Coherent beam combining of two all-PM thulium-doped fiber chirped pulse amplifiers by Bo Ren, Hongxiang Chang, Can Li, Tao Wang, Kaikai Jin, Jiayi Zhang, Kun Guo, Rongtao Su, Jinyong Leng, Pu Zhou

“…Abstract In this paper, we report a coherent beam combining (CBC) system that involves two thulium-doped all-polarization maintaining (PM) fiber chirped pulse amplifiers. …”
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Sensitivity Analysis of P-Wave Polarization Direction and Velocity Gradient Inversion by Jingru Zhao, Xili Jing, Zhiyong Yin, Mengyu Fang, Shan Gao, Tianrun Zhang

“…To clarify this problem, the sensitivity of velocity gradient parameters on polarization direction is discussed in this paper. It was found that the sensitivity of polarization direction is related to the spatial position of the model parameter. …”
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Toward the Development of Large-Scale Word Embedding for Low-Resourced Language by Shahzad Nazir, Muhammad Asif, Shahbaz Ahmad Sahi, Shahbaz Ahmad, Yazeed Yasin Ghadi, Muhammad Haris Aziz

“…These approaches have created mature word vectors for most spoken languages in the world, on the other hand, the research community turned their minor attention towards the Urdu language having 231.3 million speakers. This paper focuses on creating Urdu word embedding. To perform this task, we used a dataset covering different categories of News such as Business, Sports, Health, Politics, Entertainment, Science, world, and others. …”
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Construction Low Complexity and Low Delay CDS for Big Data Code Dissemination by Xiao Liu, Mianxiong Dong, Yuxin Liu, Anfeng Liu, Neal N. Xiong

“…However, it is a challenge to reduce the communication delay and complexity for urgent data transmission in big data. In this paper, an appropriate duty cycle control (ADCC) scheme is proposed to reduce communication delay and complexity while improving energy efficient in CDS-based WSNs. …”
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Extracting Skeleton of the Global Terrorism Network Based on m-Modified Topology Potential by Shuliang Wang, Kanokwan Malang, Hanning Yuan, Aniwat Phaphuangwittayakul, Yuanyuan Lv, Matthew David Lowdermilk, Jing Geng

“…The objective of this paper is to introduce the novel network extraction method, namely, TPKS-skeleton, for investigating the global terrorism network. …”
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Impact of Diabetes on Cardiovascular Disease: An Update by Alessandra Saldanha de Mattos Matheus, Lucianne Righeti Monteiro Tannus, Roberta Arnoldi Cobas, Catia C. Sousa Palma, Carlos Antonio Negrato, Marilia de Brito Gomes

“…Furthermore, evidence that justify screening for subclinical atherosclerosis in asymptomatic patients is controversial and is also matter of this review. The purpose of this paper is to describe the association between poor glycemic control, oxidative stress, markers of insulin resistance, and of low-grade inflammation that have been suggested as putative factors linking diabetes and cardiovascular disease.…”
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Preparation of MgO added iron ore pellets and effects on a pilot scale blast furnace operation by Chun T.-J., Mu G.-T., Meng Q.-M., Long H.-M., Wang P., Bic C.-G.

“…The preparation of MgO bearing iron ore pellets in the mini and pilot scales, and the application for 4070m3 blast furnace were conducted in this paper. The results show that with increasing the MgO content, the compressive strength of fired pellets decreased significantly, while the metallurgical performances, such as RI (reducibility index), RDI (reduction degradation index) and RSI (reduction swelling index) were improved. …”
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Unified Analytical Solutions of Circular Tunnel Excavated in an Elastic-Brittle-Plastic Rock Mass considering Blast-Induced Damage and Dead Weight Loading by Yue Cao, Liang Chen, Jinhai Xu, Chong Li, Wei Zhang

“…The damage zone induced by blasting or mechanical excavation can dramatically influence the support design and methods because the self-weight of broken rock mass at the roof of the tunnel can exert a high pressure on the support system, leading to the support system instability due to the overload. This paper presents a new closed-form solution for analyzing the stress and deformation of deep circular tunnel excavated in elastic-brittle rock mass with the consideration of the rock gravity and damage zone by using the unified strength criterion. …”
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A Real-Time and Closed-Loop Control Algorithm for Cascaded Multilevel Inverter Based on Artificial Neural Network by Libing Wang, Chengxiong Mao, Dan Wang, Jiming Lu, Junfeng Zhang, Xun Chen

“…In order to control the cascaded H-bridges (CHB) converter with staircase modulation strategy in a real-time manner, a real-time and closed-loop control algorithm based on artificial neural network (ANN) for three-phase CHB converter is proposed in this paper. It costs little computation time and memory. …”
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Diagnostic Implication and Clinical Relevance of Dermatomal Somatosensory Evoked Potentials in Patients with Radiculopathy: A Retrospective Study by Nam-Gyu Jo, Myoung-Hwan Ko, Yu Hui Won, Sung-Hee Park, Gi-Wook Kim, Jeong-Hwan Seo

“…However, spinal stenosis (pixel counts and grade) and IVF stenosis grade were not significantly related to DSEPs. Conclusion. This paper could be helpful in the electrophysiologic diagnosis of lumbar radiculopathy.…”
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Recent advances in immunotherapy targeting CETP proteins for atherosclerosis prevention by Wenhui Hu, Han Feng, Ying Liu, Xiaoshuang Xu, Ping Zhou, Zhonghua Sun, Xinyu Tao, Jiahui Yang, Jun Wu, Chen Qu, Zhengxia Liu

“…In addition, CETP vaccines are being explored as a novel strategy for the prevention and treatment of ASCVD by inducing the body to produce antibodies against CETP, which is expected to reduce CETP activity, thereby increasing high-density lipoproteins (HDL) levels. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the structure of CETP, the mechanisms of lipid transfer and the progress of immunotherapy in the last decade, which provides possible ideas for future development of novel drugs and optimization of immunization strategies.…”
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1922 — the best year of the Comintern. Soviet Russia, German communists and the Genoa conference by A. Yu. Vatlin

“…The author stresses that for the Comintern the year of 1922 was dominated by a struggle between the two opposing ideological and political trends: the inertia of the ‘storm and onslaught’ enthusiasm of the first post-revolutionary years and the rise of the ideas of peaceful coexistence. In this context, the paper assesses the role that the Bolshevik leaders envisaged for the Comintern during the preparation and conduct of the Genoa Conference and, particularly, for the policy of the united workers front. …”
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Elastoplastic mechanical behavior analysis of surface-coated Zircaloy-4 cladding under multi-field coupling by Xin Wang, Ze Xu, Yulan Liu, Biao Wang

“…Results and Conclusions in this paper can provide reference and guidance for future experiments.…”
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Design and application of a novel device for recovering and storing gastric juices (一种新型胃液回收及存储装置的设计与应用) by WANG Weiwei (王伟伟), ZHANG Meng (张萌), SUN Xiumei (孙秀梅)

“…At present, syringe withdrawal is the most commonly used method to monitor gastric residual volume. This paper introduces the design and use method of a utility model gastric fluid recovery and storage device, which can effectively reduce the occurrence of secondary pollution, reduce the work burden of medical staff and improve work efficiency. …”
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A Comparative Study on the Positive Lightning Return Stroke Electric Fields in Different Meteorological Conditions by Chin-Leong Wooi, Zulkurnain Abdul-Malek, Behnam Salimi, Noor Azlinda Ahmad, Kamyar Mehranzamir, Saeed Vahabi-Mashak

“…Positive cloud-ground lightning is considerably more complex and less studied compared to the negative lightning. This paper aims to measure and characterize the significant parameters of positive return strokes electric field, namely, the zero-to-peak rise time, 10–90% rise time, slow front duration, fast transition rise time (10–90%), zero-crossing time, and opposite polarity overshoot relative to peak. …”
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Enhancing Pipeline Reliability Analysis through Machine Learning: A Focus on Corrosion and Fluid Hammer Effects by Ajinkya Zalkikar, Bimal Nepal, Mani Venkata Rakesh Mutyala, Anika Varshney, Lianne Dsouza, Hazlina Husin, Om Prakash Yadav

“…However, the safety concerns that arise from potential ruptures or leaks in these pipelines pose serious threats to the environment and human safety. This paper assesses the reliability of pipelines that have undergone corrosion, compounded by the fluid hammer effect observed in the liquefied gas flow. …”
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Elastic Optimization for Stragglers in Edge Federated Learning by Khadija Sultana, Khandakar Ahmed, Bruce Gu, Hua Wang

“…And incorporation of partial training results causes gradients to be diverged which further exaggerates when more training is performed to reach local optima. In this paper, we introduce elastic optimization methods for stragglers due to data heterogeneity in edge federated learning. …”
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FF-net: A target detection method tailored for mid-to-late stages of forest fires in complex environments by Jianye Yuan, Haofei Wang, Tianying Yang, Yaqin Su, Weiwei Song, Song Li, Wei Gong

“…The source code of the paper is publicly available at: https://github.com/jyyuan666/FF-net.…”
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Pyrolysis and Morphology Behavior of EDTA-Na2Mg•4H2O and Coal Tar Pitch and Its Application for Porous Carbon by Wen-Juan Zhang, Shi-Hua Song, Wen-Hong Tian

“…Traditionally, the porous carbons are prepared by the heat treatment of carbon precursors in the presence of template and activator. In this paper, EDTA-Na2Mg•4H2O and CTP were mixed to produce porous carbons in the absence of template and activator, which were generated in situ by the heat treatment of EDTA-Na2Mg•4H2O. …”
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A simplified version of the method of calculation of multilayer composite rods according to the theory of A.R. Rzhanitsyn by V. V. Filatov, Thi Linh Quyen Hoang

“…Filatov, in the formulation of the authors of the paper. The results of calculation by simplified methods with TCR are compared. …”
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