Trade-offs involved in the choice of cloud service configurations when building secure, scalable, and efficient Internet-of-Things networks by Amitabh Mishra, Thomas Reichherzer, Ezhil Kalaimannan, Norman Wilde, Ruben Ramirez

“…This work can provide insight for Internet-of-Things systems designers in choosing security controls and scalability features when working with cloud services. …”
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Lightweight load-balanced and authentication scheme for a cluster-based wireless sensor network by Jiliang Zhou, Ziqiang Lin

“…However, most cluster schemes choose cluster head randomly to send data without considering load balancing and security. …”
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CLASSIFICATION OF LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS by Yu. B. Popova

“…This creates the problem of choosing the best system. This problem is partly due to the lack of comprehensive classification of such systems. …”
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The place and role of leisure in the Moscow students’ everyday life in the context of the information society development by Yu. P. Nadekhina, A. A. Kolchin, E. V. Kryukova

“…Summarising the results of the study, it was concluded that at the moment no more than 20 % of the surveyed Moscow students choose “modern” forms of leisure activities. The conducted research revealed the students’ clear preferences in spending their free time, as well as their value orientations.…”
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Is there a “Meditative-polemic-May”? by Maruszka Eve-Marie Meinard

“…Finally, the examples reveal that this form collocates with subjective markers denoting the point of view of the subject, via the use of verbs of cognition and perception or via the progressive aspect (it’s not surprising that he may want, need, choose, be feeling…). We propose to call it the “subjective-explanatory-May”. …”
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Decision analytical methods for assessing the efficacy of agroecology interventions by Cory Whitney, Lisa Biber-Freudenberger, Eike Luedeling

“…Abstract Given the extensive impact of humans on ecosystems and the uncertainty faced by decision-makers when choosing among alternatives, formal support is required for decision-making in complex agroecological systems. …”
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Analysis of the Mechanism of Political Cost in the Complex Environmental Governance System by Xintao Li, Tongshun Cheng, Zaisheng Zhang, Li Zhao

“…Public behavior is the core element that affects political cost consumption. (2) When political costs are extremely depleted, the public will neglect economic interests, turn toward environmental interests, and choose the negative participation strategy, which destabilizes the system. (3) The political cost signal at the optimal equilibrium point not only warns the government not to take the desperate action of concealing information asymmetry but also allows the government to let go of its hands to deal with the environmental issues. …”
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Evaluation of Dental Students’ Sociodemographic Characteristics and Perspectives on Dentistry by Alper Kizildağ

“…Conclusion: Willingly choosing to attend dental school and to become a dentist would help students cope with the myriad challenges they will experience in their education and professional lives. …”
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Spatiotemporal Distribution of Harmful Algal Flora in the Tropical Estuarine Complex of Goa, India by Suraksha M. Pednekar, S. G. Prabhu Matondkar, Vijaya Kerkar

“…To understand occurrence and distribution of harmful algal blooms species, daily/alternate day samplings were carried out in Mandovi and Zuari estuaries during 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 periods, respectively, comprising of monsoon (June–November) and nonmonsoon (December–May). …”
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A Machine Learning System for Routing Decision-Making in Urban Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks by Wei Kuang Lai, Mei-Tso Lin, Yu-Hsuan Yang

“…We use machine learning to predict the moves of vehicles and then choose some suitable routing paths with better transmission capacity to transmit packets. …”
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A Sense of Time(ly) Seeing in DeLillo’s Later Novels by Stefania Iliescu

“…Reading, just as viewing, becomes a lived, embodied experience that allows readers to experience the characters’ subjective perception of time, and decide whether they feel with the characters or choose to block out empathic responses.…”
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ACTIVITIES TO ANTICIPATE THE WEAKNESSES OF STUDENTS’ READING MATERIALS FROM INTERNET by Maria Eka Mulatsih

“…Students were free to choose their reading materials which consisted of two short stories and four novels for Prose class, three simplified novels and three original novels for Book Report class. …”
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Alternative Attractors of Shallow Lakes by Marten Scheffer

“…Since there are no plants that could serve as refuges, zooplankton is grazed down by fish to densities insufficient to control algal blooms. In contrast, the clear state in eutrophic shallow lakes is dominated by aquatic macrophytes. …”
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Primary Unit for Statistical Analysis in Morphometry: Patient or Cell? by Oleksiy Tsybrovskyy, Andrea Berghold

“…Moreover, the size of the error can be neither diminished nor controlled. Choosing patients as primary units assures accurate results and also has an advantage of gaining some additional information by calculating several distributional estimates in each patient. …”
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Irreversible k-Threshold Conversion Number of Circulant Graphs by Ramy Shaheen, Suhail Mahfud, Ali Kassem

“…The irreversible k-threshold conversion process on a graph G=V,E is an iterative process which begins by choosing a set S0⊆V, and for each step tt=1,2,⋯,,St is obtained from St−1 by adjoining all vertices that have at least k neighbors in St−1. …”
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Prevalence of Multidrug-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Clinical Isolates in Nepal by Ranjeeta Odari, Prabin Dawadi

“…The MDR status of K. pneumoniae as well as the prevalence of the bacteria in Nepal was analyzed which showed alarming situation about administration of antibiotics and indicated choosing and developing reliable antibiotic strategies.…”
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Training Habits and Injury Rate in Masters Female Runners by Janice Loudon, Amy Parkerson-Mitchell

“…# Background The number of masters females that choose long-distance running as a form of exercise is growing exponentially. …”
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Analysis of Feature Fusion Based on HIK SVM and Its Application for Pedestrian Detection by Song-Zhi Su, Shu-Yuan Chen

“…Although neural network (NN) is an efficient tool for classification, the time complexity is heavy. Hence, we choose support vector machine (SVM) with the histogram intersection kernel (HIK) as a classifier. …”
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Authorship identification methods in student plagiarism detection by A. I. Paramonov, I. A. Trukhanovich

“…The advantages and limitations of each method are also discussed, and recommendations are given for choosing one or another approach according to the specific requirements of the research.Special attention is paid to such modern methods as metadata analysis and the application of neural networks. …”
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MiPlato para los problemas de deglución: Disfagia by Jamila R. Lepore, Nancy J. Gal, Wendy Dahl

“…Los recursos y herramientas en ChooseMyPlate.gov ofrece información clara y factible acerca de cómo escoger mejor alimentos que se pueden adaptar a personas con dificultades de deglución (disfagia) que requieren de alimentos con textura modificada. …”
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