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3 February 2023

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...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Eng 2022)
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  • Open Access
366 Views
24 Pages

14 August 2026

Constitutive models define how physical properties depend on evolving state variables, and consequently have a strong influence on computational simulations. However, material descriptions are commonly embedded within solver implementations, limiting...

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  • Open Access
855 Views
28 Pages

A Hybrid Method for Semantic Cache Analysis of Computational Kernels in C Programs

  • Vitaly Egunov,
  • Alla G. Kravets,
  • Pavel Kravchenya,
  • Anna Matokhina and
  • Vladimir Shabalovsky

The performance of modern high-performance computing systems is increasingly constrained not by computational power, but by the efficiency of memory subsystem interaction. Cache behavior optimization thus becomes a critical requirement for developers...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,955 Views
17 Pages

The development of high-performance Fortran code for large-scale scientific simulations is inherently challenging: direct Fortran implementation demands substantial expertise in numerical methods, optimization and system architecture. Manual derivati...

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  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,815 Views
24 Pages

30 April 2025

Steel fibers are frequently used in ultra high-performance concrete (UHPC) due to their superior properties, but they also have disadvantages, such as corrosion exposure, high specific gravity and high cost. Although synthetic fibers have emerged as...

(This article belongs to the Section Polymer Fibers)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,533 Views
9 Pages

The QC-LDPC code, with its excellent error correction performance and hardware friendliness, has been identified as one of the channel encoding schemes by Wi-Fi 6. Shorting, puncturing, or repeating operations are needed to ensure that user data can...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Digital Signal Processing for Future Digital Communications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
6,585 Views
25 Pages

Research Status and Prospects of Control Strategies for High Speed On/Off Valves

  • Qiang Gao,
  • Jie Wang,
  • Yong Zhu,
  • Jun Wang and
  • Jinchuan Wang

4 January 2023

As the working conditions of host equipment become more complex and severe, performance improvement and increased intelligence of high speed on/off valves (HSV) are inevitable trends in the development of digital hydraulic technology. The characteris...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Control and Maintenance of Fluid Component and System)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
620 Views
19 Pages

25 March 2026

Ultra-High-Performance Concrete (UHPC) is increasingly used in slender and prestressed structural members due to its superior strength and durability. However, inaccurate or incomplete prediction of creep deformation may lead to excessive long-term d...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,432 Views
20 Pages

Post Quantum Cryptographic Keys Generated with Physical Unclonable Functions

  • Bertrand Cambou,
  • Michael Gowanlock,
  • Bahattin Yildiz,
  • Dina Ghanaimiandoab,
  • Kaitlyn Lee,
  • Stefan Nelson,
  • Christopher Philabaum,
  • Alyssa Stenberg and
  • Jordan Wright

21 March 2021

Lattice and code cryptography can replace existing schemes such as elliptic curve cryptography because of their resistance to quantum computers. In support of public key infrastructures, the distribution, validation and storage of the cryptographic k...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cyber Security of Critical Infrastructures)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,275 Views
14 Pages

Regulatory Gap Versus Performance Reality: Thermal Assessment of a Social Housing Module in the Peruvian Andes

  • Emilio Palomino-Olivera,
  • Miriam Ancco-Peralta,
  • Víctor Salas Velásquez,
  • Enrique Mejia-Solis and
  • Edwin Gudiel Rodriguez

5 December 2025

In high-altitude regions of the Global South, social housing programs are essential for mitigating vulnerability to low temperatures, but their standardized designs often fail to meet thermal performance codes. This study evaluates a “Sumaq Was...

(This article belongs to the Topic Energy Systems in Buildings and Occupant Comfort)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,547 Views
10 Pages

Heterogeneous Compute Clusters and Massive Environmental Simulations Based on the EPIC Model

  • Nikolay Khabarov,
  • Alexey Smirnov,
  • Juraj Balkovič,
  • Rastislav Skalský,
  • Christian Folberth,
  • Marijn Van Der Velde and
  • Michael Obersteiner

4 December 2020

In recent years, the crop growth modeling community invested immense effort into high resolution global simulations estimating inter alia the impacts of projected climate change. The demand for computing resources in this context is high and expresse...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers of Modelling)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,922 Views
10 Pages

9 November 2022

To improve the reliability of static random access memory (SRAM), error-correcting codes (ECC) are typically used to protect SRAM in the cache. While improving the reliability, we also need additional circuits to support ECC, including encoding and d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,406 Views
9 Pages

Energy Efficiency of a New Parallel PIC Code for Numerical Simulation of Plasma Dynamics in Open Trap

  • Igor Chernykh,
  • Igor Kulikov,
  • Vitaly Vshivkov,
  • Ekaterina Genrikh,
  • Dmitry Weins,
  • Galina Dudnikova,
  • Ivan Chernoshtanov and
  • Marina Boronina

8 October 2022

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...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Parallel Computing and Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,180 Views
20 Pages

Complexity Analysis of a Versatile Video Coding Decoder over Embedded Systems and General Purpose Processors

  • Anup Saha,
  • Miguel Chavarrías,
  • Fernando Pescador,
  • Ángel M. Groba,
  • Kheyter Chassaigne and
  • Pedro L. Cebrián

11 May 2021

The increase in high-quality video consumption requires increasingly efficient video coding algorithms. Versatile video coding (VVC) is the current state-of-the-art video coding standard. Compared to the previous video standard, high efficiency video...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,684 Views
15 Pages

To enhance the reliability of UAV-to-Ground data transmission in SC-FDE, this study proposes a combined MMSE equalization and LDPC-RS concatenated code approach, utilizing source redundancy to mitigate errors in low-elevation G2A communication. The p...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
9,321 Views
26 Pages

11 August 2011

While network coding is well known for its efficiency and usefulness in wireless sensor networks, the excessive costs associated with decoding computation and complexity still hinder its adoption into practical use. On the other hand, high-performanc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Microprocessors and System-on-Chip)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,191 Views
18 Pages

28 July 2021

This paper deals with the design and implementation of cross-platform, D2Q9-BGK and D3Q27-MRT, lattice Boltzmann method solver for 2D and 3D flows developed with ArrayFire library for high-performance computing. The solver leverages ArrayFire’s just-...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Analysis with Applications in Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
9,475 Views
39 Pages

28 September 2015

Diffuser augmented wind turbines (DAWTs) can increase mass flow through the rotor substantially, but have often failed to fulfill expectations. We address high-performance diffusers, and investigate the design requirements for a DAWT rotor to efficie...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wind Turbine 2015)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,707 Views
27 Pages

Engineering-Based Thermal CFD Simulations on Massive Parallel Systems

  • Jérôme Frisch,
  • Ralf-Peter Mundani,
  • Ernst Rank and
  • Christoph Van Treeck

The development of parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) codes is a challenging task that entails efficient parallelization concepts and strategies in order to achieve good scalability values when running those codes on modern supercomputers wi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Fluid Dynamics in Civil Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,942 Views
24 Pages

On a Simplified Approach to Achieve Parallel Performance and Portability Across CPU and GPU Architectures

  • Nathaniel Morgan,
  • Caleb Yenusah,
  • Adrian Diaz,
  • Daniel Dunning,
  • Jacob Moore,
  • Erin Heilman,
  • Calvin Roth,
  • Evan Lieberman,
  • Steven Walton and
  • Robert Robey
  • + 5 authors

28 October 2024

This paper presents software advances to easily exploit computer architectures consisting of a multi-core CPU and CPU+GPU to accelerate diverse types of high-performance computing (HPC) applications using a single code implementation. The paper descr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in High Performance Computing and Scalable Software)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,392 Views
15 Pages

FPGA-Implemented Fractal Decoder with Forward Error Correction in Short-Reach Optical Interconnects

  • Svitlana Matsenko,
  • Oleksiy Borysenko,
  • Sandis Spolitis,
  • Aleksejs Udalcovs,
  • Lilita Gegere,
  • Aleksandr Krotov,
  • Oskars Ozolins and
  • Vjaceslavs Bobrovs

13 January 2022

Forward error correction (FEC) codes combined with high-order modulator formats, i.e., coded modulation (CM), are essential in optical communication networks to achieve highly efficient and reliable communication. The task of providing additional err...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,538 Views
23 Pages

Total System Performance Ratio—A Systems Based Approach for Evaluating HVAC System Efficiency

  • Supriya Goel,
  • Michael Rosenberg,
  • Juan Gonzalez and
  • Jérémy Lerond

19 August 2021

The prescriptive path is the most widely used approach for commercial code compliance in the United States. Though easy to implement, prescriptive approaches do not typically discriminate between minimally compliant, high-performing and poorly perfor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy Efficiency in Integrated Building Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,120 Views
14 Pages

Real-Time Hyperspectral Video Acquisition with Coded Slits

  • Guoliang Tang,
  • Zi Wang,
  • Shijie Liu,
  • Chunlai Li and
  • Jianyu Wang

21 January 2022

We propose a real-time hyperspectral video acquisition system that uses coded slits. Conventional imaging spectrometers usually have scanning mechanisms that reduce the temporal resolution or sacrifice the spatial resolution to acquire spectral infor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art Optical Sensors Technology in China)
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  • Open Access
1,095 Views
19 Pages

Experimental and Numerical Investigation of the Impact Resistance of Synthetic Fiber-Reinforced UHPC Thin Panels

  • Vincenzo Romanazzi,
  • Francesco Micelli,
  • Sandro Moro,
  • Pedro Serna Ros and
  • Maria Antonietta Aiello

19 May 2026

In recent years, Ultra High-Performance Fiber-Reinforced Concretes (UHPFRCs) have gained significant attention for their applications in structural components, particularly for improving impact resistance and post-cracking behavior. This study explor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fiber-Reinforced Concrete and Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Materials: Innovative Solutions in Construction Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
11,906 Views
24 Pages

GPU Computing with Python: Performance, Energy Efficiency and Usability

  • Håvard H. Holm,
  • André R. Brodtkorb and
  • Martin L. Sætra

In this work, we examine the performance, energy efficiency, and usability when using Python for developing high-performance computing codes running on the graphics processing unit (GPU). We investigate the portability of performance and energy effic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy-Efficient Computing on Parallel Architectures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,171 Views
19 Pages

19 December 2020

In many studies, the focus has been on students’ written scientific argumentation rather than on their spoken argumentation. The main aim of this study was to relate the quality of spoken argumentation to groups’ learning achievement duri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digital Learning in Open and Flexible Environments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,657 Views
14 Pages

A Sustainable and Flexible Carbon Paper-Based Multifunctional Human–Machine Interface (HMI) Sensor

  • Muhammad Muqeet Rehman,
  • Maryam Khan,
  • Hafiz Mohammad Mutee ur Rehman,
  • Muhammad Saqib,
  • Shahzad Iqbal,
  • Sang Seop Lim,
  • Kun Hyun Park and
  • Woo Young Kim

1 January 2025

We have executed a cost-effective approach to produce a high-performance multifunctional human–machine interface (HMI) humidity sensor. The designed sensors were ecofriendly, flexible, and highly sensitive to variability in relative humidity (%...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nature-Inspired and Polymers-Based Flexible Electronics and Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,782 Views
23 Pages

Loop unrolling can provide more instruction-level parallelism opportunities for code and enables a greater range of instruction pipeline scheduling. In high-performance very-long-instruction-word (VLIW) digital signal processors (DSPs), there are spe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,310 Views
17 Pages

Performance Evaluation of Open-Source Serverless Platforms for Kubernetes

  • Jonathan Decker,
  • Piotr Kasprzak and
  • Julian Martin Kunkel

2 July 2022

Serverless computing has grown massively in popularity over the last few years, and has provided developers with a way to deploy function-sized code units without having to take care of the actual servers or deal with logging, monitoring, and scaling...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Performance Optimization and Performance Evaluation)
  • Review
  • Open Access
61 Citations
14,272 Views
14 Pages

Seismic Design of Timber Buildings: Highlighted Challenges and Future Trends

  • Mislav Stepinac,
  • Iztok Šušteršič,
  • Igor Gavrić and
  • Vlatka Rajčić

19 February 2020

Use of timber as a construction material has entered a period of renaissance since the development of high-performance engineered wood products, enabling larger and taller buildings to be built. In addition, due to substantial contribution of the bui...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Buildings and Structures under Extreme Loads)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,386 Views
10 Pages

Machine Learning Models to Predict Protein–Protein Interaction Inhibitors

  • Bárbara I. Díaz-Eufracio and
  • José L. Medina-Franco

17 November 2022

Protein–protein interaction (PPI) inhibitors have an increasing role in drug discovery. It is hypothesized that machine learning (ML) algorithms can classify or identify PPI inhibitors. This work describes the performance of different algorithm...

(This article belongs to the Topic Emerging Aspects in Drug Discovery)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,614 Views
12 Pages

Solution-Processed CsPbBr3 Perovskite Photodetectors for Cost-Efficient Underwater Wireless Optical Communication System

  • Jiakang Wei,
  • Yutong Deng,
  • Jianjian Fei,
  • Tian Yang,
  • Pinhao Chen,
  • Lu Zhu and
  • Zhanfeng Huang

25 September 2024

Underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) has attracted increasing attention due to its advantages in bandwidth, latency, interference resistance, and security. Photodetectors, as a crucial part of receivers, have been continuously developed w...

(This article belongs to the Section D: Materials and Processing)
  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,529 Views
12 Pages

This short review shows how innovative processing units—including graphical processing units (GPUs)—are used in high-performance computing (HPC) in meteorology, introduces current scientific studies relevant to HPC, and discusses the late...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,093 Views
27 Pages

Bond Stress Analysis Between High-Performance Steel Fiber Reinforced Mortar and Deformed Steel Bars Under Pull-Out Test

  • Ramdane Sidali Amrouche,
  • Samira Djaknoun,
  • Messaoud Saidani,
  • Zineb Abeoub and
  • Giangiacomo Minak

5 December 2025

Despite increased utilization of high-performance mortars in construction, there remains a paucity of research concerning the bond performance of steel reinforcement, particularly within masonry structures. This study characterizes the bond stress be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,014 Views
18 Pages

In recent years, the number of Earth Observation missions has been exponentially increasing. Satellites dedicated to these missions usually embark with payloads that produce large amount of data and that need to be transmitted towards ground stations...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning in Image Processing and Computer Vision)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,485 Views
19 Pages

29 November 2022

A Multi-Scale Convolutional Neural Network with Self Attention-based Auto Encoder–Decoder (MSCSA-AED), is a novel high-performance framework, presented here for the quantification of damage on a multibody floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Offshore Wind Energy)
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  • Open Access
1,053 Views
28 Pages

This paper presents a high-performance and resource-efficient Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-based architecture for satellite telemetry transmission systems. The proposed design implements a flexible channel coding chain, including Reed–S...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Satellite/UAV Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,074 Views
14 Pages

Pixel clustering is a technique of content-adaptive data embedding in the area of high-performance reversible data hiding (RDH). Using pixel clustering, the pixels in a cover image can be classified into different groups based on a single factor, whi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances of Artificial Intelligence and Vision Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,512 Views
15 Pages

Energy-Efficient Implementation of the Lattice Boltzmann Method

  • Ondrej Vysocky,
  • Markus Holzer,
  • Gabriel Staffelbach,
  • Radim Vavrik and
  • Lubomir Riha

19 January 2024

Energy costs are now one of the leading criteria when procuring new computing hardware. Until recently, developers and users focused only on pure performance in terms of time-to-solution. Recent advances in energy-aware runtime systems render the opt...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Energy and Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,559 Views
15 Pages

Model-Based Firmware Generation for Acquisition Systems Using Heterogeneous Hardware

  • Rens Baeyens,
  • Joachim Denil,
  • Jan Steckel and
  • Walter Daems

15 August 2022

High-performance sensing and control systems have an important role in Industry 4.0. However, with the current solutions, the development effort is high and requires specialized skills in electronic engineering. Therefore, a model-based approach on c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Anniversary Feature Papers-2022)
  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
10,002 Views
18 Pages

Power Control Design for Variable-Speed Wind Turbines

  • Yolanda Vidal,
  • Leonardo Acho,
  • Ningsu Luo,
  • Mauricio Zapateiro and
  • Francesc Pozo

13 August 2012

This paper considers power generation control in variable-speed variable-pitch horizontal-axis wind turbines operating at high wind speeds. A dynamic chattering torque control and a proportional integral (PI) pitch control strategy are proposed and v...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wind Turbines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,533 Views
23 Pages

TDCMR: Triplet-Based Deep Cross-Modal Retrieval for Geo-Multimedia Data

  • Jiagang Song,
  • Yunwu Lin,
  • Jiayu Song,
  • Weiren Yu and
  • Leyuan Zhang

16 November 2021

Mass multimedia data with geographical information (geo-multimedia) are collected and stored on the Internet due to the wide application of location-based services (LBS). How to find the high-level semantic relationship between geo-multimedia data an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,291 Views
15 Pages

2 October 2021

Material-efficient, highly load-bearing members made of high-performance compressive concretes are often exposed to cyclical loads because of their slender construction, which can be relevant to the design. When investigating the fatigue behaviour of...

(This article belongs to the Collection Fracture, Fatigue, and Wear)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,758 Views
17 Pages

A Convolution-Based Coding Metasurface for Wide-Angle Beam Steering for Enhanced 5G Wireless Communications

  • Jing Wang,
  • Yan Chen,
  • Benxian Wang,
  • Xin Liu,
  • Junfei Gao,
  • Qi Xue and
  • Xiaojun Huang

23 April 2025

With the rapid development of 5G communication technology, there is an increasing demand for high-performance antennas and beam control technologies, making the development of novel metamaterial structures capable of precise electromagnetic wave mani...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,235 Views
12 Pages

HPC Geophysical Electromagnetics: A Synthetic VTI Model with Complex Bathymetry

  • Octavio Castillo-Reyes,
  • Josep de la Puente and
  • José María Cela

10 February 2022

We introduce a new synthetic marine model for 3D controlled-source electromagnetic method (CSEM) surveys. The proposed model includes relevant features for the electromagnetic geophysical community such as large conductivity contrast with vertical tr...

(This article belongs to the Section B2: Clean Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,636 Views
16 Pages

A Highly Configurable High-Level Synthesis Functional Pattern Library

  • Lan Huang,
  • Teng Gao,
  • Dalin Li,
  • Zihao Wang and
  • Kangping Wang

25 February 2021

FPGA has recently played an increasingly important role in heterogeneous computing, but Register Transfer Level design flows are not only inefficient in design, but also require designers to be familiar with the circuit architecture. High-level synth...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,105 Views
21 Pages

Thetis: A Booster for Building Safer Systems Using the Rust Programming Language

  • Renshuang Jiang,
  • Pan Dong,
  • Yan Ding,
  • Ran Wei and
  • Zhe Jiang

28 November 2023

Rust is a new system-level programming language that prioritizes performance, safety, and productivity. However, as evidenced in many previous works, unsafe code fragments broadly exist in Rust projects. The use of these unsafe fragments can fundamen...

(This article belongs to the Section Robotics and Automation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,992 Views
24 Pages

Development of a Framework for Wind Turbine Design and Optimization

  • Mareike Leimeister,
  • Athanasios Kolios and
  • Maurizio Collu

16 February 2021

Dimensioning and assessment of a specific wind turbine imply iterative steps for design optimization, as well as load calculations and performance analyses of the system in various environmental conditions. However, due to the complexity of wind turb...

(This article belongs to the Section Modelling in Engineering Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,199 Views
13 Pages

18 December 2024

This study introduces a two-stage optimization method for designing an ultrawideband polarization conversion metasurface. By integrating topology and shape optimization techniques, the proposed method expands the design space to achieve enhanced pola...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evolutionary Computation, Metaheuristics, Nature-Inspired Algorithms, and Symmetry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,649 Views
12 Pages

Prototype Machine Learning Algorithms from Wearable Technology to Detect Tennis Stroke and Movement Actions

  • Thomas Perri,
  • Machar Reid,
  • Alistair Murphy,
  • Kieran Howle and
  • Rob Duffield

16 November 2022

This study evaluated the accuracy of tennis-specific stroke and movement event detection algorithms from a cervically mounted wearable sensor containing a triaxial accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer. Stroke and movement data from up to eight h...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Inertial Measurement Units in Sport)

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