What is optimization in engineering ?

Under the perception of genetic programming, symbolic regression, and many other forms of optimization including automated synthesis of generic dynamical systems, is there a clear definition of...

09 October 2018 3,536 1 View

Are multiple time-scales world-class collaborations more productive for scientific careers?

Complex phenomena are really disturbing sometimes. Especially when we think in terms of multirate filter banks and nonlinear time-frequency distributions, rather than traditional statistics. Can...

07 August 2015 2,904 0 View

Is the 'Speculative Realism', more specifically the Object-Oriented Philosophy, the fundamental framework of modern science, engineering and learning?

07 August 2015 2,713 0 View

Who would want to cooperate with experimental results in a stochastic dynamical Preisach model for Barkhausen noise?

07 August 2015 2,878 3 View

Is the supervenience of biologic first principles related to bio-inspired computer architectures, telomeres and artificial intelligence?

Cell division is a noisy process and needs an error-correction technique trough added redundancy in a form of apparent useless pieces of DNA. Telomere measure the level of fitness of an individual...

06 July 2015 3,734 0 View

Is it possible to create a UML-based information-theoretic dynamical model for protein biosynthesis?

06 July 2015 3,864 4 View

From concept to implementation: May the plethora of argumentation break the achievement gap of the underdeveloped world?

Social impacts of upcoming one petaflop home computers. Industrial impacts of upcoming one teraflop low-cost digital signal processors. Widespread use of visual languages and symbolic mathematics....

06 July 2015 8,285 0 View

Are the technological changes increasing the odds of failure in the Western social contract?

Alternatively, is our secular esthetic perception of Harmonices Mundi in collision with the effects of disruptive innovations? It seems that socioeconomic organizations evolve in time and space in...

06 July 2015 6,164 0 View

Are ferroelectronics, metamorphosis and adaptable resilient chips correlated in terms of manufacture?

Nanotechnology and the begin of transhumanization. The hardsoftware operating system may run an evolutionary self-organized and self-replicating algorithm to solve complex problems while capable...

06 July 2015 9,750 0 View

Will the production of biodegradable photosynthetic protein be the new solar cell economy in Brazil?

Proteins flowing on the roof: Sophisticated semiconductor industry and low-cost photosynthesis-based solar cells manufactured in every backyard may be the new hybrid structures to allow microgrid...

06 July 2015 3,000 0 View

How to compare two groups with only two measurements?

Hiiiii everyone! I have an enquiry on statistical analysis. I was looking for many forum and it's still cannot solve my problem. I want to compare means of two groups of data but only with two...

03 March 2021 8,796 3 View

What are some of the research gaps in machine learning and artificial intelligence in africa?

i would to know some of the research gaps in the artificial intelligence field in most african countries.

03 March 2021 6,145 3 View

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10?

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10? Since, the growth curve from day 2 to 10 won't be like the "Logistic curve" it might not follow logistic...

03 March 2021 1,401 3 View

Why are the velocities so high in my Boussinesq approximation Fluent simulation?

Hello, I have a mechanism where air rises due to convective flows. In this simulation, nothing is driving the air except this. I understand that the Boussinesq approximation only works for small...

02 March 2021 4,910 3 View

What is the characteristic length to determine the Reynolds number for the scattered turbulent fluid flow?

Dear all, I just saw this example in FB on the difference between laminar flow and turbulent flow. The flow from a pipe hits the sink and scattered. The flow from the pipe is characterized as...

02 March 2021 1,999 5 View

How to calculate average trend in maximum annual NDVI from MODIS?

I am wanting to calculate the average trend in maximum annual NDVI in Iceland from 2010-2020 using MODIS MYD13Q1 V6. How would I do this? I have currently inserted the NDVI bands from the MODIS...

02 March 2021 752 2 View

How Download/Extract citations of 1 given year ALL my publications in Google Scholar?

If you google this you find a lot of smart guys explaining you how to download 1 year of citations of 1 single paper of yours (or anyone else). I mean 1 year of ALL my papers. or ... ALL years or...

01 March 2021 1,121 9 View

How UAV or drone can be beneficial to better estimate crop yield?

As we know, crop yield estimation has been done traditionally with farmer's expert knowledge, deductive sampling in representative areas, and remote sensing with satellite imagery. Farmer's Expert...

01 March 2021 3,468 3 View

How can I make stacked bar graph with scatter plot?

I want to make a stacked bar graph with showing each data value as dots. I tried with graph pad prism, version 6, but could not succeed. Does anyone have tried before making such graphs?

01 March 2021 9,383 1 View

How to perform statistical analysis of coefficients extracted from transform techniques?

I am studying the potential of DCT and FFT coefficients extracted from a signal to classify the different objects that emit the signal. I applied the Shapiro-Wilk to confirm that data was not...

01 March 2021 8,079 2 View