Simulation analysis of underwater wireless optical communication based on Monte Carlo method and experimental research in complex hydrological environment by Yanru Ren, Min Zhu, Ke Cui, Longxian Li, Shengao Wang

“…This paper aims to address the challenges of short optical communication distances and high Bit Error Rates (BERs) caused by seawater absorption, scattering, and underwater turbulence. …”
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Electromagnetic Properties Monitoring to Detect Different Biodegradation Kinetics in Hydrocarbon-Contaminated Soil by Andrea Vergnano, Carla Maria Raffa, Alberto Godio, Fulvia Chiampo

“…As demonstrated by the results for the fluorescein diacetate analysis, the microbial activity was a bit higher for the inoculated microcosm, which also showed faster variations of the electromagnetic properties. …”
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LoRaWAN-Based Adaptive MACs for Event Response Applications by Vasileios Asteriou, Anastasios Valkanis, Georgia Beletsioti, Konstantinos Kantelis, Georgios Papadimitriou, Petros Nicopolitidis

“…The proposed approach also surpasses LoRaWAN in energy per delivered bit for high event propagation velocities. Finally, the novel protocol has a lower hardware and deployment complexity than the wake up radio based alternatives, at the cost of higher energy consumption.…”
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Three-Dimensional Reconstruction Method of Rapeseed Plants in the Whole Growth Period Using RGB-D Camera by Xiaowen Teng, Guangsheng Zhou, Yuxuan Wu, Chenglong Huang, Wanjing Dong, Shengyong Xu

“…Multiply the binarization result of the 8-bit infrared image with the RGB-D image alignment result provided by Microsoft corporation, which can remove ghosting and most of the background noise. …”
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Dual-Chirp Photonics-Based Radar for Distance and Velocity Measurement Based on Compressive Sensing by Yujiao Ding, Shuxu Guo, Hao Wu, Di Wang, Jiaqi Li, Yang Yang, Fengtao Cui, Wei Dong

“…In the receiving part, a dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulator (DDMZM) and a Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) are cascaded for the optical mixing and de-chirp processing with a pseudo-random bit sequence (PRBS). Then the mixed signal can be gathered by an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) at a sampling rate that is well below the Nyquist sampling rate. …”
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A Single-Trial P300 Detector Based on Symbolized EEG and Autoencoded-(1D)CNN to Improve ITR Performance in BCIs by Daniela De Venuto, Giovanni Mezzina

“…Experimental results on the P300 speller dataset showed that the proposed method achieves an average ITR (on two subjects) of 16.83 bits/min, outperforming by +5.75 bits/min the state-of-the-art for this parameter. …”
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Hybrid Control of the DC Microgrid Using Deep Neural Networks and Global Terminal Sliding Mode Control with the Exponential Reaching Law by Mohamed A. Sharaf, Hammad Armghan, Naghmash Ali, Amr Yousef, Yasser S. Abdalla, Anis R. Boudabbous, Hafiz Mehdi, Ammar Armghan

“…Experimental tests based on the hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) setup are then conducted using 32-bit TMS320F28379D microcontrollers. Both MATLAB and HIL results show strong performance under a range of environmental circumstances and system uncertainties.…”
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Silicon Photonics for Inter/Intra-Chip Wireless Communication Using RF On-Chip Antennas by Ajaypal Singh Dhillon, Frederick Melanson, Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur

“…The intra-chip RF data transmission has been confirmed with bit- error-rate (BER) measurements of below 10^−9 up to a data rate of 4 Gbps. …”
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Effect of surface cleaning on seam quality of laser beam welded mixed joints by Attila Zsolt Kenéz, Tamás Földes, Éva Lublóy

“…In this study, different surface cleaning methods were used to remove greases and oils from the surface of the E235 steel tube component of the diamond segmented drill bit before laser beam welding. The mechanical, chemical and electromechanical cleaning methods were selected because they are suitable for removing greases and oils adhering to the surface during tube production. …”
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Integration of BIM and Immersive Technologies for AEC: A Scientometric-SWOT Analysis and Critical Content Review by Ayaz Khan, Samad Sepasgozar, Tingting Liu, Rongrong Yu

“…The Architecture Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry lags a bit in adopting it because of its multi-faceted dependencies and unique nature of work. …”
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Study of displacement damage effects in InGaAs PIN photodiode under 10 MeV proton irradiation by Rui Li, Yudong Li, Heini Maliya, Ruiqin Zhang, Xin Wang, Yi Jiang, Dong Zhou, Qi Guo

“…Finally, the effect of proton irradiation on the optical communication system is simulated and the results show that the bit error rate of the system increases with the increase in irradiation fluence, which seriously affects the sensitivity of the optical communication system.…”
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Application of WES towards Molecular Investigation of Congenital Cataracts: Identification of Novel Alleles and Genes in a Hospital-Based Cohort of South India by Dinesh Kumar Kandaswamy, Makarla Venkata Sathya Prakash, Jochen Graw, Samuel Koller, István Magyar, Amit Tiwari, Wolfgang Berger, Sathiyaveedu Thyagarajan Santhiya

“…The clinical and genetic heterogeneity of congenital cataracts makes the molecular diagnosis a bit of a complicated task. Hence, whole exome sequencing (WES) was utilized to concurrently screen all known cataract genes and to examine novel candidate factors for a disease-causing mutation in probands from 11 pedigrees affected with familial congenital cataracts. …”
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Image security using steganography and cryptography with sweeping computational ghost imaging by Sajjad Rajabi-Ghaleh, Sajjad Rajabi-Ghaleh, Sajjad Rajabi-Ghaleh, Babak Olyaeefar, Babak Olyaeefar, Reza Kheradmand, Reza Kheradmand, Reza Kheradmand, Sohrab Ahmadi-Kandjani, Sohrab Ahmadi-Kandjani, Sohrab Ahmadi-Kandjani

“…This strategy also results in smaller, more compact data packages and higher bitrates. Least significant bit (LSB) uses steganography to conceal the hidden picture. …”
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Unconventional Integrated Photonic Accelerators for High-Throughput Convolutional Neural Networks by Aris Tsirigotis, George Sarantoglou, Menelaos Skontranis, Stavros Deligiannidis, Kostas Sozos, Giannis Tsilikas, Dimitris Dermanis, Adonis Bogris, Charis Mesaritakis

“…The photonic chip allows feature extraction through optical filtering with low power consumption and an equivalent computational efficiency of 72 femtojoules per multiply-and-accumulate operation for 5-bit precision. When combined with typical digital neural networks, an almost 5-fold reduction in the number of parameters was achieved with a minor loss of accuracy compared to established convolutional neural networks. …”
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Analytical Framework of CP-Free Multiuser OFDM System for Coordinated Multi-Point at mmWave by Joarder Jafor Sadique, Saifur Rahman Sabuj, Shaikh Enayet Ullah, Md. Akbar Hossain, Raad Raad, Md. Rabiul Islam, Abbas Z. Kouzani, M. A. Parvez Mahmud

“…In addition, the paper studied the input back-off-aided high-power amplifier for peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction and forward error correction channel coding for improved bit error rate (BER) for cell-edge users at mmWave frequencies. …”
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A Design of Small Area, 0.95 mW, 612–1152 MHz Open Loop Injection-Locked Frequency Multiplier for IoT Sensor Applications by SungJin Kim, Dong-Gyu Kim, Chanho Kim, Dong Soo Lee, Behnam Samadpoor Rikan, YoungGun Pu, Sang-Sun Yoo, Minjae Lee, KeumCheol Hwang, Youngoo Yang, Kang-Yoon Lee

“…To control the frequency of the ILFM, the load current is digitally tuned with a 6-bit digital control signal. The proposed ILFM locks to the target frequency using a digitally controlled Frequency Locked Loop (FLL). …”
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An On-Demand Scheduling-Based MAC Protocol for UW-WiFi Networks by Xiaohe Pan, Jifeng Zhu, Mengzhuo Liu, Xiaoyu Wang, Zheng Peng, Jun Liu, Junhong Cui

“…However, due to the unique features of underwater acoustic channel, such as long and variable propagation delay, low available bandwidth and high bit error rate, conventional medium access control (MAC) protocols designed for terrestrial WiFi networks need an overhaul to work efficiently for UW-WiFi networks. …”
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Deducing of Optical and Electronic Domains Based Distortions in Radio over Fiber Network by Haoyu Yu, Farman Ali, Shanshan Tu, Hanen Karamti, Ammar Armghan, Fazal Muhammad, Fayadh Alenezi, Khurram Hameed, Nauman Ahmad

“…The performance of the proposed model is successfully evaluated for 50 km range, −40 to −18 dBm received power, −20 to 0 dBm input power, where below <inline-formula><math display="inline"><semantics><msup><mn>10</mn><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>6</mn></mrow></msup></semantics></math></inline-formula> bit error rate (BER) is recorded. Thus, this signifies that the presented model exhibits smooth execution against OEDs impairments.…”
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True Random Number Generator Based on the Variability of the High Resistance State of RRAMs by Maryam Akbari, Sattar Mirzakuchaki, Daniel Arumi, Salvador Manich, Alvaro Gomez-Pau, Francesca Campabadal, Mireia Bargallo Gonzalez, Rosa Rodriguez-Montanes

“…In the proposal, one or two devices can be used depending on whether the objective is focused on saving area or obtaining a higher random bit frequency generation. The generated bits, based on a combination of experimental measurements and SPICE simulations, passed all 15 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) tests and achieved a throughput of tens of MHz.…”
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Radix-2² Algorithm for the Odd New Mersenne Number Transform (ONMNT) by Yousuf Al-Aali, Mounir T. Hamood, Said Boussakta

“…This paper addresses this limitation and proposes a derivation based on bit-unscrambling techniques, which reverse the ordering of the output sequence, resulting in efficient calculations with fewer operations. …”
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