Previous studies on Lamb wave touchscreen (LWT) were carried out based on the assumption that the unknown touch had the consistent parameters with acoustic fingerprints in the reference database. The adaptability of LWT to the variations in touch for...
Classification and regression employing a simple Deep Neural Network (DNN) are investigated to perform touch localization on a tactile surface using ultrasonic guided waves. A robotic finger first simulates the touch action and captures the data to t...
This study proposes ReachTouch, a hand-tracking-based interaction technique for selecting distant objects in extended reality (XR). Direct touch interaction is intuitive but limited to objects within physical reach, while conventional raycast techniq...
HumTouch is a touch sensing technology utilizing the environmental electromagnetic wave. The method can be realized using conductive and semi-conductive materials by simply attaching electrodes to the object’s surface. In this study, we compare...
Tactile feedback technology has important development prospects in interactive technology. In order to enrich the tactile sense of haptic devices under simple control, a piezoelectric haptic feedback device is proposed. The piezoelectric tactile feed...
Background: Robot-assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN) has become the preferred surgical approach for localized renal tumours, yet the optimal surgical technique remains uncertain. Ongoing refinements aim to reduce morbidity while maximizing renal fun...
Small-angle X-ray scattering functions were measured for six pullulan samples with molecular weights ranging from 2.3 × 104 to 7.4 × 105 in 0.05 M aqueous NaCl at 25 °C and fitted by the perturbed wormlike chain model, comprising touc...
Insects fall prey to the Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) when they touch the sensory hairs located on the flytrap lobes, causing sudden trap closure. The mechanical stimulus imparted by the touch produces an electrical response in the sensory cells...
This article presents: (i) a formal, generic model for active sensing tasks; (ii) the insight that active sensing actions can very often be searched on less than six-dimensional configuration spaces (bringing an exponential reduction in the computati...
Despite the use of tactile graphics and audio guides, blind and visually impaired people still face challenges to experience and understand visual artworks independently at art exhibitions. Art museums and other art places are increasingly exploring...
Flat bands exhibit vanishing group velocity and marked sensitivity to lattice geometry, making them a useful setting for studying localization driven by destructive interference. In this work, electrical-circuit simulations are employed to investigat...
Voice-activated artificial intelligence (AI) technology has advanced rapidly and is being adopted in various devices such as smart speakers and display products, which enable users to multitask without touching the devices. However, most devices equi...
It is by now well established that Dirac fermions coupled to non-Abelian gauge theories can undergo an Anderson-type localization transition. This transition affects eigenmodes in the lowest part of the Dirac spectrum, the ones most relevant to the l...
Porous materials are known for their excellent energy absorption capability and, thus, are widely used in anti-impact applications. However, how the pore shape and size impact the failure mechanism and overall behavior of the porous materials under i...
Intangible cultural heritage tourism has become a hot topic in academia and industry. As a vital tourism resource, intangible cultural heritage can activate the in-depth experience of tourists for local culture to enhance the attraction and competiti...
Sweden has a very high and variable soil resistivity, making it difficult to ensure a consistently good connection to earth along the track. Booster Transformers (BTs) have been used to ensure that the current returns through the intended path and th...
Taiwan’s indigenous communities have an abundance of unique cultures. Their service industries with local and foreign cultures have opened up distinct opportunities for sustainable development. Despite the enormous potential of aboriginal commu...
Nasal sprays, which produce relatively large pharmaceutical droplets and have high momentum, are primarily used to deliver locally acting drugs to the nasal mucosa. Depending on spray pump administration conditions and insertion angles, nasal sprays...
A lightweight framework integrating Segment Anything Model 2 and multimodal generative AI is developed in this study to automate projection mapping. By leveraging Google Vertex AI cloud application programming interfaces (APIs) and a Python-TouchDesi...
Socially expected innovations are innovations considering sustainable development. The subject of the paper focuses on the business model of a start-up providing energy saving services to local government units using smart technologies of Industry 4....
In this paper, we present the development of a visual navigation capability for a small drone enabling it to autonomously approach flowers. This is a very important step towards the development of a fully autonomous flower pollinating nanodrone. The...
Feature selection is a promising dimension reduction technology that focuses on a reduced subspace by selecting excellent features. Most existing approaches tend to emphasize the discriminative ability of features based on either a global or a local...
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation has shown superior clinical outcomes compared to open aortic valve replacement surgery. The loss of the natural sense of touch, inherited from its minimally invasive nature, could lead to misplacement of the va...
The objective of this work is the proposal of a new navigation algorithm and its integration in a platform that is already designed and built, improving the functionality of the robot in order to patrol complex indoor environments. This patrol contai...
A touch-off explosion on concrete slabs is considered one of the simplest yet most destructive forms of adversarial loading on building elements. It causes far greater damage than explosions occurring at a distance. The impact is usually concentrated...
The notion of twist fields has played a fundamental role in many-body physics. It is used to construct the so-called disorder parameter for the study of phase transitions in the classical Ising model of statistical mechanics, it is involved in the Jo...
To support Industry 5.0 smart factories that require ultra-low latency and high reliability, this paper proposes a three-layer Intent-Based Zero-Touch Networking (IBZTN) pipeline. Existing Intent-Based Networking (IBN)/Zero-Touch Networking (ZTN) stu...
Cancer is one of the most common causes of death worldwide, thus new solutions in anticancer therapies are highly sought after. In this work, superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) conjugated with anticancer drugs are synthesized and inv...
Precision alignment and target contact are critical tasks for mobile manipulators in industrial inspection and flexible manufacturing. However, achieving high accuracy after navigation remains challenging due to accumulated errors from mobile base lo...
Direct steam generation in parabolic trough collectors presents challenges due to the non-uniform distribution of heat flux and the appearance of flow patterns. These conditions can induce stresses, deformations, and deflections that compromise the s...
Pressure sensors integrated in surfaces, such as the floor, can enable movement, event, and object detection with relatively little effort and without raising privacy concerns, such as video surveillance. Usually, this requires a distributed array of...
Pearl detection with a counter (PDC) in a noncontact and high-precision manner is a challenging task in the area of commercial production. Additionally, sea pearls are considered to be quite valuable, so the traditional manual counting methods are no...
Modern interaction with smart devices is hindered by the “Midas Touch” problem, where sensors frequently misinterpret incidental physical movements as intentional commands due to a lack of human context. This research addresses this confl...
Background: Drug-coated balloons have been used as a non-stenting treatment in coronary and peripheral artery disease. Until recently, only sirolimus- and paclitaxel-coated balloons have been investigated in clinical trials. We evaluated the safety a...
Background/Objectives: Accurate peripheral blood cell detection remains difficult in dense smear fields, where touching erythrocytes, small platelets, and staining variability reduce the reliability of box-based object detectors. This study aims to a...
Subterranean locomotion challenges animals to maintain orientation and efficiently navigate confined spaces where vision is limited and local geometry is uncertain. Mole crickets (Gryllotalpidae), which regularly travel through self-excavated tunnels...
Drawing inspiration from the human vision-touch interaction that demonstrates the ability of vision in assisting tactile manipulation tasks, this paper addresses the issue of 3D object recognition from tactile data whose acquisition is guided by visu...
This work provides additional insights into the identification of operating conditions necessary to overcome a current limitation to the scale-up of the breath figure method, which is regarded as an outstanding manufacturing approach for structurally...
Using a mixed-methods design, we evaluated Farm Fresh Food Box (F3B) a market innovation designed to expand producer markets, stabilize rural retail businesses, and improve rural food access. In the F3B model, pre-ordered Community Supported Agricult...
For a long time, Chinese audiences have not had a high opinion of hybrid Chinese and Western movies. However, the unanimous praise for Turning Red in China se ems to have reversed this situation. In order to verify whether the attitudinal behavior of...
Recent advances in medical treatments have been revolutionary in shaping the management and treatment landscape of patients, notably cancer patients. Over the last decade, patients with diverse forms of locally advanced or metastatic cancer, such as...
Cross-dataset nucleus instance segmentation requires robust separation of touching nuclei despite changes in tissue appearance. We introduce contact-aware multi-granular instance geometry prototypes (CA-MIGP), a training-time objective that assigns s...
Cortical plasticity is one of the main features that enable our ability to learn and adapt in our environment. Indeed, the cerebral cortex self-organizes itself through structural and synaptic plasticity mechanisms that are very likely at the basis o...
Providing access to and the protection of cultural goods—intangible and tangible heritage—is carried out primarily by institutions such as museums, galleries or local cultural centres where temporary exhibitions are shown. The internation...
Hidden adulteration of stale berries in dried goji berry batches is difficult to detect by manual inspection or batch-level quality assessment. This study developed a high-throughput method for kernel-level spoilage adulteration quantification in dri...
Background/Objectives: During radiofrequency ablation (RFA) for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), electrodes are generally inserted into the center of the tumor through the hepatic parenchyma under image guidance, including ultrasound...
Finding cost efficient earthing system design with acceptable level of safety might be quite tedious work. Thus, many earthing system engineers try to find the most suitable design either by employing only their best experience or taking advantage of...
As one of the world’s most traded agricultural commodities, coffee constitutes a significant part of the overall economy and a major source of foreign revenue for many developing countries. Coffee also touches a large portion of the world’s populatio...
The expansion of telecommunication technologies touches almost all aspects life that we are living nowadays. Indeed, such technologies have emerged as a fourth essential utility alongside the traditional utilities of electricity, water, and gas. In t...
Background: Mechanosensitive ion channels PIEZO1 and PIEZO2 are key mediators of mechanotransduction, which converts physical forces into cellular signals involved in proprioception, touch, vascular function, and other physiological processes. Mutati...
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