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Achterberg, M.A. (author)
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disruptive impact on healthcare systems and everyday life of the majority of the people around the globe. Despite many years of research on network epidemiology, many key aspects of disease transmission and in particular the response of people to the spread of a disease, remain poorly understood. On the basis of...
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Xu, Ying (author), Casalino, D. (author), Zhang, Xiao Zheng (author), Zhang, Yong Bin (author), Bi, Chuan Xing (author)
A time-domain inverse aeroacoustic method based on the convective Ffowcs Williams–Hawkings equation is presented. The method allows to determine, in real-time, the unsteady forces exerted on rotating blades in the presence of a moving medium. The inversion procedure is based on a space-time regularization with a mixed l1,2-norm, which guarantees...
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Ni, Xinrui (author), Hu, Wei (author), Fan, Q. (author), Cui, Yibing (author), Qi, Chongkai (author)
Artificial bee colony (ABC) is a prominent algorithm that offers great exploration capabilities among various meta-heuristic algorithms. However, its monotonous and one-dimensional search strategy limits its searching performance in the solving process. Thus, to address this issue, a Q-learning based multi-strategy integrated ABC algorithm ...
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de Buisonjé, David R. (author), Reijnders, T. (author), Cohen Rodrigues, Talia R. (author), Santhanam, Prabhakaran (author), Kowatsch, Tobias (author), Breeman, Linda D. (author), Janssen, Veronica R. (author), Kraaijenhagen, Roderik A. (author), Kemps, Hareld M.C. (author), Evers, A.W.M. (author)
Background: Financial incentives are a promising tool to help people increase their physical activity, but they are expensive to provide. Deposit contracts are a type of financial incentive in which participants pledge their own money. However, low uptake is a crucial obstacle to the large-scale implementation of deposit contracts. Therefore,...
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Cambie, Stijn (author), Cames van Batenburg, W.P.S. (author), Cranston, Daniel W. (author)
The reconfiguration graph C<sub>k</sub>(G) for the k-colourings of a graph G has a vertex for each proper k-colouring of G, and two vertices of C<sub>k</sub>(G) are adjacent precisely when those k-colourings differ on a single vertex of G. Much work has focused on bounding the maximum value of diamC<sub>k</sub>(G) over all n-vertex graphs G....
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Sharma, Bhawana (author), Sharma, Lokesh (author), Lal, C. (author), Roy, Satyabrata (author)
The Internet of Things (IoT) is currently seeing tremendous growth due to new technologies and big data. Research in the field of IoT security is an emerging topic. IoT networks are becoming more vulnerable to new assaults as a result of the growth in devices and the production of massive data. In order to recognize the attacks, an intrusion...
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Ihsan, A.F. (author), van Horssen, W.T. (author), Tuwankotta, J.M. (author)
In this paper, a classical Stefan problem with a prescribed and small time-dependent temperature at the boundary is studied. By using a multiple time-scales perturbation method, it is shown analytically how the moving boundary profile is influenced by the prescribed temperature at the boundary and the initial conditions. Only a few exact...
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Wen, Minzhen (author), Ibrahim, Mesfin Seid (author), Meda, Abdulmelik Husen (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Fan, J. (author)
High-power white light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have demonstrated superior efficiency and reliability compared to traditional white light sources. However, ensuring maximum performance for a prolonged lifetime use presents a significant challenge for manufacturers and end users, especially in safety–critical applications. Thus, identifying...
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Tognan, A. (author), Patanè, Andrea (author), Laurenti, L. (author), Salvati, Enrico (author)
Accurate fatigue assessment of material plagued by defects is of utmost importance to guarantee safety and service continuity in engineering components. This study shows how state-of-the-art semi-empirical models can be endowed with additional defect descriptors to probabilistically predict the occurrence of fatigue failures by exploiting...
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Huber, Katharina T. (author), van Iersel, L.J.J. (author), Janssen, R. (author), Jones, M.E.L. (author), Moulton, V.L. (author), Murakami, Yukihiro (author), Semple, Charles (author)
This paper studies the relationship between undirected (unrooted) and directed (rooted) phylogenetic networks. We describe a polynomial-time algorithm for deciding whether an undirected nonbinary phylogenetic network, given the locations of the root and reticulation vertices, can be oriented as a directed nonbinary phylogenetic network....
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Deen, Elise (author), van Iersel, L.J.J. (author), Janssen, Remie (author), Jones, M.E.L. (author), Murakami, Yukihiro (author), Zeh, Norbert (author)
The maximum parsimony distance d<sub>MP</sub>(T<sub>1</sub>,T<sub>2</sub>) and the bounded-state maximum parsimony distance d<sub>MP</sub><sup>t</sup>(T<sub>1</sub>,T<sub>2</sub>) measure the difference between two phylogenetic trees T<sub>1</sub>,T<sub>2</sub> in terms of the maximum difference between their parsimony scores for any...
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Bechtel, S. (author)
We show L<sup>p</sup>-estimates for square roots of second order complex elliptic systems L in divergence form on open sets in R<sup>d</sup> subject to mixed boundary conditions. The underlying set is supposed to be locally uniform near the Neumann boundary part, and the Dirichlet boundary part is Ahlfors–David regular. The lower endpoint for...
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Fiscaletti, D. (author), Lima Pereira, L.T. (author), Ragni, D. (author)
The present study focuses on the application of finlet rails as a passive technique of flow control to mitigate trailing-edge noise. Finlet rails are small cylinders whose axes are aligned along the streamwise direction, transversally positioned with respect to the trailing edge. In the first part of this study, the effects of finlet geometry...
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Krempus, D. (author), Bahamonde, Sebastian (author), van der Stelt, T.P. (author), Klink, Wolfgang (author), Colonna, Piero (author), de Servi, C.M. (author)
The use of mixtures as working fluids of organic Rankine cycle (ORC) waste heat recovery (WHR) power plants has been proposed in the past to improve the matching between the temperature profile of the hot and the cold streams of condensers and evaporators, thus to possibly increase the energy conversion efficiency of the system. The goal of...
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Cipriani, A. (author), Salvi, Michele (author)
Assign to each vertex of the one-dimensional torus i.i.d. weights with a heavy-tail of index τ−1&gt;0. Connect then each couple of vertices with probability roughly proportional to the product of their weights and that decays polynomially with exponent α&gt;0 in their distance. The resulting graph is called scale-free percolation. The goal of...
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Meijaard, J.P. (author)
Kinematic joints are classified in lower pairs and higher pairs. Most multibody modelling techniques focus on lower pairs, because a complete classification in six types is available. Higher pairs are more diverse. In this article, higher pairs that can be exactly modelled by lower pairs are investigated. A complete classification of higher...
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Wu, W. (author), Liu, Xinwang (author), Zhou, Ligang (author), Qin, Jindong (author), Rezaei, J. (author)
Since the development of the best–worst method (BWM) in 2015, it has become a popular research focus in multi-criteria decision-making. The original optimization problem of the BWM is a nonlinear min–max model that can lead to multiple optimal solutions, while the linear model of the BWM produces a unique solution. The two models need to be...
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Volger, R. (author), Puiman, L. (author), Haringa, C. (author)
The growing global population and heightened concern for climate change leads to increased interest in utilizing microbial fermentations to replace polluting production processes for e.g., plastics, fuels, and animal proteins. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a valuable tool for accelerating the scale-up and optimization of large-scale...
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Tian, X. (author), Volkov, Oleg (author), Voskov, D.V. (author)
In this study, we present an efficient and flexible adjoint-based framework for history matching and forecasting geothermal energy extraction at a large scale. In this framework, we applied the Principal Component Analysis to reduce the parameter space for representing the complex geological model. The adjoint method is implemented for...
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Belardinelli, P. (author), Lenci, S. (author), Alijani, F. (author)
Through molecular dynamics simulations, we demonstrate the possibility of internal resonances in single-walled carbon nanotubes. The resonant condition is engineered with a lack of symmetry in the boundary condition and activated by increasing the energy exchange with a coupled thermal bath. The critical temperature threshold for initiating...
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