Applied Sciences, Volume 9, Issue 14

As a Kansei engineering design expert system, the product form design multi-objective evolutionary algorithm model (PFDMOEAM) contains various methods. Among them, the multi-objective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA) is the key to determine the performa...

Phthalates (or phthalate esters, PAEs) and bisphenol A (BPA) are widely used in various industries, particularly in the fields of cosmetics and packaging, and they increase the malleability and workability of materials. As a result of their use, some...

Partial discharge has become a serious threat to the stable operation of gas-insulated switchgears. SOF2 is a characteristic decomposition component of SF6 decomposition components under partial discharge, which further deteriorate the severity of pa...

Using satellite remote sensing has become a mainstream approach for extracting crop spatial distribution. Making edges finer is a challenge, while simultaneously extracting crop spatial distribution information from high-resolution remote sensing ima...

In this paper, an agent-based model of ant traffic on a unidirectional single-lane ant trail is presented to provide better understanding of the jam-free traffic of an ant colony. On a trail, the average velocity of ants remains approximately constan...

Since the shape memory effect (SME) has been confirmed in micron and submicron sized polyurethane (PU) shape memory polymer (SMP), it might be used in novel micro/nano devices even for surgery/operation inside a single cell. In this study, micron siz...

One challenging problem is the representation of three-dimensional datasets that vary with time. These datasets can be thought of as a cloud of points that gradually deforms. However, point-wise variations lack information about the overall deformati...

An automated classification system based on a Deep Learning (DL) technique for Cardiac Disease (CD) monitoring and detection is proposed in this paper. The proposed DL architecture is divided into Deep Auto-Encoders (DAEs) as an unsupervised form of...

With the advancement of wearable technology, many physiological monitoring instruments are gradually being converted into wearable devices. However, as a consumer product, the blood pressure monitor is still a cuff-type device, which does perform a b...

Puná Island, located in the Pacific Ocean off the southern coast of Ecuador, has a population of approximately 3344 inhabitants. However, not all inhabitants have access to electricity, which is largely supplied by diesel generators. Therefore...