This paper investigates single-machine scheduling with a deteriorating maintenance activity, where the processing time of a job depends on whether it is handled before or after the maintenance activity. Under common and slack due date assignments, th...
Wireless sensor networks are used in many location-dependent applications. The location of sensor nodes is commonly carried out in a distributed way for energy saving and network robustness, where the handling of these characteristics is still a grea...
Olive groves in the Mediterranean may lose production sustainability because of their vulnerability to climatic change. Irrigation is an important measure that could significantly affect fruit yield, olive fruit fly infestation, and oil characteristi...
China’s rapid urbanization has intensified its intra-urban differentiation, with housing prices increasingly reflecting the uneven distribution of public resources and development opportunities. Taking Nanchang as a case study, this study exami...
Three-dimensional convolutional neural networks (3D CNNs) have been widely applied to analyze Alzheimer’s disease (AD) brain images for a better understanding of the disease progress or predicting the conversion from cognitively impaired (CU) o...
Automated fruit identification is always challenging due to its complex nature. Usually, the fruit types and sub-types are location-dependent; thus, manual fruit categorization is also still a challenging problem. Literature showcases several recent...
In neuroimaging, there is no equivalent alternative to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). However, image acquisitions are generally time-consuming, which may limit utilization in some cases, e.g., in patients who cannot remain motionless for long or s...
In order to ensure the safety of spacecrafts in orbit, impact location is an important part of structural health monitoring systems. In this paper, an impact location algorithm based on posterior probability correlation is proposed to solve the probl...
Background/Objectives: Osteoarthritis is a feature of the aging process. Here, we adopted in silico 2D finite element modeling (FEM) for the simulation of diseased ankle joints. We delved into the influence of body weight intensity on the stress dist...
This research presents the analysis of using different weighting functions for the GPS and Galileo observations in Precise Point Positioning (PPP) performance for globally located stations for one week in 2021. Eight different weighting functions of...
With the rise in the Internet of Things (IOT), mobile devices and Location-Based Social Network (LBSN), abundant trajectory data have made research on location prediction more popular. The check-in data shared through LBSN hide information related to...
In this study, a novel feature learning method for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image automatic target recognition is presented. It is based on spatial pyramid matching (SPM), which represents an image by concatenating the pooling feature vectors t...
Under just-in-time production, this paper studies a single machine common due-window (denoted by CONW) assignment scheduling problem with position-dependent weights and resource allocations. A job’s actual processing time can be determined by t...
The graph centroids defined through a topological property of a graph called g-convexity found its application in various fields. They have classified under the “facility location” problem. However, the g-centroid location for an arbitrar...
Traditional single-ended traveling wave fault location is sensitive to velocity uncertainty, complex topologies, and variations in the equivalent impedance of converter stations. This paper proposes a fault distance calibration method based on the fu...
A change point is a location or time at which observations or data obey two different models: before and after. In real problems, we may know some prior information about the location of the change point, say at the right or left tail of the sequence...
Sowing density and row spacing of barley affect the crop efficiency, resource use and final yield, with different genotypes likely to respond differently to this agrotechnical factor. The effect of sowing density on the barley yield, as shaped by str...
In this paper, the single-machine scheduling problems under the common and slack due date assignments are studied, where the actual processing time of the job needs to consider some factors, such as convex resource allocation, maintenance activity, a...
To increase the accuracy of photovoltaic (PV) power prediction, meteorological data measured at a plant’s target location are widely used. If observation data are missing, public data such as automated synoptic observing systems (ASOS) and auto...
The starting point to understanding cluster properties is the putative global minimum and all the nearby local energy minima; however, locating them is computationally expensive and difficult. The relative populations and spectroscopic properties tha...
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Mercury (Hg) analyses in species of fish are performed for two reasons: (1) to safeguard human health; and (2) to assess environmental quality, since different environmental changes may increase the Hg concentrations in fish. These analyses are impor...
The influence of riverine physicochemical factors on the overall physiological status and growth of river biofilms was established in a field-data-based model. Two sampling stations were located in the intermediate and downstream watershed areas of t...
Fucoidan, the complex fucose-containing sulphated polysaccharide varies considerably in structure, composition, and bioactivity, depending on the source, species, seasonality, and extraction method. In this study, we examined five fucoidans extracted...
For the correct execution of the preliminary design of a transport ship, among other things, approximate formulas enabling the calculation of the weight of the unladen ship and the location of the center of gravity are necessary. The aim of the condu...
DLK1 is a paternally expressed gene encoding a transmembrane protein belonging to the Delta-Notch signaling family, increasingly recognized for its role in fetal growth regulation. This study explores the relationship between DLK1 genetic variants (S...
Environmental conditions during olive fruit development and genotype have shown to be important sources of variability in final fruit weight and oil concentration. There are fewer studies concerning how the environment and genotype modulate growth dy...
The determination of bunch features that are relevant for bunch weight estimation is an important step in automatic vineyard yield estimation using image analysis. The conversion of 2D image features into mass can be highly dependent on grapevine cul...
Most traditional artificial intelligence-based fault location methods are very dependent on fault signal selection and feature extraction, which is often based on prior knowledge. Further, these methods are usually very sensitive to line parameters a...
Dual-mode non-invasive brain stimulation using repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation and transcranial direct current stimulation is known to help neurorehabilitation in patients with stroke. However, this neuromodulation effect may vary depend...
Thermal analyses (TGA and DSC) were used to determine the thermal properties of gliadins and glutenins extracted from a model wheat dough fortified with flavonoids and their glycosides. As flavonoids, quercetin; naringenin; hesperetin; and their glyc...
In practical problems, in addition to the processing time of the job, the impact of the time required for delivering the service to customers on the cost is also considered, i.e., delivery time, where the job processing time is a simple linear functi...
Under the circumstances of limited government funds, the future pollution remediation policies and practical implementation may need contemplation from the perspective of maximized efficacy, in order to pursue the most effective resource allocation....
We study the dynamics of information processing in the continuum depth limit of deep feed-forward Neural Networks (NN) and find that it can be described in language similar to the Renormalization Group (RG). The association of concepts to patterns by...
In the factory of the future, most of the operations will be done by autonomous robots that need visual feedback to move around the working space avoiding obstacles, to work collaboratively with humans, to identify and locate the working parts, to co...
The practical deployment of wireless positioning systems requires minimizing the calibration procedures while improving the location estimation accuracy. Received Signal Strength localization techniques using propagation channel models are the simple...
In recent years, the frequency of torrential rains has increased due to abnormal weather conditions. Torrential rains have caused extensive flooding damage in many areas. As delays in evacuation can pose a threat to life, a quick search for safe evac...
This study presents a novel risk-based decision support system for helping disaster risk management planners select the best locations for emergency shelters after an earthquake. The system starts by identifying 18 criteria, based on stakeholder anal...
In order to overcome the limitations of traditional stochastic models for smartphones, we introduce a double-difference code pseudorange residual (DDPR)-dependent stochastic model based on an optimal satellite subset, with the goal of mitigating the...
High-precision, real-time, and long-range target geo-location is crucial to UAV reconnaissance and target strikes. Traditional geo-location methods are highly dependent on the accuracies of GPS/INS and the target elevation, which restricts the target...
An approximate analytical model for the variation of A-weighted broadband sound levels with distance over flat acoustically soft ground from a source of known sound power depends on the reduction in low frequency content in noise spectra due to A-wei...
Aggregation methods in group decision-making refer to techniques used to combine the individual preferences, opinions, or judgments of group members into a collective decision. Each aggregation method has its advantages and disadvantages, and the bes...
This manuscript analyzes an inter-parish housing rents gradient with respect to surrounding parishes. Using data on housing rents for 4049 Portuguese parishes in 278 municipalities, the paper explores the spatial patterns of housing rents using the g...
Asparagus roots are by-products from asparagus cultivation and they could be considered one of the best sources of fructans. These polymers are interesting food ingredients for their prebiotic and immuno-stimulating characteristics. The aim of this w...
Small heat shock proteins (sHsps) are present in all domains of life. These proteins are responsible for binding unfolded proteins to prevent their aggregation. sHsps form dynamic oligomers of different sizes and constitute transient reservoirs for f...
With the increasing interest in wireless communications from solar-powered aircraft-based high altitude platforms (HAPs), it is imperative to assess the feasibility of their deployment in different locations with the constraints on energy consumption...
Apart from wind potential, there are many other spatial factors which impact the possible implementation of wind farm projects. The spatial advantages and limitations of these factors can be used as criteria for selecting the most suitable location f...
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This study explored the spatial pattern of heavy metals in Beijing agricultural soils using Moran’s I statistic of spatial autocorrelation. The global Moran’s I result showed that the spatial dependence of Cr, Ni, Zn, and Hg changed with different sp...
This work investigated the isothermal holding time dependence of the densification, microstructure, weight loss, and tensile properties of Fe-Mn-Si powder compacts. Elemental Fe, Mn, and Si powder mixtures with a nominal composition of Fe-28Mn-3Si (i...
Sea cucumbers are considered a luxury food item and used locally in traditional medication due to their impressive nutritional profile and curative effects. Sea cucumbers contain a wide range of bioactive compounds, namely phenolics, polysaccharides,...
The goal of this systematic review was to examine existing evidence on the effectiveness of early, progressive weight bearing on patients after traumatic lower extremity fractures and relate these findings to device/implant choice. A search of the li...
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