2022 December-1 - 631 articles
Human β-defensin 3 (hBD3) is an antimicrobial peptide and a chemoattractant molecule expressed in human keratinocytes. Lysates prepared from Lactoplantibacillus plantarum KG (KG lysates), a fermented lactobacillus strain with Ginseng extracts, s...
Person re-identification (Re-ID) is a key technology used in the field of intelligent surveillance. The existing Re-ID methods are mainly realized by using convolutional neural networks (CNNs), but the feature information is easily lost in the operat...
Transport is one of the sectors with the highest greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) that is imperative to reduce in order to decrease global warming. Although modern vehicles and arterial roads have adopted technological and structural improvements to en...
In the present study, an attempt was made to enrich cookies with ground seeds of milk thistle (Silybum marianum L.) and to determine the effect of this addition on the quality of cookies. The content of nutrients, fibre, and calorific value, as well...
The engineering technology of undercrossing an airport flight area is relatively mature; however, the use of shield tunnels crossing the operating airport flight area in high liquidity sandy cobble stratum has rarely been reported. To discuss the fea...
Activated carbon (AC) is one of the most used air purification materials with excellent adsorption capacity for volatile organic compounds (VOCs). In this work, Bi2O2CO3 (BOC) nanomaterials, as a photocatalysis component, are grown on the surface of...
Saving fuel by splitting a flight mission with an intermediate stop for refuelling is described by the concept of intermediate stop operations. This can also be beneficial to the climate impact of aviation, if the flight level and intermediate stop a...
Due to the widespread integration of renewable energy sources connected to AC and DC power systems by means of power electronics converters, electromagnetic noise propagates along lines, and metallic earth-return structures. EMI filters are commonly...
The lack of a complete and reliable data series often represents the main difficulty in carrying out climate studies. Diverse causes, such as human and instrumental errors, false and incomplete records, and the use of obsolete equipment in some meteo...
For the effect of two-sided sudden surcharge/unloading on existing shield tunnels, an indoor dimensional reduction model test was conducted at a scale of 1:15.5, measuring the ground settlement, lateral convergence of the shield tunnel, and additiona...
Data from past earthquakes is an important tool to reveal the impact of future earthquakes on engineering structures, especially in earthquake-prone regions. These data are important indicators for revealing the seismic loading effects that structure...
Acts of fraud have become much more prevalent in the financial industry with the rise of technology and the continued economic growth in modern society. Fraudsters are evolving their approaches continuously to exploit the vulnerabilities of the curre...
The growing trend of private car ownership in Malaysia is increasing traffic congestion. As part of a solution, the Malaysian Automotive Association (MAA) chose to develop technologies for an electric bus system in Kuala Lumpur and initiated a projec...
Textile-reinforced concrete (TRC) has many advantages, including corrosion resistance, but TRC is a novel composite material and there is limited experimental research on the flexural behavior of TRC members. This paper aims to experimentally evaluat...
This study investigated the impact of subcritical water extraction parameters on the polyphenols and flavonoids content in extracts made of the bark of walnut (Juglans regia L.), as well as antioxidant activity measured using the DPPH and FRAP method...
The safety and reliability of a ventilation system relies on an accurate friction resistance coefficient (α), but obtaining α requires a great deal of tedious measurement work in order to determine the result, and many erroneous data are...
Prioritized experience replay (PER) is an important technique in deep reinforcement learning (DRL). It improves the sampling efficiency of data in various DRL algorithms and achieves great performance. PER uses temporal difference error (TD-error) to...
The size of datasets is growing exponentially as information technology advances, and it is becoming more and more crucial to provide efficient learning algorithms for neural networks to handle massive amounts of data. Due to their potential for hand...
Lower limb movement disorders caused by various reasons are an important public health problem currently facing the world. To solve this problem, a novel spatial 8R mechanism with a stable structure and motion performance for human hip joint rehabili...
With the increase in the complexity of communication systems, order statistics have become increasingly significant in performance evaluation, especially for advanced diversity techniques over fading channels. However, existing analytical approaches...
Unilateral vocal fold polyps can lead to incomplete glottal closure and irregular vocal fold vibration. Depending on polyp size and resulting dysphonia severity, voice therapy or surgery may be recommended. As part of voice therapy, patients may lear...
Opportunistic networks (OppNets) leverage opportunistic contacts to flow data across an infrastructure-free network. As of yet, OppNets’ performance depends on applying the most suitable forwarding strategy based on the OppNet typology. On the...
This paper presents a modified model for hand–eye calibration based on dual quaternion algebra. By using dual quaternions to represent the rotations and translations of a rigid body simultaneously in the task space, the formulation is elegant f...
The skin is a physical barrier to protect the human body and is rich in microbial niches. Skin is damaged due to several factors, including poor nutrition and exposure to harsh environments resulting in dryness, acidic skin, and infections. Studies h...
In daily life, when taking photos of scenes containing glass, the images of the dominant transmission layer and the weak reflection layer are often blended, which are difficult to be uncoupled. Meanwhile, because the reflection layer contains suffici...
For the pulsed electric field treatment of plant material on an industrial scale, Marx-type pulse modulators are used as a pulse source. The combination of a conventional Marx generator design equipped with solid-state switches with the concept of re...
With the advancements in wireless sensor networks and the Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT), underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs) have attracted much attention, which has also been widely used in marine engineering exploration and disaster...
Due to the ever-changing business environment, enterprises are facing unprecedented challenges in their new-product development (NPD) processes, while the success and survival of NPD projects have become increasingly challenging in recent years. Thus...
Aimed at the vehicle/pedestrian visual sensing task under low-light conditions and the problems of small, dense objects and line-of-sight occlusion, a nighttime vehicle/pedestrian detection method was proposed. First, a vehicle/pedestrian detection a...
Deep electrochemical etching (DEE) is proposed in this paper. DEE is a process that repeats steps consisting of electrodeposition, laser patterning, and electrochemical etching. In the electrodeposition step, a deposited layer is formed on the surfac...
The development of an appropriate ontology model is usually a hard task. One of the main issues is that ontology developers usually concentrate on classes and neglect the role of properties. This paper analyzes the role of an appropriate property set...
Skin cancer treatment is a combination of BRAF and MEK kinase inhibitors administered as tablets, along with immunotherapy treatment (treatment into the vein) with a group of drugs that inhibit the activity of the immune barrier proteins PD-1 and PDL...
Reinforced concrete slab (RCS) bridges deteriorate because of exposure to environmental factors over time, resulting in reduced durability. Particularly, the carbonation of RCS bridges corrodes the rebars and reduces the strength. However, carbonatio...
Different from previous generations of communication technology, 5G has tailored several modes especially for industrial applications, such as Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications (URLLC) and Massive Machine Type Communications (mMTC). The indus...
We present an analysis of the performance of a broadband secondary radiation source based on a high-gradient laser-plasma wakefield electron accelerator. In more detail, we report studies of compact and ultra-short X-ray generation via betatron oscil...
In this paper, a combination of Magnetic Barkhausen Noise (MBN) and several classical machine learning (ML) methods were used to evaluate both the grade and the magnetic directions of conventional and high grain oriented electrical sheets subjected t...
This paper deals with the problem of geodetic monitoring of structures by means of permanent GNSS stations, with a focus on a specific project of monitoring a bridge by a small network of three stations. What is peculiar about this paper is that the...
With the expansion of the digital environment and the metaverse, and the intervention of artificial intelligence, interaction in the virtual world is becoming more active. Humans are discussing the social reality of the user experience in this virtua...
A body composition analysis has been used to investigate alterations on body tissues in children and adolescents diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, such as low bone mineral content (BMC). The study aimed to developed equatio...
This study analyzed adhesive wear in periodic sliding motion using a quasi-static deterministic wear model that considered changes in the point of contact of asperities as well as changes in the surface and statistical parameters. The contact pressur...
In this article, the characterization of land subsidence with the spatial variability of soil formation and groundwater withdrawals in Choshui delta, Taiwan, is presented. Levelling surveys, borehole logging, multi-layer compaction monitoring network...
Software developers represent the bastion of application security against the overwhelming cyber-attacks which target all organizations and affect their resilience. As security weaknesses which may be introduced during the process of code writing are...
As is well known, apples are the most complex fruit in terms of nutritional compounds, with a high content of fiber, vitamins (vitamins C, A, B3), and minerals. Both fruits and vegetables are important sources of nutrients for infants’ nutritio...
The use of polysaccharides in many aspects of life dates back to the ancient era [...]
Relation extraction is an important task in natural language processing. It plays an integral role in intelligent question-and-answer systems, semantic search, and knowledge graph work. For this task, previous studies have demonstrated the effectiven...
Speech-in-noise tests are used to assess the ability of the human auditory system to perceive speech in a noisy environment. Early diagnosis of hearing deficits helps health professionals to plan for the most appropriate management. However, hospital...
As semiconductor technology evolves, computing platforms attempt to integrate hundreds of processing cores and associated interconnects into a single chip. Network-on-chip (NoC) technology has been widely used for data exchange centers in recent year...
We propose a study to predict health abnormalities by analyzing body temperature and the heart rate variability parameters of pulse waves. The research method firstly selects fever by applying a deep learning model to thermal images, and secondly, ex...
Research to deal with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks was kicked off from long ago and has seen technological advancement along with an extensive 5G footprint. Prior studies, and still newer ones, in the realm of DDoS attacks in the 5G e...
The quadrotor aircraft has the characteristics of simple structure, high attitude maintenance performance and strong maneuverability, and is widely used in air surveillance, post−disaster search and rescue, target tracking and military industry...
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