Impact of vaccine arrival on the optimal control of a newly emerging infectious disease: A theoretical study by Bruno Buonomo, Eleonora Messina

“…In this paper, we consider the scenario in which authorities may rely initially only on non-pharmaceutical interventions at the beginning of the campaign, knowing that a vaccine will later be available, at an exogenous and known switching time. We use a two-stage optimal control problem over a finite time horizon to analyze the optimal intervention strategies during the whole campaign, and to assess the effects of the new intervention tool on the preceding stage of the campaign. …”
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A Second Preimage Attack on the XOR Hash Combiner by Shiwei Chen, Ting Cui, Chenhui Jin, Congjun Wang

“…Then based on the multicollision-and-double-diamond structure, we present a second preimage attack on the XOR hash combiner with the time complexity of about O2n+12n/2+n−l2n−l+n−k2n−k+2l+1+2k+1) (n is the size of the XOR hash combiner and l and k are respectively the depths of the two inverse-diamond structures), less than the ideal time complexity O2n, and memory of about O2k+2l.…”
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Simulation of the Compressive Strength of Cemented Tailing Backfill through the Use of Firefly Algorithm and Random Forest Model by Qi-Ang Wang, Jia Zhang, Jiandong Huang

“…Tailing to cement ratio and curing time are the two most important parameters to the compressive strength of the cemented tailing backfill.…”
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Biodegradation Potential of Oil-based Drill Cuttings Encapsulated with Cement in the Soil Environment by Rim-Rukeh Akpofure

“…Experimental results shows a mass loss of oil base drill cuttings encapsulated with cement slab during the period of the study, indicating approximate linear relationship between mass loss and time. When the log of mass-loss is plotted against time, an approximate linear relationship is obtained confirming a first-order chemical reaction for the biodegradation process. …”
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Simultaneous Optimization of Train Timetabling and Platforming Problems for High-Speed Multiline Railway Network by Qin Zhang, Xiaoning Zhu, Li Wang, Shuai Wang

“…Finally, example results verify the validity and practicability of our proposed method, which can generate conflict-free train timetables with a station track allocation plan for multiple railway lines at the same time.…”
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BIOMECHANICAL EVALUATION OF POLYAXIAL ANGULAR STABLE PLATES IN THE MANAGEMENT OF TIBIAL PLATEAU FRACTURES by Norin Forna, Paul-Dan Sîrbu, Savin Liliana, Lucian Eva, Wilhelm Friedl, Eugen Carata, Tudor Pinteală, Răzvan Tudor, Mihnea Theodor Sîrbu

“…A statistically significant, directly proportional relationship between time intervals and displacement, along with an inverse correlation between time intervals and stiffness, was observed across all test groups. …”
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CooperSense: A Cooperative and Selective Picture Forwarding Framework Based on Tree Fusion by Huihui Chen, Bin Guo, Zhiwen Yu

“…In MCP, pictures taken by different people in close proximity or time period can be highly similar and different MCP tasks have diverse constraints or needs to deal with such duplicate data. …”
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The significance of tax revenues on the volume of the government budget deficit by Janković Gordan

“…The budget is a set of all planned revenues and expenditures of individuals and corporations, institutions, the state... for a certain time frame, usually per year. We will put emphasis on the government budget. …”
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Observation of the non-Hermitian skin effect and Fermi skin on a digital quantum computer by Ruizhe Shen, Tianqi Chen, Bo Yang, Ching Hua Lee

“…To minimize errors from inevitable device noise, time evolution is performed using trainable, variationally optimized quantum circuits. …”
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Significance of a written text in human activities by A. A. Vereshchagina

“…One of the most widespread forms of thinking activity realization, which at the same time allows to present the versatility and uniqueness of a human’s personality, is a written text. …”
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Settlement of Dispute on Murabahah Financing with Default Customer by Nawir Yuslem, Mhd. Yadhi Harahap, Darmansyah Hasibuan

“…The Supreme Court's decision Number 649 K/AG/2017 does not reflect a fully progressive decision, for the bank and also for the customer, the decision has not received a value of benefit, because the Supreme Court judge does not give a time limit to customers who are considered unable to make payments in accordance with the agreement (default) to reschedule (rescheduling), in the absence of such a time limit, provides an opportunity for customers who are in default to prolong the delay in payment so that this can be detrimental to the bank.…”
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The Management of Catatonia in Bipolar Disorder with Stimulants by Waheed K. Bajwa, Ali Rastegarpour, Omar A. Bajwa, Jessica Babbitt

“…While this is not the first time this treatment has been suggested, there is very little data in support of it; our case confirms the discoveries of previous case reports.…”
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Numerical Simulation for Rock Fracture Viscoelastic Creep under Dry Conditions by Hao Kang, Herbert Einstein, Stephen Brown, John Germaine

“…In field conditions, the hydraulic and mechanical behavior of rock fractures changes with time (the rock fractures creep), and this creep is not negligible even under dry conditions. …”
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Resilient Event Triggered Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Sliding Mode Control for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Subjected to Multiple Cyber Attacks by Amir Mohammed, Craig Ramlal, Lincoln Marine, Fasil Muddeen

“…Conditions were then provided that guarantee global asymptotic stability for a minimum dwell-time constraint T, and the platoon was shown to be string stable for the minimum distance between vehicles, denoted as dˇcth. …”
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Models of Anisotropic Self-Gravitating Source in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Gravity by G. Abbas, M. Tahir

“…Each solution can be represented in term of arbitrary function of time; this function has been chosen arbitrarily to fit the different astrophysical time profiles. …”
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Platelet Distribution Width: A Severity Marker Of Pre Eclampsia, Experience At Tertiary Care Hospital by Mariam Zahir, Shagufta Saeed Sial, Humera Noreen

“…Raised values can help the obstetrician to actively manage the patients in time to reduce maternal and fetal mortality. …”
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Client-Driven Joint Cache Management and Rate Adaptation for Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP by Chenghao Liu, Miska M. Hannuksela, Moncef Gabbouj

“…Simulation results show that the proposed method outperforms the conventional segment-fetch-time-based rate adaptation and the proxy-driven proxy cache management significantly not only in streaming quality at the client but also in bandwidth and storage usage in proxy caches.…”
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An Empirical Analysis of the Role of Piano Performance in Alleviating Psychological Trauma in People with Psychological Isolation Disorder by Xia Cao

“…In this paper, we designed a music modulation system based on EEG signals of people with isolation disorder and designed an interface with real-time emotion recognition. MATLAB is responsible for data processing and classification, while Python is responsible for communication and real-time transmission between modules, EEG signal collection, and processing. …”
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Sous les vagues bleues, le paysage by Christophe Camus

“…The history of diving is well documented, but our study focuses on the ways in which it was described, narrated and shown in order to invent a landscape that for a long time had remained invisible and inaccessible to ordinary people. …”
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Folin-Ciocalteu Reaction Alternatives for Higher Polyphenol Quantitation in Colombian Passion Fruits by Juan C. Carmona-Hernandez, Gonzalo Taborda-Ocampo, Clara H. González-Correa

“…Among optimum reacting conditions, reduced reaction time and diluted alkali conditions yielded desirable positive results highlighting lower working time and minimum reagent waste production. …”
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