Academic Articles & Research Papers

Janus-faced Populism: De-democratization or Democratization of Democracy?

As one of the most visible aspects of political life in recent years, the populist rises imply the ‘crisis of representation’ that means the existing institutional mechanism of representative democracy is ineffective in representing the var...

An Overview of Earthworm Biodiversity in Afghanistan with New Records for the Country (Clitellata: Megadrili)

In this paper a batch of earthworms from Afghanistan was studied and previous reports on the earthworm fauna of the country were evaluated. In the present study, earthworms were collected by digging and hand sorting, and fixed in 80% ethano...

Determination of the cost-benefit efficient interval for sponge city construction by a multi-objective optimization model

The cost-benefit is a key factor when selecting an appropriate sponge city construction scheme. The research of applying intelligent technology to find cost-benefit efficient planning and construction of sponge city is urgently required. Th...

Determination of Optimal Principal Ship Dimensions Considering EEDI and Operational Efficiency

The determination of principal dimensions in the early ship design stage requires iterative calculations based on the basis ship particulars and ship owner’s requirements, demanding considerable time and engineering effort. In modern shipbu...

User perspectives on AI explainability in aerospace manufacturing: a Card-Sorting study

The integration of AI technologies in aerospace manufacturing is significantly transforming critical operational processes, impacting decision-making, efficiency, and workflow optimization. Explainability in AI systems is essential to ensur...

The History and New Trends of Medical Informatics

ABSTRACT The breakthrough of the computer and information technologies in all the segments of the society, led to the needs for the computer and information technologies. The knowledge of information technology is now part of general litera...

Concentration-dependent toxicity of iron oxide nanoparticles mediated by increased oxidative stress

Saba Naqvi1, Mohammad Samim2, MZ Abdin3, Farhan Jalees Ahmed4, AN Maitra5, CK Prashant6, Amit K Dinda61Faculty of Engineering and Interdisciplinary Sciences, 2Department of Chemistry, 3Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, 4Depar...

An Essential Role of Hrs/Vps27 in Endosomal Cholesterol Trafficking

The endosomal sorting complex required for transport (ESCRT) plays a crucial role in the degradation of ubiquitinated endosomal membrane proteins. Here, we report that Hrs, a key protein of the ESCRT-0 complex, is required for the transport...

PeriSim: A Simulator for Optimizing Peristaltic Table Control

Peristaltic conveyance can be used for the sorting and transport of delicate and nonrigid objects such as meat or soft fruit. The non‐linearity and stochastic behavior of peristaltic systems make them difficult to control. Optimizing contro...

The complexity of sorting on distributed systems

The Impact of China on Cybersecurity: Fiction and Friction

Exaggerated fears about the paralysis of digital infrastructure and the loss of competitive advantage contribute to a spiral of mistrust in U.S.-China relations. In every category of putative Chinese cyber threat, there are also considerabl...

Time-Aware Service Ranking Prediction in the Internet of Things Environment

With the rapid development of the Internet of things (IoT), building IoT systems with high quality of service (QoS) has become an urgent requirement in both academia and industry. During the procedures of building IoT systems, QoS-aware ser...

Deep learning for natural language processing: advantages and challenges

Deep learning refers to machine learning technologies for learning and utilizing ‘deep’ artificial neural networks, such as deep neural networks (DNN), convolutional neural networks (CNN) and recurrent neural networks (RNN). Recently, deep ...

Fruits and vegetables quality evaluation using computer vision: A review

In agriculture science, automation increases the quality, economic growth and productivity of the country. The export market and quality evaluation are affected by assorting of fruits and vegetables. The crucial sensory characteristic of fr...

Deep Learning

This book focuses on the fundamentals of deep learning along with reporting on the current state-of-art research on deep learning. In addition, it provides an insight of deep neural networks in action with illustrative coding examples. Deep...

Privacy-preserving task offloading strategy for digital twin system in satellite edge computing

Satellite edge computing faces a trade-off between privacy protection and system overhead, strict task-dependency constraints, and the limited ability of conventional algorithms to capture complex dependency topologies in digital twin task ...

A selectivity filter in Tim17 mediates intramitochondrial protein sorting.

Artificial intelligence for waste management in smart cities: a review

The rising amount of waste generated worldwide is inducing issues of pollution, waste management, and recycling, calling for new strategies to improve the waste ecosystem, such as the use of artificial intelligence. Here, we review the appl...