Objectives: Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the transition to distance learning raised pertinent questions regarding advantages and challenges compared to traditional in-person learning. This study aimed to investigate dental students’ perceptions...
Concerns over environmental issues have recently increased. Particularly, construction noise in highly populated areas is recognized as a serious stressor that not only negatively affects humans and their environment, but also construction firms thro...
In frequentist inference, minimizing the Hellinger distance between a kernel density estimate and a parametric family produces estimators that are both robust to outliers and statistically efficient when the parametric family contains the data-genera...
A small clear-distance, double-arch tunnel under an asymmetrical load combines the characteristics of small clear-distance, tunnels and double-arch tunnels, and the influence of an asymmetrical terrain must be considered. Its construction stability i...
Foreign national prisoners have less educational opportunities than national prisoners. Therefore, the Dutch foundation ‘Education behind Foreign Bars’ (Eabt) provides distance education to Dutch nationals detained abroad. A mixed-methods case study...
Hellwig’s method is a multi-criteria decision-making technique designed to facilitate the ranking of alternatives based on their proximity to the ideal solution. Typically, this approach calculates distances using the Euclidean norm, assuming i...
Multi-criteria decision-making methods based on reference points and distances from them are essential for evaluating alternatives across multiple criteria. These methods provide structured approaches to comparing and ranking alternatives relative to...
Multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs) naturally arise in many applications. Since for such problems one can expect an entire set of optimal solutions, a common task in set based multi-objective optimization is to compute N solutions along the...
Existing non-contact three-axis angle-measurement methods are unsuitable for measuring the relative three-axis angles between the inner and outer ring frames of fifth-generation airborne optoelectronic gimbal platforms. Our previous study proposed a...
High-speed and long-runout landslides constitute one of the most devastating natural disasters. The scraping and erosion of the foundation by these landslides significantly alter the dynamic and catastrophic properties of the landslide mass. This stu...
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This paper is devoted to developing a new computational method for nearly singular integral computation in the application of the boundary element method for the analysis of thin-shell-like structures in mechanical engineering. Based on the tradition...
The elliptical paraboloid array plays an important role in precision measurement, astronomical telescopes, and communication systems. The calibration of the vertex distance of elliptical paraboloids is of great significance to precise 2D displacement...
One of the crucial steps in the multi-criteria decision analysis involves establishing the importance of criteria and determining the relationship between them. This paper proposes an extended Hellwig’s method (H_EM) that utilizes entropy-based...
Shallow landslides are often unpredictable and seriously threaten surrounding infrastructure and the ecological environment. Traditional landslide prediction methods are time-consuming, labor-intensive, and inaccurate. Thus, there is an urgent need t...
A novel generalized grey target decision method for mixed attributes based on Kullback-Leibler (K-L) distance is proposed. The proposed approach involves the following steps: first, all indices are converted into index binary connection number vector...
A flexible grounding system is a system in which the neutral point of the power supply is grounded via the arc suppression coil in parallel with a low-resistance resistor. When operating normally or a temporary ground fault occurs, the arc suppressio...
Constructing a large section bifurcated small clear distance tunnel poses significant challenges due to its large section and small clear distance, complex and overlapping construction steps, unsynchronized excavation and support processes, and distu...
Although the material has developed micro-scale cracks, the micro-cracks stop propagating and transform into non-propagating cracks (NPCs) under fatigue limit loading. The movement of the crack tip position caused by the non-propagating crack will ge...
When the time-dependent boundary element method, also termed the pseudo-initial condition method, is employed for solving transient heat conduction problems, the numerical evaluation of domain integrals is necessitated. Consequently, the accurate cal...
The reliability and security of power systems may be jeopardized by the increase in the amounts of renewable generation and the uncertainties produced by these devices. In particular, the protection schemes of traditional power systems have been chal...
Leaves are used extensively as an indicator in research on tree growth. Leaf area, as one of the most important index in leaf morphology, is also a comprehensive growth index for evaluating the effects of environmental factors. When scanning tree sur...
One purpose of spatial audio is to create perceived virtual sources at various spatial positions in terms of direction and distance with respect to the listener. The psychoacoustic principle of spatial auditory perception is essential for creating pe...
When a single-phase grounding fault occurs in a resonant grounding system, the determination of the fault location remains a significant challenge due to the small fault current and the instability of the grounding arc. In order to solve the problem...
The article presents methods of long range distance measurements using pulsed lasers and the Time of Flight principle. Various algorithms of laser distance measurements with digital acquisition of echo pulses (acquisition of a signal’s full waveform)...
Multicriteria decision making (MCDM) is a field that helps decision makers evaluate alternatives based on multiple criteria and encompasses scoring, distance-based, pairwise comparison, and outranking methods. Recent developments have aimed to solve...
Teleoperated dual-arm underwater manipulators are a promising alternative to divers for hazardous subsea tasks, such as removing fishing nets from ship propellers. However, kinematic discrepancies between the master and slave can cause self-collision...
Predicting wave run-up on seawalls is essential for assessing coastal flood risk and guiding resilient design. In this study, we combine physical model experiments with a hybrid data driven method to forecast wave run-up distance. Laboratory tests ge...
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Long-distance caregiving (LDC) is an issue of growing importance in the context of assessing the future of elder care and the maintenance of health and well-being of both the cared-for persons and the long-distance caregivers. Uncertainty in the inte...
With the rapid development of the world economy in recent years, the mineral resources in the shallow part of the Earth can no longer meet the needs of mankind, and resource development is continually moving into the deep part of the Earth. The filli...
Flesh firmness in sweet cherries is determined using the measurement of normalized deformation force, i.e., determining the required force for a distance equal to 5 or 10% of the diameter of the cherries per millimeter. However, a firmness method inv...
Hydrogen doping using existing natural gas pipelines is a promising solution for hydrogen transportation. A large number of non-metallic seals are currently used in long-distance natural gas pipelines. Compared with metallic seals, non-metallic seals...
In a point set in dimension superior to 1, the statistical distribution of the number of pairs of points as a function of distance between the points of the pair is not uniform. This distribution is not considered in a large number of classic methods...
Building energy prediction faces challenges such as data scarcity while Transfer Learning (TL) demonstrates significant potential by leveraging source building energy data to enhance target building energy prediction. However, the accuracy of TL heav...
Accurate determination of the spatial distribution of coastal wetlands is crucial for the management and conservation of ecosystems. Feature selection methods based on the Jeffries-Matusita (J-M) method include J-M distance with simple average rankin...
Motivation: Researchers in genomics are increasingly interested in epigenetic factors such as DNA methylation because they play an important role in regulating gene expression without changes in the sequence of DNA. Abnormal DNA methylation is associ...
Biodiversity, from genes to entire ecosystems, is crucial for a healthy planet. However, human activities, including business practices, are causing rapid biodiversity loss. This study focuses on selecting and integrating biodiversity protection prac...
Empirical models based on sampled data can be useful for complex chemical engineering processes such as the free radical polymerization of methyl methacrylate achieved in a batch bulk process. In this case, the goal is to predict the monomer conversi...
In this paper we introduce and study a new generalization of Fibonacci polynomials which generalize Fibonacci, Jacobsthal and Narayana numbers, simultaneously. We give a graph interpretation of these polynomials and we obtain a binomial formula for t...
The existing tunnel will inevitably be disturbed when the new subway station is constructed cross under it at zero distance. Three innovative construction schemes were proposed, their effects on deformation control were compared by numerical simulati...
On-site withstand voltage testing is essential for evaluating insulation performance and detecting defects in UHV AC equipment; however, existing safety distance criteria are mainly based on empirical experience or extrapolated from low-altitude and...
The intensity information from terrestrial laser scanners (TLS) has become an important object of study in recent years, and there are an increasing number of applications that would benefit from the addition of calibrated intensity data to the topog...
Influence analysis is a critical diagnostic tool in regression modeling to ensure reliable parameter estimates. This study evaluates the effectiveness of diagnostic methods for detecting influential observations in the lognormal regression model usin...
A bipolar neutrosophic set (BNS) is designed to handle uncertain information by capturing both supportive and opposing aspects of data. In this paper, the pattern classification method is studied based on the proposed Hamming–Chebyshev hybrid d...
Distance has been one of the basic factors in manufacturing and control fields, and ultrasonic distance sensors have been widely used as a low-cost measuring tool. However, the propagation of ultrasonic waves is greatly affected by environmental fact...
Spatial variability of soil parameter distribution is crucial to calculating the pile foundation failure probability. Traditional reliability design methods describe the dispersion degree of soil parameters with their point variance without consideri...
Unweighted Pair Group Method with Arithmetic Mean (UPGMA) is one of the most popular distance-based methods to reconstruct an equidistant phylogenetic tree from a distance matrix computed from an alignment of sequences. Since we use equidistant trees...
This work describes the parameter identification of servo systems using the least squares of orthogonal distances method. The parameter identification problem was reconsidered as data fitting to a plane, which in turn corresponds to a nonlinear minim...
Fuzzy information in venture capital can be well expressed by neutrosophic numbers, and TODIM method is an effective tool for multi-attribute decision-making. The distance measure is an essential step in TODIM method. The keystone of this paper is to...
In order to improve the scientific and rationality of power quality (PQ) comprehensive evaluation, an improved Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) strategy in consideration of the correlation between indices is...
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