In this paper we present a stochastic route choice model for transit networks that explicitly addresses route correlation due to overlapping alternatives. The model is based on a multi-objective mathematical programming problem, the optimality condit...
The Onion Router (Tor), as the most widely used anonymous network, is vulnerable to traffic correlation attacks by powerful passive adversaries, such as Autonomous Systems (AS). AS-level adversaries increase their chances of executing correlation att...
In low-duty-cycle wireless networks with unreliable and correlated links, Opportunistic Routing (OR) is extremely costly because of the unaligned working schedules of nodes within a common candidate forwarder set. In this work, we propose a novel pol...
Decoding semantic concepts for imagination and perception tasks (SCIP) is important for rehabilitation medicine as well as cognitive neuroscience. Electroencephalogram (EEG) is commonly used in the relevant fields, because it is a low-cost noninvasiv...
Amid the growing emphasis on the environmental and health benefits of walking, enhanced network connectivity emerges as a significant determinant in promoting pedestrian activity, as proven by scholars statistically and theoretically. Recent academic...
Current tourism route recommendation systems often overemphasize popular destinations, thereby overlooking geographical accessibility between attractions and the experiential coherence of the journey. Leveraging multidimensional attribute perceptions...
In this 21st century, there has been an increase in the usage of renewable products for the economic drifting of vehicle transportations systems. Furthermore, due to recent trends in climate change, researchers have started focusing on statistical op...
Developing effective antibiotics against Gram-negative bacteria remains challenging due to their protective outer membrane. With this study, we investigated the relationship between antibiotic permeation through the OmpF porin of Escherichia coli and...
Silver selenide (Ag2Se) is a promising thermoelectric material for near-room-temperature applications, yet its scalable fabrication remains challenging due to limitations in conventional synthesis routes and the strong dependence of its properties on...
Studies on decision-making have classically focused exclusively on its cognitive component. Recent research has shown that a further essential component of decisional processes is the emotional one. Indeed, the emotional route in decision-making play...
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Long diagnostic delays (LDDs) may decrease the effectiveness of patient isolation in reducing subsequent transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This study aims to investigate the correlation between the proportion of LDD of COVID-19 pat...
UAVs will present significant air traffic in the urban airspace in the future, which brings new challenges to urban air traffic management and control. This paper presents an air route design scheme for multi-rotor UAVs in urban airspace to enable UA...
As network technology has advanced, and as larger and larger quantities of data are being collected, networks are becoming increasingly complex. Various vulnerabilities are being identified in such networks, and related attacks are continuously occur...
Alternative powertrains are rapidly increasing in popularity in city buses. Hence, it is vitally important to understand the factors affecting the performance of the powertrains in order to operate them on appropriate routes and as efficiently as pos...
This paper utilizes AIS (Automatic Identification System) data to study the micro-level features of the international container capacity correlation network and their impact on shipping freight rates. It proposes, for the first time, constructing a c...
A visual analysis is useful to assess potential impacts to our surroundings. There has been tremendous progress toward the optimization, accuracy, and techniques of these analyses. Viewshed analyses are a common type of visual analysis. The purpose o...
With several divided stages, placement and routing are the most critical and challenging steps in VLSI physical design. To ensure that physical implementation problems can be manageable and converged in a reasonable runtime, placement/routing problem...
Pedestrians’ route choice is critical for several purposes, while deliberately changing map representations can influence map users’ route choice. Simplifying routes’ geometric shapes is one way to achieve this. However, the other g...
Commercial pure Mg specimens were processed through equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) using two dies with die angles of 90° and 120°. Mg billets were processed up to four passes via different route types. Machine learning (ML) techniques...
Predictive industrial maintenance promotes proactive scheduling of maintenance to minimize unexpected device anomalies/faults. Almost all current predictive industrial maintenance techniques construct a model based on prior knowledge or data at build...
The practicality and substitutability of electric vehicles depend on there being a fast, reliable way to recharge on round trips beyond the range of a single charge. Grouping such infrastructure into charging hubs benefits developers and operators th...
Background: During a cardiac cycle, intracranial pressure is related to arterial entry into the cranium and its interaction with intracranial compliance. The arterial inflow is compensated by intracranial compliance and, initially, the flushing of ce...
Background: Impairment in navigation abilities and object location memory are often seen in early-stage Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), yet these constructs are not included in standard neuropsychological assessment. We investigated the differential abilit...
Key air route segments refer to route segments that play a hub-supporting role in the air transportation network of a specific airspace, and whose traffic anomalies (such as saturation or delay) are likely to trigger chain reactions through segment c...
To transition towards sustainability and increase low-impact transportation, city planners are integrating bicycle infrastructure in urban landscapes. Yet, this infrastructure only promotes cycling according to how well it is sited within a specific...
It is essential to understand how the built environment affects transit ridership to prioritize public transit and make it more appealing, particularly in mid-sized cities on the Rust Belt due to the experience of population decrease and urban sprawl...
The Argentine health system has three subsectors: private, social works, and public. It is essential to consider the user’s perceptions through studies that measure the intention to revisit, through self-perceived care quality, to obtain result...
With the rapid development of LBSs (location-based services) in recent years, researchers have increasingly taken an interest in trying to make travel routes more practicable and individualized. Despite the fact that many studies have been conducted...
Understanding the use of natural corridors is critical for characterizing the past use of marginally occupied landscapes at the Andean fringes of western Patagonia by the hunter-gatherer groups who inhabited this region. In this paper, we combine lea...
Precise estimation of passenger spatial-temporal trajectory is the basis for urban rail transit (URT) passenger flow assignment and ticket fare clearing. Inspired by the correlation between passenger tap-in/out time and train schedules, we present a...
This paper proposes a multi-criteria decision-making approach for the multimodal routing problem (MRP) of bulk transportation in Thailand to minimize the total cost, transportation time, and total carbon dioxide-equivalent (CO2e) emissions simultaneo...
Unlike car navigation, where almost all vehicles can traverse every route, one route might not be optimal or even suitable for all pedestrians. Route geometry information, including tortuosity, twists and turns along roads, junctions, and road slopes...
LaFe0.4Ni0.6O3/CeO2 (1:1) two-phase composite materials were prepared by mechanochemical (MC) and Pechini routes. The catalytic properties of the composites in methane and CO oxidation reactions strongly depend on their preparation conditions. In low...
The carbon emitted by vehicles traveling on curved roads is greatly affected by the alignment of the route, yet the mechanism behind this is not yet clear, leading to current horizontal alignment designs being unable to avoid this problem. To clarify...
Cultural visitation routes represent an important opportunity for the public display of the famous historical and cultural city of Beijing, and its pedestrian environment, as a linear spatial carrier linking various historical and cultural attraction...
In order to select the optimal transportation route among alternative transportation routes more accurately and objectively, the choice of urban oversize cargo transportation routes was studied by taking the optimization weight–TOPSIS combination met...
Land Use Regression (LUR) modeling is a widely used technique to model the spatial variability of air pollutants in epidemiology. In this study, we explore whether a LUR model can predict home-to-school commuting exposure to black carbon (BC). During...
With the increasing emphasis on environmental sustainability, the electrification of urban public bus fleets has gained significant attention. Understanding the factors influencing the energy consumption of battery-electric buses (BEBs) is crucial fo...
Networks of aromatic amino acid residues within microtubules, particularly those formed by tryptophan, may serve as pathways for optical information flow. Ultraviolet excitation dynamics in these networks are typically modeled with effective non-Herm...
Bacterial genera present in several areas of a pig farm were analyzed using high-throughput sequencing techniques. Samples were collected from the skin and feces of animals, as well as from surfaces, water, and air. The analyses revealed a strong cor...
In powder metallurgy (PM), severe plastic deformation (SPD) is a well-known technological solution to achieve interesting properties. However, the occurrence of pores in the final product may limit these properties. Also, for a given type of microstr...
Compressed sensing (CS) has become a powerful tool to process data that is correlated in underwater sensor networks (USNs). Based on CS, certain signals can be recovered from a relatively small number of random linear projections. Since the battery-d...
Good characterization of traffic interactions among urban roads can facilitate traffic-related applications, such as traffic control and short-term forecasting. Most studies measure the traffic interaction between two roads by their topological dista...
Many studies have proven that urban greenness is an important factor when cyclists choose a route. Thus, detecting trees along a cycling route is a major key to assessing the quality of cycling routes and providing further arguments to improve riders...
In this paper, the syntheses of a set of cerium-bismuth mixed oxides with the formula Ce1−xBixO2−x/2, where the range of x is 0.0 to 1.0 in 10 mol% steps, via co-precipitation methods is described. Two synthesis routes are tested: The &ld...
This paper presents a computational method based on non-classical logic dedicated to routing management and information stream control in communication networks. Paraconsistent logic (PL) was used to create an algorithmic structure whose main propert...
Francisella tularensis (Ft) is a Gram-negative, facultative intracellular coccobacillus that is the etiological agent of tularemia. Interestingly, the disease tularemia has variable clinical presentations that are dependent upon the route of infectio...
Besides the direct transport of animals, also indirect transmission routes, e.g., contact via contaminated vehicles, have to be considered. In this study, the transmission routes of a German pig trade network were illustrated as a monopartite animal...
Visual navigation is a key capability for robots and animals. Inspired by the navigational prowess of social insects, a family of insect-inspired route navigation algorithms—familiarity-based algorithms—have been developed that use stored...
Vehicle kilometers traveled (VKT) is a critical metric in transportation and environmental research. However, conventional VKT estimation approaches frequently fail to capture the complexity of route selection and spatiotemporal dynamics of individua...
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