Four-Dimensional Path Planning Methodology for Collaborative Robots Application in Industry 5.0 by Ilias Chouridis, Gabriel Mansour, Vasileios Papageorgiou, Michel Theodor Mansour, Apostolos Tsagaris

“…The safety value of dynamic obstacles, the coefficients of the importance of the terms of the agent’s distance to the ending point, and the safety value of dynamic obstacles were introduced in the objective function. …”
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Symbolic Framework for Evaluation of NOMA Modulation Impairments Based on Irregular Constellation Diagrams by Nenad Stefanovic, Vladimir Mladenovic, Borisa Jovanovic, Ron Dabora, Asutosh Kar

“…This work presents a new symbolic framework approach for simulating signal processing functions in SDR transmit–receive paths in a dynamic NOMA downlink use case. …”
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On the development of a practical Bayesian optimization algorithm for expensive experiments and simulations with changing environmental conditions by Mike Diessner, Kevin J. Wilson, Richard D. Whalley

“…The method is validated on two synthetic test functions, and the effects of the noise level, the number of environmental parameters, the parameter fluctuation, the variability of the uncontrollable parameters, and the effective domain size are investigated. …”
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COMPARING GAUSSIAN AND EPANECHNIKOV KERNEL OF NONPARAMETRIC REGRESSION IN FORECASTING ISSI (INDONESIA SHARIA STOCK INDEX) by Yuniar Farida, Ida Purwanti, Nurissaidah Ulinnuha

“…The analysis results obtained the best method in predicting ISSI values, namely nonparametric kernel regression using Nadaraya-Watson estimator and Gaussian kernel function with the MAPE value of 15% and the coefficient of determination of 85%. …”
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Comparison of river and drinking water quality of infiltration intakes based on statistical colour data by Yalaletdinova Alina, Malkova Maria, Vozhdaeva Margarita, Serebryakov Pavel, Kantor Evgeny

“…A significant contribution (79 to 89%) to the variation of the indicator in drinking water is made by random variable. Correlation coefficients calculated from monthly averages revealed a weak relationship (on the Cheddock scale) between river and drinking water colour, whereas correlation coefficients calculated from monthly averages of colour in the model year characterise the relationship at IWI1 as high and very high at IWI2. …”
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Assessing the effect of dynamics of unpredictable locust invasive behavior and its effect on food security and community livelihood by Mfano Charles Petro

“…Additionally, it was observed that the deterrent coefficient in the invaded and source zones (ηi and ηs) has a significant impact on controlling the dynamic behavior of locusts.…”
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Prediction of Pile Bearing Capacity Using Opposition-Based Differential Flower Pollination-Optimized Least Squares Support Vector Regression (ODFP-LSSVR) by Nhat-Duc Hoang, Xuan-Linh Tran, Thanh-Canh Huynh

“…Based on such datasets, LSSVR is capable of generalizing a multivariate function that estimates values of pile bearing capacity based on a set of variables describing pile characteristics and ground conditions. …”
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Experiments in globalisation, food security and land use decision making. by Calum Brown, Dave Murray-Rust, Jasper van Vliet, Shah Jamal Alam, Peter H Verburg, Mark D Rounsevell

“…Both outcomes are subject to the responses of individual land managers to economic and environmental stimuli, and these responses are known to be variable and often (economically) irrational. We investigate the consequences of stylised food security policies and globalisation of agricultural markets on land use patterns under a variety of modelled forms of land manager behaviour, including variation in production levels, tenacity, land use intensity and multi-functionality. …”
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Market orientation and corporate performance of small and medium-sized enterprises in Saudi Arabia by Nabil Mohamed Abdo Alabsy

“…Corporate performance is a dependent variable, whereas business orientation, competitor orientation and inter-functional orientation are used as independent variables. …”
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Predicting Wastewater Characteristics Using Artificial Neural Network and Machine Learning Methods for Enhanced Operation of Oxidation Ditch by Igor Gulshin, Nikolay Makisha

“…This study investigates the operational efficiency of the lab-scale oxidation ditch (OD) functioning in simultaneous nitrification and denitrification modes, focusing on forecasting biochemical oxygen demand (BOD₅) concentrations over a five-day horizon. …”
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Vibration Response and Evaluation Method of High-Speed Tracked Vehicles Driving Off-Road by Xin-yong Qiao, Ying Jin, Cheng Gu

“…Three fitting methods, namely polynomial response surface, Kriging method, and radial basis function neural network, were used to establish approximate models between the design variables and the objective function, respectively. …”
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Task-Contingent Persistence is Related to Better Performance-Based Measures in Patients with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain by Cyrille Burrus, Philippe Vuistiner, Bertrand Léger, Gilles Rivier, Roger Hilfiker, François Luthi

“…Their relationship with functioning of patients with chronic pain is debated. …”
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Native learning ability and not age determines the effects of brain stimulation by Pablo Maceira-Elvira, Traian Popa, Anne-Christine Schmid, Andéol Cadic-Melchior, Henning Müller, Roger Schaer, Leonardo G. Cohen, Friedhelm C. Hummel

“…Brain stimulation shows potential to enhance these functions, but studies show variable effects. Previous studies have tried to identify responders and non-responders through correlations between behavioral change and baseline parameters, but results lack generalization to independent cohorts. …”
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Magnetic Field Effects on Convective Heat Transfer of Ferrofluid from a Heated Sphere in Porous Media by Ayesha Aktar, Sharaban Thohura, Md. Mamun Molla

“…Numerical outcomes are then represented in terms of local Nusselt number, velocity, temperature profile, and skin friction coefficient, respectively for a range of porosity parameters, ϵ = 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, magnetic effect parameter or Hartmann number, Ha = 0.0, 1.0, 3.0, 5.0 and the ferroparticle volume fraction coefficients, ϕ = 0%, 2%, 4%, 6%. …”
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Optimally controlled heating of solid particles in a fluidised bed with a dispersive flow of the solid by Poświata Artur, Szwast Zbigniew

“…The mixing rate was described by the axial dispersion coefficient. As any economic values of variables describing analysing process are subject to local and time fluctuations, the accepted objective function describes the total cost of the process expressed in exergy units. …”
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Alleviative Effect of Exogenous Application of Fulvic Acid on Nitrate Stress in Spinach (<i>Spinacia oleracea</i> L.) by Kangning Han, Jing Zhang, Cheng Wang, Youlin Chang, Zeyu Zhang, Jianming Xie

“…FA application promoted the accumulation of biomass in spinach under nitrate stress and increased chlorophyll content, the net photosynthetic rate, the maximum photochemical quantum yield of PSII (Photosystem II) (Fv/Fm), the quantum efficiency of PSII photochemistry [Y(II)], the electron transport rate, and the overall functional activity index of the electron transport chain between the PSII and PSI systems (PItotal); moreover, FA decreased PSII excitation pressure (1 − qP), quantum yields of regulated energy dissipation of PSII [Y(NPQ)], and the relative variable initial slope of fluorescence. …”
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Environmental impacts of floating solar panels on freshwater systems and their techno-ecological synergies by Sofia M G Rocha, Alona Armstrong, Stephen J Thackeray, Rebecca R Hernandez, Andrew M Folkard

“…FPV deployments on freshwater bodies are rapidly growing, as they avert land-use change, operate with increased efficiency, and potentially improve water availability by reducing evaporation and the frequency of algal blooms. …”
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A computationally lightweight model for ensemble forecasting of environmental hazards: General TAMSAT-ALERT v1.2.1 by E. Black, E. Black, J. Ellis, R. I. Maidment, R. I. Maidment, R. I. Maidment

“…The model presented here, General TAMSAT-ALERT, represents a significant scientific and functional advance on previous implementations. Notably, General TAMSAT-ALERT is applicable to any variable for which time series data are available. …”
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Evaluating Sensitivity of the Ranking of Forest Fuel Treatments to Manager’s Risk Attitudes and the Importance of Treatment Objectives, Montana, USA by Tony Prato, Travis Paveglio

“…The conceptual framework involves (1) defining a utility function on an index that is a weighted average of fuel treatment objectives and incorporates a manager’s risk attitude; (2) using the utility function to calculate utility values for FTSs; (3) applying the stochastic efficiency with respect to a function method to utility values to obtain certainty equivalents (CEs); and (4) ranking FTSs based on statistically significant differences in median CEs for pairs of FTSs. …”
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ETHNOPEDAGOGICAL COMPONENT OF PHYSICAL TRAINING OF SCHOOLCHILDREN by M. M. Kolokoltsev

“…The following indexes were calculated: Pignet’s index that defines proportionality of development and strength of a constitution; vital and power indexes. The efficiency of the ethnopedagogical technologies included in the program of physical training came to light by means of the quantitative and qualitative analysis of the obtained experimental data. …”
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