2023 May-1 - 603 articles
Federated learning is currently a popular distributed machine learning solution that often experiences cumbersome communication processes and challenging model convergence in practical edge deployments due to the training nature of its model informat...
The seismic response of base-isolated structures is notably influenced by mechanical properties of isolation devices due to their essential role in structural behavior. Consequently, the variability of such properties should be accounted for in the d...
The electromagnetic interaction between a circular disk with finite conductivity and finite thickness and a coaxial circular loop of constant current is addressed here. The finite conductivity and thickness of the material disk lead to the adoption o...
In this paper, we develop a tractable mathematical model and an emulation framework for communicating information through water using acoustic signals. Water is considered one of the most complex media to model due to its vastness and variety of char...
In this study, a nanocrystalline layer composed primarily of martensite phase was prepared on the surface of 304 stainless steel. Furthermore, the martensite phase content in the nanocrystalline layer was adjusted by heat treatment at 500 °C and...
Existing studies on rehabilitation robots are generally devoted to robot-assisted active rehabilitation training, which is conducive to facilitating muscle and nerve regeneration. However, human–robot interaction (HRI) requires imposing a limit...
Due to the presence of environmental problems, it is urgent to improve the processes aimed at the processing and purification of hydrocarbon-containing wastes and wastewaters. The review presents the latest achievements in the development of nanostru...
The flow-induced vibration characteristic of the U-section rubber outer windshield structure of high-speed train is the key factor to limit its high-speed movement. Accurate and effective flow-induced vibration analysis of windshield structures is an...
Cobalt–chromium (CoCr) alloy is widely used for medical implants such as for dental or joint replacements because of its strength and high corrosion resistance. By throwing a spherical media against a material surface, fine-particle shot peenin...
With the development of the social economy and the continuous growth of the population, emergencies within field stations are becoming more frequent. To improve the efficiency of emergency evacuation of field stations and further protect people&rsquo...
Digital health transformation (DHT) has been deployed rapidly worldwide, and many e-health solutions are being invented and improved on an accelerating basis. Healthcare already faces many challenges in terms of reducing costs and allocating resource...
Potholes pose a significant problem for road safety and infrastructure. They can cause damage to vehicles and present a risk to pedestrians and cyclists. The ability to detect potholes in real time and with a high level of accuracy, especially under...
The Weight-of-Evidence (WOE) approach uses multiple lines of evidence to analyze the adverse effects associated with CO2 enrichment in two stations from the Gulf of Cádiz (Spain) with different contamination degrees. Sediment contamination and...
On the basis of the force and safety factor analysis of traditional retaining walls, a new analytical method of force and displacement of the slope is suggested, the numerical theoretical solution of the stress distribution of the sliding body can be...
In recent years, numerous explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) use cases have been developed, to solve numerous real problems in industrial applications while maintaining the explainability level of the used artificial intelligence (AI) models t...
Foot and ankle injuries are common in many sports. One of the main athletes issues is the time for sport resumption after trauma. Recently, extensive efforts have been made to speed up the athletes’ return-to-sport and to prevent joint degenera...
Air pollution has been a global issue that solicits proposals for sustainable development of social economics. Though the sources emitting pollutants are thoroughly investigated, the transportation, dispersion, scattering, and diminishing of pollutan...
Tendon transfer surgery is often used to restore hand grasp function following high median-ulnar nerve palsy. This surgery typically reroutes and sutures the tendon of the extensor carpi radialis longus (ECRL) muscle to all four flexor digitorum prof...
Object detection is crucial for individuals with visual impairment, especially when waiting for a bus. In this study, we propose a lightweight and highly accurate bus detection model based on an improved version of the YOLOv5 model. We propose integr...
The damage and fracture of coal is accompanied by a complex energy conversion process, and these different stages of energy evolution are closely related to coal failure. In this paper, an evolution model describing the behavior of coal failure was p...
This study aims to compare the shaping efficiency of the nickel–titanium instrument systems, One Reci and ProTaper Ultimate, using micro-CT (micro-computed tomography) in traditional and conservative endodontic access cavities. The experimental...
Afforestation of former agricultural land poses a real challenge for foresters because soil life is often severely limited by the loss of natural soil fungal diversity. In addition, former agricultural soils have low levels of fungal species typical...
Wheat disease detection is crucial for disease diagnosis, pesticide application optimization, disease control, and wheat yield and quality improvement. However, the detection of wheat diseases is difficult due to their various types. Detecting wheat...
The focus of this article is to present a novel crypto-accelerator architecture for a resource-constrained embedded system that utilizes elliptic curve cryptography (ECC). The architecture is built around Binary Edwards curves (BEC) to provide resist...
A cross strip (XS) anode detector is a photon-counting imaging detector with high spatial resolution. However, due to the Poisson distribution characteristics of the photons emitted by the target, photons with a small time interval will cause signal...
Silicon nitride ceramic balls are the key basic components of bearings in major equipment. Their key performance indices are accuracy and batch consistency. A grinding method with the most appropriate comprehensive performance is the basis and guaran...
The emerging field at the intersection of synthetic biology, network modelling, and control theory has grown in popularity in recent years. In this study, the aim is to design synthetic biomolecular controllers by exploiting the covalent modification...
The development of single-modality target tracking based on visible light has been limited in recent years because visual light images are highly susceptible to environmental and lighting influences. Thermal infrared images can well compensate for th...
The soil food web is essential for the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. The application of naphthalene is a commonly employed experimental treatment for expelling soil fauna to examine faunal effects on litter decomposition processes, for which...
Child drawing development optimization (CDDO) is a recent example of a metaheuristic algorithm. The motive for inventing this method is children’s learning behavior and cognitive development, with the golden ratio being employed to optimize the...
The global tropospheric zenith delay grid products of VMF1 and VMF3 (Vienna mapping functions) with different resolutions are used to calculate the tropospheric zenith delay of eight IGS (International GNSS Service) stations in China, and the accurac...
To address the issue of low positioning accuracy in unmanned vehicles navigating in obstructed spaces due to easily contaminated navigation measurement information, an improved adaptive federated Kalman filtering INS/GNSS/VNS integrated navigation al...
In response to the lack of plasma bag-breaking equipment and time-consuming manual recovery of plasma in China, this study focuses on the distal end cutting of a plasma bag residual-input tube and designs a machine-vision-based plasma bag residual-in...
The supply chain performance measurement system (SCPMS) is considered an integral and important part of supply chain management (SCM) for an effective and efficient supply chain (SC). The healthier and more flexible SCPMS is based on the enablers fro...
Some research claims that the cultural features of people may have a major impact on driving behavior and can play a serious role in the driving safety. Indeed, unlike machines that follow the instructions strictly, drivers have their own will and ma...
Shipping Enterprise Credit Named Entity Recognition (NER) aims to recognize shipping enterprise credit entities from unstructured shipping enterprise credit texts. Aiming at the problem of low entity recognition rate caused by complex and diverse ent...
Light simultaneously induces visual and non-visual effects. Although the differences in the spectral sensitivity of intrinsic photosensitive retinal ganglion cells induce opposing influences on physiological responses, it is difficult to independentl...
For the quick identification of diverse types of cancer/malignant cells in the human body, a new hollow-core optical waveguide based on Photonic Crystal Fiber (PCF) is proposed and numerically studied. The refractive index (RI) differs between normal...
In recent years, the rise of advanced artificial intelligence technologies has had a profound impact on many fields, including education and research. One such technology is ChatGPT, a powerful large language model developed by OpenAI. This technolog...
Based on an improvement project of soft soil ground in Zhuhai City on the Pearl River Delta, a comparative study on vacuum preloading and surcharge preloading was performed. The ground and stratified settlements, excess pore water pressure, and the d...
Revealing the interlayer pressure distribution in multilayer insulation (MLI) for cryogen (e.g., liquid hydrogen) containers is very important to improve the insulation-performance-predicting quality. This paper proposed an inversion method to recons...
Agricultural hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) is currently underutilised for food and could be pivotal to the development and expansion of a low-carbon food production system and to contribute to sustainable diets. Dehulling hempseed for food (for hempseed...
Analyses of efficiency are vital for planning and monitoring the duration and costs of construction works, as well as the entire construction project. This paper introduces a combined quantitative (probabilistic) and qualitative (machine learning-bas...
This paper reports on the research results of the radioactivity levels and upward dispersion of radionuclides of atmospheric fallout 210Pb, 137Cs, 241Am and 234,238U as well as key physicochemical parameters in a peat deposit subjected to drainage in...
Idioms are a unique class of words in the Chinese language that can be challenging for Chinese machine reading comprehension due to their formal simplicity and the potential mismatch between their literal and figurative meanings. To address this issu...
For rectangular section tunnel construction, soil bin pressure fluctuates under biaxial emergence conditions. Support pressure is difficult to uniformly distribute, and it can easily cause instability of the tunneling face. The Silo-wedge model is us...
The excavation-unloading damage effects of western high-geostress slopes on rock were explored by testing the pre-peak confining pressure unloading sandstone reloading mechanical properties. The deformation and failure mechanisms were studied from a...
In recent years, there has been a rise in the construction of expansive underground structures and shield tunnels with exceptionally large diameters. These projects introduce unique challenges regarding their impact on the surrounding soil and struct...
In an inductive wireless power transfer (WPT) system, the transferred power depends on the coupling between the transmitter coil and the receiver coil and, consequently, on their spatial positioning with respect to each other. Since this positioning...
Clays have been applied for centuries by people for many uses. From pottery to medicine, clays and clay minerals constitute part of individuals’ daily routines. Natural fine-grained earth material, commonly found at Xi beach coastal area of Lix...
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