Energy-Efficient and Trust-Based Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Scheme for 6G-Enabled Internet of Underwater Things by Altaf Hussain, Shuaiyong Li, Tariq Hussain, Razaz Waheeb Attar, Ahmed Alhomoud, Reem Alsagri, Khalid Zaman

“…This paper introduces a novel energy-efficient lightweight, void hole avoidance, localization, and trust-based scheme, termed as Energy-Efficient and Trust-based Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (EETAUV) protocol designed for 6G-enabled underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs). The proposed scheme addresses key challenges in UASNs, such as energy consumption, network stability, and data security. …”
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Parameters and environmental consequences of catastrophic fires in Ukraine: modeling, quantitative estimates by L. F. Chernogor, A. N. Nekos, G. V. Titenko, L. L. Chornohor

“…The injection of polyaromatic hydrocarbons exceeded the background values ​​by 570, PM 2.5 microparticles by 14 times, and the power of acoustic radiation by 30 times. CO, SOx emissions did not exceed several tens of percent. …”
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Effect of ZnO on the Thermal Properties of Tellurite Glass by H. A. A. Sidek, S. Rosmawati, B. Z. Azmi, A. H. Shaari

“…The thermal expansion coefficient of each zinc tellurite glasses was measured using L75D1250 dilatometer, while their glass transition temperature (Tg) was determined by the SETARAM Labsys DTA/6 differential thermogravimetric analysis at a heating rate of 20 K min−1. The acoustic Debye temperature and the softening temperature (Ts) were estimated based on the longitudinal (VL) and shear ultrasonic (Vs) wave velocities propagated in each glass sample. …”
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Integrating phylogeographic and phenotypic evidence to delimit deep evolutionary lineages in the Dryophytes japonicus species complex, with an assessment of their conservation need... by Amaël Borzée, Yikweon Jang, Siti N. Othman, Jordy Groffen, Irina V. Maslova, Zoljargal Purevdorj, Kiyomi Yasumiba, Tomohiko Shimada, Yoonjung Yi, Natalya Alekseevna Schepina, Desiree Andersen, Yoonhyuk Bae, Ikuo Miura, Christophe Dufresnes

“…In this study, we assessed the genetic, genomic, morphological, and acoustic diversity and differentiation within the D. japonicus complex to propose taxonomic arrangements and assess taxon-specific threats for each defined clade. …”
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Experimental study on the strengthening mechanism of carbon fiber-reinforced sand powder 3D-printed rock-like materials by Lishuai Jiang, Xin He, Ye Zhao, Pimao Li, Yang Zhao, Zongke Wang, Dingrui Guo, Qi Gu

“…Uniaxial compression and Brazilian splitting tests were conducted on the treated specimens to evaluate the impact of carbon fiber on their macroscopic mechanical properties. In addition, acoustic emission monitoring and scanning electron microscopy were used to investigate the microscopic mechanisms involved. …”
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Successful living donor liver transplantation of the left lateral sector with simultaneous atypical resection of the S2 for focal nodular hyperplasia by R. T. Rzayev, Yu. R. Kamalov, E. Yu. Kryzhanovskaya, M. A. Tatarkina, A. L. Kovaleva

“…The oval structure with fairly smooth contours, hyperechoic in the central parts and hypoechoic in the periphery, was found in the segment II during the ultrasound examination; assessment of blood flow was difficult due to acoustic interference. According to computed tomography, it was a weak hypervascular formation with fuzzy contours, accumulating contrast medium unevenly in the arterial phase, with visualization of a small hypodense area around, also accumulating contrast medium in the venous phase. …”
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Study on Roof Breakage-Induced Roadway Coal Burst in an Extrathick Steeply Inclined Coal Seam by Sheng-chuan Wang, Lin-ming Dou, Zong-long Mu, Jin-rong Cao, Xu-wei Li

“…For this purpose, response characteristics including acoustic emission (AE), static stress, and acceleration were analyzed by applying different dynamic loads to different horizontal slices with a self-made similarity simulation test apparatus under combined dynamic and static loads. …”
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Cochlear Implantation in Single-Sided Deafness and Asymmetric Hearing Loss: 12 Months Follow-up Results of a European Multicenter Evaluation by Thomas Wesarg, Antje Aschendorff, Regina Baumgaertel, Julia Böttcher, Liesbeth De Coninck, Ingeborg Dhooge, Ann Dierckx, Thomas Klenzner, Philipp Schörg, Georg Sprinzl, Freya Swinnen, Nicolas Verhaert, Annelies Vermeiren, Simone Volpert, Andrzej Zarowski, Arne Ernst

“…The objective of this multicenter study is to evaluate the effect of a cochlear implant (CI) in adults with single-sided deafness (SSD) or asymmetric hearing loss (AHL), particularly regarding sound localization and speech intelligibility with additional interest in electric-acoustic pitch matching. Methods: A prospective longitudinal study at 7 European tertiary referral centers was conducted including 19 SSD and 16 AHL subjects undergoing cochlear implantation. …”
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Correlation between macroscopic and microscopic mechanical behavior of tuff material under uniaxial compression by Jin Linlin, Ma Hongfa, Yu Jiang, Wang Feng, Yin Dawei, Qu Xiao, Yang Yingsong, Tao Minghao

“…Crack formation around mineral boundaries resulted in sharp increases in acoustic emission (AE) counts and slight stress fluctuations, whereas the development of shear cracks within minerals stabilized AE counts over time. …”
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Gas Seepage along the Edge of the Aquitaine Shelf (France): Origin and Local Fluxes by Livio Ruffine, Jean-Pierre Donval, Claire Croguennec, Laurent Bignon, Dominique Birot, Anne Battani, Germain Bayon, Jean-Claude Caprais, Nadine Lantéri, Denis Levaché, Stéphanie Dupré

“…Overall, three sites were investigated to determine the nature and the origin of the gases bubbling at the seafloor and forming acoustic plumes into the water column, as this was the question raised from the first geologic study of the area. …”
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Multiangle Correlation Feature Extraction and Disease Prediction Model Construction for Patients With Post-Stroke Dysarthria by Ting Zhu, Shufei Duan, Huizhi Liang, Fujiang Li, Wei Zhang

“…We first designed THE-POSSD, a novel Chinese multimodal emotional pathology expression database, which collected acoustic, glottal, and facial data under emotional stimuli from patients at different disease stages and healthy controls. …”
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Water balance analysis of hydrological processes in cyclic irrigation: A case study of the Imbanuma irrigation area in Chiba, Japan by Fumi Okura, Asuka Kamei, Tasuku Kato

“…The water balance was analyzed to comprehend discharge conditions using Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) monitoring. …”
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Optimizing petrophysical property prediction in fluvial-deltaic reservoirs: a multi-seismic attribute transformation and probabilistic neural network approach by Muhammad Khan, Andy Anderson Bery, Yasir Bashir, Sya’rawi Muhammad Husni Sharoni, Joseph Gnapragasan, Qazi Sohail Imran

“…By leveraging data from eight wells and post-stack seismic data from the Poseidon 3D area, gas-saturated deltaic-fluvial settings, we analyzed twelve seismic attributes, among which acoustic impedance low-frequency attribute, relative geological time, amplitude envelope, and amplitude-weighted frequency emerge as the most significant. …”
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Analog Computing for Nonlinear Shock Tube PDE Models: Test and Measurement of CMOS Chip by Hasantha Malavipathirana, Soumyajit Mandal, Nilan Udayanga, Yingying Wang, S. I. Hariharan, Arjuna Madanayake

“…The chip integrates a 15-point fully-parallel spatially-discrete time-continuous (SDTC) finite difference time-domain (FDTD) solver for acoustic shock wave equations with radiation boundary conditions. …”
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An online intelligent electronic medical record system via speech recognition by Xin Xia, Yunlong Ma, Ye Luo, Jianwei Lu

“…The system integrates a medical linguistic knowledge base, a specialized language model, a personalized acoustic model, and a fault-tolerance mechanism. Hence, we propose and develop an advanced electronic medical record system approach with multi-accent adaptive technology for avoiding the mistakes caused by accents, and it improves the accuracy of speech recognition obviously. …”
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Cystitis glandularis due to Escherichia coli infection in a diabetic Miniature Schnauzer: a case report by J. P. Rey Amunategui, D. Echeverria, A. Duchene

“…The abdominal ultrasound revealed an irregular increase in mural thickness of the bladder, together with multiple immobile structures, apparently originating on the dorsal surface, of varied longitudinal diameters, with a convex hyperechogenic interface with an acoustic shadow. It was decided to perform a surgical cystotomy, which revealed that the surface of the urothelium showed dark hemorrhagic staining and multiple nodular structures, which were relatively hard to palpate. …”
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Volumetric hyperthermia delivery using the ExAblate Body MR-guided focused ultrasound system by Kisoo Kim, Pragya Gupta, Kazim Narsinh, Chris J. Diederich, Eugene Ozhinsky

“…Objectives To investigate image-guided volumetric hyperthermia strategies using the ExAblate Body MR-guided focused ultrasound ablation system, involving mechanical transducer movement and sector-vortex beamforming.Materials and methods Acoustic and thermal simulations were performed to investigate volumetric hyperthermia using mechanical transducer movement combined with sector-vortex beamforming, specifically for the ExAblate Body transducer. …”
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Experimental Study of Methods of Increasing the Efficiency of a Direct-Flow Air-Jet Detonation Engine by Vitalii Stoliarchuk, Oleksandr Zolotko, Oleksandr Aksonov

“…Along with this, the processes of mixing and evaporation change, the process of evaporation of drops of liquid fuel depends on the heat and mass exchange between the drops and hot gas. Detonation and acoustic oscillations cause additional convective movement of gas and contribute to the acceleration of transfer processes. …”
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Landscape composition and orchard management effects on bat assemblages and bat foraging activity in apple crops by Marcos Miñarro, Daniel García

“…For that, we carried out acoustic monitoring of bats and sampled pest moth abundance across a wider range of apple orchards covering different landscape contexts and local management conditions. …”
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Fondling Breasts and Playing Guitar. Textual and Contextual Expressions of a Sociomusical Conflict in Accra by Tobias Robert Klein

“…Its association of guitar-plucking with the fondling of female breasts establishes an acerbic acoustical allusion to charismatic worshipping practices. …”
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