Securing Cloud-Based Internet of Things: Challenges and Mitigations by Nivedita Singh, Rajkumar Buyya, Hyoungshick Kim

“…Cloud-based IoT systems, enabled by Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) models, offer flexibility and scalability but also pose additional security risks. …”
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Financing grassroots initiatives in solid waste management: benchmarking the Tanzanian experience against international practices by Mesia Ilomo, Goodluck Charles

“…The financing options identified have some advantages and disadvantages, depending on their cost, flexibility, terms and conditions, accessibility and the inclusiveness of beneficiaries. …”
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Force analysis of slope reinforced by Frame-Anchor-Support-Structure based on improved horizontal slice method. by Guang-Wen Fang, Fei Guo, An-Ping Huang

“…As a flexible support structure commonly used in slope stabilization and management, the Frame-Anchor-Support-Structure (FASS) is of great significance in studying the actual stress situation to ensure the safety of slopes. …”
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THEATER PR: PR STRATEGY IN THE MODERN THEATER ENVIRONMENT by Serhii Vazhynskyi

“…The study's findings emphasize that theater PR must be flexible, innovative, and open to experimentation in today's world. …”
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ChirpArray: A low‐cost, easy‐to‐construct microphone array for long‐term ecoacoustic monitoring by Ryotaro Okamoto, Hiroyuki Oguma

“…Its exceptionally low power consumption allows for efficient and flexible deployment, making it an ideal solution for extended‐field monitoring and large‐scale landscape recordings.…”
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Contextualizing Islamic Inheritance Law in Indonesia: Addressing Negative Stigma by Syabbul Bachri, Sudirman Sudirman, Erfaniah Zuhriah, Ramadhita Ramadhita

“…This research offers a model of inheritance division applied in Indonesia that is contextual and flexible based on Amina Wadud's hermeneutics of tauhid.…”
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MDCKE: Multimodal deep-context knowledge extractor that integrates contextual information by Hyojin Ko, Joon Yoo, Ok-Ran Jeong

“…MDCKE was compared with top models, case studies, and simulations in low-resource settings, proving its flexibility and efficacy. An ablation study further corroborated the contribution of each component, resulting in an approximately 6% enhancement in the F1-score across the datasets.…”
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The clinical characteristics and surgical strategy in infants with lingual thyroglossal duct cyst by Fenghua Qin, Yihua Ni, Wenxia Chen

“…The baseline characteristics, clinical symptoms, the features of transnasal flexible fiberoptic laryngoscopy, CT and MRI, surgical treatments, and follow-up results were described and analyzed. …”
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Identifying Opportunities for Exploiting Cross-Layer Interactions in Adaptive Wireless Systems by Troy Weingart, Douglas C. Sicker, Dirk Grunwald

“…The flexibility of cognitive and software-defined radio heralds an opportunity for researchers to reexamine how network protocol layers operate with respect to providing quality of service aware transmission among wireless nodes. …”
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An Easy-to-Understand Method to Construct Desired Distance-Like Measures by Wen Qing Fu, Sheng Gang Li, Harish Garg, Heng Liu, Ahmed Mostafa Khalil, Jingjing Zhao

“…A distance-like notion, called weak interval-valued pseudo-metrics (briefly, WIVP-metrics), is defined by using known notions of pseudo-semi-metrics, pseudo-metrics, and metrics; this notion is topologically good and shows precision, flexibility, and compatibility than single pseudo-semi-metrics, pseudo-metrics, or metrics. …”
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The EU Public Diplomacy in the United States under the D. Trump Administration: Challenges, Key Projects and Outcomes by A. N. Marchukov

“…Trump’s tenure, the EU public diplomacy demonstrated resilience and flexibility in the face of adverse circumstances. Indeed, the EU diplomats proved their creativity in developing innovative programmes which can be instrumental for future development of the EU public diplomacy in general.…”
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Machine-Vision-Based Intelligent Manufacturing by Fine-Grained Point Cloud Identification by Yinhai Li, Fei Wang, Yang Jiang

“…It is necessary to develop a highly efficient and correct discovery technique. Given the leaned flexibility of traditional manufacturability analysis methods based on cognitive notoriety and empire foundation, the reality that existing manufacturability analysis methods based on full scientific support cannot give a specific purpose for capability manufacturability. …”
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An approach to teaching the psychiatric interview by Timothy Hierlihy, Andrew Latus

“…Students receive real time feedback. The flexibility allows for students to repeat and vary their approach in response to feedback. …”
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Wireless key generation system for internet of vehicles based on deep learning by Han WANG, Liquan CHEN, Zhongmin WANG, Tianyu LU

“…In recent years, the widespread application of internet of vehicles technology has garnered attention due to its complex nature and point-to-point communication characteristics.Critical and sensitive vehicle information is transmitted between different devices in internet of vehicles, necessitating the establishment of secure and reliable lightweight keys for encryption and decryption purposes in order to ensure communication security.Traditional key generation schemes have limitations in terms of flexibility and expandability within the vehicle network.A popular alternative is the physical layer key generation technology based on wireless channels, which offers lightweight characteristics and a theoretical basis of security in information theory.However, in the context of internet of vehicles, the movement speed of devices impacts the autocorrelation of generated keys, requiring improvements to traditional channel modeling methods.Additionally, the randomness and consistency of generated wireless keys are of higher importance in applications in internet of vehicles.This research focused on a key generation system based on the wireless physical layer, conducting channel modeling based on line-of-sight and multipath fading effects to reflect the impact of vehicle speed on autocorrelation.To enhance the randomness of key generation, a differential quantization method based on cumulative distribution function was proposed.Furthermore, an information reconciliation scheme based on neural network auto-encoder was introduced to achieve a dynamic balance between reliability and confidentiality.Compared to the implementation of Slepian-Wolf low-density parity-check codes, the proposed method reduces the bit disagreement rate by approximately 30%.…”
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From classical democracy to liberal democracy: Definitions, types and paradigms by Taheri Mohammed Hanif, Afrough Emad

“…Thus, the fluid and flexible concept and definition of democracy is compatible with different cultures, religions and societies, and, on this basis, we can talk about "Islamic democracy" and we can favour this vision as the findings of this research.…”
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An Overview of the BALSAC Population Database. Past Developments, Current State and Future Prospects by Hélène Vézina, Jean-Sébastien Bournival

“…The changes made in recent years and the resulting gains are mostly related to IT advances which now offer more flexibility and increased performance. Future perspectives rest on the diversification of the sources of population data entered or connected to the database and, as a corollary, by continuous optimization of data processing and linkage procedures. …”
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Optimizing intelligent residential scheduling based on policy black box and adaptive clustering federated deep reinforcement learning by Wei Zhang, Yiyang Li

“…In the context of user-side demand response, flexible resources in buildings such as air conditioners and electric vehicles are characterized by small individual capacities, large aggregate scales, and geographically dispersed distributions, necessitating integration by intelligence buildings (IRs). …”
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Navigating learning through catastrophic calamities: A phenomenological study by Gladys Andales, Teresita Sarile, Suzette Elladora, Fitzgerald Kintanar, Ariel Ramos

“…These experiences provided concepts to educators to improve teaching and becoming flexible in designing lessons and learning tasks guided with the learning continuity model mainly designed to teach in the midst of crises. …”
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Civil contract as an institution of civil law by O. O. Kolobylina

“…The author identifies the following key features of a civil law contract (agreement): like any contract, it is concluded on a voluntary basis, however, its parties are equal and bear mutual responsibility for non-performance and/or improper performance of their obligations; the contract is personalised; stability of the contract (agreement) terms which remain in force until they are changed by agreement of the parties or until the contract expires in accordance with the stipulated terms; flexibility of terms and conditions, since the parties have the right to determine their own terms and conditions of the contract, in particular, price, terms, scope, etc.; the scope of a civil law contract is broad, and may include issues related to the sale and purchase of goods, services, loans, lease of property, etc.; a civil law contract is an important source of civil law.…”
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Liquid Regionalism in Latin America: The Institutional and Trade Dynamics of the Latin American Integration Association by M. E. Morales-Fajardo

“…The study provides a comprehensive examination of the historical context, evolution, and institutional framework of LAIA, with a particular focus on intra-regional trade dynamics and the Association's interactions with other regions and countries.The analysis concludes that LAIA epitomizes liquid regionalism in Latin America, a characterization stemming from the limited commitment of its member states, the institutional flexibility that defines its operations, and the prioritization of extra-regional trade at the expense of achieving its original objectives of economic integration and cooperation.Although LAIA was conceived within the framework of open regionalism in Latin America, it has not developed into a fully-fledged regional integration process. …”
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