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  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,687 Views
27 Pages

Interoperability Conflicts in Linked Open Statistical Data

  • Evangelos Kalampokis,
  • Areti Karamanou and
  • Konstantinos Tarabanis

27 July 2019

An important part of Open Data is of a statistical nature and describes economic and social indicators monitoring population size, inflation, trade, and employment. Combining and analyzing Open Data from multiple datasets and sources enable the perfo...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,407 Views
16 Pages

Quasi-Cauchy Regression Modeling for Fractiles Based on Data Supported in the Unit Interval

  • José Sérgio Casé de Oliveira,
  • Raydonal Ospina,
  • Víctor Leiva,
  • Jorge Figueroa-Zúñiga and
  • Cecilia Castro

A fractile is a location on a probability density function with the associated surface being a proportion of such a density function. The present study introduces a novel methodological approach to modeling data within the continuous unit interval us...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional Models and Statistical Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
9,033 Views
33 Pages

Explainable Graph Neural Networks: An Application to Open Statistics Knowledge Graphs for Estimating House Prices

  • Areti Karamanou,
  • Petros Brimos,
  • Evangelos Kalampokis and
  • Konstantinos Tarabanis

In the rapidly evolving field of real estate economics, the prediction of house prices continues to be a complex challenge, intricately tied to a multitude of socio-economic factors. Traditional predictive models often overlook spatial interdependenc...

(This article belongs to the Section Information and Communication Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,996 Views
29 Pages

A Bounded Sine Skewed Model for Hydrological Data Analysis

  • Tassaddaq Hussain,
  • Mohammad Shakil,
  • Mohammad Ahsanullah and
  • Bhuiyan Mohammad Golam Kibria

Hydrological time series frequently exhibit periodic trends with variables such as rainfall, runoff, and evaporation rates often following annual cycles. Seasonal variations further contribute to the complexity of these data sets. A critical aspect o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,322 Views
15 Pages

27 March 2018

We present a selection of scale transfer approaches from the electronic to the continuum regime for topics relevant to hydrogen embrittlement. With a focus on grain boundary related hydrogen embrittlement, we discuss the scale transfer for the depend...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue First-Principles Approaches to Metals, Alloys, and Metallic Compounds)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,197 Views
26 Pages

Statistical and Machine Learning Link Selection Methods for Brain Functional Networks: Review and Comparison

  • Ilinka Ivanoska,
  • Kire Trivodaliev,
  • Slobodan Kalajdziski and
  • Massimiliano Zanin

Network-based representations have introduced a revolution in neuroscience, expanding the understanding of the brain from the activity of individual regions to the interactions between them. This augmented network view comes at the cost of high dimen...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational Neuroscience, Neuroinformatics, and Neurocomputing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,552 Views
21 Pages

21 June 2024

The two-parameter logistic (2PL) item response theory model is a statistical model for analyzing multivariate binary data. In this article, two groups are brought onto a common metric using the 2PL model using linking methods. The linking methods of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Robust Statistics in Action II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,847 Views
24 Pages

WikiLink: An Encyclopedia-Based Semantic Network for Design Creativity

  • Haoyu Zuo,
  • Qianzhi Jing,
  • Tianqi Song,
  • Lingyun Sun and ,
  • Peter Childs and
  • Liuqing Chen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Data-driven design is a process to reuse data sources and provide valuable information to provoke creative ideas in the stages of design. However, existing semantic networks for design creativity are built on data sources restricted to technological...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Understanding Creativity and Stimulating Creativity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,194 Views
10 Pages

In this paper, we focus on a Bayesian network s approach to combine traditional survey and social network data and official statistics to evaluate well-being. Bayesian networks permit the use of data with different geographical levels (provincial and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Measuring Health and Wellbeing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,252 Views
34 Pages

An Analysis of Existing Production Frameworks for Statistical and Geographic Information: Synergies, Gaps and Integration

  • Francisco Javier Ariza-López,
  • Antonio Rodríguez-Pascual,
  • Francisco J. Lopez-Pellicer,
  • Luis M. Vilches-Blázquez and ,
  • Agustín Villar-Iglesias,
  • Joan Masó,
  • Efrén Díaz-Díaz,
  • Manuel Antonio Ureña-Cámara and
  • Alberto González-Yanes
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

The production of official statistical and geospatial data is often in the hands of highly specialized public agencies that have traditionally followed their own paths and established their own production frameworks. In this article, we present the m...

  • Feature Paper
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,044 Views
7 Pages

18 March 2021

In order to fit population ecological models, e.g., plant competition models, to new drone-aided image data, we need to develop statistical models that may take the new type of measurement uncertainty when applying machine-learning algorithms into ac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Paper Special Issue on Ecological Remote Sensing)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,384 Views
13 Pages

1 January 2026

In animal experiments, causal relationships in physiological or disease processes are investigated by using interventions. Applying second-generation statistical methods could be used to identify important links in life processes. This article as a f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research Animal Welfare: Current Practices and Future Directions)
  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,063 Views
18 Pages

On the Statistical Characterization of Sprays

  • Miguel O. Panão,
  • Ana S. Moita and
  • António L. Moreira

3 September 2020

The statistical characterization of sprays is an essential way of organizing data on drop size and velocity to provide reliable information on the spray dynamics. A clear presentation of data using statistical tools provides evidence of a clear resea...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Progress in Spray Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,180 Views
16 Pages

Integrating GIS and Official Statistics Using GISINTEGRATION

  • Hossein Hassani,
  • Leila Marvian Mashhad,
  • Sara Stewart and
  • Steve MacFeely

Geospatial–statistical integration remains a persistent bottleneck for official statistics and applied spatial analysis. The GISINTEGRATION R package provides a modular, reproducible workflow for preprocessing, harmonizing, and linking heteroge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,177 Views
26 Pages

GeoLOD: A Spatial Linked Data Catalog and Recommender

  • Vasilis Kopsachilis and
  • Michail Vaitis

The increasing availability of linked data poses new challenges for the identification and retrieval of the most appropriate data sources that meet user needs. Recent dataset catalogs and recommenders provide advanced methods that facilitate linked d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Semantic Web Technology and Recommender Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,487 Views
23 Pages

15 November 2024

In this study, we model the rate or proportion of a specific phenomenon using a set of known covariates. To fit the regression model, which explains the phenomenon within the intervals (0,1), [0,1), (0,1], or [0,1], we employ a logit link function. T...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advances in Distribution Theory and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,131 Views
15 Pages

11 November 2019

China’s regular energy statistics does not include the building sector, and data on building energy demand is included in other types of energy consumption in the Energy Balance Sheet (EBS). Therefore data on building energy demand is not colle...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Thermal Behaviour, Energy Efficiency in Buildings and Sustainable Construction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,751 Views
31 Pages

Statistical Analysis and Modeling for Optical Networks

  • Sudhir K. Routray,
  • Gokhan Sahin,
  • José R. Ferreira da Rocha and
  • Armando N. Pinto

Optical networks serve as the backbone of modern communication, requiring statistical analysis and modeling to optimize performance, reliability, and scalability. This review paper explores statistical methodologies for analyzing network characterist...

(This article belongs to the Section Optoelectronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
473 Views
19 Pages

Probability-Based Fatigue Life Prediction of Additively Manufactured GH4169 Components Based on Volume-Defect Weakest Link Theory

  • Lixin Li,
  • Jia Wang,
  • Lizhang Zhang,
  • Chengwei Fei and ,
  • Jiaqiang Li and
  • Bing Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The fatigue life of additively manufactured GH4169 components is strongly affected by internal defects, stress concentration, and life scatter, making reliable structural assessment difficult. In this study, a probability-based fatigue life predictio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Structural Strength, Life Reliability and Design Optimization of Aircraft Engines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,475 Views
26 Pages

23 January 2018

Decentralized clustering of modern information technology is widely adopted in various fields these years. One of the main reason is the features of high availability and the failure-tolerance which can prevent the entire system form broking down by...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor Intelligence Assisted by Data Analytics and Cognitive Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,543 Views
22 Pages

Retroelement-Linked H3K4me1 Histone Tags Uncover Regulatory Evolution Trends of Gene Enhancers and Feature Quickly Evolving Molecular Processes in Human Physiology

  • Daniil Nikitin,
  • Nikita Kolosov,
  • Anastasiia Murzina,
  • Karina Pats and ,
  • Anton Zamyatin,
  • Victor Tkachev,
  • Maxim Sorokin,
  • Philippe Kopylov and
  • Anton Buzdin
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

8 October 2019

Background: Retroelements (REs) are mobile genetic elements comprising ~40% of human DNA. They can reshape expression patterns of nearby genes by providing various regulatory sequences. The proportion of regulatory sequences held by REs can serve a m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evolution of Epigenetic Mechanisms and Signatures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,759 Views
21 Pages

2 April 2021

The analysis of the planning activities of industrial construction projects can help to evaluate some of the causes that have an impact on the variation of execution times and can also contribute to identifying those activities and components that ar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Contribution of the Project Management to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs))
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,875 Views
13 Pages

Time Series Irradiance Synthesizer for Optical GEO Satellite Downlinks in 5G Networks

  • Theodore T. Kapsis,
  • Nikolaos K. Lyras,
  • Charilaos I. Kourogiorgas and
  • Athanasios D. Panagopoulos

Next generation 5G networks generate a need for broadband, low latency and power efficient backhauling and data-relay services. In this paper, optical satellite communications links, as an integrated component of 5G networks, are studied. More specif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,021 Views
13 Pages

12 November 2025

In 5G cellular networks, end-to-end data transmission delay is a key metric for evaluating network performance. High-frequency signal fading and complex transmission links often lead to increased delays. Pinching-antenna optimizes signal propagation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
10,494 Views
9 Pages

Risk Analysis of Otitis Externa (Swimmer’s Ear) in Children Pool Swimmers: A Case Study from Greece

  • G. Pantazidou,
  • ME. Dimitrakopoulou,
  • C. Kotsalou,
  • J. Velissari and
  • A. Vantarakis

21 June 2022

Otitis is an ear inflammation characterized by an accumulation of polluted fluids in the ear, inflating the drum, causing ear pain, and draining the mucous membrane (pus) into the ear canal if the drum is perforated. Swimmer’s otitis, also know...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Healthy Recreational Waters: Sanitation and Safety Issues)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,959 Views
18 Pages

Drone Detection and Classification Using Physical-Layer Protocol Statistical Fingerprint

  • Louis Morge-Rollet,
  • Denis Le Jeune,
  • Frédéric Le Roy,
  • Charles Canaff and
  • Roland Gautier

5 September 2022

We propose a novel approach for drone detection and classification based on RF communication link analysis. Our approach analyses large signal record including several packets and can be decomposed of two successive steps: signal detection and drone...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Physical-Layer Security for Wireless Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,881 Views
13 Pages

19 December 2023

Various statistical distributions, such as Weibull, log-normal, and exponential functions, are frequently employed to interpret the dielectric breakdown (BD) strength data of insulating materials, including cross-linked polyethylene, low-density poly...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,858 Views
17 Pages

15 July 2024

The temporal and spatial variation in seasonal sea ice in Hudson Strait is examined using time series and spatial clustering analyses. For the period from 1971 to 2018, a time series of sea ice breakup and freeze-up dates and ice-free season length a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climate, Climate Change and the Arctic: Environment, Infrastructure, Health and Well-Being)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,729 Views
12 Pages

Association between Average Vitamin D Levels and COVID-19 Mortality in 19 European Countries—A Population-Based Study

  • Amar S. Ahmad,
  • Nirmin F. Juber,
  • Heba Al-Naseri,
  • Christian Heumann and ,
  • Raghib Ali and
  • Tim Oliver
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

17 November 2023

Early epidemic reports have linked low average 25(OH) vitamin D levels with increased COVID-19 mortality. However, there has been limited updated research on 25(OH) vitamin D and its impact on COVID-19 mortality. This study aimed to update the initia...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nutrition within and beyond Corona Virus)
  • Article
  • Open Access
374 Views
21 Pages

4 July 2026

Youth substance abuse represents a complex social and security problem which cannot be adequately captured solely through crime statistics. In the context of the Slovak Republic, there is a lack of systematic research linking healthcare data on intox...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Alcohol Use in Young People)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
658 Views
21 Pages

9 February 2026

This paper introduces weighted indices—link passing ratio adjusted by length, average link usage ratio weighted by frequency and length, and path overlap weighted by length and usage—to improve representative path extraction from large-sc...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,973 Views
25 Pages

21 May 2018

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between environmental performance (EP) and financial performance (FP) from the perspective of technical innovation in Chinese industrial sectors. We also consider industrial heterogeneity and take tempor...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
144 Citations
9,888 Views
17 Pages

Big Data Analytics and Structural Health Monitoring: A Statistical Pattern Recognition-Based Approach

  • Alireza Entezami,
  • Hassan Sarmadi,
  • Behshid Behkamal and
  • Stefano Mariani

19 April 2020

Recent advances in sensor technologies and data acquisition systems opened up the era of big data in the field of structural health monitoring (SHM). Data-driven methods based on statistical pattern recognition provide outstanding opportunities to im...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors, Big Data Analytics and Modeling for Infrastructure Monitoring and Maintenance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,127 Views
14 Pages

This study explored how Korean students’ happiness impacts depression during their transition from middle to high school, emphasizing teacher relationships as a mediator and peer and parental relationships as moderators. Utilizing data from 214...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
2,991 Views
21 Pages

26 May 2022

With the era of big data, the prediction and evaluation of geological mineral resources have gradually entered into a new stage from digital prospecting to intelligent prospecting. The theoretical method of big data mining can contribute to deep mine...

(This article belongs to the Section Mineral Exploration Methods and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,636 Views
23 Pages

3 July 2020

Rain attenuation can hinder the implementation of quantitative precipitation estimations using X-band weather radar. Numerous studies have been conducted on correcting the attenuation of radar reflectivity by utilizing a dual-polarimetric radar and a...

(This article belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,274 Views
13 Pages

14 February 2022

Modern consumers turn to foods marketed as ‘natural/organic’ in their pursuit of healthier options. However, research that links such claims made on pack with improved nutritional composition is limited. The current analysis used data fro...

(This article belongs to the Section Nutrition and Public Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
438 Views
28 Pages

Macrostructural Passing Networks Across Competitive Contexts: A Case Study of Manchester City

  • José Gama,
  • Gonçalo Dias,
  • Ana Chaves,
  • Manuel Santos and ,
  • Fernando Martins,
  • Micael S. Couceiro,
  • Ricardo Birrento,
  • Vasco Vaz and
  • Rui Mendes
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

6 October 2026

Although Social Network Analysis has become an established approach for investigating collective behaviour in football, research has predominantly focused on player-centred metrics, with comparatively limited attention given to the longitudinal evolu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data-Driven Sports Science: Advances and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
11,654 Views
28 Pages

27 February 2014

Some known results from statistical thermophysics as well as from hydrology are revisited from a different perspective trying: (a) to unify the notion of entropy in thermodynamic and statistical/stochastic approaches of complex hydrological systems a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy in Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,417 Views
28 Pages

Analyzing Particularities of Sensor Datasets for Supporting Data Understanding and Preparation

  • Francisco Javier Nieto,
  • Unai Aguilera and
  • Diego López-de-Ipiña

10 September 2021

Data scientists spend much time with data cleaning tasks, and this is especially important when dealing with data gathered from sensors, as finding failures is not unusual (there is an abundance of research on anomaly detection in sensor data). This...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,070 Views
22 Pages

Our exploratory research focuses on the possible relations between tourism and the mobility of people, using short longitudinal data for mobility dimensions during the COVID-19 pandemic. One of these is real-time, exhaustive type data, published by G...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Applications of Emerging Digital Technologies in Economy and Society)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,454 Views
25 Pages

10 May 2019

Brain-inspired intelligence using the cognitive dynamic system (CDS) concept is proposed to control the quality-of-service (QoS) over a long-haul fiber-optic link that is nonlinear and with non-Gaussian channel noise. Digital techniques such as digit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Technologies and Applications for Smart Interactive Cyber-Physical Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,690 Views
14 Pages

Data Science Supporting Lean Production: Evidence from Manufacturing Companies

  • Rossella Pozzi,
  • Violetta Giada Cannas and
  • Tommaso Rossi

15 March 2024

Research in lean production has recently focused on linking lean production to Industry 4.0 by discussing the positive relationship between them. In the context of Industry 4.0, data science plays a fundamental role, and operations management researc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Lean Manufacturing in Industry 4.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
648 Views
13 Pages

Regional Calibration of a Statistical Rainfall Retrieval Method for Microwave Links Using Local Probability Distributions

  • Leqi Shen,
  • Tao Yang,
  • Yuanzhuo Zhong,
  • Lvfei Zhang and ,
  • Yvsong Zhang and
  • Jie Tu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

1 April 2026

Commercial Microwave Links (CMLs) have emerged as one of the most widely utilized opportunistic sensors for rainfall monitoring. However, rainfall retrieval using microwave links continues to face significant challenges in terms of accuracy, particul...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,733 Views
37 Pages

Providing long-term data about the evolution of railway networks in Europe may help us understand how European Union (EU) member states behave in the long-term, and how they can comply with present EU recommendations. This paper proposes a methodolog...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,956 Views
11 Pages

Farmer Perception of Links between Grassland Diversity and Animal Health in Relation to Farm Structure

  • Ambra Di Blasi,
  • Claire Manoli,
  • Charles Banliat,
  • Sylvain Plantureux and ,
  • Timothée Petit,
  • Sébastien Couvreur and
  • Audrey Michaud
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

13 December 2023

Grasslands cover a substantial share of land area in the world and in Europe, where they are used to feed herbivores and provide a range of ecosystem services. Grasslands also help in animal health maintenance by hosting a diversity of plant species...

(This article belongs to the Collection Sustainability in Agricultural Systems and Ecosystem Services)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,157 Views
15 Pages

An experimental investigation was conducted to evaluate the statistical properties and scintillation mitigation performance of multi-aperture free-space optical transmission under real-measured atmospheric turbulence. Continuous monitoring of turbule...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,717 Views
17 Pages

27 May 2022

Adaptive control of traffic engineering (TE) based on 5G network function virtualization (NFV) authorizes the efficient and dynamic network resource allocation, whose utilization is increasingly wide and will become more widespread. In this paper, we...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,233 Views
25 Pages

Data Typologies in Urban Housing Research: A Systematic Review of the Literature

  • Liton (Md) Kamruzzaman,
  • Sanaz Nikfalazar,
  • Fuad Yasin Huda,
  • Dharmalingam Arunachalam and
  • Dickson Lukose

23 May 2025

The increasing digitalisation of housing markets has expanded the types and sources of data available for research. However, there is limited understanding of how these diverse data types are used across different themes in urban housing studies and...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)

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