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14 Citations
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The Consistency Factor and the Viscosity Exponent of Soybean-Protein-Isolate/Wheat-Gluten/Corn-Starch Blends by Using a Capillary Rheometry

  • Wei Zhang,
  • Donglin Zhao,
  • Ziyan Dong,
  • Jian Li and ,
  • Bo Zhang and
  • Wenhua Yu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 October 2022

Blends with different proportions of protein or starch show different rheological behaviors, which may be related to the fibrous structure formation of extruded textured plant proteins. The consistency factor K and the viscosity exponent n of soybean...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Extraction, Modification, Functionality and Bioactivity of Plant Proteins for a Healthy and Sustainable Food System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,346 Views
20 Pages

14 February 2021

Neither the modified Bingham model nor the Herschel–Bulkley model can be used to characterize and calculate the performance of shear thickening of highly flowable mortar because of their incalculability of the rheological parameters. A new exponentia...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Cementitious Materials)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
762 Views
18 Pages

Linearization of BTI Degradation Across Si, SiC, and GaN

  • Joseph B. Bernstein,
  • Tsuriel Avraham and
  • Bin Wang

30 April 2026

Bias temperature instability (BTI) degradation is commonly described using empirical power-law kinetics; however, extraction of the time exponent and projection of lifetime remain highly sensitive to baseline definition and data representation. In co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,702 Views
18 Pages

Methods: This study explored key study design factors that could impact the precision of pediatric pharmacokinetics (PK) estimation. A virtual pediatric population was constructed, incorporating diverse body weight distribution sourced from the U.S....

(This article belongs to the Section Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,558 Views
27 Pages

5 January 2022

We analyze the empirical series of malaria incidence, using the concepts of autocorrelation, Hurst exponent and Shannon entropy with the aim of uncovering hidden variables in those series. From the simulations of an agent model for malaria spreading,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,560 Views
14 Pages

29 May 2024

The kinetic roughening of polymer films grown by vapor deposition polymerization was analyzed using the widely accepted classification framework of “generic scaling ansatz” given for the structure factor. Over the past two decades, this m...

(This article belongs to the Section Polymer Membranes and Films)
  • Perspective
  • Open Access
1 Citations
445 Views
14 Pages

28 July 2026

Bias Temperature Instability (BTI) remains one of the principal reliability challenges limiting advanced CMOS technologies. Although degradation is commonly described by an empirical power–law relationship, the power–law exponent is gener...

(This article belongs to the Section D1: Semiconductor Devices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,863 Views
22 Pages

Critical Behavior of La0.8Ca0.2Mn1−xCoxO3 Perovskite (0.1 ≤ x ≤ 0.3)

  • Dorra Turki,
  • Zafar Khan Ghouri,
  • Saeed Al-Meer,
  • Khaled Elsaid and ,
  • M. I. Ahmad,
  • Ahmed Easa,
  • Gyorgy Remenyi,
  • Sami Mahmood,
  • El Kebir Hlil and
  • Foued Elhalouani
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

The critical properties of La0.8Ca0.2Mn1−xCoxO3 (x = 0, 0.1, 0.2 and 0.3) compounds were investigated by analysis of the magnetic measurements in the vicinity of their critical temperature. Arrott plots revealed that the paramagnetic PM-ferromagnetic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,220 Views
10 Pages

Multifractal Characteristics of Gain Structures: A Universal Law of Polycrystalline Strain-Hardening Behaviors

  • Maoqing Fu,
  • Jiapeng Chen,
  • Zhaowen Huang,
  • Bin Chen and ,
  • Yangfan Hu and
  • Biao Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The quantitative relationship between material microstructures, such as grain distributions, and the nonlinear strain-hardening behaviors of polycrystalline metals has not yet been completely understood. This study finds that the grain correlation di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,401 Views
16 Pages

27 November 2020

Prognostic techniques play a critical role in predicting upcoming faults and failures in machinery or a system by monitoring any deviation in the operation. This paper presents a novel method to analyze multidimensional sensory data and use its chara...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bearing Fault Detection and Diagnosis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,461 Views
17 Pages

25 March 2022

The discharge exponent is a general index used to evaluate the hydraulic performance of emitters, which is affected by emitters’ structural parameters. Accurately estimating the effect of change in structural parameters on the discharge exponen...

(This article belongs to the Section Water, Agriculture and Aquaculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,623 Views
20 Pages

Statistical Arbitrage in Emerging Markets: A Global Test of Efficiency

  • Karen Balladares,
  • José Pedro Ramos-Requena,
  • Juan Evangelista Trinidad-Segovia and
  • Miguel Angel Sánchez-Granero

18 January 2021

In this paper, we use a statistical arbitrage method in different developed and emerging countries to show that the profitability of the strategy is based on the degree of market efficiency. We will show that our strategy is more profitable in emergi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematics and Mathematical Physics Applied to Financial Markets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,353 Views
30 Pages

2 March 2024

Numerous analytical radar-scattering laws have been published through the past decades to interpret planetary radar observations, such as Hagfors’ law, which has been commonly used for the Moon, and the cosine law, which is commonly used in the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Radar for Space Observation: Systems, Methods and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
337 Views
26 Pages

Systemic Risk Measures with Market Volatility

  • Fei Sun,
  • Jieming Zhou and
  • Ya Huang

6 September 2026

Systemic risk measures are crucial for the stability of financial markets. However, traditional frameworks, such as those relying on fixed exponent spaces, rest on an assumption of globally consistent moment conditions, which fails to capture the tim...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Risk Models and Actuarial Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,156 Views
17 Pages

26 February 2026

The evaporation of a thin liquid film representative of power-law rheology flowing along an inclined channel wall under the combined influence of gravity and surface tension is investigated using a semi-analytical modelling framework. The evolution o...

(This article belongs to the Topic Heat and Mass Transfer in Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,340 Views
24 Pages

Multifractal Cross Correlation Analysis of Agro-Meteorological Datasets (Including Reference Evapotranspiration) of California, United States

  • Adarsh Sankaran,
  • Jaromir Krzyszczak,
  • Piotr Baranowski,
  • Archana Devarajan Sindhu and ,
  • Nandhineekrishna Pradeep Kumar,
  • Nityanjali Lija Jayaprakash,
  • Vandana Thankamani and
  • Mumtaz Ali
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

18 October 2020

The multifractal properties of six acknowledged agro-meteorological parameters, such as reference evapotranspiration (ET0), wind speed (U), incoming solar radiation (SR), air temperature (T), air pressure (P), and relative air humidity (RH) of five s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climate Change and Agrometeorological Time Series)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
2,703 Views
18 Pages

Charged Cavitation Multibubbles Dynamics Model: Growth Process

  • Ahmed K. Abu-Nab,
  • Amerah M. Hakami and
  • Ali F. Abu-Bakr

14 February 2024

The nonlinear dynamics of charged cavitation bubbles are investigated theoretically and analytically in this study through the Rayleigh–Plesset model in dielectric liquids. The physical and mathematical situations consist of two models: the fir...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modeling with Differential Equations in Biology, Chemistry, Economics, Finance and Physics, Volume 2)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,188 Views
11 Pages

28 June 2022

The current problem of managing water losses in water supply systems relies on engineering predictions of expected outcomes based on pressure manipulations using hydraulic models or other computational methods. The objective of this experiment was to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Water Supply Assessment Systems Developing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
516 Views
15 Pages

26 April 2026

The goal of laser polishing (LP) is to improve the surface quality of functional parts, components, and assemblies. LP is a complex nonlinear thermophysical process, in which laser radiation induces localized melting of a material with an initially r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Laser Micro/Nano Fabrication and Surface Modification Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,338 Views
16 Pages

26 July 2020

Laboratory measurements of capillary pressure (Pc) and the electrical resistivity index (RI) of reservoir rocks are used to calibrate well logging tools and to determine reservoir fluid distribution. Significant studies on the methods and factors aff...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fluids in Porous Media)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,939 Views
23 Pages

15 July 2017

This paper investigates polar codes for the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. The scaling exponent μ of polar codes for a memoryless channel q Y | X with capacity I ( q Y | X ) characterizes the closest gap bet...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multiuser Information Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,750 Views
12 Pages

13 August 2019

The Van der Pol oscillator is investigated by the parameter control method. This method only needs to control one parameter of the Van der Pol oscillator by a simple periodic function; then, the Van der Pol oscillator can behave chaotically from the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
428 Views
24 Pages

Herein, we propose a quantum circuit learning framework for modeling the realized volatility (RV) of Bitcoin and investigate the statistical properties of the predicted time series through multifractal analysis. Unlike conventional GARCH-type models,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractal Approaches and Machine Learning in Financial Markets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
547 Views
19 Pages

Analysis of Thermally Oxidized Surfaces of Additive Manufacturing Metal Powders Using Triboelectric Charging

  • Ali N. Alagha,
  • Eileen Ross L. Espiritu,
  • Emilio Galindo,
  • Camila Gutiérrez and ,
  • Pierre Hudon and
  • Mathieu Brochu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

4 August 2026

In powder-based additive manufacturing (AM), thermal exposure during processing can modify powder surface chemistry and promote oxide growth, even under inert atmospheres from residual oxygen contamination. This study investigates the effect of therm...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Particle and Powder Technology: Theory, Methods, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
697 Views
25 Pages

On the Numerical Reliability of Lyapunov-Based Chaos Analysis in Optically Injected Semiconductor Lasers: A Phasor-Quadrature Comparison

  • Gerardo Antonio Castañón Ávila,
  • Ana Maria Sarmiento-Moncada,
  • Alejandro Aragón-Zavala and
  • Ivan Aldaya Garde

16 March 2026

Lyapunov-exponent-based diagnostics are widely used to quantify deterministic chaos in optically injected semiconductor lasers (OISLs). In most numerical implementations, the optical field is represented either in phasor coordinates (A,ψ,N) or in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Optical Communication and Photonic Integrated Devices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
341 Views
16 Pages

12 August 2026

Aggregation operators are central to multi-criteria decision-making under complex fuzzy information, where the additional phase dimension of complex fuzzy sets captures periodic or cyclical uncertainty beyond the reach of classical fuzzy sets. Existi...

(This article belongs to the Topic Fuzzy Sets Theory and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,377 Views
26 Pages

Rheological Characterization of a Thixotropic Semisolid Slurry by Means of Numerical Simulations of Squeeze-Flow Experiments

  • Georgios C. Florides,
  • Georgios C. Georgiou,
  • Michael Modigell and
  • Eugenio José Zoqui

31 January 2024

We propose a methodology for the rheological characterization of a semisolid metal slurry using experimental squeeze-flow data. The slurry is modeled as a structural thixotropic viscoplastic material, obeying the regularized Herschel–Bulkley co...

(This article belongs to the Collection Complex Fluids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,631 Views
19 Pages

The Magnetic Phase Transition and Universality Class of h-YMnO3 and h-(Y0.98Eu0.02)MnO3 Under Zero and Applied Pressure

  • Sonja Holm-Dahlin,
  • Sofie Janas,
  • Andreas Kreisel,
  • Ekaterina Pomjakushina and ,
  • Jonathan S. White,
  • Amy L. Fennell and
  • Kim Lefmann
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

We investigated the antiferromagnetic phase transition in the frustrated and multiferroic hexagonal manganites h-YMnO 3 (YMO) and h-(Y 0.98 Eu 0.02 )MnO 3 (YEMO). Elastic neutron scattering was used to study, in deta...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Magnetic Materials and Magnetism)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,382 Views
17 Pages

Remarks on Modeling the Oil Film Generation of Rod Seals

  • Oliver Feuchtmüller,
  • Nino Dakov,
  • Lothar Hörl and
  • Frank Bauer

16 September 2021

The oil film generation of a U-cup rod seal and the oil film thickness on the rod after outstroke were analyzed analytically, numerically, and experimentally. The analyzed sealing system consists of an unmodified, commercially available U-cup, a poli...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Special Issue in Elastohydrodynamics: Remembering Ramsey Gohar)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,632 Views
15 Pages

A Novel Measure Inspired by Lyapunov Exponents for the Characterization of Dynamics in State-Transition Networks

  • Bulcsú Sándor,
  • Bence Schneider,
  • Zsolt I. Lázár and
  • Mária Ercsey-Ravasz

12 January 2021

The combination of network sciences, nonlinear dynamics and time series analysis provides novel insights and analogies between the different approaches to complex systems. By combining the considerations behind the Lyapunov exponent of dynamical syst...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from 45th Conference of the Middle European Cooperation in Statistical Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
544 Views
26 Pages

19 June 2026

The sign of the maximal almost sure Lyapunov exponent determines the stability of stochastic systems, while its numerical computation for three-dimensional linear Stratonovich stochastic differential equations remains challenging due to the failure o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,739 Views
14 Pages

28 March 2020

It is well known that two different underlying dynamics lead to different patterns of income/wealth distribution such as the Boltzmann–Gibbs form for the lower end and the Pareto-like power-law form for the higher-end. The Boltzmann–Gibbs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
365 Views
31 Pages

9 October 2026

We study a one-dimensional fractional U(1) Ginzburg–Landau model whose quadratic part has Fourier multiplier |k|σ, focusing on the marginal case σ=1. This dispersion yields logarithmic spin-wave fluctuations, suggesting BKT-like beh...

(This article belongs to the Section E4: Mathematical Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,230 Views
19 Pages

17 December 2023

In multi-modal images (MMI), the differences in their imaging mechanisms lead to large signal-to-noise ratio differences, which means that the matching of geometric invariance and the matching accuracy of the matching algorithms often cannot be balan...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances and Challenges on Multisource Remote Sensing Image Fusion: Datasets, New Technologies, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,515 Views
19 Pages

1 June 2023

The wave turbulence interactions in the stable boundary layer (SBL) of the atmosphere are studied based on data from lidar measurements of the vertical component of wind velocity during the propagation of internal gravity waves (IGWs). It is shown th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Observation of Atmospheric Boundary-Layer Based on Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,641 Views
26 Pages

This study investigates the multifractal behavior of four leading semiconductor stocks—Intel (INTC), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Nvidia (NVDA), and Broadcom (AVGO)—in relation to key financial assets, including the Dow Jones Industrial...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractal and Multifractal Analysis in Econometric Models and Empirical Finance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,649 Views
19 Pages

Assessment of Flood Hazard Mapping Using a DEM-Based Approach and 2D Hydrodynamic Modeling

  • Omayma Amellah,
  • Paolo Mignosa,
  • Federico Prost and
  • Francesca Aureli

28 June 2024

DEM-based approaches for assessing flood-prone areas have recently gained extensive attention due to their parsimony and cost-effectiveness. This work aims to test the capability of the Geomorphic Flood Index (GFI) to delineate flood-prone areas and...

(This article belongs to the Section Water and Climate Change)
  • Article
  • Open Access
544 Views
27 Pages

Polymer Controlled Oil Bank Dynamics: A Hybrid Physics-Informed Machine Learning Quantitative Framework

  • Wenyang Shi,
  • Yunpeng Gong,
  • Shaokai Rong,
  • He Li and ,
  • Lei Tao,
  • Jiajia Bai,
  • Zhengxiao Xu and
  • Qingjie Zhu
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

14 June 2026

To address the lack of systematic quantitative characterization of oil bank dynamic evolution and unclear dominant controlling factors in polymer flooding, this study combines reservoir numerical simulation with Python-based quantitative analysis and...

(This article belongs to the Section Petroleum and Low-Carbon Energy Process Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,727 Views
28 Pages

Exploring the Asymmetric Multifractal Dynamics of DeFi Markets

  • Soufiane Benbachir,
  • Karim Amzile and
  • Mohamed Beraich

The rapid growth of decentralized finance (DeFi) has revolutionized the global financial landscape, providing decentralized alternatives to traditional financial services. This study investigates the asymmetric multifractal behavior of nine DeFi mark...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Financial Technology (Fintech) and Sustainable Financing, 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,703 Views
21 Pages

Multifrequency Downstream Hydraulic Geometry of Alluvial Mountain Rivers Located on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau

  • Chao Qin,
  • Baosheng Wu,
  • Yuan Xue,
  • Xudong Fu and ,
  • Guangqian Wang and
  • Ge Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

5 June 2023

Downstream hydraulic geometry (DHG) for multiple discharge frequencies remains poorly investigated. This paper seeks to clarify the DHG relations of different discharge frequencies and proposes the definition, mathematical expression, and geomorpholo...

(This article belongs to the Topic Research on River Engineering)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,161 Views
12 Pages

4 April 2021

The kinetics of diffusion-dependent phase transformations (including austenitisation of ferrite in dual steels or ferritic nodular cast irons) is very often described by the Johnson–Mehl–Avrami–Kolmogorov (JMAK) equation. This description is not comp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Phase Transformation and Properties of Metals and Alloys)
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  • Open Access
1,002 Views
25 Pages

Effects of Permeability and Gravity on Capillary Imbibition in Filter Paper

  • Josefina Janeth Miranda-Blancas,
  • José Martínez-Trinidad,
  • Abraham Medina-Ovando,
  • Luis Alfonso Moreno-Pacheco and ,
  • Fernando Alonso-Cruz,
  • Osvaldo Quintana-Hernández and
  • Ricardo Andrés García-León
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

21 May 2026

Capillary imbibition is the process by which liquids are absorbed into porous materials as a result of capillary pressure differences at the pore scale. Accurate characterization of imbibition dynamics, particularly in the presence of gravitational p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
7,754 Views
19 Pages

5 January 2017

We investigate the conformational properties of polymers in ionic microgels in the presence of salt ions by molecular dynamics simulations and analytical theory. A microgel particle consists of coarse-grained linear polymers, which are tetra-function...

(This article belongs to the Collection Polyelectrolytes)
  • Review
  • Open Access
123 Citations
7,443 Views
24 Pages

30 November 2020

Conventional biomechanical analyses of human movement have been generally derived from linear mathematics. While these methods can be useful in many situations, they fail to describe the behavior of the human body systems that are predominately nonli...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theory in Biomedical Data Mining)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,054 Views
11 Pages

26 July 2021

We performed a three-dimensional (3D) analysis of ferrite grains recrystallized in low-carbon steel during annealing. Cold-rolled specimens were heated to 723 K and held for various periods. The 3D morphology of ferrite grains recrystallized during t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recrystallization and Phase Transformation of Steel Materials)
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  • Open Access
422 Views
9 Pages

Distribution of Stars by Rotational Velocities from Spectroscopic Data

  • Nikolai Kondratev,
  • Ekaterina Malik,
  • Arseniy Sachkov and
  • Oleg Malkov

In this paper, we study the distribution of main-sequence stars over rotational velocities as a function of effective temperature. Using spectroscopic surveys, and after selecting main-sequence stars and retaining only high-quality data, we obtain a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,746 Views
20 Pages

Fog Intermittency and Critical Behavior

  • Kelly Y. Huang,
  • Gabriel G. Katul,
  • Thomas J. Hintz,
  • Jesus Ruiz-Plancarte and ,
  • Qing Wang and
  • Harindra J. S. Fernando
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The intermittency of fog occurrence (the switching between fog and no-fog) is a key stochastic feature that plays a role in its duration and the amount of moisture available. Here, fog intermittency is studied by using the visibility time series coll...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Turbulence from Earth to Planets, Stars and Galaxies—Commemorative Issue Dedicated to the Memory of Jackson Rea Herring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,295 Views
17 Pages

Sign Retention in Classical MF-DFA

  • Mengdie Yang,
  • Yudong Zhang and
  • Jian Wang

In this paper, we propose a one-dimensional (1D) multifractal sign retention detrending fluctuation analysis algorithm (MF-S-DFA). The proposed method is based on conventional multifractal detrending fluctuation analysis (MF-DFA). As negative values...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Views
32 Pages

29 October 2026

The averaged Gauss–Radau quadrature rule assigns equal weights to the left and right Gauss–Radau formulas regardless of the behavior of the integrand. This choice is generally not optimal for integrands possessing algebraic endpoint singu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Analysis, Approximation Theory and Related Topics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
823 Views
14 Pages

19 July 2026

The dynamic critical exponent z describes the divergence of correlation times near a continuous phase transition. Obtaining accurate estimates of z from noisy time series is complex, especially when computational resources are limited. We compare mac...

(This article belongs to the Section Statistical Physics and Nonlinear Phenomena)

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