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Applied Sciences, Volume 9, Issue 12

June-2 2019 - 188 articles

Cover Story: While native aquatic plants are essential components of aquatic ecosystems, non-native invasive species can expand rapidly throughout water bodies and have severe economic and ecological impacts. Mechanical, chemical, and biological methods exist for the identification and treatment of these invasive species, but these are manually intensive, inefficient, costly, and can cause collateral ecological damage. To overcome current deficiencies and provide timely weed management, this study aims to develop and demonstrate a small fleet of fully autonomous boats capable of scanning subsurface aquatic vegetation, identifying the weeds using machine learning, and deploying herbicide for vegetation control. View this paper.
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Articles (188)

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,727 Views
9 Pages

25 June 2019

Thermal energy storage (TES) systems are central elements for various types of new power plant concepts, whereat packed beds represent a promising storage inventory option. Due to thermal expansion and shrinking of the packed bed’s particles du...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,853 Views
11 Pages

Sargassum muticum Hydrothermal Extract: Effects on Serum Parameters and Antioxidant Activity in Rats

  • Elena M. Balboa,
  • Rosendo Millán,
  • Herminia Domínguez and
  • Cristina Taboada

25 June 2019

Sargassum muticum was processed by hydrothermal extraction under previously optimized non-isothermal conditions (up to 187 °C). The alginate free crude hydrolysate was further concentrated by ultrafiltration, operating in diafiltration mode to pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,612 Views
21 Pages

25 June 2019

Force sensing in robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RMIS) is crucial for performing dedicated surgical procedures, such as bilateral teleoperation and palpation. Due to the bio-compatibility and sterilization requirements, a specially desig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,586 Views
25 Pages

25 June 2019

During the flood discharge in large-scale hydraulic engineering projects, intense flow-induced vibrations may occur in hydraulic gates, gate piers, spillway guide walls, etc. Furthermore, the vibration mechanism is complicated. For the spillway guide...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,456 Views
13 Pages

The Application of Adaptive Time Gain Compensation in an Improved Breast Ultrasound Tomography Algorithm

  • Chang Liu,
  • Binzhen Zhang,
  • Chenyang Xue,
  • Guojun Zhang,
  • Wendong Zhang and
  • Yijun Cheng

25 June 2019

In order to better detect information about a mass in breast tissue, an ultrasound tomography algorithm based on adaptive time gain compensation (TGC) was designed. Field II was utilized to automatically evaluate the phantom attenuation coefficient a...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
50 Citations
8,410 Views
26 Pages

Review of Experimental Research on Supercritical and Transcritical Thermodynamic Cycles Designed for Heat Recovery Application

  • Steven Lecompte,
  • Erika Ntavou,
  • Bertrand Tchanche,
  • George Kosmadakis,
  • Aditya Pillai,
  • Dimitris Manolakos and
  • Michel De Paepe

25 June 2019

Supercritical operation is considered a main technique to achieve higher cycle efficiency in various thermodynamic systems. The present paper is a review of experimental investigations on supercritical operation considering both heat-to-upgraded heat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,638 Views
14 Pages

25 June 2019

To enhance the control performance of permanent-magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drive systems, achieving high-precision motion control, a generalized predictive control (GPC) method based on a novel extended-state observer (ESO) is investigated for t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,213 Views
22 Pages

25 June 2019

The present work is aimed at studying the determination method and implementation process of reasonable completion state for the Hunan Road Bridge, which is currently the widest concrete self-anchored suspension bridge in China. The global finite ele...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,551 Views
19 Pages

25 June 2019

Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) provides us with a non-invasive and efficient means of imaging anterior and posterior segment vasculature in the eye. OCTA has been shown to be effective in imaging diseases such as diabetic retinopathy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,484 Views
23 Pages

25 June 2019

Ratcheting failure of materials and structures subjected to low cycle fatigue in the presence of significant mean stress is of great interest to researchers. In this experimental and numerical study, the response of 316L stainless steel samples was o...

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Appl. Sci. - ISSN 2076-3417