In recent years, the Body Weight Support system has been considered to be an indispensable component in gait training systems, which be used to improve the ability to walk of hemiplegic, stroke, and spinal cord injury patients. Previous studies inves...
Urban infrastructure, such as water supply networks, sewage systems, and electricity networks, is essential for the functioning of cities and, consequently, for the well-being of citizens. Despite its essentiality, the distribution of infrastructure...
This literature review examines weighting schemes within Building Sustainability Assessment Systems (BSASs). Given the widespread adoption of BSASs and their direct link to significant economic benefits for investors and owners, weighting schemes ser...
The primary objective of this work is to develop a comprehensive theory of weighted fractional Sobolev spaces within the framework of timescales. To this end, we first introduce a novel class of weighted fractional operators and rigorously define ass...
Partial body weight support systems have proven to be a vital tool in performing physical therapy for patients with lower limb disabilities to improve gait. Developing this type of equipment requires rigorous design process that obtains a robust syst...
Alterations in sympathetic nervous activity are evident in response to changes in body weight. Sympathetic nervous activity and sympathetic responses to weight change are regionalized, with alterations in end organ function dependent on the changes o...
This article concerns the stability analysis of a control system for a dynamic body weight support system in a rehabilitation device for the re-education of human gait. The paper presents a physical model of the device, which characterizes the most i...
This paper examines the roles of the matrix weight elements in matrix-weighted consensus. The consensus algorithms dictate that all agents reach consensus when the weighted graph is connected. However, it is not always the case for matrix weighted gr...
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...
The multi-sensor information fusion particle filter (PF) has been put forward for nonlinear systems with correlated noises. The proposed algorithm uses the Taylor series expansion method, which makes the nonlinear measurement functions have a linear...
Engineering systems generally exhibit continuous state degradation in practical operation, and reliability evaluation is often challenged by data scarcity and uncertain component weights. Existing studies on weighted k-out-of-n systems mainly focus o...
This retrospective cohort study explored the prevalence of substantial weight loss (≥10% per year) in independent older individuals in order to develop and validate a scoring system for high-risk group identification and targeted intervention agai...
It has been pointed out that the act of carrying a heavy object that exceeds a certain weight by a worker at a construction site is a major factor that puts physical burden on the worker’s musculoskeletal system. However, due to the nature of the con...
Current evaluation methods for Dual-clutch Transmission (DCT) control systems typically focus on certain performance metrics while neglecting the assessment and quantitative diagnosis of system intelligence. To address this limitation, this paper emp...
It is difficult to correctly classify all faults by using only one classifier, and the performance of most classifiers varies under different conditions. In view of this, a new decision fusion system is proposed to solve the problem of fault classifi...
Distributed Energy System (DES), a comprehensive energy utilization system distributed on user side, has been recognized as a promising energy utilization method that can improve energy efficiency, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and achieve sustain...
Weight-on-Wheels (WoW) systems are aimed at indicating if the aircraft weight is loading onto the landing gear and its wheels, even partially. These systems are an integral part of the actuation system for safety-critical applications and shall provi...
Flocking navigation and obstacle avoidance in complex environments remain challenging for multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (multi-UAV) systems, especially when only one UAV (termed as information UAV) knows the predetermined path and the communicatio...
With the increasing shares of intermittent renewable sources in the grid, it becomes increasingly essential to quantify the requirements of the power systems flexibility. In this article, an adjusted weight flexibility metric (AWFM) is developed to q...
In the present paper, we deliver a reliability study of the weighted-r-consecutive-k-out-of-n: F reliability systems consisting of independent and identically distributed components. The signature vector of the structures is arithmetically determined...
A class of complex systems can be structurally decomposed into several typical multi-state weighted k/n systems. In view of this, this paper proposes a reliability model to evaluate the reliability of such systems. The system reliability evaluation p...
Accurately estimating the weight of a moving vehicle at normal speed remains a challenging problem due to the complex vehicle dynamics and vehicle–pavement interaction. The weighing technique based on multiple sensors has proven to be an effect...
In this paper, we study a non-linear weighted Grushin system including advection terms. We prove some Liouville-type theorems for stable solutions of the system, based on the comparison property and the bootstrap iteration. Our results generalise and...
Multi-state weighted k-out-of-n systems are widely applied in various scenarios, such as multiple line (power/oil transmission line) transmission systems where the capability of fault tolerance is desirable. However, the complex operating environment...
In Multi-Criteria Group Decision-Making (MCGDM), the assignment of weights to decision-makers is a crucial but methodologically delicate step, especially when the group includes both human experts and artificial experts such as intelligent agents, Ar...
This paper focuses on the equilibrium problem of an urban public transportation system with time delay. Time delay, multi-weights, and stochastic disturbances are considered in the urban public transportation system. Hence, one can regard the urban p...
In Greece, all cattle carcasses produced from a variety of breed types are classified according to the SEUROP system. The objective of this study was to evaluate Greek carcass characteristics such as carcass weight and age of slaughter based on SEURO...
Obesity and nutrients intake deficiencies may contribute to the clinical manifestations and inflammatory processes in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between nutritional status and dietary inta...
We addressed the fusion estimation problem for nonlinear multisensory systems. Based on the Gauss–Hermite approximation and weighted least square criterion, an augmented high-dimension measurement from all sensors was compressed into a lower dimensio...
Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have been widely applied in various fields. However, in real-world application, because most devices like mobile phones are limited to the storage capacity when processing real-time information, an over-parameterized...
With the rapid development of networked cyber-physical systems, the coordinated control of heterogeneous multi-agent systems has attracted increasing attention in applications such as autonomous vehicles, robotic arms, and distributed sensor networks...
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(1) Background: The Strengthening Program for Intensive Developmental Exercises and Activities for Reaching Health Capability (SPIDER) system is dedicated to patients with motor deficits resulting from damage to the peripheral or central nervous syst...
In the realm of recommender systems, the prediction of diverse customer preferences has emerged as a compelling research challenge, particularly for multi-state business organizations operating across various geographical regions. Collaborative filte...
In independent renewable energy systems (RESs), one of the primary concerns needing to be addressed is the maintaining of power balances between supplies and requirements that are cost-optimized in residences linked to these systems. The amount of po...
By using a weighted average dwell time approach, the finite-region stability and stabilization problems are investigated for a class of two-dimensional switched systems with actuator saturation in the Fornasini–Marchesini local state-space mode...
The development of new electric power system is a requirement for China to realize its “carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals”, so it is of great importance that we assess the stability of a new electric power system under certain co...
We present and analyze a weighted family of iterative methods for solving systems of nonlinear equations. The proposed schemes are constructed as a generalization of the Singh–Sharma fifth-order method by incorporating suitable weight functions...
Generalized incommensurate fractional differential systems (GIFDSs) unify classical fractional frameworks via weight functions, capturing non-uniform multicomponent system dynamics. This paper fills a critical research gap by analyzing GIFDSs for bot...
Rapid weight loss (RWL) is a common strategy among combat sports athletes aiming for a competitive advantage. However, it imposes significant immunological stress that compromises both innate and adaptive immune defenses. This systematic review synth...
Implementation of hybrid energy system (HES) is generally considered as a promising way to satisfy the electrification requirements for remote areas. In the present study, a novel decision making methodology is proposed to identify the best compromis...
Accurate, scalable, and outlier-robust state estimation (SE) is critical for large AC power systems with mixed SCADA and PMU measurements. This paper proposes D-BSE-L1, a distributed robust state estimator for the bilinear AC model. The method combin...
Non-attributed graph sequence offers a powerful formalism for modeling the structural dynamics of complex systems—such as social networks, urban infrastructures, and document transmission pathways—where vertex interactions evolve over tim...
Multidimensional educational constructs are often summarised using additive scores, although such summaries may obscure how component states co-occur within individuals. To address this problem, this model-development and calibration study develops a...
Investigating how systemic risk originates and spreads across the financial system poses an inherently compositional question, i.e., a question concerning the joint distribution of relative risk share across several interdependent contributors. To ad...
Background: Chronic low-grade systemic inflammation is a characteristic of obesity that leads to various non-communicable diseases. Weight loss and SCFAs are potential strategies for attenuating obese systemic inflammation. Methods: Blood samples wer...
Regional Integrated Energy Systems (RIESs) are pivotal in the low-carbon transition of energy-intensive hospital campuses. However, traditional multi-objective optimization for RIES planning often suffers from the subjective selection of weights, lea...
This paper presents new optimal eighth-order families with weight functions for solving nonlinear systems, obtained as a generalization of the first optimal eighth-order CTT8 method introduced by Cordero, Torregrosa and Triguero-Navarro. The proposed...
SMK XYZ is a private school under Yayasan Pembina Pendidikan Doa Bangsa (YPPDB) which was established in 2011. The school has several expertise programs, including Software Engineering, Institutional Accounting and Finance, and Motorcycle Business En...
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This paper describes the design of the LIKE programme, which aims to tackle the complex problem of childhood overweight and obesity in 10–14-year-old adolescents using a systems dynamics and participatory approach. The LIKE programme focuses on...
Objective: The intrauterine environment is known to affect the offspring’s long-term risk for obesity and diabetes. Previous data show that maternal metabolism and gestational weight gain (GWG) are associated with fetal autonomic nervous system...
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