The proliferation of GPS-enabled devices and advances in positioning technologies have greatly facilitated the collection of user location data, making them valuable across various domains. One of the most common and practical uses of these location...
In this study, the effects of electromigration on a solder/copper substrate due to temperature and current density stress were investigated. The copper–tin (Cu–Sn) film samples were subjected under a fixed current and various heating cond...
Integrated assessments combining soil compactness, carbon storage, and structural vulnerability remain scarce in tropical soils of the Colombian Orinoquia. Soil physical condition was compared across natural forest (n = 21), secondary vegetation (n =...
The objective of this study was to determine the effect of seasonal variation on milk composition and establish an algorithm to predict density based on milk composition to enable the calculation of season-based density conversion calculations. A tot...
Background: Strongyle-type gastrointestinal nematodes are among the most important parasitic infections affecting sheep production because of the health and economic losses they cause. Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the positivity, paras...
This study aims to determine the possibility of using density measurements by using the hydrostatic method for the estimation of the chemical composition of pork. The research material included 75 pork samples obtained during industrial butchering an...
Background/Objectives: Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) accumulate in long-lived extracellular matrix proteins and have been implicated in skin aging and tissue remodeling, particularly in photo-exposed skin. High-frequency ultrasound (HFU) off...
To address the limitations of low node utilization and inadequate adaptability in complex environments encountered by Rapidly-exploring Random Tree (RRT) algorithms during the expansion phase, this study presents an enhanced path planning algorithm&m...
Processing high-performance aluminum alloys, including 6xxx and 7xxx series, via laser additive manufacturing (AM) processes poses significant challenges, primarily due to the rapid cooling rates inherent in these processes, which often result in sol...
The aim of this study is to introduce a new filament and novel 3D printing technique to adjust the density of a printing job in order to mimic the radiological properties of different tissues. We used a special filament, Light Weight PLA (LW-PLA), wh...
Microstructures are applied to various hydrophobic/hydrophilic surfaces due to the role of adjusting the surface wettability. In this paper, a 1064 nm pulsed picosecond laser was applied to prepare a micro/nano hierarchical structure on the surface o...
The research in this paper entails the design of material systems with tunable energy-absorbing properties. Hollow glass microspheres of different densities are layered using dry powder printing and subsequently sintered to form a cellular structure....
The selective laser melting (SLM) of o-Cr-Mo-W/316L composite with 10 wt% Co-Cr-Mo-W addition to 316L stainless steel (SS) powder is produced to explore it’s the corrosion behavior. The tensile experiment of SLM composites is also measured to investi...
Clustering samples based on similarity remains a significant challenge, especially when the goal is to accurately capture the underlying data clusters of complex arbitrary shapes. Existing density-based clustering techniques are known to be best suit...
The realistic simulation of ocean scenes is of great significance in many scientific fields. We propose an improved Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) framework to simulate the ocean scenes. The improved SPH combines nonlinear constant density con...
Animal density is a grazing management decision implemented by managers that may reduce animal diet quality. Over three years, we collected herd-level cattle samples with varying animal numbers and densities across C3 grass–legume meadows near...
Polysulfide-derived polymers with a controllable density and mechanical strength were designed and prepared successfully using bio-based cottonseed oil (CO) and its derivatives, including fatty acid of cottonseed oil (COF) and sodium soap of cottonse...
Due to the large volume of raw data in 3D point clouds, downsampling techniques are crucial for reducing computational load and memory usage to improve the training of 3D point cloud models. This paper plans to conduct research using the ModelNet40 d...
The light-sensitive explosive (silver acetylide–silver nitrate, SASN) sprayed on structural surfaces can be synchronously initiated by intense pulsed flash, thereby simulating cold X-ray blow-off events characterized by thermal–mechanical...
To improve the environmental efficiency of the reverse filling system, three strategies aim to optimize the packing density, and the mechanical property were adopted in this study. Based on the compressive packing model (CPM), the relationship betwee...
To address the high dimensionality, redundancy, and noise interference present in wind turbine Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) data, as well as the limitations of conventional K-means algorithms—including excessive reliance on...
Gas-path anomalies account for more than 90% of all civil aero-engine anomalies. It is essential to develop accurate gas-path anomaly detection methods. Therefore, a weakly supervised gas-path anomaly detection method for civil aero-engines based on...
Background and Objectives: Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) devices convert scan angle into retinal distance with a schematic eye, so eyes whose axial length (AL) differs from the assumed value are measured on an incorrect transverse s...
The high reliability of electroplating through silicon vias (TSVs) is an attractive hotspot in the application of high-density integrated circuit packaging. In this paper, improvements for fully filled TSVs by optimizing sputtering and electroplating...
Three-component strain sensors based on helical auxetic yarn (HAY) structure were designed. HAYs comprise elastic core yarn, wrapped by the composition of multifilament Nylon 66 and conductive spun yarns with three different electrical resistance. Th...
As the density of electronic packaging continues to rise, traditional soldering techniques encounter significant challenges, leading to copper–copper direct bonding as a new high-density connection method. The high melting point of copper prese...
Direct writing is a rapidly developing manufacturing technology that is convenient, adaptable and automated. It has been used in energetic composites to manufacture complex structures, improve product safety, and reduce waste. This work is aimed at p...
As a facile method to prepare hydrophilic polymeric microspheres, reflux precipitation polymerization has been widely used for preparation of polymer nanogels. In this article, we synthesized a phthalamide-protected N-aminooxy methyl acrylamide (NAMA...
The dynamic migration of mineral particles within spiral separators and its control via structural parameters are not yet fully understood, hindering efficiency improvements. To this end, a set of spiral separators with systematically adjusted struct...
Modulated laser absorption spectroscopy is an ideal technique for evaluating flow-field parameters and determining flow-field quality by measuring the atoms dissociated in high-temperature environments. However, to obtain the absolute number density...
To mitigate the high measurement costs in electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) assessment, this paper proposes a robust active learning framework for fast 3D field reconstruction with sparse sampling. A novel “Four-Vote” query criterion is...
Objectives: Body water is fundamental in human metabolism. The current study aimed to evaluate the associations between body fluid rate (BFR) with plasma lipid profiles, including triglycerides, total cholesterol, and high-density lipoprotein (HDL)/l...
Plantations are increasing in frequency and extent across the landscape, especially in China, and forest thinning can accelerate the development of late-successional attributes, thereby enhancing plantation stand structural heterogeneity. To quantify...
The liquid droplet cooling technique for fast scanning chip calorimetry (FSC) is introduced, increasing the cooling rate for large samples on a given sensor. Reaching higher cooling rates and using a gas as the cooling medium, the common standard for...
High-entropy alloys are known for their promising mechanical properties, wear and corrosion resistance, which are maintained across a wide range of temperatures. In this study, a CoCrFeNiCu-based high-entropy alloy, distinguished from conventional Co...
This paper proposes an enhanced RRT* algorithm (XN-RRT*) to address the challenges of low path planning efficiency and suboptimal picking success rates in complex pitaya harvesting environments. The algorithm generates sampling points based on normal...
To assist air traffic controllers (ATCOs) in resolving tactical conflicts, this paper proposes a conflict detection and resolution mechanism for handling continuous traffic flow by adopting finite discrete actions to resolve conflicts. The tactical c...
Mascon modeling is used in this paper to produce the mass flux solutions in the Tibetan Plateau. In the mascon modeling, the pseudo observations and their covariance matrices are derived from the GRACE monthly gravity field models. The sampling densi...
Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) has been considered as a primary source to model the structure and function of a forest canopy through the indicators leaf area index (LAI) and vertical canopy profiles of leaf area density (LAD). However, little is know...
To address the challenge of low operational efficiency in apple harvesting robots, this study proposes an adaptive grasping sequence planning methodology that combines Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs) and genetic algorithms (GAs). The proposed adaptive SO...
Class imbalance is prevalent in real-world datasets. Minority samples are far fewer than majority samples. Traditional classifier design typically assumes balanced data, which causes classifiers to favor the majority class when faced with imbalanced...
The use of cellulose fiber-filled polypropylene (PP) composites in combination with foam injection molding has enabled the lightweight design of injection-molded parts. The study provides achievements for the physical foam injection molding (MuCell&r...
Biased or weighted sampling frequently arises in reliability testing, biomedical survival analysis, and quality-control studies, where the observed data deviate systematically from the target population. This paper develops a unified framework for no...
This paper presented an innovative method for fabrication of a porous Al2O3/CaAl12O19 ceramic membrane by combining emulsion method, cement curing and tape-casting technologies. The ceramic membrane featured a smooth surface and a porous internal str...
In recent years, the volume of spatial data has rapidly grown, so it is crucial to process them in an efficient manner. The level of parallel processing in big data platforms such as Hadoop and Spark is determined by partitioning the dataset. A commo...
Shallow lakes are important drinking water sources, but are easily affected by wind. Turbidity is an indicator that fluctuates dramatically with changes in wind and is affected not only by the instantaneous wind speed but also by the wind direction,...
In the decision making of electricity sales packages, it is usually the specific situation of similar customers that provides the basis of a decision-making plan for target customer package selection, so it is particularly important to integrate the...
The geomechanical and transport properties of rocks are of great importance to geoscience and engineering, as these properties provide responses to external stresses and flow regimes in the subsurface. Typically, experiments conducted on cores from r...
(Bi0.5Na0.5)TiO3-based lead-free ferroelectric ceramics are among the most extensively researched energy storage materials today. In this paper, (1 − x)Bi0.46Sr0.06Na0.5TiO3−xCaTiO3 ceramics were synthesized through a solid-phase sinterin...
During bridge service, material degradation and aging occur, affecting bridge functionality. Bridge health monitoring, crucial for detecting structural damage, includes finite element model modification as a key aspect. Current finite element-based m...
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