Engineering Proceedings, Volume 55, Issue 1

The glass system of B₂O₃-SiO₂-TeO₂-Bi₂O₃-ZnO-BaO doped with Gd₂O₃ (x = 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4 mol%) (BiTeGd-x) was prepared by using the melt-quench technique. The density of glasses increased from 5.323–5.579 g cm⁻³ for 0–4 mol% with an...

In the construction of modern bridges, tower cranes are used for vertical transportation and hoisting. In erecting and removing tower cranes, a high degree of risk occurs. Thus, we evaluated the risk of using tower cranes in construction and proposed...

The satisfaction and loyalty of women in the postpartum period with their pelvic health and related treatment were investigated to provide a reference for the decision-making of operators. The study results showed that women’s age, education le...

M-type barium hexaferrites, BaFe_(12−x)La_xO₁₉ (x = 0.0, 0.05, 0.1, 0.15, and 0.2), were prepared by a low-cost solid-state reaction method. The specimens crystallized in a non-centrosymmetric hexagonal magnetoplumbite structure that belonged to...

In building structure design, refinements during construction for practical use or space conflicts induce construction delays and budget increases. Building information modeling (BIM) provides a 3D building model which includes the structure’s...

The main consequence of the arrival of COVID-19 was the application of social distancing, which mainly had implications regarding the economies of affected countries. This affected students, whose economy was weakened because of social restrictions....

This research compares a Steam controller, a DualSense controller, two gestures on a prototype touchpad-implemented gamepad design, an iPad Pro, a Logitech G304 mouse with latency matching the iPad, and a Razer 8K gaming mouse using Fitts Task 2, 3D...

Unquestionably, hospital patient rooms require a proper lighting design. Dissimilar to cultural and artistic settings, where artistic discourse on light has significant importance, in medical settings, the most crucial conversation refers to standard...

Taiwan is the fourth most urbanized country in Asia, where the urban spatial structure of high-rise and density hinders urban ventilation. Studies have proven that opening buildings reduce the area of windward surfaces, which can effectively mitigate...

Over the past years, online payments or cloud-based payments have significantly increased around the globe. Cloud-based payment systems (CBPS) are more involved in the payment process due to their convenience and flexibility. Although CBPS offers obv...

Heyuan Hua Chao opera is affected by modern culture and is facing a limited number of teaching staff, little time available for teachers to be dispatched, a small scope of popularity, the inability for continuous tracking in teaching, unsystematic an...

With the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and communication networks, the concept of a smart city emerged spontaneously. In the traffic control of a smart city, the vehicular network plays an important role. If the driving information of v...

For smart cities, the issue of how to solve traffic chaos has always attracted public attention. Many studies have proposed various solutions for traffic flow prediction, such as ARIMA, ANN, and SVM. With the breakthrough of deep learning technology,...

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically impacted the beverage industry. It directly causes job losses, reduced income, and changes in customer preferences, and it influences the relationship between franchisors and franchisees. COVID-19 has spread rap...

The Internet brings convenience and happiness to consumers. The government must guide food safety standards. The government must provide implementation details, schedule planning, description-of-use documents, relevant regulations on food safety, and...

Environmental issues related to global warming and urbanization are becoming more serious. Many studies have shown that urban vertical planting can effectively reduce ambient temperature. However, the impact of different vertical planting combination...

Andrographis paniculate extract (APE) has been used as a Thailand traditional medicine owing to andrographolide which is effective for the viral clearance and prevention of disease progression. Several viral infections have been treated with APE, inc...

In the past, research on regional revitalization has mainly focused on local culture and cultural industry. There is less research on the value composition of introducing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into local industries. Thus, we analyzed e...

As an emerging development model, green development requires the participation of the government, the market, and the public. It needs the formation of a positive interaction between policy guidance, market demand, and public will in order to realize...

The integration of topics on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into project-based learning (PBL) and design thinking (DT) was attempted for the instructional design of a virtual reality (VR) course in this study. It was investigated how to enhance...

When a construction disaster occurs, the first-line rescue personnel often enter the disaster site immediately, and every second counts in rescuing the people who need help. However, the rescue personnel may not be familiar with the indoor layouts of...

This study aimed to describe the planning of an online Quranic Reading Learning (QRL) program for students, explain the implementation of the online QRL program, and reveal the students’ response on it. This study used a qualitative research ap...

Footbath therapy is effective for health and wellness. We compared the effects of hot water footbaths (HFB), contrast water footbaths (CFB), and warm water footbaths (WFB) using physiological parameters, including blood pressure, calf volume, flexibi...

We explored consumer preferences for incorporating sustainable development goal (SDG) indicators into music imagery product design. Qualitative and quantitative investigations were conducted to survey and analyze consumer preferences and values. Thro...

When disasters such as fires or earthquakes occur, rescue personnel entering buildings are prone to spatial disorientation when the buildings have complex indoor compartments or compartments with high uniformity and similarity. This situation may exp...

This study employs a systematic concurrent design approach to achieve product outcomes. It involves market research and analysis of products from various manufacturers. Through functional analysis and problem identification, TRIZ theory and a morphol...

The deflection, stress, and heat transfer of a plate made of functionally graded material (FGM) were investigated using the data of mechanical loads and temperatures using ANSYS Workbench. The 2D planar problem-solving method in ANSYS Workbench was u...

This study aimed to investigate why video gaming tends to become a serious leisure activity more easily than English learning, using a bioinformatics approach. Methods included interviews with 13 students aged 10–13 and an experimental research...

This research aims to investigate the role of meal timing on calorie intake. A database of a company’s cafeteria was used to track employees’ food-purchasing behaviors. The findings show that starting meals early leads to an overall reduc...

Precise metal parts are manufactured using cold forged screw forming, but this method has drawbacks such as material damage and the possibility of imprecise parts. To ensure the accuracy and quality of parts, it is crucial to analyze and predict the...

Product appearance is essential in shaping consumers’ preferences. Thus, we predicted consumer preference by establishing a feasible threshold for appearance innovation with a novel method. We used deep learning (DL)-based image classification...

Computational thinking (CT) has become one of the critical goals of teaching CS programming courses. Computational skills consist of skills taken in a computational form in learning programming and dealing with daily life. More research adopted games...

The applications of image classification are useful, especially in the prediction of object categories at a high accuracy rate. The technique helps industrial designers classify the existing products by product appearance and assess the extent to whi...

A (k, n) visual cryptography (VCS) is used to build a system for secret sharing. The system divides a secret image (S) into n shares and recovers S by stacking shares bigger than or equal to k, while shares below k provide no information about S. The...

The era of low-interest rates is coming. In addition to their basic salary, people hope to increase their income by doing part-time work, understanding how to use assets already on hand, and investing in assets to earn extra rewards. Goldman Sachs re...

STEM education has been a topic of interest in many countries around the world. Many STEM research studies have been conducted; however, most of them focus on middle-school students and high-school students. At the primary level, STEAM education is k...

The European Pillar of Social Rights, adopted in November 2017, sets out 20 principles with the explicit aim of promoting upward convergence to create better living and working conditions in Europe. This helps fight poverty in all its forms and ensur...

In Fukuroi City Japan, greenhouses are usually used for crown musk melon (CMM) cultivation. When the temperature inside the greenhouse is lower than 25 °C, the CMM quality deteriorates. Hence, from late autumn until the middle of spring, oil is u...

Due to strong mobility, low costs, and easy parking, the scooter has become an important mode of transportation in Taiwan. The number of traffic accidents is also increasing because of drivers’ bad driving habits. For road traffic injury preven...

We investigated the reducing rate of manganese oxides (MnOs) and organic matter in water by using pre-oxidation and coagulation/sedimentation methods with different chemicals. The reduction rate using NaOCl for organic matter was about 11%, while tha...

We synthesized hollow spherical titanium oxide particles, which are one of the structural features of fabricating a thin-film photoelectrode, using the particles and evaluated their properties. The XRD diffraction results confirmed the main phase pea...

The emerging advances in deep learning and computer vision have enabled traditional cloud-based decision-making through edge computing with artificial intelligent internet of things (AIoT) image sensors (AIoT-IS). As a result, the timeliness and secu...

The preoperative diagnosis of ovarian cancer (OC) was developed based on risk factor groups using secondary data. Binary and multiple logistic regression and its operating characteristic curve were used to analyze the data of risk factor groups for t...

In order to understand the air quality of fitness centers according to the Environmental Protection Administration’s “Indoor Air Quality Standards”, as well as to discuss how fitness center air-conditioning ventilation systems can e...

Comparing the distribution of school districts in Shizuoka Prefecture with a Voronoi diagram generated for school locations, the application of Voronoi diagrams to the field of urban planning is pursued. The original statistics have been released by...

Under the influence of sexually conservative Chinese culture, sex has always been an untouchable issue for a long time. As “Sex” has been a long-standing social taboo, sex-related knowledge and discourses have become scarce. The knowledge...

Due to the characteristics of small-volume-large-variety production in the aircraft industry, determining how to intelligently take men, machines, materials, methods, and environments into account is critical for production, posing the challenge of s...

Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a fast-spreading virus-related disease. On 28 March 2022, Worldometer (COVID-19 live update) reported that there were about 482,338,923 COVID-19 cases and 6,149,387 fatalities worldwide. Moreover, there were about 416,884,71...

5G is transforming the healthcare industry by providing novel use cases and applications. With a lower latency, a higher bandwidth, and massive machine-type communication capabilities, 5G supports the smart healthcare system in expanding its applicat...

Many of today’s computational design systems based on explicit or graphic programming software require designers to determine relationships for morphogenesis based on computational thinking supported by the abstraction process. This computation...