Over the last few years, a dynamic increase in the installed capacity of distributed energy sources has been observed, with the largest share being photovoltaic sources. The power grid is a system of connected vessels, and changing the structure of e...
Remote sensing (RS) plays an important role gathering data in many critical domains (e.g., global climate change, risk assessment and vulnerability reduction of natural hazards, resilience of ecosystems, and urban planning). Retrieving, managing, and...
Nominally weakly coordinating anions are useful for modulating the solubility and chemical properties of metal complexes, but identification and analysis of the systematics of the interactions of anions with cationic metal complexes has not received...
Many concepts in mathematics are not fully defined, and their properties are implicit, which leads to paradoxes. New foundations of mathematics were formulated based on the concept of innate programs of behavior and thinking. The basic axiom of mathe...
In recent years, the use of hydrogen for various applications, such as energy storage in microgrids, vehicle fuel or other industrial processes, has led to the proliferation of PEM electrolysers based on water electrolysis (PEM WE) as hydrogen genera...
Sensor fusion techniques have made a significant contribution to the success of the recently emerging mobile applications era because a variety of mobile applications operate based on multi-sensing information from the surrounding environment, such a...
The acid–base equilibria of cetirizine were investigated with and without the presence of differently charged micelle-forming surfactants (anionic, cationic, nonionic). The pKa values were potentiometrically determined at 25 °C and at a con...
Dissolved ions in aqueous media are ubiquitous in many physicochemical processes, with a direct impact on research fields, such as chemistry, climate, biology, and industry. Ions play a crucial role in the structure of the surrounding network of wate...
Safe human-to-humanoid motion imitation is crucial for shared environments, where direct motion retargeting may induce self-collision or human–humanoid collision due to embodiment mismatch, kinematic limits, perception uncertainty, and human pr...
Background: Neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD), Huntington’s disease (HD), and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), differ in etiology but share several convergent pathological m...
Ship fouling has significant adverse effects on vessel performance and environmental sustainability. Therefore, this research study develops a bi-level programming model to simultaneously optimize cleaning equipment deployment by cleaning service pro...
The Bi-directional Evolutionary Structural Optimization (BESO) method, owing to its algorithmic simplicity and strong scalability, has emerged as one of the most prevalent topology optimization methodologies in current research and industrial applica...
The brain–computer interface (BCI) spellers based on steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEPs) have recently been widely investigated for their high information transfer rates (ITRs). This paper aims to improve the practicability of the SS...
In order to realize fast real-time positioning after a mobile robot starts, this paper proposes an improved ORB-SLAM2 algorithm. Firstly, we proposed a binary vocabulary storage method and vocabulary training algorithm based on an improved Oriented F...
Distributed intelligent systems (DIS) appear where natural intelligence agents (humans) and artificial intelligence agents (algorithms) interact, exchanging data and decisions and learning how to evolve toward a better quality of solutions. The netwo...
Gesture recognition is a topic in computer science and language technology that aims to interpret human gestures with computer programs and many different algorithms. It can be seen as the way computers can understand human body language. Today, the...
Electric vehicles have strengthened the coupling between transportation systems and power distribution networks, giving rise to new challenges in the coordinated management of traffic flow and charging demand. Monetary incentives, such as tariffs and...
The retrieval of soil surface parameters, in particular soil moisture and roughness, based on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data, has been the subject of a large number of studies, of which results are available in the scientific literature. However...
This paper presents a comprehensive power system transition-planning model positioned between conventional generation and transmission expansion planning (GTEP) formulations and broader macro-energy system (MES) tools. Existing planning models are ty...
The high expansion of a variable and intermittent nature of distributed generation, such as photovoltaics (PV), can cause technical issues in existing distribution networks (DN). In addition to producing electrical energy, PVs are inverter-based sour...
Internet of Things (IoT) is characterized by a system of interconnected devices capable of communicating with each other to carry out specific useful tasks. The connection between these devices is ensured by routers distributed in a network. Optimizi...
We propose a methodology to verify applications developed following programming patterns inspired by natural language that interact with physical environments and run on resource-constrained interconnected devices. Natural language patterns allow for...
Vibration of the rotor system is closely related with the operation stability of centrifugal pump, and it is inevitably induced by the unsteady inner flow. An unsteady computational fluid dynamics model coupling with a rotordynamics model was present...
In order to address the potential collision issue arising from multiple fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) intercepting targets in n-on-n and n-on-1 pursuit-evasion scenarios, we propose a collision-avoidance guidance strategy for UAVs based...
Automatic optical inspection (AOI) is a control process for precisely evaluating the completeness and quality of manufactured products with the help of visual information. Automatic optical inspection systems include cameras, light sources, and objec...
Understanding the impacts of tsunamis, especially in terms of damage and losses, is important for disaster mitigation and management. The aim of this study is to present our estimations of the potential losses from tsunami damage on Okinawa Island. W...
Background: With advances in high-throughput technologies, there has been an enormous increase in data related to profiling the activity of molecules in disease. While such data provide more comprehensive information on cellular actions, their large...
This study is dedicated to the development of an advanced ship piping network programming tool to address the challenges faced by traditional text-based design and computation methods when dealing with complex and large-data-volume piping systems, su...
Service robots are rapidly transitioning from concept to reality, making significant strides in development. Similarly, the field of prosthetics is evolving at an impressive pace, with both areas now being highly relevant in the industry. Advancement...
At present, there are increasing applications for rosette diffusers for buoyant jets with a lower density than the ambient water, mainly in the discharge of wastewater from municipal administrations and sea water desalination. It is important to stud...
Traditional population-based metaheuristic algorithms are effective in solving complex real-world problems but require careful strategy selection and parameter tuning. Metaphorless population-based optimization algorithms have gained importance due t...
Accurate information of the fine-scale spatial patterns of trees and their interactions within a stand is critical for explaining the competition, health and vigor status, and future development of a stand. There are a number of indices which can sho...
The Industry 5.0 paradigm places humans and the environment at the center. New communication methods based on virtual reality (VR) and brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) can improve system–operator interaction in multimedia communications,...
The technical innovation of the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0—I4.0) is based on the following respective conditions: horizontal and vertical integration of manufacturing systems, decentralization of computing resources and continuous dig...
Obesity is a multifactorial disease presenting sex-related differences including adipocyte functions, sex hormone effects, genetics, and metabolic inflammation. These can influence individuals’ risk for metabolic dysfunctions, with an urgent need to...
This article describes the open-source C++ code VM2D for the simulation of two-dimensional viscous incompressible flows and solving fluid-structure interaction problems. The code is based on the Viscous Vortex Domains (VVD) method developed by Prof....
Environmental conditions, job tasks, and clothing choices influence the thermal comfort of workers. While it is impossible to control outdoor environmental conditions, selecting appropriate clothing for workers is feasible. Personal protective equipm...
The article presents the results of research on the range of the impact of a cooling facility on the surrounding ground. An analysis of the heat exchange with the ground and through the building partitions was carried out. The analysis was carried ou...
This study develops a hybrid solver with reversed overset assembly technology (ROAT), a viscous vortex particle method (VVPM), and a CFD program based on the URNS method, in order to study the aerodynamic and acoustic characteristics of coaxial rigid...
Genomic DNA-based probe selection by using high density oligonucleotide arrays has recently been applied to heterologous species (Xspecies). With the advent of this new approach, researchers are able to study the genome and transcriptome of a non-mod...
This paper shows that artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming college curricula by enabling data-driven personalization, which enhances student outcomes and better aligns educational programs with evolving workforce demands. Specificall...
Injection mold design is a repetitive and time-consuming process with common individual tasks related to each other. This study presents the development of an automatic computer-aided design (CAD) tool for basic injection molds with complete modeling...
Generating robot behaviors in dynamic real-world situations generally requires the programming of multiple, often redundant degrees of freedom to meet multiple goals governing the desired motions. In this work, we propose a constraint-based controlle...
Computational chemistry has played a central role in early-stage drug discovery by accelerating target selection, hit identification, and lead optimization. This review summarizes recent developments in molecular docking, pharmacophore modeling, mole...
Modeling the response of gamma detectors has long been a challenge within the nuclear community. Significant research has been conducted to digitally replicate instruments that can cost over USD 100,000 and are difficult to operate outside of a labor...
Volcanic plume height is one the most important features of explosive activity; thus, it is a parameter of interest for volcanic monitoring that can be retrieved using different remote sensing techniques. Among them, calibrated visible cameras have d...
In this paper, we consider a wireless energy-carrying communication network of a UAV. In this communication network, the internet of things (IoT) devices maintain their work via the power supply of batteries. The energy of batteries is slowly consume...
Emotional awareness is vital for advanced interactions between humans and computer systems. This paper introduces a new multimodal dataset called MERTI-Apps based on Asian physiological signals and proposes a genetic algorithm (GA)—long short-t...
This paper focuses on preventing forms of social dysfunction such as invasions of privacy and stalking by understanding the diversified situation of the rapidly increasing number of social media users who use social media services, which are various...
Molecular docking is one of the most widely used computational approaches in the field of rational drug design, thanks to its favorable balance between the rapidity of execution and the accuracy of provided results. Although very efficient in explori...
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