Three-dimensional bioprinting integrating living cells and bioactive materials enables the fabrication of scaffold structures supporting diverse cellular growth and metabolism. Microalgae are among the most promising microbial platforms for the const...
Sustainable biomass-derived carbons have attracted research interest because of their ability to effectively absorb and convert solar light to thermal energy, a phenomenon known as solar thermal heating. Although their carbon-based molecular and nano...
The spatial structure of Beijing has changed dramatically since the reforms of the late 1970s. It is not clear, however, whether these changes have been sufficient to transform the city’s monocentric spatial structure into a polycentric one. This pap...
Understanding the spatial organization of environmental sounds is essential for linking acoustic patterns with landscape structure and ecological processes. While ecoacoustics has made substantial progress in the temporal and spectral analysis of sou...
The application of augmented reality (AR) in the beauty and hairdressing industry provides customers with a rich experience, especially in terms of virtual hair styling. Through virtual hair color tests, customers can quickly decide on the most suita...
5 August 2024
This study aims to explore the effect of the e-servicescape on the emotional response and revisit intention of customers in an internet shopping mall (ISM) environment. The literature was reviewed on the e-servicescape, emotional response, and revisi...
2 November 2026
Automobile sales analysis provides an important basis for production planning, procurement, supply-chain coordination, inventory management, and dealership resource allocation. However, dealership sales are jointly influenced by operational practices...
The urban road spatial structure is a crucial and complex component of urban design. Generative design models, such as the Stable Diffusion model, can rapidly and massively produce designs. However, the opacity of their internal architecture and the...
Solving competitive facility location problems can optimize market share or operational efficiency in environments where multiple firms compete for customer attention. In such contexts, facility attractiveness is shaped not only by geographic proximi...
Ensuring the resilience of water distribution networks (WDNs) remains a critical challenge for utilities, as aging infrastructure and inadequate planning can compromise drinking water quality (DWQ) and increase customer dissatisfaction. This study ai...
Spatial navigation is a key aspect of human behavior and it is still not completely understood. A number of experimental approaches exist, although most of the published data in the last decades have relied on virtual maze on-screen simulation or not...
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) in conjunction with microfluidic delivery was utilized to produce three-dimensional (3D) lipid structures following a custom design. While AFM is well-known for its spatial precision in imaging and 2D nanolithography, th...
Accurate classification of import and export goods’ Harmonized System (HS) codes is essential for ensuring tax security. Applying text classification technologies for HS code classification can significantly enhance the prevention and control o...
Customer loyalty is a critical asset for the restaurant industry, yet the mechanisms linking the physical environment, price perception, and satisfaction remain underexplored in emerging Latin American gastronomy markets. This study examines the rela...
To address the practical needs for data sharing and exchange in the bridge engineering domain, this study creatively fills the definitional gap of IFC entities for steel bridges. In response to the deficiencies arising from the absence of domain-laye...
This contribution demonstrates how inner ring roads change the location pattern of shops in urban areas with the application of the space syntax method. A market rational behaviour persists, in that shop owners always search for an optimal location t...
As a pilot-scale feasibility study, aging bridge infrastructure and limited inspection resources have created an urgent need for automated and reliable bridge condition assessment systems. Most existing deep learning-based inspection approaches detec...
This paper presents a zone-based method for the interim verification and spatial metrological characterization of a 2D vision measurement system. The approach relies on a system calibrated along a single axis and employs a stable yet non-calibrated a...
This study explores how the layout of neighborhoods in traditional settlements of Saudi Arabia’s Najdi region influence social interactions and urban planning decisions. The study uses a multidisciplinary approach that includes urban morphology...
Background/Objectives: Intraoperative margin assessments of oral squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) are fundamentally limited by sampling errors and freezing artifacts inherent to standard frozen section analysis. We developed a mobile, multi-scale, wide...
This study uses an innovative tourism product development approach, based on co-creation or customer involvement, related to Lake Balaton, a mass tourism-based destination in Hungary, from the point of view of the market segment of active cycling tou...
Significant carbon emissions, a key contributor to global climate warming, pose risks to ecosystems and human living conditions. It is crucial to monitor the spatial and temporal patterns of carbon emissions at the county level to reach the goals of...
Geospatial information plays an important role in environmental modelling, resource management, business operations, and government policy. However, very little or no commonality between formats of various geospatial data has led to difficulties in u...
The need for novel methods for the reuse of post-industrial/post-consumer polymer solid wastes (PSW) is of increasing societal importance. Unfortunately, this objective is often limited due to material stream variability or insufficient load-carrying...
Fiber Reinforced Polymers (FRPs) are increasingly popular building materials, mainly because of their high strength to weight ratio. Despite these beneficial properties, these composites are often fabricated in standardized mass production. This rese...
Speckle patterns generated by coherent illumination of random media are ubiquitous in optical imaging and information processing. However, most existing studies have primarily focused on isotropic or homogeneous speckle fields, while controlled manip...
Mobility and spatial interaction data have become increasingly available due to the widespread adoption of location-aware technologies. Examples of mobile data include human daily activities, vehicle trajectories, and animal movements. In this study...
We live in an era where digitalization and omnichannel strategies significantly transform retail landscapes, and accurate spatial analytics from Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can deliver substantial competitive benefits. Nonetheless, despite e...
Additive manufacturing (AM) enables the production of complex structured parts with tailored properties. Instead of manufacturing parts as fully solid, they can be infilled with lattice structures to optimize mechanical, thermal, and other functional...
Urban revitalization processes are increasingly requiring inclusive and data-driven approaches that address spatial inequalities and support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The article presents a methodology for utilizing...
Despite the remarkable progress made in recent years, until today, the automatic detection of changes in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images remains a difficult task due to speckle noise. This inherent multiplicative noise tends to increase false a...
The main purpose of this work is to simulate the flow of air and solid particles over a wildfire and to investigate the single and multiphase flow over the surface of a custom-designed wing with an Eppler-420 airfoil including an appendant custom-des...
A great deal of interest over the years has been directed to the optical space solitons for the possibility of realizing 3D waveguides with very low propagation losses. A great limitation in their use for writing complex circuits is represented by th...
Nanostructures can be produced on poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) foils by using a krypton fluoride (KrF) excimer laser with a wavelength of 248 nm and a pulse duration of about 20 ns. We show that surface nanoripples, nanodots, nanogrids, and hyb...
Human action recognition is a key research area in computer vision, where accurate recognition relies on effective modeling of both global and local spatiotemporal information. However, existing GCN-based methods often overemphasize the local topolog...
Spin glass is the simplest disordered system that preserves the full range of complex collective behavior of interacting frustrating elements. In the paper, we propose a novel approach for calculating the values of thermodynamic averages of the frust...
Alternative food networks (AFNs) represent local food systems and short supply chain networks alternative to global food systems. These networks are often developed within rural–urban interfaces and take various forms, due to the high propensit...
This study explores the potential of the Metaverse in designing trade-fair stands for the exhibition of products and services related to the textile sector, with a particular focus on upholstery fabrics. The primary aim is to enhance relations betwee...
This research work proposes a compact four-port multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna that operates in the whole license free ultra-wideband (UWB) spectrum of 3.1–10.6 GHz. Spatial diversity has been introduced by arranging these antenn...
Various microphone array geometries (e.g., linear, circular, square, cubic, spherical, etc.) have been used to improve the positioning accuracy of sound source localization. However, whether these array structures are optimal for various specific loc...
This paper examined the opportunities of composite double-layer grid superstructures in short-to-medium span bridge decks. It was empirically shown here that a double-layer grid deck system in composite action with a thin layer of two−way reinf...
An in-depth comprehension of the spatial–temporal characteristics of land-use carbon emissions (LUCE), along with their potential influencing factors, is of high scientific significance for the realization of low-carbon land use and sustainable...
This paper presents a structured, expert-informed framework for inclusive waste management in marginalized urban areas (MUAs), addressing critical challenges at the intersection of environmental governance, infrastructure inequality, and social exclu...
Traditional research on customer satisfaction (CS) estimation has focused on the business-to-customer (BTC) business mode. Customers in the BTC mode have been assumed to be familiar with the full range of services or products and to be able to make e...
Fiber-reinforced polymer composites are an excellent choice for bridge decks due to high strength, lightweight, resistance to corrosion, and long-term durability with a 100-year design life. Structural health monitoring is useful for the long-term as...
Globalisation combined with high urbanisation trends affects not only the traditional pillars of sustainability (environment, society, and economy), but also local identity. Customs and traditions are fading away and alienation is the result of new l...
In natural scenes, the high resemblance between unripe tomatoes and foliage, combined with severe occlusion, challenges current semantic segmentation models, causing poor accuracy and indistinct boundaries. To overcome this, we propose CMAE-UNet, a c...
Urban drainage pipelines are crucial for flood control, drainage, and environmental quality. However, fog within pipelines degrades image quality, hindering the identification of damage features such as cracks and leaks. Existing dehazing algorithms...
This paper explores a five-axis printing method designed to improve the fabrication of continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composites (CFRTPCs), essential for producing lightweight, complex structures in advanced manufacturing. Traditional CFRT...
Understanding the spatial generation mechanisms of ride-hailing demand is crucial for sustainable urban mobility. However, existing literature largely assumes monocentric urban layouts and globally stationary spatial scales, often overlooking the sev...
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