Systematic Equation-Based Design of a 10-Bit, 500-MS/s Single-Channel SAR A/D Converter With 2-GHz Resolution Bandwidth by Tetsuya Iizuka, Ritaro Takenaka, Hao Xu, Asad A. Abidi

“…A 10-b self-timed SAR A/D converter is designed in 28-nm FDSOI CMOS to convert at 500 MS/s. …”
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Synthesis of Layered Organic-Inorganic Nanocomposites of Zinc and Copper by Laser Ablation in Liquid by V. T. Karpukhin, M. M. Malikov, T. I. Borodina, G. E. Val'yano, O. A. Gololobova

“…Dependence of the formation dynamics of these composites on an exposure time of radiation and on an aging time of colloids was studied by the absorption spectroscopy, by X-ray diffraction, by scanning electron (SEM), and atomic force microscopy (AFM). …”
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Adaptive Weight Update Algorithm for Target Tracking of UUV Based on Improved Gaussian Mixture Cubature Kalman Filter by Hongjian Wang, Ying Wang, Cun Li, Juan Li, Qing Li, Xicheng Ban

“…The results based on the data pertaining to the lake trial of an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) demonstrated the superiority of the proposed algorithm in terms of its better accuracy and stability compared to those of conventional tracking algorithms, along with the associated reasonable computational time that could satisfy real-time tracking requirements.…”
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Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation Model of Project Investment Risk Based on Computer Vision Technology by Hongjian Wang

“…With the development of the economy and real-time embedded systems and the progress of science and technology, people’s economic income forms have undergone tremendous changes, and the concept of financial management has become clearer in people’s property income arrangements. …”
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An Ensemble Learning Based Intrusion Detection Model for Industrial IoT Security by Mouaad Mohy-Eddine, Azidine Guezzaz, Said Benkirane, Mourade Azrour, Yousef Farhaoui

“…RF-PCCIF and RF-IFPCC show noteworthy results with 99.98% and 99.99% Accuracy (ACC) and 6.18 s and 6.25 s prediction time on Bot-IoT, respectively. The two models also score 99.30% and 99.18% ACC and 6.71 s and 6.87 s prediction time on NF-UNSW-NB15-v2, respectively. …”
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Corrosion Behavior and Failure Mechanism of Prestressed Rock Bolts (Cables) in the Underground Coal Mine by Qiong Wang, Fengnian Wang, Aiwu Ren, Rui Peng, Jian Li

“…The results show that the bolts with short service time (1.5–2 yrs) underwent uniform corrosion. However, bolts with longer service time (3–8 yrs) experienced different pitting corrosion degrees. …”
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Evaluation of comorbidity burden on disease progression and mortality in patients with interstitial pneumonia with autoimmune features: A retrospective cohort study. by Elena K Joerns, Michelle A Ghebranious, Traci N Adams, Una E Makris

“…Using Cox regression, we correlated the association of individual comorbidities and comorbidity indices with time to lung disease progression (relative forced vital capacity decline of 10% or more) and with time to lung transplant/death. …”
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Tool wear prediction based on XGBoost feature selection combined with PSO-BP network by Zhangwen Lin, Yankun Fan, Jinling Tan, Zhen Li, Peng Yang, Hua Wang, Weiwei Duan

“…Subsequently, time-domain, frequency-domain, and time–frequency domain features are extracted from the preprocessed data using FFT and wavelet packet decomposition, followed by feature screening for tool wear mapping via Pearson correlation and XGBoost feature importance analysis as model input. …”
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Study on the Influence of Rural Highway Landscape Green Vision Rate on Driving Load Based on Factor Analysis by Hao Li, Jiabao Yang, Heng Jiang

“…Through the real car test, the pupil area, fixation time, saccade time, saccade angle, saccade speed, and other visual indicators of the driver’s green vision rate in each section were obtained. …”
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Promoting Moderate-Vigorous Physical Activity in Overweight Minority Girls by Norma Olvera, Marilynn Graham, Jessica McLeod, Stephanie F. Kellam, Nancy F. Butte

“…Traditional fitness sessions elicited the highest percent of MVPA (mean time spent in MVPA=32%), followed by dancing and games (mean time spent in MVPA=21%), sports skills (mean time spent in MVPA=18%), and flexibility (mean time spent in MVPA=7%). …”
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Experimental Study and Application of Inorganic Solidified Foam Filling Material for Coal Mines by Hu Wen, Duo Zhang, Zhijin Yu, Xuezhao Zheng, Shixing Fan, Bin Laiwang

“…With an increasing water–cement ratio, the initial setting time was gradually extended while the final setting time firstly shortened and then extended. …”
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Differences in Physical Activity between Patients with Peripheral Artery Disease and Healthy Subjects by Sumiko Shiba, Akiko Shiba, Atsutoshi Hatada

“…Our study highlights the importance of spending more time walking in daily life.…”
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Serum Levels of VWF, t-PA, TNF-α, and ICAM-1 in Patients Receiving Hemocoagulase Combined with Platelet-Rich Plasma during Total Hip Replacement by Yaobin Huang, Bin Zhou, De Zhang, Yu Chen

“…A lower value of prothrombin time and activated partial thromboplastin time was revealed in the test group compared with the control group (P<0.05). …”
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Displacement and Stress Characteristics of Tunnel Foundation in Collapsible Loess Ground Reinforced by Jet Grouting Columns by Youyun Li, Shuoshuo Xu, Houquan Liu, Enlin Ma, Lixin Wang

“…Settlement of the tunnel foundation also gradually increases with time, and it tends to be stable at 50 days from the time of construction. …”
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Conventional steam activation for conversion of oil palm kernel shell biomass into activated carbon via biochar product by A.C. Affam

“…Under the optimum condition, fixed carbon was 19.39%, chemical oxygen demand and colour removal were 32.02 and 61.15%, respectively at 90 min adsorption time. However, when time was extended to 120 min, chemical oxygen demand (48.2%) and colour (94.19%) removal were achieved. …”
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Depth of Anesthesia as a Risk Factor for Perioperative Morbidity by Argyro Petsiti, Vassilios Tassoudis, George Vretzakis, Dimitrios Zacharoulis, Konstantinos Tepetes, Georgia Ganeli, Menelaos Karanikolas

“…However, the impact of deep hypnotic time (time when Bispectral Index values are less than 40) has not been well evaluated. …”
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Long Short-Term Memory Projection Recurrent Neural Network Architectures for Piano’s Continuous Note Recognition by YuKang Jia, Zhicheng Wu, Yanyan Xu, Dengfeng Ke, Kaile Su

“…Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) is a kind of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) relating to time series, which has achieved good performance in speech recogniton and image recognition. …”
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Investigating the blockchain technologies influences on the performance of road freight transportation management systems using network analysis technique by Ahmad Negravi, Omid Titidezh

“…The digital infrastructure technology reduced time and cost waste by 46.44% and 53.56%, respectively. …”
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Analysis of Household Daily Water Consumption Dynamics in the Tropical Environment by Timothy O. Ogunbode, Victor O. Oyebamiji, Olumide A. Oluwole, John A. Akande

“…The factors in descending order were (i) closeness to water source; (ii) night time baths; (iii) household cooking; (iv) Sunday activities; (v) water demands of the dry season; (vi) morning time water use; (vii) household size; (viii) respondents’ attitude; (ix) water availability in the dry season; (x) break in water flow; (xi) social events; and (xii) source of water. …”
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Artificial Neural Network Modeling for Spatial and Temporal Variations of Pore-Water Pressure Responses to Rainfall by M. R. Mustafa, R. B. Rezaur, H. Rahardjo, M. H. Isa, A. Arif

“…To investigate applicability of the model for prediction of spatial and temporal variations of pore-water pressure, the model was tested for the time series data of pore-water pressure at multiple soil depths (i.e., 0.5 m, 1.1 m, 1.7 m, 2.3 m, and 2.9 m). …”
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