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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201805.0483.v1

A System Dynamics Approach to Integrating Sustainable Land Use with Transportation System Based on Access Management

Xuecai Xu, Xiangjian Luo

Subject: Engineering, Civil Engineering Keywords: System Dynamics; Land Use; Transportation Systems; Access Management

Online: 31 May 2018 (17:15:58 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202009.0091.v1

Review: Plant Eco-Evolutionary Responses to Climate Change: Emerging Directions

Elena Hamann, Derek Denney, Samantha Day, Elizabeth Lombardi, M. Inam Jameel, Rachel MacTavish, Jill Anderson

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Plant Sciences Keywords: Evolutionary dynamics; life-history stages; mating systems; biotic interactions; climatic variability; ecological genomics

Online: 4 September 2020 (08:13:40 CEST)

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Preprint CONCEPT PAPER | doi:10.20944/preprints202103.0052.v1

From the Cottage to the Cage – Exploring the Efficacy of Complexity Leadership Theory in Addressing 21st Century Workplace Toxicity.

Morgan Danaher

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Business And Management Keywords: workplace, toxicity, leadership, distributive bargaining, zero sum gain, Uhl Bien, complex adaptive systems, complexity leadership theory.

Online: 2 March 2021 (09:22:29 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201707.0080.v2

Dynamics of Implementation and Maintenance of Organizational Health Interventions

Mohammad S. Jalali, Hazhir Rahmandad, Sally Lawrence Bullock, Alice Ammerman

Subject: Public Health And Healthcare, Health Policy And Services Keywords: implementation; adoption; health interventions; community prevention; obesity prevention interventions; system dynamics; systems thinking; endogenous dynamics; qualitative modeling; case studies

Online: 27 July 2017 (17:54:29 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202109.0033.v1

Artificial Neural Networks Applied to Power Management in Low Power Microprocessors

Carlos Freitas, Rogerio Atem De Carvalho

Subject: Engineering, Electrical And Electronic Engineering Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Low Power Systems; Power Management; LSTM

Online: 2 September 2021 (08:03:24 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202010.0417.v1

Robust Design of a Future 100% Renewable European Energy Supply System with Hydrogen Infrastructure

Dilara Caglayan, Heidi U. Heinrichs, Martin Robinius, Detlef Stolten

Subject: Engineering, Energy And Fuel Technology Keywords: Renewable energy systems; energy supply systems; hydrogen pipelines; power-to-hydrogen.

Online: 20 October 2020 (17:28:11 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202012.0460.v1

Autonomous Vision-Based Primary Distribution Systems Porcelain Insulators Inspection Using UAVs

Ehab Ur Rahman, Yihong Zhang, Sohail Ahmad, Hafiz Ishfaq Ahmad, Sayed Jobaer

Subject: Engineering, Automotive Engineering Keywords: Primary distribution systems; Transfer learning; YoloV4; Porcelain Insulator detection; UAVs; BRISQUE; LIME; LapSRN; YoloV5

Online: 18 December 2020 (11:54:42 CET)

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The primary distribution systems are comprised of power lines delivering power to utility feeders from substations. The inspection and maintenance of damaged and broken power system insulators are of paramount importance for continuous power supply and public safety. hence, to identify any faults and defects in advance a periodic inspection of power line insulators and other components be ensured beforehand. To automate the process and reduce operational cost and risk Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are being extensively utilized. As they present a safer and efficient way to examine the power system insulators and their components without closing the power distribution system ensuring continuous supply to the end-users. To achieve these objectives in this work a novel dataset is designed by capturing real images using UAVs and manually generated images collected to overcome the data insufficiency problem. Deep Laplacian pyramids based super-resolution network is implemented to reconstruct high-resolution training images. To improve the visibility of low light images a low light image enhancement technique is used for the robust exposure correction of the training images. Using computer vision-based object detection techniques to identify faults and classify them according to classes they belong. A different fine-tuning strategy is implemented for fine-tuning the object detection model to increase detection accuracy for the specific faulty insulators. To improve the faults detection several flight path strategies are proposed for efficient inspection. Such strategies overcome the shuttering effect of insulators along with providing a less complex, time, and energy-efficient approach for capturing video stream of the power system components. Performance of different object detection models is presented for selecting the suitable one for fine-tuning on the specific faulty insulator dataset. Our proposed approach gives a less complex and more efficient flight strategy along with better results. For defect detection, our proposed method achieved an F1-score of 0.81 and 0.77 on two different datasets. Our approach is based on real aerial inspection of in-service porcelain insulators by extensive evaluation of several video sequences showing robust faults recognition and diagnostic capabilities. Our approach is demonstrated on data acquired by a drone in Swat Pakistan.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202010.0010.v1

Design and Implementation of a Control Method for GaN-based Totem-Pole Boost-type PFC Rectifier in Energy Storage Systems

Nguyen-Nghia Do, Bing-Siang Huang, Nhat-Truong Nguyen, Tan-Tung Nguyen, Jian-Hong Wu, Yu-Chen Liu, Huang-Jen Chiu

Subject: Engineering, Electrical And Electronic Engineering Keywords: Totem-pole power factor correction; energy storage systems (ESS); digital control; Gallium Nitride (GaN) based; current harmonic distortion mitigation; efficiency and power quality improvement

Online: 1 October 2020 (09:12:36 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201810.0431.v1

Urban Resilience Discourse Analysis: Towards a Multi-Level Approach to Cities

Mikhail Rogov, Celine Rozenblat

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: urban resilience; regional resilience; sustainability; cities; multi-level approach; complex systems; panarchy; adaptive cycles

Online: 19 October 2018 (04:16:55 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201710.0111.v1

Data-Driven Model Based Charging Profile Prediction for Energy Storage Systems

Nandha Kumar Kandasamy, Rudy Tjandra

Subject: Engineering, Electrical And Electronic Engineering Keywords: energy storage systems; charging profile; capacity loss; data-driven modeling

Online: 17 October 2017 (04:29:19 CEST)

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Preprint CONCEPT PAPER | doi:10.20944/preprints202008.0574.v2

An Engineering Theory of Evolution

Simeon Castle, Claire Grierson, Thomas Gorochowski

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Biology And Biotechnology Keywords: evolution; evotype; engineering theory; genotype-phenotype maps; directed evolution; selection; synthetic biology; bioengineering; evolvability; self-adaptive systems

Online: 9 December 2020 (10:51:51 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202006.0318.v1

RepRapable Automated Open Source Bag Valve Mask-Based Ventilator

Aliaksei Petsiuk, Nagendra G. Tanikella, Samantha Dertinger, Adam Pringle, Shane Oberloier, Joshua Pearce

Subject: Medicine And Pharmacology, Other Keywords: ventilator; pandemic; ventilation; influenza pandemic; coronavirus; coronavirus pandemic; pandemic ventilator; single-limb; open source; open hardware; COVID-19; medical hardware; RepRap; 3-D printing; open source medical hardware; embedded systems; real-time operating system

Online: 26 June 2020 (17:25:16 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201802.0058.v1

Direct Flux Control for Stand-Alone Operation Brushless Doubly Fed Induction Generator Using Resonant-Based Sliding-Mode Control Approach

Kai Ji, Shenghua Huang

Subject: Engineering, Electrical And Electronic Engineering Keywords: brushless doubly fed induction generator; direct control; stand-alone; sliding-mode; resonant; reduced-order generalized integrator; variable-speed constant-frequency; wind energy conversion systems

Online: 7 February 2018 (08:39:56 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202109.0016.v1

Chance-Constrained Optimization Dispatch and Demand Response Control of Thermostatically Controlled Loads and Plug-in Electric Vehicles

Jianqiang Hu, Jinde Cao

Subject: Engineering, Electrical And Electronic Engineering Keywords: Chance constraint programming; Source-load systems; Demand response control; Thermostatically controlled loads (TCLs); Plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs).

Online: 1 September 2021 (12:25:48 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201908.0066.v1

Rethinking Sustainable Development Using Deep Ecology and Adaptive Governance of Social-Ecological Systems: Implications for Protected Areas Management

Kofi Akamani

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Anthropocene; resilience; social-ecological systems; sustainability; transitions; wilderness

Online: 6 August 2019 (03:36:20 CEST)

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Since the late 1980s the idea of sustainable development has been gaining widespread recognition as a guiding framework for policies on development and the environment. However, the concept of sustainable development has received a number of criticisms, including its over-emphasis on meeting human needs through economic growth, as well as its failure to recognize dynamic human-environment interactions. In response to these shortfalls, the concepts of resilience and adaptive governance have emerged as alternative perspectives for pursuing sustainable development. Resilience in social-ecological systems emphasizes the capacity of coupled human-environment systems to deal with change while continuing to develop. Adaptive governance relies on diverse and nested institutional mechanisms for connecting actors across multiple scales to manage conflicts and uncertainties in ecosystem management processes. However, the ethical dimensions of resilience and adaptive governance have not received enough attention. A promising ethical perspective for guiding policies on human-environment interactions is the philosophy of deep ecology which highlights the need for recognition of the intrinsic values of all living things, as well as the nurturing of ecological and cultural diversity. We argue that an integration of the principles of deep ecology and adaptive governance provides a complementary set of ethical principles and institutional attributes that offers better prospects for pursuing sustainable development in the era of the Anthropocene. The implications of this integrative agenda include: adoption of a holistic conception of dynamic human-environment interactions; recognition of diverse knowledge systems through an anti-reductionist approach to knowledge; promotion of long term sustainability through respect for ecological and cultural diversity; and embracing decentralization and local autonomy. We further illustrate this integrative agenda using the management of protected areas as a case study.

Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202007.0375.v1

An Update on Antimicrobial Peptides (AMPs) and Their Delivery Strategies for Wound Infections

Viorica Patrulea, Gerrit Borchard, Olivier Jordan

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Immunology And Microbiology Keywords: bacterial infection; non-healing wounds; antimicrobial resistance; multidrug resistance; antimicrobial peptides (AMPs); AMP conjugates; AMP carriers and delivery systems

Online: 17 July 2020 (09:26:21 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201906.0022.v1

Pursuing the potential of heirloom cultivars to improve adaptation, nutritional and culinary features in a changing climate

Sangam Dwivedi, Irwin Goldman, Rodomiro Ortiz

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Agricultural Science And Agronomy Keywords: culinary and nutritional traits; farmer-breeder-chef-consumer nexus; folk cultivars; genetic diversity; global warming; heritage seedbank; local food systems; seed savers; stress tolerance

Online: 3 June 2019 (12:34:14 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202012.0714.v1

Towards a Biomanufactory on Mars

Aaron Berliner, Jacob M. Hilzinger, Anthony J. Abel, Matthew McNulty, George Makrygiorgos, Nils J.H. Averesch, Soumyajit Sen Gupta, Alexander Benvenuti, Daniel Caddell, Stefano Cestellos-Blanco, Anna Doloman, Skyler Friedline, Desiree Ho, Wenyu Gu, Avery Hill, Paul Kusuma, Isaac Lipsky, Mia Mirkovic, Jorge Meraz, Vince Pane, Kyle B. Sander, Fengzhe Shi, Jeffrey M. Skerker, Alexander Styer, Kyle Valgardson, Kelly Wetmore, Sung-Geun Woo, Yongao Xiong, Kevin Yates, Cindy Zhang, Shuyang Zhen, Bruce Bugbee, Devin Coleman-Derr, Ali Mesbah, Somen Nandi, Robert W. Waymouth, Peidong Yang, Craig S. Criddle, Karen A. McDonald, Amor A. Menezes, Lance C. Seefeldt, Douglas S. Clark, Adam P. Arkin

Subject: Engineering, Automotive Engineering Keywords: space systems bioengineering; human exploration; mars; in situ resource utilization; life support systems; biomanufacturing

Online: 29 December 2020 (07:57:37 CET)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201810.0507.v1

Exosomes and Exosome-Inspired Vesicles for Targeted Drug Delivery

Sophia G. Antimisiaris, Spyridon Mourtas, Antonia Marazioti

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Biochemistry And Molecular Biology Keywords: liposomes, exosomes, extracellular vesicles, drug delivery, drug targeting, bioinspired systems, engineered systems.

Online: 22 October 2018 (15:35:20 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201711.0193.v1

A Quantum Hybrid PSO Combined with Fuzzy K-NN Approach to Feature Selection and Cell Classification in Cervical Cancer Detection

Abdullah M. Iliyasu, Chastine Fatichah

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning Keywords: computational intelligence; quantum hybrid intelligent systems; quantum machine learning; medical image processing; disease diagnosis; Fuzzy k-NN; Quantum-behaved PSO; cervical smear images; cancer detection

Online: 30 November 2017 (07:21:00 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201710.0032.v1

What do Users Really Want? Participatory Development of Decision Support Tools for Environmental Management based on Outcomes.

Richard J. Hewitt, C.J.A. Macleod

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Environmental decision support systems; applications; outcome-based approach; adaptive management; user requirements; environmental management; participatory land planning

Online: 6 October 2017 (08:51:07 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201806.0339.v1

Development of an Innovative Modular Foam-Filled Panelised System for Rapidly Assembled Post Disaster Housing

Pezhman Sharafi, Saeed Nemati, Bijan Samali, Maryam Ghodrat

Subject: Engineering, Architecture, Building And Construction Keywords: post disaster housing; rapid assembly systems; foam filled sandwiches; modular construction;

Online: 21 June 2018 (12:52:55 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201708.0046.v1

Encompassing Electricity Market Predictions and Weather Forecasts in Power Plan O&M Strategies

Linda Ponta, Luca Oneto, Davide Anguita, Silvano Cincotti

Subject: Engineering, Control And Systems Engineering Keywords: Electricity markets; Proactive maintenance; Wind energy systems.

Online: 12 August 2017 (21:03:55 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202204.0232.v1

Urban Air Quality Measurements: A Survey

Muhammad Usama

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Pollution Keywords: Air Quality; Urban air quality; air quality measurement systems

Online: 26 April 2022 (09:57:05 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201904.0083.v1

Toxin–Antitoxin Systems and Their Role in Maintaining the Pathogenic Potential of Causative Agents of Sapronoses

Boris G. Andryukov, Larisa M. Somova, Nelli F. Timchenko, Marina P. Bynina, Irina N. Lyapun

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior And Systematics Keywords: toxin–antitoxin systems; toxin–antitoxin genetic module; sapronoses; resistant (dormant) cell form of bacteria; viable but nonculturable (VBNC) cell; persistence

Online: 8 April 2019 (10:49:35 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201808.0277.v1

Two Efficient Methods for Gas Distributive Network Calculation

Dejan Brkić

Subject: Engineering, Control And Systems Engineering Keywords: Calculation methods, Flow rate equation, Hydraulic pipeline systems, Natural gas distribution systems, Pipeline networks

Online: 15 August 2018 (15:56:29 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201907.0160.v1

Thermoplastic Elastomer based Phase Change Materials with Enhanced Mechanical Property, Thermal Conductivity and Photo-thermal Performance

Fuxian Wang, Xuelin Zou, Yanfeng Chen, Jian Liu

Subject: Chemistry And Materials Science, Chemical Engineering Keywords: solar thermal systems; phase change materials; thermoplastic elastomer; mechanical property; photo-thermal performance

Online: 11 July 2019 (11:54:58 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202201.0428.v1

Dynamical Feedback Control: Motor Cortex as an Optimal Feedback Controller Based on Neural Dynamics

Christopher Versteeg, Lee Miller

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Anatomy And Physiology Keywords: Motor Control; Feedback; Dynamical Systems

Online: 28 January 2022 (08:03:31 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201704.0083.v1

Communities of Practice as Systems: The Case of TEALEAF

Thomas McCloughlin

Subject: Social Sciences, Education Keywords: communities of learning; systems; apps; teacher education; TEALEAF

Online: 14 April 2017 (08:12:10 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201706.0113.v1

Minding the Cyber-Physical Gap: Model-Based Analysis and Mitigation of Systemic Perception-Induced Failure

Yaniv Mordecai, Dov Dori

Subject: Engineering, Control And Systems Engineering Keywords: conceptual modeling; cyber-physical systems; cyber-physical gap; Object-Process Methodology; model-based systems engineering; Three Mile Island 2 Accident

Online: 26 June 2017 (04:59:29 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201804.0252.v1

Synergy in Knowledge-Based Innovation Systems at National and Regional Levels: The Triple Helix Model and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Loet Leydesdorff

Subject: Social Sciences, Library And Information Sciences Keywords: triple helix; innovation systems; reflexive turn; expectation; synergy

Online: 19 April 2018 (11:28:35 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202306.2232.v1

Environmental Biotechnology for Medical Waste Management: A Review of Current Practices and Future Directions

Vishal Chandra, Kumari Arpita, Pramod Yadav, Viaks Raghuvanshi, Amarjeet Yadav, Sandeep Prajapati

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Waste Management And Disposal Keywords: Bioremediation; Bioreactor systems; Microbial treatment; Environmental impacts; Sustainability.

Online: 30 June 2023 (14:39:23 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201808.0069.v1

Lipid Membrane Based Biosensors

Georgia-Paraskevi Nikoleli, Dimitrios Nikolelis, Christina Siontorou, Marianna-Thalia Nikolelis, Stephanos Karapetis

Subject: Chemistry And Materials Science, Analytical Chemistry Keywords: biosensors, enzyme-based systems, receptor-based systems, toxins, food analysis, environmental monitoring, nanotechnology

Online: 3 August 2018 (14:20:04 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201801.0248.v1

Sensing Magnetic Fields With Magnetosensitive Ion Channels

Igor Goychuk

Subject: Physical Sciences, Particle And Field Physics Keywords: magnetic nanoparticles; ion channels; viscoelastic effects and anomalous diffusion; non-exponential statistics; influence of weak magnetic fields on living systems

Online: 26 January 2018 (05:11:59 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201712.0140.v1

Mathematical Modeling of Liquid-fed Pulsed Plasma Thruster

Kaartikey Misra

Subject: Engineering, Control And Systems Engineering Keywords: electric propulsion; space propulsion systems; pulsed plasma thruster; liquid propellant; numerical modeling; ionized gas

Online: 20 December 2017 (09:18:20 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201710.0044.v1

Social Systems: Resources and Strategies

Pavel Brazhnikov

Subject: Social Sciences, Sociology Keywords: systems theory; economic systems; social structure; competition; strategy; culture

Online: 9 October 2017 (05:27:13 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201805.0087.v1

Radar Detection of Fluctuating Target in Heavy-Tailed Clutter Using TBD

Jie Gao, Jinsong Du, Wei Wang

Subject: Engineering, Electrical And Electronic Engineering Keywords: target detection; radar systems; K-distributed clutter; heavy-tailed; Swerling target; track-before-detect (TBD)

Online: 4 May 2018 (08:27:25 CEST)

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Preprint HYPOTHESIS | doi:10.20944/preprints202012.0657.v1

Is it Possible that Cells have had More than One Origin?

Sávio Farias, Marco Jose, Francisco Prosdocimi

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Anatomy And Physiology Keywords: monophyly; progenotes; membrane evolution; origin of biological systems

Online: 25 December 2020 (12:29:28 CET)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202007.0022.v1

Seven Challenges in the Multiscale Modelling of Multicellular Tissues

Alexander Fletcher, James Osborne

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Cell And Developmental Biology Keywords: Multiscale modelling; cell-based modelling; computational biology; multicellular systems biology

Online: 3 July 2020 (08:43:36 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201709.0003.v1

Strategies to Automatically Derive A Process Model From A Configurable Process Model Based on Event Data

Mauricio Arriagada-Benítez, Marcos Sepúlveda, Jorge Munoz-Gama, Joos C. A. M. Buijs

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Information Systems Keywords: business workflows; discrete event systems; event logs; configurable process models; configurable process trees; process mining; business processes

Online: 1 September 2017 (17:14:50 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202104.0183.v1

A Network Intrusion Based Detection System for Cloud Computing Environment

Taskeen Zaidi

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Computer Networks And Communications Keywords: Intrusion detection systems; machine learning; NSL-KDD; feature selection; classification model; SBDS, ABDS, Snort, SVM

Online: 6 April 2021 (17:59:47 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201710.0015.v1

Hybrid Incremental Model for Imbalance Detection in Ultra-high Precision Rotating Devices

Rodolfo Haber, Raúl Mario del Toro Matamoros

Subject: Engineering, Control And Systems Engineering Keywords: modeling; intelligent systems; imbalance detection; ultra-high precision rotating machine

Online: 3 October 2017 (13:39:35 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202107.0382.v1

Microfluidic Surgery in Single Cells and Multicellular Systems

Kevin Zhang, Ambika Nadkarni, Rajorshi Paul, Adrian Martin, Sindy Tang

Subject: Medicine And Pharmacology, Surgery Keywords: Microfluidics; surgery; single cell; multicellular systems; sectioning; ablation; biopsy; fusion

Online: 16 July 2021 (14:53:11 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201901.0285.v1

A Comprehensive Technological Survey on the Dependable Self-Management CPS: From Self-Adaptive Architecture to Self-Management Strategies

Peng Zhou, Decheng Zuo, Kunmean Hou, Zhan Zhang, Jian Dong, Jianjin Li, Haiyin Zhou

Subject: Engineering, Control And Systems Engineering Keywords: cyber physical systems; industry 4.0; MDE; lifetime verification & validation; dependability; correctness; flexibility; real-time self-adaptation, self-management; self-healing

Online: 29 January 2019 (04:45:47 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202108.0455.v1

ON THE ROLE OF MATRIX-WEIGHTS ELEMENTS IN CONSENSUS ALGORITHMS FOR MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS

Joshua Ogbebor, Xiangyu Meng

Subject: Engineering, Electrical And Electronic Engineering Keywords: matrix-weighted graphs; multi-agent systems; clustered consensus; global consensus

Online: 23 August 2021 (14:48:25 CEST)

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Preprint DATA DESCRIPTOR | doi:10.20944/preprints201805.0047.v1

Interactive 3D Models and Animations for Understanding Earth’s Coordinate Systems

Sanjeev Kumar Srivastava

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Remote Sensing Keywords: map projections; coordinate systems; earth's 3D models; earth's 2D representation

Online: 2 May 2018 (13:29:41 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201804.0193.v1

The Value of Day-Ahead Coordination of Power and Natural Gas Network Operations

Kwabena Addo Pambour, Rostand Tresor Sopgwi, Bri-Mathias Hodge, Carlo Brancucci

Subject: Engineering, Electrical And Electronic Engineering Keywords: energy systems integration; sector coupling; power gas simulation; day-ahead and real-time coordination; power gas interdependence

Online: 16 April 2018 (06:46:31 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201808.0362.v1

The Limpet: A ROS-Enabled Multi-Sensing Platform for the ORCA Hub

Mohammed E. Sayed, Markus P. Nemitz, Simona Aracri, Alistair C. McConnell, Ross M. McKenzie, Adam A. Stokes

Subject: Engineering, Electrical And Electronic Engineering Keywords: Communication Fail-Over, Fault Diagnosis, Limpet, On-board Processing, ORCA Hub, Real-time Condition Monitoring, Remote Sensing, Robots, Robot Sensing Systems, ROS Interface.

Online: 20 August 2018 (19:24:46 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201802.0163.v1

Shaping Light in Backward-Wave Nonlinear Hyperbolic Metamaterials

Alexander K. Popov, Sergey A. Myslivets, Vitaly V. Slabko, Victor A. Tkachenko, Thomas F. George

Subject: Physical Sciences, Optics And Photonics Keywords: optical metamaterials; fundamental concepts in photonics; light-matter interactions at the subwavelength and nanoscale; fundamental understanding of linear and nonlinear optical processes in novel metamaterials underpinning photonic devices and components; advancing the frontier of nanophotonics with the associated nanoscience and nanotechnology; nanostructures that can serve as building blocks for nano-optical systems; use of nanotechnology in photonics; nonlinear nanophotonics, plasmonics and excitonics; subwavelength components and negative index materials; slowing, store, and processing light pulses; materials with such capabilities that could be used for optical sensing, tunable optical delay lines, optical buffers, high extinction optical switches, novel image processing hardware, and highly-efficient wavelength converters

Online: 26 February 2018 (11:24:39 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202104.0648.v1

Concepts and Models of Environment in Self-Adaptive Systems: A Systematic Literature Review

Yong-Jun Shin, Joon-Young Bae, Doo-Hwan Bae

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Environmental Science Keywords: self-adaptive systems, environment, concept, model, systematic literature review

Online: 26 April 2021 (10:22:54 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202009.0214.v1

Synchronous Roundabouts with Rotating Priority Sectors (SYROPS) : High Capacity and Safety for Conventional and Autonomous Vehicles

Guillermo Ibanez, Tobias Meuser, Miguel A. Lopez-Carmona, Diego Lopez-Pajares

Subject: Engineering, Control And Systems Engineering Keywords: roundabouts; traffic engineering; rotary priority; spatio-temporal technique; synchronization; protocols; intelligent transport systems; connected vehicles; traffic safety

Online: 10 September 2020 (03:31:57 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201808.0196.v1

Higher Order Geometric Theory of Information and Heat based on Poly-Symplectic Geometry of Souriau Lie Groups Thermodynamics and Their Contextures

Frederic Barbaresco

Subject: Physical Sciences, Mathematical Physics Keywords: Higher Order Thermodynamics; Lie Groups Thermodynamics; Homogeneous Manifold; Poly-Symplectic Manifold; Dynamical Systems; Non-equivariant Cohomology

Online: 9 August 2018 (15:19:18 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202012.0315.v1

Intelligent Cyber-Attack Detection and Classification for Network-based Intrusion Detection Systems

Nuno Oliveira, Isabel Praça, Eva Maia, Orlando Sousa

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Computer Science Keywords: Intrusion Detection Systems; Anomaly detection; Sequential analysis; Random Forest; Multi-Layer Perceptron; Long-Short Term Memory

Online: 14 December 2020 (09:36:58 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202006.0153.v1

Spatial Distribution of COVID-19 in Honduras at the Early Phase of the Pandemic Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Lysien I. Zambrano, Manuel Antonio Sierra-Santos, Homer Mauricio Mejía-Santos, Elsa Yolanda Palou, Fausto Muñoz-Lara, Ivette Lorenzana, Tito Alvarado, Itzel Carolina Fuentes-Barahona, Glaucia Luciano da Veiga, Ivan Rodriguez-Nuñez, Víctor Manuel Valladares-Rosa, Arturo Gerardo Corrales-Alvarez, Kovy Arteaga-Livias, D. Katterine Bonilla-Aldana, Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales

Subject: Medicine And Pharmacology, Epidemiology And Infectious Diseases Keywords: SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19; geographical information systems (GIS); coronavirus; epidemiology of infectious diseases; public health.

Online: 12 June 2020 (12:36:52 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201808.0125.v1

Applied Robot Coverage Path Planning with Multiple Decision Making Capability under Uncertainty using Knowledge Inference with Hedge Algebras

Hai Van Pham, Philip Moore

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Robotics Keywords: robotics; coverage path-planning; knowledge reasoning and inference; hedge algebras; decision-support systems

Online: 6 August 2018 (14:06:19 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202208.0483.v1

Digital-Twins Towards Cyber-Physical Systems: A Brief Survey

Amir Parnianifard, Lunchakorn Wuttisittikulkij

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Computer Science Keywords: Digital Twins; Cyber-Physical Systems; Control; Communication; Computation; 5G; Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; Computational Intelligence

Online: 29 August 2022 (09:51:49 CEST)

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Preprint HYPOTHESIS | doi:10.20944/preprints202006.0168.v1

Tissue Tectonics and the Multi-Scale Regulation of Developmental Timing

Lara Busby, Benjamin Steventon

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Anatomy And Physiology Keywords: pattern formation; morphogenesis; systems biology; embryology

Online: 14 June 2020 (12:29:45 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202012.0474.v1

Offshore Wind Energy Potential for Bahrain via Multi-criteria Evaluation

Diane Palmer, Mohamed Elgabiri, Hanan Al Buflasa, Murray Thomson

Subject: Engineering, Energy And Fuel Technology Keywords: Offshore wind farm siting; Suitability maps; Geographical Information Systems (GIS); Multi-criteria; Analytic hierarchy process (AHP); Offshore wind energy potential.

Online: 18 December 2020 (14:54:47 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201808.0359.v1

Antenna Mutual Coupling Suppression Over Wideband Using Embedded Periphery Slot for Antenna Arrays

Mohammad Alibakhshikenari, Bal Singh Virdee, Chan Hwang See, Raed Abd-Alhameed, Francisco Falcone, Ernesto Limiti

Subject: Engineering, Electrical And Electronic Engineering Keywords: Mutual coupling suppression; slotted array antennas; synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems; decoupling method

Online: 20 August 2018 (14:46:43 CEST)

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Preprint COMMUNICATION | doi:10.20944/preprints202207.0329.v1

Biomanufacturing for Space-Exploration – What to Take and When to Make

Nils J.H. Averesch, Aaron J. Berliner, Shannon N. Nangle, Spencer Zezulka, Gretchen L. Vengerova, Davian Ho, Cameran A. Casale, Benjamin A.E. Lehner, Jessica E. Jessica Snyder, Kevin B. Clark, Lewis R. Dartnell, Craig S. Criddle, Adam P. Arkin

Subject: Engineering, Bioengineering Keywords: in-space biomanufacturing; space synthetic biology; space bioprocess engineering; biological life-support systems; in situ resource utilization; circular economy

Online: 21 July 2022 (11:01:29 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.3390/sci2020046

Portable XRF Quick-Scan Mapping for Potential Toxic Elements Pollutants in Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems: A Methodological Approach

Guri Venvik, Floris Boogaard

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Environmental Science Keywords: portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometer (pXRF); Potential Toxic Elements (PTE); lead (Pb), zinc (Zn); copper (Cu); topsoil; sustainable urban drainage systems; SuDS; LID; BMPs; WSUD; GI; SCMs

Online: 13 June 2020 (00:00:00 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201901.0248.v1

Multiple-Layer Microperforated Panels as Sound Absorbers in Buildings: A Review

Pedro Cobo, Francisco Simón

Subject: Physical Sciences, Acoustics Keywords: sound absorption; microperforated panels; multilayer systems

Online: 24 January 2019 (08:43:22 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201907.0349.v1

Ethical Regulators and Super-Ethical Systems

Mick Ashby

Subject: Engineering, Control And Systems Engineering Keywords: ethics; regulator; superintelligence; super-ethical systems; requisite variety; cybernetics; third-order cybernetics; cyberanthropic utopia; grand challenge

Online: 31 July 2019 (10:40:58 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201808.0508.v1

Will Love Tear Them Apart? Identifying the Eco-Evolutionary Feedbacks of Sexual Traits

Joao Alpedrinha, Leonor Rodrigues, Sara Magalhães, Jessica Abbott

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior And Systematics Keywords: sexual selection, sexual conflicts, contemporary evolution, mate choice, mating systems, mating strategies.

Online: 29 August 2018 (16:19:12 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201905.0331.v1

On the Role of Electric Vehicles towards Low-Carbon Energy Systems: Italy and Germany in Comparison

Sara Bellocchi, Kai Klöckner, Michele Manno, Michel Noussan, Michela Vellini

Subject: Engineering, Energy And Fuel Technology Keywords: large-scale RES; curtailments; electric vehicles; EnergyPLAN; integrated energy systems analysis; CO2 emissions

Online: 28 May 2019 (10:33:27 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201903.0079.v1

Ensuring U.S. Biomedical Research Sustainability through Organizational Development, Quality Management, and Systems Approaches: A Review and Conceptual Framework

Steven Forrester

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Human Resources And Organizations Keywords: Systems Management, Biomedical Research Policy, Organizational Development, Quality Management

Online: 6 March 2019 (11:42:47 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201904.0280.v1

Controls of Depositional Environments on Reservoir Quality in Terms of Porosity and Permeability Gabo Field Niger Delta

Richmond Ideozu, Tochukwu Nduaguibe

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Geophysics And Geology Keywords: Porosity, permeability, skolithos, Ophiomorpha, lithofacies, reservoir, bioturbation, channel and coastal barrier systems.

Online: 25 April 2019 (11:16:30 CEST)

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The controls of depositional environments on reservoir quality have been evaluated in terms of porosity and permeability of the Gabo Field, Niger Delta, Nigeria. Data used in this research include Well logs, Core data and photos, and grain size analysis for Wells 51 and 52 in the study area. Standard methods as applicable in petrophysical and sedimentological analysis has been adopted. Thirteen reservoir units have been identified in wells 51 and 52 which had 5 reservoirs cored each. The lithofacies units of the identified reservoirs across the study area, comprise pebbly sands, coarse -, medium -, fine- and very fine-grained sands, sandy mud, silty sands and heteroliths. The heteroliths – very fine-grained silty muds are highly bioturbated. Ophiomorpha and skolithos are the major trace fossils with sedimentary structures (ripple lamination, wavy lenticular and planar beds, cross bedded sands, coarsening and fining upward). The facies associations interpreted for the study area are Channel and Coastal barrier systems and the environment of deposition as distributary channel, upper and lower shoreface. The sedimentary processes that deposited facies ranged from high energy regimes, reworking by waves to low energy with periodic influx of silts and muds. The average porosity and permeability for reservoirs in Well 51 is 16.7% and 1317 Md, reservoirs in Well 52 is 28.2% and 2330Md whereas porosity range for the study area is 2% - 32% and permeability is 1.2 – 10600 Md. The reservoir quality reservoir of the sand units in Well 51 (7, 9 and 13) and Well 52 (5, 7, 9, 11 and 13) is excellent - good, this is because of the dynamics environments of deposition (upper shoreface and distributary channel) as well as the mechanisms that play out during deposition such as bioturbation, sorting, sedimentary structures formed. Whereas the poor quality across the reservoirs especially the lower shoreface and prodelta facies is as result of lack bioturbation, connectivity, multiplicity of burrows that may have been plugged by clay and intercalation of shale and sand (heteroliths). This research has shown that environments of deposition have direct influence the reservoir quality in terms of porosity and permeability.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201802.0188.v1

Resilience Planning, a Facilitated Modelling Approach

Hugo Herrera, Birgit Kopainsky

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Business And Management Keywords: resilience; participation; planning; food systems

Online: 28 February 2018 (04:55:45 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201708.0074.v1

Far-from-Equilibrium Time Evolution between two Gamma Distributions

Eun-jin Kim, Lucille-Marie Tenkès, Rainer Hollerbach

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Applied Mathematics Keywords: non-equlibrium; stochastic systems; langevin equation; fokker-planck equation; time-dependent PDFs; gamma distribution

Online: 21 August 2017 (12:11:18 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201810.0697.v1

Glioblastoma’s Next Top Model: Novel Culture Systems for Brain Cancer Radiotherapy Research

Seamus P. Caragher, Anthony J. Chalmers, Natividad Gomez-Roman

Subject: Medicine And Pharmacology, Oncology And Oncogenics Keywords: glioma; glioblastoma; pre-clinical drug development; 3D culture systems; radiotherapy

Online: 30 October 2018 (03:38:28 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201709.0091.v1

Equilibration in the Nosé-Hoover Isokinetic Ensemble: Effect of Inter-Particle Interactions

Shamik Gupta, Stefano Ruffo

Subject: Physical Sciences, Condensed Matter Physics Keywords: Hamiltonian systems; classical statistical mechanics; ensemble equivalence; long-range interacting systems

Online: 20 September 2017 (04:08:44 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201805.0265.v1

Photovoltaic Energy in Colombia: Current Status of Supply Chain

Mateo Valderrama Mendoza, Pablo César Ocampo Vélez, Camilo Mejía Moncayo, Leonardo Rodríguez Urrego

Subject: Engineering, Energy And Fuel Technology Keywords: photovoltaics systems in Colombia; supply chain; non-nterconnected areas (ZNI); supply chain orientation (SCO); Petri Nets

Online: 21 May 2018 (10:50:03 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202008.0647.v1

Biological Organization Principles: Biogenesis, Cognition and Evolution of Living Systems

Carlos Maureira, Jose Garcia

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Other Keywords: Biological Organization Principles; Dynamical Systems; Bayesian Inference and Brian; FEP; Autopoiesis; Evolution; Cognition; Niche; KAM-dynamics Contents

Online: 28 August 2020 (15:08:56 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202007.0018.v1

Spatial Distribution of COVID-19 in Shahroud, Iran Using GIS

Marjan Ghanbarian, Sepideh Mahdavi, Mostafa Enayatrad, Fariba Zare, Mostafa MajidNia, Mohammad Hassan Emamian, Ali Hosseinzadeh, Reza Chaman, Ahmad Khosravi, Ehsan Binesh, Hossein Sheibani, Hamidreza Khajeha, Marzieh Rohani-Rasaf

Subject: Medicine And Pharmacology, Pulmonary And Respiratory Medicine Keywords: COVID-19; geographic information systems (GIS); Shahroud; Iran

Online: 3 July 2020 (08:27:23 CEST)

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Working Paper ARTICLE

Artificial Intelligence in Cyber Physical Systems

Petar Radanliev, David De Roure, Max Van Kleek, Omar Santos, Uchenna Ani

Subject: Engineering, Control And Systems Engineering Keywords: Industrial Internet of Things; Cyber Physical Systems; Internet of Everything; Industry 4.0; Digital Industry; Digital Economy

Online: 14 September 2020 (05:47:48 CEST)

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Working Paper ARTICLE

Assessment of Indigenous Institutions in Natural Resources Governance Systems in Pastoral Areas of Isiolo Kenya

Abdirahman Abdi Jilo

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Accounting And Taxation Keywords: Governance; Livelihoods; Natural Resources; Resilience; Traditional Systems; Pastoralism

Online: 18 March 2021 (13:15:35 CET)

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Kenya’s natural resource base has dwindled over years. The existence of many natural resource policies, some that are incompatible, has resulted in complex rangeland management regimes, giving rise to fragmented interventions and inadequate natural resource policies in relation to pastoralism. The majority of pastoral land resources held under a controlled access system by the national government that regulates management and utilization of resources. Pastoralists in Kenya have become among the most marginalized and disadvantaged minority groups. This is due to limited or under investment by government and other actors, and access to, or ownership of land, water and other resources, which are fundamental for pastoralism. This study examines significant obstacles for the establishment of a more inclusive ‘governance’ approach to natural resource management in northern Kenya, that characterize the customary Boran knowledge such as Deedha’s (traditional grazing unit) and formal institutions and seeks to address the tension between them through a legal framework that accommodates both. The results of the study established existence of the traditional structures and institutions in governance of natural resources within the pastoralist communities in Isiolo County. These institutions have evolved to cope with changing dynamics brought about by formalization of the natural resources governance. The resulted showed that various formal institutions from national government agencies to county government department were involved in management of the natural resources. However, the study established various operational divergence and links between informal and formal institutions involved in natural resources management. The study concluded that both informal institution such as Deedha and formal institutions constituted by national and county government did governance of natural resources among pastoralist communities in Isiolo County. The communities however have more trust in the informal structures and institutions because of their flexibility and inclusiveness.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201811.0532.v1

Uniform Convergence of Cesaro Averages for Uniquely Ergodic $C^*$-Dynamical Systems

Francesco Fidaleo

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Analysis Keywords: ergodic theorems; C*-dynamical systems

Online: 22 November 2018 (04:17:04 CET)

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Use of Smartphones for Ensuring Vulnerable Road User Safety through Path Prediction and Early Warning: An In-Depth Review of Capabilities, Limitations and Their Applications in Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems

Ioannis Vourgidis, Leandros Maglaras, Ahmed S. Alfakeeh, Ali H. Al-Bayatti, Mohamed Amine Ferrag

Subject: Engineering, Control And Systems Engineering Keywords: Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (CITS); Vehicle to Pedestrian (V2P); Vulnerable 15 Road Users (VRU); GPS; smartphones; Inertial Measurement Units sensors

Online: 6 February 2020 (03:44:08 CET)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201911.0385.v1

Teamwork for Multi-Robot Systems in Dynamic Environments

Kurt Geihs

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Robotics Keywords: autonomous robots; multi-robot systems; teamwork; coordination

Online: 30 November 2019 (09:47:30 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202009.0311.v1

Feedback Control Methods for a Single Machine Infinite Bus System

Pratik Vernekar, Zhongkui Wang, Andrea Serrani, Kevin Passino

Subject: Engineering, Control And Systems Engineering Keywords: Control Systems; Power Systems; Linear and Nonlinear Control; PID; LQR; LQG; SMIB; Kalman Filter

Online: 14 September 2020 (00:18:10 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201803.0253.v1

Exploiting Past Users’ Interests and Predictions in an Active Learning Method for Dealing with Cold Start in Recommender Systems

Manuel Pozo, Raja Chiky, Farid Meziane, Elisabeth Metais

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Information Systems Keywords: Cold start, Recommender systems, Active learning, Collaborative filtering

Online: 29 March 2018 (15:08:38 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201806.0254.v1

Online Demand Side Management with PEVs Using Stochastic Optimization

Moses Acquah, Byeonggu Yu, Sekyung Han

Subject: Engineering, Electrical And Electronic Engineering Keywords: demand-side management; peak demand control; dynamic-interval density forecast; stochastic optimization; dimension reduction; battery energy-storage system (BESS), plugged-in electric vehicles (PEV); vehicle-to-grid (V2G); building energy-management systems (BEMS)

Online: 15 June 2018 (13:01:42 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201802.0144.v1

Adaptable Energy Systems Integration by Modular, Standardized and Scalable System Architectures: Necessities and Prospects of Any Time Transition

Jonas Hinker, Thomas Wohlfahrt, Emily Drewing, Sergio Felipe Contreras Paredes, Daniel Mayorga Gonzalez, Johanna M.A. Myrzik

Subject: Engineering, Electrical And Electronic Engineering Keywords: energy infrastructure design; system architecture; energy transition; district heating systems (DHS); energy hubs; distributed multigeneration (DMG); multi-energy systems (MES); urban energy systems (UES); community energy; societal prospects

Online: 22 February 2018 (12:47:01 CET)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202002.0405.v1

How Could Sustainable Agriculture Increase Climate Resilience? A Systematic Review

Daniel El Chami, André Daccache, Maroun El Moujabber

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Soil Science Keywords: Systematic Review; Sustainable Agriculture; Climate Change; Resilience; Agro-Systems

Online: 27 February 2020 (12:23:04 CET)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201808.0266.v1

Microfluidic Advancements in Classical Biotechnology – A Review

Ishtiaq Ahmed, Zain Akram, Mohammed Hussen Bule, Hafiz M. N. Iqbal

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Biology And Biotechnology Keywords: microchannel; micro-array; microstructure; biofilms; polydimethylsiloxane; Micro-PCR; reynolds number; micro electro mechanical systems

Online: 15 August 2018 (05:37:59 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202202.0001.v1

AI-Based Modeling: Techniques, Applications and Research Issues Towards Automation, Intelligent and Smart Systems

Iqbal H. Sarker

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Information Systems Keywords: Artificial intelligence; machine learning; data science; advanced analytics; intelligent computing; automation; smart systems; industry 4.0 applications

Online: 1 February 2022 (10:26:21 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201909.0128.v1

Novel Antiviral Activities of Obatoclax, Emetine, Niclosamide, Brequinar, and Homoharringtonine

Petter I. Andersen, Klara Krpina, Aleksandr Ianevski, Nastassia Shtaida, Eunji Jo, Jaewon Yang, Sandra Koit, Tanel Tenson, Vejo Hukkonen, Marit W. Anthonsen, Magnar Bjoras, Magnus Evander, Marc P. Windisch, Eva Zusinaite, Denis E. Kainov

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Virology Keywords: virus; broad-spectrum antiviral; antiviral agent; drug target; systems biology

Online: 12 September 2019 (08:55:23 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201801.0203.v1

Reaching Reliable and Trustworthy Agreement in a Multiple Damage Vehicular Ad Hoc Network

Shu-Ching Wang, Ya-Jung Lin, Yao-Te Tsai, Kuo-Qin Yan

Subject: Engineering, Control And Systems Engineering Keywords: Internet of Things; greement; Intelligent Transportation Systems

Online: 22 January 2018 (13:53:58 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202001.0316.v2

Secure Communication between UAVs Using a Method Based on Smart Agents in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Maryam Faraji, Reza Fotohi

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Algebra And Number Theory Keywords: Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs); UAV; Sinkhole attack; IDS; routing security

Online: 30 November 2020 (11:13:05 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202007.0536.v1

Slice Allocation Management Model in 5G Networks for IoT Services with Reliable Low Latency

Mohammed Dighriri, Abayomi Otebolaku, Ali Alfoudi, Gyu Myoung Lee

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Information Systems Keywords: 5G; IoT; SAM Model; Vehicular Communication Systems

Online: 23 July 2020 (08:07:58 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202105.0044.v1

A Socio-Technical Perspective on the Application of Green Ergonomics to Open-Plan Offices

Thomas A. Norton, Oluremi B. Ayoko, Neal M. Ashkanasy

Subject: Social Sciences, Psychology Keywords: Open-plan office; socio-technical systems; green ergonomics; biophilic design; sustainable development; human factors.

Online: 5 May 2021 (12:20:49 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201910.0150.v1

The Impact of Temporal Complexity Reduction on a 100% Renewable European Energy System with Hydrogen Infrastructure

Dilara Gulcin Caglayan, Heidi Ursula Heinrichs, Detlef Stolten, Martin Robinius

Subject: Engineering, Energy And Fuel Technology Keywords: eenewable energy systems; energy systems; hydrogen pipeline; power-to-hydrogen

Online: 13 October 2019 (16:32:39 CEST)

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The transition towards a renewable energy system is essential in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The increase in the share of variable renewable energy sources (VRES), which mainly comprise wind and solar energy, necessitates storage technologies by which the intermittency of VRES can be compensated for. Although hydrogen has been envisioned to play a significant role as a promising alternative energy carrier in a future European VRES-based energy concept, the optimal design of this system remains uncertain. In this analysis, a hydrogen infrastructure is posited that would meet the electricity and hydrogen demand for a 100% renewable energy-based European energy system in the context of 2050. The overall system design is optimized by minimizing the total annual cost. Onshore and offshore wind energy, open-field photovoltaics (PV), rooftop PV and hydro energy, as well as biomass, are the technologies employed for electricity generation. The electricity generated is then either transmitted through the electrical grid or converted into hydrogen by means of electrolyzers and then distributed through hydrogen pipelines. Battery, hydrogen vessels and salt caverns are considered as potential storage technologies. In the case of a lull, stored hydrogen can be re-electrified to generate electricity to meet demand during that time period. For each location, eligible technologies are introduced, as well as their maximum capacity and hourly demand profiles, in order to build the optimization model. In addition, a generation time series for VRES has been exogenously derived for the model. The generation profiles of wind energy have been investigated in detail by considering future turbine designs with high spatial resolution. In terms of salt cavern storage, the technical potential for hydrogen storage is defined in the system as the maximum allowable capacity per region. Whether or not a technology is installed in a region, the hourly operation of these technologies, as well as the cost of each technology, are obtained within the optimization results. It is revealed that a 100 percent renewable energy system is feasible and would meet both electricity demand and hydrogen demand in Europe.

Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202009.0004.v1

Integrative Metabolomics to Identify Molecular Signatures of Responses to Vaccines and Infections

Joann Diray-Arce, Maria-Giulia Conti, Boryana Petrova, Naama Kanarek, Asimenia Angelidou, Ofer Levy

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Endocrinology And Metabolism Keywords: metabolomics; vaccines; infections; integrative metabolomics; systems biology; diagnosis; response detection

Online: 1 September 2020 (10:25:03 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201808.0053.v1

Multidisciplinary Approach for the Development of Smart Distribution Networks

Emilio Ghiani, Alessandro Serpi, Virginia Pilloni, Giuliana Sias, Marco Simone, Gian Luca Marcialis, Giuliano Armano, Paolo Attilio Pegoraro

Subject: Engineering, Electrical And Electronic Engineering Keywords: Smart grid; Monitoring System; Distribution System State Estimation, Information and Communication Technology, Distribution Management Systems, Distributed Energy Sources, Cyber-Physical Systems, Energy Management System, Energy Storage Systems, Cyber Security

Online: 2 August 2018 (17:25:01 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201812.0064.v1

Inchoative Discovery of Plausible (Un)explored Synergistic Combinatorial Biological Hypotheses for Static/Time Series Wnt Measurements via Ranking Search Engine : BioSearch Engine Design

Shriprakash Sinha

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Other Keywords: combinatorial search forest; sensitivity analysis; support vector ranking algorithm; unknown biological hypotheses; Wnt pathway; PORCN-WNT inhibitors; ETC-1922159; Sobol indices; Hilbert Schmidt independence criterion indices (HSIC); F-divergence (Fdiv); systems biology

Online: 5 December 2018 (07:52:17 CET)

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\textsc{Background} Often, in biology, we are faced with the problem of exploring relevant unknown biological hypotheses in the form of myriads of combination of factors that might be affecting the pathway under certain conditions. Currently, a major problem in biology is to cherry pick the combinations based on expert advice, literature survey or guesses for investigation. The search and wet lab testing of these combinations costs a lot in terms of time, investment and energy. In a recent development of the PORCN-WNT inhibitor ETC-1922159 for colorectal cancer, a list of down-regulated genes were recorded in a time buffer after the administration of the drug. The regulation of the genes were recorded individually but for a majority, it is still not known which higher ($\geq 2$) order combinations might be playing a greater role in the pathway. \textsc{Results} The pipeline provides a prioritised list of important $2^{nd}$ order combinations of a range of family of genes involved in the Wnt pathway. More specifically, it reveals the various unexplored FZD-WNT combinations that have been untested till now in the pathway. In relation to ETC-1922159 affected combinations, the down-regulation of LGR-RNF family after the drug treatment is evident in these rankings as it takes bottom priorities for LGR5-RNF43 combination. The LGR6-RNF43 takes higher ranking than LGR5-RNF43, indicating that it might not be playing a greater role as LGR5 during the Wnt enhancing signals. These rankings confirm the efficacy of the proposed search engine design. \textsc{Conclusion} A pipeline has been developed to prioritise an $n^{th}$ order combination of factors that affect a signaling pathway. It takes into account the sensitivity indices computed from variance based (SOBOL) and density-kernel based (HSIC) methods to estimate the influence of each factor or combination of factors. These are then fed as feature vectors into a powerful support vector ranking algorithm that produces a ranked list of the interactions/combinations.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201712.0091.v1

Co-Creating Value in Urban Public Policy Context: A Different Approach

Federica Fotino

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Business And Management Keywords: Sustainability; Value co-creation; Viable Systems Approach; Consonance; Urban and Territory development; Public Policy

Online: 14 December 2017 (11:33:32 CET)

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Urban areas face daunting economic challenges that have increased in scope in recent years. At the same time, cities provide for opportunities for growth and value creation. The interplay of these challenges and opportunities represents the area of intervention for policymakers and researchers. However, the traditional approach to urban policy, deriving from the managerial and economic policy theories, shows difficulties mainly related to the capacity to counterbalance the interests and expectations of a multitude of stakeholders participating to the value co-creation process and to bring all different components to synergically contribute to the sustainability of the system. The Author proposes an innovative approach to urban public policy, by adopting the theoretical corpus of the Viable Systems Approach ("VSA"). Urban planning will be particularly analysed, as systemic components of urban areas, with the aim to investigate the decision-making processes for an integrated, efficient, effective and sustainable management of the territory as a multidimensional, multisectoral and multi-stakeholder entity. By recovering different settings, the VSA intends the co-creation of value as the capacity of the viable systems to increase its surviving chances in its own context. The value derives, first of all, from the strategic decisions aimed at finding both dyadic and context consonance. Through its strategic decisions, the Governing Body of the territory develops a specific system as the overall synthesis of all possible systems organised within a specific area, identifying pattern of development agreed by the several stakeholders of the territory. In the dynamics of value co-creation in systemic multi-subjective organizations, where the level of complexity is particularly significant, the research for consonance among different stakeholders is particular important in order to achieve the most value for the territory. In this respect, the VSA may constitute a valid tool, helping to find the necessary capacities to imagine evolutionary paths towards new competencies.

Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201905.0175.v1

Demand Prediction with Machine Learning Models; State of the Art and a Systematic Review of Advances

Amir Mosavi, Sina Faizollahzadeh Ardabili, Shahabodin Shamshirband

Subject: Engineering, Electrical And Electronic Engineering Keywords: demand prediction, energy systems; machine learning; artificial neural network (ANN); support vector machines (SVM); neuro-fuzzy; ANFIS; wavelet neural network (WNN); big data; decision tree (DT); ensemble learning; hybrid models; data science; deep learning; renewable energies; energy informatics; prediction; forecasting; energy demand

Online: 14 May 2019 (14:00:40 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201803.0039.v1

Benveniste’s Experiments Explained by a Non-Conventional Experimenter Effect

Francis Beauvais

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Other Keywords: systems biology; probabilistic modelling; experimenter effect; quantum-like correlations

Online: 6 March 2018 (03:35:12 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201808.0135.v1

Responding to Climate Change in Countries Emerging from Armed Conflicts: Harnessing Climate Finance to Deliver Forest Conservation, Peacebuilding, and Sustainable Food

Augusto Castro-Nunez

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: climate finance; REDD+; forest conservation; peacebuilding; sustainable food systems

Online: 7 August 2018 (07:42:05 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202108.0032.v1

The impact of Artificial Intelligence on Data System Security: A Literature Review

Albérico Travassos Rosário, Ricardo Raimundo

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Accounting And Taxation Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Securty; Security Of Data; Security Systems

Online: 2 August 2021 (12:36:22 CEST)

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