We consider a general approach to establish the positive recurrence (stability) of regenerative stochastic systems. The approach is based on the renewal theory and a characterization of the remaining renewal time of the embedded renewal process gener...
This paper presents the planning of an experiment aimed at determining the scope of scientific research. It has been demonstrated in the conducted reliability investigations that main and auxiliary combustion engines, chosen as the objects of marine...
Power systems comprise different electrical, electronic, electromechanical and electrochemical components. Adequacy, security, resilience and reliability represent essential requirements for grids functioning mode. The evaluation of such aspects can...
South African universities boast a remarkable solar photovoltaic (PV) resource as a primary renewable energy component. Due to high peak demand tariffs and inherent prominent heating and cooling loads, fast and granular demand response programs are w...
A train traction system is an important part of an urban rail transit system. However, a train traction system has many components and a high risk of internal faults. How to systematically evaluate the fault coverage and diagnosis ability of testing...
Major challenges are presented when managing a large number of heterogeneous vehicles that have to communicate underwater in order to complete a global mission in a cooperative manner. In this kind of application domain, sending data through the envi...
The unreliable prediction of the low-frequency components from inverted acoustic impedance causes uncertainty in quantitative seismic interpretation. To address this issue, we first calculate various seismic and geological attributes that contain low...
Thermal waters from deep circulation systems are mixed with cold shallow system components during their ascent to drainage zones. In the current research, classic chemical geothermometers and geothermometric modeling using the GeoT app were employed...
Cyber-Physical Energy Systems (CPESs) are energy systems which rely on cyber components for energy production, transmission and distribution control, and other functions. With the penetration of Renewable Energy Sources (RESs), CPESs are required to...
In emerging nanotechnologies, due to the manufacturing process, a significant percentage of components may be faulty. In order to make systems based on unreliable nano-scale components reliable, it is necessary to design fault-tolerant architectures....
The powertrain system is critical to the reliability of a battery electric vehicle (BEV). However, the BEV powertrain is a complex system; it includes the motor, motor controller, power distribution unit, battery system, etc. The failure of any of th...
(1) Objectives: Reliability is one of the major aspects for enhancing the operability, reusability, maintainability, and quality of a system. A software component is an independent entity that deploys to form a functional system (CBSS). The component...
The environmental performance assessment of the building and construction sector has been in discussion due to the increasing demand of facilities and its impact on the environment. The life cycle studies carried out over the last decade have mostly...
Multimodal sentiment analysis jointly exploits textual, acoustic, and visual signals to recognize human emotions more accurately than unimodal models. However, real-world data often contain noisy or partially missing modalities, and naive fusion may...
This paper suggests a methodology (conception and principles) for building two-mode monitoring systems (SMs) for industrial facilities and their adjacent territories based on the application of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), Internet of Things (IoT),...
Due to the unexpected breakdowns that can happen in various components of a production system, failure to reach production targets and interruptions in the process of production are not surprising. Since this issue remains for manufactured products,...
Sea-going ships are unique systems, and each ship—even those which are mass-produced—are different. Once in service, they are subjected to unique environmental exposure due to a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, their mod...
This paper conducts a focused probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) on the reliability of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) drones deployed for surveillance in areas with diverse radiation levels following a nuclear accident. The study employs the event...
The purpose of this study was to assess the Greek public’s perceptions of the reliability of information received about the Russo-Ukrainian war in the spring of 2022. The study was conducted through an online questionnaire survey consisting of...
Although liquid–liquid phase separation of cytoplasmic or nuclear components in cells has been a major focus in cell biology, it is only recently that the principle of phase separation has been a long-standing concept and extensively studied in biome...
As the use of inductor-based topologies demands a large amount of space, capacitor-based topologies have garnered attention. Electric Vehicles (EVs) are usually equipped with two-level inverters, which require separate control strategies for each lev...
Connectivity is a fundamental issue in research on wireless sensor networks. However, unreliable and asymmetric links have a great impact on the global quality of connectivity (QoC). By assuming the deployment of nodes a homogeneous Poisson point pro...
Finger-vein recognition has received increased attention recently. However, the finger-vein images are always captured in poor quality. This certainly makes finger-vein feature representation unreliable, and further impairs the accuracy of finger-vei...
Aiming at the difficulty in detecting defects of key equipment of transmission lines in small samples and complex environments, and the problems of low accuracy and unreliability in one-time detection using traditional deep learning-based methods, an...
Recent applications of low-field NMR in alkali-activated materials (AAMs) often adopt interpretation models developed for Portland cement systems, overlooking the distinct influences of paramagnetic/ferrimagnetic components and free-water redistribut...
Since households are one of the most energy-intensive sectors in Europe, retrofit of dwellings is promoted to increase energy efficiency. Recent research, however, shows that the energy performance after retrofit does not always meet the target value...
Understanding component criticality in machinery performance degradation is important in ensuring the reliability and availability of ship systems, particularly considering the nature of ship operations requiring extended voyage periods, usually trav...
Software verification is an important approach to establishing the reliability of critical systems. One important area of application is in the field of robotics, as robots take on more tasks in both day-to-day areas and highly specialised domains. O...
The security of Cloud applications is a major concern for application developers and operators. Protecting users’ data confidentiality requires methods to avoid leakage from vulnerable software and unreliable Cloud providers. Recently, trusted...
This study aimed to evaluate the reliability of countermovement jump (CMJ) performance metrics across five NCAA Division I varsity sports using Generalizability Theory (G-Theory). Three hundred male athletes from football, hockey, baseball, soccer, a...
This research deals with the design problems of LED-based spectrally tunable light sources (LSTLSs). The study aims to assess the reliability of popular models for the spectral modeling of LED radiation and a typically used curve-fitting criterion (R...
Brush seals are extensively used in rotating equipment, such as gas turbines and compressors, providing effective sealing while accommodating radial, axial, and angular movements between components. In this study, the performance of brush seals with...
Over the past two decades, a large number of metallic foams have been developed. In recent years research on this multi-functional material class has further intensified. However, despite their unique properties only a limited number of large-scale a...
Pick-and-place manipulators have become one of the principal components of almost all manufacturing plants. The process of sizing the number of manipulators required to efficiently carry out pick-and-place tasks depends on the complexities of such pl...
Recent trends in the photovoltaic (PV) technology industry are moving towards utilizing bifacial PV panels. Unlike traditional PV panels, bifacial PV panels can yield energy from both sides of the panel. Manufacturers specify that bifacial PV panels...
Optical flow is the apparent motion of the brightness patterns in an image. The pyramidal form of the Lucas-Kanade (LK) method is frequently used for its computation but experiments have shown that the method has deficiencies. Problems arise because...
One-class modelling is a useful approach in metabolomics for the untargeted detection of abnormal metabolite profiles, when information from a set of reference observations is available to model “normal” or baseline metabolite profiles. Such outlying...
Hydrogel membranes can offer a cutting-edge solution for abdominal hernia treatment. By combining favorable mechanical parameters, tissue integration, and the potential for targeted drug delivery, hydrogels are a promising alternative therapeutic opt...
Due to their unique three-dimensional structure, DNA or RNA oligonucleotide aptamers bind to various molecules with high affinity and specificity. Aptamers, alone or in combination with antibodies, can be used to sensitively quantify target molecules...
Location is critical for the safe and effective completion of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) missions. Since positioning errors tend to accumulate over time, uncorrected measurements from Inertial Navigation Systems (INSs) are unreliable. Aiming for U...
Maximal safe surgical resection remains a critical component of glioblastoma (GBM) management, improving both survival and quality of life. However, complete tumor removal is hindered by the infiltrative nature of GBM and its proximity to eloquent br...
Cellular mechanical properties are critical indicators of cellular state and promising disease biomarkers. This study introduces a novel microhand system, featuring chopstick-like plate-shaped end-effectors, designed for stable and high-precision sin...
Achieving robust multi-object tracking in complex real-world scenarios remains a challenging task. Existing approaches often struggle to effectively handle occlusion, primarily because occlusion can result in unreliable appearance features, inaccurat...
The transmission scheduling scheme of wireless networks for industrial control systems is a crucial design component since it directly affects the stability of networked control systems. In this paper, we propose a novel transmission scheduling frame...
Light Detection and Ranging(LiDAR)-inertial simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a critical component in multi-sensor autonomous navigation systems, providing both accurate pose estimation and detailed environmental understanding. Despite...
Museum professionals must ensure that protective enclosures for artworks do not in fact cause damage to the objects within due to pollution off-gassing from the container’s components. Ideally, all materials used in proximity to artworks should...
A key component of multi-criteria decision analysis is the estimation of criteria weights, reflecting the preference strength of different stakeholder groups related to different objectives. One common method is the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)....
Cell membranes are typically very complex, consisting of a multitude of different lipids and proteins. Supported lipid bilayers are widely used as model systems to study biological membranes. Atomic force microscopy and force spectroscopy techniques...
Batch normalization (BN) has become a foundational component in modern deep neural networks. However, one of its disadvantages is its reliance on batch statistics that may be unreliable or unavailable during inference, particularly under test-time do...
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote sensing has found extensive applications in various fields due to its ability to quickly provide remote sensing imagery, and the rapid, even automated, geometric registration of these images is an important compon...
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