Ramón Vinyes y Jacques Gilard. Dos sabios para el Grupo de Barranquilla by José Manuel Camacho Delgado

“…The tremendous impact that the publication of One Hundred Years of Solitude had on the world of letters was a lure to scrutinize and understand García Márquez’s personal background, from his group of friends in the Colombian coast to the teachings of playwright and storyteller from Barcelona, Ramon Vinyes, portrayed in the celebrated novel as the «Catalan Wise Man». Over nearly two decades, Professor Jacques Gilard tracked everything related to illustrious Vinyes, exiled because of Franco’s regime and mentor of García Márquez and the rest of the members of the group of Barranquilla. …”
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Renaissance à Bulawayo, Zimbabwe : la ville dans The Stone Virgins de Yvonne Vera by Marie-Jeanne Gauffre

“…Specifically, through Nonceba’s gradual journey out of her abysmal pain and destructive solitude to the welcoming potentiality of the city, the novel, unemphatically combining horror and beauty, testifies to the fragile—yet abiding—power of human bonds, and to the infinite resilience of the Zimbabwean people.…”
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New approach against Sybil attack in wireless sensor networks by FENG Tao1, MA Jian-feng2

“…A particularly harmful attack against many sensor network applications is known as the Sybil attack.A novel approach which is sensor node identity witness information validation for random secret information predistribution to defend against the Sybil attack was proposed,and their comprehensive performance was analyzed.In random secret in-formation predistribution,new secret information assignment schemes were proposed and assign a random set of key-related information to each sensor node based on one-way accumulators.In the common keys set-up phase,node-to-node identity witness authentication and key exchange protocols（IDW-AKE）which are provably secure against the active adversaries in universally composable model was proposed.Using IDW-AKE protocols,each node can com-pute the unique common keys it shares with its neighbors.…”
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Florida Cultivation Guide for Malabar Spinach by Yuheng Qiu, Guodong Liu

“…Malabar spinach has long been established in cultivation in China and India. This spinach is a novel crop to Florida and is currently grown only for niche markets. …”
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Pseudo chaotic pulse position modulation in UWB communications by XIANG Xin1, WANG Jie-ling2, ZENG Zhi-bin2, YI Ke-chu2, CHEN Shun-fang3

“…A novel pseudo chaotic pulse position modulation（PCPPM） was proposed which was suitable for ultrawide-bandwith impulse radio communication systems,in this scheme,symbolic dynamics of a chaotic map was used for chaotic pulse position modulation（CPPM）,the separation between the adjacent pulses were determined by chaotic dynamics and binary information was modulated onto this carrier by the pulse position modulation method.System could acquire synchronization automatically without any specific "hand shaking"protocol.The advantages of PCPPM are decrease of the measurement precision of interpulse intervals and suitable for all digital solution.Since a random distribution of interpulse intervals,the resulting spectrum is a noise like spectrum.Finally,the performances of PCPPM were analyzed and simulated.…”
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Recurrent Aneurysmal Bone Cyst of the Distal Fibula Treated with Denosumab and Curettage by Philip B. Fontenot, Jose Jesurajan, Marilyn Bui, Damon Reed, Odion Binitie

“…Aneurysmal bone cysts are locally aggressive lesions with high rates of recurrence. The novel use of denosumab with curettage in a long bone showed a favorable outcome with no adverse events or signs of recurrence three years after treatment.…”
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UHF RFID anti-collision algorithm based on blind separation and dynamic bit-slot grouping by Hua LI, Zhi-ping JIA, Hong-jun WANG, Ju LIU

“…A novel ultra high frequency(UHF)radio frequency identification（RFID）anti-collision algorithm based on independent components analysis(ICA)and dynamic bit-slot grouping technology was proposed.The ICA algorithm was used for identifying several tags simultaneously.The dynamic bit-slot tags grouping technology was used for ensuring the number of tags read by a reader at the same time was less than or equal to its antennas’number,and enabling the ICA wouldn’t work in an underdetermined state.Theoretical analysis and simulated experimental results show that the tags identification rate of the proposed algorithm is far more than that of traditional stochastic or deterministic TDMA RFID anti-collision algorithms.…”
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Fabians Flanieren und der Müßiggang in der Krise by Benedikt Hengstl

“…Jakob Fabian, the protagonist of Erich Kästner’s 2013 novel Der Gang vor die Hunde [Fabian. Die Geschichte eines Moralisten, 1931], is examined in this article as a pessimistic idler, a flâneur experiencing a crisis. …”
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Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Based on Dempter-Shafer Theory of Evidence in Cognitive Radio Network by Shujing Xie, Lianfeng Shen

“…Cognitive radio has the advantage of high spectrum utilization since the spectrum can be shared by primary and secondary user.Meanwhile,the new adaptable characteristic is required for the secondary user.On the basis of analyzing D-S theory of evidence,a novel distributed cooperative spectrum sensing scheme was presented,which modified the combination equation for conflicting evidence source,and the BPA function based on fuzzy degree calculation was redefined.Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can sense the available spectrum in the cognitive radio networks very well,and can be used as a general spectrum sensing scheme in AWGN and Rayleigh fading channel when compared with the traditional ＂and＂,＂or＂ fusion rules and other D-S theory of evidence schemes in the previous literature.…”
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Ciphertext-only fault analysis of the SIMON lightweight cipher by Wei LI, Yixin WU, Dawu GU, Jiayao LI, Shan CAO, Menglin WANG, Tianpei CAI, Xiangwu DING, Zhiqiang LIU

“…The ciphertext-only fault analysis on the SIMON cipher was proposed by injecting a random nibble fault under the random nibble fault model.After injecting faults,every faulty ciphertext could be decrypted and the statistical distribution of all intermediate states were analyzed by the attackers.On the basis of the previous distinguishers of SEI,GF,MLE,MLE-SEI,GF-SEI and GF-MLE,four novel distinguishers of GF-MAP,HW-MLE,GF-HW and HW-MAP were proposed to reduce faults.The results show that the SIMON cipher cannot resist against the ciphertext-only fault analysis.It provides an important reference for security analysis of other ciphers.…”
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Global Finite-Time Output Feedback Stabilization for a Class of Uncertain Nonholonomic Systems by Baojian Du, Fangzheng Gao, Fushun Yuan

“…By using backstepping recursive technique and the homogeneous domination approach, a constructive design procedure for output feedback control is given. Together with a novel switching control strategy, the designed controller renders that the states of closed-loop system are regulated to zero in a finite time. …”
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Combinatorial double auction-based allocation of retrieval tasks in Internet of Things by Zhi-kai XU, Hong-li ZHANG, Xiang-zhan YU, Zhi-gang ZHOU

“…Task allocation mechanism was greatly important to the success of the search service in Internet of Things (IoT).On basis of analyzing the real time characteristics of the IoT data,and the dynamic characteristics of the users,a combinatorial double auction-based retrieval tasks allocation model was introduced,which described the relationships between the workers,the requesters and the system from the perspective of supply and demand.Firstly,a novel metric to evaluate the value of the users’ queries was introduced and a greedy heuristic algorithm to determine the winning requesters and workers was proposed.Then,a critical payment scheme was proposed,which guaranteed that submitted bids of the users reflect their real value.Finally,both the rigid theoretical analysis and simulation result show that the proposed mechanism achieves truthfulness,individual rationality and the efficiency of the service provider is improved.…”
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Galerkin Spectral Method of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations Driven by Multivariate Poisson Measure by Hongling Xie

“…In this paper, we introduce a Galerkin spectral method tailored for addressing SPDEs driven by multivariate Poisson variables. Our novel numerical method is applied to solve the one- and two-dimensional stochastic Poisson equations, as well as the one and two-dimensional stochastic heat equation, stochastic KdV equation, and stochastic Burgers equation, respectively. …”
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Positive Solutions of a Two-Point Boundary Value Problem for Singular Fractional Differential Equations in Banach Space by Bo Liu, Yansheng Liu

“…First, by constructing a novel cone and using the fixed point index theory, a sufficient condition is established for the existence of at least two positive solutions to the approximate problem of the considered singular BVP. …”
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Empirical likelihood based heteroscedasticity diagnostics for varying coefficient partially nonlinear models by Cuiping Wang, Xiaoshuang Zhou, Peixin Zhao

“…This paper is concerned with the statistical diagnostics for the varying coefficient partially nonlinear model. We propose a novel diagnostic approach for heteroscedasticity of error variance in the model by combining it with the empirical likelihood method. …”
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WmFall: WiFi-based multistage fall detection with channel state information by Xu Yang, Fangyuan Xiong, Yuan Shao, Qiang Niu

“…In this article, we introduce a novel multistage fall detection system using the channel state information from WiFi devices. …”
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Network traffic detection based on multi-resolution low rank model by Guo-zhen CHENG, Dong-nian CHENG, Ding-jiu YU

“…Because network traffic was usually characterized by its higher-dimensional features,related detectors and classifiers for identifying traffic anomalies were suffering the increased complexity.Several key observations given by existing studies showed that network anomalies were distributed typically in a sparse way,and each of anomalies was essentially characterized by its lower-dimensional features.Based on this important finding,a novel model detecting traffic anomalies—multi-resolution low rank (MRLR) was developed.The proposed MRLR allowed us to dynamically filter the “proper”feature sets and then to classify anomalies accurately.The validation shows that MRLR can accurately reduce the dimensions of flow features to lower than 10%,on the other hand,the complexity of MRLR-classifiers is O(n).…”
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Array gain and phase calibration in the presence of multipath based on weighted spatial smoothing by WANG Bu-hong1, WANG Yong-liang2, CHEN Hui2

“…Based on the idea underlying weighted spatial smoothing algorithm for coherent sources DOA estimation, a novel cost function is constructed in this paper to achieve favorable array calibration in the presence of multipath. …”
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A Comparative Study on Qualification Criteria of Nonlinear Solvers with Introducing Some New Ones by R. H. AL-Obaidi, M. T. Darvishi

“…In order to compare different solvers for systems of nonlinear equations, some novel goodness and qualification criteria are defined in this paper. …”
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The Genetics of Parkinson’s Disease by Levent Şimşek, Emine Berrin Yüksel, Zeliha Yücel

“…The identification of genes linked to PD and their functions has uncovered novel biological pathways and treatment options that play a role in the development of PD. …”
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