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23 Citations
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Properties of Sm-Doped SrCl2 Crystalline Scintillators

  • Daisuke Nakauchi,
  • Yutaka Fujimoto,
  • Takumi Kato,
  • Noriaki Kawaguchi and
  • Takayuki Yanagida

8 April 2022

Sm-doped SrCl2 crystals were prepared, and the scintillation properties such as emission spectra, decay profiles, and pulse height were investigated. Under X-ray irradiation, a broad band can be observed at 680 nm, which indicates that the major orig...

(This article belongs to the Section Inorganic Crystalline Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,397 Views
15 Pages

30 November 2022

We investigate how an investor’s preference for sustainable assets in the portfolio varies for differing levels of risk aversion. Using a sample of 411 publicly listed firms in the S&P 500, we calculate financial and sustainability returns,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Transition Risk to a Low-Carbon Economy and the Effects on Financial Markets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,804 Views
21 Pages

On Nonlinear Regression for Trends in Split-Belt Treadmill Training

  • Usman Rashid,
  • Nitika Kumari,
  • Nada Signal,
  • Denise Taylor and
  • Alain C. Vandal

14 October 2020

Single and double exponential models fitted to step length symmetry series are used to evaluate the timecourse of adaptation and de-adaptation in instrumented split-belt treadmill tasks. Whilst the nonlinear regression literature has developed substa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,176 Views
23 Pages

7 July 2021

Recently, two general methods for evaluating matrix polynomials requiring one matrix product less than the Paterson–Stockmeyer method were proposed, where the cost of evaluating a matrix polynomial is given asymptotically by the total number of matri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Models and Methods in Engineering and Social Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,877 Views
44 Pages

13 May 2026

This paper establishes a theoretical framework for treating communication quality as a navigable resource in long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) control under stochastic degradation. We prove that a hierarchical architecture integrating comm...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Navigation, Control and Mission Planning Advances for Safe, Efficient and Autonomous Drones: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,202 Views
10 Pages

22 August 2023

In this study, we provide an efficient simulation to investigate the behavior of the solution to the Brusselator system (a biodynamic system) with the Rabotnov fractional-exponential (RFE) kernel fractional derivative. A system of fractional differen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetries of Difference Equations, Special Functions and Orthogonal Polynomials II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,320 Views
17 Pages

Activation of the Rat P2X7 Receptor by Functionally Different ATP Activation Sites

  • Fritz Markwardt,
  • Malte Berthold,
  • Sanaria Hawro Yakoob and
  • Günther Schmalzing

6 June 2025

The homotrimeric P2X7 receptor (P2X7R) contains three ATP4− binding sites in its ectodomain. Here, we investigated the role of individual ATP4− activation sites in rat P2X7R (rP2X7R) using trimeric concatemers consisting of either three w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
423 Views
12 Pages

16 May 2026

We study the quantitative structure of the reciprocity gap method for inclusions with spatially varying conductivity. Motivated by the variable-coefficient reciprocity gap identity, we investigate the discrete approximation mechanism underlying the b...

(This article belongs to the Section E4: Mathematical Physics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,075 Views
20 Pages

A Computational Quantum-Based Perspective on the Molecular Origins of Life’s Building Blocks

  • Gabriele Amante,
  • Judit E. Sponer,
  • Jiri Sponer,
  • Franz Saija and
  • Giuseppe Cassone

22 July 2022

The search for the chemical origins of life represents a long-standing and continuously debated enigma. Despite its exceptional complexity, in the last decades the field has experienced a revival, also owing to the exponential growth of the computing...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Processes in Living Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
432 Views
42 Pages

11 September 2026

Reliable attribution of artificial intelligence (AI)-generated text to a specific large language model (LLM) matters increasingly as LLMs proliferate, yet where quantum machine learning actually stands on this task has, to our knowledge, never been m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Technologies in Quantum Cryptography and Quantum Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,182 Views
18 Pages

This paper proposes an approximation method to create an optimal continuous-time portfolio strategy based on a combination of neural networks and Monte Carlo, named NNMC. This work is motivated by the increasing complexity of continuous-time models a...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematics and Finance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,698 Views
13 Pages

Mathematical Model of Call Center in the Form of Multi-Server Queueing System

  • Anatoly Nazarov,
  • Alexander Moiseev and
  • Svetlana Moiseeva

12 November 2021

The paper considers the model of a call center in the form of a multi-server queueing system with Poisson arrivals and an unlimited waiting area. In the model under consideration, incoming calls do not differ in terms of service conditions, requested...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Mathematical Analysis in Telecommunications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
291 Views
30 Pages

31 August 2026

Bounded observations occur in a variety of applied scenarios such as reliability probabilities, degradation measures, rates, and other functions defined on the unit interval for which flexible distributional and hazard-rate behavior are desired. This...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Statistical Simulation and Computing, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,413 Views
10 Pages

1 April 2010

In this study, two boundary functionals N\(_{1}\) and \(\tau_{1}\) of the renewal reward process with a discrete interference of chance (X(t)) are investigated. A relation between the moment generating function (\(\Psi\)N(z)) of the boundary function...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,314 Views
20 Pages

30 August 2018

In this paper, we present algorithms for predicting a spatio-temporal random field measured by mobile robotic sensors under uncertainties in localization and measurements. The spatio-temporal field of interest is modeled by a sum of a time-varying me...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
72 Citations
7,853 Views
28 Pages

5 April 2022

We study numerical approaches to computation of spectral properties of composition operators. We provide a characterization of Koopman Modes in Banach spaces using Generalized Laplace Analysis. We cast the Dynamic Mode Decomposition-type methods in t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamical Systems and Operator Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,624 Views
28 Pages

28 June 2021

In this article, the tampered failure rate model is used in partially accelerated life testing. A non-decreasing time function, often called a ‘‘time transformation function", is proposed to tamper the failure rate under design conditions. Different...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
184 Views
13 Pages

The paper examines the possibility of compensating one of the significant systematic factors in turning that affects the quality of machined surfaces—namely, the dimensional wear of cutting inserts during finish turning. Predictive wear models...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 15th International Scientific Conference TechSys 2026—Engineering, Technologies and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,048 Views
12 Pages

13 December 2020

Separating non-ideal mixtures by pervaporation (hence PV) is a competitive alternative to most traditional methods, such as distillation, which are based on the vapour–liquid equilibrium (VLE). It must be said, in many cases, accurate VLE data...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Membrane Separations, Membrane Filtrations, Pervaporation, and Modeling of Membrane Separation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,258 Views
15 Pages

8 March 2023

To gain insight into various phenomena of interest, cumulative distribution functions (CDFs) can be used to analyze survey data. The purpose of this study was to present an efficient ratiocum-exponential estimator for estimating a population CDF usin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Survey Statistics and Survey Sampling: Challenges and Opportunities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,399 Views
28 Pages

24 July 2025

This paper explores statistical techniques for estimating unknown lifetime parameters using data from a progressive first-failure censoring scheme. The failure times are modeled with a new Weibull–Pareto distribution. Maximum likelihood estimat...

(This article belongs to the Section D1: Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
394 Views
25 Pages

2 September 2026

Slopes excavated in coal-measure strata are prone to rainfall-induced landslides because water-induced disturbances progressively degrade rock-mass shear strength. This study investigated six coal-measure lithologies from the unloading zone of the Fu...

(This article belongs to the Topic Dynamic Disaster Control, Mine Multi-Source Disaster Monitoring and Intelligent Analysis, 2nd Edition)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,030 Views
67 Pages

14 April 2026

The Mittag-Leffler function holds significant importance in fractional calculus due to its extensive applications in addressing challenges across science, engineering, biology, hydrology, and earth sciences. Notably, the closed-form solution of a tim...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis: Theory and Applications, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
385 Views
26 Pages

2 June 2026

This paper designs a novel aperiodic intermittent control (AIC) strategy using discrete-time observation information. It can stabilize unstable hybrid McKean–Vlasov stochastic differential equations and reduce control consumption effectively. K...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in the Research on Solutions of Impulsive Differential Equations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,619 Views
14 Pages

3 May 2020

In the last few years, water utilities have recognized the importance of evaluating the safety of water distribution networks from the potential risks of contamination, arising from failures or from intentional (targeted) or random attacks. Research...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Water Management: A Pragmatic Approach)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,656 Views
27 Pages

22 December 2022

In this paper, we study the perturbed risk model with a threshold dividend strategy and proportional investment. The insurance companies are allowed to invest their surplus in a financial market consisting of a risk-free asset and a risky asset in fi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Economics and Insurance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,689 Views
15 Pages

16 September 2023

A quantum particle constrained between two high potential barriers provides a paradigmatic example of a system sustaining quasi-bound (or resonance) states. When the system is prepared in one of such quasi-bound states, the wave function approximatel...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Tunneling in Complex Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,646 Views
25 Pages

Reliability Analysis of Military Vehicles Based on Censored Failures Data

  • Mateusz Oszczypała,
  • Jarosław Ziółkowski and
  • Jerzy Małachowski

3 March 2022

The paper proposes a methodology of reliability testing as applied to vehicles used in military transport systems. After estimating the value of the reliability function using the Kaplan–Meier estimator, reliability models were developed and an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Soft Computing Application to Engineering Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,785 Views
19 Pages

12 May 2022

In this article, the estimation of the parameters and the reliability and hazard functions for Weibull inverted exponential (WIE) distribution is considered based on progressive first-failure censoring (PFFC) data. For non-Bayesian inference, maximum...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bayesian Inference and Modeling with Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,741 Views
23 Pages

Statistical Inferences about Parameters of the Pseudo Lindley Distribution with Acceptance Sampling Plans

  • Fatehi Yahya Eissa,
  • Chhaya Dhanraj Sonar,
  • Osama Abdulaziz Alamri and
  • Ahlam H. Tolba

29 June 2024

Different non-Bayesian and Bayesian techniques were used to estimate the pseudo-Lindley (PsL) distribution’s parameters in this study. To derive Bayesian estimators, one must assume appropriate priors on the parameters and use loss functions su...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Statistics and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,508 Views
12 Pages

Phase Equilibria Simulation of Biomaterial-Hydrogen Binary Systems Using a Simple Empirical Correlation

  • Fardad Faress,
  • Afham Pourahmad,
  • Seyyed Amirreza Abdollahi,
  • Mohammad Hossein Safari and ,
  • Mozhgan Mozhdeh,
  • Falah Alobaid and
  • Babak Aghel
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

28 February 2023

This study proposes a simple correlation for approximating hydrogen solubility in biomaterials as a function of pressure and temperature. The pre-exponential term of the proposed model linearly relates to the pressure, whereas the exponential term is...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,087 Views
17 Pages

Fire Effect and Performance of Bridge Pylon Columns under Construction

  • Yang Li,
  • Zuocai Wang,
  • Changjian Wang,
  • Yin Zhang and ,
  • Hongsheng Ma and
  • Lili Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 October 2023

The fire effect and performance of bridge pylons under construction were investigated via an analysis conducted on two types of pylons with different wall thicknesses. Three fire scenarios, namely internal fire, external ring fire, and external side...

(This article belongs to the Section Fire Risk Assessment and Safety Management in Buildings and Urban Spaces)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,404 Views
13 Pages

31 January 2012

In many life-testing and reliability studies, the experimenter might not always obtain complete information on failure times for all experimental units. Multiply Type-II censored sampling arises in a life-testing experiment whenever the experimenter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,108 Views
13 Pages

In this paper, a collocation method based on the Jacobi polynomial is proposed for a class of optimal-control problems of a fractional distributed system. By using the Lagrange multiplier technique and fractional variational principle, the stated pro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Fractional Order Derivatives and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,004 Views
22 Pages

PSO-Based Identification of the Li-Ion Battery Cell Parameters

  • Tadeusz Białoń,
  • Roman Niestrój and
  • Wojciech Korski

9 May 2023

The article describes the results of research aimed at identifying the parameters of the equivalent circuit of a lithium-ion battery cell, based on the results of HPPC (hybrid pulse power characterization) tests. The OCV (open circuit voltage) charac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Mining Applications for Charging of Electric Vehicles II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,290 Views
19 Pages

22 September 2023

The Gaussian-radial-basis function neural network (GRBFNN) has been a popular choice for interpolation and classification. However, it is computationally intensive when the dimension of the input vector is high. To address this issue, we propose a ne...

(This article belongs to the Section Evolutionary Algorithms and Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,344 Views
31 Pages

19 September 2025

Progressive first-failure censoring is a flexible and cost-efficient strategy that captures real-world testing scenarios where only the first failure is observed at each stage while randomly removing remaining units, making it ideal for biomedical an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advance in Applied Probability and Statistical Inference)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,362 Views
22 Pages

21 April 2025

This article investigates and analyzes the diverse patterns of Julia sets generated by new classes of generalized exponential and sine rational functions. Using a generalized viscosity approximation-type iterative method, we derive escape criteria to...

(This article belongs to the Topic Fractal and Design of Multipoint Iterative Methods for Nonlinear Problems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,209 Views
24 Pages

27 December 2013

Computing quantum dynamics in condensed matter systems is an open challenge due to the exponential scaling of exact algorithms with the number of degrees of freedom. Current methods try to reduce the cost of the calculation using classical dynamics a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Molecular Dynamics Simulation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
1,987 Views
21 Pages

Insight into Functional Boiti–Leon–Mana–Pempinelli Equation and Error Control: Approximate Similarity Solutions

  • Manal Alqhtani,
  • Rekha Srivastava,
  • Hamdy I. Abdel-Gawad,
  • Jorge E. Macías-Díaz and ,
  • Khaled M. Saad and
  • Waleed M. Hamanah
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

7 November 2023

The Boiti–Leon–Mana–Pempinelli Equation (BLMPE) is an essential mathematical model describing wave propagation in incompressible fluid dynamics. In the present manuscript, a novel generalization of the BLMPE is introduced, called he...

(This article belongs to the Section C1: Difference and Differential Equations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,817 Views
29 Pages

27 September 2023

In life testing and reliability studies, most researchers have used the maximum likelihood estimation method to estimate unknown parameters, even though it has been proven that the maximum product of spacing method has properties as good as the maxim...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematical Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,621 Views
21 Pages

18 April 2023

The spatial scaling of patterns and processes is a hot topic of research in landscape ecology, and different scales may yield completely inconsistent results. Therefore, to understand the impact of the scale effect on urban heat island effect, this s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Thermal Remote Sensing for Monitoring Terrestrial Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,167 Views
39 Pages

Estimation of the Measurement Accuracy of Wireless Passive Resonance Sensors

  • Leonhard M. Reindl,
  • Taimur Aftab,
  • Thomas Schaechtle,
  • Thomas Ostertag and ,
  • Wei Luo and
  • Stefan Johann Rupitsch
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 January 2025

Resonators are passive devices that respond to an excitation signal by oscillating at their natural frequency with exponentially decreasing amplitudes. Physical, chemical and electrical variables can modify the natural frequencies of resonators. If r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Physical Sensors 2024)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
855 Views
20 Pages

8 November 2025

This study systematically investigated the effects of mix design conditions (water–cement ratio) and rubber properties (particle size, surface area, and mixing ratio) on the flowability and mechanical characteristics of rubberized concrete, in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Section "Engineering and Materials" 2025)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,384 Views
14 Pages

2 October 2023

In this research, random censoring is employed as a methodology for parameter estimation within the context of an exponential distribution. These parameter estimations are conducted using both the Bayesian and maximum likelihood approaches. In the Ba...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Skewed (Asymmetrical) Probability Distributions and Applications across Disciplines III)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,076 Views
24 Pages

18 May 2023

In this work, we find analytical solutions to the Chavy-Waddy–Kolokolnikov equation, a continuum approximation for modeling aggregate formation in bacteria moving toward the light, also known as phototaxis. We used three methods to obtain the s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Partial Differential Equations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,846 Views
13 Pages

On the Partition Temperature of Massless Particles in High-Energy Collisions

  • Wei-Liang Qian,
  • Kai Lin,
  • Rui-Hong Yue,
  • Yogiro Hama and
  • Takeshi Kodama

8 November 2023

Although partition temperature derived using the Darwin–Fowler method is exact for simple scenarios, the derivation for complex systems might reside in specific approximations whose viability is not ensured if the thermodynamic limit is not att...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Aspects of Particle Physics and High Energy Physics- Dedicated to Zhengdao Li's 95 Anniversary)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,191 Views
12 Pages

23 January 2026

This paper investigates the optimal portfolio control problem under a stochastic volatility model, whose dynamics are governed by a highly nonlinear Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman equation. We employ a separable value function and introduce a no...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Financial Mathematics and Stochastic Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,218 Views
16 Pages

15 January 2019

To investigate Lamb waves in thin films made of functionally graded viscoelastic material, we deduce the governing equation with respect to the displacement component and solve these partial differential equations with complex variable coefficients b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Mechanical Problems of Functionally Graded Materials and Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,040 Views
16 Pages

4 October 2024

Based on Type-I generalized progressive hybrid censored samples (GPHCSs), the parameter estimate for the unit-half logistic-geometry (UHLG) distribution is investigated in this work. Using maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) and Bayesian estimation,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Reliability and Risk of Complex Systems: Modelling, Analysis and Optimization)

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