Real-time flight controllers are becoming dependent on general-purpose operating systems, as the modularity and complexity of guidance, navigation, and control systems and algorithms increases. The non-deterministic nature of operating systems create...
Network pharmacology has become a central paradigm in modern drug discovery, replacing the reductionist “one drug, one target” view with a systems-level understanding of how compounds engage networks of proteins that are linked to disease...
Cloud detection in remote sensing imagery is a research hotspot in the field of image processing, and accurately detecting and segmenting cloud regions is crucial for improving the utilization efficiency of remote sensing data. However, standard conv...
After natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, or wars occur, cellular communication networks often sustain significant damage or become impaired. In these critical situations, first responders must coordinate with other rescue teams to communi...
Depressive disorder (DD) has become one of the most common mental diseases, seriously endangering both the affected person’s psychological and physical health. Nowadays, a DD diagnosis mainly relies on the experience of clinical psychiatrists a...
Collaborative unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm operations using the open-source PX4–ROS2 system have been extensively studied for reconnaissance and autonomous missions. PX4–ROS2 utilizes data distribution service (DDS) middleware to e...
This study delves into the diagnostic yield of whole-exome sequencing (WES) in pediatric patients presenting with developmental delay/intellectual disability (DD/ID), while also exploring the utility of Reverse Phenotyping (RP) in refining diagnoses....
We claim the strong potential of data-centric communications in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), as a suitable paradigm to enhance collaborative operations via efficient information sharing, as well as to build systems supporting flexible mission obj...
The EPANET model is commonly used to model hydraulic behaviour and water quality within water distribution networks. The standard version of the model solves the advective transport equation by solving a mass balance of the fundamental plug flow subs...
As a subject area of symmetry, multiple instance learning (MIL) is a special form of a weakly supervised learning problem where the label is related to the bag, not the instances contained in it. The difficulty of MIL lies in the incomplete label inf...
While infrastructure providers are expanding their portfolio to offer sustainable solutions for beyond 10 Gbps in the access segment of optical networks, we experimentally compare several modulation format alternatives for future passive optical netw...
Underwater visible light communication (UVLC) based on LEDs has become a competitive candidate, which is able to provide high data rates, low latency and low cost for next-generation wireless communication technologies. However, it is still challengi...
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The spread of antibiotic resistance genes in river systems is an emerging environmental issue due to their potential threat to aquatic ecosystems and public health. In this study, we used droplet digital polymerase chain reaction (ddPCR) to evaluate...
Network virtualization (NV) is considered a promising technology that may solve the problem of Internet rigidity. The resource competition of multiple virtual networks for shared substrate network resources is a challenging problem in NV called virtu...
This paper presents the design and implementation of a communication and control infrastructure for smart grid operation. The proposed infrastructure enhances the reliability of the measurements and control network. The advantages of utilizing the da...
Age-related alterations in the gut microbiome composition and its impacts on the host’s health have been well-described; however, detailed analyses of the gut microbial structure defining ecological microbe–microbe interactions are limite...
We present an experimental demonstration of a daylight-capable Optical Amplify-and-Forward (OAF) relaying system designed to support flexible and high-capacity network topologies. The proposed architecture integrates fiber-based infrastructure with O...
The purpose of this article is to propose a new configuration based on OCDMA and Fast-OFDM techniques for access network applications. A hybrid intensity modulation with direct detection, fast orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing–code div...
Since sensor nodes usually have a large duty cycle interval to prolong network lifetime, duty-cycled wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can suffer from a long end-to-end (E2E) delay. Because delay-sensitive applications have a certain E2E delay requirem...
To address the challenges of poor adaptability to spatial heterogeneity, easy breakage of amplitude–phase coupling relationships, and insufficient physical consistency in complex optical wavefield reconstruction, this paper proposes the DdONN-P...
For few-shot image classification tasks, the recognition accuracy of existing models remains limited due to the inherent complexity of the few-shot learning setting. To address this challenge, this paper proposes a few-shot image classification appro...
This study evaluated the use of GFDM transmission in passive optical networks (PONs) by comparing the performance of coherent and non-coherent optical receivers using OptSim 2023.12sp2 and Matlab 2018b ®. The study concentrated on transmitting 10...
Previous EEG studies using graph analysis have revealed altered functional brain networks in children with developmental dyslexia (DD). The influence of sex on these networks within this childhood disorder remains unclear. The study emphasizes the im...
Increasing evidence supports the presence of deficits in the visual magnocellular (M) system in developmental dyslexia (DD). The M system is related to the fronto-parietal attentional network. Previous neuroimaging studies have revealed reduced/absen...
Developmental dyslexia (DD) often involves difficulties in phonological processing of speech. Objectives: While underlying neural changes have been identified in terms of stimulus- and task-related responses within specific brain regions and their ne...
Background/Methods: The influence of sex on brain organization was investigated in functional reading networks in 8-year-old children, in those typically developing and those with developmental dyslexia (DD), utilizing the minimum spanning tree model...
With the aim of solving the problem of identifying complex underwater acoustic targets using a single signal feature in the Time–Frequency (TF) feature, this paper designs a method that recognizes the underwater targets based on the Delay-Doppl...
Delivering a drug to the target site with minimal-to-no off-target cytotoxicity is the major determinant for the success of disease therapy. While the therapeutic efficacy and cytotoxicity of the drug play the main roles, the use of a suitable drug d...
Background: Dangguibuxue decoction (DD), containing Angelica sinensis (Oliv.) Diels (AS) and Astragalus membranaceus (Fisch.) Bge. (AM) (1:5), is a well-known traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) used for strengthening qi and nourishing the blood. DD h...
Drowsiness detection (DD) has become a relevant area of active research in biomedical signal processing. Recently, various deep learning (DL) researches based on the EEG signals have been proposed to detect fatigue conditions. The research presented...
Driven by the rapid advancement of intelligence and connectivity, traditional distributed and signal-oriented automotive architectures are gradually being replaced by centralized, service-oriented architectures. In response to this transition, In-Veh...
Background: Crohn’s disease (CD) is an inflammatory bowel disease, cases of which have substantially increased in recent years. The classical formula Dajianzhong decoction (DD, Japanese: Daikenchuto) is often used to treat CD, but few studies h...
Direct Detection (DD) optical performance monitoring (OPM), Modulation Format Identification (MFI), and Baud Rate Identification (BRI) are envisioned as crucial components of future-generation optical networks. They bring to optical nodes and receive...
Fracture toughness is a key property of epoxy resins with a high glass transition temperature (Tg), used in carbon fiber/epoxy composites for aerospace applications. Conventional toughening methods rely on adding toughening agents, often compromising...
To sustain the security services in a Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANET), applications in terms of confidentially, authentication, integrity, authorization, key management, and abnormal behavior detection/anomaly detection are significant. The implementa...
This paper analyses the possibilities of improving the precision of, and obtaining better, drainage density (Dd) input data for the Erosion Potential Method (EPM). This method is used for erosion assessments in karst areas that are characterised by t...
Although the double-double (DD) laminates proposed by Tsai provide a promising option for achieving better structural performance with lower manufacturing and maintenance costs, the buckling performance of perforated DD laminates still remains clear....
Mutations, especially those at the protein-protein interaction (PPI) interface, have been associated with various diseases. Meanwhile, though de novo mutations (DNMs) have been proven important in neuropsychiatric disorders, such as developmental del...
Fungi are an important component of microbial communities that serve a variety of important roles in nutrient cycling and are essential for plant nutrient uptake in forest soils. Distance decay of similarity (DDS) is one of the few ubiquitous phenome...
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and depressive disorder (DD) are distinct mental disorders, which are characterized by complex and unique neuroelectrophysiological mechanisms in psychiatric neurosciences. The understanding of the brain functional...
Inductive power transfer (IPT) has been widely adopted as an efficient and convenient charging manner for both static and in-motion EVs. In this paper, a new hybrid topology is presented to improve the coupling tolerance under pad misalignment. The d...
This study examined the effects of combined neurofeedback (NF) and visual training (VT) on children with developmental dyslexia (DD). Although NF is the first noninvasive approach to support neurological disorders, the mechanisms of its effects on th...
CYP17A1 is a cytochrome P450 enzyme that has 17-alpha-hydroxylase and C17,20-lyase activities. Cyp17a11 deficiency is associated with high body mass and visceral fat deposition in atherosclerotic female ApoE knockout (KO, d/d or −/−) mice. In the pre...
The phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometer (φ-OTDR) is commonly used in various industries such as oil and gas pipelines, power communication networks, safety maintenance, and perimeter security. However, one challenge faced by the &ph...
In this paper, delay Doppler (DD) domain is utilized for enabling an efficient handover-triggering mechanism in highly dynamic unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones to ground networks. In the proposed scheme, the estimated DD channel gains using...
Intensity-modulated direct-detection (IM/DD) optical systems are most widely employed in short-reach optical interconnects due to their simple structure and cost-effectiveness. However, IM/DD systems face mixed linear and nonlinear channel impairment...
Currently, the number of vehicles in circulation continues to increase steadily, leading to a parallel increase in vehicular accidents. Among the many causes of these accidents, human factors such as driver drowsiness play a fundamental role. In this...
Web accessibility assessment remains challenging because of the scale and heterogeneity of modern institutional websites and the difficulty of translating automatically detected violations into actionable remediation priorities. This paper introduces...
Firms are embedded in transaction systems whose organization can generate both coordination benefits and relational exposure. Using disclosed related-party transactions (RPTs), we construct annual weighted bipartite networks for 2674 Chinese A-share...
As robotic systems evolve toward large-scale distributed architectures and cloud-edge collaboration, communication middleware has become a critical infrastructure that impacts system real-time performance and scalability. The traditional Robot Operat...
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