CRISPR-Cas gene editing technologies offer the potential to modify crops precisely; however, in vitro plant transformation and regeneration techniques present a bottleneck due to the lengthy and genotype-specific tissue culture process. Ideally, in p...
Polybutylene adipate terephthalate (PBAT), a flexible biodegradable polyester, has gained widespread use in packaging applications due to its ability to degrade under controlled conditions, producing non-toxic substances. While this property makes PB...
In this research, a real-time nowcasting system for regional landslide-hazard assessment under extreme-rainfall conditions was established by integrating a real-time rainfall data retrieving system, a landslide-susceptibility analysis program (TRISHA...
Arterial blood pressure monitoring plays an important role in preventive medicine, allowing, in selected cases, the identification of vascular dysfunction. In this review, we propose a new non-invasive approach to assessment of the circulatory system...
This study investigated reconstruction techniques for building the instantaneous fuel regression rate of the hybrid rocket motor (HRM). Specifically, an experiment in a laboratory 500 N-class hybrid rocket motor with single-port wagon wheel fuel grai...
Magnetic field measurements are essential for space science missions but are often contaminated by transient stray fields from spacecraft subsystems such as electrical and control units. Traditional mitigation approaches—including strict magnet...
The Marching On-In-Time (MOT) unstructured Partial Element Equivalent Circuit (PEEC) method for time domain electromagnetic problems is presented. The method allows the transient analysis of electrically large electromagnetic devices consisting of co...
The domain of non-destructive testing (NDT) or thermal characterization is currently often done by using contactless methods based on the use of an IR camera to monitor the transient temperature response of a system or sample warmed by using any heat...
Liver fibrosis is one of the risk factors for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) development. The staging of liver fibrosis can be evaluated only via a liver biopsy, which is an invasive procedure. Noninvasive methods for the diagnosis of liver fibrosis...
A balanced operating power system with all elements carrying normal currents and bus voltages within the prescribed limits can be disrupted due to faults within the system. Overhead transmission networks are vulnerable to the vagaries of the atmosphe...
The aim of this review is to provide updated information on the clinical use of non-invasive serum and imaging-based tests for fibrosis assessment in chronic hepatitis B (CHB) virus infection. In recent years, non-invasive tests (NIT) have been incre...
The development of renewable-energy-based microgrids is being considered as a potential solution to lessen the unrelenting burden on the centralized utility grid. Furthermore, recent studies reveal that integrated multi-microgrid cluster systems deve...
Recent advancements in mRNA technology, utilized in vaccines, immunotherapies, protein replacement therapies, and genome editing, have emerged as promising and increasingly viable treatments. The rapid, potent, and transient properties of mRNA-encode...
The present research produces a new technique for the optimum operation of an isolated microgrid (MGD) based on an enhanced block-sparse adaptive Bayesian algorithm (EBSABA). To update the proportional-integral (PI) controller gains online, the sugge...
Radio frequency fingerprinting (RFF) is a promising physical layer protection technique which can be used to defend wireless networks from malicious attacks. It is based on the use of the distinctive features of the physical waveforms (signals) trans...
A number of techniques have been proposed to dampen the power system oscillations in the electric power systems. Flexible alternating current transmission system (FACTS) devices are becoming one of them. Among the FACTS family, the static synchronous...
A novel physiologically based algorithm (PBA) for the computation of fractional flow reserve (FFR) in coronary artery trees (CATs) using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is proposed and developed. The PBA was based on an extension of Murray’s...
Advanced composites have a brittle nature making them highly susceptible to failure and propagation under impact loading conditions. Appropriate modeling techniques to accurately simulate these conditions are required. This study presents and examine...
The increasing concerns regarding water usage in mineral processing have led to a growing interest in dry jigging in recent years. However, there is still a need for a more comprehensive examination of the operational aspects of the technique. In thi...
Proportional integral (PI) control is still the most widely deployed controller in the industrial drives due to its simplicity and the fact that it is easy to understand and implement. Nevertheless, they are successes applied to systems with a comple...
This paper presents the results of a research aimed at analysing the susceptibility to shallow landslides of a study area in the Calabria region (Southern Italy). These shallow landslides, which in some cases evolve as debris flows, periodically affe...
In this work, a new and accurate method based on the wavelet transform is proposed for fault location in transmission-line systems. The proposed wavelet method consists of the analysis of the transient signal measured at a single end of the transmiss...
This work employs machine learning methods to develop and test a technique for dynamic stability analysis of the mathematical model of a power system. A distinctive feature of the proposed method is the absence of a priori parameters of the power sys...
In nuclear engineering, the λ -modes associated with the neutron diffusion equation are applied to study the criticality of reactors and to develop modal methods for the transient analysis. The differential eigenvalue problem that needs t...
Background: The purpose of this systematic literature review (SLR) was to evaluate the accuracy of noninvasive diagnostic tools in detecting significant or advanced (F2/F3) fibrosis among patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver (NAFL) in the US health...
Pumping and tracer tests are site-investigation techniques frequently used to determine hydraulic conductivity. Tomographic test layouts, in which multiple tests with different combinations of injection and observation wells are performed, gain a bet...
A microgrid including distributed generators can operate connected to the main electrical network or in an isolated manner, referred to as island operation. The transition between both states can occur voluntarily, but a disconnection can also happen...
Construction and demolition waste material is of great potential for use in pavement engineering. This paper aims to investigate the feasibility of ceramic waste aggregate (CA) used in cooling asphalt pavement through a series of test methods and sim...
This paper presents the design of a disturbance observer-based controller that regulates the output voltage of three-phase four-leg voltage source inverters (VSIs) deployed for grid-forming operation in Renewable Energy-based Distributed Generation (...
Clinically significant portal hypertension (CSPH) in patients with compensated advanced chronic liver disease indicates an increased risk of decompensation and death. While invasive methods like hepatic venous–portal gradient measurement is con...
A multiphase extension of the δ-plus-SPH (smoothed particle hydrodynamics) model is developed for modeling non-Newtonian multiphase flow. A modified numerical diffusive term and special shifting treatment near the phase interface are introduced...
This article presents a decentralized control technique applied to a Cascaded Full-Bridge Multilevel Converter (CFBMC) to balance the amount of power provided by its independent cells connected in series. It is based on the use of elementary modular...
Simulating the steam dumping process of a pressurized relief tank is a challenging engineering problem, due to the massive computing resource requirements and its complex physical models. This study gave a comprehensive 3D numerical study for the tra...
The upcoming more stringent automotive emission legislations and current developments have promoted new technologies for more precise and reliable catalyst control. For this purpose, radio-frequency-based (RF) catalyst state determination offers the...
Compaction quality is a critical factor in ensuring the long-term performance of subgrade structures; however, traditional testing methods are limited by their destructive nature and delayed feedback. To address these shortcomings, this study propose...
Renewable energy and voltage source inverter-driven microgrids generally lack natural inertia to provide transient energy support during sudden load demands. To address this, the virtual synchronous generator (VSG) is a state-of-the-art control techn...
The disadvantage of photovoltaic (PV) power generation is that output power decreases due to the presence of clouds or shade. Moreover, it can only be used when the sun is shining. Consequently, there is a need for further active research into the ma...
This work presents a data-driven Reduced-Order Model (ROM) for parametric convective heat transfer problems in porous media. The intrusive Proper Orthogonal Decomposition aided Reduced-Basis (POD-RB) technique is employed to reduce the porous medium...
High-impedance faults (HIF) are difficult to detect because of their low current amplitude and highly diverse characteristics. In recent years, machine learning (ML) has been gaining popularity in HIF detection because ML techniques learn patterns fr...
A series of dyes based on the phenazine skeleton were synthesized. They differed in the number of conjugated double bonds, the arrangement of aromatic rings (linear and/or angular system), as well as the number and position of nitrogen atoms in the m...
The assessment of metallic materials used in power plants’ piping represents a big challenge due to the thermal transients and the environmental conditions to which they are exposed. At present, a lack of information related to degradation mech...
Making rate transient analysis (RTA) and formation evaluation for multi-fractured tight gas wells has always been a difficult problem. This is because the fluid flow in the formation has multiple nonlinear flow mechanisms, including gas-water two-pha...
In a hybrid microgrid with AC and DC subgrids, the interlinking converter (IC) is the key element connecting the two subgrids. The performance of the interlinking converter is adversely affected by the d- and q-axis impedance interaction between the...
The transient electromagnetic (TEM) method is a non-contact technique used to identify underground structures, commonly used in mineral resource exploration. However, the induced polarization (IP) will increase the nonlinearity of TEM inversion, and...
In this paper, the concept of fractional calculus (FC) is introduced into the sliding mode control (SMC), named fractional order SMC (FOSMC), for the load frequency control (LFC) of an islanded microgrid (MG). The studied MG is constructed from diffe...
Under droplet impingement, surface leading edge protection (LEP) coating materials for wind turbine blades develop high-rate transient pressure build-up and a subsequent relaxation in a range of strain rates. The stress-strain coating LEP behavior at...
In this paper, an asymmetrical fuzzy-logic-control (FLC)-based maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithm for photovoltaic (PV) systems is presented. Two membership function (MF) design methodologies that can improve the effectiveness of the propo...
The microgrid (MG) is a popular concept to handle the high penetration of distributed energy resources, such as renewable and energy storage systems, into electric grids. However, the integration of inverter-interfaced distributed generation units (I...
As a high-throughput data analysis technique, photon time stretching (PTS) is widely used in the monitoring of rare events such as cancer cells, rough waves, and the study of electronic and optical transient dynamics. The PTS technology relies on hig...
In this study, the transient multichannel analysis of surface waves (MASW) is proposed to detect the existence, the location and the length of interface debonding defects in rectangular concrete-filled steel tubes (CFST). Mesoscale numerical analysis...
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