Detection of surface defects can significantly elongate mechanical service time and mitigate potential risks during safety management. Traditional defect detection methods predominantly rely on manual inspection, which suffers from low efficiency and...
Energy harvesting, which offers a never-ending energy supply, has emerged as a prominent technology to prolong the lifetime and reduce costs for the battery-powered wireless sensor networks. However, how to improve the energy efficiency while guarant...
The relevant value standards for reserved deformation of tunnels with different types of loess soil are not yet perfect. Through mathematical statistics, literature research, and other methods, 148 monitoring sections of loess tunnels with different...
Japanese financial authorities have been promoting lending without personal guarantees, with the aim of enhancing the stability of the banking sector. However, banks’ willingness to provide loans without personal guarantees varies. Furthermore,...
In 2024, four papers that presented four different solution approaches for the knapsack problem with forfeits (KPF) appeared in the OR literature. However, none of these four solution approaches compared their performance to the other three on a stan...
This paper discusses robust link adaptation for a downlink precoded multiple input single output system, for guaranteeing ultra-reliable (99.999%) transmissions to mobile users (e.g., slowly moving machines in a factory) served by a small cell networ...
Nowadays, Space Information Networks represented by the satellite internet are developing rapidly. For example, the Starlink of SpaceX plans to provide network access services worldwide and has drawn much attention. To operate and maintain Space Info...
The industrial landscape has revealed two trends: increased competitiveness and a greater demand for sustainable solutions. Materials with cork in their composition are an appealing solution, since they guarantee the desired mechanical characteristic...
Preserving the utility of published datasets while simultaneously providing provable privacy guarantees is a well-known challenge. On the one hand, context-free privacy solutions, such as differential privacy, provide strong privacy guarantees, but o...
The swift advancement of information and communication technology has made it increasingly difficult to guarantee the security of transmitted data. Traditional encryption techniques, particularly in multimedia applications, frequently fail to defend...
A realizable Eddy Damped Markovian Anisotropic Closure (EDMAC) is presented for the interaction of two-dimensional turbulence and transient waves such as Rossby waves. The structure of the EDMAC ensures that it is as computationally efficient as the...
In a distributed cognitive radio (CR) sensor network, transmission and reception on vacant channels require cognitive radio nodes to achieve rendezvous. Because of the lack of adequate assistance from the network environment, such as the central cont...
We introduce a robust framework that allows for cryptographically secure multiparty computations, such as distributed private value auctions. The security is guaranteed by two-sided authentication of all network connections, homomorphically encrypted...
Random number generators (RNGs) are notoriously challenging to build and test, especially for cryptographic applications. While statistical tests cannot definitively guarantee an RNG’s output quality, they are a powerful verification tool and t...
The aim of this prospective clinical study was to evaluate the effectiveness of transdermal patches of buprenorphine as an alternative route for the management of perioperative pain in dogs undergoing a unilateral mastectomy. Our hypothesis was that...
19 April 2022
Australia is a federation of six states and two territories (the States). These eight governmental entities share responsibility for health and health services with the Australian Government. Mortality statistics, including causes of death, have been...
This research work analyzes Albanian urban consumer preferences and purchasing behavior related to cheese, focusing on food safety and related attributes, including origin, packaging, and certification. This paper is based on a structured survey targ...
In this paper, the problem of estimating the current value of financial instruments using multidimensional statistical analysis is considered. The research considers various approaches to constructing regression computational schemes using quotes of...
Climate change has intensified extreme hydrological events in cold regions, threatening the stability of river ecosystems. The traditional monthly frequency method for calculating ecological flow assumes equal guarantee rates across all months, overl...
Liquid formulations are mostly used in the paediatric population. However, with certain active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), it is very difficult to guarantee quality and stability; this is the case, for example, with omeprazole. Omeprazole is u...
Although the finance literature has devoted a lot of research into the development of advanced models for improving the pricing and hedging performance, there has been much less emphasis on approaches to measure dynamic hedging effectiveness. This ar...
Relative error estimation has been recently used in regression analysis. A crucial issue of the existing relative error estimation procedures is that they are sensitive to outliers. To address this issue, we employ the
Classification has applications in a wide range of fields including medicine, engineering, computer science and social sciences among others. In statistical terms, classification is inference about the unknown parameters, i.e., the true classes of fu...
Ensuring that the proposed probabilistic model accurately represents the problem is a critical step in statistical modeling, as choosing a poorly fitting model can have significant repercussions on the decision-making process. The primary objective o...
The design of a solar thermal installation is based on the lowest irradiance levels that occur during winter. However, there are consecutive days with irradiance levels well below those used for the design, which are called in this work “critic...
Water resources in arid and semi-arid areas are limiting factors for ecosystem health and economic development. Therefore, an accurate and reasonable assessment of ecological water demand is crucial for efficient water resource utilization. In this s...
Equal opportunities is an objective to be achieved in a sustainable society, as formulated by various sustainable development objectives. Inclusive education refers to the right of all people to education, guaranteeing the presence, participation, an...
Aids to Navigation (AtoN) are auxiliary devices intended to support maritime navigation. They include both traditional signals (e.g., buoys and lights) and electronic aids, as for example those transmitted to ships through automatic tracking systems....
We present the ML-CALMO framework, which integrates machine learning with queueing theory for last-mile delivery optimization under dynamic conditions. The system combines Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) demand forecasting, Convolutional Neural Network...
An effective alternative for water purification is reverse osmosis (RO). Laboratory-scale RO modeling is widely applied worldwide, and allows the evaluation of the behavior of the system to find the most convenient operating variables to be applied i...
The control of inclusions in steel components is essential to guarantee strong performance. The reliable characterization of inclusion populations is essential not only to evaluate the quality of the components but also to allow the use of analytical...
Considering the worst-case scenario, the junction-tree algorithm remains the most general solution for exact MAP inference with polynomial run-time guarantees. Unfortunately, its main tractability assumption requires the treewidth of a corresponding...
Thread quality control is becoming a widespread necessity in manufacturing to guarantee the geometry of the resulting screws on the workpiece due to the high industrial costs. Besides, the industrial inspection is manual provoking high rates of manuf...
Bilateral teleoperation systems have been widely used in many fields of robotics, such as industrial manipulation, medical treatment, space exploration, and deep-sea operation. Delays in communication, known as an inevitable issues in practical imple...
9 October 2024
The relationship between COVID-19 infections and environmental contaminants provides insight into how environmental factors can influence the spread of infectious diseases. By integrating epidemiological and environmental variables into a mathematica...
Regularized sparse learning with the
In the realm of cardiac health research, accurate fluid dynamics simulations are vital for comprehending the heart function and diagnosing conditions. Central to these simulations is the precision of ventricular wall meshes used to model heart geomet...
Modern semantic segmentation models require extensive pixel-level annotations, creating a significant barrier to practical deployment as labeling a single image can take hours of human effort. Active learning offers a promising way to reduce annotati...
The rapid digitalisation of the medical field has heightened concerns over protecting patients’ personal information during the transmission of medical images. This study introduces a method for securely transmitting X-ray images that contain e...
In this work, a statistical method for the segmentation of samples and/or populations is presented, which is based on a ternary tree structure. This approach overcomes known limitations of other segmentation methods such as CHAID, concerning the mult...
Automotive, railway and aerospace sectors require a high level of quality on the thread profiles in their manufacturing systems knowing that the tapping process is a complex manufacturing process and the last operation in a manufacturing cell. Theref...
The paper deals with Cauchy problems for first-order systems of linear ordinary differential equations with unknown data. It is assumed that the right-hand sides of equations belong to certain bounded sets in the space of square-integrable vector-fun...
The paper presents the existing verification methods for control algorithms in power electronics systems, including the application of model checking techniques. In the industry, the most frequently used verification methods are simulations and exper...
Fish feed should be characterized by microbiological stability to guarantee the optimal health of farmed fish. The aim of this study was to determine the efficacy of amaranth meal (Amaranthus cruentus) and a highly active environmental strain of prob...
In this paper, we seek to define the Portuguese Electronic Jurisdictional Administrative Procedure and characterize the scope and success of its implementation in terms of access to justice and court efficiency. It encompasses different perspectives...
Recent literature shows that many testing procedures used to evaluate asset pricing models result in spurious rejection probabilities. Model misspecification, the strong factor structure of test assets, or skewed test statistics largely explain this....
Metabolic flux analysis (MFA) is an indispensable tool in metabolic engineering. The simplest variant of MFA relies on an overdetermined stoichiometric model of the cell’s metabolism under the pseudo-steady state assumption to evaluate the intracellu...
This paper presents a global optimization method for structural design optimization, which integrates subset simulation optimization (SSO) and the dynamic augmented Lagrangian multiplier method (DALMM). The proposed method formulates the structural d...
The quantum key distribution (QKD) allows two remote users to share a common information-theoretic secure secret key. In order to guarantee the security of a practical QKD implementation, the physical system has to be fully characterized and all devi...
This Special Issue contains innovative research papers on the characterization, chemical composition and physical properties of honey. This constitutes very useful information to avoid frauds and to guarantee the authenticity of this food product. Th...
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