Consumer acceptance remains a primary barrier to incorporating organ meats into value-added beef products, despite their nutritional profile. This study evaluated the effectiveness of educational infographics emphasizing either nutritional benefits o...
Unmanned ground agricultural machinery is required to operate efficiently in complex and dynamic field environments, which presupposes accurate and reliable environmental perception capabilities. This requires the machinery to perceive and respond to...
Unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) are making more and more progress in many application scenarios in recent years, such as exploring unknown wild terrain, working in precision agriculture and serving in emergency rescue. Due to the complex ground condi...
In order to build a robust network for the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based ground pedestrian and vehicle detection with a small number of training datasets but strong luminance environment adaptability, a system that considers both environment pe...
Complex urban scenarios impose high demands on the environmental perception capabilities of unmanned systems, which serve as a prerequisite for executing autonomous missions such as disaster response, infrastructure inspection, and smart city operati...
This article presents the essential abilities and limitations of various sensors used for object recognition in the operation environment of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). The use of autonomous and unmanned vehicles for reconnaissance and logistics...
Indoor badminton venues are common mass-fitness spaces in China, but their acoustic environment remains underexamined relative to lighting, thermal comfort, and functional facilities. This study uses grounded theory to examine how users perceive acou...
Biological motion perception is a specific type of perceptual organization, during which a clear image of a moving human body is perceptually generated in virtue of certain core light dots representing the major joint movements. While the processes o...
The problem of autonomous navigation of a ground vehicle in unstructured environments is both challenging and crucial for the deployment of this type of vehicle in real-world applications. Several well-established communities in robotics research dea...
Drivable area (DA) detection in unstructured off-road environments remains challenging for unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) due to limited field-of-view, persistent occlusions, and the inherent limitations of individual sensors. While existing fusion...
High-throughput plant phenotyping (HTPP) is increasingly limited by the mismatch between the need for field-relevant, fine-grained phenotypic information and the restricted capability of conventional observation platforms under complex agricultural c...
The East Asian world has shared both universal characteristics and regional particularities, forming a Buddhist cultural area for more than 1500 years. One of the main features of East Asian Buddhism is a “state–Buddhist link”. This...
Bandwidth-limited aerial–ground sensing requires an explicit trade-off among payload size, decoded-map quality, and downstream route utility. This paper evaluates a strict RGB-D edge-perception interface in which the receiver accesses only a qu...
This study presents a zero-shot object detection framework for corner casting detection in shipping container operations, leveraging edge computing for intelligent robotic perception and control. The proposed system integrates Grounding DINO on a Ras...
Spent coffee grounds retain potentially valuable constituents after brewing and may therefore be suitable for reuse in subsequent coffee preparations. This study characterized the grounds exploited in three brewing cycles and the resulting beverages...
The homography estimation of infrared and visible images, a key technique for assisting perception, is an integral element within the 6G Space–Air–Ground Integrated Network (6G SAGIN) framework. It is widely applied in the registration of...
This study investigated how midsole hardness of basketball footwear affects lower extremity biomechanics and impacts perception in drop vertical jumps. Eighteen male basketball players performed drop vertical jumps from three heights (31 cm, 46 cm, 6...
Historic urban public parks have evolved into multifunctional spaces that integrate cultural heritage and contemporary urban life. Understanding public perception of their heritage value is crucial for sustainable management. This study proposes a no...
Autonomous navigation for unmanned vehicles in complex, unstructured environments remains challenging, especially in GPS-denied or obstacle-dense scenarios, limiting their practical deployment in logistics, inspection, and emergency response applicat...
In the near future, autonomous vehicles with full self-driving features will populate our public roads. However, fully autonomous cars will require robust perception systems to safely navigate the environment, which includes cameras, RADAR devices, a...
Eventfulness is a core dimension of soundscape perception, reflecting cues of activity, social interaction, and dynamic change in the built environment. Although previous studies have examined variables related to eventfulness, evidence remains fragm...
Flight intent cannot always be inferred from aircraft motion because the purpose of a maneuver depends on its surrounding context. This study examines multimodal flight-intent understanding in cinematic air-combat footage. We introduce CineAeroIntent...
11 September 2020
Similar to other epidemics, knowledge about Zika virus (ZIKV) relies upon information often coming from outside the health system. This study aimed to explore views, perceptions and attitudes towards ZIKV among migrant women from Central and South Am...
21 February 2011
Consumption of bottled water is increasing worldwide. Prior research shows many consumers believe bottled water is convenient and has better taste than tap water, despite reports of a number of water quality incidents with bottled water. The authors...
The current state of tourism development in a water conservation area of Taiwan was investigated from the perspective of different stakeholders. An analytical framework was constructed using grounded theory, whereas data collection was performed thro...
Zika virus (ZIKV) infection during pregnancy can cause neurological manifestations such as microcephaly. The aim of this study was to explore perceptions of ZIKV and mental health in women exposed to ZIKV during pregnancy in Colombia. This was a mixe...
Lidar sensors are widely used for environmental perception on autonomous robot vehicles (ARV). The field of view (FOV) of Lidar sensors can be reshaped by positioning plane mirrors in their vicinity. Mirror setups can especially improve the FOV for g...
Industrial robots in small-batch manufacturing and human–robot collaborative workstations are increasingly required to perform grasping and sorting tasks on workpieces with natural language instructions. Unlike generic object grasping, industri...
The use of digital technologies can break down information barriers in rural areas, thereby creating crucial conditions for the widespread adoption of green agricultural technologies (GATs) among farmers. To explore the relationship between digital t...
The shift toward experience-oriented travel has positioned food as a central driver for attracting visitors to sustainable destinations, directly supporting United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)11 (resilient cities) and SDG 12 (responsibl...
16 August 2019
Many parents experience “fever phobia”, based on misconceptions regarding the repercussions of fever in their children. The aim of this paper was to explore the conceptualizations of parents who are health professionals and parents withou...
Autonomous unmanned-aircraft obstacle avoidance is a mature research area, but comparatively less work addresses controller-level behavior motivated by European ground-risk and no-overflight considerations during an inspection mission that is already...
Background: Some subjective symptoms may be reported at all stages of Lyme borreliosis (LB) and may persist for several months after treatment. Nonspecific symptoms without any objective manifestation of LB are sometimes attributed by patients to a p...
Urban gardens are important for human well-being, biodiversity and other ecosystem functions. Biodiversity-promoting initiatives would benefit from their owners being aware of the state of biodiversity in their gardens. We examined whether garden own...
Perception is a vital part of driving. Every year, the loss in visibility due to snow, fog, and rain causes serious accidents worldwide. Therefore, it is important to be aware of the impact of weather conditions on perception performance while drivin...
Cities are becoming more vulnerable to climate change and need appropriate adaptation measures. Previous studies demonstrated that urban green spaces provide multiple ecosystem services, improving the health and well-being of urban residents. Yet dif...
As an essential part of the low-altitude economy, low-altitude carriers are an important cornerstone of its development and a new industry that cannot be ignored strategically. However, it is difficult for the existing two-dimensional vehicle autonom...
Intelligent following control for electric-drive unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) is important for human–robot collaboration and autonomous mobility. However, target occlusion, detection noise, and short-term detection failures can reduce follow...
22 February 2023
(1) Background: Pre-service physical education teachers commonly embrace social media for multiple purposes. However, little is known about their perception of social media, which could affect the appropriate use of social media in their future profe...
The design of street spaces significantly influences public behavior and quality of life. Understanding how various urban street spatial characteristics affect public behavior, alongside the role of multi-sensory perception, enables designers and pla...
In today’s society, the consumption of organic products presents both significant benefits and potential barriers, as evidenced by the intrinsic and extrinsic factors shaping consumer behavior among university-aged millennials. This study explo...
Edible insects constitute a healthy food source providing a sustainable alternative to traditional animal protein. The present study explored consumers’ perceptions and attitudes toward insect consumption, and defined the main motivational fact...
11 October 2019
Residents in the Eastern Region, Ghana with access to improved water sources (e.g., boreholes and covered wells) often choose to collect water from unimproved sources (e.g., rivers and uncovered wells). To assess why, we conducted two field studies t...
This study constitutes the second part of a comprehensive investigation of the persistence of weighted average cost of capital (WACC) rates despite declining risk-free interest rates. While theory suggests that WACC should reflect lower risk-free int...
Aerial detection requires fine detail for small targets and broad context for large structures. Sampling loss, blur, and noise can weaken detail without changing feature-map resolution, creating a demand–reliability mismatch. We present Physica...
Radar overcomes the shortcomings of laser, stereovision, and sonar because it can operate successfully in dusty, foggy, blizzard-blinding, and poorly lit scenarios. This paper presents a novel method for ground and obstacle segmentation based on rada...
Background: Research shows that nursing home residents’ basic care needs are often neglected, potentially resulting in incidents that threaten patients’ safety and quality of care. Nursing staff are at the frontline for identifying such c...
Background: Disease trajectories in leukemia are often unpredictable and recurrent, and patients’ experiences can impact their quality of life. Studies in the literature often do not explore gender-related illness experiences from an intersecti...
Automated and autonomous vehicles are in an intensive development phase. It is a phase that requires a lot of modelling and experimental research. Experimental research into these vehicles is in its initial state. There is a lack of findings and stan...
The main objective of this paper is to show that perceptual conceptualism can be understood as an empirically meaningful position and, furthermore, that there is some degree of empirical support for its main theses. In order to do this, I will start...
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