COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among medical and nonmedical undergraduate students: A cross-sectional study by Juwairiah Abdur Raheem, Saimah Naseer, Mohammed Imtiyazuddin, Mehnaaz Sameera Arifuddin

“…Vaccine hesitancy is indirectly related to vaccine coverage, and it is therefore important to reduce it by finding out its prevalence and root cause. …”
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APPLICATION OF PROTECTIVE COATINGS TO IMPROVE OPERATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE VESSELS by I. M. Abacharaev, M. M. Abacharaev

“…The novelty criterion is that when using it creates the possibility of a priori determination of the composition and structure kavitatsionnogo material coverage for specific components of ships, the details of their machines and mechanisms. …”
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Dynamic service migration strategy based on MDP model with multiple parameter in vehicular edge network by Hui GUO, Lanlan RUI, Zhipeng GAO

“…To handle with the service interruption caused by vehicles’ mobility and limited service coverage of edge servers,a dynamic service migration algorithm based on multi-parameters Markov decision process (MDP) model was put forward for vehicular edge network,which was called as dynamic service migration algorithm based on multiple parameter (DSMMP).Combining delay,bandwidth,server capacity with vehicle motion information,DSMMP constructed a multi-parameters MDP revenue function to remedy the deficiency of distance-based schemes.By using vehicle motion and delay constraints,a candidate server set with several candidate servers was defined,and migration decision through long-term Bellman revenue values was made.In order to improve the dynamic adaptability of the proposed algorithm,the weight values were calculated and updated by leveraging historical information.Simulation results show that our strategy has a good performance in terms of delay,packet loss ratio and service migration times.…”
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Data transmission algorithm of vehicle Ad Hoc network based on channel switching by Tiaojuan REN, Jinhao WAN, Yourong CHEN, Siyi LU, Banteng LIU

“…A data transmission algorithm of vehicle Ad Hoc network based on channel switching (DTA) was proposed.In the DTA,three network layers were considered,such as vehicle nodes,relay nodes and sink nodes.The vehicle nodes were classified by the information of vehicle’s driving direction.The vehicle nodes channel distribution and switching mechanism was proposed to reduce the interference of communication.Then a rapid transmission of relay nodes was proposed.A priority transmission method for emergency information was proposed to classify data with different queues and send data as their queues’ priority.Simulation results show that DTA can effectively achieve the rapid transmission of useful information,reduce unnecessary losses of energy,improve the data received rate of sink nodes,reduce the average hop number of data packets and improve coverage rate of data transmission.Under certain conditions,DTA is better than AODV and AODV-L algorithm,and is more suitable for vehicle driving environment of rapid change.…”
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Time Division Switching Scheme and Performance Analysis of Low Orbit Quantum Satellite Communication by Guang Yang, Min Nie, Fan Jiang

“…Low orbit quantum satellite system is used to realize a worldwide secure communication. …”
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Role of Peripheral Blood Smear in Rapid and Confirmative Pertussis Diagnosis: A Case Report by Omar Alswailmi, Samar El Shahidy

“…Bordetella pertussis was detected and confirmed using real-time polymerase chain reaction based on a positive nasopharyngeal swab.…”
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Sources of financing educational tasks by local government units in Poland by Halina Rechul, Krzysztof Surówka

“…The numerical data used in the analysis concern local government units in Poland and come mainly from reports on the implementation of their budgets prepared by the Ministry of Finance. …”
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PRALU language - the tool for verifying digital devices by D. I. Cheremisinov

“…In the UVM methodology, usually used in the modern design of digital devices for functional verification, a testing strategy, that determines the way in which a test case is constructed, is the random selection of space-driven constrained-random transaction-level self-checking testbenches. …”
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Temporal Evolution of Bradford Curves in Academic Library Contexts by Haobai Xue

“…This paper attributes the deviations from the theoretical J-shape to integer constraints on the number of journals and articles, extending Leimkuhler’s function to encompass highly productive core journals, where the theoretical journal number falls below one. Using the Simon–Yule model, key parameters of the extended formulas are identified and analyzed. …”
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Mesopelagic Mesozooplankton and Micronekton Database by Yulia Egorova, Evgeny A. Pakhomov, Ian McIvor, Andrea Le, Tymofiy Spesivy

“…Abstract The Mesopelagic Mesozooplankton and Micronekton Database (MMMD) compiles quantitative data on the distribution and density of mesopelagic (200–1000 m) mesozooplankton and micronekton (0.2–20 mm and 20–200 mm) species, using 258 published and unpublished sources spanning from 1880 to 2016. …”
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The politicisation of the climate emergency: the case of the 2019 United Kingdom general election by Alma-Pierre BONNET

“…Several key elements can be used to explain why the environment topped the voters’ main concerns, slightly behind Brexit and health, but on a par with crime and the economy: recent natural catastrophes such as the summer heatwaves or the floods in the North of the country and the growing climate awareness among younger citizens. …”
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Comparative evaluation and comparability of satellite and airborne data on the ice content of the Sea of Okhotsk by V. A. Romanyuk, G. G. Zhuravlev

“…Information on the sea ice coverage is one of the most important for the development of the Sakhalin shelf. …”
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A study of repetitive sequences in the genome of Sinopodisma qinlingensis by Xiongyan Yin, Nan Zhang, Xiaoyu Li, Lijia Gan, Yimeng Nie, Yuan Huang

“…The genome size of S. qinlingensis was determined to be 11.37 pg for females and 10.95 pg for males using flow cytometry. The analysis of low-coverage sequencing data revealed that the total repeat content of the genome was 63.58%, with long terminal repeat (LTR) elements accounting for 17.74% of the genome contents. …”
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Reconstruction of severe hand contractures: An illustrative series by S C Tucker

“…The decision making process is presented as a flow chart indicating when and which flaps were used. Results: Illustrations demonstrate what was achieved, with all hands obtaining an improvement in function. …”
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The Impact of Releasing Domestic Dogs on the Spread of Rabies Disease and Its Prevention by Afit Ahmad Fitri, Marsudi Marsudi, Trisilowati Trisilowati

“…If this threshold is exceeded, it becomes necessary to ensure a minimum of 20% vaccination coverage and eliminate at least 1% of rabid dogs.…”
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STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN THE ROMANIAN AGRICULTURE: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FARMING SECTOR by Elena BULARCA (OLARU), Elena TOMA

“…Therefore, the main of this article is to describe the agricultural holdings situation and evolution in 2002-2016 period using data from the Agricultural Census (2002, 2010 years) and Farm Structure Survey (2005, 2007, 2013, 2016 years). …”
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Development and Operation of a Global‐Scale Seismographic Network: The IRIS/USGS GSN by Peter Davis

“…The network's breadth of coverage enables images of great earthquakes impossible to obtain from regional networks or array data alone. …”
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Research on the NB-IoT Random Access in LEO Satellite IoT by Haodong LIU, Zhong ZHENG, Wenjin WANG, Li YOU, Xiqi GAO

“…Narrowband internet of things (NB-IoT) technology is widely used in data communications for a large number of low-speed and low-power devices, but it is diff cult to provide services for remote areas that cannot be covered by terrestrial networks.With its global coverage and low cost, the LEO satellite constellation can supplement and expand the terrestrial NB-IoT infrastructure, providing an eff ective solution for the space-based internet of things.Facing the application requirements of space-based internet of things, on the basis of reviewing the NB-IoT system architecture, the challenges of channel environment high dynamic delay and frequency off set faced by the application of NB-IoT technology in the LEO satellite constellation scenario were analyzed.For the uplink random access process, an eff ective user detection and timing synchronization method was designed, which had the advantages of high performance and low complexity, and provided an eff cient receiving method for the LEO satellite NB-IoT uplink random access synchronization.…”
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Gulf Stream Mean and Eddy Kinetic Energy: Three‐Dimensional Estimates From Underwater Glider Observations by Robert E. Todd

“…Those observations are used to make three‐dimensional estimates of mean and eddy kinetic energy, substantially expanding the geographic coverage of prior estimates of subsurface kinetic energy in the Gulf Stream. …”
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A hybrid model based on learning automata and cuckoo search for optimizing test item selection in computerized adaptive testing by Chanjuan Jin, Weiming Pan

“…A learning automaton is used to feed a neural network with the ability to predict a student’s ability based on their response history. …”
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