Entropy  

Yingsong Li, Zhan Jin, Yanyan Wang and Rui Yang

A robust sparse least-mean mixture-norm (LMMN) algorithm is proposed, and its performance is appraised in the context of estimating a broadband multi-path wireless channel. The proposed algorithm is implemented via integrating a correntropy-induced metric... see more

Truong Khanh Linh Dang, Cornelia Meckbach, Rebecca Tacke, Stephan Waack and Mehmet Gültas

The knowledge of protein-DNA interactions is essential to fully understand the molecular activities of life. Many research groups have developed various tools which are either structure- or sequence-based approaches to predict the DNA-binding residues in ... see more

Mehdi Bahiraei and Navid Cheraghi Kazerooni

In the current research, entropy generation for the water–alumina nanofluid flow is studied in a circular minichannel for the laminar regime under constant wall heat flux in order to evaluate irreversibilities arising from friction and heat transfer. To t... see more

Che-Wei Tsai, Kuen-Cheng Sung, Kzauki Kasai and Hideyuki Murakami

The isothermal oxidation resistance of Al0.2Co1.5CrFeNi1.5Ti0.3 high-entropy alloy is analyzed and the microstructural evolution of the oxide layer is studied. The limited aluminum, about 3.6 at %, leads to the non-continuous alumina. The present alloy is... see more

Thomas Hotz, Florian Kelma and Johannes Wieditz

The mean of data on the unit circle is defined as the minimizer of the average squared Euclidean distance to the data. Based on Hoeffding’s mass concentration inequalities, non-asymptotic confidence sets for circular means are constructed which are univer... see more

Xiaopeng Zhu, Jie Zeng, Xin Su, Chiyang Xiao, Jing Wang and Lianfen Huang

Ultra dense networks (UDN) are identified as one of the key enablers for 5G, since they can provide an ultra high spectral reuse factor exploiting proximal transmissions. By densifying the network infrastructure equipment, it is highly possible that each ... see more

Christian S. Jacobsen, Tobias Gehring and Ulrik L. Andersen

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Renata Rychtáriková, Jan Korbel, Petr Machácek, Petr Císar, Jan Urban and Dalibor Štys

We generalize the point information gain (PIG) and derived quantities, i.e., point information gain entropy (PIE) and point information gain entropy density (PIED), for the case of the Rényi entropy and simulate the behavior of PIG for typical distributio... see more

Jing Wang and Yuling Wang

In this paper, we build a model of energy-savings and emission-reductions with two delays. In this model, it is assumed that the interaction between energy-savings and emission-reduction and that between carbon emissions and economic growth are delayed. W... see more

Charles-Michel Marle

I present in this paper some tools in symplectic and Poisson geometry in view of their applications in geometric mechanics and mathematical physics. After a short discussion of the Lagrangian an Hamiltonian formalisms, including the use of symmetry groups... see more

Ramón F. Álvarez-Estrada and Gabriel F. Calvo

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Orazio Muscato and Tina Castiglione

Silicon nanowires (SiNW) are quasi-one-dimensional structures in which the electrons are spatially confined in two directions, and they are free to move along the axis of the wire. The spatial confinement is governed by the Schrödinger–Poisson system, whi... see more

Joshua Rodewald, John Colombi, Kyle Oyama and Alan Johnson

Supply networks existing today in many industries can behave as complex adaptive systems making them more difficult to analyze and assess. Being able to fully understand both the complex static and dynamic structures of a complex adaptive supply network (... see more

Yunsick Sung

Given that entropy-based IT technology has been applied in homes, office buildings and elsewhere for IT security systems, diverse kinds of intelligent services are currently provided. In particular, IT security systems have become more robust and varied. ... see more

Hiromasa Sakaguchi, Koji Ogata, Tetsu Isomura, Shoko Utsunomiya, Yoshihisa Yamamoto and Kazuyuki Aihara

A structure-based lead optimization procedure is an essential step to finding appropriate ligand molecules binding to a target protein structure in order to identify drug candidates. This procedure takes a known structure of a protein-ligand complex as in... see more

Ryosuke Takahira, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii and Lukasz Debowski

One of the fundamental questions about human language is whether its entropy rate is positive. The entropy rate measures the average amount of information communicated per unit time. The question about the entropy of language dates back to experiments by ... see more

Trevor W. Marshall

This article argues that a consistent description is possible for gravitationally collapsed bodies, in which collapse stops before the object reaches its gravitational radius, the density reaching a maximum close to the surface and then decreasing towards... see more

Reinout Heijungs, Patrik J.G. Henriksson and Jeroen B. Guinée

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Abdullah M. Iliyasu, Fei Yan and Kaoru Hirota

An enhanced quantum-based image fidelity metric, the QIFM metric, is proposed as a tool to assess the “congruity” between two or more quantum images. The often confounding contrariety that distinguishes between classical and quantum information processing... see more

Conghu Liu

How to use the limited precision of remanufactured parts to assemble higher-quality remanufactured products is a challenge for remanufacturing engineering under uncertainty. On the basis of analyzing the uncertainty of remanufacturing parts, this paper ta... see more

Eduardo Jonathan Torres-Herrera, Jonathan Karp, Marco Távora and Lea F. Santos

We study the static and dynamical properties of isolated many-body quantum systems and compare them with the results for full random matrices. In doing so, we link concepts from quantum information theory with those from quantum chaos. In particular, we r... see more

Cassio P. De Campos, Carlos A. De B. Pereira, Paola M. V. Rancoita and Adriano Polpo

Ranking variables according to their relevance to predict an outcome is an important task in biomedicine. For instance, such ranking can be used for selecting a smaller number of genes for then applying other sophisticated experiments only on genes identi... see more

Lupei Wang, Lei Li and Ningxi Hong

The cross-efficiency method, as a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) extension, calculates the cross efficiency of each decision making unit (DMU) using the weights of all decision making units (DMUs). The major advantage of the cross-efficiency method is th... see more

Khundrakpam Johnson Singh, Khelchandra Thongam and Tanmay De

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is one of the major threats to the web server. The rapid increase of DDoS attacks on the Internet has clearly pointed out the limitations in current intrusion detection systems or intrusion prevention systems (I... see more

Tasawar Hayat, Sadaf Nawaz, Ahmed Alsaedi and Maimona Rafiq

This article examines entropy generation in the peristaltic transport of nanofluid in a channel with flexible walls. Single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) and multiple walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) with water as base fluid are utilized in this study. M... see more

Francesco Calise, Luigi Libertini and Maria Vicidomini

This paper presents a detailed exergetic analysis of a novel high-temperature Solar Assisted Combined Cycle (SACC) power plant. The system includes a solar field consisting of innovative high-temperature flat plate evacuated solar thermal collectors, a do... see more

Germán Rojas-Lorenzo, Helen Clara Peñate-Rodríguez, Anais Dorta-Urra, Pedro Bargueño and Salvador Miret-Artés

A Langevin canonical framework for a chiral two-level system coupled to a bath of harmonic oscillators is used within a coupling scheme different from the well-known spin-boson model to study the quantum stochastic resonance for chiral molecules. This pro... see more

Lingen Chen, Huijun Feng and Zhihui Xie

Combining modern thermodynamics theory branches, including finite time thermodynamics or entropy generation minimization, constructal theory and entransy theory, with metallurgical process engineering, this paper provides a new exploration on generalized ... see more

Mehmet Niyazi Çankaya

Systematic sampling is used as a method to get the quantitative results from tissues and radiological images. Systematic sampling on a real line ( R ) is a very attractive method within which biomedical imaging is consulted by practitioners. For the s... see more

Irena Roterman, Mateusz Banach, Barbara Kalinowska and Leszek Konieczny

The aqueous environment is a pervasive factor which, in many ways, determines the protein folding process and consequently the activity of proteins. Proteins are unable to perform their function unless immersed in water (membrane proteins excluded from th... see more