The ability to accurately predict the mechanical properties of metals is essential for their correct use in the design of structures and components. This is even more important in the presence of materials, such as metal cast alloys, whose properties...
Magnetic confinement nuclear fusion offers a promising solution to the world’s growing energy demands. The DEMO reactor presented here aims to bridge the gap between laboratory fusion experiments and practical electricity generation, posing unique ch...
Microbiome data are subject to experimental bias that is caused by DNA extraction and PCR amplification, among other sources, but this important feature is often ignored when developing statistical methods for analyzing microbiome data. McLaren, Will...
This article discusses the intelligent analysis of multisensory biogas data obtained from an experimental dataset generated by a Lab-on-Chip platform. The relevance of this work stems from the need for real-time monitoring of biogas quality and bioma...
Experimental designs are commonly used to produce valid, defensible, and supportable conclusions. Among commonly used block designs, the class of Latin square designs is used to study factors or treatment levels expressed as Latin letters and applyin...
Fuel cells are electrochemical devices that convert the chemical energy stored in fuels (hydrogen for polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells) directly into electricity with high efficiency. Fuel cells are already commercially used in different...
This editorial outlines explicit recommendations for authors submitting to Horticulturae to ensure repeatability/reproducibility and transparency in their experimental methods and data analysis. It emphasizes the importance of detailed reporting, inc...
This study proposes and applies a systematic data analysis methodology to analyse experimental data for high-performance concrete (HPC) samples with different admixtures for offshore fan foundation grouting materials uses. In contrast with other rele...
Shielding gas, metal vapors, and gases trapped inside powders during atomization can result in gas porosity, which is known to degrade the fatigue strength and tensile properties of components made by laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing. P...
In the rotary steering system of oil drilling, both power and data transmission are needed. This paper presents a parallel power and data transmission method for a rotating steering system with output voltage control. To reduce the size of the system...
Exchangeability is a foundational concept in Bayesian statistics, crucial for ensuring the validity and generalizability of inferences from experimental data. This paper presents a theoretical and computational framework for understanding the role of...
This paper presents a probabilistic–statistical approach to the analysis of diffusion processes in randomly nonhomogeneous multilayered bodies under conditions of incomplete experimental information on the boundary. The boundary condition is re...
This paper presents a special analysis study about the gas turbine operating line, and an overall description of a gas turbines project, based on experimental data from two particular applications, in order to convert two different types of aero engi...
In recent decades, international interest has grown in the design and implementation of evolutionary reactors based on passive systems. The design of such systems requires reliable and validated numerical tools capable of simulating phenomena driven...
Biophotons are an ultra-weak emission of photons in the visible energy range from living matter. In this work, we study the emission from germinating seeds using an experimental technique designed to detect light of extremely small intensity. The emi...
This paper presents a comprehensive framework for the reliability analysis of ship local structures. Existing reliability analysis of ship local structures relies on empirical analysis without experimental validation. The presented framework improves...
This paper examines some of the most popular protocols for transmitting sensor data to cloud structures from publish/subscribe and request/response IoT models. The selection of a highly efficient message transmission protocol is essential, as it depe...
Electronic evidence is an essential component in most legal trials of criminal activities, and digital forensics is therefore a crucial support for law enforcement investigations. For instance, a wide range of electronic devices contain Not AND (NAND...
This paper proposes an approach that combines data envelopment analysis (DEA) with the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and conjoint analysis, as multi-criteria decision-making methods to evaluate teachers’ performance in higher education. This...
Grid-connected systems often consist of several feedback-controlled power-electronics converters that are connected in parallel. Consequently, a number of stability issues arise due to interactions among multiple converter subsystems. Recent studies...
Computational models of cardiac electrophysiology are promising tools for reducing the rates of non-response patients suitable for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) by optimizing electrode placement. The majority of computational models in the...
An essential part of the design of a liquid rocket engine is the thermal analysis of the thrust chamber, which is a component whose operative life is limited by the maximum allowable wall temperature and heat flux. A simplified steady-state thermal a...
In vitro digestibility of starch is a common analysis in human nutrition research, and generally consists of performing the hydrolysis of starch by α-amylase in specific conditions. Similar in vitro assays are also used in other research fields...
LED-based Visible Light Communication (VLC) has been proposed as the IEEE 802.15.7 standard and is regarded as a new wireless access medium in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) environment. With this trend, many works have already been made to improve the...
Buildings of strategic importance should be able to resist seismic forces in accordance with potential earthquakes that may occur at the location and remain fully operational afterwards. However, many of them were constructed before the modern princi...
This article presents experimental data and nonlinear finite element analysis (NLFEA) modeling for an innovative buckling restrained bracing (BRB) system. The data were collected from qualification testing of introduced BRBs per the AISC 341 test pro...
Reduced-order analysis of thin-walled fiber-reinforced composite profiles remains challenging because discrete macroscopic material data must be incorporated into an equilibrium-compatible structural model and assessed against physical measurements....
Recent advances in proteomic technologies now allow unparalleled assessment of the molecular composition of a wide range of sample types. However, the application of such technologies and techniques should not be undertaken lightly. Here, we describe...
The macroscopic fundamental diagram (MFD), as a model depicting the correlation between traffic flow parameters at the network level, offers a new way to understand regional traffic state using derived traffic flow data from detectors directly. The a...
Geopolymer concrete offers a favourable alternative to conventional Portland concrete due to its reduced embodied carbon dioxide (CO2) content. Engineering properties of geopolymer concrete, such as compressive strength, are commonly characterised ba...
This paper presents an experimental method for tensile testing of unidirectional carbon fibre composites. It uses a novel combination of a new specimen geometry, protective layer, and a robust data analysis method. The experiments were designed to te...
Glioblastoma (GB) is the most aggressive brain malignancy. Although some potential glioblastoma biomarkers have already been identified, there is a lack of cell membrane-bound biomarkers capable of distinguishing brain tissue from glioblastoma and/or...
This paper presents a research on students using the Gazepoint device to visualise the prac-tices and strategies that students used in order to solve assignments in the disciplines of natural science. The analysis of visual perception of students is...
It is challenging to find a proper way to compress computer-generated holography (CGH) data owing to their huge data requirements and characteristics. This study proposes CGH data coding systems with high-efficiency video coding (HEVC), three-dimensi...
The hydrogenation of CO and CO2 from industrial exhaust gases into CH4 represents a promising method for sustainable chemical energy storage. While iron-based catalysts are in principle suitable for that purpose, the active metal Fe undergoes a compl...
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) manifests as poor attention, hyperactivity, as well as impulsive behaviors. Hesperetin (HSP) is a citrus flavanone with strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities. The present study aimed to te...
Multipolar refinements of structural models fitting extensive sets of X-ray diffraction (XRD) data from single crystals of 1,3-bis(dimethylamino)squaraine [SQ, C8H12N2O2] and its dihydrate [SQDH, C8H12N2O2·2H2O], collected at very low T (18 ± 1 K for...
With the increasing emphasis on environmental sustainability, the electrification of urban public bus fleets has gained significant attention. Understanding the factors influencing the energy consumption of battery-electric buses (BEBs) is crucial fo...
In this work, the diffusion process of sodium (Na) in molybdenum (Mo) thin films while it was deposited on soda lime glass (SLG) was studied. A small amount of oxygen was present in the chamber while the direct-current (DC) magnetron sputtering was u...
The appropriate feature/predictor selection is as significant as building efficient estimation methods for the accurate estimation of power consumption, which is required for self-awareness and autonomous decision systems. Traditional methodologies d...
The performance of machine learning models diminishes while predicting the Remaining Useful Life (RUL) of the equipment or fault prediction due to the issue of concept drift. This issue is aggravated when the problem setting comprises multi-class imb...
The polarization switching kinetics of nanosized ferroelectric crystals and the transition between homogeneous and domain switching in nanoscale ferroelectric films are considered. Homogeneous switching according to the Ginzburg-Landau-Devonshire (LG...
Bottom-up systems biology entails the construction of kinetic models of cellular pathways by collecting kinetic information on the pathway components (e.g., enzymes) and collating this into a kinetic model, based for example on ordinary differential...
There are many state-of-the-art algorithms presented in the literature that perform very well on some evaluation data but are not studied with the data properties on which they are applied; therefore, they could have low performance on data with othe...
Among European countries, Poland has the largest gap in the grain yield of winter wheat, and thus the greatest potential to reduce this yield gap. This paper aims to recognize the main reasons for winter wheat yield variability and shed the light on...
The tension of the balloon yarn in the direct-twisting machine affects the yarn breakage and balloon shape, which in turn affects the energy consumption and yarn productivity of the direct-twisting machine. At present, research on the balloon tension...
Control remains a challenge in precision applications in robotics, particularly when combined with execution in small time intervals. This study employed a two-degree-of-freedom (2-DoF) planar robotic arm driven by a detailed human musculoskeletal mo...
Among the concentrating solar power (CSP) technologies, the parabolic trough (PT) solar collector is a proven technology mainly used to produce electricity and heat for industrial processes. Since 2003, a stand-alone Molten Salt Parabolic Trough (MSP...
The use of multiple omics techniques (i.e., genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics) is becoming increasingly popular in all facets of life science. Omics techniques provide a more holistic molecular perspective of studied biological...
In recent years, with the increase in environmental awareness, people have become more and more concerned about the effectiveness with which coal burns. Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) has become an important way of coal elemental analysi...
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