DVCW-YOLO for Printed Circuit Board Surface Defect Detection by Pei Shi, Yuyang Zhang, Yunqin Cao, Jiadong Sun, Deji Chen, Liang Kuang

“…Next, within the neck structure, the C2f module is substituted with the more lightweight VOVGSCSP module, thereby reducing model redundancy, simplifying model complexity, and enhancing detection speed. …”
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Parameter Optimization for Dissimilar Aluminum Alloys Joined Using Friction Stir Additive Manufacturing: A Screening Study by Senthil Kumaran Selvaraj, Akash L. Manoj, Alan B. Mathew, Akash V. Govind, Govindaswamy Sundaramali, Utkarsh Chadha, Bhaskar Vajipeyajula, Albert E. Patterson

“…These lightweight engineering materials are hard to be joined utilising traditional fusion joining techniques, necessitating the development of alternative joining techniques. …”
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Cumulative Energy Demand Analysis of Commercial and Hybrid Metal-Composite Gears at Different End-of-Life Strategies by Francesco Borda, Rocco Adduci, Domenico Mundo, Francesco Gagliardi

“…This study addresses the process of gear lightweighting, a key factor for efficiency improvements in automotive and aerospace sectors. …”
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Optimizing microstructure for enhanced performance: A novel approach to EMI shielding with thin Mg98.5Zn0.5Y alloy sheets by Z.X. Feng, G.Y. Zhang, J.L. Dong, T.M. Li, Z.S. Chen, J. Cao, X.H. Chen, J.H. Yi, F.S. Pan

“…The growing demand for lightweight, high-performance, cost-efficient electro-magnetic interference (EMI) shielding materials, driven by advancements in 5G telecommunications, electric vehicles, and wearable electronics, has prompted the development of a 0.8 mm Mg98.5Zn0.5Y alloy sheet with a unique lamellar structure. …”
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Research on Innovative Apple Grading Technology Driven by Intelligent Vision and Machine Learning by Bo Han, Jingjing Zhang, Rolla Almodfer, Yingchao Wang, Wei Sun, Tao Bai, Luan Dong, Wenjing Hou

“…The system aims to reduce human interference and enhance grading efficiency and accuracy. A lightweight detection algorithm, FDNet-p, was developed to capture stem features, and a strategy for auxiliary positioning was designed for image acquisition. …”
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High Velocity Impact Response and Damage Analysis of Hybrid Aluminum/Carbon Fiber/Pineapple Leaf Fiber Laminates for Automotive Structure Using TOPSIS Method by Hanyue Xiao, Mohamed Thariq Hameed Sultan, Farah Syazwani Shahar, Suhas Yeshwant Nayak, Muhammad Imran Najeeb, Siti Madiha Muhammad Amir, Sapizah Rahim

“…With the rising demand for lightweight and high-performance materials in automotive applications, this study examines the high-velocity impact (HVI) behavior and damage mechanisms of fiber metal laminates (FMLs) composed of aluminum (A), carbon fiber (C), and pineapple leaf fiber (P). …”
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Violence Detection From Industrial Surveillance Videos Using Deep Learning by Hamza Khan, Xiaohong Yuan, Letu Qingge, Kaushik Roy

“…A computation time analysis revealed that our lightweight model requires significantly less computation time, demonstrating its efficiency. …”
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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). …”
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Durability of Wearable Antennas Based on Nonwoven Conductive Fabrics: Experimental Study on Resistance to Washing and Ironing by Laura Corchia, Giuseppina Monti, Luciano Tarricone

“…Wearable antennas should be flexible, lightweight, and mechanically resistant. Additionally, the antenna performance should be robust to activities related to daily use of garments, such as washing and ironing. …”
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Hierarchical division-based cache storage strategy in content-centric networking by Jun LI, ming FENGZong, bo WUHai, Jiang ZHI

“…For the issue of improving the performance of in-network cache in content-centric networking, a hierarchical division-based lightweight collaboration cache storage strategy was proposed. …”
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Preventing man-in-the-middle attacks in DNS through certificate less signature by Yang HU, Zengjie HAN, Guohua YE, Zhiqiang YAO

“…Aiming at resisting the man-in-the-middle attacks in the domain name system protocol, a lightweight solution was proposed.The scheme introduced certificate less signature algorithm, removed the difficult-to-deploy trust chain to improve the efficiency and security of authentication.By using symmetric encryption technology, the proposed solution ensured the confidentiality of the message and increase the attack difficulty.The theoretical analysis proved the proposed scheme can resist common man-in-the-middle attacks.Experimental comparison results show the scheme has better performance than similar schemes.…”
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Design and implementation of routing strategy based on terminal trust by Ansheng YIN, Shunyi ZHANG

“…Currently，the research focuses on the routing strategies of lightweight network. The routing algorithm has the large overhead and small applications，which is mainly based on IPv4. …”
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3-subset meet-in-the-middle attack on block cipher TWIS by Ya-fei ZHENG, Hong-ru WEI

“…To do further analysis of the security of lightweight block cipher TWIS, 3-subset meet-in-the-middle attack was applied to 10-round TWIS without the final whitening. …”
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New low-earth orbit satellites authentication and group key agreement protocol by Zijian ZHANG, Qi ZHOU, Chuan ZHANG, Xiaoyao TONG, Chunlei LI, Long WANG

“…Due to the function of communication and continuous monitoring,the low-earth orbit satellites are widely used in the aerospace field.However,there is no special authentication protocol in the existing satellite communication system.In order to solve this problem,a lightweight authentication protocol which considering the switch of communication path in the authentication process was designed for the low-earth orbit satellites,and the proposed protocol was verified by simulation and compared with the 3GPP AKA protocol.The simulation results show that the protocol has a 20% higher efficiency than 3GPP AKA protocol,and the spend of group key agreement protocol is about 300 ms.…”
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S‐PLM: Structure‐Aware Protein Language Model via Contrastive Learning Between Sequence and Structure by Duolin Wang, Mahdi Pourmirzaei, Usman L. Abbas, Shuai Zeng, Negin Manshour, Farzaneh Esmaili, Biplab Poudel, Yuexu Jiang, Qing Shao, Jin Chen, Dong Xu

“…Additionally, a library of lightweight tuning tools is provided to adapt S‐PLM for diverse downstream protein prediction tasks. …”
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Fabrication and Compression Properties of Reinforced Epoxy Syntactic Foam With Basalt Fiber by Shuai Cao, Tao Jiang, Shanshan Shi, Xiaofan Gui, Ying Wang, Bo Tang, Lixue Xiang, Xuming Dai, Donghai Lin, Ning Zhong, Wenge Li, Jinhong Yu, Xinfeng Wu

“…Deep-sea equipment is generally made of lightweight and pressure-resistant materials in order to meet the requirements of the actual work. …”
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Improved sound absorption with 3D-printed micro-perforated sandwich structures by Peng-Fei Zhang, Zhong-Hua Li, Yu-Jun Zhou, Qi-Fei Zhang, Bin Liu, Fei Liu, Si-Chen Pei, Ke Shi, Pei-kang Bai

“…The micro-perforated sandwich structure based on triply periodic minimal surfaces (TPMS) is a lightweight, high-strength and multi-functional structure, which integrates heat exchange, impact resistance, energy absorption, etc., and has been widely used in many fields such as aviation and aerospace. …”
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Supporting Preemptive Multitasking in Wireless Sensor Networks by Emanuele Lattanzi, Valerio Freschi, Alessandro Bogliolo

“…Supporting the concurrent execution of multiple tasks on lightweight sensor nodes could enable the deployment of independent applications on a shared wireless sensor network, thus saving cost and time by exploiting infrastructures which are typically underutilized if dedicated to a single task. …”
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Improved meet-in-the-middle attack on Joltik-BC-128 by LI Zheng, REN Jiongjiong, LI Manman, CHEN Shaozhen

“…The Joltik-BC, adopting the substitution-permutation network structure and Tweakey framework, was a lightweight tweakable block cipher published at ASIACRPYPT 2014. …”
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Structure Design and Finite Element Analysis of a Rope Traction Upper Limb Rehabilitation Robot by Yu Junwei, Xu Hongbin, Xu Taojin, Zheng Chengjie, Lu Shiqing

“…To ensure the safety and stability of the rehabilitation robot,the static strength analysis and modal analysis of the structure of the upper limb rehabilitative robot is carried out by using ANSYS Workbench.Moreover,the multi-objective genetic algorithm is applied to the lightweight optimization design of the support frame. …”
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