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The key role of unsaturated olefin content on polysulfides prepared via inverse vulcanization of waste plant oils for mercury removal from wastewater
Three waste plant oils (olive oil, coconut oil, and soybean oil) were utilized as monomer crosslinking agents to synthesize polysulfides by inverse vulcanization with elemental sulfur, for mercury removal from...
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Experimental Study on Failure Mode of Precast Assembled Segmental Beams under Impact Loading
Precast segmental girder bridges are threatened by impact loads during service, but there is currently little research on the impact behavior of such bridges. This study investigated the dynamic responses and ...
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A multi-agent reinforcement learning method with curriculum transfer for large-scale dynamic traffic signal control
Using reinforcement learning to control traffic signal systems has been discussed in recent years, but most works focused on simple scenarios such as a single crossroads, and the methods aiming at large-scale ...
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Stability and Error Estimates of Local Discontinuous Galerkin Methods with Implicit–Explicit Backward Difference Formulas up to Fifth Order for Convection–Diffusion Equation
In this paper, the stability analysis and optimal error estimates are presented for a kind of fully discrete schemes for solving one-dimensional linear convection–diffusion equation with periodic boundary cond...
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Validamycin reduces the transmission of Tomato chlorotic virus by Bemisia tabaci
Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius), commonly known as whitefly or sweet potato whitefly, causes feeding-related injuries to plants, and transmits more than 200 different plant viruses, including Tomato chlorosis virus (T...
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An adaptive multi-sensor visual attention model
The emerging recurrent visual attention models mostly utilize a sensor to continuously capture features from the input, which requires a suited design for the sensor. Researchers usually need a number of attem...
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Preparation of cassava fiber-iron nanoparticles composite for electrochemical determination of tea polyphenol
Rapid detection of tea polyphenol is necessary in food and beverages. In this work, we used cassava fibers as a substrate on which iron nanoparticles were immobilized. The proposed composite was used for surfa...
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Multi-Agent Reward-Iteration Fuzzy Q-Learning
Fuzzy Q-learning extends Q-learning to continuous state space and has been applied to a wide range of applications such as robot control. But in a multi-agent system, the non-stationary environment makes joint...
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Attentive Hybrid Recurrent Neural Networks for sequential recommendation
Recently, the sequential recommendation has become a hot spot. Previous works combined user long-term and short-term behavior to achieve the next item recommendation, but the previous works typically processed...
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Graph convolutional network-based reinforcement learning for tasks offloading in multi-access edge computing
To achieve high quality of service for computation-intensive applications, multi-access edge computing (MEC) is proposed for offloading tasks to MEC servers. The emerging reinforcement learning-based task offl...
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A Fuzzy Curiosity-Driven Mechanism for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Many works provide intrinsic rewards to deal with sparse rewards in reinforcement learning. Due to the non-stationarity of multi-agent systems, it is impracticable to apply existing methods to multi-agent rein...
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Open AccessVariation in both host defense and prior herbivory can alter plant-vector-virus interactions
While virus-vector-host interactions have been a major focus of both basic and applied ecological research, little is known about how different levels of plant defense interact with prior herbivory to affect t...
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Identification and map** of a photoperiod response gene (QPpd.zafu-4A) on wild emmer wheat (Triticum turgidum L.) chromosome 4AL
Heading date (HD) is an important agronomic trait, influencing directly or indirectly yield and quality traits. Previous experiments showed that the chromosome arm substitution line (CASL) 4AL of wild emmer in...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Detection and epidemic dynamic of ToCV and CCYV with Bemisia tabaci and weed in Hainan of China
In the original publication of this article [1], the author found the legends of Fig. 3 and Fig. 4 were incorrect.
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Open AccessData quality analysis and cleaning strategy for wireless sensor networks
The quality of data in wireless sensor networks has a significant impact on decision support, and data cleaning is an effective way to improve data quality. However, if the data cleaning strategies are not cor...
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Deep thermal structure of Southeast Asia constrained by S-velocity data
Southeast Asia, located in the southeastern part of the Eurasian Plate, is surrounded by tectonically active margins, exhibiting intense seismicity and volcanism, contains complex geological units with a perpl...
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Open AccessDetection and epidemic dynamic of ToCV and CCYV with Bemisia tabaci and weed in Hainan of China
In recent years, two of the crinivirus, Tomato chlorosis virus (ToCV) and Cucurbit chlorotic yellows virus (CCYV) have gained increasing attention due to their rapid spread and devastating impacts on vegetable pr...
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Cybersecurity Decision Making Mechanism for Defense Strategies in Vehicle Networks
With the development of intelligent transportation system, vehicle networks (VNs) have brought new security challenges due to their mobile and infrastructure-less nature. The existing security solutions lack t...
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Policy Learning with Human Reinforcement
A reinforcement learning agent learns an optimal policy under a certain environment with an evaluative reward function. In some applications, such an agent may lack sufficient adaptability to handle a variety...
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Open AccessAdaptive Omni-directional Walking Method with Fuzzy Interpolation for Biped Robots
Omni-directional walking is an important part for biped robots. Whereas, the problems of complex model, low stability, low flexibility, etc., existing in walking planning of biped robots, attract interests of ...
