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Jakob Benisch, Björn Helm, Xin Chang and Peter Krebs
The European Union Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC; WFD) aims to achieve a good ecological and chemical status of all bodies of surface water by 2027. The development of integrated guidance on surface water chemical monitoring (e.g., WFD Guidance D...
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Yoichi Suenaga and Kojiro Suzuki
This study examines the wing hinge oscillations in an aircraft concept that employs multiple wings, or small aircraft, chained at the wing tips through freely rotatable hinges with minimal structural damping and no mechanical position-locking system. Thi...
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Rafiya Sohail, Yousaf Saeed, Abid Ali, Reem Alkanhel, Harun Jamil, Ammar Muthanna and Habib Akbar
Diabetes is a chronic disease that is escalating day by day and requires 24/7 continuous management. It may cause many complications, precisely when a patient moves, which may risk their and other drivers? and pedestrians? lives. Recent research shows di...
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Abdullahi A. Ibrahim, Muhammad Khan, Chukwuma Nnaji and Amanda S. Koh
Heat-related illness is a growing concern for workers in temperate climates as rising temperatures and heatwaves put them at risk of exertional heat stroke. Monitoring biometrics that predict heat stroke, such as core temperature, is increasingly importa...
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Yuvaraj Ramasamy, Juliana Usman, Rizal Razman, Yeap Ming Wei, Harley Towler and Mark King
The shoulder is a unique and complex joint in the human body with three bones and four joints, which makes it the most unstable joint in the body due to the amount of motion. To improve approaches toward understanding the performance of overhead throwing...
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Xuqiu Bai, Zhichun Xu, Xianyi Li, Tiantian Zhao, Xiang Ge and Caideng Yuan
The Marangoni effect is a phenomenon of mass transfer between two fluids with different surface tensions, which has been used in many fields. In this paper, we prepared ultrathin conductive films with graphene (GN) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) based on th...
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Francisco Javier López-Andreu, Juan Antonio López-Morales, Zaida Hernández-Guillen, Juan Antonio Carrero-Rodrigo, Marta Sánchez-Alcaraz, Joaquín Francisco Atenza-Juárez and Manuel Erena
The Mar Menor is a coastal lagoon of great socio-ecological and environmental value; in recent years, different localized episodes of hypoxia and eutrophication have modified the quality of its waters. The episodes are due to a drop in dissolved oxygen l...
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Federico Ricci, Luca Petrucci, Francesco Mariani and Carlo Nazareno Grimaldi
The control of internal combustion engines is becoming increasingly challenging to the customer?s requirements for growing performance and ever-stringent emission regulations. Therefore, significant computational efforts are required to manage the large ...
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Yi Zhang, Jie Ma, Xiaolin Qin, Yongming Li and Zuwei Zhang
Chronic diseases are severe and life-threatening, and their accurate early diagnosis is difficult. Machine-learning-based processes of data collected from the human body using wearable sensors are a valid method currently usable for diagnosis. However, i...
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Fumin Zou, Chenxi Xia, Feng Guo, Xinjian Cai, Qiqin Cai, Guanghao Luo and Ting Ye
Due to the challenge of limited line of sight in the perception system of intelligent driving vehicles (cameras, radar, body sensors, etc.), which can only perceive threats within a limited range, potential threats outside the line of sight cannot be fed...
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