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Aphto: a task offloading strategy for autonomous driving under mobile edge
With the increasing complexity of autonomous driving tasks, the computational demands on single vehicular computing units have escalated, more and more tasks need to be offloaded to the edge. These tasks vary ...
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Tws-based path planning of multi-AGVs for logistics center auto-sorting
With the development of automation and intelligent technology, automatic guided vehicles (AGVs) are more and more widely used in Industrial and commercial scenarios. Especially in intelligent warehouses, the p...
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Open AccessIntegrated modelling of the determinants of household food insecurity during the 2020–2021 COVID-19 lockdown in Uganda
The determinants of household food insecurity (HFI) do not act in isolation, and are known to be complex, stochastic, nonlinear, and multidimensional. Despite this being especially true in periods of shocks, s...
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EAID: An Eye-Tracking Based Advertising Image Dataset with Personalized Affective Tags
Contrary to natural images with randomized content, advertisements contain abundant emotion-eliciting manufactured scenes and multi-modal visual elements with highly related semantics. However, little research...
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Discovery of novel phenanthridone derivatives with anti-streptococcal activity
To address the growing health threat posed by drug-resistant pathogenic microorganisms, the development of novel antimicrobial medications with multiple mechanisms of action is in urgent demand. With tradition...
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Open AccessPrivately vertically mining of sequential patterns based on differential privacy with high efficiency and utility
Sequential pattern mining is one of the fundamental tools for many important data analysis tasks, such as web browsing behavior analysis. Based on frequent patterns, decision-makers can obtain both economic ga...
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Open AccessBayesian belief network modelling approach for predicting and ranking risk factors for malaria infections among children under 5 years in refugee settlements in Uganda
Malaria risk factors at household level are known to be complex, uncertain, stochastic, nonlinear, and multidimensional. The interplay among these factors, makes targeted interventions, and resource allocation...
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New phenomena in Rulkov map based on Poincaré cross section
Different from analyzing the time-series directly, the Poincaré cross-sectional method is employed in the dynamical study of the Rulkov map** model. More importantly, some new phenomena of the model are repo...
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Public clay pot waters: a hidden risk for diarrheal diseases transmission in a cholera endemic area of Cameroon
Maroua, the capital of Far North Cameroon, is frequently affected by outbreaks of waterborne diseases. Waters stored in public clay pots are common in the city and are provided voluntarily by individuals for d...
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Open AccessComplex phase transitions and phase engineering in the aqueous solution of an isopolyoxometalate cluster
Inorganic salts usually demonstrate simple phasal behaviors in dilute aqueous solution mainly involving soluble (homogeneous) and insoluble (macrophase separation) scenarios. Herein, we report the discovery of...
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Open AccessDeterminants of malaria infections among children in refugee settlements in Uganda during 2018–2019
While 5% of 247 million global malaria cases are reported in Uganda, it is also a top refugee hosting country in Africa, with over 1.36 million refugees. Despite malaria being an emerging challenge for humanit...
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Thiol-functionalized chitosan poly(protic ionic liquids) hydrogel selectively anchors gold nanoparticles for aqueous catalysis
Well-dispersed gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) anchored by polymeric three-dimensional hydrogels for catalysis have received great attention, especially in aqueous-phase catalysis. In this study, thiol-functionali...
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Open AccessScalable high yield exfoliation for monolayer nanosheets
Although two-dimensional (2D) materials have grown into an extended family that accommodates hundreds of members and have demonstrated promising advantages in many fields, their practical applications are stil...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Root Cause Analysis Based on Trace for Mobile Network Problem
During the network operation, certain definite factors lead to the occurrence of some abnormal events, which will directly affect the service perception of users. There is a lack of expert talent, insufficient...
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Open AccessTuring patterns with high-resolution formed without chemical reaction in thin-film solution of organic semiconductors
Regular patterns can form spontaneously in chemical reaction-diffusion systems under non-equilibrium conditions as proposed by Alan Turing. Here, we found that regular patterns can be generated in uphill-diffu...
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Open AccessAssessment of a mass balance equation for estimating community-level prevalence of COVID-19 using wastewater-based epidemiology in a mid-sized city
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has emerged as a valuable epidemiologic tool to detect the presence of pathogens and track disease trends within a community. WBE overcomes some limitations of traditional c...
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Open AccessParasitological and malacological surveys to identify transmission sites for Schistosoma mansoni in Gomma District, south-western Ethiopia
Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease that disproportionately affects the poorest people in tropical and subtropical countries. It is a major parasitic disease causing considerable morbidity in Ethio...
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A-π-A structured non-fullerene acceptors for stable organic solar cells with efficiency over 17%
With the development of photovoltaic materials, especially the small molecule acceptors (SMAs), organic solar cells (OSCs) have made breakthroughs in power conversion efficiencies (PCEs). However, the stabilit...
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3D-Printed Bio-inspired Multi-channel Cathodes for Zinc–air Battery Applications
It is of great significance to enhance mass transfer and improve active surface area in cathodes for zinc–air batteries (ZABs), which promote oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) efficiency and power outputs. Natur...
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Transformation Properties of Hypergeometric Functions and Their Applications
The authors present sharp transformation inequalities for the zero-balanced hypergeometric function \({}_2F_1(a,b;a+b;r)\) ...
