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  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,959 Views
20 Pages

2 September 2020

Axial piston pumps are crucial for the safe operation of hydraulic systems and usually work under variable operating conditions. However, deterioration status recognition for such pumps under variable conditions has rarely been reported until now. Th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Machine Learning and Deep Learning Based Machine Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis)
  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,685 Views
13 Pages

7 September 2015

The ~1.5 × 10−20 J which is considered a universal quantity and is associated with the movement of protons in water also relates to the ratio of the magnetic moment of a proton divided by its unit charge, multiplied by viscosity and applied over the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,449 Views
30 Pages

Relativistic Rational Extended Thermodynamics of Polyatomic Gases with a New Hierarchy of Moments

  • Takashi Arima,
  • Maria Cristina Carrisi,
  • Sebastiano Pennisi and
  • Tommaso Ruggeri

26 December 2021

A relativistic version of the rational extended thermodynamics of polyatomic gases based on a new hierarchy of moments that takes into account the total energy composed by the rest energy and the energy of the molecular internal mode is proposed. The...

(This article belongs to the Section Non-equilibrium Phenomena)
  • Article
  • Open Access
358 Views
22 Pages

29 August 2026

The Weibull distribution is one of the most versatile and widely applied continuous probability distributions in reliability engineering, survival analysis, wind-energy modelling, and extreme-value theory. Classical parameter estimation relies on max...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry Analysis of Uncertainty Theory and Uncertain Statistics and Their Interdisciplinary Applications)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,117 Views
11 Pages

30 November 2024

This paper extends the concept of epitropy, as introduced in previous work, to capture the effects of extreme tail behavior arising naturally over very long time and large space scales. Epitropy has some qualities that parallel entropy, although it i...

(This article belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,798 Views
19 Pages

Research on the Skidding Resistance and Attenuation Characteristics of Asphalt Pavement Based on Image Recognition-Analysis Strategy

  • Ke Zhang,
  • Dianliang Xi,
  • Yu Zhao,
  • Wei Xie and ,
  • Wei Zhang and
  • Jiantao Gao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 June 2024

To accurately evaluate the skidding resistance of asphalt pavements, a texture imaging device was developed to realize the standardized acquisition of pavement images. Based on the gray-level co-occurrence matrix and multifractal theory of texture st...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Aspects in Colloid and Interface Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
935 Views
25 Pages

3 July 2026

Real-time fatigue classification on resource-constrained edge devices faces three unresolved computational challenges: just-in-time compilation latency spikes that violate the 50 ms inference budget, statistical moment features insensitive to tempora...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,059 Views
10 Pages

Origin of the Low Magnetic Moment in Fe2AlTi: An Ab Initio Study

  • Martin Friák,
  • Anton Slávik,
  • Ivana Miháliková,
  • David Holec and ,
  • Monika Všianská,
  • Mojmír Šob,
  • Martin Palm and
  • Jörg Neugebauer
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

14 September 2018

The intermetallic compound Fe 2 AlTi (alternatively Fe 2 TiAl) is an important phase in the ternary Fe-Al-Ti phase diagram. Previous theoretical studies showed a large discrepancy of approximately an order of magnitude between the ab in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Heusler and Half-Heusler Compounds)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,506 Views
32 Pages

Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Polymeric Liquids via Atomistic Simulation

  • Brian Joseph Edwards,
  • Mohammad Hadi Nafar Sefiddashti and
  • Bamin Khomami

25 January 2022

The challenge of calculating nonequilibrium entropy in polymeric liquids undergoing flow was addressed from the perspective of extending equilibrium thermodynamics to include internal variables that quantify the internal microstructure of chain-like...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling and Simulation of Complex Fluid Flows)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,292 Views
21 Pages

Band Structure Calculations, Magnetic Properties and Magnetocaloric Effect of GdCo1.8M0.2 Compounds with M = Fe, Mn, Cu, Al

  • Gabriela Souca,
  • Roxana Dudric,
  • Karsten Küpper,
  • Coriolan Tiusan and
  • Romulus Tetean

The magnetic properties, band structure results, and magnetocaloric effect of GdCo1.8M0.2 with M = Fe, Mn, Cu, and Al are reported. The band structure calculations demonstrate that all the samples have a ferrimagnetically ordered ground state, in per...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advance of Magnetocaloric Effect and Materials)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
155 Citations
14,338 Views
7 Pages

12 March 2015

We introduce a generalization of multiscale entropy (MSE) analysis. The method is termed MSEn, where the subscript denotes the moment used to coarse-grain a time series. MSEμ, described previously, uses the mean value (first moment). Here, we focus o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy and Cardiac Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,969 Views
36 Pages

16 August 2021

Our intention is to provide easy methods for estimating entropy and chemical potentials for gas phase reactions. Clausius’ virial theorem set a basis for relating kinetic energy in a body of independent material particles to its potential energy, poi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy: The Scientific Tool of the 21st Century)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,079 Views
26 Pages

28 August 2018

From basic principles, we review some fundamentals of entropy calculations, some of which are implicit in the literature. We mainly deal with microcanonical ensembles to effectively compare the counting of states in continuous and discrete settings....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropic Aspects Arising from Geometric Descriptions of Physical Phenomena)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,604 Views
20 Pages

Entropic-Skins Geometry to Describe Wall Turbulence Intermittency

  • Diogo Queiros-Conde,
  • Johan Carlier,
  • Lavinia Grosu and
  • Michel Stanislas

13 April 2015

In order to describe the phenomenon of intermittency in wall turbulence and, more particularly, the behaviour of moments and and intermittency exponents ζP with the order p and distance to the wal...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,066 Views
19 Pages

13 October 2017

We analyze the emergence of Kovacs-like memory effects in athermal systems within the linear response regime. This is done by starting from both the master equation for the probability distribution and the equations for the physically-relevant moment...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics of Small Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,732 Views
18 Pages

Comparison of Wind Energy Generation Using the Maximum Entropy Principle and the Weibull Distribution Function

  • Muhammad Shoaib,
  • Imran Siddiqui,
  • Shafiqur Rehman,
  • Saif Ur Rehman and ,
  • Shamim Khan and
  • Aref Lashin
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

19 October 2016

Proper knowledge of the wind characteristics of a site is of fundamental importance in estimating wind energy output from a selected wind turbine. The present paper focuses on assessing the suitability and accuracy of the fitted distribution function...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,407 Views
25 Pages

Aspects of Applied Chemistry Related to Future Goals of Safety and Efficiency in Materials Development for Nuclear Energy

  • Florentina Golgovici,
  • Aurelia Elena Tudose,
  • Diana Diniasi,
  • Radu Nartita and ,
  • Manuela Fulger and
  • Ioana Demetrescu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

15 January 2023

The present paper is a narrative review focused on a few important aspects and moments of trends surrounding materials and methods in sustainable nuclear energy, as an expression of applied chemistry support for more efficiency and safety. In such co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exclusive Papers Collection of Editorial Board Members and Invited Scholars in Applied Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,230 Views
17 Pages

The objective of this study is to determine the analytic expressions of the Helmholtz free energy, the equilibrium vacancy concentration, the melting temperature, the jumps of volume, enthalpy the mean nearest neighbor distance and entropy at melting...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,304 Views
18 Pages

11 January 2018

We investigate the effect of viscous dissipation on the thermal transport characteristics of heat and its consequence in terms of the entropy-generation rate in a circular Couette flow. We consider the flow of a Newtonian fluid through a narrow annul...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Micro Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,410 Views
14 Pages

Impact of Antiphase Boundaries on Structural, Magnetic and Vibrational Properties of Fe3Al

  • Martin Friák,
  • Miroslav Černý,
  • Monika Všianská and
  • Mojmír Šob

30 October 2020

We performed a quantum-mechanical study of the effect of antiphase boundaries (APBs) on structural, magnetic and vibrational properties of Fe3Al compound. The studied APBs have the {001} crystallographic orientation of their sharp interfaces and they...

(This article belongs to the Section Materials Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
112 Citations
18,603 Views
36 Pages

Maximum Entropy Fundamentals

  • Peter Harremoës and
  • Flemming Topsøe

30 September 2001

In its modern formulation, the Maximum Entropy Principle was promoted by E.T. Jaynes, starting in the mid-fifties. The principle dictates that one should look for a distribution, consistent with available information, which maximizes the entropy. How...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,097 Views
13 Pages

15 July 2021

On the basis of binary perfectly inelastic collision theory, the time evolutions of kinetic energy and surface area for a particle agglomerate system, due to Brownian motion, are investigated by using the Taylor series expansion technology. The asymp...

(This article belongs to the Topic New Research on Detection and Removal of Emerging Pollutants)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,975 Views
28 Pages

Influence of Layout on Offshore Wind Farm Efficiency and Wake Characteristics in Turbulent Environments

  • Guanyu Wang,
  • Junnan Huang,
  • Zhihao Zhang,
  • Kang Chen and ,
  • Zhuang Shen,
  • Jiahuang Tu and
  • Zhaolong Han
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

12 November 2025

Mitigating wake effects between wind turbines is crucial for enhancing the overall output power of offshore wind farms. Therefore, optimizing turbine spacing and layout under turbulent conditions is essential. This study employs the NREL-5 MW wind tu...

(This article belongs to the Section Coastal Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,147 Views
19 Pages

20 February 2023

In this article, we present a new statistical modification of the Weibull model for updating the flexibility, called the generalized Weibull-Weibull distribution. The new modification of the Weibull model is defined and studied in detail. Some mathem...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetric Machine Learning Method Enhanced by Evolutionary Computation and Its Applications in Big Data Analytics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,954 Views
26 Pages

17 November 2020

Scientific and accurate core competitiveness evaluation of clean energy incubators is of great significance for improving their burgeoning development. Hence, this paper proposes a hybrid model on the basis of matter-element extension integrated with...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Development for Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,448 Views
9 Pages

21 August 2025

The “abnormal” properties of ice and liquid water can be explained by a hybrid quantum/classical framework based on objective facts. Internal decoherence due to the low dissociation energy of the H-bond and the strong electric dipole mome...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entanglement Entropy and Quantum Phase Transition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,437 Views
13 Pages

The Effect of Reduced Co Content in CrMnFeCoNi Alloys: A First Principles Study

  • Gustav Johansson,
  • Johan-Michael Kuorak,
  • Oleg Gorbatov and
  • Corina Etz

26 March 2025

This study investigates high-entropy CrMnFeCoNi alloys with reduced Co content using density functional theory. The muffin-tin orbital method and coherent potential approximation successfully predict experimental values for volume, magnetic moment, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
11,952 Views
45 Pages

12 August 2014

The François Massieu 1869 idea to derive some mechanical and thermal properties of physical systems from “Characteristic Functions”, was developed by Gibbs and Duhem in thermodynamics with the concept of potentials, and introduced by Poincaré in prob...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information, Entropy and Their Geometric Structures)
  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,512 Views
28 Pages

27 June 2022

In this paper, we review the application of a recent formula for the lattice thermal conductivity to silicon and germanium, which are two of the most commonly used materials in electronic devices, and to graphene, one the most promising new materials...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,618 Views
21 Pages

Influence of Digital Economy on Urban Energy Efficiency in China

  • Haoyuan Ma,
  • Zhijiang Li,
  • Rui Dong and
  • Decai Tang

19 November 2024

The digital economy (DE) is characterized by invention, low energy consumption, cross-sector integration, and open sharing. It can effectively enhance social production methods, influence consumer behavior, and provide new pathways to enhance total f...

(This article belongs to the Collection Digital Economy and Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,718 Views
22 Pages

19 March 2023

In this article, a new modification of the Weibull model with three parameters, the new exponential Weibull distribution (E-WD), is defined. The new model has many statistical advantages, the heavy-tailed behavior and the regular variation property w...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,178 Views
14 Pages

We performed a quantum mechanical study of segregation of Cu atoms toward antiphase boundaries (APBs) in Fe3Al. The computed concentration of Cu atoms was 3.125 at %. The APBs have been characterized by a shift of the lattice along the ⟨001⟩ crystall...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Magnetic Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,466 Views
22 Pages

29 November 2019

Human society has increased its capacity to exploit natural resources thanks to new technologies, which are one of the results of information exchange in the knowledge society. Many approaches to understanding the interactions between human society a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,762 Views
14 Pages

Quantifying Microplastic Leaching from Paper Cups: A Specklegram Image Analytical Approach

  • Mankuzhy Anilkumar Rithwiq,
  • Puthuparambil Anju Abraham,
  • Mohanachandran Nair Sindhu Swapna and
  • Sankaranarayana Iyer Sankararaman

27 November 2024

The study proposes a novel speckle interferometric method for detecting and quantifying microplastic leaching from paper cups, addressing concerns raised by the World Health Organization regarding human health risks. Hot water at varying temperatures...

(This article belongs to the Section New Applications Enabled by Photonics Technologies and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,741 Views
19 Pages

16 April 2024

With the implementation of China’s innovation-driven high-quality economic development strategy, green and innovation are already the key factors of economic development. Therefore, developing green industry and improving regional green innovat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Current Advances in Green Governance and CO2 Emissions towards Sustainable Development)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,351 Views
19 Pages

6 August 2024

This work (in two parts) will review the recently developed predictive modeling methodology called “4th-BERRU-PM” and its applicability to nuclear energy systems as exemplified by an illustrative application to the Polyethylene-Reflected...

(This article belongs to the Section K: State-of-the-Art Energy Related Technologies)
  • Hypothesis
  • Open Access
17 Citations
9,846 Views
11 Pages

The advanced version of the author’s inversion concept of the origin of terrestrial life and its application for life in the Universe has been substantiated. A key step in the transition to life consists in the thermodynamic inversion of non-li...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Planetary Evolution and Search for Life on Habitable Planets)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,665 Views
25 Pages

30 October 2024

The propagation speeds of excitations are a crucial input in the modeling of interacting systems of particles. In this paper, we assume the microscopic physics is described by a kinetic theory for massless particles, which is approximated by a genera...

(This article belongs to the Section Non-equilibrium Phenomena)
  • Perspective
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,797 Views
35 Pages

13 January 2023

This work presents a perspective on deterministic predictive modeling methodologies, which aim at extracting best-estimate values for model responses and parameters along with reduced predicted uncertainties for these best-estimate values. The two ol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,400 Views
20 Pages

Biological and Spectroscopic Investigations of New Tenoxicam and 1.10-Phenthroline Metal Complexes

  • Hazem S. Elshafie,
  • Sadeek A. Sadeek,
  • Ippolito Camele,
  • Hanem M. Awad and
  • Amira A. Mohamed

25 February 2020

In the present work, tenoxicam (H2Ten) reacted with Mn(II), Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II) and Zn (II) ions in the presence of 1.10-phenthroline (Phen), forming new mixed ligand metal complexes. The properties of the formed complexes were depicted by element...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Metal Coordination Complexes for Biomedical Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,590 Views
17 Pages

Permeation of β-Lactamase Inhibitors through the General Porins of Gram-Negative Bacteria

  • Alessandro Pira,
  • Mariano Andrea Scorciapino,
  • Igor V. Bodrenko,
  • Andrea Bosin and ,
  • Silvia Acosta-Gutiérrez and
  • Matteo Ceccarelli
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

5 December 2020

Modern medicine relies upon antibiotics, but we have arrived to the point where our inability to come up with new effective molecules against resistant pathogens, together with the declining private investment, is resulting in the number of untreatab...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Breakthroughs in Medicinal Chemistry: New Targets and Mechanisms, New Drugs, New Hopes 2020)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,096 Views
23 Pages

28 June 2016

Roller bearing plays a significant role in industrial sectors. To improve the ability of roller bearing fault diagnosis under multi-rotating situation, this paper proposes a novel roller bearing fault characteristic: the Amplitude Modulation (AM) bas...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
13,122 Views
11 Pages

23 February 2007

This study presents Quantitative Structure Activity Relationships (QSAR) studyon a pool of 18 bio-active sulfonamide compounds which includes five acetazolamidederivatives, eight sulfanilamide derivatives and five clinically used sulfonamides molecul...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Chemistry, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,364 Views
10 Pages

Computerized Texture Analysis of Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography of Choriocapillaris in Normal Eyes of Young and Healthy Subjects

  • Asadolah Movahedan,
  • Phillip Vargas,
  • John Moir,
  • Gabriel Kaufmann and ,
  • Lindsay Chun,
  • Claire Smith,
  • Nathalie Massamba,
  • Patrick La Riviere and
  • Dimitra Skondra
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

15 June 2022

Computerized texture analysis uses higher-order mathematics to identify patterns beyond what the naked eye can recognize. We tested its feasibility in optical coherence tomography angiography imaging of choriocapillaris. Our objective was to determin...

(This article belongs to the Collection Retina in Health and Disease)
  • Article
  • Open Access
62 Citations
8,499 Views
22 Pages

Automatic Recognition of Ripening Tomatoes by Combining Multi-Feature Fusion with a Bi-Layer Classification Strategy for Harvesting Robots

  • Jingui Wu,
  • Baohua Zhang,
  • Jun Zhou,
  • Yingjun Xiong and ,
  • Baoxing Gu and
  • Xiaolong Yang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

1 February 2019

Automatic recognition of ripening tomatoes is a main hurdle precluding the replacement of manual labour by robotic harvesting. In this paper, we present a novel automatic algorithm for recognition of ripening tomatoes using an improved method that co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Sensor Fusion and Data Analysis)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,101 Views
35 Pages

6 August 2024

This work continues the review and illustrative application to energy systems of the “Fourth-Order Best-Estimate Results with Reduced Uncertainties Predictive Modeling” (4th-BERRU-PM) methodology. The 4th-BERRU-PM methodology uses the Max...

(This article belongs to the Section K: State-of-the-Art Energy Related Technologies)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,596 Views
19 Pages

5 September 2022

Among the existing bearing faults, ball ones are known to be the most difficult to detect and classify. In this work, we propose a diagnosis methodology for these incipient faults’ classification using time series of vibration signals and their...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fault Diagnosis Methods Based on Information Theory or Machine Learning: From Theory to Application)