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15 April 2023

Electric propulsion is of great significance to the development of high-efficiency and long-life satellites, and digital twins have gradually become a powerful tool for satellite engineering. Being affected by uncertainty factors such as the complexi...

(This article belongs to the Section Aerospace Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,366 Views
31 Pages

SAPEVO-H2 Multi-Criteria Modelling to Connect Decision-Makers at Different Levels of Responsibility: Evaluating Sustainability Projects in the Automobile Industry

  • Miguel Ângelo Lellis Moreira,
  • Maria Teresa Pereira,
  • Igor Pinheiro de Araújo Costa,
  • Carlos Francisco Simões Gomes and
  • Marcos dos Santos

Decision-making in complex environments, especially sustainable ones, requires flexible methodologies to handle multiple criteria and stakeholder perspectives. This study introduces the SAPEVO-H2 method (Simple Aggregation of Preferences Expressed by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
988 Views
23 Pages

12 February 2026

Accurate wind power forecasting is critical for enhancing the operational efficiency and stability of electrical power grids. Conventional single-variable signal decomposition forecasting methods ignore the coupling relationship between wind power an...

(This article belongs to the Collection Energy Forecasting)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,516 Views
17 Pages

This study examines the relevance of interpersonal relationships in the work environment, focusing specifically on analyzing associations between positive relational management, which refers to the use of relational resources that enable adaptation t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,906 Views
17 Pages

Temporal Stability of Grazed Grassland Ecosystems Alters Response to Climate Variability, While Resistance Stability Remains Unchanged

  • Ying Han,
  • Yantao Wu,
  • Jiahe Cui,
  • Hangyu Li and ,
  • Hao Li,
  • Jinghui Zhang,
  • Bailing Miao,
  • Lixin Wang,
  • Zhiyong Li and
  • Cunzhu Liang
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

31 July 2023

Environmental change is a crucial driver shaping grassland biodiversity and stability. Both environmental change and stability contain multiple dimensions. Nonetheless, few studies examined multiple dimensions of stability in response to environmenta...

(This article belongs to the Section Grassland and Pasture Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
722 Views
19 Pages

Investigating the Mediating Role of Environmental Attitudes in Shaping Pro-Environmental Behavior

  • Shruthi V. Shetty,
  • Smitha Nayak,
  • Giridhar B. Kamath,
  • Sheryl V. I. De Araujo and
  • Raveendra K. Rao

29 June 2026

Drawing on the Value–Attitude–Behavior framework, this study aims to investigate the relationship between environmental values and pro-environmental behavior and the mediating role of environmental attitudes in this relationship among Gen...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,013 Views
11 Pages

Towards Hyper-Dimensional Variography Using the Product-Sum Covariance Model

  • Jovan M. Tadić,
  • Ian N. Williams,
  • Vojin M. Tadić and
  • Sébastien C. Biraud

18 March 2019

Modeling hyper-dimensional spatial variability is a complex task from both practical and theoretical standpoints. In this paper we develop a method for modeling hyper-dimensional covariance (variogram) structures using the product-sum covariance mode...

(This article belongs to the Section Biometeorology and Bioclimatology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,025 Views
33 Pages

Hybrid kinetic models, linking structured cell metabolic processes to the dynamics of macroscopic variables of the bioreactor, are more and more used in engineering evaluations to derive more precise predictions of the process dynamics under variable...

(This article belongs to the Topic Bioreactors: Control, Optimization and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,542 Views
16 Pages

29 December 2023

Branching and free-form structures are widely used in large-span buildings. Their shapes are the main factors that affect their mechanical performances. Many studies have been carried out on the morphology of single structural systems, but less on hy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,578 Views
15 Pages

22 August 2024

Multi-teacher knowledge distillation is a powerful technique that leverages diverse information sources from multiple pre-trained teachers to enhance student model performance. However, existing methods often overlook the challenge of effectively tra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,399 Views
35 Pages

25 September 2024

Hybrid kinetic models, linking structured models of cell (nano-scale) metabolic processes to the dynamics of macroscopic variables of the bioreactor, are proven to lead to more precise predictions of all key-species dynamics under variable operating...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamic System Modelling from Data: Emerging Algorithms and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
10,177 Views
24 Pages

Estimation of Forest Structural Diversity Using the Spectral and Textural Information Derived from SPOT-5 Satellite Images

  • Jinghui Meng,
  • Shiming Li,
  • Wei Wang,
  • Qingwang Liu and ,
  • Shiqin Xie and
  • Wu Ma
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

5 February 2016

Uneven-aged forest management has received increasing attention in the past few years. Compared with even-aged plantations, the complex structure of uneven-aged forests complicates the formulation of management strategies. Forest structural diversity...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing of Vegetation Structure and Dynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,200 Views
14 Pages

28 September 2021

The aim of the study is to develop a population pharmacokinetic (PPK) model, of Octreotide long acting repeatable (LAR) formulation in healthy volunteers, which describes the highly variable, multiple peak absorption pattern of the pharmacokinetics o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence Enabled Pharmacometrics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,671 Views
21 Pages

13 July 2020

Distributed wind power (DWP) needs to be consumed locally under a 110 kV network without reverse power flow in China. To maximize the use of DWP, this paper proposes a novel method for capacity planning of DWP with participation of the energy storage...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wind Power Integration into Power Systems: Stability and Control Aspects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,101 Views
14 Pages

Adaptive Integrated Navigation Algorithm Based on Interactive Filter

  • Bin Zhao,
  • Chunlei Gao,
  • Hui Xia,
  • Jinxia Han and
  • Ying Zhu

23 July 2025

To address the diverse requirements of accuracy and robustness in integrated navigation for unmanned aerial vehicles, an interactive robust filter algorithm that integrates the interactive multiple model concept and leverages the complementary applic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Environment Perception, Decision Planning, and Intelligent Control of Transport Equipment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,892 Views
18 Pages

25 March 2023

Several studies have revealed that urban rivers with relatively complete habitat structures can support a high level of biodiversity in urban areas. However, few studies have analyzed the impact of the plan, design, and management of multi-scale urba...

(This article belongs to the Section Biodiversity Conservation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,701 Views
23 Pages

Estimating Rail Transit Passenger Flow Considering Built Environment Factors: A Case Study in Shenzhen

  • Wenjing Wang,
  • Haiyan Wang,
  • Jun Liu,
  • Chengfa Liu and ,
  • Shipeng Wang and
  • Yong Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

21 November 2024

This paper aims to analyze the influence mechanism of built environment factors on passenger flow by predicting the passenger flow of Shenzhen rail transit in the morning peak hour. Based on the classification of built environment factors into socio-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,013 Views
11 Pages

Manufacturers are struggling to use data from multiple products production lines to predict rare events. Improving the quality of training data is a common way to improve the performance of algorithms. However, there is little research about how to s...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advanced Systems Engineering: Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,409 Views
32 Pages

26 June 2024

As a precious natural resource, forests are being destroyed. In previous studies, there is a lack of an interactive assessment of their distribution that comprehensively considers multiple external disturbances. This paper takes the Barcelona Metropo...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Forestry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,587 Views
14 Pages

30 May 2012

Pharmacological and physicochemical classification of the furan and thiophene amide derivatives by multiple regression analysis and partial least square (PLS) based on semi-empirical ab initio molecular modeling studies and high-performance liquid ch...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Biomolecular Simulation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,936 Views
25 Pages

Analysis of Dynamic Characteristics of Attached High Rise Risers

  • Linghao Zhang,
  • Mingjiang Han,
  • Qichang Zhang,
  • Shuying Hao and
  • Jianwei Zhen

29 July 2023

The exhaust chimney of third-generation nuclear power units is a typical attached high-rise riser structure. In this paper, the simplified mechanical model and dynamic model of China’s third-generation nuclear power Hualong-1 VNA system, includ...

(This article belongs to the Section Acoustics and Vibrations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,660 Views
19 Pages

29 January 2021

Gene-environment (G×E) interaction is critical for understanding the genetic basis of complex disease beyond genetic and environment main effects. In addition to existing tools for interaction studies, penalized variable selection emerges as a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,814 Views
25 Pages

23 August 2021

Incident solar radiation (insolation) passing through the forest canopy to the ground surface is either absorbed or scattered. This phenomenon, known as radiation attenuation, is measured using the extinction coefficient (K). The amount of radiation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,377 Views
16 Pages

14 December 2020

Stability and productivity are important indicators used to measure the state of forest ecosystems. Artificial forests populations with reasonable structures and strong stability are critical for ecosystem productivity. Previous studies have focused...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Innovative Silvicultural Treatments in Pine Forests)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,691 Views
26 Pages

9 June 2020

This paper presents a monitoring framework to detect drifts and faults in the behavior of the central processing unit (CPU)-graphics processing unit (GPU) chips powering them. To construct the framework, an incremental model and a fault detection and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Machine Learning and Deep Learning Based Machine Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,735 Views
23 Pages

16 November 2025

This study investigates the effects of socioeconomic characteristics, density, built environment, and urban spatial structure on vehicle miles traveled (VMT) across 461 urbanized areas in the United States. Using multiple regression models, we compar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,184 Views
28 Pages

Designing lightweight composite sandwich structures is challenging due to the conflicting objectives of minimizing structural weight and cost while satisfying strength and stiffness requirements. The optimization procedure becomes more complex when m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Processing, Mechanical Properties, and Manufacturing Techniques of Advanced Composite Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
5,471 Views
21 Pages

Estimation of Urban Forest Characteristic Parameters Using UAV-Lidar Coupled with Canopy Volume

  • Bo Zhang,
  • Xuejian Li,
  • Huaqiang Du,
  • Guomo Zhou and ,
  • Fangjie Mao,
  • Zihao Huang,
  • Lv Zhou,
  • Jie Xuan,
  • Yulin Gong and
  • Chao Chen
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

16 December 2022

The estimation of characteristic parameters such as diameter at breast height (DBH), aboveground biomass (AGB) and stem volume (V) is an important part of urban forest resource monitoring and the most direct manifestation of the ecosystem functions o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Monitoring Forest Carbon Sequestration with Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
10,276 Views
18 Pages

The Influence of Digital Tools and Social Networks on the Digital Competence of University Students during COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Javier Rodríguez-Moreno,
  • Ana María Ortiz-Colón,
  • Eulogio Cordón-Pozo and
  • Miriam Agreda-Montoro

The pandemic caused by COVID-19 has generated a transformation in students’ competences and university education, especially in the use of digital tools. This study aims to analyze the use of digital tools and social networks of university students d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Transculturality, Education and Health in the Digital Age and Times of Uncertainty)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,624 Views
16 Pages

The Relative Importance of Spatial Scale Variables for Explaning Macroinvertebrate Richness in Different Aquatic Ecological Function Regions

  • Yuan Zhang,
  • Xiaobo Jia,
  • Jianing Lin,
  • Chang Qian and ,
  • Xin Gao and
  • Sen Ding
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 July 2019

Identifying the key drivers of aquatic fauna structuring at multiple spatial scales is critical in reducing biodiversity loss. Macroinvertebrates are the most sensitive indicators of disturbance and they are used as a cost-effective tool for bioasses...

(This article belongs to the Section Water Quality and Contamination)
  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
6,726 Views
12 Pages

In this study, quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) models were determined based on 91 antioxidant tripeptides. We firstly adopted the stepwise regression (SWR) method for selecting key variables without autocorrelation and then utiliz...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,127 Views
28 Pages

Comprehensive Performance Assessment of Dual Loop Organic Rankine Cycle (DORC) for CNG Engine: Energy, Thermoeconomic and Environment

  • Xu Ping,
  • Baofeng Yao,
  • Hongguang Zhang,
  • Hongzhi Zhang and ,
  • Jia Liang,
  • Meng Yuan,
  • Kai Niu and
  • Yan Wang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

22 October 2022

The improvement of the overall utilization rate of compressed natural gas (CNG) engine fuel is the basis of efficient energy utilization. On the foundation of heat balance theory of internal combustion engines, this study fully considers the operatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High-Efficiency and Low-Emission Internal Combustion Engine Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,533 Views
20 Pages

Jewel 2.0: An Improved Joint Estimation Method for Multiple Gaussian Graphical Models

  • Claudia Angelini,
  • Daniela De Canditiis and
  • Anna Plaksienko

26 October 2022

In this paper, we consider the problem of estimating the graphs of conditional dependencies between variables (i.e., graphical models) from multiple datasets under Gaussian settings. We present jewel 2.0, which improves our previous method jewel 1.0...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Statistical Data Modeling and Machine Learning with Applications II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,331 Views
19 Pages

3 December 2018

Stormwater quality modeling remains one of the most challenging issues in urban hydrology today. The processes involved in contaminant generation and transport are very complex, with many associated uncertainties, including uncertainty arising from p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue GIS-Based Hydrology and Water Quality Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
675 Views
25 Pages

A 3D Fold-Modeling Method Based on Multiple-Point Statistics and Long Short-Term Memory Networks

  • Xueye Chen,
  • Gang Liu,
  • Hongfeng Fang,
  • Qiyu Chen and ,
  • Ce Zhang,
  • Zhesi Cui,
  • Zhenwen He,
  • Wenyao Fan and
  • Junping Xiong
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

22 April 2026

Accurate fold models are of great significance for mineralization control, resource exploration, and underground engineering. However, existing automated modeling methods show difficulty in quantitatively describing fold development patterns and lack...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Geostatistical Information Analysis and Mapping)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,274 Views
22 Pages

Can Shape–Size–Increment Models Guide the Sustainable Management of Araucaria Forests? Insights from Selected Stands in Southern Brazil

  • André Felipe Hess,
  • Veraldo Liesenberg,
  • Laryssa Demétrio,
  • Laio Zimermann Oliveira and ,
  • Marchante Olímpio Assura Ambrósio,
  • Emanuel Arnoni Costa and
  • Polyana da Conceição Bispo
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

4 July 2025

Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) requires the building of relationships among diameter increment, shape, and size (ISS), and increment–age variables to identify critical changes in forest structure and dynamics. This understanding is essenti...

(This article belongs to the Section Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,666 Views
16 Pages

The Effect of Drying Variables on the Microwave–Vacuum-Drying Characteristics of Mulberries (Morus alba L.): Experiments and Multivariate Models

  • Yuyang Cong,
  • Yang Liu,
  • Yurong Tang,
  • Jiale Ma and ,
  • Xingyu Wang,
  • Shuai Shen and
  • Hong Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

20 September 2023

It is easy to cause increases in temperature and the gasification of water in materials, facilitated via supercharging and the generation of instantaneous strong pressure under the collaborative action of a microwave and a vacuum, thus facilitating t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Grain Harvesting, Processing Technology, and Storage Management)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access

Enterprise Machine Learning Model to Predict the Financial Loss Variable Resulting from Cybersecurity Incidents

  • Jairo Vladimir Hidalgo Guijarro,
  • Henry Xavier Hidalgo Guijarro and
  • Georgina Guadalupe Arcos Ponce

18 September 2026

The developed machine learning model aims to predict the “financial loss” caused by cybersecurity incidents, based on variables associated with the operational impact of attacks, such as the number of affected users and the incident resol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
774 Views
21 Pages

28 January 2026

Based on field inventory data collected from 117 temporary plots in Sichuan Province, 19 bamboo culm height–diameter at breast height (DBH) base models for Cizhu (Bambusa emeiensis) were constructed and assessed to evaluate the effectiveness an...

(This article belongs to the Section Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,109 Views
22 Pages

Estimating Forest Above-Ground Biomass in Central Amazonia Using Polarimetric Attributes of ALOS/PALSAR Images

  • Igor da Silva Narvaes,
  • João Roberto dos Santos,
  • Polyanna da Conceição Bispo,
  • Paulo Maurício de Alencastro Graça and ,
  • Ulisses Silva Guimarães and
  • Fábio Furlan Gama
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

3 May 2023

Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are essential to understand forest structure and plan forest inventories with the purpose of natural resource management and environmental conservation efforts. We developed a method for estimating a...

(This article belongs to the Section Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,081 Views
22 Pages

29 June 2024

The objective of basic oxygen furnace (BOF) steelmaking is to achieve molten steel with final carbon content, temperature, and phosphorus content meeting the requirements. Accurate prediction of the above properties is crucial for end-point control i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Process and Numerical Simulation of Oxygen Steelmaking)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,390 Views
21 Pages

A Strategic Framework for Transformational Leadership Development in Megaprojects

  • Abdulla Abdulaziz Al-Subaie,
  • Mohd. Nishat Faisal,
  • Belaid Aouni and
  • Faisal Talib

21 March 2021

Project managers’ leadership has a direct and an indirect effect on project success. Extant literature has established that transformational leadership style positively affects project success in a major way. The main aim of this research is to under...

  • Article
  • Open Access
822 Views
19 Pages

Surface texture plays a key role in pavement safety and performance, yet its degradation is influenced by multiple interacting factors that vary across road networks. This study developed statistical models to characterize and predict surface texture...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Road Design and Traffic Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,316 Views
16 Pages

Study of Genetic Variation in Bermuda Grass along Longitudinal and Latitudinal Gradients Using Spectral Reflectance

  • Jingxue Zhang,
  • Mengli Han,
  • Liwen Wang,
  • Minghui Chen and ,
  • Chen Chen,
  • Sicong Shen,
  • Jiangui Liu,
  • Chao Zhang,
  • Jiali Shang and
  • Xuebing Yan
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

6 February 2023

Genetic variation among populations within plant species can have huge impact on canopy biochemistry and structure across broad spatial scales. Since canopy spectral reflectance is determined largely by canopy biochemistry and structure, spectral ref...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Crop Growth Monitoring Using Remote Sensing: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
9,653 Views
15 Pages

27 September 2019

Background and Objectives: Pain affects psychological stress and general health in the working population. However, the factors affecting psychological job stress related to chronic pain are unclear. This study aimed to clarify the structural differe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Chronic Pain Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
7,007 Views
18 Pages

13 April 2020

Education plays a very significant role in the context of sustainability. As the world population is growing, providing education through the traditional classroom setting is not sufficient and not feasible to extend learning in professional life. Th...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Education and Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,155 Views
15 Pages

27 November 2024

Transformer model is a type of deep learning model that has quickly become fundamental in natural language processing (NLP) and other machine learning tasks. Transformer hardware accelerators are usually designed for specific models, such as Bidirect...

(This article belongs to the Topic Theory and Applications of High Performance Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
599 Views
34 Pages

9 July 2026

ICESat-2/ATLAS photon-counting LiDAR faces several challenges in regional-scale forest aboveground biomass (AGB) estimation. These challenges include sparse sampling, signal saturation, terrain effects, and limited model generalization. To solve thes...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue UAV Photogrammetry and Terrestrial Laser Scanning for Precision Forestry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,037 Views
13 Pages

A Recurrent Neural Network for Identifying Multiple Chaotic Systems

  • José Luis Echenausía-Monroy,
  • Jonatan Pena Ramirez,
  • Joaquín Álvarez,
  • Raúl Rivera-Rodríguez and ,
  • Luis Javier Ontañón-García and
  • Daniel Alejandro Magallón-García
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 June 2024

This paper presents a First-Order Recurrent Neural Network activated by a wavelet function, in particular a Morlet wavelet, with a fixed set of parameters and capable of identifying multiple chaotic systems. By maintaining a fixed structure for the n...

(This article belongs to the Section C2: Dynamical Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,665 Views
28 Pages

7 April 2025

This study estimates the impact of some socio-economic, real estate, and accessibility factors on the demographic change of the Italian provinces. Migration rates were analysed for one hundred and thirteen provincial capitals, or former provincial ca...

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