An Efficient Two-Stage Receiver Base on AOR Iterative Algorithm and Chebyshev Acceleration for Uplink Multiuser Massive-MIMO OFDM Systems by Yung-Ping Tu, Chih-Yung Chen, Kuang-Hao Lin

“…In this paper, we provide an effective two-stage multiuser detector (MUD) with the assistance of the accelerated over-relaxation (AOR) iterative algorithm and Chebyshev acceleration for the uplink of M-MIMO OFDM systems to achieve a better balance between bit error rate (BER) performance and computational complexity. …”
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Fully Integrated 24-GHz 1TX-2RX Transceiver for Compact FMCW Radar Applications by Goo-Han Ko, Seung-Jin Moon, Seong-Hoon Kim, Jeong-Geun Kim, Donghyun Baek

“…The TX consists of a three-bit bridged t-type attenuator for gain control, a two-stage drive amplifier (DA) and a one-stage power amplifier (PA). …”
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In situ synthesis of N-containing CoCrFeNi high entropy alloys with enhanced properties fabricated by selective laser melting by Yongyun Zhang, Shulong Ye, Haibo Ke, K.C. Chan, Weihua Wang

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Assessment of the Suitability of Aromatic and High-Bitter Hop Varieties (<i>Humulus lupulus</i> L.) for Beer Production in the Conditions of the Małopolska Vistula Gorge Region by Barbara Sawicka, Mateusz Śpiewak, Anna Kiełtyka-Dadasiewicz, Dominika Skiba, Bernadetta Bienia, Barbara Krochmal-Marczak, Piotr Pszczółkowski

“…“Iunga”, “Sybilla”, “Lubelski”, and “Lomik” were rich in monoterpene hydrocarbons, mainly myrcene, while there was a bit more α-humulene in the “Marynka” variety. “Magnum” was characterized by an even distribution of monoterpenes and sesquiterpenes. …”
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Urticaria as a Rare Side Effect of Polyethylene Glycol-3350 in a Child: Case Report by Sinem Sari Gökay, Tuğçe Çelik, Mehmet Yusuf Sari, Faruk Ekinci, Riza Dinçer Yildizdaş, Hayri Levent Yilmaz

“…Therefore, it is less likely to have side effects. A three-year-old girl bit and ate one-third of an alkali battery and was brought to our pediatric emergency unit. …”
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A Novel Hybrid Secure Image Encryption Based on Julia Set of Fractals and 3D Lorenz Chaotic Map by Fawad Masood, Jawad Ahmad, Syed Aziz Shah, Sajjad Shaukat Jamal, Iqtadar Hussain

“…During the security test, the entropy values were more than 7.9 for each grey channel which is almost equal to the ideal value of 8 for an 8-bit system. Numerous security tests and low computational complexity tests validate the security, robustness, and real-time implementation of the presented scheme.…”
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A Fast Storage Method for Drone-Borne Passive Microwave Radiation Measurement by Xiangkun Wan, Xiaofeng Li, Tao Jiang, Xingming Zheng, Xiaojie Li, Lei Li

“…The card programming step was changed from a query waiting structure to a polling query flag bit structure, and time-sharing processing and parallel processing were used to simulate multithreading. …”
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An FPGA Accelerator for Real Time Hyperspectral Images Compression based on JPEG2000 Standard by Refka Ghodhbani, Taoufik Saidani, Layla Horrigue, Asaad M. Algarni, Muteb Alshammari

“…The introduction of a pipeline pause mechanism effectively resolves the issue of coding errors deriving from parameter modifications. Bit-plane coding was employed to enhance the efficacy of image coding calculations, leading to a reduction of parameter update delays. …”
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Prospects and Obstacles for Green Hydrogen Production in Russia by Alexandra Kopteva, Leonid Kalimullin, Pavel Tcvetkov, Amilcar Soares

“…The key reason for that is the low average market price of hydrogen ($14/kg), which is only a bit higher than its production cost ($12.5/kg), while transportation requires about $0.96/kg more. …”
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The Risk‐Reducing Effect of Aspirin in Lynch Syndrome Carriers: Development and Evaluation of an Educational Leaflet by Rajneesh Kaur, Cassandra McDonald, Bettina Meiser, Finlay Macrae, Sian K Smith, Yoon Jung Kang, Michael Caruana, Gillian Mitchell

“…Most participants (91%) report “a lot” or “quite a bit” of improvement in perceived understanding in knowledge about who might benefit from taking aspirin, its benefits, how long to take it, the reduction in bowel cancer risk, and the optimal dosage. …”
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Development and Performance Evaluation of Graphene-Enhanced Polycrystalline Diamond Compact Cutter by Pei Ju, Chuanliu Wang

“…The real drilling test was carried out in the Baiping Coal Mine of Zhengmei Group, the concave drill bit with 0,2 wt% graphene added PDC cutters showed the fastest average ROP, the least cutter wear, and the best drilling effect.…”
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Polarization-Aware Prediction of Mobile Radio Wave Propagation Based on Complex-Valued and Quaternion Neural Networks by Haotian Chen, Ryo Natsuaki, Akira Hirose

“…In physical wireless-environment experiments, we find that the proposed scheme provides 3.0 dB and 6.0 dB improvements of bit error rate (BER) at 10^&#x2212;4, showing almost the same BER performance as a system perfectly knowing the actual radio-wave characteristics in future TDD frames. …”
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A Magnetic-Balanced Inductive Link for the Simultaneous Uplink Data and Power Telemetry by Chen Gong, Dake Liu, Zhidong Miao, Min Li

“…Benefiting from the significant improvement of SIR, the implant transmitter costs only 0.2 mW of power carrying 50 kbps of binary phase shift keying data and gets a bit error rate of 1 × 10 − 7 , even though the coupling coefficient is as low as 0.005. …”
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Multispectral Optical camera communication links based on spectral signature multiplexing by Daniel Moreno, Victor Guerra, Julio Rufo, Jose Rabadan, Rafael Perez‐Jimenez

“…For the specific MS camera employed in the experiments, up to two distinct channels could be obtained with the same transmitter at different temperatures, getting a bit error rate below the forward error correction limit. …”
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Support Vector Machine-Based Soft Decision for Consecutive-Symbol-Expanded 4-Dimensional Constellation in Underwater Visible Light Communication System by Wenqing Niu, Jifan Cai, Zhiteng Luo, Jianyang Shi, Nan Chi

“…To deal with the increasing computational complexity in the SVM training phase, bit-based binary SVM multi-class strategy and an edge-detection-based data pre-processing method are employed. …”
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Classification of Teas Using Different Feature Extraction Methods from Signals of a Lab-Made Electronic Nose by Irari Jiménez-López, Jeniffer Molina-Quiroga, Juan Manuel Gutiérrez

“…A total of 34 tea samples were analyzed using an e-nose consisting of an olfactometer as a sample-handling system, seven chemo-resistive gas sensors, and a 12-bit analog-to-digital converter. Tea samples were measured 10 times to ensure repeatability, resulting in a database of 340 tea measures with 2499 samples each per sensor. …”
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Designing a CHAM Block Cipher on Low-End Microcontrollers for Internet of Things by Hyeokdong Kwon, SangWoo An, YoungBeom Kim, Hyunji Kim, Seung Ju Choi, Kyoungbae Jang, Jaehoon Park, Hyunjun Kim, Seog Chung Seo, Hwajeong Seo

“…In this paper, we implemented the optimized CHAM block cipher in the counter mode of operation, on 8-bit AVR microcontrollers (i.e., representative sensor nodes). …”
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Fully Integrated Line Array Angular Displacement Sensing Chip by Yunhao Fu, Jiaqi Jiang, Zhuang Zhao, Zhongyuan Zhao, Kaixin Chen, Min Tao, Yuchun Chang, Guoqiang Lo, Junfeng Song

“…Based on the charge redistribution principle, a fully differential 12-bit, 1 MSPS sampling rate successive approximation analog-to-digital converter (SAR ADC) is designed for quantization and subdivision of the incremental code channel output signal. …”
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A Static Analysis for the Minimization of Voters in Fault-Tolerant Circuits by Burlyaev, Dmitry, Fradet, Pascal, Girault, Alain

“…On the other hand, BDD-based modelling of SET effects represents a more complex task than the modelling of an SEU as a bit-flip. We propose solutions for this task and explain the nature of encountered problems. …”
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Co‐occurrence matching of local binary patterns for improving visual adaption and its application to smoke recognition by Feiniu Yuan, Jinting Shi, Xue Xia, Qinghua Huang, Xuelong Li

“…To improve robustness, we propose a novel feature extraction method based on similarity and dissimilarity matching measures of Local Binary Patterns (LBP). Given two bit‐sequences of an LBP code pair, the similarity and dissimilarity matching measures are defined as the ratios of the 1–1 bitwise matching number to the 0–0 bitwise matching number and the 1–0 number to the 0–1 number, respectively. …”
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