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Collation of a century of soil invertebrate abundance data suggests long-term declines in earthworms but not tipulids.
Large-scale declines in terrestrial insects have been reported over much of Europe and across the world, however, population change assessments of other key invertebrate groups, such as soil invertebrates, have been largely...
Published by: PLOS ONE
Direct observation of a superconducting vortex diode.
Alon Gutfreund, Hisakazu Matsuki, Vadim Plastovets, Avia Noah, Laura Gorzawski, Nofar Fridman, Guang Yang, Alexander Buzdin, Oded Millo, Jason W A Robinson, Yonathan Anahory
Apr 17, 2023
The interplay between magnetism and superconductivity can lead to unconventional proximity and Josephson effects. A related phenomenon that has recently attracted considerable attention is the superconducting diode effect, in...
Published by: Nature Communications
Automatic Generation of ROP Through Static Instructions Assignment and Dynamic Memory Analysis
W⊕X is a protection mechanism against control-flow hijacking attacks. Return-oriented programming (ROP) can perform a specific function by searching for appropriate assembly instruction fragments (gadgets) in a code segment and...
Published by: IGI Global
Effect of Coconut Oil-Based Cutting Fluid on Cutting Performance During Turning With Minimal Fluid Application
Robinson Rengiah
Jan 01, 2022
In the present work, an attempt was made to use vegetable oil as a cutting fluid during minimal fluid application to make the process more environmentally friendly. Coconut oil was selected as the vegetable oil in this study...
Published by: IGI Global
Being a Singer
Brian A. Roberts
Nov 19, 2013
Singers both rejoice and suffer under the weight of their instrument. It becomes not only a major part of their identity but, in many cases, it becomes their central or "master status" (Hughes, 1945). This research examines the...
Published by: Faculty of Education
A Model of Cloud Forensic Application With Assurance of Cloud Log
The key concepts of digital forensic investigation in cloud computing are examination and investigation. Cybercriminals target cloud-based web applications due to presence of vulnerabilities. Forensic investigation is a complex...
Published by: IGI Global
The Legacy of John W. Large
Published by: Faculty of Education
Pandemic-Driven Technology Adoption
During the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic, around the world, evidence is mounting as to the unenveness of impacts across communities. There are disproportionately more impacts on people who are elderly, economically...
Published by: IGI Global
A Cross-Continent Analysis of the Invariance of Product Information in Cross-Border Electronic Commerce
Cross-border electronic-commerce (CBEC) is growing. However, due to differences in culture, habits, history and language among other factors, consumers in different regions may have different perception towards the same product...
Published by: IGI Global
A Novel Framework Using Zero Shot Learning Technique for a Non-Factoid Question Answering System
Non-Factoid Question Answering (QA) is the next generation of textual QA systems, which gives passage level summaries for a natural language query, posted by the user. The main issue lies in the appropriateness of the generated...
Published by: IGI Global
The Study of Para-Social Interaction With E-Word-of-Mouth for Influencer Marketing by Complex Computing
The purpose of this study was focused on exploring the relationship among the fans’ preferences, fans’ para-social interaction, and fans’ word-of-mouth. A survey consisted of 21 items based on the literature review and developed...
Published by: IGI Global
Sentiment Analysis on Movie Reviews Dataset Using Support Vector Machines and Ensemble Learning
The internet makes it easier for people to connect to each other and has become a platform to express ideas and share information with the world. The growth of the internet has indirectly led to the development of social...
Published by: IGI Global
Can We Fight EU-Racism in Football?
The current study aims to examine the phenomenon of racism in football. The researchers collected data from people of all ages in the countries of Italy, Romania, Greece, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, and a number of experts from...
Published by: IGI Global
Application of E-Commerce Recommendation Algorithm in Consumer Preference Prediction
Wei Wang
Feb 21, 2022
Through user characteristic information, user interaction behavior, commodity characteristic information, recommendation engine, and related technologies in data mining, this paper makes a more in-depth study, and analyzes the...
Published by: IGI Global
Fully Automatic Detection and Segmentation Approach for Juxta-Pleural Nodules From CT Images
Early detection of all types of lung nodules with different characters in medical modality images using computer-aided detection is the best acceptable remedy to save the lives of lung cancer sufferers. But accuracy of different...
Published by: IGI Global
An Antecedent Study of Mobile Social Game Addiction vs. Virtual Goods Purchase
This study aims to investigate how cognitive antecedents impact on social game addiction and virtual properties purchase among Generation Y players in Malaysia. Using a quantitative method with 341 Generation Y gamers and...
Published by: IGI Global
Optimal Weighted Logarithmic Transformation Converted HMOG Features for Automatic Smart Phone Authentication
This paper intends to develop an automatic behavior-based smart phone authentication model by three major phases: feature extraction, weighted logarithmic transformation, and classification. Initially, from the data related to...
Published by: IGI Global
Schelling and the Satanic
Jason M. Wirth
Dec 20, 2020
In her unsettling book, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Elizabeth Kolbert quotes Joseph Mendelson, a herpetologist at Zoo Atlanta: “I sought a career in herpetology because I enjoy working with animals. I did not...
Published by: Memorial University Libraries
Assessment of Substrate and TBC Damage Effects on Resonance Frequencies for Blade Health Monitoring
The reliability of critical aircraft components continues to shift towards onboard monitoring to optimize maintenance scheduling, economy efficiency and safety. Therefore, the present study investigates changes in dynamic...
Published by: IGI Global
The Domain of Gliding in French
Walcir Cardoso
Sep 10, 2013
Gliding is a domain-sensitive phonological process of European French in which the high vowels /i/, /y/, /u/ become their corresponding glides [j], [y], [w] in the presence of a following vowel, within the domain of the Prosodic...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
Contextual Word2Vec Model for Understanding Chinese Out of Vocabularies on Online Social Media
In this chapter, the authors propose to use contextual Word2Vec model for understanding OOV (out of vocabulary). The OOV is extracted by using left-right entropy and point information entropy. They choose to use Word2Vec to...
Published by: IGI Global
Coupling of Dimensionality Reduction and Stacking Ensemble Learning for Smartphone-Based Human Activity Recognition
Human activity recognition (HAR) plays a vital role in the field of ambient assisted living (AAL) for the welfare of the elders who live alone in the home. AAL provides service through ambient sensors, vision systems, smartphone...
Published by: IGI Global
On Kant On the Idea(s) of God
Garth W. Green
Mar 14, 2018
In the following essay, I consider the character, and implications, of the idea of God in Kant’s theoretical philosophy. I first consider the idea (or rather, ‘ideal’) of God in the Critique of Pure Reason, in which it is first...
Kant philosophy of religion theologia rationalis theologia revelata analogia entis analogia mentis Critique of Pure Reason Conflict of the Faculties Lectures on the Philosophical Doctrine of Religio
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Evaluation of Parameter Settings for Training Neural Networks Using Backpropagation Algorithms
Artificial neural networks (ANN) are widely used for classification, and the training algorithm commonly used is the backpropagation (BP) algorithm. The major bottleneck faced in the backpropagation neural network training is in...
Published by: IGI Global
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