Vehicle Ad-hoc network (VANET) can provide technical support and solutions for the construction of intelligent and efficient transportation systems, and the routing protocol directly affects the efficiency of VANET. The rapid movement of nodes and un...
This work formulates and solves the actual problem of studying the logistics of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations in facility security planning. The study is related to security tasks, including perimeter control, infrastructure condition moni...
This paper investigates perimeter defense strategies for multi-agent systems. Considering the complex scenario with multiple obstacles in the mission environment, a defense strategy based on prioritized path planning is proposed in this paper. The st...
To address the perimeter defense problem for multi-agent systems, this paper proposes a decoupled strategy based on local observation matching to overcome the curse of dimensionality and convergence difficulties in traditional multi-agent reinforceme...
In the livestock sector, the monitoring of gas concentrations plays a relevant role in the implementation of mitigation strategies, as well as the improvement in the indoor air quality for both workers and animals in barns. In the present study, meas...
Perimeter barriers can provide intrusion detection for a closed area. It is efficient for practical applications, such as coastal shoreline monitoring and international boundary surveillance. Perimeter barrier coverage construction in some regions of...
Forest fires cause extensive damage to ecosystems, biodiversity, and human property, posing significant challenges for emergency response and resource management. The accurate and timely delineation of forest fire perimeters is crucial for mitigating...
Urban traffic networks are highly vulnerable to external disturbances such as heavy rainfall, which can induce capacity degradation, non-periodic congestion, and delayed system recovery. To address the limitations of existing perimeter control strate...
Recessively-inherited NR2E3 gene mutations cause an unusual retinopathy with abnormally-increased short-wavelength sensitive cone (S-cone) function, in addition to reduced rod and long/middle-wavelength sensitive cone (L/M-cone) function. Progress to...
Due to their vast number and heterogeneity, local public administrations can act as entry points (or attack surfaces) for adversaries targeting national infrastructure. The individual vulnerabilities of these entities function as entry points that ca...
This paper presents control strategies to activate energy flexibility for zones with radiant heating systems in response to changes in electricity prices. The focus is on zones with radiant floor heating systems for which the hydronic pipes are locat...
Product-service system (PSS) innovation is acknowledged as a promising way to achieve sustainability through better exploitation of given resources. Nevertheless, PSS implementation is also described as increasing failure risk for companies. Despite...
The literature showed many studies that evaluated single or multiple Phase change materials (PCMs) layers in passive, active, or in hybrid configurations for building applications. However, little attention has been given to evaluating the energy per...
Based on the dimensions of the small Xanten catapult, this study reconstructs a full-scale model to validate its manufacturing techniques and evaluate its effectiveness. The process underscores the role of experimental archaeology: the activity facil...
Rapid cooling rates and steep temperature gradients are characteristic of additively manufactured parts and important factors for the residual stress formation. This study examined the influence of heat accumulation on the distribution of residual st...
This paper aims to explore the cyber-deception-based approach and to design a novel conceptual model of hybrid threats that includes deception methods. Security programs primarily focus on prevention-based strategies aimed at stopping attackers from...
In the very recent years, cybersecurity attacks have increased at an unprecedented pace, becoming ever more sophisticated and costly. Their impact has involved both private/public companies and critical infrastructures. At the same time, due to the C...
Understanding the dynamics of fire propagation is essential in improving predictive models and developing effective fire management strategies. This study applies computer vision techniques to complement traditional fire behaviour modelling. We emplo...
A new supervised burned area mapping software named BAMS (Burned Area Mapping Software) is presented in this paper. The tool was built from standard ArcGISTM libraries. It computes several of the spectral indexes most commonly used in burned area det...
Clarifying the relationship between landscape patterns and runoff coefficient, along with identifying key influencing pathways, is crucial for formulating sustainable water resource management strategies. Since the launch of the Grain-for-Green (GfG)...
In arid and semi-arid regions, agriculture is an important element of the national economy, but this sector is a large consumer of water. In a context of high pressure on water resources, appropriate management is required. In semi-arid, intensive ag...
The need for a novel automated mosquito perception and classification method is becoming increasingly essential in recent years, with steeply increasing number of mosquito-borne diseases and associated casualties. There exist remote sensing and GIS-b...
Across the Saharan region of North Africa, oasis territories constitute the dominant form of human settlement. In Algeria, the Sahara is undergoing rapid urban and agricultural expansion, resulting in significant spatial and demographic transformatio...
Bananas (Musa AAA) can be affected by maturity bronzing, a physiological disorder that appears in the form of bronzing on the fruit’s epidermis, compromising its quality and generating economic losses due to commercial rejection. Since the symp...
The rehabilitation of coal mine sites in semi-arid environments is a step in combating desertification. A promising rehabilitation approach involves the development of anthropic soils that can support vegetation. However, reliable soil quality indica...
Landslide damage in mountain forest watersheds may vary not only with local slope conditions but also with hydrological and geomorphological connectivity within watersheds. This study quantitatively analyzed differences in landslide damage characteri...
The control and promotion of plant and crop growth are important challenges globally. In this study, we have developed a nanomaterial-assisted bionic strategy for accelerating plant growth. Although nanomaterials have been shown to be toxic to plants...
This study provides a comparative analysis of two Sentinel-1 and one Sentinel-2 burned area (BA) detection and mapping algorithms over 10 test sites (100 × 100 km) in tropical and sub-tropical Africa. Depending on the site, the burned area was...
The Sakhalin pine sawyer, Monochamus saltuarius Gebler, 1830 (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), is a newly discovered insect vector of the pine wood nematode (Bursaphelenchus xylophilus) in China. Despite its ecological importance, the detailed morphology o...
Background/Objectives: Obesity induced by high-fat high-fructose (HFHF) diets is associated with adipose tissue expansion, dysregulated adipogenesis, chronic low-grade inflammation, and oxidative stress. Bioactive compounds have emerged as promising...
Organic citrus production in semi-arid Mediterranean regions is increasingly challenged by water scarcity, soil degradation, and rising phytosanitary pressure associated with climate change. This study evaluated different sustainable management strat...
On-year and off-year phenomena are common in Moso bamboo forests and significantly affect economic value and ecological functions. However, observational evidence regarding the impact of these cycles on surface soil moisture (SSM) remains scarce, and...
Traditional macroscopic fundamental diagram (MFD)-based traffic perimeter metering control strategies rely on full knowledge of vehicle accumulation and inter-regional flow dynamics, assumptions that seldom hold in heterogeneous and highly variable r...
Sustainable packaging design plays a strategic role across several industries. Using the Italian market as the perimeter of the analysis, this paper aims to broaden the knowledge of corporate attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors toward sustainable p...
Droplets sliding down a partially wetted surface are a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature and everyday life. Despite its apparent simplicity, it hinders complex intricacies for theoretical and numerical descriptions matching the experimental observation...
This study examines how two widely used elementary mathematics curricula, Bridges in Mathematics and Eureka Math, support grade 3 students’ conceptual understanding of the relationship between area and perimeter. Drawing on the mathematical tre...
This review systematically examines intelligent event perception in distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) systems. Beginning with the elucidation of the DAS principles, system architectures, and core performance metrics, it establishes a comprehensive t...
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Traditional anti-seismic methods are constrained by high construction costs and the potential for severe structural damage under earthquakes. Energy dissipation technology provides an effective solution for structural earthquake resistance by incorpo...
The current need to redevelop post-war residential settlements opens up the opportunity to exploit the potential for densification and for the climatic and energetic activation of building envelopes through greenery and photovoltaics. The question ar...
Droplet quality in drop-on-demand (DoD) Electrohydrodynamic (EHD) inkjet printing plays a crucial role in influencing the overall performance and manufacturing quality of the operation. The current approach to droplet printing analysis involves manua...
Background/Objectives: The increasing prevalence of antifungal resistance among Candida albicans (C. albicans) strains necessitates the development of alternative therapeutic strategies. Curcumin (CUR), a natural polyphenolic compound, has attracted...
Efficient exploration in multi-robot systems is significantly influenced by the initial start positions of the robots. This paper introduces the hybrid cheetah exploration technique with intelligent initial configuration (HCETIIC), a novel strategy e...
This paper introduces a novel approach to handwritten digit recognition based on directional flood simulation and topological feature extraction. While traditional pixel-based methods often struggle with noise, partial occlusion, and limited data, ou...
To address the challenges of multi-energy coupling decision-making caused by the complex interactions and significant conflicts of interest among multiple entities in integrated energy systems, an energy management strategy for integrated energy syst...
Radiant floor systems offer significant potential for studying and developing energy flexibility strategies for buildings and their interaction with smart grids. Efficient design and operation of such systems require several critical decisions on des...
Quantifying fireline effectiveness (FLE) is essential to evaluate the efficiency of large wildfire management strategies to foster institutional learning and improvement in fire management organizations. FLE performance metrics for incident-level eva...
Performance-based seismic codes ensure proper inelastic behaviour of reinforced concrete frames through capacity design, among others. This strategy relies not only on avoiding brittle failures and providing ductility to plastic hinges but also in th...
This paper presents an intelligent surveillance platform based on the usage of large numbers of inexpensive sensors designed and developed inside the European Eureka Celtic project HuSIMS. With the aim of maximizing the number of deployable units whi...
We aimed to compare the potential of physical-based models (radiative transfer and pixel unmixing models) for evaluating the short-term resilience to fire of several shrubland communities as a function of their regenerative strategy and burn severity...
The increased demand for higher-quality, longer-lasting blueberries has led to the development of preharvest strategies to improve their structural integrity sustainably. This study analysed the effects of the foliar application of two biostimulant&n...
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