Differences in perspectives on the Christian revolution of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in China by Shuihuan E. Wang

“…Meanwhile, it sheds light on the issue of ‘heterocultural adaptability’ brought about by the expansion and spread of Protestant Christianity in East Asia, as well as on the question of whether Protestantism and Confucianism in the process of modern conversion can achieve peaceful coexistence.…”
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Comparative Analysis of Simple Additive Weighting Method and Weighted Product Method to New Employee Recruitment Decision Support System (DSS) at PT. Warta Media Nusantara by Agus Setyawan, Florentina Yuni Arini, Isa Akhlis

“…<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>Issue handling of inadvertence situations in the decision-making process of recruiting new employees at PT. …”
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Investigating snow cover duration changes based on a cloud-free snow cover product developed using a spatiotemporal cloud removal method for Northeast China by Dajiang Yan, Yinsheng Zhang

“…However, cloud contamination makes it challenging to obtain snow cover extent using optical sensors. To address this issue, we develop a series of spatiotemporal cloud-clearing processes to mitigate cloud contamination based on Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) snow products. …”
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Microstructural Characteristics of Modified ODS Ni-Based Superalloys Fabricated using Laser-Powder Bed Fusion by Dong Wan Lee, Jin Woo Kim, Su Gwan Lee, Dhin Van Cong, Jin Chun Kim, Hwi Jun Kim, Joong Gyeong Lim, Tae Sik Yoon

“…Oxide dispersion-strengthened (ODS) superalloys are usually manufactured by a hot isostatic pressing after mechanical alloying (MA-HIP). However, this process cannot produce complex-shaped parts. Here, we used an additive manufacturing product (powders produced by laser powder bed fusion, L-PBF) to address this issue. …”
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Geospatial dataset on deforestation and urban sprawl in Dhaka, Bangladesh: A resource for environmental analysisMendeley Data by Md. Fahad Khan, Md. Rakibul Islam, Shanto Kumar Basak, Ahmed Imtiaz, Abhijit Bhowmik, Dip Nandi, Mashiour Rahman, Debajyoti Karmaker

“…It provides critical insights into the application of machine learning and image processing in addressing real-world environmental issues.…”
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On protecting the data privacy of Large Language Models (LLMs) and LLM agents: A literature review by Biwei Yan, Kun Li, Minghui Xu, Yueyan Dong, Yue Zhang, Zhaochun Ren, Xiuzhen Cheng

“…This paper aims to demonstrate data privacy issues associated with LLMs and LLM agents to facilitate a comprehensive understanding. …”
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Atomic‐scale strain analysis for advanced Si/SiGe heterostructure by using transmission electron microscopy by Lan Li, Ran Bi, Zuoyuan Dong, Changqing Ye, Jing Xie, Chaolun Wang, Xiaomei Li, Kin‐Leong Pey, Ming Li, Xing Wu

“…Convergent‐beam electron diffraction, nano‐beam electron diffraction, dark‐field electron holography, and high‐resolution TEM with geometrical phase analysis, are comprehensively discussed in terms of spatial resolution, strain precision, field of view, reference position, and data processing. Also, the advantages and critical issues of these strain analysis methods based on the TEM technique are summarized, and the future direction of TEM techniques in the related areas is prospected.…”
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Waste-to-Taste: Transforming Wet Byproducts of the Food Industry into New Nutritious Foods by Anna Koptelova, Aurélien Ducrey, Bénédicte Lunven, Léa Köller, Natalia Nagornova, Edouard W. Appenzeller, Tiffany Abitbol

“…Although these sidestreams remain nutritious, their conversion to foods can be complicated by issues of digestibility and processing, particularly when the residues are wet and therefore highly susceptible to microbial degradation. …”
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Theoretical investigation of photonic spin Hall effect based on layered metastructure with graphene regulation by WOA for encoding and encryption by Na Pei, Ye Zheng, Yue-Qi Tang, Xing-Zhou Tang, Hai-Feng Zhang

“…An innovative method was proposed based on a graphene metastructure to enhance the photonic spin Hall effect (PSHE), addressing issues of insufficient information transmission confidentiality and flexibility in photon information processing. …”
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Optimizing Federated Learning on TinyML Devices for Privacy Protection and Energy Efficiency in IoT Networks by William Villegas-Ch, Rommel Gutierrez, Alexandra Maldonado Navarro, Aracely Mera-Navarrete

“…However, its implementation in low-power devices, such as Tiny Machine Learning, faces significant challenges due to the processing, memory, and unstable connectivity limitations that characterize these environments. …”
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Evolutionary learning in neural networks by heterosynaptic plasticity by Zedong Bi, Ruiqi Fu, Guozhang Chen, Dongping Yang, Yu Zhou, Liang Tian

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Optimizing Solar Energy Harvesting: A K‐Means Clustering Approach for Enhanced Efficiency and Viability by Li Bin, Muhammad Shahzad, Muhammad Farhan, Muhammad Sanaullah Khan, Mubaarak Abdulrahman Abdu Saif, Girmaw Teshager Bitew

“…The K‐means algorithm, a fundamental image processing technique, is utilized to classify images into distinct groups. …”
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Estimation of total Effort and Effort Elapsed in Each Step of Software Development Using Optimal Bayesian Belief Network by Fatemeh Zare Baghiabad, Hasan Khademi Zare, Mohammadsaber Fallahnezhad, Fazlollah Adibnia

“…Accuracy in estimating the needed effort for software development caused software effort estimation to be a challenging issue. Beside estimation of total effort, determining the effort elapsed in each software development step is very important because any mistakes in enterprise resource planning can lead to project failure. …”
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Secure Cooperative Spectrum Sensing and Allocation in Distributed Cognitive Radio Networks by Hui Lin, Jia Hu, Chuan Huang, Li Xu, Bin Wu

“…Despite their promising characteristics, CRNs also introduce new security threats, especially the internal attacks during the spectrum sensing and allocation process, which can degrade the efficiency of spectrum sensing and allocation. …”
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Social Crises: Signatures of Complexity in a Fast-Growing Economy by Juan Pablo Cárdenas, Gerardo Vidal, Carolina Urbina, Gastón Olivares, Pablo Rodrigo, Miguel Fuentes

“…Social systems are always exposed to critical processes in which their organization, or part of it, is questioned by the society that demands solutions through different critical saliences. …”
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Avoiding Digital Divide in European Union through European Green Deal by Brătucu, G., Nichifor, E., Sumedrea, S., Chițu, I.B., Lixăndroiu, R.C.

“…The phenomenon of digital divide has become a very important issue in the process of transformation of society and the authors relate it to European Green Deal, in order to identify the determinants and ways to reduce the negative effects that will be eliminated according to the proposed schedule. …”
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A cost-effective approach to counterbalance the scarcity of medical datasets by Bernardo Magnini, Saeed Farzi, Pietro Ferrazzi, Pietro Ferrazzi, Soumitra Ghosh, Alberto Lavelli, Giulia Mezzanotte, Manuela Speranza

“…This paper presents an innovative methodology for addressing the critical issue of data scarcity in clinical research, specifically within emergency departments. …”
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A Novel Bearing Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Improved Convolutional Neural Network and Multi-Sensor Fusion by Zhongyao Wang, Xiao Xu, Dongli Song, Zejun Zheng, Weidong Li

“…Firstly, the feature extraction process of the convolutional neural network (CNN) is improved based on the theory of variational Bayesian inference, which forms the variational Bayesian inference convolutional neural network (VBICNN). …”
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THE ACTIVITY OF TRANSPOSING DIRECTIVE 2014/94/EU OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND COUNCIL OF 22 OCTOBER 2014 ON THE DEPLOYMENT OF ALTERNATIVE FUELS INFRASTRUCTURE. THE POST-TRANSPO... by Ionela-Alina ZORZOANĂ

“…The analysis shall refer to the scope of issuing the Community deed, but especially to the challenges recorded during the process of transposing Directive 2014/94/EU in Romania and the triggering of the infringement procedure against Romania. …”
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A Cox Model-Based Workflow for Increased Accuracy in Activity-Travel Patterns Generation by Dionysios Katsaitis, Dimitrios Rizopoulos, Konstantinos Gkiotsalitis

“…This article introduces an activity-based approach that addresses this issue by applying statistical and machine learning models to improve the precision of activity duration estimates. …”
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