Academic Articles & Research Papers

A Nonparametric Model for Multi-Manifold Clustering with Mixture of Gaussians and Graph Consistency

Multi-manifold clustering is among the most fundamental tasks in signal processing and machine learning. Although the existing multi-manifold clustering methods are quite powerful, learning the cluster number automatically from data is stil...

Conceptual System Dynamics and Agent-Based Modelling Simulation of Interorganisational Fairness in Food Value Chains: Research Agenda and Case Studies

System dynamics and agent-based simulation modelling approaches have a potential as tools to evaluate the impact of policy related decision making in food value chains. The context is that a food value chain involves flows of multiple produ...

Integrating sensor data and GAN-based models to optimize medical university distribution: a data-driven approach for sustainable regional growth in Saudi Arabia

IntroductionThe regional disparity in higher education access can only be met when there are strategies for sustainable development and diversification of the economy, as envisioned in Saudi Vision 2030. Currently, 70% of universities are c...

Application of improved AHP and grey relational analysis in the analysis of international competitiveness of China’s new energy vehicle industry

In order to improve the analysis effect of the international competitiveness of China’s new energy vehicle industry, this paper combines the improved AHP and grey relational analysis method to analyze the international competitiveness of Ch...

Open Innovations for Tourism Logistics Design: A Case Study of a Smart Bus Route Design for the Medical Tourist in the City of Greater Mekong Subregion

ABSTRACT: One of the industries with the fastest growth rates worldwide, and notably in Thailand, is medical tourism. With connections to Cambodia and Laos, Ubon Ratchathani is located in lower northeastern Thailand, close to Vietnam and My...

A Novel Method to Broaden the Single-Mode Bandwidth of the Rectangular Waveguide

In this paper, a new class of broadband and low-loss transmission line called slotted rectangular waveguide (SRW) is proposed and analyzed. The proposed SRW consists of the rectangular waveguide and the inverted low-loss slotline, which can...

Transportation Engineering 2.0: A Vision for the Future Transportation Engineering Workforce

This study sought to advance a future-ready transportation engineering (TE) workforce by investigating emerging industry-wide challenges, essential skills, and opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration. To accomplish this, a nationa...

Architecture and Protocols for Toll-Free Electric Vehicle Charging

This paper proposes system architecture and protocols for the deployment of a toll-free electric vehicle charging service. The architecture enables the party initiating the electric vehicle (EV) charging to have their service request author...

ProtoMix: Unified Prototype Learning for Semantic Change Detection in Remote Sensing

As an emerging topic, semantic change detection (SCD) in remote sensing aims to both identify the locations of changes before and after events and determine the land cover (LC) classes of changed regions. While deep learning has demonstrate...

Diurnal variation of tropospheric temperature at a tropical station

The vertical velocity in the troposphere-lower stratosphere region measured using MST radar has been utilized to evaluate the temperature profile in the region. The diurnal variation of the tropospheric temperature on one day in Augus...

Eleven years’ data of grassland management data in Germany

Editorial: State-of-the-Art Technology and Applications in Crop Phenomics

Decline in activities of daily living in the rarer dementias

Rarer dementias are associated with atypical symptoms and younger onset, which result in a higher burden of care. We provide a review of the global literature on longitudinal decline in activities of daily living (ADLs) in dementias that ac...

Synthetic Tactile Sensor for Macroscopic Roughness Estimation Based on Spatial-Coding Contact Processing

Traditional tactile sensors primarily measure macroscopic surface features but do not directly estimate how humans perceive such surface roughness. Sensors that mimic human tactile processing could bridge this gap. This study proposes a met...

Mini-AFTERc: a controlled pilot trial of a nurse-led psychological intervention for fear of breast cancer recurrence

Abstract Objectives To determine the feasibility and acceptability of implementing the Mini-AFTERc intervention. Design Non-randomised cluster-controlled pilot trial. Setting Four NHS out-patient breast cancer centres in Scotland. Participa...

ITRI Biofilm Prevented Thoracic Adhesion in Pigs That Received Myocardial Ischemic Induction Treated by Myocardial Implantation of EPCs and ECSW Treatment

This study tested the hypothesis that ITRI Biofilm prevents adhesion of the chest cavity. Combined extracorporeal shock wave (ECSW) + bone marrow-derived autologous endothelial progenitor cell (EPC) therapy was superior to monotherapy for i...

Evaluating the influence of anatomical accuracy and electrode positions on EEG forward solutions

Generating realistic volume conductor models for forward calculations in electroencephalography (EEG) is not trivial and several factors contribute to the accuracy of such models, two of which are its anatomical accuracy and the accuracy wi...

The structural characteristics and influential factors of psychological stress of urban residents in Jiangxi province during the COVID-19 pandemic: cross sectional study

Aims: To explore the structural characteristics and influential factors of psychological stress of urban residents in Jiangxi province during the COVID-19 pandemic through a survey of psychological stress, personality traits, family functio...

Sexual Dimorphism in Growth Rate and Gene Expression Throughout Immature Development in Wild Type Chrysomya rufifacies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) Macquart

Reliability of forensic entomology analyses to produce relevant information to a given case requires an understanding of the underlying arthropod population(s) of interest and the factors contributing to variability. Common traits for analy...

Proteomic analysis of synergetic neuroprotective effect of adenosine, thiamine, niacin and cyanocobalamin in pathophysiology of diabetic polyneuropathy

Background. Neurotransmitter adenosine and B-group vitamins have neuroprotective, remyelinizing and anti-neuroinflammatory properties. Despite the studies of these molecules for decades, the molecular mechanisms of their synergistic effect ...