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In simple dyadic games such as rock, paper, scissors (RPS), people exhibit peculiar sequential dependencies across repeated interactions with a stable opponent. These regularities seem to arise from a mutually adversarial process of trying to outwit their opponent. What underlies this process, and what are its limits? Here, we offer a novel framework for formally describing and quantifying human adversarial reasoning in the rock, paper, scissors game. We first show that this framework enables a precise characterization of the complexity of patterned behaviors that people exhibit themselves, and appear to exploit in others. This combination allows for a quantitative understanding of human opponent modeling abilities. We apply these tools to an experiment in which people played 300 rounds of RPS in stable dyads. We find that although people exhibit very complex move dependencies, they cannot exploit these dependencies in their opponents, indicating a fundamental limitation in people’s capacity for adversarial reasoning. Taken together, the results presented here show how the rock, paper, scissors game allows for precise formalization of human adaptive reasoning abilities.

With the rapid development of information technology, scientific social networks (SSNs) have become the fastest and most convenient way for researchers to communicate with each other. Many published papers are shared via SSNs every day, resulting in the problem of information overload. How to appropriately recommend personalized and highly valuable papers for researchers is becoming more urgent. However, when recommending papers in SSNs, only a small amount of positive instances are available, leaving a vast amount of unlabelled data, in which negative instances and potential unseen positive instances are mixed together, which naturally belongs to One-Class Collaborative Filtering (OCCF) problem. Therefore, considering the extreme data imbalance and data sparsity of this OCCF problem, a hybrid approach of Social and Content aware One-class Recommendation of Papers in SSNs, termed SCORP, is proposed in this study. Unlike previous approaches recommended to address the OCCF problem, social information, which has been proved playing a significant role in performing recommendations in many domains, is applied in both the profiling of content-based filtering and the collaborative filtering to achieve superior recommendations. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed SCORP approach, a real-life dataset from CiteULike was employed. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach is superior to all of the compared approaches, thus providing a more effective method for recommending papers in SSNs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Quantifying the impact of a scholarly paper is of great significance, yet the effect of geographical distance of cited papers has not been explored. In this paper, we examine 30,596 papers published in Physical Review C, and identify the relationship between citations and geographical distances between author affiliations. Subsequently, a relative citation weight is applied to assess the impact of a scholarly paper. A higher-order weighted quantum PageRank algorithm is also developed to address the behavior of multiple step citation flow. Capturing the citation dynamics with higher-order dependencies reveals the actual impact of papers, including necessary self-citations that are sometimes excluded in prior studies. Quantum PageRank is utilized in this paper to help differentiating nodes whose PageRank values are identical. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many complex physical systems exhibit a rich variety of discrete behavioural modes. Often, the system complexity limits the applicability of standard modelling tools. Hence, understanding the underlying physics of different behaviours and distinguishing between them is challenging. Although traditional machine learning techniques could predict and classify behaviour well, typically they do not provide any meaningful insight into the underlying physics of the system. In this paper we present a novel method for extracting physically meaningful clusters of discrete behaviour from limited experimental observations. This method obtains a set of physically plausible functions that both facilitate behavioural clustering and aid in system understanding. We demonstrate the approach on the V-shaped falling paper system, a new falling paper type system that exhibits four distinct behavioural modes depending on a few morphological parameters. Using just 49 experimental observations, the method discovered a set of candidate functions that distinguish behaviours with an error of 2.04%, while also aiding insight into the physical phenomena driving each behaviour. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Semantic Link Network is a general semantic model for modeling the structure and the evolution of complex systems. Various semantic links play different roles in rendering the semantics of complex system. One of the basic semantic links represents cause-effect relation, which plays an important role in representation and understanding. This paper verifies the role of the Semantic Link Network in representing the core of text by investigating the contribution of cause-effect link to representing the core of scientific papers. Research carries out with the following steps: (1) Two propositions on the contribution of cause-effect link in rendering the core of paper are proposed and verified through a statistical survey, which shows that the sentences on cause-effect links cover about 65% of key words within each paper on average. (2) An algorithm based on syntactic patterns is designed for automatically extracting cause-effect link from scientific papers, which recalls about 70% of manually annotated cause-effect links on average, indicating that the result adapts to the scale of data sets. (3) The effects of cause-effect link on four schemes of incorporating cause-effect link into the existing instances of the Semantic Link Network for enhancing the summarization of scientific papers are investigated. The experiments show that the quality of the summaries is significantly improved, which verifies the role of semantic links. The significance of this research lies in two aspects: (1) it verifies that the Semantic Link Network connects the important concepts to render the core of text; and, (2) it provides an evidence for realizing content services such as summarization, recommendation and question answering based on the Semantic Link Network, and it can inspire relevant research on content computing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research paper recommenders emerged over the last decade to ease finding publications relating to researchers’ area of interest. The challenge was not just to provide researchers with very rich publications at any time, any place and in any form but to also offer the right publication to the right researcher in the right way. Several approaches exist in handling paper recommender systems. However, these approaches assumed the availability of the whole contents of the recommending papers to be freely accessible, which is not always true due to factors such as copyright restrictions. This paper presents a collaborative approach for research paper recommender system. By leveraging the advantages of collaborative filtering approach, we utilize the publicly available contextual metadata to infer the hidden associations that exist between research papers in order to personalize recommendations. The novelty of our proposed approach is that it provides personalized recommendations regardless of the research field and regardless of the user’s expertise. Using a publicly available dataset, our proposed approach has recorded a significant improvement over other baseline methods in measuring both the overall performance and the ability to return relevant and useful publications at the top of the recommendation list. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many results have been obtained when studying scientific papers citations databases in a network perspective. Articles can be ranked according to their current in-degree and their future popularity or citation counts can even be predicted. The dynamical properties of such networks and the observation of the time evolution of their nodes started more recently. This work adopts an evolutionary perspective and proposes an original algorithm for the construction of genealogical trees of scientific papers on the basis of their citation count evolution in time. The fitness of a paper now amounts to its in-degree growing trend and a “dying” paper will suddenly see this trend declining in time. It will give birth and be taken over by some of its most prevalent citing “offspring”. Practically, this might be used to trace the successive published milestones of a research field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nowadays, there has been a rapidly increasing number of scientific submissions in multiple research domains. A large number of journals have various acceptance rates, impact factors, and rankings in different publishers. It becomes time-consuming for many researchers to select the most suitable journal to submit their work with the highest acceptance rate. A paper submission recommendation system is more critical for the research community and publishers as it gives scientists another support to complete their submission conveniently. This paper investigates the submission recommendation system for two main research topics: computer science and applied mathematics. Unlike the previous works (Wang et al., 2018; Son et al., 2020) that extract TF–IDF and statistical features as well as utilize numerous machine learning algorithms (logistics regression and multiple perceptrons) for building the recommendation engine, we present an efficient paper submission recommendation algorithm by using different bidirectional transformer encoders and the Mixture of Transformer Encoders technique. We compare the performance between our methodology and other approaches by one dataset from Wang et al. (2018) with 14012 papers in computer science and another dataset collected by us with 223,782 articles in 178 Springer applied mathematics journals in terms of top K accuracy (K = 1 , 3 , 5 , 10). The experimental results show that our proposed method extensively outperforms other state-of-the-art techniques with a significant margin in all top K accuracy for both two datasets. We publish all datasets collected and our implementation codes for further references. 1 1 https://github.com/BinhMisfit/PSRMTE. • Bidirectional transformer encoders can improve the performance of the paper submission recommendation system. • The Mixture of Transformer Encoders framework shows the efficiency in the paper submission recommendation problem. • Proposed techniques can surpass other recent techniques on two datasets related. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In an iterated non-cooperative game, if all the players act to maximize their individual accumulated payoff, the system as a whole usually converges to a Nash equilibrium that poorly benefits any player. Here we show that such an undesirable destiny is avoidable in an iterated Rock-Paper-Scissors (RPS) game involving two rational players, X and Y. Player X has the option of proactively adopting a cooperation-trap strategy, which enforces complete cooperation from the rational player Y and leads to a highly beneficial and maximally fair situation to both players. That maximal degree of cooperation is achievable in such a competitive system with cyclic dominance of actions may stimulate further theoretical and empirical studies on how to resolve conflicts and enhance cooperation in human societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This document is a preface to a special issue of the journal Mathematics titled "State-of-the-Art Mathematical Applications in Europe." The special issue features twelve original research papers and one review paper from European researchers and their collaborators in various fields of mathematics. The papers cover topics such as mathematical physics, applied mathematics, algebra, navigation algorithms, decision-making models, Lagrange interpolation polynomials, and nonlinear fractional differential equations. The preface provides a brief overview of each paper and expresses gratitude to the authors and reviewers. The special issue has received significant interest and demonstrates the importance of open access research in applied mathematics. [Extracted from the article]

Abstract: In this paper, we determine the modularities of asymptotically optimal towers found by Maharaj and Wulftange in 2005. This is also a continuation of the work of Elkies in 2002. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Fundamental scientific advances can take decades to translate into improvements in human health. Shortening this interval would increase the rate at which scientific discoveries lead to successful treatment of human disease. One way to accomplish this would be to identify which advances in knowledge are most likely to translate into clinical research. Toward that end, we built a machine learning system that detects whether a paper is likely to be cited by a future clinical trial or guideline. Despite the noisiness of citation dynamics, as little as 2 years of postpublication data yield accurate predictions about a paper's eventual citation by a clinical article (accuracy = 84%, F1 score = 0.56; compared to 19% accuracy by chance). We found that distinct knowledge flow trajectories are linked to papers that either succeed or fail to influence clinical research. Translational progress in biomedicine can therefore be assessed and predicted in real time based on information conveyed by the scientific community's early reaction to a paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Currently, digitalization and digital transformation are actively expanding into various areas of human activity, and researchers are identifying urgent problems and offering new solutions regarding digital environments in industry [[1]], economics [[3]], medicine [[5]], ecology [[7]], education [[9]], etc. Conclusions The purpose of this Special Issue was to attract high-quality new papers in the field of applied and computational mathematics for digital environments, offering original solutions to various problems that are relevant and in demand in various fields of human activity. 10.3390/math10224297 21 Demidova L.A. A Novel Approach to Decision-Making on Diagnosing Oncological Diseases Using Machine Learning Classifiers Based on Datasets Combining Known and/or New Generated Features of a Different Nature. I hope that these selected research papers are recognized as important and meaningful by the international scientific community and can form the basis for further research in the field of applied and computational mathematics for digital environments, solving complex problems in various disciplines and application areas. [Extracted from the article]

Abstract: In this short note we point to an error in the proof of a theorem stated in [L. Balková, E. Pelantová, Š. Starosta, On Brlek-Reutenauer conjecture, Theoret. Comput. Sci. 412 (2011) 5649–5655]. By constructing a counterexample, we show that the assertion of the theorem is actually incorrect. Although this theorem is of a technical character, it was used in an argument leading to a corollary of a general interest to the Brlek-Reutenauer conjecture, and thus as a consequence of this note we have that the proof of the mentioned corollary is also flawed. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Evaluating the impact of a scholarly article is of great significance and has attracted great attentions. Although citation-based evaluation approaches have been widely used, these approaches face limitations e.g. in identifying anomalous citations patterns. This negligence would inevitably cause unfairness and inaccuracy to the article impact evaluation. In this study, in order to discover the anomalous citations and ensure the fairness and accuracy of research outcome evaluation, we investigate the citation relationships between articles using the following factors: collaboration times, the time span of collaboration, citing times and the time span of citing to weaken the relationship of Conflict of Interest (COI) in the citation network. Meanwhile, we study a special kind of COI, namely suspected COI relationship. Based on the COI relationship, we further bring forward the COIRank algorithm, an innovative scheme for accurately assessing the impact of an article. Our method distinguishes the citation strength, and utilizes PageRank and HITS algorithms to rank scholarly articles comprehensively. The experiments are conducted on the American Physical Society (APS) dataset. We find that about 80.88% articles contain contributed citations by co-authors in 26,366 articles and 75.55% articles among these articles are cited by the authors belonging to the same affiliation, indicating COI and suspected COI should not be ignored for evaluating impact of scientific papers objectively. Moreover, our experimental results demonstrate COIRank algorithm significantly outperforms the state-of-art solutions. The validity of our approach is verified by using the probability of Recommendation Intensity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This document is a special issue of the journal Nonlinear Studies, featuring interdisciplinary perspectives in applied mathematics. It includes articles on consumer behavior, diffusion of innovation, numerical methods, game theory, and optimization, covering domains such as engineering, management, and physics. The papers have undergone peer review and offer original and high-quality research. The document compiles research contributions on reliability analysis, mathematical modeling, differential equations, and optimization problems, with references for further exploration. The authors express gratitude to the contributors and reviewers for their valuable contributions. [Extracted from the article]

This review paper gives an overview of the method of multipliers for partial differential equations (PDEs). This method has made possible a lot of solutions to PDEs that are of interest in many areas such as applied mathematics, mathematical physics, engineering, etc. Looking at the history of the method and synthesizing the newest developments, we hope to give it the attention that it deserves to help develop the vast amount of work still needed to understand it and make the best use of it. It is also an interesting and a relevant method in itself that could possibly give interesting results in areas of mathematics such as modern algebra, group theory, topology, etc. The paper will be structured in such a manner that the last review known for this method will be presented to understand the theoretical framework of the method and then later work done will be presented. The information of four recent papers further developing the method will be synthesized and presented in such a manner that anyone interested in learning this method will have the most relevant information available and have all details cited for checking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Inequalities play a main role in pure and applied mathematics. In this paper, we prove a generalization of Milne inequality for any measure space. The argument in the proof of this inequality allows us to obtain other Milne-type inequalities. Also, we improve the discrete version of Milne inequality, which holds for any positive value of the parameter p. Finally, we present a Milne-type inequality in the fractional context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study delves into special class of generalized p-trigonometric functions, examining their connection to the established counterparts like p-cosine and p-sine functions. We here explore the new class of functions called the p-versine, p-coversine, p-haversine, and p-hacovercosine, by providing comprehensive definitions and properties. Grounded in the characteristics of p-cosine and p-sine functions, the newly proposed functions offer unique mathematical insights. Our work contributes towards a thorough understanding of these new special functions, showcasing their potential applications in diverse scientific domains, from mathematical analysis to physics and engineering. This paper contributes as a valuable resource for future applied mathematics researchers, engaging with these new mathematical functions, enhancing the ability to model complex patterns from diverse real-world applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper is devoted to the study of the steady-state transmission problem between two Herschel-Bulkley fluids in thin layers with different viscosities, yield limits and power law index. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper introduces the concept of proximal (α , F) -contractions in F -metric spaces. We establish novel results concerning the existence and uniqueness of best proximity points for such mappings. The validity of our findings is corroborated through a non-trivial example. Furthermore, we demonstrate the applicability of these results by proving the existence of solutions for Volterra integral equations related to population growth models. This approach not only extends best proximity theory, but also paves the way for further research in applied mathematics and beyond. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The increasing use of mathematical techniques in scientific research leads to the interdisciplinarity of applied mathematics. This viewpoint is validated quantitatively here by statistical and network analysis on the corpus PNAS 1999–2013. A network describing the interdisciplinary relationships between disciplines in a panoramic view is built based on the corpus. Specific network indicators show the hub role of applied mathematics in interdisciplinary research. The statistical analysis on the corpus content finds that algorithms, a primary topic of applied mathematics, positively correlates, increasingly co-occurs, and has an equilibrium relationship in the long-run with certain typical research paradigms and methodologies. The finding can be understood as an intrinsic cause of the interdisciplinarity of applied mathematics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the analytical solution to the Fractional Differential Equations (FDEs) under uncertainty. Fuzzy differential equations are one of the emerging topics in the present era of research, where we have found an effective combination of FDEs with fuzziness. The Homotopy Analysis Transform Method (HATM) with the Caputo fractional derivative is applied in this work to find the analytical fuzzy solution of two fuzzy FDEs. One of the interesting parts of this study is that we have found upper and lower fuzzy solutions for both fuzzy FDEs. The different graphical representations that have been presented for both examples show that there is a symmetry relation between the upper and lower-cut fuzzy solutions. In this method, the region and rate of convergence of the solution series are controlled by the auxiliary parameter r-cut. This paper shows that the proposed method is reliable and efficient in determining the fuzzy solutions of the FDEs in applied mathematics and engineering [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Both theoretical and applied mathematics depend heavily on integral inequalities with generalized convexity. Because of its many applications, the theory of integral inequalities is currently one of the areas of mathematics that is evolving at the fastest pace. In this paper, based on fuzzy Aumann's integral theory, the Hermite–Hadamard's type inequalities are introduced for a newly defined class of nonconvex functions, which is known as  U · D preinvex fuzzy number-valued mappings ( U · D preinvex  F · N · V · M s) on coordinates. Some Pachpatte-type inequalities are also established for the product of two  U · D preinvex  F · N · V · M s, and some Hermite–Hadamard–Fejér-type inequalities are also acquired via fuzzy Aumann's integrals. Additionally, several new generalized inequalities are also obtained for the special situations of the parameters. Additionally, some of the interesting remarks are provided to acquire the classical and new exceptional cases that can be considered as applications of the main outcomes. Lastly, a few suggested uses for these inequalities in numerical integration are made. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we investigate the (2+1)-dimensional Kadomtsev-Petviashvili-Benjamin-Bona Mahony equation using two effective methods: the unified scheme and the advanced auxiliary equation scheme, aiming to derive precise wave solutions. These solutions are expressed as combinations of trigonometric, rational, hyperbolic, and exponential functions. Visual representations, including three-dimensional (3D) and two-dimensional (2D) combined charts, are provided for some of these solutions. The influence of the nonlinear parameter p on the wave type is thoroughly examined through diverse figures, illustrating the profound impact of nonlinearity. Additionally, we briefly investigate the Hamiltonian function and the stability of the model using a planar dynamical system approach. This involves examining trajectories, isoclines, and nullclines to illustrate stable solution paths for the wave variables. Numerical results demonstrate that these methods are reliable, straightforward, and potent tools for analyzing various nonlinear evolution equations found in physics, applied mathematics, and engineering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A porous material that has been contaminated with a hazardous chemical agent is typically decontaminated by applying a cleanser solution to the surface and allowing the cleanser to react into the porous material, neutralising the agent. The agent and cleanser are often immiscible fluids and so, if the porous material is initially saturated with agent, a reaction front develops with the decontamination reaction occurring at this interface between the fluids. We investigate the effect of different initial agent configurations within the pore space on the decontamination process. Specifically, we compare the decontamination of a material initially saturated by the agent with the situation when, initially, the agent only coats the walls of the pores (referred to as the 'agent-on-walls' case). In previous work (Luckins et al., European Journal of Applied Mathematics, 31(5):782–805, 2020), we derived homogenised models for both of these decontamination scenarios, and in this paper we explore the solutions of these two models. We find that, for an identical initial volume of agent, the decontamination time is generally much faster for the agent-on-walls case compared with the initially saturated case, since the surface area on which the reaction can occur is greater. However for sufficiently deep spills of contaminant, or sufficiently slow reaction rates, decontamination in the agent-on-walls scenario can be slower. We also show that, in the limit of a dilute cleanser with a deep initial agent spill, the agent-on-walls model exhibits behaviour akin to a Stefan problem of the same form as that arising in the initially saturated model. The decontamination time is shown to decrease with both the applied cleanser concentration and the rate of the chemical reaction. However, increasing the cleanser concentration is also shown to result in lower decontamination efficiency, with an increase in the amount of cleanser chemical that is wasted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: A lemma presented by Matkowski requires a proof. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Map-matching technology is a key and difficult technology in the development of vehicle navigation systems. Only by correctly identifying the road segment on which the vehicle is traveling can the navigation system make the right decision. At the same time, the complexity of the road network structure and a variety of error factors have introduced great challenges to map matching and have attracted the attention of many researchers as well. This paper analyzes various map-matching algorithms, determines that the key to the matching performance is the junction matching, performs an in-depth study on the junction-matching problem, and puts forward the junction decision domain model. The model mainly involves information regarding the width of the road segment, the angle between two road segments, the accuracy of GPS and the accuracy of the road network. In this paper, we use this model to improve the map-matching algorithm based on a hidden Markov model (HMM). The experimental results show that the improved matching algorithm can effectively reduce the error rate of junction matching and improve the matching performance of a navigation system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper, based on differential privacy protecting K-means clustering algorithm, realizes privacy protection by adding data-disturbing Laplace noise to cluster center point. In order to solve the problem of Laplace noise randomness which causes the center point to deviate, especially when poor availability of clustering results appears because of small privacy budget parameters, an improved differential privacy protecting K-means clustering algorithm was raised in this paper. The improved algorithm uses the contour coefficients to quantitatively evaluate the clustering effect of each iteration and add different noise to different clusters. In order to be adapted to the huge number of data, this paper provides an algorithm design in MapReduce Framework. Experimental finding shows that the new algorithm improves the availability of the algorithm clustering results under the condition of ensuring individual privacy without significantly increasing its operating time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recently, computational Grids have proven to be a good solution for processing large-scale, computation intensive problems. However, the heterogeneity, dynamics of resources and diversity of applications requirements have always been important factors affecting their performance. In response to these challenges, this work first builds a Grid job scheduling architecture that can dynamically monitor Grid computing center resources and make corresponding scheduling decisions. Second, a Grid job model is proposed to describe the application requirements. Third, this paper studies the characteristics of commercial interconnection networks used in Grids and forecast job transmission time. Fourth, this paper proposes an application-aware job scheduling mechanism (AJSM) that includes periodic scheduling flow and a heuristic application-aware deadline constraint job scheduling algorithm. The rigorous performance evaluation results clearly demonstrate that the proposed application-aware job scheduling mechanism can successful schedule more Grid jobs than the existing algorithms. For successful scheduled jobs, our proposed AJSM method is the best algorithm for job average processing time and makespan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is very meaningful and challenging to efficiently seek common solutions to operator systems (CSOSs), which are widespread in pure and applied mathematics, as well as some closely related optimization problems. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a novel class of multistep implicit iterative algorithms (MSIIAs) for solving general CSOSs. By using Xu's lemma and Maingé's fundamental and important results, we first obtain strong convergence theorems for both one-step and multistep implicit iterative schemes for CSOSs, involving asymptotically demicontractive operators. Finally, for the applications and profits of the main results presented in this paper, we give two numerical examples and present an iterative approximation to solve the general common solution to the variational inequalities and operator equations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses discontinuities in the solutions of mathematical physics that describe actual processes and are not observed in experiments. The appearance of discontinuities is associated in this paper with the classical differential calculus based on the analysis of infinitesimal quantities. Nonlocal functions and nonlocal derivatives, which are not specified, in contrast to the traditional approach to a point, but are the results of averaging over small but finite intervals of the independent variable are introduced. Classical equations of mathematical physics preserve the traditional form but include nonlocal functions. These equations are supplemented with additional equations that link nonlocal and traditional functions. The proposed approach results in continuous solutions of the classical singular problems of mathematical physics. The problems of a string and a circular membrane loaded with concentrated forces are used to demonstrate the procedure. Analytical results are supported with experimental data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is a disruptive impact of smart technologies in the 21st century, which is transforming the traditional industry and the healthcare sector into the Industry 5.0 and the Healthcare 5.0. Acknowledgments The Guest Editors would like to thank all authors and reviewers for their invaluable contributions towards the success of this special issue. [Extracted from the article]

The anonymous peer review is an unpublished pre-publication review which evaluates research articles submitted to journals. This type of a review plays a special role in the genre landscape of Anglophone research by ensuring its appropriate quality and ethical standards. By performing this role, the peer review also realizes a didactic potential, as it motivates researchers to improve their investigations. This paper extends the existing research on the anonymous peer review and aims to deepen our understanding of this genre by analysing the overall functional organization of peer review texts and their prominent linguistic features shaped by three communicative functions ‒ "gatekeeping", evaluative, and didactic. It also attempts to compare the characteristics of peer reviews in two research fields ideologically and epistemologically distant from each other ‒ applied linguistics and applied mathematics. The methodological framework of the study combines Swales's move analysis and a functional stylistic perspective developed within the East European linguistic context. The analysis has revealed a three-move structure of review texts and disclosed the roles of interpersonal markers, evaluative lexis and four types of directives in the realization of the communicative functions of the genre. The typologies of reviewers' comments and evaluative acts in reviews have also been suggested. Furthermore, the study has brought to light some quantitative and qualitative differences between the texts in two disciplines. It is anticipated that awareness of the linguistic conventions of anonymous peer reviews analysed in the paper will help researchers to perceive this genre as a valuable source of professional assistance and enlightenment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The processing of dielectric materials in the radio frequency field continues to be a concern in engineering. This procedure involves a rigorous analysis of the electromagnetic field based on specific numerical methods. This paper presents an original method for analysing the process of drying wooden boards in a radio frequency (RF) installation. The electromagnetic field and thermal field are calculated using the finite element method (FEM). The load capacity of the installation is also calculated, since the material being heated in the radio frequency heating installations is placed in a capacitor-type applicator. A specific method is created in order to solve the problem related to mass, a quantity which tends to change during the drying of the dielectric. In addition, special consideration is given to issues regarding the coupling of the electromagnetic field and the thermal field, along with aspects pertaining to mass. These are implemented numerically using a program written in the Fortran language, which takes the distribution of finite elements from the Flux2D program, the dielectric thermal module, intended only for the study of RF heating. The results obtained after running the program are satisfactory and they represent a support for future studies, especially if the movement of the dielectric is taken into account. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Adequate mathematical description of magnetization curves is indispensable in engineering. The accuracy of the description has a significant impact on the design of electric machines and devices. The aim of this paper was to analyze the capability of Bézier curves systematically, to describe the nonlinear static magnetic properties of non-oriented electrical steels, and to compare this approach versus the established mathematical descriptions. First, analytic functions versus measurements were analyzed. The Bézier curves were then compared systematically with the most adequate analytic functions. Next, the most suitable orders of Bézier curves were determined for the approximation of nonlinear magnetic properties, where the influence of the range of the input measurement dataset on the approximation process was analyzed. Last, the extrapolation capabilities of the Bézier curves and analytic functions were evaluated. The general conclusion is that Bézier curves have adequate flexibility and significant potential for the approximation and extrapolation of nonlinear properties of non-oriented electrical steels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]