Almonds are nutrient-rich nuts. Due to their high level of consumption and relatively high price, their production is targeted for illegal practices, with the intention of earning more profit. The most common adulterants are based on superficial matc...
7 July 2021
The vigorous development of e-commerce has led to online retailers or platforms increasing the capacity of online shopping carts. A large number of products are added to the online shopping cart, but they are not “emptied.” The resulting behavior of...
5 January 2021
When studying the impact of online reviews on product sales, previous scholars have usually assumed that every review for a product has the same probability of being viewed by consumers. However, decision-making and information processing theories un...
For the pulsed data streams emitted by multiple signal sources that generate aliasing, traditional density clustering algorithms have the problems of poor clustering effect, heavy reliance on manual experience to set the parameters, and the need to c...
Passive electronic intelligence (ELINT) and electronic warfare receivers must deinterleave pulse descriptor word (PDW) streams in real time: each pulse is labelled on arrival, unsupervised and irrevocably, at bounded cost. Frequency- and PRI-agile em...
Citrus fruits are the second most important crop worldwide. One of the most important tasks is sorting, which involves manually separating the fruit based on its degree of maturity, and in many cases, involves a task carried out manually by human ope...
Salted duck egg yolk, a key ingredient in various specialty foods in China, frequently contains broken eggshell fragments embedded in the yolk due to high-speed shell-breaking processes, which pose significant food safety risks. This paper presents a...
This paper reports perceptions of higher education lecturers who switched from classical face-to-face teaching to online teaching due to the unexpected circumstances caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on a validated theoretical model about the ro...
The interaction of heme with blood serum proteins plays an important role in many physiological and pathological processes involving enzyme activity, gene expression and cell proliferation. The mechanisms underlying these interactions are; however, n...
With the burgeoning growth of the internet, online evaluation systems have become increasingly pivotal in shaping consumer decision making. In this context, this study introduces an intuitionistic fuzzy TODIM (an acronym in Portuguese for interactive...
Underwater dynamic targets often display significant blurriness in their forward-looking sonar imagery, accompanied by sparse feature representation. This phenomenon presents several challenges, including disturbances in the trajectories of underwate...
Uranium ore preconcentration is a critical step in achieving environmentally sustainable uranium mining and reducing the operational load of hydrometallurgical processing systems. Conventional radioactive sorting systems predominantly employ a &ldquo...
31 July 2021
Encouraging adolescents to sort garbage is vital for the sustainable development of the ecological environment. This study investigates the relationship between adolescents’ social media use and their garbage sorting intention. A survey, in both onli...
Many previous studies have explored the integration of a specific You Only Look Once (YOLO) model with real-time trackers like Deep Simple Online and Realtime Tracker (DeepSORT) and Strong Simple Online and Realtime Tracker (StrongSORT). However, few...
In this study, an improved stable multi-object simple online and real-time tracking (StableSORT) algorithm that was specifically designed for maritime environments was proposed to address challenges such as camera instability and irregular object mot...
The preliminary sorting of plastic products is a necessary step to improve the utilization of waste resources. To improve the quality and efficiency of sorting, a plastic detection scheme based on deep learning is proposed in this paper for a waste p...
30 August 2024
Automated sorting of sweetpotatoes is necessary to reduce labor dependence and costs that are significant at today’s sweetpotato packing sheds. Although optical sorters have been widely adopted in commercial packing lines for many horticultural...
(1) Introduction. The Structured Operational Research and Training IniTiative (SORT IT) supports countries to build operational research capacity for improving public health. We assessed whether health workers trained through SORT IT were (1) contrib...
This study proposes a method named Hybrid Heuristic Proximal Policy Optimization (HHPPO) to implement online 3D bin-packing tasks. Some heuristic algorithms for bin-packing and the Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) algorithm of deep reinforcement le...
The present work studies, through an online survey, the recycling behaviours of a representative sample of Italian end users, in connection with the effectiveness of on-pack recycling indications of different packed materials. The study has a special...
The rapid development of the internet has resulted in rapid e-business growth, with online malls attracting many shoppers due to the privacy and convenience they offer. Like traditional malls, online malls can provide photos, specifications, prices,...
24 February 2023
One of the most important matters in international trades for many local apple industries and auctions is accurate fruit quality classification. Defect recognition is a key in online computer-assisted apple sorting machines. Because of the cavity str...
Rotating machinery often works under complex and variable working conditions; the vibration signals that are widely used for the health monitoring of rotating machinery show extremely complicated dynamic frequency characteristics. It is unlikely that...
As the fundamental element of the Internet of Things, the QR code has become increasingly crucial for connecting online and offline services. Concerning e-commerce and logistics, we mainly focus on how to identify QR codes quickly and accurately. An...
Pneumatic ejection has dominated sensor-based sorting for decades, yet diffuse air jets cause bycatch at high mass throughput, and compressed-air generation accounts for a large share of operating cost. We propose (i) a grid-based sorting architectur...
The popularity of online shopping in China has increased significantly, creating new development opportunities for the express delivery industry. However, the rapid expansion of the express industry has also created challenges in the parcel sorting p...
With the popularity of video surveillance technology, people are paying more and more attention to how to detect abnormal states or events in videos in time. Therefore, real-time, automatic and accurate detection of abnormal events has become the mai...
To improve the efficiency, accuracy, and operational stability of postharvest potato tuber sorting in the presence of mineral impurities, mainly soil clods and stones, an intelligent sorting system for potato tubers and mineral impurities was designe...
Population growth and the increasing demand for raw materials with the expanding amount of waste in the environment have resulted in the need to change the production–consumption model based on a one-way flow of materials (from raw materials th...
Online retail orders, especially online supermarket orders, have been highlighted to have several distinguished features from traditional online retailers. These include a huge amount of daily orders and orders containing multiple items. Tens of thou...
Online appearance-template updating affects the stability of subsequent data association in multi-object tracking. In StrongSORT, the appearance template is updated with a fixed-coefficient exponential moving average (EMA). Under occlusion, false det...
24 April 2021
Simulated online grocery store platforms are innovative tools for studying nutrition-related policies and point-of-selection/point-of-purchase interventions in online retail settings, yet there is no clear guidance on how to develop these platforms f...
Underwater methane (CH4) detection technology is of great significance to the leakage monitoring and location of marine natural gas transportation pipelines, the exploration of submarine hydrothermal activity, and the monitoring of submarine volcanic...
Municipal solid waste (MSW) management has become a problem in China, mainly since there is no uniform standard for MSW management charges, causing conflict between local residents and the government. An intelligent garbage sorting system (IGSS) is a...
This study aims to present an effective VLSI circuit for multi-channel spike sorting. The circuit supports the spike detection, feature extraction and classification operations. The detection circuit is implemented in accordance with the nonlinear en...
To examine the safety of food purchased online, a food safety project was conducted by the Office of Food and Drug Safety (OFDS) of Taichung City. Through collaboration with eight universities, the performance of food safety and hygiene in the physic...
A digital badge system with a leaderboard ranking was implemented in an 18-week course offered by a Chinese mainland university during the 2018 Spring Semester. Fifty-four junior college students participated in this study, and the learning activitie...
Intelligent transportation systems (ITSs) derive significant advantages from advanced models like YOLOv8, which excel in predicting traffic incidents in dynamic urban environments. Roboflow plays a crucial role in organizing and preparing image data...
Online sorting robots based on image recognition are key pieces of equipment for the intelligent washing of coal mines. In this paper, a Delta-type, coal gangue sorting, parallel robot is designed to automatically identify and sort scattered coal and...
The contemporary digital era has fundamentally reshaped pupil education. It has transformed learning into a dynamic environment with enhanced access to information. The focus shifts to the educator, who must employ teaching strategies, practices, and...
Ship detection and tracking is an important task in video surveillance in inland waterways. However, ships in inland navigation are faced with accidents such as collisions. For collision avoidance, we should strengthen the monitoring of navigation an...
16 March 2021
First-year students undergo several transformations like the transition from high school to university schedules, teaching methods, and discipline specificities to social changes that come with meeting new colleagues or moving to other locations far...
In the practical control of nonlinear valve systems, PID control, as a model-free method, continues to play a crucial role thanks to its simple structure and performance-oriented tuning process. To improve the control performance, advanced gain-sched...
The Nigerian media have, over the years, moved back and forth via all manners of experience of leadership, from military to democratic, until they finally settled into the present democratic governance. Experience from previous regimes exposed them t...
Online product reviews provide valuable insights on user experiences and product qualities. However, issues such as information overload and the limited utilization of review features persist, particularly in personalized rankings for popular items l...
The World Wide Web is evolving rapidly, and the Internet is now accessible to millions of users, providing them with the means to access a wealth of information, entertainment and e-commerce opportunities. Web browsing is largely impersonal and anony...
5 July 2021
Interagency partnerships and collaborations underpin a settings-based approach to health promotion in all settings, including sport. This study used an online concept mapping approach to explore the challenges that Regional Sports Assemblies (RSAs) i...
In autonomous driving technologies, a camera is necessary for establishing a path and detecting an object. Object recognition based on images from several cameras is required to detect impediments in autonomous ships. Furthermore, in order to avoid s...
This research paper presents the prediction of the visual attention area on a visual display using an evolving rule-based fuzzy model: evolving Takagi–Sugeno (eTS). The evolving fuzzy model is feasible for predicting the visual attention area b...
Aiming at the low efficiency of manual measurement of threads and the lack of practicability in machine vision measurement before, online size measurement of threads at the end of sucker rods based on machine vision was studied. A robotic arm is used...
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