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Entropy, Volume 18, Issue 4

April 2016 - 53 articles

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Articles (53)

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,101 Views
15 Pages

13 April 2016

De la Peña 1980 and Puthoff 1987 show that circular orbits in the hydrogen problem of Stochastic Electrodynamics connect to a stable situation, where the electron neither collapses onto the nucleus nor gets expelled from the atom. Although the Cole-Z...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,153 Views
21 Pages

Generalized Analysis of a Distribution Separation Method

  • Peng Zhang,
  • Qian Yu,
  • Yuexian Hou,
  • Dawei Song,
  • Jingfei Li and
  • Bin Hu

13 April 2016

Separating two probability distributions from a mixture model that is made up of the combinations of the two is essential to a wide range of applications. For example, in information retrieval (IR), there often exists a mixture distribution consistin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
11,442 Views
30 Pages

13 April 2016

Recent advances in nonequilibrium statistical physics have provided unprecedented insight into the thermodynamics of dynamic processes. The author recently used these advances to extend Landauer’s semi-formal reasoning concerning the thermodynamics o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
94 Citations
14,353 Views
26 Pages

Anti-Icing Superhydrophobic Surfaces: Controlling Entropic Molecular Interactions to Design Novel Icephobic Concrete

  • Rahul Ramachandran,
  • Marina Kozhukhova,
  • Konstantin Sobolev and
  • Michael Nosonovsky

12 April 2016

Tribology involves the study of friction, wear, lubrication, and adhesion, including biomimetic superhydrophobic and icephobic surfaces. The three aspects of icephobicity are the low ice adhesion, repulsion of incoming water droplets prior to freezin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,029 Views
15 Pages

An Informed Framework for Training Classifiers from Social Media

  • Dong Seon Cheng and
  • Sami Abduljalil Abdulhak

9 April 2016

Extracting information from social media has become a major focus of companies and researchers in recent years. Aside from the study of the social aspects, it has also been found feasible to exploit the collaborative strength of crowds to help solve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,662 Views
18 Pages

Exergy Analysis of Complex Ship Energy Systems

  • Pierre Marty,
  • Jean-François Hétet,
  • David Chalet and
  • Philippe Corrignan

8 April 2016

With multiple primary and secondary energy converters (diesel engines, steam turbines, waste heat recovery (WHR) and oil-fired boilers, etc.) and extensive energy networks (steam, cooling water, exhaust gases, etc.), ships may be considered as comple...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,448 Views
15 Pages

8 April 2016

Heart rate variability (HRV) is a non-invasive measurement based on the intervals between normal heart beats that characterize cardiac autonomic function. Decreased HRV is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular events. Characterizing HRV us...

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