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Applied Sciences, Volume 13, Issue 5

March-1 2023 - 623 articles

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Cover Story: Eating is considered as one of the most important activities of daily living (ADL). However, with the aging population and the rapid spread of chronic diseases, many patients require assistance from family members or professional caregivers to eat. As a result, various types of meal assistance robots (MAR) have been developed and introduced to address this issue. In this study, we propose a MAR system suitable for an Asian diet, which includes dishes that are easy to handle with chopsticks and soup. The system comprises an eating utensil that can alternate chopsticks and spoons and a food acquisition point estimator that recognizes the food area from the plate image and calculates the best location to acquire each dish. Additionally, we have developed a contactless user interface based on facial recognition to accommodate users with physical limitations. View this paper

Articles (623)

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,900 Views
15 Pages

Rhodospirillum rubrum L-Asparaginase Conjugates with Polyamines of Improved Biocatalytic Properties as a New Promising Drug for the Treatment of Leukemia

  • Natalia V. Dobryakova,
  • Dmitry D. Zhdanov,
  • Nikolay N. Sokolov,
  • Svetlana S. Aleksandrova,
  • Marina V. Pokrovskaya and
  • Elena V. Kudryashova

6 March 2023

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,413 Views
13 Pages

On Pseudorandomness and Deep Learning: A Case Study

  • Zahra Ebadi Ansaroudi,
  • Rocco Zaccagnino and
  • Paolo D’Arco

6 March 2023

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,768 Views
16 Pages

Effect of Protective Coatings on Wooden Elements Exposed to a Small Ignition Initiator

  • Stanislava Gašpercová,
  • Iveta Marková,
  • Miroslava Vandlíčková,
  • Linda Makovická Osvaldová and
  • Jozef Svetlík

6 March 2023

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,545 Views
12 Pages

Performance of Automated Oral Cancer Screening Algorithm in Tobacco Users vs. Non-Tobacco Users

  • Susan Meishan Yang,
  • Bofan Song,
  • Cherie Wink,
  • Mary Abouakl,
  • Thair Takesh,
  • Michelle Hurlbutt,
  • Dana Dinica,
  • Amber Davis,
  • Rongguang Liang and
  • Petra Wilder-Smith

6 March 2023

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,456 Views
14 Pages

Antibacterial Activity of Tanacetum vulgare L. Extracts against Clinical Isolates of Bovine Mastitis

  • Renāte Šukele,
  • Ance Bārzdiņa,
  • Rudīte Koka,
  • Ingus Skadins,
  • Līga Lauberte,
  • Agnese Brangule,
  • Liga Kovalcuka and
  • Dace Bandere

6 March 2023

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,568 Views
19 Pages

Combining Statistical, Displacement and Damage Analyses to Study Slow-Moving Landslides Interacting with Roads: Two Case Studies in Southern Italy

  • Gaetano Pecoraro,
  • Gianfranco Nicodemo,
  • Rosa Menichini,
  • Davide Luongo,
  • Dario Peduto and
  • Michele Calvello

6 March 2023

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...

  • Review
  • Open Access
34 Citations
7,992 Views
43 Pages

6 March 2023

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,951 Views
20 Pages

Active Disturbance Rejection Optimization Control for SOFCs in Offshore Wind Power

  • Zhixuan Pan,
  • Jia Liu,
  • Jing Liu,
  • Xiaoge Ning,
  • Zheng Qin and
  • Lulu He

6 March 2023

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,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,836 Views
24 Pages

6 March 2023

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...

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