The recycling and remanufacturing of end-of-life (EoL) electric vehicle (EV) batteries are urgent challenges for a circular economy. Disassembly is crucial for handling EoL EV batteries due to their inherent uncertainties and instability. The human&n...
Cloud removal is a vital preprocessing step in optical remote sensing images (RSIs), directly enhancing image quality and providing a high-quality data foundation for downstream tasks, such as water body extraction and land cover classification. Exis...
Organic pollution is one of the main sources of environmental pollution, which poses a serious threat to the ecological environment and human health. In this study, we synthesized a composite material consisting of biochar-supported magnetite nanopar...
Efficiently removing clouds from remote sensing imagery presents a significant challenge, yet it is crucial for a variety of applications. This paper introduces a novel sparse function, named the tri-fiber-wise sparse function, meticulously engineere...
In this paper, the Relative Pose based Redundancy Removal (RPRR) scheme is presented, which has been designed for mobile RGB-D sensor networks operating under bandwidth-constrained operational scenarios. The scheme considers a multiview scenario in w...
The main purpose of this paper was to reveal the effect of aluminum (Al)-based coagulants on enhanced coagulation for the removal of algae and the synergistic optimization mechanism among different Al species. The formation, breakage, and regrowth pr...
Ecological network optimization can enhance ecological connectivity, regional ecological stability, and carbon sink capacity. Current research on ecological networks employs single-perspective optimization, which overlooks the synergistic requirement...
The flue evaporation of desulfurization wastewater can solve the problem that it is difficult to remove some heavy metal ions and chloride ions by conventional methods. A large amount of chloride ions in desulfurization wastewater can also promote th...
In this paper, the key factors and the mechanism of the extraction of iron and manganese from the sulfuric acid leaching solution of waste ternary lithium-ion batteries were studied by combining P204 and N235 extractors. The experimental results show...
Hg0, VOCs and NO are the main pollutants in sintering flue gas from the steel industry. In the wake of the swift progression of China’s steel sector over recent years, the separate removal of gaseous pollutants can no longer meet the current ul...
In this study, we designed a system that cooperates with users to always provide the most up-to-date map and the most suitable route and to cooperate with disability units to ensure that unexpected obstacles on the route are removed. It is believed t...
A large amount of semantic content is generated during designer collaboration in open-source projects (OSPs). Based on the characteristics of knowledge collaboration behavior in OSPs, we constructed a directed, weighted, semantic-based knowledge coll...
The use of constructed wetlands (CWs) for wastewater treatment has earned high interest around the world. However, innovations to improve its removal efficiency and adoption have been suggested in the last decades. For instance, the use of ornamental...
Sinter flue gas produced by the iron-ore sinter process in steel plants is characterized by a large gas volume and complex components. Among the major air pollutants, preliminary emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and nitrogen oxides (NOx...
Environment perception plays a crucial role in enabling collaborative driving automation, which is considered to be the ground-breaking solution to tackling the safety, mobility, and sustainability challenges of contemporary transportation systems. D...
Multicomponent collaborative anaerobic fermentation has been considered a promising technology for treating perishable organic solid wastes and producing clean energy. This study evaluated the potential of hydrogen production by thermophilic dry anae...
Moving from an era of dam building to dam removal brings additional perspectives to indigenous water governance and hydrosocial relations in the Klamath River Basin (US). This collaborative research initiative with the Karuk Tribe builds greater unde...
The hyperspectral anomaly detection algorithm based on collaborative representation does not fully utilize the two-dimensional spatial features in hyperspectral images. It also has the problem that anomalous pixels will pollute the background diction...
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Bioremediation of vanadium (V) pollution in groundwater is an emerging topic. However, knowledge of V in a biogeochemical process is limited and long-term effective removal methods are lacking. V(V) remediation processes by various kinds of auxiliary...
The possibility of deep radiochemical purification of Li2CO3 has been examined in the context of the purification program of the AMoRE collaboration. In this experiment, commercial Li2CO3 was converted into LiNO3. Co-precipitation with inorganic salt...
Scientific collaboration among various geographically scattered research groups on the broad topic of “metallic iron (Fe0) for water remediation” has evolved greatly over the past three decades. This collaboration has involved different k...
Background: Unplanned extubations (UEs) occur frequently in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). These events can be associated with serious short-term and long-term morbidities and increased healthcare costs. Most quality improvement (QI) initia...
This paper aims to assess the contribution of higher education institutions (HEIs) to the innovation performances in EU regions. Empirical evidence shows that HEIs are a necessary but not sufficient component of regional innovation systems, contribut...
The soft-sensor model (SSM) has been widely used for monitoring water quality, operational state, and performance evaluation in wastewater treatment process (WWTP). However, due to serious dynamics in WWTP under different working conditions, SSM face...
The demand for participant engagement in urban planning shows a great need for tools that enable communication between stakeholders and make planning processes more transparent. So far, common methods use different tools and platforms independently....
The introduction of collaborative robots in industrial environments reinforces the need to provide these robots with better cognition to accomplish their tasks while fostering worker safety without entering into safety shutdowns that reduce workflow...
The purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to assess the efficacy of methylprednisolone compared to other drugs to control postoperative complications following third molar surgery. PubMed and Google Scholar were used for article sea...
As part of its institutional skills, the INAIL (National Institute for Insurance against Accidents at Work) promotes and carries out activities aimed at preventing the risks to which workers may be subjected to in different work scenarios, in this ca...
Cancer remains a deadly disease. We developed a lightweight, accurate, general-purpose deep learning algorithm for skin cancer classification. Squeeze-MNet combines a Squeeze algorithm for digital hair removal during preprocessing and a MobileNet dee...
In this study, we propose a smart hopper system that automatically unblocks obstructions caused by rocks dropped into hoppers at mining sites. The proposed system captures RGB (red green blue) and D (depth) images of the upper surfaces of hopper mode...
The final phase of the manufacturing process for any artefact involves their surface finishing operations. This phase entails the precise removal of small volumes of material to achieve a specific surface roughness, which is essential for ensuring th...
Skin cancer is common nowadays. Early diagnosis of skin cancer is essential to increase patients’ survival rate. In addition to traditional methods, computer-aided diagnosis is used in diagnosis of skin cancer. One of the benefits of this metho...
The execution of recombinational pathways during the repair of certain DNA lesions or in the meiotic program is associated to the formation of joint molecules that physically hold chromosomes together. These structures must be disengaged prior to the...
Micropollutants belong to various groups of chemicals. One of the most diverse and large group of them are pharmaceuticals. The presence of pharmaceutical residues in wastewater poses a significant challenge to water quality and environmental health....
The SS Thistlegorm, a British World War II cargo vessel sunk in 1941 in the Red Sea, is one of the world’s most visited wreck dives, attracting thousands of divers annually. This popularity has accelerated structural deterioration and artefact...
The authors aimed to evaluate the Safe Harbors Youth Intervention Project inter-sec- toral collaboration to improve continuity and appropriateness of services for sexually exploited children and adolescents. The study was carried on thro...
As an indispensable part of Internet of Things (IoT), wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are more and more widely used with the rapid development of IoT. The neighbor discovery protocols are the premise of communication between nodes and networking in e...
This paper summarizes over a decade of collaborative eco-archaeological research along the central coast of California involving researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, tribal citizens from the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, and California...
As a critical impurity in the production of solar-grade silicon, the concentration of phosphorus (P) significantly affects photoelectric conversion efficiency. To address the challenge of P removal in solar-grade silicon production, this study propos...
Cloud contamination significantly impairs optical remote sensing images (RSIs), reducing their utility for Earth observation. The traditional cloud removal techniques, often reliant on deep learning, generally aim for holistic image reconstruction, w...
This review article focuses on the potential of biopolymer-based nanocomposites incorporating nanoparticles, graphene oxide (GO), carbon nanotubes (CNTs), and nanoclays in adsorption and membrane filtration processes for water treatment. The aim is t...
This article examines the resilience and volatility of academic publishing at the University of Maribor (UM) from 2004 to 2023, a period marked by significant economic and policy shifts in Slovenia. Using employment data from UM’s internal reco...
The resilience of scientific collaboration networks is a key factor in ensuring the long-term academic development of young universities. This study examines the resilience of scientific collaboration networks among young universities based on biblio...
Collaborative robots offer opportunities to increase the sustainability of work and workforces by increasing productivity, quality, and efficiency, whilst removing workers from hazardous, repetitive, and strenuous tasks. They also offer opportunities...
Stricter requirements on nutrient removal in wastewater treatment are being imposed by rapid urbanization and tightening water-quality standards. Despite their excellent solid–liquid separation and effective biological treatment, MBRs in conven...
A feasible approach was developed for the synthesis of ordered mesoporous SBA-15-type materials using coal fly ash (CFA) as raw material. In the proposed approach, CFA was, firstly, activated by subcritical water with the addition of NaOH, which allo...
Achieving simultaneous anammox and denitrification is a feasible approach for enhancing nitrogen removal in mainstream anammox processes. Nevertheless, the optimal C/N range and microbial dynamics driving this process are still not fully understood....
Fruit plays an important role in tropical horticulture and has high commercial value in domestic and international markets. There are several factors affecting the quality of fruit in the supply chain, including type of fruit, storage, distribution,...
The Patron Game studies the individual provision of a public good, i.e., a situation in which the cost of contributing exceeds by construction its private return (e.g., volunteering, Open Collaboration projects). We test the Patron Game in the lab fi...
Water pollution is a global issue that threatens human health and ecosystems, driving the need for advanced purification technologies. Traditional methods face limitations in cost and efficiency, prompting the emergence of green nanomicrobiology as a...
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