This study introduces a new metro train demand model that simultaneously captures both aggregate ridership from automated fare collection (AFC) data and disaggregate consideration propensities, using individual survey data from Chennai, India. This j...
This paper introduces a new geographically weighted nonlinear regression (GWNR) model to predict bus boarding more accurately. The proposed model, based on empirical data from selected bus routes in Chennai city, India, simultaneously accounts for sp...
21 October 2022
This paper proposes an operating room (OR) scheduling model to assign a group of next-day patients to ORs while adhering to OR availability, priorities, and OR overtime constraints. Existing studies usually consider OR scheduling problems by ignoring...
The zero-point (ZP) radiation field in stochastic electrodynamics (SED) is considered to be formally infinite, or perhaps bounded by mechanisms yet to be revealed someday. A similar situation holds in quantum electrodynamics (QED), although there the...
While the food environment has been implicated in diet-related health disparities, individuals’ ability to shape the food environment by limiting attention to a subset of products has not been studied. We examine the relationship between BMI category...
The results of the physical modelling of the formation processes of upward discharges from grounded objects in the artificial thunderstorm cell’s electric field are presented. We established the considerable influence of the electrode tip&rsquo...
We consider a system where the asset values of firms are correlated with the default thresholds. We first evaluate the probability of default of a single firm under the correlated assets assumptions. This extends Merton’s probability of default of a...
The consideration of a theoretical probability distribution regarding the annual cumulative discharge will provide a significant opportunity to characterize the intensity of the hydrological drought. However, the matching between the observed probabi...
Consideration is given to macrosystems called paramacrosystems with states of finite capacity and distinguishable and undistinguishable elements with stochastic behavior. The paramacrosystems fill a gap between Fermi and Einstein macrosystems. Using...
Random walks with invariant loop probabilities comprise a wide family of Markov processes with site-dependent, one-step transition probabilities. The whole family, which includes the simple random walk, emerges from geometric considerations related t...
We start with a review on classical probability representations of quantum states and observables. We show that the correlations of the observables involved in the Bohm–Bell type experiments can be expressed as correlations of classical random variab...
Bayesian update is widely used in data fusion. However, the information quality is not taken into consideration in classical Bayesian update method. In this paper, a new Bayesian update with information quality under the framework of evidence theory...
Background: Guidelines recommend radiotherapy (RT) after breastconserving surgery (BCS) for optimal control of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). The aim of the present study was to characterize the rates of RT consideration and administration, and to...
Glucose, alcohol stillage and glycerol were used as substrates for bio-hydrogen production by the newly isolated strain Clostridium beijerinckii 6A1 under batch conditions. High molar yields of hydrogen from the studied organic substrates were observ...
In this paper, an adaptive collaborative Gaussian Mixture Probability Hypothesis Density (ACo-GMPHD) filter is proposed for multi-target tracking with automatic track extraction. Based on the evolutionary difference between the persistent targets and...
There has been a considerable amount of literature on binomial regression models that utilize well-known link functions, such as logistic, probit, and complementary log-log functions. The conventional binomial model is focused only on a single parame...
The vulnerability of the water supply capacity of a dam is defined as the expected deficit volume from a typical water deficit event. In this study, a water deficit event was assumed to be a rectangle composed of the deficit duration and deficit inte...
The concept of duality of probability distributions constitutes a fundamental “brick” in the solid framework of nonextensive statistical mechanics—the generalization of Boltzmann–Gibbs statistical mechanics under the considera...
A proposal for a new method of classification of objects of various nature, named “2”-soft classification, which allows for referring objects to one of two types with optimal entropy probability for available collection of learning data with consider...
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are in the spotlight of cancer treatment by increasing the probability for long-term survival in patients with metastatic disease and by considerably prolonging progression-free survival in patients at early diseas...
Hellinger distance has been widely used to derive objective functions that are alternatives to maximum likelihood methods. While the asymptotic distributions of these estimators have been well investigated, the probabilities of rare events induced by...
Multi-stage sampling designs are often used in household surveys because a sampling frame of elements may not be available or for cost considerations when data collection involves face-to-face interviews. In this context, variance estimation is a com...
The word-frequency distribution provides the fundamental building blocks that generate discourse in natural language. It is well known, from empirical evidence, that the word-frequency distribution of almost any text is described by Zipf’s law,...
In this paper, we generate boundary value problems for ruin probabilities of surplus-dependent premium risk processes, under a renewal case scenario, Erlang (2) claim arrivals, and a hypoexponential claims scenario, Erlang (2) claim sizes. Applying t...
Decisions are often made under uncertainty. The most that one can do is use prior knowledge (e.g., base rates, prior probabilities, etc.) and make the most probable choice given the information we have. Unfortunately, most people struggle with Bayesi...
Generally, air track planning is conducted in real time and takes modified track distance minimization as objective. Next-generation air transport systems provide aircrafts with more flexibility in track planning and more responsibilities in self-sep...
Damage to long-span truss structures may cause structural deformation, load-capacity reduction, and even collapse. The design service life of truss structures is usually 50 years, so evaluating their reliability is the utmost importance. Reliability...
The one-parameter two-dimensional cellular automaton with the Margolus neighbourhood is analyzed based on considering the projection of the stochastic movements of a single particle. Introducing the auxiliary random variable associated with the direc...
In 1933, Kolmogorov synthesized the basic concepts of probability that were in general use at the time into concepts and deductions from a simple set of axioms that said probability was a
Thanks to their striking shapes and colors, heterobranch “sea slugs” are probably the most sought-after group of marine critters by scuba divers around the world. Nevertheless, for many of the islands and coasts of Sicily, there are no sp...
This study puts forward a reliability analysis for the bearing performance of piles subjected to the coupled action of chloride corrosion and scouring. A chloride diffusion model was constructed based on the stiffness degradation factor and Fick&rsqu...
Clustered-based wireless sensor networks have been extensively used in the literature in order to achieve considerable energy consumption reductions. However, two aspects of such systems have been largely overlooked. Namely, the transmission probabil...
Most statistical modeling applications involve the consideration of a candidate collection of models based on various sets of explanatory variables. The candidate models may also differ in terms of the structural formulations for the systematic compo...
As satellite observation technology improves, the number of remote sensing images significantly and rapidly increases. Therefore, a growing number of studies are focusing on remote sensing image retrieval. However, having a large number of remote sen...
This paper aims to determine the Markovian pattern of the factors influencing social deprivation in Mexicans with Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2). To this end, we develop a methodology to meet the theoretical and practical considerations involved in a...
Two-process surfaces are functionally important. They contain plateau and valley parts. They are created by superimpositions of two one-process textures of Gaussian probability height distributions. It is expected that the resulting two-process surfa...
The level of yield variation of primary crops has a considerable effect on the vulnerability of agriculture. The main factor that makes the agriculture of Hungary so vulnerable is climate change, and technological development cannot compensate for it...
Semi-Markov processes generalize the Markov chains framework by utilizing abstract sojourn time distributions. They are widely known for offering enhanced accuracy in modeling stochastic phenomena. The aim of this paper is to provide closed analytic...
This paper explores the social dynamics of processes in complex systems involving humans by focusing on user activity in online media outlets. The R/S analysis showed that the time series of the processes under consideration are fractal and anti-pers...
The security problem in wireless sensor networks faces severe challenges, due to the openness of the sensor network channel and the mobility and diversity of the terminals. When facing randomly located eavesdroppers, the situation is much more comple...
The large arcsine exponential dispersion model (LAEDM) is a class of three-parameter distributions on the non-negative integers. These distributions show the specific characteristics of being leptokurtic, zero-inflated, overdispersed, and skewed to t...
In this paper, we study the corrections to the Friedmann equations due to fast fluctuations in the universe scale factor. Such fast quantum fluctuations were recently proposed as a potential solution to the cosmological constant problem. They also in...
This paper introduces a new quantum game called Quantum Tapsilou that is inspired by the classical traditional Greek coin tossing game tapsilou. The new quantum game, despite its increased complexity and scope, retains the most important characterist...
The use of large-scale antenna arrays grants considerable benefits in energy and spectral efficiency to wireless systems due to spatial resolution and array gain techniques. By assuming a dominant line-of-sight environment in a massive multiple-input...
7 December 2018
Macao, China’s only city with legalized casinos, has maintained a high prevalence of gambling participation and gambling disorder (GD) over the past decade. The mental health risks associated with such high levels have been overlooked. In order...
The mathematical formalism of quantum mechanics is derived or “reconstructed” from more basic considerations of the probability theory and information geometry. The starting point is the recognition that probabilities are central to QM; t...
We are going back to the roots of the original solar neutrino problem: the analysis of data from solar neutrino experiments. The application of standard deviation analysis (SDA) and diffusion entropy analysis (DEA) to the Super-Kamiokande I and II da...
Full-duplex relay (FDR) has attracted considerable interest in enhancing the performance of relay networks by utilizing resources more efficiently. In this paper, we propose a framework for full-duplex random relay networks (FDRRNs), where relay node...
Consideration is given to the nonstationary analogue of
Background: Ibuprofen is one of the most accessible non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSADs), exhibiting non-selective reversible inhibition on COX-1 and COX-2. A series of common adverse reactions have been mentioned through the years: gastroin...
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