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Applied Sciences, Volume 9, Issue 6

March-2 2019 - 230 articles

Cover Story: The aim of this study was to assess, through immunohistochemistry, the effects of an adapted moderate training exercise (AMTE) on the expression of Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin (NGAL) and vitamin D receptor (VDR) in kidneys of rats, subjected to AMTE on treadmill for a period of 12 weeks. The results showed a decreased NGAL and an increased VDR expression in the kidney of rats subjected to AMTE. These results suggest a possible protective/preventive role of AMTE on NGAL-associated injuries in kidney, probably through the anti-inflammatory effect of an eventual crosslink between Vitamin D and NGAL signaling pathways which needs to be further investigated. View Paper here.
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Articles (230)

  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
6,311 Views
17 Pages

25 March 2019

To effectively prevent land subsidence over abandoned coal mines, it is necessary to quantitatively identify vulnerable areas. In this study, we evaluated the performance of predictive Bayesian, functional, and meta-ensemble machine learning models i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
7,152 Views
12 Pages

25 March 2019

Sentiment analysis is the most common text classification tool that analyzes incoming messages and tells whether the underlying sentiment is positive, negative, or neutral. We can use this technique to understand people by gender, especially people w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,066 Views
20 Pages

Active Noise Control over Space: A Subspace Method for Performance Analysis

  • Jihui Zhang,
  • Thushara D. Abhayapala,
  • Wen Zhang and
  • Prasanga N. Samarasinghe

25 March 2019

In this paper, we investigate the maximum active noise control performance over a three-dimensional (3-D) spatial space, for a given set of secondary sources in a particular environment. We first formulate the spatial active noise control (ANC) probl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,120 Views
23 Pages

25 March 2019

To address the performance bottleneck in metal-based interconnects, hybrid optical network-on-chip (HONoC) has emerged as a new alternative. However, as the size of the HONoC grows, insertion loss and crosstalk noise increase, leading to excessive la...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,532 Views
16 Pages

Validation of a Numerical Bending Model for Sandwich Beams with Textile-Reinforced Cement Faces by Means of Digital Image Correlation

  • Jolien Vervloet,
  • Tine Tysmans,
  • Michael El Kadi,
  • Matthias De Munck,
  • Panagiotis Kapsalis,
  • Petra Van Itterbeeck,
  • Jan Wastiels and
  • Danny Van Hemelrijck

25 March 2019

Sandwich panels with textile-reinforced cement (TRC) faces merge both structural and insulating performance into one lightweight construction element. To design with sandwich panels, predictive numerical models need to be thoroughly validated, in ord...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,624 Views
18 Pages

Coin Recognition Approach in Social Environments Using Virtual Organizations of Agents

  • André Sales Mendes,
  • Gabriel Villarrubia González,
  • Juan Francisco De Paz,
  • Alberto López Barriuso and
  • Álvaro Lozano Murciego

25 March 2019

Social systems have gained relevance during the last decade, trying to provide intelligent environments where humans and machines collaborate to resolve a social problem. The main objective of this paper is to obtain an intelligent system specificall...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,792 Views
16 Pages

25 March 2019

In order to deal with control constraints and the performance optimization requirements in aircraft engines, a new nonlinear model predictive control method based on an elastic BP neural network with a hybrid grey wolf optimizer is proposed in this p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,716 Views
19 Pages

25 March 2019

DeepCwind semi-submersible floating offshore wind turbines have been widely examined, and in some countries this type of floating offshore wind turbine has been adopted in the construction of floating wind farms. However, the DeepCwind semi-submersib...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
5,214 Views
15 Pages

High Precision Indoor Visible Light Positioning Algorithm Based on Double LEDs Using CMOS Image Sensor

  • Weipeng Guan,
  • Xinjie Zhang,
  • Yuxiang Wu,
  • Zekun Xie,
  • Jingyi Li and
  • Jieheng Zheng

25 March 2019

Visible Light Positioning (VLP) is widely recognized as a cost-effective solution for indoor positioning with increasing demand. However, the nonlinearity and highly complex relationship between three-dimensional world coordinate and two-dimensional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,065 Views
16 Pages

25 March 2019

Person re-identification is a typical computer vision problem which aims at matching pedestrians across disjoint camera views. It is challenging due to the misalignment of body parts caused by pose variations, background clutter, detection errors, ca...

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