Inherent electrochemical activity of TiO2 (anatase,rutile) enhances the charge capacity of cathodes of lithium-sulfur batteries

Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry - The addition of nanocrystalline titanium dioxide (P90) to a cathode of Li/S cell enhances its voltammetric charge capacity by 19%, from which only a small...     

Synthesis and characterization of cellulose acetate from cellophane industry residues. Application as acetaminophen controlled-release membranes

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - Cellophane film production generates cellulosic residues from scraps, edges, and low-quality films. In this work, cellophane was used as a raw material...     

Inverse central ordering for the Newton interpolation formula

Numerical Algorithms - An inverse central ordering of the nodes is proposed for the Newton interpolation formula. This ordering may improve the stability for certain distributions of nodes. For...     

Comparison of human blood serum DSC profiles in aqueous and PBS buffer solutions

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - The results of studies of physiological fluids by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) for the purpose of diagnosis and monitoring of diseases are...     

Hospital preparedness during epidemics using simulation: the case of COVID-19

Central European Journal of Operations Research - This paper presents a discrete event simulation model to support decision-making for the short-term planning of hospital resource needs, especially...     

Diffusion Model of a Non-Integer Order PIγ Controller with TCP/UDP Streams

In this article, a way to employ the diffusion approximation to model interplay between TCP and UDP flows is presented. In order to control traffic congestion, an environment of IP routers applying AQM (Active Queue Management) algorithms has been introduced. Furthermore, the impact of the fractional controller PIγ and its parameters on the transport protocols is investigated. The controller has been elaborated in accordance with the control theory. The TCP and UDP flows are transmitted simultaneously and are mutually independent. Only the TCP is controlled by the AQM algorithm. Our diffusion model allows a single TCP or UDP flow to start or end at any time, which distinguishes it from those previously described in the literature.     

Two algorithms for the exchange lemma

Numerical Algorithms - In this note, we present two new algorithms for the Steinitz Exchange Lemma. They are grounded on a single application of a procedure (finding either a row echelon form or a...     

Analytic Functions in Local Shift-Invariant Spaces and Analytic Limits of Level Dependent Subdivision

Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications - We develop a theory of Sobolev orthogonal polynomials on the Sierpiński gasket ( $$SG$$ ), which is a fractal set that can be viewed as a limit...     

A permutation test for the two-sample right-censored model

The paper presents a novel approach to solve a classical two-sample problem with right-censored data. As a result, an efficient procedure for verifying equality of the two survival curves is developed. It generalizes, in a natural manner, a well-known standard, that is, the log-rank test. Under the null hypothesis, the new test statistic has an asymptotic Chi-square distribution with one degree of freedom, while the corresponding test is consistent for a wide range of the alternatives. On the other hand, to control the actual Type I error rate when sample sizes are finite, permutation approach is employed for the inference. An extensive simulation study shows that the new test procedure improves upon classical solutions and popular recent developments in the field. An analysis of the real datasets is included. A routine, written in R, is attached as Supplementary Material.

     

Automatic approximation using asymptotically optimal adaptive interpolation

Numerical Algorithms - We present an asymptotic analysis of adaptive methods for Lp approximation of functions f ∈ Cr([a, b]), where $1\le p\le +\infty $ . The methods rely on piecewise...