Fluorine-free paper coatings with water- and oil-resistance properties have gained considerable attention for sustainable food packaging applications. In this study, a dual-layer coating based on chitosan (Chi) and acrylated epoxidized soybean oil (A...
Curling disease in long historical photos significantly affects the presentation of cultural heritage information. However, people lack attention to the formation process and microstructural changes of photo curling. In this article, a long historica...
A simple, low-cost technique has been developed for the rapid fabrication of single-layered paper-based microfluidic devices (μPADs). This technique, for the first time, made use of the deposition of patterned adhesive tape into the filter paper t...
An origami three-dimensional design of a paper-based potentiometric sensor is described. In its simplest form, this electrochemical paper-based analytical device (ePAD) is made from three small parts of the paper. Paper layers are folded on each othe...
The growing demand for various types of paper highlights the importance of optimizing the kraft pulping process to achieve desired paper properties. This work proposes a novel multiscale model to optimize the kraft pulping process and obtain desired...
In this study, hexagonal boron nitride nanosheets enriched with hydroxyl groups (h-BN-OH) were successfully grafted on the surface of cellulose fibers after the simple and effective exfoliation and oxidation of bulk h-BN. OH groups of h-BN-OH and the...
This paper presents an extensive analysis of the operating principles, theoretical background, advantages and limitations of laser-based lighting systems. In the first part of the paper we discuss the main advantages and issues of laser-based lightin...
The regularized lattice Boltzmann method (RLBM) is an improvement of the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). The advantage of RLBM is improved accuracy without increasing computational overheads. The paper introduces the method of multi-layer grids, the...
Coatings based on pigment and polymer binders are applied on paper surfaces to improve their surface, optical, and printing properties. Besides the coating composition, the structure and properties of the coated papers are influenced by the coating l...
Analyzing and predicting community evolution has many important applications in criminology, sociology, and other fields. In community evolution prediction, most of the existing research is simply calculating the features of the community, and then p...
In order to evaluate the atmospheric environment sustainability in the provinces of Northeast China, this paper has constructed a comprehensive evaluation model based on the rough set and entropy weight methods. This paper first constructs a Pressure...
In this paper, the behavior of the Bi-Material Cantilever (B-MaC) response deflection upon fluidic loading was experimentally studied and modeled for bilayer strips. A B-MaC consists of a strip of paper adhered to a strip of tape. When fluid is intro...
As H13 steel is a common material for cutters of Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM), the research on surfacing remanufacturing performance is of great value. In this paper, the phase composition of the surfacing layer of H13 steel after gas metal arc weldin...
Flexible plastic substrates are widely used in printed electronics; however, they cause major climate impacts and pose sustainability challenges. In recent years, paper-based electronics has been studied to increase the recyclability and sustainabili...
Based on the classical grid theory and related regulations, a structure model of a fiber-wound composite gas cylinder was designed in this paper. Based on the design results, a finite element model of a fully wound composite cylinder of an aluminum a...
As a new generation of mobile communication networks, 6G security faces many new security challenges. Vehicle to Everything (V2X) will be an important part of 6G. In V2X, connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) need to frequently share data with othe...
Flexible pressure sensors based on paper have attracted considerable attention owing to their good performance, low cost, and environmental friendliness. However, effectively expanding the detection range of paper-based sensors with high sensitivitie...
The characteristics of fused deposition 3D printing lead to the inevitable step effect of surface contour in the process of forming and manufacturing, which affects molding accuracy. Traditional layering algorithms cannot take into account both print...
Carbon-based materials are promising candidates as charge transport layers in various optoelectronic devices and have been applied to enhance the performance and stability of such devices. In this paper, we provide an overview of the most contemporar...
In dynamic scenarios, the status of a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system fluctuates with environmental changes. The key to improving system efficiency lies in the real-time monitoring and evaluation of the system status, along with adaptive...
Paper is a popular platform material in all areas of sensor research due to its porosity, large surface area, and biodegradability, to name but a few. Many paper-based nanocomposites have been reported in the last decade as novel substrates for surfa...
This paper studies the intra/inter-layer synchronization and quasi-synchronization in two-layer coupled networks via event-triggered control, in which different layers have mutually independent topologies. First, based on Lyapunov stability theory an...
The visual quality of endoscopic images is a significant factor in early lesion inspection and surgical procedures. However, due to the interference of light sources, hardware, and other configurations, the endoscopic images collected clinically have...
This paper presents a new three-layer, five-phase winding configuration theory of unconventional slot-pole combinations by each layer of winding for a phase vector correction, three layers of winding superimposed together to achieve the results of th...
Here, we report on carbon nanotube paper-based electroanalytical devices. A highly aligned-carbon nanotube (HA-CNT) array, grown using chemical vapor deposition (CVD), was processed to form bi-layered paper with an integrated cellulose-based Origami-...
Events such as the Financial Crisis of 2007–2008 or the COVID-19 pandemic caused significant losses to banks and insurance entities. They also demonstrated the importance of using accurate equity risk models and having a risk management function able...
The potential security problems of blockchain technology are constantly restricting the development process of related industrial applications. The cost of deploying a blockchain system in a real environment to conduct research on security issues is...
To study the mechanical response of the joint under the lateral synergistic action of articulated assembled subgrade, and to screen out the joint materials with the best suitability, this paper establishes a finite element model of an articulated, as...
To enhance the reality of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) kinematic simulation scenarios and to guarantee the accuracy and reliability of the verification, a four-layer CAVs kinematic simulation framework, which is composed with road network...
This paper provides a general solution to the anti-plane problem of an arbitrarily shaped hole reinforced with a functionally graded (FG) layer in a homogenous plate. By using the piece-wise homogeneous layers method and the conformal mapping techniq...
Ultra-short-term load demand forecasting is significant to the rapid response and real-time dispatching of the power demand side. Considering too many random factors that affect the load, this paper combines convolution, long short-term memory (LSTM)...
This paper presents a two-layer based enhanced map that can support navigationin urban environments. One layer is dedicated to describe the drivable road with a specialfocus on the accurate description of its bounds. This feature can support position...
The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) pursuit–evasion game is the fundamental framework for promoting autonomous decision-making and collaborative control of multi-UAV systems. Faced with the limitations of current deep reinforcement learning metho...
IP based Wireless Sensor Networks (IP-WSNs) are being used in healthcare, home automation, industrial control and agricultural monitoring. In most of these applications global addressing of individual IP-WSN nodes and layer-three routing for mobility...
Transfer learning is one of the popular methods for solving the problem that the models built on the source domain cannot be directly applied to the target domain in the cross-domain sentiment classification. This paper proposes a transfer learning m...
In this paper, we used the single-photon emission computerized tomography (SPECT) imaging technique to visualize the deficiency of dopamine-generated patterns inside the brain. These patterns are used to establish a patient’s disease progressio...
Humidity sensors are indispensable for various electronic systems and instrumentations. To develop a new humidity sensing mechanism is the key for the next generation of sensor technology. In this work, a novel flexible paper-based current humidity s...
Layered algebras are introduced and used to express layered graphs. Layered graphs are considered to be a highly effective abstract tool to manage the difficulty in conceptualizing and reasoning regarding complex systems related to coding in email ex...
A high-sensitivity terahertz (THz) biosensor is proposed in this paper based on a multi-layer hybrid structure consisting of a defect mode and graphene with a truncation layer. This biosensor is based on symmetrical Bragg reflectors with a defect lay...
Disease spreading in multi-layer complex networks often spreads among multiple populations with the help of media. In order to reveal the cross-layer spreading characteristics of diseases and control the cross-layer spreading of diseases by analyzing...
The sustainable use of natural resources is becoming an increasingly important issue today. Stone paper, produced as an alternative to cellulose-based paper from the forest, is rich in minerals and produced without cellulose and water. This study foc...
Layer decomposition to separate an input image into base and detail layers has been steadily used for image restoration. Existing residual networks based on an additive model require residual layers with a small output range for fast convergence and...
It is, in general, essential to investigate correlations between the microstructure and properties of materials. Plastic deformation often localizes within thin layers. As a result, many material properties within such layers are very different from...
The paper presents the results of experimental studies to determine the strain properties and characteristics of a chrome leather semi-finished product of middle-weight bovine hide by its topographic sections and the coatings of the processing compre...
In view of the current multi-source information scenario, this paper proposes a decision-making method for electric vehicle charging stations (EVCSs) based on prospect theory, which considers payment cost, time cost, and route factors, and is used fo...
Falls are one of the significant causes of accidental injuries to the elderly. With the rapid growth of the elderly population, fall detection has become a critical issue in the medical and healthcare fields. In this paper, we propose a model based o...
The present paper highlights the application of bacterial surface (S-) layer proteins as versatile components for the fabrication of biosensors. One technologically relevant feature of S-layer proteins is their ability to self-assemble on many surfac...
The purpose of this paper is to propose a novel transfer learning regularization method based on knowledge distillation. Recently, transfer learning methods have been used in various fields. However, problems such as knowledge loss still occur during...
In this paper, we present the design and fabrication of hybrid dielectric-metallic back surface reflectors, for applications in thin film amorphous silicon solar cells. Standard multilayer distributed Bragg reflectors, require a large number of layer...
This paper introduces a novel adversarial learning framework for reconstructing hidden layers in historical palimpsests. Recovering text hidden in historical palimpsests is complicated by various artifacts, such as ink diffusion, degradation of the w...
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