Urban expansion is constantly encroaching upon and destroying ecological spaces, and the construction of an ecological security pattern with the goal of ensuring ecological security has become a problem that must be considered during urban developmen...
The low energy adaptive clustering hierarchy (LEACH) is the classical hierarchical topology control algorithm and still widely used today in wireless sensor networks. There are some problems in LEACH such us an unreasonable selection and uneven distr...
One of the main problems encountered by social networks is the cold start problem. The term “cold start problem” refers to the difficulty in predicting new users’ friendships due to the limited number of links those users have with...
Diverse sensing techniques have been developed and combined with machine learning method for forest fire detection, but none of them referred to identifying smoldering and flaming combustion phases. This study attempts to real-time identify different...
Pruning branches of apple trees is a labor-intensive task. Pruning robots can save manpower and reduce costs. A full map of the apple orchard with collision-free paths, which is navigation planning, is essential. To improve the navigation efficiency...
As an essential role in cartographic generalization, road network selection produces basic geographic information across map scales. However, the previous selection methods could not simultaneously consider both attribute characteristics and spatial...
Background and Objectives: Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is the standard procedure for regional nodal staging in patients with clinically localized cutaneous melanoma. However, most patients undergoing SLNB have negative sentinel lymph nodes, hig...
The reconstruction of a broken contour line is a prerequisite for the automated processing of contour lines. When the situation with broken contour lines is severe or the terrain is more complex, incorrect and missing connections are most likely to o...
A wave glider is a novel unmanned marine vehicle which can convert marine energy into kinetic energy. In practice, it is crucial for the wave glider system to deploy into the ocean environment efficiently and safely. Hence, the present work establish...
Ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration cytology (USgFNAC) is commonly used for nodal staging in head and neck squamous cell cancer (HNSCC). Peripheral vascularity is a described feature for node metastasis. Micro-flow imaging (MFI) is a new sensiti...
Medical data are an intangible asset and an important resource for the entire society. The mining and application of medical data can generate enormous value. Currently, medical data management is mostly centralized and heavily relies on central serv...
Assessing the importance of nodes in urban rail transit systems helps enhance their ability to respond to emergencies and improve reliability in view of the fact that most of the existing methods for evaluating the importance of rail transit nodes ig...
Water system connectivity is an important measure to optimize the balanced spatial allocation of water resources and water security patterns. Inland river basins in arid zones are generally insufficiently connected, so the scientific evaluation of th...
For Wireless Sensor Networks, energy efficiency is always a key consideration in system design. Compressed sensing is a new theory which has promising prospects in WSNs. However, how to construct a sparse projection matrix is a problem. In this paper...
Urban stormwater poses a threat to urban safety and development. The systematic spatial planning of low-impact development (LID) facilities is increasingly recognized as a sustainable approach to enhancing urban flood resilience. Previous studies hav...
With the continuous development of wireless communication technology, the Internet of Things (IoT) is being used in a wide range of fields. The IoT collects and exchanges large amounts of data with objects, either tangible or intangible, such as sens...
Threat Analysis and Risk Assessment (TARA) in automotive cybersecurity requires connecting cyber threat intelligence (CTI) with the architecture and technical context of the system under evaluation. However, relevant evidence is dispersed across hete...
With the increasing complexity of the space electromagnetic environment, traditional omnidirectional antenna-aided communication and networking techniques can no longer meet the collaboration requirements of aircraft clusters. To achieve goals such a...
Localizing the brain regions affected by tasks is crucial to understanding the mechanisms of brain function. However, traditional statistical analysis does not accurately identify the brain regions of interest due to factors such as sample size, task...
Under the constraints of resources and the environment, improving the urban ecological well-being performance (EWP) is a fundamental requirement and inevitable choice for urban ecological civilization construction and sustainable development. In this...
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...
Bioclimatic monitoring at vineyard scale is essential for irrigation management and disease-risk assessment, yet many systems rely on expensive commercial stations or generic IoT nodes with limited validation and little focus on small and medium-size...
The low-carbon retrofitting of industrial heritage communities is an important issue for reducing urban carbon emissions. Previous research on the judgment of heritage elements and carbon emission factors of industrial heritage communities lacked the...
Mobile edge computing (MEC) enables computation-intensive and latency-sensitive tasks to be offloaded from mobile devices to nearby edge servers. Most existing MEC task offloading studies formulate offloading as a selection problem over a fixed or fu...
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The growing transportation risk of hazardous materials (hazmat) is an important threat to public safety. As an efficient and reliable mode of transportation, the multimodal hub-and-spoke transport network helps to achieve economies of scale and reduc...
Historical texts are one of the main pillars for understanding current civilization and are used to reference different aspects. Hadiths are an example of one of the historical texts that should be securely preserved. Due to the expansion of the onli...
Modal superposition enables efficient estimation of full-field structural displacements from sparse measurements, forming a keystone of structural health monitoring (SHM) in linear elastic systems. Accurate reconstruction critically depends on select...
Using the classical received signal strength (RSS)-distance log-normal model in wireless sensor network (WSN) applications poses a series of characteristic challenges derived from (a) the model’s structural limitations when it comes to explaining rea...
One of the remarkable challenges about Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is how to transfer the collected data efficiently due to energy limitation of sensor nodes. Network coding will increase network throughput of WSN dramatically due to the broadcast...
The traditional on-board centralized-distributed mission negotiation architecture has poor security and reliability. It can easily give rise to the collapse of the whole system when the master node is attacked by malicious nodes. To address this issu...
Social networking platforms connect people from all around the world. Because of their user-friendliness and easy accessibility, their traffic is increasing drastically. Such active participation has caught the attention of many research groups that...
Richter Transformation (RT) refers to the development of an aggressive lymphoma in the setting of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). While many variants of RT are recognized, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (RT-DLBCL) is the most common (80%), followe...
Background/Objectives: Synchronous ipsilateral supraclavicular lymph node metastases (sISLMs) in breast cancer are rare and associated with poor prognosis. The optimal locoregional treatment strategy remains unclear, particularly regarding the role o...
In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), communication links are typically error-prone and unreliable, so providing reliable and timely data routing for loss- and delay-sensitive applications in WSNs it is a challenge issue. Additionally, with specific th...
Understanding SARS-CoV-2 evolution is a fundamental effort in coping with the COVID-19 pandemic. The virus genomes have been broadly evolving due to the high number of infected hosts world-wide. Mutagenesis and selection are two inter-dependent mecha...
The quality of electricity is a very important indicator. The durability and reliable operation of all connected devices depend on the quality of the network voltage. Rapid changes in loads, changes in network connections and the presence of uncontro...
A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a group of autonomous sensors geographically distributed for environmental monitoring and tracking purposes. Since the sensors in the WSN have limited battery capacity, the energy efficiency is considered a challeng...
Semantic models are utilized to add context information to datasets and make data accessible and understandable in applications such as dataspaces. Since the creation of such models is a time-consuming task that has to be performed by a human expert,...
Background/Objectives: Reference genome choice can introduce systematic bias into cancer transcriptomic analyses, particularly for populations underrepresented in standard references. However, its impact on downstream biological interpretation remain...
Resource use in point-to-point and point-to-multipoint communication emerges with the tremendous growth in wireless communication technologies. One of the technologies is wireless power transfer which may be used to provide sufficient resources for e...
A key means of promoting the high-quality development of karst areas is the maintenance of the area’s ecological security. A full recognition of the special ecological function of karst areas, as well as their significance to the surrounding re...
Background: Reliable assessment of cervical lymph node metastases remains a key challenge in the management of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). While elective ipsilateral neck dissection (ND) is widely accepted, the benefit of contralateral ND an...
Automotive cyber-physical systems are in transition from the closed-systems to open-networking systems. As a result, in-vehicle networks such as the controller area network (CAN) have become essential to connect to inter-vehicle networks through the...
Electronic packaging has been developed with high resolution and fine interconnection pitches. Non-conductive adhesives (NCAs) have been growing with the increase of I/O pad count and density, along with fine pad bond pitch interconnections. Predicti...
Influence maximization is a key topic of study in social network analysis. It refers to selecting a set of seed users from a social network and maximizing the number of users expected to be affected. Many related research works on the classical influ...
To address the coupling among power supply topology, module selection, capacity allocation, and N-2 contingency assessment in flexible traction power supply systems, a deep-reinforcement-learning-guided branch-and-bound method is proposed for equipme...
The molecular mechanism underlying rapid antler growth has not been elucidated. The contrast of the wapiti and sika deer antler provides a potential model for comparative studies for the identification of potent growth factors and unique regulatory s...
This work addresses the optimized planning of survivable optical 5G Xhaul access networks employing passive Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) technologies. Specifically, it focuses on the reliability of optical transmission paths connecting remo...
Battery energy storage systems can reduce the operating cost of active distribution networks while supporting voltage control through their power electronic converters. This paper develops an application-specific multi-operator Differential Evolution...
The authors propose a two-stage sequential configuration method for energy storage systems to solve the problems of the heavy load, low voltage, and increased network loss caused by the large number of electric vehicle (EV) charging piles and distrib...
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