People with physical disabilities in their upper extremities face serious issues in using classical input devices due to lacking movement possibilities and precision. This article suggests an alternative input concept and presents corresponding input...
The main purpose of the method proposed in this article is to reduce the number of look-up-table (LUT) elements in logic circuits of sequential devices. The devices are represented by models of Mealy finite state machines (FSMs). Thesee are so-called...
Very often, digital systems include sequential blocks which can be represented using a model of Mealy finite state machine (FSM). It is very important to improve such FSM characteristics as the number of used logic elements, operating frequency and p...
People with neuromuscular diseases often experience limited upper limb mobility, which makes the handling of standard computer mice and keyboards difficult. Due to the importance of computers in private and professional life, this work aims at implem...
This study introduces an ability-based method for personalized keyboard generation, wherein an individual’s own movement and human–computer interaction data are used to automatically compute a personalized virtual keyboard layout. Our app...
Software testing is an important step in the software development life cycle to ensure the quality and security of software. Fuzzing is a security testing technique that finds vulnerabilities automatically without accessing the source code. We built...
This article presents a neural network-based control method for maintaining the required output voltage of a synchronous buck converter. The goal was to replace a traditional PID controller with a neural network that calculates the duty cycle based o...
Today, research trends clearly confirm the fact that machine learning technologies open up new opportunities in various computing environments, such as Internet of Things, mobile, and enterprise. Unfortunately, the prior efforts rarely focused on des...
This paper shows an optimization study on calculating the optimum replaced wheel diameter in internal grinding of stainless steel. In this work, the effects of the input factors, including the initial diameter, the grinding wheel width, the ratio bet...
Industrial bio-inputs can improve commodity farming by replacing the use of agrochemicals. To assess the potential of agricultural bio-inputs to contribute to Brazil’s agro-industrial growth, we analyzed the market share held by domestic compan...
Dengue fever, a mosquito-borne disease caused by the dengue virus, imposes a substantial disease burden on the world. Wolbachia not only manipulates the reproductive processes of mosquitoes through maternal inheritance and cytoplasmic incompatibility...
Recovering and recycling phosphorus (P) from sewage sludge ash (SSA) for the purpose of P fertilizer production contributes to reducing the input of mined phosphate-minerals and closing of the P cycle. However, direct use of SSA as fertilizer is ofte...
Electric Vehicles (EVs) play a significant role in the reduction of CO2 emissions and other health-threatening air pollutants Accordingly, several research studies are introduced owing to replacing conventional gasoline-powered vehicles with battery-...
The operation of a voltage source inverter (VSI) depends on its output LC filter and the PWM modulator delay. The VSI model includes serial equivalent resistance based on the resistances of the active inverter bridge transistors, the filter coil wind...
The aging of the agricultural labor force is an irreversible trend that has become an important issue in China’s economic transformation. Previous studies on the effects of an aging population in developing countries on agriculture mainly focus...
Autonomous vehicles (AV) increasingly allow drivers to engage in secondary tasks such as eating or working on a laptop and thus require easy and reliable interaction inputs to facilitate communication between the driver and the vehicle. However, driv...
At present, the fault diagnosis methods for rolling bearings are all based on research with fewer fault categories, without considering the problem of multiple faults. In practical applications, the coexistence of multiple operating conditions and fa...
Glassy hydrocarbon-based membranes are being researched as a replacement for perfluorosulfonic acid (PFSA) membranes in proton exchange membrane water electrolysis (PEMWE). Here, naphthalene containing Poly(arylene Ether Ketone) was introduced into t...
With increasing global concerns regarding indoor air quality (IAQ) and air pollution, concerns about regularly replacing ventilation devices, particularly high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters, have increased. However, users cannot easily de...
In this paper, we propose an optimized method for nonlinear function approximation based on multiplierless piecewise linear approximation computation (ML-PLAC), which we call OML-PLAC. OML-PLAC finds the minimum number of segments with the predefined...
Resistance Element Soldering (RES) is one of the new methods of joining dissimilar materials by resistance heating using an element. Sn60Pb40 solder, which has been used for decades in tin smithing and the electrical industry, has already been tested...
In drilling Carbon-Fibre-Reinforced Polymers (CFRP)/Al stacks, adaptive drilling facilitates the optimisation of cutting parameters for each constituent stack layer and tool wear, thus enhancing cutting efficiency and borehole quality. This study pro...
We write the mutual information between an input speech utterance and its reconstruction by a code-excited linear prediction (CELP) codec in terms of the mutual information between the input speech and the contributions due to the short-term predicto...
In this paper, we develop a preventive maintenance (PM) strategy for a solar photovoltaic system composed of solar panels functioning as a series system. The photovoltaic system is considered in a failed state whenever its efficiency drops below a pr...
This paper proposes that the deep neural network-based guidance (DNNG) law replace the proportional navigation guidance (PNG) law. This approach is performed by adopting a supervised learning (SL) method using a large amount of simulation data from t...
Electrical and thermal consumption related to buildings, whether civil, commercial, public, or of any other kind, is very much in focus today. With today’s targets for energy savings, reduction of consumption, and environmental impact, it is ne...
Supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) are strongly advised as an alternative to cement to reduce its adverse environmental effects. One such SCMs is palm oil fuel ash (POFA), a waste material generated in large quantities in Southeast Asian cou...
Model induction is one of the most popular methods to extract information to better understand AI’s decisions by estimating the contribution of input features for a class of interest. However, we found a potential issue: most model induction me...
A method is proposed which aims to reduce the hardware in FPGA-based circuits of Mealy finite state machines (FSMs). The proposed method is a type of structural decomposition method. Its main goal is the reducing the number of look-up table (LUT) ele...
Experimental and simulation investigation of the performance and characteristics of different refrigerants and blends of refrigerants is carried out to replace the existing refrigerant R134a for a vapour compression refrigeration system. The performa...
Over the past few years, due to an aging population and a longer life expectancy, traditional high-oil, high-calorie, and high-temperature culinary concepts have been widely replaced by healthier, low-temperature heating methods. However, while the k...
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Using typical counties in the Yimeng Mountain area of northern China as an example, this paper analyzed the household and agricultural input characteristics of different types of peasant households using survey data from 262 farm households. The targ...
In employing MaxEnt, a crucial role is assigned to the reciprocity relations that relate the quantifier to be extremized (Shannon’s entropy S), the Lagrange multipliers that arise during the variational process, and the expectation values that consti...
Innovations in agricultural bio-inputs can lead to sustainable alternatives to replace synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. However, there is no clear understanding of what technologies can become available to farmers as commercial products, particu...
This article presents a research approach to enhancing the quality of short-term power output forecasting models for photovoltaic plants using a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) recurrent neural network. Typically, time-related indicators are used as in...
In automatic paper currency sorting, fitness classification is a technique that assesses the quality of banknotes to determine whether a banknote is suitable for recirculation or should be replaced. Studies on using visible-light reflection images of...
Densely connected convolutional networks (DenseNet) behave well in image processing. However, for regression tasks, convolutional DenseNet may lose essential information from independent input features. To tackle this issue, we propose a novel DenseN...
This paper focuses on the joint estimation of parameters and time delays for multi-input systems that contain unknown input delays and colored noise. A greedy pursuit hierarchical iteration algorithm is proposed, which can reduce the estimation cost....
The problem of optimisation methods is the stagnation of population P, which results in a local solution for the task. This problem can be solved by employing an archive for good historical solutions outperformed by the new better offspring. The arch...
Vertical farming has emerged in urban areas as an approach to provide more resilient food production. However, a substantial share of the material requirements come from outside their urban environments. With urban environments producing a large shar...
The dynamics of the suction manifold of a high-fidelity simulation benchmark model of a modified supermarket refrigeration system created in MATLAB 2024a and Simulink 2024a is modeled using a nonlinear system identification technique. The original mo...
Predicting and analyzing travel mode choices and purposes are significant to improve urban travel mobility and transportation planning. Previous research has ignored the interconnection between travel mode choices and purposes and thus overlooked the...
Agricultural activities are important contributors to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in southern Chile. Three types of agricultural systems coexist within this region: traditional, conventional and agroecological. Historical changes in agricultural p...
In order to achieve a sustainable mix design, this paper evaluates self-consolidating green concrete (SCGC) properties by experimental tests and then examines the design parameters with an artificial intelligence technique. In this regard, cement was...
Terrestrial transport biofuels differ in their ability to replace fossil fuels. When both the conversion of solar energy into biomass and the life cycle inputs of fossil fuels are considered, ethanol from sugarcane and biodiesel from palm oil do rela...
Prediction of weld bead geometry is critical for any welding process, since several mechanical properties of the weldment depend on this. Researchers have used artificial neural networks (ANNs) to predict the bead geometry based on the input paramete...
Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a popular and universal method for examining the efficiency with which decision-making units (DMUs) transform multiple inputs into multiple outputs. However, DEA has its limitations, one of them being its decreasing...
Mathematical descriptions of true stress/true strain curves, experimentally obtained on cylindrical specimens under hot compressive conditions, are of great importance and are widely investigated. An additional black-box modelling approach using tran...
The importance of waste energy is increasing with increasing emphasis on carbon neutrality. Solid recovered fuels (SRFs) are manufactured to recycle waste into fuel form and can replace fossil fuels by recovering the heat generated by using them. Thi...
The architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry consume approximately 23% of the national energy annually, and are considered among the highest energy consuming industries. Recently, several studies have focused on establishing strateg...
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