Framework for Secure Wireless Communication in Wireless Sensor Networks by Muhammad Usama, Fahad T. Bin Muhaya

“…We proposed a framework for secure wireless communication in WSNs which consists of four modules, that is, redundancy checker, message prioritization mechanism, malicious node verification, and malicious data verification. …”
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Radiotherapeutic Strategies in the Management of Low-Risk Prostate Cancer by Kevin S. Choe, Stanley L. Liauw

“…In recent years, there have been tremendous advances in the field of radiation oncology that have transformed the way radiation is used to treat prostate cancer, such as intensity-modulated radiotherapy, image-guided radiotherapy, and stereotactic radiotherapy. …”
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A wireless instrumented insole for monitoring plantar pressure during human locomotion by Mariana Alegria, Mariana Ballesteros, David Cruz-Ortiz

“…The device sends the data through wireless communication based on a Bluetooth module to a graphical user interface in a computer where the data is received, displayed, and stored. …”
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Unconscious processing of happy faces correlates with prosocial tendency but not extraversion by Qian Xu, Qian Xu

“…By pairing backward-masked faces with supraliminally presented faces in both visual fields, we found that the discrimination of visible emotional faces was modulated by the facial expressions of the invisible faces in the opposite visual field. …”
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GamTox: A Low-Cost Multimetric Ecotoxicity Test with Gammarus spp. for In and Ex Situ Application by Almut Gerhardt

“…A new user-friendly and low-cost test protocol for Gammarus spp. has been developed, constituting the “ecotoxicological module ”of an integrated multimetric triad-based concept for water quality assessment. …”
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Improving product size measurement systems by using piezo-fiber scanner by E. V. Leun

“…The article discusses the physical and technical basis for the construction and operation of systems for measuring the size of complex products, taking into account the use of a new spatial light modulator — a piezo-fiber scanner. Its device, operating principle, and main technical characteristics are described. …”
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The Inhibitory Role of B7-H4 in Antitumor Immunity: Association with Cancer Progression and Survival by Changjun He, Haiquan Qiao, Hongchi Jiang, Xueying Sun

“…B7-H4 is one of the most recently identified members of B7 superfamily of costimulatory molecules serving as an inhibitory modulator of T-cell response. B7-H4 is broadly expressed in human peripheral tissues and inducibly expressed in immune cells. …”
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Cytokine Reduction in the Treatment of Joint Conditions by J. D. Sipe, J. Martel-Pelletier, I. G. Otterness, J.-P. Pelletier

“…The destructive action of cytokines such as interleukin-1, interleukin-6 and tumour necrosis factor-α can be modulated at multiple points associated either with cytokine production or with cytokine action. …”
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Peyer's Patches: The Immune Sensors of the Intestine by Camille Jung, Jean-Pierre Hugot, Frédérick Barreau

“…In turn, CD4+ T-cells present in the PP are able to modulate the paracellular and transcellular permeabilities. …”
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Switchable Terahertz Band-Pass/Band-Stop Filter Enabled by Hybrid Vanadium Dioxide Metamaterial by Ying Chen, Jianwei Cheng, Chaowu Liang

“…The switchable characteristics of this structure can enable its wide application in tunable THz functional components such as amplitude modulators, polarization control, and intelligent switches.…”
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An Advanced Uncertainty Measure Using Fuzzy Soft Sets: Application to Decision-Making Problems by Nitin Bhardwaj, Pallvi Sharma

“…The first part is to measure uncertainties of parameters using fuzzy soft sets and then to modulate the uncertainties calculated. Afterward, the appropriate basic probability assignments with respect to each parameter are produced. …”
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Sensor-Based Turmeric Finger Growth Characteristics Monitoring Using Embedded System under Soil by Maheswaran Shanmugam, Asokan Ramasamy

“…One such technological innovation is the embedded system-based sensor array module such as flex sensor, temperature sensor, and pH sensor that have been used to monitor the turmeric finger growth characteristics. …”
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Fuzzy Integral Sliding Mode Control Based on Microbial Fuel Cell by Lei Lian, Peng Ji, Tianyu OuYang, Fengying Ma, Shanwen Xu, Chao Gao, Jing Liu

“…For chattering existing in the system, the control scheme is further optimized to obtain fuzzy integral sliding mode control, and the fuzzy module adaptively adjusts the control parameters according to the system state, which effectively reduces the system chattering. …”
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Droplet Trajectory Movement Modeling Using a Drop-on-Demand Inkjet Printhead Simulations by Tim Tofan, Sergejus Borodinas, Raimondas Jasevičius

“…By considering the dynamics of a droplet surrounded by air, we modeled them using the two-phase flow coupling and level set function from the computational fluid dynamics module by COMSOL Multiphysics. The trajectory shifts of the inkjet droplet are considered from its ejection to its impact on the surface at each time step. …”
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RESEARCH ON THE SIMULATION OF THE OPERATION OF ROBOTIC MECHANISMS by Georgeta Toma

“…The simulator allows the positional and kinematic analysis of active robotic mechanisms, regardless of their configuration and the number of component modules. The positional analysis is performed parametrically. …”
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Varied Age of First Presentation of Sickle Cell Disease: Case Presentations and Review by Alexis Claeys, Susanne Van Steijn, Lydia Van Kesteren, Elizabet Damen, Machiel Van Den Akker

“…Many factors are responsible for the age at which sickle cell disease is diagnosed: doctor’s delay (unfamiliarity with the disease), patient’s delay (education and financial position of the parents, cultural factors), high- versus low-resource country (availability of newborn screening), fetal hemoglobin, reticulocyte count, and genetic modulators, such as SCD genotype, alpha-thalassemia, fetal hemoglobin concentration, and G6PD deficiency. …”
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Scalable Fixed Point QRD Core Using Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration by Gayathri R. Prabhu, Bibin Johnson, J. Sheeba Rani

“…The proposed architecture is implemented on Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA for any real matrices of size m×n, where 4≤n≤8 and m≥n by dynamically inserting or removing the partial modules. The evaluation results demonstrate a significant reduction in latency, area, and power as compared to other existing architectures. …”
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Dynamic Mechanical, Dielectrical, and Rheological Analysis of Polyethylene Terephthalate/Carbon Nanotube Nanocomposites Prepared by Melt Processing by Juris Bitenieks, Remo Merijs Meri, Janis Zicans, Krisjanis Buks

“…Dynamic mechanical thermal analysis revealed increase in storage and loss modules of the investigated PET nanocomposites by increasing the content of CNTs. …”
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Manipulation of the magnetic monopole injection for topological transition by Hee-Sung Han, Sergio A. Montoya, Eric E. Fullerton, Weilun Chao, Soong-Geun Je, Ki‐Suk Lee, Mi-Young Im

“…An easily tunable in-plane magnetic field applied to an Fe/Gd multilayer plays a key role in the magnetic monopole injection by modulating the local exchange energy. Our findings facilitate the efficient management of topological transitions by providing an important method for controlling magnetic monopole injection.…”
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An adaptive load forecasting model in microgrids: A cloud-edge orchestrated approach tailored for accuracy, real-time response, and privacy needs by Yan Zhao, Jiaqi Shi, Donglai Wang, He Jiang, Xiang Zhang

“…An adaptive load forecasting model is proposed considering the trade-off between accuracy and efficiency by utilizing the customized AI algorithm and real cloud-edge orchestrated architecture. The decoupled module of forecasting model is considerably analyzed from accuracy impact and computing resource occupation, which arranges in different hardware environments to meet needs of different microgrid. …”
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