Ramadan fasting is prescribed by Quran for every able‐bodied, adult Muslim and is considered an obligatory act of worship. During Ramadan, the majority of Muslims eat two major meals- one before dawn (Sahar) and another immediately after the sunset (Iftar). Islamic fasting, due to its particular nature, may cause metabolic and hormonal changes in the body, which are different from those in regu...

While the e-commerce logistics industry is developing rapidly, its sustainable development has received certain attention. The ultimate goal of to achieve common, coordinated, fair, efficient, and multi-dimensional development. To promote logistics, automation technology warehousing undoubtedly an excellent breakthrough, since can not only make system efficient with a low-error rate, but also a...

Industry 4.0 driven by the internet of things (IoT) is changing way producing and has been offering smart manufacturing systems with support technologies for digital transformation plants seeking improvements in productivity, control over process, customisation production, among others. Due to these technological developments, small medium-sized industries have identified as a weak link adaptin...

Video satellites have recently become an attractive method of Earth observation, providing consecutive images the Earth’s surface for continuous monitoring specific events. The development on-board optical and communication systems has enabled various applications satellite image sequences. However, video-based target tracking is a challenging research topic in remote sensing due to its relativ...

Palmprint recognition has been widely applied to security authentication due its rich characteristics, i.e., local direction, wrinkle, and texture. However, different types of palmprint images captured from application scenarios usually contain a variety dominant features. Specifically, the performance will be degraded by interference factors, noise, rotations, shadows, while are acquired in op...

by using published records and original data from recent research, the first checklist for subfamily deltocephalinae from iran is presented. this study is based on a comprehensive review of literature and the examination of some materials from our collection. the present checklist contains 185 species belonging to 74 genera. in addition for each species, the known geographical distribution in i...