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Exploring Authentic Partnership in Distance Initial Teacher Education: Associate Teachers’ Perspectives from Aotearoa New Zealand

  • Lynnette Patricia Brice,
  • Melissa McMinn,
  • Sandy Radford,
  • Jackie Solomon and
  • Mary-Liz Broadley

24 September 2026

Partnership is widely treated as central to high-quality practicum in Initial Teacher Education, yet most research assumes local, ongoing relationships between Initial Teacher Education providers and schools. This study explores how Associate Teacher...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovations and Support in Initial Teacher Education)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
9,310 Views
9 Pages

10 August 2017

The entropy of the observable universe is increasing. Thus, at earlier times the entropy was lower. However, the cosmic microwave background radiation reveals an apparently high entropy universe close to thermal and chemical equilibrium. A two-part s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy, Time and Evolution)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
10,409 Views
19 Pages

In this paper, we establish the significance and effects of initial public offer (IPO) offer price ranges on subscription, initial trading, and post-IPO ownership structures. The primary market in India provides a unique setting for estimating the ef...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Stock Markets Behavior)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,464 Views
16 Pages

The present study examined whether the left posterior parietal cortex contributes to the selection process for the initial swing leg in gait initiation. Healthy humans initiated the gait in response to an auditory start cue. Transcranial magnetic sti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS): Applications in Clinical and Basic Neuroscience)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
3,627 Views
17 Pages

23 May 2022

In this paper, some myths associated to the initial condition problem are studied and demystified. It is shown that the initial conditions provided by the one-sided Laplace transform are not those required for Riemann-Liouville and Caputo derivatives...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional Integrals and Derivatives: “True” versus “False” II)
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  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,188 Views
11 Pages

22 September 2022

A two-player differential game of pollution control with uncertain initial disturbance stock is considered. In pace with contemporary policy in the resource extraction industry, we initiate our research based on a resource extraction differential mod...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Optimal Control and Game Theory to the Problem of Resource Management)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,620 Views
12 Pages

Initial Treatment with Biological Therapy in Rheumatoid Arthritis

  • Jesús Tornero Molina,
  • Blanca Hernández-Cruz and
  • Héctor Corominas

21 December 2023

Background: We aimed to analyse the effectiveness, efficiency, and safety of initial treatment with biological therapies in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods: Qualitative study. A group of RA experts was selected. A scoping review in Medline was con...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Rheumatoid Arthritis: Current Status and Future Challenges)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,756 Views
16 Pages

14 March 2017

Regional initial water rights is a crucial part of initial water rights and clarification of it is an essential method to improve the efficiency of water use. It also promotes sustainable use of valuable water resources. Consequently, under new circu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Water Resources Management)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,872 Views
22 Pages

3 October 2024

The paper presents the progressive collapse analysis of structures, focusing on the impact of the initial conditions (particularly initial velocity) and the damage. It proposes a method that calculates the residual axial load capacity and damage of c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,662 Views
21 Pages

A Polar Initial Alignment Algorithm for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles

  • Zheping Yan,
  • Lu Wang,
  • Tongda Wang,
  • Honghan Zhang and ,
  • Xun Zhang and
  • Xiangling Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 November 2017

Due to its highly autonomy, the strapdown inertial navigation system (SINS) is widely used in unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV) navigation. Initial alignment is crucial because the initial alignment results will be used as the initial SINS value, wh...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors, Wireless Connectivity and Systems for Autonomous Vehicles and Smart Mobility)
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  • Open Access
41 Citations
20,634 Views
13 Pages

Barriers to Educational Inclusion in Initial Teacher Training

  • Pilar Arnaiz-Sánchez,
  • Remedios De Haro-Rodríguez,
  • Carmen María Caballero and
  • Rogelio Martínez-Abellán

31 January 2023

Initial teacher training within the framework of an inclusive school constitutes a fundamental challenge in order to meet the needs of 21st century society. The 2030 agenda establishes in the target of goal four the need for well-qualified teachers,...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,349 Views
19 Pages

On the Influence of Initial Stresses on the Velocity of Elastic Waves in Composites

  • Alexander G. Kolpakov,
  • Igor V. Andrianov and
  • Sergey I. Rakin

The paper is devoted to the problem of propagation of elastic waves in composites with initial stresses. We suppose initial stresses are well within the elastic regime. We deal with the long-wave case and use the asymptotic homogenization technique b...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,355 Views
16 Pages

An Intelligent Technique for Initial Distribution of Genetic Algorithms

  • Vasileios Charilogis,
  • Ioannis G. Tsoulos and
  • V. N. Stavrou

17 October 2023

The need to find the global minimum in multivariable functions is a critical problem in many fields of science and technology. Effectively solving this problem requires the creation of initial solution estimates, which are subsequently used by the op...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematical Analysis)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,555 Views
16 Pages

Experimental and Theoretical Explanations for the Initial Difference in the Hydraulic Head in Aquitards

  • Yongliang Xu,
  • Chaoyang Du,
  • Haizhi Ma,
  • Wei Pang and ,
  • Suhang Huang and
  • Shimin Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 September 2022

Accurate estimation of the buoyancy forces exerted on underground structures is a problem in geotechnical engineering that directly impacts the construction safety and cost of these structures. Therefore, studying the buoyancy resistance of undergrou...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrogeology)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,784 Views
11 Pages

Sensitive versus Rough Dependence under Initial Conditions in Atmospheric Flow Regimes

  • Anthony R. Lupo,
  • Y. Charles Li,
  • Z. C. Feng,
  • Neil I. Fox and ,
  • Jordan L. Rabinowitz and
  • Micheal J. Simpson
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

5 December 2016

In this work, we will identify the existence of “rough dependence on initial conditions” in atmospheric phenomena, a concept which is a problem for weather analysis and forecasting. Typically, two initially similar atmospheric states will diverge slo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from The 1st International Electronic Conference on Atmospheric Sciences)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,327 Views
22 Pages

Correction Method for Initial Conditions of Underwater Explosion

  • Zeyu Jin,
  • Wentao Xu,
  • Caiyu Yin,
  • Zhiyang Lei and
  • Xiangshao Kong

In numerical simulations of underwater explosions, inaccuracies in the parameters of the Jones–Wilkins–Lee (JWL) equation of state often result in significant deviations between predicted shock wave pressure peaks or bubble pulsation peri...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
8,772 Views
15 Pages

Variability of the Initial Abstraction Ratio in an Urban and an Agroforested Catchment

  • Adam Krajewski,
  • Anna E. Sikorska-Senoner,
  • Agnieszka Hejduk and
  • Leszek Hejduk

4 February 2020

The Curve Number method is one of the most commonly applied methods to describe the relationship between the direct runoff and storm rainfall depth. Due to its popularity and simplicity, it has been studied extensively. Less attention has been given...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Soil Conservation Service Curve Number (SCS-CN) Method Current Applications, Remaining Challenges, and Future Perspectives)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,617 Views
22 Pages

UAV Cruise Strategies Based on Initial Attack

  • Hanze Liu,
  • Kaiwen Zhou,
  • Long Zhang and
  • Fuquan Zhang

26 November 2024

Forest fires not only cause severe damage to ecosystems and biodiversity but also directly threaten the safety of human societies. Given the significant increase in both the frequency and intensity of forest fires worldwide, especially under extreme...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Use of Remote Sensing Technology for Forest Fire)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
771 Views
8 Pages

7 August 2025

In classical physics, the traditional way to handle dynamics is to work with initial value problems: Specifying all variables and their time-derivatives at a certain time will, together with the equations of motion, give the state of the system at an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in 'Physics' Section 2025)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,532 Views
4 Pages

Deep Learning-Based Method for Computing Initial Margin

  • Joel Pérez Villarino and
  • Álvaro Leitao Rodríguez

Following the guidelines of the Basel III agreement (2013), large financial institutions are forced to incorporate additional collateral, known as Initial Margin, in their transactions in OTC markets. Currently, the computation of such collateral is...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 4th XoveTIC Conference)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,807 Views
20 Pages

18 February 2023

One essential problem in aircraft conceptual design is initial sizing in which the aircraft primary parameters such as weight, size, and thrust are estimated for given design requirements. The airbreathing hypersonic aircraft is a type of novel aircr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Supersonic and Hypersonic Transportation Systems)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,569 Views
12 Pages

Influence of Initial Structural Dimensions of Plates on Welding Distortion

  • Nan Guo,
  • Hao Zhang,
  • Xiaojie Tang,
  • Xiqiang Ma and
  • Xiao Wang

4 December 2023

Aiming at the complex full-field deformation problem that easily occurs when welding plates, this paper adopts the elastic–plastic finite element method with heat-force coupling to study the deformation law of plates in different initial states...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Enhanced Mechanical Properties of Metals by Surface Treatments)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,323 Views
10 Pages

On a Generalization of the Initial-Boundary Problem for the Vibrating String Equation

  • Djumaklich Amanov,
  • Gafurjan Ibragimov and
  • Adem Kılıçman

10 January 2019

In the present paper, we study a generalization of the initial-boundary problem for the inhomogeneous vibrating string equation. The initial conditions include the higher order derivatives of the unknown function. The problem is studied under homogen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Integral Transforms and Operational Calculus)
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  • Open Access
35 Citations
4,736 Views
17 Pages

Effects of PCE on the Dispersion of Cement Particles and Initial Hydration

  • Weiwei Zhu,
  • Qingge Feng,
  • Qi Luo,
  • Xiukui Bai and ,
  • Xianhao Lin and
  • Zhao Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 June 2021

The effects of polycarboxylate superplasticizers (PCEs) on the dispersing properties and initial hydration of cement particles with various water-to-cement (w/c) ratios was investigated, including the water film thickness (WFT), rheology, fluidity, a...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,852 Views
18 Pages

Nonlinear Dynamic Stability of Cylindrical Reticulated Shells with Initial Damage

  • Lei Li,
  • Guangfeng Li,
  • Nasim Uddin,
  • Limin Tian and ,
  • Zhibing Zhu,
  • Chong Bai and
  • Chen Shen
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

14 November 2023

As large-span structures, reticulated shells are widely used in large-scale public building and act as emergency shelters in the event of sudden disasters. However, spatial reticulated shells are dynamic-sensitive structures; the effect of the initia...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Composite Materials for Structure Strengthening and Resilience Improving)
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  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,043 Views
13 Pages

Initial-Condition Effects on a Two-Memristor-Based Jerk System

  • Han Bao,
  • Ruoyu Ding,
  • Mengjie Hua,
  • Huagan Wu and
  • Bei Chen

27 January 2022

Memristor-based systems can exhibit the phenomenon of extreme multi-stability, which results in the coexistence of infinitely many attractors. However, most of the recently published literature focuses on the extreme multi-stability related to memris...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,977 Views
13 Pages

11 November 2016

According to the newly introduced water resources management in China, which is the most stringent thus far, pollution limits of water functional zones should be enhanced. In response to this recent change, we propose a provincial initial water right...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Tackling Complex Water Problems in China under Changing Environment)
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  • Open Access
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30 Pages

Efficient Consistency Check Based on Perceived Initial Deviation

  • Liwen Zhang,
  • Fanglue Wang,
  • Zhihuan Song,
  • Kaifeng Huang and ,
  • Yanli Hu and
  • Guiying Zhuo
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 November 2024

The behavior recorded by an information system is often different from the behavior in the initial model since the business process is constantly changing in actual operation. In order to enable event logs to be replayed well to process the model, th...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
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  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,180 Views
11 Pages

30 August 2021

To establish whether clinical prognostic factor outcomes differed based on the initial severity of facial weakness and to determine the association between the initial severity of facial weakness and favorable outcomes. This retrospective cohort stud...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Diagnosis and Management of Peripheral Nerve Injuries)
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  • Open Access
25 Citations
2,694 Views
13 Pages

Initial Value Problems of Linear Equations with the Dzhrbashyan–Nersesyan Derivative in Banach Spaces

  • Vladimir E. Fedorov,
  • Marina V. Plekhanova and
  • Elizaveta M. Izhberdeeva

11 June 2021

Among the many different definitions of the fractional derivative, the Riemann–Liouville and Gerasimov–Caputo derivatives are most commonly used. In this paper, we consider the equations with the Dzhrbashyan–Nersesyan fractional derivative, which gen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Mathematics and Fractional Calculus)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,628 Views
28 Pages

Initial Crack Propagation and the Influence Factors of Aircraft Pipe Pressure

  • Fusheng Wang,
  • Zheng Wei,
  • Pu Li,
  • Lingjun Yu and
  • Weichao Huang

23 September 2019

In aircraft engineering, an increase of internal pressure in a hydraulic pipe increases the probability of pipe damage, leading to crack propagation becoming a serious issue. In this study, the extended finite element method (XFEM) is applied to simu...

(This article belongs to the Section Materials Simulation and Design)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,998 Views
8 Pages

23 April 2020

Polarizations of primordial gravitational waves can be relevant when considering an inflationary universe in modified gravity or when matter fields survive during inflation. Such polarizations have been discussed in the Bunch–Davies vacuum. Ins...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry with Gravity and Particle Theories)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
819 Views
18 Pages

24 November 2025

This paper presents a reliability analysis of four distinct design solutions, known as Geiger domes. These domes possess two intrinsic characteristics of tensegrity structures: infinitesimal mechanisms and self-stress states. In the absence of self-s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 26th International Conference on Computer Methods in Mechanics (CMM2025))
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  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,198 Views
21 Pages

Initial Coin Offerings and Agile Practices

  • Simona Ibba,
  • Andrea Pinna,
  • Maria Ilaria Lunesu,
  • Michele Marchesi and
  • Roberto Tonelli

23 October 2018

An ICO (Initial Coin Offering) is an innovative way to fund projects based on blockchain. The funding is based on the selling of tokens by means of decentralized applications called smart contracts written in Solidity, a programming language specific...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,611 Views
11 Pages

9 October 2024

We examine a time-fractional pseudo-hyperbolic equation involving positive operators. We explore the determination of initial velocity and perturbation. It is demonstrated that these initial inverse problems are ill posed. Additionally, we prove that...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
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  • Open Access
2,660 Views
14 Pages

Inversion of Initial Field Based on a Temperature Transport Adjoint

  • Shengyi Jiao,
  • Shengmao Huang,
  • Jianfeng Wang and
  • Xianqing Lv

The setting of initial values is one of the key problems in ocean numerical prediction, with the accuracy of sea water temperature (SWT) simulation and prediction greatly affected by the initial field quality. In this paper, we describe the developme...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Monitoring and Modelling of Coastal Environment)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,037 Views
17 Pages

Slime Mold Inspired Distribution Network Initial Solution

  • Verner Püvi,
  • Robert J. Millar,
  • Eero Saarijärvi,
  • Ken Hayami and ,
  • Tahitoa Arbelot and
  • Matti Lehtonen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 November 2020

Electricity distribution network optimisation has attracted attention in recent years due to the widespread penetration of distributed generation. A considerable portion of network optimisation algorithms rely on an initial solution that is supposed...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,817 Views
13 Pages

10 October 2023

Configuration-controllable metamaterials are a kind of metamaterials whose bandgaps can be effectively adjusted through configuration control, but the configuration changes also produce initial stress. In this paper, the distribution of the initial s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Composite Materials: Microstructures and Mechanical Properties)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
623 Views
35 Pages

Rate-Dependent Fracturing Mechanisms of Granite Under Different Levels of Initial Damage

  • Chunde Ma,
  • Chenyang Li,
  • Wenyuan Yang,
  • Chenyu Wang and ,
  • Qiang Gong and
  • Hongbo Zhou
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

14 January 2026

Excavation of underground spaces often causes significant initial damage to surrounding rock, which can notably alter its mechanical properties. However, most studies on loading rate effects neglect the role of initial damage. This study investigates...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,706 Views
12 Pages

Initial Characteristics of Submillimeter Metal Particles in GIS under Impact Vibration

  • Bo Niu,
  • Tao Bai,
  • Tianyi Shi,
  • Xutao Wu and ,
  • Xutao Han and
  • Weifeng Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

14 October 2024

As a critical component within power systems, Gas Insulated Switchgear (GIS) is notably susceptible to insulation degradation due to submillimeter metal particles, compromising its operational safety and stability. Moreover, impact vibrations induced...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technologies in Partial Discharge Detection and Fault Diagnosis)
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  • Open Access
46 Citations
6,483 Views
11 Pages

Initial Bacterial Adhesion and Biofilm Formation on Aligner Materials

  • Sibel Tektas,
  • Thomas Thurnheer,
  • Theodore Eliades,
  • Thomas Attin and
  • Lamprini Karygianni

15 December 2020

The present study aims to assess the initial bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation on different aligner materials. A total of four different aligner materials, CA-medium (CAM), copolyester (COP), Duran (DUR), Erkodur (ERK), were tested. Stimulated...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Oral Microorganisms and Inactivation of Oral Biofilms)
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  • Open Access
496 Views
21 Pages

Interaction Between Cereals and Pea Intercrops During Their Initial Development

  • István Kristó,
  • Attila Rácz,
  • Péter Jakab and
  • Mária Ágnes Fodor

13 August 2026

The species that make up the intercrop interact with each other during their development, which can be beneficial, harmful, or indifferent to the participants. The aim of this study was to determine whether the developmental differences observed betw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,497 Views
23 Pages

The usual approach to the integration of fractional order initial value problems is based on the Caputo derivative, whose initial conditions are used to formulate the classical integral equation. Thanks to an elementary counter example, we demonstrat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional-Order System: Control Theory and Applications)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,770 Views
16 Pages

6 September 2023

The conversion between the relaxation modulus and creep compliance is a traditional research topic in viscoelastic materials. Generally, different methods have been used to solve the numerical solution based on convolution theory. However, the initia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,380 Views
8 Pages

31 December 2010

Based on an elastic rub-impact model, a dynamic model of a rubbing rotor system with an initial deflection was set up and motion equations were derived and solved numerically. Poincaré maps, rotor orbits and bifurcation diagrams were drawn to investi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,224 Views
14 Pages

Study of Constitutive Models of Reconstituted Clay with High Initial Water Content

  • Jie Liu,
  • Shijun Hu,
  • Gang Liu,
  • Jingbo Zhang and
  • Zheng Lu

21 August 2023

The compression and shear behavior of reconstituted clay are closely related to the initial water content of the reconstituted soil. It is difficult to obtain the compression and shear test data of clay with a high initial water content. This study a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exploration of Marine Geological Resources and Geological Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,595 Views
14 Pages

11 February 2021

Iterative learning control (ILC) requires that the operating conditions of the controlled system must remain unchanged in the repetitive learning process. If the parameters of system change, the former control experience of ILC would not be effective...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,949 Views
15 Pages

Privacy-Enhancing Security Protocol in LTE Initial Attack

  • Uijin Jang,
  • Hyungmin Lim and
  • Hyungjoo Kim

12 December 2014

Long-Term Evolution (LTE) is a fourth-generation mobile communication technology implemented throughout the world. It is the communication means of smartphones that send and receive all of the private date of individuals. M2M, IOT, etc., are the base...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Cryptography and Security Concerns based on Symmetry for the Future Cyber World)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,005 Views
20 Pages

Beach Profile Evolution towards Equilibrium from Varying Initial Morphologies

  • Sonja Eichentopf,
  • Joep van der Zanden,
  • Iván Cáceres and
  • José M. Alsina

9 November 2019

The evolution of different initial beach profiles towards the same final beach configuration is investigated based on large-scale experimental data. The same wave condition was performed three times, each time starting from a different initial profil...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamics of the Coastal Zone)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,326 Views
11 Pages

Remineralization of Initial Carious Lesions Using Peptides: A Comprehensive Review

  • Ruth M. Santamaría,
  • Mohammad Alkilzy,
  • Christian H. Splieth and
  • Julian Schmoeckel

3 June 2026

Initial carious lesions represent a reversible stage of the caries process in which non-operative strategies can prevent lesion progression and preserve dental hard tissues. This comprehensive review provides an overview of peptide-based approaches f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Updates on Caries Management in the Primary and Permanent Dentition: 2nd Edition)

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