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A Graded Evaluation Method for Construction Quality of Prefabricated Beam Bridges Based on Manifold Learning and Probability Distributions

  • Lu Liu,
  • Pinhong Yang,
  • Kai Chen,
  • Jianjun Cui,
  • Yixu Wang,
  • Jiacheng Cai,
  • Zhu Luo,
  • Lu Peng and
  • Bing Cai

8 September 2026

This study aims to construct a graded evaluation method for the construction quality of Highway Prefabricated Beam Bridges, in order to support refined quality control beyond the traditional “qualified/unqualified” judgment. Existing eval...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Technologies, AI and BIM in Construction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
109 Views
20 Pages

Coordination and Variation of Photosynthetic Pigments Across Seedling Ages and Grades Reveal Adaptive Strategies in Pinus yunnanensis

  • Ye Jiang,
  • Zhuangyue Lu,
  • Qingxue Zhang,
  • Tianyi Xue,
  • Xiangyang Kang,
  • Yulan Xu,
  • Nianhui Cai and
  • Lin Chen

14 October 2026

Pinus yunnanensis is a vital native species for afforestation in Southwest China, and seedling quality determines restoration outcomes. Seedling grading is widely applied to select robust seedlings, whereas physiological distinctions among seedlings...

(This article belongs to the Section Plant Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,021 Views
25 Pages

Atractylodes macrocephala Rhizoma (AMR) is a frequently used medicinal herb for treating gastrointestinal disorders, with its quality influenced by factors such as origin and cultivation duration. Traditional quality control methods for AMR are time-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,324 Views
19 Pages

10 September 2024

A study was conducted to improve the effectiveness of silvicultural production of structural sawn timber from softwoods. It intends to explore prediction methods for mechanical timber quality. The study material was obtained from six stands divided i...

(This article belongs to the Section Wood Science and Forest Products)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,365 Views
17 Pages

Unveiling the Texture Secrets of Morchella Germplasm: Advanced Grading and Quality Assessment Through Texture Profile Analysis (TPA)

  • Jialiang Li,
  • Ying Chen,
  • Xuelian Cao,
  • Jie Tang,
  • Liyuan Xie,
  • Lixu Liu,
  • Yan Wan and
  • Rongping Hu

1 January 2025

Morchella is an edible mushroom with medical applciations. To explore the correlation between the texture indices of Morchella and to establish a sensory quality evaluation system, the texture quality characteristics of 214 Morchella germplasm resour...

(This article belongs to the Section Food Physics and (Bio)Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,891 Views
18 Pages

Evaluation of an Algorithm for Automatic Grading of Forum Messages in MOOC Discussion Forums

  • Raquel L. Pérez-Nicolás,
  • Carlos Alario-Hoyos,
  • Iria Estévez-Ayres,
  • Pedro Manuel Moreno-Marcos,
  • Pedro J. Muñoz-Merino and
  • Carlos Delgado Kloos

20 August 2021

Discussion forums are a valuable source of information in educational platforms such as Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), as users can exchange opinions or even help other students in an asynchronous way, contributing to the sustainability of MOOC...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue E-learning, Digital Learning, and Digital Communication Used for Education Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,945 Views
13 Pages

9 June 2022

Ready-made Chinese herbal medicine (RMCHM) is one of the most common types of synergistic herbal medicine used worldwide. It is based on composite herbal formulae (CHF), which makes quality control of this kind of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) d...

(This article belongs to the Section Pharmaceutical Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
403 Views
19 Pages

Non-Destructive Classification of Apple Watercore Severity Levels Using Near-Infrared Hyperspectral Imaging

  • Siyu Wang,
  • Xu Li,
  • Xiongzhe Han,
  • Tuanjie Li,
  • Zhao Zhang,
  • Xuping Feng and
  • Bin Guo

18 September 2026

Apple watercore is an internal physiological disorder that affects fruit quality and storage stability. This study developed a non-destructive approach for classifying watercore severity in 737 Aksu ‘Fuji’ apples using near-infrared hyper...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Product Quality and Safety)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,738 Views
11 Pages

23 February 2023

The eating quality evaluation of rice is raising further concerns among researchers and consumers. This research is aimed to apply lipidomics in determining the distinction between different grades of indica rice and establishing effective models for...

(This article belongs to the Section Foodomics)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,865 Views
6 Pages

Evaluation of Olive Oil Quality Grade Using a Portable Battery-Operated Sensor System

  • Marco Grossi,
  • Enrico Valli,
  • Alessandra Bendini,
  • Tullia Gallina Toschi and
  • Bruno Riccò

Olive oil quality is normally assessed by chemical analysis as well as sensory analysis to detect the presence of organoleptic defects. Two of the most important parameters that define the quality of olive oil are the free acidity and the peroxide in...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 1st International Electronic Conference on Chemical Sensors and Analytical Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,538 Views
17 Pages

8 December 2025

This study assesses the quality of pure maple syrup sold online to consumers. It aims to determine how likely consumers are to receive syrup that meets legal grading standards. Grade A clarity, color, density, and flavor tests were performed using vi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
7,205 Views
11 Pages

A Comprehensive Peach Fruit Quality Evaluation Method for Grading and Consumption

  • Guoxiang Zhang,
  • Qiqi Fu,
  • Zetian Fu,
  • Xinxing Li,
  • Maja Matetić,
  • Marija Brkic Bakaric and
  • Tomislav Jemrić

17 February 2020

Peaches are a popular fruit appreciated by consumers due to their eating quality. Quality evaluation of peaches is important for their processing, inventory control, and marketing. Eleven quality indicators (shape index, volume, mass, density, firmne...

(This article belongs to the Section Food Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5,628 Views
13 Pages

2 September 2024

Wagyu beef is gaining worldwide popularity, primarily due to the fineness of its marbling. Currently, the evaluation of this marbling is performed visually by graders. This method has several issues: varying evaluation standards among graders, reduce...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Eng 2024)
  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
9,927 Views
36 Pages

Pre-Implantation Bovine Embryo Evaluation—From Optics to Omics and Beyond

  • R. A. Chanaka Rabel,
  • Paula V. Marchioretto,
  • Elizabeth A. Bangert,
  • Kenneth Wilson,
  • Derek J. Milner and
  • Matthew B. Wheeler

24 June 2023

Approximately 80% of the ~1.5 million bovine embryos transferred in 2021 were in vitro produced. However, only ~27% of the transferred IVP embryos will result in live births. The ~73% pregnancy failures are partly due to transferring poor-quality emb...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Early Embryo Development in Agricultural Animals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
4,459 Views
20 Pages

Relationship between the Grade and the Characteristic Flavor of PCT (Panyong Congou Black Tea)

  • Chenxi Gao,
  • Yan Huang,
  • Jing Li,
  • Shiheng Lyu,
  • Zhihui Wang,
  • Feng Xie,
  • Yuqin Luo,
  • Fan Zhang,
  • Zhidan Chen and
  • Weijiang Sun

13 September 2022

Panyong Congou black tea (PCT) is one of the most representative and historically famous Congou black teas in China and has been gaining more and more attention for its beneficial health properties. Currently, four grades of PCT are available, based...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances on Tea Chemistry and Function)
  • Article
  • Open Access
520 Views
24 Pages

4 August 2026

The simultaneous diagnosis of diseases and evaluation of age quality grades in tea leaves are critical for precision agriculture and the economic valuation of tea products. Although deep learning has shown promise in agricultural vision tasks, curren...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Artificial Intelligence for Plant Research—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,381 Views
17 Pages

12 May 2025

Flavor is one of the crucial factors that influences the quality and consumer acceptance of baijiu. In this study, we analyzed the volatile organic compound (VOC) profiles of five different quality grades of Nongxiangxing baijiu (NXB), fermented duri...

(This article belongs to the Section Drinks and Liquid Nutrition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
8,338 Views
15 Pages

Surface Water Quality Evaluation Based on a Game Theory-Based Cloud Model

  • Bing Yang,
  • Chengguang Lai,
  • Xiaohong Chen,
  • Xiaoqing Wu and
  • Yanhu He

20 April 2018

Water quality evaluation is an essential measure to analyze water quality. However, excessive randomness and fuzziness affect the process of evaluation, thus reducing the accuracy of evaluation. Therefore, this study proposed a cloud model for evalua...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Water Quality: A Component of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,549 Views
15 Pages

A Method for Grading Failure Rates Within the Dynamic Effective Space of Integrated Circuits After Testing

  • Wenfa Zhan,
  • Yangxinzi Zhou,
  • Jiangyun Zheng,
  • Xueyuan Cai,
  • Qingping Zhang and
  • Xiaoqing Wen

14 February 2025

Integrated circuits that pass testing still have quality differences, thus making grading necessary. Traditional grading methods rely on static testing and electrical measurements, which are challenging to achieve precise grading, time-consuming, and...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,556 Views
16 Pages

20 June 2023

Soil quality is related to food security and human survival and development. Due to the acceleration of urbanization and the increase in abandoned land, the quality of topsoil has deteriorated, thus resulting in land degradation in recent years. In t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cultivated Land Quality under the Background of Global Climate Change: Status, Protection, Monitoring and Lifting)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,149 Views
15 Pages

13 June 2023

At present, the surface quality of Yuba skin is determined by sensory methods. In order to realize the intelligent classification detection of Yuba skin quality, this study designed a system that automatically determines the quality of Yuba skin surf...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advances in Non-Destructive Testing Methods)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,198 Views
15 Pages

Evaluation of Soil Quality of Pingliang City Based on Fuzzy Mathematics and Cluster Analysis

  • Zhenhua Zhao,
  • Yifei Yang,
  • Bo Dong,
  • Rui Zhang,
  • Guangrong Chen,
  • Zhandong Pan and
  • Dandan Du

2 June 2024

Pingliang City has a complex topography and diverse soil types. To realize the improvement of soil according to local conditions and the reasonable and sustainable use of soil resources, an evaluation of soil quality in Pingliang City was carried out...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Soil Evolution, Management, and Sustainable Utilization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,089 Views
16 Pages

2 October 2025

Rapid evaluations of farmland soil quality can provide data support for farmland protection and utilization. This study focuses on the soda–saline soil region of Da’an City, Jilin Province, covering an area of 4879 km2; it proposes a fram...

(This article belongs to the Section Land Systems and Global Change)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,785 Views
16 Pages

29 August 2025

To reveal the characteristic physicochemical indicators of wines of different quality grades and explore their feasibility as auxiliary indicators for grading, 23 wines from the Manas subregion of Xinjiang were used as test materials. Sensory evaluat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Wine Physicochemical Properties, Sensory Attributes, and Health Benefits: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,220 Views
20 Pages

5 November 2020

This study reviewed new concept waterproofing performance gradation to respond to the limit of unified single standard performance standard used in each country from the past until now. This study was carried out using the standard test data from 34...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,848 Views
16 Pages

20 October 2024

This study provides an evidential reasoning method for water quality evaluation based on Gaussian distribution to handle the problem of comprehensive water quality evaluation for a region across a period (multiple sections and multiple time points)....

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Water Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,560 Views
13 Pages

11 May 2023

Green development is the background of common prosperity and is important for the sustainable development of China. The purpose of this paper is to quantitatively evaluate China’s common prosperity policies to understand the advantages and disa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Public Policy and Green Governance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,317 Views
22 Pages

A Comprehensive Evaluation Method for Greenhouse-Grown Lettuce Based on RGB Images and Hyperspectral Data

  • Duoer Ma,
  • Hong Ren,
  • Qi Zeng,
  • Yidi Liu,
  • Lulu Ma,
  • Qiang Zhang,
  • Ze Zhang and
  • Jiangli Wang

11 March 2026

Quality grading of greenhouse lettuce requires rapid external appearance screening and nondestructive internal quality assessment. However, existing detection methods struggle to simultaneously evaluate both external and internal quality while mainta...

(This article belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,720 Views
12 Pages

10 May 2024

There is a growing demand for comprehensive evaluations of the clinical learning quality of nursing education and the necessity to establish robust predictors and mediators for enhancing its outcomes within the context of mental health practice. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,979 Views
32 Pages

Holistic Quality Model and Assessment—Supporting Decision-Making towards Sustainable Construction Using the Design and Production of Graded Concrete Components as an Example

  • Deniz Frost,
  • Oliver Gericke,
  • Roberta Di Bari,
  • Laura Balangé,
  • Li Zhang,
  • Boris Blagojevic,
  • David Nigl,
  • Phillip Haag,
  • Lucio Blandini and
  • Werner Sobek
  • + 5 authors

8 September 2022

This paper describes a holistic quality model (HQM) and assessment to support decision-making processes in construction. A graded concrete slab serves as an example to illustrate how to consider technical, environmental, and social quality criteria a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quality as Driver for Sustainable Construction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
5,213 Views
15 Pages

The existing evaluation system of cultivated land quality mainly considers the natural quality and utilisation conditions, but without sufficient emphasis on ecological environment, which can’t meet the requirements of the trinity pattern prote...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,785 Views
15 Pages

Oxidative Homeostasis in Follicular Fluid and Embryo Quality—A Pilot Study

  • Ana Jeremic,
  • Mladenko Vasiljevic,
  • Zeljko Mikovic,
  • Zoran Bukumiric,
  • Petar Simic,
  • Tamara Stanisavljevic,
  • Tatjana Simic and
  • Tatjana Djukic

The objective of this study was to measure the different redox biomarker levels within the follicular fluid (FF) and evaluate correlations with embryo quality using the one follicle–one oocyte/embryo approach. The prospective study included 54...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Pathology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,206 Views
15 Pages

Quality Grading of Dried Abalone Using an Optimized VGGNet

  • Yansong Zhong,
  • Hongyue Lin,
  • Jiacheng Gan,
  • Weiwei You,
  • Jia Chen and
  • Rongxin Zhang

5 July 2024

As living standards have improved, consumer demand for high-quality dried abalone has increased. Traditional abalone grading is achieved through slice analysis (sampling analysis) combined with human experience. However, this method has several issue...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Research on Safety Detection and Quality Control of Food)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,544 Views
16 Pages

10 May 2022

Aiming at the problem that the current research is not suitable for the evaluation of the surface ecological environmental quality in a small-scale coal mining subsidence area, a model combining the hierarchical method and the weighted method was con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
4,126 Views
17 Pages

13 January 2022

China has set up ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin as its national strategy. However, the fragile natural ecosystem and intensive human disturbances pose challenges to it. This study evaluates habitat qualit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,678 Views
18 Pages

1 May 2022

In order to further improve the efficiency and economic benefits of multi-stage fracturing of unconventional oil and gas horizontal wells, it is urgently needed to conduct comprehensive reservoir quality evaluation research on the whole horizontal we...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Petroleum Engineering: Reservoir Fracturing Technology and Numerical Simulation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,654 Views
14 Pages

8 October 2023

High-quality carbon reduction policies play a crucial role in tackling global climate change and reducing carbon dioxide emissions. China, as the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide, has committed to peaking its carbon emission by 2030. T...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Public Policy and Green Governance)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
7,336 Views
14 Pages

10 May 2022

Although acupuncture (AT) is used in the treatment of CRF, the evidence from different systematic reviews (SRs) of AT has not yet been comprehensively evaluated. Moxibustion, which is a treatment method that is well established within Traditional Eas...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Integrated Management of Cancer)
  • Article
  • Open Access
90 Citations
16,276 Views
16 Pages

25 February 2011

Most of classification, quality evaluation or grading of the flue-cured tobacco leaves are manually operated, which relies on the judgmental experience of experts, and inevitably limited by personal, physical and environmental factors. The classifica...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,550 Views
23 Pages

13 March 2024

This study aims to investigate the relationship between the grades of Tuo tea and the quality of compounds. A combination of artificial sensory evaluation, intelligent sensory technologies (electronic nose and electronic tongue), gas chromatography&n...

(This article belongs to the Section Plant Foods)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,529 Views
12 Pages

20 September 2022

Laser cladding is one of the critical technologies for additive manufacturing and rapid repair. Improving cladding performance by materials and process parameters is the leading research direction, but defects and instability of quality in the claddi...

(This article belongs to the Section Material Processing Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
3,478 Views
17 Pages

Tea’s biochemical compounds and flavor quality vary depending on its grade ranking. Dianhong Congou black tea (DCT) is a unique tea category produced using the large-leaf tea varieties from Yunnan, China. To date, the flavor characteristics and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art Metabolomics and Lipidomics in Life Sciences: Methods and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,364 Views
16 Pages

Design and Experimentation of a Machine Vision-Based Cucumber Quality Grader

  • Fanghong Liu,
  • Yanqi Zhang,
  • Chengtao Du,
  • Xu Ren,
  • Bo Huang and
  • Xiujuan Chai

16 February 2024

The North China type cucumber, characterized by its dense spines and top flowers, is susceptible to damage during the grading process, affecting its market value. Moreover, traditional manual grading methods are time-consuming and labor-intensive. To...

(This article belongs to the Section Food Engineering and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
767 Views
22 Pages

Grading Evaluation of Grouting Seal Quality for Recharge Channels in Water-Hazardous Aquifers of Extremely Complex Mines

  • Jianggen He,
  • Hankun Li,
  • Yaolong Huang,
  • Shiyuan Tian,
  • Junchao Yue,
  • Hongwei Meng,
  • Qi Wang and
  • Xinyi Wang

4 January 2026

Grouting to seal the recharge channels of water-bearing aquifers is an effective method for reducing mine water inflow. Evaluating effectiveness and establishing a hierarchical classification system are crucial for assessing project quality. Taking t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evaluation and Monitoring of Hydrogeological Hazards in Underground Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,393 Views
18 Pages

The Evaluation of the Suitability, Quality, and Readability of Publicly Available Online Resources for the Self-Management of Fear of Cancer Recurrence

  • Verena Shuwen Wu,
  • Tiyasha Sabud,
  • Allan ‘Ben’ Smith,
  • Sylvie D. Lambert,
  • Joseph Descallar,
  • Sophie Lebel and
  • Adeola Bamgboje-Ayodele

22 December 2023

Cancer survivors often rely on the internet for health information, which has varying levels of readability, suitability, and quality. There is a need for high-quality online self-management resources for cancer survivors with fear of cancer recurren...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Health Behaviours, Illness Representations, Quality of Life, Coping, and Fear of Cancer Recurrence in Those Affected by Cancer)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,745 Views
14 Pages

Research on Taste and Aroma Characteristics of Dahongpao Tea with Different Grades

  • Xiaomin Pang,
  • Jishuang Zou,
  • Pengyao Miao,
  • Weiting Cheng,
  • Zewei Zhou,
  • Xiaoli Jia,
  • Haibin Wang,
  • Yuanping Li,
  • Qi Zhang and
  • Jianghua Ye

This study aimed to thoroughly investigate the quality differences and influencing factors of Dahongpao tea of different grades. Through sensory evaluation, electronic nose analysis, electronic tongue analysis, biochemical component analysis, and HS-...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Electrochemical Sensor for Food Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,258 Views
27 Pages

25 November 2024

This study addresses the construction of high-quality rural landscapes, crucial for China’s rural revitalization strategy, encompassing economic, social, cultural, and ecological dimensions. Focusing on 66 cold-region villages in Heilongjiang P...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmental and Social Sustainability in Rural Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,407 Views
17 Pages

Changes in storage environments have a significant impact on grain quality. Accurate prediction of any quality changes during grain storage in different environments is very important for human health. In this paper, we selected wheat and corn, which...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
475 Views
18 Pages

30 July 2026

The quality grading of birch (Betula spp.) veneer logs, an economically important raw material in the Baltic region, is still largely manual, causing pricing inconsistencies, and automated grading under industrial conditions remains rarely studied. W...

(This article belongs to the Section Forest Operations and Engineering)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
123 Citations
14,811 Views
11 Pages

Computer Vision System for Mango Fruit Defect Detection Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network

  • R. Nithya,
  • B. Santhi,
  • R. Manikandan,
  • Masoumeh Rahimi and
  • Amir H. Gandomi

2 November 2022

Machine learning techniques play a significant role in agricultural applications for computerized grading and quality evaluation of fruits. In the agricultural domain, automation improves the quality, productivity, and economic growth of a country. T...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Vision-Based Sensors and Algorithms for Food Processing)

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