Applied Sciences, Volume 13, Issue 5

L-asparaginase Rhodospirillum rubrum (RrA) is an enzyme (amidohydrolases; EC 3.5.1.1) that catalyzes the L-asparagine hydrolysis reaction to form L-aspartic acid. Due to the shortcomings of existing L-asparaginases from Esherichia coli (EcA) and Erwi...

Pseudorandomness is a crucial property that the designers of cryptographic primitives aim to achieve. It is also a key requirement in the calls for proposals of new primitives, as in the case of block ciphers. Therefore, the assessment of the propert...

This paper presents the results of monitoring the behaviour of selected wood species exposed to a small ignition initiator. We specifically aimed to investigate the effect of retardant coating on the combustion process of the wood species spruce (Pic...

Oral non-neoplastic and neoplastic lesions have similar clinical manifestations, increasing the risk of inaccurate screening decisions that adversely affect oral cancer (OC) outcomes. Tobacco-use-related changes in the oral soft tissues may affect th...

A bovine mastitis is an infectious disease, which is usually treated with antibiotics. Alternatively, herbal medicine has been proposed due to bacterial resistance. The aim of this study was to determine the antibacterial activity of the acetonic and...

Slow-moving landslides are widespread natural hazards that can affect social and economic activities, causing damage to structures and infrastructures. This paper aims at proposing a procedure to analyze road damage induced by slow-moving landslides...

With the rapid growth of data traffic and mobile devices, it is imperative to provide reliable and stable services during mobility. Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets) and dense networks have been identified as potential solutions to address the upcomin...

With the development of offshore wind power (OWP)-based hydrogen production technology, hydrogen fuel cells play a critical role in buffering the mismatch between energy supply and demand in OWP systems. Benefitting from high efficiency, cleanliness,...

Ion beam analysis (IBA) methods refer to a set of analytical techniques based on the interactions of energetic ions, produced by a particle accelerator, with matter. The result of such interactions is the emission of characteristic radiation, X and g...

The prediction and characterization of solar irradiation relies mostly on either the use of complex models or on complicated mathematical techniques, such as artificial neural network (ANN)-based algorithms. This mathematical complexity might hamper...

Waste management is one of most important challenges in environmental protection. Much effort is put into the development of waste treatment methods for further use. A serious problem is the treatment of municipal sewage sludge. One method that is us...

This paper designed a voice interactive robot system that can conveniently execute assigned service tasks in real-life scenarios. It is equipped without a microphone where users can control the robot with spoken commands; the voice commands are then...

Nodal rotations are produced by bending and shear effects and bending rotations can be easily calculated using Euler–Bernoulli’s stiffness matrix method. Nevertheless, shear rotations are traditionally neglected, as their effects are prac...

The aim of this study is to assess the consistency in the modelling of thermo-hydraulic problems in clay-based engineered barriers. This study focuses on two aspects: the modelling of vapour pressure as a function of temperature, and the specific hea...

Edible crayfish are an object of local fishing and artificial breeding in many countries. This industry is very promising in terms of production of healthy foods and byproducts, such as biologically active polyaminosaccharide—chitosan and its d...

The aim of this study was to evaluate dehydrated sauerkraut juice (DSJ) in bread and meat applications and investigate bioaccessibility (BAC) of TPC in the analyzed products. In current research, sauerkraut juice, dehydrated sauerkraut juice, and bre...

The open-water training conditions in sailing sports limit the coach’s ability to provide instructions. Auditory feedback provided using a smartphone application in real-time seems to be a promising tool in the training process. The aim of the...

High-damping rubber (HDR) dampers have the advantages of convenience for various shapes of pressure blocks, aesthetic installation, easy maintenance, temperature stability, etc.; thus, they present good application prospects in the vibration reductio...

Aerostatic bearings are considered crucial components that can improve the measurement accuracy of ground simulation tests of space equipment. A structural optimization design method is proposed to enhance the static performance of aerostatic bearing...

In medical texts, temporal information describes events and changes in status, such as medical visits and discharges. According to the semantic features, it is classified into simple time and complex time. The current research on time recognition usu...

We propose a communication positioning integrated signal (CPIS) to achieve sub-meter positioning of metro trains. However, the electromagnetic environment of metro trains is complex, and the interference of radio frequency signals will reduce the acc...

Daily physical activity is one of the key factors to improve health and support the prevention of a variety of chronic diseases e.g., hypertension, depression or acute events such as strokes. Self-monitoring by the patients has shown to improve adher...

The availability of food to a growing world population is a matter of concern for decades. Despite that, post-harvest losses are large in many countries, due to insufficient food preservation. And recently rising prices for fossil energies additional...

This study focuses on faults in the thrusters of unmanned surface vehicles, which are fatal to the integrity of their missions. As for the fault conditions, the breakage of the thruster blade and the entanglement of floating objects were selected, an...

Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy is a fast and simple technique for functional group identification. This work provides a review and insight into the application and interpretation of FTIR spectroscopy for cementitious binders that comp...

In the past two decades, with advances in data collection and in analytical techniques and tools, there has been a significant increase in research on indoor environmental quality (IEQ) assessment. To better understand the relationships between the o...

Compressed Sensing (CS) has been applied to electrocardiogram monitoring in wireless sensor networks, but existing sampling and compression circuits consume too much hardware. This paper proposes a low-power and small-area sampling and compression ci...

The membrane-type air spring can be used to suppress lateral vibration of a vibration isolation table. However, compared to voice coil actuators, pneumatic actuators are difficult to use for precise vibration control, because servo valves have nonlin...

Collagen is fundamental to a vast diversity of health functions and potential therapeutics. Short peptides targeting collagen are attractive for designing modular systems for site-specific delivery of bioactive agents. Characterization of peptide&nda...

Research into session-based recommendation systems (SBSR) has attracted a lot of attention, but each study focuses on a specific class of methods. This work examines and evaluates a large range of methods, from simpler statistical co-occurrence metho...

The process of intelligent multi-objective parametric optimization design for mirrors is discussed in detail in this paper, with the error of the mirror surface shape and the total mass being examined as the optimization objectives. The establishment...

The prevalence of fake news on social media has led to major sociopolitical issues. Thus, the need for automated fake news detection is more important than ever. In this work, we investigated the interplay between news content and users’ postin...

Detecting and tracking objects of interest in videos is a technology that can be used in various applications. For example, identifying cell movements or mutations through videos obtained in real time can be useful information for decision making in...

Several studies suggested that plasma-activated water (PAW) increases crop yields and confronts drought. This study determined the total phenolic (TP) and total flavonoid (TF) contents of water spinach to elucidate whether PAW induced changes in the...

The Internet of Things is a comprehensive system of connected computing devices and sensors that provide extensive data sharing capability for any specific purpose. For the construction industry, the applications of the Internet of Things have been i...

Spectrum-sensing algorithms are one of the effective solutions to the problem of the underwater spectrum resource constraint. However, because the underwater acoustic channel is one of the most complex channels, it has many characteristics, such as a...

The spindle of a machine tool plays a key role in machining because the wear of a spindle might result in inaccurate production and decreased productivity. To understand the condition of a machine tool, a vector-based convolutional fuzzy neural netwo...

Studying land comprehensive carrying capacity (LCCC) is the foundational and key requirement for determining land development planning and urban spatial development patterns of a region. However, the traditional evaluation method discounts the fuzzin...

Insufficiently labeled samples and low-generalization performance have become significant natural language processing problems, drawing significant concern for few-shot text classification (FSTC). Advances in prompt learning have significantly improv...

Three-dimensional blading is an efficient technique in compressor aerodynamic design, and its function mechanism in the cantilevered stator needs to be addressed. This paper focuses on the sweep and dihedral in the cantilevered stator and seeks to ex...

Named entity recognition (NER) is a subfield of natural language processing (NLP) that identifies and classifies entities from plain text, such as people, organizations, locations, and other types. NER is a fundamental task in information extraction,...

In large-scale potential field data inversion, constructing the kernel matrix is a time-consuming problem with large memory requirements. Therefore, a spherical planting inversion of Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) data is proposed u...

Saudi Arabian urban roads and highways have witnessed a large number of traffic crashes. Road lighting is one of the most important factors influencing drivers’ safety during the nighttime. Street-lighting design (e.g., spacing and height), vis...

The paper applies jellyfish search algorithm (JSA) for reaching the maximum profit of IEEE 30-node and IEEE 118-node transmission power networks considering electrical market and wind turbines (WTs). JSA is compared with the particle swarm optimizati...

The depth of electrodes inserted into the charge plays a vital role in controlling the submerged arc furnace. Therefore, we used ultrasound waves reflected from the electrode tip to estimate the depth of electrodes inserted into the charge. However,...

Plastic/rubber materials used as fasteners in equipment for analyzing or removing organic pollutants in water treatment technologies form an essential part of the device. Micropollutants in water are typically present at very low concentrations (ng/L...

The rock deformation and failure characteristics and mechanisms are very important for stability evaluation and hazard control in rock engineering. The process of rock deformation and failure is often accompanied by temperature changes. It is of grea...

In recent years, the number of malicious web pages has increased dramatically, posing a great challenge to network security. While current machine learning-based detection methods have emerged as a promising alternative to traditional detection techn...

Diabetes is a chronic disease that is escalating day by day and requires 24/7 continuous management. It may cause many complications, precisely when a patient moves, which may risk their and other drivers’ and pedestrians’ lives. Recent r...

Microalga Chlorella protothecoides materials were assessed as substrates for anaerobic digestion (AD) aiming at the simultaneous production of biogas/methane and pigments: whole autotrophic (AA) and heterotrophic algae (H); extracted heterotrophic mi...