2023 December-1 - 436 articles
Closed-loop manufacturing is crucial in Industry 4.0, since it provides an online detection–correction cycle to optimize the production line by using the live data provided from the product being manufactured. By integrating the inspection syst...
A passive wedge screen, thanks to its many functional and environmental advantages, has recently become a popular type of surface water intake for municipal and industrial purposes. The design solutions proposed in this paper for a passive wedge wire...
Modern structures are designed to withstand in-service loads over a broad frequency spectrum. Nonetheless, mechanical properties in numerical codes are assumed to be frequency-independent to simplify calculations or due to a lack of experimental data...
This paper presents a new method for optimizing the thickness distribution of a functionally graded lattice structure. It links the thickness of discrete lattice regions via mathematical functions, reducing the required number of optimization variabl...
Human factors are introduced into the dam risk analysis method to improve the existing dam risk management theory. This study constructs the path of human factor failure in dam collapse, explores the failure pattern of each node, and obtains the perf...
Salient Object Detection (SOD) aims at identifying the most visually distinctive objects in a scene. However, learning a mapping directly from a raw image to its corresponding saliency map is still challenging. First, the binary annotations of SOD im...
We are currently witnessing an unprecedented era of digital transformation in sports, driven by the revolutions in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Data Visualization (DV). These technologies hold the pr...
Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS), the most common soft tissue sarcoma in children, constitutes approximately 40% of all recorded soft tissue tumors and is associated with a poor prognosis, with survival rates of less than 20% at 3 years. The development of res...
Efficient induction of astaxanthin (AXT) biosynthesis remains a considerable challenge for the industrialization of the biorefinement of the microalga Haematococcus lacustris. In this study, we evaluated the technical feasibility of photosynthetic el...
The number of motor vehicles on the road is constantly increasing, leading to a rise in the number of traffic accidents. Accurately identifying the factors contributing to these accidents is a crucial topic in the field of traffic accident research....
Migraine is now the sixth most common disease in the world and affects approximately 15% of the population. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, including ketoprofen, diclofenac sodium, and ibuprofen, are often used during migraine attacks. Unfortu...
Federated learning (FL) is an emerging decentralized machine learning framework enabling private global model training by collaboratively leveraging local client data without transferring it centrally. Unlike traditional distributed optimization, FL...
The tea plant (Camellia sinensis), as a major, global cash crop providing beverages, is facing major challenges from droughts and water shortages due to climate change. The accurate estimation of the actual evapotranspiration (ETa) of tea plants is e...
Recent projections from marine transportation experts highlight an uptick in maritime traffic, attributed to the fourth industrial revolution’s technological strides and global economic rebound. This trend underscores the need for enhanced syst...
With the increasing ease of building information modeling data usage, digital watermarking technology has become increasingly crucial for BIM data copyright protection. In response to the problem that existing robust watermarking methods mainly focus...
The DEVS model, designed for general discrete event simulation, explores the event status and time advance of all DEVS atomic models deployed at the time of the simulation, and then performs the scheduled simulation step. Each simulation step is acco...
It is crucial to analyze opinions about the significant shift in education systems around the world, because of the widespread use of e-learning, to gain insight into the state of education today. A particular focus should be placed on the feedback f...
This study aims to optimize the evaluation system of inclusive design in urban parks, emphasizing the systemic nature of sensory, cognitive, and motor capacity support and exploring its role in park design practice. Based on the capability demand mod...
This research focuses on enhancing neonatal care by developing a comprehensive monitoring and control system and an efficient model for predicting electrical energy consumption in incubators, aiming to mitigate potential adverse effects caused by exc...
The paper is devoted to the assessment of the content of anthropogenic radionuclides in tundra landscapes of the subarctic zone of Russia. The authors of the article studied the features of accumulation and migration of anthropogenic radionuclides an...
Due to the high possibility of mechanical damage to the underlying tissues attached to the rat skull during a craniectomy, previously described methods for visualization of the rat brain in vivo are limited to unilateral craniotomies and small crania...
When marine animals and underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs) share spectrum resources, problems such as serious harm caused to marine animals by underwater acoustic systems and scarcity of underwater spectrum resources are encountered. To addr...
The Fourier transform infrared microspectroscopy (FTIRm) system of the Australian Synchrotron has a unique optical configuration with a peculiar beam profile consisting of two parallel lines. The beam is tightly focused using a 36× Schwarzschil...
Space robots have been playing an important role in space on-orbit operation missions. However, the traditional configuration of space robots only has a single function and cannot meet the requirements of different space missions, and the launch cost...
The transfer matrix approach is used to study the optical characteristics of thermal radiation in a one-dimensional photonic crystal (1DPC) with metamaterial. In this method, every layer within the multilayer structure is associated with its specific...
In the smart grid paradigm, precise electrical load forecasting (ELF) offers significant advantages for enhancing grid reliability and informing energy planning decisions. Specifically, mid-term ELF is a key priority for power system planning and ope...
Graph theory is a common topic that is introduced as part of the curricula of computing courses such as Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Information Technology and Software Engineering. Understanding graphs is fundamental for sol...
In today’s automation control systems, the PID controller, as a core technology, is widely used to maintain the system output near the set value. However, in some complex control environments, such as the application of ball screw-driven rotati...
In recent years, radio-frequency identification (RFID) has aroused significant interest from industry and academia. This demand comes from the technology’s evolution, marked by a reduction in size, cost, and enhanced efficiency, making it incre...
Background: Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma (OPSCC) is rapidly increasing due to the spread of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) infection. HPV-positive disease has unique characteristics, with better response to treatment and consequent better progno...
Fire detection employing vision sensors has drawn significant attention within the computer vision community, primarily due to its practicality and utility. Previous research predominantly relied on basic color features, a methodology that has since...
This article represents and compares two control systems for a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV): a sliding proportional–integral–derivative (PID) controller and an adaptive L1 controller. The goal is to de...
Objective: The aim of the present work is to study the microstructure, wear behavior, physical properties, and micro-hardness of the aluminum matrix AA6061 reinforced with TiC and B4C nanoparticles with different concentrations of 2.5, 5, 7.5, 10, an...
The aim of this work was to compare an enhanced monofocal (RayOne EMV RAO200E, Rayner) and standard monofocal (RayOne RAO600C Aspheric, Rayner) intraocular lenses (IOLs) for three nominal powers (+10.00 D, +20.00 D and +30.00 D) as a function of the...
Fault detection and state estimation play pivotal roles in ensuring the reliability, safety, and performance of automatic control systems [...]
To cater to the problems of a poor working environment, a large amount of rebound, and the high energy consumption of sprayed concrete in tunnel engineering, this paper proposes a new support scheme with a steel corrugated plate combined with mold ba...
This study aimed to analyze the structural requirements for di- and tripeptides exhibiting a DPP IV-inhibitory effect. The sequences of 46 di- and 33 tripeptides, including their bioactivity (IC50; μM), were implemented from the BIOPEP-UWM databas...
This paper proposes a multiport energy management system (EMS) and its rule-based expert control strategy for a 150 kW range-extended towing vessel (RETV). The system integrates a diesel generator system, a permanent magnet synchronous motor, a lithi...
Understanding the order of limiting amino acids (AA) in reduced-protein (RP) diets for laying hens will facilitate precise feed formulation and ensure that AA requirements are met cost-effectively. The order of the first three limiting AAs—lysi...
An interesting series based on Bessel function roots (zeros) is discussed and numerically analyzed. The novel-derived simplified general solutions are based on Lommel polynomials. This kind of series can have a large practical use in many scientific...
As the main components of mechanical products and important transmission components of mechanical motion, shaft workpieces (SW) need to undergo high-speed motion while also withstanding high torque motion, which has high processing requirements. At t...
Reliability and robustness are fundamental requisites for the successful integration of deep-learning models into real-world applications. Deployed models must exhibit an awareness of their limitations, necessitating the ability to discern out-of-dis...
Ultrasound imaging is widely used as a noninvasive lesion detection method in diagnostic medicine. Improving the quality of these ultrasound images is very important for accurate diagnosis, and deep learning-based algorithms have gained significant a...
Phenolic compounds (PheCs) are particularly relevant in many different frameworks due to their pro-oxidant and antioxidant activities. In fact, on the one hand, they are considered very dangerous pro-oxidant agents that can be present in the environm...
Using the upper limbs to test cardiopulmonary exercise can be a useful option in the case of individuals who are unable to pedal a bicycle due to lower limb injury or disability. We evaluated whether exercise testing with the upper limbs can be used...
We investigate in-band pumping of a Tm,Ho,Lu:CaGdAlO4 laser using a Raman-shifted Er-fiber laser (1678 nm), in the continuous-wave (CW) and mode-locked (ML) regimes. A maximum output power of 524 mW is obtained in the CW regime with a 5% output coupl...
The removal of decabromodiphenyl ether (BDE 209), as a typical persistent organic pollutant (POP), is of worldwide concern. Mechanochemical (MC) processes are promising methods to degrade environmental pollutants, most of which use a single grinding...
Compared with English named entity recognition (NER), Chinese NER faces significant challenges due to the flexible, non-standard word formation and vague word boundaries, which cause a lot of boundary ambiguity and reduce the accuracy of entity ident...
We fabricated a core-cladding Ge–Sb–Se glass fiber with a Ge12.5Sb15Se72.5 core and Ge15Sb10Se75 cladding, achieved a supercontinuum spectrum spanning from 2 μm to 9 μm by pumping the Ge–Sb–Se fiber with a core diameter...
It is well known that in a process of Dynamic Resonant Tunneling, where the energy level of the quasi-bound state varies in time, the tunneling current can be drastically suppressed at specific energies. These energies obey a generic quantization rul...
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