53 Results Found

A new methodology for predicting the real instantaneous in-cylinder volume in the combustion chamber of a reciprocating internal combustion engine is implemented. The mathematical model developed as part of this methodology, takes into consideration...

Citrate anticoagulant concentration affects the results of coagulation tests. Until now, the end user had no direct insight into the quality of evacuated blood collection tubes. By introducing an easy-to-perform UV spectrometric method for citrate de...

The aim of study is to improve the rehydration quality of dried shiitake mushrooms for their instant food manufacturers and fast restaurants. Serial combined drying methods were investigated to achieve this objective: either instant controlled pressu...

The ability to accurately predict beach morphodynamics is of primary interest for coastal scientists and managers. With this goal in mind, a stochastic model of a sandy macrotidal barred beach is developed that is based on cross-shore elevation profi...

Monitoring the distribution of vehicles across the city is of great importance for urban traffic control. In particular, information on the number of vehicles entering and leaving a city, or moving between urban areas, gives a valuable estimate on po...

Recently, the development of smartphone apps has resulted in a wide range of services being offered related to wood supply chain management, supporting decision-making and narrowing the digital divide in this business. This study examined the perform...

Undernutrition is prevalent in developing regions, particularly sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), especially among children under five. Biofortification of staple crops and using indigenous and traditional crops could be an affordable and sustainable strateg...

To study the effect of the length of the second inclined section of the inclined vane on the vortex structure and pressure distribution inside a vortex pump, this paper uses a combination of numerical simulations (CFD) and experimental verification m...

Instant rice congee (IRC) fortified with functional ingredients is designed for supplementation in nourishing the elderly. In this study, collagen peptide and curcumin were fortified in IRC to improve antioxidant and protein content. Different cookin...

Air-assisted boom sprayer is proven to be one of the best pesticide application methods to achieve uniform deposition of droplets in the canopy and improve the effective utilization of pesticides. However, the air flow velocity, air flow volume and a...

The Chinese government has launched six rounds of national drug price negotiation since 2016 to lower the price and expand access to innovative drugs, many of which are anticancer drugs. This study aims to examine the effect of the second round of ne...

Secure instant communication is an important topic of information security. A group chat is a highly convenient mode of instant communication. Increasingly, companies are adopting group chats as a daily office communication tool. However, a large vol...

Combining the advantages of multicontinuum and multifracture representations provides an easy-to-use tool to adequately capture the characteristic of the multiscaled fracture system in shale gas reservoir. A hybrid model is established on the basis o...

A large volume of the water produced for public supply is lost in the systems between sources and consumers. An important—in many cases the greatest—fraction of these losses are physical losses, mainly related to leaks and bursts in pipes...

Access to digital health data collections such as clinical notes, discharge summaries, or medical charts has increased in the last few years due to the increased use of electronic health records, which provide instant access to patients’ clinic...

Models are increasingly used to estimate and pre-emptively calculate the occupational exposure of airborne released particulate matter. Typical two-box models assume instant and fully mixed air volumes, which can potentially cause issues in cases wit...

Over the last decade, Medical Imaging has become an essential component in many fields of bio-medical research and clinical practice. Biologists study cells and generate 3D confocal microscopy data sets, virologists generate 3D reconstructions of vi...

This article aims to carry out experiments on water absorption by husked red rice at constant temperatures of 28, 40, and 50 °C. The description of the absorption kinetics and the analyses of the water distribution and volumetric expansion of eac...

An increase of needs for replacement of fossil fuels, and for mitigation of Carbon Dioxide emissions generated from fossil fuels inspires the search for new fuels based on renewable biological resources. It would be convenient if the biological compo...

From a global perspective, dams are constructed to trap water flowing from a higher concentration to a lower concentration into a basin for several purposes to aid humanity. The continuous monitoring of dams is prudent for measuring the rate of sedim...

Dehydrated vegetables are popular in instant foods, but few reports have focused on their pesticide residues. This research developed and validated a modified QuEChERS method combined with ultra-performance liquid chromatography–tandem mass spe...

In this paper we present a computational model for the fluid structure interaction of a buoyant rigid body immersed in a free surface flow. The presence of a free surface and its interaction with buoyant bodies make the problem very challenging. In f...

The influence of statistically stationary, homogeneous isotropic turbulence (i) on the mean area of a passive front propagating in a constant-density fluid and, hence, (ii) on the mean fluid consumption velocity u¯T is explored, particularly in the c...

In the combustion chamber of scramjets, fuel jets interact with supersonic airflow in the form of a liquid jet in crossflow (LJIC). It is difficult to achieve adequate jet–crossflow mixing and the efficient combustion of fuel in an instant. Lar...

Instant messaging (IM) applications are ubiquitous, and while end-to-end encryption protects message content, traffic metadata remains observable. This paper proposes a traffic correlation framework for IM call services under a passive ISP-level thre...

Remote Sensing is a pathfinding open access journal providing great opportunities for the growing community of remote sensing and geoscience scientists and practitioners to publish high quality research and practical papers expeditiously. It is a jou...

Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of heated CO2 and forced-air warming on perioperative temperature in a rabbit model of prolonged pneumoperitoneum. Methods: Thirty-seven New Zealand rabbits, weighing an average of...

In this paper, a thermal storage system based on a phase change material is proposed and investigated. The system is composed of several tubes that cross a phase change material mass. A fluid flowing in the tubes charges and discharges the heat stora...

Human gait analysis plays an important role in musculoskeletal disorder diagnosis. Detecting anomalies in human walking, such as shuffling gait, stiff leg or unsteady gait, can be difficult if the prior knowledge of such a gait pattern is not availab...

The milling process is a critical technological step that regulates wheat flour characteristics and ultimately determines end-product quality. This study systematically evaluated the effects of three key milling parameter adjustments in a laboratory-...

Designing propulsion systems for agricultural drones involves a repetitive process that is both expensive and time-intensive. At the same time, conducting comprehensive experimental tests demands specialized equipment and strict safety protocols. In...

We present a method to acquire 3D position measurements for decentralized target tracking with an asynchronous camera network. Cameras with known poses have fields of view with overlapping projections on the ground and 3D volumes above a reference gr...

The performance of the grinding pump, a device for crushing and stretching conventional polymers, is mainly affected by its stage number, diameter, and tooth count. In this paper, Fluent software was utilized, employing the Eulerian model in conjunct...

This paper presents a micro-fluid gathering tool for a versatile capsular endoscope that employs a solid chemical propellant, azobisisobutyronitrile (AIBN). The proposed tool consists of a micro-heater, an AIBN matrix, a Venturi tube, a reservoir, an...

This work—mixing an original experimental approach, as well as numerical simulations—proposes to study film boiling modes around a small nickel sphere. While dealing with a simple looking phenomenon that is found in many industrial proces...

Cs–pollucite can be a potential solid base catalyst due to the presence of (Si-O-Al)−Cs+ basic sites. However, it severely suffers from molecular diffusion and pore accessibility problems due to its small micropore opening. Herein, we rep...

Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating condition consisting of an instant primary mechanical injury followed by a secondary injury that progresses for weeks to months. The cytokine tumor necrosis factor (TNF) plays an important role in the pathoph...

Using blackcurrant pomace, for instance, in bread, prevents wasting this by-product of fruit juice production, thereby also taking advantage of its nutritional benefits. This study investigated the effects of blackcurrant pomace incorporation in whea...

The assumed rheological behavior of blood influences the hemodynamic characteristics of numerical blood flow simulations. Until now, alternative rheological specifications have been utilized, with uncertain implications for the results obtained. This...

The present article offers a detailed analysis of helium jet velocity and vorticity intensity distribution using the particle image velocimetry (PIV) technique. A gaseous fuel injector featuring an interchangeable tip was implemented. The test campai...

Photoplethysmographic (PPG) waveforms are used to acquire pulse rate (PR) measurements from pulsatile arterial blood volume. PPG waveforms are highly susceptible to motion artifacts (MA), limiting the implementation of PR measurements in mobile physi...

This study aimed to compare the socio-environmental benefits of one of the most widely planted forest species, i.e., Pinus roxburghii (Sarg., hereafter ‘Pine’ or ‘Pinus’) with naturally regenerated mixed forests in two communi...

Background/Objectives: This study presents an artificial intelligence (AI)-supported incentive spirometry system designed to explore the feasibility of automating the monitoring of respiratory exercises, a critical nursing intervention for maintainin...

The extensive artificially accelerated erosion of spoil heaps on newly engineered landforms is a key ecological management point requiring better understanding. Soil surface roughness is a crucial factor influencing erosion processes; however, study...

Background/Objectives: Social media has become a significant part of daily life, with platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp dominating usage. The COVID-19 pandemic further increased social media activity, including within the orthopedic community due...

Wind turbines’ volume and power generation capacity have increased worldwide. Consequently, their inspection, maintenance, and repair are garnering increasing attention. Structural defects are common in turbine blades, but their detection is di...

A major challenge for the oil and gas industry is expediting the exploration geophysics activity. It is necessary to produce fast and accurate image of the targeted hydrocarbon reservoir, yet it involves extensive dataset due to the target location l...

Since the data generation rate of high-resolution satellites is increasing rapidly, to relieve the stress of data downloading and processing systems while enhancing the time efficiency of information acquisition, it is important to deploy on-board ed...

The need for timely identification of Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks in the Internet of Things (IoT) has become critical in minimizing security risks as the number of IoT devices deployed rapidly grows globally and the volume of such at...

In recent years, with rapid economic development, air pollution has become extremely serious, causing many negative effects on health, environment and medical costs. PM2.5 is one of the main components of air pollution. Therefore, it is necessary to...