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  • Open Access
4 Citations
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6 September 2024

Board furniture’s performance and scientific design are making it popular. Research on simplifying furniture joints reduces design cycles and costs and improves structural safety. In this article, using a cantilever beam to calculate deflection...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,950 Views
16 Pages

Pre-Load Effect on CFRP-Confinement of Concrete Columns: Experimental and Theoretical Study

  • Francesco Micelli,
  • Alessio Cascardi and
  • Maria Antonietta Aiello

10 February 2021

The axial compression strength of concrete columns has been proved to be significantly enhanced by external confinement. In this perspective, the use of Fiber-Reinforced Polymers (FRPs) has been extensively studied. In practical applications, the FRP...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,095 Views
22 Pages

Comparison of Component-Oriented and System-Oriented Modeling in the Context of Operational Energy System Analysis

  • Jan-Philip Beck,
  • Parantapa Sawant,
  • Simon Ruben Drauz,
  • Jan Sören Schwarz,
  • Annika Heyer and
  • Philipp Huismann

27 June 2022

Simulation based studies for operational energy system analysis play a significant role in evaluation of various new age technologies and concepts in the energy grid. Various modelling approaches already exist and in this original paper, four models...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,555 Views
26 Pages

Hierarchical Structural Analysis Method for Complex Equation-Oriented Models

  • Chao Wang,
  • Li Wan,
  • Tifan Xiong,
  • Yuanlong Xie,
  • Shuting Wang,
  • Jianwan Ding and
  • Liping Chen

21 October 2021

Structural analysis is a method for verifying equation-oriented models in the design of industrial systems. Existing structural analysis methods need flattening of the hierarchical models into an equation system for analysis. However, the large-scale...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,977 Views
11 Pages

Is a Forensic Cohabitation Program Recovery-Oriented? A Logic Model Analysis

  • Shu-Ping Chen,
  • Wen-Pin Chang,
  • Bryan Fleet,
  • Santoch Rai,
  • Steve Panteluk,
  • Alberto Choy and
  • DeAnn Hunter

Background. Recovery orientation is a movement in mental health practice. Although general mental health services have taken the lead in promoting recovery, forensic psychiatric systems have lagged behind because of the need to reconcile recovery pri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
8,297 Views
34 Pages

20 October 2021

Sustainability and digitalization are essential duties for companies to perform in the current socio-economic landscape due to risks caused by traditional manufacturing practices, and rules imposed by stakeholders and governments. Tools that help exp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
953 Views
21 Pages

5 September 2025

The lack of modularity in building design information within multi-domain building performance analysis environments impedes efficient multidisciplinary analysis during the building design process. This study proposes a Functional Mock-up Interface (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
9,745 Views
24 Pages

24 December 2019

This research examines how internal and external Human Resource Management (HRM) contributes to Knowledge Sharing (KS) in order to reach Sustainability-Oriented Performance. This paper uses a mixed methods approach to report on the main antecedents o...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,692 Views
18 Pages

18 April 2021

This paper proposes a new efficient two-step method for parametrizing control-oriented zero-dimensional physical polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) models with measured stack data. Parametrizations of these models are computationally inte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
215 Views
34 Pages

16 January 2026

Reducing energy intensity is critical for combating climate change, yet current progress remains insufficient to meet international targets. Green-oriented policy narratives hold significant potential for mitigating energy intensity, but existing res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
10,868 Views
50 Pages

20 September 2012

According to literature and despite their commercial success, state-of-the-art two-stage non-iterative geographic object-based image analysis (GEOBIA) systems and three-stage iterative geographic object-oriented image analysis (GEOOIA) systems, where...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
11,668 Views
42 Pages

14 September 2012

According to existing literature and despite their commercial success, state-of-the-art two-stage non-iterative geographic object-based image analysis (GEOBIA) systems and three-stage iterative geographic object-oriented image analysis (GEOOIA) syste...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,782 Views
15 Pages

A Modeling Method of Agents and SOA in Advanced Avionics System Based on AADL

  • Pingyu Deng,
  • Qing Zhou,
  • Dong An,
  • Shihai Wang and
  • Kui Li

15 August 2022

The modeling method of agents and service-oriented architecture (SOA) in avionics systems describes agents and SOA in avionics systems with models. To our knowledge, however, the current modeling methods cannot describe the behavior of agents and SOA...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,149 Views
21 Pages

21 April 2025

Traditional Mongolian document layout analysis faces unique challenges due to its vertical writing system and complex structural arrangements. Existing methods often struggle with the directional nature of traditional Mongolian text and require subst...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,405 Views
21 Pages

A Novel Topography Retrieval Algorithm Based on Single-Pass Polarimetric SAR Data and Terrain Dependent Error Analysis

  • Congrui Yang,
  • Fengjun Zhao,
  • Chunle Wang,
  • Mengmeng Wang,
  • Xiuqing Liu and
  • Robert Wang

1 July 2022

Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) data provide an alternative way for topography retrieval, especially when limited PolSAR data are available. This article proposes a novel topography retrieval algorithm based on the Lambertian backscatt...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,635 Views
20 Pages

Spatial Pattern Oriented Multicriteria Sensitivity Analysis of a Distributed Hydrologic Model

  • Mehmet Cüneyd Demirel,
  • Julian Koch,
  • Gorka Mendiguren and
  • Simon Stisen

4 September 2018

Hydrologic models are conventionally constrained and evaluated using point measurements of streamflow, which represent an aggregated catchment measure. As a consequence of this single objective focus, model parametrization and model parameter sensiti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,869 Views
15 Pages

An Internet-Oriented Multilayer Network Model Characterization and Robustness Analysis Method

  • Yongheng Zhang,
  • Yuliang Lu,
  • Guozheng Yang,
  • Dongdong Hou and
  • Zhihao Luo

18 August 2022

The Internet creates multidimensional and complex relationships in terms of the composition, application and mapping of social users. Most of the previous related research has focused on the single-layer topology of physical device networks but ignor...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
985 Views
19 Pages

This paper introduces a comprehensive framework for evaluating rural water access efficiency using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Despite significant investment in water infrastructure, disparities in access efficiency across regions remain a criti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
205 Views
24 Pages

4 February 2026

Following the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) process at the Rio+20 Summit, China has progressively strengthened sustainability-oriented considerations in development target setting and administration cadre performance assessment,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,426 Views
21 Pages

Ambiguous Loss Among Aging Migrants: A Concept Analysis- and Nursing Care-Oriented Model

  • Areej AL-Hamad,
  • Yasin M. Yasin,
  • Lujain Yasin,
  • Andy Zhang and
  • Sarah Ahmed

16 October 2025

Introduction: Ambiguous loss is a profound yet underexplored phenomenon in the lives of aging migrants. Older adults who have experienced migration often face disruptions to their sense of belonging, identity, and continuity across borders. These los...

  • Article
  • Open Access
436 Views
29 Pages

Determinants of the Global Timber Trade Network Evolution a Stochastic Actor-Oriented Model Analysis

  • Yingying Zhou,
  • Yage Zhang,
  • Wenqi Zhao,
  • Baodong Cheng,
  • Guangyuan Qin and
  • Fengting Wang

5 December 2025

Against the backdrop of accelerating restructuring in the global economy and trade landscape, understanding the evolutionary mechanisms of timber trade networks has become increasingly crucial. Utilizing cross-national timber trade data from 2000 to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,640 Views
11 Pages

28 February 2022

Studying the stress–strain relationship of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP)-confined rubber concrete (RuC) plays an important role in its application in engineering projects. Most of the existing stress–strain relationship models are establ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,948 Views
19 Pages

Instrumentalization of a Model for the Evaluation of the Level of Satisfaction of Graduates under an E-Learning Methodology: A Case Analysis Oriented to Postgraduate Studies in the Environmental Field

  • Eduardo García Villena,
  • Silvia Pueyo-Villa,
  • Irene Delgado Noya,
  • Kilian Tutusaus Pifarré,
  • Roberto Ruíz Salces and
  • Alina Pascual Barrera

The purpose of this article was to evaluate the level of satisfaction of a sample of graduates in relation to different online postgraduate programs in the environmental area, as part of the process of continuous improvement in which the educational...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,750 Views
19 Pages

18 December 2017

In this paper, we take a look at the analysis and parameter identification for control-oriented, dynamic models for the thermal subsystem of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) from the systematized point of view of verification and validation (V&V). F...

  • Article
  • Open Access
109 Citations
11,651 Views
30 Pages

Automated Spatiotemporal Landslide Mapping over Large Areas Using RapidEye Time Series Data

  • Robert Behling,
  • Sigrid Roessner,
  • Hermann Kaufmann and
  • Birgit Kleinschmit

27 August 2014

In the past, different approaches for automated landslide identification based on multispectral satellite remote sensing were developed to focus on the analysis of the spatial distribution of landslide occurrences related to distinct triggering event...

  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
7,154 Views
16 Pages

24 August 2019

The resilience of cities has received worldwide attention. An accurate and rapid assessment of seismic damage, economic loss, and post-event repair time can provide an important reference for emergency rescue and post-earthquake recovery. Based on ci...

  • Review
  • Open Access
216 Views
48 Pages

Utah FORGE: A Decade of Innovation—Comprehensive Review of Field-Scale Advances (Part 1)

  • Amr Ramadan,
  • Mohamed A. Gabry,
  • Mohamed Y. Soliman and
  • John McLennan

2 February 2026

Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) extend geothermal energy beyond conventional hydrothermal resources but face challenges in creating sustainable heat exchangers in low-permeability formations. This review synthesizes achievements from the Utah Front...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,182 Views
17 Pages

19 November 2020

Argumentation-oriented discourse analysis usually focuses on what is being said and how, following the text under analysis quite literally, and paying little attention to the things in the world to which the text refers. However, to perform argumenta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
9,089 Views
18 Pages

17 June 2023

The current literature includes limited information on the classification precision of Bayes estimation for latent class analysis (BLCA). (1) Objectives: The present study compared BLCA with the robust maximum likelihood (MLR) procedure, which is the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,278 Views
26 Pages

Hybrid Multichannel-Based Deep Models Using Deep Features for Feature-Oriented Sentiment Analysis

  • Waqas Ahmad,
  • Hikmat Ullah Khan,
  • Tasswar Iqbal,
  • Muhammad Attique Khan,
  • Usman Tariq and
  • Jae-hyuk Cha

26 April 2023

With the rapid growth of user-generated content on social media, several new research domains have emerged, and sentiment analysis (SA) is one of the active research areas due to its significance. In the field of feature-oriented sentiment analysis,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,255 Views
20 Pages

Smart Manufacturing and Pro-Environmental Behavior: Moderated Serial Mediation Modelling and Analysis

  • Emily Opoku Aboagye-Dapaah,
  • Michael Karikari Appiah and
  • Joshua Caleb Dagadu

4 September 2024

Smart manufacturing encompasses a category of manufacturing that employs computer-integrated capabilities and technologies to enhance supply chain optimization, production efficiency, and recyclability. Yet, limited studies have been conducted to opt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,547 Views
30 Pages

The stability of rock slopes is often guided significantly by the structural geology of the rocks composing the slope. In this work, we analysed the influences of structural characteristics, and of their seismic responses, on large and deep-seated ro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
8,898 Views
16 Pages

An Object-Oriented Approach to Extracting Productive Fossil Localities from Remotely Sensed Imagery

  • Charles Emerson,
  • Bryan Bommersbach,
  • Brett Nachman and
  • Robert Anemone

8 December 2015

Most vertebrate fossils are rare and difficult to find and although paleontologists and paleoanthropologists use geological maps to identify potential fossil-bearing deposits, the process of locating fossiliferous localities often involves a great de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,131 Views
26 Pages

18 August 2025

This paper focuses on the reconfigurability of power system extension models and improves the adaptability of radiation distribution network schemes to complex power networks. The existing Newton–Raphson based solutions face difficulties in rec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,189 Views
27 Pages

Recent Advances in the EAGLE Concept—Monitoring the Earth’s Surface Based on a New Land Characterisation Approach

  • Stephan Arnold,
  • Geoffrey Smith,
  • Geir-Harald Strand,
  • Gerard Hazeu,
  • Michael Bock,
  • Barbara Kosztra,
  • Christoph Perger,
  • Gebhard Banko,
  • Tomas Soukup and
  • Emanuele Mancosu
  • + 3 authors

24 July 2025

The demand for land monitoring information continues to increase, but the range and diversity of the available products to date have made their integrated use challenging and, at times, counterproductive. There has therefore been a growing need to en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,371 Views
14 Pages

3D-Printed PLA Mechanical and Viscoelastic Behavior Dependence on the Nozzle Temperature and Printing Orientation

  • Lykourgos C. Kontaxis,
  • Dimos Zachos,
  • Aliona Georgali-Fickel,
  • Diana V. Portan,
  • Stefanos P. Zaoutsos and
  • George C. Papanicolaou

28 March 2025

The present study focuses on the mechanical and viscoelastic characterization of 3D-printed PLA, fabricated in three different printing orientations (0°, 45°, and 90°) and four different nozzle temperatures (210, 220, 230, and 240 °C)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
10,573 Views
11 Pages

Previous field research on the Horqin Sandy Land (China), which has suffered from severe desertification during recent decades, revealed how land use on a sand-dune topography affects both land degradation and restoration. This study aimed to depict...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,471 Views
24 Pages

4 December 2018

The research presents the methodology of improving the accuracy in sentiment classification in the light of modelling the latent semantic relations (LSR). The objective of this methodology is to find ways of eliminating the limitations of the discrim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,041 Views
15 Pages

20 November 2018

This paper is devoted to determination of elastic properties of composite constituents by using an inverse identification procedure. The aim of the developed identification procedure is to compute the elastic constants of individual material phases o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
347 Views
29 Pages

16 January 2026

Security design for large-scale infrastructure systems requires substantial effort and often causes development delays. In line with NIST guidance, such systems should consider security design throughout a system development lifecycle. Nevertheless,...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
336 Views
11 Pages

Autograft Polarity on Functional Outcomes Following Experimental Peripheral Nerve Repair Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

  • Hye Ok Kim,
  • Yeon Ju Oh,
  • Sung Soo Kim,
  • Youn-Jung Kim,
  • Jin Woo Choi,
  • Jae Min Lee and
  • Seung Geun Yeo

16 December 2025

Background: Proximal–distal orientation of nerve autografts (graft polarity) is an important consideration in peripheral nerve repair, but the literature is inconsistent on whether reversing graft polarity improves regeneration. With these disp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,985 Views
19 Pages

22 March 2024

Responding to changing value creation processes in the sheet metal working sector, where the complexity and interchangeability of products challenge traditional differentiation strategies, this exploratory analysis examines the integration of service...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,001 Views
19 Pages

8 May 2024

Drainage difficulties in the waterlogged areas of sloping cropland not only impede crop development but also facilitate the formation of erosion gullies, resulting in significant soil and water loss. Investigating the distribution of these waterlogge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,274 Views
23 Pages

11 October 2022

This research examines the role of gender in the link between entrepreneurship orientation and entrepreneurial intention. More exactly, the research examines the differences between male and female senior students in relation to the effect of risk-ta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,913 Views
23 Pages

27 June 2024

Distracted driving significantly affects the efficiency and safety of traffic flow. Modeling distracted driving behavior in microscopic traffic flow simulation is essential for understanding its critical impacts on traffic flow. However, due to the i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,418 Views
19 Pages

Modeling Analysis of SOFC System Oriented to Working Condition Identification

  • Xiao-Long Wu,
  • Hong Zhang,
  • Hongli Liu,
  • Yuan-Wu Xu,
  • Jingxuan Peng,
  • Zhiping Xia and
  • Yongan Wang

28 February 2022

Solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) generation system is an important equipment to realize “carbon neutralization”. In SOFC system, a fault will cause changes in working conditions, which is difficult to detect early and find the reason due to t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,799 Views
19 Pages

Task-Oriented Adversarial Attacks for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Models

  • Monserrat Vázquez-Hernández,
  • Ignacio Algredo-Badillo,
  • Luis Villaseñor-Pineda,
  • Mariana Lobato-Báez,
  • Juan Carlos Lopez-Pimentel and
  • Luis Alberto Morales-Rosales

16 January 2025

Adversarial attacks deliberately modify deep learning inputs, mislead models, and cause incorrect results. Previous adversarial attacks on sentiment analysis models have demonstrated success in misleading these models. However, most existing attacks...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,123 Views
27 Pages

Energy-Oriented Modeling of Hot Stamping Production Line: Analysis and Perspectives for Reduction

  • Qiong Liu,
  • Quan Zuo,
  • Lei Li,
  • Chen Yang,
  • Jianwen Yan and
  • Yuhang Xu

20 November 2024

This research aims to develop a comprehensive mathematical model to analyze the energy usage of essential equipment in the hot stamping production line (HSPL) and identify opportunities for improving energy efficiency. This involves refining existing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,358 Views
17 Pages

Modeling and Analysis of an Echo Laser Pulse Waveform for the Orientation Determination of Space Debris

  • Hyung-Chul Lim,
  • Zhong-Ping Zhang,
  • Ki-Pyoung Sung,
  • Jong Uk Park,
  • Simon Kim,
  • Chul-Sung Choi and
  • Mansoo Choi

21 May 2020

Orientation information of space debris is required to improve the orbital prediction accuracy for mitigation or elimination of a significant threat to not only human space activities but also operational satellites. Obtaining orientation information...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,897 Views
20 Pages

10 August 2023

Quality is a key aspect in the era of Industry 4.0. Zero-defect manufacturing (ZDM) as the latest quality assurance approach. It can be implemented in two different approaches: the product-oriented and the process-oriented ZDM. It is important to kno...

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