Longevity records of citril finches Carduelis citrinella: analysing 43 years of continuous ringing by A. Borràs, J. Cabrera, T. Cabrera, X. Colomé, J. C. Senar

“…Longevity records (maximum lifespan) of free-ranging birds are basic to understand the evolution of avian senescence patterns. Here we provide minimum longevity records for the citril finch Carduelis citrinella, an endemic cardueline finch of high mountains in Central and Western Europe. …”
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Hybrid GRASP heuristics for the phylogeny problem combining path-relinking and genetic algorithm as an intensification strategy by Dalessandro Soares Vianna, Marcilene de Fátima Dianin Vianna

“…The phylogeny problem under the parsimony criterion consists in finding a phylogeny with a minimum number of evolutionary steps. We propose hybrid heuristic methods - based on GRASP, path-relinking and genetic algorithm methodologies - to build a phylogeny while minimizing parsimony. …”
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A Bilevel Programming Model and Algorithm for the Static Bike Repositioning Problem by Qiong Tang, Zhuo Fu, Meng Qiu

“…The lower-level truck owner pursues the minimum transportation route cost. An iterated local search and tabu search are developed to solve the model. …”
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Periodic Inspection Program of Nuclear PWR reactor Pressure Vessel by Anne Aguiar Araujo

“…From the recommendations of codes and publications related to pressure vessel integrity and inspections, for nuclear applications, the minimum requirements that should be considered in the inspection program preparation for this equipment were established. …”
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VISION-BASED QUALITY CONTROL OF PRODUCTS IN DIGITAL MANUFACTURING by Theodor BORANGIU, Silviu RĂILEANU, Ionuţ LENŢOIU

“…The designed vision tools work both for greyscale and binary object images, are robust to object translation and rotation because they can be referred to the object’s centre of mass and minimum inertia axis, are configurable relative to the AOI and can be nested.…”
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University proceedings. Volga region. Technical sciences by V.V. Konovalov, M.V. Dontsova, A.N. Rasstegaev, V.Yu. Zaitsev

“…The found difference in values between the option of the minimum production cycle for the manufacture of a batch of parts and the display is stable.…”

Low complexity decoder over time-selective fading channels by ZHANG Bi-jun, ZHU Guang-xi, SUN Jun, LIU Wen-ming

“…The simulation re-sults also show that the two kinds of decoders obtain the almost same performance at the minimum receiver antenna number under various time variations of channels and group number. …”
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A Novel Resource Allocation Algorithm for OFDMA System with Proportional Fairness by Yaohui Wu, Youming Li, Pengfei Shao

“…Existing algorithms couldn't balance system capacity and high fairness well,so a multi-user rate adaptive allocation algorithm was proposed to maximize the capacity of OFDMA system under proportional fairness.Improved maximize the minimum（max-min）user rate model was proposed,the current user was allocated the highest efficiency subcarrier according to the channel efficiency control parameter.If some allocated subcarrier's channel gain was lower than the threshold value,which would be reallocated to another user whose channel gain was highest.Power allocation model was converted into expression of water-filling line; every user's power allocation was resolved according to the resolved water-filling line.Simulation results and analysis show that the proposed scheme can achieve higher capacity and perfect fairness in a variety of SNR cases,while requiring slightly less computation.…”
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DROID: discrete-time simulation for ring-oscillator-based Ising design by Abhimanyu Kumar, Ramprasath S., Chris H. Kim, Ulya R. Karpuzcu, Sachin S. Sapatnekar

“…., networks of coupled oscillators that settle to a minimum-energy ground state, from which the problem solution is inferred. …”
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Low-Complexity BFGS-Based Soft-Output MMSE Detector for Massive MIMO Uplink by Lin Li, Jianhao Hu

“…For the massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) uplink, the linear minimum mean square error (MMSE) detector is near-optimal but involves undesirable matrix inversion. …”
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User-centric energy efficiency fairness in backscatter-assisted wireless powered communication network by Yinghui YE, Liqin SHI, Guangyue LU

“…In order to address the unfair user-centric energy efficiency (EE) problem caused by channel difference in the backscatter-assisted wireless powered communication network,a resource allocation scheme was proposed.Firstly,a mixed integer nonconvex fractional programming problem was formulated to maximize the minimum user-centric EE,subject to the quality of service and energy-causality constraints.Based on the generalized fractional programming theory,the original problem was transformed into a mixed integer nonconvex subtraction problem.With the aid of the slack variable,the proof by contradiction,the auxiliary variable and the mixed integer nonconvex subtraction problem were further transformed into an equivalent convex problem.Finally,an iterative algorithm was proposed to obtain the optimal solutions.Computer simulations validated the quick convergence of the proposed iterative algorithm,and that the developed resource allocation scheme efficiently guarantees the fairness among users in terms of EE.…”
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Noncoherent multiple symbol detection of CPFSK based on decision-feedback by Qiang CHEN, Guo-sheng RUI, Wen-jun SUN, Wen-biao TIAN, Yang ZHANG

“…There is a great deal of issues in the traditional symbol detection algorithm such as high computational com-plexity and large engineering implementation difficulty. …”
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Automatic Distributing Schemes of Physical Cell Identity for Self-Organizing Networks by Yao Wei, Mugen Peng, Wenbo Wang, Shijun Min, Jia Mo Jiang, Yu Huang

“…The PCI self-distributing problem is mapped to the well-known minimum spanning tree (MST) problem in order to optimize the PCI reuse distance and decrease the multiplexing interference. …”
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Multi-constraints QoS routing optimization based on improved immune clonal shuffled frog leaping algorithm by Yi LU, Mengying XU, Jie ZHOU

“…Aiming at the multi-constraint routing problem,a mathematical model was designed,and an improved immune clonal shuffled frog leaping algorithm (IICSFLA) was proposed,which combined immune operator with traditional SFLA.Under the constraints of bandwidth,delay,packet loss rate,delay jitter and energy cost,total energy cost from the source node to the terminal node was computed.The proposed algorithm was used to find an optimal route with minimum energy cost.In the simulation,the performance of IICSFLA with adaptive genetic algorithm and adaptive ant colony optimization algorithm was compared.Experimental results show that IICSFLA solves the problem of multi-constraints QoS unicast routing optimization.The proposed algorithm avoids local optimum and effectively reduces energy loss of data on the transmission path in comparison with adaptive genetic algorithm and adaptive ant colony optimization algorithm.…”
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Designing of Loss Optimum Regulator for Control of D.C. Electric Drive with Varying Inertia Moment in CoDeSys Programming System by S. O. Novikov, A. V. Paschenko

“…Programming medium operated at a personal computer in Windows medium. As CoDeSys provides a machine code it is rather easy to support its programming and its minimum support presupposes selection of IN/OUT and program debugging functions.The investigations have been directed on optimization of an electric drive operation with varying inertia moment. …”
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Sensor Clustering and Sensing Technology for Optimal Throughput of Sensor-Aided Cognitive Radio Networks Supporting Multiple Licensed Channels by Thanh-Tung Nguyen, Insoo Koo

“…We also propose an heuristic algorithm which can provide similar performance to that of the Branch and Bound algorithm while reducing computation complexity significantly.…”
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Fault-Tolerant Resolvability in Some Classes of Subdivision Graphs by Muhammad Faheem, Zohaib Zahid, Dalal Alrowaili, Imran Siddique, Aiyared Iampan

“…The concept of resolving sets (RSs) and metric dimension (MD) invariants have a wide range of applications in robot navigation, computer networks, and chemical structure. RS has been used as a sensor in an indoor positioning system to find an interrupter. …”
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A New Heterogeneous Hybrid Massive MIMO Receiver With an Intrinsic Ability of Removing Phase Ambiguity of DOA Estimation via Machine Learning by Feng Shu, Baihua Shi, Yiwen Chen, Jiatong Bai, Yifan Li, Tingting Liu, Zhu Han, Xiaohu You

“…The proposed framework consists of two steps: 1) form a set of candidate solutions using existing methods like MUSIC; 2) find the class of the true solutions and compute the class mean. To infer the set of true solutions, we propose two new clustering methods: weight global minimum distance (WGMD) and weight local minimum distance (WLMD). …”
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A Review of Geometric Optimal Control for Quantum Systems in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance by Bernard Bonnard, Steffen J. Glaser, Dominique Sugny

“…The analysis is completed by numerical computations and experimental results.…”
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Modification of BJT using Artificial Neural Network and implemented it on FPGA by Hassan Fahad Khazal

“…The use of this type of networks led to improve the pre specified functions, by widening its bandwidth, improving its sensitivity to the minimum and maximum values of input signals, and reduce the effect of the rise of the temperature on its performance. …”
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