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  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,879 Views
21 Pages

Assessing the Wider Implementation of the SHARP Principles: Increasing Physical Activity in Primary Physical Education

  • Emma Powell,
  • Lorayne Angela Woodfield,
  • Alexander James Powell and
  • Alan Michael Nevill

9 January 2020

To assess the wider application of the SHARP (Stretching whilst moving, High repetition of skills, Accessibility, Reducing sitting and standing, and Promotion of physical activity) Principles intervention on children’s moderate to vigorous phys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,327 Views
14 Pages

28 March 2024

Weak sharp type solutions are analyzed for a variational integral inequality defined by a convex functional of the multiple integral type. A connection with the sufficiency property associated with the minimum principle is formulated, as well. Also,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
450 Views
27 Pages

26 November 2025

Deep clustering aims to discover meaningful data groups by jointly learning representations and cluster probability distributions. Yet existing methods rarely consider the underlying information characteristics of these distributions, causing ambigui...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,775 Views
6 Pages

25 October 2019

Liquid–vapor flows exhibiting phase transition, including phase creation in single-phase flows, are of high interest in mathematics, as well as in the engineering sciences. In two preceding articles the authors showed on the one hand the capabi...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,742 Views
15 Pages

18 November 2023

We consider a class of nonlinear integro-differential equations that model degenerate nonlocal diffusion. We investigate whether the strong maximum principle is valid for this nonlocal equation. For degenerate parabolic PDEs, the strong maximum princ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
651 Views
33 Pages

25 August 2025

The aim of this paper is to show some uncertainty inequalities for the linear canonical Dunkl transform (LCDT), including sharp Heisenberg-type, entropic-type, logarithmic-type, Donoho–Stark-type and local-type uncertainty principles.

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,516 Views
15 Pages

18 September 2023

In this article, we use the q-derivative operator and the principle of subordination to define a new subclass of analytic functions related to the q-Ruscheweyh operator. Sufficient conditions, sharp bounds for the initial coefficients, a Fekete&ndash...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,095 Views
20 Pages

Visual Impact Assessment in Rural Areas: The Role of Vegetation Screening in the Sustainable Integration of Isolated Buildings

  • María Jesús Montero-Parejo,
  • Lorenzo García-Moruno,
  • Julio Hernández-Blanco and
  • Jacinto Garrido-Velarde

1 September 2022

Rural tourism has led to an increase in the number of buildings, meaning that visual integration of these buildings into the landscape is not always achieved. The silhouettes of buildings in rural areas are always recognisably simple but can be visua...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,787 Views
6 Pages

Development of Microcontroller-Based Automated Infectious Waste Segregation and Disinfection System: A COVID-19 Mitigation and Monitoring Response

  • Ralf D. Cuarto,
  • Adriel R. Baterna,
  • John Kenneth Q. Bulalacao,
  • Psalm Herald M. Cuajao,
  • Marc Theodore A. Casco,
  • Rolan Joseph T. Portento,
  • Charles G. Juarizo,
  • Thaddeo S. Garcia and
  • Rugi Vicente C. Rubi

30 October 2023

With the recent increase in the amount of disposed infectious waste due to COVID-19, a growing interest to develop an efficient, economical, and effective infectious waste segregation system has prompted both the health sector and the government. Thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,860 Views
29 Pages

24 June 2022

By using the symmetry of the Dunkl Laplacian operator, we prove a sharp Shannon-type inequality and a logarithmic Sobolev inequality for the Dunkl transform. Combining these inequalities, we obtain a new, short proof for Heisenberg-type uncertainty p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,388 Views
12 Pages

10 December 2021

Tactile hallucinations frequently occur after mental illnesses and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. Despite their common occurrence, there are several complicating factors that make it difficult to eluc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,532 Views
17 Pages

22 February 2025

Today’s sharp competition has forced organizations to adopt effective improvement paradigms, including lean, agile, green, and resilience (LARG). However, an assessment tool is necessary to monitor the progress of LARG adoption and evaluate its...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
7,493 Views
9 Pages

Generating Bessel-Gaussian Beams with Controlled Axial Intensity Distribution

  • Nikita Stsepuro,
  • Pavel Nosov,
  • Maxim Galkin,
  • George Krasin,
  • Michael Kovalev and
  • Sergey Kudryashov

8 November 2020

This paper investigated the diffraction of a Gaussian laser beam on a binary mask and a refractive axicon. The principles of the formation of a zero-order Bessel beam with sharp drops of the axial field intensity edges were discussed. A laser optical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,155 Views
11 Pages

25 May 2023

Around 1632, while stationed in Shanxi Province (China), the Italian Jesuit Alfonso Vagnone published a pedagogical treatise entitled On the Education of Children (Tongyou jiaoyu) on which he had worked for several years. The book achieves a carefull...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,096 Views
14 Pages

23 November 2023

In this study, the inverse problems of recovering the heat transfer coefficient at the interface of integral measurements are considered. The heat transfer coefficient occurs in the transmission conditions of an imperfect contact type. This is repres...

  • Article
  • Open Access
682 Views
13 Pages

The goal of this paper is to give an error analysis of a finite difference method for a time-fractional Black–Scholes equation with weakly singular solutions. The time Gerasimov-Caputo derivative is discretized by the L1 scheme on a graded mesh...

  • Review
  • Open Access
32 Citations
6,878 Views
15 Pages

Progress of Microencapsulated Phycocyanin in Food and Pharma Industries: A Review

  • Yang Li,
  • Xu Li,
  • Zi-Peng Liang,
  • Xin-Ying Chang,
  • Fu-Tong Li,
  • Xue-Qing Wang and
  • Xi-Jun Lian

9 September 2022

Phycocyanin is a blue fluorescent protein with multi-bioactive functions. However, the multi-bioactivities and spectral stability of phycocyanin are susceptible to external environmental conditions, which limit its wide application. Here, the structu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,839 Views
36 Pages

Machine Learning Assists in the Design and Application of Microneedles

  • Wenqing He,
  • Suixiu Kong,
  • Rumin Lin,
  • Yuanting Xie,
  • Shanshan Zheng,
  • Ziyu Yin,
  • Xin Huang,
  • Lei Su and
  • Xueji Zhang

Microneedles (MNs), characterized by their micron-sized sharp tips, can painlessly penetrate the skin and have shown significant potential in disease treatment and biosensing. With the development of artificial intelligence (AI), the design and appli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,505 Views
28 Pages

Ruling out Higher-Order Interference from Purity Principles

  • Howard Barnum,
  • Ciarán M. Lee,
  • Carlo Maria Scandolo and
  • John H. Selby

1 June 2017

As first noted by Rafael Sorkin, there is a limit to quantum interference. The interference pattern formed in a multi-slit experiment is a function of the interference patterns formed between pairs of slits; there are no genuinely new features result...

  • Article
  • Open Access
698 Views
16 Pages

Equivalent Modeling Method for Thermal Calculation of Transformer Windings Based on Minimum Thermal Resistance

  • Chengxiang Liu,
  • Yan Li,
  • Zhanyang Yu,
  • Chunhui Zhang,
  • Yedong Mao,
  • Jingmeng Li and
  • Ge Xu

23 October 2025

In the accurate calculation of the temperature rise and hot spots of transformer windings, considering the inter-turn insulation will lead to a sharp increase in the workload of detailed modeling and a large number of mesh refinements. To address thi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
169 Citations
20,718 Views
14 Pages

Healthcare Waste—A Serious Problem for Global Health

  • Edyta Janik-Karpinska,
  • Rachele Brancaleoni,
  • Marcin Niemcewicz,
  • Wiktor Wojtas,
  • Maurizio Foco,
  • Marcin Podogrocki and
  • Michal Bijak

13 January 2023

Healthcare waste (HCW) is generated in different healthcare facilities (HCFs), such as hospitals, laboratories, veterinary clinics, research centres and nursing homes. It has been assessed that the majority of medical waste does not pose a risk to hu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,062 Views
14 Pages

We revisit the Extended Uncertainty Principle (EUP) from an operational viewpoint, replacing wavefunction-based widths with apparatus-defined position constraints such as a finite slit of width Δx or a geodesic ball of radius R. Using Hermitian...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,445 Views
18 Pages

Sharp Feature Detection as a Useful Tool in Smart Manufacturing

  • Jana Prochazkova,
  • David Procházka and
  • Jaromír Landa

Industry 4.0 comprises a wide spectrum of developmental processes within the management of manufacturing and chain production. Presently, there is a huge effort to automate manufacturing and have automatic control of the production. This intention le...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,385 Views
13 Pages

13 December 2022

Frequency stability is an important factor for the safety and stability of the power system operation. In a traditional power system, the operation stability is ensured by the inertia response, primary frequency modulation, and secondary frequency mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
13,359 Views
15 Pages

The Six Decades of the Capital Asset Pricing Model: A Research Agenda

  • Santosh Kumar,
  • Ankit Kumar,
  • Kamred Udham Singh and
  • Sujit Kumar Patra

This paper re-examines the presence of the Sharpe–Treynor–Lintner–Mossin capital asset pricing model (CAPM) in the finance literature and is accompanied by a bibliometric summary analysis. The popular model is in its sixth decade; w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,047 Views
20 Pages

23 September 2021

This article is an attempt to analyse the master frame form characterised by a flat floor-timber, a sharp or shaped turn of the bilge, and more or less straight sides. This form of master frame is associated with the Mediterranean architecture of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,942 Views
24 Pages

Speckle Filtering of GF-3 Polarimetric SAR Data with Joint Restriction Principle

  • Jinwei Xie,
  • Zhenfang Li,
  • Chaowei Zhou,
  • Yuyuan Fang and
  • Qingjun Zhang

12 May 2018

Polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) scattering characteristics of imagery are always obtained from the second order moments estimation of multi-polarization data, that is, the estimation of covariance or coherency matrices. Due to the extra-paths that signal r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,481 Views
24 Pages

Image Quality Assessment of Digital Image Capturing Devices for Melanoma Detection

  • Bogdan Dugonik,
  • Aleksandra Dugonik,
  • Maruška Marovt and
  • Marjan Golob

21 April 2020

The fast-growing incidence of skin cancer, especially melanoma, is the guiding principle for intense development of various digital image-capturing devices providing easier recognition of melanoma by dermatologists. Handheld and digital dermoscopy, f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
410 Views
15 Pages

6 November 2025

In this paper, we introduce and investigate new subclasses of analytic bi-univalent functions defined via Caputo fractional derivatives with boundary rotation constraints. Utilizing the generalized operator Cȷϱ, which encompasses and exten...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,169 Views
12 Pages

First-Principles Study on the Effect of H, C, and N at the Interface on Austenite/Ferrite Homojunction

  • Xinghua Zhu,
  • Bowen Chen,
  • Qingguo Feng,
  • Lei Xiao,
  • Xiaoyang Zhu,
  • Zhiyong Huang,
  • Jianguo He and
  • Yi Xu

3 February 2023

The homojunction provides an effective way to extend the properties of stainless steel, but also leaves more weak points for small atoms to penetrate. In this study, the effects of hydrogen, carbon, and nitrogen atoms at the interface on the austenit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,302 Views
13 Pages

This paper deals with the design of a complete state control for input unsigned, rank deficient matrix parameters of a linear system with system dynamics defined by ostensible structures of Metzler matrices. The proposed solution is based on the prin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
11,006 Views
13 Pages

Air cleanliness in operating theatres (OTs) is an important factor for preserving the health of both the patient and the medical staff. Particle contamination in OTs depends mainly on the surgery process, ventilation principle, personnel clothing sys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
629 Views
16 Pages

Enhanced Superconductivity near the Pressure-Tuned Quantum Critical Point of Charge-Density-Wave Order in Cu1-δTe (δ = 0.016)

  • Kwang-Tak Kim,
  • Yeahan Sur,
  • Ingyu Choi,
  • Zifan Wang,
  • Sangjin Kim,
  • Dilip Bhoi,
  • Duck Young Kim and
  • Kee Hoon Kim

5 November 2025

We have investigated the evolution of CDW states and structural phases in a Cu-deficient Cu1-δTe (δ = 0.016) by employing high-pressure experiments and first-principles calculations. Raman scattering results reveal that the vulcanite stru...

  • Review
  • Open Access
54 Citations
8,198 Views
16 Pages

Acoustics-Actuated Microrobots

  • Yaxuan Xiao,
  • Jinhua Zhang,
  • Bin Fang,
  • Xiong Zhao and
  • Nanjing Hao

20 March 2022

Microrobots can operate in tiny areas that traditional bulk robots cannot reach. The combination of acoustic actuation with microrobots extensively expands the application areas of microrobots due to their desirable miniaturization, flexibility, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,251 Views
33 Pages

Optimal Pulse Design for Dissipative-Stimulated Raman Exact Passage

  • Kaipeng Liu,
  • Dominique Sugny,
  • Xi Chen and
  • Stéphane Guérin

12 May 2023

Quantum control of lossy systems is known to be achieved by adiabatic passage via an approximate dark state relatively immune to loss, such as the emblematic example of stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) featuring a lossy excited state. By s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,235 Views
12 Pages

11 December 2022

Edge detectors are widely used in computer vision applications to locate sharp intensity changes and find object boundaries in an image. The Canny edge detector is the most popular edge detector, and it uses a multi-step process, including the first...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,579 Views
18 Pages

25 June 2020

The problem of determining the best achievable performance of arbitrary lossless compression algorithms is examined, when correlated side information is available at both the encoder and decoder. For arbitrary source-side information pairs, the condi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,793 Views
16 Pages

Optimization and Structural Analysis of Automotive Battery Packs Using ANSYS

  • Yingshuai Liu,
  • Chenxing Liu,
  • Jianwei Tan,
  • Yunli He,
  • Feng Li and
  • Tengfei Zhang

4 November 2024

The development of new energy vehicles, particularly electric vehicles, is robust, with the power battery pack being a core component of the battery system, playing a vital role in the vehicle’s range and safety. This study takes the battery pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,118 Views
15 Pages

21 June 2022

Theory regarding metamaterials was developed in the 1960s, aiming to control the propagation of electromagnetic waves. Under this scope, research has been focused on the realization of materials having specific characteristics to be invisible to the...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
44 Citations
9,167 Views
22 Pages

26 November 2019

Defects in pre-mRNA splicing are frequently a cause of Mendelian disease. Despite the advent of next-generation sequencing, allowing a deeper insight into a patient’s variant landscape, the ability to characterize variants causing splicing defe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,813 Views
10 Pages

Nowadays, modern scientific research has sparked a renewed interest to study the interaction of electromagnetic field (EM) with magnetic nanostructures and in particular in nanophotonics and spintronics. The current work is devoted to an ab initio st...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
3 Citations
8,554 Views
16 Pages

31 October 2024

The stability–plasticity dilemma remains a critical challenge in developing artificial intelligence (AI) systems capable of continuous learning. This perspective paper presents a novel approach by drawing inspiration from the mammalian hippocam...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,217 Views
22 Pages

The Role of Signal Waveforms in Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation

  • Dmitriy Dogadkin,
  • Amangeldi Sagidugumar,
  • Daniyar Kaliyev,
  • Nikolay Dmitriev and
  • Yernat Kozhakhmetov

2 January 2025

Plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO) is often used to improve the physical and mechanical properties of valve metals. This method allows for the formation of thicker and denser metal oxide coatings, which helps to improve physical and mechanical prope...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
655 Views
12 Pages

1 July 2025

Transition metal borides have garnered significant research interest due to their versatile properties, including superconductivity and exceptional hardness. This study examines the stable crystal structures of Rhodium-Boron (Rh-B) compounds under hi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,579 Views
14 Pages

23 October 2018

Based on the extended Huygens-Fresnel (eHF) principle, approximate analytical expressions for the spectral density of nonuniformly correlated (NUC) beams are derived with the help of discrete model decompositions. The beams are propagating along hori...

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