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5 Citations
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The Role of Knockout Olfactory Receptor Genes in Odor Discrimination

  • Maria Pina Concas,
  • Massimiliano Cocca,
  • Margherita Francescatto,
  • Thomas Battistuzzi and ,
  • Beatrice Spedicati,
  • Agnese Feresin,
  • Anna Morgan,
  • Paolo Gasparini and
  • Giorgia Girotto
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

23 April 2021

To date, little is known about the role of olfactory receptor (OR) genes on smell performance. Thanks to the availability of whole-genome sequencing data of 802 samples, we identified 41 knockout (KO) OR genes (i.e., carriers of Loss of Function vari...

(This article belongs to the Section Human Genomics and Genetic Diseases)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
10,194 Views
20 Pages

20 February 2023

We obtain a large number of degree and distance-based topological indices, graph and Laplacian spectra and the corresponding polynomials, entropies and matching polynomials of n-dimensional hypercubes through the use of Hadamard symmetry and recursiv...

(This article belongs to the Collection Feature Papers in Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,889 Views
15 Pages

On a Matrix Formulation of the Sequence of Bi-Periodic Fibonacci Numbers

  • Mustapha Rachidi,
  • Elen V. P. Spreafico and
  • Paula Catarino

30 August 2024

In this study, we investigate some new properties of the sequence of bi-periodic Fibonacci numbers with arbitrary initial conditions, through an approach that combines the matrix aspect and the fundamental Fibonacci system. Indeed, by considering the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Pythagorean Heritage: From Number Theory and Combinatorics to Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,904 Views
16 Pages

A Recursive Prediction-Based Feature Enhancement for Small Object Detection

  • Xiang Xiao,
  • Xiaorong Xue,
  • Zhiyuan Zhao and
  • Yisheng Fan

14 June 2024

Transformer-based methodologies in object detection have recently piqued considerable interest and have produced impressive results. DETR, an end-to-end object detection framework, ingeniously integrates the Transformer architecture, traditionally us...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,387 Views
19 Pages

Constrained Underdiagonal Paths and Pattern Avoiding Permutations

  • Andrea Frosini,
  • Veronica Guerrini and
  • Simone Rinaldi

4 February 2025

Moving from a simple bijection P between permutations Sn of length n and underdiagonal paths of size n, The we study and enumerate families of underdiagonal paths which are defined by restricting the bijection P to subclasses of Sn avoiding some vinc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Combinatorics, Riordan Matrices and Umbral Calculus—in Memory of Professor Emanuele Munarini)
  • Article
  • Open Access
368 Views
26 Pages

29 July 2026

This paper investigates the optimal fusion estimation problem for a class of multi-sensor systems, in which the measurement noises of distinct sensors are mutually cross-correlated and each measurement noise is correlated with the system process nois...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,623 Views
22 Pages

23 November 2020

The time-series state and parameter estimations of indoor localization continue to be a topic of growing importance. To deal with the nonlinear and positive skewed non-Gaussian dynamic of indoor CSS–TOF (Chirp-Spread-Spectrum Time-of-Flight) ra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Indoor Localization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,071 Views
14 Pages

23 November 2020

Video prediction which maps a sequence of past video frames into realistic future video frames is a challenging task because it is difficult to generate realistic frames and model the coherent relationship between consecutive video frames. In this pa...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
4,496 Views
14 Pages

23 May 2018

This paper introduces a general solution of singular fractional-order linear-time invariant (FoLTI) continuous systems using the Adomian Decomposition Method (ADM) based on the Caputo's definition of the fractional-order derivative. The complexity of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy in Dynamic Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,633 Views
35 Pages

Visual Mamba-Inspired Directionally Gated State-Space Backtracking for Chemical Gas Source Localization

  • Jooyoung Park,
  • Daehong Min,
  • Sungjin Cho,
  • Donghee Kang and
  • Hyunwoo Nam

10 October 2025

Rapidly pinpointing the origin of accidental chemical gas releases is essential for effective response. Prior vision pipelines—such as 3D CNNs, CNN–LSTMs, and Transformer-based ViViT models—can improve accuracy but often scale poorl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
145 Citations
7,490 Views
10 Pages

Selecting Feature Subsets Based on SVM-RFE and the Overlapping Ratio with Applications in Bioinformatics

  • Xiaohui Lin,
  • Chao Li,
  • Yanhui Zhang,
  • Benzhe Su and ,
  • Meng Fan and
  • Hai Wei
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 December 2017

Feature selection is an important topic in bioinformatics. Defining informative features from complex high dimensional biological data is critical in disease study, drug development, etc. Support vector machine-recursive feature elimination (SVM-RFE)...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the Second CCF Bioinformatics Conference (CBC 2017))
  • Article
  • Open Access
145 Citations
8,575 Views
13 Pages

Decision Variants for the Automatic Determination of Optimal Feature Subset in RF-RFE

  • Qi Chen,
  • Zhaopeng Meng,
  • Xinyi Liu,
  • Qianguo Jin and
  • Ran Su

15 June 2018

Feature selection, which identifies a set of most informative features from the original feature space, has been widely used to simplify the predictor. Recursive feature elimination (RFE), as one of the most popular feature selection approaches, is e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the Bioinformatics and Intelligent Information Processing Conference (BIIP2018))
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,863 Views
24 Pages

18 June 2025

Accurately estimating a sequence of latent variables in state observation models remains a challenging problem, particularly when maintaining coherence among consecutive estimates. While forward filtering and smoothing methods provide coherent margin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematics Methods of Robotics and Intelligent Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
334 Views
16 Pages

1 August 2026

This work investigates the adaptive event-triggered distributed estimation problem for discrete time-varying nonlinear stochastic systems over sensor networks exposed to replay attacks within a finite-horizon setting. The sensor network comprises mul...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theory in Control Systems, 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,530 Views
23 Pages

Compressive Online Video Background–Foreground Separation Using Multiple Prior Information and Optical Flow

  • Srivatsa Prativadibhayankaram,
  • Huynh Van Luong,
  • Thanh Ha Le and
  • André Kaup

In the context of video background–foreground separation, we propose a compressive online Robust Principal Component Analysis (RPCA) with optical flow that separates recursively a sequence of video frames into foreground (sparse) and background...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Detection of Moving Objects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,989 Views
14 Pages

28 July 2021

According to the change characteristics in the toughness of the metal material during the fatigue damage process, the fatigue tests were carried out with the standard 18CrNiMo7-6 material. Scanning the fracture with an electron microscope explains th...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advances on Structural Engineering)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,055 Views
12 Pages

2 January 2025

New analytical formulas are derived for the rank and the local discrepancy of Farey fractions. The new rank formula is applicable to all Farey fractions and involves sums of a lower order compared to the searched one. This serves to establish a new u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
761 Views
15 Pages

13 August 2026

This paper presents an analytical investigation of a class of two-dimensional nonlinear discrete systems governed by bilinear difference equations. By leveraging the explicit representation theory for first-order bilinear recursions, we derive closed...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,441 Views
25 Pages

29 September 2024

The current literature mainly uses hub capacity or transport route selection to manage the congestion of emergency multimodal transport and pays less attention to transshipment scheduling. This paper proposes an integrated optimization problem of tra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,437 Views
21 Pages

In this study, we define the k-Cullen, k-Cullen–Lucas, and Modified k-Cullen sequences, and certain terms in these sequences are given. Then, we obtain the Binet formulas, generating functions, summation formulas, etc. In addition, we examine t...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematical Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,024 Views
15 Pages

Data-Driven State Prediction and Analysis of SOFC System Based on Deep Learning Method

  • Mumin Rao,
  • Li Wang,
  • Chuangting Chen,
  • Kai Xiong and ,
  • Mingfei Li,
  • Zhengpeng Chen,
  • Jiangbo Dong,
  • Junli Xu and
  • Xi Li
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

24 April 2022

A solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) system is a kind of green chemical-energy–electric-energy conversion equipment with broad application prospects. In order to ensure the long-term stable operation of the SOFC power-generation system, prediction an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Methodology and Technique for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC): Control, Diagnosis, and Evaluation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
732 Views
21 Pages

18 April 2026

Accurate representation of short-term reservoir water-level dynamics is essential for operational analysis and scenario-based assessment under prescribed inflow–outflow conditions. In many practical applications, physically based modelling is l...

(This article belongs to the Section New Sensors, New Technologies and Machine Learning in Water Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
466 Views
31 Pages

Robust Space-Object Association and Recursive Estimation for Ground-Based Optical Observation Under Degraded Orbital Priors and Site-Position Uncertainty

  • Tingkai Yan,
  • Xinyuan Liu,
  • Shuaipeng Hou,
  • Jianing Yang and ,
  • Hongtong Li and
  • Fei Xing
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 July 2026

Ground-based optical observation is a key sensing modality for space-object monitoring, but reliable association becomes challenging when orbital priors are degraded, site-position information is imprecise, and each frame contains multiple point-sour...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Detection-Oriented Multi-Sensor Fusion Beyond the Visible Spectrum)
  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
6,495 Views
19 Pages

1 June 2021

This paper presents a cumulative sum (CUSUM)-based approach for condition monitoring and fault diagnosis of wind turbines (WTs) using SCADA data. The main ideas are to first form a multiple linear regression model using data collected in normal opera...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning Applications in Power System Condition Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,608 Views
15 Pages

n-Dimensional Chaotic Time Series Prediction Method

  • Fang Liu,
  • Baohui Yin,
  • Mowen Cheng and
  • Yongxin Feng

29 December 2022

Chaotic time series have been involved in many fields of production and life, so their prediction has a very important practical value. However, due to the characteristics of chaotic time series, such as internal randomness, nonlinearity, and long-te...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning and Deep Learning Methods for Time Series Analysis and Forecasting)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,179 Views
15 Pages

Guiding Students towards an Understanding of Climate Change through a Teaching–Learning Sequence

  • Stefano Toffaletti,
  • Marco Di Mauro,
  • Tommaso Rosi,
  • Massimiliano Malgieri and
  • Pasquale Onorato

28 October 2022

In this paper, we put forward a proposal for the design and the evaluation of teaching–learning sequences (TLSs) on the greenhouse effect (GHE), relying on the educational reconstruction model (MER). The first design, which starts from a critic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovation in Teaching Science and Student Learning Analytics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,941 Views
18 Pages

13 August 2018

With environmental pollution and the shortage of resources becoming increasingly serious, the disassembly of certain component in mechanical products for reuse and recycling has received more attention. However, how to model a complex mechanical prod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,715 Views
17 Pages

Changes in Air Quality during the Period of COVID-19 in China

  • Xin Xu,
  • Shupei Huang,
  • Feng An and
  • Ze Wang

This paper revisits the heterogeneous impacts of COVID-19 on air quality. For different types of Chinese cities, we analyzed the different degrees of improvement in the concentrations of six air pollutants (PM2.5, PM10, SO2, NO2, CO, and O3) during C...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Theory and Technology of Disaster Monitoring and Prevention)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,615 Views
17 Pages

29 October 2022

With the standardization and commercialization of 5G, research on 6G technology has begun. In this paper, a new low-complexity soft-input–soft-output (SISO) adaptive detection algorithm for short CPM bursts is proposed for low-power, massive In...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,129 Views
25 Pages

Progressive Sample Processing of Band Selection for Hyperspectral Image Transmission

  • Keng-Hao Liu,
  • Shih-Yu Chen,
  • Hung-Chang Chien and
  • Meng-Han Lu

26 February 2018

Band selection (BS) is one of the important topics in hyperspectral image (HSI) processing. Many types of BS algorithms were proposed in the last decade. However, most of them were designed for off-line use. They can only be used with pre-collected d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hyperspectral Imaging and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,406 Views
20 Pages

22 January 2019

Leaf area index (LAI) remote sensing data products with a high resolution (HR) and long time series are in demand in a wide variety of applications. Compared with long time series LAI products with 1 km resolution, LAI products with high spatial reso...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Leaf Area Index (LAI) Retrieval using Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,024 Views
35 Pages

Rational Interpolation: Jacobi’s Approach Reminiscence

  • Alexei Uteshev,
  • Ivan Baravy and
  • Elizaveta Kalinina

1 August 2021

We treat the interpolation problem {f(xj)=yj}j=1N for polynomial and rational functions. Developing the approach originated by C. Jacobi, we represent the interpolants by virtue of the Hankel polynomials generated by the sequences of special symmetri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Current Trends in Symmetric Polynomials with Their Applications Ⅲ)
  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
6,467 Views
19 Pages

18 January 2019

Currently, effective crowd management based on the information provided by crowd monitoring systems is difficult as this information comes in at the moment adverse crowd movements are already occurring. Up to this moment, very little forecasting tech...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,452 Views
19 Pages

DAG Hierarchical Schedulability Analysis for Avionics Hypervisor in Multicore Processors

  • Huan Yang,
  • Shuai Zhao,
  • Xiangnan Shi,
  • Shuang Zhang and
  • Yangming Guo

21 February 2023

Parallel hierarchical scheduling of multicore processors in avionics hypervisor is being studied. Parallel hierarchical scheduling utilizes modular reasoning about the temporal behavior of the upper Virtual Machine (VM) by partitioning CPU time. Dire...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technology of Intelligent Control and Simulation Evaluation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,847 Views
22 Pages

RIOT: Recursive Inertial Odometry Transformer for Localisation from Low-Cost IMU Measurements

  • James Brotchie,
  • Wenchao Li,
  • Andrew D. Greentree and
  • Allison Kealy

17 March 2023

Inertial localisation is an important technique as it enables ego-motion estimation in conditions where external observers are unavailable. However, low-cost inertial sensors are inherently corrupted by bias and noise, which lead to unbound errors, m...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,203 Views
18 Pages

Eigenvalue Estimates via Pseudospectra

  • Georgios Katsouleas,
  • Vasiliki Panagakou and
  • Panayiotis Psarrakos

22 July 2021

In this note, given a matrix A∈Cn×n (or a general matrix polynomial P(z), z∈C) and an arbitrary scalar λ0∈C, we show how to define a sequence μkk∈N which converges to some element of its spectrum. The scalar λ0 serves as initial term (μ0=λ0), while a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Linear Algebra and the Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,822 Views
14 Pages

27 December 2022

This paper presents a general recursive formula to estimate the number of labeled graphs as well as details to evaluate the formula for the following graph properties: number of edges (graph density), degree sequence, degree distribution, classificat...

(This article belongs to the Section Combinatorial Optimization, Graph, and Network Algorithms)
  • Article
  • Open Access
600 Views
21 Pages

24 April 2026

Simple recursive rules often conceal surprisingly complex structures, and the Tribonacci sequence is an interesting example of how elementary arithmetic can lead to complex and visually expressive patterns. In this research paper, we present triangul...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Trends in Petri Net Research: Methods and Innovative Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
7,087 Views
12 Pages

Aircraft Engines Remaining Useful Life Prediction with an Improved Online Sequential Extreme Learning Machine

  • Tarek Berghout,
  • Leïla-Hayet Mouss,
  • Ouahab Kadri,
  • Lotfi Saïdi and
  • Mohamed Benbouzid

5 February 2020

The efficient data investigation for fast and accurate remaining useful life prediction of aircraft engines can be considered as a very important task for maintenance operations. In this context, the key issue is how an appropriate investigation can...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,832 Views
17 Pages

The MS-RadarFormer: A Transformer-Based Multi-Scale Deep Learning Model for Radar Echo Extrapolation

  • Huantong Geng,
  • Fangli Wu,
  • Xiaoran Zhuang,
  • Liangchao Geng and ,
  • Boyang Xie and
  • Zhanpeng Shi
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 January 2024

As a spatial–temporal sequence prediction task, radar echo extrapolation aims to predict radar echoes’ future movement and intensity changes based on historical radar observations. Two urgent issues still need to be addressed in deep lear...

(This article belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,849 Views
15 Pages

5 November 2020

We propose a new iterative method for solving a generalized Sylvester matrix equation A1XA2+A3XA4=E with given square matrices A1,A2,A3,A4 and an unknown rectangular matrix X. The method aims to construct a sequence of approximated solutions convergi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,050 Views
22 Pages

26 August 2022

A systematic identification approach for the rotor/radial active magnetic bearing (rotor/RAMB) system is presented in this study. First, the system identification of the controller of commercial TMP is undertaken, and the corresponding linear dynamic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Materials and Technology Innovation in Machine System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,011 Views
17 Pages

23 February 2018

In view of the fact the accuracy of the third-degree Cubature Kalman Filter (CKF) used for initial alignment under large misalignment angle conditions is insufficient, an improved fifth-degree CKF algorithm is proposed in this paper. In order to make...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,351 Views
13 Pages

31 August 2016

The cardinality balanced multi-target multi-Bernoulli (CBMeMBer) filter developed recently has been proved an effective multi-target tracking (MTT) algorithm based on the random finite set (RFS) theory, and it can jointly estimate the number of targe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Multi-Sensor Information Fusion: Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,159 Views
25 Pages

23 February 2026

Visible Light Positioning (VLP) is widely regarded as a promising technology for high-precision indoor localization due to its immunity to radio-frequency interference and compatibility with existing Light-Emitting Diode (LED) lighting infrastructure...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies in Optical Wireless Communications—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
379 Views
14 Pages

WindPower-SAFusion: A Sparse-Attention and Multi-Scale Fusion Model for Wind-Power Forecasting

  • Xuegong Zhang,
  • Yarou Li,
  • Zhuo Shao,
  • Huzi Qiu and ,
  • Jiatai Shi,
  • Jing Wang,
  • Dongdong Zhang and
  • Xuejing Zhao
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

25 June 2026

Accurate wind-power forecasting is essential for grid scheduling when renewable generation becomes highly variable. This study developed WindPower-SAFusion, an Informer-inspired forecasting model designed for long wind-power sequences. The framework...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,138 Views
29 Pages

21 December 2018

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are an important type of network for sensing the environment and collecting information. It can be deployed in almost every type of environment in the real world, providing a reliable and low-cost solution for manageme...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Sensor Fusion and Data Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,422 Views
21 Pages

23 April 2020

In practical engineering, the vibration-based fault diagnosis with few failure samples is gaining more and more attention from researchers, since it is generally hard to collect sufficient failure records of centrifugal pumps. In such circumstances,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue A Special Paper Collection from the Asia Pacific Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) Society 2019 (PHMAP 2019))
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,741 Views
17 Pages

23 June 2025

With rapid advances in image-generative AI, interest has grown in applying these technologies across diverse domains. While current models excel at producing high-quality final images, they rarely model the intermediate stages of the drawing process....

(This article belongs to the Topic Electronic Communications, IOT and Big Data, 2nd Volume)

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