2022 May-1 - 706 articles
The train braking system with redundant components has an essential effect on driver safety. In this paper, we consider the failure of K-out-of-N brake motors during operation and the redundant recovery by preventive maintenance. Two Continuous Time...
Today, the intelligent management of market stores in the large distribution field represents one of the most difficult tasks to address, considering the various problems to be managed. Specifically, from the classic issues of managing out-of-stock t...
Scientific applications often require substantial amount of computing resources for running challenging jobs potentially consisting of many tasks from hundreds of thousands to even millions. As a result, many institutions collaborate to solve large-s...
Electroencephalography (EEG)-based measurements of fine tactile sensation produce large amounts of data, with high costs for manual evaluation. In this study, an EEG-based machine-learning (ML) model with support vector machine (SVM) was established...
Bending deformation gives rise to interwire slippage for spiral strands subjected to multi-axial loads, and further induces wear or fatigue phenomena in practice. The interwire friction would resist bending deformation and lead to uneven tension dist...
Buckwheat is an important cereal crop with high nutritional and health value. Buckwheat disease greatly affects the quality and yield of buckwheat. The real-time monitoring of disease is an essential part of ensuring the development of the buckwheat...
Currently, all available therapies for the control and management of fibromyalgia (FM) are mostly focused on relieving patients’ symptoms and improving their quality of life. The purpose of this review is to provide an up-to-date overview of th...
Switched Reluctance Motors (SRMs) have emerged as a viable competitor to other established electrical machines. Although SRMs have many advantages, such as a rare earth free nature, simple structure, high fault tolerance capability and low cost, vibr...
Storage and discharge conditions of primary lithium batteries are studied and the capacity estimation models during the whole life cycle of underwater vehicles is developed based on temperature. The storage experiments for 90 days at different temper...
Privacy disclosure has become a key challenge in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). Although IEEE, ERSI, etc. suggest that a pseudonym-based scheme is a solution, how to support pseudonym management and vehicle authentication is still an open issue....
Growing numbers of electric vehicles (EVs) as well as controversial discussions on cost, scarcity and the environmental and social sustainability of primary raw materials that are needed for battery production together emphasize the necessity for bat...
In the last decade, blockchain smart contracts emerged as an automated, decentralized, traceable, and immutable medium of value exchange. Nevertheless, existing blockchain smart contracts are not compatible with legal contracts. The automatic executi...
In the context of the energy crisis and global climate deterioration, the sustainable development of clean energy will become a new direction for future energy development. Based on the development process of clean energy in China in the past ten yea...
Monitoring the rover slip is important; however, a certain level of estimation uncertainty is inevitable. In this paper, we establish slip estimation models for China’s Mars rover, Zhurong, using Gaussian process regression (GPR). The model was...
In the present study, field tests were performed using low-resistivity materials (LRMs) in different grounding system (GS) configurations to reduce the grounding resistance (GR) and assess the variation in the effectiveness of the LRMs with increases...
As the number of electric vehicles (EVs) significantly increases, the excessive charging demand of parked EVs in the charging station may incur an instability problem to the electricity network during peak hours. For the charging station to take a mi...
In severe cases of total knee arthroplasty, where off-the-shelf implants are not suitable or available anymore (i.e., in cases with extended bone defects or periprosthetic fractures), custom-made knee implants represent one of the few remaining treat...
The way of understanding online higher education has greatly changed due to the worldwide pandemic situation. Teaching is undertaken remotely, and the faculty incorporate lecture audio recordings as part of the teaching material. This new online teac...
The goal of this research is to offer an effective intelligent model for forecasting college students’ career decisions in order to give a useful reference for career decisions and policy formation by relevant departments. The suggested predict...
Simply speaking, automatic driving requires the calculation of a large amount of traffic data and, finally, the obtainment of the optimal driving route and speed. However, the key technical difficulty is the obtainment of data; thus, radar has become...
The online Question and Answering (Q&A) community has grown globally, allowing users to ask, discuss, and answer questions based on shared interests. As a gathering place for people’s knowledge production, collaboration, and dissemination i...
The automotive energy storage market is currently dominated by the existing Li-ion technologies that are likely to continue in the future. Thus, the on-road electric (and hybrid) vehicles running on the Li-ion battery systems require critical diagnos...
This paper presents a CMOS wideband amplifier operating in the full Ka-band, with a low gain variation. An inductive neutralization is applied to the amplifier to compensate for the gain roll-off in the high-frequency region. Neutralization inductanc...
Companies have official vehicles for the convenience and time efficiency of employees to carry out official duties. However, private uses, false reports of fuel consumption, and excessive use by users may harm the company’s finance and reputati...
This paper deals with the development of dimensional control technology for the production of accessory drive train (ADT) gearbox housing, according to the closed door technology approach. The work presents the methodology of the final inspection of...
In this study, leaf area prediction models of Dendrobium nobile, were developed through machine learning (ML) techniques including multiple linear regression (MLR), support vector regression (SVR), gradient boosting regression (GBR), and artificial n...
Most data with a complicated structure can be represented by a tree structure. Parallel processing is essential to mining frequent subtrees from massive data in a timely manner. However, only a few algorithms could be transplanted to a parallel frame...
As a response to climate change, South Korea has established its third National Climate Change Adaptation Plan (2021–2025) alongside the local governments’ plans. In this study, proxy variables in 22 sub-watersheds of the Nakdong River, K...
The purpose of this paper was to investigate the influence of long-term corrosion on the deterioration of wind resistance of a steel transmission tower during its service life. An analytical model for predicting the long-term corrosion depth of carbo...
Heritage buildings and monuments are mostly made from natural stone, which undergoes irreversible decay under outdoor conditions. The main reason for the contamination, degradation, and cracking of natural stones is water and oil permeation. Hence, m...
In this article, interpreted Petri nets are applied to the area of power and energy systems. These kinds of nets, equipped with input and output signals for communication with the environment, have so far proved to be useful in the specification of c...
This article reviews the heat transfer enhancement of nanofluids with non-spherical nanoparticles. We divided the non-spherical nanoparticles suspended in nanofluids into three categories based on the dimension of geometric particle structure. Based...
In practical applications, the intelligence of wheeled mobile robots is the trend of future development. Object detection for wheeled mobile robots requires not only the recognition of complex surroundings, but also the deployment of algorithms on re...
The present paper proposes a framework for the systematic and fruitful application of complex-order operators for modeling and control applications. We emphasize that special care must be taken when using complex-order elements to ensure that their r...
Microchannels located at the cement–rock interface can form potential pathways for formation fluid leakage in oil and gas wells. The effects of geometric shape, quantity, and the inclination angle of microchannels on the flow through cemented r...
Diffractive optical elements (DOEs) are difficult to apply in natural scenes imaging covering the visible bandwidth-spectral due to their strong chromatic aberration and the decrease in diffraction efficiency. Advances in computational imaging make i...
This research study presents a new adaptive attitude and altitude controller for an aerial robot. The proposed controlling approach employs a reinforcement learning-based algorithm to actively estimate the controller parameters of the aerial robot. I...
Work is needed to better understand the control of knee movement and knee health. Specifically, work is needed to further understand knee muscle force control variability and complexity and how it is organized on both sides of the body. The purpose o...
Public transportation systems are an effective way to reduce traffic congestion, air pollution, and energy consumption. Today, smartcard technology is used to shorten the time spent boarding/exiting buses and other types of public transportation; how...
In industrial sites, the movement and contact behaviors of workers are random, but their frequency and statistical characteristics can be determined. Particularly in machining workshops, metalworking fluids (MWFs) cause liquid oil contamination on th...
Under fire conditions, bonded anchors often exhibit pull-out failure due to the thermal sensitivity of polymer-based adhesives. However, progress in manufacturing has allowed the development of more thermoresistant mortars, enhancing the probability...
Apart from constituting a topic of high relevance for transport planners and policymakers, support technologies for traffic have the potential to bring significant benefits to mobility. In addition, there are groups of “high potential” us...
To identify cultivars quickly and accurately, DNA fingerprinting of 10 broccoli varieties was performed by using simple sequence repeat (SSR) marker technology. Highly informative and polymorphic SSR markers were screened using broccoli and rapeseed....
Today, the world continuously investigates the promising potential of advanced and optimized technologies for harvesting green renewable energy sources, such as a solar tracking system (STS). This study presents an actual implementation of a single-a...
The quality of high-pressure die casting (HPDC) is largely determined by the process parameters. The objective is to study the influence of process parameters on melt filling and feeding capacity. The research is carried out by means of numerical sim...
This paper reviews methods that aim at simulating nuclear quantum effects (NQEs) using generalized thermal baths. Generalized (or quantum) baths simulate statistical quantum features, and in particular zero-point energy effects, through non-Markovian...
Interstitial cells of Cajal (ICCs) generate pacemaker potentials in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. In this study, the effects of trypsin on pacemaker potentials in murine small intestinal ICCs were examined. We used whole-cell patch-clamp analysis....
The excavation of the foundation pit will cause changes in the soil stress field around the foundation pit, and that may have adverse effects on the adjacent subway tunnels. In this paper, a complex deep foundation pit excavated in different sections...
Extracting representative feature sets from raw signals is crucial in Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) for components’ behavior understanding. The literature proposes various methods, including signal processing in the time, frequency, a...
In a great deal of theoretical and applied cognitive and neurophysiological research, it is essential to have more vocabularies with concreteness/abstractness ratings. Since creating such dictionaries by interviewing informants is labor-intensive, co...
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