Quantifying Urban Sprawl and Its Driving Forces in China by Jintao Wang, Shiyou Qu, Ke Peng, Yanchao Feng

“…Furthermore, we used population density as a counter-indicator of urban sprawl, and the regression results also prove the superiority of the urban sprawl designed by us. The main results show that the intensity of urban population sprawl and urban land sprawl has been enhanced. …”
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Description of the physical activity promotion programs funded by the Brazilian Ministry of Health by Tales Amorim, Alan Knuth, Danielle Cruz, Deborah Malta, Rodrigo Reis, Pedro Hallal

“…Most interventions (76.9%) focused on older adults, and 59.2% of them were designed for hypertensive and diabetic patients. Oriented walking was the most prevalent offered activity (80.6%), followed by gym classes (78.5%). …”
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International educational migration as a “soft power resource” in the globalization era by V. A. Suvorova, I. A. Bronnikov

“…The Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo) as one of the main institutions in the export of Russian education has been designated. The measures to attract foreign students to Russian universities have been proposed.…”
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Rethinking Advanced Driver Assistance System taxonomies: A framework and inventory of real-world safety performance by Ksander N de Winkel, Michiel Christoph

“…It is simple and generalizable, and avoids disadvantages inherent to categorical classifications, making it a potentially valuable tool for designers and policymakers.…”
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Walter Crane : de l’album considéré comme un des Beaux-Arts by Isabelle Guillaume

“…Picture books would thus join the ceramics, textiles and mosaics designed by Walter Crane. Precisely, in his theoretical essays as in his practice, he worked in favor of a new configuration of the artistic field alongside William Morris. …”
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Artificial intelligence-driven mobile interpretation of a semi-quantitative cryptococcal antigen lateral flow assay by David Bermejo-Peláez, Ana Alastruey-Izquierdo, Narda Medina, Daniel Capellán-Martín, Oscar Bonilla, Miguel Luengo-Oroz, Juan Luis Rodríguez-Tudela

“…We developed an AI algorithm designed for the automated interpretation of CrAgSQ LFAs. …”
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Experimental investigation on slope runoff, sediment, and hydraulic parameters under different underlying surface by Siti Norhafizah Hamizak, Zuliziana Suif, Jestin Jelani, Nordila Ahmad, Muhammad Izzul Akhtar

“…The rainfall intensity of 10 Lmin⁻¹ was designated for the rainfall simulator. Throughout a two-hour period, the runoff flow was collected at intervals of 30, 60, 90, and 120 minutes. …”
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A Novel On-Ramp Merging Strategy for Connected and Automated Vehicles Based on Game Theory by Haigen Min, Yukun Fang, Runmin Wang, Xiaochi Li, Zhigang Xu, Xiangmo Zhao

“…For the framework of the game, benefit, loss, and rules are three basic components, and in our model, benefit is the priority of passing the merging point, represented via the merging sequence (MS), loss is the cost of fuel consumption and the total travel time, and the game rules are designed in accordance with traffic density, fairness, and wholeness. …”
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Few-Shot Object Detection in Remote Sensing: Mitigating Label Inconsistencies and Navigating Category Variations by Tiancheng Si, Shenyu Kong

“…Nevertheless, current mainstream FSOD models are primarily designed for natural images and encounter two substantial challenges when applied to RSIs. 1) Inconsistent label assignment for novel instances between pre-training and fine-tuning confuses detectors, leading to diminished generalization performance. 2) Complex scenes within RSIs result in significant category variations, comprising high inter-class similarity and large intra-class variance, which impairs classification accuracy. …”
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A Dual-Wideband Double-Layer Magnetoelectric Dipole Antenna with a Modified Horned Reflector for 2G/3G/LTE Applications by Botao Feng, Weijun Hong, Shufang Li, Wenxing An, Sixing Yin

“…In addition, to reduce the size of the antenna and improve impedance matching, a new feeding structure designed with inverted U-shaped and tapered line is introduced. …”
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Swimming Training Evaluation Method Based on Convolutional Neural Network by Lei Zhang, Wei Liu

“…By investigating the status quo of the swimming training market in a certain area, we can obtain information on the current development of the swimming training market in a certain area and study the laws of the development of the market so as to provide a theoretical basis for the development of the market. This paper designs an evaluation algorithm suitable for swimming training based on the improved AlexNet network. …”
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LINC00707 Regulates miR-382-5p/VEGFA Pathway to Enhance Cervical Cancer Progression by Hua Guo, Jing Li, Furong Fan, Ping Zhou

“…In this study, our present work was designed to study the biological effects of LINC00707 in cervical cancer. …”
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A Helicobacter pylori flagellar motor accessory is needed to maintain the barrier function of the outer membrane during flagellar rotation. by Kyle Rosinke, Shoichi Tachiyama, Jan Mrásek, Jun Liu, Timothy R Hoover

“…Given its role in formation of the motor outer ring, HP0838 was designated FapH (flagellar accessory protein in Helicobacter pylori) and the motor accessory formed the protein was named the FapH ring. …”
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Reuse of peanut shells and Azolla mixes as a peat alternative in growth medium of Dieffenbachia amoena ‘tropic snow’ by Ali Mahboub Khomami, Mohammad Naghi Padasht, Ali Ajili Lahiji, Fariba Mahtab

“…Abstract Purpose An experiment was designed to introduce a substitute for peat, which is used in the production of bedding for the cultivation of ornamental plants and is imported and expensive. …”
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Experimental Study on Sand Inrush Hazard of Water-Sand Two-Phase Flow in Broken Rock Mass by Junce Xu, Hai Pu, Jiarui Chen, Ziheng Sha

“…In this paper, an experimental device was designed to simulate the process of water and sand inrush, and then, the control factors of the disasters in the broken rock mass in the goaf were investigated. …”
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Pro-Peace vs. Pro-War Conceptualizations in the Language of Hungarian Propaganda by Marcin Grygiel

“…For these goals to be successful, the language of propaganda must be equipped with efficient and well-designed conceptualizations able to change and modify the way people think. …”
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Homeopathic Preparations to Control the Rosy Apple Aphid (Dysaphis plantaginea Pass.) by Eric Wyss, Lucius Tamm, Joachim Siebenwirth, Stephan Baumgartner

“…Six experiments were determined to assess the effects of a strict therapeutic treatment; two experiments were designed to determine the effects of a combined preventative and therapeutic treatment. …”
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Super Broadband-Sensitive Upconversion in Tm and Ni Codoped Perovskites by Hom Nath Luitel, Shintaro Mizuno, Yasuhiko Takeda

“…We investigated broadband-sensitive upconversion (UC) processes in a series of Tm- and Ni-sensitized ABO3 (A = Ca/Sr/Ba and B = Ti/Zr/Hf) perovskites. We have designed combinations of the sensitizers and host cations such that super broad solar radiation ranging from 900 nm to nearly 2000 nm can be efficiently upconverted to 800 nm and shorter wavelengths. …”
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Dynamic and efficient vehicular cloud management scheme with privacy protection by Min XIAO, Tao YAO, Yuanni LIU, Yonghong HUANG

“…The vehicular cloud (VC) formed by vehicles is used for localization processing and consumption of traffic sensing data to achieve timely intelligent traffic management.The vehicle cloud is highly dynamic, self-organizing and timely, in which the identity and location privacy of vehicle users need to be protected as this poses challenges to the vehicular cloud management.A dynamic and self-organizing vehicle cloud management scheme based on the asymmetric group key agreement protocol was designed, where the vehicle cloud is automatically formed through the self-organized group key agreement of vehicles.The group key was used to control the provision and access of vehicle cloud services, and the dynamic management of the vehicle cloud was implemented through group key update.The scheme used traceable one-time pseudonym technology to achieve anonymous authentication and conditional privacy protection of vehicle users, and the group key agreement stage only included one bilinear pair operation to achieve high efficiency.In addition, the key negotiation and update process used lightweight signatures, supporting batch verification, to achieve efficient message source authentication and integrity authentication.Then the security and efficiency of vehicle cloud communications in the self-organizing environment can be ensured.The dynamic key update mechanism of the key agreement protocol realized the dynamic joining or exiting of vehicles in the vehicle cloud, adapting to the dynamic characteristics of the vehicle cloud.Under the random oracle model and the difficult assumption of the inverse computational Diffie Hellman (ICDH) problem, it was proved that the asymmetric group key agreement scheme satisfied the selective-plaintext security.The security analysis shows that the scheme can protect the identity and location privacy of vehicle users, realize the legal tracking of malicious vehicles, and ensure the confidentiality, integrity and anti-counterfeiting of communications, as well as the forward security of vehicle cloud dynamic management.The performance comparison analysis shows that this scheme has certain advantages in communication and computing efficiency under the condition of the same function and security level.…”
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Bone Marrow-Derived Cells Contribute to the Maintenance of Thymic Stroma including TECs by Shami Chakrabarti, Mohammed Hoque, Nawshin Zara Jamil, Varan J. Singh, Daniel Pollacksmith, Neelab Meer, Mark T. Pezzano

“…Identifying thymic epithelial progenitor populations capable of forming functional thymic tissue will be critical in understanding thymic epithelial cell (TEC) ontogeny and designing strategies to reverse involution. We identified a new population of progenitor cells, present in both the thymus and bone marrow (BM) of mice, that coexpress the hematopoietic marker CD45 and the definitive thymic epithelial marker EpCAM and maintain the capacity to form functional thymic tissue. …”
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