Ensuring high reliability and low latency poses challenges for numerous applications that require rigid performance guarantees, such as industrial automation and autonomous vehicles. Our research primarily concentrates on addressing the real-time req...
The generation of energy-efficient parallel scientific codes became very important in the time of carbon footprint reduction. In this paper, we briefly present our latest particle-in-cell code with the results of a numerical simulation of plasma dyna...
Due to their excellent seismic behavior, shear wall-type concrete buildings are very popular in earthquake-prone countries like Chile. According to current seismic regulations, the performance of such structures can be indifferently assessed through...
Accessing and retrieving specific information from complex Building Information Modeling (BIM) data, particularly within the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) schema, remains a challenge for Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) professio...
Chaos-based ciphers are widely proposed for sensitive images on 5G and Internet of Things links. Three faults recur: a key stream derived from the image that the receiver cannot reproduce, chaos that is claimed but not verified, and ciphertext that i...
Deep neural networks have proven to be able to learn rich internal representations, including for features that can also be used for different purposes than those the networks are originally developed for. In this paper, we are interested in explorin...
In this paper, a dynamic access probability adjustment strategy for coded random access schemes based on successive interference cancellation (SIC) is proposed. The developed protocol consists of judiciously tuning the access probability, therefore c...
The paper concerns multicast packet traffic throughput maximization in multi-hop wireless sensor networks with time division multiple access to radio channel. We assume that the modulation and coding schemes (MCSs) that are used by the (broadcasting)...
Passive energy dissipation systems are one of the most resilient solutions to mitigate the seismic risk of structures. In case of strong motions, they can confine the eventual damages into easily replaceable anti-seismic devices. The performance char...
Embedded systems, particularly when integrated into the Internet of Things (IoT) landscape, are critical for projects requiring robust, energy-efficient interfaces to collect real-time data from the environment. As these systems become complex, the n...
Temperature sensation involves thermosensitive TRP (thermoTRP) and non-TRP channels. Drosophila larval Class III (CIII) neurons serve as the primary cold nociceptors and express a suite of thermoTRP channels implicated in noxious cold sensation. How...
We introduce the solver ARES: Axial-flow pump Radial Equilibrium through Streamlines. The code implements a meanline method, enforcing the conservation of flow momentum and continuity across a set of discrete streamlines in the axial-flow pump’...
We present a 1024 × 512, 1000 fps, high-dynamic-range global shutter CMOS image sensor. The pixel is based on a voltage domain global shutter architecture, featuring a pitch of 24 μm × 24 μm. Both high-gain and low-gain signals can...
Olfactory systems typically process signals produced by mixtures composed of very many natural odors, some that can be elicited by single compounds. The several hundred different olfactory receptors aided by several dozen different taste receptors ar...
Many current bioinformatics algorithms have been implemented in parallel programming code. Some of them have already reached the limits imposed by Amdahl’s law, but many can still be improved. In our paper, we present an approach allowing us to...
Android platform security is an active area of research where malware detection techniques continuously evolve to identify novel malware and improve the timely and accurate detection of existing malware. Adversaries are constantly in charge of employ...
Glycosaminoglycans encode instructional information that cells can decipher to regulate tissue development, repair responses, regeneration and recovery of tissue function following trauma or disease. This information has been termed the glyco-code an...
Coded Aperture Snapshot Spectral Imaging (CASSI) is a rapid hyperspectral imaging technique with broad application prospects. Due to limitations in three-dimensional compressed data acquisition modes and hardware constraints, the compressed measureme...
For a reliable and convenient system, it is essential to build a secure system that will be protected from outer attacks and also serve the purpose of keeping the inner data safe from intruders. A juice jacking is a popular and spreading cyber-attack...
Current state-of-the-art parallel codes used to calculate the maximum number of pairs for a given RNA sequence by means of Nussinov’s algorithm do not allow for achieving speedup close up to the number of the processors used for execution of th...
The paper shows the application of a flexible approach of partially-parametric modelling on the basis of radial basis functions (RBF) for the modification of an existing hull form (baseline). Different to other partially-parametric modelling approach...
A transient multibody dynamics simulation of rolling-element bearings is the basis for the design of high-speed rotating machinery; however, the established solvers are proprietary, cannot be used with automatic differentiation, and offer no built-in...
Automated code generation and process flow management are central to web-based application development today. This database-centric approach targets the form and process management challenges faced by corporate companies. It minimizes the time losses...
Background: Recent work has revealed that protein-coding sequences encode regulatory information influencing mRNA stability and translation through a nascent peptide code. However, the evolutionary origin of this regulatory layer remains unclear. Thi...
Prediabetes can be readily identified using established glycemic tests, but these measures provide limited information about underlying molecular heterogeneity, future progression to type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), or molecular responses to preventi...
We propose and demonstrate a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor network employing the code division multiple access (CDMA) technique to identify information from individual sensors. To detect information without considering time delays between sensors,...
This paper is aimed at giving structural designers guidance on how to make use of elastic site-specific response spectra for the dynamic modal analysis of a structure in support of its structural design. The use of response spectra in support of the...
The control of pre-implantation development in mammals undergoes a maternal-to-zygotic transition (MZT) after fertilization. The transition involves maternal clearance and zygotic genome activation remodeling the terminal differentiated gamete to con...
This study addresses a critical gap in seismic design by quantifying how plan asymmetry and multiple earthquake sequences interact to affect the nonlinear reaction of reinforced concrete (RC)-framed models. While earthquake-resistant design provision...
Dianchi Lake is the largest freshwater lake on the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau near Kunming City, China. As one of the most polluted lakes in China, although billions of U.S. dollars have been spent trying to clean it up, water pollution and eutroph...
Entropy, the key factor of information theory, is one of the most important research areas in computer science [...]
In this article, we present a technique that allows us to generate parallel tiled code to calculate general linear recursion equations (GLRE). That code deals with multidimensional data and it is computing-intensive. We demonstrate that data dependen...
Finding a proper balance between video quality and the required bandwidth is an important issue, especially in networks of limited capacity. The problem of comparing the efficiency of video codecs and choosing the most suitable one in a specific situ...
Motivated by applications in unsourced random access, this paper develops a novel scheme for the problem of compressed sensing of binary signals. In this problem, the goal is to design a sensing matrix A and a recovery algorithm, such that the sparse...
Ransomware is a strain of malware that disables access to the user’s resources after infiltrating a victim’s system. Ransomware is one of the most dangerous malware organizations face by blocking data access or publishing private data ove...
The reconfigurable feature of FPGAs (Field-Programmable Gate Arrays) has made them a very attractive solution for implementing adaptive systems-on-chip. However, this implies additional design tasks to handle system reconfiguration and control, which...
Interest in water mist fire suppression has increased within the fire protection industry due to its ability to control the spread and development of fire without using environmentally damaging agents. Water mist fire suppression has been used for ma...
Several tools and pieces of software support building energy modelling for optimization, certification and comparisons of different scenarios and usages. Nevertheless, the consistent rise in accessible computational power and the expansion of ICT are...
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive and fatal neuromuscular disorder with no cure available and limited treatment options. ALS is a highly heterogeneous disease, whereby patients present with vastly different phenotypes. Despite this...
Computational fluid dynamic simulations involve large state data, leading to performance degradation due to data transfer times, while requiring large disk space. To alleviate the situation, an adaptive lossy compression algorithm has been developed,...
Development of valid structure–activity relationships (SARs) is a key to the elucidation of pathomechanisms of epigenetic diseases and the development of efficient, new drugs. The present review is based on selected methodologies and applicatio...
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A coupled model is an effective tool to understand the nutrient fate associated with hydrodynamic and ecosystem processes and thereby developing a water resource management strategy. This paper presents a coupled modeling approach that consists of a...
Liquefaction and dynamic separation of moisture-sensitive solid bulk cargoes may remain latent for much of a voyage and then manifest as a sustained heel, leaving a comparatively short interval for emergency action. This study develops an exploratory...
Nitric acid (NA) has recently been found to enhance sulfuric acid (SA)-driven new particle formation (NPF) at low temperatures (≤240 K). However, studies on the role of NA in atmospheric NPF remain limited. Herein, we explored the enhancement effe...
Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) is a technique used to optimize energy consumption in ultra-low-power embedded systems. To ensure sufficient computational capacity, the system must scale up its performance settings. The objective is to c...
Robots, which have mostly been effective in areas such as industrial, agricultural, and production facilities, have started to take a place in the service sector, as their technologies have become lower in cost and more easily accessible. This situat...
Ransomware is a type of malicious software that encrypts a victim’s files and demands payment in exchange for the decryption key. It is a rapidly growing and evolving threat that has caused significant damage and disruption to individuals and o...
This paper presents a design methodology for a low-power, low-chip-area, and high-resolution successive approximations register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The proposed method includes a segmented capacitive DAC (C-DAC) to reduce the pow...
With the large-scale application and high-quality development demands of optical fiber cables, higher requirements have been placed on the corresponding measurement technologies. In recent years, optical fiber testing has played a crucial role in eva...
Presented in this work is a harmonic balance (HB)-based pseudo-time code-coupling approach applied to a one-degree-of-freedom vortex-induced vibration (VIV) problem of a circular cylinder in a low-Reynolds-number laminar flow regime. Unlike physical...
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