Although previous studies have examined microbial loads on food contact surfaces in blueberry packing plants, there is currently no information regarding microbial risks associated with mechanical berry harvesters used in commercial blueberry product...
Background: A poor nutritional status has been gathering intense clinical interest recently as it has been suggested to associate with adverse outcomes in patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). However, there is still no established nutritional i...
Exploring the trade-off between cost and system reliability of water distribution systems (WDSs) has been focused for two decades. Due to the intensive computation associated with the reliability analysis, it is popular in the research community to r...
The shear strength (particularly soil cohesion) of rooted soil is an important parameter that reflects the true erodibility of meadows, particularly in meadows experiencing different degrees of degradation, ranging from undegraded (UD) through to lig...
Traditional displacement monitoring struggles to provide early warnings for sudden rock collapses. This study proposes a Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) sensor-based monitoring method using dual dynamic indicators. By analyzing sensor mechanis...
Minimally invasive treatment is increasingly successful in managing carious lesions in primary teeth, owing to the regenerative capacity of the dental pulp and the possibility to influence the pulp–dentin complex. Chemo-mechanical caries excava...
The industrial application motivating this work is the fatigue computation of aircraft engines’ high-pressure turbine blades. The material model involves nonlinear elastoviscoplastic behavior laws, for which the parameters depend on the tempera...
Since 2019, the Mexican Government has implemented the Sembrando Vida Program (SVP) to address environmental degradation and social marginalization in rural areas. This research analyzed the SVP’s targeting mechanisms to assess the fulfillment...
In this paper, we analyze stiffness and perform geometrical optimization of a parallel–serial manipulator with five degrees of freedom (5-DOF). The manipulator includes a 3-DOF redundantly actuated planar parallel mechanism, whose stiffness det...
This paper proposes an approach to derive the Jacobian matrix of a hybrid mechanism by applying a velocity operator to the transformation matrix. This Jacobian matrix is capable of deducing hybrid singularities, which cannot be identified by using th...
Plant pests are the primary biological threats to agricultural and forestry production as well as forest ecosystem. Monitoring forest-pest damage via satellite images is crucial for the development of prevention and control strategies. Previous studi...
Acoustic emission (AE), recorded during uniaxial compressive loading with constantly increasing stress and stepped stress increments until the fracture of prismatic marble specimens, were analyzed in terms of non-extensive statistical mechanics (NESM...
Identifying indicator taxa is a solution to the problem of a lack of diverse data. However, the variation between studies on richness correlations (RCs) among taxa from different climate regions makes the application value of indicator taxa questiona...
This article describes and discusses an innovative index-based environmental protection mechanism involving both tourists and local firms of a given region. The public administration offers tourists (non-polluting firms) the possibility of being reim...
The failure mechanism is the key problem for calculating the inclined failure loads adjacent to the undrained soil slope. Based on the undrained slip line field and boundary value problems, a new failure mechanism is proposed to evaluate the inclined...
A new approach to determining the friabilin content of wheat grain was proposed. Electropherograms were taken, and the intensity of the friabilin bands was compared in the analyzed wheat cultivars and the cv. Chinese Spring. The friabilin content ind...
Quantum mechanics (QM) revolutionizes drug discovery by providing precise molecular insights unattainable with classical methods. This review explores QM’s role in computational drug design, detailing key methods like density functional theory...
To bridge the gap that exists in the key equipment of the new subsea production control system, the all-electric subsea gate valve actuator, and exploit subsea oil and gas resources with high reliability and safety while saving energy, this paper pro...
Time series prediction has been studied for decades due to its potential in a wide range of applications. As one of the most popular technical indicators, moving average summarizes the overall changing patterns over a past period and is frequently us...
As an important vehicle for moral education, the moral indicators of civics and political science textbooks are naturally some of the most important criteria for revising textbooks. However, the textbook text dataset has too much textual information,...
Due to the different geological conditions and construction methods associated with different projects, rockbursts in deep-buried tunnels often present different precursor characteristics, bringing major challenges to the early warning of rockbursts....
This paper presents an enhanced PDR-BLE compensation mechanism for improving indoor localization, which is considerably resilient against variant uncertainties. The proposed method of ePDR-BLE compensation mechanism (EPBCM) takes advantage of the non...
With the rapid development of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, the net load characteristics of power systems have undergone fundamental changes. This paper defines quantitative analysis indicators for net load characteristics and exam...
Mediterranean pines account for 14,000 ha in Tuscany alone, where they form large and homogeneous stands and represent an important resource for the forest economy. Among the harvesting systems applied to thinning operations, the most popular are who...
The paper presents modelling of wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) operation work efficiency using a two-stage method based on selected probability distributions and the Monte Carlo method. Calculations were carried out in terms of sewage susceptibili...
In the face of the dual crisis of energy shortages and global warming, the vigorous development of renewable energy represented by wind-solar energy is a significant approach towards achieving energy transition, carbon peaking, and carbon neutrality...
Structural instability in marine scaffold systems often causes serious economic losses and casualties. In this study, a multi-parameter coupled model was established based on the MIDAS GEN finite element analysis platform to investigate the influence...
The potential withdrawal of glyphosate necessitates a comprehensive evaluation of alternative weed control strategies that balances human health safety with environmental concerns. This study applied a decision-support grid to compare the impacts of...
The increasing prevalence of resistance in carbapenems is an escalating concern as carbapenems are reserved as last-line antibiotics. Although indiscriminate antibiotic usage is considered the primary cause for resistance development, increasing evid...
Veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (V-V ECMO) in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) improves gas exchange and allows lung rest, thus minimizing ventilation-induced lung injury. In the last forty years, a major technological and c...
Supergene hydrous sulfate minerals form through the oxygenation and weathering of primary sulfides. In the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau region, with an alpine and dry environment, hydrous sulfate minerals oxidized from pyrite-bearing ore bodies provid...
In this study, pH-sensitive bilayer hydrogel films with different AM contents (0.00%, 0.50%, 1.00%, 1.50%, 2.00% and 2.50%) were constructed. The films took AM/GG hydrogel as the inner layer structure and a pea protein (PP)/chitosan (CS) composite sy...
In this paper, we target the tasks of fine-grained image–text alignment and cross-modal retrieval in the cultural heritage domain as follows: (1) given an image fragment of an artwork, we retrieve the noun phrases that describe it; (2) given a noun p...
Erding granule (EDG) is a traditional Chinese medicine that has recently been identified as having anti-hypouricemic effects. However, the active components and underlying mechanism for this new indication have not been elucidated. Therefore, we comp...
The hard-seed coat of Ormosia henryi significantly impedes germination efficiency in massive propagation, while conventional physical dormancy-breaking methods often result in compromised seed vigor, asynchronous seedling emergence, and diminished st...
As global urban infrastructure renewal progresses, the urgent need for sustainability-driven urban renewal intensifies amidst resource scarcity and environmental concerns. Effective evaluation and decision making regarding urban road renewal schemes...
Regulatory T cell (Treg) suppression of conventional T cells is a central mechanism that ensures immune system homeostasis. The exact time point of Treg emergence is still disputed. Furthermore, the time of Treg-mediated suppression mechanisms’...
Ultrasonic pulse velocity (UPV) is a non-destructive measurement technique with which the quality of any concrete element can be evaluated. It provides information on concrete health and for assessing the need for repair in a straightforward manner....
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Achieving high efficiency of biological waste treatment in mechanical–biological treatment (MBT) plants requires reliable methods for measuring the degree of biodegradation of organic substances. For this purpose, several physical, chemical, an...
Accurate forecasting of stock market indices is crucial for investors, financial analysts, and policymakers. The integration of encoder and decoder architectures, coupled with an attention mechanism, has emerged as a powerful approach to enhance pred...
The folding wing deployment mechanisms of aircraft are constrained by weight and space limitations, necessitating fewer actuators, multiple outputs, compact designs, and high efficiency. However, existing folding wing mechanisms often overlook the im...
The development of urban agglomerations and smart energy systems in China are tightly connected. However, basic concepts of this interdisciplinary connection are still lacking. To fill this gap, this paper proposed an item of “Smart Energy Urba...
Across the world, ballasted railway tracks are utilised extensively due to their cost efficiency, ease of drainage, and capacity to withstand cyclic imposed loadings from heavy trains. In spite of these benefits, the ballast is often considered as a...
The foundry industry consumes significant amounts of natural resources, metals, and energy, and it generates large amounts of solid waste and gases, which have a significant impact on the environment. Therefore, taking sustainability-based improvemen...
Hardwoods commonly have high mechanical properties, which makes them interesting for structural use, but softwoods dominate the structural timber market in Europe. Tensile strength classes are recommended for engineered wood products. However, curren...
As the performance requirements of insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) in various fields of power electronic systems are increasing, the IGBT power module package structure, aging mechanism analysis, and selection of health state characteristi...
In the current context of joint efforts towards the decarbonisation of buildings, integrating occupants’ comfort and health with latest technological advancements for energy efficiency is at the center of the latest development of research, pol...
The material indices method has its application in both the design of construction materials and products. The method has evolved since the 1960s and has been described in German, Russian, Polish, and English scientific literature. In the 1990s, the...
At present, the research and innovation of packaging materials are in a period of rapid development. Starch, a sustainable, low-cost, and abundant polymer, can develop environmentally friendly packaging alternatives, and it possesses outstanding degr...
The elderly proportion of the population is gradually increasing, which poses a great burden to society, the economy, and the medical field. Aging is a physiological process involving multiple organs and numerous reactions, and therefore it is not ea...
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