Skip to Content

707 Results Found

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,133 Views
22 Pages

RETRACTED: An Appropriate Model for the Prediction of Rock Mass Deformation Modulus among Various Artificial Intelligence Models

  • Sajjad Hussain,
  • Naseer Muhammad Khan,
  • Muhammad Zaka Emad,
  • Abdul Muntaqim Naji,
  • Kewang Cao,
  • Qiangqiang Gao,
  • Zahid Ur Rehman,
  • Salim Raza,
  • Ruoyu Cui and
  • Saad S. Alarifi
  • + 1 author

16 November 2022

The rock mass deformation modulus (Em) is an essential input parameter in numerical modeling for assessing the rock mass behavior required for the sustainable design of engineering structures. The in situ methods for determining this parameter are co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geotechnical Stability Analysis for Sustainable Development of Infrastructure)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,391 Views
13 Pages

Can a Generative Artificial Intelligence Model Be Used to Create Mass Casualty Incident Simulation Scenarios? A Feasibility Study

  • Sergio M. Navarro,
  • Angie G. Atkinson,
  • Ege Donagay,
  • Maxwell Jabaay,
  • Sarah Lund,
  • Myung S. Park,
  • Erica A. Loomis,
  • John M. Zietlow,
  • T. N. Diem Vu and
  • Daniel Stephens
  • + 1 author

5 December 2025

Introduction: Mass casualty incident (MCI) simulation scenarios are developed based on detailed review and planning by multidisciplinary trauma teams. This study aimed to assess the feasibility of using generative artificial intelligence (AI) in deve...

(This article belongs to the Topic Generative AI and Interdisciplinary Applications)
  • Retraction
  • Open Access
562 Views
2 Pages

RETRACTED: Hussain et al. An Appropriate Model for the Prediction of Rock Mass Deformation Modulus Among Various Artificial Intelligence Models. Sustainability 2022, 14, 15225

  • Sajjad Hussain,
  • Naseer Muhammad Khan,
  • Muhammad Zaka Emad,
  • Abdul Muntaqim Naji,
  • Kewang Cao,
  • Qiangqiang Gao,
  • Zahid Ur Rehman,
  • Salim Raza,
  • Ruoyu Cui and
  • Saad S. Alarifi
  • + 1 author

23 June 2026

The journal retracts the article titled “An Appropriate Model for the Prediction of Rock Mass Deformation Modulus among Various Artificial Intelligence Models” [...]

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,422 Views
20 Pages

20 August 2020

In this study, ammonia vapor absorption with NH3/LiNO3 was assessed using correlations derived from a semi-empirical model, and artificial neural networks (ANNs). The absorption process was studied in an H-type corrugated plate absorber working in bu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Heat and Mass Exchangers for Thermally Driven Cooling and Heating Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,123 Views
14 Pages

26 April 2016

An existing idle cooling tower can be reversibly used as a heat-source tower (HST) to drive a heat pump (HP) in cold seasons, with calcium chloride (CaCl2) aqueous solution commonly selected as the secondary working fluid in an indirect system due to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Renewable Energy Applications and Energy Saving in Buildings)
  • Review
  • Open Access
100 Citations
16,394 Views
14 Pages

8 December 2019

With the increasing volume and active transaction of real estate properties, mass appraisal has been widely adopted in many countries for different purposes, including assessment of property tax. In this paper, 104 papers are selected for the systema...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Real Estate Landscapes: Appraisal, Accounting and Assessment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
522 Views
27 Pages

19 January 2026

Slender structures such as minarets are highly susceptible to earthquake-induced damage in seismically active regions. Although various methods, including analytical and observational techniques, have been employed to study the seismic response of re...

(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
9,081 Views
21 Pages

7 February 2017

Structures vibrate with their natural frequencies when disturbed from their equilibrium position. These frequencies reduce when an additional mass accumulates on their structures, like ice accumulation on wind turbines installed in cold climate sites...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wind Turbine 2017)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
4,951 Views
19 Pages

Supercritical Fluid Extraction Kinetics of Cherry Seed Oil: Kinetics Modeling and ANN Optimization

  • Ivana Dimić,
  • Lato Pezo,
  • Dušan Rakić,
  • Nemanja Teslić,
  • Zoran Zeković and
  • Branimir Pavlić

30 June 2021

This study was primarily focused on the supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) of cherry seed oil and the optimization of the process using sequential extraction kinetics modeling and artificial neural networks (ANN). The SFE study was organized accord...

(This article belongs to the Section Food Engineering and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,581 Views
17 Pages

9 December 2024

Various model-based mass estimation approaches have been discussed for a long time. However, estimation performance often deteriorates in some driving situations and, in particular, slow convergence and excessive overshoot of estimates are a major is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,064 Views
21 Pages

Hybrid Method for Endpoint Prediction in a Basic Oxygen Furnace

  • Ruibin Wang,
  • Itishree Mohanty,
  • Amiy Srivastava,
  • Tapas Kumar Roy,
  • Prakash Gupta and
  • Kinnor Chattopadhyay

5 May 2022

Strict monitoring and prediction of endpoints in a Basic Oxygen Furnace (BOF) are essential for end-product quality and overall process efficiency. Existing control models are mostly developed based on thermodynamic principles or by deploying advance...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Oxygen Steelmaking Process)
  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
9,792 Views
15 Pages

17 December 2019

A recent study of property valuation literature indicated that the vast majority of researchers and academics in the field of real estate are focusing on Mass Appraisals rather than on the further development of the existing valuation methods. Resear...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing in Applications of Geoinformation)
  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
9,913 Views
16 Pages

Over the past decade, more than a thousand new psychoactive substances (NPSs) have emerged worldwide. This rapid proliferation of “designer drugs” poses significant challenges for drug control, forensic analysis, and public health. Artifi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
7,267 Views
11 Pages

4 February 2023

The continued scaling-down of nanoscale semiconductor devices has made it very challenging to obtain analytic surface potential solutions from complex equations in physics, which is the fundamental purpose of the MOSFET compact model. In this work, w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging CMOS Devices, Volume II)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,071 Views
55 Pages

Artificial Intelligence and Physics-Informed Modeling for Rock Slope Engineering: Progress, Challenges, and Future Directions

  • Huan Liu,
  • Zulkifl Ahmed,
  • Shuhong Wang,
  • Alipujiang Jierula,
  • Qinkuan Hou,
  • Meaza Girma Demisa,
  • Mohamad Shahsad Khoram,
  • Chen Ding and
  • Muhammad Ishaq

Recent advances in deep learning and artificial intelligence (AI) have significantly transformed the analysis of rock slopes and geotechnical structures. Rock slope stability is governed by complex interactions among rock mass discontinuity networks,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mechanical Properties of Geotechnical Structures: Sustainable Materials, Physical–Numerical Modeling, and AI-Based Performance Assessment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,164 Views
17 Pages

27 September 2022

Cavitation is a physical process that produces different negative effects on the components working in conditions where it acts. One is the materials’ mass loss by corrosion–erosion when it is introduced into fluids under cavitation. This...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mechanical Properties and Corrosion Behavior of Advanced Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,670 Views
16 Pages

Artificial Neural Network, Quantile and Semi-Log Regression Modelling of Mass Appraisal in Housing

  • Jose Torres-Pruñonosa,
  • Pablo García-Estévez and
  • Camilo Prado-Román

6 April 2021

We used a large sample of 188,652 properties, which represented 4.88% of the total housing stock in Catalonia from 1994 to 2013, to make a comparison between different real estate valuation methods based on artificial neural networks (ANNs), quantile...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Statistical Data Modeling and Machine Learning with Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,703 Views
13 Pages

Artificial Neural Network Models for Accurate Predictions of Fat-Free and Fat Masses, Using Easy-to-Measure Anthropometric Parameters

  • Ivona Mitu,
  • Cristina-Daniela Dimitriu,
  • Ovidiu Mitu,
  • Cristina Preda,
  • Florin Mitu and
  • Manuela Ciocoiu

Abdominal fat and fat-free masses report a close association with cardiometabolic risks, therefore this specific body compartment presents more interest than whole-body masses. This research aimed to develop accurate algorithms that predict body mass...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bioinformatics: From Methods to Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
46 Citations
31,979 Views
28 Pages

15 December 2024

The global rise in obesity underscores the need for effective weight management strategies that address individual metabolic and hormonal variability, moving beyond the simplistic “calories in, calories out” model. Body types—ectomo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Molecular Research in Obesity and Obesity Related Disorders: 2nd Edition)
  • Review
  • Open Access
64 Citations
10,015 Views
23 Pages

Machine learning methods for data processing are gaining momentum in many geoscience industries. This includes the mining industry, where machine learning is primarily being applied to autonomously driven vehicles such as haul trucks, and ore body an...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
601 Views
25 Pages

Data-Driven Feature Selection and Prediction of Municipal Waste Generation: Towards Sustainable Waste Management and Circular Economy Planning in the Slovak Republic

  • Tomasz Szul,
  • Krzysztof Nęcka,
  • Joanna Piotrowska-Woroniak,
  • Grzegorz Woroniak,
  • Iveta Čabalová,
  • Jozef Krilek and
  • Vladimír Mancel

31 March 2026

This study evaluates the performance of six feature selection methods (BORUTA, LASSO, RFE, XGBoost, FSM, and SEV) and five predictive modelling techniques (ANN, MARS, RST, SRT, and SVM) for the spatial estimation of municipal waste accumulation rates...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,373 Views
24 Pages

Integrating Advanced Metabolomics and Machine Learning for Anti-Doping in Human Athletes

  • Mohannad N. AbuHaweeleh,
  • Ahmad Hamdan,
  • Jawaher Al-Essa,
  • Shaikha Aljaal,
  • Nasser Al Saad,
  • Costas Georgakopoulos,
  • Francesco Botre and
  • Mohamed A. Elrayess

27 October 2025

The ongoing challenge of doping in sports has triggered the adoption of advanced scientific strategies for the detection and prevention of doping abuse. This review examines the potential of integrating metabolomics aided by artificial intelligence (...

(This article belongs to the Section Integrative Metabolomics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
325 Views
36 Pages

CoMa: Contextual Massing Generation with Vision-Language Models

  • Evgenii Maslov,
  • Alexandra Vabnits,
  • Vladimir Vorona,
  • Anastasia Antsiferova,
  • Valentin Khrulkov,
  • Anastasia Volkova,
  • Anton Gusarov,
  • Andrey Kuznetsov and
  • Ivan Oseledets

17 September 2026

Context-aware building massing is an important early-stage design task: given a site for buildings, a generated massing should not only fit the target parcel, but also relate to the scale, density, and morphology of its surrounding urban fabric. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
604 Views
36 Pages

20 March 2026

This study introduces an efficient and accurate two-stage explicit computational scheme for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) containing first-order time derivatives. The suggested method is a modification of the classical Runge–Kut...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Developments in Mathematical Fluid Dynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,512 Views
14 Pages

10 January 2022

This study presented biological and economic data for the mass-rearing of Orius minutus in Korea. Simplifying the mass-rearing process through an alternative diet and an artificial oviposition substrate is a prerequisite for enhancing the usability o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Rearing Techniques for Biocontrol Agents of Insects, Mites, and Weeds)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,374 Views
21 Pages

29 April 2022

We present CAMDLES (CFD-DEM Artificial Microgravity Developments for Living Ecosystem Simulation), an extension of CFDEM®Coupling to model biological flows, growth, and mass transfer in artificial microgravity devices. For microbes that accompany...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gravitational Microbiology Research and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,868 Views
11 Pages

12 July 2024

Short-wavelength artificial light at night is increasingly being associated with health and ecological risks. The negative impact of this relatively new source of pollution has been studied intensively in wild birds but to a much lesser extent in cap...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,196 Views
16 Pages

18 August 2021

An artificial floating reef is an important part of the coastal ecological corridor. The large-scale construction of floating reefs by optimizing mooring methods can effectively improve the ecological effects of coastal projects. The artificial float...

(This article belongs to the Section Water and Climate Change)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,531 Views
20 Pages

This article presents a new analysis to determine the variation in modal dynamic characteristics of bridge superstructures caused by hydrodynamic added mass (HAM) during progressive flooding. The natural frequency variations were numerically and expe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Structural Performances of Bridges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,704 Views
26 Pages

Improving Fuel Consumption Prediction for Marine Diesel Engines Using Hierarchical Neural Networks and Pulsating Exhaust Models

  • Anibal Aguillon Salazar,
  • Georges Salameh,
  • Pascal Chesse,
  • Nicolas Bulot and
  • Yoann Thevenoux

24 December 2024

Predicting end-of-process variables in internal combustion engines, such as brake-specific fuel consumption or pollutant emissions, is crucial for engine design decisions. However, errors in common multi-layer-perceptron-based artificial neural netwo...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advanced Engines Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,956 Views
25 Pages

The mass transfer behavior in a hollow fiber membrane module of membrane-based artificial organs (such as artificial liver or artificial kidney) were studied by numerical simulation. A new computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method coupled with K-K eq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,282 Views
11 Pages

21 December 2022

Water transport in a hollow-fiber membrane depends on mass convection around the tube, mass convection inside the tube, and water diffusion through the membrane tube. The performance of water transport is then explained by the overall mass transfer c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Membrane Science for Sustainable Future)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,484 Views
17 Pages

12 September 2017

Reduced-order modeling approaches for gas flow in dual-porosity dual-permeability porous media are studied based on the proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) method combined with Galerkin projection. The typical modeling approach for non-porous-mediu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Flow and Transport Properties of Unconventional Reservoirs)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,604 Views
27 Pages

4 September 2025

Accurate prediction of a robot’s dynamic parameters, including mass and moment of inertia, is essential for adequate motion planning and control in autonomous systems. Traditional methods often depend on manual computation or physics-based mode...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Complex Network Modeling: Theory and Applications, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,655 Views
15 Pages

Application of Artificial Neural Network to Somatotype Determination

  • Małgorzata Drywień,
  • Krzysztof Górnicki and
  • Magdalena Górnicka

3 February 2021

Somatotype characteristics are important for the selection of sporting activities, as well as and the prevalence of several chronic diseases. Nowadays the most common method of somatotyping is the Heath–Carter method, which calculates the somatotype...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning in Medical Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,280 Views
27 Pages

Development of Simple-To-Use Predictive Models to Determine Thermal Properties of Fe2O3/Water-Ethylene Glycol Nanofluid

  • Mohammad Hossein Ahmadi,
  • Ali Ghahremannezhad,
  • Kwok-Wing Chau,
  • Parinaz Seifaddini,
  • Mohammad Ramezannezhad and
  • Roghayeh Ghasempour

Thermophysical properties of nanofluids play a key role in their heat transfer capability and can be significantly affected by several factors, such as temperature and concentration of nanoparticles. Developing practical and simple-to-use predictive...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning for Computational Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,677 Views
16 Pages

Managing SARS-CoV-2 Testing in Schools with an Artificial Intelligence Model and Application Developed by Simulation Data

  • Svetozar Zarko Valtchev,
  • Ali Asgary,
  • Michael Chen,
  • Felippe A. Cronemberger,
  • Mahdi M. Najafabadi,
  • Monica Gabriela Cojocaru and
  • Jianhong Wu

Research on SARS-CoV-2 and its social implications have become a major focus to interdisciplinary teams worldwide. As interest in more direct solutions, such as mass testing and vaccination grows, several studies appear to be dedicated to the operati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence Solutions and Applications for COVID-19 Pandemic)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
10,869 Views
25 Pages

13 April 2015

Accurate prediction of cavitation is an important feature in hydrodynamic bearing modeling. Especially for thermo-hydrodynamic modeling, it is crucial to use a mass-conservative cavitation algorithm. This paper introduces a new mass-conserving Reynol...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Friction and Lubrication of Bearings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,345 Views
13 Pages

31 March 2023

Bombyx mori is a model lepidopteran insect of great economic value. Mulberry leaves are its only natural food source. The development of artificial diets can not only resolve the seasonal shortage of mulberry leaves but also enable changes to be made...

(This article belongs to the Section Insect Physiology, Reproduction and Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
4,130 Views
18 Pages

21 October 2021

Rockburst is a dynamic rock mass failure occurring during underground mining under unfavorable stress conditions. The rockburst phenomenon concerns openings in different rocks and is generally correlated with high stress in the rock mass. As a result...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geomechanics for Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
2,578 Views
25 Pages

8 January 2023

In this article, we constructed an artificial neural networking model for the stagnation point flow of Casson fluid towards an inclined stretching cylindrical surface. The Levenberg–Marquardt training technique is used in multilayer perceptron...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analysis and Applications of Mathematical Fluid Dynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
14,674 Views
15 Pages

Machine Learning-Based Regression Framework to Predict Health Insurance Premiums

  • Keshav Kaushik,
  • Akashdeep Bhardwaj,
  • Ashutosh Dhar Dwivedi and
  • Rajani Singh

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in healthcare are approaches to make people’s lives easier by anticipating and diagnosing diseases more swiftly than most medical experts. There is a direct link between the insurer and the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,025 Views
25 Pages

Review on the Macro-Transport Processes Theory for Irregular Pores able to Perform Catalytic Reactions

  • Iván Santamaría-Holek,
  • Saúl I. Hernández,
  • Consuelo García-Alcántara and
  • Aldo Ledesma-Durán

19 March 2019

We review and generalize a recent theoretical framework that provides a sound physicochemical basis to describe how volume and surface diffusion are affected by adsorption and desorption processes, as well as by catalytic conversion within the space...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Microporous Zeolites and Related Nanoporous Materials: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications in Catalysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,865 Views
11 Pages

Segmentation of Pulp and Pulp Stones with Automatic Deep Learning in Panoramic Radiographs: An Artificial Intelligence Study

  • Mujgan Firincioglulari,
  • Mehmet Boztuna,
  • Omid Mirzaei,
  • Tolgay Karanfiller,
  • Nurullah Akkaya and
  • Kaan Orhan

19 June 2025

Background/Objectives: Different sized calcified masses called pulp stones are often detected in dental pulp and can impact dental procedures. The current research was conducted with the aim of measuring the ability of artificial intelligence algorit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,705 Views
22 Pages

14 April 2022

Artificial satellites are widely used in different areas such as communication, position systems, and agriculture. The number of satellites orbiting Earth is becoming huge, and many are set to be launched soon. This huge number of satellites in addit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,635 Views
14 Pages

14 August 2023

A proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer is fed with water and powered by electric power to electrochemically produce hydrogen at low operating temperatures and emits oxygen as a by-product. Due to the complex nature of the performance of PEM el...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
3,358 Views
13 Pages

Application of Artificial Intelligence to Improve the Thermal Energy and Exergy of Nanofluid-Based PV Thermal/Nano-Enhanced Phase Change Material

  • Enas Taha Sayed,
  • Hegazy Rezk,
  • Abdul Ghani Olabi,
  • Mohamed R. Gomaa,
  • Yahia B. Hassan,
  • Shek Mohammad Atiqure Rahman,
  • Sheikh Khaleduzzaman Shah and
  • Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem

14 November 2022

Photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) technologies have demonstrated several attractive features, such as higher power and comparative efficiencies. Improving the thermal recovery from the PVT system would further improve the power output and the efficiency of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Solar Thermal Energy Storage Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,150 Views
22 Pages

28 February 2022

As for rock numerical calculation and stability analysis, it is essential to build a numerical model of rock mass with concise and accurate structure information through the three-dimensional surface reconstruction of rock-mass point clouds. However,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
22,483 Views
19 Pages

Saudi Arabia’s Management of the Hajj Season through Artificial Intelligence and Sustainability

  • Asma Abdulaziz Abdullah Abalkhail and
  • Sumiah Mashraf Abdullah Al Amri

29 October 2022

High-density gatherings have the potential to turn from a peaceful mass into a human disaster unless they are managed in an organized manner. Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Hajj implemented an integrated system based on artificial intelligence. The...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainability in Geographic Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
933 Views
21 Pages

24 March 2026

As artificial intelligence (AI) as a technology becomes ever more pervasive in a wide range of human endeavor, from highly specialized technological and scientific applications to mass-market generative AI ‘consumed’ by the public, the qu...

of 15