Permanent magnets (PMs) provide high efficiency for synchronous motors used for driving drilling tools. Demagnetization is a special fault that reduces the efficiency of the permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) and thus affects the performance o...
Transformers are core equipment in power systems, and their failure may cause severe accidents. Dissolved gas analysis (DGA) is one of the dominant techniques for fault diagnosis of oil-immersed transformers. To achieve lightweight design and high id...
The first generation of near-infrared, genetically encoded calcium indicators (NIR-GECIs) was developed from bacterial phytochrome-based fluorescent proteins that utilize biliverdin (BV) as the chromophore moiety. However, NIR-GECIs have some main dr...
Phosphodiesterase (PDE) enzymes regulate the levels of cyclic nucleotides, cAMP, and/or cGMP, being attractive therapeutic targets. In order to modulate PDE activity in a selective way, we focused our efforts on the search of allosteric modulators. B...
A lightweight neural network fault diagnosis method based on Gramian angular field (GAF) feature map construction and efficient channel attention (ECA) optimization is presented herein to address the problem of the complex structure of traditional ne...
A variety of genetically encoded calcium indicators are currently available for visualization of calcium dynamics in cultured cells and in vivo. Only one of them, called NIR-GECO1, exhibits fluorescence in the near-infrared region of the spectrum. NI...
This study provides an in-depth analysis of GAF-Net, a novel model for video-based person re-identification (Re-ID) that matches individuals across different video sequences. GAF-Net combines appearance-based features with gait-based features derived...
The origin of seeds is a crucial environmental factor that significantly impacts crop production. Accurate identification of seed origin holds immense importance for ensuring traceability in the seed industry. Currently, traditional methods used for...
Cyanobacteriochromes (CBCRs) are biliproteins for photoreception that are present in cyanobacteria. These proteins possess one or more unique cGMP-specific phosphodiesterase/adenylate cyclase/FhlA (GAF) domains that can covalently bind the linear tet...
This paper proposes an experimental and numerical study to reduce the generated axial force (GAF) in a tripod constant velocity joint (CVJ). Based on the GAF model developed through kinematic and frictional analysis on the tripod CVJ, the key paramet...
The online rapid classification of multi-cultivar watermelon, including seedless and seeded types, has far-reaching significance for enhancing quality control in the watermelon industry. However, interference in one-dimensional spectra affects the hi...
Signature-based malware detection is undermined by obfuscation and packing, motivating dynamic analysis of Application Programming Interface (API) call sequences. Existing image-based classifiers reach high accuracy but rarely explain why a sample be...
Building design review is the procedure of checking a design against codes and standard provisions to satisfy the accuracy of the design and identify non-compliances before construction begins. The current approaches for conducting the design review...
Efficient monitoring and recognition of excavator operational activities are critical for improving productivity, safety, and intelligent construction management. Traditional vision-based activity recognition systems remain sensitive to challenging c...
Efficiency and comfort in buildings rely on on well-functioning HVAC systems. However, system faults can compromise performance. Modern data-driven fault detection methods, considering diverse techniques, encounter challenges in understanding intrica...
Battery prognosis is a critical component of battery management systems, enabling the prediction of end of life (EoL) and remaining useful life (RUL). However, obtaining sufficiently large labelled datasets for data-driven prognosis is challenging be...
Near-infrared (NIR) fluorescent proteins (FPs) designed from PAS (Per-ARNT-Sim repeats) and GAF (cGMP phosphodiesterase/adenylate cyclase/FhlA transcriptional activator) domains of bacterial phytochromes covalently bind biliverdin (BV) chromophore vi...
Background: Performance estimates in motor-imagery electroencephalography (MI-EEG) can depend strongly on how observations are partitioned for training, model selection, and testing. Random sample- or window-level splitting may place data from the sa...
The bistatic frequency diverse array (FDA) radar system is designed to exploit the beam autoscanning of FDA radar, providing a novel solution to address spatial synchronization challenges in bistatic radar architecture, unleashing bistatic radar&rsqu...
Infrasound signal classification remains a critical challenge in geophysical monitoring systems, where classification performance is fundamentally constrained by feature extraction efficacy. Existing two-dimensional feature extraction methods suffer...
For most rotating mechanical transmission systems, condition monitoring and fault diagnosis of the gearbox are of great significance to avoid accidents and maintain stability in operation. To strengthen the comprehensiveness of feature extraction and...
Diagnostics of mechanical problems in manufacturing systems are essential to maintaining safety and minimizing expenditures. In this study, an intelligent fault classification model that combines a signal-to-image encoding technique and a convolution...
Deep learning (DL)-based percussion methods in concrete-filled steel-tube (CFST) void detection have gained much attention. However, the detection signal contains a large amount of noise, which affects the accuracy of qualitative and quantitative ana...
Irradiations at Ultra-High Dose Rate (UHDR) regimes, exceeding 40 Gy/s in single fractions lasting less than 200 ms, have shown an equivalent antitumor effect compared to conventional radiotherapy with reduced harm to normal tissues. This work detail...
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic generated uncertainty and disruption among the child and adolescent population. Multiple studies have documented a worsening of mental health following the pandemic. The main objective of this longitudinal study is t...
Fluorine, depending on its concentration and chemical form, is essential or toxic to humans and animals. Therefore, it is crucial to be able to determine it reliably. In this study, fluorine was determined in animal feed after extraction with HCl (ga...
The effect of trace amounts of GaF3 and Ga2O3 nanoparticles on the wettability and spreadability of CsF-AlF3 flux matched Zn-15Al filler metal were comparatively studied on 6061 aluminum alloy and Q235 low-carbon steel. The experimental results indic...
Upconversion luminescent materials (UCLMs) have garnered significant attention due to their broad potential applications in fields such as display technology, biological imaging, and optical sensing. However, optimizing crystal phase and morphology r...
In this study, brazing AA6061 to Q235 steel using flame brazing was performed with 70.9 wt.% CsF-0.5 wt.% RbF-28.6 wt.% AlF3 fluxes doped with GaF3, ZnF2, Zn(BF4)2 and Ga2O3 nanoparticles, matched with a Zn-15Al filler metal, and the spreadability of...
The protection, safety and security (PSS) of complex objectives have become managerial subjects for aspects such as guarantee, growth and development. These aspects are marked by intrinsic and extrinsic factors. The present paper approaches the analy...
After 1990, when the economic system changed in Romania, the mining industry was the most controversial field from a productive-economic point of view and subject to reforms and transformations for efficiency. Currently (2022), there are nine main mi...
Low-slope roofing assemblies can be designed with a range of insulation and membrane-attachment methods. Various building and energy codes appear to assume fastening methods to have an insignificant effect on insulation value, meaning that design and...
The interdisciplinary nature of sports and the presence of various systemic and non-systemic factors introduce challenges in predicting sports match outcomes using a single disciplinary approach. In contrast to previous studies that use sports perfor...
This study proposes a new intelligent diagnostic method for bearing faults in rotating machinery. The method uses a combination of nonlinear mode decomposition based on the improved fast kurtogram, gramian angular field, and convolutional neural netw...
Chemical oxygen demand (COD) serves as a key indicator of organic pollution in water bodies, and its rapid and accurate detection is crucial for environmental protection. Recently, ultraviolet–visible (UV–Vis) spectroscopy has gained popu...
Retail demand forecasting for fast-moving consumer goods (FMCGs) presents significant challenges due to high product variety, demand intermittency, and uncertainty, which prevent any single model from capturing the diverse demand patterns. To address...
The widespread adoption of modern cryptographic protocols has rendered traditional packet payload inspection obsolete, pushing network management toward deep learning-based behavioral profiling. While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have emerged...
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) for quantitative trading have led to its general superhuman performance among notable trading performance results. However, if we use AI without proper supervision, it can lead to wrong choices and huge...
The primary motivation is to address difficulties in data interpretation or a reduction in model accuracy. Although differential privacy can provide data privacy guarantees, it also creates problems. Thus, we need to consider the noise setting for di...
Rolling bearings are vital for the reliable operation of mechanical systems. However, accurately and efficiently identifying faults under complex working conditions remains a significant challenge. This paper proposes a lightweight and high-precision...
Unlike canonical phytochromes, the GAF domain of cyanobacteriochromes (CBCRs) can bind bilins autonomously and is sufficient for functional photocycles. Despite the astonishing spectral diversity of CBCRs, the GAF1 domain of the three-GAF-domain phot...
Ganoderma lucidum is a medicinal fungus and has been used for improvements of health or prevention of certain diseases in Asia for thousands of years. Despite numerous kinds of triterpenoids having been identified from G. lucidum, few natural Ganoder...
Reflective roof membranes have been shown to lower air conditioning costs by reducing the influx of thermal energy through a roof assembly and into the building. However, there have been studies suggesting that reflective roofs in cold climates give...
Flexible electronic devices are widely used in the Internet of Things, smart home and wearable devices, especially in carriers with irregular curved surfaces. Light weight, flexible and corrosion-resistant carbon-based materials have been extensively...
Graphene aerogels have attracted much attention as a promising material for various applications. The unusually high intrinsic thermal conductivity of individual graphene sheets makes an obvious contrast with the thermal insulating performance of ass...
There is a substantial demand for lightweight, low-profile, and conformal antenna integration on the wing platforms of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This paper presents an S-band (2–4 GHz) flexible conformal metasurface array antenna based o...
In this paper, we develop and apply a genetic algorithm to solve surgery scheduling cases in a Mexican Public Hospital. Here, one of the most challenging issues is to process containers with heterogeneous capacity. Many scheduling problems do not sha...
Corrosion-resistance is the key to improve the reliability and service lifespan of highly integrated reconfigurable filtering antennae. However, the conventional methodology for corrosion prevention cannot achieve desired effects, due to the limited...
Background/Objectives: Essential amino acids’ (EAAs) biological effects depend on both gastrointestinal stability and intestinal bioavailability. A commercially available EAA blend has previously shown to be highly bioaccessible and able to inh...
Graphene and graphene-based materials gifted with high electrical conductivity are potential alternatives in various related fields. However, the electrical conductivity of the macro-graphene materials is much lower than their metal counterparts. Her...
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