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  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,106 Views
18 Pages

15 November 2021

Performance prediction is of significant importance. Previous mining of behaviour data was limited to machine learning models. Corresponding research has not made good use of the information of spatial location changes over time, in addition to discr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,409 Views
13 Pages

17 March 2023

Additive manufacturing has revolutionised the field of manufacturing, allowing for the production of complex geometries with high precision and accuracy. One of the most promising applications of additive manufacturing is in the production of composi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,110 Views
15 Pages

Fuel Consumption Estimation System and Method with Lower Cost

  • Chi-Lun Lo,
  • Chi-Hua Chen,
  • Ta-Sheng Kuan,
  • Kuen-Rong Lo and
  • Hsun-Jung Cho

3 July 2017

This study proposes a fuel consumption estimation system and method with lower cost. On-board units can report vehicle speed, and user devices can send fuel information to a data analysis server. Then the data analysis server can use the proposed fue...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,373 Views
26 Pages

Randomness Analysis for the Generalized Self-Shrinking Sequences

  • Sara D. Cardell,
  • Verónica Requena,
  • Amparo Fúster-Sabater and
  • Amalia B. Orúe

28 November 2019

In cryptography, the property of randomness in pseudo-random generators is very important to avoid any pattern in output sequences, to provide security against attacks, privacy and anonymity. In this article, the randomness of the family of sequences...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
13,841 Views
17 Pages

Recognition of Blinks Activity Patterns during Stress Conditions Using CNN and Markovian Analysis

  • Alexandra I. Korda,
  • Giorgos Giannakakis,
  • Errikos Ventouras,
  • Pantelis A. Asvestas,
  • Nikolaos Smyrnis,
  • Kostas Marias and
  • George K. Matsopoulos

23 January 2021

This paper investigates eye behaviour through blinks activity during stress conditions. Although eye blinking is a semi-voluntary action, it is considered to be affected by one’s emotional states such as arousal or stress. The blinking rate pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,269 Views
25 Pages

13 March 2022

Intuitively, the level of autonomy of an agent is related to the degree to which the agent’s goals and behaviour are decoupled from the immediate control by the environment. Here, we capitalise on a recent information-theoretic formulation of a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
10,109 Views
17 Pages

Understanding of Waggle Dance in the Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) from the Perspective of Long Non-Coding RNA

  • Wangjiang Feng,
  • Jingnan Huang,
  • Zhaonan Zhang,
  • Hongyi Nie,
  • Yan Lin,
  • Zhiguo Li and
  • Songkun Su

19 January 2022

The ethological study of dance behaviour has yielded some findings since Karl Von Frisch discovered and interpreted the ‘dance language’ in the honey bee. However, the function and role of long non-coding RNAs on dance behaviour are hardl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,504 Views
16 Pages

Deep Instance Segmentation of Laboratory Animals in Thermal Images

  • Magdalena Mazur-Milecka,
  • Tomasz Kocejko and
  • Jacek Ruminski

28 August 2020

In this paper we focus on the role of deep instance segmentation of laboratory rodents in thermal images. Thermal imaging is very suitable to observe the behaviour of laboratory animals, especially in low light conditions. It is an non-intrusive meth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,649 Views
17 Pages

The Role of El Niño in Driving Drought Conditions over the Last 2000 Years in Thailand

  • Katherine Power,
  • Jamie Barnett,
  • Travis Dickinson and
  • Josefine Axelsson

26 June 2020

Irregular climate events frequently occur in Southeast Asia due to the numerous climate patterns combining. Thailand sits at the confluence of these interactions, and consequently experiences major hydrological events, such as droughts. Proxy data, s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,594 Views
19 Pages

4 February 2022

As the availability of big data-sets becomes more widespread so the importance of motif (or repeated pattern) identification and analysis increases. To date, the majority of motif identification algorithms that permit flexibility of sub-sequence leng...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,394 Views
9 Pages

9 July 2020

A clearwing moth with a distinct orange, black and white colour pattern was found sucking up fluids from Plecoptera (stonefly) exuviae on rocks, surrounded by water, on a river bank in Thailand. During this process, known as puddling, the sesiid ejec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
7,813 Views
18 Pages

Expansion of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Increases the Range of Stability of Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation

  • Adiran Garaizar,
  • Ignacio Sanchez-Burgos,
  • Rosana Collepardo-Guevara and
  • Jorge R. Espinosa

15 October 2020

Proteins containing intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) are ubiquitous within biomolecular condensates, which are liquid-like compartments within cells formed through liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS). The sequence of amino acids of a p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
5,608 Views
17 Pages

False Data Injection Attack Detection in Smart Grid Using Energy Consumption Forecasting

  • Abrar Mahi-al-rashid,
  • Fahmid Hossain,
  • Adnan Anwar and
  • Sami Azam

2 July 2022

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are essential for reliable communication and control of smart grids. However, in the cyber-physical realm, it becomes highly vulnerable to cyber-attacks like False Data Injection (FDI) into the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,430 Views
23 Pages

Towards Building a Visual Behaviour Analysis Pipeline for Suicide Detection and Prevention

  • Xun Li,
  • Sandersan Onie,
  • Morgan Liang,
  • Mark Larsen and
  • Arcot Sowmya

14 June 2022

Understanding human behaviours through video analysis has seen significant research progress in recent years with the advancement of deep learning. This topic is of great importance to the next generation of intelligent visual surveillance systems wh...

  • Review
  • Open Access
297 Views
45 Pages

A Comprehensive Review of Epigenetic Regulation of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells During Development and Disease

  • Lautaro Natali,
  • Benjamín de la Cruz-Thea,
  • Andrea Godino,
  • Cecilia Conde,
  • Victor I. Peinado and
  • Melina M. Musri

21 January 2026

Vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) in the tunica media are essential for maintaining the structure and function of the arterial wall. These cells regulate vascular tone and contribute to vasculogenesis and angiogenesis, particularly during developm...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
1,259 Views
9 Pages

“Big Events” and HIV Transmission Dynamics: Estimating Time Since HIV Infection from Deep Sequencing Data Among Sex Workers and Their Clients in Dnipro, Ukraine

  • François Cholette,
  • Nicole Herpai,
  • Leigh M. McClarty,
  • Olga Balakireva,
  • Daryna Pavlova,
  • Anna Lopatenko,
  • Rupert Capiña,
  • Paul Sandstrom,
  • Michael Pickles and
  • on behalf of the Dynamics Study Team
  • + 3 authors

21 August 2025

Background: Major geopolitical events and structural shocks are thought to play a significant role in shaping HIV epidemics by influencing individual behaviours, reshaping social networks, and impacting HIV prevention and treatment programs. Here, we...

  • Review
  • Open Access
578 Views
30 Pages

4 January 2026

Microtubules are hollow cylindrical polymers made up of tubulin. This heterodimeric protein, tubulin, exists in multiple forms: tubulin isotypes and tubulin isoforms. Distinct α- and β-tubulin genes give rise to tubulin isotypes, which dif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,878 Views
14 Pages

The Design and Development of Instrumented Toys for the Assessment of Infant Cognitive Flexibility

  • Vishal Ramanathan,
  • Mohammad Zaidi Ariffin,
  • Guo Dong Goh,
  • Guo Liang Goh,
  • Mohammad Adhimas Rikat,
  • Xing Xi Tan,
  • Wai Yee Yeong,
  • Juan-Pablo Ortega,
  • Victoria Leong and
  • Domenico Campolo

1 March 2023

The first years of an infant’s life represent a sensitive period for neurodevelopment where one can see the emergence of nascent forms of executive function (EF), which are required to support complex cognition. Few tests exist for measuring EF...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,180 Views
17 Pages

A Multidisciplinary Study of Eye Tracking Technology for Visual Intelligence

  • Shyamli Sindhwani,
  • Gregory Minissale,
  • Gerald Weber,
  • Christof Lutteroth,
  • Anthony Lambert,
  • Neal Curtis and
  • Elizabeth Broadbent

The ability to analyse aspects of visual culture—works of art, maps or plans, graphs, tables and X-rays—quickly and efficiently is critical in decision-making in a broad range of disciplines. Eye tracking is a technology that can record h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,269 Views
13 Pages

Objectives: We aimed to examine patterns in smoking and electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS) use over an extended period of time (up to 20 weeks) in people who smoked and who had never previously made a successful quit attempt using an ENDS. De...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,795 Views
18 Pages

Unveiling the Significance of Graphene Nanoplatelet (GNP) Localization in Tuning the Performance of PP/HDPE Blends

  • Reza Salehiyan,
  • Ali A. El-Samak,
  • Milad Kamkar,
  • Elnaz Erfanian,
  • Stephen A. Hodge,
  • Uttandaraman Sundararaj and
  • Tony McNally

20 November 2024

High-density polyethylene (HDPE) and polypropylene (PP) blends are widely used in industries requiring mechanically durable materials, yet the impact of processing parameters on blend performance remains underexplored. This study investigates the inf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,784 Views
20 Pages

25 November 2020

The β-amylase (BAM) gene family, known for their property of catalytic ability to hydrolyze starch to maltose units, has been recognized to play critical roles in metabolism and gene regulation. To date, BAM genes have not been characterized in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
171 Citations
21,400 Views
27 Pages

Eye Tracking-Based Diagnosis and Early Detection of Autism Spectrum Disorder Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Techniques

  • Ibrahim Abdulrab Ahmed,
  • Ebrahim Mohammed Senan,
  • Taha H. Rassem,
  • Mohammed A. H. Ali,
  • Hamzeh Salameh Ahmad Shatnawi,
  • Salwa Mutahar Alwazer and
  • Mohammed Alshahrani

10 February 2022

Eye tracking is a useful technique for detecting autism spectrum disorder (ASD). One of the most important aspects of good learning is the ability to have atypical visual attention. The eye-tracking technique provides useful information about childre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,618 Views
13 Pages

The diagnostic criteria for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) reflect the behavioural and functional outcomes of cognitive processes. Historically they have been based on external observations and lack specificity: clinical cohorts of c...

  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
10,144 Views
19 Pages

Precision Nutrition Unveiled: Gene–Nutrient Interactions, Microbiota Dynamics, and Lifestyle Factors in Obesity Management

  • Samy Mansour,
  • Saif M. I. Alkhaaldi,
  • Ashwin F. Sammanasunathan,
  • Saleh Ibrahim,
  • Joviana Farhat and
  • Basem Al-Omari

20 February 2024

Background: Obesity is a complex metabolic disorder that is associated with several diseases. Recently, precision nutrition (PN) has emerged as a tailored approach to provide individualised dietary recommendations. Aim: This review discusses the majo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,319 Views
12 Pages

Presence of Alphacoronavirus in Tree- and Crevice-Dwelling Bats from Portugal

  • Mahima Hemnani,
  • Priscilla Gomes da Silva,
  • Gertrude Thompson,
  • Patrícia Poeta,
  • Hugo Rebelo and
  • João R. Mesquita

12 March 2024

Coronaviruses (CoVs) are RNA viruses capable of infecting a wide range of hosts, including mammals and birds, and have caused significant epidemics such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Bats, the second most diverse mammalian order, are hosts for va...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,930 Views
16 Pages

In-Situ Investigation of the Oxidation Behaviour of Chemical Vapour Deposited Zr(C,N) Hard Coatings Using Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction

  • Florian Frank,
  • Michael Tkadletz,
  • Christian Saringer,
  • Andreas Stark,
  • Norbert Schell,
  • Marco Deluca,
  • Christoph Czettl and
  • Nina Schalk

24 February 2021

The oxidation behaviour of chemical vapour deposited ZrN, ZrC and ZrCN coatings was investigated using in-situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction (XRD). To obtain a precise analysis of the temperature–dependent phase evolution during oxidation, coating po...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,400 Views
25 Pages

Autism Spectrum Disorder Detection Using Skeleton-Based Body Movement Analysis via Dual-Stream Deep Learning

  • Jungpil Shin,
  • Abu Saleh Musa Miah,
  • Manato Kakizaki,
  • Najmul Hassan and
  • Yoichi Tomioka

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) poses significant challenges in diagnosis due to its diverse symptomatology and the complexity of early detection. Atypical gait and gesture patterns, prominent behavioural markers of ASD, hold immense potential for fac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,557 Views
28 Pages

Optimization and Design of a Flexible Droop Nose Leading Edge Morphing Wing Based on a Novel Black Widow Optimization (B.W.O.) Algorithm—Part II

  • Musavir Bashir,
  • Simon Longtin-Martel,
  • Nicola Zonzini,
  • Ruxandra Mihaela Botez,
  • Alessandro Ceruti and
  • Tony Wong

1 November 2022

This work presents an aerodynamic and structural optimization for a Droop Nose Leading Edge Morphing airfoil as a high lift device for the UAS-S45. The results were obtained using three optimization algorithms: coupled Particle Swarm Optimization-Pat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,388 Views
12 Pages

DCDC2-Related Ciliopathy: Report of Six Polish Patients, Novel DCDC2 Variant, and Literature Review of Reported Cases

  • Patryk Lipiński,
  • Elżbieta Ciara,
  • Dorota Jurkiewicz,
  • Magda Mekrouda,
  • Joanna Cielecka-Kuszyk,
  • Elżbieta Jurkiewicz,
  • Rafał Płoski,
  • Joanna Pawłowska and
  • Irena Jankowska

Introduction: The increasing usage of NGS technology has enabled the discovery of new causal genes in ciliopathies, including the DCDC2 gene. The aim of our study was to present the clinical, pathological and molecular report of six patients (from th...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,067 Views
30 Pages

Preterm birth remains a significant global health challenge and is strongly associated with heightened risks of long-term neurodevelopmental impairments, including cognitive delays, behavioural disorders, and emotional dysregulation. In recent years,...