Collusion-resistant cross-chain transaction scheme based on game theory and verifiable consensus by JIA Xuedan, WANG Liangmin, HUANG Longxia

“…Formal analyses of participant game dynamics demonstrate that non-collusion emerges as the dominant strategy for channel users under reasonable assumptions. Experimental results indicate that the proposed scheme effectively prevents cross-chain collusion while achieving high cross-chain throughput and scalability compared to traditional relay-based cross-chain solutions.…”
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Sequential and Programmable Squeezing Gates for Optical Non-Gaussian Input States by Takato Yoshida, Daichi Okuno, Takahiro Kashiwazaki, Takeshi Umeki, Shigehito Miki, Fumihiro China, Masahiro Yabuno, Hirotaka Terai, Shuntaro Takeda

“…Quantum computing has been pursued with various hardware platforms and an optical system is one of the most reasonable choices for large-scale computation. In the optical continuous-variable computation scheme, the incorporation of Gaussian gates and a highly nonclassical non-Gaussian state enables universal quantum computation. …”
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MPD-Model: A Distributed Multipreference-Driven Data Fusion Model and Its Application in a WSNs-Based Healthcare Monitoring System by Jibing Gong, Li Cui, Kejiang Xiao, Rui Wang

“…Experimental results show that the proposed methods outperform the baseline methods, and the proposed MPD-Model is reasonable and effective.…”
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Remarks on Consistent Development of Plant Nodalizations: An Example of Application to the ROSA Integral Test Facility by J. Freixa, A. Manera

“…The ROSA TRACE nodalization provided results in a reasonable agreement with all 5 experiments.…”
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A Novel Carbon Price Fluctuation Trend Prediction Method Based on Complex Network and Classification Algorithm by Hua Xu, Minggang Wang

“…., Guangdong, Chongqing, Tianjin, and Shenzhen) has improved slightly, but the prediction accuracy of the carbon price trend in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hubei has not improved. We analyze the reasons leading to this result and offer suggestions to improve China’s pilot carbon market.…”
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Calculated Event Rates for Axion Detection via Atomic and Nuclear Processes by John D. Vergados, Paraskevi C. Divari, Hiroyasu Ejiri

“…Then, these couplings will be transformed to the nucleon level utilizing reasonable existing models, which lead to effective transition operators. …”
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Study on the Relationship Between Water Resources Utilization and Economic Development in Hubei Province by ZHU Hao, YIN Mingcai, HU Yuanzhao, MA Jianing, ZHANG Jishi

“…According to the water footprint theory,the structural characteristics of water footprint and the level of water resources utilization in Hubei Province were analyzed.The analysis results show that:①The water footprint and agricultural water footprint in Hubei Province generally rise with fluctuations,while the industrial water footprint decreases with fluctuations.The agricultural water footprint accounts for 87.8% of the water footprint in the province,which indicates that the water footprint in Hubei Province has significantly different structures.②The water resources utilization and economic growth in Hubei Province show a weak decoupling trend.The economy of Hubei Province develops positively,and the industrial structure is reasonable.The technical effect and economic scale cause major waste of water resources.③The overall water footprint intensity in Hubei Province significantly drops,and the water resources utilization efficiency gradually improves.However,the water footprint intensity in some regions is relatively high,and the water resources utilization efficiency can still be improved.④The water footprint intensity in Hubei Province has a significant spatial autocorrelation,which mainly presents low-low and high-low spatial clustering patterns,and it has an obvious tendency to spread to the surrounding areas.…”
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Same-sex marriage: a defense based on foundations of natural law by Pablo Antonio Lago

“…I conclude that this way of conceptualizing human sexuality is “far more evident” than the one suggested by Finnis and is also consistent with Germain Grisez's interpretation of Aquinas’ first principle of practical reason - with which Finnis himself agrees.…”
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Comprehensive Evaluation of Water Resources on a Long Time Scale Based on Analytic Hierarchy Process by CHEN Hao, ZHANG Yimin, ZHANG Xiaolin, XIONG Jia, DONG Qianjin

“…On a long time scale,the comprehensive water resources in the water resources system is not only related to natural incoming water,but also greatly affected by the underlying surface and human activities.Therefore,on a long time scale,the comprehensive water resources change is affected by many factors and closely related to social development.However,there is no consensus on the current research on assessing changes in comprehensive water resources by multiple factors on a long time scale.This paper constructs a comprehensive water resource evaluation system with 10 indicators in terms of natural incoming water,comprehensive water use,and social factors by the analytic hierarchy process,calculates the water resources volume by taking the upper reaches of Hanjiang River Basin as an example,and concludes that the comprehensive water resources of this river basin fluctuate greatly inter-year,but generally show a downward trend,as well as classifies the state of comprehensive water resources into 5 types according to different score intervals,and on this basis,analyzes the development trend of comprehensive water resources in the upper reaches of Hanjiang River Basin.The results show that the comprehensive water resources in the upper reaches of Hanjiang River Basin will be at high shortage risk in the future,so it is necessary to take reasonable measures to improve water efficiency.…”
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Evaluation of Water Resource Carrying Capacity Based on TOPSIS Model with Combination Weighting and Diagnosis of Obstacle Factors in Suzhou City by LIU Jiankui, ZHANG Zhen, LIU Xianghong, WEI Lu

“…The evaluation results and methods are reasonable and reliable and can be used as a reference for evaluating water resource carrying capacity in other cities.…”
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What Limits Cardiac Performance during Exercise in Normal Subjects and in Healthy Fontan Patients? by André La Gerche, Marc Gewillig

“…In the Fontan patient, the reasons for exercise intolerance are complex. In those patients with myocardial dysfunction or other pathologies of the circulatory components, it is likely that these abnormalities serve as a limitation to cardiac performance during exercise. …”
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A proposed conceptual model for orphan drug market entry by Nataša Jalen, Tina Vukasović

“…Orphan drugs are developed by the pharmaceutical industry not for economic reasons, but to meet public health needs. New treatments need to be evaluated before they reach the market. …”
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Chinese Intellectuals’ Perspectives on Russia's Invasion of Ukraine by Emre Demir

“…The Russia-Ukraine war, its reasons and impact have been discussed by diplomats, politicians and intellectuals worldwide. …”
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Streptococcus intermedius Bacteremia and Liver Abscess following a Routine Dental Cleaning by Lachara V. Livingston, Elimarys Perez-Colon

“…This case serves to further emphasize that even routine dental procedures can place a patient at risk of the development of bacteremia and liver abscesses. For this reason, the clinician must be sure to perform a detailed history and careful examination. …”
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SPECULATIVE REALISM IN THE SEARCH OF LOST INDEPENDENT OBJECTS by Ігор КАРІВЕЦЬ

“… The article examines the peculiarities of the approach of speculative realism to the analysis of the concepts of existence and object in the context of its criticism of Kantian and post-Kantian ontology, and especially the concept of correlationism, the dependence of the existence of objects on the perception of subjects, i.e. the postulation of the impossibility of the existence of the objective and the independent world from a man. The reasons for the emergence of speculative realism in contemporary French and English philosophy and why these philosophies are called post-continental philosophies are clarified with the help of the historical-comparative method and the method of analysis. …”
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Bizarre Waveforms in Strong Motion Records by Baofeng Zhou, Haiyun Wang, Lili Xie, Yanru Wang

“…Four kinds of abnormal phenomena on the acceleration waveform are revealed, such as spike, asymmetric waveform, obvious baseline drift, and strong motion records packets separation. Then reasonable processing approaches are derived from the preliminary analysis of the generation mechanism for abnormal phenomena. …”
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Comparison of Methods for Determining Catchment Area Threshold for Water System Extraction by ZHENG Jiawei, CHEN Xingwei, LI Xiaocheng, RUAN Weifang

“…Most of the methods using digital elevation models (DEM) to extract water systems require the determination of catchment area thresholds.For a better understanding of the rationality and applicability of several commonly used determination methods of the catchment area threshold for water system extraction,the distance error between the real river source and the extracted one is used as a criterion to determine the rationality of the real water system extraction methods.Four main methods,namely,the drainage density method,the water-system fractal dimension method,the method of the minimum error at the river source,and the channel branching ratio method,are selected,and the Jinjiang River Basin on the southeast coast is taken as an example.The distance errors between the extracted river sources by different methods and the real river sources are compared.The results show that the visual discrimination of the catchment area threshold used by the drainage density method,water-system fractal dimension method,and channel branching ratio method has a large uncertainty,and the distance errors are large.In the method of the minimum error at the river source,the catchment area threshold is determined according to the minimum distance error between the extracted river source and the real one,which is unique.Hence,it is a more reasonable method among the four DEM-based real water system extraction methods.…”
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HISTORICO-LEGAL AND SOCIOCULTURAL CAUSES AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF PEASANTS’ REVOLT AGAINST TAXATION IN IBADAN, WESTERN NIGERIA by Oyesola Animashaun

“…This article examines the reasons for the resistance to taxation, the legal and extra-legal ways by which the peasants were able to engage the military administration of Western Nigeria, albeit the Nigerian state laws enforcement machinery to a standstill, using the case study method. …”
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New extension method of trusted certificate chain in virtual platform environment by Liang TAN, Neng QI, Lingbi HU

“…When using trusted computing technology to build a trusted virtual platform environment,it is a hot problem that how to reasonably extend the underlying physical TPM certificate chain to the virtual machine environment.At present,the certificate trust expansion schemes are not perfect,either there is a violation of the TCG specifications,or TPM and vTPM certificate results inconsistent,either the presence of key redundancy,or privacy CA performance burden,some project cannot even extend the certificate trust.Based on this,a new extension method of trusted certificate chain was proposed.Firstly,a new class of certificate called VMEK (virtual machine extension key) was added in TPM,and the management mechanism of certificate VMEK was constructed,the main feature of which was that its key was not transferable and could be used to sign and encrypt the data inside and outside of TPM.Secondly,it used certificate VMEK to sign vTPM’s vEK to build the trust relationship between the underlying TPM and virtual machine,and realized extension of trusted certificate chain in virtual machine.Finally,in Xen,VMEK certificate and its management mechanism,and certificate trust extension based on VMEK were realized.The experiment results show that the proposed scheme can effectively realize the remote attestation function of virtual platform.…”
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Study on the Influencing Factors of Green Agricultural Subsidies on Straw Resource Utilization Technology Adopted by Farmers in Heilongjiang Province, China by Cheng Guo, Meng Li, Hong Chen

“…The results show that the external factors include policy subsidy, policy punishment, and transportation convenience. Among the internal reasons, farmers’ personal characteristics, production habits, and perception of technical effectiveness and convenience have a significant impact on the application of straw resource utilization technology. …”
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