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24 February 2021

Typical random codes (TRCs) in a communication scenario of source coding with side information in the decoder is the main subject of this work. We study the semi-deterministic code ensemble, which is a certain variant of the ordinary random binning c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multiuser Information Theory III)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,474 Views
16 Pages

Error Exponents of LDPC Codes under Low-Complexity Decoding

  • Pavel Rybin,
  • Kirill Andreev and
  • Victor Zyablov

22 February 2021

This paper deals with the specific construction of binary low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. We derive lower bounds on the error exponents for these codes transmitted over the memoryless binary symmetric channel (BSC) for both the well-known maxi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theory for Channel Coding)
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  • Article
  • Open Access
2,291 Views
26 Pages

30 April 2022

We consider a binary classification problem for a test sequence to determine from which source the sequence is generated. The system classifies the test sequence based on empirically observed (training) sequences obtained from unknown sources P1 and...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,150 Views
24 Pages

12 July 2024

A central challenge in hypothesis testing (HT) lies in determining the optimal balance between Type I (false positive) and Type II (non-detection or false negative) error probabilities. Analyzing these errors’ exponential rate of convergence, k...

(This article belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,874 Views
33 Pages

6 February 2023

A two-terminal distributed binary hypothesis testing problem over a noisy channel is studied. The two terminals, called the observer and the decision maker, each has access to n independent and identically distributed samples, denoted by U and V, res...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theory for Distributed Systems)
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  • Open Access
26 Citations
7,893 Views
52 Pages

5 February 2021

Over the last six decades, the representation of error exponent functions for data transmission through noisy channels at rates below capacity has seen three distinct approaches: (1) Through Gallager’s E0 functions (with and without cost constraints)...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Divergence Measures: Mathematical Foundations and Applications in Information-Theoretic and Statistical Problems)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,416 Views
24 Pages

10 October 2023

Distributed hypothesis testing (DHT) has emerged as a significant research area, but the information-theoretic optimality of coding strategies is often typically hard to address. This paper studies the DHT problems under the type-based setting, which...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theory for Distributed Systems)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,186 Views
44 Pages

Privacy-Aware Distributed Hypothesis Testing

  • Sreejith Sreekumar,
  • Asaf Cohen and
  • Deniz Gündüz

16 June 2020

A distributed binary hypothesis testing (HT) problem involving two parties, a remote observer and a detector, is studied. The remote observer has access to a discrete memoryless source, and communicates its observations to the detector via a rate-lim...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theory, Forecasting, and Hypothesis Testing)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,953 Views
18 Pages

29 June 2021

This paper studies binary hypothesis testing with a single sensor that communicates with two decision centers over a memoryless broadcast channel. The main focus lies on the tradeoff between the two type-II error exponents achievable at the two decis...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Statistical Communication and Information Theory)
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  • Article
  • Open Access
539 Views
18 Pages

A Generalization of the DMC

  • Sergey Tridenski and
  • Anelia Somekh-Baruch

16 February 2026

We consider a generalization of the discrete memoryless channel, in which the channel probability distribution is replaced by a uniform distribution over clouds of channel output sequences. For a random ensemble of such channels, we derive an achieva...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
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  • Open Access
2,582 Views
23 Pages

16 April 2023

The error probability of block codes sent under a non-uniform input distribution over the memoryless binary symmetric channel (BSC) and decoded via the maximum a posteriori (MAP) decoding rule is investigated. It is proved that the ratio of the proba...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Information and Coding Theory)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,778 Views
32 Pages

The Method of Types for the AWGN Channel

  • Sergey Tridenski and
  • Anelia Somekh-Baruch

11 June 2025

For the discrete-time AWGN channel with a power constraint, we give an alternative derivation for the sphere-packing upper bound on the optimal block error exponent and an alternative derivation for the analogous lower bound on the optimal correct-de...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
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  • Open Access
132 Views
19 Pages

27 October 2026

Low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) have been adopted in massive multiple-input multiple-output receivers, as their power consumption and hardware cost increase with the number of antennas. However, the resulting coarse quantization de...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Methods in Wireless Communications with Applications)
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  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,029 Views
16 Pages

Analysis of the Error in Retrievals of Aerosol Optical Properties from Sunphotometer Measurements of CARSNET Due to a Variety of Objective Factors

  • Ke Gui,
  • Huizheng Che,
  • Quanliang Chen,
  • Jie Yu and ,
  • Yu Zheng,
  • Sai Lu,
  • Hong Wang,
  • Yaqiang Wang,
  • Xiaoye Zhang and
  • Guangyu Shi
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

13 January 2016

In situ observation of the aerosol optical properties is important to the validations of satellite and modeling results; however, the operational measurements can be affected by some objective factors. An experiment study has been performed in order...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Atmospheric Aerosols and Their Radiative Effects)
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109 Citations
16,066 Views
15 Pages

A General Leaf Area Geometric Formula Exists for Plants—Evidence from the Simplified Gielis Equation

  • Peijian Shi,
  • David A. Ratkowsky,
  • Yang Li,
  • Lifang Zhang and ,
  • Shuyan Lin and
  • Johan Gielis
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

17 November 2018

Plant leaves exhibit diverse shapes that enable them to utilize a light resource maximally. If there were a general parametric model that could be used to calculate leaf area for different leaf shapes, it would help to elucidate the adaptive evolutio...

(This article belongs to the Section Forest Ecophysiology and Biology)
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  • Open Access
332 Views
35 Pages

22 September 2026

In this paper, we consider a collocation method for solving a nonlinear Volterra integral equation involving the solution-dependent singular kernel (t−s)−α(u(s))F(s,u(s)), where F(s,u(s))=sσϕ(s,u(s)), 0<σ<1, a...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,615 Views
27 Pages

From Polar Day to Polar Night: A Comprehensive Sun and Star Photometer Study of Trends in Arctic Aerosol Properties in Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard

  • Sandra Graßl,
  • Christoph Ritter,
  • Jonas Wilsch,
  • Richard Herrmann and ,
  • Lionel Doppler and
  • Roberto Román
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

7 October 2024

The climate impact of Arctic aerosols, like the Arctic Haze, and their origin are not fully understood. Therefore, long-term aerosol observations in the Arctic are performed. In this study, we present a homogenised data set from a sun and star photom...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Vertical Profile—Air Quality, Pollution and Aerosol Optical Properties)
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  • Open Access
2,732 Views
32 Pages

Multi-Class Cost-Constrained Random Coding for Correlated Sources over the Multiple-Access Channel

  • Arezou Rezazadeh,
  • Josep Font-Segura,
  • Alfonso Martinez and
  • Albert Guillén i Fàbregas

3 May 2021

This paper studies a generalized version of multi-class cost-constrained random-coding ensemble with multiple auxiliary costs for the transmission of N correlated sources over an N-user multiple-access channel. For each user, the set of messages is p...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,537 Views
27 Pages

6 March 2018

The first- and second-order optimum achievable exponents in the simple hypothesis testing problem are investigated. The optimum achievable exponent for type II error probability, under the constraint that the type I error probability is allowed asymp...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,461 Views
17 Pages

25 March 2022

The discharge exponent is a general index used to evaluate the hydraulic performance of emitters, which is affected by emitters’ structural parameters. Accurately estimating the effect of change in structural parameters on the discharge exponen...

(This article belongs to the Section Water, Agriculture and Aquaculture)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
927 Views
25 Pages

15 November 2025

We consider discrete best approximation problems in the setting of tropical algebra, which is concerned with the theory and application of algebraic systems with idempotent operations. Given a set of input–output pairs of an unknown function de...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Approximation and Computation for Numerical Analysis: Latest Advances and Prospects)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,134 Views
31 Pages

The Strongly Asynchronous Massive Access Channel

  • Sara Shahi,
  • Daniela Tuninetti and
  • Natasha Devroye

29 December 2022

This paper considers the Strongly Asynchronous, Slotted, Discrete Memoryless, Massive Access Channel (SAS-DM-MAC) in which the number of users, the number of messages, and the asynchronous window length grow exponentially with the coding blocklength...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wireless Networks: Information Theoretic Perspectives Ⅱ)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,693 Views
10 Pages

19 September 2017

Models based on a power law are prevalent in many areas of study. When regression analysis is performed on data sets modeled by a power law, the traditional model uses a lead coefficient. However, the proposed model replaces the lead coefficient with...

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40 Citations
3,945 Views
23 Pages

10 December 2020

The thickness effect of solid dielectrics means the relation between the electric breakdown strength (EBD) and the dielectric thickness (d). By reviewing different types of expressions of EBD on d, it is found that the minus power relation (EBD = E1d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Preparation and Application of Polymer Nanocomposites)
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  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,532 Views
13 Pages

7 January 2021

Allometric scaling is a useful tool for the extrapolation of pharmacokinetic parameters from animals to humans. The objective of this study was to predict human clearance of antibody–drug conjugates (ADC) allometrically from one to three animal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Antibody–Drug Conjugates (ADCs))
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  • Open Access
590 Views
16 Pages

12 June 2026

Slug test interpretation can fail when measured recovery follows a time scale that differs from the classical Cooper–Bredehoeft–Papadopulos (CBP) finite-diameter well solution. This study derives a conformable slug test formulation by sho...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)
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  • Open Access
179 Views
19 Pages

Metric-Specific Ocular Magnification Artifacts in Quantitative OCT Angiography: A Controlled Image-Based Simulation Study

  • Marija Veselinović,
  • Marija Trenkić,
  • Jelena Vasiljević,
  • Enisa Memić and ,
  • Biljana Trajković and
  • Aida Kasumović Bećirović
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 October 2026

Background and Objectives: Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) devices convert scan angle into retinal distance with a schematic eye, so eyes whose axial length (AL) differs from the assumed value are measured on an incorrect transverse s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ophthalmology: New Diagnostic and Treatment Approaches (3rd Edition))
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,085 Views
13 Pages

Statistical Analysis of Nanofiber Mat AFM Images by Gray-Scale-Resolved Hurst Exponent Distributions

  • Tomasz Blachowicz,
  • Krzysztof Domino,
  • Michał Koruszowic,
  • Jacek Grzybowski and ,
  • Tobias Böhm and
  • Andrea Ehrmann
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 March 2021

Two-dimensional structures, either periodic or random, can be classified by diverse mathematical methods. Quantitative descriptions of such surfaces, however, are scarce since bijective definitions must be found to measure unique dependency between d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Characterizations of Three-Dimensional Surfaces at Micro/Nanoscale)
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  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,876 Views
27 Pages

8 September 2023

Due to the difficulty of decentralized inference with conditional dependent observations, and motivated by large-scale heterogeneous networks, we formulate a framework for decentralized detection with coupled observations. Each agent has a state, and...

(This article belongs to the Collection Feature Papers in Information Theory)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,236 Views
13 Pages

2 December 2021

Low latency and a massive connection have become the requirements of energy internet wireless communication. Effective capacity analysis of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) networks with short packets is of vital importance in energy internet co...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sciences)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,916 Views
17 Pages

25 November 2020

The rate-independent Schmid assumption for a metal crystal results in a yield surface that is faceted with sharp corners. Regularized yield surfaces round off the corners and can be convenient in computational implementations. To assess the error by...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Crystal Plasticity)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,804 Views
16 Pages

Methods for Mathematical Analysis of Simulated and Real Fractal Processes with Application in Cardiology

  • Evgeniya Gospodinova,
  • Penio Lebamovski,
  • Galya Georgieva-Tsaneva,
  • Galina Bogdanova and
  • Diana Dimitrova

21 September 2022

In the article, a comparative analysis is performed regarding the accuracy parameter in determining the degree of self-similarity of fractal processes between the following methods: Variance-Time plot, Rescaled Range (R/S), Wavelet-based, Detrended F...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the Innovative STEM Education)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,939 Views
23 Pages

15 July 2017

This paper investigates polar codes for the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. The scaling exponent μ of polar codes for a memoryless channel q Y | X with capacity I ( q Y | X ) characterizes the closest gap bet...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multiuser Information Theory)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,226 Views
23 Pages

13 December 2024

We consider a basic joint communication and sensing setup comprising a transmitter, a receiver and a sensor. The transmitter sends a codeword to the receiver through a discrete memoryless channel, and the receiver is interested in decoding the transm...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
154 Views
35 Pages

Do Machine Learning Models Beat a Constant Benchmark When Forecasting Next-Month Hurst Exponents? Evidence from Saudi-Listed Firms

  • Mazin Alahmadi,
  • Shefaa Baik,
  • Retal Kutbi,
  • Jana Kilfaden and ,
  • Lujain Qadi and
  • Lama Alboqami
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Financial forecasting under uncertainty is fundamental to strategic investment decision making. Among the factors that influence investment decisions, market efficiency plays a critical role because it determines whether historical information can pr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Benchmark Models in Time Series Forecasting)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,122 Views
11 Pages

Generalized Hurst Hypothesis: Description of Time-Series in Communication Systems

  • Raoul Nigmatullin,
  • Semyon Dorokhin and
  • Alexander Ivchenko

14 February 2021

In this paper, we focus on the generalization of the Hurst empirical law and suggest a set of reduced parameters for quantitative description of long-time series. These series are usually considered as a specific response of a complex system (economi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractals, Fractional Calculus and Applied Statistics)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,991 Views
18 Pages

20 December 2017

In this paper, we develop a genetically oriented rule-based Incremental Granular Model (IGM). The IGM is designed using a combination of a simple Linear Regression (LR) model and a local Linguistic Model (LM) to predict the modeling error obtained by...

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  • Open Access
1,761 Views
17 Pages

Ensemble-Based Correction for Anomalous Diffusion Exponent Estimation in Single-Particle Tracking

  • Roman Lavrynenko,
  • Lyudmyla Kirichenko,
  • Sergiy Yakovlev,
  • Sophia Lavrynenko and
  • Nataliya Ryabova

18 July 2025

The analysis of anomalous diffusion characteristics within single-particle tracking data is a key problem in several applied-science domains, including biosignal processing, bioinformatics, and biotechnology. This task becomes particularly challengin...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,963 Views
13 Pages

A New Method for Retrieving Electron Density Profiles from the MARSIS Ionograms

  • Wendong Liu,
  • Libo Liu,
  • Yiding Chen,
  • Huijun Le and ,
  • Ruilong Zhang,
  • Wenbo Li,
  • Jiacheng Li,
  • Tongtong Zhang,
  • Yuyan Yang and
  • Han Ma
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

9 April 2022

The Martian ionosphere was actively detected by Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS) aboard the Mars Express. The detected echo signal of the MARSIS at an epoch is presented as a function of frequency and time delay to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mars Remote Sensing)
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  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,759 Views
17 Pages

Dynamic Analysis and Control of a Financial System with Chaotic Behavior Including Fractional Order

  • Angelo M. Tusset,
  • Maria E. K. Fuziki,
  • Jose M. Balthazar,
  • Dana I. Andrade and
  • Giane G. Lenzi

This paper presents the results of investigating the dynamics of an economic system with chaotic behavior and a suboptimal control proposal to suppress the chaotic behavior. Numerical results using phase portraits, bifurcation diagrams, Lyapunov expo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Fractional Order Systems and Robust Control)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,993 Views
15 Pages

Multiscale Entropy Analysis of Short Signals: The Robustness of Fuzzy Entropy-Based Variants Compared to Full-Length Long Signals

  • Airton Monte Serrat Borin,
  • Anne Humeau-Heurtier,
  • Luiz Eduardo Virgílio Silva and
  • Luiz Otávio Murta

1 December 2021

Multiscale entropy (MSE) analysis is a fundamental approach to access the complexity of a time series by estimating its information creation over a range of temporal scales. However, MSE may not be accurate or valid for short time series. This is why...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multiscale Entropy Approaches and Their Applications II)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,528 Views
27 Pages

6 August 2021

In this study, the subject of investigation was the dynamic double pendulum crank mechanism used in a robotic arm. The arm is driven by a DC motor though the crank system and connected to a fixed side with a mount that includes a single spring and da...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from IIKII 2021 Conferences)
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  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,058 Views
36 Pages

5 June 2019

We consider the one helper source coding problem posed and investigated by Ahlswede, Körner and Wyner. Two correlated sources are separately encoded and are sent to a destination where the decoder wishes to decode one of the two sources with an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multiuser Information Theory II)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,919 Views
13 Pages

Power from solar energy is not reliable, due to weather-related factors, which diminishes the power system’s reliability. Therefore, this study suggests a way to predict the intensity of solar irradiance using various statistical algorithms and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Fractional Stochastic Processes)
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  • Open Access
288 Views
12 Pages

21 September 2026

Isokinetic knee strength is commonly normalized to body mass, although this assumes that torque increases in direct proportion to mass. This study tested whether conventional ratio scaling removed body-mass dependence from concentric knee-extensor an...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
10,826 Views
13 Pages

5 September 2021

These days, there is a lot of emphasis on the prediction of human clearance (CL) from a single species for monoclonal antibodies (mabs). Many studies indicate that monkey is the most suitable species for the prediction of human clearance for mabs. Ho...

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  • Open Access
405 Views
23 Pages

10 June 2026

This article addresses the trajectory tracking control problem for quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) subject to complex external disturbances and parameter uncertainties. To balance disturbance rejection with control signal smoothness, a prac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,843 Views
18 Pages

26 August 2024

The mean stress effect remains a critical aspect in multiaxial fatigue analysis. This work presents a new criterion that, based on the classical Findley criterion, applies a material-dependent exponent to the mean normal stress term and includes the...

(This article belongs to the Section Metal Failure Analysis)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,446 Views
18 Pages

Study of Generalized Chaotic Synchronization Method Incorporating Error-Feedback Coefficients

  • Yanan Xing,
  • Wenjie Dong,
  • Jian Zeng,
  • Pengteng Guo and ,
  • Jing Zhang and
  • Qun Ding
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 May 2023

In this paper, taking the generalized synchronization problem of discrete chaotic systems as a starting point, a generalized synchronization method incorporating error-feedback coefficients into the controller based on the generalized chaos synchroni...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advances in Nonlinear Dynamics: Methods and Applications)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,309 Views
21 Pages

27 November 2024

This study uses Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) and multiple linear regression (MLR) models to explore the relationship between gait dynamics and the metabolic cost. Six nonlinear metrics—Lyapunov Exponents based on Rosenstein’s algorit...

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