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104 Citations
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22 Pages

A Gene Expression Programming Model for Predicting Tunnel Convergence

  • Mohsen Hajihassani,
  • Shahrum Shah Abdullah,
  • Panagiotis G. Asteris and
  • Danial Jahed Armaghani

1 November 2019

Underground spaces have become increasingly important in recent decades in metropolises. In this regard, the demand for the use of underground spaces and, consequently, the excavation of these spaces has increased significantly. Excavation of an unde...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,520 Views
39 Pages

13 November 2022

We prove that an implicit time Euler scheme for the 2D Boussinesq model on the torus D converges. The various moments of the W1,2-norms of the velocity and temperature, as well as their discretizations, were computed. We obtained the optimal speed of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,571 Views
21 Pages

Lateral Convergence Deformation Prediction of Subway Shield Tunnel Based on Kalman Model

  • Yan Bao,
  • Yexin Zheng,
  • Chao Tang,
  • Xiaolin Meng,
  • Zhe Sun,
  • Dongliang Zhang and
  • Li Wang

27 March 2024

In order to optimize the structure of a subway shield tunnel, minimize injuries, and avoid potential safety hazards, the lateral convergence deformation of subway shield tunnels should be predicted. In terms of accuracy and stability, existing predic...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,012 Views
15 Pages

28 November 2023

We study a graph-based generalization of the Galam opinion formation model. Consider a simple connected graph which represents a social network. Each node in the graph is colored either blue or white, which indicates a positive or negative opinion on...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,964 Views
18 Pages

18 January 2023

Coal has been the fundamental energy source supporting China’s energy supply and consumption. This paper examines convergence clubs for per capita coal consumption among 30 provinces of China between 1997 and 2019 by means of a nonlinear time-v...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,947 Views
16 Pages

12 February 2019

The Weather Research Forecast model (WRF) is used to examine the destructive potential of tropical cyclone (TC) Shanshan (2006) at various horizontal resolutions (7.5 km–1 km) with different cumulus parameterization (CP) schemes. It is found th...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,351 Views
9 Pages

The high-order finite difference method for option pricing is one of the most popular numerical algorithms. Therefore, it is of great significance to study its convergence rate. Based on the relationship between this algorithm and the trinomial tree...

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  • Open Access
2,644 Views
18 Pages

27 August 2020

In this paper, we go through the development of a new numerical method to obtain the solution to a size-structured population model that describes the evolution of a consumer feeding on a dynamical resource that reacts to the environment with a lag-t...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,971 Views
16 Pages

Control Error Convergence Using Lyapunov Direct Method Approach for Mixed Fractional Order Model Reference Adaptive Control

  • Gustavo E. Ceballos Benavides,
  • Manuel A. Duarte-Mermoud and
  • Lisbel Bárzaga Martell

This paper extends Lyapunov stability theory to mixed fractional order direct model reference adaptive control (FO-DMRAC), where the adaptive control parameter is of fractional order, and the control error model is of integer order. The proposed appr...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,122 Views
11 Pages

30 July 2019

Consideration is given to the nonstationary analogue of M / M / 1 queueing model in which the service happens only in batches of size 2, with the arrival rate λ ( t ) and the service rate μ ( t ) . One proposes a new...

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  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,842 Views
17 Pages

The Convergence Model of Education for Sustainability in the Transition to Digital Economy

  • Mikhail Deev,
  • Leyla Gamidullaeva,
  • Alexey Finogeev,
  • Anton Finogeev and
  • Sergey Vasin

16 October 2021

The paper studies the problem of updating educational programs and content, taking into account changing requirements of standards and employers for qualifications and competencies of specialists. First, we show that the updating process in transitio...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,440 Views
21 Pages

30 September 2021

Building on the debate about global convergence or divergence of practices, this study aims to query the viability of a new strategic action tool specifically geared to the interests of public bus transportation authorities (PBTA) around the globe an...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,661 Views
23 Pages

22 September 2024

Currently, the media industry is in the rapid development stage of media integration, which has brought about great changes in content production mode, presentation form, communication mechanism, operation and maintenance management, etc. At the same...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,432 Views
17 Pages

To explore the mixed traffic characteristics of vehicles and aircraft on the airport surface and solve the problem of real-time conflict detection at key intersections. According to the actual taxiing procedures and airport control rules in China, th...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,560 Views
15 Pages

Convergence and Numerical Solution of a Model for Tumor Growth

  • Juan J. Benito,
  • Ángel García,
  • María Lucía Gavete,
  • Mihaela Negreanu,
  • Francisco Ureña and
  • Antonio M. Vargas

11 June 2021

In this paper, we show the application of the meshless numerical method called “Generalized Finite Diference Method” (GFDM) for solving a model for tumor growth with nutrient density, extracellular matrix and matrix degrading enzymes, [recently propo...

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1 Citations
3,138 Views
25 Pages

1 February 2022

Shape-from-Shading represents the problem of computing the three-dimensional shape of a surface given a single gray-value image of it as input. In a recent paper, we showed that the introduction of an attenuation factor in the brightness equations re...

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508 Views
25 Pages

Convergence Modeling Based on a Historical Underground Salt Chamber Example

  • Zbigniew Szczerbowski,
  • Krzysztof Skrzypkowski and
  • Rafał Gawałkiewicz

14 October 2025

The monitoring of the process of converging historic mining excavations in the medieval and still-active Bochnia Salt Mine, conducted for years using classic geodetic measurements, allows for determining the results of point displacements. The moveme...

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29 Citations
11,715 Views
21 Pages

The mobile robot kinematic model is a nonlinear affine system, which is constrained by velocity and acceleration limits. Therefore, the traditional control methods may not solve the tracking problem because of the physical constraint. In this paper,...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,214 Views
25 Pages

Community Tourism Strategic Planning—Convergent Model Proposal as Applied to a Municipality in Mexico

  • Stefanie Zárate-Altamirano,
  • Deisy Coromoto Rebolledo-López and
  • Eduardo Parra-López

29 November 2022

The planning of tourism activity in the global context has generally been short-term and without inclusion of local communities. This situation has affected the territorial identity and the use of tourist activity itself as a development strategy bot...

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964 Views
16 Pages

28 June 2024

This paper addresses a stochastic pantograph model with Lévy leaps where non-jump coefficients exceed linearity. The partially truncated split-step theta method is introduced and applied to the proposed model. The finite time Lϱ^(&#...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,258 Views
37 Pages

9 April 2020

The paper contributes to the existing literature on the EU’s Cohesion Policy outcomes by extending the conditional beta-convergence model with a 3-way multiplicative term to examine the mediating effects of the Cohesion Policy, institutional qu...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,001 Views
13 Pages

Research on the Self-Repairing Model of Outliers in Energy Data Based on Regional Convergence

  • Nan Li,
  • Xunwen Zhao,
  • Hailin Mu,
  • Yimeng Li,
  • Jingru Pang,
  • Yuqing Jiang,
  • Xin Jin and
  • Zhenwei Pei

18 September 2020

The need for the statistical stability of data is increasing nowadays as the data resource has become a more and more important production factor. In this study, a set of general identification and correction models are established for data outlier m...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,123 Views
14 Pages

29 December 2021

The recent unprecedented success of deep learning (DL) in various fields is underlied by its use of large-scale data and models. Training a large-scale deep neural network (DNN) model with large-scale data, however, is time-consuming. To speed up the...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,928 Views
17 Pages

12 April 2024

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging distributed learning technique through which models can be trained using the data collected by user devices in resource-constrained situations while protecting user privacy. However, FL has three main limitation...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,856 Views
38 Pages

12 January 2021

Inspired by the article Weak Convergence Rate of a Time-Discrete Scheme for the Heston Stochastic Volatility Model, Chao Zheng, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis 2017, 55:3, 1243–1263, we studied the weak error of discretization schemes for th...

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1,943 Views
10 Pages

23 June 2021

We study a particular case of a convergence model of interest rates. The bond prices are given as solutions of a parabolic partial differential equation and we consider different possibilities of approximating them, using approximate analytical solut...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,656 Views
11 Pages

18 March 2023

We are studying the quasi-birth-death process and the property of weak ergodicity. Using the C-matrix method, we derive estimates for the rate of convergence to the limiting regime for the general case of the PH/M/1 model, as well as the particular c...

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25 Citations
7,112 Views
23 Pages

19 September 2018

Undesirable outputs, such as carbon emissions and loss of property due to traffic accidents, hold great significance for the sustainable development of the transport industry. In this study, we applied a super-efficiency data envelopment analysis mod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,876 Views
25 Pages

Convergence Analysis of a Numerical Method for a Fractional Model of Fluid Flow in Fractured Porous Media

  • Dossan Baigereyev,
  • Nurlana Alimbekova,
  • Abdumauvlen Berdyshev and
  • Muratkan Madiyarov

7 September 2021

The present paper is devoted to the construction and study of numerical methods for solving an initial boundary value problem for a differential equation containing several terms with fractional time derivatives in the sense of Caputo. This equation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,517 Views
17 Pages

Experimental Validation of a Model-Free High-Order Sliding Mode Controller with Finite-Time Convergence for Trajectory Tracking of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

  • Josué González-García,
  • Alfonso Gómez-Espinosa,
  • Luis Govinda García-Valdovinos,
  • Tomás Salgado-Jiménez,
  • Enrique Cuan-Urquizo and
  • Jesús Arturo Escobedo Cabello

9 January 2022

Several control strategies have been proposed for the trajectory tracking problem of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV). Most of them are model-based, hence, detailed knowledge of the parameters of the robot is needed. Few works consider a finite-t...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,869 Views
17 Pages

Establishment of a Landscape Information Model (LIM) and AI Convergence Plan through the 3D Digital Transformation of Railway Surroundings

  • Min-kyeong Kim,
  • Duckshin Park,
  • Suhwan Yun,
  • Won-Hee Park,
  • Duckhee Lee,
  • Jeong-Duk Chung and
  • Kyung-Jin Chung

27 February 2023

Digital transformation projects have been undertaken in the land transportation and railway industries, including the introduction of various smart construction technologies. With the expansion of policies to increase the share of railway transportat...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,992 Views
23 Pages

Global Moho Gravity Inversion from GOCE Data: Updates and Convergence Assessment of the GEMMA Model Algorithm

  • Lorenzo Rossi,
  • Biao Lu,
  • Mirko Reguzzoni,
  • Daniele Sampietro,
  • Islam Fadel and
  • Mark van der Meijde

9 November 2022

Since its discovery in 1909, the Moho was routinely studied by seismological methods. However, from the 1950s, a possible alternative was introduced by gravimetric inversion. Thanks to satellite gravity missions launched from the beginning of the 21s...

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  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,170 Views
21 Pages

Identifying Economic Growth Convergence Clubs and Their Influencing Factors in China

  • Feng Li,
  • Guangdong Li,
  • Weishan Qin,
  • Jing Qin and
  • Haitao Ma

24 July 2018

Balanced and coordinated economic development across regions is a critical goal of regional economic development and new-type urbanization in China. However, few studies have examined economic growth convergence clubs at the county level. To extend t...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,554 Views
22 Pages

23 May 2016

Binomial trees are very popular in both theory and applications of option pricing. As they often suffer from an irregular convergence behavior, improving this is an important task. We build upon a new version of the Edgeworth expansion for lattice mo...

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  • Open Access
2,014 Views
27 Pages

28 February 2025

In mobile edge computing networks, achieving effective load balancing across edge server nodes is essential for minimizing task processing latency. However, the lack of a priori knowledge regarding the current load state of edge nodes for user device...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,130 Views
10 Pages

Extending the Local Convergence of a Seventh Convergence Order Method without Derivatives

  • Ioannis K. Argyros,
  • Debasis Sharma,
  • Christopher I. Argyros and
  • Sanjaya Kumar Parhi

12 April 2022

For the purpose of obtaining solutions to Banach-space-valued nonlinear models, we offer a new extended analysis of the local convergence result for a seventh-order iterative approach without derivatives. Existing studies have used assumptions up to...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,372 Views
14 Pages

1 February 2021

The current article studied a nonlinear transmission of the nerve impulse model, the Fitzhugh–Nagumo (FN) model, in the conformable fractional form with an efficient analytical approach based on a combination of conformable Sumudu transform and the A...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,957 Views
20 Pages

This research deals with the problem of agricultural land market efficiency using the spatial market integration concept as well as the present value (PV) model. Empirically, it aims to test the convergence of agricultural land prices across Polish p...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,947 Views
13 Pages

13 December 2022

Excessive regional differences in energy consumption have led to inequality and energy poverty. It is essential to clarify the factors of energy consumption convergence to solve this problem. We use the spatial convergence model to analyze the conver...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,015 Views
30 Pages

A New Robust Iterative Scheme Applied in Solving a Fractional Diffusion Model for Oxygen Delivery via a Capillary of Tissues

  • Godwin Amechi Okeke,
  • Akanimo Victor Udo,
  • Nadiyah Hussain Alharthi and
  • Rubayyi T. Alqahtani

28 April 2024

In this paper, we constructed a new and robust fixed point iterative scheme called the UO iterative scheme for the approximation of a contraction mapping. The scheme converges strongly to the fixed point of a contraction mapping. A rate of convergenc...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,159 Views
14 Pages

Spatial club convergence is a group of regions which are adjacent to each other in space and have similar initial conditions and structural features while converging towards the same steady state in the economic development. Based on the Solow model,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,298 Views
15 Pages

12 December 2021

This article presents the analysis of the convergence of energy use from renewable sources among chosen European countries using a spatio-temporal approach. The high energy dependence of European countries on the economies of other continents makes t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
76 Citations
9,650 Views
18 Pages

18 November 2013

Precise Point Positioning (PPP) has become a very hot topic in GNSS research and applications. However, it usually takes about several tens of minutes in order to obtain positions with better than 10 cm accuracy. This prevents PPP from being widely u...

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  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,292 Views
14 Pages

21 May 2020

Transportation is an important factor affecting the balance of regional economic pattern. The construction of high-speed railway enhances the mobility of population, capital, technology and information resources between urban and rural areas. Will it...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,147 Views
18 Pages

This paper presents a mathematical analysis of semantic convergence in transformer-based language models, drawing inspiration from the concept of fractal self-similarity. We introduce and prove a novel theorem characterizing the gradient of embedding...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,206 Views
24 Pages

24 November 2022

We present a novel meshing and simulation approach for wind farms, featuring realignment and mesh adaptation. The turbines are modeled with actuator discs, which are discretized by means of an adaptation process to represent a level set function. The...

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24 Citations
3,110 Views
22 Pages

25 August 2021

Aiming at studying the harm caused by sudden ground loadings on existing shield tunnels, a indoor scaled model test with a geometric similarity ratio of 1:15.5 was adopted. Considering the influencing factors such as ground loading, burial depth of t...

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6 Citations
2,234 Views
20 Pages

30 November 2023

The convergence of rural industries has brought about significant changes in the traditional small-scale farmer management model, as well as new requirements for the quality and skills of agricultural practitioners in China. Meanwhile, it has inevita...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,487 Views
25 Pages

Clinical Applicability of Machine Learning Models for Binary and Multi-Class Electrocardiogram Classification

  • Daniel Nasef,
  • Demarcus Nasef,
  • Kennette James Basco,
  • Alana Singh,
  • Christina Hartnett,
  • Michael Ruane,
  • Jason Tagliarino,
  • Michael Nizich and
  • Milan Toma

14 March 2025

Background: This study investigates the application of machine learning models to classify electrocardiogram signals, addressing challenges such as class imbalances and inter-class overlap. In this study, “normal” and “abnormal&rdqu...

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18 Citations
7,044 Views
18 Pages

14 October 2016

Firms in high-technology industries have faced great technological and market uncertainty and volatility in the past few decades. In order to be competitive and sustainable in this environment, firms have been pursuing technological innovation, produ...

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