Doppler current profilers are used in oceanography to measure oceanic circulation but also in hydrology to calculate the flow of rivers. They allow the retrieval of water mass profiles in terms of velocity and direction. Direction is obtained via an...
Breast cancer is a heterogenous disease with variability in tumor cells and in the surrounding tumor microenvironment (TME). Understanding the molecular diversity in breast cancer is critical for improving prediction of therapeutic response and progn...
Viroids are circular, highly structured, single-stranded, non-coding RNA pathogens known to infect and cause disease in several plant species. They are known to trigger the host plant’s RNA silencing machinery. The detection of viroid-derived small R...
Few experimental studies have analyzed the wave energy conversion performance and underlying mechanisms of wave-driven profilers in controlled environments. Therefore, building on linear wave theory, Newton–Euler equations, and the working mech...
The motivation for this study is to investigate the abilities and limitations of a Nortek Signature1000 acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) regarding fine-scale turbulence measurements. Current profilers offer the advantage of gaining more coher...
Density is one of the most important parameters in the construction of asphalt mixtures and pavement engineering. When a mixture is properly designed and compacted, it will contain enough air voids to prevent plastic deformation but will have low eno...
In this paper, an innovative profiler driven by tidal energy for long-term oceanographic measurements in offshore areas with abundant tidal resources is investigated. The profiler is mainly composed of an oceanographic data collection system equipped...
A 1.29 GHz wind profiler was developed under a private–military–government cooperative wind profiler radar development project in the Republic of Korea. During the test operation period, radio frequency interference (RFI) contamination oc...
An underwater profiler is one of the popular platforms for ocean observation. Due to energy limitations, conventional underwater vehicles have a short life span, which cannot meet the needs of long-term ocean exploration. Therefore, there is a growin...
A methodology to process radar wind profiler Doppler spectra is presented and implemented for an UHF Degreane PCL1300 system. First, double peak signal detection is conducted at each height level and, then, vertical continuity checks for each radar b...
Miniaturized underwater profilers have the advantages of small size, low cost, and flexible deployment, which play together an important role in the persistent monitoring of a designated ocean area. Based on the demand for ocean observation, the syst...
Biogeochemical cycles of carbon transformation throughout the euphotic zone of the sea are controlled by physical processes, e.g., daily thermocline, variation in solar irradiance, thermohaline convection, and intermittent mixing. These processes sho...
Acoustic Doppler Profilers (ADPs) are routinely used to measure flow velocity in the ocean, enabling multi-points measurement along a profile while Acoustic Doppler Velocimeters (ADVs) are laboratory instruments that provide very precise point veloci...
Traditional manual horizon picking is time-consuming and laborious, while automatic picking methods often suffer from the limited scope of their applications and the discontinuity of picked results. In this paper, we propose a novel method for automa...
Wind profiler radar (WPR) is used for all-weather atmospheric wind-field monitoring. However, the reliability of these observations reduces significantly when there is electromagnetic interference echo, generally caused by ground objects, birds, or r...
Acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCPs) were developed to acquire water current velocities, as well as depth-dependent echo intensities. As the backscattering strength of an underwater object can be estimated from the measured echo intensity, the...
Marine resources are rich and contain an enormous amount of energy. The exploration of marine resources and the effective use of ocean energy have gradually become the research focus of scholars all over the world. A profiler driven by ocean thermal...
Data-driven machine learning technology can learn and extract features, a factor which is well recognized to be powerful in the warning and prediction of severe weather. With the large-scale deployment of the radar wind profile (RWP) observational ne...
This paper proposed an MSC-Transformer model based on the Transformer’s neural network, which was applied to seabed sediment classification. The data came from about 2900 km2 of seabed area on the northern slope of the South China Sea. Using th...
The three-dimensional wind field (WPR3D) and the multiple WPR3D (M-WPR3D) associated with the passage of a stationary front was derived from observations made by a network of eight wind profiler radars (WPR) being operated by the Korea Meteorological...
In this study, we extracted three source wavelets of a Chirp sub-bottom profiler (SBP), which is widely used for high-resolution marine seismic exploration, using a MATLAB-based graphical user interface tool for computational processing. To extract t...
Harnessing the energy of tidal currents has huge potential as a source of clean renewable energy. To do so in a reliable and cost effective way, it is critical to understand the interaction between tidal turbines, waves, and turbulent currents in the...
This paper describes a comparison of the mechanical structures (a double-sided beam and a cantilever beam) of a probe in a tool edge profiler for the measurement of a micro-cutting tool. The tool edge profiler consists of a positioning unit having a...
With the increasing number of underwater pipeline investigation activities, the research on automatic pipeline detection is of great significance. At this stage, object detection algorithms based on Deep Learning (DL) are widely used due to their abi...
This study introduces a measurement technique for simultaneous phase-separated velocity in two-phase bubbly flow. The non-invasive technique, based on an Ultrasonic Velocity Profiler (UVP), is used in order to obtain an instantaneous, separate veloci...
Background/Objective: Psychological scales hold significant importance, measuring cultural sensitivity, experiences, values, and emotional expressions while controlling individuals’ biases regarding certain cultures. Arabic is used in a widespr...
This paper presents the development of OpenCHIRP, an innovative sub-bottom profiler (SBP) designed for high-resolution seismic reflection surveys in shallow-water marine and lacustrine environments. The instrument employs chirped (frequency-modulated...
The wafer eccentricity deviation caused by misalignment between the center of the wafer and rotary table will lead to edge image distortion and quality degradation of the defect signals during automated inspection. However, wafer end jump and edge to...
Vertical wind shear (VWS) is one of the key meteorological factors in modulating ground-level particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter of 2.5 µm or less (PM2.5). Due to the lack of high-resolution vertical wind measurements, how the VWS affect...
In this paper, the results of several geophysical surveys developed with a Sub-Bottom Profiler in different regions of Spain are presented. This research forms part of a broader project aimed at developing innovative non-invasive methodologies for do...
A sub-bottom profiler (SBP) can capture the sediment interfaces and properties of different types of sediment. Horizon picking from SBP images is one of the most crucial steps in marine sub-bottom sediment interpretation. However, traditional horizon...
The present study evaluated the empirical distinction between the PERMA-Profiler and the Workplace PERMA-Profiler, which measure flourishing using the same items with different contexts (i.e., general vs. workplace orientations). Both scales were adm...
In 2023, we proposed the modified delay and Doppler profiler (mDDP) as an inter-carrier interference (ICI) countermeasure for underwater acoustic orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) mobile communications in a multipath environment. Howe...
In order to investigate the equivalent complex refractive index of atmospheric aerosols near the Earth’s surface, we conducted measurements in the Hefei region from March to April 2022. These measurements utilized a micro-pulse lidar, an Aethal...
In this paper, we introduce a novel sub-bottom profiler, making good use of the Mills cross configuration of multibeam sonar and synthetic aperture techniques of the synthetic aperture sonar system. The receiver array is mounted along the ship keel,...
This manuscript presents the Microwave Temperature and Humidity Profiler (MTHP), a dual-band spectroradiometer designed for measuring multi-incidence angle temperature and humidity atmospheric profiles from an aircraft platform. The MTHP bands are at...
Recently, with policies aimed at strengthening domestic manufacturing and technological innovation, the robotics industry has been growing rapidly, and its applications are expanding across various industrial fields. Accordingly, the importance of hi...
The aim of the current investigation was to identify universal profiles of lived spirituality. A study on a large sample of participants (N = 5512) across three countries, India, China, and the United States, suggested there are at least five cross-c...
This work examines several analytical evaluations of the Voigt profile, which is a convolution of the Gaussian and Lorentzian profiles, theoretically and numerically. Mathematical derivations are performed concisely to illustrate some closed forms of...
The complex topography of deep sea presents numerous challenges for the accurate exploration of sub-bottom profiles. These include real-time tracking of seafloor reflectors, acquisition and storage of deep-sea long-term reflection data, and splicing...
In this paper, for the first time, the effect of the longitudinal profile shape of the rill (uniform, concave, and convex) on flow resistance law was studied. The first part of the paper is based on a theoretical equation to estimate the Darcy–...
In many situations, the quality of a process or product can be characterized by a functional relationship or profile. It is well-known that the independence assumptions of the error terms within or between profiles are not always valid and could be v...
We processed five years of measurements (2018–2022) of a vertically pointing radar MIRA 35c at the Milešovka meteorological observatory with the aim of analyzing the cloud structure of thunderstorms and comparing differences in measured...
Consumer-oriented rapid profiling methodologies, including free-choice profiling (FCP) and polarized sensory positioning (PSP), have been studied in recent decades, highlighting alternative aspects of conventional descriptive analysis (DA). In the pr...
Designing the profile of cutting tools is a specific problem in manufacturing engineering. The profile of the cutting tool has a direct influence on the dimensional and shape precision of the machined parts. When it comes to cutting tools for interna...
Background/Objectives: Previous literature has linked nutrition with both psychological distress and well-being. However, less is known about how psychological and spiritual resources cluster within individuals or whether distinct psychospiritual pro...
In this paper, we introduce the application of a profiling system to suggest appropriate employee profiles for project assignments based on task specifications. The primary objective of this system is to assist managers in gaining a comprehensive und...
Atmospheric profiles are important input parameters for atmospheric radiative transfer models and atmospheric parameter inversions. The construction of regionally representative reference atmospheric profiles can provide basic data for global atmosph...
In this paper, we propose a novel methodology for estimating missing data in energy consumption datasets. Conventional data imputation methods are not suitable for these datasets, because they are time series with special characteristics and because,...
Postpartum women present a high risk of disordered eating behaviors, but the heterogeneity between groups was not identified. This cross-sectional study aimed to identify eating styles profiles in postpartum women and explore the correlates based on...
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