Coupling Coordination and Prediction Research of Tourism Industry Development and Ecological Environment in China by Yun Yang, Rong Wang, Junlan Tan

“…Based on the data relevant to China’s tourism industry and ecological environment from 2005 to 2018, the entropy method and the coupling coordination degree model were used to analyze the coupling degree and coupling coordination degree of the tourism industry’s development and the ecological environment, and the GM (1.1) gray model was used to predict these values in the future. …”
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Investigation on Deicing Property of Steel Wool Fiber-Reinforced Asphalt Mixture by Induction Heating by Fa Yang, Kehong Li, Rui Xiong, Bowen Guan, Hua Zhao

“…The deicing mechanism of steel wool fiber asphalt mixture by induction heating was analyzed. Grey relation entropy analysis between the average melting ice rate and the influencing factors was determined. …”
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A Cryptographic Scheme for Construction of Substitution Boxes Using Quantic Fractional Transformation by Abid Mahboob, Muhammad Asif, Muhammad Nadeem, Aysha Saleem, Sayed M. Eldin, Imran Siddique

“…Then, to determine the effectiveness of the encryption scheme, use several tests such as contrast, correlation, homogeneity, entropy, and energy. We have compared our results with different algorithms which ensured that the proposed strategy for ciphered image is excellent.…”
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Defect Diagnosis of Gear-Shaft Bearing System Based on the OWF-TSCNN Composed of Wavelet Time-Frequency Map and FFT Spectrum 1 by Peng Dai, JianPing Wang, Lulu Wu, ShuPing Yan, FengTao Wang, Linkai Niu

“…However, its accuracy reaches 100% and 99.83% in the training set and test set, and the loss entropy and over-fitting rate are also greatly reduced. …”
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Advances in reactive air wetting and brazing of engineering ceramics by Mingfen Zhang, Shunjian Xu, Fabrizio Valenza, Xiangzhao Zhang, Guiwu Liu, Guanjun Qiao

“…The prospects for RAB of SiC and high-entropy oxide ceramics are proposed after summarizing the RAB of oxide and nonoxide ceramics, and several aspects are proposed for promoting the development and application of RAB technology.…”
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Unveiling the Influencing Factors of the Residual Life of Historical Buildings: A Study of the Wuhan Lutheran Missions Home and Agency Building by Bo Huang, Xueqi Liu, Lanjun Liu, Zhiyong Li, Zhifeng Wu, Bin Huang, Zimo Jia

“…In order to obtain a more accurate correlation degree of influencing factors, a systematic-analysis model of influencing factors on the residual life of historical buildings based on the entropy weight method (EWM) and the grey relation analysis method (GRA) was established, so as to excavate the mechanism of the influencing factors on the residual life of historical buildings, accurately identify the main influencing factors on the residual life of historical buildings, and propose preventive measures. …”
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Quantifying urbanization-induced dynamics of urban sprawl using spatial metrics method in Adama City, Ethiopia by Shimelis Sishah Dagne, Hurgesa Hundera Hirpha, Addisu Teshome Tekoye, Zenebe Reta Roba, Mitiku Badasa Moisa

“…Spatial metrics and Shannon’s entropy were used to determine the degree of urban sprawl. …”
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Indian Jujuba Seed Powder as an Eco-Friendly and a Low-Cost Biosorbent for Removal of Acid Blue 25 from Aqueous Solution by L. Sivarama Krishna, A. Sreenath Reddy, W. Y. Wan Zuhairi, M. R. Taha, A. Varada Reddy

“…Thermodynamic parameters such as standard free energy change (ΔG0), standard enthalpy changes (ΔH0), and standard entropy changes (ΔS0) were analyzed. The removal of AB25 from aqueous solution by IJSP was a spontaneous and exothermic adsorption process. …”
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On the Dynamical Complexity of a Seasonally Forced Discrete SIR Epidemic Model with a Constant Vaccination Strategy by Jalil Rashidinia, Mehri Sajjadian, Jorge Duarte, Cristina Januário, Nuno Martins

“…Using the theory of symbolic dynamics, these iterated maps are characterized based on the computation of an important numerical invariant, the topological entropy. The introduction of a degree (or amplitude) of seasonality, ε, is responsible for inducing complexity into the population dynamics. …”
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Thermal cooling efficacy of a solar water pump using Oldroyd-B (aluminum alloy-titanium alloy/engine oil) hybrid nanofluid by applying new version for the model... by Faisal Shahzad, Wasim Jamshed, Mohamed R. Eid, Rabia Safdar, Siti Suzilliana Putri Mohamed Isa, Sayed M. El Din, Nor Ain Azeany Mohd Nasir, Amjad Iqbal

“…This evaluation is performed by measuring the thermal transmission proportion of the selected warmth transmission liquid in the PTSC, known as a hybrid nano-fluid. Entropy analysis of Oldroyd-B hybrid nano-fluid via modified Buongiorno's model was also tested. …”
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Performance of Surgical Stress Index during Sevoflurane-Fentanyl and Isoflurane-Fentanyl Anesthesia by S. Mustola, T. Parkkari, K. Uutela, M. Huiku, M. Kymäläinen, J. Toivonen

“…Patients were randomly allocated to receive sevoflurane (n=20) or isoflurane (n=20) in 30% oxygen/air. State entropy was kept at 40–60, target being 50. During surgery, fentanyl boluses 1.5 μg kg−1 were given at 30–40-minute intervals. …”
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Ambient Seismic Noise Analysis Associated with the 2010 Eruption of Merapi Volcano Using Temporal Variations of Randomness and Background Noise by Afif Rakhman, Wahyudi, Agus Budi Santoso, Hanik Humaida, Wiwit Suryanto

“…We present the combination of permutation entropy (PE) and power spectral density (PSD) analysis on continuous seismic data recorded by short-period seismic stations during the 2010 Merapi volcano eruption. …”
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Enhancing Thyroid Nodule Detection in Ultrasound Images: A Novel YOLOv8 Architecture with a C2fA Module and Optimized Loss Functions by Shidan Wang, Zi-An Zhao, Yuze Chen, Ye-Jiao Mao, James Chung-Wai Cheung

“…Additionally, loss functions were incorporated, including class-weighted binary cross-entropy to alleviate class imbalance and SCYLLA-IoU (SIoU) to improve localization accuracy during boundary regression. …”
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Heat Capacities and Thermodynamic Properties of Pinnoite and Inderite by Hanyu Zheng, Kangrui Sun, Long Li, Yafei Guo, Tianlong Deng

“…On the basis of molar heat capacities (Cp,m) of Pin and Ind, the thermodynamic functions of entropy, enthalpy, and Gibbs free energy at the temperature of 1 K interval for the two minerals were obtained for the first time.…”
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The Effect of Fe Doping on the Magnetic and Magnetocaloric Properties of Mn5−xFexGe3 by Jeffrey Brock, Nathanael Bell-Pactat, Hong Cai, Timothy Dennison, Tucker Fox, Brandon Free, Rami Mahyub, Austin Nar, Michael Saaranen, Tiago Schaeffer, Mahmud Khan

“…For x≤0.15, all compounds exhibit nearly the same magnetic entropy change of ~7 J/kg K, for a field change of 50 kOe. …”
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Evaluation of Public Welfare Level of Urban Rail Transit considering Operation Management by Ran Meng, Baohua Mao, Qi Xu, Yang Yang

“…Besides, the subjective and objective comprehensive weighting method combined with the analytic hierarchy process method and the entropy weight method is proposed to calculate the index-level weights. …”
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Effect of climate change on potential distribution of Dactylorhiza hatagirea (D. Don) Soó in the twenty-first century across the north-western Himalayas by Dad Javaid M., Rashid Irfan

“…In the present study, the maximum entropy modelling (MaxEnt) was used to quantify the impact of climate change on the distribution of D. hatagirea over the next 50 years under representative concentration pathways (RCP) 4.5 and 8.5, using ensemble mean of four general circulation models, viz. …”
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Navigating urban poverty: The role of livelihood capital in the livelihood strategies of urban beggars in Indonesia by Choirul Amin, Wahyu Tyas Pramono, Jumadi Jumadi, Dewi Novita Sari, Maxim G.M. Samson

“…Different livelihood capitals were quantified through the entropy method, whereas their influence on livelihood strategy was analyzed using logistic regression models. …”
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Ecosystem health assessment based on the V-O-R-S framework for the Upper Ganga Riverine Wetland in India by Alka Yadav, Mitthan Lal Kansal, Aparajita Singh

“…This study employs the Vigor-Organization-Resilience-Services (VORS) framework to assess the WEH, using the entropy weighting method to compute the wetland ecosystem health index (WEHI) based on NDVI, landscape metrics, and land-use/land-cover (LULC) coefficient indicators. …”
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Spatial–Temporal Evolution and Influencing Mechanism of Coupling Coordination Level of Social–Ecological Systems in China’s Resource-Based Cities Under the Carbon Neutrality Goal... by Yunhui Zhang, Zhong Wang, Yanran Peng, Wei Wang, Chengxi Tian

“…In the context of carbon neutrality, it is of great significance to explore the coupling coordination level of the social–ecological systems in resource-based cities for realizing regional low-carbon and sustainable development. In this study, the entropy weighting method, coupling coordination degree model and geographical detector were used to measure the comprehensive development level and coupling coordination level of the social–ecological system in 116 resource-based cities in China from 2010 to 2020 and their spatial–temporal characteristics and influencing mechanism were analyzed. …”
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