In future sixth-generation (6G) communication systems, it is foreseen that complex communication scenarios and critical performance requirements will necessitate more flexible air interface configurations. Traditional air interface adaptation will no...
Soft anions exhibit surface activity at the air/water interface that can be probed using surface-sensitive vibrational spectroscopy, but the structural implications of this surface activity remain a matter of debate. Here, we examine the nature of an...
Mixtures of anionic sodium oleate (NaOl) and nonionic ethoxylated or alkoxylated surfactants improve the selective separation of magnesite particles from mineral ores during the process of flotation. Apart from triggering the hydrophobicity of magnes...
Building envelopes represent the interface between the outdoor environment and the indoor occupied spaces. They are often considered as barriers and shields, limiting solutions that adapt to environmental changes. Nature provides a large database of...
The predictions from air quality models are subject to many sources of uncertainty; among them, grid resolution has been viewed as one that is limited by the availability of computational resources. A large grid size can lead to unacceptable errors f...
A body pressure relief system was newly developed with optical pressure sensors for pressure ulcer prevention. Unlike a conventional alternating pressure air mattress (APAM), this system automatically regulates air flow into a body supporting mattres...
This paper focuses on the design of an optimized thermal interface for a thermoelectric energy harvesting system mounted at endothermic animals. In this application scenario the mammal’s fur reduces the heat flux from the animal’s body th...
An “Innerburb” is an urban structure that emerged between the 1950s and 1980s, settled in rural areas, and is considered the first periphery of the Latin American city. This structure results from socio-spatial and territorial evolutionar...
The cuttlebone, a chambered gas-filled structure found in cuttlefish, serves a crucial role in buoyancy control for the animal. This study investigates the motion of liquid-gas interfaces within cuttlebone-inspired artificial channels. The cuttlebone...
The soft robot has many degrees of freedom, strong environmental adaptability, and good human–computer interaction ability. As the end-effector of the soft robot, the soft gripper can grasp objects of different shapes without destructivity. Bas...
WS2 films exhibit excellent tribological properties in a vacuum, but they are prone to failure due to oxidation in air, which severely limits their application. Cu has great potential to improve the tribological properties of WS2, similar to that of...
Urban air pollution has caused public concern globally because it seriously affects human life. Modern monitoring systems providing pollution information with high spatio-temporal resolution have been developed to identify personal exposures. However...
Ubiquitous sensing allows smart cities to take control of many parameters (e.g., road traffic, air or noise pollution levels, etc.). An inexpensive Wireless Mesh Network can be used as an efficient way to transport sensed data. When that mesh is auto...
This paper presents a novel approach to convert a conventional house air conditioning installation into a more efficient system that individually controls the temperature of each zone of the house through Wi-Fi technology. Each zone regulates the air...
The current study is focused on devising treated diatomite interfaces with the robustness and boiling water resistance necessary for high-temperature purposes. This work describes the synthesis methodology of the diatomite-based coatings, which follo...
The suspension system and socket fitting of artificial limbs have major roles and vital effects on the comfort, mobility, and satisfaction of amputees. This paper introduces a new pneumatic suspension system that overcomes the drawbacks of current su...
The range of lubricant applications has broadened to include multiple sectors, aiming to optimize the operational efficiency of mechanical systems. Given their adaptable friction-reducing properties, lubricants have recently been incorporated into en...
Herein, we present the initial application of the NOAA-EPA Atmosphere-Chemistry Coupler (NACC) in the cloud (“NACC-Cloud”, version 1), which processes NOAA’s operational Global Forecast System version 16 (GFSv16) meteorology on-dema...
A microwave characterization technique to inspect subsurface scenarios is proposed and numerically assessed in this paper. The approach is based on a combination of finite element electromagnetic modeling and an inversion procedure in Lebesgue spaces...
Two different scale-resolving simulation (SRS) approaches to turbulence modeling and simulation are used to predict the breakup of a spherical water droplet in air, due to the impact of a traveling plane shock wave. The compressible flow governing eq...
We report on numerical simulations of a swirling water jet flowing out of a nozzle into a still air atmosphere at normal conditions. Primary jet breakup and atomization were studied with an emphasis on the effect of grid resolution on the results. Je...
Traditional cold alleys have the ability to adapt to hot climates with cooling and insulation, which is a traditional design method that conforms to sustainable development. Due to the limited depth of space and the adoption of mechanical ventilation...
This research presents the development of a type-2 fuzzy-controlled autonomous mobile robot specifically designed for monitoring and actively maintaining indoor air quality. The core of this system is the proposed type-2 fuzzy PID dual-mode controlle...
Whirligig beetles (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae) are among the best swimmers of all aquatic insects. They live mostly at the water’s surface and their capacity to swim fast is key to their survival. We present a minimal model for the viscous and wave drags...
Continuous-flow microreactors are an important development in chemical engineering technology, since pharmaceutical production needs flexibility in reconfiguring the synthesis system rather than large volumes of product yield. Microreactors of this t...
The precise estimation of fluid motion is critical across various fields, including aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, and industrial fluid mechanics. However, refraction at complex interfaces in the light path can cause image deterioration and lead to sev...
Thermal comfort plays a main role in encouraging people to use outdoor spaces, specifically in hot arid and humid climates. The reconciliation of climatic aspects during the urban design phase is limited in implementation, due to the need for multidi...
This paper presents PLAM (Plovdiv Air Monitoring)—a regional multi-agent platform for air quality monitoring, semantic reasoning, and forecasting. The platform uses a hybrid architecture that combines two types of intelligent agents: classic BD...
To accurately assess the dynamic stability of the damaged ship, this paper performs an experimental campaign and presents a feasible numerical method to analyze the effects of microscopic air–fluid interactions on the motion responses of the da...
UAV delivery and ground transfer scheduling in emergency scenarios represent critical technological systems for enhancing disaster response capabilities and safeguarding lives and property. This study systematically reviews recent advances across eig...
Remote experiments have been gaining a lot of popularity over the last years. They are available for many areas including control education. The majority of laboratories available via the Internet were developed from scratch and lack modularity, whic...
The current push in automation, communication, and electrical energy storage technologies has the potential to lift urban mobility into the sky. As several urban air mobility (UAM) concepts are conceivable, all relevant physical effects as well as mu...
The evolution of modern warfare and civil exploration requires platforms that can operate seamlessly across the air–water interface. The folding-wing Hybrid Air and Underwater Vehicle (FUD) has emerged as a transformative solution, combining th...
Precision-cut tumor slices (PCTS) maintain tissue heterogeneity concerning different cell types and preserve the tumor microenvironment (TME). Typically, PCTS are cultured statically on a filter support at an air–liquid interface, which gives r...
Information and decision support systems are essential to conducting scientific field campaigns in the atmospheric sciences. However, their development is costly and time-consuming since each field campaign has its own research goals, which result in...
Underwater localization using airborne visible light beams offers a promising alternative to acoustic and radio-frequency methods, yet accurate modeling of light propagation through a dynamic air–water interface remains a major challenge. This...
Reliable gesture interfaces are essential for coordinating distributed robot teams in the field. However, models trained in a single domain often perform poorly when confronted with new users, different sensors, or unfamiliar environments. To address...
As a core functional component of the prosthetic system, the prosthetic socket’s adaptability to the residual limb is directly correlated with the prosthetic’s performance, comfort level, and safety profile. Although traditional sockets c...
A trans-media vehicle is a new type of equipment that can adapt to two environments, water and air, to maintain optimal hydrodynamic and aerodynamic performance. However, no matter what kind of trans-media vehicle, its dynamics are much more complica...
Debonding, especially in plastic materials, refers to the separation occurring at the interface within a bonded structure composed of two or more polymeric layers. Due to the great heterogeneity of materials and layering configurations, highly specia...
The increasing use of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in specific areas results in an interference among them and the quality of communications can be severely degraded. To deal with this interference issue, the IEEE 802.11ax standard has been estab...
Cross water–air interface acoustic and electromagnetic integrated communication (AEIC) technology refers to an underwater speaker that excites the water surface micro-amplitude wave (WSAW) on the water’s surface, and millimeter wave radar...
High variability in stem cell research is a well-known limiting phenomenon, with technical variation across experiments and laboratories often surpassing variation caused by genotypic effects of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines. Evaluation...
Induced tissue regeneration around percutaneous medical implants could be a useful method to prevent the failure of the medical device, especially when the epidermal seal around the implant is disrupted and the implant must be maintained over a long...
The modeling of the paint atomization process is a barrier in computational fluid dynamics numerical simulation for the whole process of air spraying, and seriously restricts robot intelligent spray gun trajectory planning and the improvement of coat...
This paper presents the results of recent work to develop and trial a mine machine radar sensor for underground coal mine vehicles. There is an urgent industry need for an integrated solution to the problem of operating an underground vehicle in cond...
We investigated the photosynthetic characteristics of the crustose coralline alga Pneophyllum fragile (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) according to elevated water temperature and irradiance on the coast of Jeju in 2018. P. fragile was cultured under differ...
University libraries are essential academic spaces, yet existing smart systems often overlook user perception in environmental optimization. A key challenge is the lack of adaptive frameworks balancing objective sensor data with subjective user exper...
Selection is a fundamental interaction element in virtual reality (VR) and 3D user interfaces (UIs). Raycasting, one of the most common object selection techniques, is known to have difficulties in selecting small or distant objects. Meanwhile, recen...
This work presents a robotic application aimed at performing environmental monitoring in data centers. Due to the high energy density managed in data centers, environmental monitoring is crucial for controlling air temperature and humidity throughout...
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