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  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,426 Views
16 Pages

26 November 2021

The general dynamic characteristics of the acoustic cavity with multiple partial partitions are presented in this thesis. A theoretical model has been developed for predictions, and several configurations are analyzed. To describe the apertures on th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,980 Views
19 Pages

A Numerical Analysis of Dynamic Slosh Dampening Utilising Perforated Partitions in Partially-Filled Rectangular Tanks

  • Mitchell G. Borg,
  • Claire DeMarco Muscat-Fenech,
  • Tahsin Tezdogan,
  • Tonio Sant,
  • Simon Mizzi and
  • Yigit Kemal Demirel

13 February 2022

Conventional liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo vessels are imposed with tank-fill limitations as precautions to prevent structural damage and stability-loss due to high-impact sloshing, enforcing cargo volume-fills to be lower than 10% or higher than...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,248 Views
17 Pages

Recently, the necessity to run high-performance neural networks (NN) is increasing even in resource-constrained embedded systems such as wearable devices. However, due to the high computational and memory requirements of the NN applications, it is ty...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,401 Views
18 Pages

A Novel Reduction Circuit Based on Binary Tree Path Partition on FPGAs

  • Linhuai Tang,
  • Zhihong Huang,
  • Gang Cai,
  • Yong Zheng and
  • Jiamin Chen

20 January 2021

Due to high parallelism, field-programmable gate arrays are widely used as accelerators in engineering and scientific fields, which involve a large number of operations of vector and matrix. High-performance accumulation circuits are the key to large...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,786 Views
21 Pages

A heterogeneous system-on-chip (SoC) integrates multiple types of processors on the same chip. It has great advantages in many aspects, such as processing capacity, size, weight, cost, power, and energy consumption, which result in it being widely ad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,929 Views
28 Pages

Swarm Intelligence Techniques for Mobile Wireless Charging

  • Gerald K. Ijemaru,
  • Kenneth Li-Minn Ang and
  • Jasmine Kah Phooi Seng

This paper proposes energy-efficient swarm intelligence (SI)-based approaches for efficient mobile wireless charging in a distributed large-scale wireless sensor network (LS-WSN). This approach considers the use of special multiple mobile elements, w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
873 Views
21 Pages

Milk jujube has become an increasingly popular tropical fruit. The sugar content, which is commonly represented by the soluble solid content (SSC), is a key indicator of the flavor, internal quality, and market value of milk jujubes. Traditional meth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,860 Views
14 Pages

6 September 2023

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) technology has the characteristics of small sample demand, simple sample preparation, simultaneous measurement of multiple elements and safety, which has great potential application in the rapid detection o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,866 Views
18 Pages

31 August 2023

Sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV) is central to many scientific, engineering, and other applications, including machine learning. Compressed Sparse Row (CSR) is a widely used sparse matrix storage format. SpMV using the CSR format on GPU com...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,880 Views
14 Pages

5 June 2023

Both the vastness of pasturelands and the value they contain—e.g., food security, ecosystem services—have resulted in increased scientific and industry efforts to remotely monitor them via satellite imagery and machine learning (ML). Howe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,588 Views
18 Pages

A Meta-Methodology for Improving Land Cover and Land Use Classification with SAR Imagery

  • Marinalva Dias Soares,
  • Luciano Vieira Dutra,
  • Gilson Alexandre Ostwald Pedro da Costa,
  • Raul Queiroz Feitosa,
  • Rogério Galante Negri and
  • Pedro M. A. Diaz

16 March 2020

Per-point classification is a traditional method for remote sensing data classification, and for radar data in particular. Compared with optical data, the discriminative power of radar data is quite limited, for most applications. A way of trying to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,690 Views
23 Pages

A new technique of local model-order reduction (MOR) in 3-D finite element method (FEM) for frequency-domain electromagnetic analysis of waveguide components is proposed in this paper. It resolves the problem of increasing solution time of the reduce...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
554 Views
26 Pages

9 October 2025

The traditional Mahalanobis–Taguchi System (MTS) employs two main strategies for multi-class classification: the partial binary tree MTS (PBT-MTS) and the multi-tree MTS (MT-MTS). The PBT-MTS relies on a fixed binary tree structure, resulting i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,971 Views
12 Pages

31 October 2023

β-diversity is often measured over both spatial and temporal gradients of elevation, latitude, and environmental conditions. It is of particular interest to ecologists, as it provides opportunities to test and infer potential causal mechanisms d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,061 Views
37 Pages

29 April 2021

Clustering algorithms for multi-database mining (MDM) rely on computing (n2n)/2 pairwise similarities between n multiple databases to generate and evaluate m[1,(n2n)/2] candidate clusterings in order to select the ideal partitioning that optimizes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,574 Views
27 Pages

A Modified Surface Energy Balance to Estimate Crop Transpiration and Soil Evaporation in Micro-Irrigated Orchards

  • Camilo Souto,
  • Octavio Lagos,
  • Eduardo Holzapfel,
  • Mahesh Lal Maskey,
  • Lynn Wunderlich,
  • Kristen Shapiro,
  • Giulia Marino,
  • Richard Snyder and
  • Daniele Zaccaria

22 August 2019

A surface energy balance model was conceived to estimate crop transpiration and soil evaporation in orchards and vineyards where the floor is partially wetted by micro-irrigation systems. The proposed surface energy balance model for partial wetting...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,770 Views
16 Pages

A First Attempt to Combine NIRS and Plenoptic Cameras for the Assessment of Grasslands Functional Diversity and Species Composition

  • Simon Taugourdeau,
  • Mathilde Dionisi,
  • Mylène Lascoste,
  • Matthieu Lesnoff,
  • Jean Marie Capron,
  • Fréderic Borne,
  • Philippe Borianne and
  • Lionel Julien

Grassland represents more than half of the agricultural land. Numerous metrics (biomass, functional trait, species composition) can be used to describe grassland vegetation and its multiple functions. The measures of these metrics are generally destr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,813 Views
13 Pages

β-Yb2CdSb2—A Complex Non-Centrosymmetric Zintl Polymorph

  • Spencer R. Watts,
  • Larissa Najera,
  • Michael O. Ogunbunmi,
  • Svilen Bobev and
  • Sviatoslav Baranets

25 October 2024

The ternary Zintl phase, Yb2CdSb2, was discovered to exist in two different polymorphic forms. In addition to the orthorhombic α-Yb2CdSb2 (space group Cmc21) known for its excellent thermoelectric properties, we present the synthesis and charac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
223 Views
14 Pages

22 January 2026

Background: The shift toward precision orthodontics necessitates population-specific cephalometric databases. Reliance on Eurocentric norms for ethnically diverse populations—particularly underrepresented Middle Eastern groups—represents...

  • Article
  • Open Access
694 Views
12 Pages

Efficient Enrichment of Total Flavonoids and Antibacterial Activity of the Ethyl Acetate Fraction of Croton blanchetianus Baill. (Euphorbiaceae) Leaves

  • Pedro Artur Ferreira Marinho,
  • Wêndeo Kennedy Costa,
  • Maria Tereza dos Santos Correia,
  • Wliana Alves Viturino da Silva,
  • Magda Rhayanny Assunção Ferreira,
  • Luiz Alberto Lira Soares,
  • José Jailson Lima Bezerra and
  • Alisson Macário de Oliveira

Background/Objectives: This study investigated the flavonoid enrichment and antimicrobial activity of the ethyl acetate fraction (EAF) obtained from Croton blanchetianus (Euphorbiaceae) leaves against Staphylococcus aureus, including the methicillin-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,115 Views
18 Pages

7 September 2025

Leaf water content is a critical metric during the growth and development of winter wheat. Rapid and efficient monitoring of leaf water content in winter wheat is essential for achieving precision irrigation and assessing crop quality. Unmanned aeria...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,616 Views
21 Pages

Evaluation of Hyperspectral Monitoring Model for Aboveground Dry Biomass of Winter Wheat by Using Multiple Factors

  • Chenbo Yang,
  • Jing Xu,
  • Meichen Feng,
  • Juan Bai,
  • Hui Sun,
  • Lifang Song,
  • Chao Wang,
  • Wude Yang,
  • Lujie Xiao and
  • Xiaoyan Song
  • + 1 author

26 March 2023

The aboveground dry biomass (AGDB) of winter wheat can reflect the growth and development of winter wheat. The rapid monitoring of AGDB by using hyperspectral technology is of great significance for obtaining the growth and development status of wint...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,069 Views
15 Pages

Spatial Configuration of Urban Greenspace Affects Summer Air Temperature: Diurnal Variations and Scale Effects

  • Qin Tian,
  • Qingdong Qiu,
  • Zhiyu Wang,
  • Zhengwu Cai,
  • Li Hu,
  • Huanyao Liu,
  • Ye Feng and
  • Xiaoma Li

14 September 2023

Optimizing the spatial pattern (spatial compositive and spatial configuration) of urban greenspace can effectively alleviate the urban heat island effect. While the relationship between air temperature (AT) and spatial composition of urban greenspace...