Cloud-Based Service for Fingerprint Image Matching by Ethar Abdul Wahhab Hachim

“…The experimental results proved that this service has achieved high accuracy in matching fingerprint images, in addition to greatly facilitating the matching process for the user, and it can be used anytime and anywhere thanks to the cloud environment facilities adopted by this service. …”
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Koopmans' Analysis of Chemical Hardness with Spectral-Like Resolution by Mihai V. Putz

“…Three approximation levels of Koopmans' theorem are explored and applied: the first referring to the inner quantum behavior of the orbitalic energies that depart from the genuine ones in Fock space when the wave-functions' Hilbert-Banach basis set is specified to solve the many-electronic spectra of spin-orbitals' eigenstates; it is the most subtle issue regarding Koopmans' theorem as it brings many critics and refutation in the last decades, yet it is shown here as an irrefutable “observational” effect through computation, specific to any in silico spectra of an eigenproblem; the second level assumes the “frozen spin-orbitals” approximation during the extracting or adding of electrons to the frontier of the chemical system through the ionization and affinity processes, respectively; this approximation is nevertheless workable for great deal of chemical compounds, especially organic systems, and is justified for chemical reactivity and aromaticity hierarchies in an homologue series; the third and the most severe approximation regards the extension of the second one to superior orders of ionization and affinities, here studied at the level of chemical hardness compact-finite expressions up to spectral-like resolution for a paradigmatic set of aromatic carbohydrates.…”
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Pre-repeat cooperative GBN-ARQ for TDD/TDMA based wireless networks by Luo-bing DONG, Ke-chu YI, Pei-yi SHEN, Quan YU

“…An efficient pre-repeat cooperative go-back-N automatic repeat request(PC-GBN-CARQ)algorithm for slow fading TDD/TDMA-based Wireless Networks was proposed.Taking advantage of the multiple access property of TDMA,the proposed scheme enabled both the source and the relay to retransmit packets to the destination simultaneously,which could greatly increase the successful probability of the retransmission.When the source was sending a group of data packets,it also sent 8bit of attached message to tell the relay about which packets among the group would be probably error in transmission,which was the result predicted based on TDD reciprocity,so that the relay could also pre-retransmit these packets like the source does.It should be very effective to raise the transmission efficiency.Simulation results show that the proposed algorithms can get an S/N ratio gain of about 5dB compared with the conventional ones for the normalized throughput of 0.7.…”
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Réglementer au plus près des territoires: le cas de la ressource en eau en France by Sophie Liziard, Rémi Barbier, Sara Fernandez

“…In France, since the adoption of the 1992 water act, “water development and management schemes” (“Schémas d’aménagement et de gestion des eaux” or SAGE for their French acronym) elaborated by Local Water Committees (“Commissions locales de l’eau” or CLE for their French acronym) have gradually organized local governance of water and aquatic environments, with great geographical disparities. The 2006 water act modified the scope of SAGE. …”
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Region inpainting algorithm of mouth-muffles for facial recognition by Yue LI, Yaguan QIAN, Xiaohui GUAN, Wei LI, Bin WANG, Zhaoquan GU

“…Facial recognition under occlusion is a well-known difficult problem in real scenes.Especially after the outbreak of COVID-19, in airports, stations and other places that need to verify the identity of visitors, the mouth-muffle occlusion greatly reduces the facial features that can be important for identification, and the accuracy of face recognition algorithm decreases.Face de-occlusion was studied, and a novel framework was proposed to restore face, which used the edge generation network to generate edge maps.On this basis, the occluded region was restored by the region completion network while preserving identity information.In order to improve the performance, the spatial weighted adversarial loss and identity-preserving loss were introduced to train the above two networks.Then two face datasets with mouth-muffles were constructed by face landmarks.The experimental results show that the accuracy of facial recognition algorithm ArcFace on the face dataset restored by the proposed model was 98.39%, which was 4.13% higher than that of directly using ArcFace.…”
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Iterative rake equalization method for low-complexity OTSM in high-speed mobile environment by Guojun LI, Kun LONG, Changrong YE, Jiawen LIANG

“…Aiming at the problems of poor anti-noise performance and high computational complexity of the existing orthogonal time sequency multiplexing (OTSM) equalization methods, a low-complexity iterative rake equalizer based on maximum ratio combining (MRC) was proposed.The main idea was to use MRC to iteratively extract and coherently combine the received multipath components of the transmitted symbols in the delay-time domain to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the combined signal.In order to speed up the convergence of the MRC iterative algorithm, a single-tap time-frequency equalizer was designed to provide an initial estimate, and then combined with an external error correction code to further improve the bit error performance.The simulation results show that the performance of the iterative rake equalizer based on MRC is significantly better than that of the LMMSE linear equalizer, and the performance and computational complexity are greatly improved compared with the currently widely used Gauss-Seidel (GS) iterative equalizer.…”
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Rheumatic Fever Associated with Antiphospholipid Syndrome: Systematic Review by Felipe da Silva, Jozélio de Carvalho

“…The present study brings the information that the association between APS and RF is quite rare, however, is of great clinical importance. Doctors who deal with the RF should include in their differential diagnosis the APS, especially in the presence of stroke in patients with RF and whose echocardiogram does not show intracavitary thrombi.…”
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Railroad Workers, Civilization and Communism: the Young Men’s Christian Association on the Interwar Polish Frontier by Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska

“…Using archival documents and recollections of Americans involved in the Y’s activities on the eastern Polish frontier I demonstrate how the perception of the Polish borderland by the Y’s secretaries was greatly influenced by myths deeply embedded in American culture. …”
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Å snakke om det som ikke skal nevnes! by Marie-Lisbet Amundsen, Per E. Garmannslund

“…The informants also indicate that the time frames available for conversations vary greatly, which means that one is in danger of having to finish conversations earlier than desired.…”
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The state and industrialization in Turkey since the nineteenth century by Şevket Pamuk

“…However, it soon became evident that states and government-private sector relations in developing countries show a great deal of variation which is reflected in the different degrees of success with state directed industrialization. …”
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Mediating Roles of PPARs in the Effects of Environmental Chemicals on Sex Steroids by Qiansheng Huang, Qionghua Chen

“…Their roles in the metabolism and function of sex steroids and thus the etiology of reproductive disorders receive great concern. Various kinds of exogenous chemicals, especially environmental pollutants, exert their adverse impact on the reproductive system through disturbing the PPAR signaling pathway. …”
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Prediction of the waterborne navigation density based on the multi-feature spatio-temporal graph convolution network by Wei DONG, Leilei ZHANG, Ziheng JIN, Wei SUN, Junbo GAO

“…In the face of the development of the information technology in the port and waterway,the Internet of things (IoT) technology can help to build China’s water transport perception network.The big data analysis of the waterborne transport has become a hot topic for researchers and practitioners in the field of transportation.The navigation density of each port in the water transportation is nonlinear and spatio-temporal correlation,so it is a great challenge to accurately predict it.A multi-feature spatiotemporal graph convolution network (MFSTGCN) was proposed to solve the problem of the traffic density prediction.MFSTGCN effectively captured the spatial-temporal correlation of the ship navigation density data by using the spatial convolution and temporal convolution through three features,which were navigation volume,average ship speed and ship density.The experiment was carried out on the automatic identification system (AIS) data set collected from a shipping platform.The results show that the prediction effect of the MFSTGCN model is better than the spatio-temporal graph convolution network (STGCN) model.…”
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Development and Challenge of Reducer for Electric Wheel Drive Electric Vehicle by Wang Yali Yao Ligang Cai Yongwu Lin Long Wang Wenjie

“…In particular，the electric wheel with reducer has great development potential due to its compact structure，large output torque，high efficiency and specific power. …”
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Time Varying Meshing Stiffness Analysis and Experimental Study of Fatigue Pitting Helical Gear based on Finite Element Method by Jinkai Li, Yong Chen, Libin Zang, Wangyang Bi, Xiaopeng Yang

“…The results show that the spalling length and width have great influence on the meshing stiffness of gears，and the spalling length will affect the change area of meshing stiffness of gears. …”
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The Roaring Streets: Dickensian London in the Pages of Virginia Woolf by Francesca Orestano

“…This article focuses on Woolf’s portrayal of Victorian urban life in her fiction, especially in The Years (1937), where London sounds are everywhere present and deployed to create the polyphony—an exciting cacophony in modernist terms—of the great city. In Woolf’s fiction sounds are meant to convey symbolic meanings, to bring myth to the foreground, while also adding to the realism of the text. …”
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Cimitirele medievale de la Buftea–La Cârna/Mănești. O interpretare pe baza monedelor depuse în morminte by Morintz, A., Coman, M.

“…However, given the fact that the site was investigated in two distinct stages three decades apart, time bringing great changes in the theory and practice of archaeology, a reference system to report on the various specific aspects of both the earlier and the future research, a system perhaps vulnerable at the moment, but perfectible in time. …”

Optimization Analysis of Gear Micro Parameters of Hybrid Transmission Cases by Li Qinyi, Chen Yiqing, Zhang Xi, Wang Hui, Luo Qin

“…The analysis results show that the transmission error of the gear is obviously reduced after micro-modification, and the contact stress nephogram of the tooth surface has been improved to a great extent, which plays an active role in reducing the vibration and noise of the gear. …”
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Design of asymmetric electrolytes for aqueous zinc batteries by Shengmei Chen, Chunyi Zhi

“…Abstract Aqueous Zn batteries are gaining increasing research attention in the energy storage area due to their intrinsic safety, potentially low cost and environmental friendliness; however, the zinc dendrite formation, zinc corrosion, passivation and the hydrogen evolution reaction induced by water at the anode side, and materials dissolution as well as intrinsic poor reaction kinetics at cathode side in aqueous systems, seriously shorten the cycling life and decrease energy density of batteries and greatly hinder their development. Recent advancements in asymmetric electrolytes with various functions are promising to overcome such challenges for zinc batteries at the same time. …”
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Case report series: revisiting third and fourth pharyngeal arch anomalies, − are they thymopharyngeal duct remnants? by A. O. Kotwica, J. Rudd, D. J. Howard

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EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH ON THE INFLUENCE OF 3D PRINTING PROCESS PARAMETERS ON MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF PRODUCTS by WEI Bin, DING YiHao, LIU XiaoPeng, LI JinHe, YU HongJie

“…The tensile strength of 3 D printed products with different internal structures has great differences when the packing density is the same. …”
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