2023 June-2 - 485 articles
During knee arthroscopy, easy orientation is important, and possible landmarks include the lateral intercondylar ridge (LIR) and the lateral bifurcate ridge (LBR). The objective was to show the feasibility of the LIR and the LBR as landmarks of the f...
The scientific aim of this work is to encourage energy conservation. This article offers a fresh perspective on renewable energy in the air conditioning sector, the country’s economic growth, and environment-friendly techniques to overcome glob...
The process of aging is a complex phenomenon that involves a progressive decline in physiological functions required for survival and fertility. To better understand the mechanisms underlying this process, the scientific community has utilized severa...
Indoor air quality has become a topic of great concern. Burning incense has recently been identified as one of the primary sources of volatile organic compounds, specifically benzene, in an indoor setting. The current paper aims to evaluate volatile...
Third-harmonic generation (THG) is of interest for its various applications. We propose using the cascaded second-harmonic generation (SHG) to implement the frequency conversion process, which is similar to that occurring in a medium with cubic susce...
In many underground engineering projects, rocks are often subjected to cyclic loading and unloading, such as repeated excavation of roadway surrounding rock, which will lead to damage to underground rocks, and the energy of rocks also changes. Theref...
Understanding the patterns of noncovalent adsorption of double-stranded nucleic acids (dsDNA) on gold nanoparticles (GNPs) was the aim of this study. It was found that the high-affinity motifs in DNA can and do act as an “anchor” for the...
This article is devoted to the study of the combined effect of siliceous fly ash (FA), silica fume (SF), and nanosilica (nS) on the cement matrix morphology and size of microcracks occurring in the Interfacial Transition Zone (ITZ) between the coarse...
In this paper, we research the dynamic car sequencing problem with car body buffer (DCSPwB) in automotive mixed-flow assembly. The objective is to reorder the sequence of cars in the paint shop using the post-painted body buffers to minimize the viol...
The travelling salesman problem (TSP) is perhaps the most researched problem in the field of Computer Science and Operations. It is a known NP-hard problem and has significant practical applications in a variety of areas, such as logistics, planning,...
Friction stir processing (FSP) offers a unique opportunity to tailor the microstructure and improve the mechanical properties due to the combination of extensive strains, high temperatures, and high-strain rates inherent to the process. Reactive fric...
As the operational time of the railway increases, rail surfaces undergo irreversible defects. Once the defects occur, it is easy for them to develop rapidly, which seriously threatens the safe operation of trains. Therefore, the accurate and rapid de...
This paper presents the development of an underwater crack detection system for structural integrity assessment of submerged structures, such as offshore oil and gas installations, underwater pipelines, underwater foundations for bridges, dams, etc....
The preservation of trees in urban and archeological areas is a theme of particular relevance. Modern systems of monitoring, together with approaches for deriving the main characteristics of trees influencing their response toward extreme events, are...
Learning Management Systems provide teachers with many functionalities to offer materials to students, interact with them and manage their courses. Recognizing teachers’ instructing styles from their course designs would allow recommendations a...
Power load forecasting plays an important role in power systems, and the accuracy of load forecasting is of vital importance to power system planning as well as economic efficiency. Power load data are nonsmooth, nonlinear time-series and “nois...
Bladder cancer (BC) is common worldwide, and has aggressive features and high rates of relapse despite treatments. Approximately 30% of patients present with muscle invasive disease, and therefore, high risk of metastasis. This review provides an ove...
Various machine learning algorithms have been applied to network intrusion classification problems, including both binary and multi-class classifications. Despite the existence of numerous studies involving unbalanced network intrusion datasets, such...
Fluoride varnishes, both the first and the second generations, are effective in inhibiting caries, especially in children and adolescents, by reducing it on average by 43% for permanent teeth and 37% for deciduous teeth. The aim of this study was to...
Rock fragmentation by blasting influences ore recovery and the cost of downstream operations. The development of electronic detonators makes it possible to improve fragmentation by controlling the initiation timing in blasting projects, and the effec...
To study the aerodynamic characteristics of the convex structure of a surface-monitoring device on a high-speed train and to evaluate its impact on the aerodynamic performance of the high-speed train, numerical simulation research was conducted on th...
The advancement of the Internet of Things applications (technologies and enabling platforms), consisting of software and hardware (e.g., sensors, actuators, etc.), allows healthcare providers and users to analyze and measure physical environments at...
Purpose: Gait termination (GT) is the transition from steady-state walking to a complete stop, occurring under planned gait termination (PGT) or unplanned gait termination (UGT) conditions. This study aimed to investigate the biomechanical difference...
Chronic diseases are severe and life-threatening, and their accurate early diagnosis is difficult. Machine-learning-based processes of data collected from the human body using wearable sensors are a valid method currently usable for diagnosis. Howeve...
This study used monoethanolamine (MEA) as an amine-based solvent, which was blended with secondary amines (DIPA), tertiary amines, stereo amines, and piperazine (PZ) to prepare mixed amines at the required concentrations, which were used as the test...
In recent years, a number of studies have explored the potential salutary effects of dietary nitrate, with promising findings emerging. Indeed, numerous investigations have now demonstrated that increasing intake of dietary nitrate can reduce blood p...
Recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI), deep learning (DL), and computer vision have revolutionized various industrial processes through image classification and object detection. State-of-the-art Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and...
For the second year in a row, the theme is “reef coral biotechnology”, specifically the interface between basic science and conservation. It has never been more important to attempt to leverage what we know about these beautiful, albeit h...
Hyperthermia therapy (HT) is used to treat diseases through heating of high temperature usually in conjunction with some other medical therapeutics such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy. In this study, we propose a promising temperature-controlled hy...
To investigate the effects of long-term freeze–thaw cycles on the physical and mechanical properties as well as the attenuation trend of rocks, this study conducted saturated freeze–thaw tests on coarse sandstone and fine sandstone sample...
Smart mechatronics systems in agriculture can be traced back to the mid-1980s, when research into automated fruit harvesting systems began in Japan, Europe, and the United States. Impressive advances have been made since then in developing systems fo...
Due to factors such as uneven guide rails and airflow disturbance in the hoistway, high-speed elevators may experience significant vibrations during operation. This paper proposes an optimized fractional-order PID (FOPID) method to suppress vibration...
Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) enhance safety, comfort, transport efficiency, and environmental conservation by allowing vehicles to communicate wirelessly with other vehicles and road infrastructure. Cooperative awareness messages (CAMs) c...
Lift-jacking accidents are one of the five common accidents in the lift field, characterised as a high hazard. In addition, it is difficult to obtain absolute probabilities of risk factors for lift accidents which are ambiguous and uncertain. In orde...
The purpose of this study was to achieve non-destructive detection of the internal defects of in-shell walnuts using X-ray radiography technology based on improved Faster R-CNN network model. First, the FPN structure was added to the feature-extracti...
The proposed method for tire specification character recognition based on the YOLOv5 network aimed to address the low efficiency and accuracy of the current character recognition methods. The approach involved making three major modifications to the...
In order to expand the zero-energy building, it is necessary to evaluate the economic feasibility of the passive and active elements applied to achieve the zero-energy building. The purpose of this study is to verify the final energy consumption and...
Existing methods for monitoring internet public opinion rely primarily on regular crawling of textual information on web pages but cannot quickly and accurately acquire and identify textual information in images and videos and discriminate sentiment....
Background: To report the evaluation of incentive spirometry (IS)-induced pressure changes in intra-abdominal drainage catheters and consider its use for maintaining catheter patency and enhancing drainage. Methods: Prospective study of patients with...
Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) represents a frequent and highly disabling mental disorder. Past attempts to characterize different disease subgroups focused on the time of onset (late vs. early onset), presence of insight (poor insight), a...
The accurate prediction and evaluation of stress and displacement fields of surrounding rock is the fundamental premise for the deformation control of soft rock tunnels under high geo-stress condition. However, due to the complicated mechanical chara...
Carbon fiber paper (CFP) is one of the most important units of gas diffusion layer (GDL) in proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). The binder used in the wet-laid technique has a significant effect on the properties of CFP. In this work, the p...
In recent times, there has been a significant focus on electromagnetic resonant shunt damping (ERSD) and quasi-zero-stiffness vibration isolators (QZS VI) as prominent solutions for vibration mitigation or energy harvesting. In this paper, an innovat...
The study aimed to assess central nervous systems in children diagnosed with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), using the techniques of magnetic resonance (MRI). The analyses considered 200 children, both female and male, aged 6–17 years,...
This study investigated the antioxidant and anticancer properties, phenolic compounds, and content profile of Hypericum salsolifolium plant extracts prepared with different solvents. The total phenolic content, total flavonoid content, and antioxidan...
The stability analysis of rock slopes has been a prominent topic in the field of rock mechanics, primarily due to the widespread occurrence of discontinuous structural planes in rock masses. Based on this complex characteristic of rock slopes, this p...
This study focused on the in-plane rocking behavior of unreinforced masonry (URM) walls. Three URM wall specimens were designed and fabricated based on a typical masonry house in Korea. The experimental parameters were the layout of openings (its pre...
Considering the change of different soil layer parameters of a two–layered strip foundation, a planar kinematically permissible multi–block failure mechanism of a two–layered strip foundation under vertical uniform load is formulate...
Modern distributed systems that operate concurrently generate interleaved logs. Identifiers (ID) are always associated with active instances or entities in order to track them in logs. Consequently, log messages with similar IDs can be categorized to...
The primary support structure of a tunnel often needs various support methods, such as bolts, steel arch frames, and shotcrete. It is of great significance to quickly calculate the displacement of tunnel walls and the bearing capacity of primary supp...
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