Due to the configuration process of a complex product scheme, a design structure often has the characteristics of multi-level, multi-attribute, creativity, and complexity; in order to improve the efficiency and quality of product scheme design, it ha...
(1) Background: The pyramid scheme has caused a large-scale plunder of finances due to the unsustainability of its operating model, which seriously jeopardizes economic development and seriously affects social stability. In various types of networks,...
Power-line communication (PLC) networks have been increasingly used for constructing industrial IoT (internet of things) and home networking systems due to their low-cost installation and broad coverage feature. To guarantee the transmission reliabil...
We live in the era of large data analysis, where processing vast datasets has become essential for uncovering valuable insights across various domains of our lives. Machine learning (ML) algorithms offer powerful tools for processing and analyzing th...
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This paper focuses on the time-varying correlation among China’s seven emissions trading scheme markets. Correlation analysis shows a weak connection among these markets for the whole sample period, which spans from 9 June 2014 to 30 June 2017....
The surrounding rock stability of an underground cavern group is an important issue in the process of cavern excavation, which has the characteristics of large displacement, discontinuity and uneven deformation, so the calculation and analysis are ve...
Prestressed concrete girder bridges are widely used worldwide due to their mature construction technology, economical cost, and low maintenance. After a certain number of years of service, prestressed concrete girders inevitably suffer from deteriora...
Precise prediction of short-term electric load demand is the key for developing power market strategies. Due to the dynamic environment of short-term load forecasting, probabilistic forecasting has become the center of attention for its ability of re...
Chatter vibration in machining operations has been identified as one of the major obstacles to improving surface quality and productivity. Therefore, efficiently and accurately predicting stable cutting regions is becoming increasingly important, esp...
A stable explicit difference scheme, which is based on forward Euler format, is proposed for the Richards equation. To avoid the degeneracy of the Richards equation, we add a perturbation to the functional coefficient of the parabolic term. In additi...
The reliability of the compressor system determines the gas supply safety. An important method to improve the reliability is to set up standby compressors in stations, conducted by the standby compressor or power. A lack of quantitative assessments o...
To derive the supply and demand issues during the first phase of the Korea Emission Trading Scheme (KETS), we investigated the excess or shortage, and the carry-over inflow of carbon emission permits for all of the domestic industries and major corpo...
Carbon labeling schemes enable consumers to be aware of carbon emissions regarding products or services, to help change their purchasing behaviors. This study provides a bibliometric analysis to review the research progress of carbon labeling schemes...
As a basic building block in power systems, the three-phase voltage-source inverter (VSI) connects the distributed energy to the grid. For the inductor-capacitor-inductor (LCL)-filter three-phase VSI, according to different current sampling position...
The main aim of this article is to propose a general framework for the theoretical analysis of discrete schemes used to solve multi-dimensional parabolic problems with fractional power elliptic operators. This analysis is split into three parts. The...
An Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) is widely considered to reduce carbon emissions and achieve sustainability. Unsatisfactory results of European Union Emission trading scheme (EU ETS) make China’s government propose a flexible-cap ETS system to...
This paper is focused on the performance analysis of protection mechanisms utilized in common wavelength division multiplexing-based passive optical networks. The main aim of the proposed research is providing an option of comparing different traffic...
This paper presents a finite difference approach for solving the time-fractional Burgers’ equation, which is a model for nonlinear flow with memory effects. The method leverages the
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The personal carbon trading (PCT) scheme is a policy instrument for reducing downstream carbon emissions and creating a green lifestyle, and a bottleneck hampering its implementation is the behavioral willingness of residents. Due to a pre-existing s...
Renewable energy has high volatility in the traditional off-grid AC hydrogen (H2) production system, which leads to low reliability of the system operation. To address this issue, this paper designs the topology scheme of wind-photovoltaic generation...
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...
Human activity recognition (HAR) through gait analysis is a very promising research area for early detection of neurodegenerative diseases because gait abnormalities are typical symptoms of some neurodegenerative diseases, such as early dementia. Whi...
This study presents a comprehensive analysis of the semilocal convergence properties of a high-order iterative scheme designed to solve nonlinear equations in Banach spaces. The investigation is carried out under the assumption that the first derivat...
The investigation of new memory schemes is significant for future generations of electronic devices. The purpose of this research is to present a detailed analysis of the processes in the memory elements of a memory section with memristors and isolat...
Lightweight block ciphers are normally used in low-power resource-constrained environments, while providing reliable and sufficient security. Therefore, it is important to study the security and reliability of lightweight block ciphers. SKINNY is a n...
In text classification tasks, such as sentiment analysis (SA), feature representation and weighting schemes play a crucial role in classification performance. Traditional term weighting schemes depend on the term frequency within the entire document...
IEEE 802.15.7 Visible Light Communication (VLC) networks suffer from performance degradation caused by the hidden device collisions due to the directional transmission with narrow beamwidth. One of the solutions for mitigating the hidden device colli...
Based on the construction project of Guangzhou Metro Line 13, this paper explores the special construction scheme for the safety of horizontal small-clear-distance shield tunnel construction, which adopts the construction of a tunnel first and a stat...
In this paper, we propose a local convergence analysis of an eighth order three-step method to approximate a locally unique solution of a nonlinear equation in a Banach space setting. Further, we also study the dynamic behaviour of that scheme. In an...
The brain–computer interface (BCI) is used to understand brain activities and external bodies with the help of the motor imagery (MI). As of today, the classification results for EEG 4 class BCI competition dataset have been improved to provide...
Discontinuous deformation analysis (DDA) is a discontinuum-based and implicit method for investigating the deformational behavior of block systems. The constant acceleration integration (CAI) scheme characterized by unconditional stability is employe...
Statistical delay quality of service (QoS) provisioning is crucial for ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLCs). In this paper, a precise delay performance analysis framework is proposed based on martingale theory and a wireless resource co...
This paper presents a novel and efficient solution procedure to improve 3D solid finite element analysis with an enrichment scheme. To this end, we employ finite elements enriched by polynomial cover functions, which can expand their solution space w...
This paper develops a fully discrete finite element scheme for the fractional wave equation with order
With the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT), more and more user devices access the network and generate large amounts of genome data. These genome data possess significant medical value when researched. However, traditional genome anal...
Partial differential equations are known to be increasingly important in today’s research, and their solutions are paramount for tackling numerous real-life applications. This article extended the analytical scheme of the homotopy analysis meth...
We define the group measure matrix of the alternative scheme and the ideal scheme based on the relevant factor sequence and the system characteristic behavior sequence. Furthermore, the information distances of decision makers and decision criteria a...
There exist several challenges in the implementation of proportional multiple quasi-resonant (PMQR) control strategies in single-phase grid-connected H6 inverters, such as high computational costs and design complexity. To overcome these challenges,...
Poor performance bedeviling SISs in South Africa is attributed to poor institutional integration, consequently impacting service delivery. Despite this, local institutional actors (LIAs)’ role has not been documented as a potential entry point...
Wireless Sensors Networks have been the focus of significant attention from research and development due to their applications of collecting data from various fields such as smart cities, power grids, transportation systems, medical sectors, military...
One major problem in the development of hypersonic vehicles is severe aerodynamic heating; thus, the implementation of a thermal protection system is required. A numerical investigation on the reduction of aerodynamic heating using different thermal...
Multimodal sentiment analysis faces a number of challenges, including modality missing, modality heterogeneity gap, incomplete datasets, etc. Previous studies usually adopt schemes like meta-learning or multi-layer structures. Nevertheless, these met...
Based on the spatial compact finite difference (SCFD) method, an improved high-order temporal accuracy scheme for high-dimensional time-fractional diffusion equations (TFDEs) is presented in this work. Combining the temporal piecewise quadratic inter...
Vinoth et al. proposed an authenticated key agreement scheme for industrial IoT (Internet of Things) applications. Vinoth et al.’s scheme aimed to protect the remote sensing data of industrial IoT devices under hostile environments. The scheme is int...
LiDAR is a useful technology for gathering point cloud data from its environment and has been adapted to many applications. We use a cost-efficient LiDAR system attached to a moving object to estimate the location of the moving object using reference...
Background: The stimulus coupon plan is one of the economic relief plans used to boost Taiwan’s slumping economy in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. In order to obtain prior information to understand whether or not the stimulus...
Proton range monitoring and verification is important to enhance the effectiveness of treatment by ensuring that the correct dose is delivered to the correct location. Upon proton irradiation, different positron emitting radioisotopes are produced by...
During the assembly process, there are inevitable variations and noise factors in the material properties, process parameters and screening scheme, which may affect the quality of the product. Using the stress-strength model, an evaluated screening s...
The current distribution of the grounding electrode in a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission system affects the state of power equipment in its vicinity, which depends on the soil resistivity and shape of the grounding electrode. In this...
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