Previous research has shown that both input quantity and quality play a role in dual language learning. However, it is unclear whether input quantity factors (e.g., school input) and input quality factors (e.g., home media input) work similarly in th...
Wire and arc additive manufacturing has unique process characteristics, which make it have great potential in many fields, but the large amount of heat input brought by this feature limits its practical application. The influence of heat input on the...
Modeling surface water quality using soft computing techniques is essential for the effective management of scarce water resources and environmental protection. The development of accurate predictive models with significant input parameters and incon...
Input is considered one of the most important factors in the acquisition of lexical and grammatical skills. Input has been found to interact with other factors, such as learner cognitive skills and the circumstances where language is heard. Language...
Increasing fruit yield and quality of tomatoes under organic low-input conditions remains a challenge for producers and breeders. Therefore, it is necessary to identify superior tomato cultivars that are suitable for production and use as parents in...
As a result of implementing new development concepts and absorbing new technical revolutions in the Intelligent Economy Age, new infrastructure is defined as a new driving force for high-quality development. However, as new infrastructure is construc...
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) concept has internal consistency with the high-quality development of China’s economy theoretically, and implementing ESG concept is an important way to achieve sustainable economic development. Howeve...
7 April 2022
Sport practice has the widely demonstrated potential of promoting well-being and physical/mental health, especially in disabled individuals. Nowadays, visually impaired people can participate in several sports commonly adapted and played substituting...
Waxy starch with a modified amylose-to-amylopectin ratio is desired for a range of applications in food and non-food industries; however, yield performance and grain quality characteristics of waxy wheat cultivars are usually inferior in comparison t...
Single-phase direct frequency converters are gaining attraction at the research and academic level as they are rapidly getting space over conventional multistage converters. The converters developed with a rectification and inversion process using a...
Cobalt-based superalloy Co06A exhibits excellent high-temperature performance and is widely used in the repair and additive manufacturing of critical hot-end components via direct laser deposition (DLD). However, improper energy–mass input duri...
The weaving welding process is a key method used to improve the welding quality in multi-layer and multi-pass welding processes using robots. However, the heat-input fluctuation in the weaving welding process restricts its development. In this paper,...
Photovoltaic monitoring data are the primary source for studying photovoltaic plant behavior. In particular, performance loss and remaining-useful-lifetime calculations rely on trustful input data. Furthermore, a regular stream of high quality is the...
This paper presents a new multiple-input single-output voltage-mode universal filter employing four multiple-input operational transconductance amplifiers (MI-OTAs) and three grounded capacitors suitable for low-voltage low-frequency applications. Th...
Low-quality input data (such as sparse rainfall gauges, low spatial resolution soil type and land use maps) have limited the application of physically-based distributed hydrological models in operational practices in many data-sparse regions. It is n...
In this study, we investigated the lipid composition of fresh and semi-hard goat cheese produced in three Italian farms as well as the welfare assessment of goats reared in these farms. The fatty acid (FA) profile of cheese samples were found to be s...
In order to shift to a circular plastics economy, high quality recyclates are required to effectively substitute virgin materials. Current approaches to empirically quantify the substitutability for recyclates are mainly limited by the abundance of v...
This study delves into the concept of Harmonious Bilingual Development (HBD), characterizing families where linguistic situations do not adversely affect their well-being. Following a recently proposed holistic framework on Harmonious Bilingual Exper...
In contemporary development, autonomous vehicles (AVs) have emerged as a potential solution for sustainable and smart transportation to fulfill the increasing mobility demands whilst alleviating the negative impacts on society, the economy, and the e...
Seaweed extracts have several functions in agriculture due to their composition that is rich in nutrients, plant hormones, and bioactive substances. It is a natural product used as a biostimulant especially to promote the growth and development of pl...
This study investigated the propagation of errors in input satellite-based precipitation products (SPPs) on streamflow and water quality indicators simulated by a hydrological model in the Occoquan Watershed, located in the suburban Washington, D.C....
The study of cellular structures and their properties represents big potential for their future applications in real practice. The article aims to study the effect of input parameters on the quality and manufacturability of cellular samples 3D-printe...
Commercial tomato hybrids exhibit robust performance in modern high-input agricultural systems. However, their suitability for low-input farming remains uncertain. With the goal that by 2030, 25% of European agricultural production must be organic as...
25 December 2018
The reform and opening up of the Chinese economy over the last 40 years has led to rapid economic development. However, with the rapid expansion of the economy, increasingly serious air pollution is apparent. In order to control urban air pollution e...
Missing data has been a challenge in air quality measurement. In this study, we develop an input-adaptive proxy, which selects input variables of other air quality variables based on their correlation coefficients with the output variable. The proxy...
Lignocellulose feedstock (LCF) provides a sustainable source of components to produce bioenergy, biofuel, and novel biomaterials. Besides hard and soft wood, so-called low-input plants such as Miscanthus are interesting crops to be investigated as po...
This paper used 586 survey data of aquaculturists in the Shandong and Zhejiang provinces of China and built two intermediary effect models by incorporating fishery cooperative support, order fisheries participation, product quality certification, and...
In this paper, a closed-loop control system using dual-input fuzzy logic theory is proposed to improve the water quality of aquaculture. The new closed-loop control system is implemented on a Raspberry-Pi-embedded platform using Python programming. T...
Light field images can record multiple information about the light rays in a scene and provide multiple views from a single image, offering a new data source for 3D reconstruction. However, ensuring the quality of light field images themselves is cha...
24 May 2022
The transformation of mining cities and the realization of high-quality economic development are complicated processes. The objective existence of abundant resource factor endowment in mining cities does not mean that resource allocation is in the op...
The effects of integrated nutrient-management (INM) practices on soil quality are essential for sustaining agro-ecosystem productivity. The soil quality index (SQI) serves as a tool to assess the physical, chemical, and biological potential of soils...
This work presents a comprehensive technological study of dielectric resonator-based microstrip filters (DRMFs), encompassing the design, fabrication, and rigorous characterization of the
Forage crop–dairy farming is an important agro-industry across the world. This system is intensive with high-input forage crops. In the United States (US) Southern Great Plains, the system is based primarily on high-input annual grass-type crops in m...
Facing the increasingly complex and uncertain external environment, the reasonable control of investment risk is the key to realizing the sound operation and high-quality development of enterprises. Based on the innovation perspective, this paper tak...
Applications of artificial intelligence (AI) models have been massively explored for various engineering and sciences domains over the past two decades. Their capacity in modeling complex problems confirmed and motivated researchers to explore their...
Visual conditions significantly influence fear of movement (FOM), which is a condition that impairs postural control and quality of life (QOL). This study examined how visual conditions influence sway velocity during repeated one-leg standing tasks a...
Heritage Norwegian in the American Midwest is documented through a corpus of recordings collected and compiled over a time span of 80 years, from Einar Haugen’s recordings in the 1940s via the CANS corpus up to the present-day in the authors&rs...
Grading the quality of fresh cut flowers is an important practice in the flower industry. Based on the flower maturing status, a classification method based on deep learning and depth information was proposed for the grading of flower quality. Firstl...
In this study, a multi-input, multi-output-based artificial neural network (ANN) was constructed by classifying output parameters into different groups, considering the physical meanings and characteristics of product quality factors in the injection...
23 January 2020
Dissolved heavy metals are not only the essential micronutrients, but also the toxic elements for human bodies. To investigate the heavy metal sources and assess the water quality of the Lancangjiang River, dissolved Cr, Ni, Cu, Zn, Mo, and Pb were d...
Data and information quality have been recognized as essential components for improving business efficiency. One approach for the assessment of information quality (IQ) is the manufacturing of information (MI). So far, research using this approach ha...
Soil compaction from repeated mechanized traffic in sugarcane cultivation reduces porosity, root growth, water infiltration and nutrient availability. Pre-consolidation stresses (σP) in sugarcane soils (70–210 kPa) are frequently exceeded...
Soil and land use information are important inputs for physically-based hydrological modeling such as SWAT. Although fine resolution local or regional data are often preferred for modeling, it is not always reliable that these data can lead to better...
This study quantifies some of the potential impacts of climate change and nutrient pollution to identify the most important factors on water quality changes and algal blooms in the study region. Three variables, air temperature and streamflow, repres...
Although environmental sustainability provides a foundation for maintaining economic and social sustainability, it is often neglected in favor of economic sustainability. Ameliorating water impairment is costly, and policymakers do not always priorit...
Permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG)-based wind turbine systems have a wide range of applications, notably, for higher-rated wind energy conversion systems (WECS). A WECS involves integrating several components to generate electrical power e...
The multiple benefits Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) bring in terms of time expediency and reduction in required resources establish them as an extremely useful tool for engineering researchers and field practitioners. However, the blind acceptanc...
Sixth-generation (6G) wireless communication scenarios are complex and diverse. Small-scale fading is a key part of wireless channels and its impact on performance in scenarios with time sensitivity and 6G ultrareliable and low latency communications...
3D printing is a growing technology being incorporated into almost every industry. Although it has obvious advantages, such as precision and less fabrication time, it has many shortcomings. Although several attempts were made to monitor the errors, m...
IN-depth SYnthetic Model for Flood Damage Estimation (INSYDE) is a model for the estimation of flood damage to residential buildings at the micro-scale. This study investigates the sensitivity of INSYDE to the accuracy of input data. Starting from th...
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