Wireless sensors can be realized by integrating a sensor with a passive commercial radio-frequency identification (RFID) chip. When activated, the chip responds with a digitally encoded signal that not only identifies the sensor but also contains information about the sensor state. Two devices have been developed to date: a temperature-threshold indicator and a chloride-threshold indicator. Thi...

The non-steady-state migration test for measuring the chloride migration coefficient was performed on mortar specimens fabricated with supplementary cementitious materials. A careful examination of the test results revealed that the use of more than one specimen with different test durations is recommended for obtaining reliable chloride migration coefficients. Additionally, the voltage applied...

Abstract This paper presents a multi-sensor data collection and fusion procedure for nondestructive evaluation/testing (NDE/NDT) of concrete bridge deck. Three NDE technologies, vertical electrical impedance (VEI), ground-penetrating radar (GPR), high-definition imaging (HDI) surface crack detection, were deployed on the A neural network autoencoder was trained to quantify relationship between ...

The present study concerns a development of calcium aluminate cement (CAC) concrete to enhance the durability against an externally chemically aggressive environment, in particular, chloride-induced corrosion. To evaluate the inhibition effect and concrete properties, CAC was partially mixed with ordinary Portland cement (OPC), ranging from 5% to 15%, as a binder. As a result, it was found that...

Abstract Dug well water is one of the clean sources used in Kubu Raya Regency. However, through initial testing, physical and chemical qualities were inadequate to meet hygiene sanitation demands daily living following Regulation No. 32 Minister Health Indonesia 2017. Consequently, objective this study was examine treatment dug by electrocoagulation electrocoagulation-coagulation employing Poly...

Adult gains in body weight, excess adiposity, and intra-abdominal fat have each been associated with risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), forming the basis for preventive medicine guidelines and actuarial predictions using practical indices of weight (e.g., body mass index [BMI]) and waist circumference (WC). As obesity-related disease spreads beyond affluent western countries, application...

We consider recovery of low-rank matrices from noisy data by hard thresholding of singular values, in which empirical singular values below a threshold λ are set to 0. We study the asymptotic MSE (AMSE) in a framework where the matrix size is large compared to the rank of the matrix to be recovered, and the signal-to-noise ratio of the low-rank piece stays constant. The AMSE-optimal choice of h...

Objective To conduct a descriptive analysis of the sweat test (ST), associating ST results with epidemiological data, CFTR (cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator) mutations and reasons to indicate the ST, as well as correlating sweat sodium and sweat chloride concentrations in subjects. Methods Retrospective survey and descriptive analysis of 5,721 ST at a university referral ce...

Using the cavity equations of Mézard, Parisi, and Zecchina [Science 297 (2002), 812; Mézard and Zecchina, Phys Rev E 66 (2002), 056126] we derive the various threshold values for the number of clauses per variable of the random K-satisfiability problem, generalizing the previous results to K ≥ 4. We also give an analytic solution of the equations, and some closed expressions for these threshold...

An empirical study of the relationship between object-oriented (OO) metrics and error-severity categories is presented. The focus of the study is to identify threshold values of software metrics using receiver operating characteristic curves. The study used the three releases of the Eclipse project and found threshold values for some OO metrics that separated no-error classes from classes that ...