Teleoperation-based order picking in logistics warehouse environments has been advancing steadily. However, the accuracy of such operations varies depending on the type of human–robot interface (HRI) employed. Immersive HRI, which uses a head-m...
Internal combustion engine-powered working machines often operate under rapidly varying loads, while conventional controllers typically infer operator demand from mechanical inputs and machine sensors. This review examines whether electromyography (E...
The teleoperation feature of a leader–follower robot is used to operate the robot in a working environment that is dangerous to the operator. This paper proposes a method for estimating the intended operation of the operator of the leader&ndash...
When an electric wheelchair is operated using gaze motion, eye movements such as checking the environment and observing objects are also incorrectly recognized as input operations. This phenomenon is called the “Midas touch problem”, and...
Autonomous robotic systems operating in the vicinity of other agents, such as humans, manually driven vehicles and other robots, can model the behaviour and estimate intentions of the other agents to enhance efficiency of their operation, while prese...
In previously published articles, our research group has developed the Haphazard Intentional Sampling method and compared it to the Rerandomization method proposed by K.Morgan and D.Rubin. In this article, we compare both methods to the pure randomiz...
This study examines factors associated with the intention to use intercity High-Speed Rail (HSR) in Thailand before its operation, using an extended Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) that adds External Influence, Trust, and Novelty Seeking. Survey dat...
Knowledge about the perception of stakeholders regarding the effectiveness of last-mile bicycle deliveries is essential to promote solutions at a local and national level. However, their use is an incipient solution in the Brazilian context. This pap...
In order to improve public financing sustainability in China, the Chinese government has announced several administrative policies on crowdfunding, concerning platform construction and operation, in recent years. However, the existing policy scope ra...
Background: Emergency surgery for complicated colorectal cancer (CRC) presenting with obstruction, perforation, or uncontrolled bleeding has high postoperative mortality, especially in older patients. However, age-related risk and the roles of radica...
A common challenge for exoskeleton control is discerning operator intent to provide seamless actuation of the device with the operator. One way to accomplish this is with joint angle estimation algorithms and multiple sensors on the human–machi...
Haphazard intentional sampling is a method developed by our research group for two main purposes: (i) sampling design, where the interest is to select small samples that accurately represent the general population regarding a set of covariates of int...
Alleviating the burden on amputees in terms of high-level control of their prosthetic devices is an open research challenge. EMG-based intention detection presents some limitations due to movement artifacts, fatigue, and stability. The integration of...
Floods are one of the most lethal natural hazards. Recent studies show that in a large percentage of flood-related fatalities, victims engage in risk-taking behavior by getting deliberately in contact with floodwaters. This study integrates behaviora...
E-commerce marketplace platforms have evolved into integral digital intermediaries that shape online transactions in competitive environments. Companies continuously endeavor to improve e-service quality, customer satisfaction, and e-trust to gain a...
IP-themed rural tourism destinations combine commercial IP theming, rural settings, and family-oriented leisure, yet little is known about how tourists’ perceived experience conditions are associated with stated revisit intention in these hybri...
In the EEG literature, there is a lack of asynchronous intention models that realistically propose interfaces for applications that must operate in real time. In this work, a novel BMI approach to detect in real time the intention to turn is proposed...
This paper aims at exploring the impact of green food on consumers’ purchase attitudes toward a hotel stay and on consumers’ behavioral intentions (i.e., intention to visit the hotel, intention to offer positive recommendations to others...
Accurate estimation of aircraft operations, such as takeoffs and landings, is critical for airport planning and resource allocation, yet it remains particularly challenging at non-towered airports, where no dedicated surveillance infrastructure exist...
In human–robot collaboration (HRC) scenarios with direct physical contact, accurately estimating human intentions and adjusting robot behaviors based on multimodal information is the core factors that restrict the efficiency and precision of cu...
Empirical research on organizational behavior contributes significantly to the examination of workplace impacts and to a deeper understanding of the underlying drivers of employee behavior. The long-term sustainability of organizations operating in V...
The integration of natural language understanding into conversational commerce requires robustly extracting structured intents from idiomatic text. While cloud-based models are highly capable, their latency, privacy risks, and operational costs neces...
AI-enabled quality control (AI-QC) tools are increasingly available to manufacturing SMEs in emerging economies, yet the firm-level conditions associated with their adoption remain underexamined. Building on the Technology–Organization–En...
Highly nonlinear characteristics of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are significantly influenced by the external and internal temperature of the LIB cell. Moreover, a cell temperature beyond the manufacturer’s specified safe operating limit could lead t...
Knowledge management platforms are increasingly important for strengthening governance, scientific collaboration, and evidence-based decision making in complex regional networks. This study analyses the prospective intention to adopt two strategic di...
As the world enters an aging and super-aged society, the application of advanced technology in assistive devices to support the daily life of the elderly is becoming a hot issue. Among them, electric wheelchairs are representative assistive devices f...
The intent of quantum calculus, briefly q-calculus, is to find q-analogues of mathematical entities so that the original object is achieved when a certain limit is taken. In the case of q-analogue of the ordinary derivative, the limit is
Technical and performance parameters of agricultural machines directly impact the operational efficiency and entire crop production. Sometimes, overestimation of technical and dimensional parameters of harvesting equipment is carried out with the int...
Background: Visual estimation (VE) of coronary stenoses is the first step during invasive coronary angiography. The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of VE together with invasive functional assessment (IFA) in defining the functional sig...
Background: Currently, proposed nomograms are mainly based on post-operative histopathology. The purpose of this study was to identify preoperative computed tomography (CT) and clinical information that allow prediction of disease-free (DFS) and over...
Urban air mobility solutions such as drone taxi services are increasingly viewed as a promising response to congestion, sustainability, and smart-city mobility challenges. However, the large-scale adoption of such services depends on users’ per...
Surface electromyography (sEMG) signals reflect muscle contraction and hence, can provide information regarding a user’s movement intention. High-density sEMG systems have been proposed to measure muscle activity in small areas and to estimate comple...
This paper presents a method for determining weight coefficients in multi-objective UAV task assignment under a competitive data-collection setting, where two UAV companies independently visit each other’s sensor nodes. In this setting, each co...
The compensation a farmer requires to reduce fertilizer use reflects the behavioral factors behind the decision to participate. This study examines how they are associated with compensation expectations, and whether these associations differ across o...
Background: Complete mesocolic excision (CME) with D3 lymphadenectomy is an oncologically established procedure for right-sided colon cancer; however, the optimal dissection plane and surgical approach remain controversial. We developed a novel layer...
Background/Objectives: Proper confidence interval estimation of the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC), the net reclassification index (NRI), and the integrated discrimination improvement (IDI) is an area of ongoing research...
This article uses Markov and semi-Markov models as some of the most popular tools to estimate readiness and reliability. They allow to evaluate of both individual elements as well as entire systems—including production systems—as multi-st...
Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR), the intentional recharge of aquifers, has surged worldwide in the last 60 years as one of the options to preserve and increase water resources availability. However, estimating the extent of the area impacted by the re...
Although small and medium enterprises (SMEs) anchor employment and output across Sub-Saharan Africa, their uptake of artificial intelligence (AI) lags global benchmarks, and prevailing explanations dwell on capital, infrastructure, and institutional...
Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is fundamental for intelligent mobile units to perform diverse tasks. Recent work has shown that integrating neural rendering and SLAM showed promising results in photorealistic environment reconstruction....
Surface electromyography (sEMG) signals acquired with low-cost sensors tend to exhibit variable degradation that can compromise the reliability of myoelectric control systems outside controlled conditions. This work presents an adaptive processing pi...
Post-disaster emergency communication recovery is not merely a link-repair task but a high-level planning problem constrained by service priorities, inter-object dependencies, resource budgets, and time windows. Existing restoration optimization meth...
Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is an aggressive disease with poor prognosis and the current treatment for early-stage MPM is based on a multimodality therapy regimen involving platinum-based chemotherapy preceding or following surgery. To enhan...
Background/Objectives: Robotic surgery has emerged as a promising alternative to traditional approaches, offering enhanced precision and ergonomics. However, its application to pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) remains controversial due to technical compl...
Recent years have seen an increase in events of drone incursion into airport terminal areas, leading to safety concerns and disruptions to airline operations. It is of great importance to identify the potential conflict, especially for those non-coop...
The issues that determine the capacity of railway infrastructure are topical in situations that are reaching operating limits. According to the objectives of the European transport policy, it is assumed that up to 30% of road freight over 300 km shou...
The Solvency II regulatory framework requires European insurance companies to guarantee their solvability and stability by retaining enough Own Funds to cover future unexpected losses at a given confidence level. A Standard Formula approach is provid...
As a major policy initiative, China’s Industry–Finance Cooperation (IFC) Pilot Program aims to address the enduring difficulties enterprises face in securing affordable financing. Despite its intent, the policy’s actual efficacy in...
In the context of Industry 5.0, human–robot collaboration (HRC) is increasingly crucial for enabling safe and efficient operations in shared industrial workspaces. This study aims to implement a hybrid robotic architecture based on the Speed an...
Humans interact with the environment through a variety of senses. Touch in particular contributes to a sense of presence, enhancing perceptual experiences, and establishing causal relations between events. Many human–machine interfaces only all...
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