Many local government or regional plans have “a sustainable future for our community” as a goal. However, few local or regional governments have a sustainability reporting tool in place that enables them to understand how far along the pathway to sus...
Local implementation projects for sector coupling play an important role in the transformation to a more sustainable energy system. Despite various technical possibilities, there are various barriers to the realisation of local projects. Against this...
An unjustified simplification of the local quantitative criterion regarding cleavage nucleation is a key problem in the utilisation of the Local Approach to Fracture (LA), particularly to predict the fracture toughness within the ductile-to-brittle t...
Chinese local gazetteers have long been widely used by scholars to investigate the local products, culture, economy, and much more. Confronted with large-scale digitized resources nowadays, researchers can explore historical texts in a novel way. In...
The Bayesian approach Maximum a Posteriori (MAP) provides a common basis for developing statistical methods for solving ill-posed image reconstruction problems. MAP solutions are dependent on a priori model. Approaches developed in literature are bas...
As a Small Island Developing State, Seychelles is disproportionately affected by climate change, and enhancing her adaptive capacity is a national priority. Identifying and integrating local capacity needs into policy measures can improve multilevel...
Local food studies have stressed the importance of local food systems (LFS) in shortening the linkages between producers and consumers and in promoting resilient territories. Food consumption patterns are mostly studied around rural–urban dynam...
The remove–compute–restore (RCR) approach is widely used in local quasi-geoid modeling. However, the classical RCR approach usually does not take into account the noise of the satellite-only global gravity field model (GGM), which may lea...
This study benchmarks three ROS 2 Navigation2 local controllers—Dynamic Window Approach Based (DWB), Regulated Pure Pursuit (RPP), and Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI)—under three complementary operational stressors in simulation: (i...
LEADER is a rural development method based on a participative approach, which was tailored in 1991 as a complement to the traditional common agricultural policy (CAP) measures. One of its most important objectives is to reduce the differences between...
An estimation of the elastic-plastic stress state using elasticity-theoretical input data is an essential part of the service life estimation with the local strain approach in general and a German guideline based on it, in particular. This guideline...
Fractal and fractional calculus have important theoretical and practical value. In this paper, analytical solutions, including the N-fractal-soliton solution with fractal characteristics in time and soliton characteristics in space as well as the lon...
Ductile-to-brittle-transition refers to observable change in fracture mode with decreasing temperature—from slow ductile crack growth to rapid cleavage. It is exhibited by body-centred cubic metals and presents a challenge for integrity assessment of...
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This study aimed to improve the quality of ultrasound images by modeling an algorithm using a non-local means (NLM) noise-reduction approach to achieve precise quality control and accurate diagnosis of thyroid nodules. An ATS-539 multipurpose phantom...
Japanese video games have entertained players around the world and played an important role in the video game industry since its origins. In order to export Japanese games overseas, they need to be localized, i.e., they need to be technically, lingui...
Nonlinear transverse free vibrations of porous functionally-graded (FG) Bernoulli–Euler nanobeams in hygrothermal environments through the local/nonlocal stress gradient theory of elasticity were studied. By using the Galerkin method, the gover...
The urban street is an important part of the urban form and serves as the primary medium for public activities within cities. The morphological characteristics of urban street space not only influence people’s spatial experience but also have a...
Web portals have the potential to promote sustainable environmental ideas due to the capacity of digital media, such as easy accessibility, openness, and networking. Local authorities (LAs) are responsible for activating carbon savings in homes, and...
Collaborative strategic decision making has to be widely informed, communicated and knowledge-based in order to innovate transformations toward local and global sustainability. It is unimaginable that this process could be effective without computer-...
The non-local means (NLM) noise reduction algorithm is well known as an excellent technique for removing noise from a magnetic resonance (MR) image to improve the diagnostic accuracy. In this study, we undertook a systematic review to determine the e...
Over the past decade, the demand and research for indoor localization have burgeoned and Wi-Fi fingerprinting approach has been widely considered because it is cheap and accessible. However, most existing methods lack in terms of positioning accuracy...
This study presents a novel approach for predicting hierarchical short time series. In this article, our objective was to formulate long-term forecasts for household natural gas consumption by considering the hierarchical structure of territorial uni...
Localization and navigation not only serve to provide positioning and route guidance information for users, but also are important inputs for vehicle control. This paper investigates the possibility of using odometry to estimate the position and orie...
This paper presents a distributed smoothing neurodynamic approach for solving the
Local Excision (LE) or Watch and Wait (WW) for patients with complete clinical response or near-complete clinical response after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (nCRT) were proposed to avoid morbidity and impairment of quality of life after rectal rese...
Edge-assisted visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is widely used in autonomous driving, robot navigation, and augmented reality for environmental perception, map construction, and real-time positioning. However, it poses significant p...
Due to the assumption of acceleration variation in traditional step-by-step integration methods such as Newmark, sufficiently small time steps are required to ensure numerical stability and accuracy in dynamic systems. In contrast, the state-space ap...
This paper employed and developed the wave-based vibration approach to analyze the band-gap characteristics of a locally resonant (LR) beam with L-joint, which is common in engineering practices. Based on the proposed modular approach, where the disc...
Ship structures are subjected to cyclic loading from waves and currents during operation, which can lead to fatigue failure, particularly at locations with structural discontinuities such as welds. Although various fatigue assessment methods have bee...
To efficiently process time-evolving graphs where new vertices and edges are inserted over time, an incremental computing model, which processes the newly-constructed graph based on the results of the computation on the outdated graph, is widely adop...
This paper presents a novel machine learning methodology able to extend the results of detailed local emission inventories to larger domains where emission estimates are not available. The first part of this work consists in the development of an emi...
The worldwide investment in renewable energy sources is leading to the formation of local energy communities in which users can trade electric energy locally. Regulations and the required enablers for effective transactions in this new context are cu...
Reversible data hiding schemes hide information into a digital image and simultaneously increase its contrast. The improvements of the different approaches aim to increase the capacity, contrast, and quality of the image. However, recent proposals co...
Local energy transitions involve various types of actors (e.g., politicians, businesses, public administrators, and citizens) that differ in their objectives, values, problem-related perspectives, and professional jargons: these differences risk dete...
This paper focuses on the development of a participatory planning approach for local energy sustainability. The characteristics of a complex problem were reviewed to establish that the problem of sustainable energy at a local government level is comp...
Worldwide, concrete is used as the material of choice in the construction sector. In Latin American countries, concrete is primarily used in structural elements, because it is a low-maintenance, versatile, and economical material. With its characteri...
Several algorithms have been developed to simplify buildings based on their local structure in past decades. However, different local structures are defined for certain purposes, and no algorithm can appropriately simplify all buildings. We propose a...
Local food traditions are an essential part of culture and society, reflecting a community’s history, values, and beliefs. Elders play a major role in passing on local food knowledge to younger generations, ensuring local food traditions and cu...
Several intratumoral immunotherapeutic agents have shown efficacy in controlling local disease; however, their ability to induce a durable systemic immune response is limited. Likewise, tumor ablation is well-established due to its role in local dise...
A novel cooperative integrity monitoring concept, called “local integrity”, suitable to automotive applications in urban scenarios, is discussed in this paper. The idea is to take advantage of a collaborative Vehicular Ad hoc NETwork (VANET) architec...
High temperatures and heatwaves are becoming more frequent, but heat vulnerability is rarely considered within local authority city design and statutory land-use planning processes. Here, we describe an approach to assess heat vulnerability in Birmin...
Modern society is facing great challenges due to pollution and increased carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. As part of solving these challenges, the use of renewable energy sources and electric vehicles (EVs) is rapidly increasing. However, increased dy...
A new approach is introduced to evaluate the potential drag reduction by skin suit design in speed sport. The approach relies upon local flow information measured in the wake of a cyclist mannequin. Lagrangian Particle Tracking is employed to measure...
The paper presents an approach to efficiently detect local defect resonances (LDRs) in solids with localized defects. The 3D scanning laser Doppler vibrometry (3D SLDV) technique is applied to acquire vibration responses on the surface of a test samp...
In terms of climate change, while tourism’s natural resources may be considered climate vulnerable, a large part of tourism’s primary industries are high carbon consumers. With the growth of worldwide efforts to adopt climate resilience a...
The reliability and performance qualification of additively manufactured metal parts is critical for their successful and safe use in engineering applications. In current powder-bed fusion type metal additive manufacturing processes, local thermal ac...
The display contrast and efficiency of power consumption for LCDs (Liquid Crystal Displays) continue to attract attention from both industry and academia. Local dimming approaches for direct-type backlight modules (BLMs, also referred to as backlight...
The impact of linear agri-food supply chains is progressively leading to ever wider socio-environmental and cultural repercussions, undermining the balance of territories and communities to the point of disrupting the entire planet’s health. Th...
The paper presents the results of an experimental investigation and statistical analysis of the data streams generated by popular Internet services. It is found that every investigated Internet service generates data streams of a specific type, posse...
The residual ionospheric error (RIE) from higher-order terms in the refractive index is not negligible when using global navigation satellite system (GNSS) radio occultation (RO) data for climate and meteorology applications in the stratosphere. In t...
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