The integration of geography and machine learning can produce novel approaches in addressing a variety of problems occurring in natural and human environments. This article presents an experiment that identifies cities that are similar according to t...
Y-90 Selective Internal Radiotherapy (SIRT) is an ablative therapy used for inoperable liver metastasis. The purpose of this investigation was to examine the impact of local control after SIRT on overall survival (OS) in oligometastatic patients. A r...
This paper presents bioenergy value chain modelling to estimate the biomass and bioenergy cost of production and biomass netback in combined heat and power (CHP) systems. Modelling compares biomass cost and netback to analyse the feasibility of CHP s...
Citrus companies have sought and developed alternative systems of tillage or implanting orchards so as not to significantly alter the physical and chemical attributes of the soil and, consequently, the root development of plants. Therefore, the aim o...
This study presents a drone-based excavation platform prototype with the key objectives of balancing stability during excavation, sensing, and digging the soil pile autonomously without human intervention. The whole platform was first designed in CAD...
To meet the development requirements of the path planning unit for unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), research is conducted on UUV 3D obstacle avoidance path planning algorithms and software design. Firstly, aiming at the problem of underwater 3D o...
The citrus industry produces large amounts of waste rich in bioactive compounds that have important effects on human health. Their extraction was performed using organic solvents, and a greener alternative to those solvents are natural deep eutectic...
Digital twins are essential in Agriculture 5.0, providing an accurate digital representation of agricultural objects and processes, enabling data-driven decision-making, the simulation of future scenarios, and innovation for a more efficient and sust...
Background: Zebrafish-based drug discovery systems provide significant advantages over mammalian models for high-throughput in vivo screening. Among these, the NF-κB eGFP reporter system significantly enhances drug discovery in zebrafish by ena...
Nowadays the food industry is focusing on the reutilization of fruit by-products rich in bioactive compounds such as carotenoids. These valuable ingredients could be extracted to formulate functional food products. Deep Eutectic Solvents (DES) are a...
In this work, a new microfluidic paper-based analytical device (µPAD) was developed for on-hand creatinine quantification in urine samples. When compared to conventional methods, this innovative paper device is more accessible and portable, it...
Mechanoluminescent (ML) materials can exhibit visible-to-near-infrared mechanoluminescence when responding to the fracture or deformation of a solid under mechanical stimulation. Transforming mechanical energy into light demonstrates promising applic...
The aim of this in vitro study was to assess the influence of microabrasive blasting on the physicochemical properties of dentine and shear bond strength (SBS) of self-adhesive resin cement (Maxcem Elite, Kerr, Orange, CA, USA) bonded to the dentine...
Sensor Data Fusion (SDT) algorithms and models have been widely used in diverse applications. One of the main challenges of SDT includes how to deal with heterogeneous and complex datasets with different formats. The present work utilised both homoge...
Verbenone and carvone are allylic monoterpenoid ketones with many applications in the fine chemicals industry that can be obtained, respectively, from the allylic oxidation of α-pinene and limonene over a silica-supported iron hexadecachlorinat...
Hyperspectral imaging has revolutionized various scientific fields by enabling a detailed analysis of objects and materials based on their spectral signatures. However, the high cost and complexity of commercial hyperspectral camera systems limit the...
This work aimed to establish a relationship between the parameters affecting the steelmaking process and the quality of the quarto plates. We knew that the main causes of product defects in the plates were in the steelmaking process, so we sought to...
Exposure to UV/infrared (IR) radiation is the main extrinsic factor that changes skin morphology and affects the increase in reactive oxygen species (ROS) in skin aging. Ten varieties of andaliman (Zanthoxylum acanthopodium DC.) fruit are presumed to...
A constant in the business world is the frequent movement of customers joining or abandoning companies’ services and products. The customer is one of the company’s most important assets. Reducing the customer abandonment rate has become a matter of s...
One of the environmental challenges that is currently negatively affecting the ecosystem is the continuous discharge of untreated industrial waste into both water sources and soils. For this reason, one of the objectives of this qualitative study of...
Real-time vessel tracking and environmental assessment in developing regions face significant challenges due to the high cost and proprietary constraints of commercial Automatic Identification System (AIS) services. We introduce MAGI, an open-source,...
The identification of standing tree species, timber logs, and on-site assessment of their quality and value using images holds significant potential for forestry applications, including inventory management, traceability under EU regulations like the...
The direct examination of plant canopy temperature can assist in optimizing citrus irrigation management in greenhouses. This study aimed to develop a method to measure canopy temperature using thermal imaging in one-year-old citrus plants in a green...
Background/Objectives: This study examines the academic discourse surrounding Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) and Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) for first responders using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling. It ai...
COVID-19 has provoked enormous negative impacts on human lives and the world economy. In order to help in the fight against this pandemic, this study evaluates different databases’ systems and selects the most suitable for storing, handling, an...
This work presents a Fricke radiochromic gel dosimeter with xylenol orange (XO) and a gelatin matrix modified with sorbitol. The dosimeter, combined with 2D scanning using a flatbed scanner and data processing using dedicated software packages, creat...
The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the mechanical resistance of elastodontic devices (ED): their maximum compression loads and plastic deformation under loading (percentage). An Instron universal machine (Model 3365, Instron, Industrial...
Droplet size distribution is probably the most important feature of a spray as it affects all aspects of a phytosanitary treatment, i.e., biological, environmental, and safety aspects. This study describes a low-cost laboratory test bench able to ana...
Chromatographic oil analysis is an important step for the identification of biodegraded petroleum via peak visualization and interpretation of phenomena that explain the oil geochemistry. However, analyses of chromatogram components by geochemists ar...
Here attributional life cycle assessments (LCAs) for the same smartphone model are presented by two different organizations (Orange, OGE and Huawei, HuW) and the effect of different modeling approach is analyzed. A difference of around 32% (29.6 kg a...
This study presents an innovative machine learning (ML) approach to predicting raw material yield in the leather tanning industry, addressing a critical challenge in production efficiency. Conducted at a tannery in southern Brazil, the research lever...
This paper introduces a novel techno-economic feasibility analysis of energy management utilizing the Homer software v3.14.5 environment for an independent hybrid microgrid. This study focuses on a school with twelve classes, classifying the electric...
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is the most frequent infiltrating type of pancreatic cancer. The poor prognosis associated with this cancer is due to the absence of specific biomarkers, aggressiveness, and treatment resistance. PDAC is a dead...
With recent improvements in the commercial feasibility of high pressure pasteurization units, the technology is gaining rapid acceptability across various sectors of food manufacturing, thus requiring extensive validation studies for effective adopti...
Microplastics (MPs) have recently been acknowledged as a new major and ubiquitous environmental pollutant with still unclear, yet potentially high, risks for different ecosystems and human health. Nevertheless, quantitative identification protocols r...
Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, currently has no cure. There are only temporary treatments that reduce symptoms and the progression of the disease. Alzheimer’s disease is characterized by the prevalence of plaques of aggregated...
This study aimed to appraise the anti-leishmanial potentials of benzoic acid derivatives, including methyl 3,4-dihydroxybenzoate (compound 1) and octadecyl benzoate (compound 2), isolated from the ethnomedicinally important plant Ifloga spicata (I. s...
The purpose of this study was to prove the use of content and sentiment analysis to understand public discourse on Nytimes.com around the coronavirus (2019-nCOV) pandemic. We examined the pandemic discourses in the article contents, news, expert opin...
Prostate cancer (PCa) is addressed as the second most common form of onco-threat worldwide and is usually considered as the major cause of mortality in men. Recent times have seen a surge in exploration of plant-derived components for alternative the...
Surface composite design was used to study the effect of the ZnO synthesis conditions on its adsorption of methyl orange (MO) and methylene blue (MB). The ZnO was prepared via hydrothermal treatment under different conditions including temperature (T...
The need to reduce the dependency of chemicals on fossil fuels has recently motivated the adoption of renewable energies in those sectors. In addition, due to a growing population, the treatment and disposition of residual biomass from agricultural p...
Objective. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the adaptation of newly introduced bioactive restorative materials to the cavity floor using cross-polarization optical coherence tomography (CP-OCT). Materials and Methods. Round class V caviti...
Malaysia is not shielded from the issues of food insecurity. Despite economic progression over the past few years, food insecurity is continuing to affect several vulnerable groups (Orang Asli, elderly, students, B40). It is a growing concern that sh...
Accurate short-term forecasting of renewable energy sources is essential for stable and efficient microgrid operation. Existing models primarily focus on either solar or wind prediction, often neglecting their combined stochastic behavior within isol...
Interior space quality in certified office buildings is key in supporting the health and well-being of occupants. Daylight, which regulates the human circadian rhythm and affects physiological processes and productivity, is crucial. This study’...
Wildfire monitoring using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) provides critical capabilities under challenging atmospheric conditions where optical sensors are limited by smoke and cloud cover. We evaluated Sentinel-1 C-band SAR interferometric coherence...
When cultivating a selected field crop (alfalfa), we aimed to examine its positive effects on the variability of soil infiltration capacity. A total of 21 monitoring points were proposed for investigating soil hydraulic conductivity on the targeted p...
Background: The detection of lung nodules at their early stages may significantly enhance the survival rate and prevent progression to severe disability caused by advanced lung cancer, but it often requires manual and laborious efforts for radiologis...
Increasing attention has been paid to removal of aqueous contaminations resulting from azo dyes in water by plasma technology. However, the influence factors and removal mechanism of plasma technology were still obscure, moreover, energy consumption...
Photocatalyst is the core of photocatalysis and directly determines photocatalytic performance. However, low quantum efficiency and low utilization of solar energy are important technical problems in the application of photocatalysis. In this work, a...
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