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  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,515 Views
32 Pages

Feasibility Analysis of a Mobile Microgrid Design to Support DoD Energy Resilience Goals

  • Daniel W. Varley,
  • Douglas L. Van Bossuyt and
  • Anthony Pollman

This research investigates the feasibility of using mobile hybrid microgrids to increase energy resilience in DoD Installations. The primary question examined is whether a standardized mobile microgrid, constrained within an International Standards O...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,995 Views
9 Pages

19 October 2018

Interferometric fiber-optic sensors are often organized in the form of large-scale arrays by lending the technique of time division multiplexing (TDM) to reduce the system cost. Discriminating the time windows for different sensor units is the prereq...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,922 Views
22 Pages

18 December 2024

Air target intention recognition (ATIR) is critical for unmanned systems in modern air defense operations. Through the analysis of typical air defense combat scenarios, first, the paper defines the intention space and intention parameters of air unit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Cross-Domain Unmanned Platform Command and Security Technology)
  • Review
  • Open Access
42 Citations
12,669 Views
21 Pages

Opportunities for Mineral Carbonation in Australia’s Mining Industry

  • Mehdi Azadi,
  • Mansour Edraki,
  • Faezeh Farhang and
  • Jiwhan Ahn

27 February 2019

Carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) via mineral carbonation is an effective method for long-term storage of carbon dioxide and combating climate change. Implemented at a large-scale, it provides a viable solution to harvesting and storing...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Technologies and Solutions for the Sustainable Climate Change Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,237 Views
15 Pages

Self-Assembled Sandwich-like Mixed Matrix Membrane of Defective Zr-MOF for Efficient Gas Separation

  • Yuning Li,
  • Xinya Wang,
  • Weiqiu Huang,
  • Xufei Li,
  • Ping Xia,
  • Xiaochi Xu and
  • Fangrui Feng

12 February 2025

Membrane technology has been widely used in industrial CO2 capturing, gas purification and gas separation, arousing attention due to its advantages of high efficiency, energy saving and environmental protection. In the context of reducing global carb...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Polymer Nanofilms)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,384 Views
40 Pages

A Spider Monkey Optimization Based on Beta-Hill Climbing Optimizer for Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV)

  • Fouad Allouani,
  • Abdelaziz Abboudi,
  • Xiao-Zhi Gao,
  • Sofiane Bououden,
  • Ilyes Boulkaibet,
  • Nadhira Khezami and
  • Fatma Lajmi

3 March 2023

Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV) path planning is a challenging optimization problem that seeks the optimal or near-optimal flight path for military operations. The problem is further complicated by the need to operate in a complex battlefield e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
10,778 Views
14 Pages

Autonomous System for Wildfire and Forest Fire Early Detection and Control

  • Luís Miguel Ferreira,
  • A. Paulo Coimbra and
  • Aníbal T. de Almeida

Recurring and increasing large-scale wildfires across the globe (e.g., Southern Europe, California, Australia), as a result of worsening climate conditions with record temperatures, drought, and strong winds, present a challenge to mankind. Early fir...

(This article belongs to the Section Inventions and Innovation in Electrical Engineering/Energy/Communications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,005 Views
15 Pages

8 October 2022

The Sahelian Great Green Wall (SGGW) is an influential project to combat desertification and promote sustainable land management on a large scale, involving 11 countries in the Sahel region of Africa. The UNCCD’s 2020 progress report showed a m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
3,816 Views
17 Pages

A Visual Fault Detection Algorithm of Substation Equipment Based on Improved YOLOv5

  • Yuezhong Wu,
  • Falong Xiao,
  • Fumin Liu,
  • Yuxuan Sun,
  • Xiaoheng Deng,
  • Lixin Lin and
  • Congxu Zhu

27 October 2023

The development of artificial intelligence technology provides a new model for substation inspection in the power industry, and effective defect diagnosis can avoid the impact of substation equipment defects on the power grid and improve the reliabil...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advances in Artificial Neural Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,302 Views
18 Pages

An Exosome-Laden Hydrogel Wound Dressing That Can Be Point-of-Need Manufactured in Austere and Operational Environments

  • E. Cate Wisdom,
  • Andrew Lamont,
  • Hannah Martinez,
  • Michael Rockovich,
  • Woojin Lee,
  • Kristin H. Gilchrist,
  • Vincent B. Ho and
  • George J. Klarmann

Skin wounds often form scar tissue during healing. Early intervention with tissue-engineered materials and cell therapies may promote scar-free healing. Exosomes and extracellular vesicles (EV) secreted by mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) are believed...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomedical Engineering and Biomaterials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,475 Views
25 Pages

Comparison of Deep Neural Networks in the Classification of Bark Beetle-Induced Spruce Damage Using UAS Images

  • Emma Turkulainen,
  • Eija Honkavaara,
  • Roope Näsi,
  • Raquel A. Oliveira,
  • Teemu Hakala,
  • Samuli Junttila,
  • Kirsi Karila,
  • Niko Koivumäki,
  • Mikko Pelto-Arvo and
  • Päivi Lyytikäinen-Saarenmaa
  • + 3 authors

12 October 2023

The widespread tree mortality caused by the European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus L.) is a significant concern for Norway spruce-dominated (Picea abies H. Karst) forests in Europe and there is evidence of increases in the affected areas due to...

(This article belongs to the Section Forest Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,599 Views
13 Pages

13 December 2023

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) stands as a pivotal paradigm in network implementation, exerting a profound influence on the trajectory of technological advancement. The critical role of security within SDN cannot be overstated, with distributed de...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,836 Views
22 Pages

O&G, Geothermal Systems, and Natural Hydrogen Well Drilling: Market Analysis and Review

  • Andreas Nascimento,
  • Diunay Zuliani Mantegazini,
  • Mauro Hugo Mathias,
  • Matthias Reich and
  • Julian David Hunt

24 March 2025

Developing clean and renewable energy instead of the ones related to hydrocarbon resources has been known as one of the different ways to guarantee reduced greenhouse gas emissions. Geothermal systems and native hydrogen exploration could represent a...

(This article belongs to the Section H: Geo-Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,729 Views
16 Pages

30 January 2025

Antibiotic resistance, in particular the dissemination of carbapenemase-producing organisms, poses a significant threat to global healthcare. This study introduces the qPCR CarbaScan LyoBead assay, a robust, accurate, and efficient tool for detecting...

(This article belongs to the Collection Feature Papers in Molecular Genetics and Genomics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,100 Views
17 Pages

An Adaptive Learning Model for Multiscale Texture Features in Polyp Classification via Computed Tomographic Colonography

  • Weiguo Cao,
  • Marc J. Pomeroy,
  • Shu Zhang,
  • Jiaxing Tan,
  • Zhengrong Liang,
  • Yongfeng Gao,
  • Almas F. Abbasi and
  • Perry J. Pickhardt

25 January 2022

Objective: As an effective lesion heterogeneity depiction, texture information extracted from computed tomography has become increasingly important in polyp classification. However, variation and redundancy among multiple texture descriptors render a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging and Visual Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,313 Views
23 Pages

Regional-Scale Assessment of Burn Scar Mapping in Southwestern Amazonia Using Burned Area Products and CBERS/WFI Data Cubes

  • Poliana Domingos Ferro,
  • Guilherme Mataveli,
  • Jeferson de Souza Arcanjo,
  • Débora Joana Dutra,
  • Thaís Pereira de Medeiros,
  • Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro,
  • Ana Carolina Moreira Pessôa,
  • Gabriel de Oliveira and
  • Liana Oighenstein Anderson

25 February 2024

Fires are one of the main sources of disturbance in fire-sensitive ecosystems such as the Amazon. Any attempt to characterize their impacts and establish actions aimed at combating these events presupposes the correct identification of the affected a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing of Wildfire: Regime Change and Disaster Response)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,632 Views
31 Pages

Toxin–Antitoxin Modules: Genetic Elements with Many Faces and Functions

  • Aayush Bahl,
  • Manasa Rajagopalan,
  • Roopshali Rakshit,
  • Sashi Kant,
  • Saurabh Pandey and
  • Deeksha Tripathi

1 December 2025

Toxin–antitoxin (TA) modules represent sophisticated regulatory networks that have evolved from simple plasmid maintenance factors into multifunctional genetic modules orchestrating bacterial stress responses, pathogenesis, and ecological adapt...