Accurate short-term wind speed forecasting is essential for mitigating wind power variability and supporting stable grid operation. This study proposes a model selection forecasting system (MSFS) that dynamically integrates six deep learning models t...
This paper presents a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of magnetic negative stiffness (MNS) devices in the realm of vibration isolation systems, spanning from foundational theoretical models to practical engineering applications. The emergence o...
To increase semiconductor production yield and meet the growing global demand, air bearings offering higher processing speeds and reduced friction losses have been proposed as an ideal solution. However, due to the non-contact support characteristic...
Rapid urbanization in developing countries poses challenges such as rising crime rates and resource scarcity. Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) offer a promising solution to enhance public safety, but their integration requires addressing specific chal...
The paper deals with the three-dimensional theoretical and numerical investigation of the electrical performance of a Photovoltaic System (PV) with active fluid cooling (PVFC) in order to increase its efficiency in converting solar radiation into ele...
Complex multiscale systems are ubiquitous in many areas. This research expository article discusses the development and applications of a recent information-theoretic framework as well as novel reduced-order nonlinear modeling strategies for understa...
The study aimed to design a geographic theoretical model for school dental services (SDS) in Al-Madinah, Saudi Arabia (SA), using a geographic information system (GIS). The location of all primary public schools and the student population at each sch...
Urban day-to-day travel systems generally exist in various types of cities. Their modeling is difficult due to the uncertainty of individual travelers in micro travel decision-making. Moreover, with the advent of the information age, intelligent conn...
The knowledge of the actual energy performances of a concentrating photovoltaic and thermal (CPV/T) system with a linear focus optics, allows to evaluate the possibility of adopting this type of system for cogeneration purposes. Hence, the main aim o...
This paper presents a novel integration of System-Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) and System Dynamics (SD) for hazard and resilience analysis in safety-critical infrastructure systems. The methodology is applied iteratively to assess the safety and...
The paper below takes up the question of whether it is possible to transfer the notion of ‘semantic knowledge’—as a human process of making language generate and confer meanings—to machines, which have as one of their properti...
1 January 1998
Few studies have taken up therapeutic practices in psychiatry and different aspects related to them on an empirical basis. Hence a typology of practices (psychoanalytic, biological, systemic, cognitivebehavioural and general) and their conformity wit...
Quantifying uncertainty in complex systems is a central problem in reliability analysis and engineering applications. In this work, we develop an information-theoretic framework for analyzing linear consecutive k-out-of-n:G systems using the cumulati...
21 November 2022
Although numerous efforts have been made to deepen our understanding of the etiology of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), no explanation of its origins, nor of its consequences, has yet found a consensus within the scientific community...
With the complexity of the socio-technical system, the requirement for safety analysis is growing. In actuality, system risk is frequently created by the interaction of numerous nonlinear-related components. It is essential to use safety assessment m...
Interorganizational risk management (IRM) in Canadian ports faces significant challenges due to the interconnected nature of operations and the interdependence of safety, security, environmental, organizational, and technological risks. Existing silo...
To meet the target of carbon neutrality by the year 2050 and decrease the dependence on fossil fuels, renewable energy sources (RESs), specifically wind power, and Electric Vehicles (EVs) have to be massively deployed. Nevertheless, the integration o...
As an international standard pressure-measuring instrument, the absolute pressure piston manometer’s working medium is gas, so the actual working process will be affected by many internal uncertainties and external disturbances, leading to its...
Groundwater assessment has several technical deficiencies, especially because the decision-making platform for basic data collection, analysis, and evaluation has not been established. Based on the computer architecture theory and business processing...
Chemical plants inherently handle and operate with a wide range of hazardous materials, making them more prone to accidents compared to other industrial sectors. Consequently, safety management in chemical plants tends to be systematically organized...
Background/Objectives: Advancements in personalized medicine have revolutionized drug delivery, enabling tailored treatments based on genetic and molecular profiles. Non-viral vectors, such as polyurethane (PU)-based systems, offer promising alternat...
The remote control ship is considered to be the most likely implementation of maritime autonomous surface ships (MASS) in the near-term future. With collaborative control from onboard controllers and operators ashore, ships may operate in three navig...
14 May 2022
The flows of people and material attributed to international tourism exert a major impact on the global environment. Tourism carbon emissions is the main indicator in this context. However, previous studies focused on estimating the emissions of dest...
Heavy oil will likely dominate the future energy market. Nevertheless, processing heavy oils using conventional technologies has to face the problems of high hydrogen partial pressure and catalyst deactivation. Our previous work reported a novel meth...
In recent years, several tools and models have been developed and used for the design and analysis of future national energy systems. Many of these models focus on the integration of various renewable energy resources and the transformation of existi...
Commonly, it is accepted that oncology treatment would yield outcomes with a certain determinism without any quantitative support or mathematical model that establishes such determinations. Nowadays, with the advent of nanomedicine, the targeting dru...
Topological materials with Dirac electron systems have been extensively studied. Organic crystalline materials form a unique group of such compounds with well-defined crystal structures. While most organic compounds require high pressures to exhibit...
In this paper, we present a data-driven model predictive control (DDMPC) framework specifically designed for constrained single-input single-output (SISO) nonlinear systems. Our approach involves customizing a set-theoretic receding horizon controlle...
The emergence of artificial intelligence has made adaptive learning possible, but building an adaptive system requires a comprehensive understanding of students’ cognition. The cognitive model provides a crucial theoretical framework to explore...
In densely populated areas, resource management is a challenge when mobile users in a session increase. The result of this is high inter-cell interference. Since interference is a function of power, we develop power control models aimed at addressing...
8 July 2022
Despite policy intentions and many interventions aimed at reducing socioeconomic health inequalities in recent decades in the Netherlands and other affluent countries, these inequalities have not been reduced. Based on a narrative literature review,...
This paper presents a new theoretical approach to the study of robotics manipulators dynamics. It is based on the well-known geometric approach to system dynamics, according to which some axiomatic definitions of geometric structures concerning invar...
The results of my research in the fields of theoretical studies and computer modeling of supramolecular chemical systems were presented. The main attention was focused on theoretical studies in the following topics: cycloaddition and nucleophilic add...
Structural disorder has been shown to be responsible for profound changes of the interaction-energy landscapes and collective dynamics of two-dimensional (2D) magnetic nanostructures. Weakly-disordered 2D ensembles have a few particularly stable magn...
The presence of macroplastics in the marine ecosystem is one of the most serious types of pollution today. On the seabed of reef ecosystems, macroplastics are an indicator of contamination because they are easily observable due to their size greater...
The environment affects population dynamics through multiple drivers. Here we explore a simplified version of such influence in a three-species food chain, making use of the Hastings–Powell model. This represents an idealized resource–consumer–predat...
The Canadian off-grid communities heavily rely on fossil fuels. This unsustainable energetic framework needs to change, and deep geothermal energy can play an important role. However, limited data availability is one of the challenges to face when ev...
Achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) requires a unified framework capable of modeling the full spectrum of intelligent behavior—from logical reasoning and sensory perception to emotional regulation and collective decision-making. Thi...
Finite quantum many fermion systems are essential for our current understanding of Nature. They are at the core of molecular, atomic, and nuclear physics. In recent years, the application of information and complexity measures to the study of diverse...
Living systems can be understood as organized entities that capture, transform, and reproduce information. Classical gene-centered models explain adaptation through frequency changes driven by differential fitness, yet they often overlook the higher-...
Large language models (LLMs) are fundamentally transforming intelligent traffic systems by enabling semantic abstraction, probabilistic reasoning, and multimodal information fusion across heterogeneous data. This review examines existing research on...
A theoretical-computational procedure based on the quasi-Gaussian entropy (QGE) theory and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations is proposed for the calculation of thermodynamic properties for molecular and supra-molecular species in the gas phase. The...
The objective of this research article is to re-introduce some of the concepts provided by A. Wayne Wymore in his mathematical theory of Model-Based Systems Engineering, discuss why his framework might have not been adopted, and define a potential pa...
The interaction between three widely used antimalarial drugs chloroquine, primaquine and amodiaquine with acrylamide dimer and trimer as a hydrogel model, were studied by means of density functional theory calculation in both vacuum and water environ...
Laboratory safety in colleges and universities has received wider attention as a critical annual inspection by the Ministry of Education. The laboratory environment is complex and diverse, with many hazard factors. To effectively prevent the occurren...
Few publications have elaborated on the steady-state model, a ‘cybernetic model’ that should not be confused with its namesake in mathematical systems; it is rooted in preceding publications about general systems theories, something that...
This paper presents a systemic view of human cognition that suggests complexityis an essential feature of such a system. It draws on the embodied, distributed, and extended cognition paradigms to outline the elements and the mechanisms that define co...
Natural hazards pose an increasing threat to society, necessitating the development of effective early warning systems (EWSs). This paper explores their critical role in mitigating the impacts of natural hazards. Its primary objective is to define an...
Growing populations and environmental issues are a burden for urban transport systems. Current research fails to offer multimodal integrated solutions maximizing time, cost, emissions, and satisfaction. We introduce the first optimization model integ...
This study investigates M/M/n:(m/FIFO) systems with a limited queue capacity (incorporating both “waiting and rejection”). This category of systems can be considered to be mixed-service systems. They operate as queuing systems for custome...
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