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Entropy, Volume 26, Issue 8

2024 August - 103 articles

Cover Story: Well-designed experiments allow for conceivable alternatives of physical explanation to be distinguished. Experimental answers to physical questions emerge in the form of elementary observations (EO), which are binary pieces of information with a cognitive value of one bit and which become macroscopically observable by the dissipation of particle and instrumental resources of energy. As dynamical entities, EOs emerge through the four phases of initiation, detection, erasure and reset, requiring the input of at least two units of the Landauer minimum energy of ELa = ln(2)kBT per unit of entropy kB generated in the detection process. View this paper
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Articles (103)

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,627 Views
15 Pages

Multifractal Hopscotch in Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar

  • Jakub Dec,
  • Michał Dolina,
  • Stanisław Drożdż,
  • Jarosław Kwapień and
  • Tomasz Stanisz

22 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,023 Views
16 Pages

22 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,437 Views
9 Pages

A van der Waals Model of Solvation Thermodynamics

  • Attila Tortorella and
  • Giuseppe Graziano

22 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,377 Views
20 Pages

Direction of Spontaneous Processes in Non-Equilibrium Systems with Movable/Permeable Internal Walls

  • Robert Hołyst,
  • Paweł J. Żuk,
  • Anna Maciołek,
  • Karol Makuch and
  • Konrad Giżyński

22 August 2024

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,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,485 Views
26 Pages

21 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,893 Views
17 Pages

21 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,350 Views
24 Pages

21 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,847 Views
12 Pages

21 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,016 Views
22 Pages

Synergy Makes Direct Perception Inefficient

  • Miguel de Llanza Varona and
  • Manolo Martínez

21 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,389 Views
40 Pages

20 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,569 Views
14 Pages

20 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,021 Views
24 Pages

20 August 2024

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...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,594 Views
10 Pages

Sample Entropy Computation on Signals with Missing Values

  • George Manis,
  • Dimitrios Platakis and
  • Roberto Sassi

19 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,889 Views
21 Pages

19 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,819 Views
16 Pages

19 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,309 Views
15 Pages

17 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,324 Views
21 Pages

Optimization and Tradeoff Analysis for Multiple Configurations of Bio-Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage Systems in Brazilian Sugarcane Ethanol Sector

  • Bruno Bunya,
  • César A. R. Sotomonte,
  • Alisson Aparecido Vitoriano Julio,
  • João Luiz Junho Pereira,
  • Túlio Augusto Zucareli de Souza,
  • Matheus Brendon Francisco and
  • Christian J. R. Coronado

17 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,730 Views
14 Pages

17 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,155 Views
19 Pages

17 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,059 Views
24 Pages

Probabilistic PARAFAC2

  • Philip J. H. Jørgensen,
  • Søren F. Nielsen,
  • Jesper L. Hinrich,
  • Mikkel N. Schmidt,
  • Kristoffer H. Madsen and
  • Morten Mørup

17 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,177 Views
32 Pages

Infrared and Harsh Light Visible Image Fusion Using an Environmental Light Perception Network

  • Aiyun Yan,
  • Shang Gao,
  • Zhenlin Lu,
  • Shuowei Jin and
  • Jingrong Chen

16 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,189 Views
27 Pages

Robust Inference of Dynamic Covariance Using Wishart Processes and Sequential Monte Carlo

  • Hester Huijsdens,
  • David Leeftink,
  • Linda Geerligs and
  • Max Hinne

16 August 2024

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...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,720 Views
50 Pages

16 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,742 Views
16 Pages

16 August 2024

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 (...

  • Hypothesis
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,855 Views
10 Pages

16 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,588 Views
24 Pages

15 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,822 Views
23 Pages

15 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,352 Views
21 Pages

15 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,246 Views
16 Pages

14 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,894 Views
12 Pages

14 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,564 Views
16 Pages

13 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,232 Views
14 Pages

Dynamic Injection and Permutation Coding for Enhanced Data Transmission

  • Kehinde Ogunyanda,
  • Opeyemi O. Ogunyanda and
  • Thokozani Shongwe

13 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,738 Views
30 Pages

13 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,693 Views
14 Pages

Cross-Modality Person Re-Identification Method with Joint-Modality Generation and Feature Enhancement

  • Yihan Bi,
  • Rong Wang,
  • Qianli Zhou,
  • Zhaolong Zeng,
  • Ronghui Lin and
  • Mingjie Wang

13 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,406 Views
44 Pages

GAD-PVI: A General Accelerated Dynamic-Weight Particle-Based Variational Inference Framework

  • Fangyikang Wang,
  • Huminhao Zhu,
  • Chao Zhang,
  • Hanbin Zhao and
  • Hui Qian

11 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,891 Views
22 Pages

Bayesian Modeling for Nonstationary Spatial Point Process via Spatial Deformations

  • Dani Gamerman,
  • Marcel de Souza Borges Quintana and
  • Mariane Branco Alves

11 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,728 Views
19 Pages

10 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,512 Views
17 Pages

9 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,186 Views
11 Pages

Furstenberg Family and Chaos for Time-Varying Discrete Dynamical Systems

  • Risong Li,
  • Yongjiang Li,
  • Tianxiu Lu,
  • Jiazheng Zhao and
  • Jing Su

9 August 2024

Assume that (Y,ρ) is a nontrivial complete metric space, and that (Y,g1,) is a time-varying discrete dynamical system (T-VDDS), which is given by sequences (gl)l=1 of continuous selfmaps gl:YY. In this paper, for a given Furst...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,604 Views
18 Pages

Generalized Kinetic Equations with Fractional Time-Derivative and Nonlinear Diffusion: H-Theorem and Entropy

  • Ervin K. Lenzi,
  • Michely P. Rosseto,
  • Derik W. Gryczak,
  • Luiz R. Evangelista,
  • Luciano R. da Silva,
  • Marcelo K. Lenzi and
  • Rafael S. Zola

8 August 2024

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...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,928 Views
23 Pages

8 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,610 Views
18 Pages

A High-Performance FPGA PRNG Based on Multiple Deep-Dynamic Transformations

  • Shouliang Li,
  • Zichen Lin,
  • Yi Yang and
  • Ruixuan Ning

7 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,822 Views
21 Pages

6 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,027 Views
19 Pages

Effect of Pure Dephasing Quantum Noise in the Quantum Search Algorithm Using Atos Quantum Assembly

  • Maria Heloísa Fraga da Silva,
  • Gleydson Fernandes de Jesus and
  • Clebson Cruz

6 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,618 Views
18 Pages

6 August 2024

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,929 Views
27 Pages

5 August 2024

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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