Protection-Enhanced Watermarking Scheme Combined With Non-Linear Systems by Hira Nazir, Muhammad Sami Ullah, Syed Salman Qadri, Humaira Arshad, Mujtaba Husnain, Abdul Razzaq, Syed Ali Nawaz

“…Experimental results such as PSNR (peak signal-to-noise ratio), NC (normalized correlation), BER (bit error rate), CR (compression ratio), NPCR (number of pixel change rate), and SSIM (structural similarity index) indicate that the proposed technique approaches the standard main level The best-observed values for PSNR, SSIM, NC, and CR are 73.2211, 0.998816, 0.9997, and 0.9025 respectively.…”
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nfluences of ammonium-nitrate, food waste compost and bacterial fertilizer on soluble soil nitrogen forms and on the growth of carrot (Daucus Carota L.) by Andrea Balla Kovács, Rita Kremper, Ida Kincses, Anita Szabó

“…EM-1 bacterial fertilizer did not cause marked effect on yield and yield parameters of carrot plant, but its combination with other fertilizers promises a little bit higher yield or plant available nutrient in the soil. …”
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Consumers’ Preferences for Purchasing mHealth Apps: Discrete Choice Experiment by Zhenzhen Xie, Calvin Kalun Or

“…ResultsCost was the attribute that had the greatest effect on consumers’ choice of health apps (compared to HK $10 [US $1.27]—HK $50 [US $6.37]: β=−1.064; PPno security insurancesome security policiesPcomplete security systemPslightly usefulmoderately usefulPvery usefulPdata-consuminga bit data-consumingPdata-savingPPPneutralmoderately supportivePvery supportivePnot easy to usemoderately easy to usePvery easy to useP ConclusionsIt is recommended that future health apps keep their mobile data and phone storage consumption low, include a complete security system to protect personal health information, provide useful content and features, adopt user-friendly interfaces, and involve health care professionals. …”
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Influence of Rotation Speed and Air Pressure on the Down the Hole Drilling Velocity for Borehole Heat Exchanger Installation by Tomasz Sliwa, Kinga Jarosz, Marc A. Rosen, Anna Sojczyńska, Aneta Sapińska-Śliwa, Andrzej Gonet, Karolina Fąfera, Tomasz Kowalski, Martyna Ciepielowska

“…The tests consider three drill bit diameters—110, 127 and 140 mm; three rotational speeds—20, 40 and 60 1/min; and three air pressures—16, 20 and 24 bar. …”
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A 240 × 160 3D-Stacked SPAD dToF Image Sensor With Rolling Shutter and In-Pixel Histogram for Mobile Devices by Chao Zhang, Ning Zhang, Zhijie Ma, Letian Wang, Yu Qin, Jieyang Jia, Kai Zang

“…The SPADS consists of multiple 16<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times$ </tex-math></inline-formula>16 SPADs top groups, in which each of 8 <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\times$ </tex-math></inline-formula> 8 SPADs sub-group shares a 10-bit, 97.65ps and 100ns range time-to-digital converter (TDC) in a quad-partition rolling shutter mode. …”
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Impact of Equalization-Enhanced Phase Noise on Digital Nonlinearity Compensation in High-Capacity Optical Communication Systems by Jiazheng Ding, Tianhua Xu, Cenqin Jin, Ziyihui Wang, Jian Zhao, Tiegen Liu

“…EEPN-induced distortions become more significant with the increase of the local oscillator (LO) laser linewidth, and this results in degradations in bit-error-rates (BERs), achievable information rates (AIRs), and AIR-distance products in optical communication systems. …”
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Research on magnetic tracking and positioning technology for automatic driving in coal mine by YANG Li

“…According to the relative position of the center point of the magnetic induction antenna and the passive induction magnetic nail, the control system calculates the deviation position between the position of the vehicle's roadway and the center of the driving route through the batch informed tree (BIT*) algorithm. Therefore, the purpose of positioning and tracking is achieved. …”
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&#039;I learnt so much about being active&#039;: experiences of people with rheumatoid arthritis on the impact of a physiotherapist-led intervention to encourage physical activity by Sean McKenna, Louise Larkin, Tadhg Pyne, Stephen Gallagher, Liam Glynn, Alexander Fraser, Bente Esbensen, Norelee Kennedy

“…Three main themes were generated from participants: (1) positive experience of intervention - &#039;I found it very knowledgeable to help me get stronger&#039;; (2) improvement in self-management - &#039;&amp;hellip; motivate me maybe to go back to doing a little bit more exercise&#039;; and (3) negative impact of COVID-19 - &#039;I don&rsquo;t think doing it online again would be really good at all&#039;. …”
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Effect of Sn Addition on the Microstructure and Age-Hardening Response of a Zn-4Cu Alloy by Aysha E. Shamaki, Heba Y. Zahran, Alaa F. Abd El-Rehim

“…The results show that the microhardness of the Zn-4Cu (ZC) binary alloy increases a little bit from 76 to 80 HV as the aging time increases from 2 to 128 h, respectively. …”
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Features of formation, filling and ripening of triticale, wheat, and rye grain by Yuliya Kotenko, Marc Kanaan, Valentina Rubets, Vladimir Pylnev

“…Results: The mass of 1000 grains gradually increased, and then decreased a little bit due to enzyme-mycosis exhaustion. Enzyme-mycosis exhaustion was most pronounced in wheat Moskovskaya 39 and triticale Viktor. …”
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MONITORING COASTAL AREAS USING NDWI FROM LANDSAT IMAGE DATA FROM 1985 BASED ON CLOUD COMPUTATION GOOGLE EARTH ENGINE AND APPS by K. T. N. Ihsan, K. T. N. Ihsan, A. B. Harto, A. B. Harto, A. D. Sakti, A. D. Sakti, K. Wikantika, K. Wikantika

“…The resulting website based on Cloud Computation in Google Earth Engine can be seen at the link https://bit.ly/MonitoringPesisir. This website can automatically update, and users can choose the location to monitor. …”
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Characterization and Direct Modulation of a Multi-Section PIC Suited for Short Reach Optical Communication Systems by Mohab N. Hammad, Aleksandra Kaszubowska-Anandarajah, M. Deseada Gutierrez Pascual, Pascal Landais, Prajwal D. Lakshmijayasimha, Gaurav Jain, Prince M. Anandarajah

“…Transmission performance of the injected case shows a 2 dB improvement in the minimum optical power required to achieve a bit error rate of <inline-formula><math display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>3.8</mn><mo>×</mo><msup><mrow><mn>10</mn></mrow><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>3</mn></mrow></msup></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> (hard decision forward error correction limit). …”
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Revisiting structure graphs: Applications to CBC-MAC and EMAC by Jha Ashwin, Nandi Mridul

“…In [2], Bellare, Pietrzak and Rogaway proved an O⁢(ℓ⁢q2/2n)${O(\ell q^{2}/2^{n})}$ bound for the PRF (pseudorandom function) security of the CBC-MAC based on an n-bit random permutation Π, provided ℓ<2n/3${\ell<2^{n/3}}$. …”
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Geochemical signatures of potassium metasomatism in anthracite from the Himalayan fold-thrust belts of Sikkim, India by Santanu Ghosh, Anwita Ojha, Atul Kumar Varma

“…The plot of the bituminous coal samples in the A–CN–K diagram depicts the traditional weathering trend of parent rocks, but the anthracite samples plot near the illite field and are a bit offset from the weathering trend. This may imply the plausible influences of the potassium-metasomatism at post coalification stages, which is further supported by high K2O/Na2O ratio (29.88–80.13). …”
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A Novel Improved Manta Ray Foraging Optimization Approach for Mitigating Power System Congestion in Transmission Network by Kaushik Paul, Pampa Sinha, Yassine Bouteraa, Pawe Skruch, Saleh Mobayen

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Reconstruction of the medial patellofemoral ligament using two blind transverse semi-patella tunnels and an implant-free technique for patellar fixation: a technical note by Vasileios Raoulis, Aristeidis Zibis, Apostolos Fyllos, Michael-Alexander Malahias, Konstantinos Banios, Michael Hantes

“…The two guide pins are over-drilled with a cannulated 4.5-mm drill bit 2-cm deep, to create two transverse blind semi-patellar tunnels. …”
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High-dimensional quantum cryptography with twisted light by Mohammad Mirhosseini, Omar S Magaña-Loaiza, Malcolm N O’Sullivan, Brandon Rodenburg, Mehul Malik, Martin P J Lavery, Miles J Padgett, Daniel J Gauthier, Robert W Boyd

“…Here we describe a proof-of-principle experiment that indicates the feasibility of high-dimensional QKD based on the transverse structure of the light field allowing for the transfer of more than 1 bit per photon. Our implementation uses the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of photons and the corresponding mutually unbiased basis of angular position (ANG). …”
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Resource Optimization for 3D Video SoftCast with Joint Texture/Depth Power Allocation by Saqr Khalil Saeed Thabet, Emmanuel Osei-Mensah, Omar Ahmed, Abegaz Mohammed Seid, Olusola Bamisile

“…When the channel fails to support the transmission bit rate, the video quality degrades sharply. A pseudo-analog transmission system such as SoftCast relies on linear operations to achieve a linear quality transition over a wide range of channel conditions. …”
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Weight Quantization Retraining for Sparse and Compressed Spatial Domain Correlation Filters by Dilshad Sabir, Muhammmad Abdullah Hanif, Ali Hassan, Saad Rehman, Muhammad Shafique

“…The Po2 quantization scheme showed better performance close to the performance of full precision, while the DFP quantization showed further closeness to the Receiver Operator Characteristic of full precision for the same bit-length. Overall, spatial-trained filters showed a better compression ratio for Po2 quantization after retraining of the CPR filter. …”
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A 17.8–20.2 GHz Compact Vector-Sum Phase Shifter in 130 nm SiGe BiCMOS Technology for LEO Gateways Receivers by Javier del Pino, Sunil L. Khemchandani, Mario San-Miguel-Montesdeoca, Sergio Mateos-Angulo, Daniel Mayor-Duarte, Jose Luis Saiz-Perez, David Galante-Sempere

“…Compared to conventional architectures, this structure is more compact and produces double the output amplitude. The design offers 6-bit phase control for 360°, and the total root mean square (RMS) phase and gain errors are 2.36° and 1.46 dB, respectively. …”
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