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5 Citations
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22 Pages

9 September 2020

We consider a coupled model surface-deep ocean effect, where an Energy Balance Model (EBM) is used for modelling the surface temperature and a two-dimensional heat equation represents the evolution of the temperature of the deep ocean. Although the m...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,508 Views
23 Pages

The Augmented Weak Sharpness of Solution Sets in Equilibrium Problems

  • Ruyu Wang,
  • Wenling Zhao,
  • Daojin Song and
  • Yaozhong Hu

22 January 2024

This study considers equilibrium problems, focusing on identifying finite solutions for feasible solution sequences. We introduce an innovative extension of the weak sharp minimum concept from convex programming to equilibrium problems, coining this...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,693 Views
9 Pages

9 October 2021

In this research, by means of the scalarization method, arcwise connectedness results were established for the sets of globally efficient solutions, weakly efficient solutions, Henig efficient solutions and superefficient solutions for the generalize...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,508 Views
19 Pages

Equilibrium, Kinetic and Thermodynamic Studies for Sorption of Phosphate from Aqueous Solutions Using ZnO Nanoparticles

  • Tra Huong Do,
  • Van Tu Nguyen,
  • Quoc Dung Nguyen,
  • Manh Nhuong Chu,
  • Thi Cam Quyen Ngo and
  • Lam Van Tan

2 November 2020

In this study, ZnO nanoparticles were fabricated by using the hydrothermal method for adsorption of phosphate from wastewater. The obtained ZnO nanorods were characterized by powder X-ray diffraction spectroscopy (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,629 Views
19 Pages

10 October 2022

This paper presents a consistent solution strategy for static equilibrium workspaces of different types of under-constrained robots. Considering the constraint conditions of cable force and taking the least squares error of the static equilibrium equ...

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1 Citations
2,245 Views
15 Pages

The Equilibrium Solutions for a Nonlinear Separable Population Model

  • Dragos-Patru Covei,
  • Traian A. Pirvu and
  • Catalin Sterbeti

14 January 2024

The paper investigates a nonlinear model that describes population dynamics with an age structure. The fertility rate, which varies with age, follows a nonconstant pattern. The model exhibits a multiplicative structure for both fertility and mortalit...

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1 Citations
2,931 Views
29 Pages

3 December 2019

This paper relied on the investigation of the properties of the stage-structured model of coupled larvae and adult mosquito populations’ evolution when parameterized, in general, by time-varying (or stage-dependent) sequences. In particular, th...

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2,326 Views
11 Pages

4 July 2022

This paper is concerned with the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation, with the assumption of Maxwellian interaction. We consider initial data that belong to a small neighborhood of the equilibrium, which is a Maxwellian distribution. We prove th...

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2 Citations
2,617 Views
9 Pages

14 February 2023

Herein, we report the electrochemical monitoring of attoliters of water droplets in an organic medium by the electrolysis of an extracted redox species from the continuous phase upon collisional events on an ultramicroelectrode. To obtain information...

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11 Citations
8,010 Views
9 Pages

10 August 2017

The entropy of the observable universe is increasing. Thus, at earlier times the entropy was lower. However, the cosmic microwave background radiation reveals an apparently high entropy universe close to thermal and chemical equilibrium. A two-part s...

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12 Citations
2,914 Views
22 Pages

29 April 2022

This work explored the technical feasibility of using crab shell (CS) as a promising, low-cost biosorbent to individually and simultaneously remove Zn2+ and Ni2+ from aqueous solutions. It was found that in both monometallic and bimetallic systems, Z...

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13 Citations
6,167 Views
20 Pages

1 March 2023

In this work, we are concerned with the iterative approximation of solutions to equilibrium problems in the framework of Hadamard manifolds. We introduce a subgradient extragradient type method with a self-adaptive step size. The use of a step size w...

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2 Citations
1,608 Views
17 Pages

13 February 2025

Thermal gradients induce thermodiffusion in aqueous solutions, a non-equilibrium effect arising from the coupling of thermal and mass fluxes. While thermal transport processes have garnered significant attention under standard conditions, thermal tra...

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4 Citations
4,155 Views
22 Pages

Study of the Electrical Conductivity of Ion-Exchange Resins and Membranes in Equilibrium Solutions of Inorganic Electrolytes

  • Oleksandr Petrov,
  • Natalia Iwaszczuk,
  • Irina Bejanidze,
  • Tina Kharebava,
  • Volodymyr Pohrebennyk,
  • Nato Didmanidze and
  • Nunu Nakashidze

20 February 2022

The study of the electrical conductivity of ion-exchange membranes in equilibrium electrolyte solutions is of great importance for the theory of membrane processes, in particular for practical electrodialysis. The purpose of the work is to determine...

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2 Citations
2,985 Views
25 Pages

12 March 2019

In this paper, the split variational inclusion problem (SVIP) and the system of equilibrium problems (EP) are considered in Hilbert spaces. Inspired by the works of Byrne et al., López et al., Moudafi and Thukur, Sobumt and Plubtieng, Sitthith...

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1 Citations
1,741 Views
20 Pages

13 July 2022

The paper is devoted to bilevel problems: variational inequality problems over the set of solutions to the generalized equilibrium problems in a Hilbert space. To solve these problems, an iterative algorithm is proposed that combines the ideas of the...

  • Article
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16 Citations
3,293 Views
25 Pages

Single and Binary Equilibrium Studies for Ni2+ and Zn2+ Biosorption onto Lemna gibba from Aqueous Solutions

  • Liliana Morales-Barrera,
  • César Mateo Flores-Ortiz and
  • Eliseo Cristiani-Urbina

2 September 2020

The biosorption ability of Lemna gibba for removing Ni2+ and Zn2+ ions in aqueous batch systems, both individually and simultaneously, was examined. The influences of solution pH and initial single and binary metal concentrations on equilibrium Ni2+...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
2,971 Views
12 Pages

9 May 2020

Utilization of composts as low-cost adsorbents is an important application in the field of environmental remediation, but these materials have not yet been extensively used for dye removal. In this work, we have studied the characteristics of adsorpt...

  • Article
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11 Citations
10,076 Views
8 Pages

11 May 2009

Thenanofiltration of aqueous solutions of the ionic liquids (ILs) 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate ([Bmim]BF4), and 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium bromide ([Bmim]Br) with a polyamide nanofiltration membrane was investigated. The practical t...

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25 Citations
6,644 Views
12 Pages

4 January 2012

The extraction equilibrium of indium(III) from a nitric acid solution using di(2-ethylhexyl) phosphoric acid (D2EHPA) as an acidic extractant of organophosphorus compounds dissolved in kerosene was studied. By graphical and numerical analysis, the co...

  • Article
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2 Citations
1,580 Views
20 Pages

18 August 2022

In this work, we consider bilevel problems: variational inequality problems over the set of solutions of the generalized mixed equilibrium problems. Two new inertial extragradient methods are proposed for solving these problems. Under appropriate con...

  • Article
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24 Citations
3,631 Views
16 Pages

Equilibrium, Kinetic, and Thermodynamic Studies on Adsorption of Rhodamine B from Aqueous Solutions Using Oxidized Mesoporous Carbons

  • Michal Marciniak,
  • Joanna Goscianska,
  • Małgorzata Norman,
  • Teofil Jesionowski,
  • Aleksandra Bazan-Wozniak and
  • Robert Pietrzak

13 August 2022

Oxidized mesoporous carbon CSBA-15, obtained by the hard method, was applied to remove rhodamine B from the aqueous system. The process of carbon oxidation was performed using 0.5 and 5 M of nitric (V) acid solution at 70 and 100 °C. Functionaliz...

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31 Citations
5,204 Views
16 Pages

9 March 2021

The contamination of surface and groundwater with phosphate originating from industrial and household wastewater remains a serious environmental issue in low-income countries. Herein, phosphate removal from aqueous solutions was studied using low-cos...

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21 Pages

8 May 2024

We present existing results and properties for the solutions of some vector equilibrium problems with set-valued functions in the case of a vector space ordered by a cone with some “interiority” properties. Some applications concerning th...

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1,168 Views
18 Pages

2 August 2024

The objective of this research is to present a novel approach to enhance the extragradient algorithm’s efficiency for finding an element within a set of fixed points of nonexpansive mapping and the set of solutions for equilibrium problems. Spe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,700 Views
36 Pages

11 March 2014

We treat the non-equilibrium evolution of an open one-particle statistical system, subject to a potential and to an external “heat bath” (hb) with negligible dissipation. For the classical equilibrium Boltzmann distribution, Wc,eq, a non-equilibrium...

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4 Citations
3,022 Views
10 Pages

In this article, we introduce a model of bi-matrix games based on crisp parametric payoffs via utilizing the method of interval value function. Then, we get that equilibrium solutions of bi-matrix games on the basis of fuzzy payoffs and equilibrium s...

  • Article
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2 Citations
6,673 Views
32 Pages

15 February 2012

We consider non-equilibrium open statistical systems, subject to potentials and to external “heat baths” (hb) at thermal equilibrium at temperature T (either with ab initio dissipation or without it). Boltzmann’s classical equilibrium distributions g...

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2 Citations
2,420 Views
30 Pages

26 June 2024

This work presents comprehensive studies of the adsorption of neutral and ionic forms of organic adsorbates from aqueous solutions on activated carbon. The influence of pH on the equilibrium and kinetics of the adsorption of methylene blue (MB) and o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,994 Views
45 Pages

28 July 2023

In the existing literature, there are only two in-plane equilibrium equations for membrane problems; one does not take into account the contribution of deflection to in-plane equilibrium at all, and the other only partly takes it into account. In thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,660 Views
27 Pages

15 June 2021

The aim of this article is to study the system of piecewise linear difference equations xn+1=|xn|ynb and yn+1=xn|yn|+1 where n0. A global behavior for b=4 shows that all solutions become the equilibrium point. For a large value of |x0| and |y0|,...

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44 Citations
4,250 Views
16 Pages

28 December 2018

Organically-modified magadiite (MAG–CTAB–KH550) was synthesized via ion-exchange method and condensation reaction in the presence of pure magadiite (MAG), cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) and γ-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (KH550...

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Removal of Ciprofloxacin from Aqueous Solutions by Waste-Pretreated Ganoderma resinaceum Biomass: Effect of Process Parameters and Kinetic and Equilibrium Studies

  • Kristiana Lazarova,
  • Gergana Kirova,
  • Zdravka Velkova,
  • Galena Angelova,
  • Nikolay Zahariev,
  • Ivan Iliev and
  • Velizar Gochev

4 December 2025

This study explores the use of the waste-pretreated biomass of the macro-fungus Ganoderma resinaceum as a biosorbent for removing ciprofloxacin from aqueous solutions. Batch experiments were conducted to evaluate the biosorption performance of G. res...

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2 Citations
2,071 Views
18 Pages

Some Dynamic Aspects of a Sextic Galactic Potential in a Rotating Reference Frame

  • Munirah Alfadhli,
  • Adel Elmandouh and
  • Muneerah Al Nuwairan

14 January 2023

This work aims to explore some dynamic aspects of the problem of star motion that is impacted by the rotation of the galaxy, which we model as a bisymmetric potential based on a two-dimensional harmonic oscillator with sextic perturbations. We demons...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,764 Views
11 Pages

28 November 2021

We consider a system of differential equations with two delays describing plankton–fish interaction. We analyze the case when the equilibrium point of this system corresponding to the presence of only phytoplankton and the absence of zooplankto...

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7 Citations
2,530 Views
18 Pages

27 March 2023

The farmland around wetlands in the lower reaches of an arid area is susceptible to salinization. To explore the effects of the groundwater level control at an irrigation cycle scale on the salt concentration of the topsoil solution, this study carri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,225 Views
17 Pages

17 September 2020

In this paper, two types of set-valued symmetric generalized strong vector quasi-equilibrium problems with variable ordering structures are discussed. By using the concept of cosmically upper continuity rather than the one of upper semicontinuity for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,818 Views
25 Pages

A New Calculation Method of Force and Displacement of Retaining Wall and Slope

  • Yingfa Lu,
  • Wenqing Sun,
  • Hao Yang,
  • Junjie Jiang and
  • Lier Lu

8 May 2023

On the basis of the force and safety factor analysis of traditional retaining walls, a new analytical method of force and displacement of the slope is suggested, the numerical theoretical solution of the stress distribution of the sliding body can be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,465 Views
25 Pages

22 October 2022

The outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has caused a lot of disruptions around the world. In an attempt to control the spread of the disease among the population, several measures such as lockdown, and mask mandates, amongst others, were i...

  • Article
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2 Citations
1,903 Views
17 Pages

26 July 2023

The vapor–liquid equilibrium of the fluorobenzene–polystyrene binary polymer solution at 303.15 K was measured using a static pressure device. The vapor–liquid equilibrium of the fluorobenzene–n-octane–polystyrene ternar...

  • Article
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2 Citations
2,614 Views
15 Pages

This paper is dedicated to identifying stable equilibrium positions of the tether systems attached to the L1 or L2 libration points of the Mars–Phobos system. The orbiting spacecraft deploying the tether is at the L1 or L2 libration point and i...

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1 Citations
1,848 Views
14 Pages

20 January 2022

In this paper, by using the normal subdifferential and equilibrium-like function we first obtain some properties for K-preinvex set-valued maps. Secondly, in terms of this equilibrium-like function, we establish some sufficient conditions for the exi...

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19 Citations
4,698 Views
37 Pages

10 November 2019

Thermal non-equilibrium in porous medium is a prevailing condition when discrepancy of temperature exists between the two phases. The solution of a thermal non-equilibrium model requires that the two heat transport equations corresponding to fluid an...

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1 Citations
3,125 Views
19 Pages

30 August 2024

This study explores the impact of nitrate ions on the efficiency of cementing noble metals from diluted waste solutions at a temperature of 30 °C. The research involved measuring the effectiveness of different cementing metals (such as Zn, Al, Mg...

  • Article
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2 Citations
2,220 Views
11 Pages

10 October 2019

Our aim in this paper is to investigate the convergence behavior of the positive solutions of a higher order fuzzy difference equation and show that all positive solutions of this equation converge to its unique positive equilibrium under appropriate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,426 Views
16 Pages

In-Plane Libration Suppression of a Two-Segment Tethered Towing System

  • Shouxu Chen,
  • Weidong Chen,
  • Ti Chen and
  • Junjie Kang

A tethered towing system provides an effective method for capturing pieces of space debris and dragging them out of orbit. This paper focuses on the in-plane stability analysis and libration control of a two-segment tethered towing system. The first...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,479 Views
15 Pages

15 August 2017

A multi-objective bi-matrix game model based on fuzzy goals is established in this paper. It is shown that the equilibrium solution of such a game model problem can be translated into the optimal solution of a multi-objective, non-linear programming...

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2 Citations
2,825 Views
18 Pages

1 February 2023

The Rubinstein alternating-offers bargaining game is reconsidered, where players show fairness concerns and their fairness references are characterized by the Nash bargaining solution. The objective of this paper is to explore the impact of fairness...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,962 Views
11 Pages

Variational Theory of Crystal Growth in Multicomponent Alloys

  • Maxim V. Dudorov,
  • Alexander D. Drozin and
  • Vasiliy E. Roshchin

26 October 2022

The provisions for a new variational theory of crystal growth in multicomponent metal melts were formulated. The developed theory is the generalization of the previously conducted studies of crystal growth under conditions of deviation from local equ...

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  • Open Access
23 Citations
2,900 Views
13 Pages

17 June 2020

The objective was to optimize the existing solution for the limit support pressure of a tunnel face. Firstly, based on the numerical simulation results, the existing three-dimensional analytical solution for pore water pressure distribution is expand...

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