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29 December 2023

In this retrospective study to determine the optimal method of evaluating static weight-bearing distribution to assess response to treatment in dogs with osteoarthritis using a weight distribution platform, data from the Clinica Veterinária de...

(This article belongs to the Section Veterinary Clinical Studies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,956 Views
13 Pages

1 April 2022

The molecular weight distribution is an important factor that affects the properties of polymers. A control algorithm based on the moment-generating function was proposed to regulate the molecular weight distribution for polymerization processes in t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy and Stochastic Distribution Optimization for Large-Scale Dynamical Systems)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,056 Views
19 Pages

31 May 2024

This paper describes control methods to improve electric vehicle performance in terms of handling, stability and cornering by adjusting the weight distribution and implementing control systems (e.g., wheel slip control, and yaw rate control). The veh...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Sensing and Safety Control for Connected and Automated Vehicles: Volume Ⅱ)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,704 Views
14 Pages

Balance and Weight Distribution over the Lower Limbs Following Calcaneal Fracture Treatment with the Ilizarov Method

  • Marcin Pelc,
  • Krystian Kazubski,
  • Wiktor Urbański,
  • Paweł Leyko and ,
  • Joanna Kochańska-Bieri,
  • Łukasz Tomczyk,
  • Grzegorz Konieczny and
  • Piotr Morasiewicz
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

14 March 2024

Background: The biomechanical outcomes of intra-articular calcaneal fracture treatment have not been fully explored. The purpose of this study was to analyze pedobarographic assessments of balance and body weight distribution over the lower limbs in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery)
  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,652 Views
7 Pages

Lifetime Weight Cycling and Central Fat Distribution in Females With Obesity: A Brief Report

  • Hana Tannir,
  • Leila Itani,
  • Dana El Masri,
  • Dima Kreidieh and
  • Marwan El Ghoch

Weight cycling (WC) is a common phenomenon in patients with obesity, however, its consequence on body composition has not yet been fully understood. Therefore, we aimed to determine whether multiple WC can negatively affect the latter, especially in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exclusive Papers of the Editorial Board Members (EBMs) of Diseases)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,030 Views
16 Pages

The transition to heavy-duty electric vehicles (HDEVs) offers substantial environmental benefits but raises concerns about increased pavement deterioration due to the added mass of large battery packs. A key research question is whether additional st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,589 Views
13 Pages

Optimization of Glutamine Peptide Production from Soybean Meal and Analysis of Molecular Weight Distribution of Hydrolysates

  • Yanli Xie,
  • Xinhong Liang,
  • Min Wei,
  • Wenhong Zhao and ,
  • Baoshan He,
  • Qiyu Lu,
  • Quangong Huo and
  • Chengye Ma
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

18 June 2012

The process parameters of enzymatic hydrolysis and molecular weight distribution of glutamine (Gln) peptides from soybean meal were investigated. The Protamex® hydrolysis pH of 6.10, temperature of 56.78 °C, enzyme to substrate ratio (E/S) of 1.90 an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Enzyme Optimization and Immobilization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,885 Views
15 Pages

A Novel Method for Dynamic Molecular Weight Distribution Determination in Organometallic Catalyzed Olefin Polymerizations

  • Masoud Shiri,
  • Mahmoud Parvazinia,
  • Ali Akbar Yousefi,
  • Naeimeh Bahri-Laleh and
  • Albert Poater

28 September 2022

In this study, a mathematical model for the time evolution of molecular weight distribution (MWD) was developed. This temporal model is based on the well-known Ziegler–Natta polymerization mechanism and reaction kinetics by the parametric solvi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Catalytic Materials: State-of-the-Art and Perspectives in Spain)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,615 Views
19 Pages

18 January 2024

With the increasing demand for high-end materials, trimodal polyethylene (PE) has become a research hotspot in recent years due to its superior performance compared with bimodal PE. By means of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, we aim to expound t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Molecular Simulation of Polymers)
  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,623 Views
16 Pages

7 September 2025

Manipulating polymer crystallization behavior and structure without altering chemical composition remains a core challenge in polymer crystallography. Molecular weight, as an intrinsic material property, governs the crystallization process from nucle...

(This article belongs to the Section Materials Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,479 Views
15 Pages

14 June 2022

Wax is an important factor that affects the durability of asphalt binder. In order to understand the molecular weight distribution and branching of wax on the moisture sensitivity of asphalt binder, pure wax-doped asphalt binders are prepared and the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Performance-Related Material Properties of Asphalt Mixture Components)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,839 Views
15 Pages

Effect of Circadian Distribution of Energy and Macronutrients on Gestational Weight Gain in Chinese Pregnant Women

  • Wenjuan Xiong,
  • Shanshan Cui,
  • Jia Dong,
  • Yuanyuan Su and ,
  • Yu Han,
  • Zhiyi Qu,
  • Shihao Jin,
  • Zhi Li,
  • Lei Gao and
  • Xin Zhang
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

27 April 2023

Gestational weight gain (GWG) may be affected by the timing of dietary intake. Previous studies have reported contradictory findings, possibly due to inconsistent characterizations of meal timing. We conducted a birth cohort study in Tianjin to deter...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dietary Patterns and Nutrient Intake in Pregnant Women)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,330 Views
19 Pages

21 November 2025

Jellyfish, as high-biomass marine resources, frequently exhibit explosive proliferation in coastal waters and possess both nutritional functional factors and potential medicinal value. This study investigated the enzymatic hydrolysis of two jellyfish...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,073 Views
24 Pages

Multi-Level Dynamic Weight Optimization Scheduling Strategy for Flexible Interconnected Distribution Substations Based on Three-Port SNOPs

  • Dan Pang,
  • Zhipeng Wang,
  • Xiaomeng Shi,
  • Jinming Ge and ,
  • Zhenhao Wang,
  • Hongyin Yi,
  • Yan Zhuang,
  • Yu Yin and
  • Wei Wang
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

8 May 2025

By using a soft normal open point (SNOP) to connect multiple distribution networks to form a flexible interconnected distribution system (FIDS), the power distribution can be flexibly and controllably regulated among distribution stations, but it is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
1,438 Views
23 Pages

Optimal Distribution Network Reconfiguration Using Particle Swarm Optimization-Simulated Annealing: Adaptive Inertia Weight Based on Simulated Annealing

  • Franklin Jesus Simeon Pucuhuayla,
  • Dionicio Zocimo Ñaupari Huatuco,
  • Yuri Percy Molina Rodriguez and
  • Jhonatan Reyes Llerena

17 October 2025

The reconfiguration of distribution networks plays a crucial role in minimizing active power losses and enhancing reliability, but the problem becomes increasingly complex with the integration of distributed generation (DG). Traditional optimization...

(This article belongs to the Section F5: Artificial Intelligence and Smart Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,242 Views
12 Pages

Security Risk Intelligent Assessment of Power Distribution Internet of Things via Entropy-Weight Method and Cloud Model

  • Siyuan Cai,
  • Wei Wei,
  • Deng Chen,
  • Jianping Ju and ,
  • Yanduo Zhang,
  • Wei Liu and
  • Zhaohui Zheng
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

21 June 2022

The current power distribution Internet of Things (PDIoT) lacks security protection terminals and techniques. Network security has a large exposure surface that can be attacked from multiple paths. In addition, there are many network security vulnera...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human-Robot Interaction for Intelligent Education and Engineering Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,234 Views
20 Pages

4 April 2023

It is challenging to predict the molecular weight distribution (MWD) for a polymer with a branched architecture, though such information will significantly benefit the design and development of branched polymers with desired properties and functions....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on Polymer Simulation, Modeling and Computation)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,945 Views
14 Pages

Porous Organic Polymers-Supported Zeigler-Natta Catalysts for Preparing Highly Isotactic Polypropylene with Broad Molecular Weight Distribution

  • Xiong Wang,
  • Dong Wu,
  • Xuemei Mu,
  • Wenqian Kang and ,
  • Guangquan Li,
  • Anping Huang and
  • Yuan Xie
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

21 January 2023

Porous organic polymers (POPs) have attracted much attention in numerous areas, including catalysis, adsorption and separation. Herein, POP supported Ziegler–Natta catalysts were designed for preparation of isotactic polypropylene (iPP). The PO...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Porous Organic Polymers (POPs)—Synthesis, Design, Structural Characterization and Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,911 Views
28 Pages

31 December 2021

A significantly improved thermal pyrolysis process for polystyrene (PS) is reported and mathematically modeled, including the description of the time evolution of the full molecular weight distribution of the polymer during its degradation by direct...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Polymer Reaction Modeling and Kinetics)
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  • Open Access
57 Citations
5,213 Views
27 Pages

16 June 2020

Electric vehicles (EVs) parking lots are representing significant charging loads for relatively a long period of time. Therefore, the aggregated charging load of EVs may coincide with the peak demand of the distribution power system and can greatly s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Integration of Electric Vehicles and Battery Storage Systems)
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  • Open Access
130 Citations
13,266 Views
12 Pages

27 January 2014

As a by-product of oil production, walnut proteins are considered as an additional source of plant protein for human food. To make full use of the protein resource, a comprehensive understanding of composition and characteristics of walnut proteins a...

(This article belongs to the Section Biochemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,213 Views
14 Pages

Body Weight Distribution and Body Sway in Healthy Female Adults Aged between 51 and 60 Years in Germany—Standard Values

  • Daniela Ohlendorf,
  • Julia Keller,
  • Polyna Sosnov,
  • Hanns Ackermann and ,
  • Fee Keil,
  • Christian Maurer-Grubinger,
  • Fabian Holzgreve,
  • Gerhard Oremek and
  • David A. Groneberg
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

24 September 2022

Background: In order to determine possible pathological deviations in body weight distribution and body sway, it is helpful to have reference values for comparison: gender and age are two main influencing factors. For this reason, it was the aim of t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sports Medicine and Injury Prevention)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,852 Views
17 Pages

11 November 2022

The origin of hydrogen–hydrocarbon gases present in the rocks of the Khibiny massif in unusually high concentrations has been the subject of many years of discussion. To assess the role of potential mechanisms and relative time of formation of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Critical Metal-Bearing Mineral Deposits)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,143 Views
19 Pages

14 October 2023

Brewer’s spent grain (BSG) is the most abundant residual in the brewing process. Non-starch polysaccharides such as 1,3-1,4-β-D-glucan (β-glucan) and arabinoxylan (AX) with proven beneficial effects on human health remain in this by-p...

(This article belongs to the Section Food Physics and (Bio)Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,144 Views
20 Pages

On a Modified Weighted Exponential Distribution with Applications

  • Christophe Chesneau,
  • Vijay Kumar,
  • Mukti Khetan and
  • Mohd Arshad

Practitioners in all applied domains value simple and adaptable lifetime distributions. They make it possible to create statistical models that are relatively easy to manage. A novel simple lifetime distribution with two parameters is proposed in thi...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,336 Views
19 Pages

28 October 2025

To address the challenge of treating reverse osmosis concentrate (ROC) in municipal wastewater reclamation processes, this study systematically investigated changes in ozone demand, organic compound molecular weight distribution, UV/fluorescence char...

(This article belongs to the Topic Wastewater Treatment by Physical, Chemical, Photochemical, and Biological Processes, and Their Combinations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,769 Views
14 Pages

Slash-Weighted Lindley Distribution: Properties, Inference, and Applications

  • Jaime S. Castillo,
  • Inmaculada Barranco-Chamorro,
  • Osvaldo Venegas and
  • Héctor W. Gómez

19 September 2023

The slash-weighted Lindley model is introduced due to the need to obtain a model with more kurtosis than the weighted Lindley distribution. Several expressions for the pdf of this model are given. Its cumulative distribution function is expressed in...

(This article belongs to the Section D1: Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,453 Views
21 Pages

24 April 2024

Skewness and bimodality properties are frequently observed when analyzing environmental data such as wind speeds, precipitation levels, and ambient temperatures. As an alternative to modeling data exhibiting these properties, we propose a flexible ex...

(This article belongs to the Section D1: Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,138 Views
16 Pages

8 September 2023

In this paper, we consider the problem of discriminating among three different positively skewed lifetime distributions, namely the generalized exponential distribution, the weighted exponential distribution, and the Weibull distribution. All of thes...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Current Developments in Theoretical and Applied Statistics)
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  • Open Access
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Description of Molecular Weight Distributions in Fischer–Tropsch Synthesis via Multiexponential Decomposition

  • Konstantin A. Tereshchenko,
  • Nikolai V. Ulitin,
  • Anastasia V. Vertepa and
  • Alexander S. Novikov
Computation2026, 14(11), 283;https://doi.org/10.3390/computation14110283 
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7 November 2026

The classical Anderson–Schulz–Flory distribution does not describe many experimental molecular weight distributions of Fischer–Tropsch synthesis products. We derive a general molecular weight distribution equation within the class o...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,771 Views
16 Pages

12 June 2024

Monitoring the parameter of discrete distributions is common in industrial production. Also, it is often crucial to monitor the parameter of geometric distribution, which is often regarded as the nonconforming item rate. To enhance the detection of n...

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  • Open Access
168 Views
27 Pages

15 October 2026

Primary technique: Construction of a new Weighted Log-Kumaraswamy lifetime distribution using the weighted general family of distributions. In this paper, a new three-parameter lifetime model, called the Weighted Log-Kumaraswamy Distribution (WLKD),...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,541 Views
17 Pages

21 February 2023

Estimation based on probability-weighted moments is a well-established method and an excellent alternative to the classic method of moments or the maximum likelihood method, especially for small sample sizes. In this research, we developed a new clas...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Statistical Methods and Extreme Value Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,512 Views
13 Pages

Many estimation methods have been proposed for the parameters of statistical distribution. The least squares estimation method, based on a regression model or probability plot, is frequently used by practitioners since its implementation procedure is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,453 Views
19 Pages

12 January 2017

This paper examines the distribution dynamics of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions intensity across 30 Chinese provinces using a weighted distribution dynamics approach. The results show that CO2 emissions intensity tends to diverge during the sample pe...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,916 Views
16 Pages

Exploring the Alterations in the Distribution of Neural Network Weights in Dementia Due to Alzheimer’s Disease

  • Marcos Revilla-Vallejo,
  • Jesús Poza,
  • Javier Gomez-Pilar,
  • Roberto Hornero and ,
  • Miguel Ángel Tola-Arribas,
  • Mónica Cano and
  • Carlos Gómez
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

22 April 2021

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder which has become an outstanding social problem. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the alterations that dementia due to AD elicits in the distribution of functional network weight...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy in Brain Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,389 Views
9 Pages

The concept of length-biased distribution is applied in expending proper models for lifetime data. The length-biased distribution is a special case of well-known weighted distribution. In this article, we introduce a length-biased weighted Lomax dist...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,810 Views
22 Pages

15 July 2023

The review is dedicated to the topical field of research aimed at creating catalysts combining several types of active sites. At the same time, the composition of Fischer–Tropsch synthesis (FTS) products can be controlled by changing the streng...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Traditional and Innovative Catalysts for Reactions of Industrial Interest)
  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,121 Views
18 Pages

Apparent Molecular Weight Distributions in Bituminous Binders

  • Giovanni Polacco,
  • Miriam Cappello,
  • Giacomo Cuciniello and
  • Sara Filippi

5 July 2022

Molecular weight distributions are widely used to evaluate the effects of aging or modifiers in bituminous binders. As with polymers, the most common techniques to obtain the distributions can be subdivided into two main groups, depending on whether...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction and Building Materials)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,624 Views
23 Pages

19 August 2022

Many similarity measure algorithms of nodes in weighted graph data have been proposed by employing the degree of nodes in recent years. Despite these algorithms obtaining great results, there may be still some limitations. For instance, the strength...

(This article belongs to the Collection Graphs and Networks from an Algorithmic Information Perspective)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,638 Views
20 Pages

14 January 2019

Modern cognitive psychologists believe that the decision act of cognitive bias on decision results is universal. To reduce their negative effect on dual hesitant fuzzy decision-making, we propose three weighting methods based on distribution characte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,679 Views
20 Pages

28 September 2022

The weighted exponential distribution is a promising skewed distribution in the life-testing experiment. The joint progressive type-II censoring (JPC) scheme is an effective approach to reducing costs. In this paper, we consider the estimates of para...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Statistics and Data Science)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,855 Views
20 Pages

26 February 2020

Approximation and uncertainty quantification methods based on Lagrange interpolation are typically abandoned in cases where the probability distributions of one or more system parameters are not normal, uniform, or closely related distributions, due...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Methods and Applications of Uncertainty Quantification in Engineering and Science)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
329 Views
17 Pages

2 September 2026

In this paper, we derive complete weight distributions and solve constrained optimization problems for affine-half coordinate extensions of a known family of partial-spread minimal binary codes. The extended code has length 2m+2m−1−1 and...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,538 Views
14 Pages

Adaptive Weighted Error-Correction Method Based on the Error Distribution Characteristics of Multi-Channel Alignment

  • Peiyu Song,
  • Weibo Wang,
  • Biwei Wu,
  • Limin Zou and ,
  • Tianpeng Zhan,
  • Jiubin Tan and
  • Xuemei Ding
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

26 April 2024

As process nodes of advanced integrated circuits continue to decrease below 10 nm, the requirement for overlay accuracy is becoming stricter. The alignment sensor measures the position of the alignment mark relative to the wafer; thus, sub-nanometer...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optical Instruments and Sensors and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,460 Views
16 Pages

24 August 2023

Aiming at the problem of distributed state estimation in sensor networks, a novel optimal distributed finite-time fusion filtering method based on dynamic communication weights has been developed. To tackle the fusion errors caused by incomplete node...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Sensing, Control and Optimization of Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,402 Views
17 Pages

13 May 2020

Due to various regulations (e.g., the Basel III Accord), banks need to keep a specified amount of capital to reduce the impact of their insolvency. This equity can be calculated using, e.g., the Internal Rating Approach, enabling institutions to deve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Statistical Machine Learning for Multimodal Data Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,041 Views
17 Pages

7 September 2020

In this paper, a novel distributed scheduling scheme for an ad-hoc network is proposed. Specifically, the throughput and the delay of packets with different importance are flexibly adjusted by quantifying the importance as weight factors. In this sch...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks: Protocols and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
698 Views
19 Pages

12 April 2026

With the interconnection and intercommunication of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, the security risks of Power Distribution Internet of Things (PDIoT) systems have increased accordingly. How to monitor and assess these risks has become a key issue...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theory and Entropy Methods in Security Information Processing and Its Applications)

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