Low duty cycle and low collision asynchronous MAC protocol for wireless sensor network by Zhe-tao LI, Geng-ming ZHU, Zhi-qiang WANG, Ting-rui PEI, Gao-feng PAN

“…Improving the quality of channel listening is an effective way to reduce energy consumption and improve communication efficiency.PB-MAC(predict-base MAC),a novel low duty cycle and low collision asynchronous MAC protocol was presented.PB-MAC lowers sensor duty cycle by enabling senders to predict receiver wakeup times.An ef-ficient prediction-based reconnection and retransmission mechanism was introduced to achieve low collisions and high efficiency retransmission.Comparison of PB-MAC on OMNet++ with RI-MAC and X-MAC was evaluated.Evaluated on scenarios with 50 random disposed nodes,the average duty cycle,consumed energy and average collisions for PB-MAC is 68.60%,24.75% and 68.05% less than those of RI-MAC and 64.39%,64.05% and 70.54% less than those of X-MAC respectively.In grid network,PB-MAC also outperforms RI-MAC and X-MAC protocols.…”
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How the Interpretation of Drivers' Behavior in Virtual Environment Can Become a Road Design Tool: A Case Study by Marco Pasetto, Stefano Damiano Barbati

“…Driving is the result of a psychological process that translates data, signals and direct/indirect messages into behavior, which is continuously adapted to the exchange of varying stimuli between man, environment and vehicle. These stimuli are at times not perceived and at others perceived but not understood by the driver, even if they derive from tools (vertical signs, horizontal marking) specifically conceived for his safety. …”
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The "konj-e qana'at" is other than the "ganj-e qana'at" by Mohammad Pourhamdollah

“…The "konj-e qana'at" and "ganj-e qana'at" are two separate combinations that have been used many times in Persian poetry. Konj-e qana'at is a metaphorical combination that is rooted in the mystical worldview and ganj-e qana'at is an analogic combination taken from the Prophet's hadis.…”
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Is Recurving an Effective Strategy of Trifolium repens L. to Augment Reproduction? by Mustaqeem Ahmad, Sanjay Kr. Uniyal

“…However, a significant difference (p<0.001) in the number of seeds produced by control (68.35±3.92) and constrained plants (22.25 ± 1.35) was observed. Three times more seeds, without compromising on seed mass (p>0.05), were produced in the control plants. …”
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Siltuximab-Related Favorable Clinical Outcome for a Patient Suffering from Idiopathic Multicentric Castleman Disease by Stamatios Chrysochoou, Andreas Kreft, Eberhard Schneider

“…The patient was treated intravenously with a dose of 11 mg/kg siltuximab every 3 weeks. Outcomes. Timely correct diagnosis through the stringent use of consensus diagnostic criteria and sufficient siltuximab therapy has considerably promoted favorable clinical outcomes in a patient suffering from MCD.…”
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Research on Energy Supply System Applied to Autonomous Underwater Observation Vehicles by Chunjie Wang, Yugeng Chai, Lin Cui

“…Compared with the traditional boost converter, the voltage gain of the proposed converter is more than ten times higher than it under the same duty ratio condition. …”
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The Usefulness of the Discrete Choice Experiment in Providing Effective Healthcare by Nikolina Dukić

“…Given that in times of crisis the burden of chronic disease is increasing, preventive interventions are becoming more important as they affect the maintenance and improvement of the population’s health, therefore reducing government spending on the sick leave and disability benefits. …”
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Modeling Injury Severity for Nighttime and Daytime Crashes by Using Random Parameter Logit Models Accounting for Heterogeneity in Means and Variances by Chenzhu Wang, Ping Zhang, Fei Chen, Jianchuan Cheng

“…Understanding the factors contributing to crash severity, along with their influence degrees across different times of day, can assist in better highway design and in developing effective countermeasures for ameliorating highway safety (especially during nighttime). …”
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A frustratingly easy way of extracting political networks from text. by Naim Bro

“…Based on a corpus of 1009 Chilean political news articles, the study validates the graph extraction method using 'legislative agreement', i.e., the proportion of times two politicians vote the same way. It finds that sentiments identified by GPT-4 align with how frequently parliamentarians vote together in roll calls. …”
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Impactos da pandemia de Covid-19 no fluxo e práticas de visitação em parques nacionais no Brasil by Susy Rodrigues Simonetti, Eloise Silveira Botelho, Edvaldo Cesar Moretti

“…The study is part of the research and objectives built within the scope of the Tourism Research Network in times of a pandemic: a geographical and multi and trans-scalar analysis. …”
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Quantitative spectral inequalities for the anisotropic Shubin operators and applications to null-controllability by Alphonse, Paul, Seelmann, Albrecht

“…We apply our results towards null-controllability of the associated parabolic equations, as well as to the ones associated to the (degenerate) Baouendi-Grushin operators acting on $\mathbb{R}^d \times \mathbb{T}^d$.…”
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(Neither) Expatriates (n)or Immigrants? The American Colony in Paris, 1880-1940 by Nancy L. Green

“…But there was another group of Americans in Paris less well known yet ten times more numerous and arguably more important for the “American Century.” …”
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Prolonging the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks Interconnected to Fixed Network Using Hierarchical Energy Tree Based Routing Algorithm by M. Kalpana, R. Dhanalakshmi, P. Parthiban

“…The lifetime of the network with HETRA algorithm has increased approximately 3.2 times that of the network implemented with AODV.…”
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Feasibility study of new functions in ancient urban context in Shah Abbasi of Karaj by kyarash ardestanipourhazhir

“…The city is a vibrant and dynamic creature whose body is shaped at different times by natural and social economic, political, cultural and economic developments. …”
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改进MOMEDA方法及其在滚动轴承故障特征增强中的应用 by 陈丙炎, 宋冬利, 张卫华, 程尧

“…Aiming at the shortcomings of multipoint optimal minimum entropy deconvolution adjusted（ MOMEDA） method,which cannot automatically identify the fault impulse period and shorten the length of deconvolved signal when enhancing bearing fault features,an improved MOMEDA（ IMOMEDA） method is proposed.The autocorrelation spectrum of square envelope of the vibration signal is used to adaptively identify the fault period,and the estimated impulse period is used to deconvolve the vibration signal to enhance the periodic impulse features.Then the signal waveform extension method is used to extend the deconvolved signal to make its length consistent with the original signal.Finally,the obtained filtered signal is deconvolved for a certain number of times to effectively enhance the periodic features of the original signal.The analysis results of simulated bearing fault signal and railway bearing experiment signals and the comparisons with Kurtogram method show that the improved MOMEDA method can automatically identify the fault impulse period and effectively enhance the fault characteristics of rolling bearing.…”
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Emergent limit cycles, chaos, and bistability in driven-dissipative atomic arrays by Victoria Zhang, Stefan Ostermann, Oriol Rubies-Bigorda, Susanne F. Yelin

“…We find that depending on the system parameters, the underlying mean-field model allows four different types of dynamics at late times: a single monostable steady state solution, bistability (where two stable steady state solutions exist), limit cycles and chaotic dynamics. …”
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Basic Ionic Liquid as Catalyst in Synthesis of Dimethyl 4-(2-(2,6-Bis(methoxycarbonyl)pyridine-4-yl)vinyl)pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylate by Xiaobing Liu, Yulin Hu, Wei Fu

“…The ionic liquid [bmim]OH can be recycled five times without obviously decreasing the catalytic activity after vacuum drying dehydration and the stability of the yield of DVDPA can be maintained.…”
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De « Todo bajo el sol» à « España es parte de ti » : 30 ans de spots de promotion touristique by Ivanne Galant

“…It has made it possible to develop a tourism promotion in line with the times and with new technologies. This article proposes to study the adverts produced by Inprotur and Turespaña since 1987 with the campaign "Everything under the sun" and 2017 with "Spain is part of you" in order to highlight their communication strategies (slogans, images and imaginaries mixed together). …”
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Development of an Effective Nonchemical Method against Plasmodiophora brassicae on Chinese Cabbage by Yu Gao, Guanghui Xu

“…The average height of plants (13.5 cm) using this method was about twice higher than that in control group (6.7 cm), and the average plant weight (3.19 g) was about three times increased compared to that in control set (1.23 g).…”
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Irish Bards in Shakespeare's Richard III and As You Like it by Andrew Breeze

“…A survey of the literature shows satire and prophecy as going back to ancient times. There is in addition ample material on the (sometimes deadly) effects of satire in medieval and later Ireland, where it is known from chronicles, legal tracts, handbooks of poetry, and various surviving poems. …”
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