2024 August - 103 articles
Punctuation is the main factor introducing correlations in natural language written texts and it crucially impacts their overall effectiveness, expressiveness, and readability. Punctuation marks at the end of sentences are of particular importance as...
The design of transportation networks is generally performed on the basis of the division of a metropolitan region into communities. With the combination of the scale, population density, and travel characteristics of each community, the transportati...
Exploiting the van der Waals model of liquids, it is possible to derive analytical formulas for the thermodynamic functions governing solvation, the transfer of a solute molecule from a fixed position in the ideal gas phase to a fixed position in the...
We consider three different systems in a heat flow: an ideal gas, a van der Waals gas, and a binary mixture of ideal gases. We divide each system internally into two subsystems by a movable wall. We show that the direction of the motion of the wall,...
With the rapid advancement of the Internet and big data technologies, traditional centralized machine learning methods are challenged when dealing with large-scale datasets. Federated Learning (FL), as an emerging distributed machine learning paradig...
A method is proposed for analyzing the tremor of the earth’s surface, measured by GPS, in order to highlight prognostic effects. The method is applied to the analysis of daily time series of vertical displacements in Japan. The network of 1047...
The complete characterization of the almost-entropic region yields rate regions for network coding problems. However, this characterization is difficult and open. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm to determine whether an arbitrary vector in...
We apply a real-space block renormalization group approach to study the critical properties of the random transverse-field Ising spin chain with multispin interactions. First, we recover the known properties of the traditional model with two-spin int...
A typical claim in anti-representationalist approaches to cognition such as ecological psychology or radical embodied cognitive science is that ecological information is sufficient for guiding behavior. According to this view, affordances are immedia...
In any Bayesian computations, the first step is to derive the joint distribution of all the unknown variables given the observed data. Then, we have to do the computations. There are four general methods for performing computations: Joint MAP optimiz...
One of the key advantages of terahertz (THz) communication is its potential for energy efficiency, making it an attractive option for green communication systems. Coherent THz transmission technology has recently been explored in the literature. Howe...
The diagnosis of faults in wind turbine gearboxes based on signal processing represents a significant area of research within the field of wind power generation. This paper presents an intelligent fault diagnosis method based on ensemble-refined comp...
Sample entropy embeds time series into m-dimensional spaces and estimates entropy based on the distances between points in these spaces. However, when samples can be considered as missing or invalid, defining distance in the embedding space becomes p...
This study advances the field of infectious disease forecasting by introducing a novel approach to micro-level contact modeling, leveraging human movement patterns to generate realistic temporal-dynamic networks. Through the incorporation of human mo...
This analysis emphasizes the significance of radiation and chemical reaction effects on the boundary layer flow (BLF) of Casson liquid over a linearly elongating surface, as well as the properties of momentum, entropy production, species, and thermal...
This paper is motivated by the need to stabilise the impact of deep learning (DL) training for medical image analysis on the conditioning of convolution filters in relation to model overfitting and robustness. We present a simple strategy to reduce s...
Bio-energy systems with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) will be essential if countries are to meet the gas emission reduction targets established in the 2015 Paris Agreement. This study seeks to carry out a thermodynamic optimization and analysis...
Nucleation is a fundamental and general process at the initial stage of first-order phase transition. Although various models based on the classical nucleation theory (CNT) have been proposed to explain the energetics and kinetics of nucleation, deta...
To meet the challenges of energy sustainability, the integrated energy system (IES) has become a key component in promoting the development of innovative energy systems. Accurate and reliable multivariate load prediction is a prerequisite for IES opt...
The Parallel Factor Analysis 2 (PARAFAC2) is a multimodal factor analysis model suitable for analyzing multi-way data when one of the modes has incomparable observation units, for example, because of differences in signal sampling or batch sizes. A f...
The complementary combination of emphasizing target objects in infrared images and rich texture details in visible images can effectively enhance the information entropy of fused images, thereby providing substantial assistance for downstream composi...
Several disciplines, such as econometrics, neuroscience, and computational psychology, study the dynamic interactions between variables over time. A Bayesian nonparametric model known as the Wishart process has been shown to be effective in this situ...
This paper presents a history of the development of channel codes in deep-space telemetry and aeronautical mobile telemetry. The history emphasizes “firsts” and other remarkable achievements. Because coding was used first in deep-space te...
Prior research on cascading failures within interdependent networks has predominantly emphasized the coupling of nodes. Nevertheless, in practical networks, interactions often exist not just through the nodes themselves but also via the connections (...
From 1948 until around 1965, Louis de Broglie, awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929 for his fundamental contributions to quantum theory, pursued a systematic study of the formal analogies between wave mechanics and the thermomechanics of Boltz...
Maximum entropy (MaxEnt) models are a class of statistical models that use the maximum entropy principle to estimate probability distributions from data. Due to the size of modern data sets, MaxEnt models need efficient optimization algorithms to sca...
In recent years, with the rapid development of blockchain technology, the issues of storage load and data security have attracted increasing attention. Due to the immutable nature of data on the blockchain, where data can only be added and not delete...
With the integration of large-scale wind power into the power grid, the impact on system stability, especially the issue of low-frequency oscillations caused by small disturbances, is becoming increasingly prominent. Therefore, this paper proposes a...
This article shows that the gas-phase entropy of molecules is proportional to the area of the molecules, with corrections for the different curvatures of the molecular surface. The ability to estimate gas-phase entropy by the area law also allows us...
We present a Bayesian adaptive design for dose finding in oncology trials with application to a first-in-human trial. The design is based on the escalation with overdose control principle and uses an intermediate grade 2 toxicity in addition to the t...
Shared market opinions and beliefs by market participants generate a set of constraints that mediate information through a not-so-unstable system of expected target prices. Price trajectories, within these sets of constraints, confirm or disprove the...
Side channels are unintended pathways within target systems that leak internal target information. Side-channel sensing (SCS) is the process of exploiting side channels to extract embedded target information. SCS is well established within the cybers...
In this paper, we propose a novel approach to enhance spectral efficiency in communication systems by dynamically adjusting the mapping between cyclic permutation coding (CPC) and its injected form. By monitoring channel conditions such as interferen...
Complex systems pose significant challenges to traditional scientific and statistical methods due to their inherent unpredictability and resistance to simplification. Accurately detecting complex behavior and the uncertainty which comes with it is th...
Quantum private comparison (QPC) represents a cryptographic approach that enables two parties to determine whether their confidential data are equivalent, without disclosing the actual values. Most existing QPC protocols utilizing single photons or B...
In order to minimize the disparity between visible and infrared modalities and enhance pedestrian feature representation, a cross-modality person re-identification method is proposed, which integrates modality generation and feature enhancement. Spec...
In this study, we systematically investigate the multipartite correlations in the process of black hole radiation via the Parikh–Wilczek tunneling model. We examine not only the correlations among Hawking radiations but also the correlations be...
Particle-based Variational Inference (ParVI) methods have been widely adopted in deep Bayesian inference tasks such as Bayesian neural networks or Gaussian Processes, owing to their efficiency in generating high-quality samples given the score of the...
Many techniques have been proposed to model space-varying observation processes with a nonstationary spatial covariance structure and/or anisotropy, usually on a geostatistical framework. Nevertheless, there is an increasing interest in point process...
According to active inference, constantly running prediction engines in our brain play a large role in delivering all human experience. These predictions help deliver everything we see, hear, touch, and feel. In this paper, I pursue one apparent cons...
The accurate assessment of node influence is of vital significance for enhancing system stability. Given the structural redundancy problem triggered by the network topology deviation when an empirical network is copied, as well as the dynamic charact...
To tackle the issue of the traditional intelligent diagnostic algorithm’s insufficient utilization of correlation characteristics within the time series of fault signals and to meet the challenges of accuracy and computational complexity in rot...
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We investigate the H-theorem for a class of generalized kinetic equations with fractional time-derivative, hyperbolic term, and nonlinear diffusion. When the H-theorem is satisfied, we demonstrate that different entropic forms may emerge due to the e...
Semiconductor superlattices are periodic nanostructures consisting of epitaxially grown quantum wells and barriers. For thick barriers, the quantum wells are weakly coupled and the main transport mechanism is a sequential resonant tunneling of electr...
Pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs) are important cornerstones of many fields, such as statistical analysis and cryptography, and the need for PRNGs for information security (in fields such as blockchain, big data, and artificial intelligence) is...
Possibilistic fuzzy c-means (PFCM) clustering is a kind of hybrid clustering method based on fuzzy c-means (FCM) and possibilistic c-means (PCM), which not only has the stability of FCM but also partly inherits the robustness of PCM. However, as an e...
Quantum computing is tipped to lead the future of global technological progress. However, the obstacles related to quantum software development are an actual challenge to overcome. In this scenario, this work presents an implementation of the quantum...
On the third-party cloud platform, to help enterprises accurately obtain high-quality and valuable business resources from the massive information resources, a bilateral matching method for business resources, based on synergy effects and incomplete...
Remote data backup technology avoids the risk of data loss and tampering, and has higher security compared to local data backup solutions. However, the data transmission channel for remote data backup is not secure, and the backup server cannot be fu...
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