Use of a Smartphone to Gather Parkinson’s Disease Neurological Vital Signs during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Jay L. Alberts, Mandy Miller Koop, Marisa P. McGinley, Amanda L. Penko, Hubert H. Fernandez, Steven Shook, Robert A. Bermel, André Machado, Anson B. Rosenfeldt

“…The aim of the project was to determine the feasibility of utilizing a combined synchronous and asynchronous self-administered smartphone application to characterize PD symptoms. …”
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RACER: A Lightweight Distributed Consensus Algorithm for the IoT with Peer-Assisted Latency-Aware Traffic Optimisation by Zachary Auhl, Harsha Moraliyage, Naveen Chilamkurti, Damminda Alahakoon

“…These devices encompass a wide range of applications, from household appliances to industrial systems, designed to enhance connectivity and automation. …”
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Analysis and Suppression of the Self-excitation of Motor and LC Filter During the Test Procedure by WANG Shi-ping, HUANG Zhi-guo, LI Dang-ying, YANG Ming-yuan, LIANG Wen-chao

“…Based on the actual motor test engineering applications, self-excitation phenomenon between capacitor of LC filter and rotating asynchronous motor was analyzed when inverter suddenly blocks pulses for frequency control system, as well as methods for suppressing self- excitation were proposed. …”
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Phase Response Identification of Photodetectors in High-Speed Interferometry Using Photoelectric Pseudorandom Signals by Yunke Sun, Yifei Xie, Xiaotong Yan, Xu Xing, Pengcheng Hu

“…Through correlation operations and phase spectrum analysis, the phase response of a photodetector with a 10-MHz bandwidth is identified with a model reliability of 90% and an uncertainty of 0.50° (k = 2). In practical applications, the identified phase response can help an interferometer suppress asynchronous errors to the sub-nm level within a maximum speed of 1.58 m/s. …”
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Higher-order thinking skills in e-learning contexts in higher education: a phenomenological study by Jiban Khadka, Niroj Dahal, Usha Acharya, Gobinda Puri, Nirmala Subedi, Md. Kamrul Hasan

“…The findings indicate that the university manages its virtual classes in a blended mode, using both synchronous and asynchronous methods with limited e-resources such as MS Teams and Moodle. …”
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Online food allergy and anaphylaxis education for school personnel is effective and scalable: experience with the allergyaware e-learning portal from 2015 to 2022 by Bhanu Sharma, Stephanie Ayers, Joni Huang, Jennifer Gerdts, Susan Waserman, Anthony J. Levinson

“…Abstract Background Providing training to school personnel on how to prevent, recognize, and manage anaphylaxis is critical. Asynchronous e-learning (where instructional material is available on-demand) may be well-suited to help with the implementation, scale, and dissemination of this training. …”
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HYBRID COMMUNICATION TRAINING TECHNIQUE TO SOLVE WARTIME ACADEMIC AND SAFETY ISSUES: PERCEPTION OF MEDICAL STUDENTS by Lyubov Gutor, Pavlo Sodomora

“…Contemporary global epidemiological and wartime issues emphasize the development and application of academic techniques enabling the maintenance of qualitative education and training of future professionals. …”
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Comparative Analysis of A3C and PPO Algorithms in Reinforcement Learning: A Survey on General Environments by Alberto del Rio, David Jimenez, Javier Serrano

“…A3C is ideal for applications requiring rapid training, while PPO is better suited for those prioritizing training stability.…”
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Impact of long trains on the railway track by V. S. Kossov, A. A. Lunin, Y. A. Panin, A. V. Trifonov, I. E. Il’In

“…The article presents results of pilot and theoretical studies of JSC VNIKTI in the field of interaction of railway track and a rolling stock and perspective of their application. Questions of longitudinal dynamics in the conditions of different types of braking of trains of increased weight and lengths and their influence on infrastructure are considered. …”
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Neonatal Circumcision Simulation: A Resource for Beginners by Rakhi Gupta Basuray, Sofia Davila, Jennifer Springer

“…Methods Participants received an instructional video for asynchronous viewing in advance of an in-person small-group session. …”
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Method-Level Syntactic and Semantic Clustering for Microservice Discovery in Legacy Enterprise Systems by Adambarage Anuruddha Chathuranga de Alwis, Alistair Barros, Colin Fidge, Artem Polyvyanyy

“…Enterprise systems, such as enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, and supply chain management systems, are widely used in corporate sectors and are notorious for being large, inflexible and monolithic. Their many application-specific methods are challenging to decouple manually because they manage asynchronous, user-driven business processes and business objects having complex structural relationships. …”
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Experimental Study on Single-Particle Combustion Characteristics of Large-Sized Wheat Straw in a Drop Tube Furnace by Haoteng Zhang, Lihui Yu, Cuina Qin, Shuo Jiang, Chunjiang Yu

“…This work provides essential experimental data on the fundamental combustion characteristics and alkali metal release of large-sized wheat straw particles under pulverized coal boiler combustion conditions, offering engineering application guidance for the direct co-firing of large-sized flexible straw biomass in pulverized coal boilers.…”
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Detection of Sensitive Malicious Android Functionalities Using Inter-Component Control-Flow Analysis by Rati Bhan, Parvez Faruki, Rajendra Pamula

“…The proposed technique detects sensitive features exploited by persistent malware without user knowledge. Despite the asynchronous characteristics of the ICC Application Programming Interface (API), we develop a precise ICC-based component-interaction graph (CIG) from the app bytecode. …”
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Time Synchronization in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Max and Average Consensus Protocol by Zhao Dengchang, An Zhulin, Xu Yongjun

“…The proposed protocol has the advantage of being totally distributed, asynchronous, and robust to packet drop and sensor node failure. …”
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Features of minimizing total electrical losses in high-voltage electromechanical systems for stationary industrial fan installations by A.V. Synetskyi, I.M. Kotsur

“…The proposed methodology can be applied to minimizing losses in high-voltage electromechanical drive systems for both AC and DC applications used in various industrial mechanisms. …”
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NULL Convention Floating Point Multiplier by Anitha Juliette Albert, Seshasayanan Ramachandran

“…This paper presents the design of an IEEE 754 single precision floating point multiplier using asynchronous NULL convention logic paradigm. Rounding has not been implemented to suit high precision applications. …”
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A Comprehensive Study of the Synthesis, Spectral Characteristics, Quantum–Chemical Molecular Electron Density Theory, and In Silico Future Perspective of Novel CBr₃-Func... by Karolina Zawadzińska-Wrochniak, Karolina Kula, Mar Ríos-Gutiérrez, Bartłomiej Gostyński, Tomasz Krawczyk, Radomir Jasiński

“…We hope that the presented study will be helpful for searching for the future direction of application for this class of organic compounds.…”
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Ensuring the Reliability and Efficiency of the Power Industry in the Agricultural Sector of the Republic of Belarus in Modern Conditions by I. V. Protosovitskii, E. P. Zabello, M. A. Prishchepov, V. A. Daineko

“…Since there are a number of technologies in agriculture where electric energy is used without the electric drive units application and each of the technological processes has its own requirements for the reliability and quality of electric energy, the scheme of mutual redundancy from adjacent substations using distributed generation sources and technical means of automated energy accounting, control and management of electrical loads, is considered.…”
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A CCP-Based Decentralized Optimization Approach for Electricity–Heat Integrated Energy Systems with Buildings by Xiangyu Zhai, Xuexue Qin, Jiahui Zhang, Xiaoyang Liu, Xiang Bai, Song Zhang, Zhenfei Ma, Zening Li

“…With the widespread application of combined heat and power (CHP) units, the coupling between electricity and heat systems has become increasingly close. …”
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Controllable vibration of mobility links of production mechanism by Nikolay F. Karnaukhov, Maxim N. Filimonov, Roman S. Mironenko

“…Discussion and Conclusions. The application domain of the developed technical solution covers many PMs with FCD for which the short-time operation modes (with CY of 40% and more) are considered basic. …”
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