2023 March-2 - 699 articles
This paper proposes a model capable of predicting fatal occurrences in aviation events such as accidents and incidents, using as inputs the human factors that contributed to each incident, together with information about the flight. This is important...
Microscopic images in material science documents have increased in number due to the growth and common use of electron microscopy instruments. Through the use of data mining techniques, they are easily accessible and can be obtained from documents pu...
Automated truck platooning has become an increasingly popular research subject, and its applicability to highways is considered one of the earliest possible landing scenarios for automated driving. However, there is a lack of research regarding the c...
The current work aims to offer a specific overview of the homogeneous dispersions of 2D nanomaterials in heat transfer base fluids—so-called 2D nanofluids. This data compilation emerged from the critical overview of the findings of the publishe...
Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have become the main drivers in many image recognition applications. However, they are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which can lead to disastrous consequences. This paper introduces ShuffleDetect as...
The goal of this investigation is the thorough analysis and optimization of a solar-assisted heat pump heating unit for covering the space heating demand for a building in Athens, Greece. The novelty of the studied system is the use of a high-tempera...
Advanced high-strength steels (AHHS) are widely used in many production lines of car components. For efficient design of the forming processes, numerical methods are frequently applied in the automotive industry. To model the forming processes realis...
The permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) has been used in electric propulsion and other fields. However, it is prone to the stator winding inter-turn short-circuit, and if no effective measures are taken, the ship’s power system will be pa...
In big cities, there are more and more parking lots and charging piles for electric vehicles, and the resources of parking and charging vehicles can be aggregated to provide strong computing power for vehicular edge computing (VEC). In this paper, we...
Active optics and aberration correction techniques for sparse aperture segmented mirrors are studied. A finite element model of the sparse aperture segmented mirror was established, and a multi-aperture aberration polynomial was derived. According to...
Gaucher disease (GD) is a lysosomal storage pathological condition, characterized by a genetic autosomal recessive transmission. The GD cause is the mutation of GBA1 gene, located on the chromosome 1 (1q21), that induces the deficiency of the lysosom...
Detecting and controlling illegal websites (gambling and pornography sites) through illegal domain names has been an unsolved problem. Therefore, how to mine and discover potential illegal domain names in advance has become a current research hotspot...
In previous years, cybercriminals have utilized various strategies to evade identification, including obfuscation, confusion, and polymorphism technology, resulting in an exponential increase in the amount of malware that poses a serious threat to co...
The present study aimed to evaluate the lipid content and oxidation of fallow deer (FD), wild boar (WB), and pig meat (PM) at −18 °C for a 360-day storage period. The lowest fat content was observed in thigh meat (TM) of FD (2.53%; p ˂...
Transmission task static allocation (TTSA) is one of the most important issues in the automatic management of radio and television stations. Different transmission tasks are allocated to the most suitable transmission equipment to achieve the overall...
The Ponchielli theater of Cremona was built in 1808 after a fire destroyed the old wooden structure. The interior, the architecture and the shape of the plan layout are reminiscent of the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, a masterpiece by the architect Pierm...
This paper proposed a method for improving the XLNet model to address the shortcomings of segmentation algorithm for processing Chinese language, such as long sub-word lengths, long word lists and incomplete word list coverage. To address these issue...
Zero-liquid discharge wastewater treatment driven by sunlight shows potential to minimize its environmental impact by producing solid-only waste from solar energy. To overcome the key barrier of solar absorber contamination, solar-driven contactless...
Globalization, Industry 4.0, and the dynamics of the modern business environment caused by the pandemic have created immense challenges for enterprises across industries. Achieving and maintaining competitiveness requires enterprises to adapt to the...
White blood cells (WBCs) must be evaluated to determine how well the human immune system performs. Abnormal WBC counts may indicate malignancy, tuberculosis, severe anemia, cancer, and other serious diseases. To get an early diagnosis and to check if...
In a point cloud semantic segmentation task, misclassification usually appears on the semantic boundary. A few studies have taken the boundary into consideration, but they relied on complex modules for explicit boundary prediction, which greatly incr...
Community detection is a significant and challenging task in network research. Nowadays, many community detection methods have been developed. Among them, the classical Louvain algorithm is an excellent method aiming at optimizing an objective functi...
This article addressed the problem of matrix converters (MxC), specifically the investigation of power losses and matrix converter efficiency in a 3 × 5 arrangement. In today’s modern world, efficiency is very important; hence, power loss...
In this study, we developed a similar text retrieval system using Sentence-BERT (SBERT) for our database of closed medical malpractice claims and investigated its retrieval accuracy. We assigned each case in the database a short Japanese summary of t...
The corrugated compensators are important components in the piping system, absorbing mechanical deformation flexibly. To reduce the risk of the piping system with corrugated compensators and improve the safety and stability of industrial equipment, c...
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a major global concern in the field of respiratory diseases, with healthcare institutions and partners investing significant resources to improve the detection and severity assessment of the virus. In an effort to furth...
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are groups of chemical substances commonly found in the environment. Because of large differences in the concentrations of PAHs and PCBs in the materials tested, separate an...
Bypass graft failures are linked to hemodynamic disturbances resulting from poor design. Several studies have tried to improve graft patency by modifying conventional graft designs. One strategy being employed is to induce spiral flow in bypass graft...
Due to the increasing proportion of wind power connected to the grid, day-ahead wind power prediction plays a more and more important role in the operation of the power system. This paper proposes a day-ahead wind power short-term prediction model ba...
Background: With digital transformation and growing social media usage, kids spend considerable time on the web, especially watching videos on YouTube. YouTube is a source of education and entertainment media that has a significant impact on the skil...
Two ways of to enhance the heat insulation of cold-protecting garments are studied using the mathematical model, which describes the coupled transport of temperature, humidity, and bound and condensed water. The model is developed in a one-dimensiona...
Nonadiabatic Abelian geometric quantum computation has been extensively studied, due to its fast manipulation and inherent noise resistance. However, to obtain the pure geometric phase, the quantum state is required to evolve along some special paths...
The technological maturity of AI solutions has been consistently increasing over the years, expanding its application scope and domains. Smart home systems have evolved to act as proactive assistants for their residents, autonomously detecting behavi...
The subject of this investigation is light diffraction from a structure formed at the lateral projection of structured light on the surface of a 3D object. It is demonstrated that the patterns of vertically structured light fringes change their struc...
Wireless traffic prediction is critical to the intelligent operation of cellular networks, such as load balancing, congestion control, value-added service promotion, etc. However, the BTS data in each region has certain differences and privacy, and c...
This paper studies frequency-limited model reduction for linear positive systems. Specifically, the objective is to develop a reduced-order model for a high-order positive system that preserves the positivity, while minimizing the approximation error...
A variety of metals and alloys are employed in the field of orthodontics, of which the construction of wires happens to be predominant. Through this systematic review, our primary goal was to review and assess studies focusing on complications that e...
The detection of small objects is easily affected by background information, and a lack of context information makes detection difficult. Therefore, small object detection has become an extremely challenging task. Based on the above problems, we prop...
In the paper, we statistically analysed data on the average hourly wind speed obtained from the meteorological station Poprad (located at the Poprad-Tatry airport, the Prešov region, Northern Slovakia) for the period 2005–2021. High alti...
In today’s digital age, it is crucial to secure the flow of information to protect data and information from being hacked during transmission or storage. To address this need, we present a new image encryption technique that combines the Kronec...
The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of the extrusion process and particle size on the properties of rice flour (microstructure, pasting properties), gluten-free dough (rheological properties), and bread (texture, specific volume, water abs...
Background: While cross-legged-sitting (CLS) posture is widely practised in some communities, its biomechanical effect on the lower limbs is not clear. This study aimed to investigate whether CLS would affect biomechanical parameters in lower limbs d...
Cleaner production has emerged as a comprehensive paradigm, aiming to reduce, or even avoid, the environmental impact in the production stage, in a broad variety of fields. However, the great number of interacting factors makes the assessment of effi...
The planning and management of traffic flow networks with multiple input data sources for decision-making generate the need for a mathematical approach. The program of measures for the development of the transport infrastructure of the Russian Federa...
The subway is one of urban residents’ main means of public transportation. The design of entrance pavilions to subway stations has shown a diverse development trend over time. Since most of the subway building space is underground, it is very d...
To address the problems of difficult online monitoring, low recognition efficiency and the subjectivity of work condition identification in mineral flotation processes, a foam flotation performance state recognition method is developed to improve the...
Evidence on the role of propulsion compared to drag in swimming, based on experimental settings, is still lacking. However, higher levels of propulsion seem to lead to faster swimming velocities. The aim of this study was to understand the variation...
Scholars have paid considerable attention to the factors that affect the safety states of construction workers. However, only a few studies have focused on the safety assessment and security alerts of individual workers. In this study, the term &lsqu...
Convenient cuts of poultry products are of significant interest, but they are perishable products with a short shelf life. Modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) or the application of active packaging based on edible and biodegradable coatings could ext...
For structural design purposes, human-induced loads on pedestrian systems can be described by several simplified (i.e., deterministic equivalent-force models) or more complex computational approaches. Among others, the Spring-Mass-Damper (SMD), Singl...
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