Robust Beamforming for Superdirective Antenna Arrays and Experimental Validations by Mengying Gao, Haifan Yin, Liangcheng Han, Jingcheng Xie

“…The improvement in communication performance achieved by the OC-QCLS algorithm is demonstrated through its superior average spectral efficiency. Furthermore, an eight-dipole superdirective antenna array prototype with 0.20λ element spacing operating at 1.6 GHz is built, and real-world experiments validate the proposed method. …”
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Screening the Global Health Priority Box against Plasmodium berghei liver stage parasites using an inexpensive luciferase detection protocol by Gia-Bao Nguyen, Caitlin A. Cooper, Olivia McWhorter, Ritu Sharma, Anne Elliot, Anthony Ruberto, Rafael Freitas, Ashutosh K. Pathak, Dennis E. Kyle, Steven P. Maher

“…While blood stage screening assays are routine and efficient, liver stage screening assays are more complex and costly. …”
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Autonomous Drilling and the Idea of Next-Generation Deep Mineral Exploration by George Nikolakopoulos, Anton Koval, Matteo Fumagalli, Martyna Konieczna-Fuławka, Laura Santas Moreu, Victor Vigara-Puche, Kashish Verma, Bob de Waard, René Deutsch

“…This article also discusses solutions aimed at validating and improving existing methods by optimizing drilling strategies to ensure accuracy, enhance efficiency, and ensure safety. …”
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Assessment of transportation capacity balance of railway network polygons by A. F. Borodin, V. V. Panin, M. A. Ageeva, A. Yu. Sokolov, S. Yu. Kirillova, E. O. Dmitriev, A. A. Kravchenko

“…Permissible capacity levels are determined by the condition of unhindered reception of trains by stations. …”
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Updating a reservoir geological model in order to optimize waterflooding when extracting residual oil reserves from stagnant zones by A. Kh. Shakhverdiev, S. V. Arefyev, A. A. Polishchuk, B. P. Vaynerman, R. R. Yunusov, A. V. Denisov

“…The negative consequences of non-stationary waterflooding can be the premature watering of the produced wells and the imbalance of the reservoir pressure maintenance system, as well as the formation of stagnant and weakly drained zones of the reservoir with residual reserves of hard-to-recover oil.Aim. To improve the efficiency of non-stationary waterflooding under the conditions of high geological and anthropogenic heterogeneity of oil and gas reservoirs in a floating oil reservoir propped up by edge and bottom waters.Materials and methods. …”
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TWO-STAGE INTELLIGENT FAULT DIAGNOSIS OF MOTORS BASED ON VISUAL IMAGE FEATURES

“…Aiming at the new challenges in efficiency and reliability in the field of fault diagnosis in recent years,a coarsefine fault diagnosis method for induction motors based on the symmetrized dot pattern(SDP)was proposed.In this method,firstly,the vibration signals of each faulty motor were converted into snowflake images by SDP method,and then a two-stage fault diagnosis framework of coarse-fine classification was designed for image feature extraction and classification.In the coarse classification stage,the color histogram features and the support vector machine(SVM)were used to diagnose the samples,and a threshold was selected to determine the samples for the coarse classification.In the fine classification stage,Gist features that can extract image details and SVM were used to diagnose the remaining samples.Experimental results show that the proposed method combines the advantages of color histogram features and Gist features,can achieve the most reliable diagnosis with relatively high efficiency,and has certain anti-noise ability.…”
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Numerical analysis of the thermal and electrical performance of concentrated photovoltaic systems integrated with multiple phase change materials by Atef Chibani, Slimane Merouani, Riad Badji, Farhan Lafta Rashid, Mohamed Kezzar, Sahar Ahmed Idris, Mohamed Rafik Sari, B. Rushi Kumar, Sunitha Nagarathnam

“…The study uses a numerical method to compare and determine the thermal efficiency of PV systems deployed at different angles (0, 30, 45, 75 and 90°) on the PCM's freezing and melting behavior. …”
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Investigation of the structure and chemical composition of sediments of irrigators of the tower cooling tower by E. V. Veselovskaya, E. A. Lazareva

“…Increasing the efficiency of heat transfer in the cooling processes of circulating water when using tower cooling towers at thermal power plants.METHODS. …”
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Parameter Optimization of MIMO Fuzzy Optimal Model Predictive Control By APSO by Adel Taieb, Moêz Soltani, Abdelkader Chaari

“…Our method is considered an optimization problem based on the APSO algorithm. …”
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Documenting the Production Process of Faba bean (Vicia faba L.) in Gorgan, Ali Abadkatol and Aqqola Regions by Mohammad Reza Mansouri Vajari, Ebrahim Zeinali, Afshin Soltani, Benjamin Torabi, Alireza Nehbandani

“…In these investigations, the scope of changes and the method of performing each management operation performed in the bean farms and also the proportion of farmers who used different methods of each of these management operations were determined. …”
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A novel index combining meteorological, hydrological, and ecological anomalies used for ecological drought assessment at a grassland-type basin scale by Yixuan Wang, Tingxi Liu, Limin Duan, Shaojie Chu, Jin Sun, Xin Tong, Lina Hao, Yongzhi Bao, Yu Gong

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Enhancing curve smoothness with whale optimization algorithm in positivity and monotonicity-preserving interpolation by Salwa Syazwani Mahzir, Md Yushalify Misro

“…By applying an optimization method, this study introduced a more efficient approach to determine the optimal parameter value. …”
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Detection of Hydrophobicity Grade of Composite Insulators Based on MDC‐YOLO Algorithm by Shaotong Pei, Weiqi Wang, Chenlong Hu, Haichao Sun, Keyu Li, Mianxiao Wu, Bo Lan

“…ABSTRACT In the field of power equipment inspection, the aging condition of composite insulators is often determined by the detection of water repellency. However, the existing detection methods are difficult to effectively extract the water repellency level features in the complex background, and it is difficult to meet the real‐time requirements. …”
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Identification of Corrosive Volatile Compounds Found in the Headspace of Chicken Noodle Soup Retorted in Metal Cans by Yajun Wu, Ken Ruffley, Elliot Dhuey, Christopher M. Hadad, Melvin A. Pascall

“…The long-term goal of these studies is to develop an efficient method to investigate how headspace volatile compounds in foods could cause corrosion defects in metal cans and how these could be corrected without undermining the quality and safety of the food. …”
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Formation of an Integrated Approach to Conducting Financial Analysis of the Company's Equity Based on Aspects of Information Management by Nataliia Kuprina, Tetiana Markova, Khrystyna Baraniuk, Maryna Stupnytska

“…To solve the problems of the study we used the method of structural-logical analysis, methods of theoretical generalization and comparative analysis, synthesis and method of grouping of absolute and relative values, graphical method and information management methods. …”
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Using Approximate Bayesian Computation to infer sex ratios from acoustic data. by Lisa Lehnen, Wigbert Schorcht, Inken Karst, Martin Biedermann, Gerald Kerth, Sebastien J Puechmaille

“…Population sex ratios are of high ecological relevance, but are challenging to determine in species lacking conspicuous external cues indicating their sex. …”
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Asset management using an extended Markowitz theorem by Paria Karimi

“…Markowitz theorem is one of the most popular techniques for asset management. The method has been widely used to solve many applications, successfully. …”
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Two-steps variance calibrated estimators with linear and non-linear constraints for mailed surveys with non-response by Ahmed Audu, Maggie Aphane

“…Empirical studies using simulated data demonstrated the superior performance of two members of the proposed estimator compared to existing methods across various data scenarios. The results of the error analysis revealed that the members of the proposed class of estimator are robust and efficient.…”
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Research on voxel-based land complex modelling and adaptive resolution expression methodology by D. Sun, T. Shen, L. Huo, F. Kong

“…In order to improve the efficient use of land complex resources, explore the application of voxel model in land complex change monitoring, and propose a voxel-based land complex modelling and adaptive resolution expression method for the problem of large data redundancy and poor expression effect in the dynamic expression of land complex voxel model.Firstly, voxel classification and stratification are carried out through element characteristics to determine the elements suitable for voxel modelling; then, based on the analysis of terrain factors, the adaptive resolution expression method is constructed by optimizing the node evaluation criterion through the comprehensive consideration of sight distance and comprehensive terrain complexity.The results show that the method in this paper can achieve efficient expression and smooth scheduling of land complex voxel models at different resolutions, thus significantly reducing the computational complexity while maintaining the expression accuracy of important features.…”
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Limited data based kinetic modeling and optimization of propionic acid synthesis over supported Rh/C catalyst by László Balogh, Jenő Bódis, Botond Szilágyi, Ágnes Bárkányi, Attila Egedy

“…Yet, using the apriori knowledge about the process (i.e., the microkinetics of the reactions), the data enabled the kinetic model identification, resulting in a fitting on the measured outputs characterized by a coefficient of determination of 0.76. The operating parameters were optimized by using this model to enhance the energy and material efficiency of the process. …”
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