Also a "backronym" for former Major Leaguer Bill Pecota, PECOTA is Baseball Prospectus' system for projecting player performance. The acronym stands for "Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization ...

RNA has emerged as one of the most promising molecules in modern medicine, enabling advances from mRNA vaccines and gene ...

Genomic surveillance—the process of monitoring and sequencing pathogens—is one of the most important tools for detecting ...

In recent years, the frequency of weather-related natural disasters—cyclones, torrential rains, floods—has increased as a consequence of global warming. These disasters cause billions of dollars in ...

Black-box optimization, particularly Bayesian optimization, is a practical approach for weather-intervention design, achieving meaningful rainfall ...

Abstract: The proportional-integral-differential (PID) controller is improved to meet control system requirements for the boost-glide rocket with difficulty in manually adjusting parameters. A method ...

Reactor radiation-shielding optimization methods are proposed by combining many-objective evolutionary algorithms with particle-transport calculation software that can optimize the reactor ...

The research team (NEAL) from the University of South China has made significant progress in nuclear reactor radiation-shielding design. The team has developed a radiation-shielding optimization ...

Abstract: The performance of the well-known particle swarm optimization (PSO) method can be improved by minimizing the possibility of premature convergence in a local minimum. We can achieve this by ...