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  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
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User Story Quality in Practice: A Case Study

  • Mohammad Amin Kuhail and
  • Soren Lauesen

28 June 2022

(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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,434 Views
19 Pages

22 December 2020

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...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,088 Views
8 Pages

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,063 Views
24 Pages

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
10,865 Views
19 Pages

26 June 2017

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,932 Views
24 Pages

Conceptualising and Modelling E-Recruitment Process for Enterprises through a Problem Oriented Approach

  • Saleh Alamro,
  • Huseyin Dogan,
  • Deniz Cetinkaya,
  • Nan Jiang and
  • Keith Phalp

29 October 2018

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
433 Views
20 Pages

30 November 2025

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,684 Views
12 Pages

Development and Use of the ‘SENS’-Structure to Proactively Identify Care Needs in Early Palliative Care—An Innovative Approach

  • Monica C. Fliedner,
  • Geoffrey Mitchell,
  • Daniel Bueche,
  • Monika Mettler,
  • Jos M. G. A. Schols and
  • Steffen Eychmueller

20 February 2019

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,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,141 Views
8 Pages

Recurrent Pelvic Organ Prolapse after Sacrocolpopexy—A Surgical Challenge

  • Andreas Martin Studer,
  • Ivo Faehnle-Schiegg,
  • Janine Frey,
  • Simone Aichner,
  • Christine Brambs and
  • Corina Christmann-Schmid

12 March 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,834 Views
13 Pages

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,104 Views
13 Pages

Contouring Control of a Five-Axis Machine Tool with Equivalent Errors

  • Shyh-Leh Chen,
  • Mun-Hooi Khong and
  • Sheng-Min Hsieh

12 August 2022

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...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,081 Views
19 Pages

Modeling Requirements for Collaborative Robotic Services

  • Oscar Stiven Morales Zapata,
  • Yaney Gomez Correa,
  • Leopoldo Rideki Yoshioka and
  • Jose Reinaldo Silva

21 November 2023

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
14,333 Views
20 Pages

Orientation of Airborne Laser Scanning Point Clouds with Multi-View, Multi-Scale Image Blocks

  • Petri Rönnholm,
  • Hannu Hyyppä,
  • Juha Hyyppä and
  • Henrik Haggrén

29 July 2009

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,775 Views
21 Pages

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,738 Views
17 Pages

An Access Control Model Based on System Security Risk for Dynamic Sensitive Data Storage in the Cloud

  • Nawaf Alharbe,
  • Abeer Aljohani,
  • Mohamed Ali Rakrouki and
  • Mashael Khayyat

2 March 2023

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,482 Views
22 Pages

13 January 2019

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,421 Views
23 Pages

Dynamic Model of a Novel Planar Cable Driven Parallel Robot with a Single Cable Loop

  • Antonio González-Rodríguez,
  • Andrea Martín-Parra,
  • Sergio Juárez-Pérez,
  • David Rodríguez-Rosa,
  • Francisco Moya-Fernández,
  • Fernando J. Castillo-García and
  • Jesús Rosado-Linares

12 May 2023

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
23,576 Views
19 Pages

20 April 2023

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,736 Views
22 Pages

Energy Analysis of Standardized Shipping Containers for Housing

  • Elena Arce Fariña,
  • Mirela Panait,
  • José María Lago-Cabo and
  • Raquel Fernández-González

27 September 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,261 Views
15 Pages

24 September 2023

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,990 Views
17 Pages

3D Imaging Algorithm of Directional Borehole Radar Based on Root-MUSIC

  • Wentian Wang,
  • Sixin Liu,
  • Xuzhang Shen and
  • Wenjun Zheng

27 July 2021

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,601 Views
23 Pages

6 November 2014

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,311 Views
17 Pages

Deep Learning Based Inversion of Locally Anisotropic Weld Properties from Ultrasonic Array Data

  • Jonathan Singh,
  • Katherine Tant,
  • Anthony Mulholland and
  • Charles MacLeod

6 January 2022

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
916 Views
17 Pages

18 February 2025

A well-known idea is to identify spheres, points, and hyperplanes in Euclidean space Rn with points in real projective space. To address geometric constraints such as intersections, tangencies, and angle requirements, it is important to also encode t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,156 Views
19 Pages

26 July 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,497 Views
32 Pages

3 September 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
8,465 Views
15 Pages

Pharmacy Services beyond the Basics: A Qualitative Study to Explore Perspectives of Pharmacists towards Basic and Enhanced Pharmacy Services in Pakistan

  • Muhammad Atif,
  • Wajiha Razzaq,
  • Irem Mushtaq,
  • Iram Malik,
  • Madiha Razzaq,
  • Shane Scahill and
  • Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,561 Views
20 Pages

Ginger Seeding Detection and Shoot Orientation Discrimination Using an Improved YOLOv4-LITE Network

  • Lifa Fang,
  • Yanqiang Wu,
  • Yuhua Li,
  • Hongen Guo,
  • Hua Zhang,
  • Xiaoyu Wang,
  • Rui Xi and
  • Jialin Hou

17 November 2021

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,819 Views
45 Pages

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,722 Views
28 Pages

22 November 2022

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
14,605 Views
23 Pages

Fused Smart Sensor Network for Multi-Axis Forward Kinematics Estimation in Industrial Robots

  • Carlos Rodriguez-Donate,
  • Roque Alfredo Osornio-Rios,
  • Jesus Rooney Rivera-Guillen and
  • Rene de Jesus Romero-Troncoso

13 April 2011

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,752 Views
15 Pages

27 February 2025

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
13,563 Views
14 Pages

11 June 2009

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,089 Views
32 Pages

14 January 2023

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,305 Views
21 Pages

9 March 2015

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,466 Views
12 Pages

27 October 2020

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,344 Views
18 Pages

19 October 2022

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,737 Views
18 Pages

A Task-Oriented Knowledge Base for Geospatial Problem-Solving

  • Can Zhuang,
  • Zhong Xie,
  • Kai Ma,
  • Mingqiang Guo and
  • Liang Wu

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,823 Views
16 Pages

24 January 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,154 Views
20 Pages

27 August 2020

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,354 Views
26 Pages

10 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,648 Views
14 Pages

Social and Emotional Learning and Internalizing Problems among Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Resilience

  • Aurora Adina Colomeischi,
  • Andreea Ursu,
  • Ionela Bogdan,
  • Alina Ionescu-Corbu,
  • Romina Bondor and
  • Elisabetta Conte

31 August 2022

(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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,539 Views
11 Pages

Cloud Entropy Management System Involving a Fractional Power

  • Rabha W. Ibrahim,
  • Hamid A. Jalab and
  • Abdullah Gani

29 December 2015

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...

  • Review
  • Open Access
165 Citations
42,339 Views
25 Pages

Advanced Applications of Industrial Robotics: New Trends and Possibilities

  • Andrius Dzedzickis,
  • Jurga Subačiūtė-Žemaitienė,
  • Ernestas Šutinys,
  • Urtė Samukaitė-Bubnienė and
  • Vytautas Bučinskas

23 December 2021

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,704 Views
17 Pages

28 February 2020

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,532 Views
21 Pages

Airborne Hyperspectral Imagery for Band Selection Using Moth–Flame Metaheuristic Optimization

  • Raju Anand,
  • Sathishkumar Samiaappan,
  • Shanmugham Veni,
  • Ethan Worch and
  • Meilun Zhou

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,432 Views
22 Pages

Substantiating and Implementing Concept of Digital Twins for Virtual Commissioning of Industrial Mechatronic Complexes Exemplified by Rolling Mill Coilers

  • Vadim R. Gasiyarov,
  • Pavel A. Bovshik,
  • Boris M. Loginov,
  • Alexander S. Karandaev,
  • Vadim R. Khramshin and
  • Andrey A. Radionov

12 February 2023

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,926 Views
22 Pages

11 March 2022

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,013 Views
19 Pages

Product Lifecycle Management as Data Repository for Manufacturing Problem Solving

  • Alvaro Camarillo,
  • José Ríos and
  • Klaus-Dieter Althoff

18 August 2018

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
27,798 Views
24 Pages

Measuring the Complexity of Self-Organizing Traffic Lights

  • Darío Zubillaga,
  • Geovany Cruz,
  • Luis Daniel Aguilar,
  • Jorge Zapotécatl,
  • Nelson Fernández,
  • José Aguilar,
  • David A. Rosenblueth and
  • Carlos Gershenson

25 April 2014

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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