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A Slime Mold-Ant Colony Fusion Algorithm for Solving Traveling Salesman Problem

IEEE Access, 2020
The Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is easy to fall into the local optimum and its convergence speed is slow in solving the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP). Therefore, a Slime Mold-Ant Colony Fusion Algorithm (SMACFA) is proposed in this paper.
Meijiao Liu, Yanhui Li, Ang Li, Qi Huo, Ning Zhang, Nan Qu, Mingchao Zhu, Liheng Chen   +7 more
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Vine‐Inspired Soft Robotics: Materials, Actuations, and Emerging Applications

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Vine‐inspired robots grow from the tip, enabling navigation through confined spaces with minimal disturbance. This Review summarizes material and actuation strategies for vine‐inspired growth, key functions including steering, retraction, attachment, branching, and variable stiffness, and emerging applications spanning medical intervention, confined ...
Jiahao Wu, Xingyun Liu, Fangzhou Wang, Huili Ren, Chaojun Zhang, Ziyu Ren, Zunqi Liu, Jing Li   +7 more
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A Unifying Approach to Self‐Organizing Systems Interacting via Conservation Laws

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
The article develops a unified way to model and analyze self‐organizing systems whose interactions are constrained by conservation laws. It represents physical/biological/engineered networks as graphs and builds projection operators (from incidence/cycle structure) that enforce those constraints and decompose network variables into constrained versus ...
F. Barrows, G. Zhang, S. Anand, Z. Chen, J. Lin, A. Desai, S. Martiniani, F. Caravelli   +7 more
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A Two-Way Parallel Slime Mold Algorithm by Flow and Distance for the Travelling Salesman Problem

Applied Sciences, 2020
In order to solve the problem of poor local optimization of the Slime Mold Algorithm (SMA) in the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP), a Two-way Parallel Slime Mold Algorithm by Flow and Distance (TPSMA) is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the flow between
Meijiao Liu, Yanhui Li, Qi Huo, Ang Li, Mingchao Zhu, Nan Qu, Liheng Chen, Mingyi Xia   +7 more
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The epistemic ceiling: Veteran practitioners' perspectives on primary qualification entry standards for teaching secondary mathematics in Scotland

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper presents an exploratory analysis of contemporary curricular and professional qualification policies in the Scottish education system, focusing on minimum qualification thresholds for mathematics teaching. The study examines how veteran secondary mathematics practitioners perceive the structural and pedagogical implications of using ...
Paul Argyle McDonald
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Understanding out‐of‐field teacher self‐efficacy beliefs: A person‐centred approach

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Teaching out‐of‐field (OOF) has been a widespread global phenomenon and a cause of concern for school leaders and policymakers due to the potential impact it has on teaching quality and student learning. However, research on how the nature of OOF teaching impacts various teachers' psychological attributes such as teacher self‐efficacy (TSE ...
Hoi Vo, David Turner, Tony Yeigh, David Lynch, Lana McCarthy, Declan Forester   +5 more
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Generation of Spatial Structure of Urban Parks Based on Spatial Analysis of Agent-Based Models

Fengjing Yuanlin
ObjectiveThis research aims to leverage the advances of computer algorithms to provide scientific analytical methods for spatial simulation and offer a more objective approach to reflect the natural operational laws of interdependencies between elements ...
Huizi KONG, Tianming LIU, Jiajie LIAO, Liu CUI   +3 more
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Uniaxial compressive strength prediction and ratio parameter optimization of titanium tailings composite backfill materials using intelligent hybrid models

Deep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.
Based on the 90 datasets, ERT and four optimization algorithms were used to build four hybrid models to predict the UCS of the backfill body. The SMA‐ERT model was the most effective model, and it can reliably guide the design of the backfill ratio parameters. Abstract This study analyzed the feasibility of using titanium (Ti) tailings as a backfilling
Weijun Liu, Zida Liu, Zhixiang Liu
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Optimizing multi-energy systems with enhanced robust planning for cost-effective and reliable operation

International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems
This paper introduces a comprehensive and resilient multi-energy system (MES) designed for independent planning and real-time implementation. A robust daily coordinated planning model is proposed, incorporating adjustable optimization with fundamental ...
Yang Wang, Ji Li
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Revealing chiral cell motility by 3D Riesz transform-differential interference contrast microscopy and computational kinematic analysis

Nature Communications, 2017
The lack of an appropriate method has hampered quantitative measurements of cell chirality. Here, the authors combine Riesz transform-differential interference contrast microscopy and computational kinematic analysis to reveal chiral cell motility of ...
Atsushi Tamada, Michihiro Igarashi
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