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An Alternative Lambert-Type Distribution for Bounded Data

  • Héctor Varela,
  • Mario A. Rojas,
  • Jimmy Reyes and
  • Yuri A. Iriarte

28 January 2023

In this article, we propose a new two-parameter distribution for bounded data such as rates, proportions, or percentages. The density function of the proposed distribution, presenting monotonic, unimodal, and inverse-unimodal shapes, tends to a posit...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,196 Views
24 Pages

A Lower-Bounded Extreme Value Distribution for Flood Frequency Analysis with Applications

  • Fatimah E. Almuhayfith,
  • Maher Kachour,
  • Amira F. Daghestani,
  • Zahid Ur Rehman and ,
  • Tassaddaq Hussain and
  • Hassan S. Bakouch
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 October 2025

This paper proposes the lower-bounded Fréchet–log-logistic distribution (LFLD), a probability model designed for robust flood frequency analysis (FFA). The LFLD addresses key limitations of traditional distributions (e.g., generalized ex...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Reliability Estimation and Mathematical Statistics)
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  • Open Access
1,044 Views
31 Pages

The One-Parameter Bounded p-Exponential Distribution: Properties, Inference, and Applications

  • Hassan S. Bakouch,
  • Hugo S. Salinas,
  • Fernando A. Moala,
  • Tassaddaq Hussain and ,
  • Shaykhah Aldossari and
  • Alanwood Al-Buainain
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

22 March 2026

We introduce the one-parameter bounded p-exponential distribution on (0, p+1), which includes the uniform model as a special case and converges pointwise to the exponential law as p→∞. Closed-form expressions are derived for the CDF a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Advances in Mathematical Applications for Reliability Analysis)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,911 Views
10 Pages

22 September 2023

The distribution of eigenvalues and the upper bounds for the spread of interval matrices are significant in various fields of mathematics and applied sciences, including linear algebra, numerical analysis, control theory, and combinatorial optimizati...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
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  • Open Access
807 Views
15 Pages

11 December 2025

The present study investigates the problem of determining sharp bounds for key reliability and distributional characteristics associated with order statistics. We establish pointwise sharp two-sided bounds for linear combinations of joint distributio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Statistical Inference: Theory and Methods)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,436 Views
14 Pages

Enhanced Bounding Box Estimation with Distribution Calibration for Visual Tracking

  • Bin Yu,
  • Ming Tang,
  • Guibo Zhu,
  • Jinqiao Wang and
  • Hanqing Lu

3 December 2021

Bounding box estimation by overlap maximization has improved the state of the art of visual tracking significantly, yet the improvement in robustness and accuracy is restricted by the limited reference information, i.e., the initial target. In this p...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,918 Views
24 Pages

17 April 2025

Customers’ bounded rationality significantly influences the effectiveness of advertising and related decision-making in customer-intensive services. This paper, based on the M/M/1 queuing model and incorporating the characteristics of customers...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modeling, Simulations and Applications)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,034 Views
16 Pages

5 November 2022

The empirical entropy is a key statistical measure of data frequency vectors, enabling one to estimate how diverse the data are. From the computational point of view, it is important to quickly compute, approximate, or bound the entropy. In a distrib...

(This article belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,196 Views
10 Pages

29 November 2020

The physical and mechanical properties of thermally modified wood (TMW) have been comprehensively studied; however, the quantitative analysis of water states and cell wall pores of TMW is limited. In this work, Douglas fir and Norway spruce were ther...

(This article belongs to the Section Wood Science and Forest Products)
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  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,580 Views
11 Pages

2 September 2021

To determine the size distribution and source identification of PM-bound heavy metals in roadside environments, four different particle size (<0.2 μm, 0.2–0.5 μm, 0.5–1.0 μm and 1.0–2.5 μm) samples were collected and analyzed from four different t...

(This article belongs to the Topic Air Pollution – An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Problem of Air Pollution and Improvement of Air Quality)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,102 Views
40 Pages

12 May 2023

Focusing on the dynamic improvement of the underlying service network configuration, this paper aims to address a specific challenge of redesigning a multi-echelon city logistics distribution network. By considering the intra-echelon connection of fa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Optimization for Transportation, Logistics and Vehicle Routing)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,518 Views
22 Pages

1 July 2021

The beta and Kumaraswamy distributions are two of the most widely used distributions for modeling bounded data. When the histogram of a certain dataset exhibits increasing or decreasing behavior, one-parameter distributions such as the power, Marshal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetric and Asymmetric Distributions: Theoretical Developments and Applications Ⅲ)
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  • Open Access
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Exact MAP Inference of Critical-Node Energization States in Post-Disaster Radial Distribution Networks via Path-Cached Branch-and-Bound Search

  • Zhaoyu Su,
  • Kelin Zhou,
  • Liang Chen,
  • Geng Li and ,
  • Benxiang Wu,
  • Haijun Liu,
  • Qinyin Tang and
  • Chunyang Pan
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

31 August 2026

Extreme disasters can simultaneously damage distribution equipment and communication links, preventing control centers from promptly acquiring complete energization information for critical nodes. This study formulates joint critical-node state ident...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)
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  • Open Access
1,299 Views
49 Pages

A novel statistical model, the Bounded Gamma–Gompertz Distribution (BGGD), is presented alongside a full characterization of its properties. Our investigation identifies maximum-likelihood estimation (MLE) as the most effective fitting procedur...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,124 Views
22 Pages

The autoregressive distributed lag bounds t-test and F-test for a long-run relationship that allows level variables to be either I(1) or I(0) is widely used in the literature. However, a long-run levels relationship cannot be detected when the depend...

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  • Open Access
51 Citations
7,934 Views
21 Pages

14 April 2021

Quantile regression provides a framework for modeling the relationship between a response variable and covariates using the quantile function. This work proposes a regression model for continuous variables bounded to the unit interval based on the un...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetric and Asymmetric Distributions: Theoretical Developments and Applications II)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,037 Views
35 Pages

30 October 2020

This paper is devoted to the investigation of the ruin probability in the risk model with stochastic premiums where dividends are paid according to a multi-layer dividend strategy. We obtain an exponential bound for the ruin probability and investiga...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Probability)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,335 Views
11 Pages

29 August 2022

We establish several new functional bounds and uniform bounds (with respect to the variable) for the lower incomplete generalized Fox–Wright functions by means of the representation formulae for the McKay Iν Bessel probability distribution&r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analytical and Computational Methods in Differential Equations, Special Functions, Transmutations and Integral Transforms)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,425 Views
18 Pages

Bayesian Forecasting of Bounded Poisson Distributed Time Series

  • Feng-Chi Liu,
  • Cathy W. S. Chen and
  • Cheng-Ying Ho

22 December 2023

This research models and forecasts bounded ordinal time series data that can appear in various contexts, such as air quality index (AQI) levels, economic situations, and credit ratings. This class of time series data is characterized by being bounded...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,573 Views
13 Pages

24 August 2022

We consider information-theoretic bounds on the expected generalization error for statistical learning problems in a network setting. In this setting, there are K nodes, each with its own independent dataset, and the models from the K nodes have to b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theory and Machine Learning)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
446 Views
19 Pages

Sampling Quantum States with Inequality Constraints

  • Weijun Li,
  • Rui Han,
  • Jiangwei Shang,
  • Hui Khoon Ng and
  • Berthold-Georg Englert

29 May 2026

Random samples of quantum states with specific properties are useful for various applications, such as Monte Carlo integration over the state space. In the high-dimensional situations that one already encounters when working with a few qubits, the qu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Measurements and Quantum Metrology)
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  • Open Access
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Simulation and Application of the Transmuted Unit Burr XII Distribution in Real-World Data Analysis

  • Fatimah M. Alghamdi,
  • Abdulhameed Ado Osi,
  • Muftahu Zubairu Ringim,
  • Aadil Ahmad Mir and ,
  • Souha K. Badr,
  • Rana Bakoban and
  • Gamal A. Abd-Elmougod
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

19 October 2026

This paper introduces the Transmuted Unit Burr XII (TrUBXII) distribution, a flexible probability model for analyzing bounded data that exhibit skewness and heavy-tailed characteristics. The proposed distribution is derived by incorporating a transmu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,554 Views
16 Pages

14 November 2022

In the paper, an overview is presented of the results on the convergence rate bounds in limit theorems concerning geometric random sums and their generalizations to mixed Poisson random sums, including the case where the mixing law is itself a mixed...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Stability Problems for Stochastic Models: Analytics, Asymptotics, Estimation and Applications)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,775 Views
11 Pages

Matrix-Wigner Distribution

  • Long Wang,
  • Manjun Cui,
  • Ze Qin,
  • Zhichao Zhang and
  • Jianwei Zhang

In order to achieve time–frequency superresolution in comparison to the conventional Wigner distribution (WD), this study generalizes the well-known τ-Wigner distribution (τ-WD) with only one parameter τ to the multiple-parameter ma...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,282 Views
21 Pages

Cramér–Rao Lower Bounds on 3D Position and Orientation Estimation in Distributed Ranging Systems

  • Sharanya Srinivas,
  • Samuel Welker,
  • Andrew Herschfelt and
  • Daniel W. Bliss

3 February 2023

As radio frequency (RF) hardware continues to improve, many technologies that were traditionally impractical have suddenly become viable alternatives to legacy systems. Two-way ranging (TWR) is often considered a poor positioning solution for airborn...

(This article belongs to the Section Aerospace Science and Engineering)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,006 Views
14 Pages

5 September 2023

In this article, we study stochastic orders over an interval. Mainly, we focus on orders related to the Laplace transform. The results are then applied to obtain a bound for heavy-tailed distributions and are illustrated by some examples. We also ind...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Interplay between Financial and Actuarial Mathematics II)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,644 Views
21 Pages

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...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,134 Views
14 Pages

14 October 2019

We consider the Sparre Andersen risk process with interclaim times that belong to the class of distributions with rational Laplace transform. We construct error bounds for the ruin probability based on the Pollaczek–Khintchine formula, and deve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exit Problems for Lévy and Markov Processes with One-Sided Jumps and Related Topics)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,873 Views
15 Pages

19 July 2023

We report a computational study of the potential energy surface (PES) and vibrational bound states for the ground electronic state of Li2+Kr. The PES was calculated in Jacobi coordinates at the Restricted Coupled Cluster method RCCSD(T) level of calc...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational and Theoretical Chemistry)
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  • Open Access
778 Views
37 Pages

A Flexible Bivariate Lifetime Model with Upper Bound: Theoretical Development and Lifetime Application

  • Shuhrah Alghamdi,
  • Tassaddaq Hussain,
  • Hassan S. Bakouch and
  • Maher Kachour

18 December 2025

This paper introduces the bivariate bounded Gompertz–log-logistic (BBGLL) distribution, a bounded bivariate lifetime model built by coupling two bounded Gompertz–log-logistic marginals through a Clayton copula with an independent dependen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Reliability and Risk of Complex Systems: Modelling, Analysis and Optimization, 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,849 Views
21 Pages

The Multivariate Skewed Log-Birnbaum–Saunders Distribution and Its Associated Regression Model

  • Guillermo Martínez-Flórez,
  • Sandra Vergara-Cardozo,
  • Roger Tovar-Falón and
  • Luisa Rodriguez-Quevedo

22 February 2023

In this article, a multivariate extension of the unit-sinh-normal (USHN) distribution is presented. The new distribution, which is obtained from the conditionally specified distributions methodology, is absolutely continuous, and its marginal distrib...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Probability, Statistics & Symmetry)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,736 Views
16 Pages

7 January 2023

For the state estimation problem of a multi-source localization nonlinear system with unknown and bounded noise, a distributed sequential ellipsoidal intersection fusion estimation algorithm based on the dual set-membership filtering method is propos...

(This article belongs to the Section Navigation and Positioning)
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  • Open Access
380 Views
40 Pages

A Parsimonious Quadratic-Exponential Submodel of the Kummer–Beta-G Family: Properties and Regression Modeling

  • Shaykhah Aldossari,
  • Hugo S. Salinas,
  • Hassan S. Bakouch and
  • Çağatay Çetinkaya

28 August 2026

Bounded continuous data arise in many areas of applied probability and statistics, particularly when the underlying variable is restricted to a finite interval and the density is expected to vanish at the endpoints. This paper studies a parsimonious...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Probability and Statistics: Theory, Methods, and Applications)
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  • Open Access
261 Views
32 Pages

4 October 2026

This paper addresses the optimal distribution feeder reconfiguration (DFR) problem with an explicit and practical consideration of switching maneuver limitations. While extensive research has focused on losses minimization by optimizing the network t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Renewable Energy Development in Distribution Networks: Optimization, Assessment and Design of Renewable Plants—2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
290 Views
30 Pages

31 August 2026

Bounded observations occur in a variety of applied scenarios such as reliability probabilities, degradation measures, rates, and other functions defined on the unit interval for which flexible distributional and hazard-rate behavior are desired. This...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Statistical Simulation and Computing, 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,065 Views
27 Pages

28 August 2021

Real-life data are bounded and heavy-tailed variables. Zero-one-inflated beta (ZOIB) regression is used for modelling them. There are no appropriate methods to address the problem of missing data in repeated bounded outcomes. We developed an imputati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Methods and Applications of Statistics in the Social and Health Sciences)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,666 Views
30 Pages

EDDA: An Efficient Distributed Data Replication Algorithm in VANETs

  • Junyu Zhu,
  • Chuanhe Huang,
  • Xiying Fan,
  • Sipei Guo and
  • Bin Fu

10 February 2018

Efficient data dissemination in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) is a challenging issue due to the dynamic nature of the network. To improve the performance of data dissemination, we study distributed data replication algorithms in VANETs for excha...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,493 Views
27 Pages

13 May 2021

We address the accuracy of wideband direct position estimation of a radio transmitter via a distributed antenna array in 5G cellular systems. Our derivations are based only on the presence of spatially coherent line-of-sight (LoS) signal components,...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,582 Views
17 Pages

29 April 2021

We introduce a new family of bivariate exponential distributions based on the counter-monotonic shock model. This family of distribution is easy to simulate and includes the Fréchet lower bound, which allows to span all degrees of negative dependence...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,039 Views
32 Pages

2 December 2025

Distributed cloud networks spanning multiple jurisdictions face significant challenges in anomaly detection due to privacy constraints, regulatory requirements, and communication limitations. This paper presents a mathematically rigorous framework fo...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational Engineering)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,832 Views
17 Pages

4 July 2023

In this paper, we establish an aggregate class distribution neural network (AGGNN) structure to determine whether an arbitrary two-qubit quantum state is steerable. Compared to the classification results obtained using a support vector machine (SVM)...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Science and Technology)
  • Review
  • Open Access
137 Citations
10,238 Views
28 Pages

15 January 2023

Insoluble-bound phenolics (IBPs) are extensively found in the cell wall and distributed in various tissues/organs of plants, mainly cereals, legumes, and pulses. In particular, IBPs are mainly distributed in the protective tissues, such as seed coat,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Soluble and Insoluble-Bound Antioxidants)
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  • Open Access
461 Views
29 Pages

24 August 2026

To optimize expensive black-box functions over networks, one of the most dominant frameworks is distributed Bayesian optimization (DBO), where local information can be exchanged among agents. However, DBO suffers from low evaluation efficiency due to...

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  • Open Access
564 Views
25 Pages

Proportional Autoregressive Quasi-Lindley Half-Logistic Unit Process with Application in Modeling Crime Dynamics

  • Vladica S. Stojanović,
  • Hassan S. Bakouch,
  • Snežana Stojičić and
  • Shuhrah Alghamdi

3 September 2026

The manuscript proposes a novel bounded proportional autoregressive (PAR) process based on the quasi-Lindley half-logistic unit (QHU) distribution, termed the QHU-PAR(1) process. Fundamental probabilistic properties of the process are established, in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Skewed (Asymmetrical) Probability Distributions and Applications Across Disciplines, 5th Edition)
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  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,537 Views
16 Pages

A New 3-Parameter Bounded Beta Distribution: Properties, Estimation, and Applications

  • Faiza A. Althubyani,
  • Ahmed M. T. Abd El-Bar,
  • Mohamad A. Fawzy and
  • Ahmed M. Gemeay

26 September 2022

This study presents a new three-parameter beta distribution defined on the unit interval, which can have increasing, decreasing, left-skewed, right-skewed, approximately symmetric, bathtub, and upside-down bathtub shaped densities, and increasing, U,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Statistics & Data Analysis)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,133 Views
15 Pages

GAOC: A Gaussian Adaptive Ochiai Loss for Bounding Box Regression

  • Binbin Han,
  • Qiang Tang,
  • Jiuxu Song,
  • Zheng Wang and
  • Yi Yang

6 January 2026

Bounding box regression (BBR) loss plays a critical role in object detection within computer vision. Existing BBR loss functions are typically based on the Intersection over Union (IoU) between predicted and ground truth boxes. However, these methods...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,743 Views
15 Pages

13 March 2022

In several applications, the assumption of normality is often violated in data with some level of skewness, so skewness affects the mean’s estimation. The class of skew–normal distributions is considered, given their flexibility for model...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Distance in Information and Statistical Physics III)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,804 Views
27 Pages

Probability distributions are very useful in modeling lifetime datasets. However, no specific distribution is suitable for all kinds of datasets. In this study, the bounded truncated Cauchy power exponential distribution is proposed for modeling data...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Statistical Inference in Linear Models)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,323 Views
13 Pages

29 May 2019

Distributed multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radar has attracted much attention for its improved detection and estimation performance as well as enhanced electronic counter-counter measures (ECCM) ability. To protect the target from being detect...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)

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