A mathematical model for the study of latent tuberculosis under 3HP and 1HP regimens by Erick M. D. Moya, Diego Samuel Rodrigues

“…In this paper, we proposed a mathematical model for the study of tuberculosis treatment with latent treatment, taking into account the 3HP and 1HP. The model is constructed using a fractional order derivative in the Caputo sense to take advantage of the memory effect. …”
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La transformation de l’école secondaire en Suède : marchandisation, dissolution et reconstruction des frontières institutionnelles et sociales by Mikael Palme, Elisabeth Hultqvist

“…Interviews show that the free choice of education in combination with blurred institutional frontiers make families’ educational strategies increasingly dependant on their culturally framed capacity to interpret and “construct” educational differences. A statistical analysis of student recruitment in the Stockholm region shows that the space of upper secondary education comprises two dimensions. …”
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Revealing Traces of Image Resampling and Resampling Antiforensics by Anjie Peng, Yadong Wu, Xiangui Kang

“…We assemble the feature extracted from each difference image to construct the comprehensive feature and feed it into support vector machines (SVM) to detect resampling and forged resampling. …”
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Sectarian and Secular: Lay Perspectives in <i>Stūpa</i> Burials at Mount Zhongnan During the Tang Dynasty (AD 618–906) by Wen Sun

“…Even within the laity, motivations for constructing funerary <i>stūpas</i> differed. For some lay Buddhists, the Three Stages teachings influenced their burial practices, while for others without a direct connection to this community, <i>stūpa</i> burials were often more personal, centered on family commemoration. …”
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Illuminating the Chaos and Obscurity: Polyphony in Fyodor Dostoevsky and Elena Ferrante by Sarah Hudspith, Olivia Santovetti

“…We ask the following questions: How do Dostoevsky and Ferrante approach the paradox inherent in the creation of a narrative—an artificial construct—for the purpose of communicating a truth? …”
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A Digital Twin Comprehensive Monitoring System for Ship Equipment by Miao Zhe, Zhao Yong, Su Shaojuan, Song Nanzhe

“…The digital twin model and virtual scenarios constructed here provide a visualisation and simulation platform for equipment status monitoring, enhanced fault diagnosis and support for maintenance decisions. …”
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Simulation and Risk Assessment of Waterlogging Disasters in the Main Urban Area of Xi'an Based on GAST-SWMM Model by ZHANG Wenqing, HOU Jingming, WANG Hangang, WANG Chen, LU Pinpin, XU Hui

“…In order to effectively control urban waterlogging disasters,urban waterlogging process simulation based on a numerical model and urban waterlogging risk assessment based on multi-source fusion information have gradually become important non-engineering measures.Taking the central urban area of Xi'an City as the study area,this paper simulated the waterlogging process under rainfall conditions of 5 a, 10 a,30 a,50 a,and 100 a based on the GAST-SWMM model.Combined with the relevant hydraulic factors obtained from simulation,a multi-indicator assessment system was constructed by using natural factors and social factors as the framework for waterlogging risk assessment.The results indicate that the high-risk areas of waterlogging in the study area are mainly distributed on the urban central roads.Under various rainfall conditions,the difference in the proportion of low-risk areas between the multi-indicator comprehensive waterlogging risk assessment and a single waterlogging depth indicator ranges from -50% to -60%,while the difference in the proportion of medium-risk areas ranges from 45% to 60%.Therefore,it is of great significance to conduct urban waterlogging disaster risk assessment based on multi-source fusion information.…”
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Mathematical Literacy: A Comparative Analysis of School Mathematics Curricula in Indonesia, Singapore, and China by Sumliyah Sumliyah, Iwan Junaedi, Mulyono Mulyono

“…The findings of this study reveal the following: (1) The mathematics curriculum in Indonesia is highly optimized, with mathematical literacy integrated into the curriculum and learning outcomes tailored to the characteristics of mathematics as a subject (including content and process elements). Singapore constructs mathematical literacy competencies through the establishment of a mathematics curriculum framework that includes concepts, skills, processes, metacognition, and attitudes. …”
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DAMAGE DETECTION OF COMPOSITE PLATE BASED ON LOCAL DEFECT RESONANCE INTER-MODULATION EFFECT by CHEN WenJian, QU WenZhong, XIAO Li

“…In this paper, a single degree of freedom nonlinear model for damage local resonance effect was constructed, considering both quadratic and cubic stiffness nonlinearity, and analyzed using multi-scale method to explain the mechanism of local resonance modulation effect. …”
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Decoupling Relationship Between Water Resources Utilization and Economic Development in Henan Province Based on Water Footprint-Extended LMDI Model by LU Qiuyu

“…Aiming at the related problems of water resources constraining economic development in Henan Province,this paper constructs the water footprint-extended LMDI model,decomposes the decoupling driving factors into four decoupling factors,and studies the decoupling relationship between water resources utilization and economic development in Henan Province from 2004 to 2018.The results show that:In terms of the possession and self-sufficiency rate of total per capital water footprint,the overall water shortage in Henan Province has been alleviated,but it is still in a state of shortage;In terms of decoupling state,the overall decoupling of Henan Province is in a good statel,the decoupling state of agricultural water is relatively stable,and the hydrological year has an impact on the agricultural virtual water consumption and decoupling state;In terms of decoupling factor decomposition,the technological decoupling factor contributes to the decoupling in Henan Province,the industrial structure and scale economy are the main promoting and inhibiting factors of decoupling,respectively,and the change of population driving factor has no obvious inhibiting effect on decoupling in Henan Province.Therefore,it is necessary to improve the utilization efficiency of water resources,the repetition rate of industrial water use,and improve the agricultural irrigation water-saving technology in Henan Province.…”
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“He’d seen it in the words of Owen and Brooke”: The Influence of Great War Poetry on Post-Millennium Soldier Poets by Felix Behler

“…This article sets out to analyse a selection of poems from Heroes, focusing on the way these poets construct a network of intertextual citations, borrowings, and allusions to connect their texts – quite deliberately – with the much acclaimed generation of poets form the Great War. …”
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Optimal Matching Metaheuristic Algorithm for Potential Areas of Agricultural Economic Resources Development Based on Spatial Relationship by Jianying Zhang, Xuebin Feng

“…Based on this multiobjective model, the optimal matching model for potential areas of agricultural economic resource development is constructed, and the improved genetic algorithm is used to solve the model to realize the optimal matching of potential areas of agricultural productivity and economic resource development. …”
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Student knowledge tracking based multi-indicator exercise recommendation algorithm by Bin ZHUGE, Zhenghu YIN, Wenxue SI, Lei YAN, Ligang DONG, Xian JIANG

“…Personalized exercise recommendation was an important topic in the era of education informatization, the forgetting laws of students in the learning process were ignored by the traditional problem recommendation algorithm, which failed to fully tap the students’ knowledge mastery level and the common characteristics of similar students, insufficient, could not reasonably promote students’ learning of new knowledge or help students find and fill omissions.In view of the above defects, a multi-index exercise recommendation method based on student knowledge tracking was proposed, which was divided into two modules: preliminary screening and re-filtering of exercises, focusing on the novelty, difficulty and diversity of exercise recommendation.Firstly, a knowledge probability prediction (SF-KCCP) model combined with students’ forgetting law was constructed to ensure the novelty of the recommended exercises.Then, students’ knowledge and concept mastery level was accurately excavated based on the dynamic key-value knowledge tracking (DKVMN) model to ensure that exercises of appropriate difficulty were recommended.Finally, the user-based collaborative filtering (UserCF) algorithm was integrated into the re-filtering module, and the similarity between student groups was used to achieve the diversity of recommendation results.The proposed method is demonstrated by extensive experiments to achieve better performance than some existing baseline models.…”
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Quantum anonymous one-vote veto protocol based on BB84 states by Runhua SHI, Hui YU, Weiyang KE, Xiaotong XU

“…In order to construct unconditionally secure one-vote veto protocol, a primitive protocol of secure multiparty computations was defined, i.e., secure multiparty disjunction.Furthermore, by introducing a quantum cloud, a quantum secure multiparty disjunction (QSMD) protocol was proposed.BB84 states were took as quantum resources and only single-photon operations and measurements were needed.To avoid the flaws of infeasibility, i.e., most of existing quantum voting protocols need to perform operations and measurements in high-dimensional Hilbert space, a quantum anonymous one-vote veto protocol with a quantum cloud (QAOVC) was designed by using the QSMD protocol.In addition, to decentralize, a quantum anonymous one-vote veto (QAOV) protocol without any third party was presented.Compared with related protocols, the proposed protocols require less quantum resources and simpler operations, so they have better feasibility.Under the semi-honest model, quantum perfect encryption and classical one-time pad can ensure the unconditional security of the proposed protocols, i.e., it can completely meet secure requirements of one-vote veto and perfectly protect the privacy of the voters.Finally, simulation experiments are implemented on IBM Qiskit, and the experimental results show that the protocols are correct and feasible.…”
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Performance Analysis and Dimensional Optimization of 2RUP_aR-2RRU Parallel Mechanism by Linxian Che, Bing He, Jie Li, Haiyi Jiang

“…A constrained optimization model is constructed to formulate the design problem of dimensional parameters on the maximizing ETPW， and the differential evolutionary algorithm is employed to solve this problem. …”
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High-Quality Economic Development in Huaihe Economic Zone Level Measurement and Evaluation by Xin Sun, Shu Fang, Su Zhang

“…This article constructs a comprehensive evaluation index system from four aspects: economic vitality, innovation efficiency, green development, and people’s lives. …”
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Preparation and Synergistic Anti-Tumor Effect of Iridium Oxide Nanocomposites under Microscope by Xudong He, Feng Xiang, Zhangyi Xu

“…Through a retrospective analysis of an experiment, IrOx nanoparticles were prepared by direct hydrothermal hydrolysis and loaded with chemotherapy drug adriamycin to construct nanodrug-loaded complex IrOx@DOX. At the same time, IrOx, as a sound-sensitive agent, can produce ROS under US irradiation, amplify intracellular oxidative stress, accelerate tumor cell death, and finally achieve the effect of SDT chemotherapy synergistic therapy. …”
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Pricing Decisions in Dual-Channel Supply Chain considering Different Fairness Preferences and Low-Carbon Advertising Level by Hong Huo, Dan Luo, Zhanghua Yan, Hao He

“…This paper studies a low-carbon dual-channel supply chain based on behavioral economics, incentive theory, and optimization models to better formulate pricing decisions. This paper constructs a fair and neutral decentralized decision-making model (FNDD), a decentralized decision-making model considering Nash bargaining fairness concerns (NBFDD), a decentralized decision-making model considering absolute fairness concerns (AFDD), and a fair and neutral centralized decision-making model (FNCD) considering consumer preferences and the situations where supply chain members are fairness concerns or fairness neutrality. …”
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Impact of Dynamic Elastic Modulus on Coal Permeability: Modeling and Analysis by Jia Kong, Baiquan Lin, Chuanjie Zhu, Ting Liu, Xiangguo Kong

“…On this basis, a permeability model considering internal swelling deformation was constructed. Finally, the rationality of the model was validated through the laboratory experiment. …”
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The Experiences and Challenges of Doctoral Education in Public Universities Compared. by Ocan, Johnson, Eton, Marus, Akena, Francis Adyanga, Ayiga, Natal

“…Novelty: it is crucial to remember that when pursuing their PhDs, scholars are not just learning about the research topic, but are also developing fundamental skills in critical thinking, to construct their own knowledge within their own indigenous context, it is essential that they acquire the capacity to assess assertions, and evaluate arguments in a critical manner.…”
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