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  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,776 Views
20 Pages

6 November 2024

To address the issues of single-structured feature input channels, insufficient feature learning capabilities in noisy environments, and large model parameter sizes in intelligent diagnostic models for mechanical equipment, a lightweight and efficien...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Sensing Technology in Smart Manufacturing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,384 Views
13 Pages

Effect of Monomer Sequence along Network Chains on Thermoresponsive Properties of Polymer Gels

  • Shohei Ida,
  • Toru Kawahara,
  • Hidekazu Kawabata,
  • Tatsuya Ishikawa and
  • Yoshitsugu Hirokawa

10 March 2018

The effect of monomer sequence along the network chain on the swelling behavior of polymer gels should be clarified for the advanced control of swelling properties of gel materials. To this end, we systematically investigated the swelling properties...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements in Gel Science—A Special Issue in Memory of Toyoichi Tanaka)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,120 Views
6 Pages

14 November 2020

Bovine casein is a family of milk proteins with hydrophilic and hydrophobic regions that show block distribution within the protein chain. These amphiphilic properties offer great potential as a material for use as a matrix for transporting active ma...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 24th International Electronic Conference on Synthetic Organic Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,697 Views
11 Pages

Analysis of the Influence of Fabrication Errors on the Far-Field Performance of Si and Si3N4 Antennas

  • Yifan Xin,
  • Wenyuan Liao,
  • Lei Yu,
  • Pengfei Ma and ,
  • Zheng Wang,
  • Yibo Yang,
  • Licheng Chen,
  • Pengfei Wang,
  • Yejin Zhang and
  • Jiaoqing Pan
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

16 January 2024

Antennas are important components in optical phased arrays. However, their far-field performance deteriorates when random phase noise is introduced because of fabricating errors. For the first time, we use a finite-difference time-domain solution to...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Interaction Science)
  • Review
  • Open Access
898 Views
19 Pages

The Shifting Boundary Between Invasive and Non-Invasive Angiographic Investigation in Contemporary Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery: An Up-to-Date Narrative Review

  • Justin Ren,
  • Colin Royse,
  • William Chan,
  • Dion Stub and ,
  • Garry W. Hamilton,
  • Jason E. Bloom,
  • Tobias Fruehwald,
  • Nilesh Srivastav and
  • Alistair Royse
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

21 July 2026

Background: Invasive coronary angiography has historically been the reference standard for coronary, valvular, and structural heart disease. Over the past decade, coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA), CT-derived fractional flow reserve (CT...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Interventional Cardiology—Challenges and Solutions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,758 Views
13 Pages

Voltage-gated and ligand-modulated ion channels play critical roles in excitable cells. To understand the interplay among voltage sensing, ligand binding, and channel opening, the structures of ion channels in various functional states and in lipid m...

(This article belongs to the Section Biological Membrane Functions)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,857 Views
20 Pages

12 December 2022

The use of simulation and modelling has been proposed for determining the excitations to be applied in the procedures of laboratory testing of a car’s structural components, without the need to test the complete vehicle. The paper presents the genera...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Motor Vehicles Energy Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,244 Views
25 Pages

25 March 2025

Data complexity is an important concept in the natural sciences and related areas, but lacks a rigorous and computable definition. This paper focusses on a particular sense of complexity that is high if the data is structured in a way that could serv...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,148 Views
13 Pages

21 February 2023

Kicks can lead to well control risks during petroleum drilling, and even more serious kicks may lead to serious casualties, which is the biggest threat factor affecting the safety in the process of petroleum drilling. Therefore, how to detect kicks e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimization and Simulation of Intelligent Oil and Gas Wells)
  • Article
  • Open Access
735 Views
16 Pages

Background: The expanding interest in chatbots within the medical domain underscores the imperative for a comprehensive understanding of their capabilities and limitations, particularly in the context of anatomical education. Chatbots possess the pot...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Generative AI Technologies: Shaping the Future of Higher Education)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,137 Views
29 Pages

Decision tree ensembles, such as Random Forests and Gradient Boosting Machines, achieve high predictive accuracy but often suffer from limited transparency due to their structural complexity. Due to this lack, interpretability challenges arise in dom...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Surveys in Information Systems and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
639 Views
25 Pages

Extreme and sudden temperature fluctuations observed as a result of global climate change increase the environmental pressure on energy transmission infrastructure. These meteorological changes significantly increase the risk of failure for porcelain...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bio-Inspired Signal Processing on Image and Audio Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
774 Views
21 Pages

9 April 2026

The impact of environmental disturbances and sensor deployment variations on damage identification represents a critical bottleneck that constrains the practical effectiveness of structural health monitoring. Existing methods addressing these challen...

(This article belongs to the Section Industrial Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,624 Views
21 Pages

5 February 2024

Given the fact that the high frequency of extreme weather events globally, in particular typhoons, has more of an influence on flood forecasting, there is a great need to further understand the impact of typhoon events on design storms. The main obje...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue River Science: Integrated Management of Water Resources in the Anthropocene)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
114 Views
27 Pages

2 November 2026

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a prevalent neurodevelopmental condition and has become an important public health concern worldwide. This study investigated the effects of a 12-week structured soccer game-based creation program on multiple develop...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies in Mental Health: Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurobiology, AI, and Big Data)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,983 Views
9 Pages

Mucin Binding Protein of Lactobacillus casei Inhibits HT-29 Colorectal Cancer Cell Proliferation

  • Xuan Ju,
  • Xi Wu,
  • Yukun Chen,
  • Shanshan Cui and ,
  • Zixuan Cai,
  • Liang Zhao,
  • Yanling Hao,
  • Feng Zhou,
  • Fang Chen and
  • Dong Yang
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

15 May 2023

Many Lactobacillus casei strains are reported to exhibit anti-proliferative effects on colorectal cancer cells; however, the mechanism remains largely unknown. While there has been considerable interest in bacterial small metabolites such as short ch...

(This article belongs to the Topic Nutrition in Cancer and Neurodegenerative Diseases)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,734 Views
22 Pages

Grammatical Error Patterns in ChatGPT-Generated Modern Standard Arabic Texts: A Linguistic Analysis of Recurrent Patterns

  • Abdelrahim Fathy Ismail,
  • Rabha Adnan Alqudah,
  • Rawan Abdul Mahdi Neyef Al-Saliti and
  • Alaaeldin Ahmed Hamid

Despite significant advances in AI language models, Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) remains a linguistically complex domain in which apparent fluency often masks deeper grammatical instability. This study investigates recurrent grammatical error pattern...

  • Article
  • Open Access
519 Views
21 Pages

Closed-Loop Black-Box Identification of Active Magnetic Bearing System Under Decentralized Control

  • Penghui Zhang,
  • Peng Wen,
  • Yuexin Feng,
  • Yuancheng Zhang and ,
  • Jingchun Xu and
  • Zigang Deng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

4 July 2026

Active magnetic bearings (AMBs) require accurate dynamic models for controller design and performance analysis, but their inherent open-loop instability makes modeling difficult under practical operating conditions. This study presents a closed-loop...

(This article belongs to the Section Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,290 Views
31 Pages

8 June 2025

Understanding user interaction patterns during technology-triggered public discourse provides critical insights into how emerging technologies gain social meaning. This study develops an intelligent digital twin framework for modeling discourse dynam...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems and Digital Twins)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,363 Views
15 Pages

12 November 2024

The role of interfacial effects on an ion-conducting poly(styrene-b-ethylene oxide) (PS-b-PEO or SEO) diblock copolymer doped with lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl) imide (LiTFSI) was investigated by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS)....

(This article belongs to the Section Battery Materials and Interfaces: Anode, Cathode, Separators and Electrolytes or Others)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
6,610 Views
18 Pages

Classifying Forest Type in the National Forest Inventory Context with Airborne Hyperspectral and Lidar Data

  • Caileigh Shoot,
  • Hans-Erik Andersen,
  • L. Monika Moskal,
  • Chad Babcock and ,
  • Bruce D. Cook and
  • Douglas C. Morton
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

11 May 2021

Forest structure and composition regulate a range of ecosystem services, including biodiversity, water and nutrient cycling, and wood volume for resource extraction. Forest type is an important metric measured in the US Forest Service Forest Inventor...

(This article belongs to the Section Forest Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,357 Views
16 Pages

Designing Soft and Transparent Films Based on Multi-Phase Polypropylene Copolymers and Styrene Block Copolymers

  • Markus Gahleitner,
  • Dietrich Gloger,
  • Katja Klimke,
  • Martina Sandholzer and
  • Jingbo Wang

6 May 2026

Concerns about the environmental and health impacts of plasticized poly (vinyl chloride) (PVC), from plasticizer loss to microplastic formation, have created a clear demand to find alternative packaging materials for medical and pharmaceutical use. A...

(This article belongs to the Section Polymer Composites and Nanocomposites)
  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,684 Views
23 Pages

Defining Goal-Directed Training for Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Scoping Review and Framework for Implementation

  • Angela Shierk,
  • Bridget Barry Thias,
  • Haley Becker,
  • Baylee Allen and ,
  • Benjamin Chaiprasert,
  • Katherine C. Lampe,
  • Ava Wallace-McCollom,
  • Aidan O’Brien and
  • Heather Roberts
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

8 August 2025

Background/Objectives: This scoping review aimed to define goal-directed training (GDT) and its impact on outcomes for children with cerebral palsy (CP), and to develop a structured framework outlining its core components for effective implementation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Children with Cerebral Palsy and Other Developmental Disabilities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,634 Views
23 Pages

Stochastic Optimal Bounded Parametric Control of Periodic Viscoelastomer Sandwich Plate with Supported Mass Based on Dynamical Programming Principle

  • Zhi-Gang Ruan,
  • Zu-Guang Ying,
  • Zhao-Zhong Ying,
  • Hua Lei and ,
  • Wen Wang and
  • Lei Xia
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The sandwich plate (SP) with supported mass can model structural systems such as platform or floor with installed vibration-sensitive apparatus under random loading. The stochastic optimal control (in time domain) of periodic (in space) viscoelastome...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Structural Health Monitoring and Vibration Control)
  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,348 Views
19 Pages

Radiofrequency, Cryoablation, and Pulsed Field Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation: Mechanisms, Preclinical Evidence, and Clinical Outcomes

  • Andrei Mihordea,
  • Mihai Puiu,
  • Gelu Simu,
  • Ioan-Alexandru Minciuna and ,
  • Radu Rosu,
  • Gabriel Gusetu,
  • Dana Pop and
  • Gabriel Cismaru
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Catheter ablation has become a cornerstone therapy for atrial fibrillation, with pulmonary vein isolation as its mechanistic foundation. Radiofrequency ablation and cryoablation, the two established thermal technologies, have demonstrated robust effi...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular and Translational Medicine)
  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,414 Views
19 Pages

Multi-Scale Imaging of the Dynamic Organization of Chromatin

  • Fabiola García Fernández,
  • Sébastien Huet and
  • Judith Miné-Hattab

4 November 2023

Chromatin is now regarded as a heterogeneous and dynamic structure occupying a non-random position within the cell nucleus, where it plays a key role in regulating various functions of the genome. This current view of chromatin has emerged thanks to...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Genetics and Genomics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,659 Views
44 Pages

Cover Tree-Optimized Spectral Clustering: Efficient Nearest Neighbor Search for Large-Scale Data Partitioning

  • Abderrafik Laakel Hemdanou,
  • Youssef Achtoun,
  • Sara Mouali,
  • Mohammed Lamarti Sefian and ,
  • Vesna Šešum Čavić and
  • Stojan Radenović
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Spectral clustering has established itself as a powerful technique for data partitioning across various domains due to its ability to handle complex cluster structures. However, its computational efficiency remains a challenge, especially with large...

(This article belongs to the Section Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,072 Views
10 Pages

Software Refactoring Prediction Using SVM and Optimization Algorithms

  • Mohammed Akour,
  • Mamdouh Alenezi and
  • Hiba Alsghaier

15 August 2022

Test suite code coverage is often used as an indicator for test suite capability in detecting faults. However, earlier studies that have explored the correlation between code coverage and test suite effectiveness have not addressed this correlation e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Challenges in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Wireless Sensor Networks and Smart Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,707 Views
44 Pages

24 December 2025

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) systems face significant challenges due to limited labeled data availability and persistent domain gaps between synthetic and measured imagery. This paper presents a comprehensive self...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Signal and Image Processing Techniques for Sensor Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
347 Views
28 Pages

Predicting and Explaining Economic Losses from Natural Disasters: A Post-Hoc Machine Learning and Explainable AI Approach

  • Tarık Talan,
  • Teyfik Giray,
  • Adem Korkmaz,
  • Selahattin Kosunalp and ,
  • Vedat Tumen and
  • Erdal Akin
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 September 2026

This study develops a post hoc machine-learning and explainable artificial intelligence framework for predicting and interpreting the economic losses associated with natural disasters using 5051 records from the EM-DAT database covering 1975–20...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Developments in Preventing and Managing Disasters)
  • Article
  • Open Access
592 Views
29 Pages

Evaluating Domain-Aware Random Forests for Short-Term Photovoltaic Power Forecasting

  • Situmbeko Nyirenda,
  • Musa Ndiaye,
  • Esau Zulu and
  • Alan Kabanshi

23 September 2026

Data-driven machine learning (ML) models forecast photovoltaic (PV) power accurately, but the conventional Random Forest (RF) samples candidate predictors uniformly and therefore ignores established physical knowledge about how meteorological variabl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Technologies in Solar Thermal and PV Systems Optimization and Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
306 Views
29 Pages

21 August 2026

Adaptive learning systems need to sequence learning activities according to individual progress while respecting the prerequisite structure of the learning domain. This study proposes the Triadic Educational Knowledge Space (TEKS) framework for targe...

(This article belongs to the Section Technology Enhanced Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
65 Citations
6,532 Views
15 Pages

Information Extraction of Cybersecurity Concepts: An LSTM Approach

  • Houssem Gasmi,
  • Jannik Laval and
  • Abdelaziz Bouras

20 September 2019

Extracting cybersecurity entities and the relationships between them from online textual resources such as articles, bulletins, and blogs and converting these resources into more structured and formal representations has important applications in cyb...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning for Cybersecurity Threats, Challenges, and Opportunities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,361 Views
15 Pages

Stationary Target Identification in a Traffic Monitoring Radar System

  • Hae-Seung Lim,
  • Jae-Eun Lee,
  • Hyung-Min Park and
  • Seongwook Lee

23 August 2020

Recently, as one of the intelligent transportation systems, radar systems that monitor traffic on the road have received attention. To ensure the reliable detection performance of the traffic monitoring radar, it is necessary to distinguish stationar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Transportation Systems: Beyond Intelligent Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,518 Views
17 Pages

Coral reef microbial communities play pivotal roles in ecosystem functioning but remain understudied, particularly across spatial gradients and domains. Here, we use environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding of 16S and 18S rRNA genes to profile bacteria...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Microbiology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,200 Views
13 Pages

We introduce a groundbreaking plasmonic metamaterial, the Nano-Hemisphere on Hyperbolic Metamaterial (NHoHMM), which involves the fabrication of Ag nano-hemispheres on a multilayered Ag/SiO2 structure, achieved solely through sputtering and heat trea...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Micro-Nano Optical Devices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
79 Citations
10,080 Views
25 Pages

15 February 2020

Vibration-based data-driven structural damage identification methods have gained large popularity because of their independence of high-fidelity models of target systems. However, the effectiveness of existing methods is constrained by critical short...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Sensors for Civil Infrastructure Condition Assessment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,752 Views
20 Pages

2 December 2024

Proteins often exist in multiple conformational states, influenced by the binding of ligands or substrates. The study of these states, particularly the apo (unbound) and holo (ligand-bound) forms, is crucial for understanding protein function, dynami...

(This article belongs to the Collection Feature Papers in Molecular Biophysics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,847 Views
18 Pages

The preschool age seems to be decisive for the development of motor skills and probably the most promising time-window in relation to improvement of motor skills. This trial investigates the effect of an intensive structured intervention to improve m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Promotion of Physical Activity in Early Childhood)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,986 Views
25 Pages

14 July 2025

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are of concern because of their potential thyroid hormone system disruption by binding to human transthyretin (hTTR). However, the amount of experimental data is scarce. In this work, new classification and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Toxicology: Exposure and Assessment)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
55 Citations
9,088 Views
48 Pages

7 January 2019

Brillouin optical correlation-domain technologies are reviewed as “fiber optic nerve systems” for the health monitoring of large structures such as buildings, bridges, and aircraft bodies. The Brillouin scattering property is used as a se...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optical Correlation-domain Distributed Fiber Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,990 Views
23 Pages

Fault Diagnosis of Rolling Bearing Based on Spectrum-Adaptive Convolution and Interactive Attention Mechanism

  • Hongxing Zhao,
  • Yongsheng Fan,
  • Junchi Ma,
  • Yinnan Wu and ,
  • Ning Qin,
  • Hui Wang,
  • Jing Zhu and
  • Aidong Deng
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

2 September 2025

With the development of artificial intelligence technology, intelligent fault diagnosis methods based on deep learning have received extensive attention. Among them, convolutional neural network (CNN) has been widely applied in the fault diagnosis of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driven Intelligent Maintenance and Health Management for Complex Industrial Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
457 Views
24 Pages

Physics-informed anomaly detectors on smart city IoT gateways face a conflict that static calibration cannot solve. Higher detection accuracy (F1) costs inference latency and edge energy. The trade-off differs across urban sensor domains. PhySec-Edge...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Intelligence: Building a Sustainable Future for Smart Cities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
17,692 Views
38 Pages

Spatial Statistical Models: An Overview under the Bayesian Approach

  • Francisco Louzada,
  • Diego Carvalho do Nascimento and
  • Osafu Augustine Egbon

17 November 2021

Spatial documentation is exponentially increasing given the availability of Big Data in the Internet of Things, enabled by device miniaturization and data storage capacity. Bayesian spatial statistics is a useful statistical tool to determine the dep...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Tools and Techniques Applicable to Probability Theory and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
826 Views
54 Pages

Utilizing Concept Ontologies for Designing Neural Network-Based Classifiers

  • Kamil Szwed,
  • Jan G. Bazan,
  • Stanislawa Bazan-Socha,
  • Krzysztof Wójcik and
  • Pawel Milan

15 August 2026

Deep neural networks have achieved substantial success in image, text, and signal analysis, but their advantage is less consistent for heterogeneous tabular data, where tree-based ensemble methods often remain strong baselines. This study proposes CA...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hybrid Artificial Intelligence for Intelligent Sensing, Decision Making, and Autonomous Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Views
22 Pages

4 November 2026

Background/Objectives: Postpartum urinary retention (PUR) is a common childbirth complication that may lead to bladder dysfunction and adverse maternal outcomes if not promptly identified and managed. Although existing guidelines address aspects of p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Strengthening Midwifery Care for Maternal and Newborn Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
836 Views
45 Pages

4 June 2026

As software systems increasingly combine machine learning, deep learning, and generative AI components with classical deterministic logic, the systematic detection of AI-based algorithmic elements in application code is becoming essential for softwar...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Digital Systems Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
351 Views
21 Pages

FlanBC: A Semantic-Structural Sequence Labeling Framework for Log Parsing

  • Jinhui Yuan,
  • Bin Guan,
  • Kun Wen,
  • Jiawei Fang and
  • Hongwei Zhou

28 August 2026

Log parsing converts raw system logs into structured templates and is a key preprocessing step for Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps). Existing parsers face a practical trade-off: rule-based methods offer high throughput but limited ad...

(This article belongs to the Topic Machine Learning and Data Mining: Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,540 Views
28 Pages

23 May 2025

The aim of sequential recommendation (SR) is to predict a user’s next interaction by analyzing their historical behavioral sequences. The proposed framework leverages the inherent symmetry in user behavior patterns, where temporal and spectral...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Intelligent Algorithms)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,235 Views
12 Pages

7 April 2022

A method of assessing equivalent static wind loads that can represent all the real ultimate states of a high-rise building and towering structure has still not been fully determined in wind engineering. Based on random vibration theory, the wind-indu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advances in Fluid Structure Interaction)

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