This article discusses the concept and applications of cognitive dynamic systems (CDS), which are a type of intelligent system inspired by the brain. There are two branches of CDS, one for linear and Gaussian environments (LGEs), such as cognitive ra...
Electro-hydraulic volumetric control is increasingly used in industry due to its decreasing implementation costs and higher energy efficiency compared to throttling-based systems. However, the use of inappropriate control systems significantly reduce...
In this study, we show that Acinetobacter baumannii ATCC 19606 harbors two sets of ohrR-ohr genes, respectively encoded in chromosomal DNA and a pMAC plasmid. We found no significant difference in organic hydroperoxide (OHP) resistance between strain...
Capacitive de-ionization (CDI) holds great promise for water desalination, while the widely used activated carbon (AC) electrodes suffer from a low salt adsorption capacity (SAC) and poor long-term stability due to the co-ion effect and electrode oxi...
The multi-height (low, L = 3 cm; intermediate, M = 100 cm; high, H = 200 cm) Beerkan run methodology was applied on both a minimum tilled (MT) (i.e., up to a depth of 30 cm) and a no-tilled (NT) bare loam soil, and the soil water retention curve was...
AstroBio CubeSat is a mission funded by the Italian Space Agency aimed at validating novel lab-on-chip technology, that would enable the use of micro- and nanosatellites as autonomous orbiting laboratories for research in astrobiology. This 3U CubeSa...
Although the conventional duty cycle MAC protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) such as RMAC perform well in terms of saving energy and reducing end-to-end delivery latency, they were designed independently and require an extra routing protoco...
Improving the physical quality of coarse-textured soils by organic amendments requires choosing the amendment and the dose. The effects of different doses of compost, vermicompost, and biochar on soil bulk density (BD) and water retention parameters...
This study presents an analysis of changes in the vibration frequency and mode of vibration of a composite beam due to damage. A steel–concrete composite beam was considered, for which numerical analysis (RFE model) and experimental tests were conduc...
Choosing the appropriate management system is essential for sustainable agricultural practices. Yet, soil-specific properties at the subsurface are seldom considered when choosing the appropriate tillage system. This study assessed the effect of till...
Defining the optimal sampling time across the growing season is crucial to standardize sampling protocols for soil physical status monitoring and to achieve comparable results under different experimental conditions and on different sites. In this st...
Poly(dimethyl siloxane) (PDMS) is one of the most widely used materials in the biomedical field. Despite its numerous advantages, its hydrophobic character promotes bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation. For breast implants, biocompatibility is ch...
A COOH-F-MWCNT-Nafion-Ru(bpy)32+-Au-ADH electrogenerated chemi-luminescence (ECL)electrode using COOH-functionalized MWCNT (COOH-F-MWCNT) and Au nanoparticles synthesized by the radiation method was fabricated for ethanol sensing. A higher sensing ef...
Conservation agriculture is increasingly accepted by farmers, but the modeling studies on agro-environmental processes that characterize these agricultural systems require accurate information on the temporal variability of the soil’s main phys...
Background and Objectives: Malnutrition’s prevalence and its relationship with functional ability in patients with end-stage spine pathologies, i.e., any disease of the vertebral bodies, intervertebral discs, and associated joints requiring sur...
Nine copolymers of acrylic acid and sodium methallyl sulfonate were tested as scale inhibitors in thermal desalination. The nine antiscalants covered molar masses between 2000 and 9500 g.mol–1 and concentrations of sulfonated monomer ranging be...
Large-scale field-programmable analog arrays (FPAA) have the potential to handle machine inference and learning applications with significantly low energy requirements, potentially alleviating the high cost of these processes today, even in cloud-bas...
A carbohydrate binding module 68 (CBM68) of pullulanase from Anoxybacillus sp. LM18-11 was used to enhance the secretory expression of a thermostable α-amylase (BLA702) in Bacillus subtilis, through an atypical secretion pathway. The extracellu...
Capacity-based indicators of soil physical quality (SPQ) and pore distribution parameters were proposed to assess the effects of compost amendment but their determination was limited to desorption water retention experiments. This study also consider...
Time-lapse ground-penetrating radar (GPR) surveys, combined with automated infiltration experiments, provide a non-invasive approach for investigating the distribution of infiltrated water within the soil medium and creating three-dimensional images...