Classifications on Economic Statistics (HS to ISIC)?

04 December 2020 4,291 4 View

Which mathematical techniques we can combine with heuristic techniques to accelerate their exploration and exploitation capabilities?

As you may be knowing that there are different mathematical tools and techniques which we can combine or hybridize with heuristic techniques to solve their entrapment in local minima and...

30 August 2020 6,146 4 View

How we engineers and mathematicians can be of help in fighting COVOD-19?

While most governments try to hide the facts and manipulate statistics about COVOD-19 due to political/economical/stupidity reasons, many physicians and scientists are currently working on finding...

03 March 2020 5,178 26 View

What is the future of Meta-heuristics?

I mean every year new optimization algorithms are being developed by researchers and then, they start solving same kind of problems previously solved by their classical counter parts like Particle...

17 November 2019 9,892 49 View

HIL simulation with MATLAB & dSPACE 1104 ?

Dear all, I need to do HIL as part of my project. I intend to use HIL with MATLAB 1104 as my controller. Please share your thoughts and experience if you have already done HIL with MATLAB and...

14 October 2019 3,504 3 View

How to learn LEAP (the Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning System)?

As you know, LEAP is a widely-used software tool for energy policy analysis and climate change mitigation assessment developed at the Stockholm Environment Institute. But generally, engineering...

25 September 2019 9,004 3 View

Is the Bayesian updating and/or Bayesian inference considered as a subset of machine learning or statistical learning methods ?

Bayesian updating and and Bayesian networks are used in so many machine learning algorithms, but can we consider them as machine learning techniques? and if we can, under what circumstances? and...

01 June 2019 9,351 5 View

Is there any publicly available radiology dataset for NLP purposes?

Hi everybody, I'm trying to extend one of my works on Radiology reports summarization in which I need to run my model on various datasets. I've found Indiana University chest x-ray dataset...

21 May 2019 4,056 4 View

How we can implement optimization algorithms easily in programming languages e.g. in MATLAB?

Let us take an example of PSO implementation by Syed Ali Mirjalili, respected researcher in optimization field. % Main loop for t = 1 : maxIter % Calcualte the objective value for...

18 March 2019 7,185 8 View

How can I create a new boundary condition on a comsol?

How can I create a new boundary condition on a comsol? I use a plasma module and I want to apply a new condition to the 3,4,5 panes. There are no boundary conditions on the...

12 March 2019 4,864 3 View

Joint behaviour in Abaqus is not captured well?

I am working on roof joint and trying to simulate the behaviour in Abaqus. I am successful in running the model but the final graph does not follow the experimental curve in the negative direction...

01 March 2021 6,661 3 View

Can polymer concentrations be calculated based on the number average molecular weight?

Hello, I spin-cast two different polymers onto wafers and measure their height as a function of initial concentration. For polymer A, I have the weight-average molecular weight (Mw) as well as...

28 February 2021 7,882 2 View

Concrete compressive strength databases?

I am looking for datasets similar to this one: http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Concrete+Compressive+Strength I am looking for concretes with different types of aggregates (Recycled,...

27 February 2021 6,801 3 View

How to increase solubility of Poly acrylic acid in Dioxane solvent?

I am working with Polyacrylic acid (100.000Da) and instead of water, I need to use another solvent (dioxane) to dissolve PAA. However, because of the high molecular weight, it's quite hard to...

25 February 2021 2,225 5 View

What are the pros and cons for mice versus rats?

Hi Everyone, I am designing a pilot study using rodents to assess the effects of simulated space environments (radiation + altered gravity) on microbiome and immune system. I have limited...

24 February 2021 1,825 3 View

How to calculate Z (the number of molecules in a unit cell) for calculating theoretical density?

I am trying to calculate the theoretical density of my ceramics materials. I use the formula below to calculate the theoretical density: Theoretical density = (Molecular weight x No. of molecules...

24 February 2021 3,823 2 View

What should be the duration of exposure to simulated space environments with Rodents?

Hi, I am currently working on a pilot study to get some data related to the impact of long duration spaceflight to the microbiome and the immune system. I plan to use rats and simulate...

22 February 2021 592 1 View

What are effects of steel jacketing on flexural strength?

Dear all, If steel jacketing is used to retrofit a reinforced-concrete (RC) column, can we use it to improve flexural strength? I understand that we leave gaps between the ends of the jacket and...

22 February 2021 1,906 5 View

Is there any kind of data available for connection properties like signal strength between UE and RAN?

Is there any kind of data available for connection strength between UE and RAN? I am looking for signal strength, the geographical coverage of RAN's in a given Tracking Area, Coverage Area over a...

16 February 2021 1,073 5 View

How can you tell if your organotypic slice culture is healthy ?

I'm working on organotypic cerebellar slice cultures from postnatal rats and I'm not sure how to tell if the slices are healthy at any given point. I know there should be a lot of microglial...

15 February 2021 2,830 2 View