Problem Definition: Content promotion policies are playing an increasingly important role in improving content consumption and user engagement for online content platforms. However, a frequently used promotion policy generally neglects employing the diffusion effect within a crowd of users. In...

Hollow porous ceramic composite membrane is a kind of potential heat transfer material, which is accompanied by heat transfer and gas-liquid mass transfer in the osmotic dehydration process. In this work, ceramic membranes with 10 nm, 50 nm and 3 μm pore-size were used for recovering moisture...

Thermochemical energy storage is a promising approach in thermal energy storage because of its advantages in high heat storage density, low heat loss and long period stability. The hydrated salt is a commonly used material in low temperature heat storage. In this study, the preparation of MgCl2...

In this study, a triangular honeycomb reactor using zeolite 13X-H 2 O working pairs is developed to investigate the reactor thermal performance. Also, a three-dimensional transient heat and mass transfer model has been used to predict the adsorption and desorption processes occurring in the open...

Breath analysis using gas sensors is becoming one of the important supplementing ways for early diagnosis of diseases. Among them, the acetone gas sensor plays a crucial role in screening and diagnosis of diabetes by detecting acetone concentration in exhaled breath. Here, the response of SmFeO3...

Nonprogressive diffusion describes the dissemination of behavior on a social network, where the agents are allowed to reverse their decisions as time evolves. It has a wide variety of applications in service adoption, opinion formation, epidemiology, etc. Building upon the rich studies in...

Rebuilding soil organic matter (SOM) to regionally specific targets for high quality soil that are likely maintained in the long term, here defined as “SOM JumpStart”, can unlock soil’s potential for increased productivity, enhanced resilience and reduced emission as the main components...

Motivated by direct interactions with practitioners and real-world data, we study a monopoly firm selling multiple substitute products to customers characterized by their different social network degrees. Under the multinomial logit model framework, we assume that the utility a customer with a...

We consider uncapacitated and capacitated assortment problems under the paired combinatorial logit model, where the goal is to fi nd a set of products to maximize the expected revenue obtained from each customer. In the uncapacitated setting, we can offer any set of products, whereas in the...