The Security Needs of International Students: An Analysis in Terms of the Securitization Theory by Arda ÖZKAN, Gülşah TAŞÇI

“…In some states, these students are considered a potential threat to national security and subject to various inequalities of opportunity, however, ironically, the states do not adequately address the higher education policies regarding the security needs of international students. …”
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Does viral circulation in slums have a global impact? The lesson learned from SARS-CoV-2 circulation in Complexo de favelas da Maré, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by Monique Cristina dos Santos, Monique Cristina dos Santos, Natalia Fintelman-Rodrigues, Natalia Fintelman-Rodrigues, Aline de Paula Dias da Silva, Aline de Paula Dias da Silva, Rodolfo Leandro Nascimento Silva, Victor Corrêa Seixas, Amanda A. Batista-da-Silva, Amanda A. Batista-da-Silva, Marcelo Alves Ferreira, Patrícia T. Bozza, Fernando A. Bozza, Fernando A. Bozza, Fernando A. Bozza, Thiago Moreno L. Souza, Thiago Moreno L. Souza

“…Because of growing inequalities, more than one-third of the worldwide population is expected to live in slums by 2050. …”
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Energy Efficiency Maximization with Optimal Beamforming in Secure MISO CRNs with SWIPT by Liang Xue, Yao Ma, Miao Zhang, Wanqiang Qin, Jin-Long Wang, Yazhou Wu

“…In this paper, the optimal beamforming problem of multi-input single-output (MISO) cognitive radio (CR) downlink networks with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer is studied. …”
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Distributed nash equilibrium seeking for heterogeneous second-order nonlinear noncooperative games with communication delays by Rui Yu, Li Li, Qianyao Wang, Xianchao Zhang, Sixu Lu

“…Then, considering two different types of communication delays, respectively slowly-varying communication delays and fast-varying communication delays, the distributed algorithm is designed to seek the Nash equilibrium (NE). By designing appropriate Lyapunov functions and constructing linear matrix inequalities, the designed algorithm has been proven to be effective, even though second-order nonlinear dynamics and communication delays increase the challenges of system convergence analysis. …”
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Analysis of the Relationship of Professionals towards the Vertical Equity of the Slovenian Tax System and Its Comparison with Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the USA by Jelena Klopčič, Maja Klun

“…The main purpose of using the vertical equity principle is to require the redistribution of income in a way that reduces the income inequality of the society. The presented research aims to check the opinion of Slovenian tax system professionals on the principle of vertical equity. …”
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Function Projective Synchronization of Two Complex Networks with Unknown Sector Nonlinear Input and Multiple Time-Varying Delay Couplings by Na Fang, Da Wei, Nan-nan Yin, Dan-ying Xu, Hua Liu, Jie Fang

“…This paper deals with the function projective synchronization of two complex dynamic networks with unknown sector nonlinear input, multiple time-varying delay couplings, model uncertainty, and external interferences. …”
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Analytic Normalized Solutions of 2D Fractional Saint-Venant Equations of a Complex Variable by Najla M. Alarifi, Rabha W. Ibrahim

“…A class of integral inequalities is investigated involving special functions. …”
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Fibula-Assisted Segment Transport (FAST) for Defect Reconstruction after Resection of Tibial Adamantinoma: Report of Two Treatments by A. Rachbauer, A. Laufer, G. Gosheger, G. Toporowski, A. Frommer, E. Jacob, N. Deventer, R. Roedl, B. Vogt

“…Intramedullary limb lengthening via lengthening nails has been performed for more than three decades to overcome leg length inequalities. Plate-assisted bone segment transport (PABST) has recently been described for the reconstruction of segmental bone defects. …”
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Secure Event-Triggered Mechanism for Networked Control Systems under Injection Cyber-Attacks by Xiao Cai, Jian Kang, Kaibo Shi

“…This study focuses on the secure stability issue of networked control systems (NCSs) under injection cyber-attacks (ICAs), which have important research value of applications for network security. …”
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Mean-square consensus of discrete-time multi-agent systems with Markovian switching topologies and persistent disturbances by Lipo Mo, Yintao Wang, Tingting Pan, Yikang Yang

“…Third, sufficient conditions for mean-square consensus are obtained in the form of matrix inequalities. Finally, numerical simulations are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the theoretical results.…”
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Delay-Dependent Guaranteed Cost Controller Design for Uncertain Neural Networks with Interval Time-Varying Delay by M. Rajchakit, P. Niamsup, T. Rojsiraphisal, G. Rajchakit

“…By constructing a set of augmented Lyapunov-Krasovskii functionals combined with Newton-Leibniz formula, a guaranteed cost controller is designed via memoryless state feedback control, and new sufficient conditions for the existence of the guaranteed cost state feedback for the system are given in terms of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). …”
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Tobacco and smoking in Cuba: from the agricultural economy to the health economy by Efraín Sánchez González, Fé Fernández Hernández

“…The economic distribution induced by smoking leads to the persistence of such socioeconomic inequity, which worsens with the number of smokers and the intensity of cigarette and tobacco consumption. …”
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Positivity of convolution quadratures generated by nonconvex sequences by Karaa, Samir

“…Secondly, we establish a more general inequality applicable to nonconvex sequences. Our results are then applied to demonstrate the positive definiteness of commonly used approximations for fractional integral and differential operators, including the convolution quadrature generated by the BDF2 formula. …”
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LMI Formulation for Static Output Feedback Design of Discrete-Time Switched Systems by Selma Ben Attia, Salah Salhi, Mekki Ksouri

“…The various conditions are given through a family of LMIs (Linear Matrix Inequalities) parameterized by a scalar variable which offers an additional degree of freedom, enabling, at the expense of a relatively small degree of complexity in the numerical treatment (one line search), to provide better results compared to previous one. …”
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SOCIAL WELL-BEING OF THE URBAN POPULATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF BURYATIA: ON THE MATERIALS OF SOCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN ULAN-UDE by E. Petrova, I. Van

“…The authors recommend to raise the level and quality of population’s life, to create new jobs with decent wages, to reduce social inequality and contribute to the preservation of a stable inter-ethnic space for change the situation for the better…”
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Democracia política como plataforma para a expansão de direitos na América Latina by Maria Celina D\u2019Araujo

“…Trouble spot continues to be inequality and interpersonal violence, while local companies are obliged to give warning signals to the importance of universals for justice and equity. …”
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Null Controllability of a Nonlinear Age Structured Model for a Two-Sex Population by Amidou Traoré, Okana S. Sougué, Yacouba Simporé, Oumar Traoré

“…In both cases, if A is the maximal age, a time interval of duration A after the extinction of males or females, one must get the total extinction of the population. …”
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Food system design for resilient communities – Urban agriculture and sustainable spaces by Stefano Follesa, Martina Corti, Diletta Struzziero, Aurora Piluso

“… In the post-pandemic society with numerous social challenges, there is an increasing focus on public institutions to provide new services. The 2030 Agenda emphasises the need for sustainable and inclusive development, reducing inequalities in cities. …”
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Oscillation of Second-Order Nonlinear Delay Dynamic Equations with Damping on Time Scales by H. A. Agwa, Ahmed M. M. Khodier, Heba A. Hassan

“…We use the generalized Riccati transformation and the inequality technique to establish some new oscillation criteria for the second-order nonlinear delay dynamic equation with damping on a time scale T(r(t)g(x(t), xΔ(t)))Δ+p(t)g(x(t), xΔ(t))  + q(t)f(x(τ(t)))=0, where r(t), p(t), and q(t) are positive right dense continuous (rd-continuous) functions on T. …”
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Stability Analysis of the Crank-Nicolson Finite Element Method for the Navier-Stokes Equations Driven by Slip Boundary Conditions by M. Mbehou, M. S. Daoussa Haggar, H. Olei Tahar

“…The resulting variational structure dealing with is in the form of inequality, and obtaining H1-estimate is more involved because of the presence of the nondifferentiable term appearing at the boundary where slip occurs. …”
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