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2 Citations
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10 January 2022

A duststorm image has a reddish or yellowish color cast. Though a duststorm image and a hazy image are obtained using the same process, a hazy image has no color distortion as it has not been disturbed by particles, but a duststorm image has color di...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,705 Views
22 Pages

16 April 2022

In June 2014, South Korea enacted a law to systematically preserve and utilize architectural assets to strengthen national competitiveness through the enhancement of architectural culture. An architectural asset value enhancement zone (AAVE) can be d...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,993 Views
18 Pages

Low-light enhancement (LLE) has seen significant advancements over decades, leading to substantial improvements in image quality that even surpass ground truth. However, these advancements have come with a downside as the models grew in size and comp...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,712 Views
22 Pages

4 March 2024

Against the backdrop of a global emphasis on supporting local businesses and fostering domestic consumption, this study aims to shed light on the influence of personal values on the intentions behind domestic-product consumption. Drawing from the Sch...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,262 Views
17 Pages

18 February 2024

This qualitative study examines the educational management practices of a municipality in Thailand by evaluating the current delivery of special educational services with underlying principles rooted in value co-creation (VCC)—a business concep...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,027 Views
23 Pages

13 April 2024

The article suggests a Value Proposition (VP) framework that enables analysis of the beneficial impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) resources and capabilities on specific VP activities. To develop such a framework, we examined existing business an...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,777 Views
16 Pages

Acid-Catalyzed Wet Torrefaction for Enhancing the Heating Value of Barley Straw

  • Antonios Nazos,
  • Panagiotis Grammelis,
  • Elias Sakellis and
  • Dimitrios Sidiras

3 April 2020

In the present study, the possibility of improving the higher heating value (HHV) of lignocellulosic biomass, especially barley straw, was examined. The research deals with the treatment of barley straw by acid-catalyzed wet torrefaction (ACWT), also...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,942 Views
26 Pages

21 June 2018

The impulsive fault feature signal of rolling bearings at the early failure stage is easily contaminated by the fundamental frequency (i.e., the rotation frequency of the shaft) signal and background noise. To address this problem, this paper puts fo...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
9,212 Views
18 Pages

The Enhanced-Earned Value Management (E-EVM) Model: A Proposal for the Aerospace Industry

  • Joaquín López Pascual,
  • Juan Carlos Meléndez Rodríguez and
  • Salvador Cruz Rambaud

30 January 2021

The framework of this paper is the aerospace industry, which is one of the world’s leading sectors, thus playing a noteworthy role in current society. This makes it especially important to try to optimize the management of the aerospace sector. There...

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  • Open Access
1,936 Views
23 Pages

23 June 2023

In the process of recycling, dismantling, and reusing household appliances, implementing extended producer responsibility (EPR) has become increasingly important. Designing a reasonable pricing mechanism for waste household appliance recycling is cri...

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  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,318 Views
14 Pages

Waste Orange Peels as a Feed Additive for the Enhancement of the Nutritional Value of Tenebrio molitor

  • Konstantina Kotsou,
  • Theodoros Chatzimitakos,
  • Vassilis Athanasiadis,
  • Eleni Bozinou,
  • Christina Adamaki-Sotiraki,
  • Christos I. Rumbos,
  • Christos G. Athanassiou and
  • Stavros I. Lalas

12 February 2023

Lately, additional attention is being placed on edible insects, since they constitute an excellent, cost-efficient source of proteins with a low ecological footprint. Tenebrio molitor was the first insect that was considered edible by EFSA in 2021. T...

  • Feature Paper
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,038 Views
17 Pages

3 September 2024

This study aims to quantify the economic value of environmental externalities by proposing an approach tailored to areas designated for “civic uses”. These areas fall within the broader category of “collective goods” on which...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,501 Views
11 Pages

Prognostic Value of Late Gadolinium Enhancement in Left Ventricular Noncompaction: A Multicenter Study

  • Wei Huang,
  • Ran Sun,
  • Wenbin Liu,
  • Rong Xu,
  • Ziqi Zhou,
  • Wei Bai,
  • Ruilai Hou,
  • Huayan Xu,
  • Yingkun Guo and
  • Lu Ye

11 October 2022

Current diagnostic criteria for left ventricular noncompaction (LVNC) may be poorly related to adverse prognosis. Late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) is a predictor of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), but risk stratification of LGE in patien...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,827 Views
29 Pages

22 July 2022

Sandstorm images have a color cast that is reddish or yellowish due to the attenuation of the color channel. When light propagates through sand particles, it is scattered. Additionally, if some sand particles have a certain color, the obtained image...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,349 Views
13 Pages

30 October 2017

In recent years, new forms of enhancement of public real-estate assets have been developed in Italy. These are based on initiatives promoted by a citizenry eager to pursue their cultural, creative, and entrepreneurial activities in unused assets. The...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,666 Views
16 Pages

12 December 2022

In order to solve the problem that the F1-measure value and the AUROC value of some classical open-set classifier methods do not exceed 40% in high-openness scenarios, this paper proposes an algorithm combining negative-class feature enhancement lear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
678 Views
20 Pages

5 July 2025

In the digital economy, information asymmetry among individuals, data users, and governments limits the full realization of personal data value. To address this, “symmetry enhancement” strategies aim to reduce information gaps, enabling m...

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  • Open Access
1,124 Views
29 Pages

3 October 2025

This study constructs a research model with regulation and mediation based on the resource dependence theory to explore the nonlinear relationship between ESG responsibility fulfillment and firm value. This study uses a sample of Chinese A-share list...

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  • Open Access
785 Views
15 Pages

Predictive Value of Arterial Enhancement Fraction Derived from Dual-Layer Spectral Computed Tomography for Thyroid Microcarcinoma

  • Yuwei Chen,
  • Jiayi Yu,
  • Liang Lv,
  • Zuhua Song,
  • Jie Huang,
  • Bi Zhou,
  • Xinghong Zou,
  • Ya Zou and
  • Dan Zhang

23 September 2025

Background/Objectives: Accurately distinguishing malignancy in thyroid micronodules (≤10 mm) is crucial for clinical management, yet it is challenging due to the limitations of conventional ultrasonography-guided biopsy. This study aims to evaluat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,230 Views
13 Pages

25 January 2023

This case study of the Mediterranean extra virgin olive oil value chain aims to contribute empirical evidence to incorporating the agrobiodiversity concept within mechanisms for value enhancement of origin products, within sustainable local value cha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,285 Views
16 Pages

21 March 2024

Sentiment analysis aims to study, analyse and identify the sentiment polarity contained in subjective documents. In the realm of natural language processing (NLP), the study of sentiment analysis and its subtask research is a hot topic, which has ver...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,667 Views
17 Pages

Resilience-Oriented Framework for Microgrid Planning in Distribution Systems

  • Eun-Tae Son,
  • In-Su Bae,
  • Sung-Yul Kim and
  • Dong-Min Kim

15 March 2022

Recently, it has been suggested that microgrids (MGs) can improve the resilience of distribution systems. However, predictions about future faults are uncertain. This makes calculating the exact value of the benefits of system resilience enhancement...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,954 Views
12 Pages

Explainable Precision Medicine in Breast MRI: A Combined Radiomics and Deep Learning Approach for the Classification of Contrast Agent Uptake

  • Sylwia Nowakowska,
  • Karol Borkowski,
  • Carlotta Ruppert,
  • Patryk Hejduk,
  • Alexander Ciritsis,
  • Anna Landsmann,
  • Magda Marcon,
  • Nicole Berger,
  • Andreas Boss and
  • Cristina Rossi

In DCE-MRI, the degree of contrast uptake in normal fibroglandular tissue, i.e., background parenchymal enhancement (BPE), is a crucial biomarker linked to breast cancer risk and treatment outcome. In accordance with the Breast Imaging Reporting &...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,105 Views
23 Pages

A Degraded Finger Vein Image Recovery and Enhancement Algorithm Based on Atmospheric Scattering Theory

  • Dingzhong Feng,
  • Peng Feng,
  • Yongbo Mao,
  • Yang Zhou,
  • Yuqing Zeng and
  • Ye Zhang

24 April 2024

With the development of biometric identification technology, finger vein identification has received more and more widespread attention for its security, efficiency, and stability. However, because of the performance of the current standard finger ve...

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  • Open Access
65 Citations
5,862 Views
11 Pages

15 January 2021

In this study, low quality oils (waste cooking oils) with high acid value (4.81 mg KOH/g) were utilized as the feedstocks for a transesterification reaction enhanced by additional microwave power and the use of an NaOH catalyst. The kinetics of the t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,587 Views
12 Pages

Should Contrast-Enhanced Harmonic Endoscopic Ultrasound Be Incorporated into the International Consensus Guidelines to Determine the Appropriate Treatment of Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasm?

  • Tomohiro Yamazaki,
  • Mamoru Takenaka,
  • Shunsuke Omoto,
  • Tomoe Yoshikawa,
  • Rei Ishikawa,
  • Ayana Okamoto,
  • Atsushi Nakai,
  • Kosuke Minaga,
  • Ken Kamata and
  • Masatoshi Kudo
  • + 8 authors

22 April 2021

This study aimed to investigate whether the incorporation of contrast-enhanced harmonic endoscopic ultrasound (CH-EUS) into the international consensus guidelines (ICG) for the management of intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm (IPMN) could improv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,540 Views
15 Pages

Incremental Predictive Value of Longitudinal Axis Strain and Late Gadolinium Enhancement Using Standard CMR Imaging in Patients with Aortic Stenosis

  • Lucia Agoston-Coldea,
  • Kunal Bheecarry,
  • Carmen Cionca,
  • Cristian Petra,
  • Lelia Strimbu,
  • Camelia Ober,
  • Silvia Lupu,
  • Daniela Fodor and
  • Teodora Mocan

1 February 2019

To analyse the predictive ability and incremental value of left ventricular longitudinal axis strain (LAS) and late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) using standard cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging for the diagnosis and prognosis of severe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,387 Views
34 Pages

Dismissed Mines: From the Past to the Future

  • Roberta Varriale,
  • Barbara Aldighieri and
  • Laura Genovese

19 February 2023

Today, dismissed mines are considered significant local tangible and intangible cultural heritage elements and they are more and more often at the core of dedicated enhancement processes, being sometimes inscribed in the UNESCO list; included in geop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,136 Views
25 Pages

6 September 2019

The fault feature of wind turbine bearing is usually very weak in the early injury stage, in order to accurately identify the defect location, an original approach based on optimized cyclostationary blind deconvolution (OCYCBD) and singular value dec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,534 Views
19 Pages

13 September 2023

In light of the challenges posed by the widespread distribution of new energy sources in China and their distance from load centers, the power system must effectively integrate both new energy and thermal power transmission. To address this issue, we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,621 Views
23 Pages

27 March 2023

Sustainability gets higher on the policy agenda of many countries in terms of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Unethical tax behaviour diminishes the tax system’s sustainability, but paying taxes is necessary if we want to contribute to so...

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  • Open Access
1,614 Views
16 Pages

13 September 2025

This paper proposes a method to enhance the load capacity and reduce the volume of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) by optimizing the motor’s KV value (a measure of RPM per volt) to match the specific aerodynamic characteristics of a multi-blad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,482 Views
13 Pages

Free Gossypol Removal and Nutritional Value Enhancement of Cottonseed Meal via Solid-State Fermentation with Rhodotorula mucilaginosa TG529

  • Bifan Liu,
  • Huanyu Liu,
  • Daohe Liu,
  • Miao Zhou,
  • Qian Jiang,
  • Xiaokang Ma,
  • Jing Wang,
  • Bi’e Tan and
  • Chen Zhang

The presence of free gossypol (FG) in cottonseed meal (CSM) greatly limits the use of CSM as a high-quality protein feed. Microbial fermentation is an effective method to simultaneously reduce FG and improve the nutritional value of CSM. In this stud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,245 Views
14 Pages

Offering learning opportunities for developing digital competencies in pre-service teacher education remains challenging despite its growing importance in preparing future educators. This study investigates the effectiveness of integrative learning o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,637 Views
25 Pages

26 May 2023

Machine learning (ML) models have been shown to be valuable tools employed for streamflow prediction, reporting considerable accuracy and demonstrating their potential to be part of early warning systems to mitigate flood impacts. However, one of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,887 Views
16 Pages

17 May 2022

Background. The aim of our study was to describe the selected parameters of diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and perfusion dynamic contrast enhancement (DCE) MRI in primary tumors in patients with serous epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC), as well as in...

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  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,701 Views
20 Pages

19 January 2023

As the core engine of the digital economy, the digital transformation can make modern enterprises survive and develop better now. By the sample data of listed companies in the years from 2015 to 2020, this paper identifies the degree of enterprise di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,546 Views
12 Pages

18 June 2025

Objectives: A diagnostic indicator for differentiating peritonsillar abscess (PTA) from peritonsillar cellulitis (PTC) has not been established. Our aim was to define radiological criteria for differentiating PTA from PTC. Methods: We retrospectively...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
9,422 Views
21 Pages

The Integrated Role of Personal Values and Theory of Planned Behavior to Form a Sustainable Entrepreneurial Intention

  • Nosheena Yasir,
  • Nasir Mahmood,
  • Hafiz Shakir Mehmood,
  • Osama Rashid and
  • An Liren

18 August 2021

Intentions have been described as a key driver of sustainable entrepreneurial opportunity recognition and eventually activity. As a result of this study, interest may increase in entrepreneurship intentions across numerous entrepreneurial levels and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,444 Views
14 Pages

Serum Total Antioxidant Capacity (TAC) and TAC/Lymphocyte Ratio as Promising Predictive Markers in COVID-19

  • Zoltán Horváth-Szalai,
  • Rita Jakabfi-Csepregi,
  • Balázs Szirmay,
  • Dániel Ragán,
  • Gerda Simon,
  • Zoltán Kovács-Ábrahám,
  • Péter Szabó,
  • Dávid Sipos,
  • Ágnes Péterfalvi and
  • Ildikó Tóth
  • + 2 authors

18 August 2023

SARS-CoV-2 infection might cause a critical disease, and patients’ follow-up is based on multiple parameters. Oxidative stress is one of the key factors in the pathogenesis of COVID-19 suggesting that its level could be a prognostic marker. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,580 Views
21 Pages

The Influence of Non-Landslide Sample Selection Methods on Landslide Susceptibility Prediction

  • Yu Fu,
  • Zhihao Fan,
  • Xiangzhi Li,
  • Pengyu Wang,
  • Xiaoyue Sun,
  • Yu Ren and
  • Wengeng Cao

27 March 2025

Non-landslide sample selection is critical in landslide susceptibility modeling due to its direct impact on model accuracy and reliability. This study compares three sample selection strategies: whole-region random selection, landslide buffer zone se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,090 Views
14 Pages

19 June 2018

The paper presents an economic evaluation, including a cost-benefit analysis and a sensitivity analysis, of smart photovoltaic (PV) inverters with a novel Watt-Var control scheme for enhancing PV penetration in distribution systems in Taiwan. The nov...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
9,625 Views
18 Pages

Dynamics of the Fertilizer Value Chain in Mozambique

  • Helder Zavale,
  • Greenwell Matchaya,
  • Delfim Vilissa,
  • Charles Nhemachena,
  • Sibusiso Nhlengethwa and
  • Duque Wilson

9 June 2020

Mozambique is characterized by low agricultural productivity, which is associated with low use of yield-enhancing agricultural inputs. Fertilizer application rate averaged 5.7 kg ha−1 in Mozambique during the period 2006 to 2015, considerably l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,893 Views
15 Pages

Simulating the Effect of Torrefaction on the Heating Value of Barley Straw

  • Dimitrios K. Sidiras,
  • Antonios G. Nazos,
  • Georgios E. Giakoumakis and
  • Dorothea V. Politi

7 February 2020

Many recent studies focused on the research of thermal treated biomass in order to replace fossil fuels. These studies improved the knowledge about pretreated lignocellulosics contribution to achieve the goal of renewable energy sources, reducing CO2...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,912 Views
20 Pages

Influences of Efficient Spraying of Cement-Based Slurries on Recycled Coarse Aggregate

  • Jinming Yin,
  • Aihong Kang,
  • Peng Xiao,
  • Zhengguang Wu,
  • Changjiang Kou,
  • Yongfan Gong and
  • Chenghui Xiao

2 November 2022

The inferior property is usually one of the major problems of recycled coarse aggregate (RCA), and the utilization of the RCA is limited. Strengthening the RCA is being widely explored. Immersing the RCA in the cement-based slurry is an effective app...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,324 Views
27 Pages

28 March 2022

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the most sensitive imaging modality for breast cancer detection. This systematic review investigated the role of quantitative MRI features in classifying molecular subtypes of breast cancer. We performed a literatu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
12,035 Views
16 Pages

Assessment of Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizers for Long-Term Use, Formulated with Addition of Natural Ingredients in Comparison to WHO Formulation 1

  • Francesca Fallica,
  • Chiara Leonardi,
  • Valeria Toscano,
  • Debora Santonocito,
  • Paola Leonardi and
  • Carmelo Puglia

During the spread of COVID-19, many laboratories used the “Formulation 1” proposed by the World Health Organization to prepare hand sanitizers. Taking into consideration its ingredients and the prolonged use of hand sanitizers, “Formulation 1” (P1) w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,389 Views
11 Pages

Improving Spectral Efficiency in the SCMA Uplink Channel

  • Sergio Vidal-Beltrán and
  • José Luis López-Bonilla

18 March 2021

The Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) identified the technical requirements that the fifth generation of mobile communications networks (5G) had to meet; within these parameters are the fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,731 Views
25 Pages

Ensuring the freshness of high Value of Information (VoI) data has a significant practice meaning for marine observations and emergencies. The traditional forward method with an auv-aid is used to ensure the freshness of high VoI data. However, the m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,193 Views
13 Pages

17 February 2025

The European Union, producing over 2.5 billion tons of waste annually, has prompted the European Parliament to implement legal measures and encourage the shift towards a circular economy. Millions of tons of biowaste from olive plant leaves are gener...

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