Mindful Matching: Enhancing Wellbeing through Positive AI on Dating Platforms

The growth of dating apps has changed the way relationships are formed. These applications have enabled users to widen their dating pool of potential partners through profile recommendations based on proximity and shared interests. However, dating app usage was also found to impact well-being negatively, with the AI systems of these platforms,...

Uncertainty quantification in a heterogeneous fluvial sandstone reservoir using GPU-based Monte Carlo simulation

The efficient operation and management of a geothermal project can be largely affected by geological, physical, operational and economic uncertainties. Systematic uncertainty quantification (UQ) involving these parameters helps to determine the probability of the focused outputs, e.g., energy production, Net Present Value (NPV), etc. However,...

The effect of the standing angle on reducing fatigue among prolonged standing workers

BACKGROUND: Many occupations require workers to stand for prolonged periods, which can cause discomfort, pain and even injures. Some supermarkets in life provide a foot pad for checkout staff to let them stand on it at work, thereby reducing standing fatigue caused by standing for a long time. The inclined platform is the same as the foot pad...

Graphalytics Global Competition: A Competition Platform to Compare Different Graph Processing Platforms

Graphs are becoming more popular day by day. This has lead to the development of different graph-processing platforms, such as Hadoop, Apache Giraph and GraphLab. With this wide variety of graph processing platforms, which one should we choose for a specific use case? Which platform has the best performance? To solve this issue, we can benchmark...

Design of a Steel Pontoon-type Semi-submersible Floater Supporting the DTU 10MW Reference Turbine

In recent years, offshore wind energy has experienced a huge development. Floating wind turbines may become competitive for water depth larger than 50m. However, high cost is still the main challenge for the offshore wind industry. Floating offshore designs provides the possibility to carry large wind turbines to reduce the cost per MWh. In this...