Applied Sciences, Volume 12, Issue 22

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...