Multicriteria Personnel Selection by the Modified Fuzzy VIKOR Method by Rasim M. Alguliyev, Ramiz M. Aliguliyev, Rasmiyya S. Mahmudova

“…The weights of the criteria were calculated using worst-case method. After that, modified fuzzy VIKOR is proposed to rank the alternatives. …”
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On Decompositions of Matrices over Distributive Lattices by Yizhi Chen, Xianzhong Zhao

“…Finally, as some applications, we present a method to calculate the indices and periods of the matrices over a distributive lattice and characterize the structures of idempotent and nilpotent matrices over it. …”
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Study on Mechanical Model for Postpeak Shear Behavior of Rock Joints Based on Degradation Characteristics of the 3D Morphology by Juan Liu, Feng Gao, Yan Xing, Xianghe Gao

“…Four different parameters and the damaged area quantitatively described by the image binarization and box dimension were calculated and compared to study the roughness evolution of joint surfaces. …”
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Design and Implementation of Automatic Wheat Mower Based on Smart Sensor Fed by a Photovoltaic by Hikmet Esen, Abdullah Kapicioglu, Onur Ozsolak

“…Also maximum power is calculated from used PV panel as 26.15 Watt during the day of the experiments. …”
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Simulation Analysis of the Sound Transmission Loss of Composite Laminated Cylindrical Shells with Applied Acoustic Coverings by Bin Li, Haoyang Ding, Zhigang Hu, Junya Zhao, Menghui Qi, Zhiyong Wang

“…Additionally, based on the LMS Virtual Lab acoustic simulation software, finite element models corresponding to the noise reduction experiments are established, and the acoustic cavity’s simple positive frequency and acoustic response of the cavity are numerically calculated. Based on this, the influence law for a laid acoustic cover layer on the sound transmission loss of a cylindrical shell is investigated. …”
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Thermal expansion and thermodynamic properties of Janus WSSe monolayer: A first-principles study by Fengli Cao, Xiaodong Qiu, Shengqi Chi, Gang Liu

“…In this paper, based on a quasi-harmonic approach, the elastic, thermal expansion, and related thermodynamic properties of Janus WSSe monolayer are investigated by using first-principles calculations. For comparison, WS2 and WSe2 monolayers are studied as well. …”
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Knowledge, attitudes, and practices toward COVID-19 and its prevention among medical and dental students in an educational institution in Telangana by Preeti U. Deshpande, Anuradha Basavaraju, Nagapraveen Veerapu, Ashish Akula

“…Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among undergraduate students enrolled in MBBS and BDS courses, and KAP scores were calculated using a self-administered questionnaire. …”
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Group counseling using motivational interviewing technique: reducing students' academic procrastination by Sulistiyana Sulistiyana, Mufida Istati, Engga Nur Rahmah

“…Based on the results of calculations with the t-test formula that Thit > Ttab (13.61> 2.447) with an error rate of 5% indicates that group counseling services use motivational interviewing effective for reducing academic procrastination in students. …”
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Investigation of Phosphate Removal from Aqueous Solutions Using Zinc Extraction Waste by Feride Naime Türk

“…Additionally, some thermodynamic quantities regarding phosphate removal were calculated. As a result of the experiment, it was determined that the P removal efficiency from aqueous solutions significantly depends on the solution pH and the dose of waste lead cake. …”
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Solving Fractional-Order Diffusion Equations in a Plasma and Fluids via a Novel Transform by Pongsakorn Sunthrayuth, Haifa A. Alyousef, S. A. El-Tantawy, Adnan Khan, Noorolhuda Wyal

“…The suggested method’s main advantage is less number of calculations. The proposed methods give series form solution which converges quickly towards the exact solution. …”
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Research on the Selection Strategy of Green Building Parts Supplier Based on the Catastrophe Theory and Kent Index Method by Zhenhua Luo, Jian He, Haize Pan, Yiluan Yang

“…This paper takes the selection of the unit bathroom suppliers as an example, uses the improved model to calculate and analyze the data of each supplier, and finally selects the optimal supplier. …”
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Two-stage community detection algorithm based on label propagation by Xueliang SUN, Wei WANG, Junheng HUANG, Guodong XIN, Bailing WANG

“…Community detection is an important research topic of complex network analysis.The detection results help to understand the community structure of complex networks and provide support for downstream tasks, such as content recommendation, link detection.Considering the challenge of community detection in complex networks, a two-stage community detection algorithm based on label propagation (TS-LPA) was proposed.The TS-LPA algorithm quantified the propagation capability of nodes based on the extended neighborhood.Then a new evaluation index was proposed to measure the probability of influence between nodes using the information of nodes and the weight of edges in the network.Based on the calculation of node centrality, the algorithm determined the updating sequence of node labels and the selection strategy of seed nodes, which eliminated the instability of the algorithm in the updating process.The TS-LPA algorithm used the breadth-first propagation idea and introduced the second-stage label propagation method to improve the quality of community detection.When label began to spread, all neighboring nodes had an influence on the label of the related node.Meanwhile, the influence of neighboring seed nodes was added to complete label updating, in order to reduce the dominance of neighboring nodes on the updated node.The experimental results of different real data sets and synthetic data sets show that TS-LPA algorithm can eliminate randomness and show strong stability while effectively improving the quality of community detection.…”
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Encounter Analysis between Strong Wind and Rainstorm of Reservoir Based on Copula Functions by CAI Qilin, XU Danli, WANG Zhaoli, LAI Chengguang

“…The purpose of this study is to discuss the encounter problem between strong wind and rainstorm in the coastal reservoirs.The Dalongdong Reservoir,located in Taishan of Guangdong Province,was taken as a study case.The P-III,Gamma and GEV functions were used to fit the marginal distributions between three groups of rainfall extremes and one group of maximum wind speed sequence respectively.The values of different return period of the maximum wind speed and maximum rainfall in different periods were also analyzed by Archimedean Copula and Kendall function.The return periods of ‘or’,‘and’,and Kendall return period as well as the most likely design values of wind speed and rainfall were calculated.The results showed that the annual maximum daily rainfall showed a significant uptrend (p<0.05) while the yearly maximum wind speed showed a downtrend.The correlation between wind speed and rainstorm sequence was extremely weak while maximum wind speed had encountered the annual maximum rainfall during the analysis period.The values of wind speed and rainfall based on ‘or’,‘and’,and Kendall return period were smaller than that of univariate marginal distribution,while the values of “or” were larger than those with univariate marginal distribution.The elevation of main dam based on “or” joint distribution of 100a return period was larger than the actual elevation.Accordingly,this study suggested considering the encounter between strong wind and rainstorm when designing the elevation of reservoir dam in the future.…”
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Rheological Characterization of Isabgol Husk, Gum Katira Hydrocolloids, and Their Blends by Vipin Kumar Sharma, Bhaskar Mazumder, Vinod Nautiyal

“…The miscibility of blends was determined by calculating Isabgol husk-gum katira interaction parameters by Krigbaum and Wall equation. …”
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An Empirical Study on Relationship between Residents’ Disposable Income and CPI Based on TVECM: Application of Bootstrap SupLM Testing for Threshold Cointegration by Jungang Du

“…We discuss how the residual bootstrap can be used to calculate asymptotic critical values and p values, investigate the size and power of the SupLM test using Monte Carlo simulation, and find that the test works quite well. …”
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Exemplifying the Effects Using WetSpass Model Depicting the Landscape Modifications on Long-Term Surface and Subsurface Hydrological Water Balance in Bilate Basin, Ethiopia by Abera Shigute Nannawo, Tarun Kumar Lohani, Abunu Atlabachew Eshete

“…The goodness of fit in surface runoff and subsurface flow for the two model outputs with the square of regression (R2) of 0.79 and 0.81, while the root mean square errors (RMSEs) 8.26 mm and 8.39 mm for 1989 and 2019, respectively, were calculated. Average annual interception, groundwater recharge, surface runoff, and actual-evapotranspiration were 36.4 mm, 127.34 mm, 614.95 mm, and 517.59 mm, respectively, revealing that WetSpass works remarkably in simulating the components of the hydrological water balance.…”
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3D-printed add-on allows using commercially available rotating disc electrodes in tilted position by Katharina Röhring, Falk Harnisch

“…This is achieved by calculating the diffusion coefficient for both redox species in straight and tilted position based on the Levich-equation. …”
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Influence factors in increasing brand loyalty through customer engagement on MPV cars by Indawati Lestari, Desy Astrid Anindya, Finta Aramita

“…Sampling using purposive sampling with sample criteria, namely consumers who use cars with the Toyota brand and have used more than 3 (three) years. The sample calculation used the slovin formula with a total of 397 respondents. …”
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ANTI-SEISMIC STUDY OF WIND TURBINE STRUCTURE BASED ON TMD by LIU ZhongSheng, YANG Yang, LI Chun, ZOU JinHua, TANG JinHua

“…A soil-structure interaction model was established by Wolf Method, and based on the multi body dynamics simulation and open source software FAST, the seismic load calculation module is developed. The structural control of the wind turbine tower under the seismic condition is carried out by configuring a tuned mass damper（Tuned Mass damper, TMD） at the top of the tower by self-compiling program. …”
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A single flow detection enabled method for DDoS attacks in IoT based on traffic feature reconstruction and mapping by Lixia XIE, Bingdi YUAN, Hongyu YANG, Ze HU, Xiang CHENG, Liang ZHANG

“…To address the slow response time of existing detection modules to Internet of things (IoT) distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, their low feature differentiation, and poor detection performance, a single flow detection enabled method based on traffic feature reconstruction and mapping (SFDTFRM) was proposed.Firstly, SFDTFRM employed a queue to store previously arrived flow based on the first in, first out rule.Secondly, to address the issue of similarity between normal communication traffic of IoT devices and DDoS attack traffic, a multidimensional reconstruction neural network model more lightweight compared to the baseline model and a function mapping method were proposed.The modified model loss function was utilized to reconstruct the quantitative feature matrix of the queue according to the corresponding index, and transformed into a mapping feature matrix through the function mapping method, enhancing the differences between different types of traffic, including normal communication traffic of IoT devices and DDoS attack traffic.Finally, the frequency information was extracted using a text convolutional network and information entropy calculation and the machine learning classifier was employed for DDoS attack traffic detection.The experimental results on two benchmark datasets show that SFDTFRM can effectively detect different DDoS attacks, and the average metrics value of SFDTFRM is a maximum of 12.01% higher than other existing methods.…”
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