Mechanical Properties of Multi-Layer Woven E-Glass/Epoxy in Variable Fiber-Mat Directions by Saif Aldeen Ghafel H., Nasri Salh M. Namer, Abdul Jabbar H. Ali

“…It is considered a modern study of this style because of the rapid development in modern engineering industries that required lightweight composite materials with high strength and small thickness, which are used in the aerospace industry aviation and other precision engineering industries. …”
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A Simulated Model of a Triple Band Patch Antenna Proposed for Vital Signs Monitoring Equipment by Anfal Shukur Taher, Rashid Ali Fayadh, Abbas Fadhal Humadi, Aaraf Shukur Alqaisi, Mohd Fareq Abd Malek

“…., increased demand for) equipment to monitor vital activities, Therefore, a microstrip patch antenna was suggested as the topic of this article because it is popular in wireless systems due to its low cost, lightweight, and thin profile. The proposed design is made of FR-4 as a substrate material, and copper for the patch and the ground. …”
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Self-Administered Information Sharing Framework Using Bioinspired Mechanisms by Huibo Bi, Yanyan Chen, Wen-Long Shang, Chengcheng Song, Wenbo Huang

“…The promising potential of distributed and interconnected lightweight devices that can jointly generate superior information-collecting and problem-solving abilities has long fostered various significant and ubiquitous techniques, from wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to Internet of Things (IoT). …”
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Application of Internet of Things in the Health Sector: Toward Minimizing Energy Consumption by Mohammed Moutaib, Tarik Ahajjam, Mohammed Fattah, Yousef Farhaoui, Badraddine Aghoutane, Moulhime El Bekkali

“…It applies to many areas, where it has achieved success, such as healthcare, where a patient is monitored using nodes and lightweight sensors. However, the powerful functions of IoT in the medical field are based on communication, analysis, processing, and management of data autonomously without any manual intervention, which presents many difficulties, such as energy consumption. …”
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Acoustic Emission Analysis of the Cracking Behavior in ECC-LWSCC Composites by Yara Zaki, Ahmed Abouhussien, Assem Hassan

“…Acoustic emission (AE) analysis was utilized to assess the cracking behavior of six lightweight self-consolidating concrete (LWSCC)–engineering cementitious composite (ECC) beams under flexural loading. …”
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Performance Analysis and Optimisation During Machining of Al-ZrB2 Reinforcement-Based Metal Matrix Nanocomposites Using Coated and Uncoated Insert by Seema V. Yerigeri, Vaijanath V. Yerigeri

“…Lightweight and high-strength composites attract attention towards the different industrial applications. …”
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Experimental Study of Thermal and Mechanical Behaviour of Graphite-Filled UJF Composite by K. Manohar Reddy, D. Harsha Vardhan, Y. Santhosh Kumar Reddy, Gujjala Raghavendra, Ramesh Rudrapati

“…It should be noted that these hybrid composites are a promising material at low cost for lightweight structural applications.…”
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Advances in Object Detection and Localization Techniques for Fruit Harvesting Robots by Xiaojie Shi, Shaowei Wang, Bo Zhang, Xinbing Ding, Peng Qi, Huixing Qu, Ning Li, Jie Wu, Huawei Yang

“…Future research and technological development should first solve these current challenges using weakly supervised learning, efficient and lightweight model construction, multisensor fusion and so on.…”
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EdgeGuard: Decentralized Medical Resource Orchestration via Blockchain-Secured Federated Learning in IoMT Networks by Sakshi Patni, Joohyung Lee

“…We have made several technological advances, including a lightweight blockchain consensus mechanism designed for IoMT networks, an adaptive edge resource allocation method based on reinforcement learning, and a federated learning algorithm optimized for medical data with differential privacy. …”
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Optimizing Security in IoT Ecosystems Using Hybrid Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain Models: A Scalable and Efficient Approach for Threat Detection by William Villegas-Ch, Jaime Govea, Rommel Gutierrez, Aracely Mera-Navarrete

“…Blockchain ensures device authentication and data integrity through a lightweight consensus protocol, while AI enables real-time intrusion detection using deep learning models. …”
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Salinity and Sugar Content Detection by Wideband Microwave–Based Patch Antenna Sensor by M. N. Rahman, S. M. Taohidul Islam, Md. Maniruzzaman, M. T. Islam

“…This article studies a dielectric microwave sensor to identify salinity and sugar concentration. The lightweight patch-antenna–based wideband sensor is designed to propagate the electromagnetic wave for the transmission and reception. …”
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Design and application of depth control methods for autonomous underwater profilers in challenging marine environments by Isabel P. Morales-Aragón, Jaime Giménez-Gallego, Javier Gilabert, Roque Torres-Sánchez, Fulgencio Soto-Valles

“…In this context, a lightweight, autonomous, submersible profiler with depth control capability was designed for monitoring the stratifications in shallow waters like the Mar Menor. …”
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Multifeature extraction based MobileViTv3 model for fish feeding behavior recognition from video streaming by Zheng Zhang, Menglu Chen, Qingsong Hu, Yanbing Shen

“…It can extract spatio-temporal features while obtaining the lightweight characteristic. The MFE block is designed by improving ActionNet, with the frequency channel attention (FCA) and multi-head self-attention (MHSA) mechanisms. …”
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Toward efficient authentication for space-air-ground integrated Internet of things by Baokang Zhao, Puguang Liu, Xiaofeng Wang, Ilsun You

“…In this article, we propose MASIT, an identity-based efficient and lightweight mutual authentication scheme for space-air-ground integrated Internet of things. …”
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Evaluation of the practical application of the category-imbalanced myeloid cell classification model. by Zhigang Hu, Aoru Ge, Xinzheng Wang, Cuisi Ou, Shen Wang, Junwen Wang

“…When the classification models is chosen, Swin Transformer V2 was found to perform the best. However, the lightweight model RegNetX-3.2gf had significantly fewer parameters and a significantly faster inference speed than Swin Transformer V2, and its F1 Score was only 0.032 lower than that of Swin Transformer V2. …”
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Onboard Processing of Hyperspectral Imagery: Deep Learning Advancements, Methodologies, Challenges, and Emerging Trends by Nafiseh Ghasemi, Jon Alvarez Justo, Marco Celesti, Laurent Despoisse, Jens Nieke

“…This article discusses the efficacy of different network architectures, highlighting the advantages of lightweight CNN models and 1D-CNNs for onboard processing. …”
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Enhancing Seismic Performance of Steel-Plated Stress-Ribbon Bridge with Tuned Mass Dampers: A Finite-Element Study by Hua Dong, Yi Zhang, Zhiqiang Huang, Wuchuan Pu, Kaiwen Liu, Qishuo Zhang

“…There has been a noticeable rise in the construction of lightweight stress-ribbon pedestrian bridges. In regions with a high risk of seismic activity, it is crucial to employ advanced seismic control technology to mitigate the impact of earthquakes and improve the bridge’s performance and durability. …”
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Justification scheme for milling waffle background by E. V. Krivonos

“…In practice, this is ensured by the introduction of lightweight materials together with the optimal design of the supporting set of ribs (waffle background) of orthotropic shells and waffle shells. …”
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Facial masks and soft‐biometrics: Leveraging face recognition CNNs for age and gender prediction on mobile ocular images by Fernando Alonso‐Fernandez, Kevin Hernandez‐Diaz, Silvia Ramis, Francisco J. Perales, Josef Bigun

“…To counteract this, we adapt two existing lightweight CNNs proposed in the context of the ImageNet Challenge, and two additional architectures proposed for mobile face recognition. …”
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Estimating the Climate-Controlled Soil Parameters and the Distorted Mound Shape for Analysis of Stiffened Rafts on Expansive Soils by Mohamed H. Abu-Ali, Basuony El-Garhy, Ahmed Boraey, Wael S. Al-Rashed, Hassan Abdel-Daiem

“…A stiffened raft is considered one of the efficient foundation systems for lightweight structures resting on expansive soils. Most existing design methods of stiffened rafts require an analysis of the interaction between the raft and the distorted mound shape of the expansive soil. …”
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