Model-based analyses have become an integral part of modern metabolic engineering and systems biology in order to gain knowledge about complex and not directly observable cellular processes. For quantitative analyses, not only experimental data, but...
Metalenses, as a new type of planar optical device with flexible design, play an important role in miniaturized and integrated optical devices. Propagation phase-based metalenses, known for their low loss and extensive design flexibility, are widely...
Assessments of coronary artery disease can be achieved using non-invasive computed tomography coronary angiography (CTCA). CTCA can be further used for the 3D reconstruction of the coronary arteries and the development of computational models. Howeve...
We compare several different methods to quantify the uncertainty of binding parameters estimated from isothermal titration calorimetry data: the asymptotic standard error from maximum likelihood estimation, error propagation based on a first-order Ta...
For the assembly of a multi-stage rotor, such as an aero-engine or gas turbine, the parts need to be assembled optimally to avoid excessive unbalance. We propose a method to optimize the unbalance of a multi-stage rotor during assembly. First, we dev...
The assembly quality of a complex product is the result of the combined effects of multiple manufacturing stages, including design, machining and assembly, and it is influenced by associated elements with complex coupling mechanisms. These elements g...
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The accurate prediction of hazardous gas dispersion process is essential to air quality monitoring and the emergency management of contaminant gas leakage incidents in a chemical cluster. Conventional Gaussian-based dispersion models can seldom give...
During process development, bioprocess data need to be converted into applicable knowledge. Therefore, it is crucial to evaluate the obtained data under the usage of transparent and reliable data reduction and correlation techniques. Within this cont...
Ultra-wide-band (UWB) positioning is a satisfying indoor positioning technology with high accuracy, low transmission cost, high speed, and strong penetration capacity. However, there remains a lack of systematic study on inevitable and stochastic err...
A high-speed, high-depth pre-interleaver in the proposed symbol pre-interleaving Bit MUX (PBM) was implemented to mitigate decision feedback equalizer (DFE) error propagation in a 400 G Ethernet Serializer–Deserializer (SerDes) interface. Based...
Compared to traditional power grids, microgrids have a more flexible operating mode. There are various distributed power sources within the microgrid, and different types of distributed power sources have different control methods. Once a short-circu...
In transmitting video data securely over Video Sensor Networks (VSNs), since mobile handheld devices have limited resources in terms of processor clock speed and battery size, it is necessary to develop an efficient method to encrypt video data to me...
Remotely sensed reflectance spectra may be biased by several intervening factors, and the biases are propagated into estimations of the fraction of vegetation cover (FVC) by algorithms based on a linear mixture model (LMM). The errors propagated in F...
To achieve dynamic error compensation in CNC machine tools, a non-contactlaser probe capable of dimensional measurement of a workpiece while it is being machinedhas been developed and presented in this paper. The measurements are automatically fedbac...
This study comprehensively evaluates eight satellite-based precipitation datasets in streamflow simulations on a monsoon-climate watershed in China. Two mutually independent datasets—one dense-gauge and one gauge-interpolated dataset—are...
Hermite–Gaussian (HG) beams have significant potential to improve the capacity of free-space optical communication (FSOC). The influence of pointing error on the propagation characteristics of an HG beam cannot be ignored in the FSOC system. Al...
This study presents a comprehensive geometric modeling and error propagation analysis for a 3-degrees-of-freedom spindle head, focusing on an over-constrained parallel mechanism. Four geometric error models are established for the over-constrained sp...
In addition to the traditional Quality of Service (QoS) metrics of latency, jitter and Packet Loss Ratio (PLR), Quality of Experience (QoE) is now widely accepted as a numerical proxy for the actual user experience. The literature has reported many m...
The authors have developed a scaling approach to aggregate tree sap flux with reduced error propagation in modeled estimates of actual transpiration () of three boreal species. The approach covers three scales: tree point, single tree trunk, and plot...
Error propagation properties of integration algorithms are crucial in conducting pseudodynamic tests. The motivation of this study is to investigate the error propagation properties of a new family of model-based integration algorithm for pseudodynam...
Weighted belief propagation (WBP) for the decoding of linear block codes is considered. In WBP, the Tanner graph of the code is unrolled with respect to the iterations of the belief propagation decoder. Then, weights are assigned to the edges of the...
Reducing the lag in the accuracy assessment of multi-temporal land-cover products has been a hot research topic. By identifying the changed strata, the annual accuracy in multi-temporal products can be quickly evaluated. However, there are still two...
The inverse problem of structural system identification is prone to ill-conditioning issues; thus, uniqueness and stability cannot be guaranteed. This issue tends to amplify the error propagation of both the epistemic and aleatory uncertainties, wher...
This study investigated the propagation of errors in input satellite-based precipitation products (SPPs) on streamflow and water quality indicators simulated by a hydrological model in the Occoquan Watershed, located in the suburban Washington, D.C....
This paper proposes a reversible data hiding technique based on the residual histogram shifting technique. To improve the hiding capacity, this study proposes a multiple-round hierarchical prediction mechanism that generates the prediction errors of...
Attitude error models play an important role in analyzing the characteristics of navigation error propagation for the design and operation of strapdown inertial navigation systems (SINS). However, the majority of existing attitude error models focus...
Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications is an emerging branch of wireless communications and has recently gained a lot of interest not only from academia but also from the automotive and telecommunications industry. An important feature of V2X tel...
One of the remarkable challenges about Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is how to transfer the collected data efficiently due to energy limitation of sensor nodes. Network coding will increase network throughput of WSN dramatically due to the broadcast...
The paper presents considerations concerning the transfer of random errors from the input to the output of the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) algorithm. The concept of determining an uncertainty of its output data based on the probabilistic error d...
Snow can cover over 50% of the landmass in the Northern Hemisphere and has been labelled as an Essential Climate Variable by the World Meteorological Organisation. Currently, continental and global snow cover extent is primarily monitored by optical...
The uncertainty in a climate data records (CDRs) derived from Earth observations in part derives from the propagated uncertainty in the radiance record (the fundamental climate data record, FCDR) from which the geophysical estimates in the CDR are de...
Knowledge of the propagation of sensor errors in strapdown inertial navigation is crucial for the design of inertial and integrated navigation systems. The propagation of initialization errors and deterministic sensor errors is well covered in the li...
The sources of uncertainty in wall-to-wall AGB maps propagate from the tree to pixel, but uncertainty due to forest cover mapping is rarely incorporated into the error propagation process. This study aimed to (1) elaborate an analytical procedure to...
This paper conducts a focused probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) on the reliability of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) drones deployed for surveillance in areas with diverse radiation levels following a nuclear accident. The study employs the event...
In this paper, a new reference picture selection (RPS) is proposed for a high efficiency video coding (HEVC) framework. In recent studies, HEVC has been shown to be sensitive to packet error which is unavoidable in transmission applications especiall...
Compensating for the effects of temperature is a crucial issue in structural health monitoring when using optical fiber sensors. This study focused on the change in sensitivity due to differences in GeO2 and B2O3 doping and then verified the accuracy...
Spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has been treated as a weather independent system for a long time. However, with the development of advanced SAR configurations, e.g., high resolution, bistatic, geosynchronous (GEO), the influence of troposph...
Transient pulses generated by high-energy particles can cause soft errors in circuits, resulting in spacecraft malfunctions and posing serious threats to the normal operation of spacecraft. For integrated circuits used in space applications, it is ne...
Accurate and robust on-board orbit determination is essential for enabling autonomous spacecraft operations, particularly in scenarios where ground control is limited or unavailable. This paper presents a novel method for achieving robust on-board or...
The ability to measure diameter, tree height, and tree volume is of great value in forestry investigations. These three factors are not considered together when error analyses of measurement results are conducted. The aim of this study was to quantif...
The biomass market has experienced an increase in development, leading to research and development efforts that are focused on determining optimal biofuel combustion conditions. Biomass combustion is a complex process that involves divergent paramete...
Task-oriented dialogue systems depend on dialogue state tracking to keep track of the intentions of users in the course of conversations. Although recent models in dialogue state tracking exhibit good performance, the errors in predicting the value o...
Accurate measurement uncertainty quantification and its propagation are critical for dimensional compliance in precision manufacturing. This study presents a novel framework that examines the evolution of measurement error along the axial length of C...
This paper focuses on the calibration of multispectral sensors typically used for remote sensing. These systems are often provided with "factory" radiometric calibration and vignette correction parameters. These parameters, which are assumed to be ac...
Brushstroke segmentation algorithms are critical in computer-based analysis of fine motor control via handwriting, drawing, or tracing tasks. Current segmentation approaches typically rely only on one type of feature, either spatial, temporal, kinema...
The rapid advancement of millimeter-wave communication technology has presented new challenges for time synchronization, driven by the need for high-speed and low-latency data transmission. Ethernet synchronization technologies, such as Precise Time...
Due to the design principle of parallel processing, belief propagation (BP) decoding is attractive, and it provides good error-correction performance compared with successive cancellation (SC) decoding. However, its error-correction performance is st...
Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are nowadays applied as the most efficient methods in the majority of machine learning approaches, including data-driven modeling for assessment of the toxicity of chemicals. We developed a combined neural network me...
To use the short iterative Lanczos algorithm to solve the time-dependent Schroedinger equation, one must choose, for a given Lanczos space size, a time step. We compare the derivation of the well-known Lubich and Hochbruck time step from SIAM J. Nume...
In this paper we present a study of the repeatability of an innovative electromagnetic tracking system (EMTS) for surgical navigation, developed to overcome the state of the art of current commercial systems, allowing for the placement of the magneti...
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