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12 October 2019

High-maneuvering target tracking is a focused application area in radar positioning and military defense systems, especially in three-dimensional space. However, using a traditional motion model and techniques expanded from general two-dimensional ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,873 Views
18 Pages

20 May 2022

In recent years, the volume of spatial data has rapidly grown, so it is crucial to process them in an efficient manner. The level of parallel processing in big data platforms such as Hadoop and Spark is determined by partitioning the dataset. A commo...

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  • Open Access
32 Views
41 Pages

7 November 2026

Training samples collected from operating systems are rarely homogeneous: seasons, working calendars, and scheduled events shift variable ranges, change class frequencies, and increase class overlap. The periods during which such factors act are ofte...

(This article belongs to the Topic Data Stream Mining and Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,417 Views
15 Pages

For a three-dimensional wide-angle synthetic aperture radar (SAR) with non-uniform sampling, it is necessary to divide its large aperture into several small sub-apertures before imaging due to the anisotropic characteristics of the target. The existi...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,207 Views
18 Pages

6 February 2025

Probabilistic models in physics often require the evaluation of normalized Boltzmann factors, which in turn implies the computation of the partition function Z. Obtaining the exact value of Z, though, becomes a forbiddingly expensive task as the syst...

(This article belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
799 Views
17 Pages

Milling stability prediction requires tool and workpiece dynamics and cutting force coefficients, and uncertainty in these inputs propagates to the predicted stability maps. This study experimentally evaluates sample partitioning for uncertainty redu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,990 Views
15 Pages

This paper describes a sample partitioning approach to retain or reject samples from an initial distribution of stability maps using milling test results. The stability maps are calculated using distributions of uncertain modal parameters that repres...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,419 Views
12 Pages

6 November 2021

The Ewens–Pitman sampling model (EP-SM) is a distribution for random partitions of the set {1,…,n}, with n∈N, which is indexed by real parameters α and θ such that either α∈[0,1) and θ>−α, or α<0 and θ=−mα for some m∈N. For α=0, the EP-SM is re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bayesian Predictive Inference and Related Asymptotics—Festschrift for Eugenio Regazzini's 75th Birthday)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,972 Views
27 Pages

Mixture of Species Sampling Models

  • Federico Bassetti and
  • Lucia Ladelli

4 December 2021

We introduce mixtures of species sampling sequences (mSSS) and discuss how these sequences are related to various types of Bayesian models. As a particular case, we recover species sampling sequences with general (not necessarily diffuse) base measur...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bayesian Predictive Inference and Related Asymptotics—Festschrift for Eugenio Regazzini's 75th Birthday)
  • Article
  • Open Access

A Unified Evaluation Method for Wind and Photovoltaic Power Output Consistency

  • Dong Yao,
  • Xiaoxue Liu,
  • Zheng Cao,
  • Yu Gong and ,
  • Yang Zhao and
  • Yinchi Shao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 November 2026

Wind and photovoltaic (PV) power output exhibits substantial temporal, spatial, and terrain-related variability, making sample partitioning critical for constructing representative output profiles. This study develops a unified framework for evaluati...

(This article belongs to the Topic Solar Energy: Addressing New Uses and Challenges in a Changing World)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,872 Views
26 Pages

In this paper, an altered adaptive algorithm on block-compressive sensing (BCS) is developed by using saliency and error analysis. A phenomenon has been observed that the performance of BCS can be improved by means of rational block and uneven sampli...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Signal, Image and Video Processing for Emerging Multimedia Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,251 Views
10 Pages

11 February 2022

Dong, Goldschmidt and Martin (2006) (DGM) showed that, for 0<α<1, and θ>−α, the repeated application of independent single-block fragmentation operators based on mass partitions following a two-parameter Poisson&ndash...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bayesian Predictive Inference and Related Asymptotics—Festschrift for Eugenio Regazzini's 75th Birthday)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,416 Views
9 Pages

The nested sampling (NS) method was originally proposed by John Skilling to calculate the evidence in Bayesian inference. The method has since been utilised in various research fields, and here we focus on how NS has been adapted to sample the Potent...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 41st International Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
254 Views
39 Pages

29 September 2026

The Ewens sampling formula sits at the boundary α=0 of the two-parameter Pitman–Yor partition, and deciding whether data lie on it is an inferential question in which the strength θ is unknown. We give tests of α=0 that need n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,408 Views
17 Pages

Continuous Wavelet Analysis of Leaf Reflectance Improves Classification Accuracy of Mangrove Species

  • Yi Xu,
  • Junjie Wang,
  • Anquan Xia,
  • Kangyong Zhang and ,
  • Xuanyan Dong,
  • Kaipeng Wu and
  • Guofeng Wu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

27 January 2019

Due to continuous degradation of mangrove forests, the accurate monitoring of spatial distribution and species composition of mangroves is essential for restoration, conservation and management of coastal ecosystems. With leaf hyperspectral reflectan...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing of Mangroves)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,612 Views
22 Pages

31 May 2019

Photovoltaic (PV) and wind power (WT) resources can influence each other in some scenarios, and this influence tends to show that the rise of PV resources may indicate the drop of WT resources, and vice versa. This pattern of PV and WT resources infl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,113 Views
14 Pages

Fast Triacylglycerol Fingerprinting in Edible Oils by Subcritical Solvent Chromatography

  • Tania Maria Grazia Salerno,
  • Marianna Oteri,
  • Paola Arena,
  • Emanuela Trovato and ,
  • Danilo Sciarrone,
  • Paola Donato and
  • Luigi Mondello
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) has witnessed a resurge of interest in the last decade, motivated by substantial progress in hardware capabilities and the development of specifically tailored packing materials. Meanwhile, the technique has b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in the Separation Analysis of Food Constituents, Residues, and Contaminants)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,105 Views
21 Pages

28 October 2025

Digital soil mapping has become increasingly important for large-scale soil organic carbon (SOC) assessments, yet the choice of accuracy assessment method significantly influences model performance interpretation. This study investigates the impact o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Soil Health and Properties in a Changing Environment—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,404 Views
12 Pages

17 November 2022

To combat pandemics, there is a need for rapid point-of-care diagnostics to identify infected patients and to track the spread of the disease. While recent progress has been made in response to COVID-19, there continues to be a need for point-of-care...

(This article belongs to the Section Biosensors and Healthcare)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,043 Views
14 Pages

29 April 2025

Detecting, identifying, and tracking genetic material in wastewater allows public health agencies to accurately monitor the spread of infectious diseases in communities. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, viral diagnostics for wastewater have been...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental, Agricultural, and Food Biosensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,092 Views
16 Pages

24 July 2023

Spatial and temporal variation in the diversity of ants in four urban fragments of the tropical dry forest in the city of Santa Marta was evaluated. The fragments were sampled four times in the dry and rainy season, from October 2019 to January 2020,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biodiversity in Arid Ecosystems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,329 Views
13 Pages

16 June 2025

A basic duality arises throughout the mathematical and natural sciences. Traditionally, logic is thought to be based on the Boolean logic of subsets, but the development of category theory in the mid-twentieth century shows the duality between subset...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Perspectives in Mathematical Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,672 Views
32 Pages

30 October 2018

In this article, we present a method for the enhanced molecular dynamics simulation of protein and DNA systems called potential of mean force (PMF)-enriched sampling. The method uses partitions derived from the potentials of mean force, which we dete...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Protein Folding)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,608 Views
13 Pages

Cracking Behavior of René 104 Nickel-Based Superalloy Prepared by Selective Laser Melting Using Different Scanning Strategies

  • Kai Peng,
  • Ranxi Duan,
  • Zuming Liu,
  • Xueqian Lv and ,
  • Quan Li,
  • Fan Zhao,
  • Bing Wei,
  • Bizhong Nong and
  • Shizhong Wei
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

6 May 2020

Eliminating cracks is a big challenge for the selective laser melting (SLM) process of low-weldable Nickel-based superalloy. In this work, three scanning strategies of the snake, stripe partition, and chessboard partition were utilized to prepare Ren...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,437 Views
22 Pages

30 November 2021

In this paper, we propose a true unsupervised method to partition large-size images, where the number of classes, training samples, and other a priori information is not known. Thus, partitioning an image without any knowledge is a great challenge. T...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing Data and Classification Algorithms)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,567 Views
18 Pages

21 March 2020

Traditional classification methods used for very high-resolution (VHR) remote sensing images require a large number of labeled samples to obtain higher classification accuracy. Labeled samples are difficult to obtain and costly. Therefore, semi-super...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Intelligence and Advanced Learning Techniques in Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,705 Views
23 Pages

Pillow Support Model with Partitioned Matching Based on Body Pressure Distribution Matrix

  • Yu Li,
  • Jianfeng Wu,
  • Chunfu Lu,
  • Zhichuan Tang and
  • Chengmin Li

(1) Objective: Sleep problems have become one of the current serious public health issues. The purpose of this research was to construct an ideal pressure distribution model for head and neck support through research on the partitioned support surfac...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ergonomics Study in Healthcare Assistive Tools and Services)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
914 Views
21 Pages

A Two-Step Strategy for Evapotranspiration Partitioning Within Two-Source Model Frameworks

  • Xiaolong Hu,
  • Xinyi Ding,
  • Zailin Huo,
  • Liangsheng Shi and ,
  • Lin Lin and
  • Yixiang Jiang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

2 March 2026

Accurately partitioning evapotranspiration (ET) into soil evaporation (E) and plant transpiration (T) is fundamental for improving water resource management, yet robust ET partitioning remains challenging. This study proposes a two-step ET partitioni...

(This article belongs to the Section Water Use and Irrigation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
744 Views
17 Pages

A Comparative Sound Intensity Method for Measuring the Increase in Sound Insulation of Small Acoustic Metamaterial Samples

  • Polaczek Agata,
  • Baruch-Mazur Katarzyna,
  • Ziarko Bartłomiej,
  • Lewińska-Maresca Mirosława and ,
  • Młynarczyk Dorota and
  • Dusza Katarzyna
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 May 2026

This paper presents a method for determining the reduction in noise transmission provided by small samples of acoustic metamaterials, based on comparative sound intensity measurements. The proposed approach offers an alternative to conventional labor...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,737 Views
16 Pages

27 September 2022

In MOOC learning, learners’ emotions have an important impact on the learning effect. In order to solve the problem that learners’ emotions are not obvious in the learning process, we propose a method to identify learner emotion by combin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor Based Pattern Recognition and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,006 Views
14 Pages

27 September 2022

In this study, we used 0.2C-1.7Si-1.9Mn wt% cold-rolled sheet as the experimental material to prepare the Q&P sample with blocky microstructures and the QQ&P sample with lath-shaped microstructures through the Q&P and QQ&P processes,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,443 Views
17 Pages

Decoding the Liver–Blood Partitioning of Neonicotinoid Insecticides: Evidence from Paired Human Liver and Blood Biomonitoring

  • Jiaqi Shao,
  • Tingna Chen,
  • Yihan Li,
  • Wenfei Yu and ,
  • Hangbiao Jin,
  • Qinghua Zhou and
  • Yuanchen Chen
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

10 March 2026

Neonicotinoids (NEOs) are among the most widely used insecticides worldwide, and their increasing detection in environmental and human matrices has raised concerns about chronic exposure and potential health risks. However, human data on target-organ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Identification of Emerging Pollutants and Human Exposure)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,373 Views
18 Pages

30 April 2025

In the present work, the effect of quenching and partitioning cycles on the microstructure, hardness, and corrosion behavior of SAE 9254 spring steel was investigated. Initially, the critical phase transformation temperatures were analyzed by dilatom...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Corrosion and Protection of Materials (Third Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,360 Views
18 Pages

Semi-Supervised Fuzzy Clustering Based on Prior Membership

  • Yinghan Hong,
  • Guoxiang Zhong,
  • Jiahao Lian,
  • Guizhen Mai and ,
  • Honghong Zhou,
  • Pinghua Chen,
  • Junliu Zhong and
  • Hui Cao
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

10 August 2025

Traditional fuzzy clustering algorithms construct sample partition criteria solely based on similarity measures but lack an effective representation of prior membership information, which limits further improvements in clustering accuracy. To address...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Fuzzy Intelligence and Non-Classical Logical Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,473 Views
20 Pages

Credible Granger-causality analysis appears to require post-sample inference, as it is well-known that in-sample fit can be a poor guide to actual forecasting effectiveness. However, post-sample model testing requires an often-consequential a priori...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,616 Views
15 Pages

20 February 2023

We study the set of integer partitions as a probability space that generates distributions and, in the asymptotic limit, obeys thermodynamics. We view ordered integer partition as a configuration of cluster masses and associate them with the distribu...

(This article belongs to the Section Thermodynamics)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,781 Views
25 Pages

2 August 2024

The nonparametric bootstrap has been used in cluster analysis for various purposes. One of those purposes is to account for sampling variability. This can be achieved by obtaining a bootstrap approximation of the sampling distribution function of the...

(This article belongs to the Section D1: Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
492 Views
16 Pages

16 May 2026

To eliminate lack-of-fusion (LoF) defects at partition interfaces during laser powder bed fusion of titanium alloys, this study proposes a multi-layer, partitioned-scanning strategy with staggered interfaces. The strategy was optimized through an ort...

(This article belongs to the Section Metals and Alloys)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,143 Views
25 Pages

4 December 2025

Sea surface wind speed is a crucial parameter for studying climate change and ocean dynamics. Accurate, real-time measurements are essential for meteorological and oceanographic observations. Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry (GNSS-R)...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Oceanography)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,609 Views
11 Pages

17 February 2024

In selection and ranking, the partitioning of treatments by comparing them to a control treatment is an important statistical problem. For over eighty years, this problem has been investigated by a number of researchers via various statistical design...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonparametric Statistical Methods and Their Applications)
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  • Open Access
75 Views
25 Pages
Information2026, 17(11), 1109;https://doi.org/10.3390/info17111109 
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5 November 2026

Intrusion detection (IDS) is needed for sensor-cloud networks (SCN) and other distributed computing systems. Many of the results published, however, may have been misleading in part because they were based on the same data records, information leakag...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Privacy and Security, 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,081 Views
17 Pages

4 March 2024

In this study, the effects of Z-0°, Z-67°, Z-90°, I-67°, and S-67° scanning strategies on the surface morphology, microstructure, and corrosion resistance of the specimens in SLM316L were systematically studied. The results show t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Additive Manufacturing and Nondestructive Testing of Metals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,042 Views
21 Pages

In order to adapt to the development trend of large-scale access of distributed resource and power market reform, it has gradually become an industry consensus that multi-agent resources of a distribution network participate in regulation in the form...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,656 Views
24 Pages

Research on Non-Probabilistic Reliability Partitioning Methods for Large Workspace Robots

  • Jianping Sun,
  • Weian Yang,
  • Xin Meng,
  • Jun Peng and
  • Zhaoping Tang

7 January 2025

Large-scale high-end equipment robotic precision operations have large workspaces and numerous uncertainties. They have an unevenly distributed error effect on the position in space. The current conventional stereotyping method ignores the uncertaint...

(This article belongs to the Section Machines Testing and Maintenance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,403 Views
13 Pages

26 November 2020

Hydrogen embrittlement is one of the largest obstacles against the commercialisation of ultra-high strength quenching and partitioning (Q&P) steels with ultimate tensile strength over 1500 MPa, including the hot stamped steel parts that have unde...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced High Strength Steels by Quenching and Partitioning)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,212 Views
17 Pages

Partitioning of Persistent Organic Pollutants between Adipose Tissue and Serum in Human Studies

  • Meg-Anne Moriceau,
  • German Cano-Sancho,
  • MinJi Kim,
  • Xavier Coumoul and ,
  • Claude Emond,
  • Juan-Pedro Arrebola,
  • Jean-Philippe Antignac,
  • Karine Audouze and
  • Christophe Rousselle
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

31 December 2022

Blood is the most widely used matrix for biomonitoring of persistent organic pollutants (POPs). It is assumed that POPs are homogenously distributed within body lipids at steady state; however, the variability underlying the partitioning of POPs betw...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human Biomonitoring in Health Risk Assessment: Current Practices and Recommendations for the Future)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,584 Views
22 Pages

Observed Daily Profiles of Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons and Quinones in the Gas and PM1 Phases: Sources and Secondary Production in a Metropolitan Area of Mexico

  • Valeria Ojeda-Castillo,
  • Iván Y. Hernández-Paniagua,
  • Leonel Hernández-Mena,
  • Alberto López-López and ,
  • José de Jesús Díaz-Torres,
  • Sergio Alonso-Romero and
  • Jorge del Real-Olvera
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

12 November 2019

The diel variation of meteorological conditions strongly influences the formation processes of secondary air pollutants. However, due to the complexity of sampling highly reactive chemical compounds, significant information about their transformation...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Chemical Engineering and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,859 Views
19 Pages

Few-Shot Target Detection Algorithm Based on Adaptive Sampling Meta-DETR

  • Zihao Ma,
  • Gang Liu,
  • Zhaoya Tong and
  • Xiaoliang Fan

2 September 2025

Meta-DETR is a few-shot target detection algorithm that combines meta-learning and transformer architecture to solve the problem of data sample scarcity. This algorithm uses deformable attention to focus feature learning process more accurately on th...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,457 Views
17 Pages

Versatile Video Coding (VVC), the latest international video coding standard, has more than twice the compression performance of High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) through adopting various coding techniques. The multi-type tree (MTT) block structure...

(This article belongs to the Section Electronic Multimedia)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,430 Views
14 Pages

13 October 2021

Fire safety of ancient wooden buildings is one of the most important issues in the world. In this paper, partition boards with different thicknesses from 15 to 25 mm were heated by a 15-cm-diameter pool fire and a methane Bunsen burner. The temperatu...

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