Technical, forensic and organisational aspects of work with Monero cryptocurrency by V. V. Nosov, O. V. Manzhai, V. O. Kovtun

“…The development of the Monero system is described. The reasons and trends of Monero use by offenders are identified, and the scheme of operation of this payment system, which ensures its increased confidentiality, is shown. …”
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Perceptions of postgraduate medical students and guides about dissertation: A qualitative study by Vijay Kishanrao Domple, Pankaj Motilal Kasdekar, Gajanan Charandas Soyam, Umesh S. Joge, Gautam Marotrao Khakse, Rahulkumar Anil Solanke

“…Introduction: Health research during medical training is essential to encourage critical thinking and reasoning abilities and a positive attitude among postgraduate (PG) students toward scientific research throughout their medical careers. …”
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Likang Telu: Cultural Basis for Muslim-Catholic Relations in Manggarai by Hironimus Bandur, Adison Adrianus Sihombing

“…The work aims to explore four elements including, 1) the differences in Muslim-Catholic relations after and before the reform era; 2) the extent to which the likang telu concept affects Muslim-Catholic relations in Manggarai; 3) the reasons for the likang telu concept being ignored by the Manggarai people and 4) the implications of the fading likang telu concept in Muslim-Catholic relations in Manggarai. …”
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Characteristics of Rainfall Runoff and Soil Moisure Variation in Limestone Soil and Red Soil Slopes by CHEN Xiaona, PAN Yanfei, XU Qinxue, FANG Rongjie, WANG Shaoxu

“…The research results can provide a reference and reasonable opinions for the optimal allocation of precipitation resources on karst slopes.…”
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The Middle East Shiite Arc: A Real Threat or Geopolitical Chimera? by A. V. Sarabiev

“…Meanwhile, is the author emphasizes that the concept of the Shiite Arc contains a number of fundamental errors in terms of both methodological premises and the logic of reasoning. Particularly, the author argues that since this concept is based on a dialectic method it cannot be regarded as an appropriate tool for assessing or forecasting the development of the regional processes. …”
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Perspective of Patient Advocacy Groups on Clinical Research and Outcomes of Their Involvement by Poonam Bagai, Pooja Sharma, Aala Ansari, Nirbhay Singh, Rhea Aggarwal, Durga Chougule, Sonal Sharma, Padam Singh, Manish Kumar Singh, Gargi Singh, Sanjeev Singh

“…Participants identified safety concerns (82.2%), limited knowledge (67.6%), and fear (58.9%) as key reasons for barriers for participation. Participants prioritized increased patient participation (59.5%), availability of more clinical trials (54.6%), and substantial investment in healthcare (51.9%) as key drivers for developing India’s healthcare system. …”
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Experimental Study on Mechanical Properties of Briquette Coal Samples with Different Moisture Content by Wang Haidong, Tao Yang, Wang Deyue, Sun Xin, Gao Jiahui

“…Therefore, ensuring a reasonable moisture content of coal through coal seam injection can provide a basis for preventing coal and gas outburst.…”
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Ditched and walled enclosures in Prehistoric Iberia (4th-3rd millennia cal. BCE): Like oil and water by Víctor Jiménez-Jáimez, Marcos García-García, Adara López-López, David W. Wheatley

“…However, the discovery of sites where both ditches and walls are present («mixed sites») complicates things. There are good reasons to question whether the aforementioned dichotomy is real, or if, instead, it is largely an artifact of research, resulting from a combination of poorly preserved archaeological contexts and inadequate survey strategies and methods which missed the potential integration of both building techniques at the same sites. …”
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General Requirements for Secret Investigative (Search) Actions: Procedural Characteristics by Ya. Yu. Koniushenko

“…The third general requirement for conducting secret investigative (search) actions is that the legal basis for their implementation is a lawful, reasoned and motivated decision of the investigating judge, issued at the request of the prosecutor or investigator, agreed with the prosecutor. …”
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Serum Leptin as a Marker for Severity of Endometriosis by Shatha Sami Hussein, Fatin Shallal Farhan, Alaa Ibrahim Ali

“…A study group of 30 patients were operated either by laparoscopy or laparotomy for many reasons diagnosed as endometriosis by histopathology, and 30 normal women as a control group underwent elective surgery. …”
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Adsorption of Cu(II) Ions onto a Cellulosic Biosorbent, Leaf Powder: Application in Water Treatment by Krishna Gopal Bhattacharyya, Arunima Sarma, Jyotirekha Sarma

“…The Langmuir monolayer capacity of AILP for Cu(II) ions was 6.7–33.3 mg/g, which could be considered as reasonable. Azadirachta indica leaf powder could be a very effective sorbent for Cu(II) ions from an aqueous medium. …”
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LEVEL OF DIETARY COMPLIANCE AMONG HYPERTENSION PATIENTS AT IBNU SINA GRESIK REGIONAL GENERAL HOSPITAL by Cucuk Rahmadi Purwanto, Hafna Illmy Muhalla, Rani Tiara Efendi

“…A busy lifestyle and tight routine are some of the reasons why someone does not adhere to hypertension therapy or ignores a healthy lifestyle, such as consuming junk food that is high in fat and sugar, having an irregular activity pattern, and having irregular activity patterns. …”
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On the Adversarial Robustness of Decision Trees and a Symmetry Defense by Blerta Lindqvist

“…Finally, we show that the current definition of adversarial robustness based on the minimum perturbation values of misclassifying adversarial samples might be inadequate for two reasons. First, this definition assumes that attacks mostly succeed, failing to consider the case when attacks are unable to construct misclassifying adversarial samples against a classifier. …”
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Research on IoT security situation awareness method based on evidence theory by Jian LI, Tinglu DONG, Jie LI

“…The security problem of IoT became more and more serious with its rapid development.Considering that the current IoT security situation awareness system lacks generality and excessively relies on expert knowledge, a IoT security situation awareness method based on improved D-S evidence theory was proposed in this paper.Fuzzy Gaussian membership function was used to calculate the vulnerability information membership matrix, which was normalized as evidence distribution matrix.The improved Topsis method was used to measure the evidence credibility.In order to fully restrain the credibility of conflicting evidence and improve the credibility of mutually supporting evidence, local credibility between two evidence was aggregated and the expected positive and negative solution vectors were improved according to the situation assessment scenario.And the weighted average method was used for vulnerability information fusion, to obtain the result of situational assessment.The result of situational awareness was fused with the time discount and high-risk vulnerability information discount evidence theory.At the same time, the IoT vulnerability information at different moments was considered comprehensively, the evidence was adaptively and dynamically weighted with the ratio information of high-risk vulnerability.The experimental results show that in the fusion of different numbers of evidence bodies and four common conflicting evidence, the improved Topsis method has higher fusion probability on credible proposition.In the aspect of situation assessment, the risk degree of current system is accurately assessed.And in the aspect of situational awareness, this discount evidence theory can predict the probability of high risk and critical risk, which is more effective than the traditional D-S evidence theory.According to this theory, a IoT security situational awareness method process was proposed, which would be used to guide engineering practice.In the future, the relationship between vulnerabilities can be considered and richer information between vulnerabilities can be extracted for vulnerability exploiting, so that the result of situation assessment is more accurate and reasonable.On the other hand, for situational awareness, game theory can be adopted in the process of dynamic game between the attacker and defender.…”
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The relationship between perception and landscape characteristics of recreational places with human mental well-being by Janina Vanhöfen, Talia Härtel, Giovanna Reichert, Christoph Randler

“…Abstract Being outdoors benefits both humans’ physical and mental well-being, but the reasons for this connection are difficult to pinpoint. …”
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State tax policy in Ukraine: historical and legal aspect (based on the example of the XX century) by G. L. Gufman

“…Since January 1, 1946 a war tax was cancelled, and since September of the same year the free minimum for workers and employees was raised. The author has reasonably introduced the need for the periodization of the formation of the public tax policy, which is offered for considering through a prism of division into six main stages.…”
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Calibration of Microscopic Traffic Flow Simulation Models considering Subsets of Links and Parameters by Alexander Paz, Kul Shrestha, Cristian Arteaga, Douglas Baker

“…All parameter values were reasonable and within constraints after successful calibration.…”
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Design and Development of Polymer-Based Optical Fiber Sensor for GAIT Analysis by Mamidipaka Hema, Jami Venkata Suman, Boddepalli Kiran Kumar, Adisu Haile

“…The suggested carpet is dependable, reasonably priced equipment for gait acquisition in a variety of applications. …”
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Effect of Freeze-Thaw Cycles on Shear Strength Properties of Loess Reinforced with Lignin Fiber by Zhongnan Gao, Xiumei Zhong, HaiPing Ma, Fuqiang Liu, Jinlian Ma, Qian Wang

“…Combined with the volume change and microstructure characteristics of fiber-reinforced loess before and after the freeze-thaw cycles, the reasons for the effects of the freeze-thaw cycles on the shear strength characteristics of fiber-reinforced loess are discussed. …”
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Israel and Migration of High Skilled Workforce: Brain Drain and the Possibility of Replenishing the Market with High-Quality Human Capital by D. A. Maryasis

“…An overview of the magnitude of the phenomenon is given based on international comparisons; main reasons of the trend are identified and analyzed; government programs for the return of compatriots are assessed. …”
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