A directed greybox fuzzer for windows applications by Xin Ren, Peng-fei Wang, Xu Zhou, Kai Lu

“…Abstract Directed greybox fuzzing (DGF) has proven effective in vulnerability discovery, but most efforts focus on the Linux platform, with substantially less attention devoted to Windows platform due to its closed-source and GUI software nature. This paper proposes WinDGF, a novel directed greybox fuzzer for Windows applications that addresses challenges including target function localization in persistent testing, GUI bypassing, and fitness metric calculation. …”
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Performance Analysis of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Assisted Underwater Wireless Optical Communication Systems by Qi Zhang, Dian-Wu Yue, Xian-Ying Xu

“…In the RIS-assisted UWOC systems with intensity modulation and direct detection (IM-DD), we apply the approximate distribution of the sum of Gamma-Gamma random variables to derive the probability density function (PDF) of the instantaneous received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for the first time. …”
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Retracted: Wuju Opera Cultural Creative Products and Research on Visual Image Under VR Technology by Yahong Wang, Xiaobing Hu

“…The VR-Platform platform is used to establish a virtual three-dimensional landscape planning scene, and the roaming function can be realized by making cameras and adding collision detection. …”
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Identification of hypertension gene expression biomarkers based on the DeepGCFS algorithm. by Zongjin Li, Liqin Tian, Libing Bai, Zeyu Jia, Xiaoming Wu, Changxin Song

“…Gene expression data is an important source for obtaining hypertension biomarkers. However, this data has a small sample size and high feature dimensionality, posing challenges to biomarker identification. …”
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The influence of shot noise on the performance of phase singularity-based refractometric sensors by Maslova Valeria, Ermolaev Georgy, Andrianov Evgeny S., Arsenin Aleksey V., Volkov Valentyn S., Baranov Denis G.

“…This raises a natural question: What happens with the sensitivity and resolution of such a sensor when it operates close to a zero of the response function, where the detected signal may be greatly influenced by various noise sources? …”
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Research and application of image recognition-based identification for flesh browning of loquat fruits by CHEN Yujia, DENG Chaojun, ZHANG Tingting, WANG Xiuping, CHEN Xiuping, ZHAO Jianing, MA Cuilan, JIANG Jimou

“…According to the membership function ranking by principal component analysis, the browning resistance of the 10 loquat resources from strong to weak was: Yanhong, Ruisui, Huangjinkuai, Zhongshudaxiang, Muluo Loquat, Zhongbai, Guifei, Sanyuebai, Baixuezao, Guofenben. …”
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MGSurvE: A framework to optimize trap placement for genetic surveillance of mosquito populations. by Héctor M Sánchez C, David L Smith, John M Marshall

“…For these projects, monitoring will be required to detect unintended spread of gene drive mosquitoes beyond field sites, and the emergence of alternative alleles, such as drive-resistant alleles or non-functional effector genes, within intervention sites. …”
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Exploring the Complexities of Seafood: From Benefits to Contaminants by Bettina Taylor, Kelvin Fynn Ofori, Ali Parsaeimehr, Gulsun Akdemir Evrendilek, Tahera Attarwala, Gulnihal Ozbay

“…Seafood plays a vital role in human diets worldwide, serving as an important source of high-quality protein, omega-3 fatty acids, and essential vitamins and minerals that promote health and prevent various chronic conditions. …”
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Retinal vein occlusion risk prediction without fundus examination using a no-code machine learning tool for tabular data: a nationwide cross-sectional study from South Korea by Na Hyeon Yu, Daeun Shin, Ik Hee Ryu, Tae Keun Yoo, Kyungmin Koh

“…An easy-to-use oversampling function was employed to address class imbalance, enhancing the usability of the workflow. …”
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Non-synaptic interactions between olfactory receptor neurons, a possible key feature of odor processing in flies. by Mario Pannunzi, Thomas Nowotny

“…To navigate a plume and, for example, find food, they must solve several challenges, including reliably identifying mixtures of odorants and their intensities, and discriminating odorant mixtures emanating from a single source from odorants emitted from separate sources and just mixing in the air. …”
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Bioactive matters based on natural product for cardiovascular diseases by Linfang Zhong, Xiaoying Tan, Wenhui Yang, Peishan Li, Lianbao Ye, Qi Luo, Honghao Hou

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Lipoprotein N-terminal modification in Bacillus: a new paradigm for extracellular acetylation and species-dependent Toll-like receptor 2 immunomodulation by Gloria Komazin, Rachel M. Wigmore, Aditi M. Ranade, Amena A. Rizk, John H. Gardiner, Timothy C. Meredith

“…While Ac-LP biosynthetic pathway genes appear to be universally conserved in all Bacillus spp., those associated with pathogenic lineages have often lost function. In B. anthracis strains, LhaT has been inactivated by insertion of poly-tyrosine runs of variable length that favors chemotype conversion to lyso-LP and evasion of TLR2 detection. …”
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Automated hypocenter determination of tectonic tremors in the Nankai subduction zone using convolutional neural networks combined with semblance analysis by Amane Sugii, Yoshihiro Hiramatsu, Takahiko Uchide, Kazutoshi Imanishi

“…The trained CNN model achieved high accuracy, with both precision and recall exceeding 97%, and correctly detected 96% of distant earthquakes. The probability of tectonic tremor as a function of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) increased steeply from 10 to 90% at an SNR of 4. …”
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SentemQC - A novel and cost-efficient method for quality assurance and quality control of high-resolution frequency sensor data in fresh waters [version 2; peer review: 1 approved,... by Sofie Gyritia Madsen van't Veen, Joachim Audet, Eti Ester Levi, Brian Kronvang, Søren Erik Larsen, Erik Jeppesen, Esben Astrup Kristensen, Anders Nielsen, Thomas Alexander Davidson, Jane Rosenstand Laugesen, Peter Mejlhede Andersen

“…Such a process is often resource-intensive and may not be consistent across users and sensors. …”
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The impact of early massive galaxy formation on the cosmic microwave background by Eda Gjergo, Pavel Kroupa

“…A previously overlooked foreground component is the formation of massive early-type galaxies (ETGs), which can no longer be ignored, particularly in light of JWST's detection of massive, evolved systems at extreme redshifts (z>13). …”
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Predictive Capabilities and Limitations of Stream Interaction Region Observations at Different Solar Longitudes by R. C. Allen, G. C. Ho, L. K. Jian, G. M. Mason, S. K. Vines, D. Lario

“…Through comparing 10 years of SIRs/CIRs observed at L1 and at STEREO, we have investigated the probability of sequentially detecting SIRs/CIRs at two locations as a function of the difference in heliospheric longitude and latitudinal separation between the two spacecraft. …”
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Legality of bringing to administrative responsibility for an offense under Art. 130 Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses: retrospective analysis by K. O. Chyshko

“…It was stated that the clarification provided in this regard by the Committee on Law Enforcement of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine is neither a source of law nor a normative legal act and is not binding, but instead serves a recommendatory function, therefore, the involvement of persons for committing a specific criminal offense under the procedure of proceedings on administrative offenses has no legal grounds.…”
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Radiation diagnostics of the state of ventilation and pulmonary circulation in patients with COPD by O. S. Sementsov, S. V. Stepanenko

“…Also a promising area is the use of functional CT (inspiratory-expiratory CT) - which should improve the assessment of respiratory function, including early detection of patients with COPD, which will promote the in time start of specific treatment, reduce episodes of exacerbations during the disease, assess the dynamics of the pathological process and the effectiveness of treatment, as well as improving the prognosis of work and life expectancy of patients. …”
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The burden of intracerebral hemorrhage attributable to ambient particulate matter pollution in five Asian countries: a 32-year comparative analysis by Rui Yang, Xingke Wang, Panpan Hao

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Double-moment normalization of hail size number distributions over Switzerland by A. Ferrone, J. Kopp, M. Lainer, M. Gabella, U. Germann, A. Berne

“…Thanks to its invariance in space and time, a generalized gamma function is used to model the normalized distribution, and its parameters have been determined through a fit over approximately 70 % of the events. …”
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