2024 March-2 - 447 articles
Electrophotography is a digital, on-demand, dry, and page printing technique that operates based on toner particles of electronic materials using an electrostatic force and generates an electrical circuit via distribution of the toner particles. We d...
The development of hydrogen-blended natural gas (HBNG) increases the risk of gas transportation and presents challenges for pipeline security in utility tunnels. The objective of this study is to investigate the diffusion properties of HBNG in utilit...
Wireless localization and target sensing both rely on precise extraction of parameters such as signal amplitude, propagation delay, and Doppler shift from the received signals. Due to the high multi-path resolution and strong penetration, both locali...
Background and Objectives: Trichomonas tenax is a protozoan which participates in the human oral microflora. It is considered as a potential paradontopathogen. This microorganism is also reported in the respiratory tract. We aimed to analyze the avai...
To protect the security of medical images and to improve the embedding ability of data in encrypted medical images, this paper proposes a permutation ordered binary (POB) number system-based hiding and authentication scheme for medical images, which...
Ceramics based on zirconium dioxide are very important compounds for dental, implant, and structural material applications. Despite the fact that tetragonally stabilized YSZ has been well studied, the search for new compositions of zirconia-based cer...
Understanding the reliability of jump testing is essential to determine the neuromuscular progress of athletes and make informed decisions. This study aimed to assess the reliability of several countermovement jump (CMJ) and drop jump (DJ) test metri...
FLASH proton therapy is widely considered in many labs. However, achieving a dose rate sufficient for FLASH is challenging, especially when using the scanning method. A beam uniformization process using a nonlinear magnet is employed to reduce the sc...
This paper describes the development of an Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) which will allow drivers to avoid collisions with an oncoming vehicle from an occluded area when turning right at intersections in left-hand traffic. Connected vehicl...
This paper presents an energy management strategy using a Stateflow controller related to DC microgrids with the important penetration of renewable energy. The increase in world electricity demand is one of the principal drivers of the exhaustion of...
This paper investigates innovative methods for enhancing heat transfer efficiency in high-power permanent magnet electrical machines. The objectives are to quantify the effects of increasing the air speed, increasing the turbulence intensity, and int...
Image captioning, also recognized as the challenge of transforming visual data into coherent natural language descriptions, has persisted as a complex problem. Traditional approaches often suffer from semantic gaps, wherein the generated textual desc...
The local independence assumption is crucial for the consistent estimation of item parameters in item response theory models. This article explores a pairwise likelihood estimation approach for the two-parameter logistic (2PL) model that treats the l...
The computer numerically controlled (CNC) system is the key functional component of CNC machine tool control systems, and the servo drive system is an important part of CNC systems. The complex working environment will lead to frequent failure of ser...
High-intensity interval exercise (HIIE) is a type of structured physical training characterized by repeated bouts of high-intensity exercise interspersed with recovery periods. Although HIIE was found to improve physical performance in a relatively s...
To solve the problem that noise seriously affects the online monitoring of parts signals of outdoor machinery, this paper proposes a signal reconstruction method integrating deep neural network and compression sensing, called ADMM-1DNet, and gives a...
The risk level of the NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) phenomenon is crucial for the safety and economy of transmission and transformation projects which is rarely studied, especially for site selection and the construction of transmission lines and subst...
The goaf treatment of underground metal mines is an important link in mining, and it is particularly important to master the laws of overlying rock strata and surface movement of goaf. In this paper, Persistent Scatterer Interferometric Synthetic Ape...
This article aims to conduct an in-depth investigation into the environmental impact of Hall thruster plumes on spacecraft surface charging. The non-uniform plasma plume generated by Hall thrusters may trigger charging and discharging effects, making...
Sourdough bread is a traditional product made using lactic acid bacteria (LAB) and yeast. The influence of rye arabinoxylans (AXs) of different molar masses on sourdough wheat bread has not been studied to date. The aim of this study was to research...
The Maillard reaction (MR) is one of the main reactions that occurs during the thermal processing of food. It contributes positively to the flavor, aroma, and color of food but also produces harmful by-products, including acrylamide and advanced glyc...
Deep neural networks are powerful image classifiers but do they attend to similar image areas as humans? While previous studies have investigated how this similarity is shaped by technological factors, little is known about the role of factors that a...
The aim of this study was to examine the effects of sandstone ring specimens with different inner diameters on dynamic compression mechanical characteristics after dry and wet circulation. To carry out our study, we subjected a sandstone ring specime...
In this paper, we propose a learning model for tracking the isolines of fluid based on the physical properties of particles in particle-based fluid simulations. Our method involves analyzing which weights, closely related to surface tracking among th...
To clarify the effect of proteins on the charging and aggregation–dispersion characteristics of oxidized carbon nanohorn (CNHox), we measured the electrophoretic mobility and stability ratios as a function of concentrations of a model protein,...
On a global scale, traffic incidents are a leading cause of mortality and material damage. Romania exhibits the highest rate of road traffic fatalities both in the European Union and worldwide, requiring a comprehensive examination of its overall inf...
In addressing the challenges of high energy consumption and low efficiency in fertilization borehole drilling for clayey soils in southern orchards, this study utilizes the Discrete Element Method to establish a simulation model for clayey soils. Thr...
The early detection of cognitive impairment is essential in order to initiate interventions and guarantee access to healthcare services. Digital solutions are emerging in the literature as an alternative approach to cognitive screening. Our primary g...
The analysis of environmental DNA (eDNA) is a powerful and non-invasive method for monitoring the presence of species in ecosystems. However, ecologists and laboratory staff can find it challenging to use eDNA analysis software effectively due to the...
Recognizing aircraft automatically by using satellite images has different applications in both the civil and military sectors. However, due to the complexity and variety of the foreground and background of the analyzed images, it remains challenging...
The electric vehicle deployment, due to the plans defined according to the energy transition objectives, produces new challenges for the electrical system. These challenges are associated with the charging infrastructure of these vehicles since they...
(1) Background: The purpose of this study was to analyze the number of injuries in the canoe and kayak disciplines. (2) Methods: A cross-sectional and retrospective epidemiological study was conducted on a convenience sample of elite canoeists and ka...
In recent years, deep convolutional neural networks with multi-scale features have been widely used in image super-resolution reconstruction (ISR), and the quality of the generated images has been significantly improved compared with traditional meth...
Due to CPU and memory limitations, mobile IoT devices face challenges in handling delay-sensitive and computationally intensive tasks. Mobile edge computing addresses this issue by offloading tasks to the wireless network edge, reducing latency and e...
The construction of complex networks from electroencephalography (EEG) proves to be an effective method for representing emotion patterns in affection computing as it offers rich spatiotemporal EEG features associated with brain emotions. In this pap...
For video style transfer, naively applying still image techniques to process a video frame-by-frame independently often causes flickering artefacts. Some works adopt optical flow into the design of temporal constraint loss to secure temporal consiste...
Structural health monitoring (SHM) plays a crucial role in extending the service life of engineering structures. Effective monitoring not only provides insights into the health and functionality of a structure but also serves as an early warning syst...
This study presents a theoretical framework for a radiative thermal memristor (RTM), utilizing Tungsten-doped vanadium dioxide (WVO) as the phase-change material (PCM) and silicon carbide (SiC) in the far-field regime. The behavior of the RTM is depi...
This study presents an innovative methodology to augment the accuracy of gravitational acceleration (g) measurements in free fall experiments. Employing smartphones and integrating mechanical switches, our approach utilizes a built-in microphone for...
The effects of different concentrations of cadmium and 2,2′,4,4′,5,5′-hexabrominated diphenyl ether (BDE-153) on the growth and related physiological and biochemical indexes of Amaranthus mangostanus L. (amaranth) were studied. The...
In this study, a numerical and experimental analysis of a solar collector with roughness elements in the form of stainless-steel scourers on the absorber surface is presented. According to the location type and number of the stainless steel scourers,...
The Physically Distributed Logically Centralized (PDLC) software-defined network (SDN) control plane is physically dispersed across several controllers with a global network view for performance, scalability, and fault tolerance. This design, providi...
A connected vehicle (CV) enables vehicles to communicate not only with other vehicles but also the road infrastructure based on wireless communication technologies. A road system with CVs, which is often referred to as a cooperative intelligent trans...
A study was carried out to investigate the effects of wildfires on lake water quality using a source dataset of 2024 lakes worldwide, covering different lake types and ecological settings. Satellite-derived datasets (Lakes_cci and Fire_cci) were used...
The container relocation problem (CRP) is an important factor affecting the operation efficiency of container terminal yards, and it has attracted much attention for decades. The CRP during the pickup operations of import containers is still an intra...
Agriculture intensification has driven the loss of biodiversity at a global level. The implementation of strategies to conserve and promote biodiversity in agricultural areas can be favoured by adequate assessment methods that foster the awareness of...
Camouflaged object detection (COD) is an arduous challenge due to the striking resemblance of camouflaged objects to their surroundings. The abundance of similar background information can significantly impede the efficiency of camouflaged object det...
The present article provides an overview of photobiomodulation (PBM), also known as low-level laser light therapy (LLLT), which has garnered attention in ophthalmology for its potential therapeutic benefits in various ocular diseases. Photobiomodulat...
In order to solve the problem of low response frequency and poor consistency of conventional yarn grippers in weft accumulators, in this study, a piezoelectric yarn gripper is used instead of conventional yarn grippers and the motion characteristics...
This paper investigates the effects of incorporating dispersed fibrous reinforcement in hydraulically bound granular 0/16-mm mixtures. The evaluated fibrous reinforcement comprised a mixture of polypropylene and alkali-resistant glass fibers in a 1:2...
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