Amazon Biobank: Assessing the Implementation of a Blockchain-Based Genomic Database by Leonardo T. Kimura, Felipe K. Shiraishi, Ewerton R. Andrade, Tereza C. M. B. Carvalho, Marcos A. Simplicio

“…This paper aims to validate this model, by describing the implementation of a prototype using Hyperledger Fabric and BitTorrent and evaluating its performance. Our results show that the prototype can support at least 400 transactions per second in a small network, a number that can be further improved by adding new nodes or allocating additional computational resources. …”
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Time-Domain Blind ICI Compensation in Coherent Optical FBMC/OQAM System by Binqi Wu, Jin Lu, Mingyi Gao, Hongliang Ren, Zichun Le, Yali Qin, Shuqin Guo, Weisheng Hu

“…The simulation results show that its bit error rate (BER) performance is improved by more than one order of magnitude through the mitigation of the ICI in comparison with the traditional blind PNC scheme only aiming for CPE compensation.…”
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Design of end controller for the electrohydraulic control system of intelligent working face hydraulic support by ZHANG Xiaohai, TIAN Muqin, ZHANG Minlong, SONG Jiancheng, XU Chunyu, NIE Honglin, YANG Yongkai

“…An end controller for the electrohydraulic control system of hydraulic support based on a 32-bit processor has been developed. A communication architecture of the end controller based on industrial Ethernet and CAN bus has been designed. …”
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Performance Analysis of Downlink Double-IRS Systems Relying on Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access by Thai-Anh Nguyen, Hoang-Viet Nguyen, Dinh-Thuan Do, Adao Silva

“…Additionally, we compute the bit error rate (BER), the ergodic rates (ER) of the UE as functions of the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) using the Chebyshev-Gauss quadrature method, and hence the complete the overall evaluation of the system’s performance can be achieved. …”
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Nonlinear bridge deflection monitoring and prediction system based on network communication by Lei Yanli, Li Zhiqiang

“…The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can be used to improve the stability of nonlinear communication system, reduce the bit error rate, overcome the interference of coherent component in sidelobe, and autocorrelated the impulse response of receiver. …”
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PAPR reduction using SLM-PTS-CT hybrid PAPR method for optical NOMA waveform by Arun Kumar, Karthikeyan Rajagopal, Nuha Alruwais, Haya Mesfer Alshahrani, Hany Mahgoub, Kamal M. Othman

“…The efficiency of the proposed method is analysed by estimating the performance of several parameters, such as bit error rate (BER), PAPR, and power spectral density (PSD), by increasing the number of sub-blocks (S) and phase factor (P). …”
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Photonic Generation of Background-Free Phase-Coded Microwave Pulses with Elimination of Power Fading by Mengyuan Guan, Lu Wang, Fangping Li, Xiaoyu Chen, Ming Li, Ninghua Zhu, Wei Li

“…Phase-coded microwave pulses centered at 14 GHz and 19.2 GHz with a bit rate of 0.5 Gb/s were successfully generated.…”
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Relación entre inteligencia y funciones ejecutivas en niños de siete años by Jesús Gonzalez Moreno, Desirée Castellano Olivera Castellano Olivera, Nieves López-Brea Serrat, María Cantero García Cantero García

“…Durante la recogida de datos, se utilizó el Test Breve de Inteligencia de Kaufman (K-BIT) para evaluar la inteligencia, así como el Instrumento de Evaluación Conductual de la Función Ejecutiva-2 (BRIEF-2) para medir los diferentes elementos del control ejecutivo. …”
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Few-Mode Based Beam Shaping for Multi-User Indoor Optical Wireless Communications With Time-Slot Coding by Jianghao Li, Christina Lim, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas

“…The results show that for both single-PD and multi-PD receptions, the bit-error-rate (BER) performance can be significantly improved at different positions within the cell and the size of the effective coverage (BER<3.8 × 10^−3) can be increased by 4 times by employing few-mode based beam shaping scheme at 1:1.79 power ratio between LP₀₁ mode and LP₁₁ mode, compared to conventional OWC systems without few-mode based beam shaping scheme. …”
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Order of statistical learning depends on perceptive uncertainty by Tatsuya Daikoku, Masato Yumoto

“…Three sequences with different TP ratios of 90:10, 80:20, and 67:33 were prepared as low-, intermediate, and high-uncertainty sequences, respectively (conditional entropy: 0.47, 0.72, and 0.92 bit, respectively). Neural responses were recorded when the participants listened to the three sequences. …”
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Efficient FPGA Binary Neural Network Architecture for Image Super-Resolution by Yuanxin Su, Kah Phooi Seng, Jeremy Smith, Li Minn Ang

“…Our experimental validation highlights the effectiveness of this network structure and includes ablation studies on models with varying data bit widths. Hardware analysis substantiates the efficiency and real-time capabilities of this model. …”
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Generation of Nonlinear Substitutions by Simulated Annealing Algorithm by Alexandr Kuznetsov, Mikolaj Karpinski, Ruslana Ziubina, Sergey Kandiy, Emanuele Frontoni, Oleksandr Peliukh, Olga Veselska, Ruslan Kozak

“…As the results of the research show, applying the new cost function allows for the rapid generation of nonlinear substitutions. To find 8-bit bijective S-boxes with nonlinearity 104, we need about 83,000 iterations. …”
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Construction and electrical control of ultrahigh-density organic memory arrays at cryogenic temperature by Mingjun Zhong, Jie Li, Yajie Zhang, Xin Li, Zhen Xu, Qian Shen, Xue Zhang, Yongfeng Wang

“…Benefiting from the small size of a single molecule as the basic storage bit, the two-dimensional molecular arrays allowing controllable electrical manipulations on each molecule can behave as a platform of memory chip with an ultrahigh storage density of ∼320 terabytes (Tb) (or ∼2500 terabits) per square inch. …”
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The Development of a Cost-Effective Imaging Device Based on Thermographic Technology by Ivo Stančić, Ana Kuzmanić Skelin, Josip Musić, Mojmil Cecić

“…The proposed device uses a miniature microbolometer module, a 32-bit ARM microcontroller, and a high-accuracy ambient temperature sensor. …”
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An AUV-Aided Cross-Layer Mobile Data Gathering Protocol for Underwater Sensor Networks by Faisal Abdulaziz Alfouzan, Seyed Mohammad Ghoreyshi, Alireza Shahrabi, Mahsa Sadeghi Ghahroudi

“…However, acoustic communication has posed some significant challenges, such as high propagation delay, low available bandwidth, and high bit error rate. Therefore, proposing a cross-layer protocol is of high importance to the field to integrate different communication functionalities (i.e, an interaction between data link layer and network layer) to interact in a more reliable and flexible manner to overcome the consequences of applying acoustic signals. …”
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Fault Attacks on Access Control in Processors: Threat, Formal Analysis and Microarchitectural Mitigation by Anna L. Duque Anton, Johannes Muller, Mohammad Rahmani Fadiheh, Dominik Stoffel, Wolfgang Kunz

“…The proposed approach implicitly models all possible single and multiple bit flips as well as all stuck-at faults. We leverage the results of our formal analysis to augment the system with protection mechanisms that guarantee security w.r.t. the considered threat model. …”
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Bizarre Morphology Obscures Real Affiliation: An Integrative Study of Enigmatic Cephalaspid <i>Philine denticulata</i> from Arctic Waters Reveals Its Unique Phylogenetic Position by Elena Chaban, Irina Ekimova, Pavel Lubin, Ekaterina Nikitenko, Dimitry Schepetov

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An optimized DCO with modified binary-weighted DCTLs based hybrid tuning banks for an E-band DPLL by Lu Tang, Zichuan Yu, Yujia Lu, Zhiqi Jin, Sicong Xia, Youming Zhang, Xusheng Tang

“…The tuning precision and die size of the medium tuning bank are improved without changing the binary coding rules by replacing the lowest-weight bit of the DCTLs with switched capacitors. In comparison with traditional DCTLs, the control bits of the coarse and medium tuning modules have been changed from 30 to 8, resulting in a 34.4% reduction in overall length (from 122 $$\upmu$$ μ m to 80 $$\upmu$$ μ m). …”
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Impulse Noise Mitigation by Time-Diversity Hermitian Symmetry in Hybrid Powerline and Visible Light Communication Systems by Mulundumina Shimaponda-Nawa, Oluwafemi Kolade, Jianhua He, Wenbo Ding, Ling Cheng

“…This adversely affects the HPV system&#x2019;s bit error rate (BER) performance. In this paper, a time-diversity Hermitian symmetry (TDHS) scheme, which mitigates the effects of IN in a PLC channel is proposed. …”
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Primary school in Zupče by Biševac Slaviša I., Manojlović Dušan M.

“…A fenced yard and raised courts for volleyball, basketball and football were set up around the school a bit later. At its foundation the school was named 'Primary School Zupčanska', at the time of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, it was called by the Serbian saint of St. …”
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