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8 Citations
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5 February 2024

Manufacturing companies characterized by high-mix and low-volume production exhibit distinct features that exert a significant influence on the product introduction process. The quality of information exchange between product design and production in...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,192 Views
12 Pages

8 March 2024

Hourly traffic volume prediction is now emerging to mitigate and respond to hourly-level traffic congestion augmented by deep learning techniques. Incorporating meteorological data into the forecasting of hourly traffic volumes substantively improves...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6,848 Views
21 Pages

This study introduces a novel intraday volume-based uncertainty (IVU) proxy—the ratio of opening-half-hour volume to total volume of the preceding seven intervals—to predict final half-hour return direction in the Chinese stock market. Us...

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  • Open Access
1,335 Views
26 Pages

25 November 2025

The ultrasonic sensor method is the most significant and widely accepted technique for measuring liquid levels in tanks. Ultrasonic waves are particularly advantageous in the case of explosive, flammable, or aggressive liquids because of the possibil...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nondestructive Sensing and Imaging in Ultrasound—Second Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,908 Views
17 Pages

14 September 2017

The Second Board Market is typical stock market for high tech companies in China. This paper discusses the relationship between trading volume and price changes in the case of high-tech listed companies in the Chinese Second-Board Stock Market. By us...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,992 Views
17 Pages

29 December 2025

To reduce the reliance on large training sets for representative volume element (RVE) generation using machine learning, this work presents a novel approach based on physics-informed neural network (PINN) to generate RVEs for unidirectional fiber-rei...

(This article belongs to the Section Polymer Physics and Theory)
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  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,660 Views
9 Pages

The Volume of Two-Qubit States by Information Geometry

  • Milajiguli Rexiti,
  • Domenico Felice and
  • Stefano Mancini

24 February 2018

Using the information geometry approach, we determine the volume of the set of two-qubit states with maximally disordered subsystems. Particular attention is devoted to the behavior of the volume of sub-manifolds of separable and entangled states wit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Statistical Physics of Complex Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
712 Views
14 Pages

We show that thermodynamic consistency in systems with finite excluded volume implies compact support of the grand canonical particle-number distribution. Understanding whether fundamental bounds on information and matter content can arise purely fro...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,601 Views
14 Pages

Differences in Timber Volume Estimates Using Various Algorithms Available in the Control and Information Systems of Harvesters

  • Radim Löwe,
  • Monika Sedmíková,
  • Pavel Natov,
  • Martin Jankovský and ,
  • Pavla Hejcmanová and
  • Jiří Dvořák
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

30 April 2019

Timber is the most important source of revenue in forestry and, therefore, is necessary to precisely estimate its volume. The share of timber volume produced by harvesters is annually growing in many European countries. Suitable settings of harvester...

(This article belongs to the Section Forest Ecology and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,360 Views
16 Pages

Lifestyle-related diseases are a major problem all over the world although exercising can prevent them. Therefore, it is necessary to encourage users to exercise regularly and to support their exercises. The purpose of this study is to investigate wh...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Bayesian Data Analysis in Exercise and Health Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,875 Views
27 Pages

13 September 2020

As humanity struggles to find a path to resilience amidst global change vagaries, understanding organizing principles of living systems as the pillar for human existence is rapidly growing in importance. However, finding quantitative definitions for...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evolution and Thermodynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6,795 Views
14 Pages

The objective of this study is to explore the prevalence and characteristics of data sharing policies in library and information science (LIS) journals, focusing on their relationship with journal metrics, publisher volume (number of journals managed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
5,399 Views
23 Pages

To study the influence of traffic signs information volume (TSIV) on drivers’ visual characteristics and driving safety, the simulation scenarios of different levels of TSIV were established, and 30 participants were recruited for simulated dri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The 2nd Edition: Promotion of Big Data and Intelligent Transportation to Traffic Safety and the Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,573 Views
23 Pages

22 March 2022

The main objective of this study is to estimate the changes in land use and land cover in the Peshawar basin, Pakistan, from 2000 to 2020. This will greatly improve the selection of areas designated as the agricultural, industrial, and/or urban secto...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart GIS and Geo-Technology in Sustainable and Crisis Land and Urban Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,770 Views
15 Pages

Trading activities represent the flow of market information to the investors. This paper examines the effect of trading activities, i.e., trading volume and open interest, on the volatility of return for Malaysian Crude Palm Oil Futures. The GARCH mo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Financial Econometrics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,009 Views
17 Pages

26 August 2019

Social commerce (SC) is a rapidly emerging branch of e-commerce. Effective information spread is the critical element in increasing the sales volume in this industry. However, few studies have explored the underlying mechanism and corresponding winni...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,385 Views
20 Pages

Enhancing Airborne Laser Scanning-Based Growing Stock Volume Models with Climate and Site-Specific Information

  • Elvis Tangwa,
  • Wiktor Tracz,
  • Yousef Erfanifard,
  • Miłosz Mielcarek and
  • Krzysztof Stereńczak

14 May 2025

Forests grow under dynamic conditions influenced by vegetation structure and environmental factors. However, empirical models to enhance growing stock volume GSV) estimation are commonly established based on structural information from airborne laser...

(This article belongs to the Section Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,862 Views
23 Pages

18 August 2019

We establish lower bounds on the volume and the surface area of a geometric body using the size of its slices along different directions. In the first part of the paper, we derive volume bounds for convex bodies using generalized subadditivity proper...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy and Information Inequalities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,794 Views
32 Pages

Optimization of Underground Cavern Sign Group Layout Using Eye-Tracking Technology

  • Qin Zeng,
  • Yun Chen,
  • Xiazhong Zheng,
  • Shiyu He and ,
  • Donghui Li and
  • Benwu Nie
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 August 2023

Efficient sign layouts play a crucial role in guiding driving in underground construction caverns and enhancing transportation safety. Previous studies have primarily focused on evaluating drivers’ gaze behavior in tunnels to optimize individua...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,260 Views
25 Pages

28 April 2024

Tunnel–interchange connecting sections pose significant safety challenges on mountainous expressways due to their high incidence of accidents. Improving road safety necessitates a comprehensive understanding of driver behavior in such areas. Th...

(This article belongs to the Section Transportation and Future Mobility)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,185 Views
15 Pages

9 April 2025

Geological hazard risk assessment provides essential scientific support for geological disaster prevention and governance. The selection of appropriate evaluation factors is crucial to the accuracy and practicality of the risk assessment results. The...

(This article belongs to the Topic Remote Sensing and Geological Disasters)
  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
5,562 Views
27 Pages

Landslide Susceptibility Evaluation of Machine Learning Based on Information Volume and Frequency Ratio: A Case Study of Weixin County, China

  • Wancai He,
  • Guoping Chen,
  • Junsan Zhao,
  • Yilin Lin and ,
  • Bingui Qin,
  • Wanlu Yao and
  • Qing Cao
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

24 February 2023

A landslide is one of the most destructive natural disasters in the world. The accurate modeling and prediction of landslide hazards have been used as some of the vital tools for landslide disaster prevention and control. The purpose of this study wa...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sensing)
  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,119 Views
31 Pages

Current Status and Future Prospects of Key Technologies in Variable-Rate Spray

  • Yuxuan Jiao,
  • Zhu Sun,
  • Yongkui Jin,
  • Longfei Cui and ,
  • Xuemei Zhang,
  • Shuai Wang,
  • Songchao Zhang,
  • Chun Chang,
  • Suming Ding and
  • Xinyu Xue
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

10 October 2025

The traditional continuous, quantitative spraying technology ignores the severity of pests, diseases and grasses, spatial distribution and other differences, resulting in low effective utilization of pesticides, environmental pollution and other prob...

(This article belongs to the Topic Emerging Agricultural Engineering Sciences, Technologies, and Applications—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
184 Views
27 Pages

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have been increasingly used for thermal-fluid problems. This study evaluates the performance of the PINN approach for reconstructing a laminar forced flow field inside a rectangular channel with four staggered...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,883 Views
21 Pages

The model of a multiverse is advanced, which endows subuniverses like ours with space and time and imparts to their matter all information about the physical laws. It expands driven by dark energy (DE), which is felt in our Universe (U) by mass input...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Multiverse)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,389 Views
19 Pages

25 April 2025

Gas accumulation triggered by coal and gas outbursts is the core cause of secondary disasters in coal mines. This study focuses on the risk assessment of gas accumulation during disaster scenarios, proposing a multidimensional evaluation method integ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security Intelligent Monitoring and Big Data Utilization in Coal Mining Process, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,440 Views
13 Pages

28 November 2021

This study aimed to analyze and relate the population interest through information search trends on Nutrition and Healthy Diet (HD) with the Occupational Health (OH). Ecological and correlational study of the Relative Search Volume (RSV) obtained fro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Diet, Food and Nutrition and Occupational Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,925 Views
16 Pages

22 July 2020

Due to the nature of the Dempster combination rule, it may produce results contrary to intuition. Therefore, an improved method for conflict evidence fusion is proposed. In this paper, the belief entropy in D–S theory is used to measure the unc...

(This article belongs to the Section Signal and Data Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,993 Views
37 Pages

16 February 2022

Many visual representations, such as volume-rendered images and metro maps, feature a noticeable amount of information loss due to a variety of many-to-one mappings. At a glance, there seem to be numerous opportunities for viewers to misinterpret the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,723 Views
26 Pages

27 March 2025

A neural network model for a constitutive law in nonlinear structures is proposed in this paper. The artificial neural network (ANN) model is constructed based on a data set of responses from representative volume elements, which was calculated by fi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications in Neural and Symbolic Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,687 Views
16 Pages

3 April 2025

Cotton micronaire (MIC) is an essential fiber quality index that characterizes both fiber maturity and fineness components. This study compared how MIC affects the fiber high volume instrument (HVI) and advanced fiber information system (AFIS) qualit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,641 Views
18 Pages

Cotton fiber length and maturity, two critical fiber qualities, are commonly determined in the U.S. by Uster high volume instrument (HVI) and advanced fiber information system (AFIS). The main objectives of this investigation were to compare how HVI...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,803 Views
33 Pages

Accurate estimation of grain volume in storage silos is critical for intelligent monitoring and management. However, traditional image-based methods often struggle under complex lighting conditions, resulting in incomplete surface reconstruction and...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Digital Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
929 Views
18 Pages

An Unknown Payload Mass Prediction Method Using Fuzzy Logic Compensation and Pre-Acquired Volume Information

  • Xun Chen,
  • Haoyi Wu,
  • Chunlin Pang,
  • Xinze Hu and ,
  • Xin Chen and
  • Guohuai Lin
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 June 2026

In this article, a fuzzy payload compensation algorithm is proposed. In the context of simulating a machine vision model reconstruction, the target object is regarded as a cylinder to obtain the corresponding geometric size data. The first fuzzy mass...

(This article belongs to the Section Robotics, Mechatronics and Intelligent Machines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
3,408 Views
16 Pages

Evaluation of Different Algorithms for Estimating the Growing Stock Volume of Pinus massoniana Plantations Using Spectral and Spatial Information from a SPOT6 Image

  • Jingjing Zhou,
  • Zhixiang Zhou,
  • Qingxia Zhao,
  • Zemin Han and ,
  • Pengcheng Wang,
  • Jie Xu and
  • Yuanyong Dian
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

12 May 2020

Precise growing stock volume (GSV) estimation is essential for monitoring forest carbon dynamics, determining forest productivity, assessing ecosystem forest services, and evaluating forest quality. We evaluated four machine learning methods: classif...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Remote Sensing Data in Mapping of Forest Growing Stock and Biomass)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,758 Views
25 Pages

11 August 2023

Frequency-domain electromagnetic induction (EMI) methods are commonly used to map vast areas quickly and with minimum logistical efforts. Unfortunately, they are often characterized by a very limited number of frequencies and severe ill-posedness. On...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Data Applied to Near-Surface Geophysics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
244 Citations
6,370 Views
16 Pages

Optimization of Big Data Scheduling in Social Networks

  • Weina Fu,
  • Shuai Liu and
  • Gautam Srivastava

17 September 2019

In social network big data scheduling, it is easy for target data to conflict in the same data node. Of the different kinds of entropy measures, this paper focuses on the optimization of target entropy. Therefore, this paper presents an optimized met...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theories Based on Belief Functions for Decision-Making Support)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,328 Views
12 Pages

Mutual Information between Order Book Layers

  • Daniel Libman,
  • Gil Ariel,
  • Mary Schaps and
  • Simi Haber

27 February 2022

The order book is a list of all current buy or sell orders for a given financial security. The rise of electronic stock exchanges introduced a debate about the relevance of the information it encapsulates of the activity of traders. Here, we approach...

(This article belongs to the Topic Machine and Deep Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
903 Views
21 Pages

11 February 2026

Quantification of total porosity, including the nano-scale fraction, is critical for predicting the performance of cement-based materials but remains a significant challenge. While X-ray computed tomography (CT) is a powerful non-destructive tool, a...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction and Building Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,646 Views
21 Pages

7 April 2021

Fourier-Mellin-SOFT (FMS) is a rigid 3D registration method, which allows the robust registration of 3 degrees-of-freedom (dof) rotation, 1-dof scale, and 3-dof translation between scans on discrete grids. FMS is based on a spectral decomposition of...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,746 Views
18 Pages

Comparison of Land Cover Categorical Data Stored in OSM and Authoritative Topographic Data

  • Sylwia Borkowska,
  • Elzbieta Bielecka and
  • Krzysztof Pokonieczny

26 June 2023

This study aims at a comparative analysis of quantitative data, namely, OSM and BDOT10k. Analyses were conducted in a 1 km2 hexagonal grid, in seven test counties located in different regions of Poland, differing in the degree of urbanization, land c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,948 Views
13 Pages

The purpose of this paper is to enrich the decision preference information inconsistency check and adjustment method in the context of capacity-based multiple criteria decision making. We first show that almost all the preference information of a dec...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory and Methodology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,470 Views
25 Pages

31 January 2022

Information theory can be used to analyze the cost–benefit of visualization processes. However, the current measure of benefit contains an unbounded term that is neither easy to estimate nor intuitive to interpret. In this work, we propose to r...

(This article belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,340 Views
17 Pages

Effects of Staggered Application of Chemical Defoliants on Cotton Fiber Quality

  • Aashish Karki,
  • Michael W. Marshall,
  • Gilbert Miller,
  • Van Patiluna and ,
  • Jun Luo,
  • Edward Barnes and
  • Joe Mari Maja
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Chemical defoliation is an important management practice in cotton to facilitate mechanical harvesting and leaf removal and maintain lint quality. Recent advances in precision agriculture have enabled the development of autonomous robotic platforms w...

  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,125 Views
46 Pages

Sensory signals generated by peripheral nociceptors are transmitted by peptidergic and nonpeptidergic nociceptive primary afferents to the superficial spinal dorsal horn, where their central axon terminals establish synaptic contacts with secondary s...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Pharmacology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,786 Views
13 Pages

Deep Learning and Registration-Based Mapping for Analyzing the Distribution of Nodal Metastases in Head and Neck Cancer Cohorts: Informing Optimal Radiotherapy Target Volume Design

  • Thomas Weissmann,
  • Sina Mansoorian,
  • Matthias Stefan May,
  • Sebastian Lettmaier and ,
  • Daniel Höfler,
  • Lisa Deloch,
  • Stefan Speer,
  • Matthias Balk,
  • Benjamin Frey and
  • Florian Putz
  • + 14 authors+ 9 authors

18 September 2023

We introduce a deep-learning- and a registration-based method for automatically analyzing the spatial distribution of nodal metastases (LNs) in head and neck (H/N) cancer cohorts to inform radiotherapy (RT) target volume design. The two methods are e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Head and Neck Cancer Imaging and Image Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
601 Views
42 Pages

Background/Objectives: Advancements in neuroscience and machine learning have increasingly enabled brain pattern recognition based on bio-signal measurements, such as electroencephalography (EEG). These developments support next-generation technologi...

(This article belongs to the Section Cognitive, Social and Affective Neuroscience)
  • Correction
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,621 Views
3 Pages

18 July 2022

The authors would like to make the following corrections to the published paper [...]

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart GIS and Geo-Technology in Sustainable and Crisis Land and Urban Management)
  • Review
  • Open Access
279 Views
20 Pages

Platelet Dose, Concentration, and Injectate Volume in Platelet-Rich Plasma Therapy: An Evidence-Informed Review of Large-Joint Osteoarthritis

  • Paulina Giacomelli,
  • Brendan Martin,
  • Jason Markle,
  • Christopher J. Williams and ,
  • Nicholas R. Hooper and
  • John Pitts
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Background/Objectives: Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) preparations vary widely, and most studies report concentration rather than absolute platelet dose, limiting cross-study comparison. This review provides an evidence-informed synthesis of platelet dos...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular and Translational Medicine)

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