Applied Sciences, Volume 12, Issue 7

The paper presents a detailed study of certain working regimes of a TV2-117A turboshaft engine, based on practical research using experimental data following the engine run tests. The engine run tests were made into the test bench, using a hydraulic...

This paper proposes to utilize a femtosecond Maker fringe for angular measurement to expand the measurement range by using the characteristic of the multiple visible peaks in the Maker fringe. Four different z-cut nonlinear materials and three differ...

In recent years federated learning has emerged as a new paradigm for training machine learning models oriented to distributed systems. The main idea is that each node of a distributed system independently trains a model and shares only model paramete...

The analysis of immunosuppressive drugs allows the physician to monitor, and eventually correct, immunosuppressive therapy. The panel of molecules under evaluation includes cyclosporine A (CsA), tacrolimus, sirolimus, and everolimus. Initially, assay...

Purpose: To investigate the applicability of strip meniscometry tube (SMT) in the measurement of tear lactoferrin in non-obese diabetic mice (NOD). Methods: SMT (SMTube, Echo Electricity Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan) and fluorescein staining tests were pe...

In this paper, ultra-wideband bandpass filters using tapered transmission line resonators are presented. The proposed filters are based on short-circuited tapered transmission line stubs. The use of tapered transmission resonators resulted in a notic...

Loss of lumbar lordosis in flatback patients leads to changes in the walking mechanism like knee flexion. Such variations in flatback patients are predicted to alter the characteristics of total knee replacement (TKR) contact, so their TKR will show...

Uncertainty quantification is an important aspect of engineering design, as manufacturing tolerances may affect the characteristics of the structure. Therefore, the quantification of these effects is indispensable for an adequate assessment of design...

Glass fiber reinforced cement (GRC) is an excellent composite for architects and engineers because it can be molded to produce laminar panels or to create complicated designs. GRC is a fine concrete reinforced with alkali-resistant glass fibers at 3&...

With the rapid development of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft, the blade design of a propeller suitable for VTOL aircraft with a wide range of operating conditions has become a challenging and popular task. This paper proposes a multi-ob...

Well-known methods for seismic performance assessment, such as incremental dynamic analysis (IDA), multi-stripes analysis (MSA) and the cloud method, involve nonlinear response time-history analyses to characterize the relationship between the chosen...

Optoelectronic platform is an important payload in the field of aerospace and widely used in geographic mapping, measurement, and positioning. In order to obtain high-precision attitude measurement, gyro and accelerometer are applied in the feedback...

The integration of information systems and physical systems is the development trend of today’s manufacturing industry. Intelligent manufacturing is a new model of manufacturing, based on advanced manufacturing technology with human–machi...

To ensure smooth robot operations, parameters of its kinematic model and a registration transformation between robot base and world coordinate frame must be determined. Both tasks require data acquired by external sensors that can measure either 3D l...

In the nickel electrolysis industry, detection of the conductive state of copper rods is an important part of production procedure management, as abnormal conductive states of the copper rod result in a decline in the quality of the electrodeposited...

In this research work, we present the synthesis and characterization of four different TiO₂ structures, such as nanotubes, nanocavities, nanosheets assembled on nanocavities and nanobowls assembled on nanocavities, prepared by electrochemical anodiza...

The consumption of household appliances tends to increase. Therefore, the application of energy efficiency measurements is urgently needed to reduce the levels of power consumption. Over the last years, various methods have been used to predict house...

A platform technology based on inorganic/organic nanoparticles for carrying drugs could be of enormous potential benefit in treating cancer. Surface modification of the nanoparticles with pH-responsive and biocompatible polymers can improve the selec...

Owing to its wide range of applications, 3D object detection has attracted increasing attention in computer vision tasks. Most existing 3D object detection methods are based on Lidar point cloud data. However, these methods have some limitations in l...

Magnetic gear mechanisms have advanced to have a promising future in transmission technology. Previous research indicates that magnetic gear mechanisms might replace mechanical gear mechanisms in some applications. Small-scale wind turbines (SWT) wit...

In comparison to conventional human-driven vehicles (HVs), connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) provide benefits (e.g., reducing travel time and improving safety). However, before the period of fully CAVs appears, there will be a situation in whic...

The design of a 4 × 4 MIMO antenna for UWB communication systems is presented in this study. The single antenna element is comprised of a fractal circular ring structure backed by a modified partial ground plane having dimensions of 30 ×...

This Special Issue “The Applications of Plasma Techniques II” in the section “Optics and Lasers” of the journal Applied Sciences is intended to provide a description of devices and processes related to plasma applications in t...

The high confinement mode (H-mode) is considered the optimal regime for the production of energy through nuclear fusion for industrial purposes since it allows to increase the energy confinement time of the plasma roughly by a factor of two. Conseque...

Algorithmic design harnesses the power of computation to generate a form based on input data and rules. In the product design setting, a major advantage afforded by this approach is the ability to automate the customization of design variations in ac...

Wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) is the process by which large, metallic structures are built, layer-by-layer, using a welding arc to melt wire feedstock. In this process, the proper selection of the shielding gas plays a vital role in the achi...

Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) is an analog of natural nucleic acids, where the sugar-phosphate backbone of DNA is replaced by an electrostatically neutral N-(2-aminoethyl)glycine backbone. This unique peptide-based backbone enables PNAs to form a very s...

The advanced development of deep learning methods has recently made significant improvements in medical image segmentation. Encoder–decoder networks, such as U-Net, have addressed some of the challenges in medical image segmentation with an out...

To reduce crime rates, there is a need to understand and analyse emerging patterns of criminal activities. This study examines the occurrence patterns of crimes using the crime dataset of Lahore, a metropolitan city in Pakistan. The main aim is to fa...

Physical enrichment of structures has been used for the last decades in aquaculture to improve fish production and welfare. Until now, this enrichment has been practiced in fish monoculture but not in fish polyculture. In this study, we developed a p...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a worldwide public health problem, usually diagnosed in the late stages of the disease. To alleviate such issue, investment in early prediction is necessary. The purpose of this study is to assist the early prediction...

By the year 2035 it is estimated that Delhi and Mumbai will become two of the most populous cities around the globe. The massive population growth rate has led to the rise of land scarcity, urbanization, and industrialization and developments for rap...

This article evaluated the functionality and reliability of the personal airborne equipment backpack TL-98 before its launch in military parachute operations. An objective of this project was the verification of the TL-98’s characteristics whic...

Human population growth has led to increased wastewater generation and discharges, land clearing and fertilization for food production, and impervious surfaces associated with housing and road construction [...]

Green walnuts—unripe fruits of Juglans regia L. are known for their many biological activities and therapeutic potential. Tinctures based on unripe walnuts (samples 1 and 2) and tinctures with the addition of spices (ginger, cloves, bay leaves,...

The study of propagating light beams in liquid crystals, i [...]

Vapor pressure deficit (VPD) has been identified as an increasingly important driver of plant functioning, and thus VPD regulation has been widely recognized as having the potential to improve plant growth and productivity. We monitored the trend of...

In recent years, electric vehicles have developed rapidly. However, many electric cars are equipped with permanent magnet synchronous motors. Permanent magnet synchronous motors have several disadvantages: For example, permanent magnets tend to demag...

Flying ad hoc network (FANET) is an application of 5G access network, which consists of unmanned aerial vehicles or flying nodes with scarce resources and high mobility rates. This paper proposes a deep Q-network (DQN)-based vertical routing scheme t...

Existing caretakers of long-term care are assigned constrainedly and randomly to taking care of older people, which could lead to issues of shortage of manpower and poor human quality, especially the proportion of older people increases year after ye...

Single-phase direct frequency converters are gaining attraction at the research and academic level as they are rapidly getting space over conventional multistage converters. The converters developed with a rectification and inversion process using a...

Particle accelerators and radiation based on radio-frequency (RF) cavities have significantly contributed to the advancement of science and technology in the last century [...]

Instance segmentation of overlapping plants to detect their grasps for possible robotic grasping presents a challenging task due to the need to address the problem of occlusion. We addressed the problem of occlusion using a powerful convolutional neu...

The higher demand for honey from consumers, combined with its limited availability, has led to different types of honey adulteration, causing substantial economic as well as negative impacts on consumers’ nutrition and health. Therefore, a need...

Computational modeling and simulation are essential to solid and structural mechanics [...]

A preliminary derived concentration guideline level (DCGL) was calculated for the soil of the Wolsong nuclear power plant (NPP) (the first commercial pressurized heavy water reactor in South Korea) site using the RESRAD-ONSITE computational code. In...

Organomineral potassium humate was extracted from coal mining waste from the Lenger deposit (Turkestan region, Kazakhstan) by alkaline extraction using an aqueous solution of potassium hydroxide. The time and temperature of the process were investiga...

Mixed reality presents itself as a potential technological tool for the management of people with musculoskeletal disorders, without having as many adverse side effects as immersive virtual reality. The objective of this study was to explore the poss...

SLAM technology, which is used for spatial recognition in autonomous driving and robotics, has recently emerged as an important technology to provide high-quality AR contents on mobile devices due to the spread of XR and metaverse technologies. In th...

A key challenge for artificial intelligence in the legal field is to determine from the text of a party’s litigation brief whether, and why, it will succeed or fail. This paper shows a proof-of-concept test case from the United States: predicti...