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13 March 2024

With the large-scale integration of distributed generation (DG), it is difficult to realize distribution network planning and operation under specific requirements using the traditional cluster division method based on a single criterion. To reduce t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art of Power Systems)
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  • Open Access
1,261 Views
31 Pages

4 November 2025

The accurate division of operating periods in urban rail transit (URT) is crucial for reasonable scheduling. However, the current determination of operating breakpoints largely relies on the empirical judgment of operators, and symmetric period schem...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Engineering and Materials)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,374 Views
54 Pages

Advancing Image Compression Through Clustering Techniques: A Comprehensive Analysis

  • Mohammed Omari,
  • Mohammed Kaddi,
  • Khouloud Salameh and
  • Ali Alnoman

Image compression is a critical area of research aimed at optimizing data storage and transmission while maintaining image quality. This paper explores the application of clustering techniques as a means to achieve efficient and high-quality image co...

(This article belongs to the Section Information and Communication Technologies)
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  • Open Access
2,089 Views
21 Pages

14 November 2023

This paper proposes an active–reactive power collaborative scheduling model with cluster division for the flexible distributed energy resources (DERs) of smart-building systems to resolve the high complexity of the centralized optimal schedulin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Strategies for Building Energy Efficiency)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,498 Views
22 Pages

Base Station Planning Based on Region Division and Mean Shift Clustering

  • Jian Chen,
  • Yongkun Shi,
  • Jiaquan Sun,
  • Jiangkuan Li and
  • Jing Xu

21 April 2023

The problem of insufficient signal coverage of 5G base stations can be solved by building new base stations in areas with weak signal coverage. However, due to construction costs and other factors, it is not possible to cover all areas. In general, a...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,221 Views
14 Pages

Free-Form Surface Partitioning and Simulation Verification Based on Surface Curvature

  • Hongwei Liu,
  • Enzhong Zhang,
  • Ruiyang Sun,
  • Wenhui Gao and
  • Zheng Fu

7 December 2022

To address the problem of low overall machining efficiency of free-form surfaces and difficulty in ensuring machining quality, this paper proposes a MATLAB-based free-form surface division method. The surface division is divided into two stages: Part...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Manufacturing Technology and Systems, 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,150 Views
19 Pages

Exploring Regional Industrial Growth: Does Specialization Explain It?

  • Leyla Gamidullaeva,
  • Elena Korostyshevskaya,
  • Alexey Myamlin and
  • Olga Podkorytova

Being a form of territorial division of labor, economic specialization should be considered as a strategic management priority, contributing to a competitive territorial production structure and, consequently, regional economic growth. The article is...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic Development)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,526 Views
19 Pages

26 July 2024

To contribute to the realization of the goal of carbon peak and carbon neutrality, the non-polluting and sustainable nature of new energy sources such as wind, photovoltaic power, and energy storage has gained widespread attention, and new-energy dis...

(This article belongs to the Topic Distributed Generation and Storage in Power Systems)
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  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,182 Views
21 Pages

18 July 2021

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) has been widely adopted in underwater acoustic (UWA) communication due to its good anti-multipath performance and high spectral efficiency. For UWA-OFDM systems, channel state information (CSI) is ess...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Underwater Acoustics Modelling and Control)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,403 Views
19 Pages

23 December 2021

Accurate regional classification of highways is a critical prerequisite to implement a tailored safety assessment. However, there has been inadequate research on objective classification considering traffic flow characteristics for highway safety ass...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,133 Views
17 Pages

Forecasting Hourly Power Load Considering Time Division: A Hybrid Model Based on K-means Clustering and Probability Density Forecasting Techniques

  • Fuqiang Li,
  • Shiying Zhang,
  • Wenxuan Li,
  • Wei Zhao and ,
  • Bingkang Li and
  • Huiru Zhao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 December 2019

In comparison with traditional point forecasting method, probability density forecasting can reflect the load fluctuation more effectively and provides more information. This paper proposes a hybrid hourly power load forecasting model, which integrat...

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  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,690 Views
19 Pages

26 March 2019

As an emerging class of spatial trajectory data, mobile user trajectory data can be used to analyze individual or group behavioral characteristics, hobbies and interests. Besides, the information extracted from original trajectory data is widely used...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,156 Views
17 Pages

19 March 2025

This paper presents a flood season staging study for the Altash Water Control Project in Xinjiang, aiming to enhance water resource utilization efficiency. A combined qualitative and quantitative analysis approach is adopted to address the challenges...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,451 Views
20 Pages

Efficient Supervised Image Clustering Based on Density Division and Graph Neural Networks

  • Qingchao Zhao,
  • Long Li,
  • Yan Chu,
  • Zhen Yang and ,
  • Zhengkui Wang and
  • Wen Shan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

5 August 2022

In recent research, supervised image clustering based on Graph Neural Networks (GNN) connectivity prediction has demonstrated considerable improvements over traditional clustering algorithms. However, existing supervised image clustering algorithms a...

(This article belongs to the Topic Big Data and Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,851 Views
22 Pages

24 October 2020

The present study describes a simple procedure to separate into patterns of similarity a large group of solvents, 259 in total, presented by 15 specific descriptors (experimentally found and theoretically predicted physicochemical parameters). Solven...

(This article belongs to the Section D: Chemistry: Symmetry/Asymmetry)
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  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,242 Views
22 Pages

Immigration as a Divisive Topic: Clusters and Content Diffusion in the Italian Twitter Debate

  • Salvatore Vilella,
  • Mirko Lai,
  • Daniela Paolotti and
  • Giancarlo Ruffo

15 October 2020

In this work, we apply network science to analyse almost 6 M tweets about the debate around immigration in Italy, collected between 2018 and 2019, when many related events captured media outlets’ attention. Our aim was to better understand the...

(This article belongs to the Section Techno-Social Smart Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,384 Views
27 Pages

22 January 2014

Indoor positioning systems based on the fingerprint method are widely used due to the large number of existing devices with a wide range of coverage. However, extensive positioning regions with a massive fingerprint database may cause high computatio...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,489 Views
31 Pages

On the basis of analyzing the problems concerning hotel accommodation recommendation (HAR), this paper constructs a tourism HAR algorithm based on the CS-IDIANA clustering model (cellular space-improved divisive analysis). The algorithm integrates th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Research in Technology and Information Systems)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,531 Views
20 Pages

26 February 2023

Landslide susceptibility mapping (LSM) studies provide essential information that helps various authorities in managing landslide-susceptible areas. This study aimed at applying and comparing the performance of DIvisive ANAlysis (DIANA) and RObust Cl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Slope Stability Analysis and Landslide Disaster Prevention)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,743 Views
10 Pages

26 October 2020

Wine data are usually characterized by high variability, in terms of compounds and concentration ranges. Chemometric methods can be efficiently used to extract and exploit the meaningful information contained in such data. Therefore, the fuzzy divisi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Chemometrics Tools Used in Analytical Chemistry)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,358 Views
17 Pages

2 September 2019

Aggregation technology can integrate distributed energy resources (DERs) into resource aggregation (RA) to achieve efficient utilization of resources. This paper studies a DERs aggregation model to construct a RA. Firstly, considering the uncertainty...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)
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  • Open Access
64 Citations
6,459 Views
22 Pages

27 February 2023

Around a third of the world’s surface area is covered with forests. This is about 4–5 billion hectares of land. We are losing an additional 3 million hectares of forest cover each year than we did in 2001. Hence, researchers worldwide hav...

(This article belongs to the Topic Wireless Sensor Networks)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,651 Views
16 Pages

14 April 2022

Personalized education aims to provide cooperative and exploratory courses for students by using computer and network technology to construct a more effective cooperative learning mode, thus improving students’ cooperation ability and lifelong...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence Applications for Education)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,317 Views
29 Pages

21 October 2021

In this paper we formally define the hierarchical clustering network problem (HCNP) as the problem to find a good hierarchical partition of a network. This new problem focuses on the dynamic process of the clustering rather than on the final picture...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cooperative Game Theory and Mathematical Structures)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,983 Views
19 Pages

Three-Phase Symmetric Distribution Network Fast Dynamic Reconfiguration Based on Timing-Constrained Hierarchical Clustering Algorithm

  • Xingquan Ji,
  • Xuan Zhang,
  • Yumin Zhang,
  • Ziyang Yin and ,
  • Ming Yang and
  • Xueshan Han
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 August 2021

This paper develops a novel dynamic three-phase symmetric distribution network reconfiguration (DNR) approach based on hierarchical clustering with timing constraints, which can divide the time period according to the time-varying symmetric load dema...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies in Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
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  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,626 Views
22 Pages

22 January 2024

Traditional villages, rich in historical and cultural value, hold a high level of preservation value. In the process of urbanization, traditional villages face the crisis of decline, making it difficult to perpetuate the carried cultural heritage. Th...

(This article belongs to the Section Ecology Science and Engineering)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,568 Views
23 Pages

Achieving an Optimal Decision for the Joint Planning of Renewable Power Supply and Energy Storage for Offshore Oil–Gas Platforms

  • Changbin Hu,
  • Jufu Deng,
  • Chao Liu,
  • Shanna Luo and ,
  • Xuecheng Li and
  • Heng Lu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

31 July 2023

To address the complexity of siting and sizing for the renewable energy and energy storage (ES) of offshore oil–gas platforms, as well as to enhance the utilization of renewable energy and to ensure the power-flow stability of offshore oil&ndas...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,031 Views
24 Pages

22 December 2022

Olive orchard intensification has transformed an originally drought-resilient tree crop into a competing water user in semi-arid regions. In our study, we used remote sensing to evaluate whether intensive olive plantations have increased between 2010...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,370 Views
15 Pages

Centrosome Amplification Is a Potential Molecular Target in Paediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

  • Meiyun Guo,
  • Jenna Rever,
  • Phuong N. U. Nguyen,
  • Neha M. Akella and ,
  • Gregor S. D. Reid and
  • Christopher A. Maxwell
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 December 2022

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common form of cancer in children, with most cases arising from fetal B cell precursor, termed B-ALL. Here, we use immunofluorescence analysis of B-ALL cells to identify centrosome amplification events t...

(This article belongs to the Section Pediatric Oncology)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,048 Views
21 Pages

Key Vulnerable Nodes Discovery Based on Bayesian Attack Subgraphs and Improved Fuzzy C-Means Clustering

  • Yuhua Xu,
  • Yang Liu,
  • Zhixin Sun,
  • Yucheng Xue and ,
  • Weiliang Liao,
  • Chenlei Liu and
  • Zhe Sun
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

8 May 2024

Aiming at the problem that the search efficiency of key vulnerable nodes in large-scale networks is not high and the consideration factors are not comprehensive enough, in order to improve the time and space efficiency of search and the accuracy of r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fuzzy Modeling and Fuzzy Control Systems)
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  • Open Access
1,990 Views
22 Pages

6 June 2025

Traditional villages contain rich natural and humanistic information, and exploring the spatial distribution characteristics and cultural landscape zoning of traditional villages can provide scientific support for their centralized and continuous pro...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,588 Views
13 Pages

21 November 2024

With the integration of a high proportion of distributed generators (DGs), the imbalance between source and load power intensifies, causing the distribution grid to become ‘weak’ during certain periods, which can easily lead to voltage ov...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,162 Views
28 Pages

Aiming at the challenges of complex spatial-temporal correlation and strong nonlinearity in the power prediction of large-scale wind farm clusters, this study proposes a short-term wind power prediction method that combines a dynamic graph structure...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Power System Dynamics, Stability, Control and Dispatch with Large-Scale Renewable Energy Penetrated, 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
938 Views
20 Pages

A Grid-Based Scenario Delineation Method for Distribution Networks Based on Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation and SNN-DPC Clustering

  • Liuzhu Zhu,
  • Xin Yang,
  • Xuli Wang,
  • Fan Zhou and ,
  • Zhi Guan and
  • Hejun Yang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 September 2025

Aiming at the problems that the random probability characteristics of large-scale source and load resources lead to the ineffectiveness of deterministic planning methods, the standard grid structure is difficult to adapt to the demands of diversified...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power System Optimization for Energy Storage: Methods and Applications)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,713 Views
15 Pages

K-Means Module Division Method of FDM3D Printer-Based Function–Behavior–Structure Mapping

  • Ying You,
  • Zhiqiang Liu,
  • Youqian Liu,
  • Ning Peng and ,
  • Jian Wang,
  • Yizhe Huang and
  • Qibai Huang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

23 June 2023

Product performance, function, cost, and the level of module generalization are all significantly influenced by product modular design, but different goods require different division indicators and techniques. The purpose of this study is to provide...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,728 Views
19 Pages

In the fields of geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing (RS), the clustering algorithm has been widely used for image segmentation, pattern recognition, and cartographic generalization. Although clustering analysis plays a key role i...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,099 Views
22 Pages

The equal division of tropical cyclone (TC) trajectory method, the mass moment of the TC trajectory method, and the mixed regression model method are clustering algorithms that use space and shape information from complete TC trajectories. In this ar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Geo-Information for Environmental Forensics and Environmental Risk Management in the Anthropocene)
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  • Open Access
411 Views
25 Pages

Cluster Optimization of an Integrated Energy System for a Park Based on Demand Response

  • Hongwei Yue,
  • Hongkai Yuan,
  • Kaikai Man,
  • Zhuo Zuo and
  • Peng Sun

To address the issues of insufficient operational flexibility and low energy coordination efficiency of the integrated energy system in the park under the integration of large-scale distributed renewable energy, it is essential to carry out research...

(This article belongs to the Topic Energy Systems: Design, Management, Control and Monitoring)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,931 Views
17 Pages

Modularized Design of ACDCD: An Improved Spectral Clustering-Based Approach

  • Qiu-Ping Bi,
  • Yu-Cheng Li,
  • Rong Li,
  • Cheng Shen and ,
  • Huan-Zhi Lou and
  • Yuan-Yuan Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

31 January 2022

The air curtain dust control device (ACDCD) utilizes the air curtain formed by high-speed gas ejected from an injection cavity to separate the driver working area from the roadheader pollution area, so as to achieve the purpose of dust control. The e...

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  • Open Access
163 Views
15 Pages

Does Height Matter? Goalkeeper Performance Across Three Levels of English Football

  • Ciaran Wen Ye Chew,
  • Anselmo Ruiz-de-Alarcón-Quintero and
  • Blanca De-la-Cruz-Torres

1 November 2026

Goalkeeper (GK) height is frequently considered in recruitment, although its association with competitive performance remains uncertain. This observational study examined height and mean Goals Saved Above Average (GSAA) per shot across three English...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning and Data Mining in Exercise, Sports and Health Research, Second Edition)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,131 Views
14 Pages

Representative Community Detection Algorithms for Attribute Networks

  • Dongming Chen,
  • Mingzhao Xie,
  • Yuxing He,
  • Xin Zou and
  • Dongqi Wang

17 December 2024

In network analysis, methods for identifying a community structure of ten involve optimizing a specific objective function to achieve a single optimal allocation from network nodes to communities. In practice, however, we often encounter multiple div...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Representation Learning for Social Network Analysis)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,978 Views
15 Pages

14 July 2023

In the wake of advancing technology, autonomous vehicles and robotic systems have burgeoned in popularity across a spectrum of applications ranging from mapping and agriculture to reconnaissance missions. These practical implementations have brought...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Robot Path Planning, Volume II)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,580 Views
17 Pages

19 October 2021

Gene network associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is constructed from multiple data sources by considering gene co-expression and other factors. The AD gene network is divided into modules by Cluster one, Markov Clustering (MCL), Community Cluste...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,181 Views
16 Pages

Data Analysis of Electricity Service in Colombia’s Non-Interconnected Zones through Different Clustering Techniques

  • Ramón Fernando Colmenares-Quintero,
  • Gina Maestre-Gongora,
  • Marieth Baquero-Almazo,
  • Kim E. Stansfield and
  • Juan Carlos Colmenares-Quintero

17 October 2022

Energy determines the social, economic, and environmental aspects that enable the advancement of communities. For this reason, this paper aims to analyze the quality of the energy service in the Non-Interconnected Zones (NIZ) of Colombia. For this pu...

(This article belongs to the Section A4: Bio-Energy)
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  • Open Access
477 Views
17 Pages

Optimization of Staged Fracturing and Cluster Design for Horizontal Wells in Low-Permeability Reservoirs Based on Mechanical Specific Energy

  • Yuan Pan,
  • Min Liu,
  • Xuewei Liu,
  • Feixiang Qin and ,
  • Xiaoting Gou,
  • Yingxi Zhang,
  • Xiangyun Sui,
  • Peipei Liu and
  • Mingxiu Zhang
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

20 July 2026

The fracturing design of horizontal wells in low-permeability reservoirs mostly relies on static data such as logging data, and insufficient utilization of while-drilling information from drilling and mud logging leads to an unreliable basis for stag...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advances in Integrated Geological, Mineralogical, and Engineering Research on Unconventional Oil and Gas)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,732 Views
16 Pages

Variable Selection Using Adaptive Band Clustering and Physarum Network

  • Huanyu Chen,
  • Tong Chen,
  • Zhihao Zhang and
  • Guangyuan Liu

27 June 2017

Variable selection is a key step for eliminating redundant information in spectroscopy. Among various variable selection methods, the physarum network (PN) is a newly-introduced and efficient one. However, the whole spectrum has to be equally divided...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,903 Views
15 Pages

24 August 2018

To alleviate traffic congestion and traffic-related environmental pollution caused by the increasing numbers of private cars, public transport (PT) is highly recommended to travelers. However, there is an obvious contradiction between the diversifica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,555 Views
21 Pages

Infrared Visual Sensing Detection of Groove Width for Swing Arc Narrow Gap Welding

  • Na Su,
  • Jiayou Wang,
  • Guoxiang Xu,
  • Jie Zhu and
  • Yuqing Jiang

26 March 2022

To solve the current problem of poor weld formation due to groove width variation in swing arc narrow gap welding, an infrared passive visual sensing detection approach was developed in this work to measure groove width under intense welding interfer...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,597 Views
44 Pages

29 January 2023

The investor interest in multi-regional earthquake bonds may drop because high-risk locations are less appealing to investors than low-risk ones. Furthermore, a single parameter (earthquake magnitude) cannot accurately express the severity due to an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,490 Views
30 Pages

17 August 2020

Today, semi-structured and unstructured data are mainly collected and analyzed for data analysis applicable to various systems. Such data have a dense distribution of space and usually contain outliers and noise data. There have been ongoing research...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)

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