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The St Elmo’s Fire: Its Formation and Measurement on Both Natural and Artificial Structures
Since the beginning of recorded history Saint Elmo’s fire (SEF) has been observed and experienced by humans in and close to thunderstorms which are...
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Superconducting Qubits
Thus far, we have examined quantum computing based on single particle states in atoms, ions and semiconductor structures. In this chapter, we will...
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Generative Adversarial Networks for Robust Cryo-EM Image Denoising
The cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) becomes popular for macromolecular structure determination. However, the 2D images captured by cryo-EM are of...
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Plug-in Hybrid Electric Buses with Different Battery Chemistries Total Cost of Ownership Planning and Optimization at Fleet Level Based on Battery Aging
This chapter focuses on a hierarchical energy management strategy design methodology for total cost of ownership management at fleet level. A state...
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Hopf-Like Bifurcations and Asymptotic Stability in a Class of 3D Piecewise Linear Systems with Applications
The main purpose of this paper is to analyze the Hopf-like bifurcations in 3D piecewise linear systems. Such bifurcations are characterized by the...
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Application of Microwave Oven Plasma Reactors for the Formation of Carbon-Based Nanomaterials
This paper reviews the literature on the formation of carbon-based nanomaterials using converted domestic microwave oven plasma reactors. The...
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Advanced Analytics for Mine Materials Transportation
Miners extract ore from underground or surface operations at the mine site. Once the ore is extracted, it needs to be transported to end customers....
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The Crisis Classification Component to Strengthen the Early Warning, Risk Assessment and Decision Support in Extreme Climate Events
Climate change is considered as being one of the most important challenges of modern times, having multiple and significant impacts on human...
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Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Rule-Based System Applications
Six applications of interval type-2 theory, along with their own contributions and explanations, are presented in Chap. 3. The methodology applied to...
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Synthesis of a Multifunctional Tracking System in Conditions of Uncertainty
Class of affine nonlinear single-input single-output systems, where the relative degree of the equivalent form of the input-output is invariant to...
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Strategic Provision of Trade Credit in a Dual-Channel Supply Chain
This paper focuses on a dual-channel supply chain composed of a capital-constraint bricks-and-mortar retailer and a manufacturer, where a...
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Problems of Nonconvex Quadratic Programming Related to the Optimization of Phased Antenna Arrays
AbstractWe consider the optimization of the short wave phased antenna arrays as a quadratic programming problem. The penalty function method and the...
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Multistage robust optimization for the day-ahead scheduling of hybrid thermal-hydro-wind-solar systems
The integration of large-scale uncertain and uncontrollable wind and solar power generation has brought new challenges to the operations of modern...
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McKay Quivers and Lusztig Algebras of Some Finite Groups
We are interested in the McKay quiver Γ( G ) and skew group rings A ∗ G , where G is a finite subgroup of GL( V ), where V is a finite dimensional vector...
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A Tool for Runtime Analysis of Performance and Energy Usage in NUMA Systems
Multicore systems present on-board memory hierarchies and communication networks that influence performance when executing shared-memory parallel...
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Averting Depletion in a Two-Player Common Pool Resource Game: Being Seen, the Expectation of Future Encounters, and Biophilia Play a Role in Cooperation
Using a two-player common pool resource game, we investigated the influence of multiple factors on cooperation: (1) probability of future rounds, (2)...
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An Interior Stochastic Gradient Method for a Class of Non-Lipschitz Optimization Problems
In this paper, we propose an interior stochastic gradient method for bound constrained optimization problems where the objective function is the sum...
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Variational Multiscale Flow Analysis in Aerospace, Energy and Transportation Technologies
Computational flow analysis is now playing a key role in aerospace, energy and transportation technologies, bringing solution in challenging problems...
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Nonlinear Programming \(\sum _i\sum _j c_{ij}x_ix_j, \ \forall \ (i,j)\)
overview Nonlinear Programming (NLP) problems represent some of the most complex optimization problems. Especially when contrasted with LP problems...
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Macros
For several decades, Lisp macros have been the state of the art in metaprogramming. Macros are expanded at the time when a program is read, and thus...