Gaussian process emulation to improve efficiency of computationally intensive multidisease models: a practical tutorial with adaptable R code by Sharon Jepkorir Sawe, Richard Mugo, Marta Wilson-Barthes, Brianna Osetinsky, Stavroula A. Chrysanthopoulou, Faith Yego, Ann Mwangi, Omar Galárraga

“…One emulator run took 3.00 seconds (95% CI: 1.65–5.28) on a 64-bit operating system laptop with 8.00 gigabytes (GB) of Random Access Memory (RAM), compared to > 11 hours for 1000 simulator runs on a high-performance computing cluster with 1500 GBs of RAM. …”
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Determination of permeability data and 3-D modelling of the host rock and sinters from a geothermal field: Los Geysers, northern Trans-Mexican Volcanic Field by Mohamed Ali Elabd, Reneé González-Guzmán, Bodo Weber, Corina Solís, Rubén Bernard-Romero, Fernando Velasco-Tapia, Pedro Marín-Camacho

“…The petrophysical properties, diagrams, and figures were produced by stacking the 2D projections (8-bit grayscale *.png images format) from the scanning. …”
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Research trends and hotspots of ferroptosis in neurodegenerative diseases from 2013 to 2023: A bibliometrics study by Ning Liu, Wuhan Yu, Mengjiao Sun, Dan Zhou, Jing Sun, Taotao Jiang, Wenjing Zhang, Manxia Wang

“…Citespace [version 6.2. R4 (64-bit)] and VOSviewer (version 1.6.18) were used to conduct the bibliometric and knowledge-map analysis. …”
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Evaluación posoperatoria de pacientes operados mediante otoplastias Postoperative evaluation of patients operated on by otoplasties by Juan Carlos Quintana Díaz, Yoniet Acosta García, Mayrim Quintana Giralt

“…Our results as to complications were similar and a bit lower than the documented by other authors. …”
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Design of Portable Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry Control System Based on FPGA by GE Wei-min, XU Chun-hua, LIN Li-quan, CHEN Jia-xin, WU Man-man, QIAO Jia

“…The lower computer controlled the DAC voltage to scan the quadrupole, and at the same time linked the 16 bit ADC to collect data. The collected data was processed by some columns of algorithms, and then a large amount of data was accumulated and compressed, stored in the chip. …”
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A New Porous Nozzle for Aluminum Melts Purification—Preparation and Mathematical–Physical Model by Yapeng Tan, Guoqing Zhang, Weihong Lu, Bo Yang, Zhichao Tang, Zhengbing Xu, Qinjia Zheng, Jianmin Zeng, Hongqun Tang, Junsheng Wang, Aoke Jiang, Lei Xiang

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Health and economic benefit of China’s greenhouse gas mitigation by 2050 by Yang Xie, Yazhen Wu, Mingjun Xie, Baodi Li, Hui Zhang, Teng Ma, Yuqiang Zhang

“…Results show China’s mitigation has significant impact on both air quality and health improvement in eastern China and eastern Asia, a little bit impact in the rest of Asia. The improved air quality could avoid 0.37 million premature deaths due to ambient PM _2.5 exposure by 2050s globally, with the majority happening in China. …”
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Real-Time Implementation of Hybrid Visible Light/Infrared Communications Supporting Full-Range Dynamic Dimming Control by Shixin Liu, Xiaodi You, Jian Chen, Changyuan Yu, Chaoran Xiong, Mingyi Gao, Gangxiang Shen

“…Experimental results from implementation using field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) demonstrate real-time transmission under precise full-range dimming control, dynamically ranging from 1 to 0 with a resolution of 0.0053, maintaining a consistent 10 Mb/s data rate at bit error rates (BERs) lower than 3.4 × 10^−4 and 20 Mb/s at BERs lower than 7.0 × 10^−3 within a link range of 0.53 m without light concentration at the transmitter. …”
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A Novel Low-Area Point Multiplication Architecture for Elliptic-Curve Cryptography by Muhammad Rashid, Mohammad Mazyad Hazzazi, Sikandar Zulqarnain Khan, Adel R. Alharbi, Asher Sajid, Amer Aljaedi

“…The hardware resources are reduced with the use of a bit-serial (traditional schoolbook) multiplication method. …”
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TiN/Ti₃C₂ Heterojunction Microfiber-Enhanced Four-Wave Mixing-Based All-Optical Wavelength Converter by Ke Wang, Qi-Dong Liu, Yu-Feng Song, Bin Zhang, Qing-Dong Zeng, Yuan-Yuan Zhang, Zhen-Hong Wang

“…Utilizing the idle light generated through the four-wave mixing (FWM) process accurately mimics the bit patterns of signal channels. This process is inherently rapid and theoretically capable of surpassing electronic bottlenecks with ease. …”
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Design and Test of Principle Prototype of Space Single Event Upset Discriminating and Positioning System by ZHAO Zhendong;TAO Wenze;LI Yancun;CHENG Yi;ZHANG Qingxiang;AN Heng;QUAN Xiaoping;ZHANG Chenguang

“…The basic method of SEU detection circuit for SRAM is the data read�back comparison method, the FPGA writes a cyclically accumulating 8�bit number to the address range of the SRAM at the maximum rate of the SRAM read/write, then reads it out of the SRAM and compares it with the written data for the difference. …”
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Wideband and Channel Switchable Mode Division Multiplexing (MDM) Optical Power Divider Supporting 7.682 Tbit/s for On-Chip Optical Interconnects by Tun-Yao Hung, Guan-Hong Chen, Yuan-Zeng Lin, Chi-Wai Chow, Yin-He Jian, Pin-Cheng Kuo, Ching-Wei Peng, Jui-Feng Tsai, Yang Liu, Chien-Hung Yeh

“…An aggregated capacity of 7.682 Tbit/s is achieved, satisfying the pre-forward error correction (pre-FEC) threshold (bit-error-rate, BER = 3.8 × 10⁻³). Although up to three MDM modes are presented in the proof-of-concept demonstration here, the proposed scheme can be scaled to higher order modes operation.…”
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A Preliminary Study of Deep Learning Sensor Fusion for Pedestrian Detection by Alfredo Chávez Plascencia, Pablo García-Gómez, Eduardo Bernal Perez, Gerard DeMas-Giménez, Josep R. Casas, Santiago Royo

“…In this context, lidar and radar were incorporated by transforming them from 3D pointclouds into 2D gray images with 16-bit depths, and RGB images were incorporated with three channels. …”
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Nuclear events during conjugation in the poorly studied model ciliate Paramecium jenningsi by Xue Zhang, Ruitao Gong, Yaohan Jiang, Xiaoteng Lu, Chenyin Wu, Lihan Wang, Hongwei Ma, Zhengxiang Zhang, Weibo Song, Khaled A.S. Al-Rasheid, Adriana Vallesi, Feng Gao

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FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK by Dr. Fatema Jawad

“…I also express my gratitude to all the authors who have confidence in JPMA and submit their articles for consideration of publication. It may take a bit long, but it is fair work. May the standards of research improve in our country which will provide classic articles and attract readership from the entire world. …”
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Experimental evaluation of different influencing parameters on cutting transport performance (CTP) in deviated wells by Sayed Muhammad Iqbal, Altaf Hussain, Nafees Ali, Wakeel Hussain, Hadi Hussain, Sadam Hussain, Syed Yasir Ali Shah, Edwin E. Nyakilla

“…Poor hole cleaning efficiency could cause many drilling issues, including excessive torque and drag, Pipe washout and jamming, bit balling and washout, etc. Therefore, hole cleaning investigation requires a deep understanding of all influential parameters.The results of this study were utilized to investigate cutting transport performance, employing three different kinds of drilling mud. …”
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Key technologies for coordinated development of coalbed methane in inclined soft coal seam groups: a case study of Aiweigou Mining Area by Yunpei LIANG, Shuancheng ZHU, Liang CHEN, Kun ZHAO, Dongling SUN, Jianjie CHEN, Bichuan ZHANG

“…In view of the problem of difficulty in eliminating the first mining seam of inclined crushed soft coal seam, the construction process of long drilling under inclined crushed soft coal seam was optimized, and a wireless measurement system of electromagnetic wave while drilling of drill bit was developed, which realized higher precision anti-biasing of drilling trajectory. …”
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Low impact development technologies for mitigating climate change: Summary and prospects by Zhang Zhonghao, Valeo Caterina

“…The review found that most studies focus on LID performance at over <sc>5 km²</sc> scales, which is quite a bit larger than traditional LID sizes. Most paper used statistical downscaling methods to simulate precipitation at the scale of the modelled LID. …”
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Data driven models to predict pore pressure using drilling and petrophysical data by Farshad Jafarizadeh, Meysam Rajabi, Somayeh Tabasi, Reza Seyedkamali, Shadfar Davoodi, Hamzeh Ghorbani, Mehdi Ahmadi Alvar, Ahmed E. Radwan, Mako Csaba

“…In this paper, novel algorithms based on the most influential set of input features are developed to predict pore pressure, including rate of penetration (ROP), deep resistivity (ILD), density (RHOB), photoelectric index (PEF), corrected gamma ray (CGR), compression-wave velocity (Vp), weight on bit (WOB), shear-wave velocity (Vs) and pore compressibility (Cp). …”
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Identification and characterization of quaternary ammonium compounds in Flemish indoor dust by ion-mobility high-resolution mass spectrometry by Lidia Belova, Giulia Poma, Maarten Roggeman, Yunsun Jeong, Da-Hye Kim, Patrick Berghmans, Jan Peters, Amina Salamova, Alexander L.N. van Nuijs, Adrian Covaci

“…The alignment between the two datasets served as an additional confirmation of the assigned suspect QACs. The use of the 4bit multiplexing acquisition mode with consecutive high-resolution demultiplexing confirmed the presence of isomers for two of the suspect QACs.…”
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