Frost Resistance of Alkali-Activated Concrete with Different Compositions – Parametric Study by Bilek Vlastimil, Prochazka Lukas, Matyskova Katerina, Sucharda Oldrich

“…This paper focuses on the frost resistance of AAMs of different compositions – different amounts of activator and different ratios between alkali (R2O) and silicon oxide content. …”
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In Vivo Study of the Antibacterial Chitosan/Polyvinyl Alcohol Loaded with Silver Nanoparticle Hydrogel for Wound Healing Applications by Tan Dat Nguyen, Thanh Truc Nguyen, Khanh Loan Ly, Anh Hien Tran, Thi Thanh Ngoc Nguyen, Minh Thuy Vo, Hieu Minh Ho, Ngoc Thao Nhi Dang, Van Toi Vo, Dai Hai Nguyen, Thi Thu Hoai Nguyen, Thi Hiep Nguyen

“…However, the in vivo results demonstrate the significant difference among different hydrogels in wound healing, where hydrogel with 30 ppm shows the best healing rate.…”
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Does a complex intervention targeting communities, health facilities and district health managers increase the utilisation of community-based child health services? A before and af... by Joanna Schellenberg, Della Berhanu, Lars Åke Persson, Muluemebet Abera Wordofa, Araya Abrha Medhanyie, Fisseha Ashebir Gebregizabher, Habtamu Beyene, Ephrem Tekle Lemango, Abebe Bekele, Theodros Getachew, Mezgebu Yitayal, Yemisrach Behailu Okwaraji, Atkure Defar, Fitsum W/Gebriel, Alem Desta, Dawit Wolde Daka, Alemayehu Hunduma, Tigist Getahun, Amare Tariku Woldemariam, Desta Wolassa

“…We assessed the effect of the intervention using difference-in-differences analyses.Results There were 31 intervention activities; many were one-off and implemented late. …”
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Evaluating Success of E-Learning in Different Faculties of a University by Mohammad Javad Shayegan, Amir Ashoori

“…More specifically, the present article answers the question of whether e-learning success variables are different in different faculties. The method of this study was descriptive-survey research. …”
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Effect of Carbon Supported Pt Catalysts on Selective Hydrogenation of Cinnamaldehyde by Qing Han, Yunfei Liu, Dong Wang, Fulong Yuan, Xiaoyu Niu, Yujun Zhu

“…It is of great significance to evaluate the possible differences between different supports arising from metal dispersion and electronic effects, in terms of activity and selectivity. …”
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The Role of Polyphenols, 𝜷-Carotene, and Lycopene in the Antioxidative Action of the Extracts of Dried, Edible Mushrooms by A. Robaszkiewicz, G. Bartosz, M. Ławrynowicz, M. Soszyński

“…We found that the concentration of antioxidants is different in different species and in various parts of the fruiting body of mushrooms. …”
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Green finance policy and regional air pollution control: a two-wheel drive by government departments and financial institutions by Xinkuo Xu, Zenglu Song, Jinjing Lu

“…Using a multi-temporal difference-in-differences method, the study investigates the impact of green finance reform and innovation pilot zones (GFRIs) on county haze pollution (CHP) through the synergy of governmental departments and financial institutions. …”
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THE BIONIC INTELLIGENT FAULT DIAGNOSIS BASED ON COMPREHENSIVE DIFFERENCES MINING FOR HYDRO TURBINE by CHEN XiaoYue, GE Dang, HUANG JiangPing, LIU Xiong, ZHANG XiaoYan

“…For the faults of hydropower unit with strong coupling and uncertainty,the traditional fault expression method based on the uniform feature vector is easy to submerge the effect of fault expression and limit the fault diagnosis accuracy and timeliness directly.Given this,we presented a bionic fault diagnosis method,which imitates the human brain thinking and proposes the concept of dependent feature vector（DFV）,which logical structure is described by feature selection tree and extracted by feature extraction tree.DFV deeply excavates the intricate relationship between faults by using its nested structure,and realizes the comprehensive mining of the quantity and quality differences between faults of hydroelectric units.It deeply reveals the intrinsic relationship between different faults and faults and features,effectively extracts the essential differences of different faults,and improves the validity of fault expression.Furthermore,the intelligent classification method is realized by combining DFV and probabilistic neural network,the experimental results show that the method can complete the fault diagnosis of hydropower units and achieve excellent diagnostic validity and timeliness.…”
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China’s New Environmental Protection Law and Green Innovation: Evidence from Prefecture-Level Cities by Wen Chen, Ying Wu

“…Using a large sample of Chinese prefecture-level cities for the 2010–2016 period and the difference-in-differences (DID) methodology, we provide strong evidence that the new environmental protection law promotes green innovation. …”
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Glittering Hope: Evaluating the bicycles for educational empowerment (BEEP) programme as panacea to inclusive education in Zimbabwe by Taruvinga Muzingili, Raymond Taruvinga

“…Descriptive statistics, Kaplan-Meier survival analysis, and difference-in-differences (DiD) were employed to assess school attendance, re-enrollment, and dropout rates. …”
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Environmental tax reform roles and strategies of local governments: A quasi-natural experiment from China by Tianyang Chu

“…This study examines the impact of environmental tax reform on local governments using panel data for 247 Chinese prefecture-level cities from 2011 to 2021 and the difference-in-differences method. It finds that environmental tax reform leads local governments to increase environmental supervision and fiscal technology expenditure. …”
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De utryghedsmæssige konsekvenser af udsathed for kriminalitet i Danmark by Rune H. Scherg, Anders Ejrnæs

“…Second, potential differences between different groups of victims have not been thoroughly analysed as few studies have had the statistical power to do so. …”
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Accountability audits of natural resources and industrial green total factor productivity: evidence from China by Rongbing Huang, Xiaomin Zou

“…In this study, we employed a multiperiod difference-in-differences model to investigate the influence of accountability audits of natural resources on the industrial green total factor productivity by matching 2012 to 2019 province‒industry annual data. …”
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Policy effects of reduced pension contribution rate on innovation input--Empirical evidence from Zhejiang and Shandong provinces. by Zimian He, Jianwei Xu

“…This study uses a placebo test, permutation test, and difference-in-differences method to carry out robustness checks, and confirms that the results are reliable, showing that the reduction of pension premium is conducive to the increase in enterprises' R&D intensity. …”
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Cross-domain task offloading and computing resource allocation for edge computation in industrial Internet of things by Peng ZHOU, Jincheng XU, Bo YANG

“…In the industrial Internet of things,limited by the computing capacity of field devices,the task offloading based on edge computing can effectively alleviate the computing burden of field devices and provide low-latency computing services.Moreover,because the load of edge servers are different in different areas of the network,it is necessary to reasonably arrange task offloading and allocate computing resources of edge servers,thereby reducing task completion delay and achieving load balance.Thus,the task offloading and resource allocation for edge computing in the industrial Internet of things was studied,a cross-domain offloading model for computing tasks in the industrial Internet of things was proposed,and a mixed integer nonlinear optimization problem that minimizes task completion time was formulated.The problem was decomposed it into two sub-problems of resource allocation and task offloading,based on the characteristics of the two sub-problems,the optimal solution of resource allocation and task offloading strategy were obtained through iterative and alternating solution.The experimental results show that compared with the non-cross-domain strategy,the load imbalance of the edge server and the task completion delay are reduced effectively by the proposed strategy.…”
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Information Diffusion Interpolation Model Based on the PSO-CV Algorithm and Its Application on Source Regions of the Yellow River by HUANG Huaping, YIN Kaixia, JIN Gaoyang

“…The spatial interpolation based on the limited observation data of precipitation stations is an effective means to explore the spatial characteristics of precipitation.This paper briefly introduces a spatial interpolation model based on the information diffusion theory,proposes an optimal information diffusion interpolation model based on particle swarm optimization (PSO) and cross-validation (CV) with consideration of the disadvantages on key parameter estimation of existing experience information diffusion interpolation model,and evaluates the interpolation effect of the information diffusion interpolation model in terms of four time scales of year,quarter,month and day with inverse distance weighting,ordinary kriging method,universal kriging method and co-kriging method considering the elevation as comparison,taking the source regions of the Yellow River as an example.The results show that overall,the optimal information diffusion interpolation model has the highest accuracy,while the inverse distance weighting has the lowest accuracy.The accuracy of experience information diffusion interpolation model does not differ much from the other three spatial interpolation methods,and the accuracy differences between different methods decrease as the time scale decreases.…”
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Application of Hydrophilic Interaction Liquid Chromatography for the Quantification of Flavonoids in Genista tinctoria Extract by Aleksandra Sentkowska, Magdalena Biesaga, Krystyna Pyrzynska

“…Hydrophilic interaction chromatography (HILIC) was employed to investigate chromatographic behavior of selected flavonoids from their different subgroups differing in polarity. Chromatographic measurements were performed on two different HILIC columns: unmodified silica (Atlantis-HILIC) and zwitterionic sulfoalkylbetaine (SeQuant ZIC-HILIC). …”
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Research of power preprocessing optimization-based template attack on LED by Xiao-juan WANG, Shi-ze GUO, Xin-jie ZHAO, Mei SONG, Fan ZHANG

“…The security of LED,a lightweight block cipher proposed in CHES 2011,was evaluated by the template attack (TA).Several improvements of TA from the perspective of the preprocessing optimization was proposed.Firstly,the noise offset was calculated by using the phase-only correlation factor in the frequency view of the power trace to eliminate the data interference in the template building phase.Secondly,a novel character extracting method was proposed based on calculating the cross-cluster offset of different clusters classified by the plaintexts to cut the different leakage points from the power traces automatically.Thirdly,a dynamic effective power points choosing strategy was proposed by utilizing the mean value and the noises of the of power traces to evaluate the differences between different templates and improve the utilization of side channel information.Experiment results demonstrate that the proposed techniques of data alignment and automatically data cutting enlarge the differences of templates and reduce the number of the required power trace in both the template building and attacking phase.The proposed effective power points choosing strategy reduces the data complexity of the attack and only two power traces are required to launch the attack with the success rate of 100%.…”
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Intelligent manufacturing policy, ESG performance, and total factor productivity: Evidence from China. by Haiyue Liu, Jianwu Ren

“…This study uses the introduction of the "Made in China 2025" policy as a quasi-natural experiment and employs the difference-in-differences method to investigate the impact of intelligent manufacturing policies on firms' total factor productivity (TFP) and its mechanisms. …”
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Sensorimotor environment but not task rule reconfigures population dynamics in rhesus monkey posterior parietal cortex by Hao Guo, Shenbing Kuang, Alexander Gail

“…We asked if the neural dynamics to support context-sensitive sensorimotor mapping generalizes or differs between different behavioral contexts that demand such flexibility. …”
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