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Applied Sciences, Volume 15, Issue 17

2025 September-1 - 625 articles

Cover Story: This study analyzes greenhouse gas emissions from ships visiting European ports between 2020 and 2023, utilizing data from the EU Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (EU-MRV) system. It examines the impact of the FuelEU Maritime Regulation on four types of ships during this period. It discusses updates to MARPOL Annex VI, including the Global Fuel Standard (GFS) designed to reduce emissions. A line contour method is employed to estimate emissions, focusing on tankers, bulk carriers, general cargo ships, and container ships while adhering to European regulations. This method models operational variables such as deadweight and ship age to categorize vessels based on their energy efficiency. View this paper
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Articles (625)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,495 Views
23 Pages

Analysis of Vehicle Lateral Position in Curves Using a Driving Simulator: Road Markings, Human Factors and Road Features

  • Santiago Martin-Castresana,
  • Miriam Martinez-Garcia,
  • Rafael Enriquez and
  • Maria Castro

8 September 2025

The vehicle lateral position within a lane is critical in road safety, particularly on curved sections, where excessive deviations are often associated with crashes. This study analyses the effect of three traffic-calming measures on the lateral posi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human–Vehicle Interactions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,918 Views
14 Pages

Evaluation of Surface Roughness with Reduced Data of BRDF Pattern

  • Jui-Hsiang Yen,
  • Zih-Ying Fang and
  • Cheng-Huan Chen

8 September 2025

Traditional non-destructive measurement of surface roughness exploits complete data of bidirectional reflective distribution function (BRDF). The instrument is normally bulky and the process should be conducted off-line, hence it is time-consuming. I...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advances in Non-Destructive Testing Methods, 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,252 Views
21 Pages

8 September 2025

Meteorological and climatological trends are surely changing the way urban infrastructure systems need to be operated and maintained. Urban road traffic fluctuates more significantly under the interference of strong wind–rain weather, especiall...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,437 Views
13 Pages

8 September 2025

The use of vertically stacked architectures in three-dimensional integrated circuits (3DICs) offers a transformative path for advancing Moore’s Law by significantly boosting computational density. A key obstacle arises from the integration of h...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Electronics and Functional Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,285 Views
17 Pages

Design and Vibration Characteristic Analysis of Piezoelectric Micro Oil-Supply Device

  • Zhaoliang Dou,
  • Jianfang Da,
  • Gang Zhou,
  • Shaohua Zhang,
  • Lu Gao and
  • Fengbin Liu

8 September 2025

In response to the lubrication failure problem during spacecraft operation, new requirements have been put forward for micro, precise, and dynamically adjustable lubrication and oil-supply technology for its key moving components. This article charts...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,677 Views
29 Pages

8 September 2025

Digital twin (DT) technology, integrated with building information modeling (BIM), enables real-time feedback and predictive analytics in construction. This study presents a BIM-enabled DT framework to optimize in situ production and yard-stock manag...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Development, Characterization, Application and Recycling of Novel Construction Materials, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,146 Views
16 Pages

8 September 2025

Hydrogen proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) are a promising clean energy technology for automotive applications owing to their high efficiency and environmentally friendly characteristics. Efficient hydrogen recirculation is critical for su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,731 Views
23 Pages

8 September 2025

Topology optimization serves as a critical method for promoting lightweight structural design. Traditional methods predominantly focus on mechanical performance evaluation, often neglecting the critical correlation between modal characteristics and s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Structural Optimization Methods and Applications, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,264 Views
15 Pages

8 September 2025

This study investigates the effects of Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP) treatment on the microstructural evolution and mechanical properties of Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF)-manufactured Hastelloy H. This research evaluates the trade-offs between defect...

(This article belongs to the Section Materials Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,714 Views
14 Pages

Novel Machine Learning-Based Approach for Determining Milk Clotting Time Using Sheep Milk

  • João Dias,
  • Sandra Gomes,
  • Karina S. Silvério,
  • Daniela Freitas,
  • Jaime Fernandes,
  • João Martins,
  • José Jasnau Caeiro,
  • Manuela Lageiro and
  • Nuno Alvarenga

8 September 2025

The enzymatic coagulation of milk, crucial in cheese production, entails the hydrolysis of κ-casein and subsequent micelle aggregation. Conventional assessment standards, such as the Berridge method, depend on visual inspection and are suscepti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovation in Dairy Products)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,107 Views
28 Pages

8 September 2025

The Wolf Motor Function Test (WMFT) is widely used to evaluate upper limb motor performance after stroke. However, conventional approaches may overlook domain-specific neuromuscular and kinematic differences during task execution. This study classifi...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomedical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,336 Views
22 Pages

8 September 2025

The Distributed No-Wait Flow Shop Scheduling Problem (DNWFSP) arises in various manufacturing contexts, such as chemical production and electronic assembly, where strict no-wait constraints and multi-factory coordination are required. Solving the DNW...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,343 Views
15 Pages

8 September 2025

Compositional Zero-Shot Learning (CZSL) seeks to enable machines to recognize objects and attributes (i.e., primitives),learn their associations, and generalize to novel compositions, enabling systems to exhibit a human-like ability to infer and gene...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,118 Views
17 Pages

Evaluating the Performance Impact of Data Sovereignty Features on Data Spaces

  • Stanisław Galij,
  • Grzegorz Pawlak and
  • Sławomir Grzyb

8 September 2025

Data Spaces appear to offer a solution to data sovereignty concerns in public cloud environments, which are managed by third parties and must therefore be considered potentially untrusted. The IDS Connector, a key component of Data Space architecture...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,015 Views
15 Pages

8 September 2025

On-machine measurement is a highly effective approach for enhancing machining accuracy and efficiency. A critical factor influencing the accuracy of on-machine measurements is the straightness error of the linear guideway. However, this error is sign...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,296 Views
20 Pages

8 September 2025

A systematic and highly efficient current commands generator for an interior permanent magnet synchronous motor (IPMSM) in electric vehicles is proposed. This paper integrates maximum torque per ampere (MTPA), maximum power control (MPC), and maximum...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,214 Views
17 Pages

8 September 2025

Numerical simulation and machine learning-based methods are frequently adopted when performing ground movement probabilistic analyses, considering the various uncertainties during shield tunnelling. However, numerical simulation takes time, while mac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,764 Views
31 Pages

Alleviate Data Scarcity in Remanufacturing: Classifying the Reusability of Parts with Data-Efficient Generative Adversarial Networks (DE-GANs)

  • Maximilian Herold,
  • Engjëll Ahmeti,
  • Naga Sai Teja Kolakaleti,
  • Cagatay Odabasi,
  • Jan Koller and
  • Frank Döpper

8 September 2025

Remanufacturing, a key element of the circular economy, enables products and parts to have new life cycles through a systematic process. Initially, used products (cores) are visually inspected and categorized according to their manufacturer and varia...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Mechanical, Control, Geological, Sensing, and Intelligent Detection Engineering: Integration and Innovations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,169 Views
22 Pages

The Impact of Weather on Shared Bikes

  • Peng Liu,
  • Zhicheng Pan,
  • Zhenlong Fan and
  • Xiaoxia Wang

8 September 2025

This article explores the impact of weather and environment on shared bicycles. Using a random forest model combined with explanatory machine learning methods, the relationship, threshold effect, and interaction effect between weather factors and the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,432 Views
32 Pages

Static and Dynamic Malware Analysis Using CycleGAN Data Augmentation and Deep Learning Techniques

  • Moses Ashawa,
  • Robert McGregor,
  • Nsikak Pius Owoh,
  • Jude Osamor and
  • John Adejoh

8 September 2025

The increasing sophistication of malware and the use of evasive techniques such as obfuscation pose significant challenges to traditional detection methods. This paper presents a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) framework that integrates stati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning and Data Analysis: Bridging Theory and Real-World Solutions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,906 Views
21 Pages

Erosion Behavior of Cohesive Deep-Sea Sediments Under Submerged Water Jets: Numerical Simulation and Experimental Validation

  • Gang Wang,
  • Chenglong Liu,
  • Yangrui Cheng,
  • Bingzheng Chen,
  • Xiang Zhu,
  • Yanyang Zhang and
  • Yu Dai

8 September 2025

Understanding the interaction between submerged water jets and cohesive deep-sea sediment is critical for optimizing deep-sea polymetallic nodule hydraulic mining techniques. This research investigated the distinct erosion behavior of cohesive sedime...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Marine Geotechnics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,300 Views
22 Pages

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Automatic Polyp Segmentation Using Synthetic Data

  • Ioanna Malli,
  • Ioannis A. Vezakis,
  • Ioannis Kakkos,
  • Theodosis Kalamatianos and
  • George K. Matsopoulos

8 September 2025

Colorectal cancer is a significant health concern that can often be prevented through early detection of precancerous polyps during routine screenings. Although artificial intelligence (AI) methods have shown potential in reducing polyp miss rates, c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Based Biomedical Signal and Image Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,434 Views
25 Pages

Assessment of Vegetation Cover and Rainfall Infiltration Effects on Slope Stability

  • Gaoliang Tao,
  • Lingsan Guo,
  • Henglin Xiao,
  • Qingsheng Chen,
  • Sanjay Nimbalkar,
  • Shiju Feng and
  • Zhijia Wu

8 September 2025

Investigating rainfall infiltration mechanisms and slope stability dynamics under varying vegetation cover conditions is essential for advancing ecological slope protection methodologies. This research focuses on large-scale outdoor slope models, wit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Failure Mechanism and Numerical Methods for Geomaterials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,451 Views
28 Pages

Advances in Geological Resource Calculations, Incorporating New Parameters for Optimal Classification

  • Gonzalo Ares,
  • Isidro Diego Álvarez,
  • Alicja Krzemień and
  • César Castañón Fernández

8 September 2025

A fundamental aspect in the evaluation of mining projects is the classification of mineral resources, as it directly influences the definition of mineral reserves and affects both the planning and operational phases of the mine. Traditional methods e...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,006 Views
17 Pages

8 September 2025

This systematic review investigates the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and information and communication technologies (ICT) in physical education across all educational levels. Physical education is uniquely centered on motor skill devel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,096 Views
25 Pages

8 September 2025

High-speed propulsion systems require supersonic inlets for operation; however, these inlets lose efficiency when the flight speed range is wide. Fixed-geometry inlets designed for particular conditions encounter operational difficulties when running...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,143 Views
22 Pages

8 September 2025

This paper proposes a calibration method for redundant robot arms with highly elastic joints. The method uses the second-order Chebyshev polynomial to characterize the variation in the error with the poses of all joints. This error model is consisten...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,056 Views
14 Pages

8 September 2025

The identification of lithium (Li) geochemical anomalies is crucial for the exploration of Li mineral resources. However, variations in lithological backgrounds in lithologically complex regions often hinder the accurate identification of these anoma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,489 Views
16 Pages

Betulin-Hippuric Acid Conjugates: Chemistry, Antiproliferative Activity and Mechanism of Action

  • Marta Świtalska,
  • Elwira Chrobak,
  • Monika Kadela-Tomanek,
  • Joanna Wietrzyk and
  • Ewa Bębenek

8 September 2025

The structure of betulin enables the formation of conjugates that offer improved activity, selectivity, or pharmacokinetic parameters. It was assumed that combining betulin with hippuric acid could produce a product with favorable biological properti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements in Natural Compounds: Antimicrobial, Antioxidant, and Therapeutic Potentials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,448 Views
19 Pages

8 September 2025

Carbon dioxide (CO2) fracturing and acid treatment are currently considered promising approaches to overcome the challenge of excessively high initiation pressure during conventional hydraulic fracturing in tight sandstone gas reservoirs. However, th...

(This article belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,087 Views
14 Pages

NGBoost Classifier Using Deep Features for Pneumonia Chest X-Ray Classification

  • Nagashree Satish Chandra,
  • Shyla Raj and
  • B. S. Mahanand

8 September 2025

Pneumonia remains a major global health concern, leading to significant mortality and morbidity. The identification of pneumonia by chest X-rays can be difficult due to its similarity to other lung disorders. In this paper, Natural Gradiant Boost (NG...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,469 Views
27 Pages

8 September 2025

This study is the first to directly compare natural dynamic penumbra shadows with experimentally replicated constant-intensity shadows on photovoltaic modules, providing new insights into the limitations of conventional shadow approximations found in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,554 Views
21 Pages

Data Analysis of Two-Vehicle Accidents Based on Machine Learning

  • Dongguang Gao,
  • Jiawei Chen,
  • Tianyu Luo,
  • Zijun Liu,
  • Libo Cao,
  • Zhongxiang Chen and
  • Jun Wu

8 September 2025

Road traffic accidents are the eighth leading cause of human deaths. In order to study two-vehicle accidents, this paper extracted data from 493 two-vehicle accidents from the CIDAS database from 2011 to 2022, used machine learning methods to analyze...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,481 Views
16 Pages

Experimental Investigation of Wetting Materials for Indirect Evaporative Cooling Applications

  • Lanbo Lai,
  • Xiaolin Wang,
  • Gholamreza Kefayati,
  • Eric Hu and
  • Kim Choon Ng

7 September 2025

The indirect evaporative cooling system, which exploits the water evaporation process to generate cooling loads without introducing additional moisture, has been recognised as a viable alternative to conventional air-conditioning systems. This acknow...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Thermal Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,231 Views
22 Pages

7 September 2025

New energy vehicles (NEVs) rely heavily on Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistors (IGBTs) to perform frequent battery voltage conversions for operations such as acceleration, deceleration, and hill climbing. Consequently, effective thermal management of...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Thermal Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,734 Views
16 Pages

7 September 2025

Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA) aims to predict subjective human emotions by leveraging multimodal information. However, existing research inadequately utilizes explicit sentiment semantic information at the lexical level in text and overlooks no...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,618 Views
27 Pages

7 September 2025

The study of the material composition, textural, and structural features of skarns and magnetite ores is of great importance for increasing the efficiency of iron ore mining and its subsequent processing and enrichment. In the northwestern Balkhash r...

(This article belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,666 Views
24 Pages

7 September 2025

To address the limitations of CNNs and RNNs in handling complex operating conditions, multi-scale degradation patterns, and long-term dependencies—with attention mechanisms often failing to highlight key degradation features—this paper pr...

(This article belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,425 Views
19 Pages

Assessing Soil Water Content of Regenerative Cotton Crop with Extreme Gradient Boosting from Agrometeorological and Satellite Data

  • Simone Pietro Garofalo,
  • Giuseppe Scarascia Mugnozza,
  • Anna Francesca Modugno,
  • Nicola Sanitate,
  • Mesele Negash Tesemma and
  • Pasquale Campi

7 September 2025

Sustainable irrigation in water-limited regions requires timely, field-scale estimates of soil water content (SWC). Yet, field-scale SWC studies leveraging near-daily satellite imagery of regenerative systems—particularly cotton under Mediterra...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,317 Views
25 Pages

7 September 2025

Pentagonal two-dimensional allotropes—penta-graphene (PG) and penta-SiC2—are promising but experimentally elusive materials whose identification requires spectroscopic fingerprints that extend beyond ground-state descriptors. Using densit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Development and Application of Computational Chemistry Methods)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,906 Views
20 Pages

7 September 2025

Cadmium {Cd (II)} poses a high risk to ecological security and human health due to its high toxicity, easy migration and difficult degradation. Using waste rubber seed shell biochar (RSSB) as the carrier material of nZVI may inhibit the caking oxidat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Research in Activated Carbon Adsorption—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,222 Views
15 Pages

SRB-ELL: A Vector-Friendly Sparse Matrix Format for SpMV on Scratchpad-Augmented Architectures

  • Sheng Zhang,
  • Wuqiang Bai,
  • Zongmao Zhang,
  • Xuchao Xie and
  • Xuebin Tang

7 September 2025

Sparse Matrix–Vector Multiplication (SpMV) is a critical computational kernel in high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI). However, its irregular memory access patterns lead to frequent cache misses on multi-level cache...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Data Processing and Management: Technologies and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,307 Views
26 Pages

7 September 2025

Substantial time-dependent deformation and support failure in deep tunnels through water-rich red-bed soft rock present critical engineering challenges, yet the underlying mechanisms under hydro-mechanical coupling remain inadequately quantified. Thi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Smart Underground Construction and Tunneling Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,956 Views
19 Pages

How Many Images Are Required to Recognize a Cow?

  • Andrej Bošnjak,
  • Matej Džijan,
  • Emmanuel Karlo Nyarko and
  • Robert Cupec

7 September 2025

Accurate re-identification of individual cows is crucial for effective herd management in precision cattle farming. However, this task is challenging in real-world scenarios due to variability in cow appearances and environmental conditions as well a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,471 Views
19 Pages

A Local Thresholding Algorithm for Image Segmentation by Using Gradient Orientation Histogram

  • Lijie Dong,
  • Kailong Zhang,
  • Mingyue He,
  • Shenxin Zhong and
  • Congjie Ou

7 September 2025

This paper proposes a new local thresholding method to further explore the relationship between gradients and image patterns. In most studies, the image gradient histogram is simply divided into K bins that have the same intervals in angular space. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,290 Views
18 Pages

7 September 2025

This paper investigates modulation recognition technology for high-order modulated signals. Addressing the issue that existing deep learning-based modulation recognition methods struggle to effectively capture the features of long sequence signals in...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,575 Views
14 Pages

Equivalent Self-Noise Suppression of DAS System Integrated with Multi-Core Fiber Based on Phase Matching Scheme

  • Jiabei Wang,
  • Hongcan Gu,
  • Peng Wang,
  • Wen Liu,
  • Gaofei Yao,
  • Yandong Pang,
  • Jing Wu,
  • Dan Xu,
  • Su Wu and
  • Canran Xu
  • + 1 author

7 September 2025

Multi-core fiber (MCF) has drawn increasing attention for its potential application in distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) due to the compact optical structure of integrating several fiber cores in the same cladding, which indicates an intrinsic space...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,342 Views
18 Pages

7 September 2025

Block caving is a cost-effective mining method that enables the highly efficient mining of thick and large ore bodies. During ore extraction in block caving operations, the ore-drawing roadways require especially high safety standards. However, the c...

  • Review
  • Open Access
37 Citations
8,144 Views
36 Pages

6 September 2025

UAV delivery and ground transfer scheduling in emergency scenarios represent critical technological systems for enhancing disaster response capabilities and safeguarding lives and property. This study systematically reviews recent advances across eig...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence in Drone and UAV)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,271 Views
17 Pages

A New Plant Growth Regulator: An In Silico Evaluation

  • Giovanny Hernández Montaño,
  • Silvia P. Paredes-Carrera,
  • José J. Chanona Pérez,
  • Darío Iker Téllez Medina,
  • Tomás A. Fregoso Aguilar,
  • Jorge A. Mendoza-Pérez and
  • Dulce Estefanía Nicolás Álvarez

6 September 2025

The increasing demand for sustainable alternatives to synthetic agrochemicals underscores the need for novel, naturally derived plant growth regulators (PGRs) with high specificity and minimal environmental impact. In this study, we propose agavenin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Analytical Methods for Natural Products and Plant Chemistry)

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