Applied Sciences, Volume 12, Issue 18

With the increase of smart farming in the agricultural sector, farmers have better control over the entire production cycle, notably in terms of pest monitoring. In fact, pest monitoring has gained significant importance, since the excessive use of p...

At present, a large number of scholars have conducted related research on topology optimization for additive manufacturing (AM). However, there are few relevant research reports on the impact of different directions of additive manufacturing on the o...

In the past 10 years, many side-channel attacks have been discovered and exploited one after another by attackers, which have greatly damaged the security of cryptographic systems. Since no existing anonymous broadcast encryption scheme can resist th...

The probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) method is effectively used in an earthquake risk probability evaluation in seismogenic regions with active faults. In this study, by focusing on the potential seismic source area in Najin Lhasa, southe...

The methanation process is discussed as one way to chemically store renewable energy in a future energy system. An important criterion for its application is the availability of compact, low-cost reactor concepts with high conversion rates for decent...

Electric vehicles (EVs) have been progressing rapidly in urban transport systems given their potential in reducing emissions and energy consumptions. The Shared Free-Floating Electric Scooter (SFFES) is an emerging EV publicized to address the first-...

Particle detection has been increasingly applied over a wide range of disciplines, including high-energy physics, astroparticles, space science and astronomy, biological sciences, medical imaging, remote sensing, environmental monitoring, cultural he...

The Strymon basin (Northern Greece) belongs to the geodynamically active regime of the Aegean and, as expected, it hosts active faults. Nevertheless, the study area exhibits a low instrumentally and historically recorded seismicity. In order to compr...

In Southeast Asia, many varieties of citrus are grown in hilly areas. Compared with plain orchards, it is difficult for large spraying equipment to move in hilly orchards. Small spraying equipment can enter hilly orchards, but their spraying power ca...

Improving the microwave absorption performance of Co-MOF-derived Co@N-C composite by constructing the morphology and spatial structure is a known challenge. In this work, under the action of the binder polyvinylpyrrolidone, 3D-graphene particles can...

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) provides a new way of human-computer interaction. However, it is vulnerable to adversarial examples, which are obtained by deliberately adding perturbations to the original audios. Thorough studies on the universal...

Adaptive gradient descent methods such as Adam, RMSprop, and AdaGrad achieve great success in training deep learning models. These methods adaptively change the learning rates, resulting in a faster convergence speed. Recent studies have shown their...

Selective catalytic reduction (SCR) is currently one of the most efficient denitration technologies to reduce nitrogen oxide (NO_x) emissions of diesel engines. AdBlue (urea water solution, UWS) is the carrier of the reducing agent of SCR, and the spr...

The use of energy efficient structures in the local construction industry assists in promoting green building concepts, leading to economical and eco-friendly solutions for self-sustained structures. The main aim of this study was to examine and comp...

Over the past few years, the Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the most significant technologies ever used, as everything is connected to the Internet. Integrating IoT technologies with the cloud improves the performance, activity, and innovation of...

A facial scanner and three-dimensional computed tomography (CT) were used to evaluate the three-dimensional change in lip asymmetry before and after two-jaw surgery for 22 patients with facial asymmetry (menton deviation > 3 mm). We used the labra...

This paper presents a logistics problem, related to the transport of goods, which can be applied in practice, for example, in postal or courier services. Two mathematical models are presented as problems occurring in a logistics network. The main obj...

A new reliability estimation method based on partial multiplicative dimensional reduction is proposed for probabilistic and non-probabilistic hybrid structural systems. The proposed method is characterized by decorrelating interval input variables fr...

The efficiency and stability of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) depend not only on the perovskite film quality, but they are also influenced by the charge carriers of both the electron and hole transport layers (ETL and HTL). Doping of the carrier tran...

Recently, manufacturing companies have been improving quality and productivity, reducing costs, and producing customized products according to Industry 4.0. The global value chain (GVC) is also being reorganized and manufacturing companies are recove...

Carbon fiber is becoming a key material for engineering applications due to its excellent comprehensive properties. The process parameter optimization is an important step in the polymerization process of carbon fiber production. At present, most of...

In recent years, individual learning path planning has become prevalent in online learning systems, while few studies have focused on teaching path planning for traditional classroom teaching. This paper proposes a target-oriented teaching path optim...

Exposure to bioaerosols associated with horse stable indoor environment and their health effects on people and horses has recently become of particular interest. Moreover, increasing frequency of recurrent airway disease (RAO) among horses made it ne...

Addressing the problem that traditional methods cannot reliably monitor surface subsidence in coal mining, a novel method has been developed for monitoring subsidence in mining areas using time series unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) photogrammetry in c...

This article presents the application of supervised learning and image classification for the early detection of late blight disease in potato using convolutional neural network and support vector machine SVM. The study was realized in the Boyac&aacu...

The cable lifting construction method is the most widely used construction method for large-span arch bridges. The correct calculation and analysis of cable lifting construction is essential to ensure the safety and linearity in the construction of a...

Molds thrive in indoor environments, challenging the stability of building materials and occupants’ health. Diverse sampling and analytical techniques can be applied in the microbiology of buildings, with specific benefits and drawbacks. We eva...

Spinal cord injuries are directly related to quality of life [...]

Timber has been commonly used in the field of civil engineering, and the health condition of timber is of great significance for the whole structure in practical scenarios. However, due to mechanical load and environmental impact, timber-based constr...

To effectively analyze the safety risk of chemical enterprises and ensure the safety of production and management of enterprises, the contradiction problems in the process of index selection and risk early warning model in practical application are a...

Lung cancer is the highest-mortality cancer with the largest number of patients in the world. Early screening and diagnosis of lung cancer by CT imaging is of great significance to improve the cure rate of lung cancer. CT signs mean the information o...

Side-scan sonar systems play an important role in tasks such as marine terrain exploration and underwater target identification. Target segmentation of side-scan sonar images is an effective method of underwater target detection. However, the princip...

In the field of computer vision, training a well-performing model on a dataset with a long-tail distribution is a challenging task. To address this challenge, image resampling is usually introduced as a simple and effective solution. However, when pe...

Over 70% of patients suffering from dentofacial deformities mention esthetics as the biggest issue pushing them to look for orthodontic and orthognathic treatment. At present, several pieces of software for computer-aided surgery have been released o...

The design and preparation of hydrophobic, wear-resistant, and thermally conductive multifunctional composites is an important direction of scientific research and application. In this study, A-CF/EP/FEP composites were prepared by incorporating APDM...

Numerous large hydropower projects have been built, are being built, or are planned to be developed in southwest China as a result of the increasing demand for clean energy in China’s social and economic development. Based on engineering geolog...

Underwater compressed air energy storage was developed from its terrestrial counterpart. It has also evolved to underwater compressed natural gas and hydrogen energy storage in recent years. UWCGES is a promising energy storage technology for the mar...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, reusable masks became ubiquitous; these masks were made from various fabrics without guidance from the research community or regulating agencies. Though reusable masks reduce the waste stream associated with disposable m...

Protecting tissues from excessive inflammation by glucocorticoids results in an effective blockade of inflammation; however, it does not instigate processes of inflammatory resolution or tissue repair. Moreover, glucocorticoids have side effects such...

With an increase in the use of software, the incidence of bugs and resulting maintenance costs also increase. In open source projects, developer reassignment accounts for approximately 50%. Software maintenance costs can be reduced if appropriate dev...

Recent studies show that deep neural networks (DNNs)-based object recognition algorithms overly rely on object textures rather than global object shapes, and DNNs are also vulnerable to human-less perceptible adversarial perturbations. Based on these...

Recently, the array-invariant method was proposed to passively localize sources of opportunity in shallow water. It exploits multiple arrivals which are different in terms of beam angle and travel time. Conventional plane-wave beamforming in the exis...

Nowadays, customer churn has been reflected as one of the main concerns in the processes of the telecom sector, as it affects the revenue directly. Telecom companies are looking to design novel methods to identify the potential customer to churn. Hen...

The subjectivity of listeners’ emotional responses to music is at the crux of optimizing emotion-aware music recommendation. To address this challenge, we constructed a new multimodal dataset (“HKU956”) with aligned peripheral physi...

Background: The standard treatment for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (LA-NSCLC) is represented by concomitant chemo-radiotherapy followed by consolidation with durvalumab that ensures a 5-year survival of 46%. However, the risk of radio...

Wildland fires are a phenomenon of broad interest due to their relationship with climate change. The impacts of climate change are related to a greater frequency and intensity of wildland fires. In this context, megafires have become a phenomenon of...

A method for determining the optimal position of a robotic task within a manipulator’s workspace considering the minimum singularity free paths in joint space in order to achieve a high kinematic performance is presented. The selected performan...

Fuzzing is one of the most successful software testing techniques used to discover vulnerabilities in programs. Without seeds that fit the input format, existing runtime dependency recognition strategies are limited by incompleteness and high overhea...

The SM4 algorithm is widely used to ensure the security of data transmission. The traditional chosen plaintext power attacks against SM4 usually need to analyze four rounds power traces in turn to recover the secret key. In this paper, we propose a n...

This paper proposes a multi-band array antenna that shares a common aperture with heterogenous array elements. The multi-band array antenna includes one printed dipole antenna for the S-band and 3 × 3 array E-shaped patch antennas for the X-ban...