Patients at risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD) must be identified early and precisely in order to prevent complications, save lives, and limit expenditures for patients and health systems. This study aimed to develop a simple, high-precision machin...
Background: Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase (ALK) is an oncogenic receptor tyrosine kinase implicated in several cancers. Despite the clinical success of ALK inhibitors, acquired resistance continues to drive the search for novel chemotypes. We developed...
This paper aims to update the review of diagnostic techniques for rotating electrical machines of different type and size. Each of the main sections of the paper is focused on a specific component of the machine (stator and rotor windings, magnets, b...
Wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) is capable of rapidly depositing metal materials thus facilitating the fabrication of large-shape metal components. However, due to the multi-process-variability in the WAAM process, the deposited shape (bead wi...
Cogging torque exists between rotor mounted permanent magnets and stator teeth due to magnetic attraction and this is an undesired phenomenon which produces output ripple, vibration and noise in machines. The purpose of this paper is to study the exi...
The vibration energy distribution pattern usually changes with the rotating machine’s health state and is a good indicator for intelligent fault diagnosis (IFD). The existing initial features such as RMS are less effective in revealing the vibr...
Amidst the dual challenges of escalating ecological environmental pressures and economic transformation globally, green innovation emerges as a pivotal pathway toward achieving high-quality sustainable development. To elucidate how digitalization and...
Mobile machines using a hydrostatic transmission is highly efficient under lower working-speed condition but less capable at higher transport velocities. To enhance overall efficiency, we have improved the powertrain design by combining a hydrostatic...
For several decades, the design and manufacture of electrical machines has been considered a technically mature area and, as a result, research and development in the area has been extremely limited, even though this is a crucial technology in the ap...
Water scarcity is a severe problem in Tunisia, particularly in the northern region crossed by the Medjerda River, where groundwater is a conjoint water resource that is increasingly exploited. The aim of this study is to delineate the groundwater pot...
Due to the recent financial crisis and European debt crisis, credit risk evaluation has become an increasingly important issue for financial institutions. Reliable credit scoring models are crucial for commercial banks to evaluate the financial perfo...
Demand is high for small, lightweight, and power-dense machines. However, as power increases and size decreases, rejecting losses becomes more difficult. Many novel cooling systems have been developed, which have allowed machines to be made smaller w...
This paper presents three novel configurations of single-phase (SP) short-stroke (SS) tubular permanent magnet oscillating machines (TPMOMs) with partitioned stator (PS), termed PS-SPSS-TPMOMs. The machine structures are described and the influence o...
Recent advances in electrical machines and energy storage technologies make electric vehicles (EVs) feasible replacements to conventional internal combustion engines. One of the main challenges of high speed electrical machines is providing maximum o...
The structure of car seats is becoming increasingly complex, with mixing of wire conformation and plastic injection. The plastic over-molding process implies some labor, which can be reduced if novel solutions are applied in this manufacturing area....
The objective of this paper is to propose a novel tubular linear machine with hybrid permanent magnet arrays and multiple movers, which could be employed for either actuation or sensing technology. The hybrid magnet array produces flux distribution o...
Two novel structures of permanent magnet (PM) machine, namely a hybrid excitation flux modulation machine (HEFMM) and a variable flux memory machine (VFMM), which have excellent field-weakening capability, are presented in this paper. The HEFMM incor...
The laminated rotor Induction Machine (IM), with its simple construction and manufacturing, robustness, ease of control and comparatively lower cost remains by far the most utilized electromechanical energy converter. At very high speeds, traditional...
This paper presents a novel approach to determine geometric shapes of flux modulation poles (FMPs) by using the analytical equations for flux density distribution due to armature windings. The magnetic field by the windings is modulated by the FMPs....
A novel hybrid CSP-PV power plant is presented. Instead of the integration used in current hybrid power plants, where part of the PV production is charged into the thermal energy storage system through electrical resistors, the proposed system integr...
The global transition toward electrification has accelerated the need for high-performance, sustainable electric machine designs. Emerging manufacturing techniques, particularly additive manufacturing, have enabled the development of complex and unco...
This study addresses a critical gap in Energy-Efficient Permutation Flow Shop Scheduling (EPFSP) by integrating the often-overlooked time-accumulative equipment degradation inherent in practical manufacturing. This research formalizes and solves the...
Short-term load forecasting is the basis of power system operation and analysis. In recent years, the use of a deep belief network (DBN) for short-term load forecasting has become increasingly popular. In this study, a novel deep-learning framework b...
To mineralize their shells, molluscs secrete a complex cocktail of proteins—collectively defined as the calcifying shell matrix—that remains occluded in the exoskeleton. Nowadays, protein extracts from shells are recognized as a potential...
Asynchronous machines are always widely used in most industrial applications due to their reliability, flexibility, and manoeuvrability. To achieve variable speed operations, the quite simple open-loop V/Hz control is largely utilized. Under open-loo...
As criminal activity increasingly relies on digital devices, the field of digital forensics plays a vital role in identifying and investigating criminals. In this paper, we addressed the problem of anomaly detection in digital forensics data. Our obj...
The amount of microplastics (MPs) present in marine ecosystems are a growing concern, with potential impacts on human health because they are associated with an increase in the ecotoxicity of certain foods, such as fish. As a result, there has been a...
Based on the Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Twin Parametric Margin SVM (TPMSVM), this paper proposes two sparse models, named Sparse SVM (SSVM) and Sparse TPMSVM (STPMSVM). The study aims to achieve high sparsity, rapid prediction, and strong gener...
Lot sizing and cutting stock problems are critical for manufacturing companies seeking to optimize resource utilization and minimize waste. This paper addresses the interconnected nature of these problems, often occurring sequentially in industries i...
Typically, permanent magnet synchronous machines (PMSMs) with small inductance can achieve a higher power density and higher power factor. Thus, in many industrial applications, more and more PMSMs are being designed with small inductance. Compared w...
As the rapid expansion of future mobility systems increases, along with the demand for fast and accurate X-ray security inspections, deep neural network (DNN)-based systems have gained significant attention for detecting prohibited items by construct...
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common neuropsychiatric disorder that impairs social, academic and occupational functioning in children, adolescents and adults. In South Africa, youth prevalence of ADHD is estimated as 10%. It is...
Celiac disease (CeD) is a chronic, immune-mediated enteropathy triggered by dietary gluten in genetically susceptible individuals, with environmental and epigenetic factors also contributing to its pathogenesis. Once considered a rare pediatric malab...
The Tsetlin Machine (TM) is a novel machine learning approach that implements propositional logic to perform various tasks such as classification and regression. The TM not only achieves competitive accuracy in these tasks but also provides results t...
A novel converter that can directly transform electrical, wind, hydraulic and other types of mechanical energy into thermal energy is presented in this study. First, the thermal energy of the converter is classified and then calculated by a finite el...
Demand for high-speed motors is increasing. Surface-mounted permanent magnet synchronous motors (SPMSM) used in high-speed applications have magnets attached to the rotor, so there is a risk of damage and scattering due to centrifugal force as the sp...
The increase in electrification and desire for greater electrical motor efficiency under a range of operating conditions for different products (e.g., household appliances, automotive and aerospace) is driving innovative motor designs and demands for...
Background: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a complex and severe neurodegenerative disease that still lacks effective methods of diagnosis. The current diagnostic methods of AD rely on cognitive tests, imaging techniques and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) lev...
This paper deals with the digital implementation of a motor control algorithm based on a unified machine model, thus usable with every traditional electric machine type (induction, brushless with interior permanent magnets, surface permanent magnets...
To reduce torque oscillations in electric motors, harmonic current injection (HCI) has been used in industry for some time. For this purpose, higher harmonic currents calculated in advance are injected into the machine. Since the general conditions f...
Assembly is a very important manufacturing process in the age of Industry 4.0. Aimed at the problems of part identification and assembly inspection in industrial production, this paper proposes a method of assembly inspection based on machine vision...
This paper proposes a novel brushless synchronous machine topology that utilizes stator sub-harmonic magnetomotive force (MMF) for desirable brushless operation. The sub-harmonic MMF component that is used in this novel topology is one fourth of the...
This paper presents three-different high efficiency and low costs electric machines types for automotive applications. For the PM machines with the single-layer concentrated windings, a novel stator topology with magnetic flux barriers in the stator...
This paper proposes a novel flux focusing magnetically geared (MG) machine for wind power generation, considering the permanent magnets (PMs) eddy current loss and the balance between the pull-out torque of MG machine and the back-electromotive force...
Axial field flux-modulation permanent magnet (AF-FMPM) machines have been developed for direct drive applications such as wind power generation, HEVs, and railway traction. However, the existing studies on AF-FMPM machines are limited to the PM rotor...
Conventional high-speed flux-switching machines have either a high fundamental frequency or more even harmonics. This paper proposes a novel six-slot four-pole axial flux-switching permanent magnet machine for high-speed applications. The machine, co...
This paper proposes a novel arch-shaped-magnet variable-flux memory machine (ASM-VFMM). The proposed machine adopts a dual-layer permanent magnet (PM) rotor structure. In the first layer, an arch-shaped magnet arrangement is utilized to increase the...
Large machine tools are critically affected by ambient temperature fluctuations, impacting their performance and the quality of machined products. Addressing the challenge of accurately measuring thermal effects on machine structures, this study intr...
As we move into the next stages of the technological revolution, artificial intelligence (AI) that is explainable and sustainable is becoming a key goal for researchers across multiple domains. Leveraging the concept of functional connectivity (FC) i...
Condition monitoring of induction machines (IMs) with the aim of increasing the machine’s lifetime, improving the efficiency and reducing the maintenance cost is necessary and inevitable. Among different types of methods presented for mechanica...
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