With the breakthrough of modernism, various efforts were undertaken to rationalize architecture and building processes using industrial principles. Few architects explored these as intensively as Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus. Before Wor...
The construction industry represents an important part of the global economy but is known for many issues such as harmful emissions, low productivity, waste generation, poor ergonomics, and construction incidents and accidents. A logistical view has...
Digital twin (DT) technology is a key element of Industry 4.0. Despite its rapid development, current research is mainly focused on industrial optimisation and machine-level monitoring. However, its implementation in the educational process lags sign...
Through numerous experiences, the robotics has been demonstrated to have good potential in the field of strengthening social skills in children with Special Educational Needs and in particular with autism spectrum disorder. There are still not many e...
Gripper finger design is a complex process that requires a lot of experience, time, and effort. For this reason, automating this design process is an important area of research that has the potential to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of rob...
The challenges of improving efficiency and safety is a daunting task as workers are squeezed with an ever-dwindling resource pool and yet expected to deliver construction projects at optimum capacity. Improving efficiency and safety using telescopic...
The design of a manipulator arm, which is built from a construction kit, is presented in this article. The procedure is based on the results of the discrete optimization of a truss structure and its application to a simple component system (assuming...
Early engineering experiences can provide young people with experiences that can contribute to developing longer-term interest in the field and addressing dropout issues faced in engineering internationally. One way to engage young people with engine...
While materials count for a considerable amount of construction costs, the way materials are managed seems to be improvised rather than approached methodically. This study investigates the practice of novel techniques used to manage materials in the...
The article at hand follows the understanding that future cities cannot be built the same way as existing ones, inducing a radical paradigm shift in how we produce and use materials for the construction of our habitat in the 21st century. In search o...
This paper discusses new ideas about the use of educational robotics in social-emotional learning. In particular, educational robotics could be a tool intended to allow children to acquire some of the basic aspects of human emotions and emotional fun...
This paper examined the opportunities of composite double-layer grid superstructures in short-to-medium span bridge decks. It was empirically shown here that a double-layer grid deck system in composite action with a thin layer of two−way reinf...
This paper examines some of the largely neglected areas of opportunity to utilize skeletal space structure systems in support of the modular, industrialized, economical, sustainable, and digital future of the construction industry. In this context, t...
This paper poses, discusses, but does not definitively answer, the following questions: What sorts of reasoning machinery could the ancient mathematicians, and other intelligent animals, be using for spatial reasoning, before the discovery of modern...
This study proposes incorporating generative artificial intelligence large language models (LLMs) into the Master of Science (M.Sc.) curriculum on digitization in construction. The aim was to help students generate computer code to solve, automate, a...
Concrete structures are increasingly becoming exposed to organic acid attack conditions, such as those found in agriculture and food-related industries. This paper aims to experimentally verify the thermodynamic modeling of cement pastes under acetic...
Isolating DNA from bacterial cells concentrated directly from water samples allows the analysis of the DNA with a range of molecular biology techniques. The aim was to develop a cost-effective method to concentrate bacterial cells directly from water...
This paper describes a design process for a universal development kit based on an analog computer concept that can model the dynamics of an arbitrarily complex dynamical system up to the fourth order. The constructed development kit contains digital...
This paper presents a miniature three-degree-of-freedom laser measurement (3DOFLM) system for displacement feedback and error compensation of a nanopositioning stage. The 3DOFLM system is composed of a miniature Michelson interferometer (MMI) kit, a...
The problem of efficient AI-assisted design-to-kit transformation for Gablok-layout designs is related to the development of techniques to convert architectural designs into constructible and ready-to-build modular constructions. The current research...
To investigate the predictive factors for resistance to VEN combined with HMAs in the treatment of AML, construct a drug resistance prediction model, and visualize the model. A retrospective analysis was conducted on 74 AML patients. Multivariate log...
Plasma-catalytic oxidation is a promising approach for the abatement of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), yet its efficiency is often limited by the ineffective utilization of plasma-generated reactive oxygen species and incomplete oxidation pathway...
This paper presents a model that establishes a relationship between the financial resources allocated to maintain and replace railway station infrastructure assets and the resulting infrastructure quality. Until now, there has been no known relations...
This paper studied a class of coupling problems of material assignment, part nesting, kit delivery and parallel machine scheduling. The aim of this paper was to solve the scheduling problem of metal structural part processing and welding assembly wit...
Technology has been contributing significantly to the development of assistive devices for disabled persons (DPs). Many of these devices aim to assist people who are blind or visually impaired, providing them with friendlier ways to interact with the...
As the SARS-CoV-2 virus evolves, mutations may result in diminished sensitivity to qRT-PCR diagnostic assays. We investigated four polymorphisms circulating in the SARS-CoV-2 Delta lineage that result in N gene target failure (NGTF) on the TaqPath CO...
Engineering education benefits from the application of modern technology, allowing students to learn essential Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) related concepts through hands-on experiences. Robotic kits have been used as an i...
As a result of the growing demand for highly customized and individual products, companies need to enable flexible and intelligent manufacturing. Cyber-physical production systems (CPPS) will act autonomously in the future in an interlinked productio...
Lactoferrin (Lf), as a popular nutritional fortification in dairy products, has the ability regulate the body’s immune system and function as a broad-spectrum antibacterial, which is of great significance to the growth and development of infant...
Protein synthesis is at the core of bottom-up construction of artificial cellular mimics. Intriguingly, several reports have revealed that when a transcription–translation (TX–TL) kit is encapsulated inside lipid vesicles (or water-in-oil droplets),...
The integrated description of the building geometry and the element attributes of the building information model (BIM) can reduce the effort needed to acquire data for life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle costing (LCC) at each design stage whil...
One of the key elements in the analysis of gene expression and its post-translational regulation is miRNAs. Degradome-seq analyses are performed to analyze the cleavage of target RNAs in the transcriptome. This work presents the first degradome-seq l...
Background: Metabolite identification and annotation remain major bottlenecks in untargeted metabolomics because mass spectral features often lack sufficient specificity. High-confidence annotation requires experimental validation using authentic sta...
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced diagnostic laboratories to focus on the early diagnostics of SARS-CoV-2. The positivity of a molecular test cannot respond to the question regarding the viral capability to replicate, spread, and give different clinic...
The kinase insert domain (KID) of RTK KIT is the key recruitment region for downstream signalling proteins. KID, studied by molecular dynamics simulations as a cleaved polypeptide and as a native domain fused to KIT, showed intrinsic disorder represe...
The architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry faces challenges related to inefficiencies and fragmentation that highlight the need for advanced construction technologies and drive interest in innovative solutions such as the platform...
Background: Pediatric acute myeloid leukemia (pAML) is the second most common type of childhood leukemia, behind acute lymphoblastic leukemia. High-throughput technologies have enabled the identification of increasing molecular alterations linked to...
Industrialised construction (IC) represents a foundational strategy for overcoming entrenched productivity constraints and supply shortfalls in the housing sector. By enabling the mass production and mass customisation of advanced kit-of-parts system...
An alternative vaccine design approach and diagnostic kits are highly required against the anticipated pandemicity caused by the South African Territories type 2 (SAT2) Foot and Mouth Disease Virus (FMDV). However, the distinct antigenicity and immun...
Most Dalbergia species are economically valuable and have been over-exploited, which has raised concerns. The regulation and protection of this genus require accurate and rapid authentication and identification processes. To address the issue of high...
Objective: To construct an immune alpaca phage display library, in order to obtain a single domain anti-BAFF (B cell-activating factor) antibody. Methods: Using phage display technology, we constructed an immune alpaca phage display library, selected...
Vehicle digital forensics includes the process of collecting and analysing digital data stored in vehicles to find evidence related to traffic accidents or crime scenes. Through this process, we can reconstruct digital events by recognizing various i...
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Uranium is naturally found in the environment as a radioactive metal element with high concentrations in the Southwestern US. In this region is the Navajo Nation, which spans approximately 69,930 square kilometers. A decay product of uranium is radon...
Reusing cast-in-place (CIP) concrete elements could enhance the sustainability of the construction industry by enabling circularity, preserving embodied value, and reducing primary resource consumption, construction and demolition waste, and emission...
Vibe coding uses repeated natural-language prompts and minimal code review in large language model (LLM)-based development. Development may end before sufficient client–LLM context co-construction occurs. We propose CO-constructed SPECification...
Since it is impossible to reconstruct the top level that has collapsed, a formwork is constructed to squeegee mortar or spray mortar, and repair kits are being used in Korea to chip away the damaged concrete of the bridge deck structure. In Korea, a...
In 2009, the European Guideline for Flexible Rockfall Protection Kits European Technical Approval Guideline 027 (ETAG 027) became valid. The aim of the guideline was to approve and certify steel barriers available on the market according to a common...
Clinical metagenomics is a broad-range agnostic detection method of pathogens, including novel microorganisms. A major limit is the low pathogen load compared to the high background of host nucleic acids. To overcome this issue, several solutions exi...
Wild European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) give birth in an underground nursery burrow where the kits are hermetically closed into the nest chamber for several weeks except for the three minutes of daily nursing. Given this confinement, the nest q...
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are increasingly recognized as an important and potent artificial intelligence approach, widely employed in many computer vision applications, such as facial recognition. Their importance resides in their capacity...
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