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A Simple Family of Tropical Cyclone Models

  • Wayne H. Schubert,
  • Richard K. Taft and
  • Christopher J. Slocum

28 March 2023

This review discusses a simple family of models capable of simulating tropical cyclone life cycles, including intensification, the formation of the axisymmetric version of boundary layer shocks, and the development of an eyewall. Four models are disc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,262 Views
28 Pages

24 November 2022

Predicting the susceptibility of a specific part of a landslide (SSPL) involves predicting the likelihood that the part of the landslide (e.g., the entire landslide, the source area, or the scarp) will form in a given area. When predicting SSPL, the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
7,126 Views
22 Pages

Evaluation of Urban-Scale Building Energy-Use Models and Tools—Application for the City of Fribourg, Switzerland

  • Valeria Todeschi,
  • Roberto Boghetti,
  • Jérôme H. Kämpf and
  • Guglielmina Mutani

3 February 2021

Building energy-use models and tools can simulate and represent the distribution of energy consumption of buildings located in an urban area. The aim of these models is to simulate the energy performance of buildings at multiple temporal and spatial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,018 Views
17 Pages

16 April 2021

Despite its effectiveness in determining breakage function parameters (BFPs) for quantifying breakage characteristics in mineral grinding processes, the back-calculation method has limitations owing to the uncertainty regarding the distribution of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,043 Views
18 Pages

Reconstructed Centennial Mass Balance Change for Golubin Glacier, Northern Tien Shan

  • Erlan Azisov,
  • Martin Hoelzle,
  • Sergiy Vorogushyn,
  • Tomas Saks,
  • Ryskul Usubaliev,
  • Mukhammed Esenaman uulu and
  • Martina Barandun

11 June 2022

Mass balance measurements for Golubin glacier in Northern Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan, have been discontinuous over the last century, with significant data gaps. We provide a unique over 100-year-long mass balance series on daily resolution. We applied a t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,295 Views
34 Pages

8 October 2024

Data security and user privacy concerns are receiving increasing attention. Federated learning models based on differential privacy offer a distributed machine learning framework that protects data privacy. However, the noise introduced by the differ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,831 Views
30 Pages

Pressure-Gradient Forcing Methods for Large-Eddy Simulations of Flows in the Lower Atmospheric Boundary Layer

  • François Pimont,
  • Jean-Luc Dupuy,
  • Rodman R. Linn,
  • Jeremy A. Sauer and
  • Domingo Muñoz-Esparza

11 December 2020

Turbulent flows over forest canopies have been successfully modeled using Large-Eddy Simulations (LES). Simulated winds result from the balance between a simplified pressure gradient forcing (e.g., a constant pressure-gradient or a canonical Ekman ba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,228 Views
11 Pages

18 May 2021

Previous scoring models, such as the Acute Physiologic Assessment and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) score, do not adequately predict the mortality of patients receiving mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit. Therefore, this stu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,787 Views
20 Pages

29 November 2018

Coastal and hydraulic structures, such as revetments, embankments and levees—as well as their underlying soil—may experience piping when exposed to outward pressure gradients. The aim of the present study is twofold: (1) to derive the for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
466 Views
27 Pages

9 November 2025

This paper is devoted to the modelling of nonlocality in continuum physics through constitutive functions that depend on suitable gradients. For definiteness, the attention is addressed to elastic solids, heat conductors, and magnetic solids. Models...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,061 Views
17 Pages

9 October 2025

The secondary use of electronic health records is essential for developing artificial intelligence-based clinical decision support systems. However, even after direct identifiers are removed, de-identified electronic health records remain vulnerable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,736 Views
14 Pages

Defense Scheme of Federated Learning Based on GAN

  • Qing Zhang,
  • Ping Zhang,
  • Wenlong Lu,
  • Xiaoyu Zhou and
  • An Bao

Federated learning (FL), as a distributed learning mechanism, can have model training completed without directly uploading original data, effectively reducing the risk of privacy leakage. However, through the shared gradient information, research sho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,070 Views
19 Pages

Restoring Spectral Symmetry in Gradients: A Normalization Approach for Efficient Neural Network Training

  • Zhigao Huang,
  • Nana Gong,
  • Quanfa Li,
  • Tianying Wu,
  • Shiyan Zheng and
  • Miao Pan

4 October 2025

Neural network training often suffers from spectral asymmetry, where gradient energy is disproportionately allocated to high-frequency components, leading to suboptimal convergence and reduced efficiency. This paper introduces Gradient Spectral Norma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,642 Views
19 Pages

Aerodynamic/stealth optimization is a key issue during the design of a stealth UAV. Balancing the weight of different incident angles of the RCS and combining stealth characteristics with aerodynamic characteristics are hotspots of aerodynamic/stealt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
565 Views
26 Pages

Communication-Efficient Federated Optimization with Gradient Clipping and Attention Aggregation for Data Analytics and Prediction

  • Shengyuan Tang,
  • Linwan Zhang,
  • Shengzhe Xu,
  • Xinyue Zeng,
  • Peng Hu,
  • Xinyi Gong and
  • Manzhou Li

4 December 2025

To address the challenge of collaborative strategy optimization caused by non-independent and identically distributed data in cross-institutional scenarios, a federated quantitative learning framework integrating Path Attention Aggregation Module (PA...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,273 Views
23 Pages

Lateral Circulation in a Partially Stratified Tidal Inlet

  • Linlin Cui,
  • Haosheng Huang,
  • Chunyan Li and
  • Dubravko Justic

19 December 2018

Using a three-dimensional, hydrostatic, primitive-equation ocean model, this study investigates the dynamics of lateral circulation in a partially stratified tidal inlet, the Barataria Pass in the Gulf of Mexico, over a 25.6 h diurnal tidal cycle. Mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
906 Views
33 Pages

5 July 2025

Accurate prediction of key environmental parameters is crucial for intelligent control and optimization, yet it remains challenging due to gradient instability in deep learning models, like Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), during time series forecastin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
680 Views
18 Pages

22 May 2025

The zero-inflated Bernoulli model, enhanced with elastic net regularization, effectively handles binary classification for zero-inflated datasets. This zero-inflated structure significantly contributes to data imbalance. To improve the ZIBer model&rs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,951 Views
18 Pages

22 December 2024

The implementation of accurate water balance assessment in glacier basins is essential for the management and sustainable development of water resources in the basins. In this study, a hybrid modeling framework was constructed to enhance runoff predi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,551 Views
9 Pages

Longitudinal Measurements of Intra- and Extracellular pH Gradient in a Rat Model of Glioma

  • Heeseung Lim,
  • Mohammed Albatany,
  • Francisco Martínez-Santiesteban,
  • Robert Bartha and
  • Timothy J. Scholl

This study presents the first longitudinal measurement of the intracellular/extracellular pH gradient in a rat glioma model using noninvasive magnetic resonance imaging. The acid–base balance in the brain is tightly controlled by endogenous buffers....

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,148 Views
33 Pages

30 January 2024

The study compares model approaches in predictive modeling for claim frequency and severity within the cross-border cargo insurance domain. The aim is to identify the optimal model approach between generalized linear models (GLMs) and advanced machin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,084 Views
18 Pages

11 August 2023

The state of charge (SOC) plays a critical role in battery management systems. This paper discusses the stability of the nonlinear SOC observer based on the extended Kalman filter. The model characterizing the lithium-ion battery nonlinearity is the...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,556 Views
9 Pages

10 September 2018

The mathematical nature of the flow rule for the strain gradient plasticity theory proposed by Nix and Gao (W.D. Nix and H. Gao, J Mech Phys Solids 46(3), 411(1998)) is discussed based on the paradigm developed by Gurtin and Anand (M.E. Gurtin and L....

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,610 Views
17 Pages

15 July 2024

Although the theory of ecosystem services (ESs) is important for guiding land-use planning, knowledge of ESs trade-offs and supply–demand mechanisms is still lacking, and the characteristics of the correlation between the size of trade-offs and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,331 Views
6 Pages

8 August 2018

The simplest model for an atmospheric boundary layer assumes a uniform steady wind over a certain depth, of order 1 km, with the forces of friction, pressure gradient and Coriolis in balance. A linear model is here employed for the adjustment of wind...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,232 Views
19 Pages

8 February 2017

Water resources provided by alpine glaciers are an important pillar for people in the arid regions of west China. In this study, the Hydrologiska Byrans Vattenavdelning (HBV) light model was applied to simulate glacier mass balance (GMB) and runoff i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,405 Views
17 Pages

16 November 2022

Large-truck crashes often result in substantial economic and social costs. Accurate prediction of the severity level of a reported truck crash can help rescue teams and emergency medical services take the right actions and provide proper medical care...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,516 Views
15 Pages

17 June 2024

Despite their high prediction accuracy, deep learning-based soft sensor (DLSS) models face challenges related to adversarial robustness against malicious adversarial attacks, which hinder their widespread deployment and safe application. Although adv...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,541 Views
30 Pages

30 April 2025

Heating systems in a building’s mechanical infrastructure account for a significant share of global building energy consumption, underscoring the need for improved efficiency. This study evaluates 31 predictive models—including neural net...

  • Article
  • Open Access
78 Citations
6,965 Views
21 Pages

Spatial Heterogeneity in Glacier Mass-Balance Sensitivity across High Mountain Asia

  • Rongjun Wang,
  • Shiyin Liu,
  • Donghui Shangguan,
  • Valentina Radić and
  • Yong Zhang

15 April 2019

Mass balance of glaciers in High Mountain Asia (HMA) varies substantially across the region. While the spatial variability is attributed to differences in climatic setting and sensitivity of these glaciers to climate change, an assessment of these fa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,414 Views
16 Pages

An Improved BGE-Adam Optimization Algorithm Based on Entropy Weighting and Adaptive Gradient Strategy

  • Yichuan Shao,
  • Jiantao Wang,
  • Haijing Sun,
  • Hao Yu,
  • Lei Xing,
  • Qian Zhao and
  • Le Zhang

17 May 2024

This paper introduces an enhanced variant of the Adam optimizer—the BGE-Adam optimization algorithm—that integrates three innovative technologies to augment the adaptability, convergence, and robustness of the original algorithm under var...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,261 Views
19 Pages

19 March 2022

Spherical parallel robots (SPR) are widely used in industries and robotic rehabilitation. Designing such systems for better balance properties is still a challenge. This paper presents a work to minimize the shaking moment for a fully force-balanced...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,081 Views
12 Pages

Modeling a Hybrid Power System with Intermediate Energy Storage

  • Olga Lysenko,
  • Mykola Kuznietsov,
  • Taras Hutsol,
  • Krzysztof Mudryk,
  • Piotr Herbut,
  • Frederico Márcio Corrêa Vieira,
  • Lyudmyla Mykhailova,
  • Dmytro Sorokin and
  • Alona Shevtsova

2 February 2023

The purpose of this work is to develop a model for balancing the processes of the generation and consumption of electricity, taking into account the random nature of these processes. The subject of the study is hybrid power systems that use tradition...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,682 Views
17 Pages

This study analyzes the key factors influencing player rank prediction in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), using machine learning models to evaluate in-game performance. By examining variables such as “walkDistance”, “boo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,719 Views
22 Pages

A Multi-Beam Satellite Cooperative Transmission Scheme Based on Resources Optimization and Packets Segmentation

  • Zhongliang Deng,
  • Xiaoyi Yu,
  • Wenliang Lin,
  • Ke Wang,
  • Hao Liu,
  • Lei Gu,
  • Yang Liu and
  • Xiaojuan Ma

18 November 2021

Multi-beam satellite communication systems are promising architectures in the future. A packet is transmitted by multi-satellite and multi-beam cooperatively, which can provide efficient spectrum utilization, improve system throughput, and guarantee...

  • Article
  • Open Access
112 Citations
6,114 Views
26 Pages

Analysis of the Performance Impact of Fine-Tuned Machine Learning Model for Phishing URL Detection

  • Saleem Raja Abdul Samad,
  • Sundarvadivazhagan Balasubaramanian,
  • Amna Salim Al-Kaabi,
  • Bhisham Sharma,
  • Subrata Chowdhury,
  • Abolfazl Mehbodniya,
  • Julian L. Webber and
  • Ali Bostani

Phishing leverages people’s tendency to share personal information online. Phishing attacks often begin with an email and can be used for a variety of purposes. The cybercriminal will employ social engineering techniques to get the target to cl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,162 Views
22 Pages

Development and Comparison of Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models for Speech Audiometry Prediction

  • Jae sung Shin,
  • Jun Ma,
  • Mao Makara,
  • Nak-Jun Sung,
  • Seong Jun Choi,
  • Sung yeup Kim and
  • Min Hong

12 March 2025

Hearing loss significantly impacts daily communication, making accurate speech audiometry (SA) assessment essential for diagnosis and treatment. However, SA testing is time-consuming and resource-intensive, limiting its accessibility in clinical prac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,078 Views
29 Pages

In this paper, we propose a non-convex model with fractional-order applied to image deblurring problems. In the new model, fractional-order gradients have been introduced to preserve detailed features, and a source term with a blurry kernel is used f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,823 Views
12 Pages

8 May 2023

Deep learning technology has advanced rapidly and has started to be applied for the detection of welding defects. In the manufacturing process of power batteries for new energy vehicles, welding defects may occur due to the high directivity, converge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,917 Views
14 Pages

22 March 2023

Wireless traffic prediction is critical to the intelligent operation of cellular networks, such as load balancing, congestion control, value-added service promotion, etc. However, the BTS data in each region has certain differences and privacy, and c...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
78 Citations
13,430 Views
36 Pages

A Review on Interpretable and Explainable Artificial Intelligence in Hydroclimatic Applications

  • Hakan Başağaoğlu,
  • Debaditya Chakraborty,
  • Cesar Do Lago,
  • Lilianna Gutierrez,
  • Mehmet Arif Şahinli,
  • Marcio Giacomoni,
  • Chad Furl,
  • Ali Mirchi,
  • Daniel Moriasi and
  • Sema Sevinç Şengör

11 April 2022

This review focuses on the use of Interpretable Artificial Intelligence (IAI) and eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) models for data imputations and numerical or categorical hydroclimatic predictions from nonlinearly combined multidimensional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,910 Views
20 Pages

Latest Geodetic Changes of Austre Lovénbreen and Pedersenbreen, Svalbard

  • Songtao Ai,
  • Xi Ding,
  • Florian Tolle,
  • Zemin Wang and
  • Xi Zhao

4 December 2019

Geodetic mass changes in the Svalbard glaciers Austre Lovénbreen and Pedersenbreen were studied via high-precision real-time kinematic (RTK)-global positioning system (GPS) measurements from 2013 to 2015. To evaluate the elevation changes of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
677 Views
19 Pages

Fusion of LSTM-Based Vertical-Gradient Prediction and 3D Kriging for Greenhouse Temperature Field Reconstruction

  • Zhimin Zhang,
  • Xifeng Liu,
  • Xiaona Zhao,
  • Zihao Gao,
  • Yaoyu Li,
  • Xiongwei He,
  • Xinping Fan,
  • Lingzhi Li and
  • Wuping Zhang

24 October 2025

This paper presents a proposed LSTM-based vertical-gradient prediction combined with three-dimensional kriging that enables reconstruction of greenhouse 3D temperature fields under sparse-sensor deployments while capturing temporal dynamics and spati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
567 Views
19 Pages

12 November 2025

Accurate prediction of bridge deterioration is essential for optimizing inspection schedules, prioritizing maintenance activities, and ensuring infrastructure safety. This study developed machine learning-based predictive models to estimate the deter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,033 Views
11 Pages

Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Length of Stay Prediction by Machine Learning

  • Hammad A. Ganatra,
  • Samir Q. Latifi and
  • Orkun Baloglu

Purpose: To develop and validate machine learning models for predicting the length of stay (LOS) in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) using data from the Virtual Pediatric Systems (VPS) database. Methods: A retrospective study was conducted ut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,647 Views
22 Pages

Sensitivity-Aware Differential Privacy for Federated Medical Imaging

  • Lele Zheng,
  • Yang Cao,
  • Masatoshi Yoshikawa,
  • Yulong Shen,
  • Essam A. Rashed,
  • Kenjiro Taura,
  • Shouhei Hanaoka and
  • Tao Zhang

30 April 2025

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across multiple institutions without the sharing of raw patient data, making it particularly suitable for smart healthcare applications. However, recent studies revealed that merely sharing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,140 Views
24 Pages

High dropout rates remain a significant challenge in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), making early identification of at-risk students crucial. This study introduces a novel approach called In-Session Stacked Ensemble Learning for Dropout Predicti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,755 Views
18 Pages

10 May 2023

Wildfires directly threaten the safety of life and property. Predicting wildfires with a model driven by wildfire danger factors can significantly reduce losses. Weather conditions continuously influence the drying rate of fuel as well as the occurre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,511 Views
28 Pages

Bridging Predictive Insights and Retention Strategies: The Role of Account Balance in Banking Churn Prediction

  • Tahsien Al-Quraishi,
  • Osamah Albahri,
  • Ahmed Albahri,
  • Abdullah Alamoodi and
  • Iman Mohammed Sharaf

10 April 2025

The banking industry faces significant challenges, from high customer churn rates to threatening long-term revenue generation. Traditionally, churn models assess service quality using customer satisfaction metrics; however, these subjective variables...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,735 Views
19 Pages

Reconstruction of Annual Glacier Mass Balance from Remote Sensing-Derived Average Glacier-Wide Albedo

  • Zhimin Zhang,
  • Liming Jiang,
  • Yafei Sun,
  • Pascal Sirguey,
  • Marie Dumont,
  • Lin Liu,
  • Ning Gao and
  • Songfeng Gao

21 December 2022

Annual mass balance is an important reflection of glacier status that is also very sensitive to climate fluctuations. However, there is no effective and universal albedo-based method for the reconstruction of annual mass balance due to the scarcity o...

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