2023 October-2 - 492 articles
The exponential growth in information on the Internet, particularly within social networks, highlights the importance of sentiment and opinion analysis. The intrinsic characteristics of the Spanish language coupled with the short length and lack of c...
Sediment deposition is an ecological and environmental problem faced by most water bodies. In view of the poor structural stability and unrepeatable use of existing permeable structures, this paper proposes a cascade permeable dam, which consists of...
The livestock industry significantly contributes to greenhouse gas emissions, with ruminant animals, including cows, sheep, and goats, being responsible for a substantial share of these emissions due to methane production. Reducing methane emissions...
A Bayesian inference formulation is applied to the Resin Transfer Moulding process to estimate bulk permeability and race-tracking effects using measured values of pressure at discrete sensor locations throughout a preform. The algorithm quantifies u...
This study observed the characteristics and influencing factors of the carbon fluxes of the Momoge salt marsh ecosystem over four years, which behaves as a CO2 sink. The daily, seasonal, and interannual variations in CO2 fluxes in the Momoge salt mar...
According to the climate change scenario, climate change in the Korean Peninsula is expected to worsen due to extreme temperatures, with effects such as rising average temperatures, heat waves, and droughts. In Republic of Korea, which relies on fore...
At present, numerous reflector antennas have been constructed worldwide on land. However, there are few applications of reflector antennas directly set off the coast. To expand the application region of reflector antennas, a floating cylindrical refl...
Nonlinear optics, which emerged in the early 60s of the 20th century, immediately after the invention of powerful lasers, had a significant influence on the formation of modern photonics [...]
This article concerns the improvement of digital image quality using mathematical tools such as nonlinear partial differential operators. In this paper, to perform smoothing on digital images, we propose to use the p(x)-Laplacian operator. Its smooth...
The study of deep soil mechanics is the basis of deep shaft construction. Exploring the nonlinear permeability mechanism of deep confined aquifers in depth is the prerequisite and foundation for carrying out calculations of the hydrophobic consolidat...
Trucking is an important production link in most open-pit mines, and its transportation cost accounts for more than 50% of the total production cost of open-pit mines. The quality of the driver’s driving behavior plays a crucial role in the fin...
To apply the discrete element method (DEM) to simulate the interaction process between soda saline–alkali soil and subsoiling component in Northeast China, establishing the soda saline–alkali soil particle model and selecting more accurat...
This research aims to investigate steering feel by analyzing a steering system and an electric power steering logic. First, steering feel is defined based on previous research, and methods for evaluating it are discussed. Second, a sensitivity analys...
Due to the present trend in the wind industry to operate in deep seas, floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) are an area of study that is expanding. FOWT platforms cause increased structural movement, which can reduce the turbine’s power prod...
The occurrence of fractures has emerged as one of the most prevalent injuries in the human body. In bone reconstruction surgery, after the implantation of porous hydroxyapatite materials, there is an initial infiltration of body fluids into the porou...
Statistical process control (SPC) is one of the most powerful techniques for improving quality, as it is able to detect special causes of problems in processes, products and services with a remarkable degree of accuracy. Among SPC tools,
Security identification solutions against WLAN network attacks according to straightforward digital detectors, such as SSID, IP addresses, and MAC addresses, are not efficient in identifying such hacking or router impersonation. These detectors can b...
Research related to thermal cameras, which are major control measures, is increasing to overcome the limitations of closed-circuit television (CCTV) images. Thermal cameras have the advantage of easily detecting objects at night and of being able to...
Ensuring the safety and stability of buildings during earthquakes is of utmost importance. This can be achieved by assessing the seismic performance of reinforced concrete structures with consideration of design details. This study focused on the sei...
Research on optical amplifiers has highlighted how ionizing radiation negatively impacts the performance of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs), through the degradation of their gain. The amplitudes and kinetics of this degradation are mainly expla...
The ground surface deformation induced by shield tunnels passing through enclosure structures of existing tunnels is a particular underground construction scenario that has been encountered in Wuhan Metro Line 12 engineering cases in China. Timely gr...
The questing behaviors of blacklegged ticks (Ixodes scapularis) are largely regulated by environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, and vegetation. While this relationship is relatively clear at the macro- and meso-spatial scales, it is ina...
The advent of many popular commercial forms of natural language processing tools has changed the way we can utilise digital technologies to tackle problems with big data. The objective of this review is to evaluate the current research and landscape...
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) cause thousands of deaths each year. Among these diseases, we find Chagas disease, whose etiologic agent is Trypanosoma cruzi. Piplartine is an alkamide present in various species of the genus Piper that possess try...
In aircraft manufacturing settings, workers are frequently exposed to biomechanical risk factors, mainly in the later stages of the production processes, including inspection tasks. To support the development of a novel inspection device appropriate...
Automated machine learning (AutoML), which aims to facilitate the design and optimization of machine-learning models with reduced human effort and expertise, is a research field with significant potential to drive the development of artificial intell...
Smooth surface blasting control technology is aimed at blasting the rock body until it is left with a smooth surface and to protect it from damage; the current air spaced axial uncoupled charge and air spaced radial uncoupled continuous charge are ef...
This study presents a trajectory-based person re-identification algorithm, embedded in a tool to detect and track customers present in a large retail store, in a multi-camera environment. The customer trajectory data are obtained from video surveilla...
Distributed time-varying formation technology for multi-agent systems is recently become a research hotspot in formation control field. However, the formation reconfiguration control technology for agents that randomly appeared to fail during maneuve...
To improve the friction and wear performance of the piston-cylinder liner friction pair, inspired by earthworms and leeches, 27 kinds of pistons with cylindrical pit arrays are designed and processed. Through a friction test, four superior textured p...
This study examines the potential of four invasive plant species, both arboreal and herbaceous, within the riparian forest of the Umia River in Galicia, a common ecosystem in northern Spain. These invasive species (Arundo donax, Phytolacca americana,...
In order to investigate the mechanical properties and permeability characteristics of sandstone during damage evolution under hydromechanical condition, a series of coupled hydro-mechanical triaxial tests on sandstone specimens were conducted based o...
In this research, the design of a robust curved-line path-following control system for fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (FWUAVs) affected by uncertainties on the latitude plane is studied. This is undertaken to enhance closed-loop system robustnes...
This paper proposes a distributed coordination scheme for connected vehicles, including automated vehicles (AVs) and manual vehicles (MVs), at signal-free intersections. The cooperation issue of vehicles at an intersection is formulated into a multi-...
Air-polishing powders are used to remove stains from the enamel and various restorative materials, but their effect on the discoloration of CAD/CAM blocks remains scarce. Therefore, this study investigated the effect of various air-polishing powders...
The collection of information about buildings and their colors is an important aspect of urban planning. The intelligent recognition of buildings using image information plays a significant role in the development of smart cities and urban planning....
The continuing trend toward greater electrification in consumer, commercial, industrial, and transportation applications promises a dynamic and increasingly important role for power electronics [...]
The permanent-magnet synchronous motor (PMSM), with the advantages of low energy consumption and stable operation, is considered a green power source to replace gasoline engines. Motor control is the core problem of the electric-drive system, so it i...
Lymphedema treatment has traditionally been based on conservative therapies. In recent years, the introduction of two microsurgical techniques—venolymphatic anastomoses and lymph-node transplantation—have revolutionized the therapeutic ap...
Ammonium (NH4+) and nitrate (NO3−) are two major inorganic nitrogen (N) forms for plants [...]
With the increasing deployment of advanced sensing and measurement devices, the modern distribution system is evolved into a cyber-physical power distribution system (CPPDS). Due to the extensive application of information and communication technolog...
In recent years, significant improvements in the design of leg blade prosthetics have been carried out. After several advances in material and topological optimisations, sport-purpose feet prosthetics have reached high-level performances, allowing at...
As a natural environmental medium, soil has a wide range of sources and is often used as a material for building houses. It can also be used to construct simple protective structures in actual battlefield environments. In order to study the protectiv...
New mobile network technologies, particularly 5G, have spurred a growth in smart healthcare networks. They enable real-time monitoring, personalized treatments, and more. However, these transformative capabilities have also uncovered potential vulner...
Dear Colleagues, [...]
Artificial intelligence (AI) can be considered the real revolution of the 21st century [...]
Along with the recent development of artificial intelligence technology, convergence services that apply technology are undergoing active development in various industrial fields. In particular, artificial intelligence-based object recognition techno...
In digital image processing, filtering noise is an important step for reconstructing a high-quality image for further processing such as object segmentation, object detection, and object recognition. Various image-denoising approaches, including medi...
In this paper we propose the Recurrent Embedded Topic Model (RETM) which is a modification of the Embedded Topic Modelling (ETM) by reusing the Continuous Bag of Words (CBOW) that the model had implemented and applying it to a recurrent neural networ...
This paper proposes a method for the detection and depth assessment of tiny defects in or near surfaces by combining laser ultrasonics with convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The innovation in this study lies in several key aspects. Firstly, a com...
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