Leveraging Fog Computing for Scalable IoT Datacenter Using Spine-Leaf Network Topology by K. C. Okafor, Ifeyinwa E. Achumba, Gloria A. Chukwudebe, Gordon C. Ononiwu

“…Consequently, a spine-leaf Fog computing network (SL-FCN) is presented for reducing latency and network congestion issues in a highly distributed and multilayer virtualized IoT datacenter environment. This approach is cost-effective as it maximizes bandwidth while maintaining redundancy and resiliency against failures in mission critical applications.…”
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Presenting a Novel Hybrid Approach of Text Mining Sentiment Analysis in Twitter Using CART Decision Tree by Nasir Tayarani, Mehrdad Jalali

“…Today, with the enormous growth of the Internet and social networks as virtual communities and mass media, and increased use of them, a huge amount of user feedback comes from a variety of topics. …”
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Percepções vivenciadas por graduandos de enfermagem em cenário de telessimulação sobre a hipoglicemia neonatal by Nylze Helena Guillarducci Rocha, Gabriella Gomes Lopes Prata, Janaína Aparecida Maia Silva, Rubinéia Stefania da Silva, Maria Paula Custódio Silva, Luciana Mara Monti Fonseca, Divanice Contim

“…A produção de dados ocorreu entre agosto e setembro de 2021, por meio de plataforma virtual, com questões para autoavaliação da atividade, foi submetida à análise de conteúdo de Bardin. …”
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Metasurface-enabled multifunctional single-frequency sensors without external power by Masaya Tashiro, Kosuke Ide, Kosei Asano, Satoshi Ishii, Yuta Sugiura, Akira Uchiyama, Hiroki Wakatsuchi

“…Abstract IoT sensors are crucial for visualizing multidimensional and multimodal information and enabling future IT applications/services such as cyber-physical spaces, digital twins, autonomous driving, smart cities and virtual/augmented reality (VR or AR). However, IoT sensors need to be battery-free to realistically manage and maintain the growing number of available sensing devices. …”
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Enhancing Electric Vehicle Autonomy With Solar Energy: A Case Study of the “Takai Urban” in Northern Chile by Fernando Castro-Gallardo, Jorge Rabanal-Arabach, Sebastián Rodríguez-Romero, Douglas Olivares, Edward Fuentealba

“…Initially, the Takai urban EV had a maximum range of 70 km per charge. Through virtual modelling and simulations, which incorporated GPS and meteorological data along a typical 43.3 km route in Antofagasta city, we examined the impact of solar integration on vehicle performance. …”
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Digital Twin-Based Real-Time Monitoring System for Safety of Multiple Laptops in Working Environment by Minh Long Hoang, Nicola Delmonte

“…The workstation sends a query message, allowing each PC to transfer the necessary information. The virtual system handles the received data to proceed with the alert system for warning if these parameters overcome the concerned threshold. …”
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Downregulation of S100 Calcium Binding Protein A9 in Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma by Harsh Pawar, Srinivas M. Srikanth, Manoj Kumar Kashyap, Gajanan Sathe, Sandip Chavan, Mukul Singal, H. C. Manju, Kariyanakatte Veeraiah Veerendra Kumar, M. Vijayakumar, Ravi Sirdeshmukh, Akhilesh Pandey, T. S. Keshava Prasad, Harsha Gowda, Rekha V. Kumar

“…Expression of S100A9 was restricted to the prickle and functional layers of normal esophageal mucosa and localized predominantly in the cytoplasm and nucleus whereas virtually no expression was observed in the tumor and stromal cells. …”
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Development and validation of an automatic all‐wheel steering system for multiple‐articulated rubber‐tire transit by Jianghua Feng, Yunqing Hu, Xiwen Yuan, Ruipeng Huang, Xinrui Zhang, Lei Xiao

“…When the train runs at a high speed, it is stabilised at 72 km/h, and the lateral deviation from the virtual track centreline is controlled within ±15 cm.…”
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Reconstruction of Axial Tomographic High Resolution Data from Confocal Fluorescence Microscopy: A Method for Improving 3D FISH Images by R. Heintzmann, G. Kreth, C. Cremer

“…A new technique for a simultaneous reconstruction from a number of such axial tomographic confocal data sets was developed and used for high resolution reconstruction of 3D‐data both from experimental and virtual microscopic data sets. The reconstructed images have a highly improved 3D resolution, which is comparable to the lateral resolution of a single deconvolved data set. …”
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BANKING SERVICE INNOVATIONS AND CUSTOMER SATISFACTION IN ILORIN METROPOLIS OF NIGERIA by Lukman Adebayo Oke ABDULRAUF, Emmanuel Semilore Tinuoye, Yusuf Olamilekan Quadri, Fatai Akosile

“…Also, DMBs’ management should design more user friendly, personalised and less costly digital bank applications which can enable customers to efficiently access virtually all bank services even without visiting any branch. …”
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The information gain of explicitly provided over self-generated contextual knowledge for behavioral control. by Lukas Magnaguagno, Stephan Zahno, Ernst-Joachim Hossner

“…To this end, we measured the positioning of female handball players (N = 36 experts + 36 near-experts) in a virtual-reality defensive task as a function of their teammates' defensive-strength patterns, which was either explicitly instructed or had to be self-generated. …”
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Mixed mode fracture: numerical evaluation and experimental validation using PMMA specimens by Sérgio Alexandre Gonçalves Pereira, Sérgio M.O. Tavares, Paulo M.S.T. de Castro

“…To determine T-stress and stress intensity factors, the conventional finite element method was used, post-processed with the modified virtual crack closure technique (mVCCT) and / or the J-integral. …”
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Effects of Volute Design and Number of Impeller Blades on Lateral Impeller Forces and Hydraulic Performance by Daniel O. Baun, Ronald D. Flack

“…The lateral impeller force characteristics, as a function of a normalized flow coefficient, were virtually identical in the four- and five-vane impellers in each respective volute type. …”
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Warped matrix-variate Gaussian processes with structured kernels for multi-step-ahead driving behaviour prediction by Seiya Takano, Tomohiko Jimbo

“…The increased integration of renewable energy, which is known to fluctuate owing to weather conditions, has necessitated power supply-demand adjustments using virtual power plants (VPPs) that utilize vehicle batteries. …”
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A comparative study of perceptions and experiences of online Chinese language learners in China and the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic by Wang Yanlin, Zhan Hong, Liu Shijuan

“…Controlling students’ previous diversity of Chinese course delivery modes across countries and Chinese language levels, three two-way analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) were conducted to compare differences among three dependent variables: 1) satisfaction towards online classes; 2) self-perceived learning effectiveness online versus onsite; and 3) willingness to take a virtual Chinese course in the future. The results did not find statistical significances regarding students’ satisfaction and willingness across countries and language levels. …”
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Mortality Reimagined: Going through Deleuze’s Encounter with Death by Sariyar Murat

“…Through key concepts such as the “death drive,” the “virtual,” and “assemblage,” Deleuze frames death not as a terminus, but as an integral process within life itself. …”
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Between citizen and vigilante journalism by Winston Mano

“…The resultant vigilante journalism by groups seeking instant justice was in a way similar to the necklacing, even though this was in a virtual sense. It is clear that the emerging new media spaces in Africa function like double-edged swords able to either build or destroy democracy. …”
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The Effects of Self-Efficacy and Physical Activity Improving Methods on the Quality of Life in Patients with Diabetes: A Systematic Review by Sajjad Hamidi, Zahra Gholamnezhad, Narges Kasraie, Amirhossein Sahebkar

“…A combination of traditional and virtual long-lasting self-care promoting (motivating) programs is needed to improve patients’ self-efficacy for healthy habits like active lifestyle.…”
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Evaluation of auditory alerting systems for safe electric scooter operations by Tim Walton, Antonio J. Torija, Richard J. Hughes, Andy S. Elliott

“…This study addresses this issue by investigating the use of an Acoustic Vehicle Alerting System (AVAS) for electric scooters by means of a virtual reality experiment and field trials. Eighty-eight participants from four European countries, including thirty-five blind or partially sighted individuals participated across the experiments. …”
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Assessing the accuracy of human-inspired electronic skin: A systematic review by Fahad AlShaibani, Vicente Grau, Jeroen Bergmann

“…Much research has been conducted on tactile sensing through e-skin, as interest grows in the use of e-skin with smart prosthetics and Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR) applications. …”
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