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Strengthening urban resilience in China through underground infrastructures management: Addressing global climate challenges with technological solutions

Deep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.
This paper explores how climate‐resilient technologies, such as smart grids, digital twins, and self‐healing materials, can enhance urban resilience. It highlights the urgent need for proactive planning, public‐private collaboration, and data‐driven innovation to future‐proof underground infrastructure amid accelerating climate and urban pressures ...
Kai Chen Goh, Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan, Christia Meidiana, Abdelkader Anouzla, Faissal Aziz, Imran Ali, Joan Cecilia C. Casila, M. Imran Khan, Dongdong Zhang, Meihui Jiang, Mohd Hafiz Dzarfan Othman, Md Munir Hayet Khan, Kasun Kumara Dissanayake   +12 more
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Computational intelligence for road pavement condition assessment: a deep learning perspective

Urban Lifeline
Pavement defects such as cracks and potholes compromise road safety and demand timely maintenance. Traditional manual inspection is slow and exposes workers to safety risks, whereas automated systems offer a promising alternative.
Yu Hu, Rakiba Rayhana, Ling Bai, Zheng Liu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Automatic Concrete Crack Identification Based on Lightweight Embedded U-Net

IEEE Access
Crack inspection is a routine practice in maintaining and monitoring civil infrastructure. Traditional inspection methods are time-consuming, raise safety-concerning, and impose significant cost on stakeholders. Fast and accurate concrete crack detection
Baoxian Li, Hongbin Guo, Zhanfei Wang, Fengchi Wang   +3 more
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Spike detection in the wild: Screening of suspected temporal lobe epilepsy cases using a tailored 2‐channel wearable EEG

Epilepsia Open, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective To clinically validate the contribution of a custom‐built EEG wearable device (waEEG) compared to a full 10–20 electrode array ambulatory EEG (aEEG) for screening epilepsy cases in patients with suspected temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) but negative routine EEGs. Methods Patients (aged 16–91 years) with clinically suspected TLE who were
Daniel Filipe Borges, Joana Isabel Soares, Daniela Dias, Helena Cordeiro, Alberto Leal   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

LMD_YOLO: A Lightweight and Efficient Model for Pavement Defects Detection

IEEE Access
Pavement defects detection is vital for ensuring safety and extending infrastructure lifespan. Traditional manual inspection methods are inefficient and insufficient for the increasing demand for road maintenance.
Shuai He, Ye Yuan, Bingyang Yin
doaj   +1 more source

Recent advances in multifunctional soft robots: A materials–structures–systems co‐design perspective for synergistic integration

FlexMat, EarlyView.
Abstract Soft robots, engineered from highly compliant materials, offer superior adaptability and safety in unstructured environments compared to their rigid counterparts. Recent advancements, fueled by bio‐inspiration and material programmability, have led to the rapid co‐evolution of their core modules: actuation, sensing, protection, energy, and ...
Qiulei Liu, Zicao Peng, Chong Sun, Haitao Yang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sidewalk Elevation Barrier Detection Using a 2D LiDAR Scanner

IEEE Access
While Pavement Management Systems are commonly used for effective roadway inspection and maintenance, similarly efficient solutions for sidewalk assessment remain underdeveloped. This study introduces a semi-automated method for sidewalk evaluation based
Pavel Kukuliac, Jiri Horak, David Fojtik, Michal Kacmarik, Roman Kapica, Ondrej Krejcar, Petr Podesva, Rostislav Dandos, Petr Jadviscok, Milan Mihola   +9 more
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A visible‐to‐infrared miniaturized indium selenide spectrometer enabled by a gate‐tunable spectral response matrix

InfoScience, EarlyView.
Traditional light‐analyzing tools, known as spectrometers, are typically too bulky and expensive to fit into portable electronics like smartphones or wearables. In this study, we developed a microscopic, high‐performance spectrometer using a material called Indium Selenide combined with smart algorithms to accurately analyze light from the visible to ...
Jing Chen, Zhen‐Hua Wang, Zheng Zhang, Hengji Li, Xiao‐Ming Wu, Tian‐Ling Ren, Hong Liu, Min Jin, Lin Han   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating AI Convergence in Human–Artificial Intelligence Teams: A Signaling Theory Approach

Journal of Organizational Behavior, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Teams that combine human intelligence with artificial intelligence (AI) have become indispensable for solving complex tasks in various decision‐making contexts in modern organizations. However, the factors that contribute to AI convergence, where human team members align their decisions with those of their AI counterparts, still remain unclear.
Andria Smith, Hunter Phoenix van Wagoner, Ksenia Keplinger, Can Celebi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

CrackFormer: A reinforcement learning-enhanced Swin Transformer V3 framework for high-fidelity detection and segmentation of pavement surface cracks

Alexandria Engineering Journal
Pavement crack detection plays a vital role in maintaining road infrastructure, yet traditional manual inspection methods are time-consuming, error-prone and inefficient at scale. Existing deep learning approaches often struggle with discontinuous cracks,
Rizwan Ullah, Fazale Wahab, Hazrat Bilal, Sarra Ayouni, Gridsada Phanomchoeng   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source