Please confirm you are human

This browser or connection looks automated. Press and continuously hold the control for 3 seconds to enable Google-hosted web results and, when separately allowed, AI-assisted answers.

A successful check enables 100 search requests. Interactive access does not authorize scraping, systematic collection, or reuse of search output.

Hold with a pointer, or hold Space or Enter.

News

mdpi.com
mdpi.com > 2076-16/18/3417 > 9076

Applied Sciences, Vol. 16, Pages 9076: Explainable Cattle Identification via ArcFace Embeddings and Vision–Language Explanations

14+ hour, 42+ min ago   (567+ words) Individual cattle identification underpins traceability, genetic management and disease surveillance in precision livestock farming. Ear tags and RFID remain the dominant practice but are subject to loss, tampering and welfare concerns, which motivates contactless biometric alternatives. Most deep learning systems…...

mdpi.com
mdpi.com > 2076-16/18/3417 > 9075

Applied Sciences, Vol. 16, Pages 9075: An Investigative Study of Widely Used Ergonomic Risk Assessment Methods Based on Machine Learning and MCDM Approaches

15+ hour, 57+ min ago   (512+ words) REBA, RULA, and OWAS are widely used observational ergonomic risk assessment methods based on predefined ordinal scoring rules. The final risk scores generated by these methods play a critical role in determining and prioritizing ergonomic interventions under limited resources to…...

mdpi.com
mdpi.com > 2076-16/18/3417 > 9072

Applied Sciences, Vol. 16, Pages 9072: UX Design Guidelines for Teaching Procedural Knowledge in Educational VR: Medium-Specific Message Design Strategies, Learning Effects, and Consistent Improvement Across Learners

16+ hour, 30+ min ago   (497+ words) Research on educational virtual reality (VR) has focused on learning outcomes, but less on the design strategies that create those outcomes or whether benefits are consistent across different learners. This study created user experience (UX) design guidelines for educational VR…...

mdpi.com
mdpi.com > 2076-16/18/3417 > 9066

Applied Sciences, Vol. 16, Pages 9066: IVYA-ZRP: An Enhanced Zone Routing Protocol with Zone Radius Optimization for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

20+ hour, 3+ min ago   (394+ words) With the rapid development of wireless communication technologies, mobile devices, and distributed systems, the scale and dynamics of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) are increasing, which results in increasingly stringent requirements for routing protocols. The Zone Routing Protocol (ZRP), as…...

mdpi.com
mdpi.com > 2076-16/18/3417 > 9065

Applied Sciences, Vol. 16, Pages 9065: Bayesian Biaffine Variational Graph Convolutional Network for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

20+ hour, 3+ min ago   (496+ words) Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) aims to identify the sentiment polarity expressed toward a specific aspect in a sentence. Existing sequential and Transformer-based methods can effectively capture contextual semantics, but they often lack explicit modeling of aspect–opinion relations. Graph-based approaches…...

mdpi.com
mdpi.com > 2076-16/18/3417 > 9063

Applied Sciences, Vol. 16, Pages 9063: Predicting Negative Day-Ahead Electricity Prices Across 12 European Bidding Zones: A Gate-Closure-Audited Explainable Machine Learning Framework

20+ hour, 23+ min ago   (428+ words) The growing penetration of variable renewable energy (VRE) is increasing the frequency of very low and negative prices, although these events also depend on demand, transmission capacity, price-regime persistence and flexibility resources. This study examines which pre-auction and diagnostic variables…...

mdpi.com
mdpi.com > 2076-16/18/3417 > 9060

Applied Sciences, Vol. 16, Pages 9060: Research on Active Control Method for Thermal Error of Moving-Column Horizontal Machining Centers

20+ hour, 52+ min ago   (394+ words) This paper investigates the thermal characteristics of machine tools under the influence of multiple heat sources and proposes an active temperature control method. The study was conducted under steady-state conditions with a constant feed rate of 10 m/min and no…...

mdpi.com
mdpi.com > 2076-16/18/3417 > 9058

Applied Sciences, Vol. 16, Pages 9058: From Risk Visualization to Human-Centred Interfaces: A Scoping Review of Digital Technologies for Risk Communication

21+ hour, 42+ min ago   (478+ words) Digital risk communication increasingly relies on interactive technologies to transform complex, uncertain, and probabilistic information into forms that can support human understanding and decision-making. Yet the literature is fragmented across application domains, technologies, and interaction paradigms. This scoping review maps…...

mdpi.com
mdpi.com > 2076-16/18/3417 > 9057

Applied Sciences, Vol. 16, Pages 9057: CropWheatSwinT: Foreground-Aware Image Preprocessing for Fine-Grained Wheat Variety Classification Using Swin Transformer

22+ hour, 10+ min ago   (490+ words) Fine-grained wheat variety classification involving a large number of cultivars remains challenging because different varieties often exhibit highly similar morphological and textural characteristics. In this study, a dataset comprising 124 wheat varieties was used to systematically evaluate convolutional and Transformer-based architectures…...

mdpi.com
mdpi.com > 2076-16/18/3417 > 9005

Applied Sciences, Vol. 16, Pages 9005: DWAT: Density-Weighted Adversarial Training for Robustness Beyond the Training Perturbation Budget

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (571+ words) Deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely deployed in safety-critical applications such as medical diagnosis and autonomous driving. Adversarial training (AT) is among the most effective defenses, casting robust optimization as a min–max problem over a defender-specified ℓp-ball of fixed…...