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 Propagation Properties of a Longitudinal Orbital Angular Momentum Multiplexing System in Atmospheric Turbulence by Qinghua Tian, Lei Zhu, Yongjun Wang, Qi Zhang, Bo Liu, Xiangjun Xin

“…The influences of system parameters on the average OAM mode probability densities are analyzed and discussed, such as propagation distance, strength of turbulence, sizes of finite aperture function, OAM mode numbers, and source parameters. …”
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Phase reconstruction via metasurface-integrated quantum analog operation by Qiuying Li, Minggui Liang, Shuoqing Liu, Jiawei Liu, Shizhen Chen, Shuangchun Wen, Hailu Luo

“…Besides, the consistency of entangled photon pairs in time domain makes it possible to achieve a high SNR imaging by trigger detection. The results may potentially empower the application of metasurfaces in optical chip, wave function reconstruction, and label-free biology imaging.…”
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Cooperative Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Heterogeneous Networking Using Iterative Gauss-Seidel Process by Haleh Hosseini, Kaamran Raahemifar, Sharifah Kamilah Syed Yusof, Alagan Anpalagan

“…Heterogeneous networks with dense deployment of small cells can employ cognitive features to efficiently utilize the available spectrum resources. Spectrum sensing is the key enabler for cognitive radio to detect the unoccupied channels for data transmission. …”
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Multimodal AI and Large Language Models for Orthopantomography Radiology Report Generation and Q&A by Chirath Dasanayaka, Kanishka Dandeniya, Maheshi B. Dissanayake, Chandira Gunasena, Ruwan Jayasinghe

“…In addition, the proposed solution includes a question-answering platform in the native Sinhala language, alongside the English language, designed to function as a chatbot for dental-related queries. We hope that this platform will eventually bridge the gap between dental services and patients, created due to a lack of human resources. …”
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Multifaceted roles of Galectins: from carbohydrate binding to targeted cancer therapy by Nan Zhang, Qiao Liu, Daihan Wang, Xiaoyun Wang, Zhaoping Pan, Bo Han, Gu He

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Urinary Exosomes by Irena Dimov, Ljubinka Jankovic Velickovic, Vladisav Stefanovic

“…Thus, UE have valuable potential as a source of biomarkers for early detection of various types of diseases, monitoring the disease evolution and/or response to therapy. …”
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Unsustainable anthropogenic mortality threatens the long-term viability of lion populations in Mozambique. by João Almeida, Willem D Briers-Louw, Agostinho Jorge, Colleen Begg, Marnus Roodbol, Hans Bauer, Andrew Loveridge, Matthew Wijers, Rob Slotow, Peter Lindsey, Kristoffer Everatt, Holly Rosier, Sean Nazerali, Lizanne Roxburgh, Hugo Pereira, Mercia da Conceicao, Armindo Araman, Osvaldo J Abrao, Alison J Leslie, Franziska Steinbruch, Vincent N Naude, Samantha K Nicholson

“…Our findings suggest that resilience to anthropogenic threats is largely a function of lion population size as well as resource and management capacity. …”
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Non-convex optimization with using positive-negative moment estimation and its application for skin cancer recognition with a neural network by P.A. Lyakhov, U.A. Lyakhova, R.I. Abdulkadirov

“…Multimodal neural network systems for analyzing heterogeneous dermatological data, using the proposed optimization algorithms, can be applied as a tool for auxiliary medical diagnostics, which will reduce the consumption of financial and labor resources involved in the medical industry, as well as increase the chance of early detection of pigmentary oncopathologies.…”
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3D Seismic Attribute Conditioning Using Multiscale Sheet-Enhancing Filtering by Taiyin Zhao, Yuehua Yue, Tian Chen, Feng Qian

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Logistical constraints lead to an intermediate optimum in outbreak response vaccination. by Yun Tao, Katriona Shea, Matthew Ferrari

“…The latter may also result in significantly larger outbreaks, thus suggesting a benefit of allocating resources to timely outbreak detection and response.…”
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Ensemble learning driven Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks-based Lung Cancer classification. by Abdul Rahaman Wahab Sait, Eid AlBalawi, Ramprasad Nagaraj

“…Early Lung Cancer (LC) detection is essential for reducing the global mortality rate. …”
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Feature Extraction and Classification of Power Quality Disturbances Using Optimized Tunable-Q Wavelet Transform and Incremental Support Vector Machine by Indu Sekhar Samanta, Pravat Kumar Rout, Kunjabihari Swain, Satyasis Mishra, Murthy Cherukuri

“…The widespread integration of renewable energy sources (RESs) into power systems using power electronics-based interface devices has led to a substantial rise in power quality (PQ) issues. …”
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Programming‐Assisted Imaging of Cellular Nitric Oxide Efflux Gradients and Directionality via Carbon Nanotube Sensors by Ivon Acosta Ramirez, Sruti Das Choudhury, Carley Conover, Omer Sadak, Nicole M. Iverson

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Sensing the Changes in Stratum Corneum Using Fourier Transform Infrared Microspectroscopy and Hyperspectral Data Processing by Krzysztof Banas, Agnieszka M. Banas, Giorgia Pastorin, Ngai Mun Hong, Shikhar Gupta, Katarzyna Dziedzic-Kocurek, Mark B. H. Breese

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Research on Behavior Recognition and Online Monitoring System for Liaoning Cashmere Goats Based on Deep Learning by Geng Chen, Zhiyu Yuan, Xinhui Luo, Jinxin Liang, Chunxin Wang

“…We improved YOLOv8n through dataset expansion, algorithm lightweighting, attention mechanism integration, and loss function optimization. Our improved model achieved the highest detection accuracy of 98.11% compared to other state-of-the-art (SOTA) target detection algorithms. …”
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The impact of early massive galaxy formation on the cosmic microwave background by Eda Gjergo, Pavel Kroupa

“…Without both intense star formation and a top-heavy galaxy-wide initial mass function of stars (IMF), it is difficult to reconcile stellar population synthesis models with the high metallicity and abundance patterns of α-elements. …”
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