SCIENCE DIPLOMACY: FRENCH EXPERIENCE by A. V. Shestopal, N. V. Litvak

“…The article deals with the formulation in France in the early twenty-first century of a new kind of diplomacy - science diplomacy. It studies the reasons for this process and its problems. On the one hand, the French foreign policy doctrine presupposes an ability to exercise certain influence on its international partners. …”
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Human Pose Recognition Based on Depth Image Multifeature Fusion by Haikuan Wang, Feixiang Zhou, Wenju Zhou, Ling Chen

“…Finally, the gravity center of each part is calculated and a reasonable point is selected as the joint to extract human skeleton. …”
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Tools: Stuff: Art by David Kirshner

“…The first part of the Paper will advance some possible reasoning behind Debussy's comments. Was Debussy questioning Satie's attitude to what Heidegger [in The Origin of the Work of Art] would term the 'thingly' element of the Work of Art, or more precisely – the relationship between 'things' and the 'thing in itself'?
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Efficient resource allocation with context-awareness for parked car road side unit-based Internet of vehicles by Peng QIN, Haoting HE, Xiongwen ZHAO, Yang FU, Yu ZHANG, Miao WANG, Shuo WANG, Xue WU

“…In order to reduce the number of road side unit (RSU) and meet the needs of mobile vehicle users for processing latency-sensitive and computation-intensive tasks, a context-aware resource allocation algorithm was proposed based on parked cars.Road side parked vehicles were selected to serve the vehicle users instead of RSU using parking time as a factor for determining whether a parked vehicle could become a parked car roadside unit (PCRSU).In order to further reduce the system response time, a mechanism was designed considering content caching and distribution.In respect to user content caching, PCRSU made personalized content recommendation for vehicle users with awareness by using two elements of user historical search data and point of interest (PoI) area type.In respect to content distribution, PCRSU allocated bandwidth efficiently by sensing the data transmission needs of vehicle users.Extensive experiments show that compared with the existing benchmark methods, the proposed algorithm can select PCRSU more reasonably, effectively reduce the demand response delay, improve the stability of the network while ensuring network coverage, and provide more accurate service content for vehicle users.…”
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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TEMPERATURE EFFECTS ON FOUR KINDS OF FLEXURE HINGES by HU JunFeng, HAO YaZhou, XU GuiYang

“…In order to reduce the temperature effects on compliant mechanisms,the comparative analysis of temperature effects on four kinds of typical flexure hinge with straight-beam,circular,elliptic and parabolic section is carried out,so that we can choose reasonablely the flexure hinge used to design compliant mechanisms. …”
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Collusion-resistant cross-chain transaction scheme based on game theory and verifiable consensus by JIA Xuedan, WANG Liangmin, HUANG Longxia

“…Formal analyses of participant game dynamics demonstrate that non-collusion emerges as the dominant strategy for channel users under reasonable assumptions. Experimental results indicate that the proposed scheme effectively prevents cross-chain collusion while achieving high cross-chain throughput and scalability compared to traditional relay-based cross-chain solutions.…”
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Sequential and Programmable Squeezing Gates for Optical Non-Gaussian Input States by Takato Yoshida, Daichi Okuno, Takahiro Kashiwazaki, Takeshi Umeki, Shigehito Miki, Fumihiro China, Masahiro Yabuno, Hirotaka Terai, Shuntaro Takeda

“…Quantum computing has been pursued with various hardware platforms and an optical system is one of the most reasonable choices for large-scale computation. In the optical continuous-variable computation scheme, the incorporation of Gaussian gates and a highly nonclassical non-Gaussian state enables universal quantum computation. …”
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MPD-Model: A Distributed Multipreference-Driven Data Fusion Model and Its Application in a WSNs-Based Healthcare Monitoring System by Jibing Gong, Li Cui, Kejiang Xiao, Rui Wang

“…Experimental results show that the proposed methods outperform the baseline methods, and the proposed MPD-Model is reasonable and effective.…”
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Remarks on Consistent Development of Plant Nodalizations: An Example of Application to the ROSA Integral Test Facility by J. Freixa, A. Manera

“…The ROSA TRACE nodalization provided results in a reasonable agreement with all 5 experiments.…”
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A Novel Carbon Price Fluctuation Trend Prediction Method Based on Complex Network and Classification Algorithm by Hua Xu, Minggang Wang

“…., Guangdong, Chongqing, Tianjin, and Shenzhen) has improved slightly, but the prediction accuracy of the carbon price trend in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hubei has not improved. We analyze the reasons leading to this result and offer suggestions to improve China’s pilot carbon market.…”
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Calculated Event Rates for Axion Detection via Atomic and Nuclear Processes by John D. Vergados, Paraskevi C. Divari, Hiroyasu Ejiri

“…Then, these couplings will be transformed to the nucleon level utilizing reasonable existing models, which lead to effective transition operators. …”
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Dynamic testing of language learning aptitude: an exploratory proof of concept study by Du Fangfang, Beckmann Jens F.

“…The newly developed online assessment procedure aims at measuring young learner’s ability to improve performance based on inductive reasoning across lexical, morphological and syntactic rules of an artificial language using pictorial stimuli. …”
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Study on the Relationship Between Water Resources Utilization and Economic Development in Hubei Province by ZHU Hao, YIN Mingcai, HU Yuanzhao, MA Jianing, ZHANG Jishi

“…According to the water footprint theory,the structural characteristics of water footprint and the level of water resources utilization in Hubei Province were analyzed.The analysis results show that:①The water footprint and agricultural water footprint in Hubei Province generally rise with fluctuations,while the industrial water footprint decreases with fluctuations.The agricultural water footprint accounts for 87.8% of the water footprint in the province,which indicates that the water footprint in Hubei Province has significantly different structures.②The water resources utilization and economic growth in Hubei Province show a weak decoupling trend.The economy of Hubei Province develops positively,and the industrial structure is reasonable.The technical effect and economic scale cause major waste of water resources.③The overall water footprint intensity in Hubei Province significantly drops,and the water resources utilization efficiency gradually improves.However,the water footprint intensity in some regions is relatively high,and the water resources utilization efficiency can still be improved.④The water footprint intensity in Hubei Province has a significant spatial autocorrelation,which mainly presents low-low and high-low spatial clustering patterns,and it has an obvious tendency to spread to the surrounding areas.…”
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Comprehensive Evaluation of Water Resources on a Long Time Scale Based on Analytic Hierarchy Process by CHEN Hao, ZHANG Yimin, ZHANG Xiaolin, XIONG Jia, DONG Qianjin

“…On a long time scale,the comprehensive water resources in the water resources system is not only related to natural incoming water,but also greatly affected by the underlying surface and human activities.Therefore,on a long time scale,the comprehensive water resources change is affected by many factors and closely related to social development.However,there is no consensus on the current research on assessing changes in comprehensive water resources by multiple factors on a long time scale.This paper constructs a comprehensive water resource evaluation system with 10 indicators in terms of natural incoming water,comprehensive water use,and social factors by the analytic hierarchy process,calculates the water resources volume by taking the upper reaches of Hanjiang River Basin as an example,and concludes that the comprehensive water resources of this river basin fluctuate greatly inter-year,but generally show a downward trend,as well as classifies the state of comprehensive water resources into 5 types according to different score intervals,and on this basis,analyzes the development trend of comprehensive water resources in the upper reaches of Hanjiang River Basin.The results show that the comprehensive water resources in the upper reaches of Hanjiang River Basin will be at high shortage risk in the future,so it is necessary to take reasonable measures to improve water efficiency.…”
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Evaluation of Water Resource Carrying Capacity Based on TOPSIS Model with Combination Weighting and Diagnosis of Obstacle Factors in Suzhou City by LIU Jiankui, ZHANG Zhen, LIU Xianghong, WEI Lu

“…The evaluation results and methods are reasonable and reliable and can be used as a reference for evaluating water resource carrying capacity in other cities.…”
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What Limits Cardiac Performance during Exercise in Normal Subjects and in Healthy Fontan Patients? by André La Gerche, Marc Gewillig

“…In the Fontan patient, the reasons for exercise intolerance are complex. In those patients with myocardial dysfunction or other pathologies of the circulatory components, it is likely that these abnormalities serve as a limitation to cardiac performance during exercise. …”
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A proposed conceptual model for orphan drug market entry by Nataša Jalen, Tina Vukasović

“…Orphan drugs are developed by the pharmaceutical industry not for economic reasons, but to meet public health needs. New treatments need to be evaluated before they reach the market. …”
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Chinese Intellectuals’ Perspectives on Russia's Invasion of Ukraine by Emre Demir

“…The Russia-Ukraine war, its reasons and impact have been discussed by diplomats, politicians and intellectuals worldwide. …”
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SPECULATIVE REALISM IN THE SEARCH OF LOST INDEPENDENT OBJECTS by Ігор КАРІВЕЦЬ

“… The article examines the peculiarities of the approach of speculative realism to the analysis of the concepts of existence and object in the context of its criticism of Kantian and post-Kantian ontology, and especially the concept of correlationism, the dependence of the existence of objects on the perception of subjects, i.e. the postulation of the impossibility of the existence of the objective and the independent world from a man. The reasons for the emergence of speculative realism in contemporary French and English philosophy and why these philosophies are called post-continental philosophies are clarified with the help of the historical-comparative method and the method of analysis. …”
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Bizarre Waveforms in Strong Motion Records by Baofeng Zhou, Haiyun Wang, Lili Xie, Yanru Wang

“…Four kinds of abnormal phenomena on the acceleration waveform are revealed, such as spike, asymmetric waveform, obvious baseline drift, and strong motion records packets separation. Then reasonable processing approaches are derived from the preliminary analysis of the generation mechanism for abnormal phenomena. …”
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