Industrial sectors account for around 70% of the total energy-related CO2 emissions in China. It is of great importance to measure the potential for CO2 emissions reduction and calculate the carbon price in industrial sectors covered in the Emissions...
Background: The treatment of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with reduced respiratory function represents a challenge for thoracic surgeons. Minimally invasive surgery seems to be beneficial for these patients because it reduces tissue tr...
Face recognition has achieved great success due to the development of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) and loss functions based on margin. However, complex DCNNs bring a large number of parameters as well as computational effort, which pose...
Concerns about a global decline in pollinators have called for more knowledge about the drivers of wild pollinator abundance and diversity in agroecosystems. Maintaining flowering plants in agricultural field margins is often recommended as a cost-ef...
The high penetration of renewable sources of energy in electrical power systems implies an increase in the uncertainty variables of the economic dispatch (ED). Uncertainty costs are a metric to quantify the variability introduced from renewable energ...
Pairs trading under the copula approach is revisited in this paper. It is well known that financial returns arising from indices in markets may not follow the features of normal distribution and may exhibit asymmetry or fatter tails, in particular. D...
Transmission towers are a vital lifeline for modern living and are crucial structures that must remain operational even after a seismic event. However, the towers are largely designed to withstand the effects of wind alone and not earthquakes, and th...
Consumer-to-shop clothes retrieval refers to the problem of matching photos taken by customers with their counterparts in the shop. Due to some problems, such as a large number of clothing categories, different appearances of clothing items due to di...
In recent years, the topic of contactless biometric identification has gained considerable traction due to the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the most well-known identification technologies is iris recognition. Determining the classification threshold for...
This paper proposes a new solution to multi-target joint detection, tracking and classification based on labeled random finite set (RFS) and belief function theory. A class dependent multi-model marginal generalized labeled multi-Bernoulli (MGLMB) fi...
This paper deals with an optimal control problem for a nonlocal model of the steady-state flow of a differential type fluid of complexity 2 with variable viscosity. We assume that the fluid occupies a bounded three-dimensional (or two-dimensional) do...
The Pareto–Feller distribution has been widely used across various disciplines to model “heavy-tailed” phenomena, where extreme events such as high incomes or large losses are of interest. In this paper, we present a new bivariate d...
The phenomenon of peri-implant bone corticalization after functional loading does not yet have a definite clinical significance and impact on prognosis. An attempt was made to assess the clinical significance of this phenomenon. This prospective stud...
Accurate measurement of the shadow price of carbon dioxide (CO2) is fundamental to the scientific assessment of the carbon emission reduction cost and the formulation and execution of China’s carbon emission mitigation policies. Underpinned by...
In this work, we aimed to test whether taxonomic diversity and functional diversity and the values of functional traits of the weed seed bank varied across the field, from margins to the core, and between fields embedded in distinct landscape structu...
This work reports marginal damage costs to façades due to air pollution exposure estimated “bottom up,” for Norway and Oslo (Norway) by the use of exposure response functions (ERFs) and impact pathway analysis from the emission to the deteriorating i...
The classical exponential model, despite its flexibility, fails to describe data with non-constant failure or between-event dependency. To overcome this limitation, two new bivariate lifetime distributions are introduced in this paper. The Farlie&nda...
In this paper, we investigate the class of quasi-homogeneous production models, obtaining the classification of such models with constant elasticity with respect to an input as well as with respect to all inputs. Moreover, we prove that a quasi-homog...
Background: The maintenance of marginal bone levels around dental implants is an important criterion for evaluating the success of implants. Although computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) customized abutments (CAs) provide more...
A basic tenet of linear invariant systems is that they are sufficiently described by either the impulse response function or the frequency transfer function. This implies that we can always obtain one from the other. However, when the transfer functi...
The primary frequency response scale is deteriorating in the modern power system due to the high penetration of different power devices. Frequency security assessments are essential for the operation or stability-checking of the power system. Firstly...
As train loads and travel speeds have increased over time, railway axle bearings have become critical elements which require more efficient non-destructive inspection and fault diagnostics methods. This paper presents a novel and adaptive procedure b...
We study an optimal control problem for the mathematical model that describes steady non-isothermal creeping flows of an incompressible fluid through a locally Lipschitz bounded domain. The control parameters are the pressure and the temperature on t...
A joint distribution of significant wave heights (Hs) and peak wave periods (Tp) in the northwestern South China Sea is created using a conditional distribution model in this work. An unstructured triangular mesh wave model covering the northwestern...
We have reported excess B-cell activating factor (BAFF) in the blood of HIV-infected progressors, which was concomitant with increased frequencies of precursor-like marginal zone (MZp) B-cells, early on and despite antiretroviral therapy (ART). In co...
The Remedial Action Scheme (RAS) is designed to take corrective actions after detecting predetermined conditions to maintain system transient stability in large interconnected power grids. However, since RAS is usually designed based on a few selecte...
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Existing research demonstrates that the effect of remittances on different health outcomes of elderly adults in low-income countries with inadequate social security is inconclusive. The present study set out to fill this gap by examining the effects...
Understanding the extent of pesticide overuse and what drives rice farmers to overuse pesticide in agricultural production theoretically and empirically is imperative to increase farmers’ income, promote agricultural transformation and agricultural s...
Accounts of phonological contrast traditionally invoke a binary distinction between unpredictable lexically stored phonemes and contextually predictable allophones, whose patterning reveals speakers’ knowledge about their native language. This...
Multivariate space–time datasets are often collected at discrete, regularly monitored time intervals and are typically treated as components of time series in environmental science and other applied fields. To effectively characterize such data...
We study an optimal control problem for the stationary Stokes equations with variable density and viscosity in a 2D bounded domain under mixed boundary conditions. On in-flow and out-flow parts of the boundary, nonhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary condi...
This paper investigated the determinants, especially labor transformation, and differences of technical efficiency between main and non-main grain-producing area in China based on a panel data from 30 provinces in the period of 2001–2017. Stoch...
A major objective of the optimization of water resources allocation is to ensure the supply an adequate amount of water to users at the right time and maximize the utilization of water resources. However, in case of insufficient water supply, water s...
The bivariate probability distribution of significant wave heights and mean wave periods has an indispensable guiding role in the implementation of offshore engineering, which has attracted great attention. This work gives a new bivariate method to d...
The 2-tuple linguistic information model (2TLIM) is a useful tool to avoid the loss of information, which has been widely adapted in the study of the multiple attribute decision making (MADM) problem. However, there is a limitation, the limitation is...
Several measures describing the transformation of trabecular bone to cortical bone on the basis of analysis of intraoral radiographs are known (including bone index or corticalization index, CI). At the same time, it has been noted that after functio...
Marginal spectrum (MS) feature information of humpback whale vocalization (HWV) signals is an interesting and significant research topic. Empirical mode decomposition (EMD) is a powerful time–frequency analysis tool for marine mammal vocalizati...
The purpose of this article is to solve the problem of determining the cost of a water resource for the participants of the water-economic complex (WEC) on the basis of the optimal control of hydro power plants’ (HPP) functioning, taking into a...
Finger vein recognition algorithms based on deep learning techniques are widely used in many fields. However, the training of finger vein recognition models is hindered by privacy issues and the scarcity of public datasets. Although applying federate...
The purpose of this paper is to provide empirical evidence for policy-makers of water management, evaluate the applicability of economic variables such as price and other factors that affect demand, and determine the impact thereof on decision-making...
China’s nationwide emission trading scheme (CN-ETS) is scheduled to be launched in 2017. It is of great urgency and necessity to obtain a good understanding of the participating sectors of CN-ETS in terms of energy utilization and CO2 emissions. In t...
Thirty industrial heat (IH) providers in Korea have better energy efficiency and emit lower air pollutants than individual companies that produce and consume heat for their industrial production. Because these providers collect waste heat from garbag...
With the continuous advancement of autonomous driving and monitoring technologies, there is increasing attention on non-intrusive target monitoring and recognition. This paper proposes an ArcFace SE-attention model-agnostic meta-learning approach (AS...
China’s water rights transaction is still in the initial stage of development. There is no systematic pricing method for water rights transactions between farmers. This paper puts forward a pricing model of water rights transactions among farmers in...
Objectives: Family functioning (FF), physical activity (PA), and high-fat food consumption (HF) are associated with adolescents being overweight and obese; however, little is known about their interactions. Therefore, this study aimed to examine how...
The forestry carbon offset policy has been implemented for a short time, and in order to study its optimization mechanism and pressure-sharing emission reduction effect, this paper applies the directional distance function to calculate the marginal a...
In this article, we examine a class of partially linear additive models (PLAM) defined via a measurable mapping Ψ:Rq→R. More precisely, we consider Ψ(Yi):=Yi=Zi⊤β+∑l=1dml(Xl,i)+εi,i=1,…,n, where Zi=(Zi,1,&he...
Introduction: Intraoperative ultrasound (IOUS) is increasingly utilized in nephron-sparing surgery for its ability to provide real-time, high-resolution imaging that enhances tumor localization and resection accuracy. Its role becomes particularly im...
We established a web-based ubiquitous health management (UHM) system, “ECG4UHM”, for processing ECG signals with AI-enabled models to recognize hybrid arrhythmia patterns, including atrial premature atrial complex (APC), atrial fibrillati...
With the worldwide spread of emissions trading schemes (ETSs) and the need for international cooperation on climate change, there is growing interest in linking ETSs. Along with sustainable development, preventing and controlling pollution, is now re...
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