(1) Background: User stories are widely used in Agile development as requirements. However, few studies have assessed the quality of user stories in practice. (2) Methods: What is the quality of user stories in practice? To answer the research questi...
Innovation systems are increasingly oriented towards the solution of societal and environmental problems. Social entrepreneurship can be regarded as a market-based actor, inherently aimed at finding solutions for these problems. The development of te...
This paper discusses school safety mainly in relation to safety education and examines measures for the comprehensive development of systems to ensure the safety of children at school, including those requiring medical care. The number of children re...
Nowadays, developing and applying advanced digital technologies for monitoring protected natural territories are critical problems. Collecting, digitalizing, storing, and analyzing spatiotemporal data on various aspects of the life cycle of such terr...
Research aimed at contributing to the further development of integrated water resources management needs to tackle complex challenges at the interface of nature and society. A case study in the Cuvelai-Etosha Basin in Namibia has shown how semi-arid...
Internet-led labour market has become so competitive it is forcing many organisations from different sectors to embrace e-recruitment. However, realising the value of the e-recruitment from a Requirements Engineering (RE) analysis perspective is chal...
The development of optical noninvasive methods for assessing the functional state of peripheral vessels, including the microcirculatory vascular bed, requires advances in modeling peripheral hemodynamics in order to interpret diagnostic data in terms...
Anticipatory planning for end of life requires a common language for discussion among patients, families, and professionals. Studies show that early Palliative Care (PC) interventions based on a problem-oriented approach can improve quality of life,...
Background: Repeat sacrocolpopexy (reSCP) for recurrent pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is a rare and complex condition with little understanding of how to manage. Most authors recommend complete reSCP regardless of the underlying cause of the failure. T...
Aiming at the problem that the existing garlic-root-cutting equipment requires the orientation and orderly conveying of garlic, a garlic orientation and orderly conveying method based on machine vision and mechanical orientation mechanisms was propos...
In this study, the contouring control problem of a five-axis machine tool was examined. Due to the rotation axes, there are two coordinate systems involved in the five-axis machine tool, namely the workpiece coordinate system and machine coordinate s...
Collaborative robots have experienced low acceptance in applications, especially in industry. This fact has attracted the attention of researchers and practitioners, who point to different causes for this limited acceptance. One of the main reasons i...
Comprehensive 3D modeling of our environment requires integration of terrestrial and airborne data, which is collected, preferably, using laser scanning and photogrammetric methods. However, integration of these multi-source data requires accurate re...
Current studies of complex problem-solving do not commonly evaluate the regulatory role of such personality-based variables as tolerance for uncertainty, risk-readiness, and patterns for coping with decisional conflict. This research aims to establis...
In cloud computing, dynamic storage of data generated by users, applications, tasks, workflows, etc. requires frequent access operations, so traditional encryption cannot be applied in this case. Considering the vulnerability of dynamic data, its pro...
As an important national strategy infrastructure, the Space Information Network (SIN) is a powerful platform for future information support. The architecture model of the SIN is of great significance to the construction and development of the SIN. Fo...
Cable-Driven Parallel Robots (CDPRs) are a special kind of parallel manipulator that uses cables to control the position and orientation of the mobile platform or end effector. The use of cables instead of rigid links offers some advantages over thei...
This paper reviews the exploration and application of social–ecological systems research perspectives to sustainable development issues such as the areas of coupled human–earth relations, resource management, geographical landscape patter...
Shipping containers that remain in ports after exporting or importing products cause an environmental and logistical problem. Transporting them to the port of origin is costly; therefore, some of them are stored in the regions of destination. Recycli...
Secure grasping of objects in complex scenes is the foundation of many tasks. It is important for robots to autonomously determine the optimal grasp based on visual information, which requires reasoning about the stacking relationship of objects and...
A directional borehole radar consists of one transmitting antenna in the borehole and four receiving antennas distributed at equal angles in a ring. The receiving antennas can determine the depth and orientation of targets beside the borehole. Howeve...
Future wireless sensor networks are expected to provide various sensing services and energy efficiency is one of the most important criterions. The node scheduling strategy aims to increase network lifetime by selecting a set of sensor nodes to pro...
The ability to reliably detect and characterise defects embedded in austenitic steel welds depends on prior knowledge of microstructural descriptors, such as the orientations of the weld’s locally anisotropic grain structure. These orientations...
A well-known idea is to identify spheres, points, and hyperplanes in Euclidean space
The spacecraft docking motion simulation system for on-orbit docking plays a very important role in some theoretical research and engineering application fields. The parallel robot utilized in the spacecraft docking simulation system requires high po...
The initial processing of Citrus Reticulata ‘Chachi’ involves peeling as a crucial step. Currently, there is some semi-automatic peeling equipment available. However, due to the requirement of adjusting the orientation of Citrus Reticulat...
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Enhanced pharmacy services have been identified as a mechanism to address medicines and drug-related problems. The aim of the study was to explore the perspectives of practicing pharmacists on the scope of pharmacy service provision in Pakistan. This...
A consistent orientation of ginger shoots when sowing ginger is more conducive to high yields and later harvesting. However, current ginger sowing mainly relies on manual methods, seriously hindering the ginger industry’s development. Existing ginger...
Fiber orientation is an important descriptor of the microstructure for short fiber polymer composite materials where accurate and efficient prediction of the orientation state is crucial when evaluating the bulk thermo-mechanical response of the mate...
Indoor localization problems are difficult due to that the information, such as WLAN and GPS, cannot achieve enough precision for indoor issues. This paper presents a novel indoor localization algorithm, GeoLoc, with uncertainty eliminate based on fu...
Flexible manipulator robots have a wide industrial application. Robot performance requires sensing its position and orientation adequately, known as forward kinematics. Commercially available, motion controllers use high-resolution optical encoders t...
The problem of balancing capacitor voltages is of utmost importance in multilevel converter topologies involving flying capacitors. In this study, a new minimum angular distance (MAD) algorithm is proposed to control the turning on and off of the swi...
Camera calibration is a crucial prerequisite for the retrieval of metric information from images. The problem of camera calibration is the computation of camera intrinsic parameters (i.e., coefficients of geometric distortions, principle distance and...
In several MIMO system applications, the deviations of some output performance variables from their nominal values are required to be controlled independently, while the other performance variables are required to remain at their nominal value. This...
We propose a monocular trajectory intersection method to solve the problem that a monocular moving camera cannot be used for three-dimensional reconstruction of a moving object point. The necessary and sufficient condition of when this method has the...
This paper focuses on sustainable transportation of prefab products from factories to construction sites by ship. Since the transportation cost for all the prefab products of a construction site is mainly dependent on the number of cargo holds used o...
Reciprocal toolpaths with four-axis simultaneous motion of five-axis or four-axis machine tools are commonly used in the machining of blades which are widely applied in high-end equipment such as the aero-engine and the marine steam turbine. Due to t...
In recent years, the rapid development of cloud computing and web technologies has led to a significant advancement to chain geospatial information services (GI services) in order to solve complex geospatial problems. However, the construction of a p...
Through tailoring the geometry and design of biomaterials, additive manufacturing is revolutionizing the production of metallic patient-specific implants, e.g., the Ti-6Al-7Nb alloy. Unfortunately, studies investigating this alloy showed that additiv...
Design requirement is as important in aerodynamic design as in other industries because it sets up the objective for the samples in design space to approach. Natural Laminar Flow (NLF) optimization belongs to the type of aerodynamic design problems f...
This paper introduces a novel non-smooth numerical optimization approach for solving the Three-Point Dubins Problem (3PDP). The 3PDP requires determining the shortest path of bounded curvature that connects given initial and final positions and orien...
(1) Background: The high rates of mental disorders in adolescence presented in the literature often exclude internalizing problems. Although there is extensive data on the effectiveness of SEL skills in improving resilience, few studies included evid...
Cloud computing (CC) capacities deliver high quality, connected with demand services and service-oriented construction. Nevertheless, a cloud service (CS) is normally derived from numerous stages of facilities and concert features, which determine th...
This review is dedicated to the advanced applications of robotic technologies in the industrial field. Robotic solutions in areas with non-intensive applications are presented, and their implementations are analysed. We also provide an overview of su...
The performance of marker-based, six degrees of freedom (6DOF) pose measuring systems is investigated. For instruments in this class, the pose is derived from locations of a few three-dimensional (3D) points. For such configurations to be used, the r...
In this research, we study a new metaheuristic algorithm called Moth–Flame Optimization (MFO) for hyperspectral band selection. With the hundreds of highly correlated narrow spectral bands, the number of training samples required to train a sta...
Implementing digital technologies and digital twins (DT) in operating industrial units is one of the key problems in smart production. Metallurgical plants require a solution to implement in the rolling mill retrofitting. A conceptual approach to the...
Many transport systems in the real world can be modeled as networked systems. Due to limited resources, only a few nodes can be selected as seeds in the system, whose role is to spread required information or control signals as widely as possible. Th...
Fault diagnosis presents a considerable difficulty to human operators in supervisory control of manufacturing systems. Implementing Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in existing manufacturing facilities implies an investment, since it requires up...
We apply measures of complexity, emergence, and self-organization to an urban traffic model for comparing a traditional traffic-light coordination method with a self-organizing method in two scenarios: cyclic boundaries and non-orientable boundaries....
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