Cutter suction dredgers are important pieces of rock excavation equipment in port and waterway construction. It is valuable but difficult to properly estimate the cutting force on the chisel pick of the cutter suction dredger. In this paper, an analy...
In order to improve the tool life and micro-hole machining quality, the H-shaped chisel edge micro-drill (HCE-MD) was developed in this paper. The HCE-MD was characterized by the inner edge formed through the chisel edge thinning. In the micro-drilli...
Hardware Trojans (HTs) threaten integrated-circuit security in a globalized semiconductor supply chain, yet how the choice of hardware description language—manual Verilog versus compiler-optimized agile languages such as Chisel—affects th...
Drilling in deep hard formations poses significant challenges for conventional polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC) cutters, which often suffer from low rock-breaking efficiency and premature failure due to severe cutter-face wear, high thermal load...
In response to the issues associated with implementing cryptographic algorithms using the traditional hardware description language Verilog Hardware Description Language (Verilog HDL)—namely, high code complexity, long development cycles, and d...
Shear bond strength (SBS) testing is a commonly used method for evaluating different dental adhesive systems. Failure mode analysis provides valuable information for better interpretation of bond strength results. The aim of this study was to evaluat...
This paper presents a parameterizable design generator on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) using the Chisel hardware construction language (HCL). By parameterizing structural designs such as the streaming width, pooling layer type, and floating p...
Improving fuel and energy efficiency in agricultural tillage is critical for sustainable farming and reducing environmental impacts. In this study, the effects of forward speed and tillage depth on the fuel efficiency parameters of a tractor–ch...
Long-term tillage management fundamentally reshapes soil’s physical and chemical environment, yet an integrated, predictive characterization of the distinct chemical signatures induced by no-tillage (NT) versus chisel tillage (CT) remains limit...
This paper presents the interaction system within the mechanical soil processing process, consisting of two large elements, the metal of the tool and the soil. Due to the two main forces acting on the chisel knives—friction and impact with the...
Field tribological tests of two design variants of chisels used in the teeth of a cultivation-sowing unit were carried out in this research. A characteristic feature of the first variant of chisels was the reinforcement of their contact surface and a...
Deploying deeply quantized neural networks on FPGA devices can be a time-consuming task. This has led to research on tools to automate this procedure, specifically for the case of fast machine learning. This is a specialized field concerned with the...
Dipodomys microps, the chisel-toothed kangaroo rat, is heralded as one of few mammalian herbivores capable of dietary specialization. Throughout its range, the diet of D. microps is thought to consist primarily of Atriplex confertifolia (saltbush), a...
Understanding the soil-plant relationship is important to determine critical limits of soil properties that influence crop growth and yield. The objectives were to quantify the influence of soil compaction levels on physical properties and crop growt...
In this study, artificial neural networks (ANNs) were used to predict the draft force of a rigid tine chisel cultivator. The factorial experiment based on the randomized complete block design (RCBD) was used to obtain the required data and to determi...
The focal objective of the current research is to apply artificial neural network (ANN) and multiple linear regression (MLR) methods for modeling the performance attributes of a mechanization unit (tractor-chisel plow) during the plowing process unde...
Efficient seedbed preparation under conservation-oriented tillage requires balanced aggregate fragmentation, surface microrelief and energy demand. This study investigated the influence of passive toothed roller parameters on soil fragmentation, surf...
This study evaluated whether long-term no-till and chisel tillage differed in total organic carbon (TOC), total nitrogen (TN), alkaline-extractable fractions, and associated indices. A field experiment in Indiana, USA, began in 1983 with moldboard, r...
Trophic resource partitioning is one of the main drivers of adaptive radiation. The evolutionary diversification of large African barbs, the genus Labeobarbus, seems to be related to mouth polymorphism. The chisel-mouthed or scraping phenotype has re...
The development of restoration technology and meadows, improvement of run-down pastures, and productivity improvement of old crops of perennial grasses is an urgent problem in agriculture. The tillage traction force in seeder designing and manufactur...
Resin is one of the traditional non-timber forest products in the Republic of Korea. In order to investigate the chronological activity of resin collection, the wounds/cuts on red pines (Pinus densiflora) were dated using a tree-ring analysis techniq...
The intense and successive use of mechanization in modern cropping systems has increased soil compaction under no-till areas. In this study, we aimed to assess the performance of a fixed shank coupled with a seeder for the mitigation of soil compacti...
We evaluated the correlation of electrical impedance myography (EIM) measurements of knee muscles composition using Skulpt ChiselTM with MRI data retrieved from muscles segmentation. A total of 140 patients (71 females, 52 ± 21 years) underwen...
The growth of cover crops can contribute to the increase in phosphorus content at depth by root decomposition. The aim of this work was to verify the effect of cover crops on soil phosphorus availability and use by successive plants, and the accumula...
In mechanized agricultural activities, fuel is particularly important for tillage operations. In this study, the impact of seven distinct parameters on fuel usage per unit of draft power was examined. The parameters are tractor power, soil texture in...
While tillage of agricultural lands has been used extensively, its utilization for restoring degraded semi-natural lands is rare. This study was conducted in the arid southern Israel in a shrubland which has faced severe degradation processes over ti...
Core Ideas: (1) Superficial soil compaction in a no-tillage system. (2) Cultivation of cover crops in succession with annual crops. (3) Soil decompression with cultivation of the predecessor soil cover. (4) Unpacking soil with mechanical chiseling. (...
In China, there are around 36.7 million hectares of saline–alkali lands that hold utilization potential. Precision fertilization stands as a vital measure for enhancing the quality of saline–alkali soil and promoting a significant increas...
Keyword spotting is an important part of modern speech recognition pipelines. Typical contemporary keyword-spotting systems are based on Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficient (MFCC) audio features, which are relatively complex to compute. Considering th...
Conservation agriculture is increasingly recognized as a sustainable alternative to conventional farming in temperate regions due to its benefits in terms of reducing soil erosion, enhancing water retention, and mitigating climate change. Despite the...
‘Whitestone’ is a characteristic raw material in the Late Neolithic (Tisza and Lengyel culture) polished stone tool (chisel, adze, macehead) archaeological record in Southern Hungary. However, the lithology—the technical term not re...
Background: Body composition assessment is highly relevant in various fields, including health and performance. This study aimed to evaluate the agreement in body fat percentage (BF%) estimates between three bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) dev...
Occasional mechanical intervention can help alleviate compaction symptoms in no-till systems, but its effects compared to well-established crop rotation systems are uncertain. Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of mechanical and...
A field experiment was performed in Southwest Germany to examine the effects of long-term reduced tillage (2000–2012). Tillage treatments were deep moldboard plow: DP, 25 cm; double-layer plow; DLP, 15 + 10 cm, shallow moldboard plow: SP, 15 cm and c...
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One of the most modern technologies for growing row crops is strip-till. Currently, it occupies an intermediate position between conventional tillage and no-till technologies. Special complex and expensive machines are used to implement strip-till te...
A better understanding of the effect of long-term tillage management on soil properties and yield is essential for sustainable food production. This research aimed to evaluate the 37-year impact of different tillage systems and cover cropping on soil...
Subsoil tillage loosens compacted soil for better plant growth, but promotes water loss, which is a concern in areas that are commonly irrigated. Therefore, our objective was to determine the physiological responses of high yield spring maize (Zea ma...
For every tractor test carried out on a concrete road under defined conditions, the Nebraska Tractor Test Laboratory (NTTL) provides values of the specific volumetric fuel efficiency (SVFE) in unit of kWh/L). Because soil tillage is a highly energy-i...
No-tillage cover crops contribute to better soil quality, being able to replace mechanized tillage management. This observation can only be made after several years of adopting conservationist practices and through research on soil–plant relati...
Resource-constrained Internet-of-Things (IoT) terminals require encryption engines that combine low silicon cost with adequate throughput, a balance that is hard to reach with general-purpose software alone. This paper presents an LBlock lightweight...
Introduction: Targeted dose-escalation and reduction of dose to adjacent organs at risk have been the main goal of radiotherapy in the last decade. Prostate cancer benefited the most from this process. In recent years, the development of Intensity Mo...
The aridization of the climate negatively affects the growth and development of plants and their productivity. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of heat stress and water availability on maize for silage under aridization and to find o...
Resource efficiency and circularity in the context of sustainability are rapidly gaining importance in the steel industry. One concept regarding circular economy is “repurposing”. In the context of this work, worn-out machine circular kni...
The art of sculpting is related to the processing of brittle materials, such as granite, marble, and stone, and is implemented using percussive hand tools or rotational roughing tools. The outcome of percussion carving is still directly related to th...
Crop establishment depends mostly on the soil preparation and sowing methods used. Our main goal was to evaluate soil compaction and its effects on wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and soybean (Glycine max L.) yields and seedling emergence with two diffe...
Soil compaction is a worldwide problem in agricultural areas, and it is important to define soil properties and reference values that allow knowledge of the compaction level for decision making. The objective of this study was to define the critical...
Prefabricated Ultra-High-Performance Concrete (UHPC) and cast-in-place Normal Concrete (NC) composite members are increasingly used in bridge engineering because they combine high performance with cost-effectiveness. The bond at the UHPC-NC interface...
Gear drives are widely used in various fields and applications due to their properties and capacity. Their versatility, durability, and ability to transmit high torques as well as precision and reliability make them extremely useful in many fields of...
Chainsaw operation is associated with several hazards, including exposure to wood dust, a risk factor which requires serious attention due to health impacts such as respiratory disease. This study aims to investigate the effect of saw chain type and...
In southern Brazil, a large proportion of farmers maintain their fields under fallow conditions during the transition period between summer and winter crops. During this interval, mechanical practices such as chiseling or the introduction of cover cr...
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