2022 March-2 - 451 articles
Arsenic is a well-known contaminant present in different environmental compartments and in human organs and tissues. Inorganic As(III) represents one of the most dangerous arsenic forms. Its toxicity is attributed to its great affinity with the thiol...
Insurance is a data-rich sector, hosting large volumes of customer data that is analysed to evaluate risk. Machine learning techniques are increasingly used in the effective management of insurance risk. Insurance datasets by their nature, however, a...
Gamma rays as a type of ionizing radiation constitute a physical mutagen that induces mutations and could be effectively used in plant breeding. To compare the effects of gamma and ionizing irradiation according to exposure time in common wheat (Keum...
The smartphone is a must-have mobile device for the military forces to accomplish critical missions and protect critical infrastructures. This paper explores the applicability of a technology prediction methodology to manage technological obsolescenc...
The present paper develops a new Bernoulli–Euler theory of microbeams for the consideration of small-scale effects and nonlinear terms, which are induced by the axial elongation of the beam and Kelvin–Voigt damping. The non-resonance and...
In the medical care of partial and full-thickness wounds, autologous skin grafting is still the gold standard of dermal replacement. In contrast to spontaneous reepithelializing of superficial wounds, deep dermal wounds often lead to disturbing scarr...
In the past two decades, technological advancements in smart devices, IoT, and smart sensors have paved the way towards numerous implementations of indoor location systems. Indoor location has many important applications in numerous fields, including...
A key part of every space science mission, in the system-level approach, is the detailed study and modeling of the emissions from transmission lines. Harnesses usually emit electromagnetic fields due to the currents (of common and/or differential mod...
Citation creates a link between citing and the cited author, and the frequency of citation has been regarded as the basic element to measure the impact of research and knowledge-based achievements. Citation frequency has been widely used to calculate...
Although various studies on monitoring dog behavior have been conducted, methods that can minimize or compensate data noise are required. This paper proposes multimodal data-based dog behavior recognition that fuses video and sensor data using a came...
Atrial fibrillation involves an important type of heart arrhythmia caused by a lack of control in the electrical signals that arrive in the heart, produce an irregular auricular contraction, and induce blood clotting, which finally can lead to stroke...
The continuous release of CO2 into the atmosphere as a major cause of increasing global warming has become a growing concern for the environment. Accordingly, CO2 absorption through an approach with maximum absorption efficiency and minimum energy co...
This study aimed to analyze acute changes in the muscle mechanical properties of the triceps brachii long head after bench press exercise performed at different external loads and with different intensities of effort along with power performance. Ten...
The majority of lab-based X-ray sources are polychromatic and are not easily tunable, which can make the 3D quantitative analysis of multi-component samples challenging. The lack of effective materials separation when using conventional X-ray tube so...
Robots equipped with anchoring mechanisms have attractive applications in asteroid exploration. However, complex application scenarios bring great challenges to the modeling and control of anchoring mechanisms. This paper presents a grasping model an...
Ultra-high-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles have created a high demand for the performance of propellers under low Reynolds numbers, while the efficiency of such propellers by the existing design framework has reached a bottleneck. This paper explor...
Inkjet-printed strain gauges on flexible substrates have recently been investigated for biomedical motion detection as well as the monitoring of structural deformation. This study performed a topographical analysis of an inkjet-printed strain gauge c...
Taking a subsea collet connector as an example, the contact characteristics of the sealing structure of the subsea connector under thermal–structural coupling were studied. Considering the heat transfer problem of the subsea connector in deep w...
Poly(lactic acid)(PLA) is an aliphatic polyester that can be derived from natural and renewable resources. Owing to favorable features, such as biocompatibility, biodegradability, good thermal and mechanical performance, and processability, PLA has b...
Biomedical entity linking is an important research problem for many downstream tasks, such as biomedical intelligent question answering, information retrieval, and information extraction. Biomedical entity linking is the task of mapping mentions in m...
Visual acuity (VA) is a measure of the ability to distinguish shapes and details of objects at a given distance and is a measure of the spatial resolution of the visual system. Vision is one of the basic health indicators closely related to a person&...
Distribution system state estimation (DSSE) is a valuable step for DSOs toward tackling the challenges of transitioning to a more sustainable energy system and the evolution and proliferation of electric cars and power electronic devices. However, on...
This article studies the enhancement of methyl orange (MO) adsorption by Mongolian montmorillonite (MMt) modified by the intercalation of the Keggin Al13 complex, followed by calcination during the pillaring process. The properties of MMt, Al-interca...
Recent years have witnessed a paradigm shift from centralized cloud computing to decentralized edge computing. As a key enabler technique in edge computing, computation offloading migrates computation-intensive tasks from resource-limited devices to...
Over the last decade, e-learning and the use of digital tools have received a great boost in higher education. This paper presents a content curation methodology to assess the acquisition of specific content and soft skills during the attainment of a...
Today, low-cost sensors in various civil engineering sectors are gaining the attention of researchers due to their reduced production cost and their applicability to multiple nodes. Low-cost sensors also have the advantage of easily connecting to low...
Intelligent materials, especially materials with shape memory, are an important discovery, with technical applications in the medical and aerospace field, among others, which led to the development of systems and applications with multiple advantages...
The objective of the present research was to study the effect of temperature on the mechanical properties, failure mode and uniaxial compression constitutive relationship of a modified polyurethane concrete. A total of 24 cube and 27 prism specimens...
The presented article is a review of the literature reports on the influence of magnetic and electric fields on the growth, yield, ripening, and durability of fruits and their quality. The article shows the potential application of MF and EF in agric...
Robot automatic assembly of weak stiffness parts is difficult due to potential deformation during assembly. The robot manipulation cannot adapt to the dynamic contact changes during the assembly process. A robot assembly skill learning system is desi...
The growing complex user intention gap and information overload are obstacles for users to access the desired content. User interactions and the involved content indicate rich evidence of users’ interests. It is required to investigate interact...
Aging wine is a usual practice in winemaking, as the wine quality improves due to the compounds extracted from wood barrels or chips, cubes, blocks, or staves used. The wood species used are traditionally oak, namely from Quercus petraea, Q. alba, or...
Machines designed to perform the same tasks using different technologies can be organized into families based on their similarities or differences. We are interested in identifying common properties and differences of such machines from raw sensor da...
The use of bleaching products can have a medical or cosmetic purpose; in the latter case, skin whitening is most widespread in countries where darker skin tones prevail and can be driven by psychosocial, cultural and economic reasons. Skin-whitening...
A power estimation approach for calculating the power of a flapping-wing air vehicle (FWAV) in forward flight is proposed in this paper. One of the challenges and essential points of FWAVs is endurance. In order to optimize FWAVs, it is necessary to...
A method for dynamic finite element (FE) model updating based on correlated mode auto-pairing and adaptive evolution screening (CMPES) is proposed to overcome difficulties in pairing inaccurate analytical modal data and incomplete experimental modal...
At 2 µm wavelengths (149.9 THz), hollow-core photonics band gap fibers have higher light power damage thresholds, stable polarization states, and lower losses of 0.1 dB/km. Additionally, a thulium-doped fiber amplifier can provide a gain of >...
The Tulcea municipality is frequently exposed to rainfall-generated floods, with its lower downtown area (located in the Danube’ former meadow, now protected by dikes) being flooded two to three times per year. In this study, our objective was...
The traditional method for calculating the buffeting response of long-span bridges follows the strip assumption, and is carried out by identifying aerodynamic parameters through sectional model force or pressure measurement wind tunnel tests. However...
Most freeze-sensitive vaccines are stored between 2 °C and 8 °C upon manufacturing and until they are eventually administered in intermediate vaccine stores and health facilities. This so-called “cold chain” of vaccine distributio...
In drinking water, high concentrations of fluoride and arsenic can have adverse effects on human health. Waste deriving from the rice industry (rice husk, rice straw, rice bran) can be promising adsorbent materials, because they are (i) produced in l...
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) constitutes a group of risk factors that may increase the risk of cancer and other health problems. Nowadays, researchers are focusing on food compounds that could prevent many chronic diseases. Thus, people are shifting fro...
Steam huff and puff injection is one of the thermal EOR methods in which steam is injected in a cyclical manner alternating with oil production. The cost and time inefficiency problem of reservoir simulation persists in the design of a steam huff and...
With recent developments in the field of autonomous driving, recognition algorithms for road environments are being developed very rapidly. Currently, most of the network models have good recognition rates, but as the accuracy rate increases, the mod...
In existing biometric authentication methods, the user must perform an authentication operation such as placing a finger in a scanner or facing a camera. With ear acoustic authentication, the acoustic characteristics of the ear canal can be used as b...
Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is one of the most common public health problems which cannot be cured and ultimately leads to disability. Current management is largely limited to the treatment of the symptoms. To avoid the late stages of KOA that lead to...
Intelligent robotic manufacturing cells must adapt to ever-varying operating conditions, developing autonomously optimal manufacturing strategies to achieve the best quality and overall productivity. Intelligent and cognitive behaviors are realized b...
Network-on-chip (NoC) is replacing the existing on-chip communication mechanism in the latest, very-large-scale integration (VLSI) systems because of their fault tolerant design. However, in addition to the design challenges, NoC systems require a me...
In this work, the performance of a low-temperature solar collector (LTSC) is evaluated, using carbon nanoparticles in water as working fluid. The nanoparticles used are crystallized fullerenes, with a red parameter of 1.42 nm ± 0.5 nm, with di...
Superposed perfobond connectors are a type of connector used in composite structures. When the construction conditions are limited to increase the diameter of the opening, the shear capacity of the connector can be improved by enhancing the confining...
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