ON THE THRESHOLD OF TECHNOLOGICAL SINGULARITY: HUMAN READINESS TO THE NEW STAGE OF EVOLUTION by М. L. Lazareva

“…In addition, the scientific study proposes a number of projects designed to improve the educational institutions that are responsible for the intellectual and spiritual development of the individual. …”
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Beyond the null: Recognizing and reporting true negative findings by Manon K. Schweinfurth, Joachim G. Frommen

“…We conclude by recommending strategies for rigorous studies, such as conducting positive controls, selecting diverse samples, designing engaging protocols, and clearly labeling negative findings. …”
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RIS-based indoor wireless communication signal enhancement system by Kui TANG, Qi HU, Junming ZHAO, Ke CHEN, Yijun FENG

“…By utilizing the tunable performances of the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) to manipulate the reflected electromagnetic waves, an indoor wireless communication signal enhancement system was constructed, which could improve the signal quality of the receiving terminal in where the initial wireless signals were weak.First, a RIS unit cell with dynamically tunable phase characteristics was designed, and the dynamic change of the 2 bit reflection phases was realized by switching the working states of the two active diodes.Then, experiments were conducted to verify that the proposed RIS could dynamically reshape the beam direction.Finally, a host computer and field programmable gate array (FPGA) were used to realize the intelligent control of the coding sequences applied onto the proposed RIS.By changing the spatial phase distribution on the RIS aperture, the output beam could be controlled in real-time.By traversing the pre-loaded coding sequences, the enhancement of received signal in indoor wireless environments had been experimentally demonstrated.Both simulation and experiment results verify that the proposed RIS system can effectively and dynamically improve the quality of the indoor wireless signals.The received signal is increased by an average of 8.9 dB, with a maximum of 22 dB.The proposed work may provide basic hardware technical support for the optimization of 5G and the next-generation communication networks.…”
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Efficient authentication scheme for cross-trust domain of IoV based on double-layer shard blockchain by Xuejiao LIU, Qiang ZHONG, Yingjie XIA

“…To solve the problems of poor scalability, slow synchronization of authentication information, and high authentication overhead in cross-trust domain message authentication in the Internet of vehicles (IoV), an efficient authentication scheme for cross-trust domain of IoV based on a double-layer shard blockchain was proposed.A double-layer shard blockchain architecture was designed for lots of cross-trust domain message authentication by constructing blockchains on different entity levels in all domains to improve the scalability of the system and ensure secure and efficient sharing of cross-domain information.A blockchain sharding method based on the Metis graph partitioning algorithm for IoV was proposed to balance loads of each shard and adapt to the uneven distribution of authentication information on different road segments in IoV, thereby improving the efficiency of synchronizing a large number of authentication information on the chain.A batch authentication scheme based on certificateless public-key cryptography (CL-PKC) was proposed, which reduced the authentication overhead of cross-domain messages by enabling batch authentication of messages from different trust domains.Experimental results show that the proposed scheme effectively improves the authentication efficiency of cross-trust domain messages.Compared with other schemes, the proposed scheme reduces the computational overhead of a large number of cross-domain message authentication by more than 26.4%.…”
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Numerical simulation of creep notched bar of P91 steel by Norhaida Ab Razak, C. M. Davies

“… Numerous components designed for use at elevated temperatures now exhibit multiaxial stress states as a result of geometric modification and material inhomogeneity. …”
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Acquired Myelodysplasia or Myelodysplastic Syndrome: Clearing the Fog by Ethan A. Natelson, David Pyatt

“…Yet, the World Health Organization (WHO) has chosen to apply the designation myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN), for all MPD but has not similarly recommended that all MDS become the myelodysplastic neoplasms (MDN). …”
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Experimental Study on the Concrete with Compound Admixture of Iron Tailings and Slag Powder under Low Cement Clinker System by Ruidong Wu, Juanhong Liu

“…In order to study the performance of concrete with compound admixture of iron tailings and slag powder under low cement clinker system, the mixture ratio of different iron tailings powder and slag powder was designed to prepare C30 and C50 concrete. The workability, strength, carbonation depth, chloride diffusion coefficient, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), and X-ray diffraction (XRD) of concrete were measured, respectively. …”
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Improving the Stability of Mining Slopes in Tarcha Coal Mine, Southwestern Ethiopian Deposit Through Geometric Adjustments by Getaneh Abebay, Endalu Tadele Chala, Nagessa Zerihun Jilo, Tiyasha Tiyasha

“…Results indicated that the rock quality designation (RQD) of the rocks ranged from 22 to 57.5, indicating rock quality from very poor to fair. …”
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SEE IT, LIKE IT, BUY IT! HEDONIC SHOPPING MOTIVATIONS AND IMPULSE BUYING by Merima Činjarević, Kasim Tatić, Srđan Petrić

“…The survey instrument used in this study was designed using scales that were already validated in the previous research. …”
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Force Tracking Control of Lower Extremity Exoskeleton Based on a New Recurrent Neural Network by Yuxuan Cao, Jie Chen, Li Gao, Jiqing Luo, Jinyun Pu, Shengli Song

“…In the framework of ZNN, an adaptive RBF neural network (ARBFNN) is employed to deal with the system uncertainty, and a fixed-time convergence disturbance observer is designed to estimate the external disturbance of the exoskeleton electrohydraulic system. …”
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Drawing the Map: Siting Architecture by Anne Bordeleau, Liana Bresler

“…Further, architectural mapping is often associated with the possibility to index the 'designer's syntactical code', a possibility coupled with the idea that 'none of the notations take precedence over any other', so as to encourage 'more plural, open-ended "performances" of the project-in-time'. …”
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Overcoming the problem of cultural untranslatability in Burnett’s the secret garden from English into Indonesian by Nadia Khumairo Ma'shumah, Sajarwa Sajarwa

“…Naturalization is used by adapting the SL cultural-specific words to the TL's normal pronunciation and morphology because there are designation similarities in both the SL and the TL. …”
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Multi-feature fusion malware detection method based on attention and gating mechanisms by Zhongyuan CHEN, Jianbiao ZHANG

“…With the rapid development of network technology, the number and variety of malware have been increasing, posing a significant challenge in the field of network security.However, existing single-feature malware detection methods have proven inadequate in representing sample information effectively.Moreover, multi-feature detection approaches also face limitations in feature fusion, resulting in an inability to learn and comprehend the complex relationships within and between features.These limitations ultimately lead to subpar detection results.To address these issues, a malware detection method called MFAGM was proposed, which focused on multimodal feature fusion.By processing the .asm and .bytes files of the dataset, three key features belonging to two types (opcode statistics sequences, API sequences, and grey-scale image features) were successfully extracted.This comprehensive characterization of sample information from multiple perspectives aimed to improve detection accuracy.In order to enhance the fusion of these multimodal features, a feature fusion module called SA-JGmu was designed.This module utilized the self-attention mechanism to capture internal dependencies between features.It also leveraged the gating mechanism to enhance interactivity among different features.Additionally, weight-jumping links were introduced to further optimize the representational capabilities of the model.Experimental results on the Microsoft malware classification challenge dataset demonstrate that MFAGM achieves higher accuracy and F1 scores compared to other methods in the task of malware detection.…”
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Military Interventions As Omitted Variable Of Inversed Democratic Peace: An Empirical Evidence by Srđan Korać, Nenad Stekić

“…Statistical analysis including Pearsonʼs correlation, logistic regression and descriptive statistics, will be presented for specific dyad level in three specifically designated models. The authors conclude that it is more likely that military interventions affect further democratisation of the targeted post-conflict societies, if observed in a short term rather than in longitudinal domain, while the foreign policy similarity (with the United States) positively correlates in cases with more successful democratisation process.…”
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The Effect of Athlete Mindfulness on the Development of Athlete Psychological Skills by Aydanur Önal, Nuh Osman Yıldız, Zülbiye Kaçay

“…The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of athlete mindfulness, which is expressed as the ability of athletes to establish a cause-effect relationship without losing the perception of reality in the moments and situations related to sports, on the development of their psychological skills, which is emphasized by sports psychologists to positively affect athlete performance by 85%. This study was designed according to the relational screening and causal comparison methods in order to examine the interaction between the variables. …”
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Effect of Soil Type on Running Performance of Small Lunar Rover by Kimitaka Watanabe, Tomoki Horiguchi, Kazuto Tanaka

“…In this study, a small rover was designed and created, and running tests were conducted using lunar soil simulant and silica sand to predict its performance on the lunar surface. …”
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Development and Preliminary testing of a Mixing and Pelletizing Machine for Livestock Feeds Production by T.A. Ishola, R.A. Busari, O.S. Aboyeji

“…A mixing and pelletizing machine was designed and constructed to mix and pelletize pulverized feed materials (elephant grass, wheat bran, cassava peel, molasses, cassava starch, bone meal, maize stover and groundnut cake). …”
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An Adaptive Reference Vector Adjustment Strategy and Improved Angle-Penalized Value Method for RVEA by Wenbo Qiu, Jianghan Zhu, Huangchao Yu, Mingfeng Fan, Lisu Huo

“…To cope with this problem, this paper aims to improve an existing decomposition-based algorithm called reference vector-guided evolutionary algorithm (RVEA) by designing an adaptive reference vector adjustment strategy. …”
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The Influence of Digital Marketing, Brand Awareness, and Product Quality on Purchase Decisions for Somethinc Skincare Products by Galuh Malakiano, Ihwan Susila

“…The online survey was carefully designed with questions to capture detailed insights into the respondents' perceptions of digital marketing, brand awareness, and product quality. …”
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EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON ANTI-FREEZING ADHESIVE ROLLER WITH PTFE by WANG ChunHua, QU Hui, WANG ZhongXian, XU HanWen

“…In order to study the turnabout roller coal slime freezing adhesion problem in the process of open-pit mine during winter,experimental apparatus was designed by ourselves,simulated the production site,studied the change of freezing adhesive characteristics of different material in different temperature and different freezing time condition. …”
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