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This paper aims to answer a general question: whether an international organization (IO) is able to shape public opinion in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the pandemic took hold in early 2020, cou...
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Taking Sides with the US Against China?—An Analysis of the Taiwanese Choice
As Taiwan is now recognized as one of the major flashpoints for potential conflict between the US and China, one strategic choice confronting Taiwanese citizens is whether Taiwan should take sides with the US ...
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Open AccessThermotolerance evaluation of Taiwan Japonica type rice cultivars at the seedling stage
The subtropical rice varieties grown in Taiwan are mainly Japonica-type rice varieties, which are grown in the southernmost- and lowest-latitude Japonica type rice cultivation area in the world. In Taiwan, see...
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Thermalization of an Oscillating Bose Condensate in a Disordered Trap
Previously, we numerically showed that thermalization can occur in an oscillating Bose–Einstein condensate with a disordered harmonic trap when the healing length
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Open AccessSuperconductivity in Empty Bands and Multiple Order Parameter Chirality
Recent experiments have shown rotation of the plane of polarization of light reflected from the surface of some superconductors. The photon energy exceeds the electronic bandwidth, so that completely filled or...
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Underwater Acoustic Multimedia Communication Based on MIMO–OFDM
A transmission scheme is proposed based on multi-input multi-output orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) for underwater acoustic multimedia (UWAM) communication. The proposed scheme integrates dir...
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A Routing Scheme with Localized Movement in Event-Driven Wireless Sensor Networks
In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), energy is one of the most important resources that should be economically used. But most routing approaches employed by WSNs are hop-by-hop relay schemes, which cause sensor...
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An Autonomous Energy-Aware Routing Scheme: a Supplementary Routing Approach for Path-Preserving Wireless Sensor Networks
One of the hottest research topics is how to reduce energy consumption to prolong the lifetime of a WSN. Some nodes of a WSN may be isolated from others, particularly when all their neighbors have crashed or r...
