Leveraging Larger AES Keys in LoRaWAN: A Practical Evaluation of Energy and Time Costs by Phithak Thaenkaew, Bruno Quoitin, Ahmed Meddahi

“…LoRaWAN, a low-power IoT network, employs the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) with a 128-bit key for encryption and integrity, balancing efficiency and security. …”
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Presence and Distress of Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy Symptoms in Upper Extremities of Younger and Older Breast Cancer Survivors by Susan Storey, Andrea Cohee, Diane Von Ah, Eric Vachon, Noah R. Zanville, Patrick O. Monahan, Timothy E. Stump, Victoria L. Champion

“…Symptom distress ratings did not differ by age groups; both age groups indicated distress from CIPN symptoms, with 25% or more reporting distress as “moderately” or “quite a bit.” Conclusions: Younger BCS reported more upper extremity CIPN symptoms. …”
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De “ciudadanos” a “sujetos”: los inmigrantes en el campo del sur de Italia (From citizens to subjects: immigrants in the country of Southern Italy) by Carlo Colloca

“…An analysis concerning the strong conflicts between the natives and the immigrants follows, the main attention being given to Gioia Tauro zone and to Rosarno rural area. The latter (a bit over 15.000 inhabitants) has included immigrants’ presence since the early 1990s, on citrus crop. …”
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The Design and Implementation of an Improved Lightweight BLASTP on CUDA GPU by Xue Sun, Chao-Chin Wu, Yan-Fang Liu

“…The largest sequence is enlarged from 512 to 1024. As a result, one more bit is required to encode each sequence position. …”
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Mechanical Anisotropy and Surface Roughness in Additively Manufactured Parts Fabricated by Stereolithography (SLA) Using Statistical Analysis by Sunil Aravind Shanmugasundaram, Jafar Razmi, Md Jamal Mian, Leila Ladani

“…The percentage elongation values (4.8% ± 0.4%) were a bit lower than the expected value of 6%. However, the surfaces of all the printed samples were quite smooth, with a surface roughness range of 2.28 ± 0.59 µm. …”
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SPACE: Segment Prefetching and Caching at the Edge for Adaptive Video Streaming by Jesus Aguilar-Armijo, Christian Timmerer, Hermann Hellwagner

“…We analyze and discuss which segment prefetching policy is better under which circumstances, as well as the influence of the client-side Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR) algorithm and the set of available representations (“bitrate ladder”) in segment prefetching. …”
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Prevalence, clinical pattern and immediate outcomes of HIV-infected children admitted to Al Sabah Children’s Hospital, South Sudan by Gawar Gel

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Real-Time Healthcare Data Transmission for Remote Patient Monitoring in Patch-Based Hybrid OCC/BLE Networks by Moh. Khalid Hasan, Md. Shahjalal, Mostafa Zaman Chowdhury, Yeong Min Jang

“…Moreover, the signal-to-noise-plus-interference ratio in high distance can be decreased to a considerable extent, possibly leading to the increase in bit-error rate. Optical camera communication (OCC), which uses a camera to receive data from a light-emitting diode (LED), can be utilized in eHealth to mitigate the limitations of RF. …”
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Certificate-Based Signcryption Scheme for Securing Wireless Communication in Industrial Internet of Things by Insaf Ullah, Abdullah Alomari, Ako Muhammad Abdullah, Neeraj Kumar, Amjad Alsirhani, Fazal Noor, Saddam Hussain, Muhammad Asghar Khan

“…Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptosystem (HECC), a light-weight version of Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem (ECC), was employed to construct the proposed scheme, which offers security and cost-efficiency. The HECC utilizes 80-bit keys with fewer parameters than the ECC and Bilinear Pairing (BP). …”
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Secure Key-Based Substitution-Boxes Design Using Systematic Search for High Nonlinearity by Amjad Hussain Zahid, Hafiz Ali Mansoor Elahi, Musheer Ahmad, Louai A. Maghrabi, Ramy Said Agieb Said

“…A variety of standard cryptographic tests such as fixed-point analysis, nonlinearity (NL), strict avalanche criterion (SAC), bit independence criterion (BIC), linear probability (LP), differential probability (DP), etc.) are applied to assess and analyze the cryptographic strengths of S-boxes generated using the proposed method. …”
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Effect of Drilling Fluid Invasion on Natural Gas Hydrate Near-Well Reservoirs Drilling in a Horizontal Well by Qibing Wang, Ren Wang, Jiaxin Sun, Jinsheng Sun, Cheng Lu, Kaihe Lv, Jintang Wang, Jianlong Wang, Jie Yang, Yuanzhi Qu

“…These issues can result in the engineering accidents such as bit sticking and wellbore instability, which are required for further investigations. …”
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Polymeric ethosomal gel loaded with nimodipine: Optimisation, pharmacokinetic and histopathological analysis by Jamal Moideen Muthu Mohamed, Barkat A Khan, Vijaya Rajendran, Mohamed El-Sherbiny, Gamal Othman, Abdulrahman Bashir Ahmed Hussamuldin, Rasha Hamed Al-Serwi

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An MB-OFDM Based Wideband THz Communication System With Impairment Aware Precoder and Squint Effect Mitigation by T.D Dheerajlal, Ankam Madhusree, Amit Kumar Dutta

“…We have also proposed to optimize the number of subbands and zero-padding in MB-OFDM waveform based on the minimum bit error rate (MBER) criterion. Numerical simulations are carried out to evaluate the performance of the proposed schemes demonstrating their feasibility and effectiveness for wideband THz communication with results showing a lower peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) for the proposed waveform as compared to conventional OFDM.…”
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Common Latent Space Exploration for Calibration Transfer across Hyperspectral Imaging-Based Phenotyping Systems by Tanzeel U. Rehman, Libo Zhang, Dongdong Ma, Jian Jin

“…Our results showed that the di-PLSR helped to recover the performance of RWC, and N models plummeted due to the differences originating from new imaging systems (sensor type, spectrograph, lens system, spatial resolution, spectral resolution, field of view, bit-depth, frame rate, and exposure time) or lighting conditions. …”
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Assessment of population external irradiation doses with consideration of Rospotrebnadzor bodies equipment for monitoring of photon radiation dose by I. P. Stamat, V. A. Venkov, O. E. Tutelyan, S. I. Kuvshinnikov, G. A. Gorskiy

“…This feature of dosimeters is apparently one of most plausible reasons of a bit overstating assessment of population external irradiation doses. …”
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On the Fast DHT Precoding of OFDM Signals over Frequency-Selective Fading Channels for Wireless Applications by Kelvin Anoh, Cagri Tanriover, Moisés V. Ribeiro, Bamidele Adebisi, Chan Hwang See

“…We compare the results to three other precoding schemes and the standard OFDM scheme as the baseline; while improving the power consumption efficiency of a Class-A power amplifier from <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>4.16</mn><mo>%</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> to <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>16.56</mn><mo>%</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, the bit error ratio is also enhanced by up to 5 dB when using a <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mfrac><mn>1</mn><mn>2</mn></mfrac><mo>—</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>rate error-correction coding and 7 dB with interleaving.…”
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Radio-Controlled Intelligent UGV as a Spy Robot with Laser Targeting for Military Purposes by Muhammad Zia Ur Rahman, Umair Raza, Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Muhammad Tanveer Riaz, Abdu H. Gumaei, Nasir Ahmad

“…The robot uses a rack and pinion driving mechanism and an ATMEL Cortex-M3 CPU as a controller with 32-bit/s processing speed. In addition, a laser is installed on the turret to shoot the targets down, which can be used in an autonomous mode based on facial recognition results, or it can be used manually either through an RF controller or Python-based GUI. …”
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Sensorless microcontroller-based zero-crossing detection system for AC signals using a rounding function by Ahmed Ali, Mohd Khairunaz Mat Desa, Chia Ai Ooi, Samir A. Al-Gailani, Muhammad Hafeez, Mohamad Nazir Abdullah, Mohammed Zaid

“…In this study, a low-cost microcontroller board, Arduino Uno, was used. The Uno is an 8-bit board with a 16-MHz clock speed. Therefore, an error in terms of the phase shift emerged in the output signal, which was measured to be 0.0314 rad at 50 Hz. …”
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Digital Fixed-Point Low Powered Area Efficient Function Estimation for Implantable Devices by James B. Romaine, Thomas Ian Ashley, Mario Pereira Martin

“…This article introduces a new multiplier-less 32-bit fixed point architecture for estimating complex non-linear functions based on adapted shift only series expansions. …”
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Terahertz Communications Between Unstable Transceivers With Pointing Errors Over FTR Fading by Anil Yadav, Ranjan K. Mallik

“…Next, closed-form expressions for performance metrics, namely, the outage probability, the average bit error rate, and the average channel capacity, are derived. …”
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