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24 Citations
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19 February 2016

Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) have an important role in urban management and planning. The effective integration of vehicle information in VANETs is critical to traffic analysis, large-scale vehicle route planning and intelligent transportation...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,720 Views
20 Pages

New Advancements in AdS/CFT in Lower Dimensions

  • Yolanda Lozano and
  • Anayeli Ramirez

We review recent developments in the study of the AdS/CFT correspondence in lower dimensions. We start by summarising the classification of AdS3×S2 solutions in massive type IIA supergravity with (0, 4) supersymmetries and the construction of their 2...

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  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,547 Views
16 Pages

Altered Functional Connectivity of Basal Ganglia in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease

  • Yu Xiong,
  • Chenghui Ye,
  • Ying Chen,
  • Xiaochun Zhong,
  • Hongda Chen,
  • Ruxin Sun,
  • Jiaqi Zhang,
  • Zhanhua Zhong and
  • Min Huang

15 November 2022

(1) Background: Alzheimer’s disease (AD), an age-progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects cognitive function, causes changes in the functional connectivity of the default-mode network (DMN). However, the question of whether AD-related...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,293 Views
17 Pages

11 September 2022

Ad Hoc networks have been widely used in emergency communication tasks. For dynamic characteristics of Ad Hoc networks, problems of node energy limited and unbalanced energy consumption during deployment, we propose a strategy based on game theory an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,698 Views
21 Pages

14 August 2017

Large-N, ϵ -expansion or the conformal bootstrap allow one to make sense of some of conformal field theories in non-integer dimension, which suggests that AdS/CFT may also extend to fractional dimensions. It was shown recently that the sphere fr...

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  • Open Access
2,586 Views
12 Pages

8 February 2023

The thesis of this paper is that in the digital age we are moving away from words and concepts characteristic of the print age, towards the use of images and symbols. I distinguish between objective symbols as in mathematics, and cultural symbols as...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,409 Views
12 Pages

In mobile ad hoc networks, network nodes cooperate by packet forwarding from the source to the destination. As the networks become denser, more control packets are forwarded, thus consuming more bandwidth and may cause packet loss. Recently, game the...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,660 Views
19 Pages

13 March 2022

This study explores the underlying psychological structure of purchasing value-added pulse products. It expands the theory of planned behavior (TPB) model by incorporating an emotional factor and explains consumers’ attitudes and subsequent beh...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,216 Views
15 Pages

15 June 2021

Corporations have engaged in cause-related marketing (CRM) based on consumer expectations toward ethical and sustainable corporate management. However, it is equally important to understand how to do so effectively. The role of cause proximity has be...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,534 Views
25 Pages

Persona, a special means of image management by social media influencers (SMIs), has become a trending phenomenon and it is expected to substantially affect SMIs’ persuasiveness and ad effect. This study aims to explore the impact of SMIs&rsquo...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,443 Views
17 Pages

22 June 2020

Anaerobic digestion (AD) is an economical and effective method to treat sludge. AD with several pretreatments is the prior process to treat surplus sludge for a wastewater treatment plant. During a sludge-treatment process, various methanogens play t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,444 Views
23 Pages

Formation Control Technology of Fixed-Wing UAV Swarm Based on Distributed Ad Hoc Network

  • Wenbo Suo,
  • Mengyang Wang,
  • Dong Zhang,
  • Zhongjun Qu and
  • Lei Yu

6 January 2022

The formation control technology of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm is a current research hotspot, and formation switching and formation obstacle avoidance are vital technologies. Aiming at the problem of formation control of fixed-wing UAVs...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
955 Views
41 Pages

A Max-Flow Approach to Random Tensor Networks

  • Khurshed Fitter,
  • Faedi Loulidi and
  • Ion Nechita

15 July 2025

The entanglement entropy of a random tensor network (RTN) is studied using tools from free probability theory. Random tensor networks are simple toy models that help in understanding the entanglement behavior of a boundary region in the anti-de Sitte...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,693 Views
25 Pages

12 April 2024

We illustrate how structural equation models (SEMs) can be used to assess the reliability and generalizability of composite and subscale scores, proportions of multiple sources of measurement error, and subscale added value within multivariate design...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
809 Views
24 Pages

The construction of parallel runways is an effective solution to address the constraints of urban land resources and mitigate flight delays caused by the increasing volume of air traffic. To ensure the safety of parallel approach operations and furth...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,792 Views
19 Pages

This paper reports the computational study of phosphorus-doped boron clusters PBn/PBn–/PBn+ (n = 4–8). First, a global search and optimization of these clusters were performed to determine the stable structures. We used density functional...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,372 Views
31 Pages

Extending Applications of Generalizability Theory-Based Bifactor Model Designs

  • Walter P. Vispoel,
  • Hyeryung Lee,
  • Tingting Chen and
  • Hyeri Hong

13 June 2023

In recent years, researchers have described how to analyze generalizability theory (GT) based univariate, multivariate, and bifactor designs using structural equation models. However, within GT studies of bifactor models, variance components have bee...

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  • Open Access
4,686 Views
18 Pages

24 October 2017

In the large coupling regime of the 5-dimensional Einstein–Maxwell–Chern–Simons theory, charged and rotating cohomogeneity-1 black holes form sequences of extremal and non-extremal radially excited configurations. These asymptotically global Anti-de...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
5,234 Views
14 Pages

3 May 2016

The equation of state associated with N = 4 supersymmetric Yang–Mills in four dimensions, for S U ( N ) in the large N limit, is investigated using the AdS/CFT correspondence. An asymptotically AdS black-hole on the gravity side provi...

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  • Open Access
1,613 Views
29 Pages

7 August 2025

We investigate whether China’s Value-Added Tax (VAT) Credit Refund policy influences firms’ sustainable development capability (SDC), which reflects innovation-driven growth and green development. Exploiting the 2018 implementation of the...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
7,143 Views
21 Pages

Influence of Regulatory Fit Theory on Persuasion from Google Ads: An Eye Tracking Study

  • Yessica-Ileana Giraldo-Romero,
  • Carmen Pérez-de-los-Cobos-Agüero,
  • Francisco Muñoz-Leiva,
  • Elena Higueras-Castillo and
  • Francisco Liébana-Cabanillas

Search engine marketing accounts for a high percentage of investment in platforms such as Google. Several studies have confirmed that users have a negative bias towards advertisements, so we apply social psychology theories via the elaboration probab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,305 Views
59 Pages

Engineering Management and Modular Design: A Path to Robust Manufacturing Processes

  • Ali Mollajan,
  • Vincent James Thomson and
  • Seyed Hossein Iranmanesh

8 January 2025

Manufacturing environments, characterized by dynamic changes and uncertainties, demand effective strategies to minimize disruptions. This study introduces an innovative approach that integrates engineering management principles with modular design to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,215 Views
39 Pages

A Multi-User Game-Theoretical Multipath Routing Protocol to Send Video-Warning Messages over Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

  • Ahmad Mohamad Mezher,
  • Mónica Aguilar Igartua,
  • Luis J. De la Cruz Llopis,
  • Esteve Pallarès Segarra,
  • Carolina Tripp-Barba,
  • Luis Urquiza-Aguiar,
  • Jordi Forné and
  • Emilio Sanvicente Gargallo

17 April 2015

The prevention of accidents is one of the most important goals of ad hoc networks in smart cities. When an accident happens, dynamic sensors (e.g., citizens with smart phones or tablets, smart vehicles and buses, etc.) could shoot a video clip of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,568 Views
24 Pages

9 October 2017

We examine three point functions with two scalar operators and a higher spin current in 2d W N minimal model to the next non-trivial order in 1 / N expansion. The minimal model was proposed to be dual to a 3d higher spin gauge theory,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,493 Views
34 Pages

On Functional Hamilton–Jacobi and Schrödinger Equations and Functional Renormalization Group

  • Mikhail G. Ivanov,
  • Alexey E. Kalugin,
  • Anna A. Ogarkova and
  • Stanislav L. Ogarkov

10 October 2020

We consider the functional Hamilton–Jacobi (HJ) equation, which is the central equation of the holographic renormalization group (HRG), functional Schrödinger equation, and generalized Wilson–Polchinski (WP) equation, which is the ce...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,782 Views
12 Pages

20 September 2023

Molecules sourced from marine environments hold immense promise for the development of novel therapeutic drugs, owing to their distinctive chemical compositions and valuable medicinal attributes. Notably, Talarolide A and Talaropeptides A–D hav...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,324 Views
29 Pages

Data Freshness and End-to-End Delay in Cross-Layer Two-Tier Linear IoT Networks

  • Imane Cheikh,
  • Essaid Sabir,
  • Rachid Aouami,
  • Sébastien Roy and
  • Mohamed Sadik

3 December 2022

The operational and technological structures of radio access networks have undergone tremendous changes in recent years. A displacement of priority from capacity–coverage optimization (to ensure data freshness) has emerged. Multiple radio acces...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,809 Views
25 Pages

Hydrodynamic Analysis of Two Coaxial Moonpool Floaters Using Theoretical Methodologies

  • Anargyros S. Mavrakos,
  • Dimitrios N. Konispoliatis and
  • Spyridon A. Mavrakos

The present contribution aims at presenting a semi-analytical solution methodology of the linear hydrodynamic diffraction and radiation problems induced by two coaxial moonpool-type floaters subjected to incident waves. The flow field around the floa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,738 Views
19 Pages

Ad-Hoc Lanzhou Index

  • Akbar Ali,
  • Yilun Shang,
  • Darko Dimitrov and
  • Tamás Réti

11 October 2023

This paper initiates the study of the mathematical aspects of the ad-hoc Lanzhou index. If G is a graph with the vertex set {x1,…,xn}, then the ad-hoc Lanzhou index of G is defined by Lz˜(G)=∑i=1ndi(n−1−di)2, where di rep...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,691 Views
26 Pages

Circuit Complexity from Supersymmetric Quantum Field Theory with Morse Function

  • Sayantan Choudhury,
  • Sachin Panneer Selvam and
  • K. Shirish

11 August 2022

Computation of circuit complexity has gained much attention in the theoretical physics community in recent times, to gain insights into the chaotic features and random fluctuations of fields in the quantum regime. Recent studies of circuit complexity...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,146 Views
18 Pages

Authority is both a pragmatic condition of much public discourse and a form of argumentative appeal routinely used in it. The goal of this contribution is to propose a new account of challenging authority in argumentative discourse that benefits from...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,560 Views
17 Pages

Dysuricemia

  • Akiyoshi Nakayama,
  • Masafumi Kurajoh,
  • Yu Toyoda,
  • Tappei Takada,
  • Kimiyoshi Ichida and
  • Hirotaka Matsuo

28 November 2023

Gout results from elevated serum urate (SU) levels, or hyperuricemia, and is a globally widespread and increasingly burdensome disease. Recent studies have illuminated the pathophysiology of gout/hyperuricemia and its epidemiology, diagnosis, treatme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,012 Views
23 Pages

In this paper, an artificial neural network was used to predict the added resistance coefficient for container ships in regular head waves for various speeds. The data used for training the neural network were gathered based on performed numerical ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,277 Views
31 Pages

Game-Theoretical Design of an Adaptive Distributed Dissemination Protocol for VANETs

  • Cristhian Iza-Paredes,
  • Ahmad Mohamad Mezher,
  • Mónica Aguilar Igartua and
  • Jordi Forné

19 January 2018

Road safety applications envisaged for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) depend largely on the dissemination of warning messages to deliver information to concerned vehicles. The intended applications, as well as some inherent VANET characteristics,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,090 Views
40 Pages

Circuit Complexity in Z2 EEFT

  • Kiran Adhikari,
  • Sayantan Choudhury,
  • Sourabh Kumar,
  • Saptarshi Mandal,
  • Nilesh Pandey,
  • Abhishek Roy,
  • Soumya Sarkar,
  • Partha Sarker and
  • Saadat Salman Shariff

22 December 2022

Motivated by recent studies of circuit complexity in weakly interacting scalar field theory, we explore the computation of circuit complexity in Z2 Even Effective Field Theories (Z2 EEFTs). We consider a massive free field theory with higher-order Wi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,458 Views
14 Pages

Metabolic Brain Network Analysis of FDG-PET in Alzheimer’s Disease Using Kernel-Based Persistent Features

  • Liqun Kuang,
  • Deyu Zhao,
  • Jiacheng Xing,
  • Zhongyu Chen,
  • Fengguang Xiong and
  • Xie Han

21 June 2019

Recent research of persistent homology in algebraic topology has shown that the altered network organization of human brain provides a promising indicator of many neuropsychiatric disorders and neurodegenerative diseases. However, the current slope-b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,416 Views
11 Pages

29 June 2021

The budding and division of artificial cells engineered from vesicles and droplets have gained much attention in the past few decades due to an increased interest in designing stimuli-responsive synthetic systems. Proper control of the division proce...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,086 Views
20 Pages

Shape Deformation, Budding and Division of Giant Vesicles and Artificial Cells: A Review

  • Ylenia Miele,
  • Gábor Holló,
  • István Lagzi and
  • Federico Rossi

6 June 2022

The understanding of the shape-change dynamics leading to the budding and division of artificial cells has gained much attention in the past few decades due to an increased interest in designing stimuli-responsive synthetic systems and minimal models...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,625 Views
23 Pages

26 June 2022

Enterprises in low-carbon supply chains have been exploring blockchain technology in order to make carbon data transparent. However, there is still some opaque information in the market, such as the value-added service efficiency. How do supply chain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
8,107 Views
14 Pages

Can the Economic Value Added Be Used as the Universal Financial Metric?

  • Zbysław Dobrowolski,
  • Grzegorz Drozdowski,
  • Mirela Panait and
  • Arkadiusz Babczuk

3 March 2022

Previous research into Economic Value Added (EVA) has extensively described it as a business metric of firms. Still, no studies have confirmed or denied that EVA is a universal metric and that one may use EVA in unstable markets in the same way as in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,245 Views
26 Pages

Higher Spin Extension of Fefferman-Graham Construction

  • Xavier Bekaert,
  • Maxim Grigoriev and
  • Evgeny Skvortsov

29 January 2018

Fefferman-Graham ambient construction can be formulated as sp ( 2 ) -algebra relations on three Hamiltonian constraint functions on ambient space. This formulation admits a simple extension that leads to higher-spin fields, both conformal gaug...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
3,644 Views
17 Pages

It was argued recently that the holographic higher spin theory features non-local interactions. We further elaborate on these results using the Mellin representation. The main difficulty previously encountered in this method is that the Mellin amplit...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,447 Views
22 Pages

In this paper, we study the channel allocation in multi-channel wireless ad hoc networks with directional antennas. In particular, we investigate the problem: given a set of wireless nodes equipped with directional antennas, how many channels are nee...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
14,413 Views
22 Pages

9 July 2017

An intelligent tour service system including an augmented reality (AR) tour-sharing Application (APP) and a query-answering server was developed in this study to promote tourist attractions involving local Hakka culture in Thailand. Subsequently, use...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,599 Views
15 Pages

White Matter Brain Network Research in Alzheimer’s Disease Using Persistent Features

  • Liqun Kuang,
  • Yan Gao,
  • Zhongyu Chen,
  • Jiacheng Xing,
  • Fengguang Xiong and
  • Xie Han

Despite the severe social burden caused by Alzheimer’s disease (AD), no drug than can change the disease progression has been identified yet. The structural brain network research provides an opportunity to understand physiological deterioratio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,896 Views
21 Pages

Evaluation of the Effect of Container Ship Characteristics on Added Resistance in Waves

  • Ivana Martić,
  • Nastia Degiuli,
  • Andrea Farkas and
  • Ivan Gospić

9 September 2020

Added resistance in waves is one of the main causes of an increase in required power when a ship operates in actual service conditions. The assessment of added resistance in waves is important from both an economic and environmental point of view, ow...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,419 Views
23 Pages

The decrease in ship added resistance in waves fits into both the technical and operational measures proposed by the IMO to reduce the emissions of harmful gases from ships. Namely, the added resistance in waves causes an increase in fuel consumption...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
5,636 Views
21 Pages

The Inclusion of Intellectual Capital into the Green Board Committee to Enhance Firm Performance

  • Syed Quaid Ali Shah,
  • Fong-Woon Lai,
  • Muhammad Kashif Shad,
  • Zdeňka Konečná,
  • Feybi Ariani Goni,
  • Abdoulmohammad Gholamzadeh Chofreh and
  • Jiří Jaromír Klemeš

29 September 2021

The purpose of this study was to conceptualise a framework that reflects an intertwined relationship between the green board committee and firm performance. Agency and stakeholder theories hold a basic notion of supporting the relationship between th...

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