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  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,162 Views
4 Pages

CALE: Learning by Example in Mathematics with Applets in Mathematical Computational Packages

  • Luis Martínez,
  • Javier Gutiérrez,
  • Leire Legarreta,
  • Iker Malaina and
  • Iraide Mardones

28 October 2018

In this work we present a methodology of “learning by example” assisted by computers in the study of mathematics. We propose the use of mathematical computational packages to program applets aimed to solve mathematical problems. Each time the student...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 2nd Innovative and Creative Education and Teaching International Conference)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,232 Views
11 Pages

Attention-Mechanism-Based Face Feature Extraction Model for WeChat Applet on Mobile Devices

  • Jianyu Xiao,
  • Hongyang Zhou,
  • Qigong Lei,
  • Huanhua Liu and ,
  • Zunlong Xiao and
  • Shenxi Huang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Face recognition technology has been widely used with the WeChat applet on mobile devices; however, facial images are captured on mobile devices and then transmitted to a server for feature extraction and recognition in most existing systems. There a...

(This article belongs to the Section Industrial Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,607 Views
17 Pages

Evaluation of a Novel WeChat Applet for Image-Based Dietary Assessment among Pregnant Women in China

  • Ye Ding,
  • Xiaolong Lu,
  • Zhencheng Xie,
  • Tingting Jiang and ,
  • Chenglin Song and
  • Zhixu Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 September 2021

As an important part of antenatal care for pregnant women in China, dietary assessment plays a positive role in maternal and fetal health. Shortcomings in the associated methodologies require improvement. Our purpose was to develop a novel WeChat App...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nutrition Assessment Methodology: Current Update and Practice)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,570 Views
25 Pages

Observed Equity and Driving Factors of Automated External Defibrillators: A Case Study Using WeChat Applet Data

  • Shunyi Liao,
  • Feng Gao,
  • Lei Feng,
  • Jiemin Wu and ,
  • Zexia Wang and
  • Wangyang Chen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) causes a high mortality rate each year, which is a threat to human well-being and health. An automated external defibrillator (AED) is an effective device for heart attack-related diseases and is a panacea to sav...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Geographical Information System in Urban Design, Management or Evaluation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10,099 Views
9 Pages

8 August 2004

Within the framework of the itinerant radical model, the solvated electron in liquid alcohols is understood as an itinerant alkyl-oxonium ROH2. radical. As a first step in the investigation of those radicals, this study deals with the optimization of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
15,217 Views
25 Pages

12 April 2020

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is of great significance to the improvement of industrial efficiency and quality, and to reduce industrial costs and resources. However, there are few openly-reported practical project applications based on th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Internet of Things for Smart Homes and Industrial Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,085 Views
24 Pages

We study an online–merge–offline (OMO) system that integrates a retailer’s online and offline channels through an e-commerce platform and a wireless applet. The customers in the online channel are generated through paid advertising...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,012 Views
16 Pages

Effects of a Novel Applet-Based Personalized Dietary Intervention on Dietary Intakes: A Randomized Controlled Trial in a Real-World Scenario

  • Hongwei Liu,
  • Jingyuan Feng,
  • Zehuan Shi,
  • Jin Su and ,
  • Jing Sun,
  • Fan Wu and
  • Zhenni Zhu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

19 February 2024

The objective of this study was to assess the feasibility and effectiveness of a novel WeChat applet-based personalized dietary intervention aimed at promoting healthier dietary intakes. A two-arm parallel, randomized, controlled trial was conducted...

(This article belongs to the Topic Ways to Achieve Healthy and Sustainable Diets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
20,274 Views
13 Pages

A Java Chemical Structure Editor Supporting the Modular Chemical Descriptor Language (MCDL)

  • Sergei V. Trepalin,
  • Alexander V. Yarkov,
  • Igor V. Pletnev and
  • Andrei A. Gakh

29 March 2006

A compact Modular Chemical Descriptor Language (MCDL) chemical structure editor (Java applet) is described. The small size (approximately 200 KB) of the applet allows its use to display and edit chemical structures in various Internet applications. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,478 Views
11 Pages

Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) bloodstream infections comprise a major cause of crude hospital mortality. This is a cross-sectional study that used claims data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (N = 565,875). The study objective...

  • Article
  • Open Access
396 Views
23 Pages

22 September 2026

Java Card virtual machines execute from non-volatile memory in secure elements, where repeated reference indirection adds latency to frequently executed instructions. This paper proposes link-time bytecode quickening for the statically resolvable inv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,552 Views
16 Pages

Development and Validation of the Predictive Model for the Differentiation between Vestibular Migraine and Meniere’s Disease

  • Dan Liu,
  • Zhaoqi Guo,
  • Jun Wang,
  • E Tian and ,
  • Jingyu Chen,
  • Liuqing Zhou,
  • Weijia Kong and
  • Sulin Zhang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

14 August 2022

(1) Background: Vestibular migraine (VM) and Meniere’s disease (MD) share multiple features in terms of clinical presentations and auditory-vestibular dysfunctions, e.g., vertigo, hearing loss, and headache. Therefore, differentiation between V...

(This article belongs to the Topic Brain, Hearing and Tinnitus Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,987 Views
18 Pages

AED Inequity among Social Groups in Guangzhou

  • Feng Gao,
  • Siyi Lu,
  • Shunyi Liao,
  • Wangyang Chen and ,
  • Xin Chen,
  • Jiemin Wu,
  • Yunjing Wu,
  • Guanyao Li and
  • Xu Han
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

Automated external defibrillators (AEDs) are regarded as the most important public facility after fire extinguishers due to their importance to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) victims. Previous studies focused on the location optimization of th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue HealthScape: Intersections of Health, Environment, and GIS&T)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,601 Views
30 Pages

30 November 2021

We construct a spatially-compartmental, individual-based model of the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in indoor spaces. The model can be used to predict the infection rates in a variety of locations when various non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) are intro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,507 Views
12 Pages

The Gene-Centric Content Management System and Its Application for Cognitive Proteomics

  • Ekaterina V. Poverennaya,
  • Alexander V. Shargunov,
  • Elena A. Ponomarenko and
  • Andrey V. Lisitsa

23 February 2018

The Human Proteome Project is moving into the next phase of creating and/or reconsidering the functional annotations of proteins using the chromosome-centric paradigm. This challenge cannot be solved exclusively using automated means, but rather requ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
1,100 Views
12 Pages

People with severe motor disabilities have extreme access difficulties with all kinds of web services especially when they want not only to surf the web, but also write some text, e.g., to participate in an e-activity. Several problems arise when usi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,913 Views
14 Pages

25 May 2022

Shui manuscripts provide a historical testimony of the national identity and spirit of the Shui people. In response to the lack of a high-quality Shui manuscripts dataset, we collected Shui manuscript images in the Shui area and used various methods...

(This article belongs to the Topic Complex Systems and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,975 Views
24 Pages

Research on Comfort Evaluation Model of Urban Residents’ Public Space Lighting Integrating Public Perception and Nighttime Light Remote Sensing Data

  • Shengrong Wei,
  • Weili Jiao,
  • Huichan Liu,
  • Tengfei Long and ,
  • Yongkun Liu,
  • Ping Ji,
  • Ruixia Hou,
  • Naijing Zhang and
  • Yundan Xiao
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

29 January 2022

With the development of a sustainable lifestyle, people are paying more and more attention to the comfort of their own living environment, including public space lighting, which is immediately accessible to residents. The demand on its quality and co...

(This article belongs to the Topic Sustainable Smart Cities and Smart Villages)
  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,006 Views
10 Pages

Evaluation of Atlas-Based Mobile Application in Undergraduate Teaching in Oral Histopathology

  • Shuangshan Deng,
  • Zucen Li,
  • Xinyu Ma,
  • Yali Wei and ,
  • Ping Lyu and
  • Yi Fan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The utilization of mobile devices in education is a growing trend in various subjects. We developed the Dental and Maxillofacial Development Teaching Atlas App, and applied it to the learning process of oral histopathology. The aim of the current stu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,151 Views
14 Pages

Inflammation and Starvation Affect Housekeeping Gene Stability in Adipose Mesenchymal Stromal Cells

  • Enrico Ragni,
  • Simona Piccolo,
  • Michela Taiana,
  • Caterina Visconte and ,
  • Giulio Grieco and
  • Laura de Girolamo
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Due to the scientific success of in vitro and in vivo model studies, the interest in using mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) for the treatment of orthopaedic conditions is growing. In the context of osteoarthritis (OA), MSCs, and, in particular, those...

(This article belongs to the Section Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
11,230 Views
20 Pages

An Intelligent Self-Service Vending System for Smart Retail

  • Kun Xia,
  • Hongliang Fan,
  • Jianguang Huang,
  • Hanyu Wang and ,
  • Junxue Ren,
  • Qin Jian and
  • Dafang Wei
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

20 May 2021

The traditional weighing and selling process of non-barcode items requires manual service, which not only consumes manpower and material resources but is also more prone to errors or omissions of data. This paper proposes an intelligent self-service...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Embedded Systems and Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,094 Views
19 Pages

20 December 2019

In order to obtain unbiased results of target gene expression, selection of the most appropriate reference gene (RG) remains a key precondition. However, an experimental study focused on the validation of stably expressed RGs in the rat spinal cord (...

(This article belongs to the Section Neuroglia)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
10,367 Views
26 Pages

Between Symbols and Particles: Investigating the Complexity of Learning Chemical Equations

  • Lucie Hamerská,
  • Tadeáš Matěcha,
  • Martina Tóthová and
  • Martin Rusek

This study explores the pedagogical challenges in teaching chemical equations, focusing on the ability to balance chemical equations and understanding related basic chemical concepts among chemistry teacher students. Based on Johnstone’s repres...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Challenges and Experiences in Science Teacher Training)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,123 Views
15 Pages

Analysing Students’ Achievement in the Learning of Electronics Supported by ICT Resources

  • David Valiente,
  • Luis Payá,
  • Susana Fernández de Ávila,
  • Juan C. Ferrer and
  • Oscar Reinoso

Over the past few decades, the incipient growth of technology applications sustained by electronics has contributed to the adaption of learning programs in many engineering degrees at university, fostering the presence of electronics subjects. This h...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,620 Views
12 Pages

Reliable Reference Genes for Gene Expression Assessment in Tendon-Derived Cells under Inflammatory and Pro-Fibrotic/Healing Stimuli

  • Enrico Ragni,
  • Carlotta Perucca Orfei,
  • Annie C. Bowles,
  • Laura de Girolamo and
  • Diego Correa

1 October 2019

Tendon cells (TCs) are important for homeostatic maintenance in the healthy tendon and to promote tissue healing after injury. Further, resident and rare populations of tendon stem/progenitor cells, located at various sites within the tendon, contrib...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Musculoskeletal Cell Therapy: Basic Science and Translational Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,312 Views
13 Pages

Eyebirds: Enabling the Public to Recognize Water Birds at Hand

  • Jiaogen Zhou,
  • Yang Wang,
  • Caiyun Zhang,
  • Wenbo Wu and ,
  • Yanzhu Ji and
  • Yeai Zou
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

1 November 2022

Enabling the public to easily recognize water birds has a positive effect on wetland bird conservation. However, classifying water birds requires advanced ornithological knowledge, which makes it very difficult for the public to recognize water bird...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Bird Diversity from Mountains and Lakes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,912 Views
16 Pages

Integrating Environmental Covariates into Adaptability and Stability Analyses: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach for Cotton Breeding

  • Matheus Massariol Suela,
  • Moysés Nascimento,
  • Ana Carolina Campana Nascimento,
  • Camila Ferreira Azevedo and ,
  • Paulo Eduardo Teodoro,
  • Francisco José Correia Farias,
  • Luiz Paulo de Carvalho and
  • Diego Jarquin
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

28 October 2024

Breeding programs rely on genotype-by-environment interaction (GEI) to recommend cultivars for specific locations. GEI describes how different genotypes perform under varying environmental conditions. Several methods were proposed to assess adaptabil...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Genotype Evaluation and Breeding)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,677 Views
33 Pages

29 August 2025

Cathepsin L (CatL) is a critical protease involved in cleaving the spike protein of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), facilitating viral entry into host cells. Inhibition of CatL is essential for preventing SARS-CoV-2 cell...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: QSAR and Computational Approaches to Drug Discovery)
  • Article
  • Open Access
680 Views
26 Pages

Dynamic Scaling Pollard’s P-1 Algorithm

  • Wenwen Xia,
  • Geng Wang and
  • Dawu Gu

The integer factorization problem is a hard problem in classical. Let N=PQ, where P and Q are large primes. Pollard’s P-1 Algorithm is an efficient integer factorization algorithm while all the prime factors of P−1 are small. However, the...

(This article belongs to the Topic Trends and Prospects in Security, Encryption and Encoding: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,085 Views
15 Pages

Housekeeping Gene Stability in Adipose Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Cultivated in Serum/Xeno-Free Media for Osteoarthritis

  • Enrico Ragni,
  • Simona Piccolo,
  • Paola De Luca,
  • Michela Taiana and ,
  • Giulio Grieco and
  • Laura de Girolamo
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 January 2024

Among the available therapeutics for the conservative treatment of osteoarthritis (OA), mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs)-based products appear to be the most promising. Alongside minimally manipulated cell-based orthobiologics, where MSCs are the eng...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Musculoskeletal Tissue Regeneration Using Mesenchymal Stromal/Stem Cells, Biomaterials, and Signaling Molecules)