This paper investigates the integration of proximity theory (PT) into the management of public transport service disruptions within sustainable Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) systems, an area that is largely underexplored. PT provides a multidimensiona...
Urban planning and transportation policies are vital to creating sustainable and liveable cities. Transit-orientated development (TOD) has emerged as a prominent approach that emphasises the establishment of neighbourhoods with convenient access to p...
Proximity-based urban models, including the widely discussed 15 min city, aim to bring everyday destinations within a short walk, cycle, or shared-mobility trip, with promising benefits for well-being, public health, local economies, and low-carbon m...
This paper presents a new antenna proximity sensor for mobile terminals based on the measured reflection coefficient using a bidirectional coupler which is positioned between the main antenna and the front-end module. Using the coupled forward and re...
This article presents the design and implementation of an API that delivers real-time promotional notifications to mobile devices based on their proximity to shopping centers, calculated using the Haversine formula. Developed in Laravel, the API dete...
Some of the recent developments in data science for worldwide disease control have involved research of large-scale feasibility and usefulness of digital contact tracing, user location tracking, and proximity detection on users’ mobile devices...
Users’ payment behaviors have changed. The diffusion of mobile devices makes people suitable for proximity mobile payment (PMP) services without traditional payment. Existing mobile payment literature mainly focuses on the adoption and continuous usa...
In the field of mobile crowdsensing (MCS), a large number of tasks rely on the participation of ordinary mobile device users for data collection and processing. This model has shown great potential for applications in environmental monitoring, traffi...
The objective of this study was to estimate multiple soil property local regression models, confirm the accuracy of the predicted values using visible near-infrared subsurface diffuse reflectance spectra collected by a mobile proximal soil sensor, an...
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered an unprecedented collective reflection on everyday urban life, reshaping how citizens perceived proximity, mobility patterns, and the sustainability of everyday transport systems. This article examines whether these pa...
Medium-sized cities face unique challenges in fostering sustainable mobility due to their socio-spatial characteristics, including recent decentralized services and urban sprawl. This study examines user-centric factors influencing mobility behaviors...
The non-histone chromatin binding protein High Mobility Group AT-hook protein 2 (HMGA2) has important functions in chromatin remodeling, and genome maintenance and protection. Expression of HMGA2 is highest in embryonic stem cells, declines during ce...
Although many studies are currently examining the city of proximity as a way to promote sustainable and environmentally friendly cities, few consider it meaningful to achieve an “inclusive” mobility model for people of all ages and abilit...
In this paper, we present a tiny networked mobile platform, termed Tiny-Web-Thing (T-Wing), which allows the sharing of data-intensive content among objects in cyber physical systems. The object includes mobile platforms like a smartphone, and Intern...
27 August 2021
The pervasive adoption of mobile devices and proximity technologies enables firms to trace consumers’ trajectories and locations. This connects firms’ marketing and operations strategies more tightly with consumer mobility. In this paper, we propose...
Proximity-oriented planning aims to deliver everyday services within a short walk, yet closeness does not guarantee usable access for all residents. This study quantifies the gap between spatial proximity and functional accessibility in Timișoar...
Background: Proximal phalanx fractures of the hand are common and can significantly impact hand function. Conservative treatments, including splinting and dynamic mobilization, are often used, but their efficacy compared to surgical interventions nee...
In recent years, the 15-minute city (15MC) model has gained significant attention among scholars and practitioners, particularly in the wake of COVID-19. However, limited research has explored how this model can be adapted to high-density, high-rise...
Promoting equitable and sustainable urban mobility requires accessibility assessment approaches that extend beyond purely geometric proximity measures toward service-sensitive and behavior-informed evaluation. This study develops an open-source GIS w...
Intra-urban commuting plays a fundamental role in shaping urban spatial structure and daily mobility patterns. Existing studies have largely explained commuting flows using attribute-based or distance-centred approaches. Such approaches overlook the...
The traditional robotic arm control method has strong dependence on the application scenario. To improve the reliability of the mobile robotic arm control when the scene is disturbed, this paper proposes a control method based on an improved proximal...
The distance between home and school is crucial for children’s mobility and education equity. Compared with choice-based enrollment systems, much less attention has been given to the commuting distance to school in proximity-based systems, as i...
The study explores the concept of the X-Minute City, an evolution of the 15-min city paradigm, as an operational tool for sustainable urban regeneration in Europe. Starting from the goal of ensuring daily accessibility to key services within 5–...
Three-dimensional coverage deployment is a fundamental challenge for underwater mobile sensor networks (UMSNs), where the coupled requirements of high coverage, guaranteed connectivity, and low energy consumption must be simultaneously satisfied unde...
Advanced deep reinforcement learning shows promise as an approach to addressing continuous control tasks, especially in mixed-autonomy traffic. In this study, we present a deep reinforcement-learning-based model that considers the effectiveness of le...
The potential of image proximal sensing for agricultural applications has been a prolific scientific subject in the recent literature. Its main appeal lies in the sensing of precise information about plant status, which is either harder or impossible...
Renal ischemia reperfusion (IR) is a main cause of acute kidney injury leading to high morbidity and mortality during postoperative periods. This study investigated whether ethyl pyruvate (EP) protects the kidney against renal IR injury. Male C57BL/6...
The applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are rapidly growing in domains such as surveillance, logistics, and entertainment and require continuous connectivity with cellular networks to ensure their seamless operations. However, handover po...
In this paper, we consider a low-latency Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) network where multiple User Equipment (UE) wirelessly reports to a decision-making edge server. At the same time, the transmissions are operated with Finite Blocklength (FBL) codes...
In complex urban wireless environments, unmanned aerial vehicle–mobile edge computing (UAV-MEC) systems face challenges like link blockage and single-antenna eavesdropping threats. The traditional single reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)...
The Internet of Things (IoT) has promoted emerging applications that require massive device collaboration, heavy computation, and stringent latency. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) systems can provide flexible servi...
Objectives: The optimal rehabilitation protocol following open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) for Neer type-4 valgus impacted proximal humeral fractures (VIPHF) remains controversial. This study aimed to compare the long-term efficacy and saf...
The aim of this paper is to determine the physical proximity of connected things when they are accessed from a smartphone. Links between connected things and mobile communication devices are temporarily created by means of dynamic URLs (uniform resou...
Nowadays, mobile–mobile interaction is becoming a fundamental methodology for human–human networking services since mobile devices are the most common interfacing equipment for recent smart services such as food delivery, e-commerce, ride...
Earth science education can be enriched by adding technological knowledge to enable monitoring human earth impacts by using soil science as an example. Modern sensing technologies and a mobile mapping platform can enhance an existing field laboratory...
Background/Objectives: Although proximal first metatarsal osteotomy is a common treatment for hallux valgus (HV), its effect on dynamic first tarsometatarsal (TMT) joint mobility remains unclear. Previous assessments have largely relied on static rad...
Complete neighbourhoods, places where residents can meet their daily needs on foot, have become a central component of healthy and sustainable urban planning. Yet most assessment frameworks are calibrated for dense metropolitan environments, leaving...
To enhance the navigation efficiency and obstacle avoidance capability of omnidirectional mobile robots in unstructured and complex environments, this paper conducts research on intelligent path planning and management for X-type Mecanum-wheeled mobi...
It has been almost half a century since the first interest in autonomous robots was shown, and research is still continuing to improve their ability to make perfectly conscious decisions from a user safety point of view. These autonomous robots are n...
Quantifying the amount of crop residue left in the field after harvest is a key issue for sustainability. Conventional assessment approaches (e.g., line-transect) are labor intensive, time-consuming and costly. Many proximal remote sensing devices an...
Smartphones have become an essential part of our lives. Especially its computing power and its current specifications make a modern smartphone a powerful device for human activity recognition tasks. Equipped with various integrated sensors, a modern...
Fixation using cephalomedullary nails (CMNs) with additional cement augmentation (CA) was developed as a novel treatment option for the osteosynthesis of osteoporotic trochanteric fractures, though the effectiveness of CA on early postoperative mobil...
Several applications, from the Internet of Things for smart cities to those for vehicular networks, need fast and reliable proximity-based broadcast communications, i.e., the ability to reach all peers in a geographical neighborhood around the origin...
Vehicle repositioning is essential for improving efficiency and service quality in ride-sharing platforms, yet existing approaches typically optimize proxy rewards that fail to reflect human-centered preferences such as wait time, service coverage, a...
Managing modern museum content and visitor data analytics to achieve higher levels of visitor experience and overall museum performance is a complex and multidimensional issue involving several scientific aspects, such as exhibits’ metadata man...
3 April 2023
Patient-centered health care information systems (PHSs) on peer-to-peer (P2P) networks (e.g., decentralized personal health records) enable storing data locally at the edge to enhance data sovereignty and resilience to single points of failure. Nonet...
Researchers are actively exploring advanced algorithms to enhance robots’ ability to navigate complex environments while avoiding obstacles. Four different environments were designed in the Webots simulator, including a mobile robot, a goal, a...
The paper presents a double-radio wireless multimedia sensor node (WMSN) with a camera on board, designed for plant proximal monitoring. Camera sensor nodes represent an effective solution to monitor the crop at the leaf or fruit scale, with details...
Heterogeneous sensor and control degradation can destabilize direct sensor-to-action navigation. This study presents a fault-diagnosis-aware adaptive policy-switching framework that combines a calibrated seven-class temporal health-state classifier w...
Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) offer sustainable solutions for urban last-mile logistics, yet existing navigation algorithms struggle with the complexity of dynamic metropolitan environments. This study optimises a reinforcement learning (RL)-based gu...
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