Achieving secure and privacy-preserving incentive in vehicular cloud advertisement dissemination by Kong, Qinglei, Lu, Rongxing, Zhu, Hui, Ma, Maode

“…Finally, we prove the security of the proposed scheme in terms of secure access control and privacy preservation, and demonstrate its efficiency via simulation results (i.e., improves the amount of advertisement dissemination and brings incentives to participating vehicles).…”
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Neutron diffraction as a precise and reliable method for obtaining structural properties of bulk quantities of graphene by Sofer, Zdeněk, Šimek, Petr, Jankovský, Ondřej, Sedmidubský, David, Beran, Přemysl, Pumera, Martin

“…We present a study of the structural properties of graphene prepared by chemical and thermal reduction of graphite oxide, comparing SEM, STEM, AFM, Raman spectroscopy, BET, X-ray and neutron diffraction methods. Our study brings new deep insights into the basic structural properties of graphene in a bulk form. …”
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Enabling cyber incident collaboration in UK local government through fast-time communication by Brett, Mark

“…This paper brings together concepts and ideas to support organisations in implementing cyber incident response and coordination, especially focusing on the need for fast-time communications. …”

What can literature do that philosophy can't? Entering the hybrid worlds of Simone de Beauvoir and Iris Murdoch by Holt, N

“…It is not intended as a direct comparison of the two philosophers. But it necessarily brings them into closer dialogue. This has rarely happened before. …”

Development of a brief assessment tool to identify children with probable anxiety disorders by Reardon, T, Ukoumunne, OC, Ball, S, Gray, A, Violato, M, iCATS Team, Creswell, C

“…</p> <p><strong>Conclusions</strong></p> <p>The two-item parent-report measure that assesses distress and impairment associated with anxiety brings the advantage of brevity and has the potential to be used in community settings to improve identification of children with anxiety disorders.…”

Perceptions of meteorological phenomena in ancient Egypt by Jensen, CL

“…Finally, the discussion brings together all the evidence in order to appraise the perception of weather in ancient Egypt holistically.…”

Post-deployment adaptation with access to source data via federated learning and source-target remote gradient alignment by Wagner, F, Li, Z, Saha, P, Kamnitsas, K

“…This paper challenges this assumption and introduces&nbsp;<strong>FedPDA</strong>, a novel adaptation framework that brings the utility of learning from remote data from Federated Learning into PDA. …”

Classifying sarcoma cancer using deep neural networks based on multi-omics data by Azmi, Nur Sabrina, A. Samah, Azurah, Abdul Majid, Hairudin, Ali Shah, Zuraini, Hashim, Haslina, Azman, Nuraina Syaza, Mohamed Hashim, Ezzeddin Kamil

“…Therefore, instead of a single omics being used to identify the disease marker, integrating these omics to represent multi-omics brings more advantages in detecting and presenting the phenotype of the cancers. …”
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Object individuation and physical reasoning in infancy : an integrative account by Baillargeon, Renée, Stavans, Maayan, Wu, Di, Gertner, Yael, Setoh, Peipei, Kittredge, Audrey K., Bernard, Amélie

“…In this article, we argue that this confusing picture can be better understood by bringing to bear insights from a related subfield of infancy research, physical reasoning. …”
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Visual attention guided pixel-wise just noticeable difference model by Zeng, Zhipeng, Zeng, Huanqiang, Chen, Jing, Zhu, Jianqing, Zhang, Yun, Ma, Kai-Kuang

“…Experimental results indicate that compared with existing relevant JND profiles, the proposed JND model tolerates more distortion in the same perceptual quality, and brings better visual perception in the same level of the injected JND-noise energy.…”
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Living wishes : a communication campaign encouraging Singapore residents aged 35 to 59 to initiate Advance Care Planning discussions with their elderly parents by Chong, Charlotte Wen Wei, Gouw, Emily Shu Hui, Lee, Phyllis Zhi Ning, Tan, Raelynn Zhi Xuan

“…The culture of silence surrounding ACP in Singapore has led to low awareness, knowledge and take-up rates for ACP. This brings about significant issues, such as the loss of patient autonomy and increased burden on one’s family members when it comes to making important decisions about one’s EOL care. …”
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The effects of gradient running on lower limb skeletal muscle function parameters measured using TMG100 tensiomyography system by Sek, Qin Rui

“…Gradient running (GR) has become popular as a form of training, due to the benefits it brings. Tensiomyography (TMG) is a non-invasive method of assessing the contractile properties of a muscle, but has not been used to study the effects of an acute bout of GR. …”
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Orbital angular momentum transmission based on satellite formation relay in space communications by Zhao, Yufei, Ju, Gaohua, Yang, Zhaojie, Ge, Yao, Lu, Yilong, Guan, Yong Liang

“…However, the conical beam and the coaxial all-phase reception brings painful difficulties. As a promising solution to overcome this difficulty, an OAM multiplexing transmission method is proposed for use in a satellite formation relay scheme in this paper. …”
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The last flower: transforming inner feelings into innovative solutions by Yeo, Jesvin Puay-Hwa

“…This research project stimulates students’ inner feelings to a certain extent and brings higher-level learning from understanding external feelings to inner feelings, from observation and experimentation to application and innovation. …”
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Kansei evaluation and clustering in emotional design by Ng, Kassyn.

“…Design speaks a thousand words to the consumers and every design conveys a different message. Globalisation brings about an increasing number of affluent societies and more people want a product that suits their individual personality such as professional or sporty. …”
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Book review : The political economy of heaven and earth in Ghana / Charles Prempeh by Haynes, Jeffrey

“…He is a self-declared member of Ghana’s largest Protestant church, the Church of Pentecost. He brings to the topic of Christian nationalism both an academic’s sceptical eye and a believer’s focus.…”
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Exploring Greek-Cypriot female academics' experiences of precarity through a postcolonial lens: challenges, hopes and the reality of neoliberal universities in Europe by Meletiadou, Eleni

“…This article brings research from the fields of ‘the globalisation of international education’ (Cantwell, 2011), ‘postcolonial knowledge relations’ (Beban & Trueman, 2018; Moller Madsen & Mahlck, 2018) and ‘intersectional and trans locational gender research’ (Yangson & Seung, 2021) together into a meaningful conversation to develop a postcolonial analysis of layers of precariousness in academic work in Cyprus. …”
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A separation-of-powers model for a trustworthy and open cloud computing ecosystem by Ruan, A

“…<em>Openness</em> further brings a flourishing market to the ecosystem. It encourages many more diverse Cloud Service Providers to equally participate in the cloud ecosystem, regardless of their scale or capabilities. …”

Τhe burial rite of Enchytrismos in Attica, Euboea and Boeotia during the Late Geometric and Archaic periods. Towards an understanding of its social significance by Vlanti, AD

“…Since the rite of enchytrismos concerned mainly the biologically youngest members of Attic, Euboean and Boeotian communities, the present study brings this—often largely neglected—age category to the foreground. …”

A protocol for mobilising novel finance models for collaborative health promotion and disease prevention initiatives: taking a smart capacitating investment approach in the Invest4... by Lane, J, Edwards, RT, Babarczy, B, Whiteley, H, Oruganti, V, Rutten-van Mölken, M, Costongs, C, Jani, AR, Wordsworth, S, Maassen, A, Tsiachristas, A, Davies, J, Stavenow, B, van Vliet, J, Wright, S, Papartyte, L, Camaradou, JC, Koleva-Kolarova, R

“…Methods: The Invest4Health (I4H) project brings together transdisciplinary expertise in epidemiology, public health, health economics, population science, business management, finance, implementation and social sciences, digital health innovation, and regional health systems. …”