Precipitation nowcasting refers to the use of specific meteorological elements to predict precipitation in the next 0–2 h. Existing methods use radar echo maps and the Z–R relationship to directly predict future rainfall rates through dee...
Background: Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a re-emerging alphavirus that has caused millions of cases worldwide, yet its molecular epidemiology in Saudi Arabia remains poorly understood. This study integrates bioinformatic analysis of the envelope gene...
The Chikungunya virus infection in Brazil has raised several concerns due to the rapid dissemination of the virus and its association with several clinical complications. Nevertheless, there is limited information about the genomic epidemiology of CH...
Objective: Medical Visual Question Answering (Med-VQA), a key technology that integrates computer vision and natural language processing to assist in clinical diagnosis, possesses significant potential for enhancing diagnostic efficiency and accuracy...
The limited availability of in-situ images of the lunar surface significantly hinders the performance improvement of intelligent algorithms, such as scientific target point-of-interest recognition. To address the low diversity of images generated by...
Hyperspectral image (HSI) classification is a fundamental remote sensing task, but the high-dimensional nature of HSI data poses challenges for acquisition, storage, transmission, and processing. To mitigate these issues, researchers have developed c...
Anthropic changes on the edges of the tropical forests may facilitate the emergence of new viruses from the sylvatic environment and the simultaneous circulation of sylvatic and urban viruses in the human population. In this study, we investigated th...
Epidemics of the Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) from 2004 onwards were caused by the East/Central/South African (ECSA) genotype. However, the pathogenesis of the genotype infection has not been fully explained. In this study, we examined the pathogenic po...
This issue of Proceedings gathers the papers presented at the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications (ECSA-3), held online on 15–30 November 2016 through the sciforum.net platform developed by MDPI. The annual ECSA confer...
Extended coprime sparse array (ECSA) has been widely used in signal processing, which realizes direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation with fewer sensors. Accordingly, via spatial smoothing technique, an augmented sample covariance matrix was construct...
The chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a mosquito-borne virus of the family Togaviridae transmitted to humans by Aedes spp. mosquitoes. In Brazil, imported cases have been reported since June 2014 through two independent introductions, one caused by Asian...
In submitting conference proceedings to Engineering Proceedings, the volume editors of the proceedings certify to the publisher that all papers published in this volume have been subjected to peer review administered by the volume editors [...]
Ammonia electro-oxidation (AEO) is a zero carbon-emitting sustainable means for the generation of hydrogen fuel, but its commercialization is deterred due to sluggish reaction kinetics and the poisoning of expensive metal electrocatalysts. With this...
The Indian Ocean Lineage (IOL) of the chikungunya virus (CHIKV) East/Central/South African (ECSA) genotype, which originated in Kenya, spread to the Indian ocean and the Indian subcontinent, and then expanded through Southeast Asia in the previous de...
Currently, Brazil lives a triple arboviruses epidemic (DENV, ZIKV and CHIKV) making the differential diagnosis difficult for health professionals. Here, we aimed to investigate chikungunya cases and the possible occurrence of co-infections during the...
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) re-emergence in the last decade has resulted in explosive epidemics. Along with the classical symptoms of fever and debilitating arthralgia, there were occurrences of unusual clinical presentations such as neurovirulence and...
Electrochemical water splitting has emerged as a pivotal strategy for advancing sustainable and renewable energy technologies. However, its practical deployment is often hampered by sluggish reaction kinetics, large overpotentials, and the high cost...
The co-circulation of chikungunya virus (CHIKV), dengue virus (DENV) and Zika virus (ZIKV) in Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brazil, caused a challenging triple epidemic, as they share similar clinical signs and symptoms and geographical distribution. Here, we...
The chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an emerging alphavirus transmitted primarily by Aedes mosquitoes. This narrative review synthesised evidence from 56 mosquito-based records (34 field surveillance records and 22 laboratory vector competence records) p...
An Ag2O(x)−PrO2(y)/γ-Al2O3 electrocatalyst series (X:Y is for Ag:Pr from 0 to 10) was synthesized, to use synthesized samples in electrochemical applications, a step in fuel cells advancements. Ag2O(x)−PrO2(y)/γ-Al2O3/Glassy-Carbon was investigated f...
The number of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) designs is rapidly increasing and certain concerns are raised on how to start an AI design for edge systems, what are the steps to follow and what are the critical pieces towards th...
Background: Classroom social climate is a significant phenomenon within educational contexts; however, it has predominantly been studied among high school students, with limited evidence available at the university level and, consequently, in the psy...
This study evaluates accelerated stress test (AST) protocols and introduces a framework for translating AST-derived degradation metrics into electrode lifetime predictions for heavy-duty vehicle fuel cells. Catalyst stability across ASTs of varying d...
Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) accelerators have been widely adopted for artificial intelligence (AI) applications on edge devices (Edge-AI) utilizing Deep Neural Networks (DNN) architectures. FPGAs have gained their reputation due to the great...
Automated detection of surface damage on historical red brick facades can support preliminary assessments for architectural heritage conservation. However, complex masonry textures and indistinct damage boundaries remain challenging for conventional...
The determination of the electrochemically active surface area (ECSA) of a catalyst layer (CL) of a non-precious metal catalyst is of fundamental importance in optimizing the design of a durable CL for anion exchange membrane (AEM) water electrolysis...
Aedes albopictus is an important vector of chikungunya virus (CHIKV). In Australia, Ae. albopictus is currently only known to be present on the islands of the Torres Strait but, should it invade the mainland, it is projected to spread to temperate re...
The joint scheduling optimization of hydrothermal power is one of the most important optimization problems in the power system, which is a non-linear, multi-dimensional, non-convex complex optimization problem, and its difficulty in solving is increa...
CHIKV infection is transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes spp., with Ae. aegypti considered as the primary vector and Ae. Albopictus playing an important role in sustaining outbreaks in Europe. The ECSA-Indian Ocean Lineage (IOL) strain emerged in Reunion,...
The region in eastern, central and southern Africa (ECSA) where African swine fever (ASF) originated in a sylvatic cycle is home to all the p72 genotypes of ASF virus identified so far. While 20 of the 24 genotypes have been isolated from outbreaks i...
The simultaneous transmission of two lineages of the chikungunya virus (CHIKV) was discovered after the pathogen’s initial arrival in Brazil. In Oiapoque (Amapá state, north Brazil), the Asian lineage (CHIKV-Asian) was discovered, while...
The incidence of chikungunya has dramatically surged worldwide in recent decades, imposing an expanding burden on public health. In recent years, South America, particularly Brazil, has experienced outbreaks that have ravaged populations following th...
Bimetallic nanostructured core-shell structures are commonly used as catalysts in a wide variety of reactions. We surmised that the addition of an additional metal would potentially allow catalytic tailoring with the possibility of an increase in act...
This Issue of Engineering Proceedings assembles the papers presented at the 9th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications (ECSA-9), held online on 1–15 November 2022, through the sciforum [...]
This Issue of Engineering Proceedings assembles the papers presented at the 10th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications (ECSA-10), held online on 15–30 November 2023 through the sciforum [...]
This issue of Engineering Proceedings gathers the papers presented at the 11th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications (ECSA-11), held online on 26–28 November 2024, through the sciforum [...]
This issue of Engineering Proceedings gathers the papers presented at the 12th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications (ECSA-12), held online from 12 to 14 November 2025, through the sciforum [...]
This issue of Engineering Proceedings gathers the papers presented at the 7th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications (ECSA-7), held online on 15–30 November 2020 through the sciforum.net platform developed by MDPI.
This issue of Engineering Proceedings gathers the papers presented at the 8th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications (ECSA-8), held online on 1–15 November 2021, through the sciforum.net platform developed by MDPI [...]
In recent years, the advancements in specialized hardware architectures have supported the industry and the research community to address the computation power needed for more enhanced and compute intensive artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and...
In this work, we synthesized new materials based on Fe(II) phthalocyanine (FePc), urea and carbon black pearls (BP), called Fe-N-C, as electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in neutral solution. The electrocatalysts were prepared by...
Platinum is the most employed electrocatalyst for the reactions taking place in energy converters, such as the oxygen reduction reaction in proton exchange membrane fuel cells, despite being a very low abundant element in the earth’s crust and...
Protecting low coordinated sites (LCS) of Pt nanoparticles, which are vulnerable to dissolution, may be an ideal solution for enhancing the durability of polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEMFCs). However, the selective protection of LCSs without deact...
In order to fill the research gap of high metal loading of high performance PtNi alloy catalysts, a PtNi/C alloy nano-catalyst with metal loading more than 50 wt.% and core-shell like structure was prepared by ethylene glycol reduction, high temperat...
A new type of amorphous barium aluminum oxide was synthesized using a polyol thermal method involving a mixture with Vulcan XC-72 carbon and supported with 20%Pt catalysts to enhance the activity of a methanol electrooxidation reaction (MOR). The max...
In 2012–2013, chikungunya virus (CHIKV) was the cause of a major outbreak in the southern part of Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR). Since then, only a few imported cases, with isolates belonging to different lineages, were recor...
In recent decades, chikungunya virus (CHIKV) has become geographically widespread. In 2004, the CHIKV East/Central/South African (ECSA) genotype moved from Africa to Indian ocean islands and India followed by a large epidemic in Southeast Asia. In 20...
This paper describes an experimental evaluation and comparison of Pt/C and Pt-Ru/C electrocatalysts for high-temperature (100–160 °C) electrochemical hydrogen separators, for the purpose of mitigating CO poisoning. The performances of both Pt/C and P...
Due to its special electronic and ballistic transport properties, graphene has attracted much interest from researchers. In this study, platinum (Pt) nanoparticles were deposited on oxidized graphene sheets (cG). The graphene sheets were applied to o...
A proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) is an efficient and environmentally friendly power production technology that uses hydrogen energy. The cathodic oxygen reduction electrode is a critical component in the development of PEMFC. Most techniq...
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