Optimization Algorithms for Cable Fault Localization and Assessment in Smart Power Systems by Wenxuan Wang, Yali Shi, Minghui Liu

“…In view of the above problems, this paper proposes an optimization algorithm based on the frequency domain-space domain integral transform to enhance the cable fault location capability and assess the fault type and severity. …”
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Preparation and Characterization of Febuxostat as Nanosuspension by Zahraa Salim Alwan, Nawal Ayash Rajab

“…The optimized formula (F7) was further characterized using X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and scanning electron microscopy. …”
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Using UMAP for Partially Synthetic Healthcare Tabular Data Generation and Validation by Carla Lázaro, Cecilio Angulo

“…In addition, the common case of lack of information due to technical issues, transcript errors, or differences between descriptors considered in different health centers leads to the need for data imputation and partial data generation techniques. …”
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Multi-Channel Vibration Measurements Based on a Self-Mixing Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser Array by Wei Xia, Jingyu Yu, Sunan Shao, Zhengyu Qian, Hui Hao, Ming Wang, Dongmei Guo

“…Furthermore, the vibration waveforms of different positions were reconstructed using the Hilbert transform-based orthogonal phase demodulation technology. …”
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An innovative approach for antibacterial and anti-static nylon woven fabric through eco-friendly synthesized chitosan nanoparticles by Md Shetu Mia, Md. Abdul Alim, Kaniz Fatima Mishfa, Tarikul Islam, Md Kamruzzaman

“…The anti-bacterial activity (zone of inhibition) of different treated fabrics with CNPs (5 g/L, 10 g/L, and 15 g/L) against Staphylococcus aureus was 22 mm, 25 mm, and 25.5 mm, and against Escherichia coli was 23.5 mm, 24 mm, and 26 mm correspondingly by the disc diffusion method. …”
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Bifunctional Catalytic Performance of Zn/ZSM-5 in the Aromatization of LPG and the Conversion of Pyrolytic Gases from Recycled Polypropylene by Diego Barzallo, Miguel A. Reinoso, Gabriela Miranda, Trino Romero, Mario Franco, Paul Palmay

“…Zn-modified ZSM-5 zeolites with different zinc contents were successfully prepared by the impregnation method and compared with unmodified ZSM-5. …”
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Modeling and analysis for surface texturing on soft sliders in mixed lubrication by Sen Jiang, Qi Liu, Hua Ji, Wei Wang, Zhaozhe Meng, Jiawei Wang, Guangneng Dong

“…This model couples the flow, cavitation, deformation, and contact equations, considering both normal and shear stress effects with the fast Fourier transform method. The local deformation, contact and hydrodynamic pressure distributions of soft surfaces with multi-dimples are obtained, and a parametric study for the circular, triangular and partial texturing is conducted. …”
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Multiple-Image Encryption Based on Compressive Ghost Imaging and Coordinate Sampling by Xianye Li, Xiangfeng Meng, Xiulun Yang, Yongkai Yin, Yurong Wang, Xiang Peng, Wenqi He, Guoyan Dong, Hongyi Chen

“…In the encryption process, random phase-only masks are first generated with the modified logistic map algorithm; multiple secret images are transformed to be sparsed by the 2-D discrete cosine transformation (DCT) operation and scrambled by different random sequences; the scrambled images are then grouped to one combined image with the help of the coordinate sampling matrices; finally, putting the combined image in the object plane of the compressive ghost imaging system, the ciphertext will be obtained from the buck detector and transferred to the receivers. …”
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Antimicrobial Properties of Chitosan-Alumina/f-MWCNT Nanocomposites by Monaheng Masheane, Lebea Nthunya, Soraya Malinga, Edward Nxumalo, Tobias Barnard, Sabelo Mhlanga

“…Thus, the nanocomposites show a potential for use as a biocide in water treatment for the removal of bacteria at different environmental conditions.…”
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Fractional dual phase-lag Model for Vibration analysis of a generalized nonlocal thermoelastic microbeam based on a Pasternak foundation by Adam Zakria, Ahmed Yahya, Eshraga Salih, Abdelgabar Adam Hassan, Shams A. Ahmed, Ibrahim-Elkhalil Ahmed, Hamdy M. Barakat

“…The governing equations were solved using the Laplace transform method, and the distributions of the temperature, moment, and displacement deflection were calculated and presented graphically. …”
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Damage Detection in Machining Tools Using Acoustic Emission, Signal Processing, and Feature Extraction by Lucas Pires Bernardes, Pedro Oliveira Conceição Júnior, Fabio Romano Lofrano Dotto, Alessandro Roger Rodrigues, Marcio Marques Silva

“…The proposed approach involves designing condition indicators to quantify this damage by implementing infinite impulse response (IIR) digital filters, specifically Butterworth filters, and fast Fourier transform (FFT), in addition to root mean square (RMS), using different frequency bands of the acoustic signals collected during the process. …”
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The Propagation Properties of a Longitudinal Orbital Angular Momentum Multiplexing System in Atmospheric Turbulence by Qinghua Tian, Lei Zhu, Yongjun Wang, Qi Zhang, Bo Liu, Xiangjun Xin

“…The longitudinal OAM multiplexing (LOAMM) system is simulated under atmospheric turbulence, which is based on the split-step Fourier transform method and includes multiple random phase screens. …”
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Bio-refining of cottonseed meal from oil industry for the isolation of eco-friendly natural protein polymer by Babu Kayakada Murugesh, Tamrat Tesfaye, Fangong Kong

“…In this work, protein was extracted from defatted cottonseed flour with alkaline solution and its precipitation at different pH value was investigated. The crude protein was quantified using standard micro-Kjeldahl nitrogen method. …”
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Biological properties study of bioactive diopside prepared from local raw materials by Souheila Zouai, Asma Fares, Salma Khuwaylid, Khawla Ezzedine, Abdelhamid Harabi

“…In this study, it was synthesized of ultrafine-structured diopside granules using the sintering method from solid raw materials (Dolomite) at a temperature of 1300 °C for 2 hours. …”
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An Improved Fault Diagnosis Strategy for Induction Motors Using Weighted Probability Ensemble Deep Learning by Usman Ali, Umer Ramzan, Waqas Ali, Khaled Ali Al-Jaafari

“…The Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT) extracts features from vibration and current signals. …”
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How Does Neural Network Reparametrization Improve Geophysical Inversion? by Yuping Wu, Jianwei Ma

“…Abstract Full waveform inversion (FWI) is a high‐resolution seismic inversion technique and great efforts have been made to mitigate the multi‐solution problem, such as the traditional total variation (TV) regularization. Different from traditional regularization, a new regularization design approach named neural network (NN) reparametrization (Deep Image Prior) was presented recently. …”
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Sol-Gel Deposited Porogen Based Porous Low-k Thin Films for Interlayer Dielectric Application in ULSI Circuits by Yogesh S. Mhaisagar, A.M. Mahajan

“…The chemical bonding structures of films were analyzed by using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) spectroscopy and the stretching, bending and rocking peaks appear at 1077 cm – 1, 967  cm – 1, 447  cm – 1 respectively confirm the formation of Si-O-Si network. …”
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A Sensitive Epinephrine Sensor Based on Photochemically Synthesized Gold Nanoparticles by Eyup Metin, Gonul S. Batibay, Meral Aydin, Nergis Arsu

“…In this study, gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) and AuNPs-graphene oxide (AuNPs@GO) nanostructures were synthesized in aqueous media using an in-situ photochemical method with bis-acyl phosphine oxide (BAPO) photoinitiator as a photoreducing agent in the presence of HAuCl₄. …”
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Fast and simultaneous prediction of inner quality parameters on intact mangos by near infrared spectroscopy: Impact of spectra pre-processing on prediction accuracy by Agus Arip Munawar, Hizir, Cut Erika, Elke Pawelzik

“…Diffuse reflectance spectra (log1/R) were acquired and recorded in wavelength range of 1000 – 2500 nm by Antaris Fourier transform NIR instrument. Judging from calibration and prediction performance, MSC found to be the best spectra pre-processing method prior to prediction model development with R2 prediction are 0.72 for TA and 0.76 for SSC. …”
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Development of a Guidance System for an Agricultural Wheeled Robotic Platform in Row Crop Fields by Hossein Behfar, Fahime Hashemi, Arezu Nobakht

“…The vision-based guidance system processes acquired image data from a tilted camera in front of the robot to identify the crop row's position. The Hough transform method was used to determine the position of the crop rows. …”
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