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Yaoqiang Pan, Xvlin Xiao, Kewei Hu, Hanwen Kang, Yangwen Jin, Yan Chen and Xiangjun Zou
In an unmanned orchard, various tasks such as seeding, irrigation, health monitoring, and harvesting of crops are carried out by unmanned vehicles. These vehicles need to be able to distinguish which objects are fruit trees and which are not, rather than...
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Marisa Pessoa Gonçalves, Pedro M. Nogueira Reis and António Pedro Pinto
In this study, we provide a thorough analysis, conducted on a company-by-company basis, of the impact of bank concentration and the bank-relative power of banks on firm profitability, financing costs, and capital structure in a small economy like Portuga...
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Sarra Bel Haj Salem, Aissam Gaagai, Imed Ben Slimene, Amor Ben Moussa, Kamel Zouari, Krishna Kumar Yadav, Mohamed Hamdy Eid, Mostafa R. Abukhadra, Ahmed M. El-Sherbeeny, Mohamed Gad, Mohamed Farouk, Osama Elsherbiny, Salah Elsayed, Stefano Bellucci and Hekmat Ibrahim
In the Zeroud basin, a diverse array of methodologies were employed to assess, simulate, and predict the quality of groundwater intended for irrigation. These methodologies included the irrigation water quality indices (IWQIs); intricate statistical anal...
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Tarek Berghout, Mohamed-Djamel Mouss, Leïla-Hayet Mouss and Mohamed Benbouzid
Machine learning prognosis for condition monitoring of safety-critical systems, such as aircraft engines, continually faces challenges of data unavailability, complexity, and drift. Consequently, this paper overcomes these challenges by introducing adapt...
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Aibing Jin, Prabhat Basnet and Shakil Mahtab
In deep engineering, rockburst hazards frequently result in injuries, fatalities, and the destruction of contiguous structures. Due to the complex nature of rockbursts, predicting the severity of rockburst damage (intensity) without the aid of computer m...
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Roohollah Noori, Behzad Ghiasi, Sohrab Salehi, Mehdi Esmaeili Bidhendi, Amin Raeisi, Sadegh Partani, Rojin Meysami, Mehran Mahdian, Majid Hosseinzadeh and Soroush Abolfathi
Sediment load in fluvial systems is one of the critical factors shaping the river geomorphological and hydraulic characteristics. A detailed understanding of the total sediment load (TSL) is required for the protection of physical, environmental, and eco...
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Jefry Yanto and Rhea P. Liem
Fuel burn accounts for up to 25%
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of an aircraft?s total operating cost and has become one of the most important decision factors in the airline industry. Hence, prudent fuel estimation is essential for airlines to ensure smooth operation in the upc...
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Yaohang Lu and Zhongming Teng
Principal component analysis (PCA) is one of the most popular tools in multivariate exploratory data analysis. Its probabilistic version (PPCA) based on the maximum likelihood procedure provides a probabilistic manner to implement dimension reduction. Re...
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Claudia Barile, Caterina Casavola, Giovanni Pappalettera and Paramsamy Kannan Vimalathithan
Assessing the damage evolution in carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites is an intricate task due to their complex mechanical responses. The acoustic emission technique (AE) is a non-destructive evaluation tool that is based on the recording o...
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Tarik Chfadi, Mohamed Gheblawi and Renna Thaha
The present study attempts to unravel the determinants of public acceptance of Treated Wastewater (TWW) reuse in the United Arab Emirates. A representative sample (1426) of Al-Ain city residents, were interviewed, using a structured questionnaire, on the...
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