Filter-based spectral beam combining (FSBC) is a promising power-scaling concept for high-power, broad-linewidth fiber lasers, as it relaxes the requirements for linewidth control and also the sizes of the individual beams. As the combining element i...
In this paper, the selective combining scheme is proposed for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-employed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with spatial correlations at the receiver. To reduce the computational complexity load during...
The combination of different sources of information is a problem that arises in several situations, for instance, when data are analysed using different similarity measures. Often, each source of information is given as a similarity, distance, or a k...
Generalized spatial modulation (GSM) technology is an extension of spatial modulation (SM) technology, and one of its main advantages is to further improve band efficiency. However, the multiple active antennas for transmission also brings the demodu...
Weather is a key factor affecting electricity demand. Many load forecasting models rely on weather variables. Weather stations provide point measurements of weather conditions in a service area. Since the load is spread geographically, a single weath...
Heterosis and combining ability are two important considerations in the utilization of heterosis, which can be used to generate excellent hybrid resource candidates and is very important in conventional hybrid breeding. In this study, the combining a...
Cyclin-dependent kinase 4 and 6 (CDK4/6) inhibitors, including abemaciclib, have been approved for the treatment of hormone receptor-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative advanced, and metastatic breast cancer. Despite th...
To be compatible with future wireless communication systems, it is very necessary to extend the bandwidth of the Doherty power amplifier (DPA). In this paper, a modified combiner integrated with a complex combining impedance is adopted to enable an u...
Poor water solubility is one of the major challenges to the development of oral dosage forms containing active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). Polymorphism in APIs leads to crystals with different surface wettabilities and free energies, which can...
Information on combining ability and heterotic patterns of multiple stress-tolerant inbred lines are fundamental prerequisites for devising appropriate breeding strategies for the development of climate-resilient maize hybrids. In the present study,...
The problem of combining statistical evidence concerning an unknown, contained in each of the k Bayesian inference bases, is discussed. This can be considered as being related to the problem of pooling k priors to determine a consensus prior, but the...
This paper considers a downlink cellular network where multi-antenna base stations (BSs) simultaneously serve their associated multi-antenna users. Each BS is distributed according to a homogeneous Poisson point process and uses zero-forcing beamform...
Turkish is a language described as relying predominantly on non-finite subordination in the domain of clause combining. However, there are also strategies of finite subordination, as well as means of syndetic and asyndetic paratactic clause combining...
Glioblastoma stem-like cells (GSLCs) in glioblastoma limit effective treatment and promote therapeutic resistance and tumor recurrence. Using a combined radiation and drug-screening platform, we tested the combination of a histone deacetylase inhibit...
Spectrum-based fault localization (SBFL) is an automated fault localization technique that uses risk evaluation metrics to compute the suspiciousness scores from program spectra. Thus, risk evaluation metrics determine the technique’s performan...
A composite groove structure with high specific strength and light weight has great potential in industrial application, but few studies on this have been carried out due to the fact that it is difficult to fabricate by one of the existing methods. T...
This paper introduces a novel differential combiner designed to effectively address parasitic capacitances of transistors used in power amplifier (PA) designs with precise compensation at a specified frequency. The combiner consists of a
The objective of this study was to identify the maize inbred lines with good general combining ability (GCA), good specific combining ability (SCA), high heterosis for yield and phytochemicals, and the crosses with high yield of yellow kernels and hi...
Combining multiple biomarkers to provide predictive models with a greater discriminatory ability is a discipline that has received attention in recent years. Choosing the probability threshold that corresponds to the highest combined marker accuracy...
The incoherent combined beam of lasers has many important applications due to its simple technology and excellent expansibility. Thermal blooming is one factor that will seriously affect the propagation of the combined beam in the atmosphere. Based o...
A new method to improve the brightness of diode lasers based on beam-waist splitting and polarization combining was proposed and demonstrated. The beam waist was split by a precisely cut prism into two parts and combined with a polarization beam comb...
The goal of combined pharmacological approaches in the treatment of the acute radiation syndrome (ARS) is to obtain an effective therapy producing a minimum of undesirable side effects. This review summarizes important data from studies evaluating th...
The understanding of the structure of knowledge is an essential step of education. Although teachers offer the information foundation and relationship among knowledge points, there are still few methods to encourage students to explore the structure...
Tourism forecasting has garnered considerable interest. However, integrating tourism forecasting with volatility is significantly less typical. This study investigates the performance of both the single models and their combinations for forecasting t...
Additive manufacturing has become a very important manufacturing method in the last years. With additive manufacturing, a higher level of function integration can be achieved compared to traditional manufacturing technologies. However, the manufactur...
Sulfonylureas (SUs)—a class of drugs primarily used to treat type 2 diabetes—have recently attracted interest for their potential anticancer properties. While some studies have explored the chemical modification or design of new SU deriva...
Architectural colors significantly influence urban culture, city imagery, regional vitality, and residential experiences. Previous studies have demonstrated that appropriate architectural colors can enhance urban vitality, but research on multicolore...
The high-resolution Moho depth model is required in various geophysical studies. However, the available models’ resolutions could be improved for this purpose. Large parts of the world still need to be sufficiently covered by seismic data, but...
This work presents a compact on-chip outphasing power amplifier with a parallel-combining transformer (PCT). A series-combining transformer (SCT) and PCT are analyzed as power-combining transformers for outphasing operations. Compared to the SCT, whi...
Fiber laser technology has been demonstrated as a versatile and reliable approach to laser source manufacturing with a wide range of applicability in various fields ranging from science to industry. The power/energy scaling of single-fiber laser syst...
Helical geometries have been used in recent years to form cardiovascular prostheses such as stents and shunts. The helical geometry has been found to induce swirling flow, promoting in-plane mixing. This is hypothesised to reduce the formation of thr...
Combining ability analysis can be used to preliminarily identify the advantages and disadvantages of combinations and parents in earlier generations, enabling breeders to reduce the range of material, save breeding time, and improve breeding efficien...
Interest has been increasing in the use of androgen deprivation therapy (adt) combined with radiation therapy (rt) in the management of localized prostate cancer. Preclinical studies have provided some rationale for the use of this combination. In pa...
There is a vast amount of research in many countries on what motivates full-time students to enter the labor market, and how this affects their future employment, but these phenomena are hardly ever examined from the perspective of university faculti...
Background/Objectives: Combining ability (CA) analysis is a key tool in maize breeding for developing superior hybrids by evaluating parental genetic potential through general combining ability (GCA) and specific combining ability (SCA). Despite its...
In some emerging wireless applications, such as wearable communication and low-power sensor network applications, wireless devices or nodes not only require simple physical implementation approaches but also require certain reliable receiver techniqu...
Background: The combination of platinum-containing cytostatic drugs with different radiation qualities has been studied for years. Despite their massive side effects, these drugs still belong to the therapeutic portfolio in cancer treatment. To overc...
A broadband millimeter-wave (mmWave) power amplifier (PA) was implemented using a modified 2D distributed power combining technique. The proposed power combining was based on a single-ended dual-fed distributed combining (SEDFDC) design technique usi...
In this work residents’ social vulnerability and buildings’ physical vulnerability of the Loures municipality (Portugal) were combined to locate the areas where the vulnerability is the highest, and to analyse the landslide risk. The soci...
Grain-yield potential of maize (Zea mays L.) is limited by the harsh climatic conditions during dry seasons in the savanna of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). One hundred and five hybrids derived from diallel crosses involving 15 early-maturing yellow maize...
Malignant melanoma is the most aggressive type of skin cancer and is closely associated with the development of brain metastases. Despite aggressive treatment, the prognosis has traditionally been poor, necessitating improved therapies. In melanoma,...
Accurate probabilistic forecasts of renewable generation are drivers for operational and management excellence in modern power systems and for the sustainable integration of green energy. The combination of forecasts provided by different individual...
Adaptive antenna arrays are widely used to protect Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers from interference. However, conventional blind anti-jamming array processing methods can cause satellite signal attenuation, which reduces signal t...
The fog density level, as one of the indicators of weather conditions, will affect the management decisions of transportation management agencies. This paper proposes an image-based method to estimate fog density levels to improve the accuracy and ef...
The spectral and spatial output parameters of a two-channel, Yb-doped fiber laser operating in the intracavity spectral beam combining mode were investigated. We showed that by using active media with slightly different gain spectra, it is possible t...
Coherent beam combining (CBC) with closely arranged centrosymmetric arrays is a promising way to obtain a high-brightness laser. An essential task in CBC is to actively control the piston phases of the input beams, maintaining the correct phasing to...
The elimination of pollutants in real water and wastewater is a challenge for the successful application of electrooxidation processes (EOPs). The presence of inorganic salts in the reaction medium is of great relevance during EOPs, with active parti...
Intelligent wearable masks are gaining increasing interest due to COVID-19 and the problems and limitations of existing masks. This paper prioritizes the design elements of personal protective equipment-intelligent wearable masks from the perspective...
In the modern world, new technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data are essential to support healthcare surveillance systems, especially for monitoring confirmed cases of monkeypox. The statistics of infected and uni...
Time reversal (TR) can achieve temporal and spatial focusing by exploiting spatial diversity in complex underwater environments with significant multipath. This property makes TR useful for underwater acoustic (UWA) communications. Conventional TR is...
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