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Nowadays, urban development prioritizes improving quality over mere quantitative expansion, which requires a shift in land use from previous extensive use patterns to a more refined and efficient intensive use pattern. The intensive use of industrial...

Efficient big data analysis is critical to support applications or services in Internet of Things (IoT) system, especially for the time-intensive services. Hence, the data center may host heterogeneous big data analysis tasks for multiple IoT systems...

In customer-intensive services, advertising can increase customers’ patience and bring more utility to customers. However, customers’ different perceptions of advertising can affect their utility and indirectly affect the decision making...

With advances in the Internet of Things, patients in intensive care units are constantly monitored to expedite emergencies. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, non-face-to-face monitoring has been required for the safety of patients and medical staff. A co...

Intensive annual forage cultivation via diversified sowing can increase resource-use efficiency and meet the food requirements of the growing population. However, increasing cultivation time could increase energy demands and production costs with acc...

Reductions in energy consumption, carbon footprint, equipment size, and cost are key objectives for the forthcoming energy-intensive industries roadmaps. In this sense, solutions such as waste heat recovery, which can be replicated into different sec...

A ventilator central monitoring system (VCMS) that can efficiently respond to and treat patients’ respiratory issues in intensive care units (ICUs) is critical. Using Internet of Things (IoT) technology without loss or delay in patient monitori...

In light of possible future restrictions on the use of fossil fuel, due to climate change obligations and continuous depletion of global fossil fuel reserves, the search for alternative renewable energy sources is expected to be an issue of great con...

This article presents comprehensive typology of all possible relationships among inputs of an economic system, their productivity, and output. Each situation is given an exact name explaining how intensive and extensive factors contributes to the sys...

The paper presents a method for assessing operation processes for Fire Alarm Systems (FAS) applied in civil structures, based on use analysis. Individual FAS devices include components with varying ‘lifetimes’ and damage intensities &lamb...

Financial system reforms are important for developing regions in the period of structural transformation. In the face of climate change, which is an important issue for all mankind. This paper empirically explores the impact of financial structure on...

The protection effectiveness is an important metric to judge whether a security system is good or not. In this paper, a security system deployed in a guard field is regarded abstractly as a security network. A quantitative protection effectiveness ev...

To overcome the disadvantages of the traditional proportional intensity model which ignores the past effects of working conditions, this paper proposes an improved proportional intensity model which can describe the failure intensity of repairable sy...

Laterally-moving sprinkler irrigation systems under low pressure experience problems including small spraying range, low uniformity, surface runoff, and low water utilization rate. To solve these problems, experiments were carried out on a laterally-...

Water transportation accidents have occurred frequently in recent years. In order to improve the emergency response capability of water transportation systems under traffic-intensive conditions, this paper identifies and analyzes the vulnerability in...

Tillage methods and intensity can be used as means of improving macronutrient and trace element concentration in soil and crops. A two-year field experiment was conducted to examine the impact of two cropping systems—intensive (ICS) and conserv...

The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of solar radiation intensity on the performance of direct-expansion solar PVT heat pump systems. To this end, an experimental setup was constructed for direct-expansion photovoltaic (PVT) sola...

Central nervous system infections are among the most severe infectious conditions in the neonatal period and are still burdened by significant mortality, especially in preterm infants and those with a low birth weight or other comorbidities. In this...

This paper presents an optimization of the medication delivery drone with the Internet of Things (IoT)-Guidance Landing System based on direction and intensity of light. The IoT-GLS was incorporated into the system to assist the drone’s operato...

Background: Prognostic scoring systems are applied in intensive care units (ICUs) to monitor patients’ responses to treatment and guide treatment modalities. These scoring systems are also used as predictors in sepsis, where mortality rates are...

At the end of 2019, a variation of a coronavirus, named SARS-CoV-2, has been identified as being responsible for a respiratory illness disease (COVID-19). Since ventilation is an important factor that influences airborne transmission, we proposed to...

Due to the uncertainty of wind power output, the congestion of wind power has become prominent. Exactly how to improve the capacity of wind power consumption has become a problem that needs to be studied urgently. In this paper, an energy storage sys...

Winter road icing poses significant safety risks, particularly on steep urban slopes with vulnerable populations. While thermal-comfort indices such as UTCI, PMV, and PET have been used for summer conditions, this study focuses on operational indices...

Typhoon intensity forecast is an important issue. The objective of this study is to construct a 5-day 12-hourly typhoon intensity forecast model based on the adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference systems (ANFIS) to improve the typhoon intensity forecast in...

The emergence of a wide variety of relatively low-cost compact spectrometers has led to an increase in the use of spectroscopic techniques by researchers in a broad array of fields beyond those that have traditionally employed these analytical method...

Intensive management is a common practice in bamboo plantations to ensure higher shoot yields. However, the effects of these management practices on ramet systems are understudied. A pot experiment was conducted to explore the process of propagation...

The European building stock is aging and needs renovation. Holistic renovation approaches, including Vertical Forest (VF) systems, are emerging as sustainable alternatives to demolition and reconstruction. This paper reviews and defines missing relia...

Floating LIDAR systems (FLS) are a cost-effective way of surveying the wind energy potential of an offshore area. However, as turbulence intensity estimates are strongly affected by wave-induced buoy motion, it is essential to correct them. In this s...

In the study of the water–energy–food nexus (WEF nexus), the importance of the intensity and quantity index system has been widely recognized. In order to study the impact of WEF on the economy, this paper establishes an intensity index s...

Using absolute intensity methods (metabolic equivalent of energy (METs), etc.) to determine exercise intensity in exercise prescriptions is straightforward and convenient. Using relative intensity methods (heart rate reserve (%HRR), maximal heart rat...

Mycotoxins are chemical contaminants that are invisible, tasteless, chemically stable and survive food processing. Contamination along the agri-food chain is difficult to control since their production and spreading are due to numerous factors includ...

This paper investigates the pth moment exponential stability of random impulsive delayed nonlinear systems (RIDNS) with multiple periodic delayed impulses. Moreover, the continuous dynamics are described by random delay differential equations whose r...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are rapidly transforming clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) in intensive care units (ICUs), where vast amounts of real-time data present both an opportunity and a challenge for timely clin...

The objective of this research is to establish a multiobjective fractional programming (MOFP) model for supporting the operational management of a combined heat and power (CHP) system. Compared with the traditional operational optimization model of t...

Objective: This study examined whether changes in electroencephalography (EEG)-derived indices, photoplethysmography (PPG)-derived autonomic nervous system indices, heart rate, and rating of perceived exertion (RPE) post-high-intensity exercise diffe...

The interest of the countries with traditions of walnut cultivation to increase the quantity and quality of walnut production is due to the fact that the organic cultivation of walnut is a sustainable business, with an ecological, economic and social...

Background: The Systemic Inflammation Index (SII), associated with increased systemic inflammation and adverse outcomes, has been demonstrated to be efficacious and a significant biomarker in different patient populations. This investigation aims to...

The pastoral areas of Ethiopia are facing a recurrent drought crisis that significantly affects the availability of water resources for communities dependent on livestock. Despite the urgent need for effective drought early warning systems, Ethiopia&...

The enhancement of the financial sector significantly drives a nation’s economy and thereby increase energy intensity. Considering this situation, the current study aims to examine the link between globalization and financial advancements with the en...

Cloud computing is the de facto platform for deploying resource- and data-intensive real-time applications due to the collaboration of large scale resources operating in cross-administrative domains. For example, real-time systems are generated by sm...

Purpose: High-intensity interval training (HIIT) has emerged as a time-efficient alternative to traditional endurance training. This study investigated the molecular, systemic, and physiological adaptations induced by an 8-week HIIT program in nation...

Decarbonization of energy-intensive systems (e.g., heat and power generation, iron, and steel production, petrochemical processes, cement production, etc.) is an important task for the development of a low carbon economy. In this respect, carbon capt...

Background: Prediction of mortality outcomes in trauma patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) is important for patient care and quality improvement. We aimed to measure the performance of 11 prognostic scoring systems for predicting mortality outc...

With the growing use of high-intensity LED units in orthodontics, the effect of ultra-fast curing protocols on polymerization efficiency remains unclear. This study aimed to evaluate the influence of conventional and rapid high-intensity light curing...

In unshielded two-wire circuits of weapon systems, the equipment at both ends of the cable needs to be tested at the same time. The theoretical model of substituting double bulk current injection (DBCI) for high-intensity radiated field (HIRF) electr...

An optimization framework that effectively balances dose–volume constraints and treatment objectives is required in intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) planning. In our previous work, we proposed a dynamical systems-based approach in w...

An ionospheric spatial decorrelation is one of the most dominant error factors that affects the availability of safety-critical differential global navigation satellite systems (DGNSS). This is because systems apply significant conservatism on the er...

Until today, only Leccino and Fs-17 (=Favolosa^®) olive cultivars proved resistant to Xylella fastidiosa subsp. pauca (Xfp) due to a low presence of bacteria in the xylem. Integrated disease management in olive growing areas threatened by the spre...

Incorporating Internet of Things (IoT) technology into indoor kale cultivation holds significant promise for revolutionizing organic farming methodologies. While numerous studies have investigated the impact of environmental factors on kale growth in...

Accelerated population growth has driven the search for efficient food production systems such as aquaponics, which integrates aquaculture and hydroponics in a closed-loop configuration. In conventional aquaculture and hydroponic systems, intensifica...