Client-controlled encrypted-storage systems commonly organize key material as a hierarchical structure to support scalable access control, sharing, and revocation without global re-encryption. Hierarchical key-management models generally assume a fix...
This paper focuses on the Pinghu Formation in the K region of the Xihu Depression, conducting a systematic study on the channel types, migration patterns, and the coupling mechanisms of tectonics, paleogeomorphology, and tidal dynamics in the tidal-c...
Recently, the electric control of magnetism by means of ion migration has been proven to be effective with nonvolatility and low energy consumption. In this work, we investigated the control of the magnetic properties of FeRh films by means of Li+ mi...
Distributed controllers in software-defined networking (SDN) become a promising approach because of their scalable and reliable deployments in current SDN environments. Since the network traffic varies with time and space, a static mapping between sw...
The problem of finding the optimal open-loop control for discrete-time stochastic dynamical systems is considered. It is assumed that the initial conditions and external influences are random. The average value of the Bolza functional defined on indi...
Gel foam exhibits excellent applicability in fractured-vuggy reservoirs, effectively plugging flow channels and enhancing oil recovery. However, due to the harsh high-temperature environment and the complex and variable fracture-vuggy structure in re...
Executive functions and social cognition (i.e., the mental operations that underlie social interaction) are essential for children’s successful interactions, yet their role in peer social competence among children with and without a migration b...
Low Earth Orbit (LEO) communication networks are an important component of non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) in sixth-generation (6G) communication systems. LEO satellites are characterized by low propagation delay and highly time-varying topology. Spa...
Migration of hydrocarbons along fault strike remains poorly understood, and its underlying mechanisms have not been fully clarified. Taking the Pinghu slope belt in the Xihu Sag, East China Sea Basin, as a case study, this study investigates the migr...
In inter-datacenter elastic optical networks, multi-controller deployment is adopted to improve the stability and scalability of the control plane. As the network scale increases, the traditional multi-controller deployment scheme ignores the dynamic...
Climate change impacts natural and human systems, including migration patterns. But isolating climate change as the driver of migration oversimplifies a complex and multicausal phenomenon. This article brings together the literature on global migrati...
Anomalies in constitutive calcium entry (CCE) have been commonly attributed to cell dysfunction in pathological conditions such as cancer. Calcium influxes of this type rely on channels, such as transient receptor potential (TRP) channels, to be cons...
Biogenic or microbial methane has an increasing share in the global gas resource base, though its exploration still faces challenges and welcomes innovations. Critical elements of its migration and accumulation models are the groundwater flows which...
Background/Objectives: To determine whether a sitting position with the femoral heads centered into the acetabulum is more effective than the usual sitting position in preventing migration percentage progression in non-ambulatory children with bilate...
Stem cell treatment is a promising method of therapy for the group of patients whose conventional options for treatment have been limited or rejected. Stem cells have the potential to repair, replace, restore and regenerate cells. Moreover, their pro...
(1) Background: High primary stability is important for the long-term survival of cementless femoral stems in total hip arthroplasty (THA). The objective of this study was to investigate the migration pattern of a hydroxyapatite-coated cementless hip...
Controller placement in software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs) is commonly optimized assuming continuously available controllers, leaving the control plane vulnerable to overload and abrupt reassignment after controller unavailability. This pa...
This article analyzes what can happen to forced returnees upon arrival in their country of nationality. Subjective configurations of state agents in the Global South have created return risks, which in turn transform subjectivities of post-colonial c...
Underground coal gasification (UCG) may change the energy consumption structure from coal-dominated to gas-dominated in the years to come. Before that, three important problems need to be solved, including failure of gasification due to large amounts...
Polymer microsphere profile control is a promising approach for the profile control of heterogeneous reservoirs. Matching between polymer microspheres and the reservoir pore throat is crucial for profile control. In this study, the range of the optim...
Cell migration is essential for physiological, pathological and biomedical processes such as, in embryogenesis, wound healing, immune response, cancer metastasis, tumour invasion and inflammation. In light of this, quantifying mechanical properties d...
20 October 2017
Background: In China, rapid urbanization has caused migration from rural to urban areas, and raised the prevalence of hypertension. However, public health insurance is not portable from one place to another, and migration may limit the effectiveness...
There are conflicts between the increasingly complex operational requirements and the slow rate of system platform upgrading, especially in the industry of railway transit-signaling systems. We attempted to address this problem by establishing a mode...
A new hybrid metaheuristic method for optimizing the objective function on a parallelepiped set of admissible solutions is proposed. It mimics the behavior of a school of river perch when looking for food. The algorithm uses the ideas of several meth...
A major symptom of diabetes mellitus (DM) is unfit hyperglycemia, which leads to impaired wound healing. It has been reported that the migration of fibroblasts can be suppressed under high glucose (HG) conditions. In our previous study, we introduced...
Controlled drainage (CD) is an important agricultural measure for maintaining soil moisture and nutrients, controlling groundwater level, and increasing crop yield. In arid regions, CD can be used to improve the water supply in agriculture and reduce...
Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are a class of synthetic organic compounds with extremely high chemical stability and environmental persistence that are widely used in the industrial sector and in consumer goods. Their strong C-...
Hydrogels are widely used in tissue engineering as materials that regulate cell proliferation, migration, and differentiation. They also act as promising biomaterials that can provide a variety of stimuli by influencing the surrounding microenvironme...
21 March 2021
Understanding the reasons for the differences in the spread of COVID-19 in different cities of China is important for future epidemic prevention and control. This study analyzed this issue from the perspective of population migration from Wuhan (the...
Network slicing is a promising technology that network operators can deploy the services by slices with heterogeneous quality of service (QoS) requirements. However, an orchestrator for network operation with efficient slice resource provisioning alg...
Given the intricate nature of contemporary energy systems, addressing the control and stability analysis of these systems necessitates the consideration of highly large-scale models. Transient stability analysis stands as a crucial challenge in enhan...
This article starts with an introductory survey of previous work on breaking and restoring the electronic structure symmetry of atoms and molecules by means of two laser pulses. Accordingly, the first pulse breaks the symmetry of the system in its gr...
Quantum simulations of the electron dynamics of oriented benzene and Mg-porphyrin driven by short (<10 fs) laser pulses yield electron symmetry breaking during attosecond charge migration. Nuclear motions are negligible on this time domain, i.e.,...
The Snow Ablation Optimizer (SAO) uses ranked solutions to generate candidates but accepts every evaluated candidate, even when it degrades its source state. We examined whether this unconditional migration rule created a systematic risk for the indi...
The use of completely automated systems for collecting sensor data with the aim of monitoring and controlling the quality of small-scale food processes is not widespread. Small and micro-enterprises usually do not carry out their own precompetitive r...
Conventional main memory can no longer meet the requirements of low energy consumption and massive data storage in an artificial intelligence Internet of Things (AIoT) system. Moreover, the efficiency is decreased due to the swapping of data between...
Colmation phenomena play a critical role in long-term gas flow through porous media, significantly influencing methane migration, mine ventilation efficiency, and emission control in both active and abandoned coal mines. In colmation modeling, three...
Galectin-3 (Gal-3) is a ß-galactoside sugar-binding protein increasingly recognised for its role in systemic inflammation, fibrosis, and cancer. Within the retina, Müller glial cells (MGCs) are a major producer of Gal-3. This study aimed t...
The space–air–ground Integrated Network (SAGIN) is considered to be a significant framework for realizing the vision of “6G intelligent connection of all things”. The birth of 6G SAGIN also brings many problems, such as ultra-...
The mechanisms of AlGaN device buffer layer growth were studied. Gallium residues in the reactor chamber may be harmful to the quality of the AlN strain modulation layer, which eventually worsens the AlGaN buffer layer. By restraining the gallium res...
Food quality and safety are key aspects to guarantee that foods reach consumers in optimal conditions from the point of view of freshness and microbiology. Nanotechnology offers significant potential to secure or even enhance these aspects. Novel tec...
My response to Susanne Lachenicht’s thought-provoking article is a brief attempt to take up her call to write histories that lead not to absolute certainties but to more understanding of the complexities of the past. I focus on documentation, b...
A 25-year-old male with T3 complete AIS A was implanted with percutaneous spinal cord epidural stimulation (scES; eight contacts each) leads and a Medtronic Prime advance internal pulse generator. The two leads were placed at the midline level to cov...
This article considers contemporary border management regimes from a human rights perspective. It demonstrates how a preoccupation with border controls and enforcement has led to serious concerns for the safety and protection of migrants. As border z...
Tuberculosis (TB) does not respect borders, and migration confounds global TB control and elimination. Systematic screening of immigrants from TB high burden settings and—to a lesser degree TB infection (TBI)—is recommended in most countries with a l...
The plasma membrane is a key actor of cell migration. For instance, its tension controls persistent cell migration and cell surface caveolae integrity. Then, caveolae constituents such as caveolin-1 can initiate a mechanotransduction loop that involv...
Soil CO2 emissions are widely used to trace fluid circulation in the crust, as faults and fracture networks act as preferential pathways for fluid ascent from depth. Their spatial distribution may reveal tectonic lineaments controlling fluid migratio...
In this study, we have developed innovative polymer nanocomposites by integrating magnesium-aluminum layered double hydroxide (LDH)-based nanocarriers modified with functional molecules into a fully biobased poly(lactic acid)/poly(butylene succinate-...
PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles contain different chemicals that can act as endocrine disruptors. Phthalates and bisphenol A can be found in various foods and beverages packaged in PET packaging or aluminum cans. For some phthalates, the Eur...
Uniform storms are generally applied in most of the research on sewer systems. This is for modeling simplicity. However, in the real world, these conditions may not be applicable. It is very important to consider the migration behavior of storms not...
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