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Applied Sciences, Volume 8, Issue 7

July 2018 - 200 articles

Cover Story: In recent years, development of pet robots for various needs such as entertainment, edutainment, and healthcare applications have been attracting extensive research interests. Biologically inspired pet robot design is one of the widely-studied robot architecture which has reported significant results in most of the applications they have been deployed. However, design and development of wearable pet robot have been given primitive focus in the literature. Furthermore, a wearable robot that can detect the head pose of the wearer can provide enormous application opportunities, such as environment detection, pedestrian safety, and therapeutic needs. View this paper.
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Articles (200)

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
7,589 Views
18 Pages

23 July 2018

In recent years, sites with low annual average wind speeds have begun to be considered for the development of new wind farms. The majority of design methods for a wind turbine operating at low wind speed is to increase the blade length or hub height...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,989 Views
10 Pages

23 July 2018

To achieve a better understanding of the effect of droplet impingement on the weld profile and grain morphology, welding with vertical and inclined torches in the double pulsed-gas metal arc welding of aluminum alloy were compared. When using vertica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,816 Views
13 Pages

23 July 2018

This paper presents a novel fast analysis of wave speed (FAWS) algorithm from the waveforms recorded by a random-spaced geophone array based on a compressive sensing (CS) platform. Rayleigh-type seismic surface wave testing is excited by a hammer sou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,451 Views
15 Pages

23 July 2018

This article presents the possibilities of using soft clay pottery waste as concrete aggregate. There is shown a new approach of complete exchange natural aggregate in concrete with recycled aggregate, i.e., crushed ceramic of two fractions 0–4...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,977 Views
19 Pages

23 July 2018

Interventional cancer clinical trials are generally too restrictive, and some patients are often excluded on the basis of comorbidity, past or concomitant treatments, or the fact that they are over a certain age. The efficacy and safety of new treatm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,711 Views
19 Pages

23 July 2018

Consumers focus on level of service while purchasing electronic products. This study focuses on consumer buying behavior. We determine the Stackelberg outcome for a market when a durable electronic product has three different forms: new product, rema...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,701 Views
17 Pages

23 July 2018

In spite of the enhancements related to building construction, many regions still present a major level of seismic risk as a consequence of the high vulnerability of the urban configuration of their cities. An improved method to assess the seismic vu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,783 Views
24 Pages

A Novel Bitrate Adaptation Method for Heterogeneous Wireless Body Area Networks

  • Krzysztof K. Cwalina,
  • Slawomir J. Ambroziak,
  • Piotr Rajchowski,
  • Jaroslaw Sadowski and
  • Jacek Stefanski

23 July 2018

In the article, a novel bitrate adaptation method for data streams allocation in heterogeneous Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) is presented. The efficiency of the proposed algorithm was compared with other known algorithms of data stream allocati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
76 Citations
10,164 Views
20 Pages

Deep Region of Interest and Feature Extraction Models for Palmprint Verification Using Convolutional Neural Networks Transfer Learning

  • Mahdieh Izadpanahkakhk,
  • Seyyed Mohammad Razavi,
  • Mehran Taghipour-Gorjikolaie,
  • Seyyed Hamid Zahiri and
  • Aurelio Uncini

23 July 2018

Palmprint verification is one of the most significant and popular approaches for personal authentication due to its high accuracy and efficiency. Using deep region of interest (ROI) and feature extraction models for palmprint verification, a novel ap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,915 Views
14 Pages

22 July 2018

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is the leading cause of blindness in working-age adults globally. Primary screening of DR is essential, and it is recommended that diabetes patients undergo this procedure at least once per year to prevent vision loss. Howev...

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Appl. Sci. - ISSN 2076-3417