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Hao Zhao, Lide Su, Yong Zhang, Hongmei Cui, Jian Wang and Kailin Ren
In recent years, with the gradual expansion of the planting area for Chinese crab apple trees, the traditional method of picking crab apples has become inadequate due to its large workload, low efficiency, and high cost. To address this issue, this paper...
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Do-Hyun Ko and Seung-Hwan Boo
In this study, we propose effective formulations for modal, frequency response, and transient analyses using condensed matrices of the finite element (FE) model. Employing the iterated improved reduced system (IIRS) method, a transformation matrix is def...
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Yasmeen Ansari, Mansour Saleh Albarrak, Noorjahan Sherfudeen and Arfia Aman
The present study investigates a conceptual research framework on financial literacy in various investment planning and decision-making stages. The study comprises a review of 2182 articles published in peer-reviewed journals from 2001 to 2022 (January)....
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Omar M. Nofal, John W. van de Lindt, Harvey Cutler, Martin Shields and Kevin Crofton
The growing number of flood disasters worldwide and the subsequent catastrophic consequences of these events have revealed the flood vulnerability of communities. Flood impact predictions are essential for better flood risk management which can result in...
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Stefan Spettel and Dimitrios Vagianos
Social media are heavily used to shape political discussions. Thus, it is valuable for corporations and political parties to be able to analyze the content of those discussions. This is exemplified by the work of Cambridge Analytica, in support of the 20...
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Takahiro Yoshikawa and Toshihiro Noda
Immense liquefaction damage was observed in the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake. It was reported that, in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, the main shock oozed muddy water from the sandy ground and the aftershock which occurred 29 min after the m...
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Phumzile Maluleke, Mokhele E. Moeletsi and Mitsuru Tsubo
In recent decades, southern Africa has experienced a shift towards hotter and drier climate conditions, affecting vital sectors like agriculture, health, water, and energy. Scientific research has shown that the combination of high temperatures and unrel...
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Maja Ahac, Sa?a Ahac, Igor Majstorovic and ?eljko Stepan
This paper aims to contribute to the process of evaluating urban rail infrastructure projects through the presentation of the methodology and the results of a preliminary feasibility study concerning the revitalization, development, and (re)integration o...
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Taotao Zhao, Xinqiang Zhu, Hongshan Yang, Yonggang Wang, Feifan Leng and Xiaoli Wang
Volatile components are one key factor in sample identification, differential analysis, quality control and origin traceability. In order to identify and analyze the differences in volatile substances in different alfalfa seeds, this study used gas chrom...
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Konstantinos Charmanas, Konstantinos Georgiou, Nikolaos Mittas and Lefteris Angelis
Home automation technologies are a vital part of humanity, as they provide convenience in otherwise mundane and repetitive tasks. In recent years, given the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) sectors, these techn...
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Bingcheng Huang, Aizhong Lu and Ning Zhang
A solution is proposed for ground surface settlement induced in fractional-generalised Kelvin semi-infinite space by distributed loads, based on the fractional differential theory. The effects of four main parameters?the differential order, the two shear...
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Yi Dong, Weimin Sun, Zhihui Yue, Bangchu Gong, Xu Yang, Kaiyun Wu, Cuiyu Liu and Yang Xu
Persimmons (Diospyros kaki Thunb.) are a characteristic Chinese fruit and account for a large planting area in China. The evaluation and selection of persimmons that are astringent without softening play an important role in modern breeding programs. How...
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Chih-yuan Li, Michael Renda, Fatima Yusuf, James Geller and Soon Ae Chun
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, government authorities have responded by issuing new public health policies, many of which were intended to contain its spread but ended up limiting economic and social activities. The citizen responses to these ...
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Delin Wu, Enlong Zhao, Dong Fang, Shan Jiang, Cheng Wu, Weiwei Wang and Rongyan Wang
This study examines the means of reducing the damage to the branches of Camellia oleifera in the process of vibration picking and solving the problems of low equipment-development efficiency and slow product renewal caused by using traditional test metho...
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Sarmad Dawood Salman Dawood, Ahmad Salahuddin Mohd Harithuddin and Mohammad Yazdi Harmin
Mass reduction is a primary design goal pursued in satellite structural design, since the launch cost is proportional to their total mass. The most common mass reduction method currently employed is to introduce honeycomb structures, with space qualified...
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Assunta Paola Piccolo, Giovanna Longobardi and Antonio Formisano
The paper discusses the seismic vulnerability of structures susceptible to overcrowding due to their intended use. Specifically, it addresses the analysis towards earthquake actions of a masonry school located in the Municipality of San Giorgio a Cremano...
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Heba Ismail, Ashraf Khalil, Nada Hussein and Rawan Elabyad
This research proposes a well-being analytical framework using social media chatter data. The proposed framework infers analytics and provides insights into the public?s well-being relevant to education throughout and post the COVID-19 pandemic through a...
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Sarmad Dawood Salman Dawood and Mohammad Yazdi Harmin
Satellite systems undergo several operational phases during their service life, including the assembly phase, ground transportation phase, the launch phase, and the in-orbit operation phase. Among these phases, the one that imposes the highest level of l...
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Marija Jovic, Edvard Tijan, David Brcic and Andreja Pucihar
In this paper, a bibliometric, content and thematic analysis of digitalization in maritime transport and seaports was performed. The research was primarily motivated by the scarcity of similar works offering a comprehensive and recent literature analysis...
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Natalia Koteleva and Ilia Frenkel
This article describes an approach of mathematical processing of signals (seismograms) from five blasthole charges from experimental blasting, each 3 m deep, with equal explosive weight (1 kg), and equidistant (3 m) from one other. The seismic explosive ...
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