Sensitive geometric errors of a machine tool have significant influence on machining accuracy, and it is important to identify them. Complex modeling and analysis must be carried out to identify the sensitive geometric errors of a five-axis machine t...
As one of the oldest shaping manufacturing processes, forging and especially hot forging is characterized by extreme loads on the tool. The thermal load in particular is able to cause constant changes in the hardness of the surface layer, which in tu...
Horticulture is essential in the European agricultural sector and fundamental for many EU member states. Decision Support Systems and Tools can play an essential role in a shift to result-based agriculture and evidence-based decision making, improvin...
Knowledge about wood transportation distances is essential for sustainable forest management and related decision making in forest protection against fire or flood events. In this context, we developed the geoprocessing tool TraDis to allow for the c...
Assessment of crop nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) is important in agricultural research. Various approaches exist to analyze NUE. A recently proposed NUE concept is further developed and a calculation tool for practical use presented. A critical compo...
An open-source tool that allows for a fast and precise analytical calculation of multi-layer planar coils self-inductance, without any geometry limitation is proposed here. The process of designing and simulating planar coils to achieve reliable resu...
It is of great importance for polymer processing whether and how viscosity influences the wettability of tool surfaces. We demonstrate the existence of a distinct relationship between the contact angle of molten polymers and zero shear viscosity in t...
Metal mirrors will be widely used in the coming decades. Therefore, as one of the enabling technologies for metal optical freeform surface manufacturing, ultra-precision (UP) diamond turning error compensation has become a research hotspot. However,...
Two-dimensional (2D) materials have been a research hot topic in the passed decades due to their unique and fascinating properties. Among them, mechanical properties play an important role in their application. However, there lacks an effective tool...
The interplay patterns of amino acid residues are pivotal in determining the tertiary structure and flexibility of proteins, which in turn are intricately linked to their functionality and interactions with other molecules. Here, we introduce ARIP, a...
A tool called WetSpa-Urban was developed to respond to the need for precise runoff estimations in an increasingly urbanized world. WetSpa-Urban links the catchment model WetSpa-Python to the urban drainage model Storm Water Management Model (SWMM). W...
Molecular markers and mapping are used to analyze an organism’s genes. They allow the selection of target genetic areas based on marker genotype (and not trait phenotype), facilitate the study of genetic variability and diversity, create linkag...
The management of variety collections can be supported by integrating molecular data into Distinctness, Uniformity, and Stability (DUS) testing. DurdusTools is a genetic distance (GD) calculation tool that supports planning field trials in durum whea...
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...
Energy retrofit tools are considered by many countries as one of the strongest incentives to encourage homeowners to invest in energy renovation. These tools help homeowners to get an initial overview of suitable retrofit measures. Although a large n...
2 September 2022
Higher education institutions (HEIs) can be considered role models of small cities that contribute to the fight against climate change. Therefore, assessing their own carbon footprints (CFs) and drawing conclusions gives significance to this study. I...
Background/Aim: Radium-223 dichloride (223RaCl2) represents a therapeutic option for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) patients dealing with symptomatic bone metastases. The identification of baseline variables potentially affec...
The determination of aircraft loads in the preliminary design phase is important for the optimal design of aircraft structures. In this paper, the inflight load calculation methodology for aircraft in the preliminary design phase is formulated in the...
The journal retracts the article, “An accessible pre-design calculation tool to support the definition of EV components” [...]
The nitriding of forging tools is an industrially established standard used to increase the hardness of the tool surface layer and reduce wear. However, this modification of the tool surface layer, as well as the microstructural changes that occur du...
In the face of the growing social recognition of environmental awareness and emerging regulations in countries where targets include the reduction of the CO2 footprint in the industrial sector, several companies are facing the challenge of introducin...
Longwave radiative heat transfer is a key determinant of energy consumption in buildings and view factor calculations are therefore required for the detailed simulation of heat transfer between buildings and their environment as well as for heat exch...
Agronomic N-use efficiency is the basis for economic and environmental efficiency, and an effective agro-ecosystem management practice, improving nutrient use efficiency, is a crucial challenge for a more sustainable production of horticultural, indu...
This study aims to develop a process to calculate the carbon footprint of a company in the textile sector for the automotive industry, thus addressing a research gap identified in this sector. Based on a structured calculation model, the project aspi...
The new freedoms in design that electric powertrains offer lead to a wide variety of configurations to consider when developing an electric vehicle (EV) from scratch. Furthermore, the strong relation of the battery size with vehicle weight, range and...
Background/Objectives: The increasing use of computed tomography (CT) scans significantly contributes to population exposure to ionizing radiation. Traditional dose metrics, such as dose–length product (DLP) and effective dose (ED), lack precis...
Friction losses are an important parameter for evaluating the operational behaviour of high-speed rolling bearings. Specifically, in machine tool applications, the bearings are subjected to high radial loads and high speeds, which lead to increased f...
The classic equations used to find the form factor inside fragments of spheres are often unassailable. The main difficulties that they present lie in iterative integrations effected over curved surfaces. The typical simulation software for this kind...
Digital photogrammetry has attracted widespread attention in the field of geotechnical and geological surveys due to its low-cost, ease of use, and contactless mode. In this work, with the purpose of studying the progressive block surficial detachmen...
The need to rapidly reduce greenhouse gases (GHGs) has accelerated the adoption of circular economy (CE) practices. However, this has proved challenging for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), who lack the financial, organizational, and informationa...
Municipal waste management system modeling based on the mass balance of individual waste streams allows us to answer the question of how the system will react to organizational changes, e.g., to the expected reduction in the amount of plastics or the...
Lithium-ion batteries are utilized everywhere from electronic equipment, smartphones and laptops to electric vehicles; however, certain disadvantages are inherited including high-cost and low-temperature range, caused by high currents. In this paper,...
Entropy is a fundamental concept in thermodynamics that is important in many fields, including image processing, neurobiology, urban planning, and sustainability. As of recently, the application of Boltzmann entropy for landscape patterns was mostly...
Screening and diagnostic tests are applied for the classification of people into diseased and non-diseased populations. Although diagnostic accuracy measures are used to evaluate the correctness of classification in clinical research and practice, th...
11 June 2020
This study aims to evaluate the risk assessment approach of the REACH legislation in industrial chemical departments with a focus on the use of three models to calculate exposures, and discuss those factors that can determine a bias between the estim...
Integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) has numerous advantages as well as some disadvantages. To safely integrate DERs into a given distribution network and to maximize their benefits, it is important to thoroughly analyze the impact of D...
As a key component of the measurement while drilling technology, the accuracy of attitude calculation is directly related to the efficiency of resource exploration. To reduce the influence of vibration, rotation, and other disturbances on the attitud...
Assessing sustainability is extremely necessary and appears as an industrial need and requirement in order to facilitate decision making and to evaluate the impacts of existing strategies, products and technologies. Thus, the main goal of this resear...
In this study, we developed an application for radiation protection that calculates in real time the distribution of scattered radiation during fluoroscopy using ray tracing technology, assuming that most of the scattered radiation in the room origin...
Nucleotide-based intergenomic similarities are useful to understand how viruses are related with each other and to classify them. Here we have developed VIRIDIC, which implements the traditional algorithm used by the International Committee on Taxono...
Increased insulation reduces the energy needed during operations, but this may be less than the energy required for the extra insulation material. If so, there must be an optimal insulation thickness. This paper describes the development of a tool to...
Large biomolecules often have multiple intramolecular hydrogen bonds. In the cases where these interact, it requires special tools to disentangle the patterns. Such a tool could be deuterium isotope effects on chemical shifts. The use of theoretical...
The shallow, soft subsea formations, characterized by low strength and poor stability, lead to complex interactions between the screw motor drilling tool and the wellbore wall during directional drilling, complicating the accurate evaluation of the t...
A novel computational tool, DIMRACK, is presented for the design of the required length of bottom racks in intake systems. The users may consider clear water cases or the rack’s occlusion due to sediment transport in the river. The computationa...
This paper presents advances in the development of specialized mobile applications for combat decision support utilizing augmented reality technologies used for the production of contextual data delivered to any tactical smartphone. Handhelds and dec...
Due to increasing decentralized power applications, power electronics are gaining importance, also in distribution grids. Since their scope of investigation is diverse, their versatile models and their use in grid calculations are important. In this...
The article presents the classification of the wear mechanisms of forging tools. The durability of dies can be enhanced through a variety of methods, including the selection of appropriate hot working tool steel, the application of effective heat tre...
Triangles are an ever-present feature in nature, which the building construction industry duly echoes. However, an exact expression intended to supply the radiant field of any triangle in an upright or inclined position has not been identified by pre...
The widespread problem of resistance development in bacteria has become a critical issue for modern medicine. To limit that phenomenon, many compounds have been extensively studied. Among them were derivatives of available drugs, but also alternative...
Several indolylquinone analogues of perezone, a natural sesquiterpene quinone, were characterized in this work by theoretical methods. In addition, some physicochemical, toxicological and metabolic properties were predicted using bioinformatics softw...
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