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Entropy, Volume 23, Issue 1

2021 January - 128 articles

Cover Story: Permeation through a potassium channel is quickly terminated after it opens via selectivity filter inactivation. This process is essential to functioning potassium channels, including bacterial KcsA. We compared the behavior of the wild-type KcsA channel and its mutants using molecular dynamic simulations, identifying residues with distinct properties. By analyzing causal links between rearrangements of these residues and permeating ions, we unraveled a network that acts as a self-organized system in regulating the ion permeation. Changes in one part of the network can lead to an adaptation in other regions, and the network can dynamically switch to an inactive state. View this paper.
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Articles (128)

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,557 Views
19 Pages

Variationally Inferred Sampling through a Refined Bound

  • Víctor Gallego and
  • David Ríos Insua

19 January 2021

In this work, a framework to boost the efficiency of Bayesian inference in probabilistic models is introduced by embedding a Markov chain sampler within a variational posterior approximation. We call this framework “refined variational approxim...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,336 Views
25 Pages

19 January 2021

We study dynamics and thermodynamics of ion transport in narrow, water-filled channels, considered as effective 1D Coulomb systems. The long range nature of the inter-ion interactions comes about due to the dielectric constants mismatch between the w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
5,426 Views
28 Pages

19 January 2021

Meta-learning, or “learning to learn”, refers to techniques that infer an inductive bias from data corresponding to multiple related tasks with the goal of improving the sample efficiency for new, previously unobserved, tasks. A key perfo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,252 Views
19 Pages

19 January 2021

Recently, there has been a resurgence of formal language theory in deep learning research. However, most research focused on the more practical problems of attempting to represent symbolic knowledge by machine learning. In contrast, there has been li...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,422 Views
18 Pages

19 January 2021

In the fault monitoring of rotating machinery, the vibration signal of the bearing and gear in a complex operating environment has poor stationarity and high noise. How to accurately and efficiently identify various fault categories is a major challe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,549 Views
12 Pages

18 January 2021

Automatic sleep staging with only one channel is a challenging problem in sleep-related research. In this paper, a simple and efficient method named PPG-based multi-class automatic sleep staging (PMSS) is proposed using only a photoplethysmography (P...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
8,218 Views
27 Pages

Probabilistic Models with Deep Neural Networks

  • Andrés R. Masegosa,
  • Rafael Cabañas,
  • Helge Langseth,
  • Thomas D. Nielsen and
  • Antonio Salmerón

18 January 2021

Recent advances in statistical inference have significantly expanded the toolbox of probabilistic modeling. Historically, probabilistic modeling has been constrained to very restricted model classes, where exact or approximate probabilistic inference...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,092 Views
38 Pages

18 January 2021

The possibilities of applying the pure Lagrangian vortex methods of computational fluid dynamics to viscous incompressible flow simulations are considered in relation to various problem formulations. The modification of vortex methods—the Visco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
266 Citations
16,560 Views
13 Pages

Automatic ECG Classification Using Continuous Wavelet Transform and Convolutional Neural Network

  • Tao Wang,
  • Changhua Lu,
  • Yining Sun,
  • Mei Yang,
  • Chun Liu and
  • Chunsheng Ou

18 January 2021

Early detection of arrhythmia and effective treatment can prevent deaths caused by cardiovascular disease (CVD). In clinical practice, the diagnosis is made by checking the electrocardiogram (ECG) beat-by-beat, but this is usually time-consuming and...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,259 Views
137 Pages

The Broadcast Approach in Communication Networks

  • Ali Tajer,
  • Avi Steiner and
  • Shlomo Shamai (Shitz)

18 January 2021

In this paper we review the theoretical and practical principles of the broadcast approach to communication over state-dependent channels and networks in which the transmitters have access to only the probabilistic description of the time-varying sta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,581 Views
20 Pages

18 January 2021

Most scholars maintain that quantum mechanics (QM) is a contextual theory and that quantum probability does not allow for an epistemic (ignorance) interpretation. By inquiring possible connections between contextuality and non-classical probabilities...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,986 Views
12 Pages

Wave-Particle Duality Relation with a Quantum Which-Path Detector

  • Dongyang Wang,
  • Junjie Wu,
  • Jiangfang Ding,
  • Yingwen Liu,
  • Anqi Huang and
  • Xuejun Yang

18 January 2021

According to the relevant theories on duality relation, the summation of the extractable information of a quanton’s wave and particle properties, which are characterized by interference visibility V and path distinguishability D, respectively,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,709 Views
29 Pages

Beyond Causal Explanation: Einstein’s Principle Not Reichenbach’s

  • Michael Silberstein,
  • William Mark Stuckey and
  • Timothy McDevitt

16 January 2021

Our account provides a local, realist and fully non-causal principle explanation for EPR correlations, contextuality, no-signalling, and the Tsirelson bound. Indeed, the account herein is fully consistent with the causal structure of Minkowski spacet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,794 Views
34 Pages

16 January 2021

We provide a non-asymptotic analysis of the spiked Wishart and Wigner matrix models with a generative neural network prior. Spiked random matrices have the form of a rank-one signal plus noise and have been used as models for high dimensional Princip...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,935 Views
27 Pages

15 January 2021

Transportation of perishable foodstuff is an engineering and commercial activity ruled by an international Agreement (the ATP) that needs an updated regulation. Before addressing such updating, some analyses are required about the physics of the prob...

  • Review
  • Open Access
91 Citations
8,456 Views
42 Pages

Applications of Distributed-Order Fractional Operators: A Review

  • Wei Ding,
  • Sansit Patnaik,
  • Sai Sidhardh and
  • Fabio Semperlotti

15 January 2021

Distributed-order fractional calculus (DOFC) is a rapidly emerging branch of the broader area of fractional calculus that has important and far-reaching applications for the modeling of complex systems. DOFC generalizes the intrinsic multiscale natur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,202 Views
13 Pages

15 January 2021

Visual-motor tracking movement is a common and essential behavior in daily life. However, the contribution of future information to visual-motor tracking performance is not well understood in current research. In this study, the visual-motor tracking...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,529 Views
16 Pages

15 January 2021

Cardiac signals have complex structures representing a combination of simpler structures. In this paper, we develop a new data analytic tool that can extract the complex structures of cardiac signals using the framework of multi-chaotic analysis, whi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,460 Views
18 Pages

Coupling between Blood Pressure and Subarachnoid Space Width Oscillations during Slow Breathing

  • Agnieszka Gruszecka,
  • Magdalena K. Nuckowska,
  • Monika Waskow,
  • Jacek Kot,
  • Pawel J. Winklewski,
  • Wojciech Guminski,
  • Andrzej F. Frydrychowski,
  • Jerzy Wtorek,
  • Adam Bujnowski and
  • Marcin Gruszecki
  • + 2 authors

15 January 2021

The precise mechanisms connecting the cardiovascular system and the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) are not well understood in detail. This paper investigates the couplings between the cardiac and respiratory components, as extracted from blood pressure (B...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,780 Views
26 Pages

Distance-Based Estimation Methods for Models for Discrete and Mixed-Scale Data

  • Elisavet M. Sofikitou,
  • Ray Liu,
  • Huipei Wang and
  • Marianthi Markatou

14 January 2021

Pearson residuals aid the task of identifying model misspecification because they compare the estimated, using data, model with the model assumed under the null hypothesis. We present different formulations of the Pearson residual system that account...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,472 Views
33 Pages

14 January 2021

In this paper, we present a hybrid genetic-hierarchical algorithm for the solution of the quadratic assignment problem. The main distinguishing aspect of the proposed algorithm is that this is an innovative hybrid genetic algorithm with the original,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
6,690 Views
18 Pages

Deep Task-Based Quantization

  • Nir Shlezinger and
  • Yonina C. Eldar

13 January 2021

Quantizers play a critical role in digital signal processing systems. Recent works have shown that the performance of acquiring multiple analog signals using scalar analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) can be significantly improved by processing the s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,695 Views
10 Pages

13 January 2021

Life is an epiphenomenon for which origins are of tremendous interest to explain. We provide a framework for doing so based on the thermodynamic concept of work cycles. These cycles can create their own closure events, and thereby provide a mechanism...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,657 Views
19 Pages

Neural Networks for Estimating Speculative Attacks Models

  • David Alaminos,
  • Fernando Aguilar-Vijande and
  • José Ramón Sánchez-Serrano

13 January 2021

Currency crises have been analyzed and modeled over the last few decades. These currency crises develop mainly due to a balance of payments crisis, and in many cases, these crises lead to speculative attacks against the price of the currency. Despite...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,229 Views
16 Pages

12 January 2021

In the framework of an exactly soluble model, one considers a typical problem of the interaction between radiation and matter: the dynamics of population in a multilevel quantum system subject to a time dependent perturbation. The algebraic structure...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,286 Views
12 Pages

Breakpoint Analysis for the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Effect on the Stock Markets

  • Karime Chahuán-Jiménez,
  • Rolando Rubilar,
  • Hanns de la Fuente-Mella and
  • Víctor Leiva

12 January 2021

In this research, statistical models are formulated to study the effect of the health crisis arising from COVID-19 in global markets. Breakpoints in the price series of stock indexes are considered. Such indexes are used as an approximation of the st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,117 Views
15 Pages

12 January 2021

Complex network infrastructure systems for power supply, communication, and transportation support our economic and social activities; however, they are extremely vulnerable to frequently increasing large disasters or attacks. Thus, the reconstructio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,809 Views
15 Pages

A Novel Measure Inspired by Lyapunov Exponents for the Characterization of Dynamics in State-Transition Networks

  • Bulcsú Sándor,
  • Bence Schneider,
  • Zsolt I. Lázár and
  • Mária Ercsey-Ravasz

12 January 2021

The combination of network sciences, nonlinear dynamics and time series analysis provides novel insights and analogies between the different approaches to complex systems. By combining the considerations behind the Lyapunov exponent of dynamical syst...

  • Review
  • Open Access
263 Citations
20,271 Views
28 Pages

High-Entropy Alloys for Advanced Nuclear Applications

  • Ed J. Pickering,
  • Alexander W. Carruthers,
  • Paul J. Barron,
  • Simon C. Middleburgh,
  • David E. J. Armstrong and
  • Amy S. Gandy

11 January 2021

The expanded compositional freedom afforded by high-entropy alloys (HEAs) represents a unique opportunity for the design of alloys for advanced nuclear applications, in particular for applications where current engineering alloys fall short. This rev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,483 Views
13 Pages

11 January 2021

An information model is outlined, which represents an intelligent system of metallographic analysis in the form of a set of subsystems, the interaction of which ensures the performance of metallographic analysis functions. The structure of the inform...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,313 Views
19 Pages

11 January 2021

We study eigenmode localization for a class of elliptic reaction-diffusion operators. As the prototype model problem we use a family of Schrödinger Hamiltonians parametrized by random potentials and study the associated effective confining poten...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,968 Views
10 Pages

11 January 2021

The maximum entropy principle consists of two steps: The first step is to find the distribution which maximizes entropy under given constraints. The second step is to calculate the corresponding thermodynamic quantities. The second part is determined...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,913 Views
23 Pages

10 January 2021

Salient features of hybrid nanofluid (MoS2-SiO2/water) for Darcy–Forchheimer–Brinkman porous space with variable characteristics is examined. Heat transfer analysis subject to viscous dissipation, nonlinear thermal radiation, and heat gen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
9,937 Views
12 Pages

10 January 2021

Background: the machine learning (ML) techniques have been implemented in numerous applications, including health-care, security, entertainment, and sports. In this article, we present how the ML can be used for building a professional football team...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,571 Views
26 Pages

10 January 2021

In this paper, we consider a scenario where the base station (BS) collects time-sensitive data from multiple sensors through time-varying and error-prone channels. We characterize the data freshness at the terminal end through a class of monotone inc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,602 Views
12 Pages

10 January 2021

In the nervous system, information is conveyed by sequence of action potentials, called spikes-trains. As MacKay and McCulloch suggested, spike-trains can be represented as bits sequences coming from Information Sources (IS). Previously, we studied r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,972 Views
13 Pages

10 January 2021

Tail-biting convolutional codes extend the classical zero-termination convolutional codes: Both encoding schemes force the equality of start and end states, but under the tail-biting each state is a valid termination. This paper proposes a machine le...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,942 Views
22 Pages

9 January 2021

We consider fast high-fidelity quantum control by using a shortcut to adiabaticity (STA) technique and optimal control theory (OCT). Three specific examples, including expansion of cold atoms from the harmonic trap, atomic transport by moving harmoni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,028 Views
24 Pages

Transport Efficiency of Continuous-Time Quantum Walks on Graphs

  • Luca Razzoli,
  • Matteo G. A. Paris and
  • Paolo Bordone

9 January 2021

Continuous-time quantum walk describes the propagation of a quantum particle (or an excitation) evolving continuously in time on a graph. As such, it provides a natural framework for modeling transport processes, e.g., in light-harvesting systems. In...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,592 Views
20 Pages

9 January 2021

Direct computation of functions using low-complexity algorithms can be applied both for hardware constraints and in systems where storage capacity is a challenge for processing a large volume of data. We present improved algorithms for fast calculati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,905 Views
15 Pages

Entropy Analysis of COVID-19 Cardiovascular Signals

  • Dragana Bajić,
  • Vlado Đajić and
  • Branislav Milovanović

9 January 2021

The world has faced a coronavirus outbreak, which, in addition to lung complications, has caused other serious problems, including cardiovascular. There is still no explanation for the mechanisms of coronavirus that trigger dysfunction of the cardiac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,750 Views
11 Pages

Robust Multiple Regression

  • David W. Scott and
  • Zhipeng Wang

9 January 2021

As modern data analysis pushes the boundaries of classical statistics, it is timely to reexamine alternate approaches to dealing with outliers in multiple regression. As sample sizes and the number of predictors increase, interactive methodology beco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,255 Views
13 Pages

8 January 2021

Only very recently, rescaling time has been recognized as a way to achieve adiabatic dynamics in fast processes. The advantage of time-rescaling over other shortcuts to adiabaticity is that it does not depend on the eigenspectrum and eigenstates of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,862 Views
25 Pages

8 January 2021

The thermochemical sulfur-iodine cycle is a potential method for hydrogen production, and the hydrogen iodide (HI) decomposition is the key step to determine the efficiency of hydrogen production in the cycle. To further reduce the irreversibility of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
4,846 Views
14 Pages

8 January 2021

Refractory metal high-entropy superalloys (RSA), which possess a nanoscale microstructure of B2 and bcc phases, have been developed to offer high temperature capabilities beyond conventional Ni-based alloys. Despite showing a number of excellent attr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
5,321 Views
27 Pages

8 January 2021

Anomaly detection refers to detecting data points, events, or behaviour that do not comply with expected or normal behaviour. For example, a typical problem related to anomaly detection on an industrial level is having little labelled data and a few...

  • Review
  • Open Access
41 Citations
9,620 Views
23 Pages

High Entropy Alloys as Filler Metals for Joining

  • Dan Luo,
  • Yong Xiao,
  • Liam Hardwick,
  • Robert Snell,
  • Matthew Way,
  • Xavier Sanuy Morell,
  • Frances Livera,
  • Nicholas Ludford,
  • Chinnapat Panwisawas and
  • Russell Goodall
  • + 1 author

7 January 2021

In the search for applications for alloys developed under the philosophy of the High Entropy Alloy (HEA)-type materials, the focus may be placed on applications where current alloys also use multiple components, albeit at lower levels than those foun...

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