Artificial intelligence (AI) is crucial for driving radical innovation, which is key for firms to gain and maintain long-term competitive advantage. However, relatively little is known about how radical innovation is shaped by strategic direction reg...
Microblogs provide a continuously evolving source of information, but their short, noisy, contextual, and rapidly changing nature makes effective search, exploration, summarisation, and analysis challenging. This paper presents a unified framework fo...
This paper introduces the Enhanced Team-Oriented Swarm Optimization (ETOSO) algorithm, a novel refinement of the Team-Oriented Swarm Optimization (TOSO) algorithm aimed at addressing the stagnation problem commonly encountered in nature-inspired opti...
In this paper, a dynamic two-stage closed search (DTSCS) scheme for the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) cooperative region search is designed, which satisfies the range constraint (RC) and orientation constraint (OC). The closed trajectory is composed...
With the rise in cloud computing architecture, the development of service-oriented simulation models has gradually become a prominent topic in the field of complex system simulation. In order to support the distributed sharing of the simulation model...
Solar energy technologies play an important role in shaping a sustainable energy future, and generating clean, renewable, and widely distributed energy sources. This paper determines the optimum tilt angle and optimum azimuth angle of photovoltaic (P...
29 April 2022
Scientific achievements concerning the direct relation between personality traits and positive orientation among patients with multiple sclerosis do not explain the role of potential mediators. In fact, some researchers argue that the traits–po...
Human movement analysis has become easier with the wide availability of motion capture systems. Inertial sensing has made it possible to capture human motion without external infrastructure, therefore allowing measurements in any environment. As high...
This paper presents an integrated planner based on rapidly exploring random tree (RRT) for an assembly task with possible re-grasping. Given multiple grasp poses for the part to assemble, the planner chooses candidate grasp poses considering the envi...
Incorporating demand-side management (DSM) into residential energy guarantees dynamic electricity management in the residential domain by allowing consumers to make early-informed decisions about their energy consumption. As a result, power companies...
This study proposes some rules for performing a function-oriented search (providing function and object) to extract technical systems from patents, using syntax and dependency patterns to analyse multiple sentences. Unlike the most common inter-sente...
Multi-robot rescue path planning (MRRPP) is critical for ensuring the rapid and effective completion of post-disaster rescue tasks. Most studies focus on minimizing the length of rescue paths, the number of robots, and rescue time, neglecting the tas...
Infants show an advantage in processing female and familiar race faces, but the effect sizes are often small, suggesting individual differences in their discrimination abilities. This research assessed whether differences in 6–10-month-olds&rsq...
Post-disaster Search and Rescue (SAR) missions demand rapid coordination of Heterogeneous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) fleets under stringent payload and flight range limitations. Traditional heuristic solvers struggle to solve the Large-Scale Heter...
The case of dual manipulators with shared workspace, asynchronous manufacturing tasks, and independent objects is named a dual manipulator cooperative manufacturing system, which requires collision-free path planning as a vital issue in terms of safe...
The paper presents simulation research on a variable structure control scheme of a small variable-speed fixed-pitch wind energy conversion system (WECS) with a three-phase permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) in variable wind conditions. The...
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...
This paper introduced a method using hybrid combination of network restructuring and optimal placement of optimally sized distributed generators (DG) to reduce loss and improve voltage profile in a practical transmission network for scenario of high...
In recent years, microgrids (MGs) have been developed to improve the overall management of the power network. This paper examines how a smart MG’s generation and demand sides are managed to improve the MG’s performance in order to minimiz...
Nowadays, researchers aim to enhance man-to-machine interactions by making advancements in several domains. Facial emotion recognition (FER) is one such domain in which researchers have made significant progresses. Features for FER can be extracted u...
In sensor-based monitoring systems, the rapid and accurate recognition of alarm semantic levels is essential for maintaining operational reliability. Traditional static visualizations often fail to communicate these distinctions effectively under tim...
Maritime search and rescue (SAR) is a time-critical public safety mission that increasingly relies on unmanned vehicles to localize persons overboard. However, reliable onboard perception is challenged by extreme scale variation and heavy sea clutter...
The traditional mantis search algorithm (MSA) suffers from limitations such as slow convergence and a high likelihood of converging to local optima in complex optimization scenarios. This paper proposes an improved mantis search algorithm (IMSA) to o...
Given a graph whose nodes and edges are associated with a profit, a visiting (or traversing) time and an admittance time window, the Mixed Team Orienteering Problem with Time Windows (MTOPTW) seeks for a specific number of walks spanning a subset of...
This article explores in conversation with some of the writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer the question of how the experience of the dislocation of time and the visitation of “the ghosts of the past” (also in contexts marked by historical injustices) is...
Test case generation is an important process in software testing. However, manual generation of test cases is a time-consuming process. Automation can considerably reduce the time required to create adequate test cases for software testing. Genetic a...
27 May 2021
This study explored the association between meaning in life and readiness for political participation based on meaning-in-life profiles among Chinese late adolescents. A total of 1030 college students (mean age = 19.69 ± 1.47 years) in Hong Kong part...
In this paper, a new meta-heuristic path planning algorithm, the cuckoo–beetle swarm search (CBSS) algorithm, is introduced to solve the path planning problems of heterogeneous mobile robots. Traditional meta-heuristic algorithms, e.g., genetic...
Position and orientation deviations (PODs), being affected by surface deviations, occur after parts are assembled, which directly affects the performance of mechanical products. Moreover, mechanical parts are generally assembled with multiple constra...
Under the premise of resource constraint, it is crucial to identify the product innovation opportunities contained in failed patents through external search in order to compensate for the shortcomings of enterprises’ own technology. Due to the...
This article addresses methods for detection of orientation-modulation data embedded in color dispersed-dot-halftone images. Several state-of-the-art methods for detection of orientation-embedded data in printed halftone images have been proposed, ho...
The reasonable application of cross-domain knowledge tends to promote the generation of radical innovation. However, it is difficult to accurately capture the cross-domain knowledge needed for radical innovation. To solve this problem, this paper pro...
This article presents the design, implementation, and experimental validation of an autonomous drone system for search and rescue operations in cluttered GNSS-denied environments. The proposed platform integrates advanced navigation, mapping, and vic...
Gliomas constitute the majority of primary brain tumors, and accurate diagnosis through MRI is essential for patient management. Existing computer-aided diagnosis approaches frequently rely on tumor segmentation frameworks. In this study, a segmentat...
From inadequate prior antidepressants that targeted monoamine neurotransmitter systems emerged the discovery of alternative drugs for depression. For instance, drugs targeted interleukin 6 receptor (IL6R) in inflammatory system. Genomic analysis-base...
The personalized recommendation system is a useful tool adopted by e-retailers to help consumers to find items in line with their preferences. Existing methods focus on learning user preferences from a user-item matrix or online reviews after purchas...
Since complex search tasks are usually divided into subtasks, providing subtask-oriented query recommendations is an effective way to support complex search tasks. Currently, most subtask-oriented query recommendation methods extract subtasks from pl...
Object detection in aerial images can provide great support in traffic planning, national defense reconnaissance, hydrographic surveys, infrastructure construction, and other fields. Objects in aerial images are characterized by small pixel–are...
Tonic immobility (TI) is a well-known anti-predator strategy adopted by diverse preys. Numerous studies on the cost–benefit involve in TI have been reported. Although, some studies have reported the effect of mating behavior on TI, few studies...
A directional borehole radar consists of one transmitting antenna in the borehole and four receiving antennas distributed at equal angles in a ring. The receiving antennas can determine the depth and orientation of targets beside the borehole. Howeve...
This article offers a systematic review of research trends and methodology, with a focus on the state and order of knowledge regarding service orientation in hospitality and tourism research. A search algorithm was created through Web of Science and...
Printing orientation is one of the printing parameters that affect the properties of three-dimensional (3D)-printed resins. Different printing orientations and directions have been suggested; however, no clear and specific orientations are recommende...
The template matching technique is one of the most applied methods to find patterns in images, in which a reduced-size image, called a target, is searched within another image that represents the overall environment. In this work, template matching i...
Vehicle detection in aerial images plays a significant role in civil and military applications and it faces many challenges including the overhead-view perspective, the highly complex background, and the variants of vehicles. This paper presents a ro...
Literature on job searching suggests that emotion regulation has an impact on employability, but this relationship is far from being explained; furthermore, most of the studies have been conducted among students or workers. The aim of the current stu...
Parasitoids are organisms that kill their host before completing their development. Typical parasitoids belong to Hymenoptera, whose females search for the hosts. But some atypical Diptera parasitoids also have searching larvae that must orientate to...
Using 100 years of fire perimeter maps, we investigate the existence of geographical patterns in fire orientation across California. We computed fire perimeter orientation, at the watershed level, using principal component analysis. Circular statisti...
The primary purpose of this article was to examine the mediating effects of market orientation on the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and financial performance. The mediation effects of market orientation on the relationship between...
Urban regeneration increasingly uses tourism scenario activation to renew heritage, public space and local economies. Yet the production of urban attractiveness can intensify tourism gentrification, commercial reorientation and the erosion of ordinar...
There has been a recent increase in body-oriented interventions implemented in educational contexts. Body-oriented interventions are grounded on the body–mind relationship, involving body and movement awareness and expression. In this systemati...
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