Trends in the annual snow melt-out day over the French Alps and Pyrenees from 38 years of high-resolution satellite data (1986–2023) by Z. Barrou Dumont, Z. Barrou Dumont, S. Gascoin, J. Inglada, A. Dietz, J. Köhler, M. Lafaysse, D. Monteiro, C. Carmagnola, A. Bayle, J.-P. Dedieu, O. Hagolle, P. Choler

“…We found average reductions of 21.4 <span class="inline-formula">d</span> (5.78 <span class="inline-formula">d per decade</span>) over the French Alps and 16 <span class="inline-formula">d</span> (4.33 <span class="inline-formula">d per decade</span>) over the Pyrenees over the period 1986–2023. …”
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Design of Matching and Decoupling Networks With Radiation Pattern Control for Two-Element Antenna Arrays by Son Vu, Hung Luyen

“…The measured operating bandwidths (within which <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$|S_{11}|\lt -10$ </tex-math></inline-formula> dB, <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$|S_{22}|\lt -10$ </tex-math></inline-formula> dB, and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$|S_{21}|\lt -20$ </tex-math></inline-formula> dB) were recorded as 6.2 MHz and 6 MHz for the two MDN versions. …”
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MODELING THE FINAL SCORE IN ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS BY DIFFERENT WEIGHTS OF DIFFICULTY AND EXECUTION by Ivan Čuk, Hardy Fink, Bojan Leskošek

“…With the different proportions in the final score calculations the number of changes in rankings is high: in C1 81%, in CII 61% and in CIII 35%. The formula D score + Sum (Middle four E scores) and formula D score + Sum (Middle three E scores) have the highest impact on the changes of qualifiers towards competitions CII and CIII. …”
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A Semi-Angular Cylindrical Shape-Based Wideband Circularly Polarized Dielectric Resonator Antenna for C-V2X and Sub-6 GHz IoT Applications by Biswajit Dwivedy, Tanmaya Kumar Das, Dheeren Ku Mahapatra, Debasis Gayen

“…The antenna has an acceptable axial ratio value (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\leq 3$ </tex-math></inline-formula>dB) and impedance bandwidth (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$S_{11} \leq -10$ </tex-math></inline-formula> dB) from 3.18-5.02 GHz that covers n77, n78, n48, and n79 5G bands. …”
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Performance Evaluation of Dual-Drive Mach-Zehnder Modulator and Optomechanical Crystal Cavity Comb Generation for All-Optical Band Conversion in 5G-Advanced Cellular Systems by Vicente Fito, Raul Ortiz, Maria Morant, Laura Mercade, Alejandro Martinez, Roberto Llorente

“…The DD-MZM implementation generates a comb with flexible line spacing and comprising several spectrum-flat lines with low phase noise (<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$-88.5$</tex-math></inline-formula> dBc/Hz at 1 kHz offset and <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$-108.3$</tex-math></inline-formula> dBc/Hz at 100 kHz offset). …”
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Entropic Order Parameters for Categorical Symmetries in 2D-CFT by Javier Molina-Vilaplana, Pablo Saura-Bastida, Germán Sierra

“…In this work, we propose an information theoretic order parameter able to characterize the presence and breaking of categorical symmetries in <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mo>(</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>+</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>)</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>-d rational conformal field theories (RCFTs). …”
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A GAN Guided NCCT to CECT Synthesis With an Advanced CNN-Transformer Aggregated Generator by Haozhe Wang, Dawei Gong, Rongzhen Zhou, Junbo Liang, Ruili Zhang, Wenbin Ji, Sailing He

“…On the neck dataset, the PSNR and SSIM achieved were <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$35.46\pm 2.783$ </tex-math></inline-formula> dB and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$0.970\pm 0.020$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, respectively; on the abdominal dataset, <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$25.75\pm 5.153$ </tex-math></inline-formula> dB and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$0.827\pm 0.073$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, respectively; and on the MRI-CT dataset, <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$29.61\pm 1.789$ </tex-math></inline-formula> dB and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$0.917\pm 0.032$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, respectively. …”
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Long-term prediction of the Gulf Stream meander using OceanNet: a principled neural-operator-based digital twin by M. Gray, A. Chattopadhyay, T. Wu, A. Lowe, R. He

“…OceanNet can generate a 120 <span class="inline-formula">d</span> forecast of the GS meander within seconds, offering significant computational efficiency.…”
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Characterization of herbal oil with variation of spices ratio (brotowali, clove, cinnamon, kencur, sambiloto) and VCO by Wibowo Muhamad Agus, Khairiah Mira’til Hayati, Ardiningsih Puji, Jayuska Afghani, Sapar Ajuk

“…Herbal oil was made at 100ºC for 60 minutes using variations in the ratio of five total spices and VCO with weight per volume of 3:30 (formula A); 4:30 (formula B); 5:30 (formula C); 6:30 (formula D); and 7:30 (formula E). Phytochemical tests on VCO and herbal oil showed the addition of phenolic compounds in herbal oil. …”
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Design and Investigation of Orthogonal Hybrid Dual-Mode Single-CDR-Based MIMO Antenna With High Self-Isolation at 5.8GHz by Samira Mekki, Atul Varshney, Djamel Sayad, Issa Elfergani, Hanane Bendjedi, Mohamed Lamine Bouknia, Rami Zegadi, Jonathan Rodriguez, Merih Palandoken, Kamil Karacuha, Chemseddine Zebiri

“…The antenna attains excellent MIMO parameters; TARC <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\lt -10$ </tex-math></inline-formula> dB, VSWR-MIMO &#x003C;2, ECC &#x003C;0.24, DG <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\sim ~10$ </tex-math></inline-formula> dB, CCL &#x003C;0.4 bits/sec/Hz, and MEG <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\lt \pm 3$ </tex-math></inline-formula> dB in operating bandwidth. …”
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Ultra-Wide-Band and Polarization-Insensitive Metamaterial Absorber With Resistive Ink Sheet for RCS Reduction Applications by Ramesh Amugothu, Vakula Damera

“…The unit cell, which is designed with resistive ink-based lossy material printed on an FR-4 dielectric substrate, achieves a remarkable <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$-10$</tex-math></inline-formula> dB reduction in reflection with a 90&#x0025; fractional bandwidth between 15 and 28.9 GHz under normal incidence. …”
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A Comprehensive Design of Hybrid Residual (2+1)-Dimensional CNN and Dense Networks With Multi-Modal Sensor for Fish Appetite Detection by Infall Syafalni, Agape D'Sky, Nana Sutisna, Trio Adiono

“…Our AI system consists of Residual (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$2+1$ </tex-math></inline-formula>)-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Networks (R(<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$2+1$ </tex-math></inline-formula>)D-CNN) and dense networks to process video and accelerometer data. …”
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A distributed hybrid physics–AI framework for learning corrections of internal hydrological fluxes and enhancing high-resolution regionalized flood modeling by N. N. T. Huynh, P.-A. Garambois, B. Renard, F. Colleoni, J. Monnier, H. Roux

“…We evaluate flood modeling performance and analyze the interpretability of learned conceptual parameters and corrections of internal fluxes using two high-resolution datasets (<span class="inline-formula">d<i>x</i>=1 km</span> and <span class="inline-formula">d<i>t</i>=1 h</span>). …”
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Integration of the vegetation phenology module improves ecohydrological simulation by the SWAT-Carbon model by M. Li, S. Chen, F. Hao, N. Wang, Z. Wu, Y. Xu, J. Zhang, Y. Zhang, Y. H. Fu

“…The modified SWAT-Carbon model showed reasonable performance in phenology simulation, with root mean square error (RMSE) of 9.89 <span class="inline-formula">d</span> for the start of season (SOS) and 7.51 <span class="inline-formula">d</span> for the end of season (EOS). …”
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Optimizing Allocation to Telehealth and In-Person Prolonged Exposure for Women Veterans with Military Sexual Trauma: A Precision Medicine Approach by Evangelia Argyriou, Daniel F. Gros, Melba A. Hernandez Tejada, Wendy A. Muzzy, Ron Acierno

“…However, the rule did not significantly discriminate for in-person therapy (<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>V</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>d_opt − <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>V</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>_In-person = −11.86, 95% CI: −25.83, 2.12). …”
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Conformal Millimeter-Wave Non-Uniform Dipole Array With Improved Gain and Bandwidth by Qasid Hussain, Wahaj Abbas Awan, Md. Abu Sufian, Domin Choi, Niamat Hussain, Sang-Keun Gil, Nam Kim

“…The operational bandwidth (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\vert $ </tex-math></inline-formula>S<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$11\vert \lt -10$ </tex-math></inline-formula> dB) and 3-dB gain bandwidth of the presented mmWave non-unfirm dipole array is improved 97.79 %, and 48.14 %, respectively, compared to the traditional eight-element dipole array. …”
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A Sparse Bayesian Technique to Learn the Frequency-Domain Active Regressors in OFDM Wireless Systems by Carlos Crespo-Cadenas, María José Madero-Ayora, Juan A. Becerra, Elías Marqués-Valderrama, Sergio Cruces

“…The performance of this proposed FD-SBL with a validation NMSE of <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>47</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> dB for a signal of 30 MHz bandwidth is comparable to <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>46.6</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> dB of the previously proposed implementation of the TD-SBL. …”
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Reconfigurable and Highly-Miniaturized Low-Noise Amplifiers Based on Tunable Filtering Loads by Andres Fontana, Steven Matthew Cheng, Dimitra Psychogiou

“…They exhibit the following features: i) LNAF I: passband mode with <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$f_{cen}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> tuning: 2.64-3.25 GHz, fractional bandwidth (FBW) tuning: 11.9-31.6% (2.65:1), gain: 16.5 dB, noise figure (NF) &#x003C;0.86 dB, third order output intercept point (OIP3): 10.87 dBm, and an intrinsically switched-off mode with isolation &#x003E;39 dB; ii) LNAF II: passband mode with <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$f_{cen}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> tuning: 3.61-3.82 GHz, FBW: 6.3%, gain: 10.2-12.6 dB, NF &#x003C;0.95 dB, OIP<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$3\gt 11.15$ </tex-math></inline-formula> dB, and an intrinsically switched-off mode with isolation &#x003E;37.07 dB; iii) LNAF III: passband mode with <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$f_{cen}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>: 3.99 GHz, FBW: 6.48%, gain: 14.3 dB, NF &#x003C;1.1 dB, OIP<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$3\gt 13.2$ </tex-math></inline-formula> dB, and footprint reduction of 49% with respect to LNAF II. …”
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Research of thermal destruction of aliphatic alcohols in pure state and dissolved in water by T. A. Dzhapparov, A. R. Bazaev

“…Reaction rate constant was calculated by formula: dτ dp p k = 1 ⋅ , where k – reaction rate constant; p – pressure; τ – time; dp/dτ – rate of reaction. …”
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Optically Referenced Microwave Generator with Attosecond-Level Timing Noise by Lulu Yan, Jun Ruan, Pan Zhang, Bingjie Rao, Mingkun Li, Zhijing Du, Shougang Zhang

“…<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>125</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> dBc Hz⁻¹). The 9.6 GHz signal from the photonic microwave source exhibited a short-term relative frequency instability of 2.1 × <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mn>10</mn><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>15</mn></mrow></msup></semantics></math></inline-formula> at 1 s, which is 1.5 times better than the previous results.…”
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