Secure opportunistic access control in D2D-enabled cellular network by Yajun CHEN, Xinsheng JI, Kaizhi HUANG, Jing YANG, Ming YI

“…The mutual interference between cellular links and D2D links can bring the secrecy gain to cellular users in D2D-enable cellular networks.To make full use of them,a cooperative secrecy transmission scheme was proposed based on wireless channels.The channel direction information and gains depict the interference from D2D links to cellular links and other D2D links in the proposed scheme.Firstly,only the D2D users which meet the limited interference conditions were accessed to cellular networks to ensure their reliable communications.It was assumed that legitimate users and eavesdroppers were independent two-dimensional homogeneous Poisson point processes (PPP) distribution.Then the security outage probability (SOP) was derived for cellular users and the connection outage probability (COP) for D2D users,and the impacts of interference thresholds were discussed on their performances.Next,an optimization model was given to minimize D2D users’ COP while ensuring the secrecy performance requirements of cellular users,thus achieving the optimal performance.Finally,simulation results verify the validity of the proposed scheme.…”
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Nigeria: Hungry Nation in a Land of Plenty by Philip Fwaldin Kasuwa

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Exploring replica-Potts CFTs in two dimensions by Stefanos R. Kousvos, Alessandro Piazza, Alessandro Vichi

“…This work represents an independent non-perturbative analysis. Our results are in agreement with previous determinations: we obtain an allowed peninsula within parameter space for the scaling dimensions of the three lowest-lying operators in the theory, which contains the earlier predictions for these scaling dimensions. …”
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Teaching Physics Through Jigsaw Technique of Cooperative Learning by Muhammad Khan, Farkhanda Rasheed Choudhry Choudhry

“…Results: After three months of treatment, the performance of both groups was analyzed using an independent sample t-test.  A statistically significant difference was noted between the post-test scores of the two groups. …”
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Decoupling Control Strategy of IPT System Based on Optimal Efficiency Load Tracking by Wenmei Hao, Liwei Zhang, Sanmu Xiu, Fengyu Leng

“…At the same time, an independent control strategy is proposed to eliminate the information communication of the primary and secondary sides and realize decoupling control. …”
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Examining the Impact of Telehealth Visits on Patient and Family Experience in a Pediatric Emergency and Urgent Care Center by Abigail Gauthier, Callie Krentz, Shiran Chan, Michelle Widecan, Adam Vukovic

“…We performed univariate and multivariate analysis to identify independent associations between encounter characteristics and PFE scores. …”
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Neglecting Transparency in the Qur'an Recitation Test for Legislative Candidates in Aceh by Zahlul Pasha Karim, Muazzinah Muazzinah, Saifuddin Bantasyam, Sumardi Efendi

“…The findings reveal that the neglect of transparency occurs in two primary forms: first, the establishment of subjective score standards, and second, the refusal of the Independent Electoral Commission (KIP) Aceh to publicly announce the test results. …”
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Apocalyptic Propaganda: How the U.S. Government Manufactured Consent on The War on Terror by Carin Blom, Tomas Lindgren

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q-Rung Orthopair Fuzzy Matroids with Application to Human Trafficking by Muhammad Asif, Doha A. Kattan, Dragan Pamučar, Ghous Ali

“…We further elaborate the q-rung orthopair fuzzy linearly independent vectors. The study also involves the results regarding q-rung orthopair fuzzy basis and dimensions of q-ROFVSs. …”
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Questionnaires of self-perception poorly correlate with instability elicited by walking balance perturbations. by Andrew D Shelton, Jessica L Allen, Vicki S Mercer, Jeremy R Crenshaw, Jason R Franz

“…Given the disconnect between self-perceived falls risk and responses to walking balance perturbations, rehabilitation to prevent falls while maintaining mobility and independence will likely require personalized techniques that combine neuromuscular training with approaches for neurophysiological reeducation.…”
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Potentials for savings in the Slovenian public enterprises and investments in infrastructure? by Nevenka Hrovatin

“…To this end at least two reforms should be introduced in Slovenia: firstly, the introduction of a system of contracts between the state and public sector companies on the meeting of specific pre-determined goals; and secondly, the establishment of a politically independent system of recruitment and appointment of managers based on professional references, and a management remuneration system tied to either the operating results achieved by said public companies or on the meeting of certain pre-determined goals set out in contracts between the state and public companies.…”
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The Impact of High-Level Teacher Questioning on Elementary School Students’ Achievement, Retention and Attitude in Science by Halil Ibrahim Akilli, Sevgi Kingir

“…ANCOVA results revealed a significant difference in science achievement and retention of learning across two groups, in favor of experimental group. However, independent t-test results demonstrated that students’ attitudes toward science were not significantly different across the groups. …”
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The relationship between physical education teachers' competence support and middle school students' participation in sports: A chain mediation model of perceived competence and ex... by Yubo Liu, Jianhua Yan, Jing Li

“…Perceived competence and exercise persistence as important mediators between teachers' competence support and students' involvement in sports, with the mediation effect comprising independent mediation by perceived competence and exercise persistence and a chain mediation effect involving both. …”
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Similarity Solutions for Flow and Heat Transfer of Non-Newtonian Fluid over a Stretching Surface by Atta Sojoudi, Ali Mazloomi, Suvash C. Saha, Y. T. Gu

“…This technique reduces the number of independent variables by two, and finally the obtained ordinary differential equations are solved numerically for the temperature and velocity using the shooting method. …”
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Arithmetic of the sound of silence by Robert Madoi Nasaba

“…At the heart of the debate is the impact garnered – or rather lack of it – when user-generated content from the web 2.0 is used to counterbalance issues from a mainstream point of reference. Using two independent Ugandan media houses as case studies, the article explains data collected through participant observation and unstructured interviews. …”
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Towards Inhibition of Vif-APOBEC3G Interaction: Which Protein to Target? by Iris Cadima-Couto, Joao Goncalves

“…Vif may also inhibit A3G through mechanisms independent of proteasomal degradation. Binding of Vif to A3G is essential for its degradation since disruption of this interaction is predicted to stimulate intracellular antiviral immunity. …”
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The Empirical Cressie-Read Test Statistics for Longitudinal Generalized Linear Models by Junhua Zhang, Ruiqin Tian, Suigen Yang, Sanying Feng

“…For the marginal longitudinal generalized linear models (GLMs), we develop the empirical Cressie-Read (ECR) test statistic approach which has been proposed for the independent identically distributed (i.i.d.) case. The ECR test statistic includes empirical likelihood as a special case. …”
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Relaying Memory through a Generated Environment by Ahmad Beydoun

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Impact of Low Altitude-Hilly Terrain on Pulmonary Health in Young Adults: A Gender-Based Spirometric Analysis by Madhav A. Goyal, Kanishka Agarwal, Kashika Garg, Himani M. Jheetay, Sanket Jheetay, Aman Bhardwaj

“…Differences between males and females were examined using independent t-tests and Pearson correlation tests to analyze the relationships between various pulmonary metrics. …”
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Z 2 flux binding to higher-spin impurities in the Kitaev spin liquid by Masahiro O. Takahashi, Wen-Han Kao, Satoshi Fujimoto, Natalia B. Perkins

“…Our findings reveal that impurity magnetization exhibits an integer/half-integer spin dependence, which aligns with analytical predictions, and a flux-sector transition from bound-flux to zero-flux occurs at low coupling strengths, independent of the impurity spin. Notably, for spin-3/2 impurities, we observe a reentrant bound-flux sector, which remains stable under magnetic fields. …”
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