609 Results Found

Autonomous systems developed with the Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) architecture tend to be mostly implemented in simulated environments. In this project we sought to build a BDI agent for use in the real world for campus mail delivery in the tunnel...

Computer network security is an important aspect of computer science. Many researchers are trying to increase security using different methods, technologies, or tools. One of the most common practices is the deployment of an Intrusion Detection Syste...

Recent advancements in AI have enabled autonomous agents to interact within complex environments, with deliberative BDI (Belief–Desire–Intention) agents standing out for their human-inspired reasoning capabilities. However, defining the i...

The rise of robots and robotics has proved to be a benefaction to humankind in different aspects. Robotics evolved from a simple button, has seen massive development over the years. Consequently, it has become an integral part of human life as robots...

Financial fraud detection is a critical application area within the broader domains of cybersecurity and intelligent financial analytics. With the growing volume and complexity of digital transactions, the traditional rule-based and shallow learning...

Prediction of the economy in global markets is of crucial importance for individuals, decisionmakers, and policies. To this end, effectiveness in modeling and forecasting the directions of such leading indicators is of crucial importance. For this pu...

This paper proposes a dual-mode CMOS analog front-end (AFE) circuit for short-wave infrared (SWIR) image sensors, which integrates a hybrid readout circuit (ROIC) and a 12-bit two-step single-slope analog-to-digital converter (TS-SS ADC). The ROIC dy...

In agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE), the application of model-driven development (MDD) and the use of domain-specific modeling languages (DSMLs) for Multi-Agent System (MAS) development are quite popular since the implementation of MAS is n...

Background and Objectives: Infertility is a global problem. The interaction between depression and infertility seems bidirectional, and depression may negatively influence IVF outcomes. The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) is one of the most extensive...

To address the lag and limited sensitivity of conventional shipping freight indicators, this study develops a news-based sentiment measure for the shipping market and examines its association with BDI dynamics. Using shipping-related news headlines f...

Intensive agriculture uses a lot of nitrogen fertilizers to increase crop productivity. These crops are in competition with soil-denitrifying microorganisms that assimilate nitrogen in the form of nitrate and transform it into N₂O, a greenhouse gas,...

Background: The Beck Depression Inventory Second Edition (BDI-II) is used to assess depression worldwide. In Mexico, the BDI-II Spanish translation is widely used. Despite more than 23 million people being identified as indigenous, there is no empiri...

In this paper, a novel scheme for source/drain-first (S/D-first) full bottom dielectric isolation (BDI), i.e., Full BDI_Last, with integration of a sacrificial Si_0.5Ge_0.5 layer was proposed and demonstrated in a stacked Si nanosheet gate-all-around (...

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are complex systems interacting with the physical world where instant external changes and uncertain events exist. The Internet of Things is a paradigm that can interoperate with a CPS to increase the CPS’s network...

Technological advancements have revolutionized the proliferation and availability of information to users, which has created more complex and intensive interactions between users and systems. The learning process of users is essential in the construc...

Depression is associated with absenteeism and presentism, problems in workplace relationships and loss of productivity and quality. The present work describes the validation of a web-based system for the assessment of depression in the university wor...

Depression and alcohol misuse, frequently comorbid, are associated with altered reward processing. However, no study has examined whether and how the neural markers of reward processing are shared between depression and alcohol misuse. We studied 43...

Over the years, multi-agent systems (MAS) technologies have shown their usefulness in creating distributed applications focused on autonomous intelligent processes. For this purpose, many frameworks for supporting multi-agent systems have been develo...

Introduction: Depression is a serious and common mental disease that causes low mood and loss of interest in activities. Nelumbinis semen (NS) has been widely used as a treatment for depression for hundreds of years in many Asian countries. Water ext...

Background: Disability and poor quality of life are frequently reported by patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs). There is an increased interest in the use and development of self-administered questionnaires of patient-reported outcomes in...

Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a dermatological disorder that affects patients’ mental health and psychological state in complex ways. The importance of understanding the entire scope of this burden is well recognized, but there is limited comprehensive i...

The aim of the study was to assess the risk and severity of depression tendency in pregnant and postpartum women and to determine the relative risk for selected psychosocial and obstetric variables. The study included 317 women in the perinatal perio...

The clinical presentation of Parkinson’s disease (PD) is often dominated by depressive symptoms, which can significantly impact the patients’ quality of life (QoL). However, it is not clear how these depressive symptoms are interconnected, or if some...

Background: The aim of the study was to compare the emotional state and strength-velocity parameters of patients with frailty and pre-frailty syndrome undertaking a 12-week training programme. Methods: The study was completed by 36 individuals, inclu...

Current land cover research focuses primarily on spatial changes in land cover and the driving forces behind these changes. Among such forces is the influence of policy, which has proven difficult to measure, and no quantitative research has been con...

The aim of this study is to analyze the evolution of sexual function throughout pregnancy and highlight the predicting factors of sexual dysfunction in pregnant women. Our study included 144 participants, aged 16 to 45. Patients were evaluated three...

This paper provides the Agent in a Box for developing autonomous mobile robots using Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) agents. This framework provides the means of connecting the agent reasoning system to the environment, using the Robot Operating System...

Switchgrass is a high yielding, low-input intensive, native perennial grass that has been promoted as a major second-generation bioenergy crop. Raw switchgrass is not a readily acceptable feedstock in existing power plants that were built to accommod...

With the acceleration of economic globalization, China’s financial market has emerged as a vital force in the global financial system. The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) and China Container Freight Index (CCFI) serve as key indicators of the shipping s...

Bronchoscopy is one of the basic invasive procedures in pulmonology accompanied by patients’ anxiety. This study aimed to find an association between predictors of state anxiety/depression and patient’s quality of life (QOL) with pulmonary symptoms u...

Background/Objectives: Developmental disabilities substantially affect the daily lives of children and their families. Although interest in examining the developmental profiles of children with various disabilities has grown, few studies have systema...

Background and objectives: Unhealthy, physically inactive lifestyles increase the risk of future cardiovascular events and impaired physical fitness in individuals with schizophrenia. Insufficient literature exists to provide fundamental information...

The important prevalence of autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD) in the general population was the main motivation for conducting the present study. The present paper aims to estimate the possible comorbidities related to female sexual dysfunction (FSD)...

The correlation between depressive and cognitive symptoms and OSAS (obstructive sleep apnea syndrome) is between 5 and 63%. We reported the case of two patients with severe OSAS and its associated depressive symptoms that were intolerant to continuou...

Interaction of two redox enzymes of Escherichia coli, cytochrome bo₃ and cytochrome bd-I, with ammonium sulfate/ammonia at pH 7.0 and 8.3 was studied using high-resolution respirometry and absorption spectroscopy. At pH 7.0, the oxygen reductase acti...

Plovdiv faces significant air pollution challenges due to geographic, climatic, and industrial factors, making accurate air quality assessment critical. This study presents a hybrid multi-agent platform that integrates symbolic and sub-symbolic artif...

The growing prevalence of anxiety, depression, and stress among students highlights the urgent need for school-based strategies that promote psychological well-being and timely intervention. This study explores the use of artificial intelligence (AI)...

Conservation tillage technology (CTT) provides a new solution to the problem of cultivated land protection. Using effective policy tools to ensure that farmers adopt conservation tillage technology is crucial to the sustainable utilization of cultiva...

Many patients diagnosed with empty nose syndrome (ENS) later develop mental illness. The literature addressing biomarkers associated with postoperative psychiatric status is limited. This study aimed to assess the association between high-sensitivity...

Working memory is an important function for human cognition since several day-to-day activities are related to it, such as remembering a direction or developing a mental calculation. Unfortunately, working memory deficiencies affect performance in wo...

Background/Objectives: This study examines the impact of anxiety and depressive symptomatology on self-esteem among Greek practicing lawyers. The high-stress environment of the legal profession is known to heighten the risk of mental health issues, y...

This paper presents PLAM (Plovdiv Air Monitoring)—a regional multi-agent platform for air quality monitoring, semantic reasoning, and forecasting. The platform uses a hybrid architecture that combines two types of intelligent agents: classic BD...

Introduction: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a disorder that substantially affects women’s health. It is particularly diagnosed in young patients. Women with PCOS are burdened with excessive weight gain, overweight and obesity (74%) compar...

Customer-centric service innovation performance has become a common businesses goal to pursue, particularly for service-oriented manufacturing companies. However, the continuous focus on the impact of enterprise resources and capabilities in service...

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed several challenges on different populations all around the world, with stress being identified as one of the major challenges. This study aims to investigate the impact of COVID-19-induced stress on the p...

Background/Objectives: Diabetes mellitus is one of the most common chronic diseases worldwide. In addition to short-term and long-term complications, diabetes has a detrimental effect on the patients’ mood. The main psychiatric disorder occurri...

The terminal oxidases of bacterial aerobic respiratory chains are redox-active electrogenic enzymes that catalyze the four-electron reduction of O₂ to 2H₂O taking out electrons from quinol or cytochrome c. Living bacteria often deal with carbon monox...

(1) Background: Research has shown that it is important to examine depressive symptoms in the light of the mereology (the ratio between one symptom and the whole disorder). The goal of this study was to examine changes in the symptom interrelations o...

Background: Physical activity (PA) is a behavioral modality that may help decrease negative symptoms of menopause and enhance some positive aspects of mental health, including self-esteem. Reduced self-esteem may put menopausal women at higher risk o...

The outbreak of COVID-19 and the changes to normal societal function and in particular quarantine has increased mental distress in many nations. A survey of 22,112 COVID-19-negative quarantined participants in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (age: 18–40...