Fresh and Mechanical Properties of Self-Compacting Rubber Lightweight Aggregate Concrete and Corresponding Mortar by Jing Lv, Qiang Du, Tianhua Zhou, Zuoqian He, Kunlun Li

“…In this paper, waste tires are crushed into particles and incorporated in lightweight aggregate concrete to prepare a special concrete (self-compacting rubber lightweight aggregate concrete (SCRLC)). …”
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Enhancing the Process of AES: A Lightweight Cryptography Algorithm AES for Ad-hoc Environments by Alharith A. Abdullah, Çağatay Aydin, Oğuz Ata, Mustafa Alhandhal

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ASD-YOLO: a lightweight network for coffee fruit ripening detection in complex scenarios by Baofeng Ye, Baofeng Ye, Renzheng Xue, Renzheng Xue, Haiqiang Xu, Haiqiang Xu

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Research on the lightweight detection method of rail internal damage based on improved YOLOv8 by Xiaochun Wu, Shuzhan Yu

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Lightweight AES Design for IoT Applications: Optimizations in FPGA and ASIC With DFA Countermeasure Strategies by Salman Ahmed, Nabihah Ahmad, Nasir Ali Shah, Ghulam E. Mustafa Abro, Ardhi Wijayanto, Abdinasir Hirsi, Abdul Rehman Altaf

“…Finally, this study provides valuable insights for finding research directions to strengthen the robustness of AES in lightweight IoT environments.…”
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Physical and Mechanical Properties of Cemented Ash-Based Lightweight Building Materials with and without Pumice by Neslihan Doğan-Sağlamtimur, Adnan Güven, Ahmet Bilgil

“…Pumice, cements (CEM I- and CEM II-type), waste fly and bottom ashes (IFA, GBA, and BBA) supplied from international companies were used to produce lightweight building materials, and physical-mechanical properties of these materials were determined. …”
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MUFFNet: lightweight dynamic underwater image enhancement network based on multi-scale frequency by Dechuan Kong, Dechuan Kong, Yandi Zhang, Xiaohu Zhao, Yanqiang Wang, Lei Cai

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Tongue-LiteSAM: A Lightweight Model for Tongue Image Segmentation With Zero-Shot by Daiqing Tan, Hao Zang, Xinyue Zhang, Han Gao, Ji Wang, Zaijian Wang, Xing Zhai, Huixia Li, Yan Tang, Aiqing Han

“…Based on the basic SAM model, the improvement involved modifying the image encoder by integrating two lightweight ViT-Tiny image encoders, effectively reducing the model’s parameter count. …”
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Noncontact Palm Vein ROI Extraction Based on Improved Lightweight HRnet in Complex Backgrounds by Fen Dai, Ziyang Wang, Xiangqun Zou, Rongwen Zhang, Xiaoling Deng

“…To reduce the computation time and model size for ultimate deploying in low-cost embedded systems, this improved HRnet was designed to be lightweight by reconstructing the residual block structure and adopting depth-separable convolution, which greatly reduced the model size and improved the inference speed of network forward propagation. …”
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Hybrid intelligence framework for optimizing shear capacity of lightweight FRP-reinforced concrete beams by Iman Faridmehr, Moncef L. Nehdi, Mohammad Ali Sahraei, Kiyanets Aleksandr Valerievich, Chiara Bedon

“…International Journal of Lightweight Materials and Manufacture…”
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Improvement of Mechanical Properties in Polypropylene- and Glass-Fibre-Reinforced Peach Shell Lightweight Concrete by Fan Wu, Changwu Liu, Zhaofeng Diao, Bo Feng, Wei Sun, Xiaolong Li, Shuang Zhao

“…The use of the polypropylene fibre and glass fibre with different volume fractions to improve the mechanical properties of peach shell lightweight concrete was investigated in this study. …”
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Design and Optimization of a Lightweight and Simple Self-Propelled Crawler Potato Combine Harvester by Caichao Liu, Ning Wu, Guangseng Cheng, Feng Wu, Fengwei Gu, Lili Shi, Bing Wang

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Implementation of a Lightweight and Portable Horn Antenna Using 3-D Printing Technology by Serhan Yamaçlı

“…The produced antenna has a weight of only 64.53 grams, including the SMA connector and the radiation element. The proposed lightweight and practical horn antenna design concept may have important applications considering the advances and needs of mobile defence and telecommunication systems.…”
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Lightweight load-balanced and authentication scheme for a cluster-based wireless sensor network by Jiliang Zhou, Ziqiang Lin

“…Therefore, this article effectively combines load balancing and security verification, and proposes a lightweight load balancing and verification scheme (secure load and energy balancing) based on clustered wireless sensor networks. …”
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Experimental Study on Autogenous and Drying Shrinkage of Steel Fiber Reinforced Lightweight-Aggregate Concrete by Shunbo Zhao, Changyong Li, Mingshuang Zhao, Xiaoyan Zhang

“…Steel fiber reinforced lightweight-aggregate concrete (SFRLAC) has many advantages applied in structural engineering. …”
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LEAF-YOLO: Lightweight Edge-Real-Time Small Object Detection on Aerial Imagery by Van Quang Nghiem, Huy Hoang Nguyen, Minh Son Hoang

“…To address this, we propose LEAF-YOLO, a lightweight and efficient object detection algorithm with two versions: LEAF-YOLO (standard) and LEAF-YOLO-N (nano). …”
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Ka-Band Lightweight High-Efficiency Wideband 3D Printed Reflector Antenna by Yu Zhai, Ding Xu, Yan Zhang

“…This paper presents a lightweight, cost-efficient, wideband, and high-gain 3D printed parabolic reflector antenna in the Ka-band. …”
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Lightweight Multi-Scale Network for Segmentation of Riverbank Sand Mining Area in Satellite Images by Hongyang Zhang, Shuo Liu, Huamei Liu

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AReLU: Agile Rectified Linear Unit for Improving Lightweight Convolutional Neural Networks by Fu Chen, Yepeng Guan

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DFTD-YOLO: Lightweight Multi-Target Detection From Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Viewpoints by Yuteng Chen, Zhaoguang Liu

“…Due to the low detection accuracy of small and dense target objects in multi-target detection tasks from the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) perspective and the deployment of deep learning models for UAVs as embedded devices, these models must be lightweight. In this study, we propose an improved algorithm, DFTD-YOLO, based on YOLOv8n. …”
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