Structural insulated panels (SIPs) are widely used in residential and commercial buildings due to their reliable mechanical and thermal performance. However, using framing members and nails to join SIPs causes thermal bridging across the insulation a...
The current study was conducted to examine the consumption process of tourists through the SIPS model as they experienced tourism-related information and products on social networking sites. Data was collected online from Koreans who have experience...
Thermodynamic modeling of the Si–P and Si–Fe–P systems was performed using the CALculation of PHAse Diagram (CALPHAD) method based on critical evaluation of available experimental data in the literature. The liquid and solid solutio...
Biomaterials-based adsorbents have emerged as a sustainable and promising solution for water purification, owing to their eco-friendly nature and remarkable adsorption capacities. In this study, a biocomposite hydrogel was prepared by the incorporati...
The optimal dispatching model for a stand-alone microgrid (MG) is of great importance to its operation reliability and economy. This paper aims at addressing the difficulties in improving the operational economy and maintaining the power balance unde...
Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is the fifth most common cancer affecting the female population. At present, different targeted treatment approaches may improve currently employed therapies leading either to the delay of tumor recurrence or to diseas...
Carbon dioxide (CO2) injection into geologic formations has gained global traction, including in South Africa, to mitigate anthropogenic emissions through carbon capture, utilisation, and storage technology. These technological and technical developm...
Pollution of the Arctic Ocean by potentially toxic elements (PTEs) is a current environmental problem. Humic acids (HAs) play an important role in the regulation of PTE mobility in soil and water. The permafrost thaw releases ancient organic matter (...
The intelligent development of smart industrial parks (SIPs) can not only promote the development of smart cities, but also promote the development of intelligent large-scale buildings. China is strengthening the construction of SIPs; however, the de...
This paper investigates the detection of abnormal sequences of signaling packets purposely generated to perpetuate signaling-based attacks in computer networks. The problem is studied for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) using a dataset of signa...
Spectral induced polarization (SIP) is a non-intrusive geophysical method that collects chargeability information (the ability of a material to retain charge) in the time domain or its phase shift in the frequency domain. Although SIP is a temporal m...
It is important to consider establishing a shelter in place (SIP) using existing facilities to prepare for unpredictable and no-notice disasters. In this study, we evaluate the building-information-modeling (BIM)-based approach to simulate the strate...
Freezing of gait (FOG), a debilitating symptom of Parkinson’s disease (PD), can be safely studied using the stepping in place (SIP) task. However, clinical, visual identification of FOG during SIP is subjective and time consuming, and automatic FOG d...
Wetland inundation is crucial to the survival and prosperity of fauna and flora communities in wetland ecosystems. Even small changes in surface inundation may result in a substantial impact on the wetland ecosystem characteristics and function. This...
This paper presents a simple radiative transfer model based on spectral invariant properties (SIP). The canopy structure parameters, including the leaf angle distribution and multi-angular clumping index, are explicitly described in the SIP model. Th...
Beyond their deterministic predictability limits of ≈10 days and 6 months, the atmosphere and ocean become effectively stochastic. This has led to the development of stochastic models specifically for this macroweather regime. A particularly pr...
Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is the primary etiological agent of sepsis and meningitis in newborns and is associated with premature birth and stillbirth. The development of a licensed vaccine is one of the pending challenges for the World Health Organ...
Since genetic mutations during brain development play a significant role in the genesis of epilepsy, and such genetically determined epilepsies are the most difficult to treat, there is a need to study the mechanisms of epilepsy development with dele...
Secondary ice productions (SIPs) can produce ice crystals with a number concentration much higher than that of ice nucleating particles in mixed-phase clouds and therefore influence cloud glaciation and precipitation. For midlatitude continental meso...
Soil infiltration properties (SIPs) are important components of forest hydrological responses; however, few studies have investigated the mechanisms through which soil physical properties affect SIPs. In this study, two SIPs, the initial infiltration...
A strain isolation pad is a critical connection mechanism that enables deformation coordination between the rigid thermal insulation tile and the primary structure in the thermal protection system of a reusable hypersonic vehicle. An experimental inv...
Self-interacting proteins (SIPs) is of paramount importance in current molecular biology. There have been developed a number of traditional biological experiment methods for predicting SIPs in the past few years. However, these methods are costly, ti...
In this paper, the adsorption process of copper ions on activated carbon (AC) was simulated in a column test. It was deduced that it is consistent with the pseudo-second-order model. Cation exchange was observed to be the major mechanism of Cu–...
System integrity protection schemes (SIPS) are schemes that can, under potentially hazardous conditions, prevent a complete blackout of endangered parts of an electrical power system (EPS). The main objective of SIPS is to monitor the state of the po...
Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is a life-threatening opportunistic pathogen, particularly in pregnant women, infants, and the elderly. Currently, maternal vaccination is considered the most viable long-term option for preventing GBS mother-to-infant inf...
A lightweight on-device liquid consumption estimation system involving an energy-aware machine learning algorithm is developed in this work. This system consists of two separate on-device neural network models that carry out liquid consumption estima...
Sustainable intensification practices (SIPs) involve a process to produce high yields for existing land without affecting the environment. The significance and relevance of SIPs in a Pakistani context demands an investigation. Hence, this study takes...
Social innovation as an outcome of social entrepreneurship represents the primary drive of social enterprises (SEs). In the emergent context of a digitally transforming entrepreneurship scenario, this study intends to investigate the role of digital...
It is significant for biological cells to predict self-interacting proteins (SIPs) in the field of bioinformatics. SIPs mean that two or more identical proteins can interact with each other by one gene expression. This plays a major role in the evolu...
This paper introduces a novel approach to address thermal management challenges in system-in-package (SiP) technology, which is a significant concern in various advanced technologies. The main objective is to assess the electrical and thermal perform...
One of the most frequently used signaling techniques for initiating, sustaining, and dismissing sessions on the internet is a session initiation protocol (SIP). Currently, SIPs are gaining widespread applications in the human-centered Internet of Thi...
Third-wave cognitive-behavioral therapies (CBT3) have progressively shifted the focus of psychotherapy from symptom reduction to process-based and transdiagnostic mechanisms of change, emphasizing self-identification as a core dimension. Within this...
Monitoring fluid intake is essential to help people manage their individual fluid intake behaviors and achieve adequate hydration. Previous studies of fluid intake assessment approaches based on inertial sensors can be categorized into wrist-worn-bas...
The sale of second-hand goods has formed a complete industrial chain, and second-hand product testing is a crucial part of it. Second-hand inspection platforms (SIPs) have achieved remarkable commercial success by providing inspection services that a...
Humans have an innate ability of environment modeling, perception, and planning while simultaneously performing tasks. However, it is still a challenging problem in the study of robotic cognition. We address this issue by proposing a neuro-inspired c...
Catechol-modified bioadhesives generate hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) during the process of curing. A robust design experiment was utilized to tune the H2O2 release profile and adhesive performance of a catechol-modified polyethylene glycol (PEG) containi...
This study investigated the correlation between strain-induced precipitation (SIP) and static recrystallisation (SRX) in Ti microalloyed steel during stress relaxation after controlled compression. The final compression temperature strongly influence...
This paper presents the parallelization of two widely used implicit numerical solvers for the solution of partial differential equations on structured meshes, namely, the ADI (Alternating-Direction Implicit) solver for tridiagonal linear systems and...
Saccharomyces cerevisiae was used as a model to explore the preventive effect of two marine polysaccharides separately derived from Sepia esculenta ink (SIP) and Laminaria japonica (FL) as well as one terrestrial polysaccharides from Eleocharis tuber...
Background: Multiple daily injections (MDIs) have been a mainstay for insulin delivery by persons with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM). “Smart” insulin pens (SIPs) offer several advantages over traditional insulin pens, such as a memory f...
Manual wheelchair users (MWUs) are at high risk of developing pressure injuries (PIs) from prolonged static sitting. Clinical practice guidelines suggest periodic pressure redistribution (PR) to mitigate this risk. Prior work has demonstrated that a...
High sea ice production (SIP) generates high-salinity water, thus, influencing the global thermohaline circulation. Estimation from passive microwave data and heat flux models have indicated that the Ross Ice Shelf polynya (RISP) may be the highest S...
Protein is the basic organic substance that constitutes the cell and is the material condition for the life activity and the guarantee of the biological function activity. Elucidating the interactions and functions of proteins is a central task in ex...
Graphite, a critical raw material, prompts interest in assessing former quarries for volumetric content, driving the need for accurate prospection techniques. We explore the efficacy of spectral induced polarization (SIP) imaging at field scale for t...
A surfactant-free method was used to synthesize iron oxyhydroxide (akaganeite, β-FeOOH) nanorods and characterized using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy combined with energy-d...
This work considers a two-stage stochastic integer programming (SIP) approach for optimizing fuel treatment planning under uncertainty in weather and fire occurrence for rural forests. Given a set of areas for potentially performing fuel treatment, t...
Calcium Alginate/Spent-Coffee-Grounds composite beads (CA-SCGs beads), which were made of two different proportions of alginate and spent-coffee-grounds (3:3 and 3:10), respectively, were used to adsorb Cu2+ in aqueous solution. These beads were comp...
Modern understanding of aging is based on the accumulation of cellular damage during one’s life span due to the gradual deterioration of regenerative mechanisms in response to the continuous effect of stress, lifestyle, and environmental factor...
As the demand for smaller and more multifunctional integrated circuit (IC) products increases, system-in-package (SiP) has emerged as a key trend in IC encapsulation. However, the use of polymer-based materials such as epoxy molding compounds (EMCs)...
Due to the difficulty of accurately characterizing properties such as the molecular weight (Mn) and grafting density (σ) of gradient brushes (GBs), these properties are traditionally assumed to be uniform in space to simplify analysis. Applying...
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