Capra cartilage-derived peptide delivery via carbon nano-dots for cartilage regeneration by Priti Prasanna Maity, Kausik Kapat, Puja Poddar, Hema Bora, Chandan Kanta Das, Poushali Das, Sayan Ganguly, Narayan Chandra Das, Dibakar Dhara, Mahitosh Mandal, Amit Roy Chowdhury, Sumanta Mukherjee, Santanu Dhara

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Efficient Polar Coded Selective Decode-and-Forward with Cooperative Decision Threshold in Cooperative Multi-Relay Transmissions by Bin Jiang, Yue Tang, Jianrong Bao, Chao Liu, Yanhai Shang

“…In addition, a polar code for fading channels is designed and adaptively adjusted to a proper code rate according to channel quality to attain good bit error rate (BER) performance. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme achieves about 0.9 and 0.5 dB gain at BER of <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mn>10</mn><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>4</mn></mrow></msup></semantics></math></inline-formula>, respectively, in multi-relay cooperative communications with multi-path fading channels compared with those of non-cooperation and existing polar coded cooperation channels. …”
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SSVM: An Ultra-Low-Power Strain Sensing and Visualization Module for Long-Term Structural Health Monitoring by Suleman Khan, Jongbin Won, Junsik Shin, Junyoung Park, Jong-Woong Park, Seung-Eock Kim, Yun Jang, Dong Joo Kim

“…This study presents the development of a high-fidelity and ultra-low-power strain sensing and visualization module (SSVM), along with an effective data management technique. Deployment of 24-bit resolution analog to a digital converter and precise half-bridge circuit for strain sensing are two significant factors for efficient strain measurement and power management circuit incorporating a low-power microcontroller unit (MCU), and electronic-paper display (EPD) enabled long-term operation. …”
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6G Network Architecture Using FSO-PDM/PV-OCDMA System with Weather Performance Analysis by Mehtab Singh, Sahil Nazir Pottoo, Ammar Armghan, Khaled Aliqab, Meshari Alsharari, Somia A. Abd El-Mottaleb

“…These weather conditions are clear air (CA), foggy conditions (low fog (LF), medium fog (MF), and heavy fog (HF)), dust storms (low dust storm (LD), moderate dust storm (MD), heavy dust storm (HD)), and snowfall (wet snow (WS) and dry snow (DS)). Bit error rate (BER), Q-factors, maximum propagation range, channel capacity, and eye diagrams are used for evaluating the performance of the proposed model. …”
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Design of Relay Switching to Combat an Eavesdropper in IoT-NOMA Wireless Networks by Thanh-Nam Tran, Van-Cuu Ho, Thoai Phu Vo, Khanh Ngo Nhu Tran, Miroslav Voznak

“…Maximizing the achievable bit-rate of IoT devices was considered to improve network capacity and data safety as well. …”
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Does corporate governance moderate the effect of corporate social responsibility on a firm’s financial performance? by Oleh Pasko, Nataliia Lagodiienko, Nataliia Kudlaieva, Lesia Riabenko, Nataliia Gerasymenko

“…AcknowledgmentThis paper is co-funded by European Union through the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) within the project “EU Best Practice Of Life Cycle Assessment, Social, Environmental Accounting And Sustainability Reporting 101047667 – EULASTING – ERASMUS-JMO-2021-HEI-TCH-RSCH” (https://bit.ly/3Bbvquw).…”
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Intelligent identification and positioning of steel belt anchor hole in coal mine roadway support by ZHANG Fujing, WANG Hongwei, WANG Haoran, LI Zhenglong, WANG Yuheng

“…When the steel belt auxiliary bolt is used in the coal mine underground heading roadway, if the positioning of the steel belt anchor hole is not accurate, the drill bit is easy to cause equipment damage when hitting the steel belt or anchor net. …”
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An Ensemble Learning Approach for Reversible Data Hiding in Encrypted Images with Fibonacci Transform by Shaiju Panchikkil, Siva Priya Vegesana, V. M. Manikandan, Praveen Kumar Donta, Praveen Kumar Reddy Maddikunta, Thippa Reddy Gadekallu

“…The proposed scheme enables reduction in the bit error rate during message extraction and contributes to ensuring the suitability of the scheme in areas such as medical image transmission and cloud computing. …”
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Promjene u okolišu i ljudske migracije by Milan Mesić, Drago Župarić-Iljić

“…Ako je ova naša (protuprirodna) civilizacija osuđena na propast, okolišni čimbenici, po svemu sudeći, bit će među njezinim grobarima.…”
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Landauer‐QFLPS Model for Mixed Schottky‐Ohmic Contact Two‐Dimensional Transistors by Zhao‐Yi Yan, Zhan Hou, Kan‐Hao Xue, He Tian, Tian Lu, Junying Xue, Fan Wu, Ruiting Zhao, Minghao Shao, Jianlan Yan, Anzhi Yan, Zhenze Wang, Penghui Shen, Mingyue Zhao, Xiangshui Miao, Zhaoyang Lin, Houfang Liu, Yi Yang, Tian‐Ling Ren

“…The proposed new formula can describe 2DM‐FETs with Schottky or Ohmic contacts with superior accuracy and efficiency over previous methods, especially when describing non‐monotonic drain conductance characteristics. A three‐bit threshold inverter quantizer (TIQ) circuit is fabricated using ambipolar black phosphorus and it is demonstrated that the model accurately predicts circuit performance. …”
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Editorial by Christian Gütl

“…Yasir Yakup Demircan and Serhat Ozekes from Turkey highlight their research on least significant bit steganography technique based on image segmentation. …”
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Magnetic Survey for Iron-Oxide-Copper-Gold (IOCG) and Alkali Calcic Alteration Signatures in Gadarwara, M.P, India: Implications on Copper Metallogeny by P.V. Sunder Raju, K. Satish Kumar

“…The second borehole, DDH-2 failed as the core drilling bit stuck in the alluvium and further drilling was abandoned, whereas the third borehole DDH-3 didnot intersect a Magnetite-hematite association and cored only siltstone. …”
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Multihop Optical Wireless Communication Over <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">${\mathcal {F}}$</tex-math></inline-formula>-Turbulence Channels and Generalized Pointing Er... by Ziyaur Rahman, S. M. Zafaruddin, V. K. Chaubey

“…Based on these expressions, we present analytical expressions of outage probability (OP) and average bit-error-rate (ABER) performance for the considered OWC systems involving single-variate Fox&#x0027;s H and Meijer&#x0027;s G functions. …”
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Technology of double casing tubes & a binary cycle system for hole cleaning for CBM multi-branch horizontal wells by Yong Yang, Shuqing Cui, Fengrui Wang, Bin Zhang, Yuanyong Ni, Jiaxun Shen, Zhenxuan Li, Shuping Liu

“…In the process of drilling, the drilling fluid injected through double intermediate casing annulus is converted by the jet generator into a high-efficiency steering water jet, which, together with the water jet generated by the bit nozzle, increases the fluid returning rate in the inner annulus space. …”
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Analog–Digital Combined High-Secure Optical Communication System Based on Chaotic Circuit Driving by Qing Zhong, Bo Liu, Jianxin Ren, Yicheng Jiang, Rahat Ullah, Zhiruo Guo, Yaya Mao, Xiangyu Wu, Yongfeng Wu, Lilong Zhao, Tingting Sun

“…If the chaotic driving circuit produces a delay of 3 s, the bit error rate (BER) reaches more than 0.3 at the receiver. …”
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Peyerimhoffia vagabunda – new sciarid species (Sciaridae, Diptera) for the entomofauna of Ukraine by A. I. Babytskiy, O. A. Zuieva, O. O. Bezsmertna

“…Specifically this concern to the wing structure – the stM length of the Kyiv specimen is only a bit longer than the length of M-fork; one seta is present on the y; c is longer than was previously described and occupies 3/4w, but not 2/3w. …”
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Improved Plantard Arithmetic for Lattice-based Cryptography by Junhao Huang, Jipeng Zhang, Haosong Zhao, Zhe Liu, Ray C. C. Cheung, Çetin Kaya Koç, Donglong Chen

“…After applying this novel method to Kyber and NTTRU schemes using 16-bit NTT on Cortex-M4 devices, we show that the proposed design outperforms the known fastest implementation that uses Montgomery and Barrett arithmetic. …”
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Optimizing the Performance of Pure ALOHA for LoRa-Based ESL by Malak Abid Ali Khan, Hongbin Ma, Syed Muhammad Aamir, Ying Jin

“…In addition, a high BW has lower energy consumption than a low BW at the same DC with a double-bit rate and almost half the ToA (time on-air).…”
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Pseudorandom modulation continuous-wave narrowband sodium temperature and wind lidar by X. Fang, X. Fang, X. Fang, F. Li, L. Sun, T. Li, T. Li, T. Li

“…The three-frequency light is designed in timing with the multiple-period 127-bit M-code groups. The uncertainties of the temperature and wind with the vertical and temporal resolutions of 1 km and 30 min under clear-sky conditions are estimated to be 5.0 K and 10 <span class="inline-formula">m s⁻¹</span>, respectively, at the sodium peak. …”
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Efficient-Scheduling Parallel Multiplier-Based Ring-LWE Cryptoprocessors by Tuy Nguyen Tan, Hanho Lee

“…To reduce the hardware complexity of an NTT multiplier, three bit-reverse operations during the NTT and inverse NTT (INTT) processes are removed. …”
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