Atomistic simulation of the uniaxial tension of black phosphorene nanotubes by Van-Trang Nguyen, Danh-Truong Nguyen, Minh-Quy Le

“… In the present work, the uniaxial tensile tests of 3 pairs black phosphorene nanotubes are simulated by molecular dynamics finite element method with Stillinger-Weber potential. Each pair contains an armchair black phosphorene nanotube and a zigzag one, which have approximately equal diameters. …”
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Individual Account of Rotor Current Displacement while Calculating Group Self- Starting of Asynchronous Electric Motors Being TPS Auxiliaries by V. I. Novach, R. F. Minachev

“…Generalized dependences have been obtained on the basis of individual dependences using method of least squares with due account of utilization of these or that characteristics. …”
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Traffic-Adaptive Inter Wavelength Load Balancing for TWDM PON by Kamran Ali Memon, Qi Zhang, Rizwan Aslam Butt, Khalid Hussain Mohammadani, Muhammad Faheem, Noor ul Ain, Feng Tian, Xiangjun Xin

“…This study presents a dynamic inter wavelength migration scheme for the optical network units (ONUs) employing linear regression machine learning method to equalize the traffic volume on all the wavelengths in time and wavelength division multiplexed passive optical network (TWDM PON). …”
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Adaptive Design for Phase II/III Platform Trial of Lassa Fever Therapeutics by Josephine Bourner, Michel Vaillant, Alex Paddy Abdel Salam, Marie Jaspard, Camille Fritzell, Shevin T. Jacob, Tom E. Fletcher, Michael Ramharter, Nnennaya Ajayi, Sylvanus Okogbenin, Cyril Erameh, Donald Grant, Robert Samuels, Oladele Oluwafemi Ayodeji, Armand Sprecher, Bronner P. Gonçalves, Tansy Edwards, Piero Olliaro

“…Given the persistent effects in areas with endemic transmission and epidemic potential, there is an urgent need to reassess ribavirin and investigate other potential therapeutic candidates; however, a robust clinical trial method adapted to Lassa fever epidemiology has not yet been established. …”
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Irrigation monitoring from satellite at hyper-high resolution: Paving the way for remote-sensing-based agricultural water management support services by Jacopo Dari, Stefano Lo Presti, Luca Brocca

“…The irrigation mapping experiment, carried out by leveraging the TSIMAP (Temporal Stability derived Irrigation MAPping) method, is validated at the farm scale only. An overall accuracy of 93 % is reached, corresponding to two agricultural fields misreproduced as non-irrigated out of the total number equal to twenty-eight. …”
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Robust and Reversible Audio Watermarking by Modifying Statistical Features in Time Domain by Shijun Xiang, Le Yang, Yi Wang

“…This paper presents a novel robust reversible audio watermarking method by modifying the statistic features in time domain in the way that the histogram of these statistical values is shifted for data hiding. …”
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Type Synthesis of Hybrid Robot Mechanism with 3T2R based on Single Opened Chain Unit by Sheng Weifeng, Chen Hai, Qin Youlei, Cao Yi

“…By analyzing the structures characteristics of the lower- mobility serial kinematic mechanism（SKM） and parallel kinematic mechanism（ PKM）,based on the linear independence theory of kinematic screws and taking of the lower- mobility SKM with single opened chain as unit,a systematic and effective type synthesis method is proposed for hybrid mechanism including the definition and symbol denotation method of both hybrid robots with a parallel mechanism and multi- parallel mechanisms. …”
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Hybrid hiding in multimedia files by Farah Mohammed

“…The data has been retrieved with no error for both text and binary image after deciphering and decompress process completed; the value of normalization correlation factor for both of them is equal to one.…”
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PLANT CLASSIFICATION BASED ON LEAF EDGES AND LEAF MORPHOLOGICAL VEINS USING WAVELET CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK by Wulan Dewi, Wiranto Herry Utomo

“…The results obtained using the Wavelet Convolutional Neural Network method are equal to 97.13%.  …”
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À la recherche d’une poétique ou comment lire une chanson populaire américaine by Frédéric Sylvanise

“…Following the example of what cantology does with French songs, it seems important to us to elaborate a method meant to analyse American popular songs which would take into account the music, the lyrics and voices equally. …”
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Racism, Sexism and the Genesis of a “Womanish” Identity in Selected Novels by Alice Walker and Toni Morrison by Selma CHOUCHANE

“…Alice Walker’s Womanism is adopted as the basic analytical method. As a literary movement, Womanism tries to give black women the voice of liberty, empowerment, and equality in order to fight both race and gender prejudice. …”
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Optimizing time windows of Sentinel-2 images for deep learning-based cropland segmentation through iterative multi-criteria decision analysis by Reza Maleki, Falin Wu, Guoxin Qu, Amel Oubara, Byambakhuu Gantumur, Gongliu Yang

“…This demonstrates equal or superior results for optimized time windows compared to seven consecutive months in the growing season, underscoring the robustness and generalizability of the method.…”
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An Analysis of the Influential Factors on the Social Security feeling in Rural Areas with an Emphasis on Social Capital (Case Study: Marhamat Abad Myani Rural District of Myandoab...

“…Considering the number of households in every village, a certain number of households were randomly chosen for filling up the questionnaires so that the equal opportunity principle would be observed rightly. …”
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Variabilidade espacial e temporal da seção transversal de escoamento superficial em sulcos de irrigação Spatial and temporal variability of surface cross-sectional flow in furroms... by Joaquim J. de Carvalho, Carlos A. V. de Azevedo, Jaqueline Henrique, José Dantas Neto, Vera L. A. de Lima, Roberto V. Pordeus

“…The maximum variations observed, along the crop season, in the topwidth, width at 50% of the maximum height, base width and maximum height were, respectively, in spatial terms equal to 16.3, 18.7, 105.2 and 35.1%; and equal to 11.4, 13.5, 38.0 and 23.7%, in temporal terms.…”
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Evaluate Group Sequential Design Sample Sizes for Reference-Scaled Average Bioequivalence Based on Monte Carlo Simulations in Highly Variable Drugs by FuDong Wen, Dan Liu, Wei Tian, Ce Ji, Yue Su, Miao He, Nan Yang, YuPeng Wang

“…The classic sample size estimation method for grouping sequential design (GSD) of the RSABE method is a single-stage sample size multiplied by the inflation factor. …”
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STRUCTURE OF THE NODULAR GOITER IN CHILDREN by O. S. Rogova, L. N. Samsonovа, G. F. Okminyan

“…For today the question of early diagnosis of nosological variants, the method of treatment and prevention of nodular goiter in children is still not fully resolved. …”
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An Analysis of the Impact of Deviatoric Stress and Spherical Stress on the Stability of Surrounding Rocks in Roadway by Liu Rui, Zhu Quanjie

“…Based on the analysis, the distribution laws guiding the main stress differences, plastic zone, convergence of surrounding rocks, and third invariant of stress under various conditions (such as equal spherical stress and unequal deviatoric stress and equal deviatoric stress and unequal spherical stress) were developed, providing an optimization scheme for roadway support misunderstanding under the conditions of high spherical stress field and high deviator stress field. …”
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Pensar el sorteo. Modos de selección, marcos deliberativos y principios democráticos by Dimitri Courant

“…My first research hypothesis is that sortition is likely to offer a greater equality, impartiality and representativeness. My second hypothesis is that sortition is the only method of selection producing a specific form, a humility-legitimacy when the three other selection modes are producing a superiority-legitimacy, where the principal is declared superior to the agent through the selection process. …”
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Investigating the Relationship between Cost, Benefit and Attachment to the Environment by Mediating Behavioral Attitudes among Sports Tourists by Mohammad Saeid Kiani, Leila Nazari

“…According to Kukran formula sample size was equal to 722 persons. 920 questionnaires distributed among population that 722 questionnaires were analyzed. …”
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Highly sensitive salinity sensing using annular one-dimensional photonic crystals by Hassan Sayed, Ashour M. Ahmed, Ali Hajjiah, M. A. Abdelkawy, Arafa H. Aly

“…D represents the central defect layer from saline water, which equals 3400 nm, and N equals 5. Hence, we achieve an exceptional sensitivity of 1910.6 nm/RIU, surpassing most reported 1D-PC salinity sensors. …”
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