Entropy

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Entropy

The level of disorder in a system.

Entropy

Disorder in any system. It is the opposite of efficiency.

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Entropy generation at natural convection in an inclined rectangular cavity, Entropy, 13: 1020-1033.

Heatline and entropy visualizations of combined natural and Marangoni convection in a square enclosure with bottom wall isoflux

A number of estimators of entropy rate have been created based on the Lempel-Ziv estimator.

The effects of bankruptcy on the predictability of price formation processes on Warsaw's Stock market

However, unlike the conserved quantities, the entropy is scalar-valued.

Adaptive finite volume method for the shallow water equations on triangular grids

Given two one-dimensional discrete time series with equal length, {u(i) : 1 [less than or equal to] i [less than or equal to] N} and {v(i) : 1 [less than or equal to] i [less than or equal to] N}, the definition of cross sample entropy is given as follows [24]:

Symmetry Analysis of Gait between Left and Right Limb Using Cross-Fuzzy Entropy

Constructing Fuzzy Information Entropy of Single Measured Value.

Multistage Warning Indicators of Concrete Dam under Influences of Random Factors

Having this basic knowledge about how Causality works the conclusion is, that any Causal Process has a sequential functionality of its Stages and Causal Phases based on a well established Entropy Flow always from Cause to Effect, in this way being established a Time Based Structured Order of its functionality easy to understand and measure.

Resources Allocation--Causal Process Analysis

In the entropy index of information entropy, a smaller index value indicates the degree of variation, which consequently result to greater amount of information provided, greater share of the weight and greater comprehensive evaluation of the role of entropy.

A new approach factor- entropy with application to business costs of SMEs in Shanghai

n), and p (x,y) is the mathematical expectation for probability p (f) of the feature f to the model, and p = (x, y) =p (x)p (y|x), there exist a maximum entropy model under the uniform of conditional probability p (y | x).

An RFID data cleaning strategy based on maximum entropy feature selection

The research team then used mathematical models validated by past studies to arrive at reliable, statistical entropy scores based on how well one set of active nerve-cell combinations captured by one image predicted those in the next image.

Brain Imaging Helps Redefine Intelligence

It's a concept where entropy is delivered over the network from a centralised source.

In search of real random numbers

The aforementioned applications of cross entropy [63, 73, 74] can be effective in dealing with neutrosophic MADM problems.

IN-cross Entropy Based MAGDM Strategy under Interval Neutrosophic Set Environment

On the other hand, the tests for determining the heat capacity, entropy are expensive and expense much more time.

QSPR Study of Some Physicochemical Properties of Sulfonamides Using Topological and Quantum Chemical Indices