Adoption of Technology for Reading Purposes: A Study of E-Books Acceptance by Mateus Martins, Josivania Silva Farias, Pedro Henrique Melo Albuquerque, Danilo Santana Pereira

“…We analyzed the data via structural equations modeling; we obtained generalized least squares and standard errors via resampling (Jackknife). The study concludes that Habit, Effort Expectancy and Facilitating Conditions are important for the adoption of e-books, and that Age, Gender and Experience are crucial moderators of these relations.…”
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Diagnostics of Electric Equipment Windings by I. I. Branovitsky, G. I. Razmyslovich, P. D. Matskevich

“…The men­tioned device makes it possible to carry out visual comparison and quantitative analysis of damped oscillation curves in the tested windings with standard ones which are set in the device memory and their difference signals.…”
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Simulation and measurement of multi-carrier and single-carrier frequency domain equalization systems by GAO Zhen1, PENG Ke-wu2, PAN Chang-yong2

“…Chinese national standard of digital terrestrial Television broadcasting（DTTB） was a block transmission system in which the orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing（OFDM） and single-carrier frequency domain equalization（SC-FDE） transmission technologies were compatible.In order to compare the performance of these two technologies over frequency selective fading channel,OFDM and SC-FDE systems using low density parity check code（LDPC） were simulated.Moreover,laboratory tests were carried out to measure the performance of the actual DTTB system.Both the simulation and measurement results show that for the LDPC coded system,OFDM outperforms SC-FDE over frequency-selective fading channels,and the advantage of OFDM becomes more obvious with the deterioration of the fading channel and/or increase of the modulation level.The results are expected to be helpful for the design and optimization of the Chinese DTTB system.…”
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Biased Technological Progress, Factor Price Distribution, and Overcapacity: A Case from China by Peng Xiao, Baoxi Li, Yuhang He

“…Using a time-varying stochastic frontier model, standardized supply-side system method, and the production function method, we measure the capacity utilization rate, biased technological progress index, and factor price distortion index in China’s industrial sector. …”
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Clay Improvement with Burned Olive Waste Ash by Utkan Mutman

“…The study consisted of the following tests on samples treated with burned olive waste ash: Atterberg Limits, Standard Proctor Density, and Unconfined Compressive Strength Tests. …”
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Waveform interpolation speech coding algorithm at 2.4kbit/s based on wavelet transform by WANG Jing, KUANG Jing-ming, XIE Xiang

“…A waveform interpolation speech coding algorithm at 2.4kbit/s based on wavelet transform was proposed,in which characteristic waveform decomposition and reconstruction is processed using biorthogonal wavelet filters.At the encoder,the alignment operation was removed and the amplitude spectrum is decomposed without phase spectrum.Because of the wavelet compression,only the amplitude spectrum of last layer is transmitted.At the decoder,different scale space is reconstructed separately and random or fixed phase was combined to the spectrum based on voice degree at the last.Additionally,based on the time-variable feature of speech,voiced degree flag of each subframe was introduced to indicate the spectrum selection and quantization.Subjective R-A/B listening tests indicated that the synthesis speech quality of the 2.4kbit/s WT-CWI coding algorithm is better than that of standard 2.4kbit/s MELP coder and FS1016 4.8kbit/s CELP coder and is better than traditional 3.8kbit/s CWI coder.…”
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The Development of Interim Measures Procedure in Cases Against Poland Before CJEU by Cieśliński Aleksander

“…The disputes that the European Commission has engaged in with the Polish government, along with the non-standard obstruction in compliance with EU law, have become the basis for a new approach to this ancillary procedure offered by the Rules of Procedure of the Court. …”
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Relative information spectra with applications to statistical inference by Sergio Verdú

“…A simple definition of sufficient statistics, termed $ I $-sufficiency, is introduced and shown to coincide with longstanding notions under the assumptions that the data model is dominated and the observation space is standard. Additionally, a new measure of discrepancy between probability measures, the NP-divergence, is proposed and shown to determine the area of the error probability pairs achieved by the Neyman-Pearson binary hypothesis tests. …”
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Clinical case – medulloblastoma by A. Kablytė, R. Gleiznienė

“…Although tumor biopsy remains the gold standard for the diagnosis of medulloblastoma, diagnostic imaging methods such as computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are very important as well. …”
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A Morpho-Syntactic Analysis of Personal Names in Oǹdó by Sunday Olayinka Awolaoye

“…All these are what scholars have said about names in the standard dialect of Yorùbá. This essay explains the form and structure of personal names in the Oǹdó dialect. …”
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Pour une écriture de la vie. La méthode seikatsu-tsuzurikata au Japon contre une politique éducative oppressive by Akiko Kawarabayashi

“…In so doing, he went against the grain of standard practice, and was eventually expelled from public education because of his ideological stance.…”
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Access mechanism of TMP under mobile network by WU Zhen-qiang, ZHOU Yan-wei, QIAO Zi-rui

“…The publication of TCG MTM standard ensured the safety of mobile terminal and its promotion results in the changes of communication on mobile terminals.An access mechanism to trusted mobile platform（mobile terminals with MTM chips,TMP） was proposed on mobile Internet.This mechanism defined an extended service set as a service field,introduced TMP and Internet ISP of strategy decider management field,and defined two visit mode of TMP on mobile Internet,self field service and cross field visit.The progress of each mode was described in details.Cross field visit mode was defined as roaming service and resource request.The trusted evaluation system of TMP access mechanism was specifically described.Universal combinational safe mode was used to analyze the safety of the two TMP access.The analysis shows that this mechanism brings about trusted TMP access on mobile Internet and is safe,practical and high efficient.…”
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RAW online regrouping method in IEEE 802.11ah protocol for industrial Internet of things by Yanjing SUN, Junqiu YANG, Yan CHEN, Yanfen WANG, Xiaojing CHEN, Fengzhen LIU, Zhi SUN

“…Aiming at the problem that the standard RAW mechanism cannot adjust to changes in the network and the grouping depends on continuous AIDs,a RAW regrouping method based on a pseudo-random sequence was proposed.The AP assigned a pseudo-random sequence to the node as the address code during the association phase,and used compound code to carry groups information during the grouping phase.It implemented online regrouping of discontinuous AID nodes and reduced the overhead of regrouping.In order to rationally allocate resources in RAW and solve the problem of load imbalance between groups,a RAW regrouping method based on expected channel time was proposed.Based on channel utilization,the RAW groups,RAW duration,and numbers of RAW were optimized.NS3 simulation results show that the proposed method significantly improves the performance of IEEE 802.11ah protocol networks.…”
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CNID: Research of Network Intrusion Detection Based on Convolutional Neural Network by Guojie Liu, Jianbiao Zhang

“…In this paper, KDD-CUP 99 and NSL-KDD standard network intrusion detection dataset were used to carry out the multiclassification network intrusion detection experiment; the experimental results show that the multiclassification network intrusion detection model proposed in this paper improves the accuracy and check rate, reduces the false positive rate, and also obtains better test results for the detection of unknown attacks.…”
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Recovery of Sparse Signals via Modified Hard Thresholding Pursuit Algorithms by Li-Ping Geng, Jin-Chuan Zhou, Zhong-Feng Sun, Jing-Yong Tang

“…Simulations are performed in noiseless and noisy environments using synthetic data, in which the successful frequencies, average runtime, and phase transition of the MHTP are considered. Standard test images are also used to test the reconstruction capability of the MHTP in terms of the peak signal-to-noise ratio. …”
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Application of bone turnover markers in skeletal and extra-skeletal conditions in children and adults by Agnieszka Postępska, Przemysław Sikora

“…Therefore, there is a need for standardized clinical trials on currently available and new BTMs.…”
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Adapter les pratiques aux valeurs, adapter les valeurs aux pratiques : compensation et conciliation des habitants du périurbain pour une mobilité durable by Georges-Henry Laffont, Denis Martouzet

“…These are analyzed in the ell of the durability and the status that is confer to it by the investigated people, between standards, practical theory or new labels of former practices. …”
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Key technologies and application of optical transport network for leased line services by Xiongyan TANG, Haijun WANG, Hongbo YANG

“…The rapid development of leased line services has transformed the optical transport network from operator's basic network to leased line service network.With the withdrawal of MSTP,OTN has become the main network technology for high-value leased lines.Several key technical solutions and evolution of OTN carrying leased line were analyzed and researched.The problem of cascade protection in multi-domain OTN was researched.Interoperability of different venders’ equipment was researched and solved.SDN and OTN were proposed as the development direction for high-quality leased lines.ACTN-based SD-OTN controller northbound interface standard and YANG model,technical requirements of management and control for access OTN equipment were promoted in IETF and CCSA separately,which would promote decoupling of OTN network.China Unicom’s leading experience of development and deployment of SDN orchestrator on OTN for high quality leased line was shared.…”
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Understanding Material Safety Data Sheet Language by Frederick M. Fishel

“… The Hazard Communication Standard requires that chemical manufacturers and importers thoroughly evaluate chemicals. …”
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Evolution of Physical Therapy Education in China and Use of Simulation-based Learning to Maximize Clinical Placement Outcomes by Alice Y.M. JONES, Margot A. SKINNER, Elizabeth DEAN

“…This article discusses the advantages of adopting SBL in physical therapy entry level education, particularly the use of standardized patients in the form of actors, as a core educational component to prepare students for their clinical placements. …”
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