Impact of Vernacular Speaking on Pupils Academic Performance in Upper Primary Classes of Buyanja Sub-County Rukungiri District. by Batangaire, Lydia

“…The main language of instruction in primary is local language together with a bit of English. This helps children learn English easily and combining local language and English produces the best performance in primary children performance. …”
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Various Textiles-Based Comparative Analysis of a Millimeter Wave Miniaturized Novel Antenna Design for Body-Centric Communications by Mohammad Monirujjaman Khan, Kaisarul Islam, Md. Nakib Alam Shovon, Mehedi Masud, Mohammed Baz, Mohammed A. AlZain

“…This design achieved similar performance compared to other 60 GHz textile antennas while being a bit more compact. This antenna will be a promising choice for body-centric communications because of its compact size, textile-based substrate, and excellent on-body performance.…”
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Progressive Bitwidth Assignment Approaches for Efficient Capsule Networks Quantization by Mohsen Raji, Amir Ghazizadeh Ahsaei, Kimia Soroush, Behnam Ghavami

“…The proposed approaches include Post-Training Quantization (PTQ) strategies that minimize the dependence on floating-point operations and incorporates layer-specific integer bit-widths based on quantization error analysis. …”
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Efficient Hybrid Iterative Method for Signal Detection in Massive MIMO Uplink System over AWGN Channel by Zelalem Melak Gebeyehu, Ram Sewak Singh, Satyasis Mishra, Davinder Singh Rathee

“…It improves performance metrics such as gain, energy efficiency, spectral efficiency, and bit error rate (BER). Because of the large number of users and antennas, sophisticated processing is required to detect the transmitted message signal. …”
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Requiem – Alàgbà, Dr., Prince, Mosọbalájé Ajíbádé Àkàndé Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí, OON, DLitt., FNAL, JP, a.k.a ‘Pa Fálétí’ to Some; ‘Bàbá Fálétí’ to all and Sundry.... by Pamela J. Olubunmi Smith

“…Thus, the trajectory of relationships run the gamut from having heard once of or about the person’s name mo ti gbọ or ́ úkọ yẹn rí (I have heard of that name before); to knowing a smattering bit of information associated with that name, bẹ́ẹ̀ ni, mo mọ ǹkan díẹ̀ nípa orúkọ yẹn (yes, I know a little about that name/person); to having a good knowledge of the person through study of his/her published works, mo ti ka àwọn ìwé wọn; mo mọ iṣẹ́ wọn dáadáa (I have read his/her works; I am quite familiar with them); to intimate, first-hand knowledge of and familiarity with the person, works and all, the Mo mọ wọ ̀ n dáadáa ́ (I know him/her very well, personally), indeed, at the formal and familial levels of relationships. 2 Pamela J. …”
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Low-power edge detection based on ferroelectric field-effect transistor by Jiajia Chen, Jiacheng Xu, Jiani Gu, Bowen Chen, Hongrui Zhang, Haoji Qian, Huan Liu, Rongzong Shen, Gaobo Lin, Xiao Yu, Miaomiao Zhang, Yi’an Ding, Yan Liu, Jianshi Tang, Huaqiang Wu, Chengji Jin, Genquan Han

“…Different from the conventional edge detectors requiring sophisticated hardware for the complex operation such as convolution and gradient, the proposed edge detector is analogue-to-digital converter free and loaded into a multi-bit content addressable memory, which only needs one 4 × 4 ferroelectric field-effect transistor NAND array. …”
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Low Complexity Unquantized Forward Stack Decoding Algorithm for Spinal Codes in Measurement While Drilling Communication by Xiaoyang Yu, Lei Liang, Ke Jiang, Tianwei Chen

“…In simulated MWD environment, the proposed system achieved an average bit error rate (BER) of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$5.58\times 10^{-5}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, with BER consistently below 0.1% across all intervals. …”
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PoWBWM: Proof of work consensus cryptographic blockchain-based adaptive watermarking system for tamper detection applications by P. Aberna, L. Agilandeeswari

“…On the other hand, the robustness performance is measured by Normalized Correlation Coefficient (NCC) and Bit Error Rate (BER). The experimental results for CASIA images achieved the highest PSNR value of 63.84 dB, and the SSIM value of 1.000, whereas the maximum VDP value obtained for HDR images is 98.02. …”
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Synchronization and Channel Estimation Design for Multi-Stream MIMO System in Sub-Terahertz Channel Model by Chung-Lun Tu, Chen-Yuan Tseng, Wei-Che Lee, Kang-Lun Chiu, Pei-Yun Tsai, Shyh-Jye Jou

“…The proposed design supports the highest modulation schemes defined in IEEE Std. 802.15.3d, achieving an uncoded bit error rate of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$1.96\times 10^{-4}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> for 16-QAM and 64-QAM at SNRs of 18.8 dB and 25 dB, respectively. …”
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Direct conversion of peptides into diverse peptidomimetics using a transformer-based chemical language model by Atsushi Yoshimori, Jürgen Bajorath

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Integration of wireless power transfer and low power wide area networks in IoT applications—A review by Molefi J. Makhetha, Elisha D. Markus, Adnan M. Abu-Mahfouz

“…Specifically, we discuss factors affecting LPWAN end-devices’ power consumption which comprises the spreading factor, communication range and bit-rate. Also, comparison analysis is performed to highlight the superiority of wireless sensors/power transfer, in terms of cost, reliability, environmental impact and scalability Essentially, it is necessary to realise the potential of these two techniques (WPT and LPWAN), as their integration can advance various fields like structural health monitoring (SHM), precision agriculture, healthcare, and environmental monitoring.…”
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Solar energy driven photocatalytic membrane modules for water reuse in agricultural and food industries. Pre-industrial experience using s-triazines as model molecules by Ignazio Renato Bellobono, Franca Morazzoni, Riccardo Bianchi, Emilia Simona Mangone, Rodica Stanescu, Cristina Costache, Paola Maria Tozzi

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Drilling characteristics optimization of polymer composite fortified with eggshells using box-Behnken design and zebra optimization algorithm by B. Deepanraj, A.M. Saravanan, N. Senthilkumar, Abdul Aziz Afzal, Abdul Rahman Afzal

“…Drilling studies on the fabricated delrin+ESPs (DESP) are carried out using an uncoated carbide drill bit in a vertical machining center (VMC), and the surface roughness (SR) and material removal rate (MRR) are measured for further analysis. …”
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Low-rate modem for transmission of small data in medium frequency range for Arctic by P. I. Puzyrev, S. A. Zavyalov, V. V. Erokhin, V. Yu. Shein

“…The modem uses orthogonal 64-position frequency shift keying characterized by a lower probability of bit error, the possibility of non-coherent demodulation and a constant envelope. …”
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Application of complexity theory in health and social care research: a scoping review by Áine Carroll, Claire Collins, Andrew Darley, Diarmuid Stokes, Jane McKenzie

“…The authors provide guidance on conducting complexity-informed primary research that seeks to promote rigor and transparency in the area.Registration The scoping review protocol was registered at Open Science Framework, and the review protocol was published at BMJ Open (https://bit.ly/3Ex1Inu).…”
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Manipulating polarization attenuation in NbS2–NiS2 nanoflowers through homogeneous heterophase interface engineering toward microwave absorption with shifted frequency bands by Yiru Fu, Yuping Wang, Junye Cheng, Yao Li, Jing Wang, Yongheng Jin, Deqing Zhang, Guangping Zheng, Maosheng Cao

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Design of High-Speed Multiway Merge Sorting Networks Using Fast Single-Stage N-Sorters and N-Filters by Robert B. Kent, Marios S. Pattichis

“…A fully pipelined 3-way merge network in this FPGA is capable of fully sorting 500 million lists of 729 unsorted 32-bit values in one second. In software, multiway merge methods are used to find the median of certain pixel rectangles in images, since the median can be determined in fewer stages than are required to fully sort the rectangle. …”
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A 5.5–7.5‐GHz band‐configurable wake‐up receiver fully integrated in 45‐nm RF‐SOI CMOS by Rui Ma, Florian Protze, Frank Ellinger

“…In addition, the on‐chip digital bank‐end consists of a frequency divider, a phase corrector, a 31‐bit correlator and a serial peripheral interface. …”
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High-speed FSO-5G wireless communication system with enhanced loss compensation using high-power EDFA by Stotaw Talbachew Hayle, Hua-Yi Hsu, Chia-Peng Wang, Hai-Han Lu, Jia-Ming Lu, Wei-Wen Hsu, Yu-Chen Chung, Yu-Yao Bai, Kelper Okram

“…The high-power EDFA boosts signal strength, facilitating reliable long-distance transmission through the FSO transmission link while compensating for losses and reducing bit error rates (BER) and error vector magnitude (EVM). …”
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Using microtremor data to obtain dynamic properties of soils in the Veracruz-Boca del Rio metropolitan areaMendeley Data by José E. Barradas-Hernández, Sergio Márquez-Domínguez, Franco Antonio Carpio-Santamaria, Alejandro Vargas-Colorado, Abigail Zamora-Hernández, Roberto Rivera-Baizabal

“…These Data are raw and was obtained using a GÜRALP 6TD model broadband orthogonal triaxial seismometer with an integrated 24-bit digitizer with a minimum recording time of 30 min and a recording rate of 100 samples per second (sps). …”
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