Introduction: advances in IoT research and applications

Introduction: Advances in IoT research and applications

The future of the Internet will consist of heterogeneously connected devices that will further extend the borders of the world with physical entities and virtual components. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a term that has been introduced in recent years to describe objects equipped with digital functionality that are able to communicate via the Internet (Li 2013; Reaidy et al. 2015), and it is ...

: metadiscourse in introduction sections of applied linguistics and physics research articles: exploring variation in frequency and type

abstract in written mode of language, metadiscourse markers are used commonly to help writers in general and academic writers in particular to produce coherent and professional texts. the purpose of the present study was to compare introduction sections of applied linguistics and physics articles regarding their use of interactive and interactional metadiscourse markers based on the model pro...

Advances in Research and Applications of Smart Hydrogels Part I: Preparation Methods and Classification

Advances in neural networks research: An introduction

The present Special Issue "Advances in Neural Networks Research: IJCNN2009" provides a state-of-art overview of the field of neural networks. It includes 39 papers from selected areas of the 2009 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN2009). IJCNN2009 took place on June 14-19, 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, and it represents an exemplary collaboration between the International ...

Sponge Structure; Introduction and Applications

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