Given the increasing demand for rapid emergency management decision-making, which must be both timely and reliable, even slight delays can result in substantial human and economic losses. However, current systems and recent state-of-the-art work ofte...
Manufacturing is one of the most heavily contributing sectors to global warming via its high carbon emissions. Initiatives such as the Green Deal and Sustainable Goals by the United Nations are supporting the reduction of carbon emissions in the manu...
Traditional Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) methods face significant methodological challenges, including limited information resources in case databases, methodologically inadequate similarity calculation approaches, and a lack of standardized case revis...
N-(4-((3-Methyl-1,4-dioxo-1,4-dihydronaphthalen-2-yl)selanyl)phenyl)acetamide (5), C19H15NO3Se, was prepared in two steps from 4,4′-diselanediyldianiline (3) via reduction and subsequent nucleophilic reaction with 2-methyl-3-bromo-1,4-naphthale...
Fused deposition modeling (FDM) is a widely used additive manufacturing (AM) technology, favored for its design flexibility and suitability for low-volume production. However, precise cost estimation remains a critical challenge, particularly in indu...
The quality of heart rate (HR) measurements extracted from human photoplethysmography (PPG) signals are known to deteriorate under appreciable human motion. Auxiliary signals, such as accelerometer readings, are usually employed to detect and suppres...
Landscape-index calculation tools play a pivotal role in ecosystem studies and urban-planning research, enabling objective assessments of landscape patterns’ similarities and differences. However, the existing tools encounter limitations, such...
The accurate prediction of the collision force magnitude resulting from ship berthing on docks is crucial for the rationality and safety of dock structural design. This paper presents a novel framework for the calculation of berthing collision force...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) represent easy, affordable, and simple solutions for many tasks, including the collection of traffic data. The main aim of this study is to propose a new, low-cost framework for the determination of highly accurate tra...
China is entering a new era characterized by carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, and the construction industry, which accounts for a high proportion of social carbon emissions, urgently needs a method to calculate and predict building carbon emissi...
The calculation of range of motion (ROM) is a key factor during preoperative planning of total hip replacements (THR), to reduce the risk of impingement and dislocation of the artificial hip joint. To support the preoperative assessment of THR, a mag...
Surface cracks on mandrel bars affect product quality and production stability in seamless steel pipe manufacturing. Existing vision-based methods mainly rely on bounding-box detection, which is insufficient for precise crack delineation and geometri...
The recovery of precious metals from secondary resources is significant economically and environmentally. However, their separation is still challenging because they often occur in complex metal ion mixtures. The poor selectivity of adsorbents for go...
As the demand for deep mineral resource extraction intensifies, optimizing pipeline transportation systems in backfill mining has become increasingly critical. Thus, reducing energy loss while ensuring the filling effect becomes crucial for improving...
We synthesized 1,3,5-triyltris((4-chlorophenyl)methanone) by a condensation reaction in glacial acetic acid and studied utilizing spectroscopic and analytical techniques such as ultraviolet, infrared, mass, elemental, and nuclear magnetic resonance (...
HyFlow is a grid-based multi-energy system (MES) modelling framework. It aims to model the status quo of current energy systems, future scenarios with a high share of fluctuating energy sources or additional consumers like electric vehicles, and to c...
This study investigates the utilisation of organometallic network frameworks composed of fourth-period transition metals and tetrahydroxyquinone (THQ) in electrocatalytic CO2 reduction. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations were employed in an...
With the globalization of trade and the rapid development of the world economy, the problem of air pollution emissions produced by shipping is becoming more serious. The exhaust gas emitted by ships has become a significant source of air pollution in...
Ignoring the dynamic output recovery of distributed renewable energy sources (dRESs) during distribution network restoration may lead to low voltage in the initial stage, which can cause dRESs and loads to trip and even prevent the recovery of the en...
Entropy is a thermodynamic function used in chemistry to determine the disorder and irregularities of molecules in a specific system or process. It does this by calculating the possible configurations for each molecule. It is applicable to numerous i...
Four benzyltrimethylammonium (BTMA) salts were successfully prepared: bis(benzyltrimethylammonium) hexachloroplatinate (1), benzyltrimethylammonium tetrachloroaurate (2), bis(benzyltrimethylammonium) tetrachlorocuprate (3), and bis(benzyltrimethylamm...
Helium (He) is one of the indispensable and rare strategic materials for national defense and high-tech industries. However, daunting challenges have to be overcome for the supply shortage of He resources. Benefitted from the wide pore size distribut...
A distributed-framework basin modeling system (DFBMS) was developed to simulate the runoff generation and movement on a basin scale. This study is part of a series of papers on DFBMS that focuses on the hydraulic calculation methods in runoff concent...
In this study, we screened novel two-dimensional metal–organic framework (MOF) materials, which can be used as efficient electrocatalysts in the N2 reduction reaction (NRR) and CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) through density functional theory (D...
According to the 2020 European Sea Ports Organization Environmental Report, ports are the second biggest environmental concern for climate change due to greenhouse gas emissions. Furthermore, the International Association of Ports and Harbors determi...
New three-phase composite structures reinforced synergistically by nano-fillers and macroscopic fibers have great application potential. This paper presents a general framework for material properties calculation and the free vibration analysis of th...
In this work, we synthetized and characterized new crystalline materials with theranostic properties, i.e., they can be used both as bio-sensors and for “drug delivery”. The two solid crystalline compounds studied are Metal Organic Framew...
The nature of organic linker substituents plays an important role in gas sorption and separation as well as in catalytic applications of metal–organic frameworks. Zirconium-based UiO-66 is one of the most tunable members of this class of materi...
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have become a hot topic in various research fields nowadays. And MOF-derived metal oxides prepared by the sacrificial template method have been widely applied as catalysts for pollutant removal. Accordingly, we p...
Tetracyclines (TCs) are the most widely used antibiotics for the prevention and treatment of livestock diseases, but they are toxic to humans and have frequently been detected in water bodies. In this study, the physical and chemical properties of th...
We report the study of Cur@HKUST-1 composites, obtained through one-pot infiltration of HKUST-1 with curcumin (Cur) as a guest-sensitizing molecule. Cur features a HOMO energy above the valence band (VB) of HKUST-1, enabling modulation of the electro...
The rational design of high-performance catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is essential for the development of clean and renewable energy technologies, particularly in fuel cells and metal-air batter...
Dichlorvos (2,2-dichlorovinyl dimethyl phosphate, DDVP) is a highly toxic organophosphorus insecticide, and its persistence in air, water, and soil poses potential threats to human health and ecosystems. Covalent triazine frameworks (CTFs), with thei...
The topic of greenhouse gas emissions calculations in the context of freight transport is very current. This topic is very interesting for many stakeholders, such as companies, suppliers, employees, customers, residents, etc. The automotive industry...
2,6-pyridine dicarboxylic acid (DPA) is an exceptional biomarker of notorious anthrax spores. Therefore, the rapid, sensitive, and selective quantitative detection of DPA is extremely significant and urgent. This paper reports a Zn(II) metal–or...
In this study, hydrophilic covalent organic framework (COF) nanosheets with triazine structures and hydrophobic COF nanosheets with fluorinated imine skeletons were designed to enhance the membrane separation process for ethanol pervaporation. The ma...
Experimental data on nitrogen adsorption, pellets density and ionic conductivity of nanocomposite solid electrolytes (1−x)LiClO4–xMIL-101(Cr) were interpreted in frames of the model of the composite in which the lithium salt fills the por...
We discuss the applicability of the naturally occurring compound Ferrous Oxalate Dihydrate (FOD) (FeC2O4·2H2O) as an anode material in Li-ion batteries. Using first-principles modeling, we evaluate the electrochemical activity of FOD and demon...
We discuss the characteristic factors that determine the electrochemical potentials in a metal-organic framework used as cathode for Li-ion batteries via density functional theory-based simulations. Our focus is on MIL-101(Fe) cathode material. Our s...
The effects of pressure on the structural and electronic properties and the ionic configuration of ZIF-4 were investigated through the first-principles method based on the density functional theory. The elastic properties, including the isotropic bul...
Hidden frame glass curtain walls are one of the most common curtain wall structure forms. This year, the damage identification of panel elements based on vibration has had the problem of an inconsistent calculation model. In this paper, an experiment...
China’s National Key Ecological Function Areas (NKEFAs) provide important ecosystem services but lose significant development opportunities. An NKEFA consists of a few National Key Ecological Function Counties (NKEFCs). China’s central go...
Artificial intelligence has been identified as one of the main driving forces of innovation in state-of-the-art mobile and wireless networks. It has enabled many novel usage scenarios, relying on predictive models for increasing network management ef...
This study introduces a comprehensive framework for assessing and enhancing the quality of hourly temperature data collected from a six-station agrometeorological network in the Arta plain, Epirus, Greece, spanning the period 2015–2023. By comb...
GPU-accelerated quantum chemistry programs can dramatically reduce the time required for electronic structure calculations, yet most existing implementations either retrofit GPU kernels onto legacy CPU codebases or optimize individual kernels without...
This paper presents the basic principles for the integration of the water and carbon footprints cost into the resource and environmental costs respectively, taking the suggestions set by the Water Framework Directive (WFD) 2000/60/EC one step forward...
Squaric-acid-linked zwitterionic covalent organic frameworks (Z-COFs), assembled through interlayer interactions, are emerging as potential materials in the field of photocatalysis. However, the study of their interlayer interactions has been largely...
A series of novel salts based on aromatic polyamines and 2,3-pyrazinedicarboxylic acid, such as C10H12N6O5 (1), C10H9ClN6O4 (2), C11H10N8O4 (3), and C14H17N16O5.5 (4) or 3,4-thiophenedicarboxylic acid, such as C10H10N4O4S (5), C10H9ClN4O4S (6), and C...
A framework for rapid seismic vulnerability assessment and disaster management of urban buildings was developed, incorporating structural information from Building Information Models (BIM) integrated into a Geographic Information System (GIS). The Cr...
The non-extensive statistical description of the identified final state particles measured in high energy collisions is well-known by its wide range of applicability. However, there are many open questions that need to be answered, including but not...
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