New Area Studies as an Epistemological Framework: Some Reflections of Knowledge Production and Positionality by Marianela Barrios Aquino

“…Next, I propose that taking such critique seriously involves necessarily a discussion of knowledge production and research practice. Finally, I propose that New Area Studies can be understood as an epistemological framework useful to address contemporary challenges faced by all social sciences, not only Area Studies. …”
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Method to improve edge coverage in fuzzing by Chunfu JIA, Shengbo YAN, Zhi WANG, Chenlu WU, Hang LI

“…Aiming at the problems of incomplete edge coverage,insufficient uses of edge coverage information and valid bytes information in AFL (American fuzz lop),a novel method was proposed.Firstly,a new seed selection algorithm was introduced,which could completely cover all edges discovered in one cycle.Secondly,the paths were scored according to the frequency of edges,to adjust the number of tests for each seed.Finally,more mutations were crafted on the valid bytes of AFL.Based on the method above,a new fuzzing tool named efuzz was implemented.Experiment results demonstrate that efuzz outperforms AFL and AFLFast in the edge coverage,with the increases of 5% and 9% respectively.In the LAVA-M dataset,efuzz found more vulnerabilities than AFL.Moreever,in real world applications efuzz has found three new security bugs with CVEs assigned.The method can effectively improve the edge coverage and vulnerability detection ability of fuzzer.…”
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Development of eHealth in Slovenia - Critical Issues and Future Directions by Dalibor Stanimirović

“…Focusing on the Slovenian experience, the paper summarizes the main deficiencies in the current eHealth settings, and finally outlines a set of applicable guidelines for an effective development and implementation of highly intricate and complex eHealth project.    …”
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Energy Consumption Analysis of High-Speed Trains under Real Vehicle Test Conditions by Qing Zhang, Hongjun Yu, Xin Su, Yao Li

“…Furthermore, an idea for improving the general expression and calculation methods of traction energy consumption of EMUs was proposed. Finally, suggestions on the construction of a traction energy consumption information system were provided, and the selection of different high-speed EMU models and the reasonable determination of the operating speed were discussed.…”
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Innovative soliton solutions for a (2+1)-dimensional generalized KdV equation using two effective approaches by Ibrahim Alraddadi, Faisal Alsharif, Sandeep Malik, Hijaz Ahmad, Taha Radwan, Karim K. Ahmed

“…Thus, in scientific domains such as fluid mechanics, plasma physics, and wave propagation in media ranging from ocean surfaces to optical fibers, our results are crucial to comprehend the principles behind the production and propagation of many complicated phenomena. Finally, we provide 2D and 3D graphs for various solutions that have been obtained using Maple.…”
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Energy-efficient and QoS-supported deployment strategy of dense Macro-Femto cellular network by Yun LI, Chunsheng WANG, Bin CAO, Qilie LIU

“…With the exponentially increasing of users’ demand for mobile data traffic,massive small cells have been deployed to satisfy the users’ quality of service (QoS) by operators.However,a significant energy would be consumed caused by dense deployment.To this end,a dense heterogeneous cellular network deployment strategy was proposed with QoS guarantee to decline system energy consumption.Firstly,a dense Macro-Femto biased cellular network was used to build the network model,the two QoS indicators of SINR coverage and user average rate was analyzed by stochastic geometry theory.Then,under the condition of QoS constraint,average spatial power consumption (ASPC) was taken as the optimization goal,optimal deploy density and transmission power of Femto were achieved by using optimization theory.Finally,the experimental results show that,comparing with the traditional strategy which only considering base station density,the proposed strategy has advantages in terms of energy efficiency while QoS guarantee.…”
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Blind SNR estimation for OFDM signals in cognitive radio by Ming-qian LIU, Bing-bing LI, Ning-jie TANG, Zhao LI

“…The traditional blind SNR estimation algorithms had problems of poor performance and high computation complexity for OFDM systems in cognitive radio with low signal to noise ratio(SNR)and multi-path channel conditions,in view of which a novel blind SNR estimation method for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing(OFDM)signals was proposed.Firstly,the channel order was roughly estimated by utilizing the characteristics of autocorrelation function to determine the data interval which was free of inter-symbol interference(ISI).Secondly,the signal average power was estimated by computing the autocorrelation values of data in the determined interval.Finally,the noise average power was estimated by utilizing the characteristics that the data in cyclic prefix which was replication of part useful data.So the SNR of the received signals could be estimated.The simulation results show that the proposed method doesn’t need any prior information and has better performance and lower computation complexity,which is more suitable for OFDM systems in cognitive radio.…”
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An Unusual Complication in Plastic Periodontal Surgery by Jorge Vagarinho, Sara Sardinha, Ricardo Alves

“…Schneiderian membrane was sutured to reduce the dimension of the communication and covered with a connective tissue graft. Finally, the flap was laterally and coronally moved, and the patient instructed about postoperative precautions. …”
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Coordination of New Energy Vehicles Closed-Loop Supply Chain under Government Subsidies and Different Power Structures by Yuping Wu, Zhaoyang Tian, Guilin Chang

“…In addition, the effect of government subsidies on battery recovery is better in cases of vehicle manufacturer dominance than in those of battery manufacturer dominance. Finally, when a battery manufacturer is in the dominant position, a revenue sharing contract can incentivize supply chain coordination; when a vehicle manufacturer is in the dominant position, a two-part tariff contract can realize coordination in the supply chain.…”
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Optimization Analysis of Settlement Parameters for Postgrouting Piles in Loess Area of Shaanxi, China by Zhijun Zhou, Shanshan Zhu, Xiang Kong, Jiangtao Lei, Tong Liu

“…The optimum value of the settlement empirical coefficient was determined using regional data. Finally, we used the postgrouting pile of the Wuqi–Dingbian expressway as a practical example. …”
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Algorithm Selection for Allocating Pods Within Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems: A Hyper-Heuristic Approach by Maria Torcoroma Benavides-Robles, Jorge M. Cruz-Duarte, Jose Carlos Ortiz-Bayliss, Ivan Amaya

“…For example, when simulating for 24 hours, the best hyper-heuristic uses the worst heuristic for 80% of the time, and yields a solution with a throughput time 1.4% better than that of the best heuristic. Finally, the resulting model is affected by simulation time, sequence ordering, and heuristic subset.…”
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Bidirectional Charging Hubs in the Electric Vehicle Retail Landscape: Opportunities and Challenges for the U.K. Case by I. Safak Bayram, Xiang Shi

“…Leveraging publicly available datasets from six mainstream EV models, the suitability of various EV fleets for each market is assessed. Finally, recent V2G projects are analyzed, and the broader societal implications of bidirectional charging hubs are discussed.…”
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PCA-based membership inference attack for machine learning models by Changgen PENG, Ting GAO, Huilan LIU, Hongfa DING

“…Aiming at the problem of restricted access failure in current black box membership inference attacks, a PCA-based membership inference attack was proposed.Firstly, in order to solve the restricted access problem of black box membership inference attacks, a fast decision membership inference attack named fast-attack was proposed.Based on the perturbation samples obtained by the distance symbol gradient, the perturbation difficulty was mapped to the distance category for membership inference.Secondly, in view of the low mobility problem of fast-attack, a PCA-based membership inference attack was proposed.Combining the algorithmic ideas based on the perturbation category in the fast-attack and the PCA technology to suppress the low-migration behavior caused by excessive reliance on the model.Finally, experiments show that fast-attack reduces the access cost while ensuring the accuracy of the attack.PCA-based attack is superior to the baseline attack under the unsupervised setting, and the migration rate of model is increased by 10% compared to fast-attack.…”
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Dynamic Behavior of a Suspended Steel Space Frame-Glass Composite Floor by Zhihao Wang, Xin Qi, Youkun Huang, Buqiao Fan, Xiaoke Li

“…It is shown that the equivalent local FE model can well predict both the dynamic characteristics and human-induced vibration response of the floor. Finally, the effect of the damping ratio on the acceleration response of the floor was numerically demonstrated with the verified local FE model.…”
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An improved sparrow search algorithm with multi-strategy integration by Zongyao Wang, Qiyang Peng, Wei Rao, Dan Li

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Analyzing the Formation Mechanism of Cross-City Transportation Network Resilience by Liang Wang, Xiaolong Xue, Weirui Xue, Beile Zhao

“…Based on the standard linear solid model, a theoretical model is constructed and solved for revealing the formation mechanism of cross-city transportation network resilience. Finally, the theoretical model of cross-city transportation network resilience proposed in this study is used for analyzing the China railway network resilience.…”
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The Role of Organizational Learning in Mediating the Relationship between Business Model Design and Innovation Performance by Jia Zhang, Hui Xu, Xiangxia Xiao

“…Besides, organizational innovativeness mediates the relationship between OLC and OI. Finally, the findings suggest that managers should improve organizational learning capabilities and improve innovation performance to enhance positive entrepreneurial orientation performance connections.…”
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Double-UV Photoionizaion Detector with Graphene Oxide-Coated Electrodes by Qi Zhou, Xu Zhang, Xu Ma, Sixiang Zhang

“…Through analyzing the results of the simulation experiment, further optimization of the gas channel for the microdetector was carried out, and the ionization chamber with axial flow structure was finally chosen. The new nanomaterial, graphene oxide was used to modify the surface of the collector plate of detector to improve the gas sensitivity and sensitivity of the photoionization detector. …”
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A New Fractional-Order Map with Infinite Number of Equilibria and Its Encryption Application by Ahlem Gasri, Amina-Aicha Khennaoui, Adel Ouannas, Giuseppe Grassi, Apostolos Iatropoulos, Lazaros Moysis, Christos Volos

“…The approximate entropy is used to observe the changes in the sequence sequence complexity when the fractional order and system parameter. Finally, the fractional map is applied to the problem of encrypting electrophysiological signals. …”
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Energy-Efficient Routing Control Algorithm in Large-Scale WSN for Water Environment Monitoring with Application to Three Gorges Reservoir Area by Yuanchang Zhong, Lin Cheng, Liang Zhang, Yongduan Song, Hamid Reza Karimi

“…Secondly, the algorithm adjusts cluster heads and optimizes the clustering according to the maximum energy-welfare of the cluster by the cluster head shifting mechanism. Finally, in order to save node energy efficiently, cluster heads transmit data to the base station in single-hop and multihop way. …”
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