GPU Acceleration of Melody Accurate Matching in Query-by-Humming by Limin Xiao, Yao Zheng, Wenqi Tang, Guangchao Yao, Li Ruan

“…With the increasing scale of the melody database, the query-by-humming system faces the trade-offs between response speed and retrieval accuracy. …”
Get full text

From Ascetic Ideals to Honest Illusions: A Nietzschean Interpretation of Inception by Yonghwa Lee, Kyoung-Min Han

“…Only when he sees the destructive power of his sense of guilt about Mal does he come to realize that what he really needs is not exactly the ability to distinguish the dream world from reality per se but the ability to make things seem and feel real – that is, in Nietzsche's words, honest illusions. Faced with the challenge to regain the capability to see and appreciate illusions as illusions without deceiving himself into believing that they are real, Cobb takes “a leap of faith” with Saito into the world to which he wishes to belong and finally embraces the moment of seeing his children's faces, which, fortunately for him, seem real – that is, “good” – enough.…”
Get full text

Therapeutic potential of mesenchymal stem cells for fungal infections: mechanisms, applications, and challenges by Yangjie Gao, Zhe Ji, Jingyu Zhao, Julin Gu

“…However, the application of MSCs still faces numerous challenges, such as the heterogeneity of cell sources, long-term safety, and feasibility of large-scale production. …”
Get full text

Research Advances in Antitumor Mechanism of Evodiamine by Luning Li, Cunxin Zhang, Chen Huang, Xinchen Tian, Wenxue Sun, Shulong Jiang

“…Evodiamine can inhibit Wnt/β-catenin, mTOR, NF-κB, PI3K/AKT, JAK-STAT, and other signaling pathways in various cancer cells, and it can significantly downregulate the expression of many tumor markers, such as VEGF and COX-2. These facts partially explain the antitumor mechanism of evodiamine. …”
Get full text

Fractional synchrosqueezing transform for enhanced multicomponent signal separation by Yangyang Li, Dzati Athiar Ramli

“…Synchrosqueezing Transform (SST) is one of the important technologies for improving the accurate separation of multicomponent signals, but it faces challenges in terms of the difficulty and effectiveness of squeezing. …”
Get full text

Design of Efficient Full Adder in Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata by Bibhash Sen, Ayush Rajoria, Biplab K. Sikdar

“…Further downscaling of CMOS technology becomes challenging as it faces limitation of feature size reduction. Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA), a potential alternative to CMOS, promises efficient digital design at nanoscale. …”
Get full text

Driver anomaly detection in cargo terminal by Shahab Emaani, Abbas Saghaei

“…The Iranian road transportation sector, comprising about 500,000 owner-operator drivers, faces rising syndication challenges, leading to disruptions and driver refusals in some provinces. …”
Get full text

Land Acquisition for the Eviction of Uncertified Residents Houses for the Widening of Manyar Highway by Maulidya Diegha Widyasari, Hardian Iskandar

“…The main findings show that the majority of affected residents live on uncertified land (customary land or girik), so the land acquisition process faces obstacles to legality and determining fair compensation. …”
Get full text

Consideration of Gyroscopic Effect in Fault Detection and Isolation for Unbalance Excited Rotor Systems by Zhentao Wang, Arne Wahrburg, Stephan Rinderknecht

“…Fault detection and isolation (FDI) in rotor systems often faces the problem that the system dynamics is dependent on the rotor rotary frequency because of the gyroscopic effect. …”
Get full text

From quantitative measurement to understanding public demand: Exploring non-survey methods in applied regional research by K. Ye. Petrov, E. N. Minchenko, V. S. Lapin

“…Currently, contact quantitative sociology faces a number of challenges, and the level of consent to participate in surveys is steadily falling. …”
Get full text

Geopolitical analysis of the collapse of empires by syrous Ahmadi Nohdani, aziz nasirzade, reyhane salehabadi

“…In other words, when a country faces these challenges in terms of its leadership and governance, it becomes unable to effectively address other problems caused by these factors, leading to a crisis and the eventual collapse of the empire.…”
Get full text

Justification of fracture criteria for salt rocks by A. Baryakh, A. Tsayukov

“…The results of uniaxial compression tests on large salt rock specimens are presented as a loading curve and diagrams of the transverse-longitudinal displacements at various distances from the side faces. Based on an isotropic elastoplastic model, a multivariant numerical simulation was performed. …”
Get full text

Investigating the Effective Components of Institutional Challenges of Citizen Participation in Sustainable Urban Regeneration Case Study: Tabriz City by nazli pakro, dariyosh Sattarzadeh

“…The results of this study indicate that Tabriz city faces significant institutional challenges in the area of sustainable urban regeneration, though it is possible to increase the participation of citizens in urban regeneration projects, and take a step towards meeting these challenges through utilizing institutional components of effective citizen participation in urban regeneration, changing the view of authorities towards capacity and the capabilities of NGOs, the establishment and development of NGOs in relation to urban renewal and regeneration and the removal of legal barriers associated with NGOs can.…”
Get full text

Contribution Modeling on Condition Evaluation of Asphalt Pavement Using Uncertainty Measurement and Entropy Theory by Jue Li, Hui Wei, Yongsheng Yao, Xin Hu, Lei Wang

“…The method which is based on the given weighting factor did not conform to the engineering facts. It was difficult to identify the importance of the pavement performance evaluation index in different samples. …”
Get full text

When the Stoic Chameleon Came Across the Cylinder. Stoicism and the Matter of Confessions by Ádám Smrcz

“…The paper does not only aim to challenge such theses of contemporary scholarship which claim that Lipsius held a mostly homogenous stance throughout his life, but it also intends to highlight the confessional importance of the shift between his earlier and later views: while his earlier works were written in a Calvinist milieu, his latter writings were authored after his recatholisation, and the two facts – according to this paper – are interrelated. …”
Get full text

THE MODERN CONDITIONS AND THE STRUCTURE OF INTERACTION BETWEEN UNIVERSITIES, STUDENTS AND EMPLOYERS by D. P. DANILAEV, N. N. MALIVANOV

“…The analysis of external and internal challenges that higher education system faces makes it possible to identify the technical specialists’ training system strengths and weaknesses. …”
Get full text

A Study of the Solid Waste Chain in Benin Metropolis, Nigeria by Dennis Iyeke Igbinomwanhia, Ejovo Nena Ohwovoriole

“…Benin metropolis like other fast urbanizing towns and cities in Nigeria is faces with a solid waste management problem. …”
Get full text

Les nouvelles frontières des Jeux Anthropologiques de Saint-Louis by Fabrice Delsahut

“…They also set up special competitions, called for the occasion “Anthropological Days”, reserved for those who were considered as sub-humans by the segregationist America of that time. From these facts, we would like to show how sports sciences and burgeoning anthropology began, together, to serve such questionable causes as racial hierarchy and the right to colonize and how they greatly contributed to the birth of an American nation that put sport in the heart of its constitution. …”
Get full text

The Mongol empire’s expansion and rethinking research trends in Chinese historical climatology by Ka wai Fan

“…It reviews scholarly discourse, focusing in particular on a theory linking Mongol expansion to a global dry period, while juxtaposing this with recent research spearheaded by climatologists. …”
Get full text

Health, Complexity and non-communicable Diseases by Alfredo Darío Espinosa Brito

“…Science and the production of scientific knowledge are changing, the parts are not the objective, it is the whole and its interrelationships. Health faces new challenges that cannot be explained by reductionist conceptions. …”
Get full text