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Applied Sciences, Volume 15, Issue 12

2025 June-2 - 572 articles

Cover Story: Cold-drip coffee is prepared by slowly filtering cold water through a bed of ground coffee. This study aims to identify differences in antioxidant profiles between coffee prepared through cold-drip and standard hot-brew methods. While specific studies have been undertaken on the antioxidant capacity of coffee, many were benchtop analyses with the inability to study individual compounds. In this study, taking advantage of post-column derivatisation in specially designed chromatography columns coupled with the cupric reducing antioxidant capacity (CUPRAC) assay, it was observed that there is indeed a difference in antioxidant profiles as a result of the method of preparation. Further, while many core components were similar between different preparation methods, cold-drip coffee yields a lower concentration of antioxidants than the same coffee prepared as a hot brew. View this paper
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Articles (572)

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,901 Views
25 Pages

Research on Identification Method of Transformer Windings’ Loose Vibration Spectrum Considering a Multi-Load Current Condition

  • Jin Fang,
  • Xudong Deng,
  • Yuancan Xia,
  • Chen Wu,
  • Yuehua Li,
  • Xin Li,
  • Kaixin Chen,
  • Fan Wang and
  • Zhanlong Zhang

19 June 2025

During transformer operation, long-term vibration causes the winding to loosen axially. When hit by a short-circuit, the winding deforms to different extents. Thus, identifying early looseness faults in transformer windings is vital for power systems...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,419 Views
23 Pages

19 June 2025

Navigation in offshore wind farm (OWF) areas is essential for construction, maintenance, safety, and traditional activities like fishing. However, the presence of OWFs extends to sea routes, negatively impacting maritime transport economics. This pap...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Risk and Safety of Maritime Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,418 Views
25 Pages

19 June 2025

Recent advances in sensor technology, data acquisition, and signal processing have enabled the development of data-driven structural health monitoring (SHM) strategies, offering a powerful alternative or complement to traditional model-based approach...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Structural Health Monitoring in Civil Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,734 Views
18 Pages

AI-Driven Belt Failure Prediction and Prescriptive Maintenance with Motor Current Signature Analysis

  • João Paulo Costa,
  • José Torres Farinha,
  • Mateus Mendes and
  • Jorge O. Estima

19 June 2025

Industrial belt failures pose significant challenges to manufacturing operations, often resulting in costly downtime and maintenance interventions. This study presents a comprehensive approach to belt failure analysis, leveraging advanced monitoring...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,319 Views
22 Pages

19 June 2025

Machining centers are complex systems that consist of multiple subsystems. When maintaining these subsystems, considering opportunistic maintenance can prevent frequent shutdowns during the machining process and reduce costs. This paper proposes an o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,683 Views
15 Pages

Iterative Finite Element Analysis of Buccolingual Width on Canine Distal Movement in Clear Aligner Treatment

  • Hyungchul Lee,
  • Kiyean Kim,
  • Youn-Kyung Choi,
  • Sung-Hun Kim,
  • Yong-Il Kim and
  • Seong-Sik Kim

19 June 2025

This study investigated the biomechanical effects of varying buccolingual beam widths in maxillary first premolar extraction spaces on canine distal bodily movement during clear aligner treatment. Using finite element analysis, four distinct models w...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Dentistry and Oral Sciences)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,298 Views
37 Pages

19 June 2025

This study presents a systematic bibliometric review of wearable technologies aimed at vulnerable road user (VRU) safety, covering publications from 2000 to 2025. Guided by PRISMA procedures and a PICo-based search strategy, 58 records were extracted...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,315 Views
17 Pages

19 June 2025

The mining of shallow coal seam groups triggers mine water inrush and ecological environment destruction. Effective groundwater prevention and control requires controlling the compaction and seepage characteristics (CSCs) of broken rock in goaf. In t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Research on Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,365 Views
16 Pages

19 June 2025

Predicting treatment failure (TF) in head-and-neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) patients before treatment can help in selecting a more appropriate treatment approach. We investigated a novel radiodosiomics approach to predict TF prior to chemoradi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Technologies in Radiology: Diagnosis, Prediction and Treatment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,383 Views
16 Pages

Supply Chain Data Analytics for Digital Twins: A Comprehensive Framework

  • Vasileios Xiros,
  • Jose M. Gonzalez Castro,
  • Francisco Fernandez-Pelaez,
  • Babis Magoutas and
  • Konstantinos Christidis

19 June 2025

The latest research highlights the need for circularity in modern industrial supply chains, which is reflected in the decisions of European and global policymakers, as well as in the strategies of major stakeholders. Digital Twins are considered a pr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Twins: Technologies and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,702 Views
14 Pages

Evaluating the Efficacy of Microwave Sanitization in Reducing SARS-CoV-2 Airborne Contagion Risk in Office Environments

  • Margherita Losardo,
  • Marco Simonetti,
  • Pietro Bia,
  • Antonio Manna,
  • Marco Verratti and
  • Hamed Rasam

19 June 2025

The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened awareness of airborne disease susceptibility, leading to the development and adoption of various preventive technologies. Among these, microwave sanitization, which inactivates virions through non-thermal mechanic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Electromagnetic Radiation and Human Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,308 Views
18 Pages

19 June 2025

This study systematically compares the metrological characteristics of single- exposure, double-exposure, and continuous-exposure holographic interferometry for micro-deformation detection. Results demonstrate that the double-exposure method achieves...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,845 Views
28 Pages

19 June 2025

Recent advancements in cooperative 3D object detection have demonstrated significant potential for enhancing autonomous driving by integrating roadside infrastructure data. However, deploying comprehensive LiDAR-based cooperative perception systems r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Autonomous Driving and Smart Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,196 Views
19 Pages

Simulation and Experimental Study on the Shrub-Cutting Performance of Quasi-Planetary Cutter

  • Zikai Song,
  • Xibin Dong,
  • Chi Teng,
  • Ben Guo,
  • Jiawang Zhang and
  • Yuchen Zhang

19 June 2025

To evaluate the performance of quasi-planetary cutting tools, three shrubs were selected and studied using a combination of numerical simulation and cutting test bench experiments. Based on the constitutive model of shrub material and LS-DYNA simulat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,261 Views
24 Pages

19 June 2025

Rainfall can easily cause local sliding and collapse of carbonaceous mudstone deep road cut slopes. In order to study the strength characteristics of carbonaceous mudstone under different water environments, large-scale horizontal push shear tests we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,350 Views
17 Pages

Similarity-Based Decision Support for Improving Agricultural Practices and Plant Growth

  • Iulia Baraian,
  • Honoriu Valean,
  • Oliviu Matei and
  • Rudolf Erdei

19 June 2025

Similarity-based decision support systems have become essential tools for providing tailored and adaptive guidance across various domains. In agriculture, where managing extensive land areas poses significant challenges, the primary objective is ofte...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,262 Views
29 Pages

19 June 2025

This paper presents a detailed analysis of the dynamics of indoor environmental parameters under three simulated fire scenarios in a multi-story building, using the PyroSim platform (based on the Fire Dynamics Simulator—FDS). The study compares...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances and Emerging Trends in Computational Fluid Dynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,604 Views
22 Pages

19 June 2025

Conventional bolts frequently fail under large deformations due to stress concentration in soft rock tunnels. In contrast, yielding bolts incorporate energy-absorbing mechanisms to sustain controlled plastic deformation. This study employed FLAC3D to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Rock Mass Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
980 Views
12 Pages

19 June 2025

This article presents the results of the conducted research work related to the dynamic forecasting of the difference values for the Polish Time Scale UTC(PL) for real measurement data, prepared in the form of the time series TS1 and TS2. For the pre...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research and Application of Neural Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,944 Views
26 Pages

GlassBoost: A Lightweight and Explainable Classification Framework for Tabular Datasets

  • Ehsan Namjoo,
  • Alison N. O’Connor,
  • Jim Buckley and
  • Conor Ryan

19 June 2025

Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) is essential for fostering trust, transparency, and accountability in machine learning systems, particularly when applied in high-stakes domains. This paper introduces a novel XAI system designed for classifi...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,725 Views
17 Pages

Valorization of Spent Osmotic Solutions by Production of Powders by Spray Drying

  • Katarzyna Samborska,
  • Alicja Barańska-Dołomisiewicz,
  • Aleksandra Jedlińska,
  • Rui Costa,
  • Konstantinos Klimantakis,
  • Ioannis Mourtzinos and
  • Małgorzata Nowacka

19 June 2025

Spent osmotic solutions (sucrose, buckwheat honey, acacia honey, apple juice concentrate, chokeberry juice concentrate, cherry juice concentrate, and mannitol) were tested for their valorization to produce powders by spray drying. Simultaneously, the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Drying Technologies for Food Processing)
  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,927 Views
29 Pages

Tuneable Lenses Driven by Dielectric Elastomers: Principles, Structures, Applications, and Challenges

  • Zhuoqun Hu,
  • Meng Zhang,
  • Zihao Gan,
  • Jianming Lv,
  • Zhuoyu Lin and
  • Huajie Hong

19 June 2025

As the core element of adaptive optical systems, tuneable lenses are essential in adaptive optics. Dielectric elastomer-driven tuneable lenses offer significant advantages in tuning range, response speed, and lightweight design compared to traditiona...

(This article belongs to the Section Optics and Lasers)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,866 Views
16 Pages

A Generic Model to Improve Color Reproduction Accuracy of Mobile Displays: A Case Study on Apple Devices

  • Aurora Larrosa,
  • Eric Kirchner,
  • Esther Perales,
  • Carmen Vázquez,
  • Lan Njo and
  • Julián Espinosa

19 June 2025

Color visualization on websites and in apps usually tacitly assumes device-independent sRGB color space, bypassing the essential step of characterization—a process that requires expensive equipment and significant time. This work proposes a pse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,326 Views
28 Pages

19 June 2025

The paper is devoted to the plasticization mechanisms of alkali-activated cement system Na2O-CaO-Al2O3-SiO2-H2O. The fundamentals and basic factors determining the effectiveness of plasticizing surfactants for alkali-activated cement materials are di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,915 Views
22 Pages

Chemometrics-Assisted Calibration of a Handheld LIBS Device for the Quantitative Determination of Major and Minor Elements in Artifacts from the Archaeological Park of Tindari (Italy)

  • Gabriele Lando,
  • Francesco Caridi,
  • Domenico Majolino,
  • Giuseppe Paladini,
  • Giuseppe Sabatino,
  • Valentina Venuti and
  • Paola Cardiano

19 June 2025

In this study, a chemometrics-assisted calibration method was developed for the Z-903 SciAps handheld Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (h-LIBS) device. For this purpose, seventeen silica-based standard samples with known chemical composition were...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Solving Environmental and Cultural Heritage Issues Through Analytical Tools)
  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,036 Views
20 Pages

19 June 2025

The natural and biological processes of organisms offer significant potential for the removal and remediation of environmental contaminants including organic pollutants such as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,371 Views
15 Pages

19 June 2025

This study aims to obtain findings on the internal water behavior, the presence of water channels, and the degree of washout due to rainfall infiltration in Japanese municipal solid waste (MSW) final disposal sites. Electrical resistivity tomography...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies in Landfills)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,466 Views
22 Pages

Welding Image Data Augmentation Method Based on LRGAN Model

  • Ying Wang,
  • Zhe Dai,
  • Qiang Zhang and
  • Zihao Han

19 June 2025

This study focuses on the data bottleneck issue in the training of deep learning models during the intelligent welding control process and proposes an improved model called LRGAN (loss reconstruction generative adversarial networks). First, a five-la...

(This article belongs to the Section Robotics and Automation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,541 Views
16 Pages

Biogas from Food Waste on the Island of Tenerife: Potential from Kitchens and Restaurants, Stabilisation and Conversion in a Biogas Plant Made of Textile Materials

  • Verónica Hidalgo-Sánchez,
  • María Emma Borges,
  • Josef Hofmann,
  • Daniel Cuñarro,
  • Sophie Schneider and
  • Tobias Finsterwalder

19 June 2025

Municipal solid waste management (MSWM) on islands involves several challenges relating to politics, society, the environment, and technology. This paper addresses the potential for producing biogas and biomethane from food waste on Tenerife, includi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Editorial Board Members' Collection Series: Remove of Pollutants for Green and Healthy Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,602 Views
16 Pages

Analysis of the Causes of Excessive Noise and Vibrations of Live Steam Pipelines

  • Damian Pietrusiak,
  • Jerzy Czmochowski,
  • Artur Górski,
  • Artur Iluk,
  • Przemysław Moczko and
  • Michał Paduchowicz

19 June 2025

The article discusses the causes of excessive noise and vibrations of a live steam pipeline in a power unit. A scanning laser vibrometer was used to measure the vibrations of the live steam pipeline for two power units. Additionally, the sound (noise...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Vibro-Acoustic Technology: Intelligent Algorithms, Smart Materials and Dynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,101 Views
15 Pages

19 June 2025

This study explores a global–local non-intrusive computational strategy to address problems in computational mechanics, specifically applied to a double cantilever beam (DCB) with cohesive interfaces. The method aims to reduce computational req...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,593 Views
21 Pages

19 June 2025

Existing sonar target detection methods suffer from low efficiency and accuracy due to sparse target features and significant noise interference in sonar images. To address this, we introduce SFE-YOLO, an improved model based on YOLOv11. We replace t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,364 Views
17 Pages

19 June 2025

In this paper, we propose a secure homomorphic K-means clustering protocol based on the Paillier cryptosystem to address the urgent need for privacy-preserving clustering techniques in sensitive domains such as healthcare and finance. The protocol us...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,167 Views
39 Pages

Molten Salt Mixtures as an Energy Carrier for Thermochemical Processes of Renewable Gas Production: Review and Perspectives

  • Marco D’Auria,
  • Anna Chiara Tizzoni,
  • Francesco Rovense,
  • Salvatore Sau,
  • Luca Turchetti,
  • Diogo Canavarro,
  • João Marchã,
  • Pedro Horta and
  • Michela Lanchi

19 June 2025

This study provides a comprehensive review of molten salt technology, as well as electrochemical and thermochemical processes aimed at hydrogen and syngas production. First, this research illustrates the current types of molten salt mixtures, detaili...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Solar Energy Materials: Methods and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,248 Views
26 Pages

19 June 2025

The aim of this study was to evaluate machine learning algorithms’ capacity to improve prescriptive maintenance. A pumping system consisting of two hydraulic pumps with an electric motor from a Spanish petrochemical company was used as a case study....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big-Data-Driven Advances in Smart Maintenance and Industry 4.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,083 Views
16 Pages

19 June 2025

As an important connecting channel between cities, roads are one of the main elements in urban development infrastructure. The stability evaluation of the roadbed slope runs through the entire life cycle, especially during the operation stage. Howeve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Transportation and Infrastructures Under Extreme Weather Conditions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,805 Views
22 Pages

19 June 2025

This study deals with the simulation of office fires by combining large-scale experiments with nine wooden cribs and a carefully calibrated computer model. It shows how real fire conditions, reaching up to 800–1000 °C, could be reproduced e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances and Emerging Trends in Computational Fluid Dynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,963 Views
19 Pages

19 June 2025

Climate-induced wetting and drying (WD) cycles significantly affect the long-term performance of geotechnical structures. This study explores expansive Oxford clay’s mechanical and volumetric responses stabilised with ordinary Portland cement (...

(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,546 Views
19 Pages

19 June 2025

The deterioration of aging masonry structures poses significant challenges to structural safety, particularly under seismic loading. In response to the growing need for effective retrofitting solutions, stiff-type polyurea (STPU) has emerged as a pro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Simplified Seismic Analysis of Complex Civil Structures)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,146 Views
41 Pages

19 June 2025

This systematic review synthesizes 82 peer-reviewed studies published between 2014 and 2024 on the use of audio features in educational research. We define audio features as descriptors extracted from audio recordings of educational interactions, inc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Musical Acoustics and Sound Perception)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,132 Views
11 Pages

19 June 2025

This study investigated the relationship between reactive strength and sprint acceleration performance in elite under-21 hurling athletes. Reactive strength was assessed using the 10/5 Repeated Jump Test (RJT), while sprint performance was measured o...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)
  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
9,259 Views
22 Pages

19 June 2025

The rising global burden of chronic diseases and cancer in the workplace has intensified the need for accessible, rapid diagnostic strategies within workplace settings. Point-of-care testing (POCT) offers a decentralized solution, providing timely di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,969 Views
13 Pages

19 June 2025

Aquaculture effluents are a growing source of water pollution, releasing suspended solids, organic matter, nitrogen, and phosphorus into aquatic environments. Recirculating aquaculture systems (RASs) have emerged as a more sustainable solution, allow...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,528 Views
23 Pages

19 June 2025

Articles have recently been circulating in the media around the world, claiming that natural CO2 sinks have “suddenly and unexpectedly” ceased to function. It turned out that these articles were based on a single preprint of a meanwhile p...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
916 Views
27 Pages

19 June 2025

The storage enclosures are vital for stabilizing the micro-environment within, facilitating preventive conservation efforts, and enabling energy savings by reducing the need for extensive macro-environmental control within the room. However, real-tim...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Thermal Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,313 Views
21 Pages

Yield, Polyphenol and Carotenoid Content, and Mycotoxin Occurrence in Grains of Four Winter Barley Varieties Grown in Different Nitrogen Fertilization Conditions in Poland

  • Renata Kazimierczak,
  • Dominika Średnicka-Tober,
  • Klaudia Kopczyńska,
  • Julia Wojtczak,
  • Małgorzata Żebrowska-Krasuska,
  • Ewelina Hallmann,
  • Danuta Leszczyńska,
  • Anna Nowacka,
  • Agnieszka Hołodyńska-Kulas and
  • Bogusław Gnusowski
  • + 1 author

19 June 2025

Barley has consistently been ranked among the four most grown cereals in the world. Integrated agronomic approaches, combining a selection of optimal genotypes and growing conditions, may help to provide high yields of quality and safe barley grains....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in the Improvement of Food Quality and Safety)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,385 Views
13 Pages

19 June 2025

This study explores the historical evolution and short-term predictive modeling of the U.S. 10-year Treasury bond yield, a critical indicator in global financial markets. Recognizing its sensitivity to macroeconomic conditions, the research integrate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,322 Views
20 Pages

19 June 2025

This work presents the theoretical design and finite element modeling of high-sensitivity microcantilevers for biosensing applications, integrating piezoelectric actuation with novel ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCD) structures. Microcantilevers we...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,987 Views
41 Pages

19 June 2025

Globally, unhealthy dietary behaviours are consistently seen to significantly contribute to the burden caused by diet-related diseases (DRDs). This is particularly evident among adolescents, a demographic that are at a critical stage of development f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Food Security, Nutrition, and Public Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,543 Views
17 Pages

19 June 2025

Since its emergence in the United States in February 2022, Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5N1 has caused significant losses for poultry operations, particularly in Iowa between February 2022 and December 2023. Branta canadensis (Canada goo...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Microbiology)

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