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28 September 2025

Traditional fault phase selection methods are not easily adaptable to large-scale wind farms. This paper proposes a fault phase selection method based on transient voltage S-transform energy relative entropy (SERE) to realize adaptive reclosing of th...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Systems)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,709 Views
12 Pages

26 October 2020

Selective assembly is the method of obtaining high precision assemblies from relatively low precision components. For precision instruments, the geometric error on mating surface is an important factor affecting assembly accuracy. Different from the...

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16 Citations
11,383 Views
25 Pages

9 March 2016

This paper studies the relative entropy and its square root as distance measures of neighboring video frames for video key frame extraction. We develop a novel approach handling both common and wavelet video sequences, in which the extreme Studentize...

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6 Citations
9,669 Views
21 Pages

Portfolio Optimization for Binary Options Based on Relative Entropy

  • Peter Joseph Mercurio,
  • Yuehua Wu and
  • Hong Xie

9 July 2020

The portfolio optimization problem generally refers to creating an investment portfolio or asset allocation that achieves an optimal balance of expected risk and return. These portfolio returns are traditionally assumed to be continuous random variab...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theory and Economic Network)
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94 Citations
8,868 Views
16 Pages

25 June 2014

S-nitrosylation (SNO) is one of the most universal reversible post-translational modifications involved in many biological processes. Malfunction or dysregulation of SNO leads to a series of severe diseases, such as developmental abnormalities and va...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Molecular Science for Drug Development and Biomedicine)
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5 Citations
7,709 Views
20 Pages

22 July 2020

In this third and final paper of our series on the topic of portfolio optimization, we introduce a further generalized portfolio selection method called generalized entropic portfolio optimization (GEPO). GEPO extends discrete entropic portfolio opti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy Method for Decision Making)
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10 February 2026

We propose a two-level theory that connects Lin-equation-based dynamical coarse-graining of the turbulence cascade with an information-theoretic selection principle in logarithmic wavenumber space. This framework places the dissipation-range spectral...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Fluid Dynamics: Theory, Analysis and Emerging Trends)
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7 Citations
3,604 Views
9 Pages

An Information-Theoretic Measure for Balance Assessment in Comparative Clinical Studies

  • Jarrod E. Dalton,
  • William A. Benish and
  • Nikolas I. Krieger

15 February 2020

Limitations of statistics currently used to assess balance in observation samples include their insensitivity to shape discrepancies and their dependence upon sample size. The Jensen–Shannon divergence (JSD) is an alternative approach to quanti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Information Theory to Epidemiology)
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14 Citations
4,382 Views
19 Pages

18 October 2019

Many measures to quantify the nonlinear dynamics of a time series are based on estimating the probability of certain features from their relative frequencies. Once a normalised histogram of events is computed, a single result is usually derived. This...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Theoretical Developments and Applications of Entropy and Ordinal Patterns)
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2,388 Views
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11 February 2021

This paper verifies the feasibility of the relative entropy method in selecting the most suitable statistical distribution for the experimental data, which do not follow an exponential distribution. The efficiency of the relative entropy method is te...

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23 Citations
9,496 Views
19 Pages

4 November 2019

We show a link between Bayesian inference and information theory that is useful for model selection, assessment of information entropy and experimental design. We align Bayesian model evidence (BME) with relative entropy and cross entropy in order to...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
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6 Citations
4,098 Views
17 Pages

Image Representation Method Based on Relative Layer Entropy for Insulator Recognition

  • Zhenbing Zhao,
  • Hongyu Qi,
  • Xiaoqing Fan,
  • Guozhi Xu and ,
  • Yincheng Qi,
  • Yongjie Zhai and
  • Ke Zhang
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8 April 2020

Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) with alternating convolutional, pooling and decimation layers are widely used in computer vision, yet current works tend to focus on deeper networks with many layers and neurons, resulting in a high computat...

(This article belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
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12 Citations
10,860 Views
15 Pages

24 September 2008

We discuss the different roles of the entropy principle in modern thermodynamics. We start with the approach of rational thermodynamics in which the entropy principle becomes a selection rule for physical constitutive equations. Then we discuss the e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Concepts of Entropy and Their Applications - Papers presented at the Meeting at University of Melbourne, 26 November - 11 December 2007)
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13 Citations
7,444 Views
18 Pages

10 April 2013

The temporal interactions between water and carbon cycling and the controlling environmental variables are investigated using wavelets and information theory. We used 3.5 years of eddy covariance station observations from an abandoned agricultural fi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Information Theory in the Geosciences)
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6 Citations
3,822 Views
13 Pages

Application of Entropy Spectral Method for Streamflow Forecasting in Northwest China

  • Gengxi Zhang,
  • Zhenghong Zhou,
  • Xiaoling Su and
  • Olusola O. Ayantobo

1 February 2019

Streamflow forecasting is vital for reservoir operation, flood control, power generation, river ecological restoration, irrigation and navigation. Although monthly streamflow time series are statistic, they also exhibit seasonal and periodic patterns...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy Applications in Environmental and Water Engineering II)
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  • Open Access
52 Citations
5,316 Views
18 Pages

15 July 2019

To improve the feature extraction of ship-radiated noise in a complex ocean environment, fluctuation-based dispersion entropy is used to extract the features of ten types of ship-radiated noise. Since fluctuation-based dispersion entropy only analyze...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy and Information Theory in Acoustics)
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  • Open Access
60 Citations
10,411 Views
17 Pages

1 September 2015

The selection of an appropriate wavelet is an essential issue that should be addressed in the wavelet-based filtering of electrocardiogram (ECG) signals. Since entropy can measure the features of uncertainty associated with the ECG signal, a novel co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wavelet Entropy: Computation and Applications)
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76 Citations
11,584 Views
17 Pages

12 January 2011

In this study, we present a multi-objective approach based on a mean-variance-skewness-entropy portfolio selection model (MVSEM). In this approach, an entropy measure is added to the mean-variance-skewness model (MVSM) to generate a well‑diversified...

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19 Citations
5,726 Views
17 Pages

1 December 2017

This paper systematically investigates the properties of six kinds of entropy-based risk measures: Information Entropy and Cumulative Residual Entropy in the probability space, Fuzzy Entropy, Credibility Entropy and Sine Entropy in the fuzzy space, a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropic Applications in Economics and Finance)
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20 October 2026

Entropy-based fault diagnosis depends on signal representation and the properties captured by each entropy measure. We evaluated dual-view complementary multiscale entropy fusion (DCMEF), which combines RMS-normalized raw vibration with a normalized...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy-Based Methods for Fault Diagnosis)
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16 Citations
4,999 Views
14 Pages

Phase Prediction and Visualized Design Process of High Entropy Alloys via Machine Learned Methodology

  • Jin Gao,
  • Yifan Wang,
  • Jianxin Hou,
  • Junhua You and ,
  • Keqiang Qiu,
  • Suode Zhang and
  • Jianqiang Wang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

31 January 2023

High entropy alloys, which contain five or more elements in equal atomic concentrations, tend to exhibit remarkable mechanical and physical properties that are typically dependent on their phase constitution. In this work, a based leaner and four ens...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Amorphous and High-Entropy Alloy Coatings)
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24 Citations
3,618 Views
14 Pages

15 October 2018

Fault prognosis of electronic circuits is the premise of guaranteeing normal operation of a system and carrying out on-condition maintenance. In this work, the remaining useful life (RUL) of electronic elements was estimated by selecting fault featur...

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261 Views
31 Pages

15 October 2026

The free-energy machine (FEM) relaxes discrete combinatorial optimization by minimizing expected energy plus a temperature-dependent negative-entropy penalty over product distributions. This contribution investigates the computational and mathematica...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
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5 Citations
2,132 Views
12 Pages

9 July 2023

Recently, there has been growing interest in alternative measures of uncertainty, including cumulative residual entropy. In this paper, we consider a mixed system consisting of n components, assuming that all components are operational at time t. By...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Measures of Information III)
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31 Citations
5,868 Views
21 Pages

20 December 2020

The lack of adequate indicators in the research of digital economy may lead to the shortage of data support on decision making for governments. To solve this problem, first we establish a digital economy indicator evaluation system by dividing the di...

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11 Citations
4,617 Views
18 Pages

An Extension to the Revised Approach in the Assessment of Informational Entropy

  • Turkay Baran,
  • Nilgun B. Harmancioglu,
  • Cem Polat Cetinkaya and
  • Filiz Barbaros

29 November 2017

This study attempts to extend the prevailing definition of informational entropy, where entropy relates to the amount of reduction of uncertainty or, indirectly, to the amount of information gained through measurements of a random variable. The appro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy Applications in Environmental and Water Engineering)
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10 October 2026

Model selection has been applied to AODE (Averaged One-Dependence Estimator) algorithms in previous studies, significantly improving its classification performance. This is particularly effective for high-dimensional and complex datasets, which impro...

(This article belongs to the Topic Machine Learning and Data Mining: Theory and Applications)
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3 Citations
3,611 Views
13 Pages

Determination of Parameters for an Entropy-Based Atrial Fibrillation Detector

  • Lina Zhao,
  • Jianqing Li,
  • Xiangkui Wan,
  • Shoushui Wei and
  • Chengyu Liu

11 September 2021

Entropy algorithm is an important nonlinear method for cardiovascular disease detection due to its power in analyzing short-term time series. In previous a study, we proposed a new entropy-based atrial fibrillation (AF) detector, i.e., EntropyAF, whi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy in Biomedical Engineering)
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3 Citations
6,510 Views
21 Pages

Modeling Credit Risk: A Category Theory Perspective

  • Cao Son Tran,
  • Dan Nicolau,
  • Richi Nayak and
  • Peter Verhoeven

This paper proposes a conceptual modeling framework based on category theory that serves as a tool to study common structures underlying diverse approaches to modeling credit default that at first sight may appear to have nothing in common. The frame...

(This article belongs to the Section Risk)
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4 Citations
2,445 Views
22 Pages

Viewpoint Selection for 3D-Games with f-Divergences

  • Micaela Y. Martin,
  • Mateu Sbert and
  • Miguel Chover

29 May 2024

In this paper, we present a novel approach for the optimal camera selection in video games. The new approach explores the use of information theoretic metrics f-divergences, to measure the correlation between the objects as viewed in camera frustum a...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
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11 Citations
4,171 Views
18 Pages

8 November 2022

The rapid development of driving simulators for the evaluation of automated driving experience is constrained by the simulator sickness-related nausea. The electrogastrogram (EGG)-based approach may be promising for immediate, objective, and quantita...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Robust Multimodal Sensing for Automated Driving Systems)
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18 Citations
6,898 Views
12 Pages

One-Step Synthesis of Ultrathin High-Entropy Layered Double Hydroxides for Ampere-Level Water Oxidation

  • Jianlei Jing,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Tianshui Li,
  • Xiaoqian Ding and ,
  • Wenhai Xu,
  • Mengze Ma,
  • Daojin Zhou,
  • Yaping Li and
  • Xiaoming Sun
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27 February 2024

The development of high-entropy anodes, known for their excellent catalytic activity for water oxidation, can depress the energy consumption of hydrogen production by water electrolysis. However, the complex preparation methods and poor stability hin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Study on Electrocatalytic Activity of Metal Oxides)
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1 Citations
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27 May 2025

This paper concerns interactive Monte Carlo simulations for adiabatic ensembles and a genetic algorithm to research and educational contexts. In the Introduction, we discuss some concepts of thermodynamics, statistical mechanics and ensembles relevan...

(This article belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)
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142 Citations
10,294 Views
15 Pages

Automated Multiclass Classification of Spontaneous EEG Activity in Alzheimer’s Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment

  • Saúl J. Ruiz-Gómez,
  • Carlos Gómez,
  • Jesús Poza,
  • Gonzalo C. Gutiérrez-Tobal and ,
  • Miguel A. Tola-Arribas,
  • Mónica Cano and
  • Roberto Hornero
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9 January 2018

The discrimination of early Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and its prodromal form (i.e., mild cognitive impairment, MCI) from cognitively healthy control (HC) subjects is crucial since the treatment is more effective in the first stages of the dementia. Th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evaluation of Systems’ Irregularity and Complexity: Sample Entropy, Its Derivatives, and Their Applications across Scales and Disciplines)
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69 Citations
7,768 Views
20 Pages

22 February 2018

The evaluation of complexity in univariate signals has attracted considerable attention in recent years. This is often done using the framework of Multiscale Entropy, which entails two basic steps: coarse-graining to consider multiple temporal scales...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evaluation of Systems’ Irregularity and Complexity: Sample Entropy, Its Derivatives, and Their Applications across Scales and Disciplines)
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85 Citations
7,832 Views
12 Pages

23 February 2020

Selective laser melting (SLM) to fabricate Al0.5CoCrFeNi high entropy alloys with pre-mixed powders was studied in this paper. The influences of process parameters including laser power, scanning speed, and hatch spacing on the relative density of hi...

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6 Citations
5,020 Views
15 Pages

Comparison of Two Entropy Spectral Analysis Methods for Streamflow Forecasting in Northwest China

  • Zhenghong Zhou,
  • Juanli Ju,
  • Xiaoling Su,
  • Vijay P. Singh and
  • Gengxi Zhang

7 November 2017

Monthly streamflow has elements of stochasticity, seasonality, and periodicity. Spectral analysis and time series analysis can, respectively, be employed to characterize the periodical pattern and the stochastic pattern. Both Burg entropy spectral an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy Applications in Environmental and Water Engineering)
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8 Citations
4,074 Views
19 Pages

Construction and Application of Functional Brain Network Based on Entropy

  • Lingyun Zhang,
  • Taorong Qiu,
  • Zhiqiang Lin,
  • Shuli Zou and
  • Xiaoming Bai

30 October 2020

Functional brain network (FBN) is an intuitive expression of the dynamic neural activity interaction between different neurons, neuron clusters, or cerebral cortex regions. It can characterize the brain network topology and dynamic properties. The me...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multiscale Entropy Approaches and Their Applications II)
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5 Citations
6,137 Views
18 Pages

10 September 2014

Amino acids show apparent propensities toward their neighbors. In addition to preferences of amino acids for their neighborhood context, amino acid substitutions are also considered to be context-dependent. However, context-dependence patterns of ami...

(This article belongs to the Section Biochemistry)
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4 Citations
2,864 Views
13 Pages

Relative Entropy in Determining Degressive Proportional Allocations

  • Katarzyna Cegiełka,
  • Piotr Dniestrzański,
  • Janusz Łyko,
  • Arkadiusz Maciuk and
  • Maciej Szczeciński

15 July 2021

The principle of degressively proportional apportionment of goods, being a compromise between equality and proportionality, facilitates the application of many different allocation rules. Agents with smaller entitlements are more interested in an all...

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46 Citations
11,929 Views
39 Pages

12 June 2015

The main content of this review article is first to review the main inference tools using Bayes rule, the maximum entropy principle (MEP), information theory, relative entropy and the Kullback–Leibler (KL) divergence, Fisher information and its corre...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information, Entropy and Their Geometric Structures)
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11 Citations
6,608 Views
26 Pages

Exploring Entropy-Based Portfolio Strategies: Empirical Analysis and Cryptocurrency Impact

  • Nicolò Giunta,
  • Giuseppe Orlando,
  • Alessandra Carleo and
  • Jacopo Maria Ricci

11 May 2024

This study addresses market concentration among major corporations, highlighting the utility of relative entropy for understanding diversification strategies. It introduces entropic value at risk (EVaR) as a coherent risk measure, which is an upper b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Portfolio Theory, Financial Risk Analysis and Applications)
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1 Citations
5,187 Views
17 Pages

30 July 2024

While a universal definition of religion eludes the field of religious studies, it certainty seems that people are becoming differently religious rather than a-religious, especially since the latter half of the twentieth century. To explain the endur...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Religion and/of the Future)
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38 Citations
6,905 Views
17 Pages

15 March 2016

A novel Symmetric Sparse Representation (SSR) method has been presented to solve the band selection problem in hyperspectral imagery (HSI) classification. The method assumes that the selected bands and the original HSI bands are sparsely represented...

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694 Citations
32,850 Views
13 Pages

16 November 2009

Maximum entropy (Maxent) modeling has great potential for identifying distributions and habitat selection of wildlife given its reliance on only presence locations. Recent studies indicate Maxent is relatively insensitive to spatial errors associated...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Maximum Entropy)
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14 Citations
3,578 Views
15 Pages

29 September 2020

To develop an effective fall prevention program, clinicians must first identify the elderly people at risk of falling and then take the most appropriate interventions to reduce or eliminate preventable falls. Employing feature selection to establish...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy Method for Decision Making)
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12 Citations
3,580 Views
27 Pages

7 February 2020

The Pythagorean fuzzy number (PFN) consists of membership and non-membership as an extension of the intuitionistic fuzzy number. PFN has a larger ambiguity, and it has a stronger ability to express uncertainty. In the multi-criteria decision-making (...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Information Theory to Industrial and Service Systems)
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56 Citations
6,417 Views
12 Pages

4 June 2021

High entropy or multi principal element alloys are a promising and relatively young concept for designing alloys. The idea of creating alloys without a single main alloying element opens up a wide space for possible new alloy compositions. High entro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research and Development of Additive Manufacturing Technology)
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34 Pages

13 August 2026

This study proposes an entropy-regularized likelihood inference framework for lifetime distributions under progressive Type-II censoring. By incorporating Shannon entropy directly into the classical likelihood function, the proposed approach aims to...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
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80 Citations
10,110 Views
19 Pages

Determination of Sample Entropy and Fuzzy Measure Entropy Parameters for Distinguishing Congestive Heart Failure from Normal Sinus Rhythm Subjects

  • Lina Zhao,
  • Shoushui Wei,
  • Chengqiu Zhang,
  • Yatao Zhang and ,
  • Xinge Jiang,
  • Feng Liu and
  • Chengyu Liu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

10 September 2015

Entropy provides a valuable tool for quantifying the regularity of physiological time series and provides important insights for understanding the underlying mechanisms of the cardiovascular system. Before any entropy calculation, certain common para...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Information Theory Application to Physiological Signals)

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