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17 December 2025

In this article, we present a tool for matching resumes to job posts and vice versa (job post to resumes). With minor modifications, it may also be adapted to other domains where text matching is necessary. This tool may help organizations save time...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,443 Views
22 Pages

The Potential of Structurally Insulated Panels (SIPs) to Supply Net Zero Carbon Housing

  • Stephen Finnegan,
  • Robert Edwards,
  • Bushra Al-Derbi,
  • Iona Campbell and
  • Matt Fulton

28 November 2022

Governments throughout the EU and the UK face a persistent challenge of satisfying the continual growth in demand for housing and create zero carbon buildings. This paper presents a novel conceptual framework and empirical results to evaluate the pot...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,140 Views
31 Pages

Zeroing neural networks (ZNN), as a specialized class of bio-Iinspired neural networks, emulate the adaptive mechanisms of biological systems, allowing for continuous adjustments in response to external variations. Compared to traditional numerical m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,637 Views
12 Pages

The Remodeling of Dermal Collagen Fibrous Structures in Mice under Zero Gravity: The Role of Mast Cells

  • Viktoriya Shishkina,
  • Andrey Kostin,
  • Artem Volodkin,
  • Vera Samoilova,
  • Igor Buchwalow,
  • Markus Tiemann and
  • Dmitri Atiakshin

18 January 2023

Mechanisms of adaptive rearrangements of the fibrous extracellular matrix of connective tissues under microgravity practically remain unexplored, despite the most essential functions of the stroma existing to ensure the physiological activity of inte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,269 Views
20 Pages

14 February 2025

In this study, a novel cantilever piezoelectric energy harvester is constructed by using a quasi-zero stiffness (QZS) structure. The QZS structure consists of a classic piezoelectric cantilever beam combined with some accessories that include two pre...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,785 Views
25 Pages

18 April 2022

Multi-degree-of-freedom isolator with low stiffness is a fair prospect in engineering application. In this paper, a novel 6-DOF QZS vibration isolation platform based on leaf spring structure is presented. Its bearing capacity is provided through fou...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,305 Views
19 Pages

2 June 2024

The problem of inverting dynamic complex matrices remains a central and intricate challenge that has garnered significant attention in scientific and mathematical research. The zeroing neural network (ZNN) has been a notable approach, utilizing time...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,144 Views
6 Pages

14 November 2017

The propagation of the Lamb-like modes along a diamond/AlN thin supported structure was simulated in order to exploit the intrinsic zero group velocity (ZGV) features to design high frequency electroacoustic resonators. As the ZGV points are associat...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,481 Views
12 Pages

17 April 2020

In this paper, a reconfigurable sensing platform based on an asymmetrical metal-insulator-metal stacked structure integrating an indium tin oxide (ITO) ultrathin film is proposed and investigated numerically. The epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) mode and anti...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
963 Views
24 Pages

VAM-Based Equivalent Cauchy Model for Accordion Honeycomb Structures with Zero Poisson’s Ratio

  • Yuxuan Lin,
  • Mingfang Chen,
  • Zhenxuan Cai,
  • Zhitong Liu,
  • Yifeng Zhong and
  • Rong Liu

25 July 2025

The accordion honeycomb has unique deformation characteristics in cellular materials. This study develops a three-dimensional equivalent Cauchy continuum model (3D-ECM) based on the variational asymptotic method (VAM) to efficiently predict the mecha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,142 Views
11 Pages

Pressure Effects on Structure and Optical Properties in Sn(II)-Doped Cs2ZnCl4 All-Inorganic Zero-Dimensional Halide Perovskite

  • Ting Geng,
  • Mengqing Wang,
  • Yuhan Qin,
  • Zhuo Chen,
  • Ao Zhang,
  • Chunmei Zhang,
  • Yongguang Li and
  • Guanjun Xiao

The toxicity of lead in conventional perovskites and their inherent chemical instability impede the commercialization of perovskite-based optoelectronics. Therefore, it is vital to develop chemically stable and environmentally friendly Pb-free altern...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
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13 Pages

3D Printed Fractal-like Structures with High Percentage of Drug for Zero-Order Colonic Release

  • Vicente Linares,
  • Ángela Aguilar-de-Leyva,
  • Marta Casas and
  • Isidoro Caraballo

Colonic drug delivery of drugs is an area of great interest due to the need to treat high prevalence colonic local diseases as well as systemic conditions that may benefit from the advantages associated to this route of drug administration. In the la...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,808 Views
9 Pages

12 March 2023

The light extraction efficiency of an LED is dependent on its surface texture. However, the surface of the p-GaN layer is not easy to be etch with inverted hexagonal pyramid structures (IHPS) with small top widths and large depths using existing meth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,879 Views
28 Pages

Research on Quasi-Zero Stiffness Vibration Isolation System of Buckled Flexural Leaf Spring Structure for Double Crystal Monochromator

  • Shengchi Li,
  • Xuepeng Gong,
  • Yang Bai,
  • Qipeng Lu,
  • Ao Li,
  • Yuan Song,
  • Wenbo Zhang,
  • Kewei Chai and
  • Wenhao Shen

11 March 2025

The double crystal monochromator (DCM) is a spectrometer in synchrotron radiation beamlines, and its stability directly impacts the quality of the emitted light. In order to meet the requirements of the fourth generation of synchrotron light sources,...

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  • Open Access
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18 December 2025

Amorphous nano zero-valent iron (A-nZVI) was synthesized via liquid-phase reduction and ethylenediamine (EDA) modification to enhance trichloroethylene (TCE) dechlorination. A-nZVI showed a cauliflower-like morphology, where 20–50 nm primary pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,479 Views
21 Pages

Thermo-Mechanical Coupling Analysis of Inserts Supporting Run-Flat Tires under Zero-Pressure Conditions

  • Cheng Xue,
  • Liguo Zang,
  • Fengqi Wei,
  • Yuxin Feng,
  • Chong Zhou and
  • Tian Lv

21 August 2024

The inserts supporting run-flat tire (ISRFT) is mainly used in military off-road vehicles, which need to maintain high mobility after a blowout. Regulations show that the ISRFT can be driven safely for at least 100 km at a speed of 30 km/h to 40 km/h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
2,496 Views
29 Pages

15 September 2022

This paper introduces a new flexible probability tool for modeling extreme and zero-inflated count data under different shapes of hazard rates. Many relevant mathematical and statistical properties are derived and analyzed. The new tool can be used t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,356 Views
27 Pages

The Zero-Energy Idea in Districts: Application of a Methodological Approach to a Case Study of Epinlieu (Mons)

  • Sesil Koutra,
  • Claire Pagnoule,
  • Nikolaos-Fivos Galatoulas,
  • Ali Bagheri,
  • Thomas Waroux,
  • Vincent Becue and
  • Christos S. Ioakimidis

3 September 2019

Rapidly increasing global energy demand has raised concerns about the exhaustion of energy resources and the consequent heavy environmental impact. Improving energy efficiency in cities comprises an initial measure for addressing these phenomena. Wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,064 Views
19 Pages

Analysis of Crash Frequency and Crash Severity in Thailand: Hierarchical Structure Models Approach

  • Thanapong Champahom,
  • Sajjakaj Jomnonkwao,
  • Chinnakrit Banyong,
  • Watanya Nambulee,
  • Ampol Karoonsoontawong and
  • Vatanavongs Ratanavaraha

9 September 2021

Currently, research on the development of crash models in terms of crash frequency on road segments and crash severity applies the principles of spatial analysis and heterogeneity due to the methods’ suitability compared with traditional models. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
707 Views
24 Pages

7 March 2025

Theoretical analysis, numerical simulation, and experimental study are used to investigate the ultra-low head bidirectional shaft extension pump, especially near-zero head conditions. The results show that under forward operation, at low flow and des...

  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
14,028 Views
20 Pages

29 July 2013

A circular thermodynamics of organisms and sustainable systems is presented based on dynamic closures in nested space-time domains that enable the system to approach the ideal of zero entropy production simultaneously at equilibrium and far from equi...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,966 Views
12 Pages

23 April 2014

We present ab-initio calculations of secondary isotope effects on NMR chemical shieldings. The change of the NMR chemical shift of a certain nucleus that is observed if another nucleus is replaced by a different isotope can be calculated by computing...

  • Review
  • Open Access
55 Citations
10,412 Views
13 Pages

The sustainability of irrigated agriculture depends on the quality of irrigation water used. The electrolyte concentration (EC) of irrigation water may lead to the accumulation of salts in the root zone layers and affect the physiological functions o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,558 Views
14 Pages

An Introduction to a Novel and Rapid nZEB Skill-Mapping and Qualification Framework Methodology

  • Jan Cromwijk,
  • Carolina Mateo-Cecilia,
  • Cristina Jareño-Escudero,
  • Veronika Schröpfer and
  • Peter Op’t Veld

19 November 2017

Successful design and construction processes aiming towards nearly zero energy building (nZEB) standards are a challenge for the whole construction industry in Europe. Realizing nZEB buildings requires innovative design processes, and technologies ba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,300 Views
11 Pages

A Wideband mmWave Microstrip Patch Antenna Based on Zero-Mode and TM-Mode Resonances

  • Yong Luo,
  • Yunlong Gu,
  • Hao Zhang,
  • Jiayou Xu,
  • Feng Qian,
  • Guangli Yang and
  • Hengrong Cui

Millimeter wave (mmWave) antennas for 5G communication require wide bandwidth, directional radiation patterns, low-profile design and multi-layer compatibility for module-level integration. In this paper, we introduce a method of loading shorting pin...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,055 Views
19 Pages

15 August 2022

Ultra-high energy (UHE) photons with energies exceeding 1018eV can potentially be observed. They are produced in various processes involving electrically charged particles. However, more exotic scenarios are also possible. UHE photons could be emitte...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,295 Views
19 Pages

Obfuscation and cryptography technologies are applied to malware to make the detection of malware through intrusion prevention systems (IPSs), intrusion detection systems (IDSs), and antiviruses difficult. To address this problem, the security requir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,981 Views
17 Pages

Synergy between Photovoltaic Panels and Green Roofs

  • Fernando Alonso-Marroquin and
  • Ghulam Qadir

5 July 2023

To reduce the impact of climate change in the form of low-carbon developments, innovations in sustainable building strategies are imperative. In this regard, the performance of a double-roof house consisting of a photovoltaic panel roof (PV) and gree...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,780 Views
25 Pages

12 October 2023

The smallest set of vertices needed to differentiate or categorize every other vertex in a graph is referred to as the graph’s metric dimension. Finding the class of graphs for a particular given metric dimension is an NP-hard problem. This con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
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27 December 2025

Electrical strain gauges are essential for monitoring wind turbine tower loads and fatigue, but accurate load measurements from these sensors require calibration over time to correct the zero-drift found in long-term measured signals. Calibration is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,468 Views
17 Pages

28 August 2025

Market indices, such as the S&P 500, serve as compressed representations of complex constituent-level dynamics. This study proposes a zero-shot forecasting framework capable of predicting index-level trajectories without direct supervision from i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,703 Views
13 Pages

19 February 2023

Three-dimensionally printed materials show great performance and reliable stability in the removal of refractory organic pollutants in Fenton-like reactions. In this work, hierarchically porous zero-valent copper (3DHP-ZVC) was designed and fabricate...

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28 Citations
4,272 Views
15 Pages

21 December 2019

Nanometer zero-valent iron (nZVI) has been widely used in the treatment of heavy metals such as hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)). A novel composite of bead string-structured nZVI on modified activated carbon (nZVI–MAC) is prepared here, using polye...

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15 Citations
3,719 Views
14 Pages

25 January 2023

A topological index is a numeric quantity associated with a chemical structure that attempts to link the chemical structure to various physicochemical properties, chemical reactivity, or biological activity. Let R be a commutative ring with identity,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
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18 Pages

11 September 2018

In this paper, by transforming the given over-determined system into a square system, we prove a necessary and sufficient condition to certify the simple real zeros of the over-determined system by certifying the simple real zeros of the square syste...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,555 Views
17 Pages

MarZIC: A Marginal Mediation Model for Zero-Inflated Compositional Mediators with Applications to Microbiome Data

  • Quran Wu,
  • James O’Malley,
  • Susmita Datta,
  • Raad Z. Gharaibeh,
  • Christian Jobin,
  • Margaret R. Karagas,
  • Modupe O. Coker,
  • Anne G. Hoen,
  • Brock C. Christensen and
  • Zhigang Li

11 June 2022

Background: The human microbiome can contribute to pathogeneses of many complex diseases by mediating disease-leading causal pathways. However, standard mediation analysis methods are not adequate to analyze the microbiome as a mediator due to the ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
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Fault-Tolerant Edge Metric Dimension of Zero-Divisor Graphs of Commutative Rings

  • Omaima Alshanquiti,
  • Malkesh Singh and
  • Vijay Kumar Bhat

26 June 2025

In recent years, the intersection of algebraic structures and graph-theoretic concepts has developed significant interest, particularly through the study of zero-divisor graphs derived from commutative rings. Let Z*(S) be the set of non-zero zero div...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,635 Views
17 Pages

On the Zero-Outage Secrecy-Capacity of Dependent Fading Wiretap Channels

  • Eduard Jorswieck,
  • Pin-Hsun Lin and
  • Karl-Ludwig Besser

8 January 2022

It is known that for a slow fading Gaussian wiretap channel without channel state information at the transmitter and with statistically independent fading channels, the outage probability of any given target secrecy rate is non-zero, in general. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
395 Views
17 Pages

Zero-3DCE: A Low-Light Video Enhancement for More Robust Computer Vision Tasks

  • Mpilo Mbulelo Tatana,
  • Rito Clifford Maswanganyi and
  • Philani Khumalo

9 December 2025

Low-light video enhancement remains a challenge, specifically due to the challenging task of acquiring paired low-light video data. This paper proposes Zero-3DCE, a 3D version of Zero-DCE. Zero-3DCE differs from Zero-DCE by (i) introducing 3D separab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,816 Views
12 Pages

Zero- to One-Dimensional Zn24 Supraclusters: Synthesis, Structures and Detection Wavelength

  • Yating Chen,
  • Zhonghang Chen,
  • Jiming Wang,
  • Xuandi Ma,
  • Linyu Yuan,
  • Shuhua Zhang and
  • Fushun Tang

30 November 2023

A zinc supracluster [Zn24(ATZ)18(AcO)30(H2O)1.5]·(H2O)3.5 (Zn24), and a 1D zinc supracluster chain {[Zn24(ATZ)18(AcO)30(C2H5OH)2(H2O)3]·(H2O)2.5}n (1-D⊂Zn24) with molecular diameters of 2 nm were synthesized under regulatory solvoth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
814 Views
24 Pages

5 November 2025

Bug localization is a critical task in large-scale software maintenance, as it reduces exploration costs and enhances system reliability. However, existing approaches face limitations due to semantic mismatches between bug reports and source code, in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,040 Views
13 Pages

Zero-Derived Nouns in Greek

  • Artemis Alexiadou and
  • Elena Anagnostopoulou

27 December 2022

In this paper, we investigate zero-derived nouns based on irregular verbs in Greek. This is an under-explored area in Greek morpho-syntax, and in this paper, we will make three main contributions. First, we will discuss the fact that the overwhelming...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,123 Views
11 Pages

19 November 2022

This article presents the results of the implementation of a forecasting model, to predict the relief materials needed for assisting in decisions prior to natural disasters, thus filling a gap in the exploration of Generalized Linear Mixed Models (GL...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,958 Views
14 Pages

A More Effective Zero-DCE Variant: Zero-DCE Tiny

  • Weiwen Mu,
  • Huixiang Liu,
  • Wenbai Chen and
  • Yiqun Wang

1 September 2022

The purpose of Low Illumination Image Enhancement (LLIE) is to improve the perception or interpretability of images taken in low illumination environments. This work inherits the work of Zero-Reference Deep Curve Estimation (Zero-DCE) and proposes a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,694 Views
16 Pages

8 October 2021

A honeycomb is a kind of excellent lightweight structure and a honeycomb sandwich plate with zero Poisson’s ratio (ZPR) core is used widely in morphing structures. In this paper, a sandwich plate composed of a honeycomb core with zero Poisson’s ratio...

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  • Open Access
2,641 Views
18 Pages

25 January 2022

The property of external positivity of dynamic systems is commonly defined as the non-negativity of the output for all time under zero initial conditions and any given non-negative input for all time. This paper investigates the extension of that pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,893 Views
17 Pages

Simple Structure of Soft Switching for Boost Converter

  • Yeu-Torng Yau,
  • Kuo-Ing Hwu and
  • Jenn-Jong Shieh

19 October 2020

A soft switching boost converter, with a small number of components and constant frequency control, is proposed herein by using the quasi-resonance method and the zero-voltage-transition method, realizing (1) the zero-voltage switching during the swi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
4,086 Views
17 Pages

On Laplacian Eigenvalues of the Zero-Divisor Graph Associated to the Ring of Integers Modulo n

  • Bilal A. Rather,
  • Shariefuddin Pirzada,
  • Tariq A. Naikoo and
  • Yilun Shang

26 February 2021

Given a commutative ring R with identity 1≠0, let the set Z(R) denote the set of zero-divisors and let Z*(R)=Z(R)∖{0} be the set of non-zero zero-divisors of R. The zero-divisor graph of R, denoted by Γ(R), is a simple graph whose vertex set is Z*(R)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,464 Views
22 Pages

16 October 2018

This paper reports a new control strategy to improve sharing of unbalanced currents in islanded LV microgrids. This technique provides fast and effective sharing of positive-, negative- and zero-sequence currents, and is the first example of zero-seq...

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