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33 Citations
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Forecasting Renewable Energy Consumption under Zero Assumptions

  • Jie Ma,
  • Amos Oppong,
  • Kingsley Nketia Acheampong and
  • Lucille Aba Abruquah

25 February 2018

Renewable energy, as an environmentally friendly and sustainable source of energy, is key to realizing the nationally determined contributions of the United States (US) to the December 2015 Paris agreement. Policymakers in the US rely on energy forec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,769 Views
11 Pages

20 September 2022

Zero-velocity assumption has been used for estimation of foot trajectory and stride length during running from the data of foot-mounted inertial measurement units (IMUs). Although the assumption provides a reasonable initialization for foot trajector...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,592 Views
18 Pages

19 October 2023

This paper considers nonparametric regression estimation with errors in the variables. It is a standard assumption that the characteristic function of the covariate error does not vanish on the real line. This assumption is rather strong. In this pap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,211 Views
19 Pages

Black-Box Modelling of Low-Switching-Frequency Power Inverters for EMC Analyses in Renewable Power Systems

  • Lu Wan,
  • Abduselam Hamid Beshir,
  • Xinglong Wu,
  • Xiaokang Liu,
  • Flavia Grassi,
  • Giordano Spadacini,
  • Sergio Amedeo Pignari,
  • Michele Zanoni,
  • Liliana Tenti and
  • Riccardo Chiumeo

9 June 2021

Electromagnetic interference (EMI) from renewable power systems to the grid attracts more attention especially in the low-frequency range, due to the low switching frequency of high-power inverters. It is significantly important to derive EMI models...

  • Article
  • Open Access
732 Views
18 Pages

Non-zero differential initial values hinder the application of fractional operator theory in practical systems. This paper proposes a differential initial values zeroing method, decomposing functions with non-zero differential initial values into a c...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,221 Views
22 Pages

5 October 2022

In the present paper, we investigate the financial homogeneity of the euro area economies by contrasting eurozone countries’ responses to monetary policy steps to the theoretical assumptions of the liquidity trap phenomenon. Our assumption is t...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,117 Views
16 Pages

Centrally Extended Jordan (∗)-Derivations Centralizing Symmetric or Skew Elements

  • Amal S. Alali,
  • Hafedh M. Alnoghashi and
  • Nadeem ur Rehman

14 January 2023

Let A be a non-commutative prime ring with involution ∗, of characteristic ≠2(and3), with Z as the center of A and Π a mapping Π:A→A such that [Π(x),x]∈Z for all (skew) symmetric elements x∈A. If Π is a non-zero C...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,804 Views
17 Pages

25 November 2023

We suggest a new statement of the inverse spectral problem for Sturm–Liouville-type operators with constant delay. This inverse problem consists of recovering the coefficient (often referred to as potential) of the delayed term in the correspon...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,474 Views
16 Pages

17 August 2022

The estimation of boundary shear stress distribution in a channel is a challenge in some hydraulic or environment investigations. A new partition model of a trapezoidal cross-section in a prismatic channel with composite roughness has been introduced...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,364 Views
20 Pages

18 April 2018

The plasmasphere, which is located above the ionosphere, is a significant component of Earth’s atmosphere, and the plasmasphere electron content (PEC) distribution is determined by different physical mechanisms to those of the ionosphere electron con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,639 Views
20 Pages

Modeling Proportion Data with Inflation by Using a Power-Skew-Normal/Logit Mixture Model

  • Guillermo Martínez-Flórez,
  • Hector W. Gomez and
  • Roger Tovar-Falón

20 August 2021

Rate or proportion data are modeled by using a regression model. The considered regression model can be used for studying phenomena with a response on the (0, 1), [0, 1), (0, 1], or [0, 1] intervals. To connect the response variable with the linear p...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,376 Views
18 Pages

The near-field wave problem of the saturated soil involves the energy radiation effect of the truncated infinite media. A viscous spring boundary is proposed for the fluid-saturated porous media. Based on the process of wave propagation under interna...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
964 Views
14 Pages

9 December 2024

The quantum electromagnetic (EM) field is formulated in the Weyl–Wigner representation (WW), which is equivalent to the standard Hilbert space one (HS). In principle, it is possible to interpret within WW all experiments involving the EM field...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,401 Views
18 Pages

27 March 2024

In continuum physics the dissipation principle, first proposed by Coleman and Noll in 1963, regards second law of thermodynamics as a unilateral differential constraint on the constitutive equations. In 1996, Muschik and Ehrentraut provided a rigorou...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,666 Views
17 Pages

6 May 2020

In this article, we establish a new Mann-type method combining both inertial terms and errors to find a fixed point of a nonexpansive mapping in a Hilbert space. We show strong convergence of the iterate under some appropriate assumptions in order to...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,468 Views
10 Pages

A Fuzzy-Statistical Tolerance Interval from Residuals of Crisp Linear Regression Models

  • Maryam Al-Kandari,
  • Kingsley Adjenughwure and
  • Kyriakos Papadopoulos

25 August 2020

Linear regression is a simple but powerful tool for prediction. However, it still suffers from some deficiencies, which are related to the assumptions made when using a model like normality of residuals, uncorrelated errors, where the mean of residua...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,423 Views
10 Pages

30 March 2022

This review presents an overview of the statistical methods on differential abundance (DA) analysis for mass spectrometry (MS)-based metabolomic data. MS has been widely used for metabolomic abundance profiling in biological samples. The high-through...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,318 Views
20 Pages

6 July 2018

In order to implement sustainable economic policies, realistic and high accuracy demand projections are key to drawing and implementing realizable environmentally-friendly energy policies. However, some core energy models projections depict considera...

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  • Open Access
994 Views
27 Pages

A Comparative Analysis of Waste-as-a-Feedstock Accounting Methods in Life Cycle Assessments

  • Tyler W. Davis,
  • Roksana Mahmud,
  • Shannon McNaul,
  • Matthew Jamieson and
  • Eric Lewis

24 September 2025

Global waste generation is a ubiquitous challenge, driving a paradigm shift towards viewing waste as a valuable resource for a circular economy across diverse sectors. While innovative waste-to-resource pathways are crucial, rigorous Life Cycle Asses...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,518 Views
34 Pages

The paper studies a class of nonlinear disturbed neutral linear fractional systems with derivatives in the the Riemann–Liouville sense and distributed delays. First, it is proved that the initial problem for these systems with discontinuous ini...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,500 Views
10 Pages

12 April 2022

In automobile insurance, it is common to adopt a Poisson regression model to predict the number of claims as part of the actuarial pricing process. The Poisson assumption can rarely be justified, often due to overdispersion, and alternative modeling...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,085 Views
12 Pages

Modeling and Reliability Analysis of MEMS Gyroscope Rotor Parameters under Vibrational Stress

  • Lei Wang,
  • Yuehong Pan,
  • Kai Li,
  • Lilong He,
  • Qingyi Wang and
  • Weidong Wang

Vibrational environments can cause drift or changes in Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) gyroscope rotor parameters, potentially impacting their performance. To improve the effective use of MEMS gyroscopes, this study introduced a method for eva...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,384 Views
15 Pages

This paper presents a model-based and neural network-based innovative design of single-ended transistor resonant DC/AC converters with zero voltage switching (ZVS). A characteristic of the proposed design method is that the determination of the circu...

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  • Open Access
1,740 Views
17 Pages

We consider a Cauchy problem for the inhomogeneous differential equation given in terms of an unbounded linear operator A and the Caputo fractional derivative of order α∈(0,2) in time. The previously known representation of the mild soluti...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,179 Views
12 Pages

5 December 2017

In this paper, first we show that under the assumption of the center of h being zero, diagonal non-abelian extensions of a regular Hom-Lie algebra g by a regular Hom-Lie algebra h are in one-to-one correspondence with Hom-Lie algebr...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,987 Views
20 Pages

16 February 2023

Smart mobility supports smart city ideas and concepts. A consequences of smart mobility activities are more wide and common using electromobility. There is no doubt that electromobility is a global trend that unequivocally supports the principles of...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,374 Views
26 Pages

8 November 2022

Electrical conductivity and piezoresistivity of carbon nanotube (CNT) nanocomposites are analyzed by nodal analysis for aligned and random CNT networks dependent on the intrinsic CNT conductivity and tunneling barrier values. In the literature, these...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,224 Views
16 Pages

23 October 2020

The electromechanical impedance model of the piezoelectric ceramics in a free state can be used for screening and quality control in the structural health monitoring community, but the derivation process of the existing model is usually complicated....

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  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,675 Views
11 Pages

16 January 2021

The United Nations Agenda 2030 contains 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs). These goals are formulated in anthropocentric terms, meaning that they are to be achieved for the sake of humans. As such, the SDGs are neglecting the interests and welf...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,837 Views
20 Pages

30 May 2025

The comparison of covariance matrices is one of the most important assumptions in many multivariate hypothesis tests, such as Hotelling T2 and MANOVA. The sample covariance matrix, however, is singular in high-dimensional data when the variable numbe...

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  • Open Access
907 Views
21 Pages

29 July 2025

Wildlife–vehicle collisions (WVCs) remain a significant cause of animal mortality worldwide, particularly in regions experiencing rapid road network expansion. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of studies reported decreased WVC rates, attr...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,292 Views
9 Pages

10 October 2014

We show that the recent results on the Fundamental Theorem of Asset Pricing and the super-hedging theorem in the context of model uncertainty can be extended to the case in which the options available for static hedging (hedging options) are quoted w...

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3,772 Views
6 Pages

26 January 2023

We study the effects of trans-Planckian censorship conjecture (TCC) bounds on geodesic completeness of spacetime and the associated existence for an infinite proper time. Using Gronwall’s lemma, TCC bounds can be derived directly, leading to a...

  • Entry
  • Open Access
10 Citations
14,115 Views
14 Pages

Zero Trust Cybersecurity: Procedures and Considerations in Context

  • Brady D. Lund,
  • Tae-Hee Lee,
  • Ziang Wang,
  • Ting Wang and
  • Nishith Reddy Mannuru

11 October 2024

In response to the increasing complexity and sophistication of cyber threats, particularly those enhanced by advancements in artificial intelligence, traditional security methods are proving insufficient. This paper provides an overview of the zero-t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,609 Views
14 Pages

The motivations for the move to electrified vehicles are discussed with reference to their improved energy efficiency, their potential for lower CO2 emissions (if the electricity system is decarbonized), their lower (or zero) NOx/particulate matter (...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,189 Views
16 Pages

15 July 2021

To perform technology analysis, we usually search patent documents related to target technology. In technology analysis using statistics and machine learning algorithms, we have to transform the patent documents into structured data that is a matrix...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,951 Views
23 Pages

30 July 2014

The study deals with two conceptual problems in the theory of Stark broadening by plasmas. One problem is the assumption of the density matrix diagonality in the calculation of spectral line profiles. This assumption is closely related to the definit...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,133 Views
11 Pages

3 July 2019

We consider de Finetti’s stochastic control problem when the (controlled) process is allowed to spend time under the critical level. More precisely, we consider a generalized version of this control problem in a spectrally negative Lévy...

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  • Open Access
747 Views
13 Pages

9 October 2025

In this paper, we develop a fully discrete finite element scheme, based on a second-order backward differentiation formula (BDF2), for numerically solving the three-dimensional incompressible Navier–Stokes equations. Under the assumption that t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,626 Views
19 Pages

Analysis of Cushioned Landing Strategies of Cats Based on Posture Estimation

  • Li Zhang,
  • Liangliang Han,
  • Haohang Liu,
  • Rui Shi,
  • Meiyang Zhang,
  • Weijun Wang and
  • Xuyan Hou

13 November 2024

This article addresses the challenge of minimizing landing impacts for legged space robots during on-orbit operations. Inspired by the agility of cats, we investigate the role of forelimbs in the landing process. By identifying the kinematic chain of...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,627 Views
13 Pages

19 September 2020

The mean-field model is one of the basic models of the dynamo theory, which describes the magnetic field generation in a turbulent astrophysical plasma. The first mean-field equations were obtained by Steenbeck, Krause and Rädler for two-scale t...

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  • Open Access
42 Citations
7,288 Views
28 Pages

8 February 2021

This paper focuses on effects of implementing zero-emission buses in public transport fleets in urban areas in the context of electromobility assumptions. It fills the literature gap in the area of research on the impact of the energy mix of a given...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,770 Views
15 Pages

An Improved Winkler Foundation Modulus for a Beam in a Full Space

  • Lihui Xu,
  • Mi Zhao,
  • Jingqi Huang,
  • Huifang Li,
  • Xiuli Du,
  • Xu Zhao and
  • Shengtao Cao

8 March 2024

The Winkler foundation modulus is key to evaluating the response of underground structures using the elastic foundation beam model. In this paper, an improved formula of the Winkler foundation modulus for a beam embedded in a full space is proposed t...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,040 Views
12 Pages

13 September 2024

Conventional analytical formulas for predicting the effective Young’s modulus of porous materials often rely on simplifying assumptions and do not explicitly incorporate microstructural information. This study investigates the impact of regular...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,491 Views
22 Pages

13 December 2021

The fragmentation rate function connects the fundamental drop breakup process with the resulting drop size distribution and is central to understanding or modeling emulsification processes. There is a large interest in being able to reliably measure...

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  • Open Access
1,628 Views
11 Pages

4 January 2023

As the integration of electronic-interfaced devices have increased, microgrid models have become too complex to perform a stability analysis. Thus, an effective model simplification method keeping most dynamics of the system becomes very essential. S...

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