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22 December 2018

In this paper, we consider a Cournot duopoly, in which any firm does not know the marginal costs of production of the other player, as a Bayesian game. In our game, the marginal costs depend on two infinite continuous sets of states of the world. We...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Game and Decision Theory: Structures, Models, Applications and Software Implementation)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,564 Views
24 Pages

An Equilibrium-Based Measure of Systemic Risk

  • Katerina Ivanov,
  • James Schulte,
  • Weidong Tian and
  • Kevin Tseng

This paper develops and implements an equilibrium model of systemic risk. The model derives a systemic risk measure, loss beta, in characterizing all too-big-to-fail banks using a capital insurance equilibrium. By constructing each bank’s loss portfo...

(This article belongs to the Section Banking and Finance)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,810 Views
22 Pages

4 August 2023

In the context of rapid urbanization, inefficient, disorderly, and low-density urban sprawl often leads to resource waste and ecological damage. Over the decades, many studies on the measurement, analysis, and governance of urban sprawl have emerged....

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43 Citations
10,222 Views
17 Pages

22 August 2014

The measurement of tea moisture content is important for processing and storing tea. The moisture content of tea affects the quality and durability of the product. Some electrical devices have been proposed to measure the moisture content of tea leav...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,339 Views
24 Pages

Real-Valued Systemic Risk Measures

  • Alessandro Doldi and
  • Marco Frittelli

30 April 2021

We describe the axiomatic approach to real-valued Systemic Risk Measures, which is a natural counterpart to the nowadays classical univariate theory initiated by Artzner et al. in the seminal paper “Coherent measures of risk”, Math. Finance, (1999)....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Mathematical Methods in Financial Risk Management)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,080 Views
10 Pages

A Preliminary Study of Radon Equilibrium Factor at a Tourist Cave in Okinawa, Japan

  • Ryohei Yamada,
  • Yuki Tamakuma,
  • Takahito Suzuki,
  • Shunya Nakasone,
  • Yoshitaka Shiroma,
  • Masahide Furukawa,
  • Hiroki Hashimoto,
  • Masahiro Hosoda,
  • Naofumi Akata and
  • Shinji Tokonami

9 December 2021

The International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) issued its Publication 137, Occupational Intakes of Radionuclides: Part 3 in which the radon equilibrium factor is fixed as 0.4 for tourist caves; however, several studies have reported a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Atmospheric Radon Measurements, Control, Mitigation and Management)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,410 Views
18 Pages

27 October 2022

In this paper, a new multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) method, called a measure for information values connected to the equilibrium points (IVEP) method, and a new statistical measure for measuring the similarities of performances of MCDM algorith...

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6 Citations
10,541 Views
14 Pages

11 May 2009

This elucidation studies ergodicity and equilibrium measures for additive cellular automata with prime states. Additive cellular automata are ergodic with respect to Bernoulli measure unless it is either an identity map or constant. The formulae of m...

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6 Citations
3,547 Views
18 Pages

11 July 2024

Form aesthetic principles represent an aesthetic consciousness developed through long-term human labor practices, which are crucial for the design and evaluation of product form. The equilibrium aesthetic principle is a vital component of the form ae...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Engineering and Materials)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
1,852 Views
20 Pages

12 February 2025

In the context of continued global population growth and various environmental challenges, the coordinated protection of water resources, energy, and food security has become increasingly important. This study focuses on the uneven distribution of wa...

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1 Citations
3,852 Views
16 Pages

20 February 2021

Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) are widely measured at ppb and ppt level in many contexts, from therapeutic drug control in respiratory diseases to monitoring of climate change and indoor air quality. The need for accuracy is a common denominator i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue VOC Sensing and Measurements)
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646 Views
14 Pages

12 December 2025

Market equilibrium is characterized by a state wherein aggregate demand equals aggregate supply for all assets, a condition arising from consumers maximizing utility within budget constraints and producers maximizing profits. This paper investigates...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Financial Mathematics and Econophysics)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,058 Views
26 Pages

This paper presents and studies a new epidemic SIR (Susceptible–Infectious–Recovered) model with susceptible recruitment and eventual joint vaccination efforts for both newborn and susceptible individuals. Furthermore, saturation effects...

(This article belongs to the Section Global Health)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,648 Views
18 Pages

12 December 2024

We study two harmonic oscillators with high quality factors, driven by equilibrium and off equilibrium thermal noise, the latter mimicked by establishing a temperature gradient. The two oscillators are coupled via a third reciprocal harmonic interact...

(This article belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,441 Views
18 Pages

The POVM Theorem in Bohmian Mechanics

  • Christian Beck and
  • Dustin Lazarovici

7 April 2025

The POVM theorem is a central result in Bohmian mechanics, grounding the measurement formalism of standard quantum mechanics in a statistical analysis based on the quantum equilibrium hypothesis (the Born rule for Bohmian particle positions). It stat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Foundations: 100 Years of Born’s Rule)
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1 Citations
1,594 Views
16 Pages

18 November 2024

We introduce derangetropy, which is a novel functional measure designed to characterize the dynamics of information within probability distributions. Unlike scalar measures such as Shannon entropy, derangetropy offers a functional representation that...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematics in Information Theory and Modern Applications)
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1 Citations
3,064 Views
10 Pages

29 January 2021

Markov-type inequalities are often used in numerical solutions of differential equations, and their constants improve error bounds. In this paper, the upper approximation of the constant in a Markov-type inequality on a simplex is considered. To dete...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonlinear Problems and Applications of Fixed Point Theory)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,685 Views
9 Pages

Study on Measurement Methods for Moisture Content Inside Wood

  • Takuro Mori,
  • Ayano Ariki,
  • Yutaro Enatsu,
  • Yuri Sadakane and
  • Kei Tanaka

1 August 2025

There has been growing interest in constructing mid- and high-rise wooden buildings in recent years. To ensure the feasibility of these structures, it is necessary to provide evidence that their long-term reliability can be guaranteed. While long-ter...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,605 Views
37 Pages

14 December 2022

The convergence rate in the famous Rényi theorem is studied by means of the Stein method refinement. Namely, it is demonstrated that the new estimate of the convergence rate of the normalized geometric sums to exponential law involving the ide...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Limit Theorems of Probability Theory)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,430 Views
19 Pages

The Effect of Contraction–Expansion Nozzle on High-Temperature Shock Tube Flow

  • Junmou Shen,
  • Dapeng Yao,
  • Zhongjie Shao,
  • Feng Ji,
  • Xing Chen,
  • Wei Chen and
  • Jianwei Li

4 February 2025

To achieve higher enthalpy and pressure, the technique of variable cross-section drive is effectively combined with the heating of light gas to enhance the intensity of the incident shock wave. A study was conducted to predict the impact of variable...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Applied Aerodynamics)
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86 Citations
5,918 Views
15 Pages

Entropy Analysis and Neural Network-Based Adaptive Control of a Non-Equilibrium Four-Dimensional Chaotic System with Hidden Attractors

  • Hadi Jahanshahi,
  • Maryam Shahriari-Kahkeshi,
  • Raúl Alcaraz,
  • Xiong Wang,
  • Vijay P. Singh and
  • Viet-Thanh Pham

7 February 2019

Today, four-dimensional chaotic systems are attracting considerable attention because of their special characteristics. This paper presents a non-equilibrium four-dimensional chaotic system with hidden attractors and investigates its dynamical behavi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonlinear Dynamics and Entropy of Complex Systems with Hidden and Self-excited Attractors)
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1,595 Views
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19 November 2024

Clarifying the impact of macro emission reduction measures on the mechanism of agricultural greenhouse gas emission reduction is of great significance in promoting climate change governance and the construction of a carbon emission reduction policy s...

(This article belongs to the Section Agricultural Economics, Policies and Rural Management)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,198 Views
15 Pages

15 September 2021

Identification of cracks in beam-type components is significant to ensure the safety of structures. Among the approaches relying on mode shapes, the concept of transverse pseudo-force (TPF) has been well proved for single and multiple crack identific...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensing Technology and Data Interpretation in Machine Diagnosis and Systems Condition Monitoring: Volume 2)
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3 Citations
2,336 Views
21 Pages

Technoeconomic Analysis for Deployment of Gait-Oriented Wearable Medical Internet-of-Things Platform in Catalonia

  • Marc Codina,
  • David Castells-Rufas,
  • Maria-Jesus Torrelles and
  • Jordi Carrabina

The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) extends the concept of eHealth and mHealth for patients with continuous monitoring requirements. This research concentrates on the use of wearable devices based on the use of inertial measurement units (IMUs) tha...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Technoeconomics of the Internet of Things)
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1,973 Views
13 Pages

Measuring the Equilibrium Spreading Pressure—A Tale of Three Amphiphiles

  • Boyan Peychev,
  • Dimitrinka Arabadzhieva,
  • Ivan L. Minkov,
  • Iglika M. Dimitrova,
  • Elena Mileva,
  • Stoyan K. Smoukov and
  • Radomir I. Slavchov

24 August 2024

A surfactant’s equilibrium spreading pressure (ESP) is the maximum decrease in surface tension achievable at equilibrium below the Krafft point. Difficulties in measuring the ESP have been noted previously but no well-established experimental p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research Progress of Surfactants)
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1 Citations
1,080 Views
23 Pages

8 May 2025

2-Methyl-2-cyclopentenone (MCP) is the main by-product of the newly developed heterogeneous catalysis process for producing crotonaldehyde, which serves as an important intermediate for drug synthesis. However, how to recover and purify MCP from the...

(This article belongs to the Section Chemical Processes and Systems)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,731 Views
17 Pages

Calculation of the Henry’s Constant and the Thickness of the Equilibrium Adsorption Layer of Radon in the Layer-by-Layer Measurement of the Sorbent Activity

  • Eldar P. Magomedbekov,
  • Aleksei O. Merkushkin,
  • Veronika S. Pokalchuk,
  • Alexander V. Obruchikov,
  • Ilia Yu. Lukiyanchikov,
  • Alexander S. Chepurnov and
  • Elena A. Vanina

16 December 2022

The radioactive gas radon is ubiquitous in the environment and is a major contributor to the human inhalation dose. It is the second leading cause of lung cancer after smoking. Radon concentrations are particularly high in the air of radon-hazardous...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Treatment of Radioactive Waste and Sustainability Energy)
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15 Pages

9 April 2024

This paper describes a kind of linear quadratic uncertain stochastic hybrid differential game system grounded in the framework of subadditive measures, in which the system dynamics are described by a hybrid differential equation with Wiener–Liu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Control Theory and Applications, 2nd Edition)
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7 Citations
4,856 Views
15 Pages

Measurement and Correlation of Vapor–Liquid Equilibrium of Mixtures of 1,2-Propanediol or 1,4-Butanediol + 1,8-Diazabicyclo(5.4.0)undec-7-ene at 30 kPa

  • Camilla Barbieri,
  • Valentina Schiattarella,
  • Stefania Moioli,
  • Laura A. Pellegrini,
  • Giacomo Filippini,
  • Alberto R. de Angelis and
  • Gianluca Fiori

In this study, vapor–liquid equilibrium (VLE) experimental data were measured for two binary solvents based on 1,8-diazabicyclo(5.4.0)undec-7-ene (DBU), which can be used as a new CO2-binding organic liquids (CO2-BOLs) solvent. No experimental...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Green Solvents and Materials for CO2 Capture)
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14 Citations
4,430 Views
18 Pages

Direct Measurement of the Four-Phase Equilibrium Coexistence Vapor–Aqueous Solution–Ice–Gas Hydrate in Water–Carbon Dioxide System

  • Anton Semenov,
  • Rais Mendgaziev,
  • Andrey Stoporev,
  • Vladimir Istomin,
  • Timur Tulegenov,
  • Murtazali Yarakhmedov,
  • Andrei Novikov and
  • Vladimir Vinokurov

Precise data on the non-variant equilibrium of the four phases (vapor–aqueous solution–ice–gas hydrate) in P–T coordinates are highly desired for developing accurate thermodynamic models and can be used as reference points (si...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Macroscopic and Microscopic Thermodynamics: From Fundamentals to Present Applications 2.0)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,820 Views
21 Pages

16 August 2021

A new method of identifying the sources of output growth and measuring total factor productivity (TFP) is proposed, with an application to data from the Greek economy. The price accounting approach, based on the full industry equilibrium (FIE) framew...

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6 Citations
6,210 Views
16 Pages

11 April 2023

Vapor–liquid equilibrium (VLE) and density data for binary systems of branched alkanes + ethyl acetate are scarce in the literature. In this study, the binary mixtures 3-methylpentane + ethyl acetate and 2,3-dimethylbutane + ethyl acetate were...

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859 Views
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6 November 2025

2-Methyl-3-butenenitrile, a key intermediate in the industrial production of Nylon-66, is often accompanied by two other by-products, 2-methyl-2-butenenitrile and 2-pentenenitrile, which have been proven to affect the production yield and quality of...

(This article belongs to the Section Separation Processes)
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1 Citations
4,124 Views
16 Pages

Since H2O and Ethylene Glycol Monomethyl Ether (EM) form a minimum-boiling azeotrope, 1-pentanol, 1-hexanol, and 1-heptanol are selected as entrainers to separate the azeotropic mixture (H2O/EM) using azeotropic distillation. The binary vapor liquid...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Green Separation and Purification Technology)
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8 Citations
3,866 Views
20 Pages

21 March 2023

An historical overview covering the field of electroanalytical metal cations speciation in freshwaters is presented here, detailing both the notable experimental and theoretical developments. Then, a critical review of the progress in the last five y...

(This article belongs to the Section Analytical Chemistry)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,810 Views
22 Pages

26 August 2024

We start from the fundamental premise that any physical interaction can be interpreted as a game. To demonstrate this, we draw upon the free energy principle and the theory of quantum reference frames. In this way, we place the game-theoretic Nash Eq...

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6 Citations
4,833 Views
24 Pages

16 July 2017

With the end of the grace period (2016) of the aviation carbon tax (ACT) proposed by the EU, the EU is likely to restart the ACT. Hence, it becomes increasingly urgent to propose a feasible and effective scheme to restrict emissions in the aviation i...

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3 Citations
2,044 Views
47 Pages

10 February 2026

Near-critical and supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2) is extensively utilized in high-pressure separation, extraction, polymer processing, and carbon capture and utilization (CCU) technologies owing to its tunable density, low viscosity, high diffu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Review Papers in Physical Chemistry)
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6 Citations
4,803 Views
29 Pages

26 May 2022

Understanding the phase behaviour of (CO2 + water + permanent gas) systems is critical for implementing carbon capture and storage (CCS) processes, a key technology in reducing CO2 emissions. In this paper, phase behaviour data for (H2O + N2) and (CO...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Thermodynamics for Net-Zero Energy Systems)
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1 Citations
3,206 Views
14 Pages

Effects of Different Centrifugation Parameters on Equilibrium Solubility Measurements

  • Rita Szolláth,
  • Vivien Bárdos,
  • Marcell Stifter-Mursits,
  • Réka Angi and
  • Károly Mazák

2 October 2025

The bioavailability of a drug is closely linked to its solubility, making its early determination essential in drug development. The saturation shake-flask (SSF) method is the gold standard protocol for this, which includes a phase separation step&md...

(This article belongs to the Section Biochemical and Chemical Analysis & Synthesis)
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2 Citations
8,144 Views
14 Pages

Cell Size Discrimination Based on the Measurement of the Equilibrium Velocity in Rectangular Microchannels

  • Lisa Schott,
  • Christian Sommer,
  • Joern Wittek,
  • Khaliun Myagmar,
  • Thomas Walther and
  • Michael Baßler

22 May 2015

Flow cytometry is a well-established diagnostic tool for cell counting and characterization. It utilizes fluorescence and scattered excitation light simultaneously emitted from cells passing an excitation laser focus to discriminate various cell type...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 2nd International Conference on Microfluidic Handling Systems)
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3 Citations
3,919 Views
29 Pages

19 August 2021

A nested structure is a structural feature that is conducive to system stability formed by the coevolution of biological species in mutualistic ecosystems The coopetition relationship and value flow between industrial sectors in the global value chai...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Structure and Dynamics of Complex Socioeconomic Networks)
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8 Citations
8,473 Views
5 Pages

20 June 2001

The selectivity of measurements by means of affinity sensors in (quasi)equilibrium conditions and in non-equilibrium conditions was compared. The results show that the measurements in non-equilibrium conditions can reduce or even eliminate a relative...

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4 Citations
5,429 Views
16 Pages

Vapor Liquid Equilibrium Measurements of Two Promising Tertiary Amines for CO2 Capture

  • Diego D. D. Pinto,
  • Znar Zahraee,
  • Vanja Buvik,
  • Ardi Hartono and
  • Hanna K. Knuutila

12 December 2019

Post combustion CO2 capture is still a rather energy intense, and therefore expensive, process. Much of the current research for reducing the process energy requirements is focused on the regeneration section. A good description of the vapor liquid e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gas, Water and Solid Waste Treatment Technology)
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23 Citations
4,252 Views
17 Pages

Hydrodynamic Structure with Scour Hole Downstream of Bed Sills

  • Mouldi Ben Meftah,
  • Francesca De Serio,
  • Diana De Padova and
  • Michele Mossa

9 January 2020

Experimental turbulence measurements of scour hole downstream of bed sills in alluvial channels with non-cohesive sediments are investigated. Using an Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter (ADV), the flow velocity-field within the equilibrium scour hole was c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Turbulence and Flow–Sediment Interactions in Open-Channel Flows)
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The moisture content of dead fine forest fuels is a central component of nearly all fire behaviour and fire danger rating systems. For modelling purposes, equilibrium moisture content curves are an important input parameter. When a dead fine fuel is...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The Third International Conference on Fire Behavior and Risk)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,056 Views
16 Pages

Influence of Local Thermodynamic Non-Equilibrium to Photothermally Induced Acoustic Response of Complex Systems

  • Slobodanka Galovic,
  • Aleksa I. Djordjevic,
  • Bojan Z. Kovacevic,
  • Katarina Lj. Djordjevic and
  • Dalibor Chevizovich

In this paper, the time-resolved model of the photoacoustic signal for samples with a complex inner structure is derived including local non-equilibrium of structural elements with multiple degrees of freedom, i.e., structural entropy of the system....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analysis of Heat Conduction and Anomalous Diffusion in Fractional Calculus)
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6 Citations
3,933 Views
11 Pages

18 September 2024

The equilibrium factor F is one of the parameters that should be considered when assessing the effective dose based on radon activity concentration. Since the equilibrium factor in various environments ranges theoretically from a value close to 0 to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Atmospheric Radon Concentration Monitoring and Measurements (2nd Edition))
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1,281 Views
25 Pages

22 December 2025

We develop a data-driven framework for analyzing how scientific concepts evolve through their empirical in-text frequency distributions in large text corpora. For each concept, the observed distribution is paired with a maximum entropy equilibrium re...

(This article belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)
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58 Citations
10,716 Views
17 Pages

6 January 2017

An impedance-based temperature estimation method is investigated considering the electrochemical non-equilibrium with short-term relaxation time for facilitating the vehicular application. Generally, sufficient relaxation time is required for battery...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Energy Storage Technologies and Their Applications (AESA))

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