Visible Light Communications-Based Assistance System for the Blind and Visually Impaired: Design, Implementation, and Intensive Experimental Evaluation in a Real-Life Situation by Alin-Mihai Căilean, Sebastian-Andrei Avătămăniței, Cătălin Beguni, Eduard Zadobrischi, Mihai Dimian, Valentin Popa

“…The experimental results have: i. confirmed the prototype’s ability to receive data at a Bit-Error Rate (BER) lower than 10⁻⁷; ii. established the prototype’s ability to provide support for a 3 m radius around a standard 65 × 65 cm luminaire; iii. demonstrated the concept’s compatibility with light dimming in the 1–99% interval while maintaining the low BER; and, most importantly, iv. proved that the use of the concept can enable a person to obtain information and guidance, enabling safer and faster way of traveling to a certain unknown location. …”
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INTESTINAL PARASITOSES IN ADULT DOGS AND CATS KEPT IN SHELTERS FOR STRAY ANIMALS by V. B. Yastreb, V. M. Shaytanov

“…The highest infestation in dogs was registered in shelters of Astrakhan (27,7 %) and in Kirov city (24,7 %), little bit lower - in Moscow region (19,3 %), minor infestation - in Novosibirsk (4,9 %). …”
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A Unified Performance Analysis of Cooperative NOMA With Practical Constraints: Hardware Impairment, Imperfect SIC and CSI by Safia Beddiaf, Abdellatif Khelil, Faical Khennoufa, Ferdi Kara, Hakan Kaya, Xingwang Li, Khaled Rabie, Halim Yanikomeroglu

“…We derive analytical expressions of bit error rate (BER) expressions in CNOMA schemes whether the direct links between source and users exist or not which is, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, the first study in the open literature. …”
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Massage Therapy’s Effectiveness on the Decoding EEG Rhythms of Left/Right Motor Imagery and Motion Execution in Patients With Skeletal Muscle Pain by Huihui Li, Kai Fan, Junsong Ma, Bo Wang, Xiaohao Qiao, Yan Yan, Wenjing Du, Lei Wang

“…Clinical Impact: Massage therapy may affect a bit on the accuracy of MI with trunk left/right bending and it change the topography of MI and ME with trunk left/right bending for the patients with skeletal muscle pain.…”
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Design of Digital-Twin Human-Machine Interface Sensor with Intelligent Finger Gesture Recognition by Dong-Han Mo, Chuen-Lin Tien, Yu-Ling Yeh, Yi-Ru Guo, Chern-Sheng Lin, Chih-Chin Chen, Che-Ming Chang

“…The design method uses primitive image processing and eight-way dual-bit signal processing algorithms to capture the movement of human finger gestures and convert them into digital signals. …”
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Conventional versus video-assisted laryngoscopy for perioperative endotracheal intubation (COVALENT) - a randomized, controlled multicenter trial by Benedikt Schmid, Dominik Eckert, Andreas Meixner, Paul Pistner, Uwe Malzahn, Monika Berberich, Oliver Happel, Patrick Meybohm, Peter Kranke

“…With thousands of endotracheal intubations performed every day in operating rooms around the world, every bit of performance improvement translates into increased patient safety and comfort and may eventually prevent significant burden of disease. …”
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A Large Area Pixelated Silicon Array Detector for Independent Transit In Vivo Dosimetry by Owen J. Brace, Iolanda Fuduli, Saree Alnaghy, Albert T. Le, Jeremy A. Davis, Trent Causer, Dean Wilkinson, Aleksandr Perevertaylo, Anatoly B. Rosenfeld, Marco Petasecca

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Hematological indices of rats after administration of enrofloxacin as a subunit of polymer by O. M. Zelenina, D. D. Ostapiv, V. V. Vlizlo, I. A. Dron, S. I. Vinnytska

“…This concentration reached a maximum after the administration of the enrofloxacin + PEG-400 complex (132.2±4.10 g/L), but it became a little bit lower (2.7–8.9 g/L) in rats’ blood of other experimental groups. …”
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Evaluation of the viability of nanoparticles in drilling fluids as additive for fluid loss and wellbore stability by Albertus Retnanto, Rommel Yrac, Abdullah Shaat, Adhika Retnanto, Laith Abughaush, Maha Al Sulaiti, Najla Badar

“…Drilling fluids have been used to enhance the drilling process by lubricating and cooling the drill bit, eliminating cuttings, and most importantly, by improving the stability of the well by preventing fluid loss. …”
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Building the conformal protection of VB-group VS2 laminated heterostructure based on biomass-derived carbon for excellent broadband electromagnetic waves absorption by Honghan Wang, Huibin Zhang, Junye Cheng, Tingting Liu, Deqing Zhang, Guangping Zheng, Shangru Zhai, Maosheng Cao

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Multiple Narrowband Interferences Characterization, Detection and Mitigation Using Simplified Welch Algorithm and Notch Filtering by Mohammad Hossein Same, Gabriel Gleeton, Gabriel Gandubert, Preslav Ivanov, Rene Jr Landry

“…Based on the obtained results, the proposed detector can detect a weak power interference down to −25 dB and track a hopping frequency interference with center frequency variation speed up to 3 kHz. Bit error ratio (BER) performance shows 3 dB improvement by utilizing new adaptive mitigation scenario compared to non-adaptive one. …”
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Giant electrically tunable magnon transport anisotropy in a van der Waals antiferromagnetic insulator by Shaomian Qi, Di Chen, Kangyao Chen, Jianqiao Liu, Guangyi Chen, Bingcheng Luo, Hang Cui, Linhao Jia, Jiankun Li, Miaoling Huang, Yuanjun Song, Shiyi Han, Lianming Tong, Peng Yu, Yi Liu, Hongyu Wu, Shiwei Wu, Jiang Xiao, Ryuichi Shindou, X. C. Xie, Jian-Hao Chen

“…Making use of such large and tunable anisotropy, we demonstrated multi-bit read-only memories (ROMs) where information is inscribed by the anisotropy of magnon transport in CrPS4. …”
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Living with brain cancer: From researcher to patient by Stephen Chelko, Daniel Fay

“…I cannot recall this event, but I bit the tip of my tongue off, dislocated my right shoulder, and underwent violent contractions. …”
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One-Pot Hydrothermal Synthesis of La-Doped ZnIn₂S₄ Microspheres with Improved Visible-Light Photocatalytic Performance by Tiekun Jia, Ming Liu, Chunyang Zheng, Fei Long, Zhiyu Min, Fang Fu, Dongsheng Yu, Jili Li, Joong Hee Lee, Nam Hoon Kim

“…The results showed that the La-doped ZnIn₂S₄ samples exhibited a slightly wider and stronger spectral absorption than pristine ZnIn₂S₄; and the specific surface area of doped ZnIn₂S₄ samples was a bit larger. The La-doped ZnIn₂S₄ electrodes showed improved photocurrent response, and the photocurrent density reached a maximum value at La content of 1.5 wt%. …”
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Para una teoría social del acontecimiento Towards a Social Theory of the Event by Jaime De la Calle Valverde

“…Nevertheless, this historical presence has been irregular: there were stages of complete invisibility and phases in which the event has had a bit more of prominence. In the 70s and 80s of the 20th century the analysts claim the event as response to the structuralism, which monopolizes the research of the central decades of this century. …”
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Are the Morphological Indices of the Vertebrobasilar System Heritable? A Twin Study Based on 3D Reconstructed Models by Laszlo Szalontai, Zsofia Jokkel, Tamas Horvath, Marton Piroska, Bianka Forgo, Csaba Olah, Laszlo Kostyal, David L. Tarnoki, Adam D. Tarnoki

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Merging cultures and disciplines to create a drug discovery ecosystem at Virginia commonwealth university: Medicinal chemistry, structural biology, molecular and behavioral pharmac... by Glen E. Kellogg, Yana Cen, Malgorzata Dukat, Keith C. Ellis, Youzhong Guo, Jiong Li, Aaron E. May, Martin K. Safo, Shijun Zhang, Yan Zhang, Umesh R. Desai

“…The Department of Medicinal Chemistry, together with the Institute for Structural Biology, Drug Discovery and Development, at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) has evolved, organically with quite a bit of bootstrapping, into a unique drug discovery ecosystem in response to the environment and culture of the university and the wider research enterprise. …”
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Insecurity of Chait et al.’s RSA-Based Aggregate Signature Scheme by Chanhyeok Park, Sangrae Cho, Young-Seob Cho, Soohyung Kim, Hyung Tae Lee

“…For example, when the pubic parameter and secret keys of all users, except the target user, are provided, our experimental results demonstrate that the proposed attack algorithm takes less than 1 second only in total to forge an aggregate signature of 29 individual signatures including that of the target user, where <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$N$ </tex-math></inline-formula> is 3,072 bits for 128-bit security.…”
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ADEPNET: A Dynamic-Precision Efficient Posit Multiplier for Neural Networks by Aditya Anirudh Jonnalagadda, Uppugunduru Anil Kumar, Rishi Thotli, Satvik Sardesai, Sreehari Veeramachaneni, Syed Ershad Ahmed

“…In addition, a novel Booth encoding control scheme to prevent unnecessary bits from switching has been devised to reduce dynamic power dissipation. …”
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Atmospheric Turbulence Effects on the Performance of Orbital Angular Momentum Multiplexed Free-Space Optical Links Using Coherent Beam Combining by Pei Ju, Wenhui Fan, Wei Gao, Zhe Li, Qi Gao, Xiaoqiang Jiang, Tongyi Zhang

“…To verify the feasibility of the proposed scheme, the performance of an eight-bit grayscale Lena image facing various atmosphere turbulences is evaluated. …”
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