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Religion, parochialism and intuitive cooperation
(NATURE RESEARCH, 2021-01)
Religions promote cooperation, but they can also be divisive. Is religious cooperation intuitively parochial against atheists? Evidence supporting the social heuristics hypothesis (SHH) suggests that cooperation is intuitive, ...
Channel Estimation and Equalization for Alamouti SF-Coded OFDM-UWA Communications
(IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC, 2021-02)
In this paper, a new channel estimation and equalization algorithm for underwater acoustic (UWA) communications is presented. The proposed algorithm is developed to meet the requirements of underwater time-varying sparse ...
An optimization-based analysis of waste to energy options for different income level countries
(WILEY, 2021)
Utilizing waste-to-energy (WtE) technologies is becoming crucial in today's world where energy sources are scarce. Despite the fact that WtE technologies (incineration, gasification, pyrolysis, anaerobic digestion, and ...
Metastable Potts droplets
(AMER PHYSICAL SOC, 2021-03)
The existence and limits of metastable droplets have been calculated using finite-system renormalization-group theory, for q-state Potts models in spatial dimension d = 3. The dependence of the droplet critical sizes on ...
VCC-BPS: Vertical Collaborative Clustering using Bit Plane Slicing
(PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2021-01)
The vertical collaborative clustering aims to unravel the hidden structure of data (similarity) among different sites, which will help data owners to make a smart decision without sharing actual data. For example, various ...
Direct Bullying and Cyberbullying: Experimental Study of Bystanders' Motivation to Defend Victims and the Role of Anxiety and Identification With the Bully
(FRONTIERS MEDIA SA, 2021-01)
School bullying among young adolescents is a globally pervasive problem, but is less common when bystanders are motivated to defend victims. Thus, the focus of this experimental study is on motivation to defend victims of ...
Displacement Analysis of Geothermal Field Based on PSInSAR And SOM Clustering Algorithms A Case Study of Brady Field, Nevada-USA
(MDPI, 2021-02)
The availability of free and high temporal resolution satellite data and advanced SAR techniques allows us to analyze ground displacement cost-effectively. Our aim was to properly define subsidence and uplift areas to ...
Evaluation of the selection of proper metro and tram vehicle for urban transportation by using a novel integrated MCDM approach
(SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 1 OLIVERS YARD, 55 CITY ROAD, LONDON EC1Y 1SP, ENGLAND, 2021-01)
This paper presents a novel integrated multi-criteria decision-making model consists of the CRITIC (CRiteria Importance Through Intercriteria Correlation) technique and the EDAS (The Evaluation based on Distance from Average ...
POST-HEGEMONIC (DIS)ORDER AND REGIIONAL BALANCING STRATEGIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST
(Univ Complutense Madrid, 2019)
Following the so-called Arab Spring, the strategic situation in the Middle East has been one of disorder. A series of critical, complex and interrelated security failures have resulted in chaos and bloodshed unprecedented ...
Longitudinal effects of second language on first language narrative skills and executive functions of preschool children
(Selcuk University, 2020)
The present study investigated the longitudinal effects of early exposure to L2-English on L1-Turkish language competence, narrative skills and executive functioning. We asked whether early immersion-like exposure to L2, ...