Decision-making methods used in geospatial decision making are computationally complex prescriptive methods, the details of which are rarely transparent to the decision maker. However, having a deep understanding of the details and mechanisms of the...
Set-valued database publication has been increasing its importance recently due to its benefit for various applications such as marketing analysis and advertising. However, publishing a raw set-valued database may cause individual privacy breach such...
The memory demand of modern applications has been rapidly increasing with the continuous growth of data volume across industrial and academic domains. As a result, computing devices (i.e., IoT devices, smartphones, and tablets) often experience memor...
Demand uncertainty and supply imbalances pose persistent challenges for procurement decisions. In practice, firms often mitigate such mismatches through inventory swapping and spot market procurement. Motivated by this observation, this paper develop...
Vitrimers are covalent network materials, comparable in structure to classical thermosets. Unlike normal thermosets, they possess a chemical bond swap mechanism that makes their structure dynamic and suitable for activated welding and even autonomous...
With the widespread adoption of renewable energy sources like wind power and photovoltaic (PV) power, uncertainties in the renewable energy output and the battery-swapping demand for electric heavy-duty trucks make it challenging for battery-swapping...
Quantum networks have good prospects for applications in the future. Compared with classical networks, small-world quantum networks have some interesting properties. The topology of the network can be changed through entanglement exchange operations,...
Bermudan swaptions are options on interest rate swaps which can be exercised on one or more dates before the final maturity of the swap. Because the exercise boundary between the continuation area and stopping area is inherently complex and multi-dim...
Collision models have attracted significant attention in recent years due to their versatility to simulate open quantum systems in different dynamical regimes. They have been used to study various interesting phenomena such as the dynamical emergence...
In this study, the impact of the genomic scaffold on the properties of bacteriophages was investigated by swapping the genomic scaffolds surrounding the tailspike genes between two Przondovirus phages, KP192 and KP195, which infect Klebsiella pneumon...
Electric Vehicles (EVs) have generated a lot of interest in recent years, due to the advances in battery life and low pollution. Similarly, the expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) allowed more and more devices to be interconnected. One major pr...
AI systems increasingly exhibit behavior that differs systematically between evaluation and deployment contexts. Alignment faking, sandbagging, benchmark gaming, deceptive scheming, specification gaming, and trojans have each been documented separate...
We have performed a quantum-mechanical study of a series of stoichiometric Ni
Face-swap-attacks (FSAs) are a new threat to face recognition systems. FSAs are essentially imperceptible replay-attacks using an injection device and generative networks. By placing the device between the camera and computer device, attackers can pr...
Background: About a third of patients with inflammatory bowel disease do not respond to anti-tumour necrosis factor (anti-TNF) therapy, which is challenging. Aim: To review the current data on the two main strategies when facing primary non-response...
Natively monomeric RNase A can oligomerize upon lyophilization from 40% acetic acid solutions or when it is heated at high concentrations in various solvents. In this way, it produces many dimeric or oligomeric conformers through the three-dimensiona...
Face swapping is commonly assumed to act locally on the face region, which motivates placing watermarks away from the face to preserve the integrity of the face. We demonstrate that this assumption is violated in practice. Using a region-aware protoc...
Sound by itself can be a reliable source of information about an object’s size. For instance, we are able to estimate the size of objects merely on the basis of the sound they make when falling on the floor. Moreover, loudness and pitch are cro...
Using the membrane analogy, in 1934 Timoshenko derived the torsional rigidity of a rectangular prism of isotropic material as a function of its material shear modulus, width and thickness. However, he did not consider the energy conservation criterio...
Boda boda motorbike taxis are a primary mode of transport in Nairobi, Kenya, and a major source of urban air pollution. This study investigates the environmental and electrical grid impacts of electrifying Nairobi’s boda boda fleet. Using real-...
Conventional water–fat separation approaches suffer long computational times and are prone to water/fat swaps. To solve these problems, we propose a deep learning-based dual-echo water–fat separation method. With IRB approval, raw data fr...
In this study, the impact of arbitrage resulting from Covered Interest Parity (CIP) deviations on Korea’s long-term interest rates was analyzed, utilizing Vector Error Correction (VEC) models for Granger Causality and Impulse Response Function...
Slot antennas are very popular microwave antennas, and slotted waveguides are used for high frequency radar systems. A thin slot in an infinite ground plane is the complement to a dipole in free space. This was described by H.G. Booker, who extended...
As an emerging research field, more and more researchers are turning their attention to multimodal entity linking (MEL). However, previous works always focus on obtaining joint representations of mentions and entities and then determining the relatio...
Hybrid simulation is a technique for testing mechanical systems. It applies to structures with elements hard or impossible to model numerically. These elements are tested experimentally by straining them by means of actuators, while the rest of the s...
Molecular-dynamics simulations are used for examining the microscopic details of the homogeneous melting of benzene phase I. The equilibrium melting temperatures of our model were initially determined using the direct-coexistence method. Homogeneous...
A credit default swap (CDS) is a derivative financial instrument that provides insurance against credit risk. CDSs on subprime Asset Backed Securities (ABSs) paved the way for securitizers to hedge the credit risk of the underlying subprime loans dur...
In this article, a risk-adjusted return on capital (RAROC) valuation scheme for loans is derived. The critical assumption throughout the article is that no market information on a borrower’s credit quality like bond or CDS (Credit Default Swap)...
Chemokines are a family of small, highly conserved cytokines that mediate various biological processes, including chemotaxis, hematopoiesis, and angiogenesis, and that function by interacting with cell surface G-Protein Coupled Receptors (GPCRs). Bec...
The global greenhouse effect and air pollution problems have been deteriorating in recent years. The power generation in the future is expected to shift from fossil fuels to renewables, and many countries have also announced the ban on the sale of ve...
This study examines the short- and long-run effects of corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities on the credit risk implied in credit derivative prices. Measuring the different term effects on credit risk by the slope of credit default swap (C...
I present two novel thread-safe in-place streaming schemes for the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) on graphics processing units (GPUs), termed Esoteric Pull and Esoteric Push, that result in the LBM only requiring one copy of the density distribution...
This paper presents a multiparty quantum private comparison (MQPC) protocol that facilitates multiple users to compare the equality of their private inputs while preserving the confidentiality of each input through the principles of quantum mechanics...
This study introduces an innovative approach to enhance the lifetime of power converters linked in a back-to-back configuration for Type-4 wind turbines. The proposed method involves periodically changing both the connection points and functions of t...
This paper draws on network theory to investigate European banks’ sovereign debt exposures. Banks’ holdings of sovereign debt build a network of financial linkages with European countries that exhibits a long-tail distribution of node degrees. A high...
The financial sector accumulates a massive amount of consumer data that contain the most sensitive information daily. These data are strictly limited outside the financial institutions, sometimes even within the same organization, for various reasons...
Relation extraction (RE) is a fundamental NLP task that aims to identify relations between some entities regarding a given text. RE forms the basis for many advanced NLP tasks, such as question answering and text summarization, and thus its quality i...
Due to their uniquely high surface-to-volume ratio, nanofibers are a desired material for various technical applications. However, this surface-to-volume ratio also makes processing difficult as van der Waals forces cause nanofibers to adhere to virt...
Pain recognition based on multimodal physiological signals remains a challenge, not only because of the limited training data, but also due to the varying responses of individuals. In this article, we present a randomized modality mixing technique (M...
Does square-lattice symmetry determine the search parameters selected by a fractional random walk with resetting? We compare a walk that updates one coordinate per movement with a walk generated by a fractional power of the full square-torus Laplacia...
Existing elevator-dispatch research uses quadratic waiting-cost models and restricts reassignment near pickup to preserve service decisions. Although fixing a hall-call assignment removes it from the decision variables, its service remains on the rou...
This paper presents and evaluates a control scheme and a power electronics architecture for a Wirelessly Enabled and Distributed Battery Energy Storage (WEDES) system. It includes several independent battery modules (WEDES-MX modules) that transfer b...
A long overdue distinction between so-called variant and invariant complex potentials is proposed here for the first time. Invariant complex potentials describe physical flows where a switch of the real and imaginary parts of the function will still...
Credit default swap (CDS) spreads measure the default risk of the reference entity and have been frequently used in recent empirical papers. To provide a rigorous econometrics foundation for empirical CDS analysis, this paper applies the augmented Di...
Gas fermentation aims to fix CO2 into higher-value compounds, such as short or medium-chain fatty acids or alcohols. In this context, the use of mixed microbial consortia presents numerous advantages, including increased resilience and adaptability....
This study aims to identify the most suitable slag waste-filled polymer composite for automotive braking applications. It employs a hybrid multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) model that integrates the “method based on the removal effects of c...
This study investigates how the government can design optimal incentive mechanisms for Shared Battery Swapping Station (SBSS) construction enterprises under the conditions of dual information asymmetry (effort and operational efficiency) and heteroge...
This study employs a mixed-methods approach to investigate the current use and evolving needs of dormitory environments through a cross-analysis of existing research and user experience. A two-phased PRISMA-guided systematic literature review for bot...
Data encryption is a core mechanism in modern security services for protecting confidential data at rest and in transit. This work introduces the Super Encryption Standard (SES), a symmetric block cipher that follows the overall workflow of the Advan...
Retroviruses specifically package full-length, dimeric genomic RNA (gRNA) even in the presence of a vast excess of cellular RNA. The “psi” (Ψ) element within the 5′-untranslated region (5′UTR) of gRNA is critical for packaging through interaction wit...
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