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As one of the remaining species of Caprinae only found in Asia, serows (Capricornis) and their classification and conservation have received increasing attention in recent years. However, their evolutionary history and population dynamics are not yet...

Energy and failure are separately managed in scheduling problems despite the commonalities between these optimization problems. In this paper, an energy- and failure-aware continuous production scheduling problem (EFACPS) at the unit process level is...

In this paper, we propose a new discrete-continuous codification of the Chu–Beasley genetic algorithm to address the optimal placement and sizing problem of the distribution static compensators (D-STATCOM) in electrical distribution grids. The discre...

Štore Steel Ltd. is one of the major flat spring steel producers in Europe. Until 2016 the company used a three-strand continuous casting machine with 6 m radius, when it was replaced by a completely new two-strand continuous caster with 9 m radius....

ŠTORE STEEL Ltd. is one of the three steel plants in Slovenia. Continuous cast 180 mm × 180 mm billets can undergo cooling to room temperature using a turnover cooling bed. They can also be cooled down under hoods or heat treated to redu...

Prestressed concrete (PC) continuous beam bridges are widely used in transportation infrastructure. However, their construction involves substantial material consumption, raising sustainability concerns amid increasing environmental pressures. This s...

Hypertension affects a huge number of people around the world. It also has a great contribution to cardiovascular- and renal-related diseases. This study investigates the ability of a deep convolutional autoencoder (DCAE) to generate continuous arter...

Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis YLGB-1496 (YLGB-1496) is a probiotic strain isolated from human breast milk. The application of YLGB-1496 is influenced by carbohydrate utilization and genetic stability. This study used genome sequencing and mo...

Direct methods provide a model-free approach to solving the crystallographic phase problem and deliver unbiased atomic structures. However, conventional iterative projection algorithms such as Hybrid Input–Output (HIO) face two critical challen...

While NOMA-V2V (non-orthogonal multiple accesscan-vehicle-to-vehicle) effectively achieve massive connectivity requirements in 5G network systems, minimizing communication latency is a very crucial challenge. To address the latency problem, we propos...

In response to the limitations posed by noise interference in complex environments and the narrow focus of existing diagnosis methods for jointless track circuit faults, an innovative approach is put forward in this study. It involves the application...

The focus on renewable energy is increasing globally to lessen reliance on conventional sources and fossil fuels. For renewable energy systems to work at their best and produce the desired results, precise feedback control is required. Microbial elec...

Offshore wind power plants are becoming a realistic option for the renewable production of electricity. As an improvement tool to the profitability of OWFs, this work presents the first complete non-genetic (and non-binary) evolutionary algorithm to...

Blood pressure is an extremely important blood hemodynamic parameter. The pulse wave contains abundant blood-pressure information, and the convenience and non-invasivity of its measurement make it ideal for non-invasive continuous monitoring of blood...

The prediction of mold level is a basic and key problem of continuous casting production control. Many current techniques fail to predict the mold level because of mold level is non-linear, non-stationary and does not have a normal distribution. A hy...

Improving the flight trajectory in climb phases, such as in the continuous climb operation, has the potential to reduce fuel consumption. In this paper, we propose an approach that combines a neural network and genetic algorithms to determine the fue...

For a no-wait flow shop with continuous-flow characteristics, this study simultaneously considers machine setup times and rated processing speed constraints, aiming to minimize the sum of the maximum completion time and the maximum tardiness. First,...

This research explores the application of metaheuristic algorithms to refine parameter estimation in dynamic systems, with a focus on the inverted pendulum model. Three optimization techniques, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Continuous Genetic Al...

Detecting pipeline leaks is an essential factor in maintaining the integrity of fluid transport systems. This paper introduces an advanced deep learning framework that uses continuous wavelet transform (CWT) images for precise detection of such leaks...

Road safety and maintenance strategy optimization depend on accurate pavement surface friction prediction. In order to predict the Friction Number for Continuously Reinforced Concrete Pavement (CRCP) sections using data taken from the Long-Term Pavem...

In this paper, machinability influences from the start to end of final product production in a steel plant were analyzed, including chemical composition, deoxidizing agents and casting parameters, which drastically influence the macrostructure and se...

Morphological scoring is a common evaluation method for domestic animals. The National Association of Maremmano Breeders (ANAM) has provided a dataset containing the records of 600 horses, four metric measurements (cm) and 24 traits with a continuous...

The hydro-mechanical continuously variable transmission (HMCVT) has complicated transmission characteristics. To analyze the influences of various factors on HMCVT’s efficiency characteristics and build a more precise HMCVT efficiency character...

The Centrifugal compressor is a piece of key equipment for petrochemical factories. As the core component of a compressor, the blades suffer periodic vibration and flow induced excitation mechanism, which will lead to the occurrence of crack defect....

This paper addresses the problem of resource distribution control in logistic systems influenced by uncertain demand. The considered class of logistic topologies comprises two types of actors—controlled nodes and external sources—intercon...

Globalization opens up new perspectives for handling goods distribution in logistic networks. However, establishing an efficient inventory policy is challenging by virtue of the analytical and computational complexity. In this study, the goods distri...

Carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative bacteria are a public health threat that requires urgent action. The fact that these pathogens commonly also harbor resistance mechanisms for several other antimicrobial classes further reduces patient treatment opt...

Path planning is one of the key steps in the application of industrial robotic manipulators. The process of determining trajectories can be time-intensive and mathematically complex, which raises the complexity and error proneness of this task. For t...

Association testing has been widely used to study the relationship between phenotypes and genetic variants. Most testing methods are based on genotypes. To avoid genotype calling and directly test on next-generation sequencing (NGS) data, sequencing...

Being in the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, our lab tested 193,054 specimens for SARS-CoV-2 RNA by diagnostic multiplex reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (mRT-PCR) starting in March 2020, of which 17,196 specimens resulted positive...

Essential genes contain key information of genomes that could be the key to a comprehensive understanding of life and evolution. Because of their importance, studies of essential genes have been considered a crucial problem in computational biology....

The quality of the electrical energy distribution service has a significant impact on consumer satisfaction and the guarantee of the right of concession for the distribution companies. For the utility that is the object of the case study, the main co...

One of the primary challenges that wireless technology in the present generation is facing is always best connected (ABC) service. This is possible only when the wireless overlay networks follow a cooperative and coordinated process. Vertical handoff...

The benchmarking of CO₂ emissions serves as the foundation for the accurate assessment of the environmental impact of air traffic. To calculate the environmental benchmarks of arrival traffic flows with Point Merge System (PMS) patterns, this study p...

Moodle quizzes are a convenient way of online assessment, benefiting both teachers and students. Unfortunately, their preparation is slow, cumbersome, and error-prone. In addition to the effort of designing the questions, it is necessary to enter the...

The problem of the optimal siting and sizing of photovoltaic (PV) sources in grid connected distribution networks is addressed in this study with a master–slave optimization approach. In the master optimization stage, a discrete–continuou...

Orchids are the flowers of magnetic beauty. Vivid and attractive flowers with magnificent shapes make them the king of the floriculture industry. However, the long-awaited flowering is a drawback to their market success, and therefore, flowering time...

With the birth of classical genetics, forest genetic breeding has laid a foundation in the formation of the basic theories of population genetics, quantitative genetics, cytogenetics, and molecular genetics. Driven by the rapid growth of social deman...

Continuous human-mediated introduction of colonies and queens promotes genetic introgression and reshapes the genetic diversity and structure of local honeybee populations. According to reports, multiple non-native honeybee colonies and queens have b...

Dyslexia, a specific reading disability, is a common (up to 10% of children) and highly heritable (~70%) neurodevelopmental disorder. Behavioral and molecular genetic approaches are aimed towards dissecting its significant genetic component. In the p...

Statistical genetic models of genotype-by-environment (G×E) interaction can be divided into two general classes, one on G×E interaction in response to dichotomous environments (e.g., sex, disease-affection status, or presence/absence of a...

This study presents a novel approach for the optimization of genomic parental selection in breeding programs involving categorical and continuous–categorical multi-trait mixtures (CMs and CCMMs). Utilizing the Bayesian decision theory (BDT) and...

Transient neonatal diabetes mellitus (TNDM) is a genetically heterogeneous form of neonatal diabetes characterized by hyperglycemia that remits during infancy with a tendency to recur in later life. This case report presents the history of a male inf...

The individual genome continuously accumulates genetic variations from a zygote [...]

CRISPR-based enzymes have offered a unique capability to the design of genetic switches, with advantages in designability, modularity and orthogonality. CRISPR-based genetic switches operate on multiple levels of life, including transcription and tra...

Hydraulic mechanical continuously variable transmission (HMCVT) is widely used in powerful tractors due to its excellent performance. This paper aims to find universal methods for analyzing and optimizing the transmission efficiency of HMCVT. The ene...

Among the most important users of plant genetic resources, conserved predominantly in public genebanks around the world, are public and private plant breeders. Through their breeding efforts, they contribute significantly to global, regional, and loc...

The long-term sustainability of the enterprise requires constant attention to the continuous improvement of business processes and systems so that the enterprise is still competitive in a dynamic and turbulent market environment. Improvement of proce...

Acute myocardial infarction remains a significant cause of mortality worldwide and its burden continues to grow. Its pathophysiology is known to be complex and multifactorial, with several acquired and inherited risk factors. As advances in technolog...

Chronic pancreatitis (CP) is a progressive, irreversible inflammatory disorder of the pancreas, which results from interrelations between different genetic and environmental factors. Genetic variants are the primary cause of the disease in early-onse...