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Filtering Useful App Reviews Using Naïve Bayes—Which Naïve Bayes?

  • Pouya Ataei,
  • Sri Regula,
  • Daniel Staegemann and
  • Saurabh Malgaonkar

5 November 2024

App reviews provide crucial feedback for software maintenance and evolution, but manually extracting useful reviews from vast volumes is time-consuming and challenging. This study investigates the effectiveness of six Naïve Bayes variants for au...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,745 Views
12 Pages

In this paper, the inverse cumulative grey time power model with a Caputo fractional derivative is established, and the solution to the whitening equation is given by the Laplace transform. To improve the prediction accuracy of the model, the linear-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
781 Views
28 Pages

Integrated Subject–Action–Object and Bayesian Models of Intelligent Word Semantic Similarity Measures

  • Siping Zeng,
  • Xiaodong Liu,
  • Wenguang Lin,
  • Vasantha Gokula and
  • Renbin Xiao

13 October 2025

Synonym similarity judgments based on semantic distance calculation play a vital role in supporting applications in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). However, existing semantic computing methods excessively rely on low-efficiency human...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,885 Views
17 Pages

18 February 2023

When performing simulations using computational fluid dynamics, the grid systems in the viscous boundary layer regions are important because the velocity and pressure change very rapidly in these regions. Especially for the turbulent flows, thin grid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
2,554 Views
13 Pages

2 December 2022

A complete Riemannian manifold equipped with some potential function and an invariant conformal measure is referred to as a complete smooth metric measure space. This paper generalizes some integral inequalities of the Hardy type to the setting of a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,741 Views
21 Pages

14 April 2023

The morphology of coarse aggregate has a significant impact on the road performance of asphalt mixtures and aggregate characterization studies, but many studies were based on the two-dimensional morphology of coarse aggregate, which failed to conside...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
10,169 Views
22 Pages

We develop novel multivariate state-space models wherein the latent states evolve on the Stiefel manifold and follow a conditional matrix Langevin distribution. The latent states correspond to time-varying reduced rank parameter matrices, like the lo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,889 Views
25 Pages

2 November 2018

The harmonic potential field of an incompressible nonviscous fluid governed by the Laplace’s Equation has shown its potential for being beneficial to autonomous unmanned vehicles to generate smooth, natural-looking, and predictable paths for ob...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,708 Views
13 Pages

A Note on Killing Calculus on Riemannian Manifolds

  • Sharief Deshmukh,
  • Amira Ishan,
  • Suha B. Al-Shaikh and
  • Cihan Özgür

4 February 2021

In this article, it has been observed that a unit Killing vector field ξ on an n-dimensional Riemannian manifold (M,g), influences its algebra of smooth functions C(M). For instance, if h is an eigenfunction of the Laplace operator Δ with eigenvalue...

  • Article
  • Open Access
857 Views
17 Pages

29 August 2025

We consider a two-step numerical approach for solving parabolic initial boundary value problems in 3D simply connected smooth regions. The method uses the Laplace transform in time, reducing the problem to a set of independent stationary boundary val...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,375 Views
22 Pages

7 December 2023

Transitional free surface flow profiles with a critical point occur with weak vorticity and viscosity effects and thus can be modeled with an irrotational flow approach. Important examples in hydraulic engineering include flow over low obstacles, tra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,939 Views
19 Pages

In this paper, in the class of smooth functions, integration and differentiation operators connected with fractional conformable derivatives are introduced. The mutual reversibility of these operators is proved, and the properties of these operators...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,242 Views
10 Pages

Despite making significant progress in tackling its HIV epidemic, South Africa, with 7.7 million people living with HIV, still has the biggest HIV epidemic in the world. The Government, in collaboration with developmental partners and agencies, has b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
732 Views
9 Pages

27 February 2025

In this paper, we investigate a perturbed parabolic problem involving the Laplace–Beltrami operator on a smooth compact Riemannian manifold M. For a strongly local Dirichlet form in L2(M). More precisely, we begin by proving that, in the case o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,335 Views
18 Pages

15 September 2023

Insert gradient coils with similar imaging body shapes typically have smaller dimensions and higher spatial efficiency. This often allows the gradient coils the achievement of stronger and faster gradient fields. Thus, improving existing methods to m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,514 Views
23 Pages

Inverse problems of recovering surface fluxes on the boundary of a domain from pointwise observations are considered. Sharp conditions on the data ensuring existence and uniqueness of solutions in Sobolev classes are exposed. They are smoothness cond...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,707 Views
17 Pages

On Killing Vector Fields on Riemannian Manifolds

  • Sharief Deshmukh and
  • Olga Belova

28 January 2021

We study the influence of a unit Killing vector field on geometry of Riemannian manifolds. For given a unit Killing vector field w on a connected Riemannian manifold (M,g) we show that for each non-constant smooth function fC(M) there exists a non-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,143 Views
14 Pages

25 November 2020

The Laplace operator on a Riemannian manifold plays an important role with eigenvalue problems and the spectral theory. Extending such an eigenvalue problem of smooth maps including the Gauss map, the notion of finite-type was introduced. The simples...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,119 Views
23 Pages

10 May 2023

We investigate a backward problem of the time-space fractional symmetric diffusion equation with a source term, wherein the negative Laplace operator Δ contained in the main equation belongs to the category of uniformly symmetric ellipti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,837 Views
19 Pages

Analytical Modelling of the Slot Opening Function

  • Antonino Di Gerlando and
  • Claudio Ricca

3 November 2023

The slot opening function, also called relative air gap permeance, is a function which, multiplied by the flux density distribution of a slotless geometry, gives the flux density distribution of a slotted configuration. Here, the magnetic field insid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,617 Views
17 Pages

Hypersurfaces of a Sasakian Manifold

  • Haila Alodan,
  • Sharief Deshmukh,
  • Nasser Bin Turki and
  • Gabriel-Eduard Vîlcu

We extend the study of orientable hypersurfaces in a Sasakian manifold initiated by Watanabe. The Reeb vector field ξ of the Sasakian manifold induces a vector field ξ T on the hypersurface, namely the tangential component of &...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,268 Views
15 Pages

Generalized Null 2-Type Surfaces in Minkowski 3-Space

  • Dae Won Yoon,
  • Dong-Soo Kim,
  • Young Ho Kim and
  • Jae Won Lee

20 January 2017

For the mean curvature vector field H and the Laplace operator Δ of a submanifold in the Minkowski space, a submanifold satisfying the condition Δ H = f H + g C is known as a generalized null 2-type, where f and g are smooth functions,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,089 Views
31 Pages

An Enhanced Adaptive Ensemble Kalman Filter for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Integrated Navigation

  • Zeming Liang,
  • Shuangshuang Fan,
  • Jiacheng Feng,
  • Peng Yuan,
  • Jiangjiang Xu,
  • Xinling Wang and
  • Dongxiao Wang

28 November 2024

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) rely on integrated navigation systems and corresponding filtering algorithms to ensure mission success and the spatiotemporal accuracy of sampled data. Among these, the ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) combines Mont...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,773 Views
22 Pages

26 July 2023

An algorithm is presented for the construction of an asymptotic approximation of a stable stationary solution to a diffusion equation system in a two-dimensional domain with a smooth boundary and a source function that is discontinuous along some smo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,145 Views
14 Pages

An Explicit Wavelet Method for Solution of Nonlinear Fractional Wave Equations

  • Jiong Weng,
  • Xiaojing Liu,
  • Youhe Zhou and
  • Jizeng Wang

28 October 2022

An explicit method for solving time fractional wave equations with various nonlinearity is proposed using techniques of Laplace transform and wavelet approximation of functions and their integrals. To construct this method, a generalized Coiflet with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
810 Views
15 Pages

Well-Posed Problems for the Laplace–Beltrami Operator

  • Karlygash Dosmagulova and
  • Baltabek Kanguzhin

23 August 2025

Here, we study boundary value problems for the Laplace–Beltrami operator on a three-dimensional sphere with a circular cut, obtained by removing a smooth closed geodesic from S3 embedded in R4. The presence of the cut introduces singular pertur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
534 Views
17 Pages

17 November 2025

We present an analytic compact model for p-type cylindrical gate-all-around (GAA) MOSFETs in the quasi-ballistic/ballistic regime, incorporating drain-induced barrier lowering (DIBL). To describe the potential profile, an undetermined parameter is us...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,705 Views
20 Pages

27 March 2023

A multi-sensor medical-image fusion technique, which integrates useful information from different single-modal images of the same tissue and provides a fused image that is more comprehensive and objective than a single-source image, is becoming an in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
849 Views
27 Pages

8 August 2025

Efficient autonomous exploration in unknown obstacle cluttered environments with interior obstacles remains a challenging task for mobile robots. In this work, we present a novel exploration process for a non-holonomic agent exploring 2D spaces using...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,424 Views
16 Pages

Evolutionary PINN Learning Algorithms Inspired by Approximation to Pareto Front for Solving Ill-Posed Problems

  • Tatiana Lazovskaya,
  • Dmitriy Tarkhov,
  • Maria Chistyakova,
  • Egor Razumov,
  • Anna Sergeeva and
  • Tatiana Shemyakina

The article presents the development of new physics-informed evolutionary neural network learning algorithms. These algorithms aim to address the challenges of ill-posed problems by constructing a population close to the Pareto front. The study focus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
799 Views
12 Pages

3 June 2025

A composite-coated inclusion is embedded in a matrix, where the conductivity (permittivity) of the phases is assumed to be complex-valued. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that a non-zero flux can arise under specific conditions related to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,755 Views
20 Pages

Numerical simulation of laser drilling is rapidly gaining interest in academia and industry since this process remains one of the most important and widely-used technologies in modern manufacturing. Meshfree methods such as Smoothed Particle Hydrodyn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,456 Views
23 Pages

10 May 2022

In this article, we propose a simplified radial basis function (RBF) method with exterior fictitious sources for solving elliptic boundary value problems (BVPs). Three simplified RBFs, including Gaussian, multiquadric (MQ), and inverse multiquadric (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,274 Views
10 Pages

Impact of Indoor Radon Exposure on Lung Cancer Incidence in Slovenia

  • Mojca Birk,
  • Tina Žagar,
  • Sonja Tomšič,
  • Katarina Lokar,
  • Ana Mihor,
  • Nika Bric,
  • Miran Mlakar and
  • Vesna Zadnik

9 April 2024

Indoor radon is an important risk factor for lung cancer, as 3–14% of lung cancer cases can be attributed to radon. The aim of our study was to estimate the impact of indoor radon exposure on lung cancer incidence over the last 40 years in Slov...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,698 Views
18 Pages

Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Zika and Dengue Infections within Colombia

  • Daniel Adyro Martínez-Bello,
  • Antonio López-Quílez and
  • Alexander Torres Prieto

The aim of this study is to estimate the parallel relative risk of Zika virus disease (ZVD) and dengue using spatio-temporal interaction effects models for one department and one city of Colombia during the 2015–2016 ZVD outbreak. We apply the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,176 Views
15 Pages

21 February 2025

High-resolution lunar gravity anomaly data are of great significance for the study of the lunar crust and lithosphere structure, asymmetric thermal evolution, impact basin subsurface structure and mass tumor genesis, breccia, and magmatism. However,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,235 Views
20 Pages

1 April 2022

Improvements to the interfacial curvature of interFoam based on (i) the smoothing of the liquid fraction field and (ii) the creation of a signed distance function (ϕ-based) are implemented. While previous work in this area has focused on evaluat...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,076 Views
31 Pages

Review of the State-of-Art of MPS Method in Ocean Engineering

  • Zhe Sun,
  • Li-Yuan Dou,
  • Si-Yuan Tan,
  • Zi-Kai Xu,
  • Kamal Djidjeli and
  • Yan Zhou

When dealing with the complex deformation of free surface such as wave breaking, traditional mesh-based Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) methods often face problems arising alongside grid distortion and re-meshing. Therefore, the meshless method be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,918 Views
9 Pages

On Minimal Hypersurfaces of a Unit Sphere

  • Amira Ishan,
  • Sharief Deshmukh,
  • Ibrahim Al-Dayel and
  • Cihan Özgür

8 December 2021

Minimal compact hypersurface in the unit sphere Sn+1 having squared length of shape operator A2<n are totally geodesic and with A2=n are Clifford hypersurfaces. Therefore, classifying totally geodesic hypersurfaces and Clifford hypersurfaces has i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,207 Views
40 Pages

Numerical Analysis of a Fractional Cauchy Problem for the Laplace Equation in an Annular Circular Region

  • José Julio Conde Mones,
  • Julio Andrés Acevedo Vázquez,
  • Eduardo Hernández Montero,
  • María Monserrat Morín Castillo,
  • Carlos Arturo Hernández Gracidas and
  • José Jacobo Oliveros Oliveros

The Cauchy problem for the Laplace equation in an annular bounded region consists of finding a harmonic function from the Dirichlet and Neumann data known on the exterior boundary. This work considers a fractional boundary condition instead of the Di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,234 Views
26 Pages

16 August 2025

Diesel engines serve as critical power sources across transportation and industrial fields, and their fault diagnosis is essential for ensuring operational safety and system reliability. However, acquiring sufficient and effective operational data re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,242 Views
18 Pages

31 July 2023

HVDC is an important part of reducing energy transmission losses and maintaining energy sustainability. Commutation failure is the most common fault in HVDC systems, but existing commutation failure analysis approaches for HVDC systems do not conside...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,011 Views
30 Pages

A Cluster-Based 3D Reconstruction System for Large-Scale Scenes

  • Yao Li,
  • Yue Qi,
  • Chen Wang and
  • Yongtang Bao

21 February 2023

The reconstruction of realistic large-scale 3D scene models using aerial images or videos has significant applications in smart cities, surveying and mapping, the military and other fields. In the current state-of-the-art 3D-reconstruction pipeline,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,303 Views
18 Pages

On the Numerical Approximation of Mobile-Immobile Advection-Dispersion Model of Fractional Order Arising from Solute Transport in Porous Media

  • Kamran,
  • Shahzad Khan,
  • Sharifah E. Alhazmi,
  • Fahad M. Alotaibi,
  • Massimiliano Ferrara and
  • Ali Ahmadian

The fractional mobile/immobile solute transport model has applications in a wide range of phenomena such as ocean acoustic propagation and heat diffusion. The local radial basis functions (RBFs) method have been applied to many physical and engineeri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,553 Views
17 Pages

30 March 2022

A point cloud obtained by stereo matching algorithm or three-dimensional (3D) scanner generally contains much complex noise, which will affect the accuracy of subsequent surface reconstruction or visualization processing. To eliminate the complex noi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,987 Views
15 Pages

31 August 2023

Intelligent manufacturing workshop uses automatic guided vehicles as an important logistics and transportation carrier, and most of the existing research adopts the intelligent manufacturing workshop layout and Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) path ste...

  • Article
  • Open Access
249 Views
20 Pages

15 January 2026

The impact and solidification of multiple molten droplets on a cold substrate critically influence the quality and performance of thermally sprayed coatings. We present a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) model that couples fluid-solid interactio...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2,753 Views
33 Pages

Advances in Wettability-Engineered Open Planar-Surface Droplet Manipulation

  • Ge Chen,
  • Jin Yan,
  • Junjie Liang,
  • Jiajia Zheng,
  • Jinpeng Wang,
  • Hongchen Pang,
  • Xianzhang Wang,
  • Zihao Weng and
  • Wei Wang

31 July 2025

Firstly, this paper reviews the fundamental theories of solid surface wettability and contact angle hysteresis. Subsequently, it further introduces four typical wettability-engineered surfaces with low hysteresis (superhydrophobic, superamphiphobic,...