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  • Open Access
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20 Pages

14 February 2026

We study the Moore–Penrose inverse of idempotent operators on Hilbert C*-modules. First, we extend the computation of the Moore–Penrose inverse of an idempotent operator and its difference from the range projection to this setting. This l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
142 Views
19 Pages

A Gradient-Norm-Aware Optimizer for Symmetry-Preserving and Stable Deep Learning

  • Hong Chen,
  • Xuefeng Zhang,
  • Haijing Sun and
  • Yichuan Shao

18 February 2026

The stability of deep neural networks during training is related to the structural symmetry between gradient dynamics and parameter updates. Existing Adam-type optimizers are prone to breaking this dynamic symmetry when the gradient scale changes dra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,593 Views
20 Pages

Scarcity and Cooperation: The Modulation of Social Norms

  • Qiuling Luo,
  • Changjin Qiu,
  • Sihan Dong,
  • Ronghui Tang and
  • Chunhua Kang

4 July 2025

Given the continued relevance of perceived scarcity, understanding how a scarcity mindset influences human cooperation remains critical. However, previous research has yielded mixed results regarding this relationship. To clarify these inconsistencie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,244 Views
17 Pages

20 December 2021

The formation of aberrant modules (internodes) of the shoot was found sporadically in the colonial hydroid Dynamena pumila from the family Sertulariidae, which is distinguished by the symmetrical two-row position of the hydrotheca on the shoot stem....

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,411 Views
6 Pages

1 November 2022

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a widespread technique in data analysis. Recently, the L1-norm has been proposed as an alternative criterion to classical L2-norm in PCA due to its greater robustness to outliers. The present work shows that, wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,076 Views
22 Pages

Testing Activities for Technological and Normative Validation of Bio-Based Components in Façade System Modules

  • Laura Vandi,
  • Arsenio Navarro Muedra,
  • Julen Astudillo Larraz,
  • Susana López de Aretxaga Escudero and
  • Alessandro Pracucci

15 April 2024

This research explores the development and validation activities of a bio-based façade system within the Basajaun H2020 project, focusing on enhancing the utilization of bio-based components within building envelopes to replace conventional so...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,704 Views
6 Pages

7 February 2022

Disruptive behavior disorders (DBD) refer to a group of conditions that typically share difficulties in modulating aggressive conducts, self-control, and impulses, with resulting behaviors that constitute a threat to others’ safety and to socia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,642 Views
13 Pages

Research on Electromagnetic Susceptibility of Electronic Modules in Component-Level HEMP PCI Test

  • Chuanbao Du,
  • Dewei Xia,
  • Quan Huang,
  • Congguang Mao,
  • Zhitong Cui,
  • Wenxiao Fang and
  • Xin Nie

15 February 2022

The study of electromagnetic sensitivity of electronic modules is crucial for the selection of a component-level pulse current injection (PCI) waveform, which will determine whether a component-level PCI test is equivalent to a system-level pulse ill...

  • Article
  • Open Access
538 Views
13 Pages

K-g-Fusion Frames on Cartesian Products of Two Hilbert C*-Modules

  • Sanae Touaiher,
  • Maryam G. Alshehri and
  • Mohamed Rossafi

7 November 2025

In this paper, we introduce and investigate the concept of K-g-fusion frames in the Cartesian product of two Hilbert C*-modules over the same unital C*-algebra. Our main result establishes that the Cartesian product of two K-g-fusion frames remains a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,211 Views
14 Pages

Proposal for a Safety Qualification Program for Vehicle-Integrated PV Modules

  • Jochen Markert,
  • Christoph Kutter,
  • Bonna Newman,
  • Paul Gebhardt and
  • Martin Heinrich

2 December 2021

We propose a safety qualification program for vehicle-integrated photovoltaic (VIPV) modules, which could serve as a simplification, thereby accelerating the homologation process of new vehicle designs. The basis is the current photovoltaic (PV) modu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,652 Views
11 Pages

A Social Norms-Based Intervention Improves Dietary Diversity among Women in Rural India: The Reduction in Anemia through Normative Innovations (RANI) Project

  • Sameera A. Talegawkar,
  • Yichen Jin,
  • Erica Sedlander,
  • Rohini Ganjoo,
  • Satyaranjan Behera,
  • Loretta DiPietro and
  • Rajiv Rimal

17 August 2021

Diet diversity has an important role in the prevention and treatment of anemia. Based on formative research in the community and the theory of normative social behavior, we designed an intervention to improve diet diversity among women of reproductiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,900 Views
9 Pages

22 May 2018

Cosine-modulated filter banks play a major role in digital signal processing. Sparse FIR filter banks have lower implementation complexity than full filter banks, while keeping a good performance level. This paper presents a fast design paradigm for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,609 Views
19 Pages

Bridging Human Behavior and Environmental Norms: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Sustainable Tourism in Vietnam

  • Tran Thi Thu Thuy,
  • Nguyen Thi Thanh Thao,
  • Vo Thi Thu Thuy,
  • Su Thi Oanh Hoa and
  • Tran Thi Diem Nga

15 May 2025

Vietnam’s tourism sector has experienced rapid expansion, yielding significant economic gains, but also escalating environmental and socio-cultural challenges. This necessitates a shift toward sustainable tourism practices. This study develops...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,150 Views
17 Pages

miR-26a-5p is a Stable Reference Gene for miRNA Studies in Chondrocytes from Developing Human Cartilage

  • Enrico Ragni,
  • Paola De Luca,
  • Antongiulio Marmotti and
  • Laura de Girolamo

22 June 2019

miRNAs are emerging as key regulators of complex biological systems in several developmental processes. qRT-PCR is a powerful tool to quantitatively assess the profiles and modulation of miRNA expression. In the emerging field of cartilage maturation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,506 Views
31 Pages

Observer-Linked Branching (OLB)—A Proposed Quantum-Theoretic Framework for Macroscopic Reality Selection

  • Călin Gheorghe Buzea,
  • Florin Nedeff,
  • Valentin Nedeff,
  • Dragos-Ioan Rusu,
  • Maricel Agop and
  • Decebal Vasincu

8 July 2025

We propose Observer-Linked Branching (OLB), a mathematically rigorous extension of quantum theory in which an observer’s cognitive commitment actively modulates collapse dynamics at macroscopic scales. The OLB framework rests on four axioms, em...

  • Article
  • Open Access
311 Views
15 Pages

A Ceramic Rare Defect Amplification Method Based on TC-CycleGAN

  • Zhiqiang Zeng,
  • Changying Dang,
  • Zebing Ma,
  • Jiansu Li and
  • Zhonghua Li

7 January 2026

The ceramic defect detection technology based on deep learning suffers from the problems of scarce rare defect samples and class imbalance. However, the current deep generative image augmentation techniques are limited when applied to the task of aug...

  • Article
  • Open Access
369 Views
15 Pages

11 December 2025

To address the challenges of insufficient robustness and limited feature extraction in photovoltaic module image segmentation under complex scenarios, we propose a high-precision PV module segmentation model (Pv-UNet) that integrates Transformer and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
13,230 Views
30 Pages

17 January 2014

It is widely accepted that environmental awareness is essential, yet does not inevitably lead to responsible use of resources. Additional factors on the individual level include the meaning constructed by the term “resources” and the individual and s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,513 Views
21 Pages

Sub-Nyquist SAR Imaging and Error Correction Via an Optimization-Based Algorithm

  • Wenjiao Chen,
  • Li Zhang,
  • Xiaocen Xing,
  • Xin Wen and
  • Qiuxuan Zhang

29 April 2024

Sub-Nyquist synthetic aperture radar (SAR) based on pseudo-random time–space modulation has been proposed to increase the swath width while preserving the azimuthal resolution. Due to the sub-Nyquist sampling, the scene can be recovered by an o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,622 Views
30 Pages

7 November 2025

The emergence of generative artificial intelligence has unsettled traditional legal conceptions of authorship and originality by challenging the foundational premise of copyright, namely, the requirement of human intervention as a precondition for pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,287 Views
23 Pages

1 September 2022

The intraorganismal variability of the shoot modules of three species of hydroids was studied to determine the degree of similarity between them. The strict form of the internodes (modules) of the shoots is repeated many times, which is useful for th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,088 Views
26 Pages

ZoomHead: A Flexible and Lightweight Detection Head Structure Design for Slender Cracks

  • Hua Li,
  • Fan Yang,
  • Junzhou Huo,
  • Qiang Gao,
  • Shusen Deng and
  • Chang Guo

26 June 2025

Detecting metal surface crack defects is of great significance for the safe operation of industrial equipment. However, most existing mainstream deep-object detection models suffer from complex structures, large parameter sizes, and high training cos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
312 Views
20 Pages

Beyond Native Norms: A Perceptually Grounded and Fair Framework for Automatic Speech Assessment

  • Mewlude Nijat,
  • Yang Wei,
  • Shuailong Li,
  • Abdusalam Dawut and
  • Askar Hamdulla

8 January 2026

Pronunciation assessment is central to computer-assisted pronunciation training (CAPT) and speaking tests, yet most systems still adopt a native norm, treating deviations from canonical L1 pronunciations as errors. In contrast, rating rubrics and psy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,515 Views
13 Pages

Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, graduate studies and the adult students pursuing those studies have drastically changed, creating a new landscape of challenges to success for students and faculty alike. Online learning is fast becomi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,641 Views
19 Pages

19 April 2024

Impulsive blind deconvolution (IBD) is a popular method to recover impulsive sources for bearing fault diagnosis. Its underpinnings are in the design of objective functions based on prior knowledge of impulsive sources and a transfer function to desc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,302 Views
11 Pages

Wearing a Mask Shapes Interpersonal Space during COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Monica Biggio,
  • Ambra Bisio,
  • Valentina Bruno,
  • Francesca Garbarini and
  • Marco Bove

Social distancing norms have been promoted after the COVID-19 pandemic. In this work, we tested interpersonal space (IPS) in 107 subjects through a reaching-comfort distance estimation task. In the main experiment, subjects had to estimate the comfor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
299 Views
18 Pages

24 January 2026

In mineral processing, visual-based online particle size analysis systems depend on high-precision image segmentation to accurately quantify ore particle size distribution, thereby optimizing crushing and sorting operations. However, due to multi-sca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
793 Views
20 Pages

Weighted Sparse Image Quality Restoration Algorithm for Small-Pixel High-Resolution Remote Sensing Data

  • Chenglong Yang,
  • Chunyu Liu,
  • Menghan Bai,
  • Yingming Zhao,
  • Yunhan Ma and
  • Shuai Liu

27 August 2025

The demand for high-spatial-resolution optical remote sensing applications is increasing, while conventional high-resolution optical payloads face limitations in widespread application due to their large size and high manufacturing costs. With the ra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,300 Views
20 Pages

Designing an AI-Supported Framework for Literary Text Adaptation in Primary Classrooms

  • Savvas A. Chatzichristofis,
  • Alexandros Tsopozidis,
  • Avgousta Kyriakidou-Zacharoudiou,
  • Salomi Evripidou and
  • Angelos Amanatiadis

8 July 2025

Background/Objectives: This paper introduces a pedagogically grounded framework for transforming canonical literary texts in primary education through generative AI. Guided by multiliteracies theory, Vygotskian pedagogy, and epistemic justice, the sy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
231 Views
22 Pages

19 January 2026

Aiming to address the safety and stability issues caused by typical faults of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) navigation sensors, a novel fault-tolerant method is proposed, which can capture the temporal dependencies of fault feature evolution, and com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,040 Views
19 Pages

15 July 2022

Among many types of defects present in crystalline materials, dislocations are the most influential in determining the deformation process and various physical properties of the materials. However, the mathematical description of the elastic field ge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
906 Views
26 Pages

27 August 2025

Underwater debris detection plays a crucial role in marine environmental protection. However, existing object detection algorithms generally suffer from excessive model complexity and insufficient detection accuracy, making it difficult to meet the r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,655 Views
24 Pages

9 March 2023

With the advantages of discriminative correlation filter (DCF) in tracking accuracy and computational efficiency, the DCF-based methods have been widely used in the field of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for target tracking. However, UAV tracking in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,313 Views
16 Pages

2 January 2019

Fuzzy clustering is widely used in business, biology, geography, coding for the internet and more. A single-valued neutrosophic set is a generalized fuzzy set, and its clustering algorithm has attracted more and more attention. An equivalence matrix...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,744 Views
19 Pages

In this paper, a general event-triggered framework is constructed to investigate the problem of remote fault detection for stochastic cyber-physical systems subject to the additive disturbances, sensor nonlinearities and deception attacks. Both fault...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,419 Views
13 Pages

6 December 2021

We consider the Benjamin–Bona–Mahony (BBM) equation of the form ut+ux+uuxuxxt=0,(x,t)M×R where M=T or R. We establish norm inflation (NI) with infinite loss of regularity at general initial data in Fourier amalgam and W...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,439 Views
36 Pages

Forward Electromagnetic Induction Modelling in a Multilayered Half-Space: An Open-Source Software Tool

  • Gian Piero Deidda,
  • Patricia Díaz de Alba,
  • Federica Pes and
  • Giuseppe Rodriguez

26 March 2023

Electromagnetic induction (EMI) techniques are widely used in geophysical surveying. Their success is mainly due to their easy and fast data acquisition, but the effectiveness of data inversion is strongly influenced by the quality of sensed data, re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,151 Views
20 Pages

To realize the construction of smart cities, the fine management of various street objects is very important. In dealing with the form of objects, it is considered a pursuit of normativeness and precision. Store signboards are a tangible manifestatio...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,312 Views
17 Pages

Coherent Signal DOA Estimation Method Based on Space–Time–Coding Metasurface

  • Guanchao Chen,
  • Xiaolong Su,
  • Lida He,
  • Dongfang Guan and
  • Zhen Liu

9 January 2025

A novel method for the direction of arrival (DOA) estimation of coherent signals under a space–time–coding metasurface (STCM) is proposed in this paper. Noticeably, the STCM can replace multi-channel arrays with a single channel, which ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,261 Views
15 Pages

18 March 2021

This paper presents a module for monitoring the contact force between a probe for measuring vibration perception on the wrist and the skin. The module was designed for an original measuring stand for the automatic testing of the vibrotactile discrimi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,060 Views
24 Pages

Development of a Lightweight Model for Rice Plant Counting and Localization Using UAV-Captured RGB Imagery

  • Haoran Sun,
  • Siqiao Tan,
  • Zhengliang Luo,
  • Yige Yin,
  • Congyin Cao,
  • Kun Zhou and
  • Lei Zhu

Accurately obtaining both the number and the location of rice plants plays a critical role in agricultural applications, such as precision fertilization and yield prediction. With the rapid development of deep learning, numerous models for plant coun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,041 Views
17 Pages

Insights into Inflammatory Priming of Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Validation of Extracellular Vesicles-Embedded miRNA Reference Genes as A Crucial Step for Donor Selection

  • Enrico Ragni,
  • Paola De Luca,
  • Carlotta Perucca Orfei,
  • Alessandra Colombini,
  • Marco Viganò,
  • Gaia Lugano,
  • Valentina Bollati and
  • Laura de Girolamo

23 April 2019

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are promising tools for cell-based therapies due to their homing to injury sites, where they secrete bioactive factors such as cytokines, lipids, and nucleic acids, either free or conveyed within extracellular vesicles (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,944 Views
18 Pages

12 November 2021

Ranking-oriented cross-project defect prediction (ROCPDP), which ranks software modules of a new target industrial project based on the predicted defect number or density, has been suggested in the literature. A major concern of ROCPDP is the distrib...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,138 Views
17 Pages

26 February 2022

Automatic and accurate classification of Alzheimer’s disease is a challenging and promising task. Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) can classify images at the pixel level. Adding an attention mechanism to the Fully Convolutional Network can eff...

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

26 February 2025

This article proposes a fault diagnosis method based on an adaptive sliding mode observer (SMO) for current sensors (CSs) in the charging modules of DC charging piles. Firstly, we establish a model of the phase-shift full-bridge (PSFB) converter with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
958 Views
17 Pages

2 October 2025

We investigate the quantum dynamics of coherence in the hyperfine structure of hydrogen atoms subjected to dephasing noise, modeled using the Lindblad master equation. The effective Hamiltonian describes the spin–spin interaction between the el...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,979 Views
24 Pages

A Novel Multi-Sensor Environmental Perception Method Using Low-Rank Representation and a Particle Filter for Vehicle Reversing Safety

  • Zutao Zhang,
  • Yanjun Li,
  • Fubing Wang,
  • Guanjun Meng,
  • Waleed Salman,
  • Layth Saleem,
  • Xiaoliang Zhang,
  • Chunbai Wang,
  • Guangdi Hu and
  • Yugang Liu

9 June 2016

Environmental perception and information processing are two key steps of active safety for vehicle reversing. Single-sensor environmental perception cannot meet the need for vehicle reversing safety due to its low reliability. In this paper, we prese...

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