Numerical analysis and experimental study of two-phase flow pattern and pressure drop characteristics in internally microfin tubes by Jingzhi Zhang, Liangliang Zhang, Bo Zhang, Naixiang Zhou, Li Lei, Bangming Li

“…When the helix angle is 18°, friction resistance factor in the liquid column region is the minimum of 0.04. …”
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Exploring Flexible Penalization of Bayesian Survival Analysis Using Beta Process Prior for Baseline Hazard by Kazeem A. Dauda, Ebenezer J. Adeniyi, Rasheed K. Lamidi, Olalekan T. Wahab

“…Therefore, this study is motivated to adopt the idea of a penalized semi-parametric Bayesian Cox (PSBC) model through elastic-net and group lasso penalty functions (PSBC-EN and PSBC-GL) to incorporate the grouping structure of the covariates (genes) and optimally perform variable selection. …”
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Handling Multiple-Fuel Options in Economic Dispatch of Thermal Power Plants Through a Tight Model Applying Indicator Variables by Hossein Sharifzadeh

“…Thermal power plants play a central role in present power systems because of their high efficiency, fast startup capability, and flexibility to integrate the variability of renewable generations. …”
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Spacecraft Intelligent Fault Diagnosis under Variable Working Conditions via Wasserstein Distance-Based Deep Adversarial Transfer Learning by Gang Xiang, Kun Tian

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Method of restoring multivariable Boolean function from its derivative by Alexander V. Mazurenko, Nadezhda S. Mogilevskaya

“…Introduction. Boolean functions of several variables are of paramount importance in the coding theory and cryptography. …”
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Variational Autoencoder Transfer Functions for Onshore Tsunami Hazard Curves by Willington Renteria, Patrick Lynett, Maile McCann, Behzad Ebrahimi, Hong Kie Thio, Ian Robertson, Chris Siverd, Betsy Hicks

“…Once encoded, the data are represented by a normal distribution of latent variables. The VAE then uses a trained decoder to sample the distribution created by the latent variables and reconstruct a continuous hazard function at the onshore location. …”
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Mixed Cost Function and State Constrains Optimal Control Problems by Hugo Leiva, Guido Tapia-Riera, Jhoana P. Romero-Leiton, Cosme Duque

“…In this paper, we analyze an optimal control problem with a mixed cost function, which combines a terminal cost at the final state and an integral term involving the state and control variables. …”
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The efficiency of Amil Zakat Institutions (LAZ) in Indonesian Islamic Banks: Data Envelopment Analysis Approach by Rofiul Wahyudi, Agus Susetyohadi

“…The Amil Zakat Institution (LAZ), based on Islamic bank corporations, has shown a significant role based on the mandate of the 2008 law on the social functions of Islamic banks. However, a performance evaluation is needed to see how efficient the LAZ is in its operations. …”
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Comparative analysis of profitability and resource use efficiency between Penaeus monodon and Litopenaeus vannamei in India. by Ubair Nisar, Hongzhi Zhang, Mahida Navghan, Yugui Zhu, Yongtong Mu

“…The Cobb-Douglas production function, which relates production output to several independent input variables, was used to determine productivity. …”
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The Impact of Earning Smoothing through Real Activities and its Components on Labor Force Investment Efficiency by Batool Ismael Hasan, Mehdi Heydari, Hamzeh Didar

“…Objective Recent research confirms the view that companies need foreign capital to finance their labor payments and financing frictions can affect labor investment. Real earnings smoothing can affect labor investment efficiency through its effect on market frictions caused by information asymmetry between managers and suppliers of external capital sources. …”
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Energy-Efficient Train Operation Optimization Method for Urban Rail Intervals Based on Curve Splicing by Lianbo Deng, Shaokun Ren, Li Cai, Ziruo Xie

“…On this basis, a curve splicing optimization model is established, with the objective function being the minimization of the train’s operational energy consumption while meeting interval running time requirements. …”
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Efficient remote sensing image classification using the novel STConvNeXt convolutional network by Bo Liu, Chenmei Zhan, Cheng Guo, Xiaobo Liu, Shufen Ruan

“…Abstract Remote sensing images present formidable classification challenges due to their complex spatial organization, high inter-class similarity, and significant intra-class variability. To address the balance between computational efficiency and feature extraction capability in existing methods, this paper innovatively proposes a lightweight convolutional network, STConvNeXt. …”
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Variable viscosity and activation energy aspects in convection heat transfer over gravity driven solar collector plate for thermal energy storage by Nidhal Ben Khedher, Zia Ullah, Mohamed Boujelbene, O. D. Makinde, Abdullah A. Faqihi, A. F. Aljohani, Abdoalrahman S. A. Omer, Ilyas Khan

“…Amplitude and frequency of oscillations in heat transport, skin friction and mass transport enhances as Prandtl and Schmidt component enhances. …”
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Energy Efficiency and Mathematical Modeling of Shrimp Pond Oxygenation: A Multiple Regression Experimental Study by Yoisdel Castillo Alvarez, Yorlan González González, Reinier Jiménez Borges, Luis Angel Iturralde Carrera, José M. Álvarez-Alvarado, Juvenal Rodríguez-Reséndiz

“…The proposed model is key to optimizing the operation of pumping systems, allowing us to significantly reduce water turnover without compromising dissolved oxygen levels as a function of key variables such as water turnover volume, biomass, solar radiation (0–1200 W/m²), water temperature (20 °C–32 °C), phytoplankton levels (0–1,000,000 cells/ml), zooplankton (0–500,000 cells/ml), and wind speed (0–15 m/s). …”
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Genome-wide analyses reveal intricate genetic mechanisms underlying egg production efficiency in chickens by Lizhi Tan, Xinyu Cai, Yuan Kong, Zexuan Liu, Zilong Wen, Lina Bu, Yuzhan Wang, Xiaojun Liu, Zhiwu Zhang, Jianlin Han, Dandan Wang, Yiqiang Zhao

“…Consistently, functional analysis of associated genes demonstrates that egg production efficiency benefits from multiple physiological functions. …”
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Modified graphene oxide as an efficient magnetic adsorbent for the simultaneous removal of Sunset Yellow and Tartrazine dyes by Margan Qaed Amini Farsani, Shahla Elhami

“…The adsorbent was successfully reused 8 times with very little change in the adsorption efficiency, which indicates that it is highly reusable. …”
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Implicit manifestation of prospective metacognition in betting choices enhances its efficiency compared to explicit expression by Hidekazu Nagamura, Hiroshi Onishi, Kohta I. Kobayasi, Shoko Yuki

“…Recent metacognitive research has extensively investigated metacognitive efficiency (i.e., the accuracy of metacognition). Given the functional importance of metacognition for adaptive behavioral control, it is important to explore the nature of prospective metacognitive efficiency; however, most research has focused on retrospective metacognition. …”
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Rapid global antenna design by simplex regressors and multi-resolution simulations by Slawomir Koziel, Anna Pietrenko-Dabrowska, Stanislaw Szczepanski, Leifur Leiffson

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Comparative Analysis of Transfer Function Method with Advanced Flood Prediction Techniques by Jafar Chabokpour

“…This now leads to a maximum Nash-Sutcliffe Efficiency of 0.91 for the Saint-Venant equations during the 2019 flood event, followed by ANN with 0.89, ANFIS with 0.87, SVM with 0.85, and lastly, Transfer Function with 0.78. …”
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A Sparse Variable Step-Size Least-Mean-Square Algorithm for Impulsive Noise in a Code-Division Multiple Access System by Mohammad Salman, Ahmed A. F. Youssef, Fahmi Elsayed, Mostafa Rashdan

“…For instance, the cost function is inadequately described when impulsive noise is present, making it impossible for the LMS approach to correctly identify the system. …”
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