Time and frequency concentrations of waveforms are often of interest in engineering applications. The Slepian basis of order zero is an index-limited (finite) vector that is known to be optimally concentrated in the frequency domain. This paper propo...
This study investigates the application of neural networks to the evaluation of minimum-time low-thrust transfers in low Earth orbit. The findings demonstrate the effectiveness of utilizing costates to regularize the training loss, significantly enha...
Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) are known for their intriguing optical properties, low toxicity, and high biocompatibility, which make them promising for biomedical applications. In this study, CQDs were synthesized by subjecting orange juice to microplas...
The computation of distances between strings has applications in molecular biology, music theory and pattern recognition. One such measure, called short reversal distance, has applications in evolutionary distance computation. It has been shown that...
A fast shape recognition method based on regular graphic is proposed in this paper. It is the Interior Distance Ratio to a regular Shape (minimum bounding rectangle (MBR) or minimum circumscribed circle (MCC)) (SIDR). Regular shapes themselves have e...
Background/Objectives: The increasing prevalence of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria highlights the need for improved methodologies to evaluate antimicrobial activity beyond conventional minimum inhibitory concentration testing. While resazurin-based...
The demand for natural antimicrobials as food preservatives has increased due to the growing interest of the population for a healthy lifestyle. The application of screening methods to identify the antimicrobial activity of natural compounds is of gr...
Dental caries is a highly preventable and costly disease. Unfortunately, the current management strategies are inadequate at reducing the incidence and new minimally invasive strategies are needed. In this study, a systematic evaluation of specific l...
The new arithmetic operations of non-normal fuzzy sets are studied in this paper by using the extension principle and considering the general aggregation function. Usually, the aggregation functions are taken to be the minimum function or t-norms. In...
Background: Combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) are central to Logistics and Supply Chain decision making, yet their NP-hardness prevents exact optimal solutions in reasonable time. Methods: This work addresses that limitation by developing a...
Wheat is the most consumed crop worldwide. Zeolite application combined with good tillage practices are good combinations that provide better soil conditions for wheat crops. Zeolite also provides a good layer for carbon to be absorbed into the soil...
In recent years, induction heating (IH) applications aided by electronic power control have gained significance. Particularly, for cooking applications, an appropriate control technique is required to feed power from a single source to multiple loads...
Construction materials and techniques have witnessed major advancements due to the application of digital tools in the design and fabrication processes, leading to a wide array of possibilities, especially in additive digital manufacturing tools and...
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The aim of this study was to assess the psychometric properties of the mobile application forward head posture in terms of validity, inter- and intra-rater reliability, minimum detectable change, sensitivity, and specificity to measure craniovertebra...
The selection of ornamental stones for specific applications requires technical guidance since it should be based on the durability, service life, and aesthetic value of the stones. In most cases, these fundamentals provide quantitative data on the u...
In object-based image analysis (OBIA), the appropriate parametrization of segmentation algorithms is crucial for obtaining satisfactory image classification results. One of the ways this can be done is by unsupervised segmentation parameter optimizat...
Li2TiO3 is one of the most significant breeder materials and has potential applications in future fusion reactors. Defect models with three types of lithium vacancies were considered to study the diffusion behavior of tritium in Li2TiO3 by the densit...
The problem of finding the global minimum of a function is applicable to a multitude of real-world problems and, hence, a variety of computational techniques have been developed to efficiently locate it. Among these techniques, evolutionary technique...
The identifying code problem for a given graph involves finding a minimum subset of vertices such that each vertex of the graph is uniquely specified by its nonempty neighborhood within the identifying code. The combinatorial optimization problem has...
The paper compares portfolio optimization with the Second-Order Stochastic Dominance (SSD) constraints with mean-variance and minimum variance portfolio optimization. As a distribution-free decision rule, stochastic dominance takes into account the e...
The sensor selection problem was investigated for the application of classification of a set of ginsengs using a metal-oxide sensor-based homemade electronic nose with linear discriminant analysis. Samples (315) were measured for nine kinds of ginsen...
The increasing threat of explosives is a serious issue affecting socio-economy of many countries at multiple levels, such as public security, unused arable land, closing of trade routes, isolation of villages, and these act as a hindrance in the deve...
A number of evolutionary algorithms such as genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, particle swarm optimization, etc., have been used by researchers in order to optimize different manufacturing processes. In many cases these algorithms are either in...
The present investigation intended to evaluate the bacteriostatic and bactericidal abilities of clove, oregano and thyme essential oils against oral bacteria in planktonic and biofilm states. Furthermore, aiming to mimic everyday conditions, a toothb...
Minimum spanning tree problem (MSTP) has allured many researchers and practitioners due to its varied range of applications in real world scenarios. Modelling these applications involves the incorporation of indeterminate phenomena based on their sub...
We study the excess minimum risk in statistical inference, defined as the difference between the minimum expected loss when estimating a random variable from an observed feature vector and the minimum expected loss when estimating the same random var...
Citizen science has become an increasingly popular approach to scientific data collection, where classification tasks involving visual interpretation of images is one prominent area of application, e.g., to support the production of land cover and la...
Despite initial enthusiasm towards electronic noses and their possible application in different fields, and quite a lot of promising results, several criticalities emerge from most published research studies, and, as a matter of fact, the diffusion o...
Economic production and, more generally, most global societies, are overwhelmingly dependant upon depleting supplies of fossil fuels. There is considerable concern amongst resource scientists, if not most economists, as to whether market signals or c...
Perimeter barriers can provide intrusion detection for a closed area. It is efficient for practical applications, such as coastal shoreline monitoring and international boundary surveillance. Perimeter barrier coverage construction in some regions of...
Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) is an industrial crop cultivated worldwide with intensive management systems that include continuous cropping, conventional tillage and high use of agrochemicals. The increasing concerns about environmental and economic...
The article presents in detail a proposed methodology for ILI estimation based on the analysis and measurement of minimum nighttime flow, along with results of the application of the methodology. The methodology responds to the EU directive referred...
The Rao’s score, Wald and likelihood ratio tests are the most common procedures for testing hypotheses in parametric models. None of the three test statistics is uniformly superior to the other two in relation with the power function, and moreo...
This paper considers simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) from a base station to multiple Internet of Things (IoT) nodes via orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA), where every node can eavesdrop on the subcarri...
We relate the definition of an ultrametric space to the topological distance algorithm—an algorithm defined in the context of peer-to-peer network applications. Although (greedy) algorithms for constructing minimum spanning trees such as Prim&r...
Providing the visual complexity of an image in terms of impact or aesthetic preference can be of great applicability in areas such as psychology or marketing. To this end, certain areas such as Computer Vision have focused on identifying features and...
In this work, physicochemical, rheological, and antibacterial properties of chitosan (CS) extracted from white shrimp (WS), giant river prawn (GP), and Antarctic krill (AK) were investigated. The results demonstrated that molecular weight (MW) of com...
Geometrically, the affine connection is the main ingredient that underlies the covariant derivative, the parallel transport, the auto-parallel curves, the torsion tensor field, and the curvature tensor field on a finite-dimensional differentiable man...
Let G be a graph on n vertices and m edges, with maximum degree
Accurate calculation of the minimum fluidization velocity makes it possible to reduce raw material losses due to the use of excessively high or excessively low air velocities. This is particularly true for impingement fluidization, which is little st...
Blind deconvolution is a method that can effectively improve the fault characteristics of rolling bearings. However, the existing blind deconvolution methods have shortcomings in practical applications. The minimum entropy deconvolution (MED) and the...
Network interdiction problems involving edge deletion on shortest paths have wide applications. However, in many practical scenarios, the complete removal of edges is infeasible. The minimum-cost shortest-path interdiction problem for trees with the...
The signal quality limits the applicability of phonocardiography at the patients’ domicile. This work proposes the signal-to-noise ratio of the recorded signal as its main quality metrics. Moreover, we define the minimum acceptable values of the sign...
Fungal diseases and the progressive development of resistance are a challenge. In this context, Lippia alba (lemon balm) is a species used in folk medicine, being described with antimicrobial potential. The aim of this study was to determine the anti...
This paper investigates various estimation methods for the parameters of the unit Lindley distribution (U-LD) under both ranked set sampling (RSS) and simple random sampling (SRS) designs. The distribution parameters are estimated using the maximum l...
We consider an alternative to dark matter as a potential solution to various remaining problems in physics: the addition of stochastic perturbations to spacetime to effectively enforce a minimum length and establish a fundamental uncertainty at minim...
Although the concept of entropy is originated from thermodynamics, its concepts and relevant principles, especially the principles of maximum entropy and minimum cross-entropy, have been extensively applied in finance. In this paper, we review the co...
Remote sensing has frequently been employed to monitor extreme climatic events, especially droughts, by identifying the anomalies of vegetation activity from the regional to global scale. However, limited research has addressed the performance of rem...
The satisfactory construction of regional building energy planning models is a key technology in effective energy allocation. At present, the selection of energy planning is only based on artificial judgment criteria, which leads to a high subjectivi...
Essential oils (EOs) are mixtures of volatile plant secondary metabolites and have been exploited by humans for thousands of years for various purposes because of their many bioactivities. In this study, the EO from Thymus capitatus, a thyme species...
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