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Applied Sciences, Volume 13, Issue 2

January-2 2023 - 552 articles

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Cover Story: In this paper, we present the generalities of the Compton interaction process; we analyse the different paradigms of Inverse Compton Sources, implemented or in the commissioning phase at various facilities, or proposed as future projects. We present an overview of the topic, with a discussion of the most demanding challenges. View this paper

Articles (552)

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,258 Views
17 Pages

16 January 2023

In order to improve the prediction accuracy of the machine learning model for concrete fatigue life using small datasets, a group calculation and random weight dynamic time warping barycentric averaging (GRW-DBA) data augmentation method is proposed....

  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,162 Views
14 Pages

Realistic Facial Three-Dimensional Reconstruction from CT Images and 2D Photographic Images for Surgical-Orthognathic Planning

  • Miguel Monteiro,
  • Francisco Vale,
  • Nuno Ferreira,
  • Filipa Marques,
  • Madalena Prata Ribeiro,
  • Mariana Santos,
  • Catarina Oliveira,
  • Mariana McEvoy,
  • Raquel Travassos and
  • Catarina Nunes
  • + 3 authors

16 January 2023

Orthognathic surgery is a procedure used to correct intermaxillary discrepancies, thus promoting significant improvements in chewing and breathing. During the surgical planning stage, orthodontists often use two-dimensional imaging techniques. The as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,534 Views
17 Pages

16 January 2023

Gas–liquid two-phase flow is very common in industrial pipelines. Flow regime identification is the first step to design, analyze, and operate the gas–liquid system successfully. The purpose of this study is to develop a methodology for i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,136 Views
16 Pages

A Study of Constitutive Model of Rock Damage under the Joint Effect of Load and Moisture

  • Zhongguang Sun,
  • Qinghua Zhang,
  • Jun Zhang,
  • Yi Zhang and
  • Pengfei Wang

16 January 2023

To study the mechanical damage characteristics of rock under the effect of subversion, a series of mechanical experiments, including both uniaxial and triaxial mechanical compression experiments under various levels of water content were performed. I...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,327 Views
19 Pages

16 January 2023

Modeling the nonlinearity of a system is of primary importance both for optimizing its design and for controlling the behavior of physical systems operating with a wide dynamic range of input values, for which the linearity hypothesis may not be suff...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,343 Views
19 Pages

16 January 2023

The monitoring and evaluation of air quality is a topic of great global interest as, with the decline of air quality, there are negative effects on human health and ecosystems. Thus, the purpose of this paper was to evaluate the air quality over 11 y...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,663 Views
20 Pages

Cuffless Blood Pressure Estimation with Confidence Intervals using Hybrid Feature Selection and Decision Based on Gaussian Process

  • Soojeong Lee,
  • Gyanendra Prasad Joshi,
  • Anish Prasad Shrestha,
  • Chang-Hwan Son and
  • Gangseong Lee

16 January 2023

Cuffless blood pressure (BP) monitoring is crucial for patients with cardiovascular disease and hypertension. However, conventional BP monitors provide only single-point estimates without confidence intervals. Therefore, the statistical variability i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,355 Views
14 Pages

16 January 2023

Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is the most common pathology among disorders of the peripheral nervous system related to median nerve compression. To our knowledge, there are limited data on the effect of tendon movement on median nerve compression. Thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,663 Views
14 Pages

Fault Identification Technology of 66 kV Transmission Lines Based on Fault Feature Matrix and IPSO-WNN

  • Qi Zhang,
  • Minzhen Wang,
  • Yongsheng Yang,
  • Xinheng Wang,
  • Entie Qi and
  • Cheng Li

16 January 2023

Due to the barely resonant earthed system used in the transmission line, it is more challenging to identify faults at a 66 kV voltage level because of insufficient fault identification techniques. In this paper, a 66 kV transmission line fault identi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,955 Views
36 Pages

16 January 2023

Due to recent advances in communication systems, dielectric and magnetic ceramics (ferrites) are attractive for use in devices. Spinel-type ferrites were the first material utilized in microwave devices; however, yttrium iron garnet (YIG) has low die...

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