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The Adriatic microplate has always attracted scientific attention, and various studies on the geodynamics of this area have been performed over the years. With the development of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) technology in the last 30 yea...

The present paper discusses an innovative approach providing the solution sets of engineering structures with uncertain parameters. The approach is based on the properties of convex sets and can be applied to structures described by the system of alg...

Granular structure plays a very important role in the model construction, theoretical analysis and algorithm design of a granular computing method. The granular structures of classical rough sets and fuzzy rough sets have been proven to be clear. In...

We describe a simple data structure for storing subsets of $\{0,\dots ,N-1\}$ , with N a given integer, which has optimal time performance for all the main set operations, whereas previous data structures are non-optimal for at lea...

The current study on community evolution prediction ignores the problem of internal community topology characteristics and does not take feature sets extraction into account. Therefore, the MF-PSF (Multivariate Feature sets and Potential Structural F...

This paper presents a hybrid level set method (HLSM) to design novelty functionally graded structures (FGSs) with complex macroscopic graded patterns. The hybrid level set function (HLSF) is constructed to parametrically model the macro unit cells by...

In this paper, we investigate the topological structure of the solution set to a fractional differential inclusion with delay defined on the half-line. We first prove that the solution set to the inclusion is an $R_{\delta }$-set on compact intervals. The...

SET (Suppressor of variegation, Enhancer of Zeste, Trithorax) and MYND (Myeloid-Nervy-DEAF1) domain-containing proteins (SMYD) have been found to methylate a variety of histone and non-histone targets which contribute to their various roles in cell r...

The present study aims to analyze the set-aside effect on the current structure diversity of mountain temperate forests from the Natura 2000 site Rarău-Giumalău. In the past 80 years, the area of entirely protected forests successively incr...

Sugarcane molasses is an agricultural by-product containing sucrose. In this study, the exopolysaccharide (M-EPS) produced by Leuconostoc citreum B-2 in molasses-based medium was characterized, optimized, and its application in set yogurt was investi...

In this paper, we deduce a condition for a strategy S1 to be more abundant on average at equilibrium under weak selection than another strategy S2 in a population structured into a finite number of colonies of fixed proportions as the population size...

Learning the structure of a Bayesian network and considering the efficiency and accuracy of learning has always been a hot topic for researchers. This paper proposes two constraints to solve the problem that the A* algorithm, an exact learning algori...

A series of water diversion projects to address the uneven distribution of water resources in China have involved the construction of a large number of hydraulic tunnels. As the lining structure is there to maintain the stability and durability of th...

The multi-strip method is often used to establish a demand model for fragility analysis. Using the multi-strip method to scale the ground motion record may cause uncertainty and bias in structural response calculation and fragility assessment. It is...

This paper presents the application of a value-set-based graphical approach to robust stability analysis for the ellipsoidal families of fractional-order polynomials with a complex structure of parametric uncertainty. More specifically, the article f...

Curved grid stiffeners, compared to straight stiffeners, offer greater flexibility in adjusting the force transmission paths and give better structural performance. In this paper, a level-set-based density method is employed to generate layouts of cu...

Hyperfine structure constants have many applications, but are often hard to calculate accurately due to large and canceling contributions from different terms of the hyperfine interaction operator, and also from different closed and spherically symme...

Structural heart disease is increasingly prevalent in the general population, especially in patients of increased age. Recent advances in transcatheter structural heart interventions have gained a significant following and are now considered a mainst...

In the field of education, the assessment of a student’s learning performance is based on his final course scores. Few people care about what is behind the numbers. Most of the time, the final scores represent the end of the course because students h...

To ensure the usability of parts made of fiber-reinforced polymers, a lifetime assessment has to be made in an early stage of the development process. To describe the whole life cycle of these parts, continuous simulation chains can be used. From pro...

The review of recent bathymetric and geophysical data collected in the framework of several research and cartographic projects have allowed a detailed reconstruction of the morpho-structural setting and the (neo)tectonic evolution for both the Alpine...

This 12-week study investigates the effects of resistance training with different set structures on the plasma levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), nerve growth factor (NGF), and obesity-related markers in middle-aged Korean women with...

The main sponge cake ingredients are flour, sucrose, eggs and leavening agents. Exogenous lipids (e.g., monoacylglycerols) are often used to increase air–liquid interface stability in the batter. There is a consumer trend to avoid foods contain...

Bio-inspired thin-wall structures with excellent mechanical properties, high-energy absorption capabilities, and a desirable lightweight level have been extensively applied to the passive safety protection of transportation and aerospace. Collaborati...

In this manuscript, off-set strip fin structures are presented which are adapted to the possibilities of additive manufacturing. For this purpose, the geometric parameters, including fin height, fin spacing, fin length, and fin longitudinal displacem...

River terraces are the principal geomorphic features for unraveling tectonics, sea level, and climate conditions during the evolutionary history of a river. The increasing availability of high-resolution topography data generated by low-cost Unmanned...

As the popularity of K-pop grows, the industry is contributing to the positive perceptions of South Korea’s overall national brand value. This has led to it being considered a strategic industry worth cultivating. However, many people are unsure of i...

In recent years, discount grocery retailers have expanded their global reach and added to their traditional no-frills offerings to also cater to hedonic consumer needs. In addition to a larger product assortment and a more pleasant shopping experienc...

The bicycle is a forgotten and neglected mode of transport even though it offers numerous individual, social, and environmental benefits over motorised transport. This research seeks to determine the factors influencing students to use bicycles for c...

The prevalence of “building-bridge integrated” structures in station design is increasing. However, in stations where the mainline speed exceeds 160 km/h, structural joints are typically incorporated to ensure the integrity and functional...

Claude Berge (1987) introduced the concept of k-extendable graphs, wherein any independent set of size k is inherently a constituent of a maximum independent set within a graph $H=(V,E)$. Graphs possessing the property of being 1-extendable are termeda...

Background: There is a need for an assessment tool for clinical rehabilitation staff to evaluate their life-goal-setting practice, especially in oncology rehabilitation. This study aimed to confirm the structural validity and reliability of the 21-it...

Background/Objectives: Structural empowerment involves access to opportunities, information, support, and resources within the work environment. These elements are crucial as they foster nurses’ professional growth and autonomy. Given their sig...

In analysis of problems with parametric spline boundaries that are immersed or inserted into an underlying domain, the discretization on the underlying domain usually does not conform to the inserted boundaries. While the fixed underlying discretizat...

Three major gold deposits, Matandani, Kukuluma, and Area 3, host several million ouncez (Moz) of gold, along a ~5 km long, WNW trend in the E part of the Geita Greenstone Belt, NW Tanzania. The deposits are hosted in Archaean volcanoclastic sediment...

The ES structure described by soft subsets or soft M-subsets does not yield a lattice structure due to its restriction on parameter sets, and so cannot be used in information theory. This study proposes a new ES structure on soft sets that addresses...

The Sixtymile gold district, Yukon, Canada has been mined for placer gold since the late 19th century. However, increasing demand for gold has prompted exploration of new lode deposits. Previous studies in the nearby Klondike gold district have shown...

As we know, there is some relationship, such as precedence relation, among skills. Each precedence relation induces a competence structure. Thus, we study competence-based skill functions, which rely on competence structures and go from somethings ob...

In materials science, the open nanotube derived from an octagonal grid is one of the most important and extensively researched compounds. Finding strategies for representing a variety of chemical compounds so that different compounds can have differe...

We provide a canonical construction of the natural numbers in the universe of sets. Then, the power set of the natural numbers is given the structure of the real number system. For this, we prove the co-finite topology, $Cof\left(\mathbb{N}\right)$ , is isomor...

To deal with the uncertainties, fuzzy set theory can be considered as one of the mathematical tools by Zadeh. As a mathematical tool to deal with negative information, Jun et al. introduced a new function, which is called a negative-valued function,...

At present, the method of using rule set partitioning technology to assist in constructing multiple decision trees for packet classification has been widely recognized. Rule set partitioning demonstrates a unique symmetry-breaking mechanism, systemat...

The increasing complexity and size of cyber-physical systems (e.g., aircraft, manufacturing processes, and power generation plants) is making it hard to develop centralized diagnosers that are reliable and efficient. In addition, advances in networki...

In this article, we propose a succinct data structure of zero-suppressed binary decision diagrams (ZDDs). A ZDD represents sets of combinations efficiently and we can perform various set operations on the ZDD without explicitly extracting combination...

Safety monitoring of hydraulic structures is a critical task in the field of hydraulic engineering construction. This study developed a method for preprocessing and classifying monitoring data for the identification of gross errors in hydraulic struc...

The theoretical foundations of relativistic electronic structure theory within quantum electrodynamics (QED) and the computational basis of the atomic structure code GRASP are briefly surveyed. A class of four-component basis set is introduced, which...

A set-valued information system (SIS) is the generalization of a single-valued information system. This article explores uncertainty measurement for a SIS by using Gaussian kernel. The fuzzy $T_{cos}$ -equivalence relation lead by a SIS is fir...

Aiming at the problem that the assembly body model is difficult to classify and retrieve (large information redundancy and poor data consistency), an assembly body retrieval method oriented to key structures was presented. In this paper, a decision f...

The durability of concrete structures is influenced by various factors, and the durability damage mechanism is different when the structure is in different environmental conditions. This will have implications for improving the durability of concrete...

Communication, which is information exchange between systems, is one of the basic information processes. To better understand communication and develop more efficient communication tools, it is important to have adequate and concise, static and dynam...