Applied Sciences, Volume 9, Issue 24

Despite presenting a very high global warming toll, Portland cement concrete is the most widely used construction material in the world. The eco-efficiency, economy, and the overall mechanical and durability performances of concrete can be improved b...

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of visual dysfunction and irreversible blindness in developed countries and a rising cause in underdeveloped countries. There is a current debate on whether or not cataracts are significant...

Previous studies have found that hospitals are often inadequately ventilated in the heating region of China, which causes an increased risk of negative impacts on patients. The complex interaction between thermal comfort and acoustics presents consid...

Microarray data are a kind of numerical non-negative data used to collect gene expression profiles. Since the number of genes in DNA is huge, they are usually high dimensional, therefore they require dimensionality reduction and clustering techniques...

With the increasing scale of multi-energy microgrids (MGs) and complicated operation modes, the coordinated operation of microgrids and the distribution network (DN) has posed great challenges. In this paper, a bi-level optimal coordinated dispatch f...

We considered the problem of the estimation of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) with a real deterministic sinusoid with unknown frequency, phase and amplitude in additive Gaussian noise of unknown variance. A blind SNR estimator that does not require the...

The effect of the scanning strategy during selective laser melting (SLM) of Ti-6Al-4V was investigated. An optimized cellular scan strategy (island scan modeled) was compared to a simple cellular scan strategy (island scan stripes) and a simple antip...

The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of long-term aging on electrochemical corrosion characteristics of austenitic AISI 304 steel. AISI 304 steel was subjected to aging treatment for an extended period at 700 °C up to a maximu...

Garlic has been used for a long time in human history. Allicin, the main active compound present in freshly injured garlic, is enzymatically formed from alliin. Allicin has shown doubtless beneficial effects and even be conceived as medicine. The pre...

Ordinary web users can now create and publish online content. They even venture into “mashups,” integrating information from different sources into a composite information-providing web service. This is a non-trivial design task, which fa...