Assessment of multivariate associations and spatial variability of forest soil properties and their stand factors in the Czech Republic by Vincent Oppong Sarkodie, Radim Vašát, Karel Němeček, Vít Šrámek, Věra Fadrhonsová, Kateřina Neudertová Hellebrandová, Luboš Borůvka

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Development of Explosive Strength in the Representative High School Volleyball Team by E.L. Amzar, L. Rada, I.I. Niculescu

“…The aim is to educate all students in sports according to their skills, material basis, sports tradition of the educational unit, in order to lay the foundation for the creating the habit of systematic practice of some sports branches, namely the game of volleyball. Motor skills are absolutely necessary for a total participation of the student in all phases of attack and defense. …”
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VCG with Communities on Random Ad Hoc Networks by Gunes Ercal, Rafit Izhak-Ratzin, Rupak Majumdar, Adam Meyerson

“…We study game-theoretic mechanisms for routing in wireless ad hoc networks. …”
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Risk and protective factors associated with adolescent depression in Singapore: a systematic review by Wei Sheng Goh, Jun Hao Norman Tan, Yang Luo, Sok Hui Ng, Mohamed Sufyan Bin Mohamed Sulaiman, John Chee Meng Wong, Victor Weng Keong Loh

“…Narrative synthesis of the finalised articles was performed through thematic analysis. Results: In total, eight studies were included in this review. …”
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Interventions for Digital Addiction: Umbrella Review of Meta-Analyses by Peng Lu, Jiamin Qiu, Shiqi Huang, Xinman Wang, Shasha Han, Sui Zhu, Youjing Ning, Fang-fang Zeng, Yuan Yuan

“…Cognitive behavioral therapy reduces anxiety (standardized mean difference [SMD] 0.939, 95% CI 0.311 to 1.586), internet gaming disorder symptoms (SMD 1.394, 95% CI 0.664 to 2.214), time spent gaming (SMD 1.259, 95% CI, 0.311 to 2.206), and IA scores (SMD –2.097, 95% CI –2.814 to –1.381). …”
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Competing fairness ideals underlie wealth inequality across decision contexts by Inge Huijsmans, Sarah Vahed, Cătălina E. Răţală, Alberto Llera, Alan G. Sanfey

“…We tackle this topic by simulating wealth inequality through the allocation of bonus endowments in both Dictator Game (DG) and Ultimatum Game (UG) settings and capturing distributive decisions. …”
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The social welfare effect of e-commerce product reputation information asymmetry from the perspective of network externality. by Min Zhao, Shuyun Wang, Tongshui Xia

“…Based on the network externality perspective, considering the duopoly e-commerce platform market, this paper uses game theory to construct a theoretical model to compare and analyze the changes in consumers, merchants, platforms, and social total welfare when the reputation information of e-commerce products is symmetric and asymmetric. …”
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Effect of Extracorporeal Shock Wave combined with Occupational Therapy on Forearm Pronation Disorder in Children with Spastic Cerebral Palsy by Hezeng LIU, Yong ZHAO, Bingxu JIN, Chuntao ZHANG, Yang YANG, Miaotao WU, Xiaoli WANG, Jixiang CHENG

“…Objective:To observe the effect of extracorporeal shock wave combined with occupational therapy therapy on forearm pronation disorder in children with spastic cerebral palsy(SCP).Methods:A total of 42 children with SCP were randomly divided into the control group and the observation group, with 21 cases in each group in the children rehabilitation department of the affiliated Nanhai maternity and children's Hospital of Guangzhou university of traditional Chinese medicine from January to December 2019.The control group was given targeted occupational therapy, including upper limb forearm pronator stretching therapy, neurophysiological therapy(Bobath technology), proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation therapy(PNF); game type occupational training including placing objects in forearm supination position, supination grasping stick, supination fetching game, palm and back game, etc..The above training was conducted once a day, 30 minutes per time, six times a week, three months as a course of treatment, continuous treatment for two courses.The observation group was given extracorporeal shock wave therapy on the basis of the control group.The child with SCP was in a comfortable position and the forearms of the upper limbs were placed on the plane so that it could free its own gravity.The abdomen of pronator teres muscle was impacted with the probe of shock wave therapeutic instrument(pressure intensity: 1.0-1.5 bar;frequency: 8-10 Hz;impact times: 1 000-2 000 times).Three to five minutes each time, once every three days, twice a week, three months as a course of treatment, continuous treatment for two courses.Before treatment, after treatment for three months and six months, the modified Ashworth scale(MAS)was used to evaluate the spasticity of forearm pronator muscles;the active range of motion(AROM)of forearm supination was measured by joint range of motion protractor;and the fine motor quotient(FMQ)of hands was evaluated by Peabody development motor scale-fine motor(PDMS-FM).Results:Before treatment, there was no significant difference in MAS score, AROM angle and FMQ score between two groups(<italic>P</italic>&gt;0.05).Compared with before treatment, the MAS scores of the two groups decreased significantly after treatment for three and six months, and the AROM angle and FMQ score increased significantly, the difference was statistically significant(<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05).Compared with the control group at the same time after treatment, MAS score of the observation group was significantly lower, AROM angle and FMQ score were significantly higher, the difference was statistically significant(<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05).Conclusion:Extracorporeal shock wave combined with occupational therapy therapy can effectively improve the degree of upper limb spasticity and forearm supination joint activity in children with spastic cerebral palsy, and improve the fine motor function of hands.…”
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Cooperative content downloading scheme based on D2D multicast communications by Lianxin YANG, Dan WU, Feng YUAN, Chao YUE, Qinxue FU

“…Aiming at the content downloading scenario in the network such as cellular network and vehicular network,a cooperative content downloading scheme based on device-to-device multicast communications was proposed to improve the content downloading performance.Such a scheme took advantage of the proximity feature of the content requesters and groups them into disjoint clusters.Firstly,the base station delivered the entire content to a cluster,and each content requester in a cluster downloaded a proportion of the entire content.Then,the content requesters took turns sharing their downloaded content with other content requesters in the same cluster.In this way,the additional resource consumption of content sharing in a cluster was shared by the content requesters in the cluster together.During this process,a pricing-based approach was proposed to motivate these content requesters to cooperate with each other.Such an approach only required the base station to maintain a content downloading price.Based on this,the joint issue of user clustering,link scheduling and power allocation was studied to minimize the total cost of content requesters.To obtain a superior solution with reductive complexity,a joint optimization algorithm was designed based on the coalition formation game.Numerical results show that compared with the traditional non-cooperative scheme,the total cost of content requesters was reduced by 37.15%.Under different numbers of content requesters and cellular users,the proposed scheme is both superior to other benchmark schemes.…”
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Spectrum sharing schemes in cognitive radio networks based on collusion formation by Xue-song TAN, Chao LIN, Wei GUO

“…When multiple primary network (PN) with different interests competes to offer spectrum access opportunities for a single secondary network,a spectrum sharing scheme based on a repeated game model could be adopted to form a colluded monopoly for the licensed spectrum so as to maximize their total transmission utility.However,when a does not value its future transmission utility enough,it might choose to deviate from the present colluded monopoly to obtain a transmission utility larger than its monopoly utility,which then reduces the current and future transmission utilities of all other PN.Two new strategies were thereby proposed to produce a more flexible and credible spectrum sharing monopoly among all PN.Numerical simulation shows that,compared with the existing triggering strategy,the proposed strategies can effectively increase the overall transmission utility of all PN.…”
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Carbon Emission Reduction and Coordination Strategies for New Energy Vehicle Closed-Loop Supply Chain under the Carbon Trading Policy by Yan Yin, Fengcai Liu

“…In addition, this study establishes a Stackelberg game model dominated by NEV manufacturers and uses contracts to coordinate the model. …”
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The Principle of Mathematical Induction: Applications in Physical Optics by Joseph Ivin Thomas

“…In the contemporary university milieu, the demonstrative scheme is taught as part of a course in discrete mathematics, set theory, number theory, graph theory, group theory, game theory, linear algebra, logic, and combinatorics. …”
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Relationship between Anti-European Brown Hare Syndrome Serological Titers and Brown Hare (Lepus europaeus Pallas) Densities by Gisella Paci, Antonio Lavazza, Marco Ferretti, Francesco Santilli, Marco Bagliacca

“…A total of 172 hares was captured, checked for sex, and age, and blood samples were taken. …”
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Multimodal Green Logistics Network Design of Urban Agglomeration with Stochastic Demand by Jiehui Jiang, Dezhi Zhang, Shuangyan Li, Yajie Liu

“…The users’ choice behaviors are captured by a logit-based stochastic equilibrium model. To describe the game behaviors of logistics authorities in urban agglomeration, the problem is formulated as two nonlinear bilevel programming models, namely, independent and centralized decision models. …”
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Editorial by Christian Gütl

“…&amp;nbsp;Emre &amp;Ouml;nal and Abdullah B&amp;uuml;lb&amp;uuml;l from Turkiye cover in their research a computational game unit balancing approach based on game theory to make each game unit equally preferable against a uniform play strategy. …”
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Modeling the gameplay actions of elite volleyball players and teams based on statistical match reports by Sergii Iermakov, Tetiana Yermakova, Krzysztof Prusik

“…Important features for teams have been identified, indicating the successful execution of game elements for the team. The regression equations for the team represent a linear combination of various gameplay metrics that affect the total number of points the team scores in a match. …”
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Influence of Team Ability on Physical and Tactical Performance According to Playing Position in Spanish Soccer LaLiga. by Carlos Lago, Ezequiel Rey, Roberto López del Campo, Ricardo Resta, Yixiong Cui, Miguel Ángel Gómez Ruano

“…The following variables were considered: total distance covered (TD) covered by players, distance covered at high intensity (HIR; >24.0 km · h−1),  number of efforts made at high-intensity running (N of HIR), Average Speed (AvSpeed, km · h−1), Offensive Volume (Off Vol): sum of passes, shots, and dribbles executed by the player; Defensive Volume (Def Vol): sum of recoveries, clearances, opponent attack interruptions, and blocked shots executed by the player; and (iii) Game Volume (Game Vol): sum of offensive actions and defensive actions. …”
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Comparative Intradermal Tuberculin Testing of Free-Ranging African Buffaloes (Syncerus caffer) Captured for Ex Situ Conservation in the Kafue Basin Ecosystem in Zambia by Hetron Mweemba Munang'andu, Victor Siamudaala, Wigganson Matandiko, Andrew Nambota, John Bwalya Muma, Aaron Simanyengwe Mweene, Musso Munyeme

“…In the present study, 86 African buffaloes from four different herds comprising a total of 530 animals were investigated for the presence of BTB for the purpose of generating “BTB free” buffalo for ex-situ conservation. …”
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Optimal and Economic Programming in a Reconfigured Competitive Electricity Market Considering Dispersed Generation Sources with the Firefly Algorithm by Muhammad Sibtain, Snoober Saleem

“…In phase 2, the revenues of DG owners and the total payment of the distribution network (DN) are calculated. …”
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Umsetzung von verbindlichen Flächensparzielen im Rahmen der räumlichen Planung by Lutke Blecken, Robert Böhnke, Gabriel Götze, Jens-Martin Gutsche, Wolfgang Köck, Thomas Preuß

“…The analysis of land certificates trading was conducted through the “land trading simulation game” pilot project. However, there is no implementation or organizational model for operationalization using a spatial planning approach. …”
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