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6 Citations
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10 June 2021

Experimental research of bone strength remains costly and limited for ethical and technical reasons. Therefore, to predict the mechanical state of bone tissue, as well as similar materials, it is desirable to use computer technology and mathematical...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Mechanics, Engineering and Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,065 Views
19 Pages

Computational Model of Effective Thermal Conductivity of Green Insulating Fibrous Media

  • Hamidou Sankara,
  • Dominique Baillis,
  • Ousmane Coulibaly,
  • Rémi Coquard,
  • Naïm Naouar and
  • Zahia Saghrouni

3 January 2024

Modelling effective thermal properties is crucial for optimizing the thermal performance of materials such as new green insulating fibrous media. In this study, a numerical model is proposed to calculate the effective thermal conductivity of these ma...

(This article belongs to the Section Materials Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,831 Views
24 Pages

3 October 2021

In this work, we determined the total effective vascular compliance of a global closed-loop model for the cardiovascular system by performing an infusion test of 500 mL of blood in four minutes. Our mathematical model includes a network of arteries a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biofluids in Medicine: Models, Computational Methods and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,744 Views
17 Pages

A Predicting Model for the Effective Thermal Conductivity of Anisotropic Open-Cell Foam

  • Chao Zhang,
  • Xiangzhuang Kong,
  • Xian Wang,
  • Yanxia Du and
  • Guangming Xiao

22 August 2022

The structural anisotropy of open-cell foam leads to the anisotropy of effective thermal conductivity (ETC). To quantitatively analyze the effect of structural anisotropy on the anisotropy of ETC, a new predicting model for the ETC of anisotropic ope...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Numerical Simulation Methods of Aerodynamics and Heat Transfer)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,276 Views
14 Pages

Determining an Accurate and Cost-Effective Individual Height-Diameter Model for Mongolian Pine on Sandy Land

  • Yangang Han,
  • Zeyong Lei,
  • Albert Ciceu,
  • Yanping Zhou,
  • Fengyan Zhou and
  • Dapao Yu

24 August 2021

Height-diameter (H-D) models are important tools for forest management practice. Sandy Mongolian pine plantations (Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica) are a major component of the Three-North Afforestation Shelterbelt in Northern China. However, few H-D...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modelling and Managing the Dynamics of Pine Forests)
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  • Open Access
282 Views
20 Pages

Accelerated Thermo-Mechanical LPBF Analysis Employing an Effective Heat Input Model

  • Shahriar Imani Shahabad,
  • Ali Bonakdar and
  • Ehsan Toyserkani

The laser powder-bed fusion (LPBF) process frequently encounters issues such as residual stresses and part deformation, primarily due to the steep temperature gradients that occur during fabrication. Relying on experimental trial-and-error methods to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Laser Additive Manufacturing: Process, Materials, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,287 Views
24 Pages

Non-Parametric Model-Based Estimation of the Effective Reproduction Number for SARS-CoV-2

  • Jacques Hermes,
  • Marcus Rosenblatt,
  • Christian Tönsing and
  • Jens Timmer

22 November 2023

Describing viral outbreaks, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, often involves employing compartmental models composed of ordinary differential equation (ODE) systems. Estimating the parameter values for these ODE models is crucial and relies on accessibl...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,210 Views
9 Pages

28 October 2025

This paper presents a comparative empirical analysis of three modeling approaches applied to the forecasting of Morocco’s Real Effective Exchange Rate (REER): the ARIMA model, the Random Forest algorithm, and the Dynamic Factor Model (DFM). Uti...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of 7th Edition of the International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Humanity (ICATH 2025))
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,540 Views
15 Pages

19 April 2024

As a planarization technique, chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) continues to suffer from pattern effects that result in large variations in material thickness, which can influence circuit performance and yield. Therefore, tools for predicting post-...

(This article belongs to the Section D: Materials and Processing)
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  • Article
  • Open Access
1,750 Views
12 Pages

4 March 2023

One of the most common approximations in the theory of composite materials is the homogenization theory. The main difficulty in its application lies in solving the cell problem, i.e., the boundary value problem on a periodically repeating element of...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Engineering and Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,517 Views
13 Pages

11 November 2023

In this paper, a single-event transient model based on the effective space charge for MOSFETs is proposed. The physical process of deposited and moving charges is analyzed in detail. The influence of deposited charges on the electric field in the dep...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High-Reliability Semiconductor Devices and Integrated Circuits)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,805 Views
15 Pages

Aerosol Effective Radiative Forcing in the Online Aerosol Coupled CAS-FGOALS-f3-L Climate Model

  • Hao Wang,
  • Tie Dai,
  • Min Zhao,
  • Daisuke Goto,
  • Qing Bao,
  • Toshihiko Takemura,
  • Teruyuki Nakajima and
  • Guangyu Shi

17 October 2020

The effective radiative forcing (ERF) of anthropogenic aerosol can be more representative of the eventual climate response than other radiative forcing. We incorporate aerosol–cloud interaction into the Chinese Academy of Sciences Flexible Glob...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Aerosol-Climate Interaction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,532 Views
22 Pages

11 December 2024

An important development task for the suburbs of smart cities is the transition from rigid and economically inefficient public transport to the flexible order-based service with autonomous vehicles. The article proposes a compact model with a minimal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cost-Effective Transportation Planning for Smart Cities)
  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,637 Views
45 Pages

15 January 2025

This review is devoted to summarizing recent developments of the linear sigma model (LSM) in cold and dense two-color QCD (QC2D), in which lattice simulations are straightforwardly applicable thanks to the disappearance of the sign problem. In QC2D,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Chiral Symmetry, and Restoration in Nuclear Dense Matter)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,971 Views
12 Pages

5 August 2021

Cellular solid materials are commonly found in industrial applications. By definition, cellular solids are porous materials that are built of distinct cells. One of the groups of such materials contains metal foams. Another group of cellular metals c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on Flow and Heat Transfer in Metal Foams)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,292 Views
21 Pages

Wastewater-Based Estimation of COVID-19 Transmission in California: A Hierarchical Beta-Binomial Model for Estimating the Effective Reproduction Number

  • José Cricelio Montesinos-López,
  • Maria L. Daza-Torres,
  • Abelardo Montesinos-López,
  • Junlin Chen,
  • Heather N. Bischel and
  • Miriam Nuño

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic highlighted the critical need for scalable, timely, and unbiased methods to monitor disease transmission at the population level. Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) provides an effective method for mo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wastewater-Based Epidemiology Assessment and Surveillance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,323 Views
15 Pages

13 April 2020

The flow of nanofluid between infinite parallel plates suspended by micro-cantilever sensors is significant. The analysis of such flows is a rich research area due to the variety of applications it has in chemical, biological and medical sciences. Mi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nanoparticles and Their Biological and Biomedical Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,510 Views
23 Pages

Effective and Apparent Diffusion Coefficients of Chloride Ions and Chloride Binding Kinetics Parameters in Mortars: Non-Stationary Diffusion–Reaction Model and the Inverse Problem

  • Jerzy J. Jasielec,
  • Jakub Stec,
  • Krzysztof Szyszkiewicz-Warzecha,
  • Artur Łagosz,
  • Jan Deja,
  • Andrzej Lewenstam and
  • Robert Filipek

3 December 2020

A non-equilibrium diffusion–reaction model is proposed to describe chloride transport and binding in cementitious materials. A numerical solution for this non-linear transport with reaction problem is obtained using the finite element method. The eff...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Long-Term Behavior of Cementitious Materials and Reinforced Concrete Structures)
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  • Open Access
524 Views
36 Pages

22 March 2026

The string-inspired running vacuum model (StRVM) of inflation is based on a Chern–Simons (CS) gravity effective action in which the only four-spacetime-derivative-order term is a gravitational anomalous CS–Pontryagin density coupled to an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Celebrating the 110th Anniversary of General Relativity: Advances, Challenges and Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,078 Views
18 Pages

This study proposed an effective capacitance (Cec) for bare and conducting polymer-covered electrodes using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). Bare electrodes show three regimes: potential-dependent Helmholtz capacitance, Gouy–Chapma...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,790 Views
14 Pages

2 September 2020

Relying on large scale labeled datasets, deep learning has achieved good performance in image classification tasks. In agricultural and biological engineering, image annotation is time-consuming and expensive. It also requires annotators to have tech...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor Data Fusion and Analysis for Automation Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,953 Views
20 Pages

A Size and Boundary Effects Model for Quasi-Brittle Fracture

  • Xiaofeng Gao,
  • Georg Koval and
  • Cyrille Chazallon

21 December 2016

The fracture behaviors of quasi-brittle materials are commonly specimen size (size effect) and crack size (boundary effect) dependent. In this study, a new failure model is developed for characterizing the size and boundary effects. The derivative of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Brittle Failure of Different Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,556 Views
31 Pages

We examine the relationship between consistent parameter estimation and model selection for autoregressive panel data models with fixed effects. We find that the transformation of fixed effects proposed by Lancaster (2002) does not necessarily lead t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,017 Views
15 Pages

Simplified Mathematical Modelling of Uncertainty: Cost-Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccines in Spain

  • Julio Emilio Marco-Franco,
  • Pedro Pita-Barros,
  • Silvia González-de-Julián,
  • Iryna Sabat and
  • David Vivas-Consuelo

6 March 2021

When exceptional situations, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, arise and reliable data is not available at decision-making times, estimation using mathematical models can provide a reasonable reckoning for health planning. We present a simplified model...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
12,533 Views
35 Pages

Species Distribution Modeling: Comparison of Fixed and Mixed Effects Models Using INLA

  • Lara Dutra Silva,
  • Eduardo Brito de Azevedo,
  • Rui Bento Elias and
  • Luís Silva

Invasive alien species are among the most important, least controlled, and least reversible of human impacts on the world’s ecosystems, with negative consequences affecting biodiversity and socioeconomic systems. Species distribution models have beco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,710 Views
17 Pages

A contextual effects model, built based on Bayesian spatial modeling strategy, was used to investigate contextual effects on neighborhood burglary risks in Wuhan, China. The contextual effects denote the impact of the upper-level area on the lower-le...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Crime Mapping and Analysis Using GIS)
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  • Open Access
569 Views
27 Pages

A Flexible Bayesian Semi-Parametric Multivariate Mixed-Effect Model Framework for Skewed Longitudinal Data

  • Mequanent Wale Mekonen,
  • Angela Alibrandi,
  • Tsion Wolanewos Asfaw,
  • Yehenew Getachew Kifle,
  • Frank Konietschke and
  • Zeytu Gashaw Asfaw

6 June 2026

While existing mixed-effects models address multivariate outcomes, nonlinearity, or non-normality separately, their joint integration remains limited in medical research. This study proposes a flexible semi-parametric multivariate mixed-effects model...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Flexible Parametric Distributions for Modeling Skewness and Kurtosis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,862 Views
18 Pages

Improvement of pBRDF Model for Target Surface Based on Diffraction and Transmission Effects

  • Qiang Fu,
  • Xuanwei Liu,
  • Di Yang,
  • Juntong Zhan,
  • Qing Liu,
  • Su Zhang,
  • Fang Wang,
  • Jin Duan,
  • Yingchao Li and
  • Huilin Jiang

11 July 2023

The polarised Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (pBRDF) model relates the properties of target materials to the polarisation information of the incident and reflected light. The Priest–Germer (P-G) model was the first strictly pBR...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Radar, Optical, Hyperspectral, Infrared, and Sonar Technology: Data Acquisition, Processing, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,942 Views
19 Pages

11 May 2021

Issuance effects are regarded as one of the most important aspects referring to the regulatory guidelines of green corporate bond ratings. This paper developed a new incentive difference Hotelling model, considering four major factors, i.e., the dire...

(This article belongs to the Collection Sustainability in Financial Industry)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,111 Views
10 Pages

Quantile Credibility Models with Common Effects

  • Wei Wang,
  • Limin Wen,
  • Zhixin Yang and
  • Quan Yuan

25 September 2020

Different from classical Bühlmann and Bühlmann Straub credibility models in which independence between different risks are assumed, this paper takes dependence between risks into consideration and extends the classical Bühlmann model b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,440 Views
18 Pages

20 April 2025

A simple design model, able to link test results of small concrete samples to failures of large structures, is desirable for fracture analysis of concrete structures, particularly if the model has no special requirements on small samples, e.g., size,...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction and Building Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,842 Views
27 Pages

Methodology for Certification-Compliant Effect-Chain Modeling

  • Iris Gräßler,
  • Dominik Wiechel,
  • Anna-Sophie Koch,
  • Tim Sturm and
  • Thomas Markfelder

17 March 2023

The success of engineering complex technical systems is determined by meeting customer requirements and institutional regulations. One example relevant to the automobile industry is the United Nations Economic Commission of Europe (UN ECE), which spe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Model-Based Systems Engineering: From Design to Practical Systems Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,390 Views
21 Pages

1 March 2023

The environment is a key element that affects many aspects of our society, including the economy, education and talents. In this article, the main purpose is to provide statistical models, algorithms and quantitative evidence regarding environmental...

(This article belongs to the Collection Environmental Assessment, Life Cycle Analysis and Sustainability)
  • Entry
  • Open Access
24 Citations
14,158 Views
10 Pages

Three Kinds of Butterfly Effects within Lorenz Models

  • Bo-Wen Shen,
  • Roger A. Pielke,
  • Xubin Zeng,
  • Jialin Cui,
  • Sara Faghih-Naini,
  • Wei Paxson and
  • Robert Atlas

Within Lorenz models, the three major kinds of butterfly effects (BEs) are the sensitive dependence on initial conditions (SDIC), the ability of a tiny perturbation to create an organized circulation at large distances, and the hypothetical role of s...

(This article belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,827 Views
24 Pages

Quantification of Measurement and Model Effects in Monopile Foundation Scour Protection Experiments

  • Minghao Wu,
  • Leen De Vos,
  • Carlos Emilio Arboleda Chavez,
  • Vasiliki Stratigaki,
  • Maximilian Streicher and
  • Peter Troch

The present work introduces an analysis of the measurement and model effects that exist in monopile scour protection experiments with repeated small scale tests. The damage erosion is calculated using the three dimensional global damage number S3D an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Marine Renewables–Infrastructures and Physical Testing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,815 Views
32 Pages

1 March 2021

We introduce four variants of the common age effect model proposed by Kleinow, which describes the mortality rates of multiple populations. Our model extensions are based on the assumption of multiple common age effects, each of which is shared only...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mortality Forecasting and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
69 Citations
13,564 Views
25 Pages

Deep Learning for Black-Box Modeling of Audio Effects

  • Marco A. Martínez Ramírez,
  • Emmanouil Benetos and
  • Joshua D. Reiss

16 January 2020

Virtual analog modeling of audio effects consists of emulating the sound of an audio processor reference device. This digital simulation is normally done by designing mathematical models of these systems. It is often difficult because it seeks to acc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Audio Effects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,807 Views
16 Pages

Effect of Independent Variables on Urban Flood Models

  • Yanfen Geng,
  • Baohang Zhu and
  • Xin Zheng

8 December 2020

The simulation accuracy of urban flood models is affected by independent variables describing terrain resolution and artificial land cover. An evaluation of these effects could provide suggestions for the improvement of simulation accuracy when the a...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,352 Views
10 Pages

25 February 2017

The emerging technology of wearable inertial sensors has shown its advantages in collecting continuous longitudinal gait data outside laboratories. This freedom also presents challenges in collecting high-fidelity gait data. In the free-living enviro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wearable and Ambient Sensors for Healthcare and Wellness Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
740 Views
19 Pages

Surface texture plays a key role in pavement safety and performance, yet its degradation is influenced by multiple interacting factors that vary across road networks. This study developed statistical models to characterize and predict surface texture...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Road Design and Traffic Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,193 Views
15 Pages

3 February 2023

Rootstock micropropagation has been extensively used as an alternative to propagation by cuttings. Although studies have recently been conducted on other species, no conclusive reports have been published on the effect of rootstock micropropagation o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Biotechnology to Woody Propagation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,499 Views
9 Pages

Analytical Capacitance Model for Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors Including Interface-Trap Effects

  • Bin Zhou,
  • Rui Zhan,
  • Zilin Teng,
  • Yiheng Xue,
  • Xiaoyan Hu,
  • Jianhua Jiang and
  • Panpan Zhang

14 April 2025

The creation of carbon nanotubes has sparked a paradigm shift in the post-silicon era because of their decent electronic and optical properties. However, interface traps pose an obstacle in the realization of high-performance carbon nanotube field-ef...

(This article belongs to the Section Nanoelectronics, Nanosensors and Devices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,411 Views
14 Pages

A Modified Dynamic Model of Single-Sided Linear Induction Motors Considering Longitudinal and Transversal Effects

  • Hamidreza Heidari,
  • Anton Rassõlkin,
  • Arash Razzaghi,
  • Toomas Vaimann,
  • Ants Kallaste,
  • Ekaterina Andriushchenko,
  • Anouar Belahcen and
  • Dmitry V. Lukichev

This paper proposes a modified dynamic equivalent circuit model for a linear induction motor considering both longitudinal end effect and transverse edge effect. The dynamic end effect (speed-dependent end effect) is based on conventional Duncan’s ap...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Robust Design Optimization of Electrical Machines and Devices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,482 Views
16 Pages

Chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) has become one of the most important process stages in the fabrication of advanced integrated circuits (IC). The CMP pattern effect strongly influences the planarization of the chip surface morphology after CMP, de...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,506 Views
15 Pages

8 June 2020

The classical Poisson-Boltzmann model can only work when ion concentrations are very dilute, which often does not match the experimental conditions. Researchers have been working on the modification of the model to include the steric effect of ions,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Physics of Ionic Conduction in Narrow Biological and Artificial Channels)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,183 Views
17 Pages

The article outlines conceptual and corresponding formal models of system functioning. Models provide means for estimation of information operation effects and the operational properties of systems and their functioning. Such systems are changed due...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,942 Views
14 Pages

Effect Model Law: An Approach for the Implementation of Personalized Medicine

  • Jean-Pierre Boissel,
  • Riad Kahoul,
  • Draltan Marin and
  • François-Henri Boissel

15 August 2013

The effect model law states that a natural relationship exists between the frequency (observation) or the probability (prediction) of a morbid event without any treatment and the frequency or probability of the same event with a treatment. This relat...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,735 Views
33 Pages

Regulation of Eukaryote Metabolism: An Abstract Model Explaining the Warburg/Crabtree Effect

  • Laetitia Gibart,
  • Rajeev Khoodeeram,
  • Gilles Bernot,
  • Jean-Paul Comet and
  • Jean-Yves Trosset

25 August 2021

Adaptation of metabolism is a response of many eukaryotic cells to nutrient heterogeneity in the cell microenvironment. One of these adaptations is the shift from respiratory to fermentative metabolism, also called the Warburg/Crabtree effect. It is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Frontiers in Connecting Steady-State and Dynamic Approaches for Modelling Cell Metabolic Behavior)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,179 Views
21 Pages

28 December 2024

Geopolymer concrete is a sustainable construction material and is considered as a promising alternative to traditional Portland cement concrete. However, there is still not much research on the effective properties and damage behavior of geopolymer c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modelling, Assessing and Controlling Deterioration Process of Reinforced Concrete Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,750 Views
27 Pages

The epidemic modeling of computer virus propagation is identified as an effective approach to understanding the mechanism of virus spread. Fraction-order virus spread models exhibit remarkable advantages over their integer-order counterparts. Based o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analysis and Numerical Computations of Nonlinear Fractional and Classical Differential Equations)

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