The accurate delineation of mega-environments (MEs) and the rigorous evaluation of test locations are critical for optimizing regional variety trial schemes, particularly when addressing unbalanced datasets from multi-year, multi-location wheat (Trit...
Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) can cause a wide variety of illnesses such as peptic ulcer disease, gastric adenocarcinoma and mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma. The diagnosis and eradication of H. pylori are crucial. The diagnosis of...
The paper aimed to investigate the influence, on the assessment of the structural safety level of an existing r.c building, of the different choices that the technician in charge of a structural evaluation (the “analyst”) can make regardi...
The present study analyzed the multi-location external workload profile in basketball players using a previously validated test battery and compared the demands among anatomical locations. A basketball team comprising 13 semi-professional male player...
Objectives: Somatosensation is the ability to detect various external and internal stimuli (such as pain, pressure, temperature, or joint position), and its objective and reproducible evaluation is essential for diagnosis, training, and rehabilitatio...
Consumer tests are classified in terms of the location of testing as laboratory tests or central location tests (CLTs) and home use tests (HUTs). CLT is generally used in sensory tests due to the ease of test control, whereas HUT has higher validity...
In a precast concrete (PC) composite beam, the horizontal interface between the PC beam and the cast-in-place (CIP) slab is located either on the compression side or on the tensile side of the cross-section. If the CIP slab is on the compression side...
Accuracy metrics have been widely used for the evaluation of predictions in machine learning. However, the selection of an appropriate accuracy metric for the evaluation of a specific prediction has not yet been specified. In this study, seven of the...
Competitive location problems (CLPs) are a crucial business concern. Evaluating customers’ sensitivities to different facility attractions (such as distance and business area) is the premise for solving a CLP. Currently, the development of loca...
Validation is a crucial technique used to strengthen the application capabilities of earthobservation satellite data and solve the quality problems of remote-sensing products. Observing land-surface parameters in the field is one of the key steps of...
Gas turbines are widely used all over the world, in order to ensure the normal operation of gas turbines, it is necessary to monitor the condition of gas turbine and analyze the tested parameters to find the state information contained in parameters....
This study evaluates a hierarchical workflow for fault diagnosis in transmission systems by integrating established machine-learning techniques for fault-type classification and zonal fault location with a complementary double-ended traveling-wave pr...
The layout of acoustic emission sensors plays a critical role in non-destructive structural testing. This study proposes a grid-based optimization method focused on multi-source location results, in contrast to traditional sensor layout optimization...
In this paper, guided Lamb wave tomography and eddy current testing (ECT) techniques were combined to locate and evaluate fiber breaks in carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) structures. Guided wave testing (GWT) and computed tomography (CT) imagin...
A methodology for optimal sensor placement is presented in the current work. This methodology incorporates a damage detection framework with simulated damage scenarios and can efficiently provide the optimal combination of sensor locations for vibrat...
Locating the partial discharge (PD) source is one of the most effective means to locate local defects in power cable lines. The sampling rate and the frequency-dependent characteristic of phase velocity have an obvious influence on localization accur...
An individual’s positive or negative perspective when judging an ambiguous stimulus (cognitive bias) can be helpful when assessing animal welfare. Emotionality, as expressed in approach or withdrawal behaviour, is linked to brain asymmetry. The...
Global positioning system (GPS) telemetry units are now small enough to be deployed on terrestrial and semi-aquatic turtles. Many of these GPS units use snapshot technology which collects raw satellite and timestamp data during brief periods of data...
Locating underground microseismic events is important for monitoring subsurface activity and understanding the planetary subsurface evolution. Due to bandwidth limitations, especially in applications involving planetarily-distributed sensor networks,...
Identifying adopted Green Super Rice (GSR) under different agro-ecological locations in Pakistan is crucial to sustaining the high productivity of rice. For this purpose, the multi-location trials of GSR were conducted to evaluate the magnitude of ge...
avigation and location technologies are continually advancing, allowing ever higher accuracies and operation under ever more challenging conditions. The development of such technologies requires the rapid evaluation of a large number of sensors and r...
Autonomous systems usually require accurate localization methods for them to navigate safely in indoor environments. Most localization methods are expensive and difficult to set up. In this work, we built a low-cost and portable indoor location track...
Indoor positioning is a recent technology that has gained interest in industry and academia thanks to the promising results of locating objects, people or robots accurately in indoor environments. One of the utilized technologies is based on algorith...
This study investigates the impact resistance and damage tolerance of bio-inspired cross-spiral (CS) laminates under multiple low-velocity impacts. Two impact conditions were considered: repeated impacts at the same location and double impacts at dif...
This study examined the relationship between ball advancement (BA) starting and termination locations and the influence of termination location on offensive outcomes during basketball fast breaks. Using an observational design, 1024 fast breaks follo...
Optical flow is defined as the motion field of pixels between two consecutive images. Traditionally, in order to estimate pixel motion field (or optical flow), an energy model is proposed. This energy model is composed of (i) a data term and (ii) a r...
Ward cooling is controlled by a single thermostat, yet whether it represents the mean room temperature is rarely evaluated. Existing virtual sensing reconstructs values at predetermined locations rather than identifying which location should be the r...
Despite the abundance of research on coral reef change detection, few studies have been conducted to assess the spatial generalization principles of a live coral cover classifier trained using remote sensing data from multiple locations. The aim of t...
This study analyzed the characteristics of aluminum and copper sheets under multi-layer ultrasonic welding, and observed the strength, fracture type, and interface of the weld zone according to location. In addition, an experimental plan was develope...
In recent years, a major research goal of companies has been to create mechanical components suitable for rehabilitation that are safer and more reliable. Evaluating their biomechanical features could be a way to improve them. The purpose of this stu...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the potential of using fuzzy C-means clustering, AMMI and GGE biplot analysis methods to predict the yield of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) genotypes grown in various environments. The trials were conducted i...
Accurately evaluating the fault type and location is important for ensuring the reliability of the power distribution network. A mushrooming number of distributed generations (DGs) connected to the distribution system brings challenges to traditional...
This article presents results from non-destructive testing (NDT) that referred to the location and diameter or rebars in beam and slab members. The aim of paper was to demonstrate that the accuracy and deviations of the NDT methods could be higher th...
The impact hammer, equipped with a force transducer, is a portable and practical tool for inducing measurable excitations in structural health monitoring (SHM). However, its reliability is often limited by uncontrolled factors such as swing power, an...
This article evaluates the impact of dust accumulation on the performance of photovoltaic (PV) modules in two different locations inside Egypt, Cairo and Beni-Suef. Two identical PV modules were used for that purpose, where each module was exposed to...
Recent developments in machine learning algorithms are playing a significant role in wireless communication and Internet of Things (IoT) systems. Location-based Internet of Things services (LBIoTS) are considered one of the primary applications among...
The measurement of air temperature is strongly influenced by environmental factors such as solar radiation, humidity, wind speed and rainfall. This is problematic in low-cost air temperature sensors, which lack a radiation shield or a forced aspirati...
A mycological assessment evaluates the technical condition of a building by identifying damage from biological corrosion, which is particularly susceptible to fungal growth and insect attack. Such assessments are crucial for brick and wooden monument...
Research Highlights: A set of 128 potential bioenergy facility locations is established and evaluated based on the transport cost to select optimal locations. Background and Objectives: The identification of optimal facility locations to process reco...
China tests sustainability policies, from low-carbon and sponge cities to new-energy-vehicle promotion, in city pilot programmes, and their effects are usually estimated one programme at a time with staggered difference-in-differences (DID) designs....
Nowadays, several wireless location systems have been developed in the research world. The goal of these systems has always been to find the greatest accuracy as possible. However, if every node takes data from the environment, we can gather a lot of...
While sparse testing methods have been proposed by researchers to improve the efficiency of genomic selection (GS) in breeding programs, there are several factors that can hinder this. In this research, we evaluated four methods (M1–M4) for spa...
The 2 × 25 kV power supply system is the most frequently used traction rail system to provide the huge power needed by high-speed trains. However, locating the ground fault in this power supply system is more complicated than in other configura...
Research highlights: An automatic localization system for ground obstacles on harvested forest land based on existing mature hardware and software architecture has been successfully implemented. In the tested area, 98% of objects were successfully de...
The study aimed to evaluate the adhesive performances of two ormocer materials and two micro-hybrid composites placed to restore class II cavities. We tested the null hypothesis, which considered that the adhesive behaviors of tested materials did no...
SystemVerilog preprocessing determines the effective source code consumed by subsequent front-end compilation stages, yet in many toolchains it is implemented as an internal component tightly coupled with lexical, syntactic, or downstream analysis. S...
Modern technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and physical systems used as navigation systems play an important role in locating a specific location in an unfamiliar environment. Due to recent technological developments, users can now inco...
RAS somatic variants are predictors of resistance to anti-EGFR therapy for colorectal cancer (CRC) and affect the outcome of the disease. Our study aimed to evaluate the frequency of RAS, with a focus on KRAS variants, and their association with tumo...
Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is an emerging nondestructive testing technique to evaluate ever-growing steel products and structures for safety and reliability. In this study, we have analyzed steel material with inbuilt cracks using computer-aided num...
The pressure pain threshold (PPT) is a useful tool for evaluating mechanical sensitivity in individuals suffering from various musculoskeletal disorders. The aim of this study is to investigate PPT at the heel area in order to assist in the design of...
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