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Jiawei Zhang, Fenglei Han, Duanfeng Han, Jianfeng Yang, Wangyuan Zhao and Hansheng Li
In the realm of ocean engineering and maintenance of subsea structures, accurate underwater distance quantification plays a crucial role. However, the precision of such measurements is often compromised in underwater environments due to backward scatteri...
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Janardan Ausuri, Filippo Dell?Anno, Giovanni Andrea Vitale, Fortunato Palma Esposito, Valerio Funari, Gianluigi Franci, Massimiliano Galdiero, Gerardo Della Sala, Pietro Tedesco, Daniela Coppola and Donatella de Pascale
Extreme environments host numerous microorganisms perfectly adapted to survive in such harsh conditions. In recent years, many bacteria isolated from these inhospitable environments have shown interesting biotechnological applications, including the bior...
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Emma Bazzani, Chiara Lauritano, Olga Mangoni, Francesco Bolinesi and Maria Saggiomo
Salinity is among the main drivers affecting growth and distribution of photosynthetic organisms as Chlamydomonas spp. These species can live in multiple environments, including polar regions, and have been frequently studied for their adaptation to live...
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Chiara Lauritano and Daniela Coppola
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Sophia Barinova, Viktor Gabyshev, Olga Gabysheva
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Abdullah M. Almeshal, Mohammad R. Alenezi and Abdullah K. Alshatti
This study presents the first accuracy assessment of a low cost small unmanned aerial vehicle (sUAV) in reconstructing three dimensional (3D) models of traffic accidents at extreme operating environments. To date, previous studies have focused on the fea...
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Chayut Ngamkhanong, Sakdirat Kaewunruen and Bruno J. Afonso Costa
In recent years, railway systems have played a significant role in transportation systems due to the demand increase in conveying both cargo and passengers. Due to the harsh environments and severe loading conditions, caused by the traffic growth, heavie...
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Wenping Luo, Weiqin Liu, Meng Yang, Shuo Chen, Xuemin Song and Weiguo Wu
Operating Offshore Floating Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (OF-VAWT) have the potential to perform well in the deep-sea area. Some researchers gave performance prediction by developing simplified computing models. However, these models have imperfections in...
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Daniela Coppola, Chiara Lauritano, Gianluca Zazo, Genoveffa Nuzzo, Angelo Fontana, Adrianna Ianora, Maria Costantini, Cinzia Verde and Daniela Giordano
Antarctica is an untapped reservoir of bacterial communities, which are able to adapt to a huge variety of strategies to cope with extreme conditions and, therefore, are capable of producing potentially valuable compounds for biotechnological application...
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Usman Sammani Sani, Owais Ahmed Malik and Daphne Teck Ching Lai
Wireless network parameters such as transmitting power, antenna height, and cell radius are determined based on predicted path loss. The prediction is carried out using empirical or deterministic models. Deterministic models provide accurate predictions ...
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Himangshu Kalita, Alvaro Diaz-Flores and Jekan Thangavelautham
Missions targeting the extreme and rugged environments on the moon and Mars have rich potential for a high science return, although several risks exist in performing these exploration missions. The current generation of robots is unable to access these h...
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Daniel Duzdevich, Janusz J. Petkowski, William Bains, H. James Cleaves II, Christopher E. Carr, Ewa I. Borowska, Armando Azua-Bustos, Morgan L. Cable, Graham E. Dorrington, David H. Grinspoon, Niels F. W. Ligterink, Andreas Riedo, Peter Wurz and Sara Seager
Exploring how life is distributed in the universe is an extraordinary interdisciplinary challenge, but increasingly subject to testable hypotheses. Biology has emerged and flourished on at least one planet, and that renders the search for life elsewhere ...
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Lun-Chi Chen, Ruey-Kai Sheu, Wen-Yi Peng, Jyh-Horng Wu and Chien-Hao Tseng
Street lighting is a fundamental aspect of security systems in homes, industrial facilities, and public places. To detect parking lot occupancy in outdoor environments, street light control plays a crucial role in smart surveillance applications that can...
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Andrew Tzer-Yeu Chen and Kevin I-Kai Wang
As we move towards improving the skill of computers to play games like chess against humans, the ability to accurately perceive real-world game boards and game states remains a challenge in many cases, hindering the development of game-playing robots. In...
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Paola Di Donato, Annarita Poli, Valentina Taurisano, Gennaro Roberto Abbamondi, Barbara Nicolaus and Giuseppina Tommonaro
The present review will explore the most relevant findings on marine microbial biofilm, with particular attention towards its polysaccharide fraction, namely exopolysaccharide (EPS). EPSs of microbial origin are ubiquitous in nature, possess unique prope...
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Miguel A. Franesqui, Jorge Yepes and Samuel Valencia-Díaz
Low-energy asphalt techniques, such as warm mix asphalt (WMA), combined with the rational consumption of geomaterials and waste recycling would promote more sustainable and energy-efficient asphalt pavements. In volcanic environments, a significant propo...
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Hans-Uwe Dahms, Subramani Thirunavukkarasu and Jiang-Shiou Hwang
It is claimed that oceanic hydrothermal vents (HVs), particularly the shallow water ones, offer particular advantages to better understand the effects of future climate and other global change on oceanic biota. Marine hydrothermal vents (HVs) are extreme...
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T. Yuan, X. Wang, K. Qu and L. B. Zhang
Driven by strong winds, huge ocean waves can cause devastating destruction to coastal regions during harsh weather events. There is growing evidence showing that extreme waves can occur in both shallow and deep waters. To protect the coast against the de...
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Dayong Ning, Xiaokang He, Jiaoyi Hou, Gangda Liang and Kang Zhang
The abundance of resources in the deep sea continues to inspire mankind?s desire for exploration. However, the extreme environments pose a huge challenge for designing deep-sea mechanical devices that are primarily driven by hydraulic and electric motor ...
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Hyeon-Jeong Kim and Seung-Won Suh
In the west coast of Korea (WCK), macro-tidal environments with wide tidal flats yield distinctive characteristics such as recursive tidal currents and tidal asymmetry. Here, we proposed an efficient search and rescue (SAR) computation method for WCK con...
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