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Periodic Solutions for a Neutral System with Two Volterra Terms

  • Mouataz Billah Mesmouli,
  • Meshari Alesemi and
  • Wael W. Mohammed

In this paper, we propose a system of equations containing two kernels. In our transformation of the system, we use the integrable dichotomy condition, where we extract the term of the integration matrix from one of the kernels. We then use the fixed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,770 Views
20 Pages

22 September 2022

In this paper, an assessment of the failure frequency of machines in a series-parallel structure was conducted. The analyses contain the decomposition of the system according to the general theory of complex systems. Based on the results obtained, a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,888 Views
23 Pages

28 September 2022

Nuclear factor-erythroid 2-related factor 2 (Nrf2), a transcription factor, controls the expression of more than 1000 genes that can be clustered into different categories with distinct functions ranging from redox balance and metabolism to protein q...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,477 Views
10 Pages

Entropy increases in the execution of linear physical processes. At equilibrium, all uncertainty about the future is removed and information about the past is lost. Complex systems, on the other hand, can lead to the emergence of order, sustain uncer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,728 Views
14 Pages

6 September 2019

The location, velocity, and flight path angle of an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) landing on a moving vessel are key factors for an optimal landing trajectory. To tackle this challenge, this paper proposes a method for calculating the opti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
1,739 Views
21 Pages

10 October 2022

The present paper deals with two of the most significant behaviors in the theory of dynamical systems: the uniform exponential dichotomy and the uniform polynomial dichotomy for evolution operators in Banach spaces. Assuming that the evolution operat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,638 Views
11 Pages

6 September 2021

In the present paper, we consider the problem of dichotomic behaviors of dynamical systems described by discrete-time skew evolution cocycles in Banach spaces. We study two concepts of uniform dichotomy: uniform exponential dichotomy and uniform poly...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,691 Views
20 Pages

26 January 2022

The classical-quantum dichotomy is analyzed from the perspective of the Process Algebra approach, which views fundamental phenomena through the lens of complex systems theory and Whitehead’s process theory. Broadly, the dichotomy can be framed...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
294 Views
10 Pages

24 September 2016

The mind (mental function) and sexuality represent two distinct environmental functions, but which are supported within the brain by a common (somatic-autonomic) neurobiological substrate. As a consequence, mental function takes on autonomic characte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,659 Views
20 Pages

A Comprehensive Approach for Detecting Brake Pad Defects Using Histogram and Wavelet Features with Nested Dichotomy Family Classifiers

  • Sakthivel Gnanasekaran,
  • Lakshmi Pathi Jakkamputi,
  • Jegadeeshwaran Rakkiyannan,
  • Mohanraj Thangamuthu and
  • Yogesh Bhalerao

10 November 2023

The brake system requires careful attention for continuous monitoring as a vital module. This study specifically focuses on monitoring the hydraulic brake system using vibration signals through experimentation. Vibration signals from the brake pad as...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,315 Views
28 Pages

In recent years, neural networks and cryptographic schemes have come together in war and peace; a cross-impact that forms a dichotomy deserving a comprehensive review study. Neural networks can be used against cryptosystems; they can play roles in cr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,822 Views
32 Pages

12 November 2024

In this paper, we investigate differential equations with generalized piecewise constant delay, DEGPCD in short, and establish the existence and stability of a unique almost periodic solution that is exponentially stable. Our results are derived by u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,914 Views
17 Pages

25 December 2021

Objectives: Few studies have examined the impacts of structural differences in the urban–rural dichotomy under the new household registration policy on migration and settlement behavior. Nevertheless, the rationale for the settlement policy of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,472 Views
25 Pages

Using Domain Knowledge for Interpretable and Competitive Multi-Class Human Activity Recognition

  • Sebastian Scheurer,
  • Salvatore Tedesco,
  • Kenneth N. Brown and
  • Brendan O’Flynn

22 February 2020

Human activity recognition (HAR) has become an increasingly popular application of machine learning across a range of domains. Typically the HAR task that a machine learning algorithm is trained for requires separating multiple activities such as wal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,280 Views
19 Pages

Software Requirement Risk Prediction Using Enhanced Fuzzy Induction Models

  • Hussaini Mamman,
  • Abdullateef Oluwagbemiga Balogun,
  • Shuib Basri,
  • Luiz Fernando Capretz,
  • Victor Elijah Adeyemo,
  • Abdullahi Abubakar Imam and
  • Ganesh Kumar

8 September 2023

The development of most modern software systems is accompanied by a significant level of uncertainty, which can be attributed to the unanticipated activities that may occur throughout the software development process. As these modern software systems...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,928 Views
19 Pages

27 March 2021

We studied one essentially nonlinear two–point boundary value problem for a system of fractional differential equations. An original parametrization technique and a dichotomy-type approach led to investigation of solutions of two “model”-type fractio...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3,492 Views
4 Pages

Digital technology has broken the traditional “individual–system” trust dichotomy and has brought in a new “increment” of trust state to society. Taking an engineering project as an example, the key to a successful digit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
883 Views
14 Pages

10 September 2025

Universities continue to offer international students opportunities to study abroad and gain an education in a highly ranked, world-recognised system, providing exposure to a broad cultural experience. While students cite that gaining exposure to a c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,422 Views
19 Pages

5 September 2020

This article presents a methodology for optimizing the operation of parallel pumping stations in an open-channel water transfer system. A mathematical model was established for the minimum power with constraints on water level, flow rate and pump uni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,681 Views
13 Pages

Quantum Darwinism in a Composite System: Objectivity versus Classicality

  • Barış Çakmak,
  • Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu,
  • Mauro Paternostro,
  • Bassano Vacchini and
  • Steve Campbell

31 July 2021

We investigate the implications of quantum Darwinism in a composite quantum system with interacting constituents exhibiting a decoherence-free subspace. We consider a two-qubit system coupled to an N-qubit environment via a dephasing interaction. For...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,872 Views
19 Pages

Evaluating Institutional Dichotomy between Urban and Rural Land Administration in Amhara Region, Ethiopia

  • Worku Nega,
  • Mulugeta Tenaw,
  • Yeneneh Hunie,
  • Sayeh Kassaw Agegnehu and
  • Reinfried Mansberger

23 August 2021

Institutional setup in the land administration system plays a crucial role in the successful functioning of modern land administration. The institutional setup, whether separated for urban and rural land administration or unified, is responsible for...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,198 Views
12 Pages

The Role of Wild Food in Fostering Healthy, Sustainable, and Equitable Food Systems

  • Madison M. Scott,
  • Michael S. Carolan and
  • Michael A. Long

2 November 2024

In this paper, we provide an overview of the research and literature on wild foods (i.e., edible plants that grow without human cultivation and/or animals harvested from their natural habit, i.e., food sourced from “hunting and gathering”...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,477 Views
18 Pages

Biologically Plausible Boltzmann Machine

  • Arturo Berrones-Santos and
  • Franco Bagnoli

The dichotomy in power consumption between digital and biological information processing systems is an intriguing open question related at its core with the necessity for a more thorough understanding of the thermodynamics of the logic of computing....

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
15,096 Views
23 Pages

Phenotypic Variation in Mojave Rattlesnake (Crotalus scutulatus) Venom Is Driven by Four Toxin Families

  • Jason L. Strickland,
  • Andrew J. Mason,
  • Darin R. Rokyta and
  • Christopher L. Parkinson

23 March 2018

Phenotypic diversity generated through altered gene expression is a primary mechanism facilitating evolutionary response in natural systems. By linking the phenotype to genotype through transcriptomics, it is possible to determine what changes are oc...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,073 Views
13 Pages

We propose that one can explain the coexistence in the same range of doping and temperature of gapless Fermi arcs with the metal–insulator crossover of in-plane resistivity in strongly underdoped cuprates in terms of the FL* fractionalized Ferm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
100 Citations
12,867 Views
21 Pages

A Study of the Relationship between Weather Variables and Electric Power Demand inside a Smart Grid/Smart World Framework

  • Luis Hernández,
  • Carlos Baladrón,
  • Javier M. Aguiar,
  • Lorena Calavia,
  • Belén Carro,
  • Antonio Sánchez-Esguevillas,
  • Diane J. Cook,
  • David Chinarro and
  • Jorge Gómez

27 August 2012

One of the main challenges of today’s society is the need to fulfill at the same time the two sides of the dichotomy between the growing energy demand and the need to look after the environment. Smart Grids are one of the answers: intelligent energy...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,888 Views
14 Pages

Are Sustainable Health Workforces Possible? Issues and a Possible Remedy

  • Gareth H Rees,
  • Rosemary James,
  • Levan Samadashvili and
  • Cris Scotter

15 February 2023

The 2020–2022 period of the global COVID-19 pandemic exposed the fact that many countries health systems had inadequate health workforce availability. This is despite sustainable health workforces being critical to health service and healthcare...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,980 Views
14 Pages

Modeling vague objects with indeterminate boundaries has drawn much attention in geographic information science. Because fields and objects are two perspectives in modeling geographic phenomena, this paper investigates the characteristics of vague re...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,639 Views
18 Pages

4 May 2025

This paper proposes a three-point nonlinear calibration scheme for an ultra-low-power, high-precision temperature sensor to address the issue where the temperature error of a 0.8 μW sensor exceeds ±1 °C in RFID (Radio-Frequency Identifi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,078 Views
8 Pages

26 September 2021

This paper addresses some conceptual options for Catholic education in a particular cultural context. This context is where the Catholic school system is large, stable, and well established but in the wider cultural context, the place of religion in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,065 Views
13 Pages

MPF Problem over Modified Medial Semigroup Is NP-Complete

  • Eligijus Sakalauskas and
  • Aleksejus Mihalkovich

1 November 2018

This paper is a continuation of our previous publication of enhanced matrix power function (MPF) as a conjectured one-way function. We are considering a problem introduced in our previous paper and prove that tis problem is NP-Complete. The proof is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
749 Views
19 Pages

A model depicting competitive technoeconomics of business structures specific to mobile-platforms is developed. The underlying co-evolution of large, competing enterprises of mobile-platforms that face customerchurning due to application-preferences...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,557 Views
13 Pages

In modern society, law is one of the most important means of risk prevention and control. Under the challenge of ecological and environmental risks, China’s legal governance experience provides important historical experience and theoretical sa...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,842 Views
25 Pages

9 September 2024

The urban heat island (UHI) effect, where the temperature in an urban area is higher than in the surrounding rural areas, is becoming a major concern. The concept of a Local Climate Zone (LCZ) system was devised to provide an objective framework for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,169 Views
8 Pages

The Function of Bed Management in Pandemic Times—A Case Study of Reaction Time and Bed Reconversion

  • Chiara Barchielli,
  • Milena Vainieri,
  • Chiara Seghieri,
  • Eleonora Salutini and
  • Paolo Zoppi

The last decade was characterized by the reduction in hospital beds throughout Europe. When facing the COVID pandemic, this has been an issue of major importance as hospitals were seriously overloaded with an unexpected growth in demand. The dichotom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,284 Views
15 Pages

Demand Response of Integrated Zero-Carbon Power Plant: Model and Method

  • Rong Xia,
  • Jun Dai,
  • Xiangjie Cheng,
  • Jiaqing Fan,
  • Jing Ye,
  • Qiangang Jia,
  • Sijie Chen and
  • Qiang Zhang

12 July 2024

An integrated zero-carbon power plant aggregates uncontrollable green energy, adjustable load, and storage energy resources into an entity in a grid-friendly manner. Integrated zero-carbon power plants have a strong demand response potential that nee...

  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
6,851 Views
28 Pages

The Yin and Yang of Type I IFNs in Cancer Promotion and Immune Activation

  • Martina Musella,
  • Claudia Galassi,
  • Nicoletta Manduca and
  • Antonella Sistigu

1 September 2021

Type I Interferons (IFNs) are key regulators of natural and therapy-induced host defense against viral infection and cancer. Several years of remarkable progress in the field of oncoimmunology have revealed the dual nature of these cytokines. Hence,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
8,844 Views
30 Pages

Spatial Analysis of the Rural-Urban Structure of the Spanish Municipalities

  • Ana Nieto Masot,
  • Gema Cárdenas Alonso and
  • Ángela Engelmo Moriche

The rural–urban dichotomy is one of the most debated topics by the scientific community in territorial issues. In addition, many public entities and scientific studies have established the distinctive elements of rural and urban spaces by relat...

  • Review
  • Open Access
882 Views
18 Pages

Cancer-Associated Cachexia in the Era of Obesity

  • Joyce Cristina Ferreira de Resende,
  • Márcia Fábia Andrade,
  • Fabiana Amaral Ferreira,
  • José Pinhata Otoch,
  • Lívia Clemente Motta-Teixeira and
  • Marilia Seelaender

30 November 2025

Obesity and cancer cachexia represent opposite ends of the body mass index (BMI) spectrum. However, despite this apparent dichotomy, both conditions share critical metabolic alterations, primarily driven by inflammation, metabolic alterations and cha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
13,589 Views
17 Pages

8 November 2019

To a large extent, the body of research that looks at individuals’ compliance with the law focuses on the dichotomy between compliance as rule-following and noncompliance as rule-breaking. However, a fascinating case of noncompliance is that wh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,595 Views
22 Pages

13 March 2023

The current crisis of unsustainability has renewed academic interest in sustainable global citizenship. Classical approaches to this type of citizenship have turned out to be quite abstract, utopian, and naive. This article is a theoretical reflectio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,101 Views
12 Pages

Strategies for Achieving Sustainability of Water Supply Systems in Rural Environments with Community Management in Brazil

  • Anna Virginia Muniz Machado,
  • Pedro A. D. Oliveira,
  • Patrick G. Matos and
  • Ana Silvia Pereira Santos

14 June 2023

An urban–rural dichotomy currently exists in policy documentation, accessibility to resources, and human rights. In Brazil, there remains a significant deficit in water and sanitation services coverage, particularly in rural areas. To achieve univers...

  • Review
  • Open Access
74 Citations
3,621 Views
20 Pages

31 December 2010

Phytoestrogens are a family of diverse polyphenolic compounds derived from nature plant that structurally or functionally mimic circulating estrogen in the mammalian reproductive system. They induce estrogenic and anti-estrogenic effects in the brain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,934 Views
11 Pages

29 April 2021

Public discussion of the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic has reproduced several recurrent and interrelated topics in discourses on sustainability and the Anthropocene. First, there is an ambiguous concern—sometimes ominous, sometimes hopeful—th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,454 Views
29 Pages

7 September 2020

Mapping the route of nucleoside triphosphate (NTP) entry into the sequestered active site of RNA polymerase (RNAP) has major implications for elucidating the complete nucleotide addition cycle. Constituting a dichotomy that remains to be resolved, tw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
699 Views
26 Pages

15 April 2025

The synergistic dilemma of upstream actors in the agro-ecological product supply chain restricts the transformation of ecological value, and traditional research focuses on the “production-supply” dichotomy, neglecting the driving role of...

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