Applied Sciences, Volume 12, Issue 24

The mining of deep coal resources occurs in a high-stress geological environment as well as an engineering environment of rock excavation and unloading. Research on the re-bearing capacity characteristics and damage mechanism of rock masses damaged b...

The beetle antenna search algorithm (BAS) converges rapidly and runs in a short time, but it is prone to yielding values corresponding to local extrema when dealing with high-dimensional problems, and its optimization result is unstable. The artifici...

We analyzed the degradation features by measuring the capacitance–voltage characteristics after electrically aging blue thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). The measurement was investigated in t...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a fundamental part of improving information technology systems. Essential AI techniques have revolutionized communication technology, such as mobility models and machine learning classification. Mobility models use a v...

The importance of fat mass estimation in multiple areas related to health and sports has led to the emergence of a large number of methods and formulas for its estimation. The aim of the present study was to compare the agreement and differences betw...

Ventricina del Vastese is a traditional dry fermented sausage from Central Italy not yet characterized for the occurrence, identity and safety of coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS), a bacterial group technologically important for this kind of pro...

In order to make plant cultivation as economical and efficient as possible, and to reduce the amount of human errors and labour costs, autonomous systems for growing plants and, in this case, also mushrooms, are increasingly being implemented. In thi...

Azelaic acid (AA), as a natural product, was proven to be effective in targeting multiple causes of acne and related dermatological conditions, as it is well tolerated using different classical formulations (gel, cream, etc.). However, its limited aq...

The release of the cardiac troponin T (cTnT) in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) has been analyzed through a methodology based on nonlinear mixed-effects (NME) models. The aim of this work concerns the investigation of any possible rel...

The benchmark approach for municipal wastewater treatment is based on biological oxidation. Due to high energy consumption, alternative treatment schemes are proposed, among which anaerobic digestion is the most promising. In this work, the direct an...

Information service platforms or management information systems of various institutions or sectors of enterprises are gradually interconnected to form a multi-domain environment. A multi-domain environment is convenient for managers to supervise and...

The Taipu River is an important cross-border river in the Yangtze River Delta region and a direct channel connecting Taihu Lake and Huangpu River. Along the main stream of the Taipu River are many sources of water, such as the Wujiang, Dingzha, and L...

This study proposes a new energy dissipation connector (NEDC) to connect an external autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC) wall panel with an assembled steel frame. To investigate the seismic performance and working mechanism of the NEDC under seismic ac...

Fermented juice from the noni tree (Morinda citrifolia) is a traditional medicinal product used by South Pacific Islanders to treat a wide range of ailments, including cancer, inflammation and obesity, as well as improving overall wellbeing. Many of...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been increasingly adopted in service production systems [...]

Thermal management at a high heat flux is crucial for high-power electronic devices, and jet impingement cooling is a promising solution. In this paper, a hybrid heat sink combining a microchannel and jet impingement was designed, fabricated and test...

The predictability of wind energy is crucial due to the uncertain and intermittent features of wind energy. This study proposes wind speed forecasting models, which employ time series clustering approaches and deep learning methods. The deep learning...

This study looks at how incorporating nanofiller into sisal/flax-fibre-reinforced epoxy-based hybrid composites affects their mechanical and water absorption properties. The green Al₂O₃ NPs are generated from neem leaves in a proportion of leaf extra...

Additive manufacturing technologies have been in continuous growth due to their advantages over traditional manufacturing. The iro3d is a powder deposition machine designed to build metal parts. This research work proposed the adaptation of the iro3d...

In the oral environment, restorative and prosthetic materials and appliances are exposed to chemical, thermal and mechanical challenges. The mechanical properties of a material define how it responds to the application of physical force. This Special...

The accelerator pedal in a vehicle can be pressed by either of two (natural and rotated) foot postures, according to driver preference. Since the rotated foot posture requires only foot motion to switch between the brake and accelerator pedals, most...

Ultrasonic attenuation coefficients of ceramic and inorganic materials were determined for the longitudinal and transverse wave modes. Sample materials included hard and soft ceramics, common ceramics, ceramic-matrix composites, mortars, silicate gla...

The traditional slewing bearing with circular raceway has the problem of stress concentration under the large overturning moment. In this paper, a new non-circular raceway of a slewing ball bearing was presented to conquer this problem. To obtain the...

The issue of monitoring the structural condition of bridges is becoming a top priority worldwide. As is well known, any infrastructure undergoes a progressive deterioration of its structural conditions due to aging by normal service loads and environ...

Catalytic hybrid rocket motors using hydrogen peroxide (HP) are easy and efficient to achieve multiple starts and stops, and hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB) grains are commonly used due to their excellent mechanical properties. The low regre...

The reservoir landslide in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area (TGRA) often suffers from local cyclic loading scenarios produced by surge waves, groundwater level fluctuation, traffic loading, and seismic activity. However, the effects of local cyclic lo...

Social engineering (SE) attacks (also called social hacking) refer to various methods used by cybercriminals to exploit the weak nature of human beings rather than the logical and physical security measures used by organizations. This research paper...

The generation, detection, and quantification of high-energy proton spectra that are produced from laser-target interaction methodologies is a field of increasingly growing popularity over the last 20 years. Generation methods such as target normal s...

Automatic clustering problems require clustering algorithms to automatically estimate the number of clusters in a dataset. However, the classical K-means requires the specification of the required number of clusters a priori. To address this problem,...

Urban ground collapse is a common geological disaster characterized by its invisible nature, particularly in China, and results in significant socioeconomic losses and even loss of life. Underground pipeline breakage is the most common factor leading...

In the manufacture of steel and foundry coke, there are a series of circumstances inherent to the process which can affect the life of the refractory material with which the ovens of the batteries are built. This article will deal with the impact of...

It has now been shown that an active and healthy lifestyle among university students helps to channel disruptive states arising from the academic environment. The objectives of this research are to describe the levels of anxiety, adherence to the Med...

Automation systems based on robotics have emerged as a multidisciplinary frontier of science and engineering [...]

Through the interaction between lasers and materials, laser micro/nano machining technology changes the materials’ physical state and properties [...]

Piston bowl geometry plays an important role in the fuel/air mixing quality which has a direct influence on the performance and emission characteristics of the engine. This work studied the effects of piston bowl geometry on the combustion and emissi...

The hollow structure of large-diameter ring piles (LDRPs) reduces the amount of concrete used, is economically efficient, and reduces the weight of the pile. However, its bearing characteristics and safety performance are still not fully known. In th...

The ultrasonic transmission detection method is used to investigate the applicability for the second-harmonic generation (SHG) technology of longitudinal wave to quantitatively assess carbonated concrete. The principal of this method is to use the pi...

Fucoidan, a polymer derived from seaweed, poses a broad range of biological applications, and its potential medicinal benefits have been widely studied over the past decade. In this study, fucoidan was extracted from marine macroalga Sargassum ilicif...

The existing block-based machine learning educational environments have a drawback in that they do not support model training based on large-scale data. This makes it difficult for young students to learn the importance of large amounts of data when...

Representation of self-face is vulnerable to cognitive bias, and consequently, people often possess a distorted image of self-face. The present study sought to investigate the neural mechanism underlying distortion of self-face representation by meas...

The purpose of this study was to observe the effects of audible and inaudible binaural beat stimuli on alpha power elicitation and compare the differences in triggering effects depending on sound perception. Experiments were conducted on healthy male...

The 2021 M_w 7.3 Maduo earthquake is one of the largest seismic events that has occurred in and around the Bayan Har block of Tibet. D-InSAR results and field surveys indicate that this earthquake resulted in more than 160 km of coseismic surface rupt...

In this work, we propose a road pavement damage detection deep learning model based on feature points from a local minimum of grayscale. First, image blocks, consisting of the neighborhood of feature points, are cut from the image window to form an i...

The world is facing a great technological transformation towards fully autonomous vehicles, where optimists predict that by 2030 autonomous vehicles will be sufficiently reliable, affordable, and common to displace most human driving. To cope with th...

Concrete structures are considered as durable construction material, but corrosion of the embedded steel reinforcement occurs under chloride exposure as concrete has porous properties. Herein, a cyclic drying–wetting test was performed for two...

Recommending loan products to applicants would benefit many financial businesses and individuals. Nevertheless, many loan products suffer from the cold start problem; i.e., there are no available historical data for training the recommendation model....

Non-volatile memories (NVMs) have aroused vast interest in hybrid memory systems due to their promising features of byte-addressability, high storage density, low cost per byte, and near-zero standby energy consumption. However, since NVMs have limit...

The secondary metabolism of toxigenic fungi can produce mycotoxins, substances that are toxic for both humans and animals. Mycotoxins and their by-products found in various biological tissues are considered biomarkers, and concentrations of these sub...

This work proposes a new approach based on YOLOX model enhancement for the helmet-wearing real-time detection task, which is plagued by low detection accuracy, incorrect detection, and missing detection. First, in the backbone network, recursive gate...

The Metaverse is a multi-user virtual world that combines physical reality with digital virtual reality. The three basic technologies for building the Metaverse are immersive technologies, artificial intelligence, and blockchain. Companies are subseq...