Background: Sensory processing and motor proficiency contribute to movement regulation in adolescent athletes. While motor competence has been widely studied in youth football, the role of trait-level sensory processing remains underexplored. This st...
Background/Objectives: Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are linked to cardiometabolic disease, but cross-sectional surveys often underestimate or invert these associations due to age structure, diagnosis-related dietary changes, and reporting bias. This...
The paper presents an original approach to the localization and analysis of the cracking patterns of cement composites. The lime cement matrix modified with microsilica was evaluated under a two-phase thermal load. For quantitative detection and anal...
Previously, food processing and nutrition sciences operated as distinct scientific domains; however, increasing health concerns have highlighted the need for integrated perspectives and practical food classifications. This study aimed to assess parti...
The agricultural use of saline table olive processing wastewater enables the implementation of closed water cycles in this socioeconomically important industry for rural southern Spain and relieves environmental, economic, and legal burdens. To allow...
To meet the growing demand for higher storage capacities, bit-patterned magnetic recording (BPMR) has emerged as a leading solution for achieving ultra-high user densities (UDs). However, BPMR systems are significantly impacted by two-dimensional (2D...
The impact of culinary processing on the phenolic profile of iodine-biofortified kale remains insufficiently resolved at the compound level. Green- and red-leaved kale grown without iodine supplementation or biofortified with KIO3 or 5,7-diiodo-8-qui...
The speaker’s identity (who the speaker is) and linguistic information (what the speaker is saying) are essential to daily communication. However, it is unclear whether and how listeners process the two types of information differently in speec...
Multi-scale registration and adaptive feature fusion provide established mechanisms for combining spatial information, but their effectiveness does not establish the benefit of combining drift estimates from independently generated reference patterns...
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are physical systems whose operations are coordinated, monitored, and controlled by computing and communication functions. These systems are typically heterogeneous, including Internet of Things and information technology...
In this paper, we discuss a method for fabricating an ultrathin polymer substrate with one-dimensional nanograting patterns to improve the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of ultrathin polymer solar cells (PSCs) and suppress the dependence on the in...
This study introduces electro-optical (EO) sensors (TurbNet sensors) that utilize a remote laser beacon (either coherent or incoherent) and an optical receiver with CCD camera and embedded edge AI computer (Jetson Xavier Nx) for in situ evaluation of...
Background/Objectives: The growing prevalence of mental health problems among medical students is a global concern, with dietary patterns emerging as potential modifiable factors. This study aimed to explore and evaluate whether higher consumption of...
A novelty signal processing method is proposed for a technical vision system (TVS). During data acquisition of an optoelectrical signal, part of this is random electrical fluctuation of voltages. Information theory (IT) is a well-known field that dea...
(1) Background: University students, often constrained by time and influenced by socio-economic factors such as culture and religion, frequently adopt diets centred on ultra-processed foods (UPFs), increasing the risk of long-term non-communicable di...
Factories of the future are foreseen to evolve into smart factories with autonomous and adaptive manufacturing processes. However, the increasing complexity of the network of manufacturing processes is expected to complicate the rapid detection of pr...
Considering the increased contribution of foods consumed outside home and their potential impact on diet, this study aims to identify eating out patterns and their association with nutritional dietary quality in Brazil. We used the Individual Food In...
Background: The styloid process exhibits considerable anatomical variability, and its elongation is frequently identified as an incidental finding on panoramic radiographs. However, limited evidence exists regarding its prevalence and possible associ...
The application of statistical methods to monitor a process is critical to ensure its stability. Statistical process control aims to detect and identify abnormal patterns that disrupt the natural behaviour of a process. Most studies in the literature...
This article presents a system for detecting pedestrian movement patterns in urban environments, by applying computational intelligence methods for image processing and pattern detection. The proposed system is capable of processing multiple images a...
Froth image analysis has been considered widely in the identification of operational regimes in flotation circuits, the characterisation of froths in terms of bubble size distributions, froth stability and local froth velocity patterns, or as a basis...
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Background: As patients interact with a healthcare service system, patterns of service utilization (PSUs) emerge. These PSUs are embedded in the sparse high-dimensional space of longitudinal cross-continuum health service encounter data. Once extract...
Ultra-short laser (USL)-induced surface structuring combined with nanoparticles synthesis by multiphoton photoreduction represents a novel single-step approach for commercially pure titanium (cp-Ti) surface enhancement. Such a combination leads to th...
Typical diets include an assortment of unprocessed, processed, and ultra-processed foods, along with culinary ingredients. Linear programming (LP) can be used to generate nutritionally adequate food patterns that meet pre-defined nutrient guidelines....
Identifying a print document (original) from a reprint document (copy or fake) can be a challenge. The analyse at microscopic scale of print documents shows random dot shapes which depend on the printing parameters as well as the printing device used...
The combinations of food consumed together (dietary patterns) may have a greater influence on health than nutrients or food groups consumed independently. This study investigated the relationship between dietary patterns, body composition and metabol...
Background/Objectives: Dietary patterns may be associated with adolescent mental health, but nationwide Brazilian evidence based on empirically derived patterns across survey editions remains limited. This study identified dietary patterns and examin...
Land use change significantly influences landscape pattern adjustments, thereby altering ecosystem functions and service flows, ultimately impacting ecosystem service value (ESV). However, previous studies have often examined the impacts of land use...
Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) aim to optimize patient care by assisting physicians during the decision-making process. However, guideline adherence is highly affected by its unstructured format and aggregation of background information with dis...
The article deals with interaction in concurrent systems. A calculus able to express specific communication patterns is defined, together with its abstract control structures. A hypergraph model for these structures is presented. The hypergraphs are...
This paper investigates the transformation mechanism between different channel patterns. A developed 2D depth-averaged numerical model is improved to take into account a bank vegetation stress term in the momentum conservation equation of flow. Then,...
Industrial processes seek to improve their quality control, including new technologies and satisfying requirements for globalised markets. In this paper, we present an innovative method based on Multivariate Pattern Recognition (MVPR) and process mon...
It is a challenging topic to perform pattern reconstruction from a unit-width skeleton, which is obtained by a parallel thinning algorithm. The bias skeleton yielded by a fully-parallel thinning algorithm, which usually results from the so-called hid...
Prospective cohort studies show that higher intakes of ultra-processed food (UPF) increase the risk of obesity and obesity-related outcomes, including cardiovascular disease, cancer and type 2 diabetes. Whether ultra-processing itself is detrimental,...
This study analyzed changes in ultra-processed food consumption patterns during weekends in patients in the post-metabolic and bariatric surgery periods. It is a cross-sectional study, which recruited and collected data via social media from adults w...
Information systems support and ensure the practical running of the most critical business processes. There exists (or can be reconstructed) a record (log) of the process running in the information system. Computer methods of data mining can be used...
Since frequent communication between applications takes place in high speed networks, deep packet inspection (DPI) plays an important role in the network application awareness. The signature-based network intrusion detection system (NIDS) contains a...
This study enhances agile development by integrating BPMN modeling with automated functional requirements elicitation. It focuses on extracting user stories and Gherkin scenarios from BPMN process models using transformation patterns and templates. A...
This study describes a method for using a camera to automatically recognize the speed limits on speed-limit signs. This method consists of the following three processes: first (1) a method of detecting the speed-limit signs with a machine learning me...
Aircraft design is regulated by federal law and must comply with complex regulatory documentation. The complexity of the certification process has resulted in a growing interest in digital transformation, for which models are often used to provide ex...
The selection of fixation targets involves a combination of top-down and bottom-up processing. The role of bottom-up processing can be enhanced by using multistable stimuli because their constantly changing appearance seems to depend predominantly on...
The global population is aging rapidly and the prevalence of age-related noncommunicable diseases is increasing. Favorable dietary patterns have the power to reduce the risk or progression of various age-related chronic diseases, including obesity, h...
One of the most widely used processes in ship hull plate manufacturing is the flame forming process (FFP). In this work, the fabrication of saddle-shaped specimens with FFP using a spiral irradiating pattern is studied experimentally. The deformation...
Real-time monitoring of gas-liquid pipe flow is highly demanded in industrial processes in the chemical and power engineering sectors. Therefore, the present contribution describes the novel design of a robust wire-mesh sensor with an integrated data...
This study introduces a framework that integrates business analytics into educational decision-making to improve learner engagement and performance in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), focusing on learning environments in English as a Foreign Lang...
In this study, past and current land-use and land-cover (LULC) change trajectories between 1947 and 2018 were analysed in terms of sustainability using a unique set of nine detailed, high-precision LULC thematic maps for the municipality of Portimão...
The Kyropoulos (Ky) and Czochralski (Cz) methods of crystal growth are used for large-diameter single crystals. The seeding process in these methods must induce initial crystallization by initiating contact between the seed crystals and the surface o...
(1) Background: Working memory, which involves temporary storage, information processing, and regulating attention resources, is a fundamental cognitive process and constitutes a significant component of neuroscience research. This study aimed to eva...
As device miniaturization and three-dimensional integration progress, thin-film processes for semiconductor devices increasingly require atomic-level control not only of thickness and composition but also of growth location. Area-selective atomic lay...
Clarifying the impact of underlay (i.e., the combination of near-surface vegetation and surface micro-topography) on the surface runoff process would provide a significant theoretical basis for the adjustment of vegetation patterns and the control of...
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