The purpose of this study was to develop a new pediatric acuity chart that can assess the minimum separation threshold by incorporating the minimum separation threshold into the picture. To overcome the design limitations of the Landolt ring, two des...
Effective access to and stimulation of hydrocarbon reservoirs increasingly rely on combining well-architecture solutions with stimulation technologies. This study assesses directional drilling and multiwell pad systems for improving reservoir access...
Historically, serial homicide has been defined in various ways by experts. Recently, there have been renewed efforts to arrive at a consensus definition, yet these efforts have not yet been resolved. At the heart of the controversy appears to be the...
The primary processing of high-resolution precipitation records (5 min and shorter) is crucial for constructing dimensionless design hyetographs and identifying design-critical precipitation scenarios for urban drainage systems. A key step in this pr...
The paper aimed to develop width recommendations for separated bicycle lanes considering abreast riding and overtaking behaviors. We investigated eight segments of separated bicycle lanes in Nanjing with cameras, analyzed the major types of abreast r...
This study investigates tactile spatial resolution on the palm using two successive rectangular stimuli. Whereas classical tactile resolution studies have focused mainly on point or circular stimulation, less is known about how spatial resolution dep...
We investigate the effect of inter-pulse delay on femtosecond laser ablation of thin aluminum films using a dual-pulse setup at 800 nm with precisely controlled temporal separation. The ablation threshold, measured by an extrapolation method, first d...
A digital image is modeled as a finite metric space by equipping its pixel set with a color distance induced by a norm on
Rainfall event separation is mainly based on the selection of the minimum inter-event time (MIET). The traditional approach to determining a suitable MIET for estimating the probability density functions is often using the frequency histograms. Howev...
Space object recognition in high Earth orbits (between 2000 km and 36,000 km) is affected by moonlight and clouds, resulting in some bright or saturated image areas and uneven image backgrounds. It is difficult to separate dim objects from complex ba...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the viability of the proposed method in preventing the loss of metallic components including the clip and coil in cerebral computed tomography angiography (CTA). Forty patients undergoing surgery for aneur...
Cell counting and sorting is a vital step in the purification process within the area of biomedical research. It has been widely reported and accepted that the use of hydrodynamic focusing in conjunction with the application of a dielectrophoretic (D...
Radio frequency (RF) stealth is one of the essential research hotspots in the radar field. The anti-sorting signal is an important direction of the RF stealth signal. Theoretically speaking, the anti-sorting signal design is based on the failure prin...
Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) impacts of arc discharge from medium-low speed maglev trains on the VHF Data Broadcast (VDB) link of the Ground-Based Augmentation System (GBAS) are systematically investigated. Considering that a single VDB statio...
In multi-gateway LoRaWAN deployments, a single uplink packet may be received through several sensor–gateway links, creating link-graph redundancy. We formulate compression as minimum-cardinality selection under aggregate and per-sensor observed...
Computer vision plays an important role in the accurate foreground detection of medical images. Diagnosing diseases in their early stages has effective life-saving potential, and this is every physician’s goal. There is a positive relationship...
Promoting Agenda 2030 through Circular Economy transition requires improving waste system management and increasing separate collection. In Italy, municipal solid waste management is entrusted to the municipalities, most of which have not yet reached...
The use of waste for energy purposes could become widespread and the radical lowering of the costs associated with that process could occur, if the resulting fuel did not have the status of waste. The key issue in removing the status of waste for a g...
Micro electrical discharge deposition (micro-EDD) enables maskless direct-write metallic tracks on conductive substrates, but reported implementations rely on purpose-built machines with programmable pulse generators and gap servos. This paper report...
This work presents a spatially regularized modelling framework for selecting IoT-enabled environmental monitoring nodes within smart-lighting infrastructures. The study does not claim novelty in CRITIC, TOPSIS, mixed-integer programming, or Voronoi t...
Change detection (CD) is critical for natural disaster detection, monitoring and evaluation. Video satellites, new types of satellites being launched recently, are able to record the motion change during natural disasters. This raises a new problem f...
With the increasing scale and density of low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations, safety separation between multirotor UAVs has become a critical parameter for low-altitude airspace management. Existing studies mainly consider aircraft...
Biobased fillers, such as bio-derived cellulose, lignin byproducts, and biochar, can be used to modify the thermal, mechanical, and electrical properties of polymer composites. Biochar (BioC), in particular, is of interest for enhancing thermal and e...
Machine learning models can rank exchange-traded funds (ETFs) by predicted future performance, but a higher rank does not establish whether replacing a current holding is worthwhile after trading costs. We study a two-stage replacement rule using the...
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a genetic disorder that exhibits a wide spectrum of clinical presentations, including sudden death. Early diagnosis and intervention may avert the latter. Left ventricular hypertrophy on heart imaging is an import...
For Massive multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) systems, many algorithms have been proposed for detecting spatially multiplexed signals, such as reactive tabu search (RTS), minimum mean square error (MMSE), etc. As a heuristic neighborhood search a...
To address the challenges of low image quality and difficult feature extraction of weld beads caused by the complex dynamics of the molten pool, intense arc light, and spatter interference during wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) of 316L stainle...
Reliable short-term ozone forecasting requires not only low average prediction error but also evidence that apparent model leadership remains robust across forecast horizons, monitoring locations, temporal-validation designs, statistical assumptions,...
Validation testing of a liquid-based rheostat confirmed its efficacy in mitigating DC arc faults in photovoltaic systems by exceeding critical resistance and voltage–current thresholds. Experimental characterization of electrode immersion depth...
The data collection of Acoustic Emission (AE) method is typically based on threshold-dependent approach, where the AE system acquires data when the output of AE sensor is above the pre-defined threshold. However, this approach fails to detect flaws i...
High-resolution engineering drawings are commonly analyzed in overlapping tiles, which can produce several predictions showing different extents of the same object. Such observations may have low intersection-over-union despite substantial foreground...
In industrial automated production, reliable inspection of welded desiccant cartridges is challenging because polypropylene welds exhibit irregular boundaries, low-contrast defects, and non-uniform surface reflections. This study proposes a machine v...
The Luojia1-01 (LJ1-01) satellite launched on 2 June 2018 provides a new option for nighttime light (NTL) application research. In this paper, four types of human settlements, such as cities, counties, towns and villages, are sampled to evaluate the...
We present the generation of attosecond gamma rays via inverse Compton scattering within the framework of laser wakefield acceleration through 2D Particle-In-Cell simulations. Utilizing the near-threshold ionization injection mechanism, an attosecond...
Erichsonella attenuata is a free-living marine isopod distributed across the Gulf of Mexico; however, quantitative information on its population structure and reproductive biology remains limited. We examined 2315 individuals collected in Tamiahua La...
This paper presents a study conducted on the thermo-mechanical properties of knitted structures, the methods of manufacture, effect of contact pressure at the structural binding points, on the degree of heating. The test results also present the leve...
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) tomography (TomoSAR) is able to separate multiple scatterers layovered inside the same resolution cell in high-resolution SAR images of urban scenarios, usually with a large number of orbits, making it an expensive and...
Building extraction from LiDAR data has been an active research area, but it is difficult to discriminate between buildings and vegetation in complex urban scenes. A building extraction method from LiDAR data based on minimum cut (min-cut) and improv...
Flooding periodicity is crucial for biomass production and ecosystem functions in wetland areas. Local monitoring networks may be enriched by spaceborne derived products with a temporal resolution of a few days. Unsupervised computer vision technique...
An InAs/InGaAs quantum dot laser with a heterostructure epitaxially grown on a silicon substrate was used to fabricate injection microdisk lasers of different diameters (15–31 µm). A post-growth process includes photolithography and deep...
This work proposes the design of an optimization method for high-power LED luminaires with the introduction of new evaluation metrics. A luminaire geometry computational method is deployed to conduct thermal and optical analysis. This current effort...
Space non-cooperative target recognition is crucial for on-orbit servicing. Multi-satellite cooperation has great potential for broadening the observation scope and enhancing identification efficiency. However, there is currently a lack of research o...
At the beginning of the 21st century, ongoing climate change led to research into extreme streamflow phenomena. This study aimed to assess the patterns of low-flow changes in different hydrological regions of Lithuania using selected hydrological ind...
Greater awareness of the serious human rights abuses associated with the extraction and trade of cobalt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has applied increasing pressure for businesses to move towards more responsible and sustainable mine...
This paper presents a novel low probability of intercept (LPI) optimization framework in radar network by minimizing the Schleher intercept factor based on minimum mean-square error (MMSE) estimation. MMSE of the estimate of the target scatterer matr...
Hydrological design of Sustainable urban Drainage Systems (SuDS) is commonly achieved by estimating rainfall volumetric percentiles from daily rainfall series. Nevertheless, urban watersheds demand rainfall data at sub-hourly time step. Temporal disa...
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate Chinese old adults’ different body compositions in response to various levels of physical activity (PA). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to demonstrate the dose–r...
Increasing exposure of workers to heat-wave conditions and occupational heat stress highlights the need for methods that integrate the assessment of thermal working conditions with the selection of sustainable and economically justified protective me...
This systematic review and reliability generalization meta-analysis synthesized psychometric literature on instrumentation assessing child-to-parent violence published through September 2023 across four databases. In the screening, we identified stud...
The use of decision trees for obtaining and representing clustering solutions is advantageous, due to their interpretability property. We propose a method called Decision Trees for Axis Unimodal Clustering (DTAUC), which constructs unsupervised binar...
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