Unambiguous quantum state discrimination is a strategy where the conclusive result can always be trusted. This strategy is very important, since it can be used for various quantum information protocols, including quantum key distribution. However, in...
We present new results concerning simulation of general quantum measurements (POVMs) by projective measurements (PMs) for the task of Unambiguous State Discrimination (USD). We formulate a problem of finding optimal strategy of simulation for given q...
Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) radar enjoys the advantages of a high degree of freedom and relatively large virtual aperture, so it has various forms of applications in several aspects such as remote sensing, autonomous driving and radar imagi...
This paper proposes an unambiguous method for joint angle and range estimation in colocated multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar using the nested frequency diverse array (NFDA). Unlike a conventional phased array (PA), the transmission beampat...
Frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) light detection and ranging (LiDAR) based on coherent ranging is a technology capable of high-resolution distance measurement while remaining robust against ambient light interference. However, extending the...
Binary offset carrier (BOC) modulation is a new modulation method that has been gradually applied to the Global Satellite Navigation System (GNSS) in recent years. However, due to the multi-peaks in its auto-correlation function (ACF), it will incur...
Multichannel synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a breakthrough given the inherent limitation between high-resolution and wide-swath (HRWS) faced with conventional SAR. This paper aims to obtain unambiguous imaging of static scenes and moving targets w...
Due to its maneuverability and agility, the shipborne high-frequency surface wave radar (HFSWR) provides a new way of monitoring large-area marine dynamics and environment information. However, wind direction ambiguity is problematic when using monos...
The autocorrelation function (ACF) of the Binary Offset Carrier modulation (BOC) signal for Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) has multiple peaks, ambiguity is easily generated during the synchronization of the baseband signal. Some methods ha...
Multichannel high-resolution and wide-swath (HRWS) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a vital technique for modern remote sensing. As multichannel SAR systems usually face the problem of azimuth nonuniform sampling resulting in azimuth ambiguity, the...
Identification of elastic and plastic properties of materials from indentation tests received considerable attention in the open literature. However, unambiguous and automatic determination of parameters in the case of the crystal plasticity (CP) mod...
This study presents three structures for clearly expressing functional requirements (FRs) and quantitative non-functional requirements (qt-NFRs). Expressing requirements with these structures will allow the understanding of requirements by stakeholde...
Full and unambiguous asssignment of all 1H- and 13C-NMR resonances of the free bases as well as the hydrochloride salts of the antiarrhythmic agent propafenone and a thiophene analogue in different solutions (DMSO-d6, CDCl3) is reported.
Despite the fact that the vegetation pattern and history of the Bale Mountains in Ethiopia were reconstructed using pollen, little is known about the former extent of Erica species. The main objective of the present study is to identify unambiguous c...
A new effective algorithm for handling of geometry at chiral centers for the processing of stereochemical structures during their unambiguous registration in databases was designed, programmed and implemented. The chemical and mathematical reasoning...
Here, we describe the taxon hypothesis (TH) paradigm, which covers the construction, identification, and communication of taxa as datasets. Defining taxa as datasets of individuals and their traits will make taxon identification and most importantly...
A variety of biological active compounds can be classified as 2-substituted 1,4-benzodioxanes bearing one or more substituents at the benzene. The synthesis of these important templates can be approached by different strategies. The most straightforw...
Both ricin and R. communis agglutinin (RCA120), belonging to the type II ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs-Ⅱ), are derived from the seeds of the castor bean plant. They share very similar amino acid sequences, but ricin is much more toxic than RCA...
Directional deep brain stimulation (DBS) leads are now widely used, but the orientation of directional leads needs to be taken into account when relating DBS to neuroanatomy. Methods that can reliably and unambiguously determine the orientation of di...
Pronoun resolution plays an important role in language comprehension. However, little is known about its recruited cognitive mechanisms. Our investigation aims to explore the cognitive mechanisms underlying various types of pronoun resolution in Chin...
Data-driven modeling methods are studied for turbulent dynamical systems with extreme events under an unambiguous model framework. New neural network architectures are proposed to effectively learn the key dynamical mechanisms including the multiscal...
Background: Aesthetic experience begins through an intentional shift from automatic visual perceptual processing to an aesthetic state of mind that is evidently directed towards sensory experience. In the present study, we investigated whether portra...
It is a challenge to realize wide swath imaging due to the conflict between Doppler ambiguity and range ambiguity for hypersonic vehicle (HSV) radar. In addition, there are many conditions requiring the forward-looking imaging. In a forward-looking s...
Starch is the most abundant energy storage molecule in plants and is an essential part of the human diet. This glucose polymer is composed of amorphous and crystalline domains in different forms (A and B types) with specific physicochemical propertie...
p-Cresyl sulfate is one of the bound uremic toxins whose level increases in the sera of patients with the severity of chronic kidney disease and is therefore used as a standard for clinical investigations. Our first attempts to obtain p-cresyl sulfat...
(+)-Catechin—laccase oxidation dimeric standards were hemi-synthesized using laccase from Trametes versicolor in a water-ethanol solution at pH 3.6. Eight fractions corresponding to eight potential oxidation dimeric products were detected. The fracti...
We investigate the discrimination of pure-mixed (quantum filtering) and mixed-mixed states and compare their optimal success probability with the one for discriminating other pairs of pure states superposed by the vectors included in the mixed states...
Objectives: This study aims to demonstrate the role of case-level American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG) criteria, such as familial segregation and pathology data, in providing conclusive evidence for the pathogenicity of ultrarare GLA variants...
When high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) is used for the analysis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in complex samples, further examination of HPLC fractions is recommended to confirm PAH assignments solely based on retention times...
2,5-diketopiperazines (DKPs) are cyclic dipeptides ubiquitously found in nature. In particular, cyclo(Phe-Pro), cyclo(Leu-Pro), and cyclo(Val-Pro) are frequently detected in many microbial cultures. Each of these DKPs has four possible stereoisomers...
Aiming at the ambiguous synchronization of binary offset carrier (BOC) and composite binary offset carrier (CBOC) modulation signals due to secondary peaks for Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), a reconstructed sub-correlation function synchr...
In order to address the ambiguous synchronization problem caused by the multi-peak nature of the autocorrelation function of the modulated signal of the Multiplexed Binary Offset Carrier (MBOC) in the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), a new...
The documentation, preservation and rescue of biological diversity increasingly uses living biological samples. Persistent associations between species, biosamples, such as tissues and cell lines, and the accompanying data are indispensable for using...
Millimeter-wave radar is experiencing an increasing demand for higher resolution and elevation measurement, necessitating its evolution from 3D millimeter-wave radar systems to 4D millimeter-wave radar. Unlike front automotive radar, corner radar is...
Large HERC E3 ubiquitin ligase family members, HERC1 and HERC2, are staggeringly complex proteins that can intervene in a wide range of biological processes, such as cell proliferation, DNA repair, neurodevelopment, and inflammation. Therefore, mutat...
Apostichopus japonicus is one of the most economically important species in sea cucumber aquaculture in China. Fucosylated glycosaminoglycan from A. japonicus (AjFG) has shown multiple pharmacological activities. However, results from studies on the...
In inverse synthetic-aperture radar (ISAR) imaging, it is essential to deal with the Doppler ambiguity of group targets with complex maneuvers in order to avoid the bias of target position towards the actual value. Simultaneously, migration through r...
Electrothermal piezoresistive resonant cantilever sensors have been fabricated with embedded actuating (heating resistor) and sensing (piezo resistors) parts, with the latter configured in a Wheatstone bridge circuit. Due to the close spacing between...
The modification of nanodiamond (ND) surfaces has significant applications in sensing devices, drug delivery, bioimaging, and tissue engineering. Precise control of the diamond phase composition and bond configurations during ND processing and surfac...
The GPS provides positioning information almost anytime and anywhere on Earth, regardless of the weather conditions, and has become an essential technology for positioning and navigation. As a modernization program, the fourth civil GPS signal, denot...
Traditional monopulse radar cannot resolve two closely spaced targets present in one resolution cell (range and Doppler) by means of the monopulse ratio. This study presents a closed-form solution to resolve the directions of arrival of two unresolve...
This essay examines relationships between adoptees and the (extended) adoptive family, focusing on the inheritance rights of adopted persons as entry points into levels and cycles of their belonging and un-belonging. The essay contextualizes a case r...
Various theoretical methods were applied and evaluated to determine the dipole moment of polar protic (methanol, ethanol) and aprotic (acetonitrile, pyridine, acetone) dipoles in the crystal phase. In mono-alcohols, the dipole moment is influenced by...
In layered conductors with a sufficiently weak interlayer coupling in-plane magnetic field cause only small diamagnetic currents and the orbital depairing is strongly suppressed. Therefore, the Zeeman effect predominantly governs the spin-singlet sup...
This paper presents an analytic algorithm for estimating three-dimensional (3-D) localization of a single source with uniform circular array (UCA) interferometers. Fourier transforms are exploited to expand the phase distribution of a single source a...
Background: The SARS-CoV-2 virus has assumed considerable importance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Its mutation rate is high, involving the spike (S) gene and thus there has been a rapid spread of new variants. Herein, we describe a rapid, easy, adap...
Postselective transformations of quantum states is a broader class of operations than deterministic quantum channels. Here, we describe the possibility of increasing the success probability of postselective operations by using additional information,...
Optical physical unclonable keys are currently considered to be rather promising candidates for the development of entity authentication protocols, which offer security against both classical and quantum adversaries. In this work, we investigate the...
In four studies, we tested whether individuals’ multicultural experiences influenced their moral judgment. Study 1 found that people’s moral judgments became more lenient after participating in short-term overseas visiting programs using...
Velocity ambiguity is one of the main challenges in accurately measuring velocity for the future Geostationary Spaceborne Doppler Weather Radar (GSDWR) due to its short wavelength. The aim of this work was to provide a novel velocity dealiasing metho...
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