Purpose: This paper aims to introduce an aircraft engine inspection robot (AEIR) which can go in the internal of the aircraft engine without collision and detect damage for engine blades. Design/methodology/approach: To obtain the position and pose information of the blades inside the engine, a...

Although entrepreneurs of promising start-ups (Bhide, 2000) usually started their venture without novel ideas, deep experience, high credentials, or ample resources, the companies they eventually built represent the majority of fast-growing, privately held businesses (e.g. Inc. 500 companies) in...

Carbon monoxide (CO) is one of the most widely spread and enormous pollutants in the atmosphere, and CO catalytic oxidation is the primary method for reducing CO levels. Pd catalysts show excellent catalytic performance in CO catalytic oxidation, yet the majority of Pd-based catalysts are weakly...

The issue of growing increasing of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in manure-fertilized soil needs urgently addressing. In this study, “fermentation from fruit and vegetable waste” (FFVW) was produced to reduce ARG abundance in swine manure-fertilized soils. With a six-month field...