2023 March - 59 articles
Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is an established technology with a wide range of applications for civil engineering, geological research, archaeological studies, and hydrological practices. In this regard, this study applies bibliometric and scientom...
Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), commonly referred to as drones, are an emerging technology that has changed the way many industries conduct business. Precision agriculture is one industry that has consistently been predicted to be a major locus of i...
A new Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) method, consisting in combining the Incremental Conductance (INC) algorithm with the Hysteresis control, was developed and applied to a standalone photovoltaic (PV) system to generate the maximum power of the...
Due to the environmental impact of using fossil fuels, alternatives for the generation of biofuels are being studied. An option for this problem is to obtain biodiesel from recycled vegetable oil. Studies show that basic homogeneous catalysis has adv...
Any stretch of coastline requires protection when the rate of erosion exceeds a certain threshold and seasonal coastal drift fluctuations fail to restore balance. Coast erosion can be caused by natural, synthetic, or a combination of the two. Severe...
Auxetic structures (AXSs) are a novel class of materials with unique mechanical deformation behavior associated with negative Poisson ratio. The combination of AXS configurations with various types of materials has unveiled a wide field of applicatio...
Shell structures have a rich family of boundary layers including internal layers. Each layer has its own characteristic length scale, which depends on the thickness of the shell. Some of these length scales are long, something that is not commonly co...
In this article, we provide a brief overview of solar photovoltaic and thermal energy, wind turbines with vertical and horizontal axes, and other sustainable energy production systems as well as energy storage systems. In some remote areas away from...
This paper is a comprehensive review of the recent literature studies on the developments and applications of millimeter-wave (mm-wave) dielectric resonator antennas (DRAs). Different designs and techniques for linear and circular polarized DRAs are...
Hypotrochoidal profile contours have been produced in industrial applications in recent years using two-spindle processes, and they are considered effective high-quality solutions for form-fit shaft and hub connections. This study mainly concerns ana...
The thermal management of the vehicular module is key to the design of efficient wireless power transfer systems. In order to predict the thermal behavior by simulation, the mutual interaction of the electromagnetic and thermal fields must be taken i...
With the rapid development of modern technologies, autonomous or robotic construction sites are becoming a new reality in civil engineering. Despite various potential benefits of the automation of construction sites, there is still a lack of understa...
A review of some of the most common applications of the resistive local common mode feedback technique to enhance amplifier’s performance is presented. It is shown that this simple technique offers essential improvement in open loop gain, gain-...
An environmental assessment of metakaolin as a supplementary cementitious material (SCM) through an integrated production-process-simulation and Life-Cycle-Assessment (LCA) approach is presented in this work. Initially, process simulation models were...
A technique alternative to the direct numerical simulation of turbulent combustion of gas mixtures is proposed. It is based on the solution of the three-dimensional transport equations for species concentrations and the energy conservation equation i...
Mechanical characterization is important to the design and analysis of cemented paste backfill (CPB) structures. Unconfined compressive strength (UCS) tests have been widely used owing to their relative simplicity to characterize a material’s r...
Earthquakes have and continue to, occur worldwide, though some places are affected more than others by earthquake-induced ground shaking and the same earthquake can cause more damage in one area than in nearby locations due to site-specific geologica...
This study investigates the application of carbon quantum dots as tracers in inter-well connectivity monitoring. A new laboratory-made water-soluble carbon quantum dot fluorescent tracer (CQD-W) was studied using 3D fluorescence characterization, str...
The 1920 paper by Hermann Staudinger, which introduced the groundbreaking theory of the existence of long-chain molecules made up of many covalently linked monomeric units, was remembered in 2020 for the 100th anniversary of its publication. This art...
In this paper, we derived optical soliton solutions with a highly dispersive nonlinear complex Ginzburg–Landau (CGL) equation in birefringent fibers that have Kerr law nonlinearity. We applied two mathematical methods, namely the addendum Kudry...
The transmission of information, ideas, and thoughts requires communication, which is a crucial component of human contact. The utilization of Internet of Things (IoT) devices is a result of the advent of enormous volumes of messages delivered over t...
Optimization and statistical methods are used to minimize the number of experiments required to complete a study, especially in corrosion testing. Here, a statistical Box–Behnken design (BBD) was implemented to investigate the effects of four i...
Cyber Threat intelligence (CTI) systems offer new capabilities in the arsenal of information security experts, who can explore new sources of data that were partially exploited during the past decades. This paper deals with the exploitation of discus...
The sugar and alcohol sectors are dynamic as a result of climate alterations, the introduction of sugarcane varieties, and new technologies. Despite these factors, Brazil stands out as the main producer of sugarcane worldwide, being responsible for 4...
In this study, the karst systems (karst types) of the Bakony Region are classified and described. The karst features and the groundwater (karstwater) flow, their horst (block) types and the hydrological cycle of horst types were taken into considerat...
When studying horizontally-inhomogeneous media, it is necessary to apply tensor modifications of electromagnetic soundings. Use of tensor measurements is of particular relevance in near-surface electrical prospecting because the upper part of the geo...
Musical timbre is a phenomenon of auditory perception that allows the recognition of musical sounds. The recognition of musical timbre is a challenging task because the timbre of a musical instrument or sound source is a complex and multifaceted phen...
Malware classification is a well-known problem in computer security. Hyper-parameter optimisation (HPO) using covering arrays (CAs) is a novel approach that can enhance machine learning classifier accuracy. The tuning of machine learning (ML) classif...
A kinetic model was developed for the prediction of HTL product yields based on a chemical mechanism. The model was developed after experimental studies on food wastes and food processing wastes. The model parameters were determined by training the m...
Many current bioinformatics algorithms have been implemented in parallel programming code. Some of them have already reached the limits imposed by Amdahl’s law, but many can still be improved. In our paper, we present an approach allowing us to...
The elevated increase of CO2 emissions related to activities of the extractive industry is becoming a challenging issue gradually affecting climate change and global warming. In this frame, the effective utilisation of CO2 through the techniques of C...
In the last 20 years, there has been a strong emphasis on the development of polymer nanocomposites, where at least one of the dimensions of the filler material is of the order of a nanometer. Polymer nanocomposites are fundamentally different from t...
This paper introduces a novel approach to leveraging features learned from both supervised and self-supervised paradigms, to improve image classification tasks, specifically for vehicle classification. Two state-of-the-art self-supervised learning me...
When the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic spread globally, wearing face masks in public became one of the most effective protective measures. Subsequently, due to the increasing demand for face masks, researchers explored feasible approac...
The rapidly increasing number of drones in the national airspace, including those for recreational and commercial applications, has raised concerns regarding misuse. Autonomous drone detection systems offer a probable solution to overcoming the issue...
A technique for obtaining refined heuristic solutions for problems with electromagnetic wave diffraction by scatterers with non-ideal boundary conditions is proposed. Based on the method of fundamental components for the problem of TE-polarized wave...
The ability to treat saltwater to make it suitable for human consumption has long been sought by mankind. More than three-quarters of the earth’s surface is covered with saltwater. Although this water is important for some forms of transportati...
In the quest for the development of accurate, reliable, and cost-effective biosensing technology for early diagnostics of prostate cancer, we describe here an electrochemical biosensor combining a simple transducing method of differential pulse volta...
The digitization and general industrial development of Montenegro is a great challenge for engineering and science due to its special characteristics. As the accession of Montenegro to the European Union has been an ongoing agenda for over a decade n...
Buried charges pose a serious threat to both civilians and military personnel. It is well established that soil properties have a large influence on the magnitude and variability of loading from explosive blasts in buried conditions. In this study, w...
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This paper presents an analysis of the sliding mode control (SMC) method applied to a single-phase grid-connected voltage source inverter (VSI) with L and LCL filters. First, simulation results were presented for the L filter, and then, after some ad...
Diatomites are sedimentary rocks rich in siliceous algae, mainly diatoms, and are evident in Greece mainly in Neogene successions. Despite their significance and worldwide potential as source rocks for hydrocarbons, little is known about them in the...
When using quadrature signals in radio channels, flat and selective fading, multipath radio reception, intersymbol interference, and jitter occur. In addition to the need to accurately estimate the value of the phase difference at the current and pre...
Using surrogate safety measures is a common method to assess safety on roadways. Surrogate safety measures allow for proactive safety analysis; the analysis is performed prior to crashes occurring. This allows for safety improvements to be implemente...
Safety reporting has long been recognised as critical to reducing safety occurrences by identifying issues early enough that they can be remedied before an adverse outcome. This study examines safety occurrence reporting amongst a sample of 92 New Ze...
This article reports on the emission of H2S (hydrogen sulfide) during the excavation of disturbed material covering a former ocean shoreline. Operators of the excavators expressed concerns about the strong odors of H2S, the insensitivity of workplace...
To facilitate value-added chemical production from renewable glycerol, gas-phase glycerol dehydration to acrolein was conducted using supported silicotungstic acid as solid acid catalysts, focusing on the effects of mesoporous catalyst supports on th...
The discrete fracture networks (DFN) have become indispensable tools for geomechanical modelling of jointed rock masses. The technology creates a three-dimensional (3D) representation of fracture geometry used in the construction of surface and subsu...
Solid solutions of ceramic pigments of red shade have been synthesized based on YAlO3 perovskite structure doped with chromium by means of conventional synthesis; that is, the “ceramic route”. To optimize this synthesis, an emphasis has b...
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