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The construction sector’s environmental footprint is driving the adoption of sustainable modular timber systems. The WikiHouse Skylark is a promising open-source model whose structural reliability depends on the performance of its critical plyw...

To improve accessibility, this article describes a static, four-legged walker that can be constructed from materials and fasteners commonly available from hardware stores coupled by open-source 3D-printed joints. The designs are described in detail,...

Open-source systems help to manage the rapid development of software, while governing open-source systems properly can effectively promote software and software engineering. However, some significant problems, such as code controls, incentives, inter...

A large amount of semantic content is generated during designer collaboration in open-source projects (OSPs). Based on the characteristics of knowledge collaboration behavior in OSPs, we constructed a directed, weighted, semantic-based knowledge coll...

As conventional fluorescence microscopy and confocal laser scanning microscopy generally produce images with blurring at the upper and lower planes along the z-axis due to non-focal plane image information, the observation of biological images requir...

OpenStreetMap provides a valuable crowd-sourced database of raw geospatial data for constructing models of urban street networks for scientific analysis. This paper reports results from a research project that collected raw street network data from O...

Cross-level requirement trace links (i.e., links between high-level requirements (HLRs) and low-level requirements (LLRs)) record the top-down decomposition process of requirements and support various development and management activities (e.g., requ...

With the wave of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the construction industry is also witnessing the application of numerous state-of-the-art technologies. Among these, augmented reality (AR) technology has the advantage of utilizing existing 3D model...

In modern high-volume industries, the serial production line (SPL) is of growing importance due to the inexorable increase in the complexity of manufacturing systems and the associated production costs. Optimal decisions regarding buffer size and the...

In recent years, Historic Building Information Modelling (HBIM) methodology has strengthened the documentation and interpretation of archaeological contexts and is regarded as a breakthrough in relation to established methodologies and analyses. Chan...

Background: Weight-based methods can be cost-effective and practical for measuring spontaneous physical activity (SPA) in laboratory animals, but their adoption and exploration of analyses remain limited. Methods: We demonstrate the construction of a...

As an emerging product innovation model, open-source innovation has undergone rapid development in recent years. The sustainability and stability of the open-source product community (OSPC) is crucial for product innovation, and the effect that users...

Due to the complex specifications of current electronic systems, design decisions need to be explored automatically. However, the exploration process is a complex task given the plethora of design choices such as the selection of components, number o...

The main objective of this work is to provide a comprehensive explanation of the Register Transfer Level (RTL) to Graphic Data System II (GDSII) flow for designing custom Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) architectures at the 130 nm technology nod...

The Elastic Modulus Measurement through Ambient Response Method (EMM-ARM) is designed to continuously monitor the elastic modulus of hardening construction materials such as concrete, cement paste, mortars, stabilized soils, and epoxy resin. In pract...

The Honeycomb Selection Design (HSD) is an innovative experimental method whose main feature is the even and systematic entry arrangement. Its systematicity, if combined with the absence of inter-plant competition that maximizes the phenotypic expres...

This article describes the outcomes of the development of the project MATES to STEAM. The project is aimed at integrating Construction 4.0 content to a recently started new degree on Technologies on Civil Engineering. This integration is underpinned...

This paper presents RMSPowerSims.jl, an open-source Julia package for the time-domain simulation of power systems. The package is designed to be used in conjunction with PowerModels.jl, a widely used Julia package for power system optimization. RMSPo...

Vernacular architecture constitutes a rich source of information and ancestral knowledge and could become a key resource for sustainable development. Its passive design strategies effectively respond to local climatic and weather conditions, using lo...

Vertical bifacial solar photovoltaic (PV) racking systems offer the opportunity for large-scale agrivoltaics to be employed at farms producing field crops with conventional farming equipment. Unfortunately, commercial proprietary vertical racks cost...

Data-driven design is a process to reuse data sources and provide valuable information to provoke creative ideas in the stages of design. However, existing semantic networks for design creativity are built on data sources restricted to technological...

One type of ion thruster that has gained attention in recent years is the High Efficiency Multistage Plasma (HEMP) thruster. Optimizing the performance of these thrusters can be challenging due to the complexity of the underlying physics. Since the c...

The high material waste, long execution times, and lack of adoption of technological solutions hinder the construction process in the building sector. In response, this project proposes the development and validation of parametric digital tools to op...

Monitoring air quality in livestock farming facilities is crucial for ensuring the health and well-being of both animals and workers. As livestock farming can contribute to the emission of various gaseous and particulate pollutants, there is a pressi...

Turbidity is an internationally recognized criterion for assessing drinking water quality, because the colloidal particles in turbid water may harbor pathogens, chemically reduce oxidizing disinfectants, and hinder attempts to disinfect water with ul...

The outbreak of COVID-19 resulted in severe pressure on the existing medical infrastructure in China. Several Chinese cities began to construct temporary hospitals for the centralized treatment of COVID-19 patients. The harmful exhaust air from the o...

Inexpensive equipment for the deposition of semiconductor thin films by SILAR was designed. Using a low-cost embedded system, a prototype controlled through a human–machine interface (HMI) was constructed. Simple, open-source software was used. The u...

With the continuous development of the construction technology of the main structure of high-rise buildings, traditional construction techniques have been widely used in high-rise building projects. However, these technologies have problems such as l...

High-resolution remote sensing images bring a large amount of data as well as challenges to traditional vision tasks. Vehicle re-identification (ReID), as an essential vision task that can utilize remote sensing images, has been widely used in suspec...

Traditional construction logistics rely on manual processes and fragmented tools, leading to inefficient planning, poor communication, and disorganized supply chains. Despite advances in digitalization, there is a lack of integrated, data-driven appr...

Using distributed hydrological models to evaluate the effectiveness of reducing non-point source pollution by applying best management practices (BMPs) is an important support to decision making for watershed management. However, complex interfaces...

The primary objective of this study is to formulate a comprehensive digital and physical model, at a scaled level, for a social housing unit utilizing the open-source Wikihouse system. The construction industry is currently grappling with the dual ch...

In this paper, our strategy is to look for locally optimum answers to a non-smooth optimization problem that has been constructed to include minimization goals and restrictions for smart structures’ vibration suppression. In both theoretical an...

A low-cost data logging platform is presented that provides long-term operation in remote or submerged environments. Three premade “breakout boards” from the open-source Arduino ecosystem are assembled into the core of the data logger. Power optimiz...

We demonstrate a fully automated open-source magnetometer designed primarily for characterization of magnetic fields produced by coils, permanent magnets or by parasitic sources. It is based on an Arduino Mega microcontroller and a three-axis Hall se...

Armor blocks are extensively deployed to shield vital coastal facilities against wave erosion. Evaluating the wave run-up and reflection under wave impact is essential for the engineering design of new ecological quadrangular hollow blocks. This stud...

Geography Mark-up Language (GML) is the geographic information coding specification based on the Extensible Markup Language (XML) technology, which was developed by the Open GIS Consortium (OGC). GML expresses spatial and non-spatial attributes of ge...

In object detection, targets in adverse and complex scenes often have limited information and pose challenges for feature extraction. To address this, we designed a lightweight feature extraction network based on the Convolutional Block Attention Mod...

Hyperspectral imaging has revolutionized various scientific fields by enabling a detailed analysis of objects and materials based on their spectral signatures. However, the high cost and complexity of commercial hyperspectral camera systems limit the...

Dementia disease research encompasses diverse data modalities, including advanced imaging, deep phenotyping, and multi-omics analysis. However, integrating these disparate data sources has historically posed a significant challenge, obstructing the u...

In this paper, a multi-stage deep learning blood pressure prediction model based on imaging photoplethysmography (IPPG) signals is proposed to achieve accurate and convenient monitoring of human blood pressure. A camera-based non-contact human IPPG s...

In this work, an open-source computational–statistical platform to obtain synthetic homogeneous isotropic turbulent flow and passive scalar transport is presented. A parallel implementation of the well-known pseudo-spectral method in addition t...

This paper describes the design, construction and testing of an experimental setting, making it possible to study the endothelium under different pathophysiological conditions. This novel experimental approach allows the application of the following...

The fusion of hyperspectral imagery (HSI) and light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data for classification has received widespread attention and has led to significant progress in research and remote sensing applications. However, existing common CNN...

Critical infrastructure is foundational for the prosperity and quality of life in any society. By definition, its destruction or disruption would cause severe damage and possibly loss of life. Within this understanding, space systems are a new catego...

Software requirement changes, code changes, software reuse, and testing are important activities in software engineering that involve the traceability links between software requirements and code. Software requirement documents, design documents, cod...

Historical topic modeling and semantic concepts exploration in a large corpus of unstructured text remains a hard, opened problem. Despite advancements in natural languages processing tools, statistical linguistics models, graph theory and visualizat...

Robustness of the collaborative knowledge network (CKN) is critical to the success of open source projects. To study this robustness more comprehensively and accurately, we constructed a weighted CKN based on the semantic analysis of collaborative be...

During medical image analysis, it is often useful to align (or ‘normalize’) a given image of a given body part to a representative standard (or ‘template’) of that body part. The impact that brain templates have had on the ana...

Bioprinting provides a powerful tool for regenerative medicine, as it allows tissue construction with a patient’s specific geometry. However, tissue culture and maturation, commonly supported by dynamic bioreactors, are needed. We designed a workflow...