This study presents a year-long vibration-based structural health monitoring (SHM) of the Swarnamukhi River Bridge and Bhakta Kannappa Sethu Bridge using a MEMS accelerometer integrated with a low-cost microcontroller system. The monthly dynamic response parameters of acceleration, displacement, frequency, and velocity were monitored from June 2024...

By K. Asha Latha, K. Narasimhulu

Water efficiency in agriculture is a crucial measure of how effectively farmers use their most vital resource. In practical terms, it reveals how much applied water actually nourishes crops versus being lost to evaporation or runoff. In the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh, India, where water is incredibly scarce, making every drop count is cruc...

By Aakanksha Rawat, Mukul Kulshrestha

Sentiment analysis has come out as an important activity in natural language processing (NLP) applications whose data analysis is in high demand at present in the modern world. The BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) algorithm has proved to be extremely efficient when it comes to sentiment analysis tasks, and its potentia...

By Alaa A. El-Demerdash, Nahla B. Abdel- Hamid, Amira Y. Haikal

Measuring small flow rates often requires expensive equipment and is associated with inherent limitations. In practice, various measuring structures, such as weirs, are commonly constructed at specific locations to facilitate flow measurements. This paper proposes an innovative and low-cost measurement structure made from sewer pipes, incorporating...

By Petar Praštalo, Anica Milanović

This study explores the growing phenomenon of cybercrime targeting older adult individuals in Malaysia, a demographic increasingly susceptible due to factors such as limited digital literacy, social isolation, and perceived financial stability. Drawing upon Routine Activity Theory and Social Engineering Theory, the research investigates the situati...

By Kian-Lam Tan, Jayaeswari Sangaralingam, Lau Pei Mey, Premalatha Karupiah, Chen-Kim Lim

The history of architecture has been molded with the development in modes of construction, reflecting the social, economic, and technological advancement of different civilizations. This paper discusses the chronological development of the various methods of construction from ancient architecture to modern engineering and cites some key milestones ...

By Nodir Karimov, Maman Sarybaev, Aynazar Kaipnazarov, Nematjan Djumageldiev, Rustem Reymbaev, Fariza Kholdarova

Developing countries, especially, India, depend importantly on energy sources to perform their country’s industrial and economic activities. Mainly the two factors continuous population growth of the country and the rapid growth rate of industrialization of the country, the gap between electrical energy supply and demand for electrical energy...

By G. Suresh, D. Lenine

Both biological populations and the terrain suffer greatly from mining. Mining activities upset plant communities, and the habitats that result from the mining become depleted, creating an extremely difficult environment for the growth of plants. The mining leaves behind nutrient-deficient sandy spoils that are hostile to plants, and methods of rec...

By Arasuraja Ganesan, Priya Sethuraman, Sundara Balamurugan

The environment in earthquake-stricken areas is complex and changeable. The optimization of public service facility layout usually involves multiple objectives, such as maximizing coverage, minimizing service distance, optimizing resource allocation, etc. The coupling conflict between these objectives weakens the functions of public service facilit...

By Wang Feifei

The most effective method for mitigating the adverse environmental impacts of traditional concrete involves substituting cement and natural aggregate with waste and byproduct resources. Utilizing sintered lightweight aggregate (fly ash) in geopolymer concrete emerges as an efficient solution for managing and disposing of significant amounts of fly ...

By Pushpendra Singh Palash, Priyanka Dhurvey