Urban land-use information is important for urban land-resource planning and management. However, current methods using traditional surveys cannot meet the demand for the rapid development of urban land management. There is an urgent need to develop...
Atherosclerosis is the underlying pathology in a major part of cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of mortality in developed countries. The infiltration of monocytes into the vessel walls of large arteries is a key denominator of atherogenesis,...
Land use and cover change (LUCC) is a key factor influencing global environmental and socioeconomic systems. Many long-term geospatial LUCC datasets have been developed at various scales during the recent decades owing to the availability of long-ter...
Humans are exposed to thousands of chemicals, including environmental chemicals. Unfortunately, little is known about their potential toxicity, as determining the toxicity remains challenging due to the substantial resources required to assess a chem...
Soil moisture (SM) is crucial for sustainable applications in agriculture, meteorology, and hydrology. While direct measurement provides superior accuracy, it is unfeasible when applied over extensive geographical areas because of its costly and time...
Concrete is the most widely used material in construction. It has the characteristics of strong plasticity, good economy, high safety, and good durability. As a kind of structural material, concrete must have sufficient strength to resist various loa...
We are delighted to introduce this Special Issue focused on novel machine-learning (ML) methods aimed at predicting, modeling, and controlling a variety of complex fluid flow scenarios [...]
Genomic selection (GS) is revolutionizing plant breeding. However, because it is a predictive methodology, a basic understanding of statistical machine-learning methods is necessary for its successful implementation. This methodology uses a reference...
The terminal settling velocity of microplastics plays a vital role in the physical behavior of microplastics, and is related to the migration and fate of these microplastics in the ocean. At present, the terminal settling velocity is mostly calculate...
Experimental and computational data and field data obtained from measurements are often sparse and noisy. Consequently, interpolating unknown functions under these restrictions to provide accurate predictions is very challenging. This study compares...
In this article, we consider the correction of metric matrices in quasi-Newton methods (QNM) from the perspective of machine learning theory. Based on training information for estimating the matrix of the second derivatives of a function, we formulat...
Oil and gas development is characterized by high technical complexity, strong interdisciplinarity, long investment cycles, and significant uncertainty. To meet the need for quick evaluation of overseas oilfield projects with limited data and experien...
Machine learning and artificial intelligence have achieved a human-level performance in many application domains, including image classification, speech recognition and machine translation. However, in the financial domain expert-based credit risk mo...
Modern technology frequently uses wearable sensors to monitor many aspects of human behavior. Since continuous records of heart rate and activity levels are typically gathered, the data generated by these devices have a lot of promise beyond counting...
Federated learning is an emerging technology that enables the decentralised training of machine learning-based methods for medical image analysis across multiple sites while ensuring privacy. This review paper thoroughly examines federated learning r...
The emergence of deep-learning methods in different computer vision tasks has proved to offer increased detection, recognition or segmentation accuracy when large annotated image datasets are available. In the case of medical image processing and com...
In the current design work, turbine performance requirements are getting higher and higher, and turbine blade design needs multiple rounds of iterative optimization. Three-dimensional turbine optimization involves multiple parameters, and 3D simulati...
Machine learning (soft) methods have a wide range of applications in many disciplines, including hydrology. The first application of these methods in hydrology started in the 1990s and have since been extensively employed. Flood hydrograph prediction...
The aim of the work is to investigate the effectiveness of selected classification algorithms and their extensions in assessing microstructure of castings. Experiments were carried out in which the prepared algorithms and machine learning methods wer...
Composite structures are generally more susceptible to impact damage than non-composite structures, and early identification of damage is the primary goal of structural health monitoring (SHM). If such damage remains undetected or reaches a critical...
The problem of predicting profitability is exceptionally relevant for investors and company owners. This paper examines the factors affecting firm performance and tests and compares various methods based on linear and non-linear dependencies between...
This paper presents an analysis of modern methods used to determine antioxidant activity. According to research by the World Health Organization, the deficiency of such important nutrients as antioxidants leads to a decrease in body resistance and th...
Time-domain numerical simulation is generally considered an accurate method to predict the mooring system performance, but it is also time and resource-consuming. This paper attempts to completely replace the time-domain numerical simulation with mac...
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is becoming increasingly prevalent across the globe, and various diagnostic and detection methods have been developed in recent years. Several techniques are available, including Automatic Pipeline Methods and Machine L...
Machine learning is used to develop predictive models to diagnose different diseases, particularly kidney transplant survival prediction. The paper used the collected dataset of patients’ individual parameters to predict the critical risk factors ass...
Pumping tests are very important means for investigating aquifer properties; however, interpreting the data using common analytical solutions become invalid in complex aquifer systems. The paper aims to explore the potential of machine learning metho...
Thrombosis is one of the most frequent complications of cancer, with a potential impact on morbidity and mortality, particularly those with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Therefore, effective thrombosis prevention is a crucial aspect of cancer managem...
The objective of this study is to propose a model that can predict the seismic performance of slope relatively accurately and efficiently by using machine learning methods. Probabilistic seismic fragility analyses of the slope had been carried out in...
This systematic review explores modern optimization methods for machine learning, distinguishing between gradient-based techniques using derivative information and population-based approaches employing stochastic search. Key innovations focus on enha...
Vector autoregressions (VARs) and their multiple variants are standard models in economic and financial research due to their power for forecasting, data analysis and inference. These properties are a consequence of their capabilities to include mult...
Terrestrial laser scanners (TLSs) are a standard method for 3D point cloud acquisition due to their high data rates and resolutions. In certain applications, such as deformation analysis, modelling uncertainties in the 3D point cloud is crucial. This...
The accurate diagnosis of keratoconus, especially in its early stages of development, allows one to utilise timely and proper treatment strategies for slowing the progression of the disease and provide visual rehabilitation. Various keratometry indic...
Interest in statistical analysis of remote sensing data to produce measurements of environment, agriculture, and sustainable development is established and continues to increase, and this is leading to a growing interaction between the earth science...
Feasible and reliable predictions of separated turbulent flows are a requirement to successfully address the majority of aerospace and wind energy problems. Existing computational approaches such as large eddy simulation (LES) or Reynolds-averaged Na...
Cultural landscapes are regarded to be complex socioecological systems that originated as a result of the interaction between humanity and nature across time. Cultural landscapes present complex-system properties, including nonlinear dynamics among t...
Neuropeptides (NPs) are a diverse group of signaling molecules involved in regulating key physiological processes such as pain perception, stress response, mood, appetite, and circadian rhythms. Acting as neurotransmitters, neuromodulators, or neuroh...
This research presents the epileptic focus region localization during epileptic seizures by applying different signal processing and ensemble machine learning techniques in intracranial recordings of electroencephalogram (EEG). Multi-scale Principal...
The work represents a successful attempt to combine a gas sensors array with instrumentation (hardware), and machine learning methods as the basis for creating numerical codes (software), together constituting an electronic nose, to correct the class...
Advancement of novel electromagnetic inference (EMI) materials is essential in various industries. The purpose of this study is to present a state-of-the-art review on the methods used in the formation of graphene-, metal- and polymer-based composite...
In this study, a non-labeled sensor system for direct determining human glycated albumin levels for medical application is proposed. Using machine learning methods applied to surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectra of human glycated albumin...
Exposure of humans to high concentrations of PM2.5 has adverse effects on their health. Researchers estimate that exposure to particulate matter from fossil fuel emissions accounted for 18% of deaths in 2018—a challenge policymakers argue is be...
Satellite-derived estimates of downward surface shortwave radiation (SSR) and photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) are a part of the surface radiation budget, an essential climate variable (ECV) required by climate and vegetation models. Ground...
Natural gas has been proposed as a solution to increase the security of energy supply and reduce environmental pollution around the world. Being able to forecast natural gas price benefits various stakeholders and has become a very valuable tool for...
In recent years, machine learning approaches, in particular graph learning methods, have achieved great results in the field of natural language processing, in particular text classification tasks. However, many of such models have shown limited gene...
The optimum design of tall buildings, which have a proportionately huge quantity of structural elements and a variety of design code constraints, is a very computationally expensive process. In this paper, a novel strategy, with a combination of evol...
An emerging prognostic and health management (PHM) technology has recently attracted a great deal of attention from academies, industries, and governments. The need for higher equipment availability and lower maintenance cost is driving the developme...
Conotoxins are disulfide-rich small peptides, which are invaluable peptides that target ion channel and neuronal receptors. Conotoxins have been demonstrated as potent pharmaceuticals in the treatment of a series of diseases, such as Alzheimer’s dise...
A recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) can reduce water and land requirements for intensive aquaculture production. However, a traditional RAS uses a fixed circulation flow rate for water treatment. In general, the water in an RAS is highly turbid...
Oil production from tight oil reservoirs has become economically feasible because of the combination of horizontal drilling and multistage hydraulic fracturing. Optimal fracture design plays a critical role in successful economical production from a...
Background: Health disparities research increasingly relies on complex survey data to understand survival differences between population subgroups. While Peters–Belson decomposition provides a principled framework for distinguishing disparities...
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