The current study focuses on the problem of determining investment attrаctiveness of countries by means of monitoring regional stock markets. The method of using the permutation entropy as a model of investment attractiveness estimation is suggested. We have calculated the permutation entropy for the time series of stock markets of countries for the period from 2005 to 2018. The countries with ...

In this study a modified entropy-based measure is presented for evaluating the serviceability level of water distribution networks in which the hydraulic uncertainties (flow rates in pipes) as well as the uncertainties due to mechanical parameters (failure probabilities of links) are considered simultaneously. In the proposed entropy calculation method, the connectivity order of the network dem...

Entropy as a measure of uncertainty was used to represent the results of the wavelet technique in electrochemical noise analysis. The experimental signals were obtained by recording the electrochemical potential and current noise of 7075 aluminum alloy in 3.5% NaCl solution. The electrochemical potential and current noise were decomposed into 16 levels using Daubechies wavelets. Wavelet output ...

a 1993 result of j. llibre, and m. misiurewicz, (theorem a [5]), states that if a continuous map f of a graph into itself has an s-horseshoe, then the topological entropy of f is greater than or equal to logs, that is h( f ) ? logs. also a 1980 result of l.s. block, j. guckenheimer, m. misiurewicz and l.s. young (lemma 1.5 [3]) states that if g is an a-graph of f then h(g) ? h( f ). in this pap...

Life has effectively colonized most of our planet and extremophilic organisms require specialized enzymes to survive under harsh conditions. Cold-loving organisms (psychrophiles) express heat-labile enzymes that possess a high specific activity and catalytic efficiency at low temperatures. A remarkable universal characteristic of cold-active enzymes is that they show a reduction both in activat...

introduction: photon attenuation in tissues is the primary physical degrading factor limiting both visual qualitative interpretation and quantitative analysis capabilities of reconstructed single photon emission computed tomography (spect) images. the aim of present study was to investigate the effect of attenuation correction on the detection of activation foci following statistical analysis w...

cellulose wastes of a wood and paper factory were used to produce activated carbon. several chemical agents under various conditions were used for production of activated carbon and hence their adsorption properties have been evaluated. in addition the effect of process parameters such as raw material, chemical agent concentration, impregnation ratio, carbonization temperature, carbonization ti...

A comprehensive kinetic analysis of catalyzed oxidative degradation iminodiethanol by Ce(IV) in pure aqueous and microheterogeneous or surfactant media has been reported. The oxidation reactions were first order with respect to [Ce (IV)], the dependence rate on concentration is order, constant values increased increasing dielectric medium entropy activation was negative. Kinetic information sug...

Abstract As an alternative energy source for fossil energy, use of biomass pyrolysis to reduce pyrolusite is great significance conservation, emission reduction and environmental protection. Kinetics thermodynamics reducing using was studied thermogravimetric analysis analysis. Five non-isothermal methods, Flynn-Wall-Ozawa, Kissinger-Akahira-Sunose, Distributed Activation Energy Model, Starink ...

introduction the morphologic features of human sperms are key indicators for monitoring fertility problems in men. therefore, automated analyzing methods via microscopic videos have become the most favorite policy in infertility treatment during the last decades. materials and methods in the proposed method, firstly a hypothesis testing framework was defined to distinguish sperms from backgroun...