An important problem related to the study of the robust stability of a linear system that presents variation in terms of an uncertain parameter consists of understanding the variation in the roots of a system’s characteristic polynomial in term...
Sensors are a key component in industrial automation systems. A fault or malfunction in sensors may degrade control system performance. An engineering system model is usually disturbed by input uncertainties, which brings a challenge for monitoring,...
This paper proposes two novel methods for computing the robustly controlled invariant set of linear discrete-time systems with additive bounded disturbances. In the proposed methods, the robustly controlled invariant set of discrete-time systems is o...
Motor Imagery Brain Computer Interfaces (MI-BCIs) are systems that receive the users’ brain activity as an input signal in order to communicate between the brain and the interface or an action to be performed through the detection of the imagin...
One of the most harmful and deceptive forms of cybercrime is phishing, which targets users with malicious emails and websites. In this paper, we focus on the use of natural language processing (NLP) techniques and transformer models for phishing emai...
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Wastewater is considered a renewable resource water and energy. An advantage of decentralized sanitation systems is the separation of the blackwater (BW) stream, contaminated with human pathogens, from the remaining household water. However, the comp...
Mobile devices have been increasingly used to take pictures without leaving a trace. However, the application system can lead to confidential information leaks. A framework for screen-shooting-resilient watermarking via deep networks (SSDeN) in the f...
Solid tumors typically expand in a “cold” immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME) and resist killing by CAR T cells or conventional therapy. Herein, we show that intratumoral injection of C3a and C5a receptor 1 (C3ar/C5ar1) pharmaceutical anta...
The core objective of this paper is to develop and validate a comprehensive visual sensing concept for robustly classifying house types. Previous studies regarding this type of classification show that this type of classification is not simple (i.e.,...
(1) Background: At present, the bio-inspired visual neural models have made significant achievements in detecting the motion direction of the translating object. Variable contrast in the figure-ground and environmental noise interference, however, ha...
(1) Background: The STRIDeR (Support Tool for Re-Irradiation Decisions guided by Radiobiology) planning pathway aims to facilitate anatomically appropriate and radiobiologically meaningful re-irradiation (reRT). This work evaluated the STRIDeR pathwa...
Background/Objectives: Chronic pruritus of unknown origin (CPUO) is mechanistically poorly resolved, and its relationship to atopic dermatitis (AD) is unclear. We asked how much apparent separation survives removal of leakage. Methods: Public bulk sk...
The problem posed by complex, articulated or deformable objects has been at the focus of much tracking research for a considerable length of time. However, it remains a major challenge, fraught with numerous difficulties. The increased ubiquity of te...
Functionalization of the kaolinite (K) interlayer space is challenging. In this work, a new kaolinite-based nanohybridmaterial (K-NI) was successfully synthesized by grafting on the interlayer aluminol surfaces the ionic liquid, 1-(1-methylnaphthyl)-...
Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are responsible for life-long production of all mature blood cells. Under homeostasis, HSCs in their native bone marrow niches are believed to undergo asymmetric cell divisions (ACDs), with one daughter cell maintainin...
How robust is our assessment of impacts to ecosystems and species from a rapidly changing climate during the 21st century? We examine the challenges of uncertainty, complexity and constraints associated with applying climate projections to understand...
A conventional method for wrapping round bales of agricultural materials by wrappers with a rotating table or with rotating arms is considered. In contemporary agriculture, the demand for minimal consumption of the film used to wrap bales is very hig...
Ebola virus (EBOV), one of the most infectious human viruses and a leading cause of viral hemorrhagic fever, imposes a potential public health threat with several recent outbreaks. Despite the difficulties associated with working with this pathogen i...
At present, GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) positioning technology is widely used for outdoor positioning services because of its high-precision positioning characteristics. However, in indoor environments, effective position information ca...
Although immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapies have achieved great progress, the patient response varies among cancers. In this study, we analyzed the potential genomic indicators contributing to ICB therapy response. The results showed that hig...
In the field of antivenom research, development, and manufacture, it is often advised to follow the World Health Organization’s (WHO) guidelines for the production, control, and regulation of snake antivenom immunoglobulins, which recommend the...
Aging is associated with a decline in immune system functionality. So-called immunosenescence may impair the successful vaccination of elderly people. Thus, improved vaccination strategies also suitable for an aged immune system are required. Modifie...
In most conventional ball end milling processes, the small surface that is cut the latest in every tooth period by the trailing cutting edge remains as the finished surface, while the other large surface is removed by the consecutive tooth or in the...
Japanese adverbs are difficult to classify, with little progress made since the 1930s. Now in the age of large language models, linguists need a framework for lexical grouping that incorporates quantitative, evidence-based relationships rather than p...
Understanding the molecular underpinnings of disease severity and progression in human studies is necessary to develop metabolism-related preventative strategies for severe COVID-19. Metabolites and metabolic pathways that predispose individuals to s...
Coastal reclamation ecological restoration is critical for mitigating nearshore ecosystem degradation; however, achieving robust ecological assessment and effectively improving ecological health remain challenging for governance and sustainable devel...
Aiming at the influence of wind power and load uncertainty on the transient stability of a power system under low carbon mode, this paper first proposes a collaborative preventive and emergency control model of transient stability by distribution pre...
Nature provides a rich source of principles for engineering systems capable of operating efficiently and robustly in complex environments [...]
High-speed wired and wireless Internet are one of the useful ways to acquire various types of media data easily. In this circumstance, people also can easily get media data including objects with exposed personal information through the Internet. Exp...
In recent years, model-based fault techniques have become popular due to their capability to reduce calculation cost. Bayesian Network and two-stage Kalman filter-based methods have recently become quite popular due to their robustness. In this paper...
It was found that thermoacoustic solar-power generators with resonant control are more powerful than passive ones. To continue the work, this paper focuses on the synthesis of robustly resonant controllers that guarantee single-mode resonance not onl...
Robust admissibility guarantees that the closed-loop poles remain within a prescribed region, but it does not reveal the locally sensitive portions of the root contours. In this study, a pole sensitivity mapping method is developed that combines modu...
During the last decades, wind energy has been developed from an emerging technique of yielding sustainable energy into a robustly established technology due to its renewable, sustainable, and clean features [...]
SNS providers are known to carry out the recompression and resizing of uploaded images, but most conventional methods for detecting fake images/tampered images are not robust enough against such operations. In this paper, we propose a novel method fo...
Fatigue failure is a significant problem in the structural safety of engineering structures. Human inspection is the most widely used approach for fatigue failure detection, which is time consuming and subjective. Traditional vision-based methods are...
Background: Total Kidney Volume (TKV) is widely used globally to predict the progressive loss of renal function in patients with Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD). Typically, TKV is calculated using Computed Tomography (CT) images...
Single-shot 3D reconstruction technique is very important for measuring moving and deforming objects. After many decades of study, a great number of interesting single-shot techniques have been proposed, yet the problem remains open. In this paper, a...
The segmentation of pulmonary lobes is important in clinical assessment, lesion location, and surgical planning. Automatic lobe segmentation is challenging, mainly due to the incomplete fissures or the morphological variation resulting from lung dise...
In this paper, variable speed PMSG wind turbine systems with unknown system parameters, such as vicious friction coefficient and total inertia, are considered. The errors and variations of wind speed are modeled as a disturbance in mechanical torque....
Funds from the European Union that are devoted to fostering a low-carbon economy are aimed at assisting Member States and regions in implementing the required investments in energy efficiency, renewable energy, and smart distribution electricity grid...
There is a strong correlation between the geometry of the weld pool surface and the degree of penetration in arc welding. To measure the geometry of the weld pool surface robustly, many structured light laser line based monitoring systems have been p...
We show that if a differentiable map f of a compact smooth Riemannian manifold M is
Advances in Robotics are leading to a new generation of assistant robots working in ordinary, domestic settings. This evolution raises new challenges in the tasks to be accomplished by the robots. This is the case for object manipulation where the de...
Commercial Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains often fail to capture the varietal typicity of kiwifruit wine, a shortfall that compromises flavor and raises methanol-related safety concerns. This study therefore screened indigenous yeasts to enhance sen...
This study examines the effect of the elderly population on SARS-CoV-2 Disease (COVID-19) mortality for a sample of 146 countries. It shows that the elderly population is robustly associated with higher COVID-19 mortality. This effect, however, decre...
Although unsupervised deep hashing is potentially very useful for tackling many large-scale tasks, its performance is still far below satisfactory. Additionally, its performance might be significantly improved by effectively exploiting the pair simil...
In diseases of the central nervous system, such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD), stroke, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Huntington’s disease (HD), and even epilepsy and migraine, oxidative stress load com...
It is imperative to advance the understanding of lung cancer biology. The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) dataset was used for bioinformatics analysis. CCK-8 assay, flow cytometry, and western blot were performed in vitro, followed by in vivo study. We fo...
Charging load mobility evaluation becomes one of the main concerns for charging services and power system stability due to the stochastic nature of electrical vehicles (EVs) and is critical for the robust scheduling of economic operations at differen...
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