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Ship collisions often result in huge losses of life, cargo and ships, as well as serious pollution of the water environment. Meanwhile, it is estimated that between 75% and 86% of maritime accidents are related to human factors. Thus, it is necessary...

Background: Fear-avoidance is one of the factors associated with chronic pain. However, it remains unclear whether the association between fear-avoidance and pain depends on sex. The present study aimed to investigate whether the association between...

Short video platforms have problems with increased competition and low advertising conversion rates. Although social presence is closely related to consumer engagement, research regarding the impact of social presence on consumer engagement in short...

While numerous people use social mobile applications, ads within these apps are often avoided. Although the significance of prior negative experience and personality traits in impacting consumers’ perceptions and behaviors has been acknowledged...

As we know, for autonomous robots working in a complex underwater region, obstacle avoidance design will play an important role in underwater tasks. In this paper, a binocular-vision-based underwater obstacle avoidance mechanism is discussed and veri...

Although broad reinforcement learning (BRL) provides a more intelligent autonomous decision-making method for the collision avoidance problem of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), the algorithm still has the problem of over-estimation and has difficul...

To address the local minimum issue commonly encountered in active collision avoidance using artificial potential field (APF), this paper presents a novel algorithm that integrates APF with deep reinforcement learning (DRL) for robotic arms. Firstly,...

Being the target of negative school gossip, a form of relational aggression, has been shown to be associated with psychological and behavioral problems in youth adolescents. Based on the experience avoidance model, this study tested the association b...

There is increasing evidence that the lack of access to digital information and technologies is not widely considered in the educational sectors when focusing on the perceived experience, tutor quality and students’ satisfaction. In this paper, we re...

Food preferences are among the strongest predictors of the food choices of adolescents. These are associated with appetitive traits (food approach and avoidance) to some extent. However, no research has been conducted so far analyzing the association...

In order to contribute to the operation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) according to visual flight rules (VFR), this article proposes a monocular approach for cloud detection using an electro-optical sensor. Cloud avoidance is motivated by several...

Adolescence is characterized both by the exacerbation of the experience of anxiety, fear or threat, on one hand, and by increased reward seeking (reward sensitivity) and risk taking on the other hand. The rise of these apparently opposite processes,...

To address the problems of low success rate, excessively long obstacle avoidance paths, and a large number of invalid nodes in path planning for robotic arms in complex environments, this paper proposes an obstacle avoidance path planning method base...

Background/Objectives: Healthcare institutional betrayal (HIB) is a betrayal trauma that occurs when a healthcare organization or system perpetrates acts of wrongdoing against or fails to act to protect an individual who depends upon that system for...

The aim of the present work was the development and validation of a short form of the Experiences in Close Relationship Scale (ECR) in German. Three studies were conducted. In study 1, the best items for the short form were selected from the item poo...

In complex and unknown environments, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) autonomous navigation still faces issues such as insufficient representation of state characteristics, fixed reward guidance, and low efficiency in utilizing key experience samples. T...

Human cooperative behavior includes passive action strategies based on others and active action strategies that prioritize one’s own objective. Therefore, for cooperation with humans, it is necessary to realize a robot that uses these strategie...

Many practical decisions are more realistic concerning preventing bad decisions than seeking better ones. However, there has been no behavioral decision theory research on avoiding the worst decisions. This study is the first behavioral decision rese...

This paper explores the use of deep reinforcement learning in solving the multi-agent aircraft traffic planning (individual paths) and collision avoidance problem for a multiple UAS, such as that for a cargo drone network. Specifically, the Deep Q-Ne...

Understanding healthcare avoidance among college students is critical. In this study, we consider two broad cognitive contributors to greater healthcare avoidance: specific early maladaptive schema and negative appraisals of students’ prior wor...

While automation helps to increase load-shifting, the combination of automation with time-of-use (TOU) or critical-peak prices (CPP) may lead to rebound peaks at the beginning of low-tariff periods which may exceed the original peak. Using a discrete...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the learning curve of robotic thyroid surgery with regard to both operation time and temporary hypoparathyroidism using quantitative statistical analysis. A total of 194 patients who underwent total thyroidectomy...

This study evaluates people’s preferences regarding the proximity of their residence to agricultural urban green infrastructure (UGI), such as agricultural land and satoyama, and discusses the availability of these types of land as UGI. UGI is vital...

In the workspace of robot manipulators in practice, it is common that there are both static and periodic moving obstacles. Existing results in the literature have been focusing mainly on the static obstacles. This paper is concerned with multi-arm ma...

Background: Transitioning from psychiatric hospitalisation back to community presents a period of heightened suicide, homelessness, relapse, and rehospitalisation risk. The Australian state of New South Wales established a state-wide Peer Supported T...

As tax is related to the sustainable growth of societies around the world, international tax avoidance by multinational enterprises (MNEs) has gained public attention. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) introduced the B...

This paper presents a deep reinforcement learning-based path planning algorithm for the multi-arm robot manipulator when there are both fixed and moving obstacles in the workspace. Considering the problem properties such as high dimensionality and co...

The Portuguese Electricity Demand-Side Efficiency Promotion Plan (PPEC) is a voluntary financial mechanism, under which several entities, among them electric utilities, may submit proposals of measures aiming at the reduction of electricity consumpti...

Aviation operations are increasingly impacted by clear-air turbulence (CAT) encounters, a growing concern in both media and academic circles. Research into CAT focuses on the generation, prediction, detection, and monitoring of the occurring events (...

Since path planning for multi-arm manipulators is a complicated high-dimensional problem, effective and fast path generation is not easy for the arbitrarily given start and goal locations of the end effector. Especially, when it comes to deep reinfor...

Autonomous surface vessels (ASVs) operating in narrow and restricted waterways must follow a planned path while avoiding nearby static hazards and maintaining safe clearance from boundaries. This paper presents a LiDAR-based deep reinforcement learni...

Background: Children with food allergy (FA) may develop eating difficulties that extend beyond medically required allergen avoidance, including food neophobia, selective eating, and avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID)-related symptoms....

In order to solve the problem of mowing between plants in Xinjiang trunk orchards, an obstacle avoidance mower suitable for trunk orchard planting mode was designed. The whole structure, working principle and main parameter design of the obstacle avo...

Popular beliefs regarding a mother’s diet during lactation have a significant impact on breastfeeding practices among mothers, as well on breastfeeding counseling among healthcare providers worldwide. The objective of this study was to assess m...

To address the challenges of narrow, confined spaces in traditional closed-canopy orchards, where complex terrain between and within rows hinders the operation of large and medium-sized mowers. A self-propelled intra-plant obstacle-avoiding oscillati...

Anastomotic leakage is the most-feared complication of rectal surgery. Transanal devices have been suggested for anastomotic protection as an alternative to defunctioning stoma, although evidence is conflicting, and no single device is widely used in...

In order to effectively deal with collisions in various encounter situations in open water environments, a ship collision avoidance model was established, and multiple constraints were introduced into the velocity obstacle method, a method to determi...

Objectives: Experiences of racial discrimination within the healthcare system are potentially traumatic events (PTEs) that have been associated with lowered perceived trust in healthcare providers, ongoing symptoms of PTSD and depression, and anticip...

This study explores the transition and adjustment of African immigrant women, particularly Ethiopian immigrant women (EIW), as they navigate the U.S. healthcare system and their ability to access and utilize healthcare services. A qualitative cross-s...

This paper presents a methodology that can be used to avoid collisions of aerial drones. Even though there are many collision avoidance methods available in literature, collision cone is a proven method that can be used to predict a collision beforeh...

In order to ensure the safe navigation of USVs (unmanned surface vessels) and real-time collision avoidance, this study conducts global and local path planning for USVs in a variable dynamic environment, while local path planning is proposed under th...

The collision avoidance warning system is an emerging technology designed to assist drivers in avoiding red-light running (RLR) collisions at intersections. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the effect of auditory warning information on collision...

The suggestion that decapod crustaceans might experience pain has been dismissed by some authors who claim decapods only respond to noxious stimuli by nociceptive reflexes. Because reflexes do not require complex neuronal processing, but pain does, d...

To improve the stubble avoidance rate of no-till wheat seeders under the environment of corn stubble, the side-shift stubble avoidance system was developed in the present study based on deviation-perception fusion technology. Firstly, the amount of i...

This paper focuses on the real-time obstacle avoidance and safe navigation of autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs). It introduces the Selective MPC-PF-PSO algorithm, which includes model predictive control (MPC), Artificial Potential Fields (APFs), and...

Interactions between amphibians and arthropods encompass a wide range of ecological relationships, predominantly characterized by predator–prey dynamics, with adult amphibians as the predators. In some instances, the roles are reversed. This st...

Why might women who experience intimate partner violence (IPV) become more likely to engage in risky sexual behavior? Women’s interest in casual sex may satisfy relational expectations and connection needs, while avoiding the types of close att...

In this paper, a novel and complete navigation system is proposed for mobile robots in a park environment, which can achieve safe and stable navigation as well as robust dynamic obstacle avoidance. The navigation system includes a global planning lay...

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has demonstrated considerable potential for autonomous collision avoidance in unmanned surface vessels (USVs). However, its application in complex multi-agent maritime environments is often limited by challenges such...

The study explored reasons for exercise as possible mediators of the relationship between body appreciation and exercise avoidance motivation and between body surveillance and exercise avoidance motivation. Using a cross-sectional design, 131 women w...