Exosomes, a type of extracellular vesicle with a diameter of 30–150 nm, perform key biological functions such as intercellular communication. Recently, size sorting of exosomes has received increasing attention in order to clarify the correlation bet...
This study aims to optimize and assess the quality of the sorting process into homogeneous size classes of dried and chopped medicinal plants, by obtaining multivariate regression functions of polytropic and polynomial forms. Assessment of sorting qu...
In response to the issues of high-intensity labor, low efficiency, and potential damage to crayfish associated with traditional manual sorting methods, an automated and non-contact sorting approach based on an improved YOLOv5 algorithm is proposed fo...
Separation and clonal culture and growth kinetics analysis of target cells in a mixed population is critical for pathological research, disease diagnosis, and cell therapy. However, long-term culture with time-lapse imaging of the isolated cells for...
The assistances of sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate (SDBS) and aging treatment were introduced to further improve the room-temperature mechanochemical synthesis of the quantum-sized zinc sulfide (ZnS) nanocrystals. As a result, a green strategy for s...
Grain size is a proxy indicator of airflow intensity and also provides a scientific basis for the prevention of dust hazards. However, the variations in grain size characteristics that occur during transport and deposition processes are seldom discus...
Optically induced dielectrophoresis (ODEP)-based microparticle sorting and separation is regarded as promising. However, current methods normally lack the downstream process for the transportation and collection of separated microparticles, which cou...
A study was carried out in a waste sorting plant (WSP) located in France, treating dry recyclable household waste (DRHW) as well as dry recyclable commercial and industrial waste (DRCIW). Stationary and personal inhalable samples were collected in th...
A fully passive microdroplet sorting method is presented in this paper. On the rails with dot patterns, the droplets were sorted in different ways depending on their size. However, the effect of droplet properties on the threshold size of the sorting...
This paper proposes an advanced Pareto-front non-dominated sorting multi-objective particle swarm optimization (Advanced-PFNDMOPSO) method for optimal configuration (placement and sizing) of distributed generation (DG) in the radial distribution syst...
The classification of lemons by size is a crucial industrial process that ensures specific quality standards. Lemon sorting is typically performed by hand or often using expensive, outdated machines. In this article, we develop Machine Learning and Q...
Motor-Driven Roller (MDR) conveyor systems are increasingly being used in modern warehouse and intralogistics systems due to their modularity, energy efficiency and the ability to implement the Zero-Pressure Accumulation (ZPA) principle. Despite thei...
Dietary particle size is one of the most relevant factors influencing rumen function and the selection of the most palatable components of the total mixed ration (TMR) by cows. The aim of this study was to evaluate the particle size distribution (PSD...
In this study, a two-dimensional separation of microparticles based on their settling velocity and triboelectric charge ability is achieved using an air classifier for size fractionation and simultaneous charging, followed by an electrostatic separat...
Sorting is one of the most critical factors in the marketing development of fruit and vegetable and should be performed without any damage to the product. This article reports results of the development and testing of a prototype of a low-cost mechan...
Cereal grain contaminated by Fusarium mycotoxins is undesirable in food and feed because of the harmful health effects of the mycotoxins in humans and animals. Reduction of mycotoxin content in grain by cleaning and size sorting has mainly been studi...
To reduce the emissions and weight of vehicles, manufacturers are incorporating polymer materials into vehicles, and this has increased the difficulty in recycling End-of-Life vehicles (ELVs). About 25–30% (mass) of an ELV crushed mixture is th...
Accurate measurement of dynamic coal gangue size directly affects the grasping strategy of the coal gangue sorting robot, but there is still a lack of fast and effective measurement methods. To target this problem, a dynamic coal gangue size measurem...
The Jiahezi Reservoir is a typical plain reservoir constructed on a sediment-laden river in the mountainous region of Xinjiang. After 58 years of operation, it faces critical challenges—particularly insufficiently characterized sediment size di...
To achieve an accurate measurement of tread size after fixed-length cutting, this paper proposes a point-cloud-based tread size measurement method. Firstly, a mathematical model of corner points and a reprojection error is established, and the optima...
Significant mineral phase partitioning of various elements is widely observed in marine sediments. Distinct elemental responses to grain-size sorting hinder accurate conversion of XRF scanning counts to elemental concentrations, yet this geological m...
Software-defined networking (SDN) decouples the control plane from the data plane, enabling centralized network management and programmability. However, as the network scale continues to expand, a single controller becomes a performance bottleneck an...
Source separation is a common method for dealing with the increasing problem of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in society. The citizens are then responsible for separating waste fractions produced in their home. If the consumers fail to sort the waste...
As large-scale and intensive fattening pig farming has become mainstream, the increase in farm size has led to more severe issues related to the hierarchy within pig groups. Due to genetic differences among individual fattening pigs, those that grow...
Several bridge piers were visited, and their scour hole was characterized into three zones: scour, transition, and mound zones. The observed onsite sorting and scouring patterns were recreated through flume experiments with varying pier aspect ratio...
In the last two centuries, since the dawn of modern geology, heavy minerals have been used to investigate sediment provenance and for many other scientific or practical applications. Not always, however, with the correct approach. Difficulties are di...
The analysis of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) at the molecular level holds great promise for several clinical applications. For this goal, the harvest of high-purity, size-sorted CTCs with different subtypes from a blood sample are important. For th...
With the development of distributed generation technology, the problem of distributed generation (DG) planning become one of the important subjects. This paper proposes an Improved non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm-II (INSGA-II) for solving the...
Nanodroplets have demonstrated potential for the range detection of hadron radiotherapies. Our formulation uses superheated perfluorobutane (C4F10) stabilized by a poly(vinyl-alcohol) shell. High-LET (linear energy transfer) particles vaporize the na...
In biomedical diagnosis, the efficient separation and purification of specific targets from clinical samples is the desired first step. Herein, the concept of virtual filter membranes based on optically-induced dielectrophoresis (ODEP) manipulation i...
The demand for innovative therapeutic interventions to expedite wound healing, particularly in vulnerable populations such as aging and diabetic patients, has prompted the exploration of novel strategies. Mesenchymal stem cell (MSC)-based therapy eme...
On mixed sand–gravel beaches, impacts from gravel- and cobble-sized grains—mobilized by the energetic shorebreak—limit the utility of in situ instrumentation for measuring the small-scale response of the beach face on wave period time scales. We pres...
This study investigates the asymmetric trade-off between cost and reliability in the optimal sizing of stand-alone Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems (HRESs) composed of photovoltaic panels (PV), wind turbines (WT), battery storage, a diesel generator (...
This study investigates sediment transport processes in the Kelani River Basin, Sri Lanka, focusing on the formation of bed material sediment size distributions. Sediment transport processes during the flood events in 2016 and 2018 are evaluated usin...
Microfluidic separators based on Deterministic Lateral Displacement (DLD) constitute a promising technique for the label-free detection and separation of mesoscopic objects of biological interest, ranging from cells to exosomes. Owing to the simultan...
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Bioaerosol monitoring is a rapidly emerging area in the context of work environments because microbial pollution is a key element of indoor air pollution and plays an important role in certain infectious diseases and allergies. However, as yet, relat...
The improper disposal of retired lithium batteries will cause environmental pollution and a waste of resources. In this study, a waste lithium iron phosphate battery was used as a raw material, and cathode and metal materials in the battery were sepa...
Sorting particles or cells of specific sizes in complex systems has long been a focus of many researchers. Acoustic surface waves, which generate acoustic radiation forces on particles or cells and, thus, influence their motion, are commonly used for...
Citrus fruits are the second most important crop worldwide. One of the most important tasks is sorting, which involves manually separating the fruit based on its degree of maturity, and in many cases, involves a task carried out manually by human ope...
The roller and sieve machines most commonly used in Russia for the post-harvest processing of root and tuber crops and onions have a number of disadvantages, the main one being a decrease in the quality of sorting due to the contamination of working...
The precise preparation and application of nanomicrospheres is currently an emerging research hotspot in the cutting-edge cross-disciplines. As an important functional material, nanosized microspheres show a broad application prospect in biomedicine,...
Post-consumer plasterboard waste sorting is carried out manually by operators, which is time-consuming and costly. In this work, a laboratory-scale hyperspectral imaging (HSI) system was evaluated for automatic refurbishment plasterboard waste sortin...
Oil analysis is one of the main means to obtain the working status of important friction pairs in ship and Marine engineering equipment at present. Analyzing the wear mechanism by analyzing the particle size, morphology, properties and other characte...
The creation of highly specific particle systems in the nano- and micrometer size range is a challenging task. The demand for particle systems with narrowly distributed properties is increasing in many applications, especially for use in high-tech pr...
The process of sorting softwood raw materials is aimed at full automation. Techniques such as laser and optical scanning, used in measuring and sorting wood raw material with the layer of bark, are based on an analysis of the external shape of the lo...
The sizes of most prokaryotic cells are several microns. It is very difficult to separate cells with similar sizes. A sorter with a contraction–expansion microchannel and applied magnetic field is designed to sort microparticles with diameters...
Sorting networks are of prime importance as circuits, with applications in sorting small data chunks, big data analytics, permuting packets, and system interconnects. Finding optimal sorting networks is a highly complex problem, and knowledge on opti...
The sorting of biological cells or particles immersed in a fluid is a frequent goal in the domain of microfluidics. One approach for such sorting is in using the inertial effects that are present in curved channels. In this study, we propose a new ap...
Sorting apples by product category is a key stage of harvest preparation, especially for small and medium-sized farms, where traditional manual sorting leads to high labor intensity. This article presents the development and experimental study of a c...
Proper estimation of sediment movement is very critical for the management of alluvial rivers. Computing the sediment transport with single particle size is possible. However, particles on the river bed and in transport have a size distribution. It i...
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