In SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) Level 2, the driver has to monitor the traffic situation and system performance at all times, whereas the system assumes responsibility within a certain operational design domain in SAE Level 3. The different...
Research on the role of non-driving related tasks (NDRT) in the area of automated driving is indispensable. At the same time, the construct mode awareness has received considerable interest in regard to human–machine interface (HMI) evaluation....
This review aimed to evaluate whether the association between ‘anosognosia for hemiplegia’ and lesions of the right hemisphere points to a special self-awareness role of the right side of the brain, or could instead be due to a working mo...
Developing strategies to incentivize travelers towards adopting sustainable mobility options is one of the effective approaches to mitigate carbon emissions. Using Xi’an Xianyang International Airport as a case study, this study aims to explore...
This paper examines the phenomenon of joint attention and its relevance in understanding the modes of awareness of the presence of God. It explores the perspectives of Eleonore Stump and Andrew Pinsent, as well as the challenge raised by Donald Bungu...
Under the context of non-dyadic human–machine interaction in intelligent coal mines, this study investigates the impact of different dyadic collaboration modes on Team Situation Awareness (TSA). Based on a simulated coal mine monitoring task, t...
This paper proposes a charging-aware multi-mode routing protocol (CMRP) to collect data in the wireless rechargeable sensor networks. The routing mechanism in CMRP is not steady but changes according to the energy charging status of sensors. Sensors...
Noise reduction of underwater acoustic signals is of great significance in the fields of military and ocean exploration. Based on the adaptive decomposition characteristic of uniform phase empirical mode decomposition (UPEMD), a noise reduction metho...
Unmanned airships are highly sensitive to parametric uncertainty, persistent wind disturbances, and sensor noise, all of which compromise reliable path-following. Classical control schemes often suffer from chattering and fail to handle index discont...
Battery-operated systems are always concerned about the proper management and sizing of a battery. A Traditional Battery Management System (BMS) only includes battery-aware task scheduling based on the discharge characteristics of a whole battery pac...
The Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) optimizer connects flatness and generalization, suggesting that loss basins with lower sharpness are correlated with better generalization. However, SAM requires manually tuning the open ball radius, which compl...
Autonomous vehicles are increasingly being adopted, with manufacturers competing to enhance automation capabilities. While full automation eliminates human input, lower levels still require driver intervention under specific conditions. This study pr...
Medium–long-term photovoltaic (PV) output forecasting is of great significance to power grid planning, power market transactions, power dispatching operations, equipment maintenance and overhaul. However, PV output fluctuates greatly due to wea...
4 November 2022
Rural solid waste management is an important method to improve rural living environments. Farmers’ participation in rural solid waste management plays an essential role in sustainable waste management. Based on the micro-survey data of 592 farm...
An environment-aware millimeter wave radar (EMWR) is one of the most important sensors in an autonomous driving system. With the increasing penetration of an EMWR on an autonomous vehicle, the possibility of radar interference increases accordingly....
Massive trajectory data generated by ubiquitous position acquisition technology are valuable for knowledge discovery. The study of trajectory mining that converts knowledge into decision support becomes appealing. Mobility modes awareness is one of t...
This paper proposes the automatic coast mode tracking of centroid trackers for infrared images to overcome the target occlusion status. The centroid tracking method, using only the brightness information of an image, is still widely used in infrared...
In the present day, 5G and beyond networks are being designed to support the future increase of data traffic and service demands. To support such increase, 5G networks will incorporate device-centric technologies with adequate mechanisms to scale and...
This paper proposes an energy-aware mode-selection mechanism for device-to-device (D2D) resource allocation in the coexisting 5G network environment of D2D users and traditional cellular users by taking into consideration the mechanisms of mode selec...
This paper describes flight planning supported by modeling, guidance, and feedback control for an electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) QuadPlane small Uncrewed Aircraft System (sUAS). Five Lift+Cruise sUAS waypoint types are defined and use...
Automobile manufacturers, alongside technology providers, researchers, and public agencies, are conducting extensive testing to design autonomous vehicles (AVs) algorithms that will provide a complete understanding of road users, specifically pedestr...
In this study, we consider a dual-channel supply chain structure where a manufacturer invests in green products and distributes them to green-conscious consumers through an offline retailer and an online platform. The manufacturer has the flexibility...
Considering the environmental awareness of contractors, this paper constructs a construction material supply chain consisting of the government, a manufacturer, and a contractor, analyzes the decision-making and influencing factors of various stakeho...
Currently, pedestrian dead reckoning (PDR) is widely used in indoor positioning. Since there are restrictions on a device’s pose in the procedure of using a smartphone to perform the PDR algorithm, this study proposes a novel heading estimation...
With the development of intelligent manufacturing technology, the manufacturing industry is gradually realizing intelligent production. Especially for metal cutting with extremely complex processes, it is of great significance to realize intelligence...
Collaborative flight formations represent a promising operational model, but the integration of multi-source information in manned interfaces often results in cognitive overload and reduced situation awareness. This study evaluates the effectiveness...
Cap-and-trade regulation is an effective mechanism to control carbon emissions. The optimization problem for a two-stage supply chain consisting of a manufacturer and a retailer under cap-and-trade regulation was investigated in this paper. Consumers...
25 February 2021
Developing urban low-carbon traffic is an effective measure to reduce traffic carbon emissions, which are important parts of greenhouse gas. In order to understand the development characteristics and regular patterns of urban low-carbon traffic, we p...
Access to adequate and appropriate transport options enables older people to continue as thriving community participants, to reach services and to maintain social connections. While transport needs are diverse, and tend to change over time, there is...
Air traffic controllers have to make quick decisions to keep air traffic safe. Their behaviors have a significant impact on the operation of the air traffic management (ATM) system. Automation tools have enhanced the ATM system’s capability by reduci...
Dorsal Practices is a process-based, interdisciplinary artistic collaboration between choreographer Katrina Brown and writer–artist Emma Cocker. This research enquiry explores the notion of dorsality and the cultivation of a back-oriented aware...
In the present day, unmanned aerial vehicles become seemingly more popular every year, but, without regulation of the increasing number of these vehicles, the air space could become chaotic and uncontrollable. In this work, a framework is proposed to...
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is known for its high car ownership and usage and its high GDP per capita. This, combined with a low provision of public transportation (PT) systems, has resulted in perceptual attitudes of high dependency on private...
In cognitive radio networks (CRNs), primary users (PUs) have the highest priority in channel resource allocation. Secondary users (SUs) can generally only utilize temporarily unused channels of PUs, share channels with PUs, or cooperate with PUs to g...
Due to the limited service life of new energy vehicle power batteries, a large number of waste power batteries are facing “retirement”, so it will soon be important to effectively improve the recycling and reprocessing of waste power batt...
This study investigates the production of clausal embeddings by 195 Russian speakers (67 monolingually raised speakers, 68 heritage speakers in the US, and 60 heritage speakers in Germany) in different communicative situations varying by formality (f...
This paper studies a simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT)-aware fog computing by using a simple model, where a sensor harvests energy and receives information from a hybrid access point (HAP) through power splitting (PS) recei...
This study examines two competing green supply chains, each consisting of a supplier and a retailer, using a Stackelberg game model to investigate the impact of different levels of corporate reputation awareness on supply chain members. A comparative...
Over the past years, transport mode recognition has become a large field of research. However, flight as a type of transportation has been mostly overlooked. A system for flight detection might be useful for context-aware applications, but more impor...
In order to determine whether an experimentally induced experience has the potential to change future travel mode choice, we recruited 10 families living in a middle-sized city who used a car at least four times a week, and made them stop using the c...
Background: The urgency for heightened levels of the Coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) awareness is due to their estimated face-to-face participation in the COVID-19 pandemic and similar pandemics. The unavailability of updated pandemic informat...
This paper studies the interaction between the product development mode and the acquisition of consumers’ environmental awareness (CEA) information in a two-echelon green supply chain. Our study shows that when the downstream manufacturer achie...
Power management is a crucial concern in micro-controller platforms for the Internet of Things (IoT) edge. Many applications present a variable and difficult to predict workload profile, usually driven by external inputs. The dynamic tuning of power...
Safe navigation for maritime autonomous surface ships (MASS) is a challenging task, and generally highly dependent on effective collaboration between multiple sub-systems in environments with various levels of uncertainty. This paper presents a novel...
11 November 2022
Introduction: The number of older people in China who require formal care is increasing. In response, China is creating a service delivery mode of health and social care combination for older people—community-based adult services (CBAS) integra...
Taking a low-carbon supply chain composed of one producer and one retailer as the object, this paper explores the impacts of different corporate social responsibility (CSR)-undertaking-mode choices on the carbon-emission reduction and technological i...
Introduction: Over the years there have been several interventions targeted at the public to increase their knowledge and awareness about Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). In this work, we updated a previously published review by Price et al. (2018), o...
This study examines public awareness and acceptance of Hyperloop technology in Poland as a potential low-emission and energy-efficient mode of future transportation. Based on a survey of 1000 respondents, this study examines five key dimensions: gene...
Universities have the extraordinary ability to generate awareness regarding all aspects of sustainability in communities. To be successful, they must first adopt and model sustainable concepts within their own campuses. Transportation is one of the m...
It is widely accepted that human activities largely contribute to global emissions and thus, greatly impact climate change. Awareness promotion and adoption of green transportation mode could make a difference in the long term. To achieve behavioural...
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