Sushi Reverses Course: Consuming American Sushi in Tokyo by Matthew Allen, Rumi Sakamoto

“…The phenomenon has accelerated rapidly since the turn of the millennium.While sushi’s global expansion has attracted the attention of Japanese and global media (Kato 2002; Matsumoto 2002; Tamamura 2004; Ikezawa 2005; Fukue 2010) and a number of scholarly works address sushi’s global popularity and its transformation outside Japan (Bestor 2000; Ng 2001; Cwiertka 1999; 2005; 2006),2 little scholarly or journalistic work exists on one important facet of sushi’s recent global growth — namely, the return home of transformed sushi to Japan, at times in barely recognisable forms. This paper offers an analysis of this “reverse import (gyaku yunyū)” phenomenon and its specific expression in what we refer to as “American sushi” in Tokyo as a contribution toward assessing culinary globalisation. …”
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Comprehensive two-phase flow calculation method with in-channel refrigerant boiling by A. V. Zaitsev, A. A. Malyshev, K. F. Kouadio, O. S. Malinina, A. O. Lisovtsov

“…In this paper, the authors deal with the processes occurring during boiling of two-phase flows in channels, which differ in many possible regimes, and their analytical description is possible only under strict restrictions within the given regime and the application of empirical data. …”
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Evaluasi Heuristik Website berbasis Framework Sirius dengan Pengaturan Prioritas menggunakan Teknik Moscow by Gita Indah Marthasari, Nur Hayatin

“…MoSCoW can categorize all of the requirements into 4 distinct classes based on priority. This paper was performed for extending the Sirius Framework for implementing the ranking system by using MoSCoW. …”
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Continuous Speech-Based Fatigue Detection and Transition State Prediction for Air Traffic Controllers by Susmitha Vekkot, Surya Teja Chavali, Charan Tej Kandavalli, Rama Sai Abhishek Podila, Deepa Gupta, Mohammed Zakariah, Yousef Ajami Alotaibi

“…Air traffic controllers (ATC) play a critical role in ensuring aviation safety, but their demanding workload can lead to fatigue, potentially compromising their performance. This paper presents a study that investigates speech features responsible for detecting ATC fatigue and proposes an approach to predict the timestamp at which an ATC transitions into a fatigue state from a continuous speech sample. …”
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Ebola Virus Disease 2013-2014 Outbreak in West Africa: An Analysis of the Epidemic Spread and Response by Orlando Cenciarelli, Stefano Pietropaoli, Andrea Malizia, Mariachiara Carestia, Fabrizio D’Amico, Alessandro Sassolini, Daniele Di Giovanni, Silvia Rea, Valentina Gabbarini, Annalaura Tamburrini, Leonardo Palombi, Carlo Bellecci, Pasquale Gaudio

“…This has caused significant concerns all over the world: the potential reaching of far countries from endemic areas, mainly through fast transports, induced several countries to issue information documents and health supervision for individuals going to or coming from the areas at risk. In this paper the geographical spread of the epidemic was analyzed, assessing the sequential appearance of cases by geographic area, considering the increase in cases and mortality according to affected nations. …”
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The Role of Deep Geofluids in the Enrichment of Sedimentary Organic Matter: A Case Study of the Late Ordovician-Early Silurian in the Upper Yangtze Region and Early Cambrian in the... by Kun Zhang, Jun Peng, Weiwei Liu, Bin Li, Qingsong Xia, Sihong Cheng, Yiming Yang, Yao Zeng, Ming Wen, Dongmei Liu, Yizhou Huang, Li Zhong, Pei Liu, Xiaojun Jiang

“…Deep geofluids significantly influence the sedimentary organic matter’s enrichment, but the mechanism remains unclear. This paper is aimed at determining how hydrothermal and volcanic activities affected the enrichment of sedimentary organic matter by studying lower Cambrian shales in the lower Yangtze region and upper Ordovician-lower Silurian shales. …”
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FBMC vs. PAM and DMT for High-Speed Wireline Communication by Jeremy Cosson-Martin, Jhoan Salinas, Hossein Shakiba, Ali Sheikholeslami

“…This paper demonstrates the first silicon-verified FBMC encoder and decoder designed to emulate beyond <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$224Gb/s$ </tex-math></inline-formula> wireline communication. …”
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Language and Culture in Health Literacy for People Living with HIV: Perspectives of Health Care Providers and Professional Care Team Members by Keitshokile Dintle Mogobe, Sheila Shaibu, Ellah Matshediso, Motshedisi Sabone, Esther Ntsayagae, Patrice K. Nicholas, Carmen J. Portillo, Inge B. Corless, Carol Dawson Rose, Mallory O. Johnson, Allison Webel, Yvette Cuca, Marta Rivero-Méndez, Solymar S. Solís Báez, Kathleen Nokes, Darcel Reyes, Jeanne Kemppainen, Paula Reid, Lucille Sanzero Eller, Teri Lindgren, William L. Holzemer, Dean Wantland

“…Low health literacy has been linked to inadequate engagement in care and may serve as a contributor to poor health outcomes among people living with HIV and AIDS. The purpose of this paper was to examine the perspectives of health care providers and professional care team members regarding health literacy in HIV disease. …”
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Patient characteristics and predictors of mortality among children hospitalised with tuberculosis: A six-year case series study in Uganda. by Pauline Mary Amuge, Greta Lassance Becker, Rogers Nelson Ssebunya, Esther Nalumansi, Alex Adaku, Michael Juma, Jay Brooks Jackson, Adeodata Rukyarekere Kekitiinwa, Peter James Elyanu, Eric Wobudeya, Robert Blount

“…Convenience sampling was done to select TB cases from paper-based medical records at Mulago National Referral Hospital (MNRH) in urban Kampala, and Fort Portal Regional Referral Hospital (FRRH) in rural Fort Portal. …”
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miR-129-5p Promotes Osteogenic Differentiation of BMSCs and Bone Regeneration via Repressing Dkk3 by Changming Zhao, Yulin Gu, Yan Wang, Qiaozhen Qin, Ting Wang, Meng Huang, Heyang Zhang, Yannv Qu, Jingwen Zhang, Zhangzhen Du, Xiao-Xia Jiang, Lulu Xu

“…However, the associated mechanisms remain elusive. This paper is aimed at exploring the role of miR-129-5p in regulating bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell (BMSC) differentiation and bone regeneration in vivo and in vitro. …”
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Harmonizing population health data into OMOP common data model: a demonstration using COVID-19 sero-surveillance data from Nairobi Urban Health and Demographic Surveillance System by Michael Ochola, Sylvia Kiwuwa-Muyingo, Tathagata Bhattacharjee, David Amadi, Maureen Ng’etich, Damazo Kadengye, Henry Owoko, Boniface Igumba, Jay Greenfield, Jim Todd, Agnes Kiragga, Agnes Kiragga

“…The Observational Medical Outcome Partnership (OMOP) Common Data Model (CDM) is a standardized data model that can harmonize observational health data.ObjectiveThis paper demonstrates the use of the OMOP CDM to harmonize COVID-19 sero-surveillance data from the Nairobi Urban Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS).MethodsIn this study, we extracted data from the Nairobi Urban HDSS COVID-19 sero-surveillance database and mapped it to the OMOP CDM. …”
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Study on the Effect of Isotropic Initial Stress on the Anchoring Performance of Self-Expanding Bolts by Jie Liu, Hongya Li, Yunzhou Li, Yunan Yang, Tao Sun, Rui Song, Rongqi Sun

“…The results show that the internal interface stress has a loss effect over time, and the stress loss value shows a linear increase trend with the dosage, but the loss rate shows a linear decreasing relationship with the dosage. This paper defines the coordinated additional stress and obtains its temporal and spatial evolution law in the rock mass. …”
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Forecasting particulate matter concentration using nonlinear autoregression with exogenous input model by M.I. Rumaling, F.P. Chee, H.W.J. Chang, C.M. Payus, S.K. Kong, J. Dayou, J. Sentian

“…Therefore, future PM10 concentration forecasting is important for early prevention and in urban development planning, which is crucial for developing cities. This paper presents the development of PM10 forecasting model using nonlinear autoregressive with exogenous input model.METHODS: To improve performance of nonlinear autoregressive with exogenous input model, principal component analysis is used prior to the model for variable selection. …”
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The Innovation Intermediaries Role in the Adoption of Emerging Technologies in Iran's Automotive Industry by Ali Maleki, Hadi Nilforoushan

“…Its statistical population includes senior managers (CEO, board members, research and development managers, sales managers, and quality control managers) of Iran’s automotive industry. This paper used the probability sampling method with the available population. …”
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Computational Simulation of Virtual Patients Reduces Dataset Bias and Improves Machine Learning-Based Detection of ARDS from Noisy Heterogeneous ICU Datasets by Konstantin Sharafutdinov, Sebastian Johannes Fritsch, Mina Iravani, Pejman Farhadi Ghalati, Sina Saffaran, Declan G. Bates, Jonathan G. Hardman, Richard Polzin, Hannah Mayer, Gernot Marx, Johannes Bickenbach, Andreas Schuppert

“…<italic>Methods:</italic> In this paper, we demonstrate how mechanistic virtual patient (VP) modeling can be used to capture specific features of patients&#x2019; states and dynamics, while reducing biases introduced by heterogeneous datasets. …”
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Reinforcement Learning-Based Generative Security Framework for Host Intrusion Detection by Yongsik Kim, Su-Youn Hong, Sungjin Park, Huy Kang Kim

“…Recently, researchers applied Natural Language Processing (NLP) in HIDS to scrutinize complex attack patterns, but they could have more effectively provided useful outputs for detecting intrusions based on these patterns. In this paper, we use reinforcement learning methodology, Actor-Critic, and NLP to extract keywords that occur on each anomaly system call log and propose a rule generation framework to prevent future intrusion detection using the extracted words. …”
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Recent advances in anion exchange membrane technology for water electrolysis: a review of progress and challenges by Abdul Qayoom, Muhammad Shakeel Ahmad, H. Fayaz, Atika Qazi, Jeyraj Selvaraj, Rahadian Zainul, Krismadinata, Nasrudin Abd Rahim, Farruh Atamurotov, Thien Khanh Tran, Basma Souayeh, Natei Ermias Benti

“…Electrolysis is attracting ever‐increasing attention, as it is a promising electrochemical device for hydrogen production from water due to the high conversion efficiency and relatively low energy input required when compared to thermochemical and photocatalytic methods. This paper will outline the need, performance, and insight of anion exchange membrane (AEM) electrolyzer. …”
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Economic feasibility assessment and parameter sensitivity analysis of rainwater harvesting systems in different climatic zones of China by Chonghua Xue, Feng Xiong, Junqi Li, Xiaojing Li, Jing Li, Yu Wang, Xiangyu Li, Ziyu Cui

“…Rainwater is an important non-traditional water resource, and the economic benefits of rainwater harvesting and utilization vary considerably across different climatic conditions. This paper constructs typical rainwater harvesting (RWH) models based on road watering and green space watering reuse pathways, as well as typical flat water year and cistern emptying time in three distinct climate zones of China: Urumqi (located in a semi-arid area), Baoding (located in a semi-humid area), and Shantou (located in a humid area). …”
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Simulating fluid within elastic pipe(弹性管道约束下的流体仿真) by 杨少娟(YANG Shaojuan), 马龙(MA Long), 杨润泽(YANG Runze), 陈实(CHEN Shi), 周元峰(ZHOU Yuanfeng)

“…Research on simulating the interaction of fluids in elastic pipes is a significant topic in the field of physical simulation. In this paper, we adopt position based dynamics to achieve high controllability and real-time performance. …”
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Nonhomogeneous Markov chains for degeneration behaviour of RC members’ durability and its Bayesian updating by Ruiqi Guo, Dengguo Li, Guoxin Chen, Yu Jin, Hui Li, Yuanpeng Zhang

“…From the perspective of simplifying the mathematical model, the paper addresses the issue of information updating in the degradation process. …”
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