The integration of renewable energy is rapidly leading the existing grid systems toward modern hybrid power systems. These hybrid power systems are more complex due to the random and intermittent nature of RE and involve numerous operational challeng...
Banking malware are malicious programs that attempt to steal confidential information, such as banking authentication credentials, from users. Zeus is one of the most widespread banking malware variants ever discovered. Since the Zeus source code was...
Sustainable forest management provides ecological, economic, and social benefits to society. Sustaining these benefits in Arkansas relies on 345,000 nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) landowners who own 4.2 million hectares (10.4 million acres) of f...
Fuzz testing is a simple automated software testing approach that discovers software vulnerabilities at a high level of performance by using randomly generated seeds. However, it is restrained by coverage and thus, there are chances of finding bugs e...
This mixed methods study explored perspectives from volunteer coaches and team parents involved in one sport-based youth development program, Junior Giants. The purpose was to (a) compare multiple perspectives on program impact and (b) investigate pr...
The energy audit—an assessment of a home’s energy systems performed by a trained auditor in order to provide the resident with strategies for saving energy and money—is provided by many utility companies throughout the United States...
The ubiquitous presence of marine litter has brought huge environmental pressure. A wide range of measures have been developed to address this problem. This paper focuses on the removal measure—Fishing for Litter (FEL). It aims to identify the...
The effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure on zero-leverage policies is examined for listed firms at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) from 2010 to 2021. Binary logistic regression models show a statistically significant positive...
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In this paper, we present our experience with redesigning an introductory computer science course for (electrical) engineers with blended learning concepts. It is a large mandatory course with eight credit points over the course of two semesters, whe...
We describe the problem of re-balancing a number of units distributed over a geographic area. Each unit consists of a number of components. A value between 0 and 1 describes the current rating of each component. By a piecewise linear function, this v...
Memristors have garnered considerable attention within the scientific community as devices for emerging construction of Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) systems. Owing to their inherent properties, they appear to be promising candidates for pivota...
Herein, we report monometallic Ni and bimetallic Pd–Ni catalysts supported on CeO2–Al2O3 binary oxide which are highly active and selective in oxy-steam reforming of methanol (OSRM). Monometallic and bimetallic supported catalysts were pr...
The demand for thermal power generation from natural gas has increased globally due to its cleaner burning properties compared to other fossil fuels. Optimizing the gas flow through the network to meet this demand is challenging due to the nonconvex...
This research analyzes electrical distribution networks using renewable generation sources based on photovoltaic (PV) sources and distribution static compensators (D-STATCOMs) in order to minimize the expected annual grid operating costs for a planni...
The 63.6 million Hispanic individuals living in the United States constitute the largest ethnic or racial minority group in the country. Hispanic/Latino households report a high prevalence of food insecurity, and often, food-insecure individuals cope...
Symbolic regression and symbolic classification generate explicit mathematical expressions that combine predictive modelling with direct model interpretability. However, symbolic learning based on genetic programming can be computationally expensive...
In recent years, the number and scale of malicious codes have grown exponentially, posing an increasing threat to cybersecurity. Hence, it is of great research value to quickly identify variants of malware and master their family information. Binary...
Radio radiation has been detected across the Hertzsprung Russell diagram. We selected three objects with radio radiation (a semi-detached eclipsing binary V Crt, and two detached binaries WY Cnc and CG Cyg) that show magnetic activity. We made new ph...
Eight diffusion couples were fabricated to systematically investigate the composition-dependent interdiffusion behavior in hcp Dy-Y, Dy-Nd, Sm-Nd, and Sm-Tb binary alloys. The interdiffusion coefficients were determined at two representative temperat...
In recent years, twin stacker crane units have been increasingly integrated into large automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RSs) in shipyards to enhance operational efficiency. These common rail units often encounter conflicts, and the additio...
A probabilistic Boolean network (PBN) is well known as one of the mathematical models of gene regulatory networks. In a Boolean network, expression of a gene is approximated by a binary value, and its time evolution is expressed by Boolean functions....
The Earth’s observation programs, through the acquisition of remotely sensed hyperspectral images, aim at detecting and monitoring any relevant surface change due to natural or anthropogenic causes. The proposed algorithm, given as input a pair...
Raising cancer awareness among adolescents can increase their confidence in identifying cancer symptoms and develop healthy habits. This study tested the effectiveness of cancer education based on a new model among high schoolers. A non-randomized co...
Background/Objectives: Cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) levels significantly modulate the risk of cardiometabolic diseases, aging, and mortality. Nevertheless, there is a substantial interindividual variability in CRF responsiveness to a given standar...
Background: Hospital nutrition is an essential component of patient care; however, the nutritional quality of meals in Polish hospitals has raised concerns for many years. In response to these challenges, the Ministry of Health implemented a nationwi...
16 October 2020
Canadian, US, and UK public health and clinical research has identified barriers to health service access for Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, non-binary, and intersex (2SLGBTQ+) communities. While offering important insight in...
This paper proposes a binary linear programming formulation for multiple target assignment of a radar network and demonstrates its applicability to obtain optimal solutions using an off-the-shelf mixed-integer linear programming solver. The goal of r...
This paper presents the development of a U-Net model using four basic optical bands and SRTM data to analyze changes in mangrove forests from 1990 to 2024, with an emphasis on the impact of restoration programs. The model, which employed supervised l...
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(1) Background: Metabolic syndrome is a strong predictor of cardiovascular disease thus the objective of the study was to verify the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in farmers, as well as to verify the association with sociodemographic, work and lif...
This article is part of a series aimed at determining the authorship of source codes. Analyzing binary code is a crucial aspect of cybersecurity, software development, and computer forensics, particularly in identifying malware authors. Any program i...
Numerous network cyberattacks have been launched due to inherent weaknesses. Network intrusion detection is a crucial foundation of the cybersecurity field. Intrusion detection systems (IDSs) are a type of machine learning (ML) software proposed for...
Using assembly theory, we investigate the assembly pathways of binary strings (bitstrings) of length N formed by joining bits present in the assembly pool and the bitstrings that entered the pool as a result of previous joining operations. We show th...
With the rapid growth of edge computing applications, optimizing both edge server placement and task offloading decisions is critical for minimizing system latency in edge–cloud environments. However, these two problems are tightly coupled and...
With the rapid growth of renewable energy integration, power systems are facing increasing uncertainty and variability in operation. The intermittent and uncontrollable nature of wind and solar generation requires operational decisions to anticipate...
A multiple instance learning problem consists of categorizing objects, each represented as a set (bag) of points. Unlike the supervised classification paradigm, where each point of the training set is labeled, the labels are only associated with bags...
The study presented makes an original, new and exhaustive analysis of the adaptation of a classical board game which has been named Binary Who is Who? This proposal shows a very useful tool for the consolidation of mathematical concepts related to th...
The article presents the research on navigation algorithms of a wheeled mobile robot with the use of a vision mapping system and the analysis of energy consumption of selected navigation algorithms, such as RRT and A-star. Obstacle maps were made wit...
In this article, we investigate the Minimum Cardinality Segmentation Problem (MCSP), an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem arising in intensity-modulated radiation therapy. The problem consists in decomposing a given nonnegative integer matri...
12 April 2021
Background: Sustainability of a current family-based long-term care model in Thailand has been challenged by demographic aging, and the rising burden of non-communicable diseases and age-related morbidities. In order to overcome these challenges, a c...
As the final stage of electrical energy delivery, distribution networks play a vital role in ensuring reliable power supply to end users. In regions with limited distribution automation, reliance on operator experience for fault handling often prolon...
This paper aims to present efficient alternative mixed-integer non-linear programming models and a customized hybrid metaheuristic, the Genetic-Based Algorithm (GBA), for a resource-constrained project-scheduling problem with a flexible network struc...
Background: Metamorphic malware is among the most persistent adversarial challenges in cybersecurity: it rewrites its own instruction stream on every propagation, preserving functional semantics while presenting a syntactically distinct binary that d...
The difficulty of obtaining a densely packed granular material as an initial condition is a very common problem in numerical simulations of granular materials. In this article, an Imaginary Coating Algorithm (ICA) is introduced. To avoid unreasonable...
We consider a robust design problem for achieving max-min fairness amongst users in an uplink non-orthogonal multiple access system under imperfect channel state information. Contrary to the conventional approach adopted in the literature, we propose...
With increasing concerns about urban pollution, electric vehicles (EVs) have offered an alternative mode of transportation that reduces urban pollution levels. Previous studies have sought to identify the various factors influencing EV charging patte...
With the improvement of software copyright protection awareness, code obfuscation technology plays a crucial role in protecting key code segments. As the obfuscation technology becomes more and more complex and diverse, it has spawned a large number...
COVID-19 vaccination in adolescents is important because the adolescent population has the highest incidence of COVID-19. This study aimed to explore the factors associated with COVID-19 vaccination adherence among Indonesian adolescents. This cross-...
This work is motivated by a fine chemical industry task where n-propanol should be separated from its aqueous mixture. To accomplish this problem, the pervaporation process intends to apply PERVAP™ 1201 type dehydration membranes and to obtain...
In this work, soot oxidation was conducted over a series of Mn-X/γ-Al2O3 (M = Ce, Co and Cu) binary catalysts in a dielectric barrier discharge reactor. The soot conversion in the plasma–catalytic system was in the order of Mn/γ-Al2...
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