In the digital age, maintaining election integrity is critical, especially in Africa, where the security of electronic elections is often questioned. This study presents a blockchain-based vote counting and validation (BBVV) system developed using a...
Climate change threatens the agricultural field by affecting production yields and crop quality. Yield protection is an increasingly pressing priority to preserve the ability of agriculture to meet food demand with more sustainable production of appr...
Background: Few studies have examined the use of immunoassay urine drug testing of cancer patients in palliative care clinics. Objectives: We examined the frequency of immunoassay urine drug test (UDT) abnormalities and the factors associated with ab...
Aircraft pod Low-Voltage Differential Signalling (LVDS) links frequently suffer from transmission errors in adverse environments, compromising reliability. We propose a comprehensive ‘real-time detection—precise prediction—dynamic a...
Colorectal polyps in the colon or rectum are precancerous growths that can lead to a more severe disease called colorectal cancer. Accurate segmentation of polyps using medical imaging data is essential for effective diagnosis. However, manual segmen...
We implemented a mobile phone application of the pentagon drawing test (PDT), called mPDT, with a novel, automatic, and qualitative scoring method for the application based on U-Net (a convolutional network for biomedical image segmentation) coupled...
The Clock Drawing Test (CDT) is a rapid, inexpensive, and popular screening tool for cognitive functions. In spite of its qualitative capabilities in diagnosis of neurological diseases, the assessment of the CDT has depended on quantitative methods a...
In response to the problem of significant post-construction settlement that may occur in a motor racing circuit (MRC), two representative composite foundation testing areas, PHC pile (pre-tensioned spun high-strength concrete pile) and CFG pile (ceme...
This study addresses the issue of biofouling on marine aquaculture cages, where organisms like algae and purple mussels negatively impact both the safety of the aquaculture environment and the integrity of the cages. To solve this problem, the paper...
In this paper, a state of the art automated defect recognition (ADR) system is presented that was developed specifically for Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) of powder metallurgy (PM) parts using three dimensional X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) imaging,...
The standard World Health Organization (WHO) tunnel test is a reliable laboratory bioassay used for “free-flying” testing of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) bio-efficacy where mosquitoes pass through a ITN sample to reach a live animal ba...
Test panels comprised of uncoated, copper coated and silicone coated 7/8'' (22 mm) mesh knitted nylon net were evaluated to compare their properties and the effectiveness to prevent biofouling. This paper describes test procedures that were developed...
The growing threat posed by climate change and extreme weather events necessitates the adoption of advanced solutions for crop protection, such as agrotextile nets. The use of anti-rain (AR) and anti-insect (AI) nets is essential to safeguard product...
The labor-intensive catch-hauling method in set-net fisheries faces problems of lower productivity, lower efficiency, and higher operational risk due to aging problem and labor insufficiency. To solve such problems, a novel catch-hauling device using...
Agricultural nets are increasingly used for crop protection, although their long-term outdoor mechanical durability remains poorly investigated. This study evaluates the tensile behavior of five HDPE nets (anti-rain and anti-insect) subjected to acce...
To build the equivalent relationship of the mechanical behavior of ring nets under static punching and dynamic impact conditions, a series of tests with different parameters were conducted. The equivalent coefficients of breaking force, breaking disp...
Multi-layer lightweight composite structures are widely used in the field of aviation and aerospace during the processes of manufacturing and use, and, as such, they inevitably produce defects, damage, and other quality problems, creating the need fo...
Current testing methods for autonomous driving systems primarily focus on simple traffic scenarios, generating test cases based on traffic accidents, while research on generating edge test cases for complex driving environments by traffic regulations...
Metal ring nets are the core interception components of flexible rockfall barriers, and the accurate characterization of their mechanical behavior is essential for the safety assessment of the whole system. To overcome the limitations of existing com...
A murine model of myelofibrosis in tibia was used in a co-clinical trial to evaluate segmentation methods for application of image-based biomarkers to assess disease status. The dataset (32 mice with 157 3D MRI scans including 49 test–retest pa...
18 January 2026
A new generation of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) that incorporate the synergist piperonyl butoxide (PBO) has been shown to restore susceptibility to pyrethroids where P450 enzymes are the primary mechanism conferring the resistance. The present st...
3 December 2024
Ensuring the quality of medicinal herbs in the herbal market is crucial. However, the genetic and physical similarities among medicinal materials have led to issues of mixing and counterfeit distribution, posing significant challenges to quality assu...
The process of manually scoring drawings for the Goodenough–Harris Draw-a-Person (DAP) test is time-consuming and labor-intensive. It is also prone to inconsistencies due to subjective interpretation. Keeping these drawbacks in mind, this study...
Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic autoimmune demyelinating disease of the central nervous system, affecting more than 2.8 million individuals worldwide. Automated segmentation of white matter lesions on fluid-attenuated inversion recov...
Skin cancer is one of the most prevalent and potentially lethal cancers worldwide, highlighting the need for accurate and timely diagnosis. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated strong potential in automating skin lesion classificati...
The O*NET database is an online repository of detailed information on the knowledge and skill requirements of thousands of jobs across the United States. Thus, it is a valuable resource for test developers who want to target cognitive and other abili...
Facial-expression recognition (FER) on FER2013 remains challenging because of low-resolution images, class imbalance, and label ambiguity. This study presents a global–local feature-fusion framework that integrates complementary representations...
In the context of contemporary society, characterized by the information users’ growing and differentiated needs, the way country-level governance and social responsibility contribute to the ensuring of sustainable economic development is a concern f...
This study examines the impact of personal remittances on housing prices in European Union (EU) countries, while also accounting for a broader set of macroeconomic, demographic, and structural variables. Using annual data for 27 EU countries from 200...
To analyze multivariate outcomes in clinical trials, several authors have suggested generalizations of the univariate Mann–Whitney test. As the Mann–Whitney statistic compares the subjects’ outcome pairwise, the multivariate general...
Partial discharge (PD) measurements are crucial for evaluating the condition of the insulation systems of medium-voltage (MV) cables and their accessories. However, identifying PD defect types from phase-resolved partial discharge (PRPD) patterns sti...
Analog circuits play an essential role in electronic systems. To strengthen the reliability of sophisticated electronic circuits, this paper proposes a novel analog circuit fault diagnosis method. Compared with traditional fault diagnosis, the fault...
In recent years, on account of their excellent mechanical properties, composite materials (made of epoxy-bonded carbon, glass, or aramid fibers) have been used to reinforce masonry walls against in-plane actions. These materials have proven to be an...
In this study, a longline aquaculture facility with lantern nets off the coast of northern China was modelled to conduct hydrodynamic tests starting from the culture unit to the entire facility under various current and wave conditions. The experimen...
Johne’s disease (JD) is a chronic infection of cattle that undermines herd productivity and profitability. While test-and-cull programs are commonly proposed for control, their effectiveness and economic feasibility remain uncertain in beef pro...
AISI 4140 powder was directly deposited on AISI 4140 wrought substrate using laser engineered net shaping (LENS) to investigate the compatibility of a LENS-deposited part with the substrate. Tensile testing at room temperature was performed to evalua...
Holes in the flanges of steel beams and girders are commonly required for bolted connections and can influence both flexural strength and rotational ductility. Although flange-hole effects have been investigated previously, the experimental basis of...
Typically, the quality of the bitumen adhesion in asphalt mixtures is assessed manually by a group of experts who assign subjective ratings to the thickness of the residual bitumen coating on the gravel samples. To automate this process, we propose a...
This study aimed to examine the concurrent validity of a novel motor-cognitive dual-task test, the Stepping Trail Making Test (S-TMT), as an indicator of cognitive impairment (CI), and compare its screening performance to that of motor or cognitive t...
In shearography-based tire testing, so-called “Mode Hops”, abrupt phase changes caused by laser mode changes, can lead to significant disturbances in the interference image analysis. These artifacts distort defect assessment, lead to rete...
Based on two progressive aspects of the modeling problems in business process management (BPM), (1) in order to address the increasing complexity of user requirements on workflows underlying various BPM application scenarios, a more verifiable fundam...
The oxidation of sulfide minerals in the presence of oxygen and water, facilitated by microbes, is the principal cause of acid mine drainage (AMD). Static testing for the quantitative assessment of the acidic potential and acid-neutralizing capacity...
This study quantifies the potential of a 4.0 kW air source heat pump (ASHP) unit retrofitted to a 12.0 kW, 1000 L electric boiler coupled to a 1000 L storage tank. A data acquisition system was built to monitor the performance of the electric boiler...
The issue of carbon emissions can be addressed through environmentally friendly technological innovations, which contribute to the journey towards achieving net-zero emissions (NZE). The electrification of transportation by converting internal combus...
Large-scale and long-term landslide susceptibility assessments are crucial for revealing the patterns of landslide risk variation and for guiding the formulation of disaster prevention and mitigation policies at the national level. This study, throug...
Reading literacy has been considered one of the essential vital competencies in modern society and has thus gained increasing attention in research. With both qualitative and quantitative research methods, this study aimed to investigate the overall...
This study investigates the interaction between the skin and stiffeners under tension and the structural failure mechanisms of aluminum alloy stiffened panels after battle damage, employing an integrated approach of experimental testing and numerical...
The demand for a net protection system for mitigating debris flow has increased recently for which new energy absorption devices have been hereby developed. The purpose of this study is to analyze the behavior and energy absorption rate of a brake fr...
Decentralized energy trading has been designed as a scalable substitute for traditional electricity markets. While blockchain technology facilitates efficient transparency and automation for peer-to-peer energy trading, the majority of current propos...
The results of microstructure and mechanical properties evaluation of a Stellite 6 (Co-6) alloy deposited on X22CrMoV12-1 substrate by the laser-engineered net shaping (LENSTM) technology are presented in this paper. The Stellite 6 alloy is widely us...
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