Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) is the most common thermoplastic in the industry. It is synthesized via polycondensation reaction between ethylene glycol (EG) and terephthalic acid (TPA) or dimethyl terephthalate (DMT). ...

The objectives of this study were to develop the parameters of an electroanalytical method, DPASV, for the determination of trace elements Zn, Cu, Pb and Cd in fresh and canned food samples, and to compare the new method ...

In this thesis, we propose an automated methodology to study the trend of color preferences for male and female subjects of paintings over several hundred years. This study is part of a larger project on understanding how ...

The generative adversarial network (GAN) is a deep learning architecture that learns a generative model by training a later discriminator to best differentiate “fake” examples generated by the generator from the “true” ...

Salinity is a major abiotic stress that impairs physiology and productivity of economically important crops such as common bean. It is an important grain legume and provides 30% of the protein diet in developing countries. ...

Agentstrainedwithdeepreinforcementlearningalgorithmsarecapableofperforming highly complex tasks including locomotion in continuous environments. In order to attain a human-level performance, the next step of research should ...

Fatigue crack propagation behavior of shape memory alloys is investigated using finite elements. Fatigue crack growth rate is numerically determined in terms of effective stress intensity factor range and maximum stress ...

In this work, the transient response of a thick-walled layered spherical shell subjected to radially symmetric loadings is studied using the ray theory. Normal mode solution in the Fourier transform space is expanded into ...

Human Computation aims to solve problems by means of combining the power of human and computer computation. The typical approach is to assign tasks to computers and humans based on what they are better capable of performing. ...