717 Results Found

Electronic load (e-load) is essential equipment for power converter performance test, where a designated load profile is executed. Electronic load is usually implemented with the analog controller for fast tracking of the load profile reference. In t...

In this study, both experimental and theoretical approaches, including absorption spectra, fluorescence emission spectra, ¹H- and ³¹P-NMR, electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS), pH-potentiometry and theoretical approaches using the BEST...

Mapping and monitoring forest extent is a common requirement of regional forest inventories and public land natural resource management, including in Australia. The state of Victoria, Australia, has approximately 7.2 million hectares of mostly forest...

With rapid development of the healthcare network, the location-allocation problems of public facilities under increased integration and aggregation needs have been widely researched in China’s developing cites. Since strategic formulation invol...

Sensors play the most important role in observing changes in an environment they are a part. They detect even the smallest changes and send the information to other electronic devices. Making sure that these sensors provide an accurate output is equa...

This study sheds light on the personal characteristics of older Canadians self-identifying as severely anxious and the coping strategies that they gravitated to mitigate their anxiety. Our studied sample consisted of 606 Canadians aged 60 and above w...

This study aimed to assess health literacy (HL), preventive behaviors (PBs), and the factors associated with PBs toward COVID-19 among village health volunteers (VHVs) and residents in urban and rural areas in the upper south of Thailand. A cross-sec...

Loneliness and social isolation among older adults pose significant challenges for social sustainability. Intergenerational interaction is a key to promoting social well-being and fostering inclusive communities. Using binary logistic regression and...

The day-ahead scheduling of multi-stack Power-to-X (PtX) plants must simultaneously cope with stack degradation under variable loading and with compound uncertainty in renewable generation and electricity prices. Existing scheduling frameworks addres...

With the rapid evolution of cyberattack techniques, identifying dynamic behavioral intents from Application Programming Interface call sequences has become a fundamental modality for ensuring reliable malware detection and information security. Howev...

Mobile crane repositioning and on-site logistics coordination constitute a highly coupled, nonlinear decision problem in constrained construction environments. Existing approaches largely decouple these tasks, limiting achievable system-level efficie...

The modern power system is characterized by large-scale networks, diverse types of sources and loads, and complex grid structures. Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) are proposed to address the operation problem after the integration of Distributed Energy R...

Background: In electronic health record (EHR) research, multimorbidity is commonly represented by summary indices that may oversimplify disease co-occurrence or by unsupervised cluster labels that may lack stability across samples. This study evaluat...

The apprenticeship of observation is a form of anticipatory socialization that is experienced by all individuals who attend K-12 schooling, and is particularly consequential for the subset of this population that eventually becomes professional educa...

School readiness during early childhood is crucial for future academic success. Existing guidelines recommend a comprehensive approach. This concurrent validation study developed a School Readiness Index (SRI) with five readiness domains: early learn...

Cardiovascular diseases require fast and precise treatment, often involving angiography for diagnosis and intervention. However, training in angiographic procedures often entails exposure to ionizing radiation, which carries inherent risks. To reduce...

Background/Objectives: Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading causes of global mortality among adults. The aim of this study was to examine the association between adherence to 24 h movement behavior guidelines and the diagnosis of NCDs. Met...

Hyperdimensional Computing (HDC) offers a robust and energy-efficient paradigm for edge intelligence; however, current hardware accelerators are often proprietary, tailored to the target learning task and tightly coupled to specific CPU microarchitec...

The design of multi-link vehicle suspension systems, such as the 3D double-wishbone, presents a critical challenge in automotive engineering. The process constitutes a high-dimensional, nonlinearly constrained optimization problem where traditional g...

Objective. To evaluate the prevalence, risk factors, aetiology, and management of traumatic dental injuries (TDIs) among children aged 1–18 years attending the Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Damascus University, Syria, during 2023–202...

The food industry faces significant challenges in managing operational costs due to its high energy intensity and rising energy prices. Industrial food-processing facilities, with substantial thermal capacities and large demands for cooling and heati...

Forest fires are the result of poor land management and climate change. Depending on the type of the affected eco-system, they can cause significant biodiversity losses. This study was conducted in the Amazonas department in Peru. Binary data obtaine...

Passive transit signal priority (TSP) strategies are widely recognized as effective tools for mitigating bus delays along urban arterials. However, existing TSP models primarily focus on through movements of transit vehicles, leading to potential del...

This case study tackles a real-world problem of a transportation company that is modeled as a scheduling optimization problem. The main goal of the considered problem is to schedule the maximum number of jobs that must be performed by vehicles over a...

The decarbonization of urban transport is critical for achieving sustainable development goals, and the electrification of ride-hailing services offers one promising pathway. However, the acceptance of electric ride-hailing services (ERHS) in less-de...

The present study aims to investigate the benefits of eco-driving in urban areas and on highways through an experiment conducted in a driving simulator. Within a group of 39 participants aged 18–30, multiple driving scenarios were conducted, bo...

This study aimed to investigate the association between protective factors, marijuana use, and suicidal behavior among Black LGBQ U.S. adolescents. Methods: A subsample of 991 Black LGBQ adolescents was derived from the 2019 Combined High School YRBS...

Municipal smart city programs remain hampered by conceptual fragmentation and the absence of validated, context-specific maturity assessments. We develop the Smart Municipality Maturity Model (SMMM) via a design-science process, synthesizing 183 publ...

The implementation of fleet management software in mining operations poses challenges, including high initial costs and the need for skilled personnel. Additionally, integrating new software with existing systems can be complex, requiring significant...

Single-path transmission optimization is a core task for resource scheduling and operation of complex networks, which requires coordinated optimization of transmission cost and flow. Classical algorithms bear heavy computational loads in high-dimensi...

In this article, we develop a tractable mixed-integer linear programming framework for the annual scheduling of a hybrid offshore wind and pumped hydroelectric energy storage system. The proposed formulation uses McCormick envelopes to relax the non-...

Framed digital images admit horizontal juxtaposition and a coproduct that splits active pixels while retaining the allocated frame. The resulting bialgebra has no antipode because its blank column is group-like and noninvertible. Identifying images w...

Cellular plasticity allows organisms to adapt dynamically to both physiological and pathological contexts. Epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a well-known example of this plasticity and is now widely recognized as a reversible and highl...

A mixed redundancy, in which some components of a subsystem operate under active redundancy while the others wait in cold standby, has recently been shown to achieve a higher system reliability than the traditional active and standby strategies withi...

In make-to-order (MTO) manufacturing, customer-side issues involving payment, documentation, logistics, or site readiness may postpone shipment after order acceptance, increasing finished-goods inventory, capital tie-up, and capacity inefficiency. Al...

Reconfigurable ternary logic-in-memory (LIM) is a promising approach to address the limitations of von Neumann architectures in data-intensive applications. Double-gate (DG) feedback field-effect transistors (FBFETs) are well-suited for LIM cells bec...

Dynamic application programming interface (API) call sequences are widely used for malware family classification, yet the multiclass accuracies published on the Mal-API-2019 benchmark range from 46.6% to 99.6%, under protocols that are rarely compara...

Background: Second victim phenomena (SVP) are critical to workplace and patient safety, and epidemiological data are limited to investigate the causes and impact on German health care. We investigated SVP in German nurses regarding prevalence, causes...

Current methods for studying the effects of climate change on plants and pollinators can be grouped into two main categories. The first category involves using species distribution models (SDMs) to generate habitat suitability maps, followed by apply...

Background and Objective: Adolescents’ mental health, including depression and anxiety, represent a global public health problem. However, there is a paucity of data on depression and anxiety among adolescents in Sudan. Therefore, the current s...

The need to monitor specific areas for different applications requires high spatial and temporal resolution. This need has led to the proliferation of ad hoc systems on board nanosatellites, drones, etc. These systems require low cost, low power cons...

Ultra-fast liquid chromatography (UFLC) with a photodiode array detector (DAD) for simple and rapid determination of orotic acid (OAc) in milk of sheep and cows is described. Milk samples are treated with acetonitrile (1:1, v/v) and then centrifuged...

Introduction: Personal, behavioral, and environmental risk factors are correlated to varying degrees with each other and with the overall likelihood of violent reinjury. When used with fidelity, risk assessment instruments, including the violence rei...

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has increased psychological disorders among adolescents and young adults. Methods: This study used a cross-sectional design. An online survey questionnaire was used to collect sociodemographic and clinical informatio...

Background: Post-marketing vaccine safety surveillance aims to monitor and quantify adverse events following immunization in a population, but little is known about their implementation in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We aimed to synthes...

Carbon pricing can change manufacturers’ material choices, while the costs of managing the residual waste remain geographically uneven. We formulate a manufacturer–regulator bilevel model for a household plastic-waste closed-loop supply c...

Pressure reducing valves (PRVs) are commonly used for pressure control in water distribution systems (WDSs) by means of dissipating the pressure excess. The use of pumps as turbines (PATs) is an alternative and more favorable system since they not on...

Despite abundant literature on antenatal and delivery care received by pregnant women, there is a wide knowledge gap on the prevalence of symptoms of discomfort or problems during the postpartum period and their relationship with the mode of delivery...

A consecutive crash series is composed by a primary crash and one or more subsequent secondary crashes that occur immediately within a certain distance. The crash mechanism of a consecutive crash series is distinctive, as it is different from common...

According to the similarity-attraction theory, humans respond more positively to people who are similar in personality. This observation also holds true between humans and robots, as shown by recent studies that examined human-robot interactions. Thu...