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This review contains information on the development of magnetic biology, one of the multidisciplinary areas of biophysics. The main historical facts are presented and the general observed properties of magnetobiological phenomena are listed. The unav...

This paper addresses the fusion estimation problem in tessarine systems with multi-sensor observations affected by mixed uncertainties when under ${\mathbb{T}}_k$-properness conditions. Observations from each sensor can be updated, delayed, or contain only noise,...

Ripple-spreading Algorithm (RSA) is a relatively new, nature-inspired, multi-agent based method for path optimization. This paper demonstrates that by modifying the micro-level behaviors of nodes and ripples, RSA achieves good scalability for solving...

Ozawa has modified the Avrami model to treat non-isothermal crystallization kinetics. The resulting Ozawa–Avrami model yields the Avrami index (n) and heating/cooling function (χ(T)). There has been a number of recent applications of the Oz...

Free-breathing and ungated cardiac MRI is a challenging problem due to the cardiac motion and respiration motion, which are not tracked. In this work, we propose an unsupervised deep kernel method for reconstructing real-time free-breathing and ungat...

The decision-making process of travel behaviors under uncertainty and risk shall be analyzed in order to solve the emergency traffic management or evacuation problem under sudden fire disaster in a high-density urban environment. Firstly, this paper...

The often used analytical representation of the Maxwell–Boltzmann classical speed distribution function (F) for elastic, indivisible particles assumes an infinite limit for the speed. Consequently, volume and the number of particles (n) extend...

Background: The surgery of knee replacement due to degenerative changes is the last step of the treatment. After surgery, a major problem in patients is pain, swelling, intraarticular hematoma, and the restriction of the mobility of the joint. The ai...

Background: For our society, chronic kidney disease is a major public health problem associated with high mortality, morbidity, reduced quality of life and a progressive increase in health costs. The aim of this study was to analyze and compare the c...

Bangkok Metropolitan Region (BMR), including the capital city and five adjacent provinces, constitutes one of the top 10 megacities experiencing serious traffic congestion in the world, leading to air quality problems with significant adverse human h...

In this study, the effects of soil conditioners on the growth and development of melons and the rhizosphere soil environment were explored. The optimal amount of added soil conditioner was screened to solve the practical production problems of high-q...

In the present study, a simple immersion boundary method was developed to numerically simulate the fluid-structure-acoustic coupling problem of underwater vehicles and their towed super long cables. A typical underwater vehicle connected with differe...

The discrete shearlet transformation accurately represents the discontinuities and edges occurring in magnetic resonance imaging, providing an excellent option of a sparsifying transform. In the present paper, we examine the use of discrete shearlets...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has a wide and increasing range of applications across various sectors. In medicine, AI has already made an impact in numerous fields, rapidly transforming healthcare delivery through its growing applications in diagnosis...

Knowledge tracing (KT) is based on modeling students’ behavior sequences to obtain students’ knowledge state and predict students’ future performance. The KT task aims to model students’ knowledge state in real-time according...

Background and Objectives: Hammertoe, one of the most common toe deformities, causes pain due to overloading of the periarticular tissues and skin lesions. Additionally, it results in problems with footwear choice, an unattractive foot appearance and...

Purpose: In-the-field projects aiming to improve quality in cancer control provide a valuable complement to health services and knowledge translation (KT) research studies. The present paper describes the methods used to develop the Knowledge Transla...

The knacks of evolutionary and swarm computing paradigms have been exploited to solve complex engineering and applied science problems, including parameter estimation for nonlinear systems. The population-based computational heuristics applied for pa...

The notion of k-harmonic curves is associated with the kth-order variational problem defined by the k-energy functional. The present paper gives a geometric formulation of this higher-order variational problem on a Riemannian manifold M and describes...

In this paper, we consider several variants of the pattern matching with mismatches problem. In particular, given a text \(T=t_1 t_2\cdots t_n\) and a pattern \(P=p_1p_2\cdots p_m\), we investigate the following problems: (1) pattern matching with...

Background: Despite recent advances and refinements in perioperative management of kidney transplantation (KT), early renal graft injury (eRGI) remains a critical problem with serious impairment of graft function as well as short- and long-term outco...

The Influence Maximization ($\mathsf{IM}$) problem, which finds a set of k nodes (called seedset) in a social network to initiate the influence spread so that the number of influenced nodes after propagation process is maximized, is an important problem in info...

In this paper, we derive sufficient conditions that guarantee an description of long-time asymptotic behavior of the solution to the Cauchy problem governed by a linear neutron transport equation with a partially elastic collision operator under peri...

A multi-cut rearrangement of a string S is a string $S^{\prime }$ obtained from S by an operation called k-cut rearrangement, that consists of (1) cutting S at a given number k of places in S, making S the concatenated string $X_1·X_2·X_3·\dots ·X_k·X_{k+1}$, where $X_1$ and $X_k$...

Light sport aircraft builders widely construct experimental aircraft for their personal enjoyment for both building and flying purposes. A variety of engines are used as powerplants for their aircraft. The Volkswagen (VW) automotive engine is one of...

In Chinese language semantic analysis, the processed languages often reveal similar representations in models for different application scenarios, resulting in similar language models. With that characteristic, evolutionary multitask optimization (EM...

Background: Gluteus medius muscle (GMed) dysfunctions may be associated with pain and functional problems in the lumbar spine and lower limbs. The study sought to assess the effects of applying kinesio taping (KT) and rigid taping (RT) on GMed in the...

The solvability issues of counterpart Holmgren’s boundary value problem with mixed conditions for a degenerate four-dimensional second-order Gellerstedt equation $H\left(u\right)\equiv y^m{z}^k{t}^l{u}_{xx}+x^n{z}^k{t}^l{u}_{yy}+x^n{y}^m{t}^l{u}_{zz}+x^n{y}^m{z}^k{u}_{tt}=0,$$m,n,k,l\equiv const>0,$...

In this paper, we consider a variant of dominating set problem, i.e., the total dominating set problem. Given an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$, a subset of vertices $T\subseteq V$ is called a total dominating set if every vertex in V is adjacent to at least one...

With the rapid development of the social economy in China, numerous Chinese cities are facing high levels of particulate matter (PM) pollution problems. In this study, high-resolution ZY-3 images and GIS techniques were used to establish the emission...

Ionization potentials (IPs) and electron affinities (EAs) are important quantities input into most models for calculating the open-circuit voltage (V_oc) of organic solar cells. We assess the semi-empirical density-functional tight-binding (DFTB) meth...

With the development of large language model (LLM) technology, AI-assisted education systems are gradually being widely used. Learning Path Recommendation (LPR) is an important task in personalized instructional scenarios. AI-assisted LPR is gaining...

In this paper, we study and investigate an interesting Caputo fractional derivative and Riemann–Liouville integral boundary value problem (BVP): ^c $D_{0^{+}}^{q}u\left(t\right)=f(t,u\left(t\right)),t\in [0,T]$ , ${\displaystyle u^{\left(k\right)}}$...

Today, extraction of the impacted third molar is the most common procedure performed in oral surgery departments. One of the methods currently investigated—in terms reducing the severity of non-infectious complications and decreasing Quality of Life...

Tropical cyclones (TCs) are dangerous weather events; accurate monitoring and forecasting can provide significant early warning to reduce loss of life and property. However, the study of tropical cyclone intensity remains challenging, both in terms o...

In a regular ($d,k$)-CNF formula, each clause has length k and each variable appears d times. A regular structure such as this is symmetric, and the satisfiability problem of this symmetric structure is called the $(d,k)$-SAT problem for short. The regul...

We consider the Cauchy problem $\left({\mathbb{D}}_{\left(k\right)}u\right)\left(t\right)=\lambda u\left(t\right)$ , $u\left(0\right)=1$ , where ${\mathbb{D}}_{\left(k\right)}$ is the general convolutional derivative introduced in the paper (A. N. Kochubei, Integral Equations Oper. Theory 71 (2011),...

Foot rot, a disease caused by the fungal plant pathogen Diaporthe destruens, has been a major problem throughout East Asia. In major sweet-potato-producing regions, developing sweet potato cultivars that are resistant to foot rot has become an urgent...

Using energy plants to repair salinized soils polluted by petroleum is an efficient way to solve the problem of farmland reduction and prevent pollutants from entering the food chain simultaneously. In this study, pot experiments were conducted for t...

In social influence analysis, viral marketing, and other fields, the influence maximization problem is a fundamental one with critical applications and has attracted many researchers in the last decades. This problem asks to find a k-size seed set wi...

An alternative approach to Einstein’s theory of General Relativity (GR) is reviewed, which is motivated by a range of serious theoretical issues inflicting the theory, such as the cosmological constant problem, presence of non-Machian solutions, prob...

In this brief note, we study the problem of asymptotic behavior of the solutions for non-resonant, singularly perturbed linear Neumann boundary value problems $\epsilon y^{″}+ky=f\left(t\right)$, $y^{\prime }\left(a\right)=0$, $y^{\prime }\left(b\right)=0$, $k>0,$ with an indication of poss...

An important problem in the context of viral marketing in social networks is the Influence Threshold (IT) problem, which aims at finding some users (referred to as a seed set) to begin the process of disseminating their product’s information so...

In this paper, the synchronization problem of uncertain neutral-type neural networks (NTNNs) with sampled-data control is investigated. First, a mixed-delay-dependent augmented Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional (LKF) is proposed, which not only co...

This study presents our first discovery about two abnormal problems in the blackbody calibration target associated with the antenna unit A2 in the Metop-C AMSU-A instrument. The problems include the anomalous patterns in both blackbody kinetic temper...

For $G\in {\mathbb{R}}^{m\times n}$ and $g\in {\mathbb{R}}^m$, the minimization ${min\parallel G\psi -g\parallel }_2$, with $\psi \in {\mathbb{R}}^n$, is known as the Tykhonov regularization. We transport the Tykhonov regularization to an infinite-dimensional setting, that is $min\parallel T\left(h\right)\&m$...

Stress is well known to affect the immune system. However, in patients suffering from end-stage renal disease (ESRD) who underwent a kidney transplant (KT), the problem of stress appears to still be underestimated. The review aims to discuss the infl...

Denote by ${\Delta }_1(x;\phi )$ the error term in the classical Rankin–Selberg problem. Denote by $\zeta \left(s\right)$ the Riemann zeta-function. We establish an upper bound for this integral ${\int }_0^T{\Delta }_1(t;\phi ){\left|\zeta \left({\displaystyle \frac{1}{2}}+it\right)\right|}^{2}dt.$ In addition, when $2\le k\&le$...

In the Vertex Cover Reconfiguration (VCR) problem, given a graph G, positive integers k and ℓ and two vertex covers S and T of G of size at most k, we determine whether S can be transformed into T by a sequence of at most ℓ vertex additions or remova...

We investigate $L_2$-approximation problems in the worst case setting in the weighted Hilbert spaces $H\left(K_{R_{d,\mathit{\alpha },\mathit{\gamma }}}\right)$ with weights $R_{d,\mathit{\alpha },\mathit{\gamma }}$ under parameters $1\ge {\gamma }_1\ge {\gamma }_2\ge \cdots \ge 0$ and $1<{\alpha }_1\le {\alpha }_2\le ;$...