Solar tracking systems allow an increase in the use of solar energy for its conversion with photovoltaic technology due to the alignment with the sun. However, there is a compromise between tracking accuracy and the energy required to perform the mov...
The viral polyprotein Gag plays a central role for HIV-1 assembly, release and maturation. Proteolytic processing of Gag by the viral protease is essential for the structural rearrangements that mark the transition from immature to mature, infectious...
In photovoltaic solar energy systems, power management algorithms (PMAs), usually called maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithms, are widely used for extracting maximum available power at every point in time. However, tracking the maximum powe...
Molecular probes with the ability to differentiate between subcellular variations in acidity levels remain important for the investigation of dynamic cellular processes and functions. In this context, a series of cyclic peptide and PEG bio-conjugated...
Standalone photovoltaic systems play an important role in providing reliable renewable energy in remote areas. These systems depend heavily on battery energy storage, especially lithium iron phosphate batteries, which are known for their safety and l...
The reliability of power converters in photovoltaic systems is critical to the overall system reliability. This paper proposes a novel active thermal-controlled algorithm that aims to reduce the rate of junction temperature increase, therefore, incre...
Ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) is broadly employed as an insulating material for high voltage applications. Surface discharge-induced thermal depolymerization and carbon tracking adversely affect its performance. This work reports the electr...
Endoscopic autofluorescence lifetime imaging is a promising technique for making quantitative and non-invasive diagnoses of abnormal tissue. However, motion artifacts caused by vibration in the direction perpendicular to the tissue surface in a body...
A key challenge in nanomedicine stems from the continued need for a systematic understanding of the delivery of nanoparticles in live cells. Complexities in delivery are often influenced by the biophysical characteristics of nanoparticles, where even...
Transferring emergent target tracking data to sinks is a major challenge in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), because inefficient data transmission can cause significant personnel and property loss. For tracking a constantly moving mobile tar...
In a wind farm, the upstream wind turbine may cause power loss to the downstream wind turbines due to the wake effect. Meanwhile, the energy production is determined by the power generation and the lifetime of the wind turbine. In this paper, an opti...
Intra-tumoral heterogeneity is associated with therapeutic resistance of cancer and there exists a need to non-invasively identify functional tumor subpopulations responsible for tumor recurrence. Reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) is a...
High quality and long product life are two fundamental requirements for all circuit carriers, including molded interconnect devices (MID), to find application in various fields, such as automotive, sensor technology, medical technology, and communica...
Operators of industrial machinery relentlessly pursue improving safety, increasing productivity, and minimizing unplanned downtime. Elastomer seals are ubiquitous components of this machinery. In general, static seals are designed to be compressed at...
Target tracking is an important application of wireless sensor networks. The networks’ ability to locate and track an object is directed linked to the nodes’ ability to locate themselves. Consequently, localization systems are essential for target tr...
We study the problem of energy-efficient target tracking in underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs). Since sensors of UWSNs are battery-powered, it is impracticable to replace the batteries when exhausted. This means that the battery life affects...
Target Tracking (TT) is an application of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) which necessitates constant assessment of the location of a target. Any change in position of a target and the distance from each intermediate sensor node to the target is pass...
Object detection and tracking is one of the key applications of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The key issues associated with this application include network lifetime, object detection and localization accuracy. To ensure the high quality of the s...
Severe damage to cement asphalt mortar (CA mortar) can compromise the stability and safety of high-speed railway operations due to various complex factors during service. The loads from high-speed trains and temperature gradients within the ballastle...
In this study, two commonly used automated methods of detecting cyclones in the lower troposphere were compared with respect to various features of cyclone activity. The first method is based on the neighbor cyclone center point (NCP), while the seco...
To investigate drug delivery in cancer therapy, we integrate fluorescence lifetime measurements, microspectrometry, and confocal laser scanning microscopy to track the uptake of inorganic–organic hybrid nanoparticles (IOH-NPs) by breast cancer...
This present study aimed to clarify the effect of contact scale and surface topography of substrates with different roughnesses on the actual contact area, tangential stiffness, and tangential deformation of the substrate at micro- and macro-scales v...
A mobile asset with a sensor node in a mobile asset tracking system moves around a monitoring area, leaves it, and then returns to the region repeatedly. The system monitors the in/out status of the mobile asset. Due to the continuous movement of the...
Math anxiety is a psychological burden that can hinder individuals across their lifetimes. However, the current literature lacks a valid measure of math anxiety that can be used across instructional modalities and among non-student populations. As su...
In a photovoltaic (PV)-battery integrated system, the battery undergoes frequent charging and discharging cycles that reduces its operational life and affects its performance considerably. As such, an intelligent power control approach for a PV-batte...
Anomaly detection in real-time data is accepted as a vital area of research. Clustering techniques have effectively been applied for the detection of anomalies several times. As the datasets are real time, the time of data generation is important. Mo...
Waste prevention begins upstream, in decisions made long before a product becomes waste. This article examines product lifetime management as an upstream environmental strategy and asks when longer product use can reduce waste generation, resource co...
The exploitation of reserves with a high CO2 content is challenging because of the need for its separation and the environmental impact associated with its generation. In this context, a suitable use for the generated CO2 is its reinjection into the...
At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) a significant production of (anti-)(hyper-)nuclei is observed in proton-proton (pp), proton-lead (p-Pb) and lead-lead (Pb-Pb) collisions. The measurement of the production yields of light (anti-)nuclei is extremely...
In this study, the general impact of high-resolution moving nesting domains on tropical cyclone (TC) intensity and track forecasts was verified, for a total of 107 forecast cases of 33 TCs, using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. The...
Mesoscale eddies play a key role in oceanic transport, yet their characterization in marginal seas like the Gulf of California remains challenging due to complex coastlines and bathymetry that hinder conventional detection methods. This study address...
Sensor management is a crucial research subject for multi-sensor multi-target tracking in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) with limited resources. Bearings-only tracking produces further challenges related to high nonlinearity and poor observability....
Tracking the state of the health of electrical insulation in high-power electric machines has always been a topic of great interest due to the high cost of downtime associated with unexpected failures. Over the years, there have been continuous effor...
Thioflavin T (ThT) assay is extensively used for studying fibrillation kinetics in vitro. However, the differences in the time course of ThT fluorescence intensity and lifetime and other physical parameters of the system, such as particle size distri...
The wall-impingement phenomenon significantly impacts mixture formation, combustible performance, and pollutant release in DISI engines. However, there is insufficient knowledge regarding the behavior of fuel adhesion. Thus, here, we examine adhesive...
Biodiversity monitoring requires the discovery of multi-target tracking. The main requirement is not to reduce the localization error but the continuity of the tracks: a high ratio between the duration of the track and the lifetime of the target. To...
Collaborative target tracking is one of the most important applications of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), in which the network must rely on sensor scheduling to balance the tracking accuracy and energy consumption, due to the limited network resour...
As a key technology in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), target tracking plays an essential role in many applications. To improve energy efficiency, clustering is widely used in tracking to organize the network to achieve data fusion and reduce commun...
This paper evaluates convective precipitation as simulated by the convection-permitting climate model (CPM) Consortium for Small-Scale Modeling in climate mode (COSMO-CLM) (with 2.8 km grid-spacing) over Germany in the period 2001–2015. Charact...
Children with congenital heart disease are exposed to repeated medical imaging throughout their lifetime. Although the imaging contributes to their care and treatment, exposure to ionising radiation is known to increase one’s lifetime attributa...
Automobile dependency and the inexorable proliferation of electric vehicles (EVs) compels accurate predictions of cycle life across multiple usage conditions and for multiple lithium-ion battery systems. Synthetic driving cycles have been essential i...
We analyse Swarm satellite magnetic field and electron density data one month before and one month after 12 strong earthquakes that have occurred in the first 2.5 years of Swarm satellite mission lifetime in the Mediterranean region (magnitude M6.1+)...
Among the polymeric family, high-temperature-vulcanized silicone rubber (HTV-SR) is the most deployed material for high voltage insulation applications. However, in an outdoor environment, due to contamination and wetting-induced dry band arcing, con...
In this paper, a hierarchical optimal operation strategy for a hybrid energy storage system (HESS) is proposed, which is suitable to be utilized in distribution networks (DNs) with high photovoltaic (PV) penetration to achieve PV power smoothing, vol...
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This paper studies the target tracking problem in wireless sensor networkswhere sensor nodes are deployed randomly. To achieve tracking accuracy constrained byenergy consumption, an energy-efficient optimization approach that enablesreorganization of...
In this work we focus on the energy efficiency challenge in wireless sensor networks, from both an on-line perspective (related to routing), as well as a network design perspective (related to tracking). We investigate a few representative, important...
The Internet of Things (IoT)-based target tracking system is required for applications such as smart farm, smart factory, and smart city where many sensor devices are jointly connected to collect the moving target positions. Each sensor device contin...
In an industry beset by economic and environmental crises, air transport, the safest and most efficient long-haul mode of transport, is confronted daily with multi-criteria challenges to improve its environmental performance. The formation of contrai...
The problem of moving target tracking in directional sensor networks (DSNs) introduces new research challenges, including optimal selection of sensing and communication sectors of the directional sensor nodes, determination of the precise location of...
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