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Low-resolution images often lack fine detail and are prone to blurring, noise, and distortions, making accurate assessment challenging. This issue becomes even more challenging for applications, such as land mapping, env...

Abstract With the advance of smart material science, robotics is evolving from rigid robots to soft robots. Compared to rigid robots, soft robots can safely interact with the environment, easily navigate in unstructured ...

Cross-city transfer learning (CCTL) has emerged as a crucial approach for managing the growing complexity of urban data and addressing the challenges posed by rapid urbanization. This paper provides a comprehensive revie...

This study investigates the long-term aging effects and structural degradation mechanisms of photovoltaic (PV) modules integrated into smart city furniture, with a particular focus on panels of 10 W, 25 W, and 40 W nomin...

Background: The use of smartphone applications (SA) before deep learning (DL) is currently showing an increase in popularity in the context of physical education (PE) teaching, but the effects smartphone applications wit...

Smart radiative cooling devices based on thermochromic materials such as vanadium dioxide (VO2) are of practical interest for temperature regulation and artificial homeostasis, i.e., maintaining stable equilibrium condi...

Microbial siderophores are low-molecular-weight compounds with a strong affinity for ferric (FSe3+) ions. They play a pivotal role in plant-microbial interactions by enhancing iron bioavailability to plants, primarily th...

The combination of colloidal lithography and glancing angle deposition facilitates a new powerful fabrication technique – shadow sphere lithography (SSL), which can greatly expand the variety and complexity of nanostru...

Abstract The growing complexity of global food supply chains and increasing demands for safety, longer shelf life, and sustainability have increased the need for advanced packaging technologies. Smart nano-packaging mate...

Reconfigurable metamaterials significantly expand the application scenarios and operating frequency range of metamaterials, making them promising candidates for use in smart tunable device. Here, we propose and experimen...

Over the past decade, mobile devices have become an integral part of our daily routines, offering a broad spectrum of applications that enhance everyday tasks. As more people adopt smartphones, developers are increasingl...

Abstract The rising complexity of urban areas, along with growing public safety needs, has made intelligent video surveillance systems more essential. The current surveillance systems that rely on human observation and p...

Soft robotics is a rapidly evolving field that leverages compliant and deformable materials to create robotic systems capable of safe human interaction, environmental adaptability, and bio-inspired motion. Unlike rigid r...

Smart farming has introduced agricultural systems that are increasingly autonomous and highly interconnected. The Agricultural Digital Twin (ADT) is an innovative breakthrough in smart farming that has the potential to g...

Abstract Wearable sensor–based human activity recognition (HAR) is central to smart sport and health-monitoring applications, yet existing deep learning models often rely on ad hoc multimodal fusion and offer limited i...

Rapid urbanisation across Africa is placing increasing strain on urban governance systems, intensifying long-standing challenges such as infrastructure deficits, inefficient service delivery, and limited institutional ca...

ABSTRACT Bone injuries, particularly those associated with an aging global population, pose a persistent and complex clinical challenge. Current gold‐standard treatments such as autografts, allografts, and metal implan...

The Security systems using cameras as monitors or what is commonly known as Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) have recently become more prevalent. However, to have a monitoring system or monitoring requires a fairly expen...

This study proposes an IoT-based water quality monitoring framework integrated with a continuous suitability modeling approach for smart campus applications. A total of 404 sensor observations were collected, including p...

Metamaterial based approaches have emerged as promising solutions for mitigating mutual coupling in compact multiple input multiple output antenna systems operating at fifth generation sub-6 GHz frequencies for smartphon...

In the past years, the consumption of energy produced by wind turbines had an exponential growth. This requirement gave momentum to the development of larger turbines with the goal of producing more energy at the same si...

Abstract Multimodal neural interfaces that integrate electrical and optical functionalities are promising tools for neuroscientific and clinical applications that involve recording and manipulating neuronal activity. How...

In Smart Grids, a variety of new applications are available to users of the electrical system (from consumers to the electric system operators and market operators). Some applications such as the SCADA systems, which con...

Abstract Smart home networks are a rapidly evolving part of the Internet of Things (IoT), where connected devices exchange information to automate energy use, enhance comfort, and improve user safety. Despite their benef...