of the Miocene Carbonate Platform in the Xisha Sea Area of the South China Sea, and Its Implications for Hydrocarbon Exploration

  • Zhen Yang,
  • Guangxue Zhang,
  • Shiguo Wu,
  • Youhua Zhu,
  • Cong Wu,
  • Li Zhang,
  • Songfeng Liu,
  • Wei Yan,
  • Ming Sun and
  • Chenlu Xu
  • + 2 authors

21 November 2022

The newly collected seismic data and the existing drilling data provide a good opportunity to better understand the carbonate platform distribution characteristics and the hydrocarbon resource potential in the Xisha sea area of the South China Sea. B...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,598 Views
15 Pages

21 November 2022

The track smoothness of high-speed railroads is severely limited to ensure train performance. The concrete continuous girder bridge is deformed to influence the smoothness of the bridge decks and track caused by creep bulge. There is a need to resear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,657 Views
21 Pages

21 November 2022

One of the most common systems in engineering problems is the multi-column system in the form of an equilateral-triangular arrangement. This study used three-dimensional numerical simulations to investigate the flow around three cylinders in this arr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,159 Views
7 Pages

Gamification in Engineering Education: The Use of Classcraft Platform to Improve Motivation and Academic Performance

  • Luisa Parody,
  • Jenifer Santos,
  • Luis Alfonso Trujillo-Cayado and
  • Manuel Ceballos

21 November 2022

Pedagogical innovation involving information and communications technology (ICT) may offer teachers the opportunity to create engaging learning environments in engineering courses. In this paper, we present a gamification teaching experience whose pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,539 Views
8 Pages

Streptococcus mutans Associated with Endo-Periodontal Lesions in Intact Teeth

  • Alessio Buonavoglia,
  • Adriana Trotta,
  • Michele Camero,
  • Marco Cordisco,
  • Michela Maria Dimuccio and
  • Marialaura Corrente

21 November 2022

A massive periodontal destruction can affect the root canal (RC) system and potentially expose the pulpo-dentinal complex to opportunistic bacteria. Streptococcus mutans is a major pathogen of human caries and periodontal diseases, and its virulence...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,940 Views
11 Pages

Evaluation of Microleakage of a New Bioactive Material for Restoration of Posterior Teeth: An In Vitro Radioactive Model

  • Pedro Neves,
  • Salomé Pires,
  • Carlos Miguel Marto,
  • Inês Amaro,
  • Ana Coelho,
  • José Sousa,
  • Manuel Marques Ferreira,
  • Maria Filomena Botelho,
  • Eunice Carrilho and
  • Anabela Baptista Paula
  • + 1 author

21 November 2022

Hybrid bioactive composite resins combine the benefits of glass ionomer cements with composite resins. Its self-adhesiveness is achieved through functional polyacrylic acids and carboxylic groups, hybridizing the smear layer and establishing ionic in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,688 Views
19 Pages

Temperature Prediction of Chinese Cities Based on GCN-BiLSTM

  • Lizhi Miao,
  • Dingyu Yu,
  • Yueyong Pang and
  • Yuehao Zhai

21 November 2022

Temperature is an important part of meteorological factors, which are affected by local and surrounding meteorological factors. Aiming at the problems of significant prediction error and insufficient extraction of spatial features in current temperat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,088 Views
26 Pages

Machine Learning and Food Security: Insights for Agricultural Spatial Planning in the Context of Agriculture 4.0

  • Vítor João Pereira Domingues Martinho,
  • Carlos Augusto da Silva Cunha,
  • Maria Lúcia Pato,
  • Paulo Jorge Lourenço Costa,
  • María Carmen Sánchez-Carreira,
  • Nikolaos Georgantzís,
  • Raimundo Nonato Rodrigues and
  • Freddy Coronado

21 November 2022

Climate change and global warming interconnected with the new contexts created by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine conflict have brought serious challenges to national and international organizations, especially in terms of food security...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
3,148 Views
37 Pages

A Many-Objective Marine Predators Algorithm for Solving Many-Objective Optimal Power Flow Problem

  • Sirote Khunkitti,
  • Apirat Siritaratiwat and
  • Suttichai Premrudeepreechacharn

21 November 2022

Since the increases in electricity demand, environmental awareness, and power reliability requirements, solutions of single-objective optimal power flow (OPF) and multi-objective OPF (MOOPF) (two or three objectives) problems are inadequate for moder...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,970 Views
25 Pages

21 November 2022

Sparse arrays with low cost and engineering complexity are widely applied in many fields. However, the high peak sidelobe level (PSLL) of a sparse array causes the degradation of weak target detection performance. Particularly for the large size of u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,983 Views
21 Pages

21 November 2022

Reducing drag is critical to aircraft design. In recent years, laminar technology has become one of the most important feasible technologies for civil aircraft drag reduction design under many design constraints. However, various factors have a certa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,042 Views
16 Pages

Local-Moment-Driven Robust Reversible Data Hiding

  • Yash Veer Singh,
  • Shadab Khan,
  • Santosh Kumar Shukla and
  • Ki-Hyun Jung

21 November 2022

In this paper, a local-moment-driven robust reversible data hiding (LM-RRDH) scheme is proposed, which can provide security to hidden messages against unintentional modifications. The proposed LM-RRDH decomposes an image into LSB and MSB planes and t...

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