Throughout its service life, an aero-engine will experience a series of health conditions due to the inevitable performance degradation of its major components, and characteristics will deviate from their initial states. For improving tracking accura...
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Numerous policies have been formulated and implemented to strengthen waste separation management activities in many countries. Waste separation management policies (WSMPs) must be evaluated as the precondition for reducing deviations from policy impl...
Seismic excitations may lead to collisions between adjacent civil engineering structures, causing major damage. In this paper, an effective equation for calculating the gap size index is proposed so as to provide the optimum separation distance preve...
Tropical forests play a vital role in biodiversity conservation and the maintenance of sustainability. Although different time-series spatial resolution satellite images have provided opportunities for tropical forests classification, the complexity...
This study introduces a Vorticity Index (VI) and an Imminent Vortex Separation Condition (IVSC), which are considered valuable indicators to quantify the vorticity impact on vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) operation. The VI and IVSC are specifica...
The present work aimed to design a separation process for 2-phenylethanol (2-PEA) produced by whey fermentation and to evaluate its economic potential. The separation sequence consisted of a liquid–liquid extraction column followed by two disti...
The unique ecosystems of the Hawaiian Islands are progressively being threatened following the introduction of exotic species. Operational implementation of remote sensing for the detection, mapping and monitoring of these biological invasions is cur...
Crumb rubber modifier (CRM) binders easily suffer from instability at high temperatures, with many suggestions being developed to evaluate their storage stability. However, much uncertainty around CRM binders still exists regarding the relationship b...
Key–value (KV) stores based on the LSM-tree have become the mainstream of contemporary store engines, but there are problems with high write and read amplification. Moreover, the real-world workload has a high data skew, and the existing KV sto...
The near-field enhancement and localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) on the core-shell noble metal nanostructure surfaces are widely studied for various biomedical applications. However, the study of the optical properties of new plasmonic non-s...
Baseflow plays a crucial role in maintaining the stability of streamflows, especially in watersheds. To reveal the evolution of baseflow in watersheds in southern China, this study investigated the variation in baseflow across the small watershed of...
Given the limited features (for example, the backscattering coefficient threshold range) of single-channel Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images, it is difficult to distinguish ground objects similar to the backscattering coefficients of water bodies...
Uncontrolled, large fires are a major threat to the biodiversity of protected heath landscapes. The severity of the fire is an important factor influencing vegetation recovery. We used airborne imaging spectroscopy data from the Airborne Prism Experi...
Tetrahydrofuran (THF) and methanol (MeOH) are widely used as organic solvents in chemical, pharmaceutical, and other industrial fields. The wastewater from producing 1,4-butanediol contains THF, MeOH, and water ternary azeotropic mixture. In this stu...
Soybean is a key global crop for food and oil production, playing a vital role in ensuring food security and supplying plant-based proteins and oils. Accurate information on soybean distribution is essential for yield forecasting, agricultural manage...
This study evaluates remote sensing features to resolve problems associated with feature redundancy, low efficiency, and insufficient input feature analysis in bushfire detection. It calculates spectral features, remote sensing indices, and texture f...
This paper presents an experimental and numerical investigation of a 254 mm resin-printed propeller operating at rotational speeds between 3000 and 9000 RPM. Propeller thrust and torque were measured using a six-degree-of-freedom load cell, while aco...
Time series from Landsat and Sentinel-2 satellites have great potential for modeling vegetation seasonality. However, irregular time sampling and frequent data loss due to clouds, snow, and short growing seasons, makes this modeling a challenge. We d...
In order to assess the reliability of power systems, transient stability simulations must be conducted in addition to steady state study. The transient stability component of reliability studies usually involves extensive simulations generating large...
Baseflow estimation and evaluation are two critical and essential tasks for water quality and quantity, drought management, water supply, and groundwater protection. Observed baseflows are rarely available and are limited to focused pilot studies. In...
This paper conveys the laboratory investigation of the storage stability of CRM binder as a basic study. The CRM binder was produced through the wet process in the laboratory. The percentages of crumb rubber used for rubberized binder were 5%, 10%, 1...
Accurately obtaining the multi-year spatial distribution information of crops combined with the corresponding agricultural production data is of great significance to the optimal management of agricultural production in the future. However, there are...
To identify liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS)-related molecular clusters, and to develop and validate a novel index based on LLPS for predicting the prognosis of prostate cancer (PCa) patients. We download the clinical and transcriptome dat...
Data clustering is a process of arranging similar data in different groups based on certain characteristics and properties, and each group is considered as a cluster. In the last decades, several nature-inspired optimization algorithms proved to be e...
The non-invasive fetal electrocardiogram (fECG) technique has recently received considerable interest in monitoring fetal health. The aim of our paper is to propose a novel fECG algorithm based on the combination of the criteria of independent source...
Alginate microcapsules are one of the attractive non-invasive platforms for handling individual cells and clusters, maintaining their isolation for further applications such as imaging cell sorter and single capsule qPCR. However, the conventional ce...
A pattern-recognition (PR)-based myoelectric control system is the trend of future prostheses development. Compared with conventional prosthetic control systems, PR-based control systems provide high dexterity, with many studies achieving >95% acc...
Documenting how ground- and surface water systems respond to climate change is crucial to understanding water resources, particularly in the U.S. Great Lakes region, where drastic temperature and precipitation changes are observed. This study present...
With the rapid development of electronic technology, the electromagnetic interference encountered by airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is no longer satisfied with a single type of interference, and it often encounters both suppressive and decep...
Polyurethane asphalt (PUA) has attracted considerable attention in the field of pavement engineering. However, traditional PUA systems typically exhibit low concentrations of polyurethane (PU), leading to a continuous bitumen-dominated phase that adv...
Peptides are in great demand in the pharmaceutical arena and a majority of these peptides contain 20 or more amino acids. They are infrequently synthesised using the fragment condensation approach. A key limitation in adopting this approach more comm...
The separation models are tools used in solar engineering to estimate direct normal (DNI) and diffuse horizontal (DHI) solar irradiances from measurements of global solar irradiance (GHI). This paper proposes two empirical separation models that stan...
Climate change and the appearance of pests and pathogens are leading to the disappearance of palm groves of Phoenix canariensis in the Canary Islands. Traditional pathology diagnostic techniques are resource-demanding and poorly reproducible, and it...
The active wave absorption method has been widely employed in numerical wave tanks. The wave absorption performance of active wave absorption methods is investigated within a numerical wave tank based on a lattice Boltzmann method. Specifically, two...
The cell nucleus is three-dimensionally and dynamically organized by nuclear components with high molecular density, such as chromatin and nuclear bodies. The structure and functions of these components are represented by the diffusion and interactio...
Increasing demand to strengthen energy security has increased the importance of natural gas sweetening and biogas upgrading processes. Membrane-based separation of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) is a relatively newer technology, which offers...
The Sor and Gebba watershed has undergone several natural and anthropogenic changes, as evidenced by the physical alterations and artificial mismanagement of water resources in the watershed. These situations alter the underground storage aquifer con...
Accurate crop planting area information is of significance for understanding regional food security and agricultural development planning. While increasing numbers of medium resolution satellite imagery and improved classification algorithms have bee...
Multiple cluster validity indices (CVIs) have been introduced for diverse applications. In practice, clusters exhibit varying shapes, sizes, densities, and closely spaced centers, which are typically unknown beforehand. It is desirable to develop a v...
In order to make optimal decisions on the treatment of atherosclerotic coronary heart disease (CHD), appropriate evaluation is necessary, including both the anatomical and physiological assessment of the coronary arteries. According to current guidel...
To study the influence of the tilt-back design of a vertical tail on its aerodynamic stealth characteristics, an optimization method based on a quantitative weight coefficient and a two-particle search algorithm is presented. When the aerodynamic per...
In machines and devices used for separating and cleaning seed mixtures, the components of such mixtures can be separated in a stream of air. The efficiency of separation of a two-component (model) mixture containing wheat kernels and buckwheat nutlet...
A in situ hyperspectral dataset containing multiple growth stages over multiple growing seasons was used to build paddy rice leaf area index (LAI) estimation models with a special focus on the effects of paddy rice growth stage development. The univa...
With the expansion of coal mining westward in China, water inrush from seam roofs has become a prominent safety problem during mining. The roof rock of the coal seam in the Shilawusu coal mine has the characteristics of a double-layer structure, and...
The flow field evolution in the first turn of the spiral concentrator is decisive for the separation efficiency of solid particles. A laboratory-scale Φ300 mm spiral concentrator was employed as the study subject. The fluid phase was simulated us...
Poly(ethylene-co-vinylalcohol) (E-VOH) and carbon nanotube-filled poly (vinyl alcohol-co-ethylene) (E-VOH/CNT) were used as membranes to separate benzene/cyclohexane mixtures by pervaporation technique. To reach this goal, E-VOH and E-VOH/CNT membran...
In order to enhance the comprehensive processing quality and production efficiency of seed melons, a seed melon crushing and seed-extraction separator has been developed and designed. Aiming at the issues of high impurity rate and scratch rate of mel...
This study aims to propose and validate the state space mode decomposition technique for precise mode separation of non-classical damping systems and closely distributed modal systems. To assess the reliability and applicability of this technique, a...
We address the problem of positional indexing in the natural language domain. The positional inverted index contains the information of the word positions. Thus, it is able to recover the original text file, which implies that it is not necessary to...
Aiming at improving the well-known fuzzy compactness and separation algorithm (FCS), this paper proposes a new clustering algorithm based on feature weighting fuzzy compactness and separation (WFCS). In view of the contribution of features to cluster...
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