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  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,613 Views
22 Pages

6 December 2019

Sediments cause serious problems in irrigation systems, adversely affecting canal performance, driving up maintenance costs and, in extreme cases, threatening system sustainability. Multiple studies were done on the deposition of non-cohesive sedimen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,991 Views
19 Pages

Experimental and Numerical Analysis of 60-Year-Old Sluice Gate Affected by Long-Term Operation

  • Miroslav Pástor,
  • Jozef Bocko,
  • Pavol Lengvarský,
  • Peter Sivák and
  • Patrik Šarga

17 November 2020

Technological units of water reservoirs and power plants include sluice gates which are designed to completely seal the inflow or outflow of water in supply or discharge channels. This article describes the issue of technical assessment of a sluice g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,190 Views
16 Pages

Logic Gate Generation in a Monostable Optical System: Improving the Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser Reconfigurable Logic Operation

  • Samuel Mardoqueo Afanador-Delgado,
  • José Luis Echenausía-Monroy,
  • Guillermo Huerta-Cuellar,
  • Juan Hugo García-López,
  • Erick Emiliano Lopez-Muñoz and
  • Rider Jaimes-Reátegui

22 November 2024

A logic gate is typically an electronic device with a Boolean or other type of function, e.g., adding or subtracting, including or excluding according to its logical properties. They can be used in electronic, electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, and p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,495 Views
21 Pages

Evaluating Water Level Variability Under Different Sluice Gate Operation Strategies: A Case Study of the Long Xuyen Quadrangle, Vietnam

  • Dinh Van Duy,
  • Nguyen Thai An,
  • Tran Van Ty,
  • Lam Tan Phat,
  • Ngo Thanh Toan,
  • Huynh Vuong Thu Minh,
  • Nigel K. Downes and
  • Hitoshi Tanaka

The Vietnamese Mekong Delta (VMD) faces increasing challenges due to upstream hydrological fluctuations and climate change, necessitating optimized water management strategies. Sluice gates play a critical role in regulating water levels, yet their e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,675 Views
14 Pages

3 March 2024

With the widespread use of sector gates in tidal river locks, there is a growing interest in the operating force during the gate operation. This study investigates the characteristics of operating forces in a sector gate hydraulic cylinder system usi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,401 Views
10 Pages

Characteristics of a Novel FinFET with Multi-Enhanced Operation Gates (MEOG FinFET)

  • Haoji Wan,
  • Xianyun Liu,
  • Xin Su,
  • Xincheng Ren,
  • Shengting Luo and
  • Qi Zhou

7 November 2022

This study illustrates a type of novel device. Integrating fin field-effect transistors (FinFETs) with current silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers provides an excellent platform to fabricate advanced specific devices. An SOI FinFET device consists of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,388 Views
15 Pages

Influence of Check Gate Construction on Operation of Check Gate in Ship Lock

  • Jozef Kulka,
  • Martin Mantič,
  • Melichar Kopas,
  • Michal Fabian,
  • Robert Grega,
  • Peter Kaššay and
  • Marián Siman

13 September 2024

The subject of investigation presented in this article is a filling and draining system of the ship lock installed in the Gabčíkovo Waterworks. This article describes the operation and construction of the special regulation segments, i.e....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,569 Views
25 Pages

A Decomposed-Ensemble Prediction Framework for Gate-In Operations at Container Terminals

  • Yifan Shen,
  • Beng Xuan,
  • Hongtao Hu,
  • Yansong Wu,
  • Ning Zhao and
  • Zhen Yang

Container terminals play a crucial role in global logistics and trade, with gate-in operations significantly impacting overall terminal efficiency and cargo turnover speed. This paper analyzes a series of problems caused by the randomness of the arri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,107 Views
23 Pages

Operation of Gate-Controlled Irrigation System Using HEC-RAS 2D for Spring Flood Hazard Reduction

  • Farida Akiyanova,
  • Nurlan Ongdas,
  • Nurlybek Zinabdin,
  • Yergali Karakulov,
  • Adlet Nazhbiyev,
  • Zhanbota Mussagaliyeva and
  • Aksholpan Atalikhova

Flooding events have been negatively affecting the Republic of Kazakhstan, with higher occurrence in flat parts of the country during spring snowmelt in snow-fed rivers. The current project aims to assess the flood hazard reduction capacity of Alva i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,708 Views
6 Pages

A gate all around with back-gate (GAAB) structure was proposed for 3D NAND Flash memory technology. We demonstrated the excellent characteristics of the GAAB NAND structure, especially in the self-boosting operation. Channel potential of GAAB shows a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,253 Views
7 Pages

10 March 2021

In this study, we proposed a rectifying drain electrode that was embedded in a p-GaN gate AlGaN/GaN heterojunction field-effect transistor to achieve the unidirectional switching characteristics, without the need for a separate reverse blocking devic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,805 Views
13 Pages

28 December 2022

As an essential part of the water conservancy hub, the miter gate undertakes the vital task of navigational operation and works in a complex basin with a high water level drop for a long time; therefore, it is necessary to ensure its safe operation....

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,212 Views
19 Pages

Optimizing the Operation Release Policy Using Charged System Search Algorithm: A Case Study of Klang Gates Dam, Malaysia

  • Sarmad Dashti Latif,
  • Suzlyana Marhain,
  • Md Shabbir Hossain,
  • Ali Najah Ahmed,
  • Mohsen Sherif,
  • Ahmed Sefelnasr and
  • Ahmed El-Shafie

24 May 2021

In planning and managing water resources, the implementation of optimization techniques in the operation of reservoirs has become an important focus. An optimal reservoir operating policy should take into consideration the uncertainty associated with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,629 Views
22 Pages

27 September 2019

For the sake of maintaining sustainable airport operations, biometric e-gates security systems started receiving significant attention from managers of airports around the world. Therefore, how to reduce flight passengers’ perceived resistance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,932 Views
10 Pages

19 May 2022

To lower the charge leakage of a floating gate device and improve the operation performance of memory devices toward a smaller structure size and a higher component capability, two new types of floating gates composed of pn-type polysilicon or np-typ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,356 Views
17 Pages

Numerical Analysis of Flow-Induced Vibration of Deep-Hole Plane Steel Gate in Partial Opening Operation

  • Jinyu Li,
  • Chen Wang,
  • Zhengzhong Wang,
  • Kailin Ren,
  • Yuling Zhang,
  • Chao Xu and
  • Dongfeng Li

20 October 2022

Hydraulic steel gates are the core adjustment mechanism for water conservancy projects, the safety of which is related to the safety of the entire water conservancy project. In this study, the issue of flow-induced vibration under the influence of pu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,268 Views
17 Pages

Fault Critical Point Prediction Method of Nuclear Gate Valve with Small Samples Based on Characteristic Analysis of Operation

  • Zhilong Liu,
  • Jie Liu,
  • Yanping Huang,
  • Tongxi Li,
  • Changhua Nie,
  • Yanjun Xia,
  • Li Zhan,
  • Zhangchun Tang and
  • Lin Zhang

19 January 2022

The number of fault samples for the new nuclear valve is commonly rare; thus, the machine learning algorithm is not suitable for the fault prediction of this kind of equipment. In order to overcome this difficulty, this paper proposes a novel method...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,720 Views
21 Pages

Effect of Gate Selection on the Non-Cohesive Sedimentation in Irrigation Schemes

  • Shaimaa Theol,
  • Bert Jagers,
  • Jigyasha Rai Yangkhurung,
  • F.X. Suryadi and
  • Charlotte de Fraiture

4 October 2020

In order to cover the crop water requirements, flow control structures such as gates and weirs are used to transfer the desired amount of water from the canals to the field canals. This paper examines the impact of gate operation and the selection of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,737 Views
12 Pages

A Ratiometric Fluorescent Probe Dye-Functionalized MOFs Integrated with Logic Gate Operation for Efficient Detection of Acetaldehyde

  • Wenwei Li,
  • Min Liu,
  • Yourong Zhao,
  • Yangchun Fan,
  • Yuting Li,
  • Hongmei Gao,
  • Hongda Li,
  • Daojiang Gao and
  • Zhanglei Ning

22 June 2024

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are a class of hazardous gases that are widely present in the atmosphere and cause great harm to human health. In this paper, a ratiometric fluorescent probe (Dye@Eu-MOFs) based on a dye-functionalized metal–or...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,638 Views
20 Pages

4 April 2018

Reliability is one of the critical issues for a modular multilevel converter (MMC) since it consists of a large number of series-connected power electronics submodules (SMs). In this paper, a complete control strategy including fault detection, local...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,963 Views
17 Pages

31 October 2017

Pump stations prevent backwater effects from urban streams and safely drain rainwater in urban areas. Urbanization has increased the required capacity of centralized reservoirs and drainage pumps; yet, their respective designs are based on the runoff...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,425 Views
15 Pages

30 September 2022

Gate allocation has always been a fundamental but critical issue in the daily operation of airports, which is related to service quality and schedule efficiency. In order to obtain reasonable and efficient gate allocation results, in this paper, a mu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
296 Views
23 Pages

Emergency Control Strategies Research for Sudden Pollution Incident in Long-Distance Water Diversion Tunnels

  • Chenchen Ji,
  • Boran Zhu,
  • Meiling Li,
  • Haipeng Bi,
  • Xiaodong Xu,
  • Junqiang Lin,
  • Shangtuo Qian and
  • Wei Huang

30 November 2025

This study investigates emergency response strategies for sudden pollution incidents in long-distance water diversion tunnels. The tunnel section of the Yin Chao Ji Liao Project in Inner Mongolia is used as a case study. A one-dimensional hydrodynami...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,509 Views
19 Pages

Noise and Breakdown Characterization of SPAD Detectors with Time-Gated Photon-Counting Operation

  • Hiwa Mahmoudi,
  • Michael Hofbauer,
  • Bernhard Goll and
  • Horst Zimmermann

5 August 2021

Being ready-to-detect over a certain portion of time makes the time-gated single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) an attractive candidate for low-noise photon-counting applications. A careful SPAD noise and performance characterization, however, is crit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,022 Views
19 Pages

Optical Logic Gates Excited by a Gauss Vortex Interference Beam Based on Spatial Self-Phase Modulation in 2D MoS2

  • Xueyu Chen,
  • Ge Ding,
  • Linwei Tang,
  • Haijian Zou,
  • Chaofeng Wang,
  • Shuqing Chen,
  • Chenliang Su and
  • Ying Li

20 April 2023

Vortex beams with optical orbital angular momentum have broad prospects in future high-speed and large-capacity optical communication. In this investigation of materials science, we found that low-dimensional materials have feasibility and reliabilit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,225 Views
17 Pages

23 August 2022

Hydraulic structures installed in rivers inevitably create a water level difference between upstream and downstream regions. The potential energy due to this difference in water level is converted into kinetic energy, causing high-velocity flow and h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,283 Views
14 Pages

Harnessing Multistability: A Novel Approach to Optical Logic Gate Construction Using Erbium-Doped Fiber Lasers

  • Safara Bibi,
  • Guillermo Huerta-Cuellar,
  • José Luís Echenausía-Monroy,
  • Rider Jaimes-Reátegui,
  • Juan Hugo García-López and
  • Alexander N. Pisarchik

15 February 2024

We present an innovative method harnessing multistability within a diode-pumped erbium-doped fiber laser to construct logic gates. Our approach involves manipulating the intensity of external noise to regulate the probability of transitioning among f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,989 Views
12 Pages

10 June 2021

The Juksan weir, installed in the Yeongsan river in South Korea from 2010 to 2012, has secured sustainable water resources and helped control flooding. However, low river flow velocities due to the weir have deteriorated the quality of the river wate...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,157 Views
11 Pages

Recognition of Bimolecular Logic Operation Pattern Based on a Solid-State Nanopore

  • Han Yan,
  • Zhen Zhang,
  • Ting Weng,
  • Libo Zhu,
  • Pang Zhang,
  • Deqiang Wang and
  • Quanjun Liu

23 December 2020

Nanopores have a unique advantage for detecting biomolecules in a label-free fashion, such as DNA that can be synthesized into specific structures to perform computations. This method has been considered for the detection of diseased molecules. Here,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
79 Citations
7,159 Views
18 Pages

Simulating Reservoir Operation Using a Recurrent Neural Network Algorithm

  • Di Zhang,
  • Qidong Peng,
  • Junqiang Lin,
  • Dongsheng Wang,
  • Xuefei Liu and
  • Jiangbo Zhuang

25 April 2019

The reservoir is an important hydraulic engineering measure for human utilization and management of water resources. Additionally, a reasonable and effective reservoir operating plan is essential for realizing reservoir function. To explore the appli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,471 Views
14 Pages

Implementation of Logic Gates in an Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser (EDFL): Numerical and Experimental Analysis

  • Samuel Mardoqueo Afanador Delgado,
  • José Luis Echenausía Monroy,
  • Guillermo Huerta Cuellar,
  • Juan Hugo García López and
  • Rider Jaimes Reátegui

12 December 2022

At a time when miniaturization and optimization of resources are in the foreground, the development of devices that can perform various functions is a primary goal of technological development. In this work, the use of an Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser (ED...

  • Data Descriptor
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,326 Views
7 Pages

Numerical and Experimental Data of the Implementation of Logic Gates in an Erbium-Doped Fiber Laser (EDFL)

  • Samuel Mardoqueo Afanador Delgado,
  • José Luis Echenausía Monroy,
  • Guillermo Huerta Cuellar,
  • Juan Hugo García López and
  • Rider Jaimes Reátegui

26 December 2022

In this article, the methods for obtaining time series from an erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) and its numerical simulation are described. In addition, the nature of the obtained files, the meaning of the changing file names, and the ways of accessin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,669 Views
48 Pages

15 August 2021

A new kind of quantum gates, higher braiding gates, as matrix solutions of the polyadic braid equations (different from the generalized Yang–Baxter equations) is introduced. Such gates lead to another special multiqubit entanglement that can speed up...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,720 Views
20 Pages

24 January 2020

Considering links between logic and physics is important because of the fast development of quantum information technologies in our everyday life. This paper discusses a new method in logic inspired from quantum theory using operators, named Eigenlog...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,902 Views
22 Pages

Investigating an Innovative Sea-Based Strategy to Mitigate Coastal City Flood Disasters and Its Feasibility Study for Brisbane, Australia

  • Usman Khalil,
  • Shu-Qing Yang,
  • Muttucumaru Sivakumar,
  • Keith Enever,
  • Mariam Sajid and
  • Muhammad Zain Bin Riaz

30 September 2020

This study examines an innovative Coastal Reservoir (CR) technique as a feasible solution for flood adaptation and mitigation in the Brisbane River Estuary (BRE), Australia, which is vulnerable to coastal flooding. The study analysed the operation of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,517 Views
18 Pages

The STIM1/2-Regulated Calcium Homeostasis Is Impaired in Hippocampal Neurons of the 5xFAD Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease

  • Ksenia Skobeleva,
  • Alexey Shalygin,
  • Elena Mikhaylova,
  • Irina Guzhova,
  • Maria Ryazantseva and
  • Elena Kaznacheyeva

26 November 2022

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common cause of age-related dementia. Neuronal calcium homeostasis impairment may contribute to AD. Here we demonstrated that voltage-gated calcium (VGC) entry and store-operated calcium (SOC) entry regulate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,599 Views
9 Pages

Low-Temperature Solution-Processed Gate Dielectrics for High-Performance Organic Thin Film Transistors

  • Jaekyun Kim,
  • Chang Jun Park,
  • Gyeongmin Yi,
  • Myung-Seok Choi and
  • Sung Kyu Park

12 October 2015

A low-temperature solution-processed high-k gate dielectric layer for use in a high-performance solution-processed semiconducting polymer organic thin-film transistor (OTFT) was demonstrated. Photochemical activation of sol-gel-derived AlOx films und...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8,048 Views
15 Pages

An LMS Programming Scheme and Floating-Gate Technology Enabled Trimmer-Less and Low Voltage Flame Detection Sensor

  • Juan Carlos Iglesias-Rojas,
  • Felipe Gomez-Castañeda and
  • Jose Antonio Moreno-Cadenas

14 June 2017

In this paper, a Least Mean Square (LMS) programming scheme is used to set the offset voltage of two operational amplifiers that were built using floating-gate transistors, enabling a 0.95 VRMS trimmer-less flame detection sensor. The programming sch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,835 Views
11 Pages

Steady State and Dynamic Response of Voltage-Operated Membrane Gates

  • David Nicolas Østedgaard-Munck,
  • Jacopo Catalano and
  • Anders Bentien

An electrochemical flow cell with Nafion 212, aqueous LiI/I 2 redox solution, and carbon paper electrode was operated as an electro-osmotic gate based on the Electrokinetic Energy Conversion (EKEC) principle. The gate was operated in differen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,754 Views
17 Pages

28 January 2022

As an important part of the navigation facilities for water conservancy and electricity in Gezhouba, the operation safety of herringbone gates is critical. Due to the minor torsional stiffness of the gate, it is easy to produce torsional deformation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,775 Views
28 Pages

13 October 2024

Hydropower units are integral to sustainable energy production, and their operational reliability hinges on accurate status prediction. This paper introduces an innovative hybrid deep learning model that synergistically integrates a Temporal Convolut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,656 Views
19 Pages

26 February 2022

To adaptively identify the modal parameters for time-invariant structures excited by non-white noise, this paper proposes a new operational modal analysis (OMA) method using hybrid neural networks. In this work, taking the acceleration response direc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,678 Views
22 Pages

Probabilistic Model for Real-Time Flood Operation of a Dam Based on a Deterministic Optimization Model

  • Víctor Cuevas-Velásquez,
  • Alvaro Sordo-Ward,
  • Jaime H. García-Palacios,
  • Paola Bianucci and
  • Luis Garrote

16 November 2020

This paper presents a real-time flood control model for dams with gate-controlled spillways that brings together the advantages of an optimization model based on mixed integer linear programming (MILP) and a case-based learning scheme using Bayesian...

  • Article
  • Open Access
815 Views
24 Pages

Imaging applications involving outdoor scenes and fast motion require sensing and processing of high-dynamic-range images at video rates. In turn, image signal processing pipelines that serve low-dynamic-range displays require tone mapping operators...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,861 Views
19 Pages

A Parametric Flood Control Method for Dams with Gate-Controlled Spillways

  • Alvaro Sordo-Ward,
  • Ivan Gabriel-Martin,
  • Paola Bianucci and
  • Luis Garrote

28 March 2017

The study presents a method which can be used to define real-time operation rules for gated spillways (named the K-Method). The K-Method is defined to improve the performance of the Volumetric Evaluation Method (VEM), by adapting it to the particular...

  • Article
  • Open Access
429 Views
35 Pages

The Mechanism of LTXN4C-Induced Ca2+ Influx Involves Latrophilin-Mediated Activation of Cav2.x Channels

  • Jennifer K. Blackburn,
  • John-Paul Silva,
  • Evelina Petitto,
  • Dietmar Cholewa,
  • Elizaveta Fasler-Kan,
  • Kirill E. Volynski and
  • Yuri A. Ushkaryov

19 November 2025

Store-operated Ca2+ entry (SOCE) is a key regulator of cytosolic Ca2+ (Ca2+cyt). Presynaptic SOCE can be activated by ligands like α-latrotoxin, which acts through the presynaptic G-protein-coupled receptor latrophilin-1 (LPHN1), inducing Ca2+...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,512 Views
17 Pages

Dimensional Analysis of Hydrological Response of Sluice Gate Operations in Water Diversion Canals

  • Hengchang Li,
  • Zhenyong Cui,
  • Jieyun Wang,
  • Chunping Ning,
  • Xiangyu Xu and
  • Xizhi Nong

30 May 2025

The hydrodynamics characteristics of artificial water diversion canals with long-distance and inter-basin multi-stage sluice gate regulations are prone to sudden increases and decreases, and sluice gate discharge differs from that of natural rivers....

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,926 Views
17 Pages

27 April 2021

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions related to the Farnsworth Unit’s (FWU) carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery (CO2-EOR) operations were accounted for through a gate-to-gate life cycle assessment (LCA) for a period of about 10 years, since start of injec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,228 Views
16 Pages

Investigating the Shielding Effect of Pulse Transformer Operation in Isolated Gate Drivers for SiC MOSFETs

  • Loreine Makki,
  • Marc Anthony Mannah,
  • Christophe Batard,
  • Nicolas Ginot and
  • Julien Weckbrodt

27 June 2021

Wide-bandgap technology evolution compels the advancement of efficient pulse-width gate-driver devices. Integrated enhanced gate-driver planar transformers are a source of electromagnetic disturbances due to inter-winding capacitances, which serve as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,228 Views
13 Pages

Altered Calcium Influx Pathways in Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts

  • Francisco Sadras,
  • Teneale A. Stewart,
  • Mélanie Robitaille,
  • Amelia A. Peters,
  • Priyakshi Kalita-de Croft,
  • Patsy S. Soon,
  • Jodi M. Saunus,
  • Sunil R. Lakhani,
  • Sarah J. Roberts-Thomson and
  • Gregory R. Monteith

Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) represent an important component of the tumour microenvironment and are implicated in disease progression. Two outstanding questions in cancer biology are how CAFs arise and how they might be targeted therapeutica...

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