1 August 2008
RFID tags are increasingly being used in supply chain applications due to their potential in engendering supply chain visibility and reducing tracking errors through instantaneous location of objects as well as the tagged object's immediate ambient c...
Background: Regenerative supply chain research seeks to move beyond minimal-harm sustainability toward forms of organizing that preserve, restore, and enhance social–ecological systems. However, existing work often explains regeneration through...
A lateral overflow integration capacitor (LOFIC) complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor can realize high-dynamic-range (HDR) imaging with combination of a low-conversion-gain (LCG) signal for large maximum signal electrons and a...
Our objective is to analyze scanpaths acquired through participants achieving a reading task aiming at answering a binary question: Is the text related or not to some given target topic? We propose a data-driven method based on hidden semi-Markov cha...
Background: The present study aimed to clarify the neurocognitive processes through which blood levels of omega-3 LCPUFAs affect reading and writing abilities. Methods: A total of 74 school-age children whose reading and writing skills varied from no...
Cold storage is an essential operation for many food products in cold supply chains. The main objective of this kind of storage is to preserve the food products for a certain period of time. However, often due to a lack of accurate technology, humidi...
Many theories have been put forward that propose that developmental dyslexia is caused by low-level neural, cognitive, or perceptual deficits. For example, statistical learning is a cognitive mechanism that allows the learner to detect a probabilisti...
With the advent of Industry 4.0, blockchain is one of the emerging technologies that can be used in multiple fields, especially in supply chain networks, where it is considered a sustainable concept technology. Because of its decentralization, reliab...
To date, limited research has systematically explored the interconnections between perceived teacher support, self-concept, engagement, and academic achievement specifically regarding the reading domain. Most previous studies have been conducted in W...
This paper presents electromagnetic encoders useful for chipless-RFID and motion control applications. The encoders consist in a pair of linear chains of rectangular apertures implemented by means of 3D printing. One of these chains is periodic and a...
Due to their extensive common-sense knowledge and linguistic understanding, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in text comprehension and logical reasoning for natural language processing tasks. Traditional prompt-b...
In this paper, 3D-printed electromagnetic (or microwave) encoders with synchronous reading based on permittivity contrast, and devoted to the measurement of displacements and velocities, are reported for the first time. The considered encoders are ba...
Today, eye trackers are extensively used in studying human cognition. However, it is hard to analyze and interpret eye movement data from the cognitive comprehension perspective of poster reading. To find quantitative links between eye movements and...
We thank Bernard and colleagues for their careful reading and interest in our article Effects on Fatty Acid Metabolism of a New Powdered Human Milk Fortifier Containing Medium-Chain Triacylglycerols and Docosahexaenoic Acid in Preterm Infants [...]
As a decentralized system, blockchain has been widely used in numerous areas and has become a hot topic in both industry and academia. The increasing demand for blockchain causes heavy storage consumption which seriously affects the performance of bl...
Achieving automatic question-and-answering for agricultural scenarios based on machine reading comprehension can facilitate production staff to query information and process data efficiently. Nevertheless, when studying agricultural question-and-answ...
AmpC beta-lactamases cause resistance to third-generation cephalosporins, including beta-lactamase inhibitors. In Escherichia coli from the German food production chain, the majority of AmpC beta-lactamase activity can be attributed to plasmid-mediat...
Multi-agent large language model (LLM) systems built on LangGraph-style frameworks share an unencrypted state store with no field-level read access control, so one agent can read another’s private fields. The 2026 OWASP Agentic Top 10 and CVE-2...
Radio frequency identification (RFID) systems are emerging as the primary object identification mechanism, especially in supply chain management. However, RFID naturally generates a large amount of duplicate readings. Removing these duplicates from t...
How does the circular economy contribute to the sustainable development of the wine sector? What benefits and limitations can come from the application of the “10Rs”, the circular strategies theorized in 2017 and today a valid tool for th...
Data access control is a crucial aspect of data management. Actors who want to share data need systems to manage consent in order to decide who can access their data. This guarantees the privacy of data, which is often sensitive. As a secure distribu...
In Peru, where socioeconomic inequalities remain a critical challenge, responsible consumption has shifted from individual decisions to organizational strategies with the potential to reduce structural disparities. This study adopted an exploratory&n...
Poultry supply chains need to comply with Shariah requirements when supplying halal meat, which requires continuous quality improvement and multi-stakeholder inspection. However, current traceability systems have centralized opaque characteristics, f...
In this paper, an organic, fully recyclable and eco-friendly 20-bit inkjet-printed chipless RFID tag is presented. The tag operates in the near field and is implemented by means of chains of resonant elements. The characterization and manufacturing p...
The aims of the paper are twofold. First, it provides a systematic qualitative corpus study into differences between Russian and Czech in the use of aspect in chains of single, episodic events, as well as in habitual contexts, which takes into accoun...
In this paper, we report two different strategies to enhance the data density in electromagnetic encoders with synchronous reading. One approach uses a periodic chain of rectangular metallic patches (clock chain) that determines the encoder velocity,...
Sjögren’s disease (SjD) is a systemic autoimmune disease of the exocrine glands, long framed as a lymphocyte-driven disorder in which immune cells destroy the target tissue. Genomic, epigenetic, microbiome, and single-cell and spatial stud...
Canine parvovirus (CPV) is a virus of veterinary health significance and a member of the Parvoviridae family. Despite its clinical significance and global distribution, surveillance is often limited to cases serious enough to result in veterinary vis...
Artificial intelligence (AI)-native sixth-generation (6G) networks are expected to rely on agents in different administrative domains that coordinate policies, model versions and access rights through shared state. A permissioned ledger can anchor th...
This paper presents an overview of the read noise in CMOS image sensors (CISs) based on four-transistors (4T) pixels, column-level amplification and correlated multiple sampling. Starting from the input-referred noise analytical formula, process leve...
Gene expression in individual germinated seeds of four different soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merr.) cultivars, GL3494, OAC Kent, Williams 82, and Jackson, was examined using single seed high-throughput RNA sequencing (ssRNA-seq). The gene expression wa...
Nowadays, scholars need to know the trends for specific themes and how the main methods are applied to solve the gaps. The research problem for this work is the assessment of methods used in the sustainable supply chain, published in journals with a...
Analyzing microbial communities using metagenomes is a powerful approach to understand compositional structures and functional connections in anaerobic digestion (AD) microbiomes. Whereas short-read sequencing approaches based on the Illumina platfor...
DNA information storage holds tremendous potential due to its scalability, long lifespan, and environmental sustainability. The synthesis and reading of complex DNA data structures are of central importance. In this work, we propose new encoding sche...
Under the Markovian property of derivations the history of the derivation is not preserved in the current state, hence chains cannot be read off it. Instead, a Copy relation applies between identical inscriptions at the phase level, before Transfer....
In Radio Frequency Identification facilities the identification delay of a set of tags is mainly caused by the random access nature of the reading protocol, yielding a random identification time of the set of tags. In this paper, the cumulative distr...
Due to advancements in CPU and storage technologies, the processing speed of tasks has been increasing. However, there has been a relative slowdown in the data transfer speeds between disks and memory. Consequently, the issue of I/O processing speed...
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are synthetic chemicals in widespread use that have been shown to be toxic to wildlife and humans. Human serum albumin (HSA) is a known transport protein that binds PFAS at various sites, leading to bioaccum...
Permissioned blockchains are widely used in scenarios such as digital assets, supply chains, government services, and Web 3.0, but their development is hindered by low throughput and scalability. Blockchain sharding addresses these issues by dividing...
Occupational health and safety research has long relied on two ways of understanding harm. One traces the chain of conditions behind an accident, and the other forecasts the outcome of an incident from large bodies of recorded cases. Both treat the f...
Droplet digital polymerase chain reaction (ddPCR) suffers from the need for specific equipment and skilled personnel; thus, we here present a chamber-based digital PCR microfluidic device that is compatible with fluorescence image read-out systems an...
5-Substituted 2-selenouridines (R5Se2U) are post-transcriptional modifications present in the first anticodon position of transfer RNA. Their functional role in the regulation of gene expression is elusive. Here, we present efficient syntheses of 5-m...
Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is crucial in revolutionizing the food supply chain and combating global food waste. However, this technology faces challenges in full integration due to disruptive effects on tags caused by the dielec...
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Given the exponential growth of eWOM, especially among the millennial generation, an analysis of the consultation behaviour of online opinions is essential to better understanding the decision-making process. The aim of this proposal is to analyse ho...
This research paper presents a smart IoT-based COVID-19 vaccine supply chain, monitoring, and control system. This proposed system is designed to efficiently and effectively monitor COVID-19 vaccine storage sites by tracking their temperature, humidi...
A chipless radio-frequency identification (chipless-RFID) and sensing system, where tags are read by proximity (near-field) through a switch, is presented. The tags consist of a set of identical resonant elements (split-ring resonators or SRRs), prin...
This paper presents a time-domain, chipless-RFID system with 80-bit tags inkjet-printed on ordinary DIN A4 paper. The tags, consisting of a linear chain of resonant elements (with as many resonators as the number of identification bits plus header bi...
The insulin-like androgenic gland hormone (IAG) found in decapod crustaceans is known to regulate sexual development in males. IAG is produced in the male-specific endocrine tissue, the androgenic gland (AG); however, IAG expression has been also obs...
Echinococcosis, especially alveolar echinococcosis (AE), is becoming an emerging/re-emerging disease with a growing number of cases reported globally. The diagnosis of echinococcosis is based mainly on imaging, which may be challenging when the image...
The widespread use of mobile devices has allowed the development of participatory sensing systems that capture various types of data using the existing or external sensors attached to mobile devices. Gathering data from such anonymous sources require...
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