2023 February-1 - 798 articles
Many asset owners and maintainers have the ambition to better predict the future state of their equipment to make timely and better-informed maintenance decisions. Although many methods to support high-level maintenance policy selection are available...
The slurry–earth pressure balance dual-mode shield has an earth pressure balance (EPB) and slurry shield functions. Based on a shield tunnel project of Guangzhou Metro Line 12 in China, this study investigates the clogging prevention of a slurr...
Environmental pollution from organic contaminants caused by textile dyeing is a real danger. Wastewater from the textile industry has high organic loads, as well as dyes and chemical compounds used in their preparation. Among the azo dyes, Congo red...
The disturbance depth of traffic load has a direct impact on the stability of a room-and-pillar mining goaf. To quantitatively calculate the relationship between the traffic load disturbance depth and influencing factors, 49 groups of horizontal comb...
The internal gear is part of the planetary and epicyclic gear pairs in the transmission system of the helicopter. Gear tooth wear is one of the most usual gear failures. This paper establishes an analytical model to evaluate the influence of tooth we...
Self-adaptive software (SAS) is gaining in popularity as it can handle dynamic changes in the operational context or in itself. Time behaviors are of vital importance for SAS systems, as the self-adaptation loops bring in additional overhead time. Ho...
Machine vision based on deep learning is gaining more and more applications in structural health monitoring (SHM) due to the rich information that can be achieved in the images. Bolts are widely used in the connection of steel structures, and their l...
In full-field 3D displacement measurement, stereo digital image correlation (Stereo-DIC) has strong capabilities. However, as a result of difficulties with stereo camera calibration and surface merging, 360-deg panoramic displacement measurements rem...
H-Oil gas oils have a higher density and higher nitrogen content, and consequently much lower reactivity than straight-run vacuum gas oils during fluid catalytic cracking (FCC). The conversion of H-Oil gas oils observed in a laboratory catalytic crac...
Water is an essential natural resource, and its contamination is an important issue at present. This study aimed to increase the techniques that can be used to clean and reuse industrial wastewater by studying the feasibility of an aqueous two-phase...
Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) is a well-known geophysical method applied to geological, hydrogeological and geoenvironmental research. To date, 2D ERT is still used much more than 3D ERT, thanks to its greater immediacy, survey speed and lo...
In order to study the variation law of shear frictional characteristics of the steel pipe jacking and sand interface under different working conditions, the shear stress–strain curve between five different particle sizes of sand and steel pipe...
The study focuses on developing a methodology for calculating an integrated quality index of administrative and engineering solutions that affect the safety of multi-storey residential buildings at each stage of their lifecycle. This method can be us...
Considering the technological processes taking place in fish processing enterprises (skinning), it is possible to specify various factors affecting the tool life and process efficiency. The paper presents the methodology of the study and the results...
As radio frequency (RF) hardware continues to improve, many technologies that were traditionally impractical have suddenly become viable alternatives to legacy systems. Two-way ranging (TWR) is often considered a poor positioning solution for airborn...
Based on a rigorous solution to the problem, analytical expressions are obtained for calculating the diffraction of the electromagnetic field of a grounded cable on an elongated dielectric spheroid in a conductive layer. The field of a grounded AC ca...
The flexible structure of the new type of aerial track studied in this paper is formed by strings and tracks, which have obvious dynamic characteristics under the action of vehicle moving loads and is also an important factor affecting its performanc...
Atherosclerosis and aneurysm are two non-communicable diseases that affect the human arterial network. The arterioles undergo dimensional changes that prominently influence the flow of oxygen and nutrients to distal organs and organ systems. Several...
With the booming proliferation of user requests in the Internet of Things (IoT) network, Edge Computing (EC) is emerging as a promising paradigm for the provision of flexible and reliable services. Considering the resource constraints of IoT devices,...
In image classification, various techniques have been developed to enhance the performance of principal component analysis (PCA) dimension reduction techniques with guiding weighting features to remove redundant and irrelevant features. This study pr...
The video classification task has gained significant success in the recent years. Specifically, the topic has gained more attention after the emergence of deep learning models as a successful tool for automatically classifying videos. In recognition...
In the constructal design method, the comprehension of the effect of design on the system performance is crucial to understanding the contributions of the degrees of freedom or constraints in the system evolution in direction of optimal configuration...
Reliable disruption prediction (DP) and disruption mitigation systems are considered unavoidable during international thermonuclear experimental reactor (ITER) operations and in the view of the next fusion reactors such as the DEMOnstration Power Pla...
Indoor farms are a promising way to obtain vegetables in standard quantity and quality. As opposed to previous studies, this study attempts to calculate optimized LED light conditions for different growth stages (five-days time step) of basil (Ocimum...
This article presents the history of zinc, its production and demand. The quantity of zinc production, both primary zinc from ores and concentrates, and secondary zinc from scrap and zinc-rich waste, was discussed. A comprehensive economic analysis c...
This paper presents a novel 28 GHz circularly polarized rectangular dielectric-resonator antenna (DRA) array for millimeter-wave (mmWave) off-body applications. A feed network incorporating cross slots was utilized in the rectangular DRA design to re...
The world is facing the global challenges of insecurity, poverty and climate change, which can impede food availability, production and nutritional security. Due to these factors, the production and availability of crop species such as legumes, pulse...
This study assessed the possible impact of a former ferrochromium plant in Siechnice (Lower Silesia, Poland) on water reservoirs and living organisms. The metal concentrations (Zn, Cu, Pb, Fe, and Cr) in the sediments were determined, along with ecot...
Automatic pavement crack detection is crucial for reducing road maintenance costs and ensuring transportation safety. Although convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used in automatic pavement crack detection, they cannot adequately mo...
With the advent of the era of big data and the vigorous development of consumer electronics, the demand for higher-speed processing capacity for gigantic amounts of data is increasing; this requires finer and far more numerous connections between die...
Greece is one of Europe’s most seismically active areas. Seismic activity in Greece has been characterized by a series of strong earthquakes with magnitudes up to Mw = 7.0 over the last five years. In this article we focus on these strong event...
Optimizing battery swapping station (BSS) configuration is essential to enhance BSS’s energy savings and economic feasibility, thereby facilitating energy refueling efficiency of electric taxis (ETs). This study proposes a novel modular battery...
Two popular chronic stroke rehabilitation protocols are robotic-assisted movements and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). Separately, both protocols have produced encouraging motor recovery improvements. An intriguing question remains: w...
Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown their superiority in various visual tasks for the capability of self-attention mechanisms to model long-range dependencies. Some recent works try to reduce the high cost of vision transformers by limiting the sel...
In response to the worldwide shortage of 99mTc supply caused by the combined consequence from both decommissioning and maintenance of research reactors worldwide, the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Science and Lanzhou Uni...
The study aimed at the simple prediction problem of finite soil pressure for a new foundation pit adjacent to an existing subway station. Failure modes of the finite soil were proposed. Considering the friction between the soil and the structural int...
Polyaluminum chloride slag produced in the production of water treatment agents pollutes the environment and wastes land resources in the process of landfill and waste. In order to solve the resource waste of researching polyaluminum chloride slag, i...
This paper presents a novel material spectroscopy approach to facial presentation–attack–defense (PAD). Best-in-class PAD methods typically detect artifacts in the 3D space. This paper proposes similar features can be achieved in a monocu...
Methane emission and oxidation in different bio-cover materials, i.e., sandy loam, compost, and stabilized wastes, were investigated at a municipal solid waste landfill in Thailand. The bio-cover was purged with extracted landfill gas while methane r...
Optimal trajectory generation for the guidance of re-entry glide vehicles is of great significance. To realize a faster generation speed and consistency with the guidance mechanism, an improved convex optimization trajectory generation algorithm base...
In this paper, a new control scheme for buck converters was proposed. The buck converter utilizes the dual control loop to improve transient response and has the constant switching frequency. The control scheme is mainly as follows: (a) The switch-ON...
The increasing presence of non-programmable renewable energy plants increases the intermittency of the electricity supply and thus threatens the adequacy of a power system. Hydropower can solve this problem due to its flexibility. This paper applies...
Intrusion analysis is essential for cybersecurity, but oftentimes, the overwhelming number of false alerts issued by security appliances can prove to be a considerable hurdle. Machine learning algorithms can automate a task known as security alert da...
The Venice Marathon (VM) has gained fame and prestige over time. It is part of a group of marathons that are recognized worldwide. The aims of this study were to describe the attractiveness of the event over the years according to the gender and age...
Gene electrotransfer (GET) is recognized as a promising technique for the development of an efficient tool for gene therapy. Such a therapy would have applications in the treatment of a variety of genetic diseases, including cancer. However, despite...
Although the current ecological engineering technology can reinforce shallow landslides, it cannot reinforce deep landslides. A new type of ecological engineering technology-living tree stump slope protection was developed, aiming at the deficiency o...
In this work, we compare the operation of a passively modelocked polarization-maintaining emission in two thulium-doped fiber lasers pumped at 1561 nm, with emission at wavelengths of 1.951 μm in one case and 2.07 μm in the other. We obtained a...
Scientific workflows consist of numerous tasks subject to constraints on data dependency. Effective workflow scheduling is perpetually necessary to efficiently utilize the provided resources to minimize workflow execution cost and time (makespan). Ac...
This randomized control study aimed to assess 12 weeks of a novel neuromuscular training program (KneeRugbyWomen) on jump-related biomechanical variables in amateur female rugby players. Twenty-four participants were randomly allocated to either an e...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the appropriateness of polypropylene fibres (PP) to decrease the brittleness of high-performance self-compacting concrete (HPSCC). The influence of PP fibre content on the fresh and mechanical assets of PP-fi...
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