Applied Sciences, Volume 10, Issue 14

Cogeneration is becoming increasingly popular in building and community energy systems with demands on electricity and heat, which is suitable for residential and industrial use in remote areas. This paper considers a stand-alone cogeneration energy...

Sustainable processing from native vegetation such as agave, nopal and aloe, is mainly centered on the components of lignin, cellulose, and hemicellulose, defined generally as lignocellulosic. Cytotoxicity of lignocellulosic biopolymer membranes (LBM...

Hair plays a major role in perception within a society. It provides information about gender, age, health, and social status. It is therefore not surprising that those affected are exposed to great suffering due to the widespread occurrence of hair l...

The coal structure deformation attributed to actions of tectonic stresses can change characteristics of nanopore structure of coals, affecting their CO₂ adsorption. Three tectonically deformed coals and one undeformed coal were chosen as the research...

The reliable design of the supercritical carbon dioxide (S-CO₂) turbine is the core of the advanced S-CO₂ power generation technology. However, the traditional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method is usually applied in the S-CO₂ turbine design-o...

This study studies the problem of on-orbit maintenance task planning for space-robot clusters. Aiming at the problem of low maintenance efficiency of space-robot cluster task-planning, this study proposes a cluster-task-planning method based on energ...

Strengthening strategies and structural rehabilitation of existing buildings with innovative materials and techniques are today one of the main activities in the field of structural engineering. Externally bonded Fiber Reinforced Cementitious Matrix...

Stainless steel is one of most commonly used materials in the world; however, biofilms on the surfaces of stainless steel cause many serious problems. In order to find effective methods of reducing bacterial adhesion to stainless steel, and to invest...

This study aims to investigate the effect of the spatial variability of grouting-layer thickness on ground-surface settlement caused by shield tunneling and to provide a rational prediction method. The spatial characteristics of grouting layers were...

Given the widespread use of mobile devices that track their geographical location, it has become increasingly easy to acquire information related to users’ trips in real time. This availability has triggered several studies based on user’...

For multiple extended target tracking, the accuracy of measurement partitioning directly affects the target tracking performance, so the existing partitioning algorithms tend to use as many partitions as possible to obtain accurate estimates of targe...

Plastic deformation during the manufacture process of electric resistance welded (ERW) pipe determines the stress–strain relationship of the steel pipe, which affects the collapse pressure of offshore pipelines. To track the deformation history...

Nowadays, increasing attention is devoted to the search for polymeric composite materials that are characterized by reduced flammability. In this work, the layer-by-layer (LbL) technique was applied to form multilayered protective coatings for polyam...

Arecanutchewing is an established risk factor for oral submucous fibrosis (OSMF), but its role in periodontal disease has not yet been defined. Thisstudy aimed to assess the effect of areca nut extracts (ANE) on the bactericidal activity of crevicula...

Mobile phone data provides information, such as the home (origin) and current locations of people. The data can be used to analyze the impact of new high-speed railway (HSR) openings. This study examined the population observed in stations and cities...

Artificial substrates supporting the healing of skin wounds require specific structural and chemical architectures that promote a recapitulation of the complexity of the native organ. Bottom-up fabrication technologies are emerging as effective strat...

Consumption of groundwater containing fluoride exceeding World Health Organization (WHO) 1.5 mg/L standard leaves people vulnerable to fluorosis: a vulnerability not well characterised in Malawi. To evaluate geogenic fluoride source and concentration...

Food chains and food webs describe the structure of communities and their energy flows, and they present interactions between species. Recently, diverse methods have been developed for both experimental studies and theoretical/computational studies o...

This paper presents results produced by a domain-independent system development model that enables objective and quantitative calculation of certain development cycle characteristics. The presentation recounts the model’s motivation and include...

A head-related transfer function (HRTF) describes an acoustic transfer function between a point sound source in the free-field and a defined position in the listener’s ear canal, and plays an essential role in creating immersive virtual acousti...

Many machine learning methods have been applied for short messaging service (SMS) spam detection, including traditional methods such as naïve Bayes (NB), vector space model (VSM), and support vector machine (SVM), and novel methods such as long...

The long-term deformation of a geodesic spherical frame structure with a diameter of 20 m made from wood plastic composite (WPC) lumber (struts) is described using the Norton-Bailey power law model to predict the service life creep behavior (the cree...

Reverse logistics include all operations related to the reuse of products and materials. In this study, we focus on collection, which is the first operation of reverse logistics, and on the strength of using the sensor data and the concept of Industr...

In this study, applications of the Arduino platform in the mining industry were reviewed. Arduino, a representative and popular open-source hardware, can acquire information from various sensors, transmit data using communication technology, and cont...

Estimating stature is essential in the process of personal identification. Because it is difficult to find human remains intact at crime scenes and disaster sites, for instance, methods are needed for estimating stature based on different body parts....

Mesh quality can affect both the accuracy and efficiency of numerical solutions. This paper first proposes a geometry-based smoothing and untangling method for 2D meshes based on explicit element geometric transformation and element stitching. A new...

Thermal modification is an environmentally friendly method to improve dimensional stability, durability, and aesthetic properties of wood. Changes in lignin as one of the main wood components markedly influence wood product properties and recycling p...

We fabricated surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates using gold nanoparticle (AuNP)-decorated zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorods (NRs). Prior to decoration with AuNPs, ZnO NRs on the glass substrate fabricated using the sol–gel method could...

A numerical and experimental investigation of a flat, cross-shaped piezoelectric rotary motor is presented. The design and configuration of the motor allow it to be mounted directly to the printed circuit board or integrated into the other system whe...

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and digital holographic interferometry (DHI) can be combined to improve the calculation efficiency and to simplify the procedures of many DHI applications. In DHI, for the measurements of concentration differences...

With the development of technology, multimedia devices such as smartphones, tablets, and wearable devices have become necessities in our lives, and many new products are introduced every year. Companies are expanding smartphone displays and are devel...

Ternary complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technology has been spotlighted as a promising system to replace conventional binary complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) with supply voltage (V_DD) and power scaling limitations. Recently, waf...

Bi-layered metallic bending tubes are widely used in extreme environments. The spring-back prediction theory for precise forming of such tube configuration is lacking. The layered coupling causes complex section internal force and new boundary condit...

Solar-assisted combined cycle power plants (CCPPs) feature the advantages of renewable clean energy with efficient CCPPs. These power plants integrate a solar field with a CCPP. This integration increases the efficiency of solar power plants while de...

With recent advancements of technologies such as Internet of Things and cloud computing, security of information systems has emerged as a critical issue. This has created a need for elicitation and analysis of the security requirements at an early st...

In this paper two different simple to design and easy to manufacturing transitions from a microstrip to rectangular waveguide based on ridge and groove gap waveguides are studied. The first one is based on a combination of a groove and ridge gap wave...

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In diesel engines, fuel mixing is an important process in determining the combustion efficiency and emissions level. One of the measures used to achieve fuel mixing is controlling the nature and behavior of the fuel spray by shaping the injection rat...

It is well known that mechanical systems require supervision and maintenance procedures. There are a lot of condition monitoring techniques that are commonly used, and in the era of IoT and predictive maintenance one may find plenty of solutions for...

Model updating plays an important role in dynamics modeling with high accuracy, which is widely used in mechanical engineering. In this paper, a model updating method using frequency response function (FRF) is proposed based on Sherman–Morrison...

Machine learning and deep learning algorithms have proved to be a powerful tool for developing data-driven signal processing algorithms for challenging engineering problems. This paper studies the modern machine learning algorithm for modeling nonlin...

Ginger rhizome is widely used in culinary preparations and in traditional medicine. Its benefits are associated with its antioxidant properties related to phenolics and terpenoids compounds, which use to be thermolabile. Ultrasound-assisted extractio...

The need to reduce the use of fossil fuels and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions produced by the transport sector has generated a clear increasing trend in transportation electrification and the future of energy and mobility. This paper reviews the curr...

Norway spruce (Picea abies) is an industrially important softwood species available in northern Europe and can be used to produce bio-methane after proper pretreatment to overcome its recalcitrant complex structure. Hot water extraction (HWE) pretrea...

Recently, methods and devices that simultaneously utilize two or more tactile feedback types have been proposed for more immersive interaction with virtual objects. However, the masking effect, which makes us less sensitive to various stimuli present...

Environment classification is one of the most critical tasks for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). Since water accumulation may destabilize UAV, clouds must be detected and avoided. In a previous work presented by the authors, Superpixel Segmentation (...

The limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 2L (LGMD2L) is caused by mutations of the ANO5 gene in humans which encodes a 913 amino-acid integral membrane protein. Although cardiomyopathy has been reported in patients with an ANO5 mutation, the ANO5 muta...

The present overview of spin-dependent phenomena in nonmagnetic semiconductor microparticles (MPs) and nanoparticles (NPs) with interacting nuclear and electron spins is aimed at covering a gap between the basic properties of spin behavior in solid-s...

The carried-out analysis of the dynamics of a submarine body’s translational motion affected by an acoustic shock in the ideal medium provides for the possibility to evaluate the physical properties of the medium and elastic properties of the e...

Laser beam cutting is a non-contact, production-flexible and highly productive technique that allows accurate profiling of a wide range of sheet materials. To these and further benefits, laser machining is increasingly being adopted by industry. This...