Widely used in the making of sculptures and prefabricated building components, ferrocement is considered to be beneficial to environmental preservation. However, there is still little attention paid to the making shape and design of the ferrocement i...
The autonomous shape decision-making problem of a morphing aircraft (MA) with a variable wingspan and sweep angle is studied in this paper. Considering the continuity of state space and action space, a more practical autonomous decision-making algori...
An important objective in weed management is the discrimination between grasses (monocots) and broad-leaved weeds (dicots), because these two weed groups can be appropriately controlled by specific herbicides. In fact, efficiency is higher if selecti...
Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) increasingly require on-board policies capable of engagement-level tactical decisions under discrete mission-system constraints. Most existing systems, however, remain rule-based and predictable, and many maritime rei...
Software developers need information for deciding the optimal time for software release with improved software reliability. However, it is not easy for them to decide when and how to release newly developed software to the market. For a decision, the...
The current study aims to investigate how the presence of social norms defines belief formation on future changes in social identity (i.e., diachronic identity), and how those beliefs affect individual decisions under uncertainty. The paper proposes...
This entry is based on the premise that pressing issues of climate change, social injustice, and post-COVID practices appear to have superseded some essential values of architectural and design pedagogy, leading to improvements in content that may be...
Well construction operations require continuous complex decision-making and multi-step action planning. Action selection at every step demands a careful evaluation of the vast action space, while guided by long-term objectives and desired outcomes. C...
The increasing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in educational decision-making raises a critical question: how to design AI systems that can effectively support teachers while maintaining an appropriate level of trust. Addressing this ques...
Improvements in medical technology have significantly changed the management of congenital heart disease (CHD), offering novel tools to predict outcomes and personalize follow-up care. By using sophisticated imaging modalities, computational models a...
This paper focuses on how to solve the demand of how to quickly explore more urban space design and layout in terms of the conservation and reuse of historical blocks under computer-aided design technology. Referring to urban inductive patterns, the...
Performance Shaping Factors (PSFs) are contextual, individual, and cognitive factors used in Human Reliability Analysis (HRA) to quantify the worker contribution to errors when performing a generic task. Although the empirical evidence demonstrates t...
Eating, central to human existence, is influenced by a myriad of factors, including nutrition, health, personal taste, cultural background, and flavor preferences. The challenge of devising personalized meal plans that effectively encompass these dim...
The language used by attorneys at trial could influence case outcomes, impacting fairness and wrongful convictions. At trial, attorneys choose their words to manage impressions the jury forms of the defendant, thereby influencing case outcomes. This...
In this paper I aim to draw attention to the continued emphasis on ‘moral tales in stories of family construction. In research projects on both conventional family practices such as marriage and non-conventional ones such as living apart togeth...
Based on leadership narratives collected between 2022 and 2025, this article examines how Ukrainian non-military organizational and community leaders who have remained in the country during the ongoing war interpret, embody, and enact theological mea...
Stainless steels have undergone more than a century of continuous development, during which various advanced grades—such as lean duplex, super austenitic, and high-nitrogen stainless steels—have been introduced. Despite remarkable progres...
Breast cancer is a significant health concern for women, emphasizing the need for early detection. This research focuses on developing a computer system for asymmetry detection in mammographic images, employing two critical approaches: Dynamic Time W...
Participatory music-making is any music-making activity in which individuals engage for the sake of the activity itself. It can be contrasted with presentational music-making, which takes the production of a performance or recording for consumption b...
Pedestrians’ route choice is critical for several purposes, while deliberately changing map representations can influence map users’ route choice. Simplifying routes’ geometric shapes is one way to achieve this. However, the other g...
Safety remains a central challenge in autonomous driving: overly rigid safeguards can cause unnecessary stops and erode efficiency. Addressing this safety–efficiency trade-off requires specifying what behaviors to incentivize. In reinforcement...
Upgrading the Syrian refugee shelter design serves humanitarian needs, especially since the currently used T-shelters have a life span of 2–4 years, and there are no clear signs of an imminent return of Syrian refugees to their country, even af...
Cost estimation is the process of creating cost forecasts by quantitative determination and pricing of the necessary resources for a project’s implementation. This process is iterative, where estimates are regularly updated based on the availab...
To investigate the influence of decision-making styles on college students’ sports and health consumption preferences and the underlying cognitive neural mechanisms, this study recruited 39 college students as participants, adopted a one-factor...
The Three Amino acid Loop Extension (TALE) proteins constitute an ancestral superclass of homeodomain transcription factors conserved in animals, plants and fungi. In plants they comprise two classes, KNOTTED1-LIKE homeobox (KNOX) and BEL1-like homeo...
Cells adapt their phenotypes in noisy microenvironments while maintaining robust decision-making. We develop a coarse-grained theoretical framework in which cellular phenotypic adaptation is described as Bayesian decision-making coupled to replicatio...
The growing number of attacks on crucial cyber networks is one of humanity’s most significant security threats. Combining technological solutions with the convenient cybersecurity behavior of the human factor is necessary to reduce the effects...
In the upcoming era of new technologies, a transport system is expected to be ‘more sustainable,’ ‘safer,’ and ‘more efficient.’ However, to what extent is this true? Based on the results of a series of stakeholder...
Despite the development of green products, convincing consumers to engage in green consumption is still a difficult task. This research attempts to help solve this problem from the perspective of brand logo design. Specifically, this research explore...
The importance of familiarizing children with the Maker Movement, Makerspaces and Maker mindset has been acknowledged. In this literature review, we examine the complex social action of children, aged from 7 to 17 (K-12), engaging in technology Makin...
The common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) is a cosmopolitan delphinid, regularly present in the Mediterranean Sea. According to previous studies, this dolphin tends to form resident geographical units scattered on the continental shelf. We i...
Despite extensive research on financial literacy and financial decision-making, the scholarly literature remains conceptually fragmented, particularly regarding how behavioral biases mediate or moderate the relationship between knowledge and financia...
In order to promote the healthy development of China’s fund market and alleviate the phenomenon of “funds make money, investors don’t”, this paper explores the impact and economic consequences of fund signals on investors&rsqu...
This paper introduces an object model and an interaction method for a simulated experience of pottery on a potter’s wheel. Firstly, we propose a layered cylinder model for a 3D object of the pottery on a potter’s wheel. Secondly, we set t...
This study presents a simple and innovative design to join a 2 mm thick steel sheet to a 5 mm thick aluminium sheet in a butt configuration. Thickness differences were addressed using support plates, while an aluminium run-on plate was employed to pr...
Advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs), especially effective against cancer, remain costly due to their reliance on genetically modified T cells. Contamination during production is a major concern, as traditional quality control methods involve...
Generation Z consumers are reshaping food consumption patterns in urban digital environments, particularly in restaurant contexts characterized by high choice complexity and uncertainty. In Mexico, the evolution of the restaurant industry has intensi...
The present study adopts the social constructivism theory and consumer decision-making process model with the aim of examining the social identity that consumers build through the purchase of electric vehicles (EVs) in line with their income, age, ge...
Integrating shape contours in the visual periphery is vital to our ability to locate objects and thus make targeted saccadic eye movements to efficiently explore our surroundings. We tested whether global shape symmetry facilitates peripheral contour...
Patient-and-family-centered care (PFCC) is critical in end-of-life (EOL) settings. PFCC serves to develop and implement patient care plans within the context of unique family situations. Key components of PFCC include collaboration and communication...
We present the effect of dual-pulse temporal shaping on the ultraviolet nanosecond laser damage characteristics of a fused silica exit surface in a high fluence regime. The pre- and post-pulse have the opposite effects on the damage behavior at a pul...
Reversible shape memory polymers (SRMPs) have been identified as having great potential for biomedical applications due to their ability to switch between different shapes responding to stimuli. In this paper, a chitosan/glycerol (CS/GL) film with a...
The use of CNC equipment that integrates several machining operations eliminates downtime due to changes in setup and clamping of workpieces in more than one machining device. A review of CNC equipment and tools known from the literature and from man...
3D printing of a composite structure with shape memory materials requires a special approach to the subject, at the stage of the design and printing process. This paper presents the design steps during the development of a 3D-printed composite struct...
This article makes two points. First, it argues that sociology, like all knowledge, is shaped, though not determined, by its historical-cultural origins. Early sociology arose in 19th-century Europe and its core concepts were shaped by that era&mdash...
In this study, we reported continuous partial curing and tip-shaped modification methods for continuous production of dry adhesive with microscale mushroom-shaped structures. Typical fabrication methods of dry adhesive with mushroom-shaped structures...
In recent research in computer-aided geometric design (CAGD), one of the most popular concerns has been the creation of new basis functions for the Bézier curve. Bézier curves with high degrees often overshoot, which makes it challengin...
The irregular shapes of small bodies usually lead to non-uniform distributions of mass, which makes dynamic behaviors in the vicinities of small bodies different to that of planets. This study proposes shape entropy (SE) as an index that compares the...
In this paper, an Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) based heuristic algorithm is proposed for solving simple (straight line) and U-shaped assembly line balancing problems (ALBP). The paper makes one of the first attempts to show how ACO heuristic can be...
The inherent capability to deform and reform in a predefined environment is a unique property existing in shape memory polyurethane. The intrinsic shape memory ability of the polyurethane is due to the presence of macro domains of soft and hard segme...
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