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6 March 2023

Rumen degradation kinetics of 25 feedstuffs (six protein feeds, nine energy feeds and ten roughages) were first determined using the nylon bag technique in situ and the differences of degradation characteristics fitted with five or seven time points...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Current Research in Sheep and Goat for Better Fiber (Wool and Cashmere) Production)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,106 Views
19 Pages

29 July 2022

Safe operation of tailings reservoirs is essential to protect downstream life and property, but current monitoring methods are inadequate in scale and refinement, and most reservoirs are built in low coherence areas far from cities. Use of polarizati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Distributed Spaceborne SAR: Systems, Algorithms, and Applications)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
881 Views
29 Pages

Robust-Registration-Based Systematic Error Correction for Time-Series Point Clouds

  • Chao Zhu,
  • Fuquan Tang,
  • Qian Yang,
  • Jingxiang Li and ,
  • Junlei Xue,
  • Jiawei Yi and
  • Yu Su
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

13 March 2026

Accurate registration of multi-temporal LiDAR point clouds is essential for reliable monitoring of mining subsidence. Systematic errors in point clouds acquired at different times can arise from GNSS/INS positioning drift, sensor calibration bias, an...

(This article belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,336 Views
18 Pages

One of the goals of map generalization is to achieve real-time visualization of massive entities while adapting to zoom-in/zoom-out conditions. Unlike traditional map generalization, this type of scaling operation does not simplify the data to produc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,494 Views
19 Pages

Enhancement of Neutralization Responses through Sequential Immunization of Stable Env Trimers Based on Consensus Sequences from Select Time Points by Mimicking Natural Infection

  • Mingming Wan,
  • Xiao Yang,
  • Jie Sun,
  • Elena E. Giorgi and ,
  • Xue Ding,
  • Yan Zhou,
  • Yong Zhang,
  • Weiheng Su,
  • Chunlai Jiang and
  • Feng Gao
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

10 August 2023

HIV-1 vaccines have been challenging to develop, partly due to the high level of genetic variation in its genome. Thus, a vaccine that can induce cross-reactive neutralization activities will be needed. Studies on the co-evolution of antibodies and v...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Immunology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,564 Views
18 Pages

21 January 2022

The work in this article analyses the impact of time-delays on distributed real-time simulation stability and accuracy with respect to different decoupling points as well as the impact of decoupling point selection on system modes. We perform analysi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Real-Time Simulation Advancing Power and Energy Research and Industry Practices)
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  • Open Access
205 Views
20 Pages

Hidden Variables in Real-Time Person Detection: Loss-Function Screening, Annotation Geometry, and Operating-Point Selection in YOLOX-Based Single-Class Detectors

  • Marko Živanović,
  • Olga Ristić,
  • Vanja Luković,
  • Ana Savić and ,
  • Hana Stefanović and
  • Božidar Janković
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 October 2026

Person detection underpins a growing range of commercial systems, from retail analytics to safety monitoring, yet the experimental practices used to configure such detectors are rarely examined. This paper presents an end-to-end empirical study of si...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,492 Views
19 Pages

20 December 2021

(1) Background: studies on the long-term dynamic changes in fat depot metabolism in response to a high-fat diet (HFD) on hepatic lipid deposition and insulin resistance are sparse. This study investigated the dynamic changes produced by HFD and the p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Lipid Metabolism and Metabolic Syndrome)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,423 Views
15 Pages

ALReg: Registration of 3D Point Clouds Using Active Learning

  • Yusuf Huseyin Sahin,
  • Oguzhan Karabacak,
  • Melih Kandemir and
  • Gozde Unal

22 June 2023

After the success of deep learning in point cloud segmentation and classification tasks, it has also been adopted as common practice in point cloud registration applications. State-of-the-art point cloud registration methods generally deal with this...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,177 Views
16 Pages

4 December 2019

The article presents a new method for determining the distribution of measurement points, which can be used in the case of contact coordinate measurements of curvilinear surfaces of products. The developed method is based on multi-criteria decision a...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,003 Views
18 Pages

A Block Iteration with Parallelization Method for the Greedy Selection in Radial Basis Functions Based Mesh Deformation

  • Ran Zhao,
  • Chao Li,
  • Xiaowei Guo,
  • Sijiang Fan and ,
  • Yi Wang and
  • Canqun Yang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 March 2019

Greedy algorithm is one of the important point selection methods in the radial basis function based mesh deformation. However, in large-scale mesh, the conventional greedy selection will generate expensive time consumption and result in performance p...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Physics General)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,465 Views
15 Pages

1 April 2021

Feature matching plays a crucial role in the process of 3D reconstruction based on the structure from motion (SfM) technique. For a large collection of oblique images, feature matching is one of the most time-consuming steps, and the matching result...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue UAV-Based Sensing Techniques, Applications and Prospective)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,513 Views
14 Pages

Point Values on Scoring Rubrics Influence Self-Regulated Learning for STEM Material

  • Morgan D. Shumaker,
  • Michelle L. Rivers and
  • Sarah K. Tauber

15 April 2025

We examined whether point value information on a scoring rubric influences learners’ study time and concept selection when learning educationally relevant STEM information. Participants (N = 92) engaged in the self-regulated study of five conce...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Educational Applications of Cognitive Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,384 Views
14 Pages

To address the limitations of inadequate real-time performance and robustness encountered in estimating the pose of non-cooperative spacecraft during on-orbit missions, a novel method of feature point distribution selection learning is proposed. This...

(This article belongs to the Section Astronautics & Space Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
7,755 Views
20 Pages

The rapid expansion of cities brings in new challenges for the urban firefighting security, while the increasing fire frequency poses serious threats to the life, property, and safety of individuals living in cities. Firefighting in cities is a chall...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geo-Information Technology and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,915 Views
23 Pages

5 December 2022

Machining feature recognition is a research hotspot in recent years. A point cloud is a geometry data representation format of three-dimensional (3D) models. The use of point cloud-based convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for machining feature reco...

(This article belongs to the Section Advanced Manufacturing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,863 Views
17 Pages

25 May 2016

This paper presents a new approach for the registration of airborne LiDAR point clouds by finding and matching corresponding linear plane features. Linear plane features are a type of common feature in an urban area and are convenient for obtaining f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,755 Views
21 Pages

Wi-Fi-based fingerprint indoor positioning technology has gained special attention, but the development of this technology has been full of challenges such as positioning time cost and positioning accuracy. Therefore, selecting reasonable Wireless Ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,726 Views
22 Pages

A Study on Green Supplier Selection in Dynamic Environment

  • Wei Song,
  • Zhiya Chen,
  • Aijun Liu,
  • Qiuyun Zhu and ,
  • Wei Zhao,
  • Sang-Bing Tsai and
  • Hui Lu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

17 April 2018

The aim of this paper is to provide a method for selecting a green supplier in a dynamic environment, while considering the psychological behavior and the time factors of the decision maker from the manufacturer’s perspective. The supply select...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue How does Outsourcing Affect the Economy and its Sustainability?)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,918 Views
18 Pages

The modes of interaction (e.g., mouse and touch) between maps and users affect the effectiveness and efficiency of transmitting cartographic information. Recent advances in eye tracking technology have made eye trackers lighter, cheaper and more accu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Eye-Tracking in Cartography)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,538 Views
17 Pages

14 March 2018

The number of feature points on the surface of a non-cooperative target satellite used for monocular vision-based relative navigation affects the onboard computational load. A feature point selection method called the quasi-optimal method is proposed...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,463 Views
19 Pages

Automated Selection and Localization of Mobile Cranes in Construction Planning

  • Hongling Guo,
  • Ying Zhou,
  • Zaiyi Pan,
  • Zhitian Zhang and ,
  • Yantao Yu and
  • Yan Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Accurate selection and location of mobile cranes is a critical issue on construction sites, being able to contribute to the improvement of the safety and efficiency of lifting operations. Considering the complexities and dynamics of construction site...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent and Computer Technologies Application in Construction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,454 Views
11 Pages

Examining the Shift in the Decomposition Channel Structure of the Soil Decomposer Food Web: A Methods Comparison

  • Wen Xing,
  • Ning Hu,
  • Zhongfang Li,
  • Meng Yuan and ,
  • Meiling Luo,
  • Shuo Han,
  • Evgenia Blagodatskaya,
  • Shunbao Lu and
  • Yilai Lou
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

Selecting the appropriate indicators and measuring time point numbers is important for accurately examining the shift in soil gross decomposition channel structure. Through a selected case study on a natural forest vs. rainfed arable system over a tw...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue BRICS Soil Microbiome)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,997 Views
10 Pages

10 June 2022

In this paper, we consider the problem of approximating the safety margin of a single instance of a technical system based on inaccurate observations at specified time points. The solution to this problem is based on the selection of a certain set of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Stochastic Modeling and Applied Probability, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,456 Views
22 Pages

A Reliable Observation Point Selection Method for GB-SAR in Low-Coherence Areas

  • Zexi Zhang,
  • Zhenfang Li,
  • Zhiyong Suo,
  • Lin Qi and ,
  • Fanyi Tang,
  • Huancheng Guo and
  • Haihong Tao
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

1 April 2024

Ground-Based Synthetic Aperture Radar (GB-SAR), due to its high precision, high resolution, and real-time capabilities, is widely used in the detection of slope deformations. However, the weak scattering coefficient in low-coherence areas poses a gre...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,803 Views
13 Pages

7 November 2024

In 5th generation mobile communication networks, the frequency band of the millimeter band of 30–100 GHz is supported to provide a transmission speed of 20 Gbps or higher. Furthermore, a huge transmission capacity, i.e., up to 1 Tbps, is one of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Communication Networks: From Technology, Methods to Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,768 Views
12 Pages

23 September 2022

In low-altitude rescue, civilian helicopters, relying on their speed, efficiency and flexibility, play at center stage. Due to the terrain restrictions of the disaster area, it is difficult for helicopters to carry out safe and efficient rescue in ci...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analysis, Optimization, and Control of Air Traffic System)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,943 Views
9 Pages

11 February 2022

This study measured the time it took to select a target moving along a circular trajectory with a computer mouse. The time was changed according to the speed of the target, the width of target and the distance from the starting point to the target. H...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art in Human Factors and Interaction Design)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
9,673 Views
15 Pages

Effects of Time Point Measurement on the Reconstruction of Gene Regulatory Networks

  • Wenying Yan,
  • Huangqiong Zhu,
  • Yang Yang,
  • Jiajia Chen and ,
  • Yuanyuan Zhang and
  • Bairong Shen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

4 August 2010

With the availability of high-throughput gene expression data in the post-genomic era, reconstruction of gene regulatory networks has become a hot topic. Regulatory networks have been intensively studied over the last decade and many software tools a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue From Computational Chemistry to Complex Networks)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,848 Views
18 Pages

A Fast 6DOF Visual Selective Grasping System Using Point Clouds

  • Daniel Moura de Oliveira and
  • Andre Gustavo Scolari Conceicao

Visual object grasping can be complex when dealing with different shapes, points of view, and environments since the robotic manipulator must estimate the most feasible place to grasp. This work proposes a new selective grasping system using only poi...

(This article belongs to the Section Robotics, Mechatronics and Intelligent Machines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,719 Views
13 Pages

18 April 2021

Branch length similarity (BLS) entropy is defined in a network consisting of a single node and branches. In this study, we mapped the binary time-series signal to the circumference of the time circle so that the BLS entropy can be calculated for the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Entropy Algorithms for Image, Video, and Signal Processing)
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  • Open Access
38 Citations
6,172 Views
22 Pages

18 September 2019

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are widely used as mobile information collectors for sensors to prolong the network time in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) due to their flexible deployment, high mobility, and low cost. This paper focuses on the scena...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimization and Communication in UAV Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
7,369 Views
30 Pages

29 November 2022

The emerging WiFi Round Trip Time measured by the IEEE 802.11mc standard promised sub-meter-level accuracy for WiFi-based indoor positioning systems, under the assumption of an ideal line-of-sight path to the user. However, most workplaces with furni...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing in Urban Positioning and Navigation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,697 Views
35 Pages

A Multiple Solution Approach to Real-Time Optimization

  • Jack Speakman and
  • Grégory François

26 October 2022

Modifier Adaptation (MA) is a method of real-time optimization (RTO) which modifies a single model to match the first order properties of the plant. Known uncertainties in the parameters of this model are discarded in favor of real-time measurements,...

(This article belongs to the Section Process Control, Modeling and Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,573 Views
23 Pages

A Novel Pallet Detection Method for Automated Guided Vehicles Based on Point Cloud Data

  • Yiping Shao,
  • Zhengshuai Fan,
  • Baochang Zhu,
  • Minlong Zhou and ,
  • Zhihui Chen and
  • Jiansha Lu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 October 2022

Automated guided vehicles are widely used in warehousing environments for automated pallet handling, which is one of the fundamental parts to construct intelligent logistics systems. Pallet detection is a critical technology for automated guided vehi...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,092 Views
13 Pages

22 April 2020

Using construction and demolition waste (CDW) as road subgrade filling materials is an excellent way to solve the disparity between increased demand and road construction aggregate shortages. However, a key quality control problem is predicting the s...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction and Building Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,567 Views
19 Pages

18 October 2022

Micro-milling tools are usually used for the 3D precision processing of micro metal parts under ultra-high speed. However, due to the structural characteristics of small scale, variable cross-section, and weak stiffness, the vibration of micro-millin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Vibration and Acoustic Analysis of Components and Machines)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,326 Views
9 Pages

31 July 2018

The gauging process can be very extensive and time-consuming due to the procedures involved. Since velocity measurement time (VMT) is one of the main variables that would allow gauging times to be reduced, this study seeks to determine the optimal po...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,231 Views
18 Pages

Method of Constructing Point Generalization Constraints Based on the Cloud Platform

  • Jiemin Zhou,
  • Jie Shen,
  • Shuai Yang,
  • Zhenguo Yu and ,
  • Karel Stanek and
  • Radim Stampach
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

As an important part of spatial data, the point feature has always been an essential element in web maps and navigation maps. With the development of location-based services and the rapid increase in volunteered geographic information and social medi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
423 Views
23 Pages

Integrated Active Breaks Improve Discomfort, Cervicoscapular Electromyographic Responses, and Typing Performance in Computer Users at Risk of Neck Pain: A Randomized Crossover Trial

  • Pattanasin Areeudomwong,
  • Nayada Supornpipat,
  • Nahathai Raungpimai,
  • Wipada Klibngoen and ,
  • Wiriya Mahikul,
  • Yadanuch Boonyaratana and
  • Vitsarut Buttagat
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Neck–shoulder disorders are common among computer users, yet the effects of integrated active breaks (IABs) on discomfort, electromyographic (EMG) responses, and typing performance remain unclear. This randomized crossover trial compared neck&n...

(This article belongs to the Section Exercise and Health-Related Quality of Life)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,790 Views
11 Pages

Guidelines for Accurate Multi-Temporal Model Registration of 3D Scanned Objects

  • Kate J. Benfield,
  • Dylan E. Burruel and
  • Trevor J. Lujan

14 February 2023

Changes in object morphology can be quantified using 3D optical scanning to generate 3D models of an object at different time points. This process requires registration techniques that align target and reference 3D models using mapping functions base...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geometry Reconstruction from Images)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,792 Views
18 Pages

9 September 2021

The municipality generally uses its property to perform self-governing functions, and public or business activities. In the conditions of the Slovak Republic, the municipality operates either as a legal entity in its own name or carries out business...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Economic Factors of the Development of Agricultural Markets and Rural Areas)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
1,076 Views
15 Pages

I2DNet—Design and Real-Time Evaluation of Appearance-Based Gaze Estimation System

  • L R D Murthy,
  • Siddhi Brahmbhatt,
  • Somnath Arjun and
  • Pradipta Biswas

31 August 2021

Gaze estimation problem can be addressed using either model-based or appearance-based approaches. Model-based approaches rely on features extracted from eye images to fit a 3D eye-ball model to obtain gaze point estimate while appearance-based method...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,374 Views
10 Pages

A Microbiological and Sensory Evaluation of Modified Atmosphere-Packed (MAP) Chicken at Use-By Date and Beyond

  • Karin Söderqvist,
  • Max Peterson,
  • Marcus Johansson,
  • Viktoria Olsson and
  • Sofia Boqvist

5 July 2024

Consumers are responsible for a large proportion of food waste, and food that has reached its use-by or best-before date is often discarded, even if edible. In this study on fresh chicken, the suitability of use-by dates currently used in the EU was...

(This article belongs to the Section Meat)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,413 Views
15 Pages

LRPL-VIO: A Lightweight and Robust Visual–Inertial Odometry with Point and Line Features

  • Feixiang Zheng,
  • Lu Zhou,
  • Wanbiao Lin,
  • Jingyang Liu and
  • Lei Sun

18 February 2024

Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) algorithms, fusing various features such as points and lines, are able to improve their performance in challenging scenes while the running time severely increases. In this paper, we propose a novel lightweight point&nd...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensors and Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
392 Views
24 Pages

21 June 2026

Trackless rubber-tired vehicles are the important auxiliary transportation equipment in coal mines. The main difficulty of their unmanned driving is that the underground environment information is complex but the onboard computing resources for perce...

(This article belongs to the Section Transportation and Future Mobility)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,768 Views
13 Pages

Design Plan for an Evolution Study of Related Characteristics of a Population

  • Juan M. Rodríguez-Díaz,
  • Rosa E. Pruneda and
  • Mercedes Rodríguez-Hernández

2 March 2022

The objective is to study the evolution of different characteristics of a population through time. These response variables may be related for each experimental unit, and in addition, the observations for each response may as well be correlated with...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimal Experimental Design and Statistical Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,972 Views
18 Pages

This paper presents a robust control framework with meta-heuristic intelligence to optimize the energy performance of air handling units (AHUs) and to maximize the thermal comfort of occupants by judiciously selecting the temperature set points of tw...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Resource Sustainability for Energy and Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,676 Views
15 Pages

Effect of Side Substituent on Comb-like Polysiloxane Membrane Pervaporation Properties During Recovery of Alcohols C2-C4 from Water

  • Evgenia Grushevenko,
  • Islam Chechenov,
  • Tatyana Rokhmanka,
  • Tatiana Anokhina and ,
  • Stepan Bazhenov and
  • Ilya Borisov
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 December 2024

The pervaporation properties of membranes based on comb-like polysiloxanes when C2-C4 alcohols are removed from water were studied for the first time. It was established that membranes based on comb-like polysiloxanes with linear aliphatic and organo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Trends in Polymer Membranes: Fabrication Technique, Characterization, Functionalization, and Applications in Environmental Science, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,289 Views
28 Pages

24 December 2023

In industrial production, it is very difficult to make a robot plan a safe, collision-free, smooth path with few inflection points. Therefore, this paper presents a safe heuristic path-planning method based on a search strategy. This method first exp...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advances in Mobile Robotics Navigation, 2nd Edition)

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