With the rapid development of the Internet of things (IoT), building IoT systems with high quality of service (QoS) has become an urgent requirement in both academia and industry.During the procedures of building IoT systems, QoS-aware service selection is an important concern, which requires the ranking of a set of functionally similar services ac
A long-standing argument in the political sciences holds that high levels of inequality are incompatible with democracy.Although a number of studies have by now investigated whether income inequality endangers democratic consolidation and stability through corroding popular support, the findings remain inconclusive.This study provides new evidence
It is always necessary to document his-torical events for the purpose of future gen-erations.The Department of Optometry at Turfloop had a complex development which needs to be documented; hence, the purpose of this article is to present a historical and educational overview of the optometric educa-tion at Keychain Turfloop, thirty years after its
Wafer chips are manufactured in the semiconductor industry through various process technologies.Photolithography is one of these processes, aligning the wafer and scanning the circuit pattern on the wafer on which the photoresist film is formed by irradiating light onto the circuit pattern drawn on the mask.As semiconductor technology is highly int
West Nile virus (WNV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that primarily infects birds but occasionally infects humans and horses.Certain species of birds, including crows, house sparrows, geese, blue jays and ravens, are considered highly susceptible hosts to WNV.The nonstructural protein 1 (NS1) of WNV can elicit protective immune responses, including