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Quantum Codes as an Application of Constacyclic Codes

  • Mohd Arif Raza,
  • Mohammad Fareed Ahmad,
  • Adel Alahmadi,
  • Widyan Basaffar,
  • Manish K. Gupta,
  • Nadeem ur Rehman,
  • Abdul Nadim Khan,
  • Hatoon Shoaib and
  • Patrick Sole

8 October 2024

The main focus of this paper is to analyze the algebraic structure of constacyclic codes over the ring R=Fp+w1Fp+w2Fp+w22Fp+w1w2Fp+w1w22Fp, where w12−α2=0, w1w2=w2w1, w23−β2w2=0, and α,β∈Fp∖{0}, for a prim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,499 Views
15 Pages

Construction safety standards (CSS) have knowledge characteristics, but few studies have introduced knowledge graphs (KG) as a tool into CSS management. In order to improve CSS knowledge management, this paper first analyzed the knowledge structure o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,812 Views
13 Pages

Strength and Microstructure of Coffee Silverskin Blended Mortar

  • Moruf Olalekan Yusuf,
  • Zeyad M. A. Mohammed,
  • Adeshina A. Adewumi,
  • Mutasem Taisir Shaban,
  • Meshrif Omar Meshrif AlBaqawi and
  • Hatim Dafalla Mohamed

This study pertains to incorporation of coffee silverskin (CSS) in partial replacement for ordinary Portland cement (OPC) in mortar, by investigating its fresh properties (setting and workability), compressive strength (3, 7, 14 and 28-day), absorpti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,449 Views
14 Pages

3 September 2020

It is an important issue to search for self-orthogonal codes for construction of quantum codes by CSS construction (Calderbank-Sho-Steane codes); in quantum error correction, CSS codes are a special type of stabilizer codes constructed from classical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,304 Views
14 Pages

7 February 2023

Background: Bladder cancer is often prone to recurrence and metastasis. We sought to construct nomogram models to predict the overall survival (OS) and cancer-specific survival (CSS) of bladder cancer patients. Methods: A reliable random split-sample...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,059 Views
16 Pages

10 September 2024

Cysteine plays a pivotal role in the sulfur metabolism network of plants, intimately influencing the conversion rate of organic sulfur and the plant’s capacity to withstand abiotic stresses. In tea plants, the serine acetyltransferase (SAT) gen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,489 Views
14 Pages

Experimental Study on Subgrade Material of Calcium Silicate Slag

  • De Zhang,
  • Zhijie Yang,
  • Dong Kang,
  • Chenyang Fang,
  • Yang Jiao and
  • Shizhong Mi

20 March 2022

Calcium silicate slag (CSS) is used as a secondary solid waste produced by aluminum extraction technology from high alumina fly ash, and its resource utilization has always been a key issue to be solved. In this study, CSS was used to replace a porti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,090 Views
18 Pages

2 August 2024

When constructing long-span spatial steel structures, the unformed structure is often incomplete and unstable. The construction sequence significantly influences the mechanical state of the structure during the construction stages (CSs), affecting bo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,763 Views
17 Pages

Reputation-Based Spectrum Sensing Strategy Selection in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks

  • Zhiguo Sun,
  • Zhenyu Xu,
  • Zengmao Chen,
  • Xiaoyan Ning and
  • Lili Guo

11 December 2018

Spectrum sensing plays an essential role in the detection of unused spectrum whole in cognitive radio networks, including cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) and independent spectrum sensing. In cognitive radio ad hoc networks (CRAHNs), CSS enhances t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,598 Views
13 Pages

The Construction and Validation of Nomogram to Predict the Prognosis with Small-Cell Lung Cancer Followed Surgery

  • Lei-Lei Wu,
  • Wu-Tao Chen,
  • Chong-Wu Li,
  • Si-Hui Song,
  • Shu-Quan Xu,
  • Sheng-Peng Wan,
  • Zhi-Yuan Liu,
  • Wei-Kang Lin,
  • Kun Li and
  • Zhi-Xin Li
  • + 1 author

30 July 2022

This study constructed and validated a prognostic model to evaluate the survival of small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) patients following surgery, and shed light on the strategy of postoperative radiotherapy. A total of 882 patients from Shanghai Pulmonar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,685 Views
12 Pages

Development and Validation of Survival Nomograms in Patients with Primary Bladder Lymphoma

  • Junyi Lin,
  • Jianbin Kong,
  • Mingli Luo,
  • Zefeng Shen,
  • Shuogui Fang,
  • Jintao Hu,
  • Zixin Xu,
  • Wen Dong,
  • Jian Huang and
  • Tianxin Lin

2 June 2022

Background: The existing studies on primary bladder lymphoma (PBL) are retrospective analyses based on individual cases or small series studies, and the research on PBL is not unified and in-depth enough at present because of the scarcity of PBL and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,703 Views
17 Pages

Prognostic Value of Comorbidity for Patients with Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma after Radical Nephroureterectomy

  • Hung-Lung Ke,
  • Ching-Chia Li,
  • Hsiang-Ying Lee,
  • Hung-Pin Tu,
  • Yu-Ching Wei,
  • Hsin-Chih Yeh,
  • Wen-Jeng Wu and
  • Wei-Ming Li

12 March 2022

Patients with upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) have a high prevalence of comorbidities. However, the prognostic impact of comorbidities in these patients is not well studied. We aimed to outline the comorbidity burden in UTUC patients and inve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,289 Views
16 Pages

With the government’s strong promotion of the transformation of new and old driving forces, the electrification of buses has developed rapidly. In order to improve resource utilization, many cities have decided to open bus charging stations (CS...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,493 Views
14 Pages

20 November 2023

In general, a multiple robotic manipulator system (MRMS) with uncertainties can be considered a composition system with a robotic manipulator subsystem (RMS) and a communication strength subsystem (CSS), and both subsystems are coupled to each other....

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,902 Views
26 Pages

Classifier Subset Selection for the Stacked Generalization Method Applied to Emotion Recognition in Speech

  • Aitor Álvarez,
  • Basilio Sierra,
  • Andoni Arruti,
  • Juan-Miguel López-Gil and
  • Nestor Garay-Vitoria

25 December 2015

In this paper, a new supervised classification paradigm, called classifier subset selection for stacked generalization (CSS stacking), is presented to deal with speech emotion recognition. The new approach consists of an improvement of a bi-level mul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,632 Views
10 Pages

1 August 2023

Investigation of the swelling pressure of buffer/backfill materials is a critical aspect in the design of high-level radioactive waste (HLW) disposal repositories. In this study, to clarify the swelling pressure–suction relation for compacted b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,815 Views
16 Pages

Motor Bearing Fault Diagnosis Based on Current Signal Using Time–Frequency Channel Attention

  • Zhiqiang Wang,
  • Chao Guan,
  • Shangru Shi,
  • Guozheng Zhang and
  • Xin Gu

As they are the core components of the drive motor in electric vehicles, the accurate fault diagnosis of rolling bearings is the key to ensuring the safe operation of electric vehicles. At present, intelligent diagnostic methods based on current sign...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,423 Views
21 Pages

Beam-column joint with cast steel stiffeners (CSS) is a new type of joint with a large degree of design freedom. The joint stress distribution can be improved by designing a reasonable cross-sectional shape of the CSS with high rigidity, high integri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,886 Views
16 Pages

Establishment and Validation of an Individualized Cell Cycle Process-Related Gene Signature to Predict Cancer-Specific Survival in Patients with Bladder Cancer

  • Run Shi,
  • Xuanwen Bao,
  • Paul Rogowski,
  • Christian Schäfer,
  • Nina-Sophie Schmidt-Hegemann,
  • Kristian Unger,
  • Shun Lu,
  • Jing Sun,
  • Alexander Buchner and
  • Christian Stief
  • + 2 authors

2 May 2020

More accurate models are essential to identify high-risk bladder cancer (BCa) patients who will benefit from adjuvant therapies and thus helpful to facilitate personalized management of BCa. Among various cancer-related hallmarks and pathways, cell c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,108 Views
17 Pages

30 October 2020

Geminivirus particles, consisting of a pair of twinned isometric structures, have one of the most distinctive capsids in the virological world. Until recently, there was little information as to how these structures are generated. To address this, we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,505 Views
8 Pages

Distance between Bound Entangled States from Unextendible Product Bases and Separable States

  • Marcin Wieśniak,
  • Palash Pandya,
  • Omer Sakarya and
  • Bianka Woloncewicz

13 January 2020

We discuss the use of the Gilbert algorithm to tailor entanglement witnesses for unextendible product basis bound entangled states (UPB BE states). The method relies on the fact that an optimal entanglement witness is given by a plane perpendicular t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,165 Views
16 Pages

16 April 2020

With the rapid development of electric vehicles (EVs), one of the urgent issues is how to deploy limited charging facilities to provide services for as many EVs as possible. This paper proposes a bilevel model to depict the interaction between traffi...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,787 Views
20 Pages

Utilization of Carbon Nanospheres in Photocatalyst Production: From Composites to Highly Active Hollow Structures

  • Tamás Gyulavári,
  • Gábor Veréb,
  • Zsolt Pap,
  • Balázs Réti,
  • Kornelia Baan,
  • Milica Todea,
  • Klára Magyari,
  • Imre Miklós Szilágyi and
  • Klara Hernadi

9 August 2019

Titanium dioxide–carbon sphere (TiO2–CS) composites were constructed via using prefabricated carbon spheres as templates. By the removal of template from the TiO2–CS, TiO2 hollow structures (HS) were synthesized. The CS templates we...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,002 Views
17 Pages

30 January 2024

China’s pursuit of carbon peak and carbon neutrality relies heavily on the widespread adoption of electric vehicles (EVs), necessitating the optimal location and sizing of charging stations (CSs). This study proposes a model for minimizing the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,004 Views
21 Pages

23 December 2022

Bainitic steel containing approx. 2.25% Cr and 0.6 Mo with micro-additions of V, Ti, and B, designated as 7CrMoVTiB10-10 (T/P24), is one of the new construction materials used in new supercritical power units. The weldability of 7CrMoVTiB10-10 is def...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,288 Views
13 Pages

Modified Immunoscore Improves Prediction of Survival Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Radical Cystectomy for Bladder Cancer—A Retrospective Digital Pathology Study

  • Uwe Bieri,
  • Lorenz Buser,
  • Marian Severin Wettstein,
  • Daniel Eberli,
  • Karim Saba,
  • Holger Moch,
  • Thomas Hermanns and
  • Cédric Poyet

To evaluate the prognostic value of a modified Immunoscore (mIS) in a cohort of bladder cancer (BC) patients undergoing radical cystectomy (RC), two tissue microarrays of 159 BC patients were immunohistochemically stained for CD3/CD8/FOXP3 and CD45RO...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,100 Views
16 Pages

Use of Alkali-Activated Slag as an Environment-Friendly Agent for High-Performance Stabilized Soil

  • Qinghua Huang,
  • Guohui Yang,
  • Chenzhi Li,
  • Mingzhi Guo,
  • Tao Wang and
  • Linhua Jiang

3 July 2023

Discharged slag not only occupies a large amount of land for disposal, but also causes serious environmental pollution. The use of alkali-activated slag (AAS) instead of cement as a soil-stabilization agent is beneficial for industrial waste disposal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,904 Views
20 Pages

Low Serum Cholesterol Level Is a Significant Prognostic Factor That Improves CLL-IPI in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia

  • Rui Gao,
  • Kaixin Du,
  • Jinhua Liang,
  • Yi Xia,
  • Jiazhu Wu,
  • Yue Li,
  • Bihui Pan,
  • Li Wang,
  • Jianyong Li and
  • Wei Xu

Hypocholesterolaemia is associated with elevated cancer risk and mortality, yet the relation between chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) and serum lipid profile remains unclear. Our study aims to evaluate the prognostic value of cholesterol levels in...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,477 Views
15 Pages

Development of SNP Markers for Original Analysis and Germplasm Identification in Camellia sinensis

  • Liubin Wang,
  • Hanshuo Xun,
  • Shirin Aktar,
  • Rui Zhang,
  • Liyun Wu,
  • Dejiang Ni,
  • Kang Wei and
  • Liyuan Wang

29 December 2022

Tea plants are widely grown all over the world because they are an important economic crop. The purity and authenticity of tea varieties are frequent problems in the conservation and promotion of germplasm resources in recent years, which has brought...

  • Article
  • Open Access
392 Views
24 Pages

Analysis of the Stability and Reactivity of Carbonated Steel Slag Powder as a Supplementary Cementitious Material

  • Longteng Zhang,
  • Haihe Yi,
  • Whenyu Du,
  • Dachao Jiang,
  • Yonghua Jiao,
  • Hongyi Zhao and
  • Tian Su

22 November 2025

In order to address the poor volume stability and low reactivity of steel slag powder (SS) as a supplementary cementitious material (SCM), this study investigates a microbial-assisted carbonation method for its enhancement. Using untreated SS as a co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
4,814 Views
23 Pages

A Novel Two-Stage Integrated Model for Supplier Selection of Green Fresh Product

  • Aijun Liu,
  • Yaxuan Xiao,
  • Xiaohui Ji,
  • Kai Wang,
  • Sang-Bing Tsai,
  • Hui Lu,
  • Jinshi Cheng,
  • Xinjun Lai and
  • Jiangtao Wang

9 July 2018

The selection of fresh product suppliers is a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem with great significant and application value. This requires trade-offs between multiple criteria to prove its ambiguity and uncertainty. Therefore, a novel tw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,559 Views
18 Pages

Electric vehicles (EV) are growing fast in recent years with the widespread concern about carbon neutrality. The development of charging infrastructures needs to be in phase with EV both in terms of quantity and charging time to decrease the range an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,737 Views
15 Pages

13 April 2023

The performance and lifetime of the flexible asphalt pavement are mainly dependent on the interfacial bond strength between layer courses. To enhance the bond between layers, adhesive materials, such as tack coats, are used. The tack coat itself is a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,940 Views
20 Pages

30 December 2024

To improve the operational efficiency of electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure, this paper proposes a multi-stage hybrid planning method for charging stations (CSs) based on graph auto-encoder (GAE). First, the network topology and dynamic in...

  • Review
  • Open Access
970 Views
25 Pages

13 October 2025

Large-scale integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) into distribution networks causes topological-operational situations with multidirectional power flows. One of the main components of distribution networks is the power transformer, which...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,543 Views
11 Pages

28 February 2023

Background: Neuroendocrine neoplasms of the gallbladder (GB-NENs) are a rare group of histologically heterogeneous tumors, and surgical resection of the primary tumor is the mainstream treatment at the moment. The current study aimed to establish and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
862 Views
23 Pages

Numerical Simulation of Ship Wave Characteristics Under Different Navigation Conditions in the Restricted Waterway of the Pinglu Canal

  • Chu Zhang,
  • Tiejun Cheng,
  • Shishuang Wu,
  • Jian Pan,
  • Jiacheng You,
  • Xiangyu Xu,
  • Jianan Shi,
  • Sudong Xu and
  • Jianxin Hao

18 June 2025

The Pinglu Canal is a strategic inland restricted waterway under construction in southwest China. Its ship wave superposition characteristics under conditions of high-density shipping and large ships may threaten navigation safety, but little related...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,845 Views
10 Pages

Quantitative Dynamic Allodynograph—A Standardized Measure for Testing Dynamic Mechanical Allodynia in Chronic Limb Pain

  • Noy Turgeman Dahan,
  • Jean-Jacques Vatine,
  • Irit Weissman-Fogel,
  • Hana Karpin,
  • Sharon Shmuely and
  • Tami Bar-Shalita

18 September 2023

Background: Dynamic mechanical allodynia (DMA) is both a symptom and a central sensitization sign, yet no standardized method for quantifying the DMA area has been reported. This study aimed to establish psychometric properties for Quantitative Dynam...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,642 Views
11 Pages

A Hybrid Perovskite-Based Electromagnetic Wave Absorber with Enhanced Conduction Loss and Interfacial Polarization through Carbon Sphere Embedding

  • Xuehua Lian,
  • Yao Yao,
  • Ziming Xiong,
  • Yantao Duan,
  • Jianbao Wang,
  • Shangchen Fu,
  • Yinsuo Dai,
  • Wenke Zhou and
  • Zhi Zhang

27 September 2024

Electronic equipment brings great convenience to daily life but also causes a lot of electromagnetic radiation pollution. Therefore, there is an urgent demand for electromagnetic wave-absorbing materials with a low thickness, wide bandwidth, and stro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,573 Views
16 Pages

Prognostic Influence of Galectin-1 in Gastric Adenocarcinoma

  • Cristina Díaz del Arco,
  • Lourdes Estrada Muñoz,
  • María de los Ángeles Cerón Nieto,
  • Elena Molina Roldán,
  • María Jesús Fernández Aceñero and
  • Soledad García Gómez de las Heras

Galectin-1 (Gal-1), a member of the human lectin family, has garnered attention for its association with aggressive behavior in human tumors, prompting research into the development of targeted drugs. This study aims to assess the staining pattern an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,073 Views
17 Pages

Combined Utilization of Construction and Demolition Waste and Propylene Fiber in Cement-Stabilized Soil

  • Genbao Zhang,
  • Zhiqing Ding,
  • Runhong Zhang,
  • Changfu Chen,
  • Guihai Fu,
  • Xiao Luo,
  • Yufei Wang and
  • Chao Zhang

Construction and demolition (C&D) waste has become a research hotspot due to the need for environmental sustainability and strength enhancement of cementitious materials. However, wider applications of C&D waste are limited, as its non-homoge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,646 Views
11 Pages

17 October 2022

Nitrogen is essential for the growth and quality formation of tea plants. Excessive and inefficient use of nitrogen fertilizer leads to cost increases and ecosystem pollution. It is important to improve the nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) for tea plant...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,994 Views
15 Pages

26 December 2022

Background: 60–70% of patients who die from breast cancer have lung metastases. However, there is a lack of readily available tools for accurate risk stratification in patients with breast cancer lung metastases (BCLM). Therefore, a web-based d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,451 Views
22 Pages

9 August 2023

In order to achieve the synthesis of contracted graphs (CGs) automatically by given associated linkages (ALs), a new feature description method is proposed and a software is constructed. First of all, a connection method substring (CMS) is proposed a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,369 Views
20 Pages

20 May 2022

A procedure for the seismic fragility assessment of nuclear power plants by applying ground motions compatible with the conditional probability distribution of a conditional spectrum (CS) is presented with a case study of a containment building. Thre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,679 Views
26 Pages

Performance Prediction of Cement Stabilized Soil Incorporating Solid Waste and Propylene Fiber

  • Genbao Zhang,
  • Zhiqing Ding,
  • Yufei Wang,
  • Guihai Fu,
  • Yan Wang,
  • Chenfeng Xie,
  • Yu Zhang,
  • Xiangming Zhao,
  • Xinyuan Lu and
  • Xiangyu Wang

15 June 2022

Cement stabilized soil (CSS) yields wide application as a routine cementitious material due to cost-effectiveness. However, the mechanical strength of CSS impedes development. This research assesses the feasible combined enhancement of unconfined com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,987 Views
24 Pages

Asymmetric Entanglement-Assisted Quantum MDS Codes Constructed from Constacyclic Codes

  • Jianzhang Chen,
  • Wanchuan Fang,
  • Shuo Zhou,
  • Jie Qiu,
  • Chenyang Zhang,
  • Yixin Xu,
  • Bozhe Zeng and
  • Youqin Chen

30 November 2023

Due to the asymmetry of quantum errors, phase-shift errors are more likely to occur than qubit-flip errors. Consequently, there is a need to develop asymmetric quantum error-correcting (QEC) codes that can safeguard quantum information transmitted th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
2,080 Views
12 Pages

A new local fractional modified Benjamin–Bona–Mahony equation is proposed within the local fractional derivative in this study for the first time. By defining some elementary functions via the Mittag–Leffler function (MLF) on the Ca...

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