|
|
|
Somayeh Labafi, Sanee Ebrahimzadeh, Mohamad Mahdi Kavousi, Habib Abdolhossein Maregani and Samad Sepasgozar
Evidence-based policy seeks to use evidence in public policy in a systematic way in a bid to improve decision-making quality. Evidence-based policy cannot work properly and achieve the expected results without accurate, appropriate, and sufficient eviden...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Shuanghu Qiao, Baojian Song, Yunsheng Fan and Guofeng Wang
The safe navigation of unmanned surface vehicles in the marine environment requires multi-sensor collaborative perception, and multi-sensor data fusion technology is a prerequisite for realizing the collaborative perception of different sensors. To addre...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jingsha He, Chengyue Chang, Peng He and Muhammad Salman Pathan
As the Internet becomes larger in scale, more complex in structure and more diversified in traffic, the number of crimes that utilize computer technologies is also increasing at a phenomenal rate. To react to the increasing number of computer crimes, the...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Evidence Akhayere, Doga Kavaz and Ashok Vaseashta
In recent years, there has been a steady increase in the quantity of agricultural waste generation, due to the increased production of the food supply chain and the production of fuel for greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction initiatives, viz. processi...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edmund C. Okoroigwe, Evidence C. Ndu, Florence C. Okoroigwe
A solar biomass hybrid dryer intially designed with a front pass flat plate solar air heater and a biomass heating stove was redesigned, reconstructed in order to minimize the excessive convective heat losses and its performance re-evaluated. Due to poor...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Tianyi Yang, Marcus White, Ruby Lipson-Smith, Michelle M. Shannon and Mehrnoush Latifi
Changing the physical environment of healthcare facilities can positively impact patient outcomes. Virtual reality (VR) offers the potential to understand how healthcare environment design impacts users? perception, particularly among those with brain in...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gabriele Sottocornola, Sanja Baric, Fabio Stella and Markus Zanker
Post-harvest diseases are one of the main causes of economical losses in the apple fruit production sector. Therefore, this paper presents an application of a knowledge-based expert system to diagnose post-harvest diseases of apple. Specifically, we deta...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Rui Yang, Yingbo Zhao and Yuan Shi
When radar receives target echoes to form plots, it is inevitably affected by clutter, which brings a lot of imprecise and uncertain information to target recognition. Traditional radar plot recognition algorithms often have poor performance in dealing w...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Hernan J. Rosas, Ann Sussman, Abigail C. Sekely and Alexandros A. Lavdas
Eye-tracking technology has numerous applications in both commercial and research contexts. The recent introduction of affordable wearable sensors has significantly broadened the scope of potential uses, spanning fields such as computer gaming, education...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Abrar A. Almuhanna, Wael M. S. Yafooz and Abdullah Alsaeedi
In this era of digital transformation, when the amount of scholarly literature is rapidly growing, hundreds of papers are published online daily with regard to different fields, especially in relation to academic subjects. Therefore, it difficult to find...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Shijun Xu, Yi Hou, Xinpu Deng, Peibo Chen and Shilin Zhou
The negation of probability distribution is a new perspective from which to obtain information. Dempster?Shafer (D?S) evidence theory, as an extension of possibility theory, is widely used in decision-making-level fusion. However, how to reasonably const...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Matteo Gentilucci, Marco Materazzi and Gilberto Pambianchi
Every year, institutions spend a large amount of resources to solve emergencies generated by hydrogeological instability. The identification of areas potentially subject to hydrogeological risks could allow for more effective prevention. Therefore, the m...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Clara Camarasa, Lokesh Kumar Kalahasthi, Ivan Sanchez-Díaz, Leonardo Rosado, Lena Hennes, Katrin Bienge and Ian Hamilton
Cross-country evidence on the adoption of energy-efficient retrofit measures (EERMs) in residential buildings is critical to supporting the development of national and pan-European policies aimed at fostering the energy performance upgrade of the buildin...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Annan Yang, Chunmei Wang, Guowei Pang, Yongqing Long, Lei Wang, Richard M. Cruse and Qinke Yang
Gully erosion is the most severe type of water erosion and is a major land degradation process. Gully erosion susceptibility mapping (GESM)?s efficiency and interpretability remains a challenge, especially in complex terrain areas. In this study, a WoE-M...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Chamseddine Barki, Hanene Boussi Rahmouni and Salam Labidi
Predicting potential cancer treatment side effects at time of prescription could decrease potential health risks and achieve better patient satisfaction. This paper presents a new approach, founded on evidence-based medical knowledge, using as much infor...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Christos Karagiannis and Kostas Vergidis
Fighting crime in cyberspace requires law enforcement authorities to immerse in a digital ocean of vast amount of information and also to acquire and objectify the evidence of criminal activity. Handling digital evidence is a complex and multifaceted pro...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sarah Bakr Omar,Koo Ah Choo,Azman Bidin
Pág. pp. 52 - 63
The purpose of the study is to explore the perspective of teachers on the use of tablet-based applications with young autistic children through a qualitative case study approach. Eight schoolteachers were interviewed for the study. This paper r...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Bo Ai, Decheng Sun, Yanmei Liu, Chengming Li, Fanlin Yang, Yong Yin and Huibo Tian
When it comes to feature retention in multi-scale representations of ocean flow fields, not all data points are equal. Therefore, this paper proposes a method of selecting data points based on their importance. First, an autocorrelation analysis is perfo...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Xinxiang Lei, Wei Chen and Binh Thai Pham
The main purpose of this study was to apply the novel bivariate weights-of-evidence-based SysFor (SF) for landslide susceptibility mapping, and two machine learning techniques, namely the naïve Bayes (NB) and Radial basis function networks (RBFNetwork), ...
ver más
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Liangrui Tang, Zhilin Lu and Bing Fan
In energy-constrained wireless sensor networks, low energy utilization and unbalanced energy distribution are seriously affecting the operation of the network. Therefore, efficient and reasonable routing algorithms are needed to achieve higher Quality of...
ver más
|
|
|
|