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  • Brief Report
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20 Citations
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Demographic Transitions and Socioeconomic Development in Italy, 1862–2009: A Brief Overview

  • Luca Salvati,
  • Margherita Carlucci,
  • Pere Serra and
  • Ilaria Zambon

6 January 2019

The present study investigates long-term population dynamics in Italy, 1862–2009, in light of Demographic Transitions (DTs). Under the assumption that DTs are multidimensional processes of change involving several aspects, including population...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urbanization and Demographic Change: A New Step Ahead in Understanding of World Regional Complexity)
  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,788 Views
16 Pages

A Review of Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Different Ti-Al-Based Alloys

  • Ningning Li,
  • Zhenjie Hao,
  • Lei Xu,
  • Mingqi Tang and ,
  • Leyu Wei and
  • Lifei Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 September 2024

Ti-Al-based alloys, particularly two-phase TiAl and Ti3Al alloys, have garnered significant attention as potential replacements for various high-temperature structural materials due to their exceptional properties, including low density, oxidation re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Lightweight Alloys)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,107 Views
31 Pages

4 May 2026

Multiple string matching is a fundamental operation in real-time analytics, cybersecurity, bioinformatics, and large-scale information retrieval. Nevertheless, existing approaches continue to face inherent trade-offs among preprocessing efficiency, v...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algorithmic Innovations: Bridging Theoretical Foundations and Practical Applications (2nd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,031 Views
23 Pages

Novel Visualization of Building Earthquake Response Recorded by a Dense Network of Sensors

  • Lichiel Cruz,
  • Maria I. Todorovska,
  • Mihailo D. Trifunac,
  • Alimu Aihemaiti and ,
  • Guoliang Lin and
  • Jianwen Cui
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 January 2025

The strong motion records collected in full-scale structures provide the ultimate evidence of how real structures, in situ, respond to earthquakes. This paper presents a novel method for visualization, in three dimensions (3D), of the collective moti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Sensors in Nondestructive Testing and Structural Health Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,736 Views
27 Pages

Improving Racing Drones Flight Analysis: A Data-Driven Approach Using Motion Capture Systems

  • Jose M. Castiblanco Quintero,
  • Sergio Garcia-Nieto,
  • Raul Simarro and
  • Dmitry I. Ignatyev

9 December 2024

The publication of the previous study, titled “Experimental Study on the Dynamic Behaviour of Drones Designed for Racing Competitions”, highlighted the increasing interest in employing scientific methods for their design and analysis. Tha...

(This article belongs to the Section Drone Design and Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,832 Views
29 Pages

ESG Performance in the EU and ASEAN: The Roles of Institutional Governance, Economic Structure, and Global Integration

  • Alina Elena Ionașcu,
  • Dereje Fedasa Hordofa,
  • Alexandra Dănilă,
  • Elena Cerasela Spătariu and ,
  • Andreea Larisa Burcă (Olteanu) and
  • Maria Gabriela Horga
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

4 September 2025

This study investigates how Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance is shaped across 31 countries in the European Union (EU) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) from 1990 to 2020. To explore these relationships, we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
200 Views
24 Pages

14 October 2026

Short-duration rainfall extremes in Mediterranean regions are frequently produced by convective storms that concentrate most precipitation within narrow temporal windows. Standard Depth–Duration–Frequency (DDF) and Intensity–Duratio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Understanding Extreme Weather Events in the Anthropocene (2nd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
582 Views
20 Pages

Structural Transformation and the Dynamics of Well-Being: Evidence from a Global Panel

  • José Roberto Morales Vergara,
  • Karen Andrea Balladares Ponguillo and
  • Juan Evangelista Trinidad-Segovia

Structural transformation is widely considered a key driver of economic development; however, its contribution to multidimensional well-being remains unclear. This study analyzes the relationship between structural transformation and well-being using...

  • Article
  • Open Access
212 Views
24 Pages

Energy Intensity, Energy Structure and Carbon Dioxide Dynamics in the EU Non-Metallic Mineral Sector

  • Agnieszka Dorota Woźniak,
  • Piotr Herbut,
  • Agnieszka Generowicz,
  • Damian Dubis and ,
  • Paweł Kwaśnicki,
  • Józef Ciuła,
  • Cristina Hora,
  • Barbara Rákóczi and
  • Grigorios L. Kyriakopoulos
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

20 October 2026

Decarbonization of non-metallic mineral manufacturing requires reductions in energy use relative to output alongside changes in fuel use and production processes. This study examines associations between energy intensity, energy structure, and produc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,286 Views
20 Pages

Data-Driven Inverse Design Enables a Dexterous Hand with Human-Comparable Dynamic Performance in Structured Tasks

  • Lei Jiang,
  • Kaixin Lan,
  • Xianwei Liu,
  • Chaojie Fu and ,
  • Yongbin Jin and
  • Hongtao Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The design of dexterous robotic hands has long been constrained by empirical paradigms that struggle to balance anthropomorphic fidelity with dynamic performance. This study aims to establish a systematic methodology that bridges this gap through dat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bio-Inspired Robots: Design and Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,499 Views
20 Pages

Modeling Worldwide Tree Biodiversity Using Canopy Structure Metrics from Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation Data

  • Jin Xu,
  • Kjirsten Coleman,
  • Volker C. Radeloff,
  • Melissa Songer and
  • Qiongyu Huang

16 April 2025

Accurately quantifying global tree biodiversity is critical for enhancing forest ecosystem management and forest biodiversity conservation. With the launch of NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI), we evaluated the efficacy of s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
604 Views
21 Pages

30 April 2026

The shift from the central place paradigm to the network paradigm in regional relation research emphasizes the need to elucidate the factors and mechanisms driving urban network dynamics. Leveraging firm-level big data—including a headquarters&...

(This article belongs to the Section Complex Systems and Cybernetics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,524 Views
39 Pages

17 October 2025

This study uses the case of substituting natural river sand with molybdenum tailings in concrete production in China to propose a methodological framework for evaluating the life cycle environmental impact of concrete materials. This approach address...

(This article belongs to the Topic Ideas for Future Cities: Intelligent, Low-Carbon and Healthy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
635 Views
14 Pages

Experimental Study on Wind-Induced Vibration Control of Bridge Cables Based on Tuned Mass Dampers and Passive Suction and Jet Flow

  • Qiuyu He,
  • Xiaolong Li,
  • Yewei Huang,
  • Xiangwei Min and ,
  • Yao Jin and
  • Wenli Chen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

14 May 2026

This paper investigates the effects of two control measures on vortex-induced vibration and wake-induced vibration of suspension bridge cables through wind tunnel experiments. For a single cable, a passive suction/jet ring arrangement is proposed, an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies in Structural Health Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
368 Views
31 Pages

29 August 2026

While continuous-time Hamiltonian dynamics are naturally energy preserving with a symplectic flow, their discrete-time counterparts enhance either geometric or energy preservation properties, but rarely both within a unified framework. It is the obje...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Port-Hamiltonian Methods)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,863 Views
13 Pages

A basic question in computational geometry is how to find the relationship between a set of points and a line in a real plane. In this paper, we present multidimensional data structures for N points that allow answering the following queries for any...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,760 Views
15 Pages

Establishing a Dynamic Capital Structure Model for Company Sustainability Performance Using Data Mining Techniques

  • Mu-Jung Huang,
  • Kuo-Chih Cheng,
  • Ching-Ju Huang,
  • Kun-Meng Lin and ,
  • Huo-Ming Wang,
  • Cheng-Kuo Chuang and
  • Ming-Cheng Wu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

27 May 2021

In order to reconsider the changes of adjustment speed caused by the recapitalization cost, this research adopted dynamic capital structure theory with adjustment speed as one of the independent variables to analyze the relationship between capital s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,637 Views
13 Pages

27 July 2022

Turbulent swirl flow, which exists in numerous turbomachinery systems, is the focus of this paper. It consumes a significant amount of energy, so it is a subject of investigation for many researchers. It is even more present in ventilation systems, a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovation Research in Micro Scale Flows and Combustion)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,825 Views
14 Pages

Dynamic Community Detection Based on Evolutionary DeepWalk

  • Song Qu,
  • Yuqing Du,
  • Mu Zhu,
  • Guan Yuan and ,
  • Jining Wang,
  • Yanmei Zhang and
  • Xiangyu Duan
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

11 November 2022

To fully characterize the evolution process of the topological structure of dynamic communities, we propose a dynamic community detection based on Evolutionary DeepWalk (DEDW) for the high-dimensional data and dynamic characteristics. First, DEDW sol...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
5,620 Views
16 Pages

21 July 2021

From the experiences of developed countries or areas, advanced industrial structure is an effective way to promote economic transformation and high-quality growth. This paper uses the economic development data of seven underdeveloped provinces in Chi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,015 Views
16 Pages

26 December 2022

This paper considers the identification problem of network structures of interconnected dynamical systems using measured output data. In particular, we propose an identification method based on the measured output data of each node in the network who...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,302 Views
23 Pages

12 April 2025

Structural health monitoring (SHM) systems are very useful for evaluating the performance of bridges in service. In this paper, the SHM system implemented on the Poyang Lake Second Bridge is investigated, and the monitored data are analyzed for perfo...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,263 Views
46 Pages

22 August 2020

A dynamic version of the Nelson-Siegel-Svensson term structure model with time-varying factors is considered for predicting out-of-sample maturity yields. Simple linear interpolation cannot be applied to recover yields at the very short- and long- en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,399 Views
39 Pages

17 September 2025

To address gear tooth damage and the difficulty of acquiring performance data under high-speed and high-load operating conditions of planetary gearboxes, a digital twin-based system for operational state recognition and performance prediction is prop...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
600 Views
21 Pages

The mathematization of science is undergoing a structural transformation driven by the rise of computation and data-intensive methods. While classical mathematization relied largely on explicitly formulated laws and formal structures, contemporary sc...

(This article belongs to the Topic Geometric Structures on Manifolds: Riemannian Geometry, Submanifolds, and Physical Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,569 Views
23 Pages

15 October 2013

With the accumulation of next generation sequencing data, there is increasing interest in the study of intra-species difference in molecular biology, especially in relation to disease analysis. Furthermore, the dynamics of the protein is being identi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Protein Folding)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,784 Views
12 Pages

12 October 2021

Multiscale enhanced sampling (MSES) allows for an enhanced sampling of all-atom protein structures by coupling with the accelerated dynamics of the associated coarse-grained (CG) model. In this paper, we propose an MSES extension to replace the CG mo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multiscale Simulation Methods for Living Systems: Applications to Biomolecules and Cells)
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  • Open Access
1,178 Views
25 Pages

How Does the Spatial Structure of the Furniture Industry Shape Urban Residents’ Health? Evidence from China Labor-Force Dynamics Survey and POI Data

  • Zigui Chen,
  • Yuning Liu,
  • Xiangdong Dai,
  • Chao Chen and ,
  • Zhenjun Wang and
  • Andrew Wu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

29 December 2025

In the context of advancing sustainable urban development, the spatial organization of industries plays a critical role in shaping environmental quality, economic vitality, and public health. This study examines the health effects of furniture enterp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancing Sustainable Cities and Urban Regions Development: New Challenges and Prospects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,524 Views
15 Pages

24 July 2019

Due to the nature of real-world problems in civil engineering, students have had limited hands-on experiences in structural dynamics classes. To address this challenge, this paper aims to bring real-world problems in structural dynamics into classroo...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,432 Views
22 Pages

6 January 2023

This paper presents a new approach for modelling nonlinear dynamic processes (NDP). It is based on a nonlinear autoregressive with exogenous (NARX) inputs model structure and a deep convolutional fuzzy system (DCFS). The DCFS is a hierarchical fuzzy...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling, Optimization and Control of Industrial Processes)
  • Review
  • Open Access
62 Citations
14,654 Views
22 Pages

Voxelisation Algorithms and Data Structures: A Review

  • Mitko Aleksandrov,
  • Sisi Zlatanova and
  • David J. Heslop

9 December 2021

Voxel-based data structures, algorithms, frameworks, and interfaces have been used in computer graphics and many other applications for decades. There is a general necessity to seek adequate digital representations, such as voxels, that would secure...

(This article belongs to the Section Navigation and Positioning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,745 Views
14 Pages

A Selectable Sloppy Heap

  • Adrian Dumitrescu

6 March 2019

We study the selection problem, namely that of computing the ith order statistic of n given elements. Here we offer a data structure called selectable sloppy heap that handles a dynamic version in which upon request (i) a new element is inserted or (...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Efficient Data Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,653 Views
19 Pages

6 January 2021

PM2.5 concentration prediction is an important task in atmospheric environment research, so many prediction models have been established, such as machine learning algorithm, which shows remarkable generalization ability. The time series data composed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,126 Views
8 Pages

Vibration measurement is crucial in fields like aviation, aerospace, and automotive engineering, which are trending towards larger, lighter, and more complex structures with increasingly complicated dynamics. Consequently, measuring a structure&rsquo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in 3D Optical Measurement)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,194 Views
14 Pages

16 February 2021

The intensity non-stationarity is one of the basic characteristics of ground motions, the influences of which on the dynamic responses of structures is a pressing issue in the field of earthquake engineering. The BP neural network modified by the gen...

(This article belongs to the Collection Structural Analysis for Earthquake-Resistant Design of Buildings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,909 Views
18 Pages

Spatial Structure Dynamics and Maintenance of a Natural Mixed Forest

  • Chaofan Zhou,
  • Di Liu,
  • Keyi Chen,
  • Xuefan Hu and ,
  • Xiangdong Lei,
  • Linyan Feng,
  • Yuchao Zhang and
  • Huiru Zhang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

7 June 2022

Spatial structure dynamics play a major role in understanding the mechanisms of forest structure and biodiversity formation. Recently, researches on the spatial structure dynamics utilizing multi-period data have been published. However, these studie...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Maintenance of Forest Biodiversity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,869 Views
35 Pages

Parameter Estimation in the Age of Degeneracy and Unidentifiability

  • Dylan Lederman,
  • Raghav Patel,
  • Omar Itani and
  • Horacio G. Rotstein

6 January 2022

Parameter estimation from observable or experimental data is a crucial stage in any modeling study. Identifiability refers to one’s ability to uniquely estimate the model parameters from the available data. Structural unidentifiability in dynam...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical and Computational Biology of Viruses at the Molecular or Cellular Levels)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,229 Views
24 Pages

6 January 2021

Most engineering structures are composed of basic components such as plates, shells, and beams, and their dynamic characteristics under explosion load determine the impact resistance of the structure. In this paper, a three-dimensional composite stee...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,717 Views
55 Pages

Structured Dynamics in the Algorithmic Agent

  • Giulio Ruffini,
  • Francesca Castaldo and
  • Jakub Vohryzek

19 January 2025

In the Kolmogorov Theory of Consciousness, algorithmic agents utilize inferred compressive models to track coarse-grained data produced by simplified world models, capturing regularities that structure subjective experience and guide action planning....

(This article belongs to the Section Entropy and Biology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,299 Views
21 Pages

27 June 2023

Over the past two decades, there has been a surge in digital innovation. China is the world’s second-largest digital economy entity and the national strategy to build a digital China is in full swing. Chinese enterprises have received great sup...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems Practice in Social Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,903 Views
16 Pages

8 October 2021

The structure of a document contains rich information such as logical relations in context, hierarchy, affiliation, dependence, and applicability. It will greatly affect the accuracy of document information processing, particularly of legal documents...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Swarm Intelligence, Data Science and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,104 Views
25 Pages

21 April 2025

With the development of artificial intelligence technology, there are increasingly high requirements for processing big data systems. Big data systems have undergone rapid evolution in response to changing demands. Due to the complex structural conne...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,427 Views
22 Pages

12 July 2017

In this paper, a data compression technology-based intelligent data acquisition (IDAQ) system was developed for structural health monitoring of civil structures, and its validity was tested using random signals (El-Centro seismic waveform). The IDAQ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors and Sensor Networks for Structural Health Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,245 Views
16 Pages

29 August 2023

The particulars of stimulus–response experiments performed on dynamic biosystems clearly limit what one can learn and validate about their structural interconnectivity (topology), even when collected kinetic output data are perfect (noise-free)...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Nonlinear Dynamics and Mechanical Vibrations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
6,130 Views
14 Pages

Spatial Data Analysis for Deformation Monitoring of Bridge Structures

  • Ján Erdélyi,
  • Alojz Kopáčik and
  • Peter Kyrinovič

6 December 2020

Weather conditions and different operational loads often cause changes in essential parts of engineering structures, and this affects the static and dynamic behavior and reliability of these structures. Therefore, geodetic monitoring is an integral p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analyses in Geomatics: Processing Spatial Data on History and Today)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,735 Views
14 Pages

3 April 2020

In order to improve the transmission dynamic fuzzy adjustment ability of web information acquisition data, a dynamic fuzzy adjustment method of web information acquisition data transmission based on auto correlation feature matching is proposed. This...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modeling and Computational Methods in Science and Engineering)
  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,449 Views
28 Pages

In this paper, research on dynamic behaviors of RC structural members was reviewed using experimental, theoretical and numerical perspectives. First, in a basic overview, measurement methods, main conclusions and current limitations of available dyna...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Seismic Risk Analysis and Management of Structure Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,330 Views
23 Pages

Uncovering the Relationship between Human Connectivity Dynamics and Land Use

  • Olivera Novović,
  • Sanja Brdar,
  • Minučer Mesaroš,
  • Vladimir Crnojević and
  • Apostolos N. Papadopoulos

CDR (Call Detail Record) data are one type of mobile phone data collected by operators each time a user initiates/receives a phone call or sends/receives an sms. CDR data are a rich geo-referenced source of user behaviour information. In this work, w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,997 Views
21 Pages

Random Dynamic Load Identification with Noise for Aircraft via Attention Based 1D-CNN

  • Wenbo He,
  • Xiaoqiang Zhang,
  • Zhenyu Feng,
  • Qiqi Leng and ,
  • Bufeng Xu and
  • Xinmin Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

25 December 2022

Dynamic load identification plays an important role in the field of fault diagnosis and structural modification design for aircraft. In conventional dynamic load identification approaches, accurate structural modeling is usually needed, which is diff...

(This article belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,111 Views
20 Pages

25 August 2021

It is difficult to accurately identify the dynamic deformation of bridges from Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) due to the influence of the multipath effect and random errors, etc. To solve this problem, an improved empirical wavelet transfo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Integrated Applications of Real-Time GNSS Precise Positioning Services)

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