Learning Domain-Independent Representations via Shared Weight Auto-Encoder for Transfer Learning in Recommender Systems by Qinqin Wang, Diarmuid Oreilly-Morgan, Elias Z. Tragos, Neil Hurley, Barry Smyth, Aonghus Lawlor, Ruihai Dong

“…To address the sparsity issue, transfer learning techniques have been investigated for recommender systems, but they tend to impose strict constraints on the content and structure of the data in the source and target domains. …”
Get full text

Experimental Study on Autogenous and Drying Shrinkage of Steel Fiber Reinforced Lightweight-Aggregate Concrete by Shunbo Zhao, Changyong Li, Mingshuang Zhao, Xiaoyan Zhang

“…Steel fiber reinforced lightweight-aggregate concrete (SFRLAC) has many advantages applied in structural engineering. In this paper, the autogenous shrinkage and drying shrinkage of SFRLAC for up to 270 days were measured, considering the effects of types of coarse and fine aggregates with the changes of water-to-binder ratio and volume fraction of steel fiber, respectively. …”
Get full text

Overtourism in urban destinations: the myth of smart solutions by María García Hernández, Josep Ivars Baidal, Sofía Mendoza de Miguel

“…The methodology used combines the compilation of information on initiatives and measures found in public tourism planning documents with semi-structured interviews with those responsible for managing the Smart City strategy and the SD project. …”
Get full text

An Alternative for Turkish Serials: Uses and Gratifications of Watching Indian Soap Operas by Turkish Female Viewers by Yeliz Yücel, Yeşim Ceren Çapraz

“…The study was conducted through qualitative research with semi-structured in-depth interviews with 30 female viewers between the ages of 22-60, who were primarily homemakers. …”
Get full text

Carboxymethylation of the polysaccharide from the fermentation broth of Marasmius androsaceus and its antidepressant mechanisms by Yu Qiu, Yan Su, Jia Song, Fangming Mou, Jia Gou, Xiaoqi Geng, Xinyue Li, Zhiqiang Nie, Jianxin Wang, Yu Zheng, Min Wang

“…To investigate the structure-activity relationship of polysaccharide and obtain a better antidepressant polysaccharide, the antidepressant-like activity of a carboxymethyl polysaccharide (C-MEPS2) subjected to submerged fermentation was systematically studied. …”
Get full text

Effects of Ozone Dissolved in Water on the Physicochemical Properties of Activated Carbons Applied in Drinking Water Treatment by Stanisław Biniak, Grzegorz Trykowski, Maciej Pakuła, Andrzej Świątkowski, Zofia Malinowska, Stanisław Popiel

“…The following procedures were applied to assess the effects of contact between each carbon and the oxidizing agents: thermogravimetry, alkalimetry, voltammetry, EDX and FT-IR methods to illustrate changes in the surface chemistry, and nitrogen low-temperature adsorption to show up any possible changes in the porous structure. Ozone dissolved in water exhibited the lowest oxidative strength — EDX and FT-IR spectroscopy revealed only a slight oxidation of the Filtrasorb-300 surface layer. …”
Get full text

On the Dual Role of Carcinoembryonic Antigen-Related Cell Adhesion Molecule 1 (CEACAM1) in Human Malignancies by Andreea Calinescu, Gabriela Turcu, Roxana I. Nedelcu, Alice Brinzea, Anastasia Hodorogea, Mihaela Antohe, Carmen Diaconu, Coralia Bleotu, Daniel Pirici, Lucia B. Jilaveanu, Daniela A. Ion, Ioana A. Badarau

“…We reviewed the literature and discussed the various expression patterns of CEACAM1 in different types of tumors, describing its structure and general biologic functions and emphasizing the most significant findings that link this molecule to poor prognosis. …”
Get full text

Community health workers capacity in teaching skills and work-related stress: A study in Iranian health system by Zeinab Javadivala, Fatemeh Nazari, Shayesteh Shirzadi, Neda Gilani, Devender Bhalla

“…Through census, all 110 M-CHWs from the rural health worker educational institutions (RHWEIs) were invited to participate in the study. Applying structured questionnaires, data were collected through face-to-face interviews. …”
Get full text

The Business Process Reconstruction of Railway-River Combined Transportation Cloud Platform Taking China Container Export as an Example by Furong Jia, Lin Sun, Jiaxin Yuan, Yongping Li, Qiang Huang

“…However, the overall development level of intermodal transportation informatization has been restricted to a great extent due to the unbalanced development of intermodal transportation informatization in different regions, the rigid system architecture, the low degree of information sharing, and the lack of data management and analysis methods. Combined with the structure and business characteristics of intermodal transportation information systems, adopting cloud computing and Big Data technology, we propose an intermodal transportation information process with waybill as the information carrier and FPMS as the service fulcrum in this paper. …”
Get full text

The Effects of Dynamic Loading on Hysteretic Behavior of Frictional Dampers by Hamid Rahmani Samani, Masoud Mirtaheri, Amir Peyman Zandi, Hamid Bahai

“…In this paper, the effect of dynamic loading on hysteretic behavior of a special kind of frictional damper, namely, cylindrical frictional damper (CFD), is investigated by experimental means as well as numerical models which also account for coupled thermal-structural interaction. The damper is deemed to be more susceptible to thermal deformations due to the shrink-fit mechanism by which the device is assembled. …”
Get full text

Effects of Ozone Treatments on the Physicochemical Changes of Myofibrillar Proteins from Silver Carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) during Frozen Storage by Rongrong Zhang, Shanbai Xiong, Juan You, Yang Hu, Ru Liu, Tao Yin

“…To2 did not significantly (P>0.05) affect these physicochemical properties, indicating that myofibrillar proteins structure was well maintained. Consequently, To1 significantly (P>0.05) decreased breaking force of surimi gels while To2 did not significantly (P>0.05) affect gel breaking force. …”
Get full text

Undoped ruthenium oxide as a stable catalyst for the acidic oxygen evolution reaction by Jiayi Tang, Daqin Guan, Hengyue Xu, Leqi Zhao, Ushtar Arshad, Zijun Fang, Tianjiu Zhu, Manjin Kim, Chi-Wen Pao, Zhiwei Hu, Junjie Ge, Zongping Shao

“…This study reveals that proton participation capability within Ru oxides is a critical factor contributing to their instability, which can induce catalyst pulverization and the collapse of the electrode structure. By restricting proton participation in the bulk phase and stabilizing the reaction interface, we demonstrate that the stability of Ru-oxide anodes can be notably improved, even under a high current density of 4 A cm‒2 for over 100 h. …”
Get full text

Free Transverse Vibration Analysis of Axially Functionally Graded Tapered Euler-Bernoulli Beams through Spline Finite Point Method by Peng Liu, Kun Lin, Hongjun Liu, Rong Qin

“…Unlike traditional discretization and modeling methods, the global structural stiffness and mass matrices for beams of the proposed model are directly generated after spline discretization without needing element meshes, generation, and assembling. …”
Get full text

Liquid-phase synthesis of magnesium phosphates in the presence of gallic acid by O.N. Musskaya, V.K. Krut’ko, I.E. Glazov, E.N. Krutsko, A.I. Kulak

“…It was revealed that gallic acid affects the formation of the structure of crystalline hydrates depending on the Mg/P molar ratio. …”
Get full text

Unveiling the nutritional and bioactive potential of bamboo (Bambusa tulda Roxb.) tea: A phytochemical and spectroscopic study by Rosy Narzary, Riu Riu Wary, Jangila Basumatary, Pranjal Kalita, Sushil Kumar Middha, Talambedu Usha, Arvind Kumar Goyal

“…These analyses revealed an amorphous structure and spherical morphology. Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FE-SEM) and Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS) analyses corroborated the spherical morphology and elemental composition of the SiO₂. …”
Get full text

Enhanced Viscosity of Aqueous Palygorskite Suspensions through Physical and Chemical Processing by Feng-shan Zhou, Tian-qi Li, Yun-hua Yan, Can Cao, Lin Zhou, Yang Liu

“…This interacted force has an impact on the structural inversion of palygorskite rods and even caused the reinforcing of flocculation.…”
Get full text

A MD Simulation and Analysis for Aggregation Behaviors of Nanoscale Zero-Valent Iron Particles in Water via MS by Ying Zhao, Dongmei Liu, Huan Tang, Jing Lu, Fuyi Cui

“…The method provides new quantitative insight into the structure, energy, and dynamics of the aggregation behaviors of NZVI particles in water. …”
Get full text

Characterization of Waste Material Derived Willemite-Based Glass-Ceramics Doped with Erbium by G. V. Sarrigani, H. J. Quah, W. F. Lim, K. A. Matori, N. S. Mohd Razali, A. Kharazmi, M. Hashim, H. R. Bahari

“…X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) were used to determine structural changes and functional groups in the samples, respectively. …”
Get full text

Forced Vibration of a Timoshenko Beam Subjected to Stationary and Moving Loads Using the Modal Analysis Method by Taehyun Kim, Ilwook Park, Usik Lee

“…The modal analysis method (MAM) is very useful for obtaining the dynamic responses of a structure in analytical closed forms. In order to use the MAM, accurate information is needed on the natural frequencies, mode shapes, and orthogonality of the mode shapes a priori. …”
Get full text

Microstructural Evolution during Thermal Exposure of G115 Steel and Its Influence on Mechanical Properties by Shaohai Ma, Kai Yan, Chang Che, Xisheng Yang, Gong Qian

“…The majority of martensitic lath structure was replaced by sub-grains and the strength decreased linearly. …”
Get full text