An optimized synthetic protocol toward the assembly of Kuhn verdazyls based on an azo coupling of arenediazonium salts with readily available hydrazones followed by the base-mediated cyclization of in situ formed formazans with formalin was developed...
The tiny magnetic steel pair (TMSP), composed by two tiny magnetic steel blocks (TMSBs), is critical for some precision instruments. Incorrect matching of TMSP may result in insufficient instrument performance. Herein, the matching method of TMSP bas...
The development of new concepts for smart cities and the application of drones in this area requires different architecture for the drones’ stations (nests) and their placement. Drones’ stations are designed to protect drones from hazards...
In view of a complex multi-factor interaction relationship and high uncertainty of a battlefield environment in the anti-missile troop deployment, this paper analyzes the relationships between the defending stronghold, weapon system, incoming target,...
A comprehensive theory is developed for the chiral optical response of two configurations of the N-oscillator Born–Kuhn model (NOBK): the helically stacked and the corner stacked models. In the helical NOBK model, there is always a chiral respo...
A double optimal solution (DOS) of a least-squares problem Ax=b,A∈Rq×n with q≠n is derived in an m+1-dimensional varying affine Krylov subspace (VAKS); two minimization techniques exactly determine the m+1 expansion coefficients of the...
Atomistic simulations of the linear, entangled polyethylene C1000H2002 melt undergoing steady-state and startup conditions of uniaxial elongational flow (UEF) over a wide range of flow strength were performed using a united-atom model for the atomic...
Dwarf bunt and common bunt diseases of wheat are caused by Tilletia controversa Kühn and Tilletia foetida Kühn, respectively, and losses caused by these diseases can reach 70–80% in favourable conditions. T. controversa and T. foetida...
In Follow-Me Mobile Edge Cloud (FMEC) environments, Virtual Network Function (VNF) instances dynamically move in tandem with user mobility. For latency-sensitive applications, hot backups aim to reduce service downtimes during primary VNF instance fa...
The number of plants produced in horticultural substrates has increased over the last decade. These substrates are to have some physicochemical and phytosanitary characteristics that allow for optimal growth. Rhizoctonia solani JG Kühn is one of...
This paper presents an algorithm for finding the optimal control for a current controller that operates as a part of a control system of a shunt active power filter. The algorithm is based upon the Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions for finding an optimal...
Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn (Pteridaceae family) has been widely used as a food and medicine in China and Korea. Previous studies indicate that P. aquilinum contains a variety of bioactive chemical components such as flavonoids, phenols, terpenoids...
Bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn) is ubiquitous and acts as a cosmopolitan weed in pastures and similar environments. Despite its historical uses, it presents risks due to toxicity. This study, conducted in the second half of 2023, aimed t...
In this paper, we demonstrate how a systematic taxonomy of stances can help elucidate two classic debates of the historical turn—the Lakatos–Feyerabend debate concerning theory rejection and the Feyerabend–Kuhn debate about pluralism during normal sc...
Plasmon chirality has garnered significant interest in sensing application due to its strong electromagnetic field localization and highly tunable optical properties. Understanding the effects of mode coupling in chiral structures on chiral optical a...
This paper studies the characterizations of (weakly) Pareto-Nash equilibria for multiobjective population games with a vector-valued potential function called multiobjective potential population games, where agents synchronously maximize multiobjecti...
An important question facing contemporary philosophy of science is whether the natural sciences in terms of their historical records exhibit distinguishing developmental patterns or structures. At least two philosophical stances are possible in answe...
The impact of immediate emotions on human decision-making has been extensively studied; however, their role within human–machine interactive systems remains underexplored. This study investigates how emotional states influence decision-making b...
Thomas Kuhn’s paradigm theory tells us that the science itself has a certain structure and the development of science has its own laws. His historicism research methodology in philosophy of science provides us a research approach having much referent...
Tilletia controversa J. G. Kühn is a causal organism of dwarf bunt in wheat. Understanding the interaction of wheat and T. controversa is of practical and scientific importance for disease control. In this study, the relative expression of TaLHY and...
In this paper, the Fischer–Burmeister active-set trust-region (FBACTR) algorithm is introduced to solve the nonlinear bilevel programming problems. In FBACTR algorithm, a Karush–Kuhn–Tucker (KKT) condition is used with the Fischer&n...
The rice sheath blight disease, caused by Rhizoctonia solani J.G. Kühn fungus, is a major disease of Oryza sativa L. occurring all over the world. Therefore, efforts need to be undertaken to limit the spread of this pathogen, preferably by using...
In this paper, we study the optimality conditions and perform a stability analysis for the second-order cone constrained variational inequalities (SOCCVI) problem. The Lagrange function and Karush–Kuhn–Tucker (KKT) condition of the SOCCVI...
D2D communication is a promising technology for enhancing spectral efficiency (SE) in cellular networks, and full-duplex (FD) has the potential to double SE. Due to D2D’s short-distance communication and low transmittance power, it is natural t...
Battery energy storage systems (BESSs) are key components in efficiently managing the electric power supply and demand in microgrids. However, the BESSs have issues in their investment costs and operating lifetime, and thus, the optimal sizing of the...
Wheat dwarf bunt is a damaging disease caused by Tilletia controversa Kühn (TCK). Once the disease infects wheat, it is difficult to control and will significantly reduce wheat output and quality. RNA sequencing and whole genome re-sequencing we...
Brea gum (BG) is a hydrocolloid obtained as an exudate from the Cercidium praecox tree. The physicochemical properties of brea gum are similar to those of the arabic gum and, in many cases, the former can replace the latter. The brea gum was incorpor...
Support vector machine (SVM) models apply the Karush–Kuhn–Tucker (KKT-OC) optimality conditions in the ordinary derivative to the primal optimisation problem, which has a major influence on the weights associated with the dissimilarity be...
Rhizoctonia root rot and web blight caused by Rhizoctonia solani Kühn is one of the destructive diseases of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). A two-year study was conducted (2019–2021) to evaluate the common bean landraces and genot...
The proton exchange membrane fuel cell as a green power source is a suitable replacement of the engine mounted generators in the emergency power unit of a more-electric aircraft. Most existing energy management methods for operation of fuel cells in...
Bi-level programming is widely used in processing various questions, but it cannot deal with the complex and fuzzy information contained in problems. In order to solve such problems better with intricate and vague information that can be efficiently...
(1) Background: Optical absorption cross-section—the absolute absorption intensity specific to each molecule—of nucleic acid bases enables us to estimate the reaction yields of DNA lesions induced by the exposure to not only photons but a...
Noise in an image can affect one’s extraction of image information, therefore, image denoising is an important image pre-processing process. Many of the existing models have a large number of estimated parameters, which increases the time compl...
As energy and carbon markets evolve, it has emerged as a prevalent trend for multiple virtual power plants (VPPs) to engage in market trading through coordinated operation. Given that these VPPs belong to diverse stakeholders, a competitive dynamic i...
The demand-responsive public transport system with multi-vehicles has the potential to efficiently meet real-time and high-volume transportation needs through effective scheduling. This paper focuses on studying the real-time vehicle scheduling probl...
This study investigates the effects of take-back regulations and remanufacturing competition on e-product OEM design for remanufacturing (DfR) strategies and remanufacturing decisions within a closed-loop supply chain. Considering the monopolistic re...
With the growth of computing power, deep learning methods have recently been widely used in machine fault diagnosis. In order to realize highly efficient diagnosis accuracy, people need to know the detailed health condition of collected signals from...
The water-filling (WF) algorithm is a widely used design strategy in the radar waveform design field to maximize the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR). To address the problem of the poor resolution performance of the waveform caused by t...
In this article, we present a novel methodology for inventory management in the pharmaceutical industry, considering the nature of its supply chain. Traditional inventory models often fail to capture the particularities of the pharmaceutical sector,...
Shift organizations in automotive manufacturing often rely on manual task allocation, resulting in inefficiencies, human error, and increased workload for supervisors. This research introduces an automated solution using the Kuhn-Munkres algorithm, i...
The problem of energy optimization for Internet of Things (IoT) devices is crucial for two reasons. Firstly, IoT devices powered by renewable energy sources have limited energy resources. Secondly, the aggregate energy requirement for these small and...
Hedging is widely used to mitigate severe water shortages in the operation of reservoirs during droughts. Rationing is usually instituted with one hedging policy, which is based only on one trigger, i.e., initial storage level or current water availa...
Seventy-eight common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) seed samples were collected from twenty-one field locations across six governorates (Ismailia, Sharkia, Port Said, South Sinai, North Sinai, and Suez) in the East Delta region of Egypt between 2021 an...
This paper proposes a novel sparse twin parametric insensitive support vector regression (STPISVR) model, designed to enhance sparsity and improve generalization performance. Similar to twin parametric insensitive support vector regression (TPISVR),...
Accurate correspondence of complex neuroanatomical surfaces under non-rigid deformations remains a formidable challenge in computational neuroimaging, owing to inter-subject topological variability, partial occlusions, and non-isometric distortions....
Wheat dwarf bunt is caused by Tilletia controversa J. G. Kühn (TCK), which is a serious fungal diseases affecting kernels of wheat. In order to identify candidate genes involved in the abnormal development of kernels in wheat, we used RNA sequen...
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications have gained recognition as a promising technology due to their unique characteristics of rapid deployment and flexible configuration. Meanwhile, device-to-device (D2D) and full-duplex (FD) technologies hav...
The Paris Agreement aims to combat climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, with bioenergy identified as a potential solution. However, concerns remain about its impact on carbon stocks and the optimal timing for implementation. To addres...
Energy storage (ES) units are vital for the reliable and economical operation of the power system with a high penetration of renewable distributed generators (DGs). Due to ES’s high investment costs and long payback period, energy management wi...
Blast disease and sheath blight disease caused by infection with Pyricularia oryzae and Rhizoctonia solani, respectively, are serious fungal diseases in paddy fields. Although synthetic fungicides have been used to control these diseases, the develop...
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