In smart cities, unmanned aerial vehicles and self-driving vehicles are gaining increased concern. These vehicles might utilize ultra-reliable telecommunication systems, Internet-based technologies, and navigation satellite services to locate their c...
The accuracy of line-of-sight (LOS)-based indoor visible light positioning (VLP) depends directly on the accuracy of the received LOS power. In an actual indoor visible light communication (VLC) system, the total received power contains the LOS power...
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...
In this study, the uniaxial compression of random orientation ZK60 Mg alloy to different strains was performed at room temperature. The microstructure evolution was characterized mainly using electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD), and the mechani...
Despite increasing efforts in the mapping of landslides using Sentinel-1 and -2, research on their combination for discerning historical landslides in forest areas is still lacking, particularly using object-oriented machine learning approaches. This...
Timely and accurate information on the spatial distribution of urban trees is critical for sustainable urban development, management and planning. Compared with satellite-based remote sensing, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) remote sensing has a higher...
Electrospinning is gaining increasing interest in the biomedical field as an eco-friendly and economic technique for production of random and oriented polymeric fibers. The aim of this review was to give an overview of electrospinning potentialities...
Inspired by the overwhelming success of Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) features in many vision tasks, in this paper, we present an innovative compact feature descriptor called fuzzy Histogram of Oriented Lines (f-HOL) for action recognition, w...
The orientation of antibodies, employed as capture molecules on biosensors, determines biorecognition efficiency and bioassay performance. In a previous publication we demonstrated for antibodies attached covalently to silicon that an increase in the...
The current paper is aimed to investigate the effects of waviness, random orientation, and agglomeration factor of nanoreinforcements on wave propagation in fluid-conveying multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs)-reinforced nanocomposite cylindrical s...
This paper addresses a multiobjective version of the Team Orienteering Problem (TOP). The TOP focuses on selecting a subset of customers for maximum rewards while considering time and fleet size constraints. This study extends the TOP by considering...
In urban logistics, effective maintenance is crucial for maintaining the reliability and efficiency of energy supply systems, impacting both asset performance and operational stability. This paper addresses the scheduling and routing plans for mainte...
The resulting maps of land use classification obtained by pixel-based methods often have salt-and-pepper noise, which usually shows a certain degree of cluttered distribution of classification image elements within the region. This paper carries out...
Sustainable urban growth advocates the implementation of transit-oriented development (TOD) to optimize urban spatial structure. The bilateral planning concept of TOD emphasizes the importance of discovering areas with existing TOD features but poor...
The wetland classification from remotely sensed data is usually difficult due to the extensive seasonal vegetation dynamics and hydrological fluctuation. This study presents a random forest classification approach for the retrieval of the wetland lan...
Coastal reclamation in Guangdong Province is highly concentrated and is growing rapidly. However, intensive reclamation use has resulted in serious influence on the coastal ecosystem, directly and indirectly. The current conditions and spatial distri...
Desertification has become a major problem in the field, affecting both the global ecological environment and economy. The effective monitoring of desertified land is an important prerequisite for land desertification protection and governance. With...
The adoption of electronic social networks as an essential way of communication has become one of the most dangerous methods to hurt people’s feelings. The Internet and the proliferation of this kind of virtual community have caused severe nega...
In this paper, we analyze both the deterministic and stochastic versions of a team orienteering problem (TOP) in which rewards from customers are dynamic. The typical goal of the TOP is to select a set of customers to visit in order to maximize the t...
The differentiation in the urbanization level’s impact on the supply–demand budgets of ecosystem services (ESs) from the perspective of the major function-oriented areas is of great significance for formulating sustainable development str...
In the classical team orienteering problem (TOP), a fixed fleet of vehicles is employed, each of them with a limited driving range. The manager has to decide about the subset of customers to visit, as well as the visiting order (routes). Each custome...
In this paper, the lattice Boltzmann–cellular automata (LBM-CA) model with dynamic and static grids was used to study the growth of three-dimensional (3D) multidendrites under directional solidification with random preferred angles. In the static gri...
Accurate monitoring of irrigation areas is of great significance to ensure national food security and rational utilization of water resources. The low resolution of the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer and Landsat data makes the monitori...
Aiming at the problem of misdetection caused by the traditional texture characteristic extraction model, which does not describe the correlation among multiple bands, an object-oriented remote sensing image change detection method based on a color co...
Timely and accurate land use information in open-pit mines is essential for environmental monitoring, ecological restoration planning, and promoting sustainable progress in mining regions. This study used high-resolution unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)...
The special features of the applicability of artificial neural networks to the task of identifying relationships between meteorological parameters of the atmosphere and optical and geometric characteristics of high-level clouds (HLCs) containing ice...
This study investigated vegetable farmers’ willingness-to-pay (WTP) for private agricultural advisory services in northwestern Ethiopia. Understanding farmers’ preferences is a crucial step for modernizing agricultural advisory services a...
While prior studies on LULC change in the Ewa region of O’ahu Hawai’i have explored the policy implications and the rapid infrastructure changes on land use, very few studies have attempted to fully integrate both of these changes in a co...
Visiblelightcommunication (VLC) is an emerging technology that offers an alternative to traditional wireless communications systems. However, the technology presents limitations related to the impact of the receiver’s orientation, which can sig...
When the use of optical images is not practical due to cloud cover, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery is a preferred alternative for monitoring coastal wetlands because it is unaffected by weather conditions. Polarimetric SAR (PolSAR) enables th...
Memristor-based neuromorphic systems have been proposed as a promising alternative to von Neumann computing architectures, which are currently challenged by the ever-increasing computational power required by modern artificial intelligence (AI) algor...
For dynamic analysis in seismic design, selection of input ground motions is of huge importance. In the presented scheme, complex Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT) is utilized to simulate stochastic ground motions from historical records of earthqua...
Manipulation of the performance of the random lasers from dye-doped nematic liquid crystals with TiN nanoparticles in non-oriented cells is studied. The experimental results show that the introduction of TiN nanoparticles into dye-doped nematic liqui...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) do not collide with obstacles, generate a path in real-time, and must fly to the target point. The sampling-based rapidly exploring random tree (RRT) algorithm has the advantages of fast computation and low computation...
This paper proposes a random tree algorithm based on a potential field oriented greedy strategy for the path planning of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Potential-field-RRT (PF-RRT) discards the defect of traditional artificial potential field (APF)...
Background/Objectives: Task-oriented training (TOT) is a functional, goal-directed rehabilitation approach that promotes motor recovery after stroke through repetitive, task-specific practice; however, its overall effects on gait and balance in strok...
In many patients with stroke, trunk stabilization and balance are decreased. Trunk stabilization and balance are important to perform posture control and functional movement. This study investigates the effects of task-orientated training with the ab...
This paper discusses an orienteering optimization problem where a vehicle using electric batteries must travel from an origin depot to a destination depot while maximizing the total reward collected along its route. The vehicle must cross several con...
Nowadays, various computing services are often hosted on cloud platforms for their availability and cost effectiveness. However, such services are frequently exposed to vulnerabilities. Therefore, many countermeasures have been invented to defend aga...
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The study aimed to assess the effect of midwife-provided orientation of birth companions on maternal anxiety and coping during labor. A stepped wedge cluster randomized trial design was conducted among 475 participants (control n = 240), intervention...
Non-pharmacological intervention, which includes a broad range of approaches, may be an alternative treatment for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Multimodal non-pharmacological intervention alleviates cognitive dysfunction and the impairment of activ...
Background: Cognitive impairment is a frequent consequence of bipolar disorder (BD) that is difficult to prevent and treat. In addition, the quality of the preliminary evidence on the treatment of BD through Cognitive Remediation (CR) with traditiona...
This study introduces a technique for determining surface orientations by projecting a monochrome, spatial pixel-encoded pattern and calculating the surface normals from single-shot measurement. Our method differs from traditional methods, such as sh...
In this paper, we introduce a novel sim-learnheuristic method designed to address the team orienteering problem (TOP) with a particular focus on its application in the context of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Unlike most prior research, which prim...
At present, due to the unavailability of natural resources, society should take the maximum advantage of data, information, and knowledge to achieve sustainability goals. In today’s world condition, the existence of humans is not possible witho...
Addressing limitations in remote sensing irrigation monitoring (insufficient resolution, single-source constraints, poor terrain adaptability), this study developed a high-precision identification framework for Jianping County, China, a semi-arid reg...
The addition of short fibers has been experimentally observed to slow the stress relaxation of viscoelastic polymers, producing a change in the relaxation time constant. Our recent study attributed this effect of fibers on stress relaxation behavior...
This paper is devoted to determination of elastic properties of composite constituents by using an inverse identification procedure. The aim of the developed identification procedure is to compute the elastic constants of individual material phases o...
With the general objective of producing a 2018–2020 Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) map of the Maiella National Park (central Italy), useful for a future long-term LULC change analysis, this research aimed to develop a Landsat 8 (L8) data composition and...
The northern white-breasted hedgehog (Erinaceus roumanicus) is a charismatic insectivore mammal threatened by habitat loss, the use of biocides, and collisions with vehicles. We aimed at valorizing hedgehog conservation through the contingent valuati...
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