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  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,740 Views
23 Pages

1 December 2021

Autonomous exploration and remote sensing using robots have gained increasing attention in recent years and aims to maximize information collection regarding the external world without human intervention. However, incomplete frontier detection, an in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,330 Views
23 Pages

3 November 2020

This paper describes a graph search-based exploration method. Segmented frontier nodes and their relative transformations constitute a frontier-graph structure. Frontier detection and segmentation are performed using local grid maps of adjacent nodes...

  • Review
  • Open Access
969 Views
52 Pages

Biosensor Technologies for Avian Influenza Detection: A New Frontier in Rapid Diagnostics for HPAI

  • Jacquline Risalvato,
  • Alaa H. Sewid,
  • Durina Z. Dalrymple,
  • Shigetoshi Eda,
  • J. Jayne Wu and
  • Richard W. Gerhold

12 February 2026

Avian influenza (AI), particularly highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), represents a serious and growing threat to global poultry production, international trade, and human health security. Control of AI is complicated by the high evolutionary r...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
12,152 Views
52 Pages

24 December 2024

Brain tumor detection is crucial in medical research due to high mortality rates and treatment challenges. Early and accurate diagnosis is vital for improving patient outcomes, however, traditional methods, such as manual Magnetic Resonance Imaging (...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,129 Views
27 Pages

Pathogens and their metabolites in food present significant risks to both human health and economic development. Rising living standards and increasing awareness of food safety have driven the demand for sensitive and rapid detection methods. Lanthan...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,786 Views
10 Pages

18 October 2024

Low-molecular-mass organic chemicals are widely discussed as potential indicators of life in extraterrestrial habitats. However, demarcation lines between biotic chemicals and abiotic chemicals have been difficult to define. Here, we have analyzed th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,973 Views
18 Pages

LAEA: A 2D LiDAR-Assisted UAV Exploration Algorithm for Unknown Environments

  • Xiaolei Hou,
  • Zheng Pan,
  • Li Lu,
  • Yuhang Wu,
  • Jinwen Hu,
  • Yang Lyu and
  • Chunhui Zhao

29 March 2024

In UAV autonomous exploration, large frontier clusters are commonly associated with high information gain and are visited first. In contrast, small and isolated frontier clusters with fewer frontiers are associated with smaller information gain and a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
200 Views
15 Pages

27 February 2026

Efficient RFID spatial exploration in dynamic warehouse environments is challenging due to occlusions, sensing geometry constraints, and the weak coupling between information acquisition and navigation decisions. Many existing inventory robots treat...

  • Review
  • Open Access
46 Citations
9,465 Views
23 Pages

Recent Advances in THz Detection of Water

  • Hongyi Ge,
  • Zhenyu Sun,
  • Yuying Jiang,
  • Xuyang Wu,
  • Zhiyuan Jia,
  • Guangyuan Cui and
  • Yuan Zhang

The frequency range of terahertz waves (THz waves) is between 0.1 and 10 THz and they have properties such as low energy, penetration, transients, and spectral fingerprints, which are especially sensitive to water. Terahertz, as a frontier technology...

  • Article
  • Open Access
931 Views
22 Pages

Unsupervised Change Detection Approach via Pseudo-Labeling, Machine Learning, and Spectral Index Time Series

  • Fellipe Mira Chaves,
  • Rogério Galante Negri,
  • Larissa Mioni Vieira Alves,
  • Adriano Bressane,
  • Aliihsan Sekertekin,
  • Erivaldo Antônio da Silva,
  • Guilherme Pina Cardim and
  • Wallace Casaca

27 October 2025

Land-use and land-cover change detection is critical for monitoring deforestation and urban expansion. In this study, we propose an unsupervised change detection approach that leverages multi-temporal satellite imagery combined with a classic machine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
8,437 Views
17 Pages

Recommending Advanced Deep Learning Models for Efficient Insect Pest Detection

  • Wei Li,
  • Tengfei Zhu,
  • Xiaoyu Li,
  • Jianzhang Dong and
  • Jun Liu

Insect pest management is one of the main ways to improve the crop yield and quality in agriculture and it can accurately and timely detect insect pests, which is of great significance to agricultural production. In the past, most insect pest detecti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
687 Views
21 Pages

28 June 2025

In this paper, the high-dimensional stochastic frontier model problem is explored via Elastic Net under the transfer learning framework. When the target data is limited, transfer learning improves the accuracy of model estimation and prediction by tr...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,640 Views
28 Pages

Scientometric Analysis and Visualization of Carbon Emission Studies in the Construction Industry

  • Qiming Luo,
  • Depo Yang,
  • Lepeng Huang,
  • Lin Chen,
  • Diyuan Luo,
  • Kang Cheng and
  • Fan Yang

22 April 2024

The field of carbon emissions in the construction industry has drawn extensive attention from researchers and practitioners due to the issue of global warming. In this study, an in-depth analysis of the research status, trends, and frontiers in the f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,355 Views
25 Pages

Designing an Optimized Water Quality Monitoring Network with Reserved Monitoring Locations

  • Xiaohui Zhu,
  • Yong Yue,
  • Prudence W.H. Wong,
  • Yixin Zhang and
  • Hao Ding

6 April 2019

The optimized design of water quality monitoring networks can not only minimize the pollution detection time and maximize the detection probability for river systems but also reduce redundant monitoring locations. In addition, it can save investments...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,018 Views
11 Pages

15 January 2023

To our knowledge, there is no study on the relationship between molecular spectral features and nutrient availability in chickpeas. The purpose of this study was to reveal molecular structure spectral profiles among cool-season adapted CDC chickpea v...

  • Review
  • Open Access
50 Citations
9,954 Views
21 Pages

7 April 2021

This review summarizes the state of the art of paper-based biosensors (PBBs) for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) detection. Three categories of PBB are currently being been used for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) dia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,752 Views
15 Pages

Research Trends and Hotspots Analysis Related to Monocarboxylate Transporter 1: A Study Based on Bibliometric Analysis

  • Siyi He,
  • Yue Zhao,
  • Yongsheng Fan,
  • Xue Zhao,
  • Jun Yu,
  • Jie Xie,
  • Chunhong Wang and
  • Jianmei Su

Background: Monocarboxylate transport protein 1 (MCT1) has been defined as a critical regulator in tumor energy metabolism, but bibliometric analysis of MCT1 research is rare. This study aimed to comprehensively analyze the global scientific output o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
2,994 Views
10 Pages

A Fukui Analysis of an Arginine-Modified Carbon Surface for the Electrochemical Sensing of Dopamine

  • Santhosh Kumar Revanappa,
  • Isha Soni,
  • Manjappa Siddalinganahalli,
  • Gururaj Kudur Jayaprakash,
  • Roberto Flores-Moreno and
  • Chandrashekar Bananakere Nanjegowda

13 September 2022

Amino acid-modified carbon interfaces have huge applications in developing electrochemical sensing applications. Earlier reports suggested that the amine group of amino acids acted as an oxidation center at the amino acid-modified electrode interface...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,371 Views
27 Pages

A novel path-planning method utilizing the trapezoid, adjacent, and distance, (TAD) characteristics of frontiers is presented in this work. The method uses the mobile robot’s sensor range to detect frontiers throughout each exploration cycle, m...

  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,526 Views
26 Pages

9 October 2021

Thrips are insect pests of economically important agricultural, horticultural, and forest crops. They cause damage by sucking plant sap and by transmitting several tospoviruses, ilarviruses, carmoviruses, sobemoviruses, and machlomoviruses. Accurate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,001 Views
20 Pages

11 July 2025

Autonomous exploration of autonomous vehicles in off-road environments remains challenging due to the adverse impact on exploration efficiency and safety caused by uneven terrain. In this paper, we propose a path planning framework for autonomous exp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
8,134 Views
19 Pages

18 July 2018

In recent years, terahertz imaging systems and techniques have been developed and have gradually become a leading frontier field. With the advantages of low radiation and clothing-penetrable, terahertz imaging technology has been widely used for the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
9,416 Views
27 Pages

31 January 2023

Achieving zero energy consumption in buildings is one of the most effective ways of achieving ‘carbon neutrality’ and contributing to a green and sustainable global development. Currently, BIPV systems are one of the main approaches to ac...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,613 Views
17 Pages

28 February 2021

Wearable self-powered sensors represent a theme of interest in the literature due to the progress in the Internet of Things and implantable devices. The integration of different materials to harvest energy from body movement or the environment to pow...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,637 Views
21 Pages

11 May 2023

Sustainable agriculture and good governance are part of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which have attracted great attention from all nations around the world. A scientific metrological and knowledge map analysis was conducted on the spa...

  • Review
  • Open Access
38 Citations
11,006 Views
29 Pages

Epidermal Wearable Biosensors for Monitoring Biomarkers of Chronic Disease in Sweat

  • Xichen Yuan,
  • Chen Li,
  • Xu Yin,
  • Yang Yang,
  • Bowen Ji,
  • Yinbo Niu and
  • Li Ren

23 February 2023

Biological information detection technology is mainly used for the detection of physiological and biochemical parameters closely related to human tissues and organ lesions, such as biomarkers. This technology has important value in the clinical diagn...

  • Review
  • Open Access
875 Views
44 Pages

26 December 2025

Protein modifications, particularly post-translational modifications (PTMs) such as phosphorylation and glycosylation, are fundamental mechanisms regulating cellular activity and disease pathogenesis, with their detection emerging as a promising fron...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,929 Views
11 Pages

19 May 2016

A series of colorimetric anion probes 1–6 containing OH and NO2 groups were synthesized, and their recognition properties toward various anions were investigated by visual observation, ultraviolet–visible spectroscopy, fluorescence, 1H nuclear magnet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,258 Views
18 Pages

4 January 2023

Carbon emissions are critical to climate change, and land-use change is an essential source of growth in carbon emissions. Research on land-use carbon emissions has become one of the hotspots in academic research. To explore the research hotspots and...

  • Review
  • Open Access
366 Citations
27,990 Views
21 Pages

Recent Advances in Nanotechnology Applied to Biosensors

  • Xueqing Zhang,
  • Qin Guo and
  • Daxiang Cui

17 February 2009

In recent years there has been great progress the application of nanomaterials in biosensors. The importance of these to the fundamental development of biosensors has been recognized. In particular, nanomaterials such as gold nanoparticles, carbon na...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,919 Views
22 Pages

15 September 2025

Food allergy is a growing global health concern, with seafood representing one of the most significant sources of allergic reactions. The primary allergens responsible for fish and shellfish allergies are β-parvalbumins and tropomyosin, respecti...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,384 Views
36 Pages

Silent Saboteurs: Decoding Mycotoxins—From Chemistry and Prevalence to Health Risks, Detection, Management and Emerging Frontiers

  • Kasun M. Thambugala,
  • Dilakshini Dayananda,
  • Samawansha Tennakoon,
  • Hiruni Harischandra,
  • Pamoda Jayatunga,
  • Nissanka de Silva,
  • Asanthi Dhanusha,
  • Sahan Madusanka,
  • Dinushani A. Daranagama and
  • Ratchadawan Cheewangkoon
  • + 2 authors

27 November 2025

Mycotoxins, toxic secondary metabolites produced by filamentous fungi, pose significant threats to global food safety, public health, and agricultural sustainability. This review summarizes the classification, biosynthesis, chemistry, and mechanisms...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,505 Views
13 Pages

Label-Free Enrichment of Circulating Tumor Plasma Cells: Future Potential Applications of Dielectrophoresis in Multiple Myeloma

  • Nicolò Musso,
  • Alessandra Romano,
  • Paolo Giuseppe Bonacci,
  • Grazia Scandura,
  • Clarissa Pandino,
  • Massimo Camarda,
  • Giorgio Ivan Russo,
  • Francesco Di Raimondo,
  • Emma Cacciola and
  • Rossella Cacciola

10 October 2022

In multiple myeloma (MM), circulating tumor plasma cells (CTPCs) are an emerging prognostic factor, offering a promising and minimally invasive means for longitudinal patient monitoring. Recent advances highlight the complex biology of plasma cell tr...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,090 Views
5 Pages

P3HT Processing Study for In-Liquid EGOFET Biosensors: Effects of the Solvent and the Surface

  • Matteo Parmeggiani,
  • Alessio Verna,
  • Alberto Ballesio,
  • Matteo Cocuzza,
  • Erik Piatti,
  • Vittorio Fra,
  • Candido Fabrizio Pirri and
  • Simone Luigi Marasso

In-liquid biosensing is the new frontier of cells real time monitoring and biomarkers detection. In order to improve the stability and electrical properties of an Electrolyte Gated Organic Field Effect Transistor (EGOFET) biosensor, in this study we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,434 Views
10 Pages

25 July 2022

The adsorption capacity of intrinsic SnS2 to NH3, Cl2 and C2H2 is very weak. However, non-metallic elements B and N have strong chemical activity, which can significantly improve the conductivity and gas sensitivity of SnS2. Based on density function...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,451 Views
19 Pages

30 August 2024

This paper aims to investigate using FOAM to analyze the dynamic instability in the APPR for ADFTV based on a dynamic model (DMADFTV). The DMADFTV considers the following aspects: AD kinematic nonuniformity (ADKN), AD geometric nonuniformity (ADGN) o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,893 Views
14 Pages

ZnO Nanocrystal-Based Chloroform Detection: Density Functional Theory (DFT) Study

  • H. Y. Ammar,
  • H. M. Badran,
  • Ahmad Umar,
  • H. Fouad and
  • Othman Y. Alothman

19 November 2019

We investigated the detection of chloroform (CHCl3) using ZnO nanoclusters via density functional theory calculations. The effects of various concentrations of CHCl3, as well as the deposition of O atoms, on the adsorption over ZnO nanoclusters were...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,034 Views
34 Pages

Raman Spectroscopy and Its Application in Fruit Quality Detection

  • Yong Huang,
  • Haoran Wang,
  • Huasheng Huang,
  • Zhiping Tan,
  • Chaojun Hou,
  • Jiajun Zhuang and
  • Yu Tang

Raman spectroscopy is a spectral analysis technique based on molecular vibration. It has gained widespread acceptance as a practical tool for the non-invasive and rapid characterization or identification of multiple analytes and compounds in recent y...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,155 Views
20 Pages

A Quantitative and Qualitative Review of Blockchain Research from 2015 to 2021

  • Xiaolin Li,
  • Hongbo Jiao,
  • Liming Cheng,
  • Yilin Yin,
  • Huimin Li,
  • Wenqing Mu and
  • Ruirui Zhang

13 March 2023

Blockchain has the potential to reconfigure the contemporary economic, legal, political and cultural landscape, causing a flood of research on this topic. However, limited efforts have been made to conduct retrospective research to appraise the block...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,094 Views
9 Pages

Deep Learning for Transformer-Based Plant Disease Detection: A Bibliometric Analysis

  • Raghiya Elghawth,
  • Wafae Abbaoui,
  • Anass Ariss and
  • Soumia Ziti

15 October 2025

Agriculture, food security, and economic stability are impacted by plant diseases, making their identification and diagnosis essential. This article illustrates the research trends in plant disease detection using transformers through a bibliometric...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
10,237 Views
14 Pages

Attention Autoencoder for Generative Latent Representational Learning in Anomaly Detection

  • Ariyo Oluwasanmi,
  • Muhammad Umar Aftab,
  • Edward Baagyere,
  • Zhiguang Qin,
  • Muhammad Ahmad and
  • Manuel Mazzara

24 December 2021

Today, accurate and automated abnormality diagnosis and identification have become of paramount importance as they are involved in many critical and life-saving scenarios. To accomplish such frontiers, we propose three artificial intelligence models...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,399 Views
8 Pages

27 September 2017

Controllable preparation of nanopores to promote the performance of electrochemical biosensing interfaces has become one of the researching frontiers in biosensing. A double biocatalysis signal amplification of glucose biosensor for the study of elec...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,639 Views
17 Pages

Progress of Photovoltaic DC Fault Arc Detection Based on VOSviewer Bibliometric Analysis

  • Lei Song,
  • Chunguang Lu,
  • Chen Li,
  • Yongjin Xu,
  • Lin Liu and
  • Xianbo Wang

21 May 2024

This paper presents a review of research progress on photovoltaic direct current arc detection based on VOSviewer bibliometric analysis. This study begins by introducing the basic concept and hazards of photovoltaic DC arcing faults, followed by a su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,088 Views
19 Pages

Optimum Water Quality Monitoring Network Design for Bidirectional River Systems

  • Xiaohui Zhu,
  • Yong Yue,
  • Prudence W. H. Wong,
  • Yixin Zhang and
  • Jianhong Tan

Affected by regular tides, bidirectional water flows play a crucial role in surface river systems. Using optimization theory to design a water quality monitoring network can reduce the redundant monitoring nodes as well as save the costs for building...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,431 Views
11 Pages

Secure Deep Learning for Intelligent Terahertz Metamaterial Identification

  • Feifei Liu,
  • Weihao Zhang,
  • Yu Sun,
  • Jianwei Liu,
  • Jungang Miao,
  • Feng He and
  • Xiaojun Wu

5 October 2020

Metamaterials, artificially engineered structures with extraordinary physical properties, offer multifaceted capabilities in interdisciplinary fields. To address the looming threat of stealthy monitoring, the detection and identification of metamater...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
9,578 Views
21 Pages

23 August 2021

In recent decades, adoptive cell transfer and checkpoint blockade therapies have revolutionized immunotherapeutic approaches to cancer treatment. Advances in whole exome/genome sequencing and bioinformatic detection of tumour-specific genetic variati...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
380 Views
14 Pages

3 February 2026

Gynecological diseases—encompassing polycystic ovary syndrome, endometriosis, infertility, and malignancies—represent a significant global health burden affecting women’s quality of life, reproductive capacity, and long-term health...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,840 Views
14 Pages

Ag-Doped MoSe2/ZnO Heterojunctions: A Highly Responsive Gas-Sensitive Material for Selective Detection of NO Based on DFT Study

  • Tao He,
  • Hongcheng Liu,
  • Jing Zhang,
  • Yuepeng Yang,
  • Yuxiao Jiang,
  • Ying Zhang,
  • Jiaqi Feng and
  • Kelin Hu

7 September 2023

In this work, the adsorption and sensing behavior of Ag-doped MoSe2/ZnO heterojunctions for H2, CH4, CO2, NO, CO, and C2H4 have been studied based on density functional theory (DFT). In gas adsorption analysis, the adsorption energy, adsorption dista...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,384 Views
13 Pages

7 August 2015

Fault detection and isolation in a complex system are research hotspots and frontier problems in the reliability engineering field. Fault identification can be regarded as a procedure of excavating key characteristics from massive failure data, then...

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