Defending Against Advanced Persistent Threats Using Game-Theory. by Stefan Rass, Sandra König, Stefan Schauer

“…The diversity and usual stealthiness of APT turns them into a central problem of contemporary practical system security, since information on attacks, the current system status or the attacker's incentives is often vague, uncertain and in many cases even unavailable. Game theory is a natural approach to model the conflict between the attacker and the defender, and this work investigates a generalized class of matrix games as a risk mitigation tool for an advanced persistent threat (APT) defense. …”
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Strengthening social capital as a strategy for edutourism development of Kampoeng Soesoe Randuacir Salatiga municipality by Lasti Nur Satiani, Suryo Sakti Hadiwijoyo

“…Educational tourism development is not only related to strengthening human capital, physical capital, financial capital and natural capital, but also requires social capital as an integrated part of the five livelihood assets. …”
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Synoptic analysis of the most severe flood in Karkheh basin (Flood 1 April 2019) by dana rahimi, Javad khoshhal dastjerdi, Dariush rahimi

“…Among natural disasters, floods have the highest human toll. …”
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Modelo de desarrollo sostenible para tres pequeñas comunidades en Costa Rica by María José Chassoul-Acosta, Claudia Charpentier

“…Incluye el crecimiento y el desarrollo económico, el bienestar social y la conservación del medio natural. En este modelo, la mejora de la condición de vida se consigue mediante la utilización de las capacidades que han desarrollado los habitantes o por la obtención de nuevas competencias, que les permita utilizar los recursos disponibles en la zona. …”
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Emerging Preservation Techniques for Controlling Spoilage and Pathogenic Microorganisms in Fruit Juices by Kamal Rai Aneja, Romika Dhiman, Neeraj Kumar Aggarwal, Ashish Aneja

“…Apart from these emerging techniques, preservatives from natural sources have also shown considerable promise for use in some food products. …”
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Similarity Measure Learning in Closed-Form Solution for Image Classification by Jing Chen, Yuan Yan Tang, C. L. Philip Chen, Bin Fang, Zhaowei Shang, Yuewei Lin

“…In fact, the distance is the natural measure for dissimilarity. Generally, a pairwise relationship between two objects in learning tasks includes two aspects: similarity and dissimilarity. …”
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Noisy Approach to Intrinsically Mixed-State Topological Order by Ramanjit Sohal, Abhinav Prem

“…Specifically, we show that decoherence, previously interpreted as anyon condensation in a doubled Hilbert space, is more naturally phrased as, and provides a physical mechanism for, “gauging out” anyons in the original Hilbert space. …”
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An Integrated Multiattribute Group Decision-Making Approach for Risk Assessment in Aviation Emergency Rescue by Xia Wang, Xue-dong Liang, Xiao-yan Li, Peng Luo

“…As aviation emergency rescue in a sudden natural disaster an example, we illustrate the feasibility of the proposed method and demonstrate its effectiveness by comparative analysis with some similar approaches. …”
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Affects of Resistance: Candomblé Rituals in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction by Parvathi M. S.

“…In Brazil, candomblé is a religious ceremony that signifies syncretism in which the spirits of ancestors and natural phenomena are invoked by Healers, in spaces that transcend the public/private binary. …”
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Development of Urban Waste Recycling Industry from the Perspective of Ecology by Qian Luo

“…Urban garbage has become an important field affecting the healthy development of urban ecology, and urban ecological environment protection has naturally become a crucial part in the process of modern urban development. …”
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Analysis of the composition, characteristics, and antifungal properties of cutin in goji berry fruits at different developmental stages by Yueli Zhou, Dayuan Chen, Cong Wang, Huaiyu Zhang, Lunaike Zhao, Junjie Wang, Qiding Peng

“…This study provides a research basis for further investigation of the accumulation mechanism of natural antifungal substances during the growth and development of goji berries.…”
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Disassembly, refinement, and reassembly: From ancient papermaking to modern materials processing by Jing Shen, Meiyun Zhang

“…Originating from the groundbreaking work of Lun Cai and his team, the papermaking process involves the meticulous disassembly, refinement, and reassembly of natural fibers into cohesive sheets: a process that, while refined, has remained fundamentally unchanged for nearly 2 000 years. …”
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Paleontological Heritage and its Conservation in the UNESCO European Geoparks. by Dan Grigorescu

“…This special issue of Geoconservation Research is dedicated to a unique domain of geodiversity and natural heritage: fossils. Through their sheer variety of forms, beauty, and sometimes rarity, as well as by the facts of geobiological history to which they attest, fossils – these vestiges of past life – constitute the most attractive facet of ancient geodiversity. …”
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Local and Regional Scale Evaluation of the Integrated Urban Land Model by Comparing with the Common Land Model by Chunlei Meng, Wenlong Zhang

“…Land surface evaporation is not only an important parameter in natural land surface modeling, but a crucial important parameter in urban hydrology modeling. …”
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Gestión ambiental hotelera en Puerto Vallarta: motivaciones y limitantes by Olga Georgina Espinosa Gispert, Rosa Mari\u0301a Cha\u0301vez-Dagostino

“…El deterioro del patrimonio natural en destinos turísticos se ha asociado, entre otros, a las prácticas empresariales. …”
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Effects of Environmental Factors on the Growth, Optical Density and Biomass of the Green Algae <i>Chlorella Vulgaris</i> in Outdoor Conditions by Lavajoo Fatemeh, Dehghani Mohsen

“…C. vulgaris was  cultivated in sterilized natural seawater enriched with F/2-Si medium. Then grow in bucket, tub and photobioreactor (PBR) in outdoor condition. …”
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The Impact of Courtyard Spatial Characteristics Across Historical Periods on Summer Microclimates: A Case Study from China by Qian Zhang, Xuan Ma, Duo Xu, Dian Zhou, Yujun Yang, Weile Jiang

“…By incorporating design strategies based on these historical spatial features, such as optimizing courtyard orientation, enhancing building height variability, and creating appropriate openings for natural ventilation, urban planners can improve microclimate conditions, reduce reliance on mechanical cooling, and enhance energy efficiency. …”
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Ultrasonic-assisted extraction of luteolin from peanut shells using ionic liquid and its molecular mechanism by Liwei Niu, Siwen Zhang, Xiaoyu Si, Yuhan Fang, Shuang Wang, Lulu Li, Zunlai Sheng

“…The outcomes of this research present an efficient protocol for luteolin extraction and provide novel insights into the application of UAE in extracting natural products.…”
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Characterization of Heavy Metal Ions Removal from Water by Improved Cuttlebone Powder with Magnetic Fe3O4 Nanoparticle as a Bioadsorbent by Aida Didaran, Mahnaz Sadat Sadeghi, Parisa Nejatkhah Manavi, Mohammad Rabbani

“…In light of this, this study investigates the potential of utilizing a naturally available and sustainable bio‐waste material, Sepia pharaonis cuttlebone Powder (SCP), as an exceptionally effective adsorbent for the adsorption of Ni (II), Pb (II), Cu (II), and Fe (II) ions. …”
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Text analysis of DNS queries for data exfiltration protection of computer networks by Ya. V. Bubnov, N. N. Ivanov

“…The efficiency of the method is based on assumption that domain names exploited for data exfiltration differ from domain names formed from words of natural language. To classify the requests in convolutional neural network the use of character embedding for representing the string of a domain name is proposed. …”
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