Subsurface dams are widely used to prevent saltwater intrusion, with good results. This blockage often leads to an accumulation of pollutants and salt on the inland and seaside of the dam, respectively. While the latter is intended, the former effect...
The quantification of mitochondrial respiratory chain (MRC) enzymatic activities is essential for diagnosis of a wide range of mitochondrial diseases, ranging from inherited defects to secondary dysfunctions. MRC lesion is frequently linked to extend...
The rapid expansion of urbanization has promoted the prosperity of the economy and society but has also caused rural ecological problems. This study takes the Dujiangyan Irrigation District as an example, to construct ecological and recreation patter...
Clostridioides difficile is a predominant nosocomial pathogen within the healthcare setting able to produce biofilms. Sub-minimum inhibitory concentrations (sub-MICs) of antibiotics trigger mechanisms affecting bacterial virulence, including increase...
Tailless aircraft without vertical stabilisers typically use drag effectors in the form of spoilers or split flaps to generate control moments in yaw. This paper introduces a novel control allocation method by which full three-axis control authority...
Entropy and relative entropy measures play a crucial role in mathematical information theory. The relative entropies are also widely used in statistics under the name of divergence measures which link these two fields of science through the minimum d...
Climate analyses at a local scale are an essential tool in the field of sustainable development. The evolution of reanalysis datasets and their greater reliability contribute to overcoming the scarcity of observed data in the southern areas of the wo...
Microalgal biomass is one of the crucial criteria in microalgal studies. Many reported methods, even the well-established protocol on microalgal dry weight (DW) determination, vary greatly, and reliable comparative assessment amongst published result...
For the numerical simulation of rainwater infiltration in forest slope, information on the water retention curve (WRC), which shows spatial variability due to the forest ecosystem and weathered granite in natural forest soils, is required. A scaling...
Under the IMO net-zero framework, a GHG carbon-pricing mechanism must not only generate an effective price signal for emission reduction, but also address the fair distribution of carbon revenues among different types of member states. In view of the...
Energy management strategies based on instantaneous optimization have been widely used in hybrid/plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (HEV/PHEV) in order to improve fuel economy while guaranteeing vehicle performance. In this study, an adaptive-equivalen...
The world’s largest mangrove, Sundarbans, Bangladesh, is the habitat of the euryhaline catfish Nona Tengra (Mystus gulio). This study aimed to assess the stock status of M. gulio and provide reference points for sustainable fisheries’ man...
Assessing data analysis routines (DARs) for microplastics (MP) identification in Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR) images left the question ‘Do we overlook any MP particles in our sample?’ widely unanswered. Here, a reference image of mic...
Quantum error correcting codes (QECCs) play an important role in preventing quantum information decoherence. Good quantum stabilizer codes were constructed by classical error correcting codes. In this paper, Bose–Chaudhuri–Hocquenghem (BCH) codes ove...
Firstly, the force of an extrusion roller under actual working condition was analyzed while the contact stress between the roller shaft and the roller sleeve and the extrusion force between the roller sleeve and the material were calculated. Secondly...
We used the Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) from MODIS to scale evapotranspiration (ETactual) over agricultural and riparian areas along the Lower Colorado River in the southwestern US. Ground measurements of ETactual by alfalfa, saltcedar, cottonwoo...
In this article, the results of studies testing the anisotropy of autoclaved aerated concrete in terms of water and heat transport are presented. Using image analysis techniques, a study was conducted on four different samples of concrete produced in...
Size-exclusion chromatography (SEC) or gel-permeation chromatography (GPC) is an essential tool for determining the molecular weight and polydispersity of water-soluble polymers, including biopolymers used in hydrogels, sealants, bioinks, and other b...
Vocal emotion recognition (VER) in natural speech, often referred to as speech emotion recognition (SER), remains challenging for both humans and computers. Applied fields including clinical diagnosis and intervention, social interaction research or...
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Effective child protection systems and processes require reliable and accurate data. The aim of this study was to determine what data could be extracted from hospital records in a single site that reflected a child’s journey from admission with...
We analyse the efficacy of machine learning (ML) interatomic potentials (IP) in modelling gold (Au) nanoparticles. We have explored the transferability of these ML models to larger systems and established simulation times and size thresholds necessar...
Multi-inverter photovoltaic plants connected to weak grids can satisfy point-of-common-coupling requirements while individual converters approach internal limits. This paper develops a critical-mode-aware two-stage safety projection for constraint-aw...
Based on the use of automatic photogrammetry, different researchers made evident that the level of overlap between adjacent photographs directly affects the uncertainty of the 3D dense cloud originated by the Structure from Motion/Image Matching (SfM...
A set of stable and identifiable points—known as control points—are interconnected by direction, distance or height differences measurements form a geodetic network. Geodetic networks are used in various branches of modern science, such a...
We consider the distributor’s pallet loading problem where a set of different boxes are packed on the smallest number of pallets by satisfying a given set of constraints. In particular, we refer to a real-life environment where each pallet is loaded...
The wood-based panel industry is experiencing an excessive accumulation of solid residues from the production of medium-density fiberboard (MDF) panels and moldings. It is possible to create new MDF products with acceptable physical and mechanical pr...
The application of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) in forest research includes a wide range of equipment, systems, and flight settings, creating a need for enhancing data acquisition efficiency and quality. Thus, we assessed the effects of flying altit...
The human brain is a complex organ controlling daily activity. Present technique models have mostly focused on multi-layer brain tissues, which lack understanding of the propagation characteristics of various single brain tissues. To better understan...
To balance indicator coverage, information redundancy, and the costs of annual data updating in urban sustainability assessment, this study constructs and validates a parsimonious district-level indicator set for SDG localization. Official statistica...
This paper synthesises the available evidence on the evolution of statutory minimum and average wages across European Union Member States over the period 2019–2024. It examines patterns of wage convergence and wage adequacy, the implementation...
This article addresses a case study on the application of criteria for harvesting, aiming at restoration and profitability in a degraded tropical forest in the Amazon. The objective is to provide technical and economic information to promote a truly...
A method was developed for crop area mapping inspired by spectral matching techniques (SMTs) and based on phenological characteristics of different crop types applied using 100-m Proba-V NDVI data for the season 2014–2015. Ten-daily maximum value NDV...
Future projections of anthropogenic climate change play a pivotal role in devising viable countermeasures to address climate-related risks. This study strove to construct future daily rainfall and maximum and minimum temperature scenarios in Vu Gia T...
Order picking is referred as a critical process of selecting items requested by a customer in a warehouse. Meeting the demand of every customer is the main objective in this area. Large warehouses pose a challenge since the order-picking process is s...
Infrared small-target detection (IRSTD) has benefited from deep learning, yet most existing methods still rely on dense pixel-level annotations, which are costly and often unreliable for tiny and weak targets. Point supervision offers a more practica...
A classical Boolean specification need not be one-to-one, whereas every reversible quantum network must preserve distinctions between basis states. SAT-Embed-Q handles this mismatch by first constructing a partial reversible embedding from output-pre...
Active carbon-based sorbents are well known and are used in analytical chemistry. Activated carbon fibers (ACFs) are mainly used as abatement systems in industrial emission pollution control. The objective of this study was to extend the use of ACFs...
The reliable monitoring of heart rate during intense exercise is imperative to effectively manage training loads while providing insights from a healthcare perspective. However, current technologies perform poorly in contact sports settings. This stu...
This paper presents an algorithm for modeling electricity and natural gas consumption in a walking furnace with the use of artificial intelligence and simulation methods, depending on the length of the rolling campaign and the established rolling pro...
Fixed external shading is often optimized in isolation, although annual loads also depend on glazing, thermal storage, the window area, the climate, and plant efficiency. We tested whether these variables produced one transferable optimum or climate-...
Durian (Durio zibethinus) germplasm may be incorrectly named, mislabeled, or genetically misidentified during introduction, exchange, and nursery stock distribution. Morphological identification is also affected by environmental conditions and plant...
The paper analyzes in detail the influence of the Welch method on the estimation of fatigue life in the frequency domain. The aim is to examine how the setting of parameters, such as window size, weighting and overlap, affects the calculation of powe...
In the Long Term Evolution (LTE) system, the Signal Propagation Model (SPM) and the location information of the base stations are required for positioning a smartphone. To this end, this paper proposes a technique for estimating the SPM and the locat...
This paper investigates online moisture measurement of biofuel employing a strip line cavity resonator at approximately 366 MHz, attached above and below the conveyor belt. An existing sensor design is modified for the factory assembly, and the corre...
The present work deals with the hydrothermal synthesis of a Na-A (LTA) zeolite using rice husk as a starting material. The focus was on defining the most favorable conditions for the synthesis of zeolite Na-A from rice husk in order to economize on b...
For building material distributors, order planning is a key process as a result of the increase in construction projects’ scale and complexity. In this paper, the integration of simulation modeling and the response surface methodology (RSM) is...
The ultimate analysis parameters, including carbon (C), hydrogen (H), nitrogen (N), and oxygen (O) content in biomass, were rarely found to be predicted by non-destructive tests to date. In this research, we developed partial least squares regression...
Understanding how climatic variables impact the reference evapotranspiration (ETo) is essential for water resource management, especially considering potential fluctuations due to climate change. Therefore, we used the Sobol’ method to analyze...
Due to its high efficiency, reliability, and environmental benefits, the permanent-magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) is increasingly being used in marine propulsion applications. As a promising solution, finite-control-set model predictive current cont...
Satellite-derived bathymetry (SDB) enhances monitoring capabilities in the context of global change and provides a cost-effective alternative to traditional in situ methods. However, a significant gap remains in the accuracy of SDB at shallow water d...
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