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  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,818 Views
15 Pages

Predicting Postoperative Length of Stay in Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Right Hemicolectomy for Colon Cancer: A Machine Learning Approach Using SICE (Società Italiana di Chirurgia Endoscopica) CoDIG Data

  • Gabriele Anania,
  • Matteo Chiozza,
  • Emma Pedarzani,
  • Giuseppe Resta and ,
  • Alberto Campagnaro,
  • Sabrina Pedon,
  • Giorgia Valpiani,
  • Gianfranco Silecchia,
  • Pietro Mascagni and
  • On behalf of SICE CoDIG (ColonDx Italian Group)
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

16 August 2024

The evolution of laparoscopic right hemicolectomy, particularly with complete mesocolic excision (CME) and central vascular ligation (CVL), represents a significant advancement in colon cancer surgery. The CoDIG 1 and CoDIG 2 studies highlighted Ital...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Surgical Advances in Cancer Treatments: Exploring Innovative Approaches and Emerging Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,824 Views
31 Pages

3 May 2024

In mechanical equipment, rolling bearing components are constantly exposed to intricate and diverse environmental conditions, rendering them vulnerable to wear, performance degradation, and potential malfunctions. To precisely extract and discern rol...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning and Symmetry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
112 Citations
6,977 Views
15 Pages

16 July 2018

The public’s acceptance level of recycled water use is a key factor that affects the popularization of this technology; therefore, it is critical to know the public’s attitude in order to make guiding policies effectively and scientifical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
128 Citations
35,847 Views
30 Pages

18 April 2022

In an era where environmental and social pressures on companies are increasing, sustainable supply chain management is essential for the efficient operation and survivability of the organizations (members of the chain). Digital transformation and the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability in Logistics and Supply Chains)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,467 Views
3 Pages

Smart health is a current research direction. This report elaborates on the following content: (1) How to choose the right diet, establish a scientific lifestyle, and reduce the risk of illness; (2) how to apply artificial intelligence and big data t...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of 2023 International Summit on the Study of Information)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,279 Views
26 Pages

A Fault Feature Extraction Method Based on Improved VMD Multi-Scale Dispersion Entropy and TVD-CYCBD

  • Jingzong Yang,
  • Chengjiang Zhou,
  • Xuefeng Li,
  • Anning Pan and
  • Tianqing Yang

2 February 2023

In modern industry, due to the poor working environment and the complex working conditions of mechanical equipment, the characteristics of the impact signals caused by faults are often submerged in strong background signals and noises. Therefore, it...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dispersion Entropy: Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,646 Views
18 Pages

9 July 2022

In the process of grab dredger dredging, how to ensure the accuracy of flat digging is a key technical question. The accuracy of flat digging is related to the force of grab digging. However, there are limitations in the traditional method of studyin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Frontiers in Advanced Manufacturing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,499 Views
30 Pages

21 March 2022

The variational mode decomposition mode (VMD) has a reliable mathematical derivation and can decompose signals adaptively. At present, it has been widely used in mechanical fault diagnosis, financial analysis and prediction, geological signal analysi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Friction, Vibration and Dynamic Properties of Transmission System under Wear Progression)
  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
5,295 Views
20 Pages

16 June 2020

As one of the most essential earth-moving equipment, cable shovels significantly influence the efficiency and economy in the open-pit mining industry. The optimal digging trajectory planning for each cycle is the base for achieving effective and ener...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Electrified Powertrains for a Sustainable Mobility: Topologies, Design and Integrated Energy Management Strategies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,062 Views
18 Pages

6 June 2023

The development of digital economy (Dig) promotes the development of green economy and the progress of ecological civilization. Based on the panel data of China from 2010 to 2020, this paper constructs the relevant index system and analyzes the impac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Innovation for Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,517 Views
17 Pages

Mapping Foliar Nutrition Using WorldView-3 and WorldView-2 to Assess Koala Habitat Suitability

  • Huiying Wu,
  • Noam Levin,
  • Leonie Seabrook,
  • Ben D. Moore and
  • Clive McAlpine

22 January 2019

Conservation planning and population assessment for widely-distributed, but vulnerable, arboreal folivore species demands cost-effective mapping of habitat suitability over large areas. This study tested whether multispectral data from WorldView-3 co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing for Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,336 Views
14 Pages

Towards Optimizing Garlic Combine Harvester Design with Logistic Regression

  • Zhengbo Zhu,
  • Wei Li,
  • Fujun Wen,
  • Liangzhe Chen and
  • Yan Xu

13 June 2022

In this paper, a garlic combine harvester machine was designed and some influential parameters of the machine were optimized. The working parts of the machine mainly consisted of a reel, a reciprocating cutter, a seedling conveyor, a profiling depth-...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data and AI for Food and Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,510 Views
18 Pages

8 August 2024

Hard rock tunnel boring machines (TBMs) are increasingly widely used in tunnel construction today; however, TBMs are deeply buried underground and have a low perception of the underground surrounding rock conditions and excavation parameters. In orde...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,877 Views
23 Pages

With advances in machine learning, knowledge discovery systems have become very complicated to set up, requiring extensive tuning and programming effort. Democratizing such technology so that non-technical domain experts can avail themselves of these...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
10,315 Views
12 Pages

Rock Breaking Performance of TBM Disc Cutter Assisted by High-Pressure Water Jet

  • Fengchao Wang,
  • Dapeng Zhou,
  • Xin Zhou,
  • Nanzhe Xiao and
  • Chuwen Guo

10 September 2020

A high-pressure water jet can break rock efficiently, which is of great potential to overcome the problems of a tunnel boring machine (TBM) in full-face hard rock tunnel digging, such as low digging efficiency and high disc cutter wear rate. Therefor...

(This article belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4,706 Views
42 Pages

10 November 2025

Digital or Technology strategies are the first step of the Digital Transformation. The main risk is that information and assessments not included in the strategy and left to be confirmed and managed at later stages have the potential to negatively af...

(This article belongs to the Section Strategic Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,953 Views
19 Pages

5 January 2018

The harvesting of bait through digging in coastal mudflats is practiced for recreational and commercial purposes in European coastal systems including the Ria de Aveiro coastal lagoon on the northwest Atlantic coast of Portugal. The scale of harvesti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,853 Views
14 Pages

Temperature Characterization of Liquid Crystal Dielectric Image Line Phase Shifter for Millimeter-Wave Applications

  • Henning Tesmer,
  • Rani Razzouk,
  • Ersin Polat,
  • Dongwei Wang and ,
  • Rolf Jakoby and
  • Holger Maune
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

14 January 2021

In this paper we investigate the temperature dependent behavior of a liquid crystal (LC) loaded tunable dielectric image guide (DIG) phase shifter at millimeter-wave frequencies from 80 GHz to 110 GHz for future high data rate communications. The adh...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nematic Liquid Crystals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
96 Citations
13,794 Views
14 Pages

Effects of Different Types of Front-of-Pack Labelling Information on the Healthiness of Food Purchases—A Randomised Controlled Trial

  • Bruce Neal,
  • Michelle Crino,
  • Elizabeth Dunford,
  • Annie Gao and ,
  • Rohan Greenland,
  • Nicole Li,
  • Judith Ngai,
  • Cliona Ni Mhurchu,
  • Simone Pettigrew and
  • Jason H. Y. Wu
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

24 November 2017

Background: Front-of-pack nutrition labelling may support healthier packaged food purchases. Australia has adopted a novel Health Star Rating (HSR) system, but the legitimacy of this choice is unknown. Objective: To define the effects of different fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,954 Views
17 Pages

15 October 2022

It has become increasingly important to train for an educational culture that makes use of digital technology to enhance its practices. Frameworks such as DigCompEdu enable identification of weaknesses and areas which require more training. This pape...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,275 Views
23 Pages

Application of Artificial Neural Networks Sensitivity Analysis for the Pre-Identification of Highly Significant Factors Influencing the Yield and Digestibility of Grassland Sward in the Climatic Conditions of Central Poland

  • Gniewko Niedbała,
  • Barbara Wróbel,
  • Magdalena Piekutowska,
  • Waldemar Zielewicz and ,
  • Anna Paszkiewicz-Jasińska,
  • Tomasz Wojciechowski and
  • Mohsen Niazian
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Progressive climate changes are the most important challenges for modern agriculture. Permanent grassland represents around 70% of all agricultural land. In comparison with other agroecosystems, grasslands are more sensitive to climate change. The ai...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Predictions and Estimations in Agricultural Production under a Changing Climate)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,203 Views
30 Pages

22 January 2025

As one of the effective ways to achieve “carbon neutrality”, examining the impact of green finance (GF) on carbon emission efficiency (CE) is of great significance for promoting low-carbon development in China. Moreover, the digital econo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,944 Views
15 Pages

The Influence of the Digital Economy on the Foreign Trade Competitiveness of Hunan Province in China

  • Minglan Yuan,
  • Hui Zhong,
  • Zhijie Hao,
  • Decai Tang and
  • Eugene Ray Atsi

24 December 2024

With the evolution of the Internet, artificial intelligence, and other technologies, the era of the digital economy has quietly emerged. The digital economy’s growth is a major trend, and China is dedicated to building data power and strengthen...

(This article belongs to the Collection Digital Economy and Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
632 Views
25 Pages

Static Ditching Performance Analysis and Experiment of Horizontal Ditching Device for Salix Psammophila Sand Barriers

  • Feixu Zhang,
  • Fei Liu,
  • Xuan Zhao,
  • Hongbin Bai and ,
  • Wenxue Dong,
  • Rifeng Guo,
  • Haoran Jiang,
  • Qihao Wan,
  • Yunong Ma and
  • Yarong Zhang
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

To address the complex dynamic mechanisms and lack of static operation data in trench-digging for transverse planting of Salix psammophila sand barriers, a transverse trench-digging device was designed. Based on the discrete element method, the Hertz...

(This article belongs to the Topic Ecological Protection and Modern Agricultural Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,935 Views
22 Pages

9 October 2022

China’s economy has shifted from a high-speed growth stage to a high-quality development stage. Achieving green and sustainable growth driven by the digital economy is its most important purpose. Based on provincial panel data from 2013 to 2019...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,434 Views
23 Pages

DiGS: Depth-Initialized Gaussian Splatting for Single-Object Reconstruction

  • Jacopo Meglioraldi,
  • Pasquale Cascarano and
  • Gustavo Marfia

Gaussian Splatting is a state-of-the-art technique for 3D reconstruction. In this paper, we investigate how different initialization strategies influence the optimization process within the Gaussian Splatting framework, showing that more accurate ini...

(This article belongs to the Section Visualization and Computer Graphics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,582 Views
20 Pages

Digital avionic solutions enable advanced flight control systems to be available also on smaller aircraft. One of the safety-critical segments is the air data system. Innovative architectures allow the use of synthetic sensors that can introduce sign...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Control and Optimization Problems in Aerospace Engineering)
  • Review
  • Open Access
55 Citations
10,125 Views
19 Pages

Technological advances in high throughput platforms for biological systems enable the cost-efficient production of massive amounts of data, leading life science to the Big Data era. The availability of Big Data provides new opportunities and challeng...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Review Papers in Big Data, Cloud-Based Data Analysis and Learning Systems)
  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,795 Views
19 Pages

Review of the Modeling Methods of Bucket Tooth Wear for Construction Machinery

  • Zhengxing Dong,
  • Feng Jiang,
  • Yuanqiang Tan,
  • Fuzeng Wang and ,
  • Rong Ma and
  • Jiawen Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Construction machinery, which is widely used in infrastructure construction, is growing rapidly all over the word. However, the complex working conditions of construction machinery lead to serious wear, particularly the wear of the bucket teeth on co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Tribological Properties and Failure Prediction in Mechanical Elements)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
9,058 Views
12 Pages

Reducing Digging Losses by Using Automated Steering to Plant and Invert Peanuts

  • George Vellidis,
  • Brenda Ortiz,
  • John Beasley,
  • Rodney Hill and ,
  • Herman Henry and
  • Heather Brannen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

4 July 2014

GPS guidance of farm machinery has been increasingly adopted by farmers because of the perceived gains in efficiency that it provides. In the southeastern USA one of the reasons farmers adopt GPS guidance, and specifically automated steering (auto-st...

  • Feature Paper
  • Opinion
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,496 Views
16 Pages

When we study the human ability to attend, what exactly do we seek to understand? It is not clear what the answer might be to this question. There is still so much to know, while acknowledging the tremendous progress of past decades of research. It i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human Attention and Visual Cognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,582 Views
26 Pages

11 September 2023

Fritilariae ussuriensis maxim can be used as a medicine with little difficulty in its planting, but owing to its fragile characteristics, Fritilariae ussuriensis maxim is mainly collected by manual excavation. In order to solve the problems of the lo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
80 Citations
11,442 Views
20 Pages

A Survey of Data Semantization in Internet of Things

  • Feifei Shi,
  • Qingjuan Li,
  • Tao Zhu and
  • Huansheng Ning

22 January 2018

With the development of Internet of Things (IoT), more and more sensors, actuators and mobile devices have been deployed into our daily lives. The result is that tremendous data are produced and it is urgent to dig out hidden information behind these...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensing, Data Analysis and Platforms for Ubiquitous Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,031 Views
16 Pages

Power Flow Management by Active Nodes: A Case Study in Real Operating Conditions

  • Stefano Bifaretti,
  • Vincenzo Bonaiuto,
  • Sabino Pipolo,
  • Cristina Terlizzi and ,
  • Pericle Zanchetta,
  • Francesco Gallinelli and
  • Silvio Alessandroni
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

27 July 2021

The role of distributor system operators is experiencing a gradual but relevant change to include enhanced ancillary and energy dispatch services needed to manage the increased power provided by intermittent distributed generations in medium voltage...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Solutions to Increase Resilience of Medium Voltage Distribution Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,062 Views
15 Pages

24 November 2015

Irregular headways could reduce the public transit service level heavily. Finding out the exact causes of irregular headways will greatly help to develop efficient strategies aiming to improve transit service quality. This paper utilizes bus GPS data...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Spatio-Temporal Data Analysis and Mining)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,023 Views
22 Pages

Study on the Impact of Offshore Wind Farms on Surrounding Water Environment in the Yangtze Estuary Based on Remote Sensing

  • Lina Cai,
  • Qunfei Hu,
  • Zhongfeng Qiu,
  • Jie Yin and ,
  • Yuanzhi Zhang and
  • Xinkai Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 November 2023

Offshore wind farms (OWFs), built extensively in recent years, induce changes in the surrounding water environment. The changes in the suspended sediment concentration (SSC) and chlorophyll-a concentration (Chl-aC) induced by an OWF in the Yangtze Ri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Remote Sensing for Mining, Energy and Environmental Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,320 Views
22 Pages

Finding Group-Based Skyline over a Data Stream in the Sensor Network

  • Leigang Dong,
  • Guohua Liu,
  • Xiaowei Cui and
  • Tianyu Li

1 February 2018

Along with the application of the sensor network, there will be large amount of dynamic data coming from sensors. How to dig the useful information from such data is significant. Skyline query is aiming to identify the interesting points from a large...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,540 Views
17 Pages

3 November 2023

Aimed at identifying the health state of wind turbines (WTs) accurately by using the comprehensive spatio and temporal information from the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) data, a novel anomaly-detection method called decomposed sequ...

(This article belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access

8 November 2026

This paper examines whether digitalization is associated with stronger links between green finance (GF), renewable-energy innovation (REI), and the green low-carbon energy transition across 19 G20 economies over 2000–2025. A data-consistency au...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence in Educational Systems: Challenges and Opportunities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
721 Views
16 Pages

Background/Objectives: Digital obesity therapy requires exercise therapists with adequate digital competences, yet training opportunities remain limited. This study provides the first application of the DigCompThExO questionnaire to assess exercise t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,736 Views
16 Pages

Expression and Interaction Proteomics of GluA1- and GluA3-Subunit-Containing AMPARs Reveal Distinct Protein Composition

  • Sophie J. F. van der Spek,
  • Nikhil J. Pandya,
  • Frank Koopmans,
  • Iryna Paliukhovich and ,
  • Roel C. van der Schors,
  • Mylene Otten,
  • August B. Smit and
  • Ka Wan Li
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

17 November 2022

The AMPA glutamate receptor (AMPAR) is the major type of synaptic excitatory ionotropic receptor in the brain. AMPARs have four different subunits, GluA1–4 (each encoded by different genes, Gria1, Gria2, Gria3 and Gria4), that can form distinct...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
6,769 Views
10 Pages

Machine Learning for Long Cycle Maintenance Prediction of Wind Turbine

  • Chia-Hung Yeh,
  • Min-Hui Lin,
  • Chien-Hung Lin,
  • Cheng-En Yu and
  • Mei-Juan Chen

8 April 2019

Within Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, the challenge is how to dig out the potentially valuable information from the collected data to support decision making. This paper proposes a method based on machine learning to predict long cycle maintenance...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,436 Views
9 Pages

16 August 2019

Termitomyces albuminosus is the symbiotic edible mushroom of termites and cannot be artificially cultivated at present. In the project of exploring its pharmaceutical metabolites by microbial fermentation, four new selinane type sesquiterpenoids&mdas...

(This article belongs to the Collection Bioactive Compounds)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,977 Views
16 Pages

An Analysis of Railway Activity Using Distributed Optical Fiber Acoustic Sensing

  • Thurian Le Du,
  • Arthur Hartog,
  • Graeme Hilton and
  • Roman Didelet

4 July 2025

Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) is a highly effective method of monitoring all kinds of intrusions on railway tracks. These intrusions represent a real problem in the railway sector, as they can lead to human deaths or damage to railway tracks, an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Optical Fiber-Based Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,011 Views
9 Pages

23 October 2024

Imported fire ants are pests of significant importance, especially in the southern United States. We tested (E/Z)-3-butylidenephthalide, a natural compound that was isolated from the ethanolic extract of Ligusticum porteri roots, as a repellent and t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Toxicology and Molecular Physiology of Social Insects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
649 Views
20 Pages

The Pedagogical Transfer Chain in the DigCompEdu Framework from a Teacher-Reported Perspective: A Predictive Analysis Using PLS-SEM and ANN

  • Daira Marizol Carvajal Morales,
  • Jessica Mariela Carvajal Morales,
  • Milton Alfonso Criollo Turusina,
  • Santiago José Chele Delgado and ,
  • Erika Jadira Romero Cardenas and
  • Juan Diego Valenzuela Cobos
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The steady advancement of online education has not automatically translated into improved educational quality. Teacher training often continues to focus on the technical use of digital tools, while the pedagogical processes through which teachers rep...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Online Learning to Multimodal Era: Interfaces, Analytics and User Experiences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,537 Views
17 Pages

Cutting Resistance Laboratory Testing Methodology for Underwater Coal Mining

  • Vladimir Čebašek,
  • Veljko Rupar,
  • Stevan Đenadić and
  • Filip Miletić

25 May 2021

The bucket-wheel dredge “Kovin I” for underwater coal mining with bucket-wheel type UCW-450 has been in operation for over 20 years. Based on analyzing the bucket-wheel dredger performance, productivity, maintenance costs, and reliability, a rational...

(This article belongs to the Section Mineral Exploration Methods and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,572 Views
16 Pages

16 October 2022

In the post-cloud computing era, edge computing as a distributed computing paradigm, integrating the core capabilities of computing, storage, network, and application, provides EIS (edge intelligence service), such as real-time business, data optimiz...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Edge Computing Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,558 Views
14 Pages

A Disruptive Technology Identification Method for New Power Systems Based on Patent Evolution Analysis

  • Dong Pan,
  • Xijun Ren,
  • Li Zhang,
  • Zhumeng Song and ,
  • Yuanhong Nie,
  • Long Zhang,
  • Meiling Ma and
  • Dong Han
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Disruptive technologies have been employed in various fields with a strategic priority in several countries as the core driving force of the fourth industrial revolution, significantly impacting the development of new power systems. It is a kernel to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,445 Views
18 Pages

18 December 2022

The digitalization of educational organizations is a political and social priority at European level and the model which is the basis for the analysis is DigCompOrg as part of the European Framework of Competences. This article summarizes the results...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Transformation: Social and Educational Perspective)

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