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7 April 2020

Attosecond science, beyond its importance from application point of view, is of a fundamental interest in physics. The measurement of tunneling time in attosecond experiments offers a fruitful opportunity to understand the role of time in quantum mec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,027 Views
18 Pages

Entropy, Age and Time Operator

  • Ilias Gialampoukidis and
  • Ioannis Antoniou

19 January 2015

The time operator and internal age are intrinsic features of entropy producing innovation processes. The innovation spaces at each stage are the eigenspaces of the time operator. The internal age is the average innovation time, analogous to lifetime...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropic Aspects in Statistical Physics of Complex Systems)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,733 Views
13 Pages

8 October 2018

Attosecond science is of a fundamental interest in physics. The measurement of the tunneling time in attosecond experiments, offers a fruitful opportunity to understand the role of time in quantum mechanics (QM). We discuss in this paper our tunnelin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
333 Views
26 Pages

16 October 2026

Time-lapse (4D) seismic inversion is a key tool for monitoring subsurface changes caused by fluid injection and production, but model-based workflows require repeated forward and adjoint evaluations, a wavelet estimate for every vintage, and survey-s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geophysical Inversion)
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  • Open Access
909 Views
14 Pages

14 May 2025

This paper reports an interesting phenomenon in which fractional-order effects can be induced by the mismatch of the differential orders of space and time; that is, fractional-order effects can be induced by space–time symmetry breakage. Classi...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,947 Views
13 Pages

14 June 2022

This article presents a criterion for the uniqueness of the solution of a problem nonlocal in time for a differential-operator equation with a symmetric operator part on space variables. The symmetry of the operator part of the operator-differential...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,418 Views
13 Pages

Integral equations and inequalities have an important place in time scales and harmonic analysis. The norm of integral operators is one of the important study topics in harmonic analysis. Using the norms in different variable exponent spaces, the bou...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Challenges Arising in Engineering Problems with Fractional and Integer Order)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,097 Views
21 Pages

17 September 2021

In this paper, the time-fractional wave equation associated with the space-fractional Fokker–Planck operator and with the time-fractional-damped term is studied. The concept of the Green function is implemented to drive the analytic solution of the t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional Calculus - Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,273 Views
24 Pages

15 August 2021

Cellular neural networks with D operator and time-varying delays are found to be effective in demonstrating complex dynamic behaviors. The stability analysis of the pseudo-almost periodic solution for a novel neural network of this kind is considered...

(This article belongs to the Topic Dynamical Systems: Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
13,442 Views
19 Pages

8 April 2020

In automatic systems used in the control and monitoring of industrial processes, fieldbuses with specific real-time requirements are used. Often, the sensors are connected to these fieldbuses through embedded systems, which also have real-time featur...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,426 Views
22 Pages

On the Introduction of Canny Operator in an Advanced Imaging Algorithm for Real-Time Detection of Hyperbolas in Ground-Penetrating Radar Data

  • Željko Bugarinović,
  • Lara Pajewski,
  • Aleksandar Ristić,
  • Milan Vrtunski and ,
  • Miro Govedarica and
  • Mirko Borisov
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

This paper focuses on the use of the Canny edge detector as the first step of an advanced imaging algorithm for automated detection of hyperbolic reflections in ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data. Since the imaging algorithm aims to work in real tim...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Microwave Imaging and Its Application)
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12 November 2026

This study examined the potential value of operational records from the Driving Record Analysis System (eTAS) as supplementary information for future service life evaluations of 119 ambulances in South Korea.An international literature review was com...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fire Risk Management and Emergency Prevention)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,262 Views
20 Pages

12 January 2023

By reducing construction times and thereby shortening the times of construction site operation, it is possible to contribute to ensuring the social, economic, and environmental pillars of sustainability, which are necessary to meet the 2030 climate t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Construction and Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,073 Views
24 Pages

Different weakening buffer operators in a time-series model analysis usually result in different model sensitivities, which sometimes affect the effectiveness of relevant operator-based methods. In this paper, the stability of two classic fractional-...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Fractional Differential Operators and Their Applications)
  • Perspective
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,493 Views
13 Pages

Real-Time Operational Research: Case Studies from the Field of Tuberculosis and Lessons Learnt

  • Anthony D. Harries,
  • Pruthu Thekkur,
  • Irene Mbithi,
  • Jeremiah Muhwa Chakaya and ,
  • Hannock Tweya,
  • Kudakwashe C. Takarinda,
  • Ajay M. V. Kumar,
  • Srinath Satyanarayana,
  • Selma Dar Berger and
  • Rony Zachariah
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

Real-time operational research can be defined as research on strategies or interventions to assess if they are feasible, working as planned, scalable and effective. The research involves primary data collection, periodic analysis during the conduct o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue COVID-19: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,763 Views
14 Pages

5 July 2023

This paper proposes a feedback, rolling and adaptive operation decision-making mechanism for coupling and nesting of time scales. It is aimed at the change of time scale and the dynamics in the operation process, considering the relationship between...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Artificial Intelligence in Hydraulic Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,000 Views
17 Pages

Analysis of Patient Satisfaction through the Effect of Healthcare Spending on Waiting Times for Consultations and Operations

  • José Manuel Santos-Jaén,
  • María del Carmen Valls Martínez,
  • Mercedes Palacios-Manzano and
  • Mayra Soledad Grasso

In recent years, public authorities have invested large amounts of public money in trying to reduce waiting times for consultations and operations with the aim of improving the quality of the healthcare system. Our research aims to analyze the effect...

(This article belongs to the Section Health Policy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,988 Views
15 Pages

21 August 2024

The work in the technological sewing process is carried out on machine systems characterised by machine–hand work, where the worker and the machine work simultaneously. Such a work system requires a high level of responsibility in terms of qual...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Control Design and Numerical Computation in Manufacturing Process System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,220 Views
17 Pages

3 January 2020

We introduce a generalization of the one-dimensional accelerated failure time model allowing the covariate effect to be any positive function of the covariate. This function and the baseline hazard rate are estimated nonparametrically via an iterativ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning in Insurance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,145 Views
16 Pages

Optimal Near Real-Time Control of Water Distribution System Operations

  • Abdulrahman Abdulaziz Bin Mahmoud,
  • Ahmad Momeni and
  • Kalyan Ram Piratla

24 March 2023

The scarcity of freshwater resources, combined with deteriorating infrastructure, pushes water utilities to employ optimal operational practices to control water distribution systems (WDSs) based on objectives such as minimizing operational costs or...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Water Networks Modelling and Monitoring, Volume II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,921 Views
10 Pages

Background: Few studies have evaluated the impact of obesity on operation time in patients with ACL reconstruction. The purpose of this study was to understand the effect of obesity on operation time in patients with arthroscopic anterior cruciate li...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Arthritis and Tendinopathy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,262 Views
9 Pages

Real-Time Prediction of Operating Parameter of TBM during Tunneling

  • Hang-Lo Lee,
  • Ki-Il Song,
  • Chongchong Qi,
  • Jin-Seop Kim and
  • Kyoung-Su Kim

26 March 2021

With the increasing use of the tunnel boring machine (TBM), attempts have been made to predict TBM operating parameters. Prediction of operating parameters is still an important step in the adaptability of the TBM for the future. In this study, we em...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Geotechnical Engineering Ⅱ)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,955 Views
19 Pages

A Tetris-Based Task Allocation Strategy for Real-Time Operating Systems

  • Yumeng Chen,
  • Songlin Liu,
  • Zongmiao He and
  • Xiang Ling

Real-time constrained multiprocessor systems have been widely applied across various domains. In this paper, we focus on the scheduling algorithm for directed acyclic graph (DAG) tasks under partitioned scheduling on multiprocessor systems. Effective...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,742 Views
20 Pages

A Real-Time Method to Estimate the Operational Condition of Distribution Transformers

  • Leandro José Duarte,
  • Alan Petrônio Pinheiro and
  • Daniel Oliveira Ferreira

20 November 2022

In this article, an unsupervised learning method is presented with the objective of modeling, in real-time, the main operating modes (OM) of distribution transformers. This model is then used to assess the operational condition through use of two too...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of AI Technologies in Pipeline Health Monitoring and Energy Prediction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,962 Views
15 Pages

4 November 2023

With the continuous development of the Automatic Train Operation (ATO) system in high-speed railways, automatic driving is progressively supplanting manual operations, ushering in a new era of predictability and reliability for high-speed railway tra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Methods in Intelligent Transportation Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,744 Views
24 Pages

Operating Room Usage Time Estimation with Machine Learning Models

  • Justin Chu,
  • Chung-Ho Hsieh,
  • Yi-Nuo Shih,
  • Chia-Chun Wu and ,
  • Anandakumar Singaravelan,
  • Lun-Ping Hung and
  • Jia-Lien Hsu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

12 August 2022

Effectively handling the limited number of surgery operating rooms equipped with expensive equipment is a challenging task for hospital management such as reducing the case-time duration and reducing idle time. Improving the efficiency of operating r...

(This article belongs to the Topic Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - 2nd Volume)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,576 Views
22 Pages

10 December 2020

The webpage steganography technique has been used for a covert communication method for various purposes in which a sender embeds a secret message into a plain webpage file like an HTML file by using various steganography methods. With human eyes, it...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
449 Views
19 Pages

Real-Time Fatigue Monitoring Using sEMG and HRV Sensors for Industrial Operators Under Swing Conditions

  • Jichong Lei,
  • Cannan Yi,
  • Hong Hu,
  • Tao Qing and ,
  • Yinjuan Kang,
  • Yuanhao Mi,
  • Zhao Zheng,
  • Kun Xu and
  • Hongliang Xu
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

27 July 2026

Real-time monitoring of operator fatigue is critical for ensuring operational safety and reliability in dynamic industrial environments, especially under swing conditions such as offshore floating nuclear power platforms. This study proposes a multim...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driven Analytics and Intelligent Sensing for Industrial Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,935 Views
17 Pages

Deep-Learning-Based Cyber-Physical System Framework for Real-Time Industrial Operations

  • Vatsal Maru,
  • Saideep Nannapaneni,
  • Krishna Krishnan and
  • Ali Arishi

31 October 2022

Automation in the industry can improve production efficiency and human safety when performing complex and hazardous tasks. This paper presented an intelligent cyber-physical system framework incorporating image processing and deep-learning techniques...

(This article belongs to the Topic Intelligent Systems and Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,798 Views
19 Pages

14 September 2021

Industry 4.0 is transforming how costs, including labor costs, are managed in manufacturing and remanufacturing systems. Managers must balance assembly lines and reduce the training time of workstation operators to achieve sustainable operations. Thi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algorithms and Methods for Designing and Scheduling Smart Manufacturing Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,191 Views
24 Pages

11 May 2021

Spark-ignited internal combustion engines are known to exhibit a decreased brake efficiency in part-load operation. Similarly to cylinder deactivation, the x-stroke operation presented in this paper is an adjustable form of skip-cycle operation. It i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Internal Combustion Engines)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
13,981 Views
21 Pages

Model-Based Real Time Operation of the Freeze-Drying Process

  • Carlos Vilas,
  • Antonio A. Alonso,
  • Eva Balsa-Canto,
  • Estefanía López-Quiroga and
  • Ioan Cristian Trelea

10 March 2020

Background: Freeze-drying or lyophilization is a dehydration process employed in high added-value food and biochemical goods. It helps to maintain product organoleptic and nutritional properties. The proper handling of the product temperature during...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Drying Kinetics and Quality Control in Food Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,313 Views
15 Pages

Arbitrary-Order Finite-Time Corrections for the Kramers–Moyal Operator

  • Leonardo Rydin Gorjão,
  • Dirk Witthaut,
  • Klaus Lehnertz and
  • Pedro G. Lind

24 April 2021

With the aim of improving the reconstruction of stochastic evolution equations from empirical time-series data, we derive a full representation of the generator of the Kramers–Moyal operator via a power-series expansion of the exponential operator. T...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,899 Views
12 Pages

9 January 2020

Dwell time is a critical factor in constructing and adjusting railway timetables for efficient and accurate operation of railways. This paper develops dwell time estimation models for a Shinbundang line (S line) in Seoul, South Korea using support ve...

(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,372 Views
15 Pages

Operating Times and Users’ Behavior at Urban Road Intersections

  • Laura Moretti,
  • Fabio Palazzi and
  • Giuseppe Cantisani

18 May 2020

The safety of at grade road intersections is a relevant issue with social, economic, and environmental implications. It is related to the behavior of a driver approaching an intersection that, in its turn, is affected by kinematic and physiological v...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Road Traffic Engineering and Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
488 Views
14 Pages

Predictors of Post-Thyroidectomy Cervical Hematoma: Does Operative Start Time Matter? A Retrospective Single-Center Study

  • Ufuk Karabacak,
  • Hamdi Burak Piyade,
  • Murat Derebey,
  • Ayfer Kamali Polat and
  • Mahmut Basoglu

10 July 2026

Background/Objectives: Post-thyroidectomy cervical hematoma (PCH) is a rare but life-threatening complication that may require emergency airway management and reoperation. Although many patient-, disease-, and surgery-related risk factors have been i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Surgical Approaches in Thyroid, Breast, and Other Endocrine Cancers: Advances and Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,645 Views
22 Pages

1 September 2019

The grid connection of intermittent energy sources such as wind power and photovoltaic power generation brings new challenges for the economic and safe operation of renewable power systems. To address these challenges, a multi-time-scale active power...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Solar–Wind–Hydro Hybrid Energy System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,381 Views
26 Pages

22 October 2025

Reservoir operation serves as a critical non-structural measure for real-time flood management, aimed to minimize downstream flood damage while ensuring dam safety. This study develops and evaluates a Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU)-based reservoir operat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning Applications in the Water Domain)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,203 Views
21 Pages

5 June 2020

A real-time error correction operation model for an integrated energy system is proposed in this paper, based on the analysis of the real-time optimized operation structure of an integrated energy system and the characteristics of the system. The mod...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,887 Views
20 Pages

24 January 2023

A new version of a robot operating system (ROS-2) has been developed to address the real-time and fault constraints of distributed robotics applications. However, current implementations lack strong real-time scheduling and the optimization of respon...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,587 Views
16 Pages

31 July 2023

The pump system is the heart of the concrete pump truck, and its main function is to deliver high-pressure concrete into the pipeline through the reciprocating motion and cooperation of the main cylinder and the distribution valve driven by the swing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,041 Views
9 Pages

Comparison of Operative Times in Primary Bilateral Total Knee Arthroplasty Performed by a Single Surgeon

  • Yoshinori Ishii,
  • Hideo Noguchi,
  • Junko Sato,
  • Ikuko Takahashi and ,
  • Hana Ishii,
  • Ryo Ishii,
  • Kei Ishii and
  • Shin-ichi Toyabe
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

19 August 2022

Purpose: Prolonged operative time (OT) is associated with adverse complications after total knee arthroplasty (TKA). The purpose of this study was to determine whether preoperative factors, such as sex, age, body mass index, body weight (BW), body he...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Clinical Advances in Knee Surgery)
  • Article
  • Open Access
532 Views
12 Pages

Do Computed Tomography Findings Affect Operating Time in Bi-Lateral Sagittal Split Osteotomy? A Pilot Study

  • Kazuyuki Yusa,
  • Nobuyuki Sasahara,
  • Tomoharu Hemmi,
  • Satoshi Kasuya and ,
  • Kenta Kagami,
  • Kotaro Taniguchi and
  • Shigeo Ishikawa
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Background/Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the association between patient demographics and overall operating time during bilateral sagittal split osteotomy (BSSO). Methods: For this retrospective study, data were collected from...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery: Diagnosis and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,937 Views
31 Pages

Coordinated Vessel Arrival Time Prediction and Berth Allocation Optimization for Efficient Port Operations

  • Peng Fei,
  • Wu Ning,
  • Kecheng Li,
  • Xiyao Xu and ,
  • Xiumin Chu and
  • Chenguang Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Uncertainty in vessel arrival times can substantially reduce the efficiency of berth planning in port operations. To address this issue, this study proposes a unified, data-driven, predict-then-optimize framework that explicitly links vessel arrival...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Its Applications in Intelligent Ship Navigation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,407 Views
7 Pages

The Effect of Operating Temperature on the Response Time of Optically Driven Liquid Crystal Displays

  • Vladimir Chigrinov,
  • Jiatong Sun,
  • Mikhail M. Kuznetsov,
  • Victor Belyaev and
  • Denis Chausov

20 July 2020

Optically driven liquid crystal displays (ODLCDs) realizes their display function by tuning the easy axis of liquid crystal (LC) molecules under polarized blue light, which has been utilized in some optical devices due to its advantages of ultra-low...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Micro and Nano Patterned Substrates for Liquid Crystal Alignment (Volume II))
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,175 Views
15 Pages

25 May 2023

In this paper, operating room planning and scheduling problems have been studied. In operating room planning, the allocation of patients to operating rooms and their sequencing are critical in determining the performance of operating rooms. In this p...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,594 Views
13 Pages

22 May 2024

Background/Objectives: Periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) is a severe complication in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) with catastrophic outcomes. The relationship between prolonged operative times and PJI remains debated. This meta-analysis investiga...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advances in Hip and Knee Reconstructive Surgery)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,430 Views
19 Pages

26 November 2024

Rainwater pumping stations located near urban centers or agricultural areas help prevent flooding by activating an appropriate number of pumps with varying capacities based on real-time rainwater inflow. However, relying solely on rule-based pump ope...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,161 Views
18 Pages

31 January 2024

Gas turbine vibration data may exhibit considerable differences under time-varying conditions, which poses challenges for neural network anomaly detection. We first propose a framework for a gas turbine vibration frequency spectra process under time-...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Assisted Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,126 Views
21 Pages

24 February 2017

Container terminals (CTs) play an essential role in the global transportation system. To deal with growing container shipments, a CT needs to better solve the three essential seaside operational problems; berth allocation problem (BAP), quay crane as...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling, Simulation, Operation and Control of Discrete Event Systems)

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