TwinArray Sort is a non-comparison integer sorting algorithm designed for non-negative integers with relatively dense key ranges, offering competitive runtime performance and reduced memory usage relative to other counting-based methods. The algorith...
In the modern era of informatics, where data are very important, efficient management of data is necessary and critical. Two of the most important data management techniques are searching and data ordering (technically sorting). Traditional sorting a...
Modern architectures make possible development in new algorithms for large data sets and distributed computing. The newly proposed versions can benefit both from faster computing on the multi core architectures, and intelligent programming techniques...
Background: Pancreatic cancer surgery is related to significant mortality, thus necessitating the accurate assessment of perioperative risk to enhance treatment decision making. A Surgical Outcome Risk Tool (SORT) and SORT v2 have been developed to p...
This work presents two variants of an odd–even sort algorithm that are implemented in a dataflow-based polymorphic computing architecture. The two odd–even sort algorithms are the “fully unrolled” variant and the “compac...
Connectivity plays an important role in measuring the fault tolerance of interconnection networks. As a special class of connectivity, m-component connectivity is a natural generalization of the traditional connectivity of graphs defined in terms of...
Using the standardised SORT, the article analyses instantaneous energy consumption and recuperation processes in an electric bus. The test includes three scenarios: SORT 1 (heavy urban traffic), SORT 2 (mixed driving conditions), and SORT 3 (suburban...
In the production management of agriculture, accurate fruit counting plays a vital role in the orchard yield estimation and appropriate production decisions. Although recent tracking-by-detection algorithms have emerged as a promising fruit-counting...
Pig counting is an essential activity in the administration of pig farming. Currently, manual counting is inefficient, costly, and unsuitable for systematic analysis. However, research on dynamic pig counting encounters challenges, including inadequa...
As two significant performance indicators, structure connectivity and substructure connectivity have been widely studied, and they are used to judge a network’s fault tolerance properties from the perspective of the structure becoming faulty. A...
Psoriasis is a common inflammatory skin disease, which is tightly associated with metabolic disorders. Cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) and sortilin (SORT) are molecules engaged in lipid metabolism of proatherogenic properties. They have bee...
The current scenario of radioactive waste management requires innovative and automated solutions to ensure its effectiveness and safety. In response to this need, the Proximity Imaging System for Sort and Segregate Operations (PI3SO) project was prop...
American children frequently consume candy and, in excess, this may contribute to poor diets with attendant effects on obesity risk. Despite the ubiquity of candy in children’s diets, parental concern about children’s candy intake, and th...
Ship detection and tracking is an important task in video surveillance in inland waterways. However, ships in inland navigation are faced with accidents such as collisions. For collision avoidance, we should strengthen the monitoring of navigation an...
14 September 2021
The acceleration of growth in the population in Saudi Arabia and the increase in municipal solid waste generation have caused a problem in Dammam city: an increase in solid waste production. Therefore, solid waste sorting is an important practice of...
26 November 2019
The Psychoanalytic Core Competency Q-Sort (PCC Q-Sort) is a newly developed empirical research tool that allows for the description and illustration of the ways psychodynamically-oriented psychotherapists work. It provides a simple, straightforward r...
In the context of accelerated digitalization, enterprises are increasingly adopting information-driven solutions to support managerial decision-making, with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems playing a crucial role in organizational developme...
This paper presents an innovative approach to agricultural management by integrating YOLOv5 for real-time detection and a modified SORT tracker for tracking two critical classes in agriculture: cabbage and weed. By deploying YOLOv5 on each video fram...
Detecting and tracking caterpillars in orchard environments is crucial for advancing precision agriculture but remains challenging due to occlusions, variable lighting, wind interference, and the need for precise small-object detection. This study pr...
31 July 2022
Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) such as Lebanon have limited technical, economic, and social infrastructures to manage municipal solid waste properly. Understanding what motivates citizens to sort waste at home is paramount to designing effe...
This study aimed to produce a robust real-time pear fruit counter for mobile applications using only RGB data, the variants of the state-of-the-art object detection model YOLOv4, and the multiple object-tracking algorithm Deep SORT. This study also p...
Osteoclasts regulate skeletal development but also drive pathological osteolysis, making them prime therapeutic targets. Osteoclast research is limited by the heterogeneity of osteoclast populations generated in vitro, where the mixture of undifferen...
Mobility is a vital welfare indicator that may influence broilers’ daily activities. Classical broiler mobility assessment methods are laborious and cannot provide timely insights into their conditions. Here, we proposed a semi-supervised Deep...
Multi-object pedestrian tracking plays a crucial role in autonomous driving systems, enabling accurate perception of the surrounding environment. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive approach for pedestrian tracking, combining the improved YOLOv...
Emergency and Disaster Assembly Areas (EDAA) are designated safe zones where basic needs can be met until temporary shelters are established following natural or man-made disasters like floods, fires, earthquakes, explosions, or chemical incidents. P...
Many corporations have now revised their value statements to showcase their commitment to sustainable development and green business due to the pressing issues of climate and environmental damage. Despite the importance of value statements that can d...
Attribute reduction is one of the challenging problems in rough set theory. To accomplish an efficient reduction algorithm, this paper analyzes the shortcomings of the traditional methods based on attribute significance, and suggests a novel reductio...
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Accurate plant counting supports stand assessment and crop management, but canopy overlap, camera motion, and temporary occlusion complicate video-based monitoring. This study developed an RGB image- and video-based framework for detecting, tracking,...
This study aims to examine the impact of heavy use of tablets on preschoolers’ executive function during the Dimensional Change Card Sort (DCCS) task using the functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). Altogether, 38 Chinese preschoolers (Mage =...
Pedestrian tracking and detection have become critical aspects of advanced driver assistance systems (ADASs), due to their academic and commercial potential. Their objective is to locate various pedestrians in videos and assign them unique identities...
Logs require multiple verifications to ensure accurate volume and quantity measurements. Log end detection is a crucial step in measuring log volume and counting logs. Currently, this task primarily relies on the Mask R-CNN instance segmentation mode...
A systematic optimization of throughput and operational run time in Sorting by Interfacial Tension (SIFT) is presented. Reducing droplet size and enabling a broader distribution of droplet trajectories increased the number of droplets processed per s...
The performance of several Database Management Systems (DBMSs) and Data Stream Management Systems (DSMSs) queries is dominated by the cost of the sorting algorithm. Sorting is an integral component of most database management systems. Stable sorting...
Hepatic lipogenesis combined with elevated endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress is central to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). However, the therapeutic targeting of key molecules is considerably less accomplished. Adeno-associated virus (AAV)-media...
Droplet sorting is one of the fundamental manipulations of droplet-based microfluidics. Although many sorting methods have already been proposed, there is still a demand to develop new sorting methods for various applications of droplet-based microfl...
Multi object tracking (MOT) is a crucial task in video analysis but is often hindered by frequent identity (ID) switches, particularly in crowded or occluded scenarios. This study explores the integration of a vision-language model, into two tracking...
To address the sorting challenge of multiple stations and multiple networking modes (networks with inconsistent features and networks with similar features but asynchrony) in complex electromagnetic environments, this paper proposes a full-network st...
The growth and development of generative organs of the tomato plant are essential for yield estimation and higher productivity. Since the time-consuming manual counting methods are inaccurate and costly in a challenging environment, including leaf an...
26 February 2023
Food is fundamental in the decision making of pregnant and breastfeeding women to care for their own health and that of their child. In this paper, we explore some common food classification systems and certain attributes assigned to these categories...
Sorting in sequential data mining is significantly improved through hardware acceleration, which becomes essential as data volume and complexity increase. This paper presents a scalable hybrid sorting network that maintains or improves performance wh...
Sensor-based sorting techniques offer the potential to improve ore grades and reduce the amount of waste material processed. Previous studies show that sensor-based sorting can reduce energy, water and reagent consumption and fine waste production by...
In recent years, advancements in sustainable intelligent transportation have emphasized the significance of vehicle detection and tracking for real-time traffic flow management on the highways. However, the performance of existing methods based on de...
Diagnosability of a multiprocessor system is an important topic of study. A measure for fault diagnosis of the system restrains that every fault-free node has at least g fault-free neighbor vertices, which is called the g-good-neighbor diagnosability...
This paper discusses the development of an automated sorting machine designed as a comprehensive mechatronics educational project. The project integrates mechanical and electrical design, incorporating a robot arm, a microcontroller, sensors, and act...
Many previous studies have explored the integration of a specific You Only Look Once (YOLO) model with real-time trackers like Deep Simple Online and Realtime Tracker (DeepSORT) and Strong Simple Online and Realtime Tracker (StrongSORT). However, few...
Visual sorting of express packages is faced with many problems such as the various types, complex status, and the changeable detection environment, resulting in low sorting efficiency. In order to improve the sorting efficiency of packages under comp...
Sensor-based ore sorting can discard barren rock before grinding, but dual-energy X-ray transmission (DE-XRT) grade models are often judged by block-wise error that poorly reflects concentrate and tailings mass balance at the plant cut-off. Process-a...
The growing volume of textile waste, driven by fast fashion and shortened garment lifespans, underscores the urgent need for scalable, automated sorting solutions. Progress is hindered by the absence of realistic, public datasets reflecting the varia...
The selective transport of proteins or lipids by vesicular transport is a fundamental process supporting cellular physiology. The budding process involves cargo sorting and vesicle formation at the donor membrane and constitutes an important process...
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