Wireless body area network: Architecture and security mechanism for healthcare using internet of things by Arun Kumar, Ritu Dewan, Wisam Subhi Al-Dayyeni, Bharat Bhushan, Jayant Giri, Sardar MN Islam, Ahmed Elaraby

“…Paper will also look at ways to increase security by integrating the CoAP I-DTLS protocol with the Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-256) and utilizing Certificate Authority (CA) improvements. …”
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Performance Optimization of Cloud Data Centers with a Dynamic Energy-Efficient Resource Management Scheme by Yu Cui, Shunfu Jin, Wuyi Yue, Yutaka Takahashi

“…An improved Salp Swarm Algorithm (SSA) is presented to minimize the system cost and optimize the sleep parameter.…”
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On Explainability of Reinforcement Learning-Based Machine Learning Agents Trained with Proximal Policy Optimization That Utilizes Visual Sensor Data by Tomasz Hachaj, Marcin Piekarczyk

“…In this paper, we address the issues of the explainability of reinforcement learning-based machine learning agents trained with Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) that utilizes visual sensor data. We propose an algorithm that allows an effective and intuitive approximation of the PPO-trained neural network (NN). …”
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HIGH-EFFICIENCY INFRARED RECEIVER by A. K. Esman, V. I. Kostenko, N. I. Mukhurov, G. L. Zykov, V. A. Potachits

“…Simulation of the electromagnetic characteristics of the proposed receiver by using the software package HFSS with the basic algorithm of a finite element method which implemented to calculate the behavior of electromagnetic fields on an arbitrary geometry with a predetermined material properties have shown that when the inner parts of the electrodes of the low-barrier Schottky diode is performed in the concentric elliptical convex-concave shape, it can be reduce the reflection losses to -57.75 dB and the standing wave ratio to 1.003 while increasing the directivity up to 23 at a wavelength of 6.09 μm. …”
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Support Vector Machine (SVM) based Detection for Volumetric Bandwidth Distributed Denial of Service (DVB-DDOS) attack within gigabit Passive Optical Network by Sumayya Bibi, Nadiatulhuda Zulkifli, Ghazanfar Ali Safdar, Sajid Iqbal

“…The dynamic bandwidth allocation (DBA) algorithm is highly impactful in improving the network performance of gigabit passive optical networks (GPON). …”
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Effect of Admixture on the Hydraulic Conductivity of Compacted Loess: A Case Study by Pan Liu, Xuejiao Zhang, Min Zhang, Xueqiang Yang

“…The test results revealed that the admixture of lime could obviously decrease ksat of pure loess and 3% might be the most economical content. An empirical algorithm was proposed based on the results to estimate ksat of lime-treated loess of which the lime content is out of the scope studied in this paper, and it would be useful for engineering design and numerical simulation of safety evaluation. …”
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Social-aware routing for cognitive radio–based vehicular ad hoc networks by Jing Wang, Huyin Zhang, Xing Tang, Sheng Hao

“…Moreover, we develop a social community partition algorithm to divide secondary users into intra-community and inter-community groups. …”
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CAECENET: An automatic system processing photometer and ceilometer data from different networks to provide columnar and vertically-resolved aerosol properties. by Celia Herrero Del Barrio, Roberto Román, Ramiro González, Alberto Cazorla, Marcos Herreras-Giralda, Juan Carlos Antuña-Sánchez, Francisco Molero, Francisco Navas-Guzmán, Antonio Serrano, María Ángeles Obregón, Yolanda Sola, Marco Pandolfi, Sara Herrero-Anta, Daniel González-Fernández, Jorge Muñiz-Rosado, David Mateos, Abel Calle, Carlos Toledano, Victoria E Cachorro, Ángel M de Frutos

“…This work introduces CAECENET, a new system capable of automatically retrieving columnar and vertically-resolved aerosol properties running the GRASP (Generalized Retrieval of Atmosphere and Surface Properties) algorithm using sun-sky photometer (aerosol optical depth, AOD; and sky radiance measurements) and ceilometer (range corrected signal; RCS) data as input. …”
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Enhancing Photovoltaic Module Fault Diagnosis with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Deep Learning-Based Image Analysis by J. Jerome Vasanth, S. Naveen Venkatesh, V. Sugumaran, Vetri Selvi Mahamuni

“…During the machine learning phase, feature selection from the extracted features was carried out using the J48 decision tree algorithm. Post selection of features, three families of classifiers such as tree, Bayes, and lazy were applied to determine the best feature extractor-classifier pair. …”
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Potential Locations of Strong Earthquakes in Bulgaria and the Neighbouring Regions by Alexander I. Gorshkov, Olga V. Novikova, Sonya Y. Dimitrova, Lyuba D. Dimova, Reneta B. Raykova

“…The CORA-3 pattern recognition algorithm identified 59 seismogenic nodes analysing a set of geophysical and geological node’s characteristics. …”
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A Global Bibliometric Analysis of Loneliness During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Future research and policy implications by Trinh Thi Xuan Nguyen, Sumeet Lal, Yoshihiko Kadoya

“…Latent Dirichlet Allocation algorithm from STATA was used to analyze common topics and research trends. …”
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Concrete damage–plasticity model with double independent hardening by A. M. Budarin, G. I. Rempel, A. A. Kamzolkin, V. N. Alekhin

“…The model should reflect the key features, which characterizes the behaviour of concrete and have an algorithm for regularizing the problem of localization of irreversible deformations.Materials and methods. …”
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Deeply Learned Classifiers for Age and Gender Predictions of Unfiltered Faces by Olatunbosun Agbo-Ajala, Serestina Viriri

“…Particularly, we address the large variations in the unfiltered real-world faces with a robust image preprocessing algorithm that prepares and processes those faces before being fed into the CNN model. …”
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Tongue Image Alignment via Conformal Mapping for Disease Detection by Jian Wu, Bob Zhang, Yong Xu, David Zhang

“…A MatLab script of the proposed algorithm is available on <monospace><uri>https://codeocean.com/capsule/4382908/tree/v1</uri></monospace>.…”
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ESO-Based Non-Singular Terminal Filtered Integral Sliding Mode Backstepping Control for Unmanned Surface Vessels by Jianping Yuan, Zhuohui Chai, Qingdong Chen, Zhihui Dong, Lei Wan

“…Theoretical analysis and simulation results demonstrate that the proposed control algorithm improves the convergence speed, adaptive ability, and anti-interference ability in complex environments compared to traditional linear backstepping sliding mode control, thereby enhancing its engineering practicability. …”
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Stochastic Diffusive Modeling of CO₂ Emissions with Population and Energy Dynamics by Muhammad Shoaib Arif, Kamaleldin Abodayeh, Hisham M. Al-Khawar, Yasir Nawaz

“…A novel numerical scheme, an extension of the Euler-Maruyama algorithm, is proposed to solve stochastic time-dependent partial differential equations governing the model. …”
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Coexistence scheme of licensed-assisted access using long-term evolution and wireless local area network for wireless sensor networks by Woongsoo Na, Yunseong Lee, Jaehyun Eom, Sungrae Cho, Ho-Hyun Park

“…In order to maximize the throughput of each wireless local area network and licensed-assisted access using long-term evolution sensor node in the proposed algorithm, we designed an objective function based on the number of wireless local area network/licensed-assisted access using long-term evolution sensor nodes and the queue size of each sensor, after which we developed the optimal parameters using Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions. …”
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Reverse design of broadband sound absorption structure based on deep learning method by Yihong Zhou, Lifeng Ma, Xi Kang, Zhiyuan Zhu

“…With the total mass and average sound absorption coefficient of sound-absorbing materials as targets, the NSGA-II algorithm has been used for multi-objective optimization design. …”
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Learning-based locomotion control fusing multimodal perception for a bipedal humanoid robot by Chao Ji, Diyuan Liu, Wei Gao, Shiwu Zhang

“…In this paper, visual information is added to the locomotion control problem of humanoid robot, and a three-stage multi-objective constraint policy distillation optimization algorithm is innovantly proposed. The expert policies of different terrains to meet the requirements of gait aesthetics are trained through reinforcement learning, and these expert policies are distilled into student through policy distillation. …”
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Optimized Hybrid Renewable Energy System for Sustainable Electric Vehicle Charging: Integration of Photovoltaic and Wind Power With Advanced Control Strategies by R. Tharwin Kumar, C. Christober Asir Rajan

“…To optimize power extraction, the system employs an advanced Social Spider Optimization Algorithm (SSOA)-assisted Fuzzy controller for precise Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT), ensuring superior converter performance and maximal energy harvesting. …”
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