This paper compares two methods, inferential statistics and Systems Dynamics, to study the evolution of individual happiness after a single dose of drug consumption. In an application case, the effect of alcohol and caffeine on happiness is analyzed...
This research aims to examine changes in the eastern part of Qatar’s shoreline from 1982 to 2018 by means of satellite imagery. Five different time periods, namely 1982, 1992, 2002, 2013, and 2018, were analysed to determine shoreline movements...
Laser-directed energy deposition (LDED) is a promising technology for coating, repairing, and building near-net-shape 3D structures. However, the processing of copper alloys, specifically, has presented a significant challenge due to their low laser...
Understanding the diversity of star formation histories (SFHs) of galaxies is key to reconstructing their evolutionary paths. Traditional models often assume parametric forms such as delayed-
The alluvial plain (Anqing section) of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River basin is facing increasing groundwater pollution, not only threatening the safety of drinking water for local residents and the sustainable development and utilization of g...
This study builds on fundamental knowledge of granular failure dynamics to develop a statistical and machine learning approach for characterization of a landslide. We demonstrate our approach for a rockslide using surface displacement data from a gro...
The influence of statistically stationary, homogeneous isotropic turbulence (i) on the mean area of a passive front propagating in a constant-density fluid and, hence, (ii) on the mean fluid consumption velocity
Rhodotorula mucilaginosa plays a key role in developing the taste of dry-cured ham, while the mechanism of Rhodotorula mucilaginosa proteases on myofibrillar protein (MP) hydrolysis and the evolution of taste substances has not been studied. The enzy...
Thermal groundwater in the Lower and Middle Triassic carbonates in Chongqing, China, is mainly concentrated in anticlines. Hot springs (32.9 to 57 °C) with SO4-Ca type waters and Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) of 1620 to 2929 mg/L emerge in the mid...
The aim of this review is to shed light on time and irreversibility, in order to link macroscopic to microscopic approaches to these complicated problems. After a brief summary of the standard notions of thermodynamics, we introduce some consideratio...
Modern computational methods using patient Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 (HIV-1) genetic sequences can model population-wide viral transmission dynamics. Accurate transmission inferences can play a critical role in the characterization of high-...
We study a Gauss model (GM), a map from time to the bell-shaped Gaussian function to model the deaths per day and country, as a simple, analytically tractable model to make predictions on the coronavirus epidemic. Justified by the sigmoidal nature of...
29 December 2022
A substantially growing health expenditure has become an important global issue. Thus, how and why health expenditure is rising should be urgently investigated in systematic research. The Bayesian space-time model and the Bayesian least absolute shri...
A model of learning as a generalization of the Eigen’s quasispecies model in population genetics is introduced. Eigen’s model is considered as a matrix Riccati equation. The error catastrophe in the Eigen’s model (when the purifying...
Fuzzy c-means (FCM), the fuzzy variant of the popular k-means, has been used for data clustering when cluster boundaries are not well defined. The choice of initial cluster prototypes (or the initialization of cluster memberships), and the fact that...
When viruses have segmented genomes, the set of frequencies describing the abundance of segments is called the genome formula. The genome formula is often unbalanced and highly variable for both segmented and multipartite viruses. A growing number of...
We developed a macroscopic description of the evolutionary dynamics by following the temporal dynamics of the total Shannon entropy of sequences, denoted by S, and the average Hamming distance between them, denoted by H. We argue that a biological sy...
The rules that specify how the information contained in DNA is translated into amino acid “language” during protein synthesis are called “the genetic code”, commonly called the “Standard” or “Universal” Genetic Code Table. As a matter of fact, this c...
Economic activity can be regarded as an evolutionary process governed by the 2nd law of thermodynamics. The universal law, when formulated locally as an equation of motion, reveals that a growing economy develops functional machinery and organizes hi...
Culture can be viewed as the means by which a society can live in its surroundings by acquiring and consuming free energy. This naturalistic notion assumes that everything can be valued in terms of energy, hence also social changes can be described a...
The principle of least action provides a holistic worldview in which Nature in its entirety and every detail is described in terms of actions. Each and every action is ultimately composed of one or multiple of the most elementary actions which relate...
A new form of fragmentation function is presented here, motivated by earlier non-extensive studies of jet fragmentation. We parametrized our Tsallis-like function on pion spectra and compared it to the most common fragmentation function parametrizati...
The space of possible human cultures is vast, but some cultural configurations are more consistent with cognitive and social constraints than others. This leads to a “landscape” of possibilities that our species has explored over millenni...
Vopson and Lepadatu recently proposed the Second Law of Infodynamics. The law states that while the total entropy increases, information entropy declines over time. They state that the law has applications over a wide range of disciplines, but they l...
Theoretical foundations are presented for the application of information–entropy methods from statistical physics to the determination of stellar evolutionary stages. A balance equation involving normalized conditional information and entropy i...
Background: When glucose molecules are metabolized by a biological cell, the molecules are constrained to flow along distinct reaction trajectories, which are defined by the cell’s underlying metabolic network. Methods: Using the computational...
This study investigates the changes in urban green space coverage across 254 counties of varying types in Texas from 2001 to 2021, aiming to explore the spatial patterns of green space transformation and its socioeconomic driving factors. By analyzin...
Long-term displacement in ultra-high rockfill dams is spatially heterogeneous, yet point-based monitoring and single-track InSAR provide only a limited account of its three-dimensional evolution. To address this limitation, we develop a workflow comb...
Organic waste utilization stands as a pivotal approach to ecological and economic sustainability. This study aimed to assess the stability, maturity, and evolution of co-composts comprising various blends of green waste (GW) and sheep manure (SM). Em...
We review and synthesize key findings and limitations of mathematical models for prostate cancer, both from theoretical work and data-validated approaches, especially concerning clinical applications. Our focus is on models of prostate cancer dynamic...
The development of resilient cities has become a critical global issue with respect to the stimulation of sustainable economic, social, and ecological advancement. The Yangtze River Delta region, which is the most densely populated region in China, i...
For primary school students, the difficulty in solving mathematical problems is highly related to language capacity. A correct solution can only be achieved after being able to deal with different abstract concepts through several stages: comprehensi...
A determination and mathematical analysis of the statistics of gene numbers in genomes was proposed. It establishes sampling ranges and provides an analytical description of the probability density function, which represents the likelihood of the num...
In this paper we introduce a class of statistical models consisting of exponential families depending on additional parameters, called external parameters. The main source for these statistical models resides in the Maximum Entropy framework where we...
Under the framework of sixth-generation (6G) wireless communications, the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) plays an irreplaceable role in a number of communication systems. In this paper, a novel cluster-based low-altitude UAV-to-vehicle (U2V) non-stati...
Bacteriophages infecting bacteria of the genus Gordonia have increasingly gained interest in the scientific community for their diverse applications in agriculture, biotechnology, and medicine, ranging from biocontrol agents in wastewater management...
The current study is essential for obtaining an accurate representation of weather conditions in the Ziz and Guir watersheds, characterized by an arid climate. This study combined climate data from the ERA5 model with data from observation stations i...
One technique, especially in chaos-based cryptographic applications, is to include the message in the evolution of the dynamical system. This paper aims to find out if and to what extent the statistical behavior of the chaotic system is affected by t...
Discussing quantum theory foundations, von Neumann noted that the measurement process should not be regarded in terms of a temporal evolution. A reason for their claim is the insurmountability of the gap between reversible and irreversible processes....
The aim of the study is to assess choroidal thickness (CT) and choroidal volume (CV) in 90 type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM1) patients with no diabetic retinopathy (DR) and 60 control eyes using spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) and s...
Background: Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has emerged as a well-established option for patients with severe aortic stenosis who present high or extreme surgical risk. Direct comparisons of outcomes between different valve prostheses a...
This work is mainly focused on improving the differential evolution algorithm with the utilization of shadowed and general type 2 fuzzy systems to dynamically adapt one of the parameters of the evolutionary method. Previously, we have worked with bot...
20 March 2014
In this study we characterized the relationship between temperature and mortality in central Arizona desert cities that have an extremely hot climate. Relationships between daily maximum apparent temperature (ATmax) and mortality for eight condition...
An international context of increasing attention to the quality of educational systems in school establishments is becoming more important to develop a governance that is compatible with the principles of sound and prudent management, inspired by eff...
The quantum evolution of wave functions controlled by the spectrum of Lévy random matrices is considered. An analytical treatment of quantum recurrences and revivals in the Hilbert space is performed in the framework of a theory of almost periodic fu...
The observed scaling properties in the three aftershock sequences of the recent strong earthquakes of magnitudes Mw 6.1, Mw 6.4 and Mw 6.7, which occurred in the Ionian island region on the 26 January 2014 (onshore Cephalonia Island), 17 November 201...
This paper introduces pragmatic hypotheses and relates this concept to the spiral of scientific evolution. Previous works determined a characterization of logically consistent statistical hypothesis tests and showed that the modal operators obtained...
For single-event radiation damage of power MOSFET devices, this paper aims to establish a statistical analysis method based on external observation (gate/drain current characteristics in irradiation environment) to recognize and evaluate the radiatio...
A bulk of evidence from in situ observations and lab experiments suggests that brown carbon (light-absorbing organic compounds in particles) can provide a significant yet highly variable contribution to the overall light absorption by aerosol particl...
A concept of entropy production associated with continuous topological evolution is deduced (without statistics) from the fact that Cartan-Hilbert 1-form of Action defines a non-equilibrium symplectic system of Pfaff Topological dimension 2n+2. The d...
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