Concatenated Vertical Channel Modeling and Performance Analysis for HAP-Based Optical Networks by Neha Tiwari, Swades De, Dharmaraja Selvamuthu

“…For HAP-based optical networks facing weak turbulence, the newly developed expressions provide an accuracy of about 2 dB for a BER of <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$10^{-4}$</tex-math></inline-formula> as compared to the existing competitive models. …”
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Longitudinal association of thyroid-stimulating immunoglobulin levels with clinical characteristics in thyroid eye disease by Kyung In Woo, Suk-Woo Yang, Jeong Kyu Lee, Sang In Khwarg, Jin Sook Yoon, Sehyun Baek, Jae Wook Yang, JaeSang Ko, Koung Hoon Kook, Sang Duck Kim, Jun Hyuk Son, Helen Lew, Sung Bok Lee, Jae Woo Jang, Hee Young Choi, Mi Jung Chi

“…Objectives The clinical course of thyroid eye disease (TED) is heterogeneous and predicting patients who may develop the severe sequelae of the disease is difficult. …”
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Anatomy-Informed Multimodal Learning for Myocardial Infarction Prediction by Ivan-Daniel Sievering, Ortal Senouf, Thabo Mahendiran, David Nanchen, Stephane Fournier, Olivier Muller, Pascal Frossard, Emmanuel Abbe, Dorina Thanou

“…<italic>Results:</italic> The results of our framework on a clinical study of 445 patients admitted with acute coronary syndromes confirms that multimodal learning increases the predictive power and achieves good performance (AUC: <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$0.67\pm 0.04$</tex-math></inline-formula> &amp; F1-Score: <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$0.36\pm 0.12$</tex-math></inline-formula>), which outperforms the prediction obtained by each modality independently as well as that of interventional cardiologists (AUC: 0.54 &amp; F1-Score: 0.18). …”
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A Comparative Evaluation of the Radiopacity of Contemporary Restorative CAD/CAM Blocks Using Digital Radiography Based on the Impact of Material Composition by Nahla Gamal Elhelbawy, Rehab F Ghouraba, Fatma A Hasaneen

“…The main purpose of this study was to assess the radiopacity of contemporary restorative computer-aided design (CAD)/computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) materials and the impact of material composition as measured by energy-dispersive X-ray spectrophotometry (EDX) on radiopacity. Materials and Methods. Ten specimens of six CAD/CAM materials with 1 mm thickness were produced and then digitally radiographed with an aluminum (Al) step-wedge (SW) and 1 mm thick tooth slice. …”
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TOM500: A Multi-Organ Annotated Orbital MRI Dataset for Thyroid Eye Disease by Haiyang Zhang, Hoi Chi Chan, Jiashuo Xu, Mengda Jiang, Xiaofeng Tao, Huifang Zhou, Xuefei Song, Xianqun Fan

“…It includes clinical data, T2-weighted MRI scans, and corresponding segmentations from 500 patients with thyroid eye disease (TED) during their initial visit. TED is a common autoimmune disorder with distinct orbital MRI features. …”
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Predicting the environmental suitability for onchocerciasis in Africa as an aid to elimination planning. by Elizabeth A Cromwell, Joshua C P Osborne, Thomas R Unnasch, Maria-Gloria Basáñez, Katherine M Gass, Kira A Barbre, Elex Hill, Kimberly B Johnson, Katie M Donkers, Shreya Shirude, Chris A Schmidt, Victor Adekanmbi, Olatunji O Adetokunboh, Mohsen Afarideh, Ehsan Ahmadpour, Muktar Beshir Ahmed, Temesgen Yihunie Akalu, Ziyad Al-Aly, Fahad Mashhour Alanezi, Turki M Alanzi, Vahid Alipour, Catalina Liliana Andrei, Fereshteh Ansari, Mustafa Geleto Ansha, Davood Anvari, Seth Christopher Yaw Appiah, Jalal Arabloo, Benjamin F Arnold, Marcel Ausloos, Martin Amogre Ayanore, Atif Amin Baig, Maciej Banach, Aleksandra Barac, Till Winfried Bärnighausen, Mohsen Bayati, Krittika Bhattacharyya, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Sadia Bibi, Ali Bijani, Somayeh Bohlouli, Mahdi Bohluli, Oliver J Brady, Nicola Luigi Bragazzi, Zahid A Butt, Felix Carvalho, Souranshu Chatterjee, Vijay Kumar Chattu, Soosanna Kumary Chattu, Natalie Maria Cormier, Saad M A Dahlawi, Giovanni Damiani, Farah Daoud, Aso Mohammad Darwesh, Ahmad Daryani, Kebede Deribe, Samath Dhamminda Dharmaratne, Daniel Diaz, Hoa Thi Do, Maysaa El Sayed Zaki, Maha El Tantawi, Demelash Abewa Elemineh, Anwar Faraj, Majid Fasihi Harandi, Yousef Fatahi, Valery L Feigin, Eduarda Fernandes, Nataliya A Foigt, Masoud Foroutan, Richard Charles Franklin, Mohammed Ibrahim Mohialdeen Gubari, Davide Guido, Yuming Guo, Arvin Haj-Mirzaian, Kanaan Hamagharib Abdullah, Samer Hamidi, Claudiu Herteliu, Hagos Degefa de Hidru, Tarig B Higazi, Naznin Hossain, Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, Mowafa Househ, Olayinka Stephen Ilesanmi, Milena D Ilic, Irena M Ilic, Usman Iqbal, Seyed Sina Naghibi Irvani, Ravi Prakash Jha, Farahnaz Joukar, Jacek Jerzy Jozwiak, Zubair Kabir, Leila R Kalankesh, Rohollah Kalhor, Behzad Karami Matin, Salah Eddin Karimi, Amir Kasaeian, Taras Kavetskyy, Gbenga A Kayode, Ali Kazemi Karyani, Abraham Getachew Kelbore, Maryam Keramati, Rovshan Khalilov, Ejaz Ahmad Khan, Md Nuruzzaman Nuruzzaman Khan, Khaled Khatab, Mona M Khater, Neda Kianipour, Kelemu Tilahun Kibret, Yun Jin Kim, Soewarta Kosen, Kris J Krohn, Dian Kusuma, Carlo La Vecchia, Van Charles Lansingh, Paul H Lee, Kate E LeGrand, Shanshan Li, Joshua Longbottom, Hassan Magdy Abd El Razek, Muhammed Magdy Abd El Razek, Afshin Maleki, Abdullah A Mamun, Ali Manafi, Navid Manafi, Mohammad Ali Mansournia, Francisco Rogerlândio Martins-Melo, Mohsen Mazidi, Colm McAlinden, Birhanu Geta Meharie, Walter Mendoza, Endalkachew Worku Mengesha, Desalegn Tadese Mengistu, Seid Tiku Mereta, Tomislav Mestrovic, Ted R Miller, Mohammad Miri, Masoud Moghadaszadeh, Abdollah Mohammadian-Hafshejani, Reza Mohammadpourhodki, Shafiu Mohammed, Salahuddin Mohammed, Masoud Moradi, Rahmatollah Moradzadeh, Paula Moraga, Jonathan F Mosser, Mehdi Naderi, Ahamarshan Jayaraman Nagarajan, Gurudatta Naik, Ionut Negoi, Cuong Tat Nguyen, Huong Lan Thi Nguyen, Trang Huyen Nguyen, Rajan Nikbakhsh, Bogdan Oancea, Tinuke O Olagunju, Andrew T Olagunju, Ahmed Omar Bali, Obinna E Onwujekwe, Adrian Pana, Hadi Pourjafar, Fakher Rahim, Mohammad Hifz Ur Rahman, Priya Rathi, Salman Rawaf, David Laith Rawaf, Reza Rawassizadeh, Serge Resnikoff, Melese Abate Reta, Aziz Rezapour, Enrico Rubagotti, Salvatore Rubino, Ehsan Sadeghi, Abedin Saghafipour, S Mohammad Sajadi, Abdallah M Samy, Rodrigo Sarmiento-Suárez, Monika Sawhney, Megan F Schipp, Amira A Shaheen, Masood Ali Shaikh, Morteza Shamsizadeh, Kiomars Sharafi, Aziz Sheikh, B Suresh Kumar Shetty, B Suresh Kumar Shetty, Jae Il Shin, K M Shivakumar, Biagio Simonetti, Jasvinder A Singh, Eirini Skiadaresi, Amin Soheili, Shahin Soltani, Emma Elizabeth Spurlock, Mu'awiyyah Babale Sufiyan, Takahiro Tabuchi, Leili Tapak, Robert L Thompson, Alan J Thomson, Eugenio Traini, Bach Xuan Tran, Irfan Ullah, Saif Ullah, Chigozie Jesse Uneke, Bhaskaran Unnikrishnan, Olalekan A Uthman, Natalie V S Vinkeles Melchers, Francesco S Violante, Haileab Fekadu Wolde, Tewodros Eshete Wonde, Tomohide Yamada, Sanni Yaya, Vahid Yazdi-Feyzabadi, Paul Yip, Naohiro Yonemoto, Hebat-Allah Salah A Yousof, Chuanhua Yu, Yong Yu, Hasan Yusefzadeh, Leila Zaki, Sojib Bin Zaman, Maryam Zamanian, Zhi-Jiang Zhang, Yunquan Zhang, Arash Ziapour, Simon I Hay, David M Pigott

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Ultra-Wideband 4-Bit Distributed Phase Shifters Using Lattice Network at <italic>K/Ka</italic>- and <italic>E/W</italic>-Band by Sungwon Kwon, Minjae Jung, Byung-Wook Min

“…At 28 GHz, the insertion loss was <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$11.6\pm 0$ </tex-math></inline-formula>.8 dB without dc power consumption. …”
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An Enhanced Three-Band Algorithm for Retrieving Phycocyanin Concentration from Satellite Data in Plateau Inland Lake by Dajun Yuan, Bo-Hui Tang, Dong Wang, Junyi Chen, Zhen Zhang, Zhitao Fu

“…Since the PC absorption feature at 620 nm is prone to interference from non-PC pigments, the algorithm incorporates the quantification of the absorption coefficient of non-PC pigments at 620 nm (<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">${{{\bm{a}}}_{{\bm{ph}} - {\bm{pc}}}}( {620} )$</tex-math></inline-formula>) to improve the accurate of estimating <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">${{{\bm{a}}}_{{\bm{pc}}}}( {620} )$</tex-math></inline-formula>. …”
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Mapping Susceptibility and Risk of Land Subsidence by Integrating InSAR and Hybrid Machine Learning Models: A Case Study in Xi&#x0027;an, China by Chen Chen, Mimi Peng, Mahdi Motagh, Xinxin Guo, Mengdao Xing, Yinghui Quan

“…Remarkably, the results revealed that regions with the very high and high risk level of subsidence are 12.33 <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\text{km}^{2}$</tex-math></inline-formula> and correspond to 1.34<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\%$</tex-math></inline-formula> of the total. …”
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Wind Field Retrieval From Co-Polarized SAR Imagery Without External Wind Direction Assistance by Xianen Wei, Jinsong Chong, Yawei Zhao, Lijie Diao, Xuan Jin

“…The root mean square error (RMSE) and the absolute value of Bias of wind direction comparison with ECMWF and ASCAT were both below 22<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$^{\circ }$</tex-math></inline-formula> and 1.8<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$^{\circ }$</tex-math></inline-formula>, respectively. …”
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The drivers of export product diversification in China: does natural resource endowments matter? by Jabbar Ul-Haq, Hubert Visas, Anatolijs Krivins, Rita Remeikienė, Qazi Muhammad Adnan Hye

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SpecPCM: A Low-Power PCM-Based In-Memory Computing Accelerator for Full-Stack Mass Spectrometry Analysis by Keming Fan, Ashkan Moradifirouzabadi, Xiangjin Wu, Zheyu Li, Flavio Ponzina, Anton Persson, Eric Pop, Tajana Rosing, Mingu Kang

“…SpecPCM, with up to three bits per cell, achieves speedups of up to <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$82\times $ </tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$143\times $ </tex-math></inline-formula> for MS clustering and DB search tasks, respectively, along with a four-orders-of-magnitude improvement in energy efficiency compared with state-of-the-art (SoA) CPU/GPU tools.…”
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Effects of Magnesium Content on Structure and Electrochemical Properties of La-Mg-Pr-Al-Mn-Co-Ni Hydrogen Storage Alloys by L. M. C. Zarpelon, E. P. Banczek, L. G. Martinez, N. B. Lima, I. Costa, R. N. Faria

“…The compositions analyzed by EDX suggested that the M phase was close to a LaNi5 phase. …”
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Melt quality induced failure of electrical conductor (EC) grade aluminum wires by Khaliq A., Rafiq M.A., Ali H.T., Ahmed F., Mehmood S., Grandfielde J., Ranjha S.A.

“…During wire drawing process, these inclusions were pulled out of the aluminum matrix by the wiredrawing forces to produce micro-voids which led to ductile tearing and final fracture of wires. …”
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Exploring the Dynamics of Brent Crude Oil, S&#x0026;P500 and Bitcoin Prices Amid Economic Instability by Adela Bara, Irina Alexandra Georgescu, Simona-Vasilica Oprea, Marian Pompiliu Cristescu

“…Furthermore, the unidirectional causalities BTCUSD<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\to $ </tex-math></inline-formula>BRENT and BTCUSD<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\to \text{S}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>&#x0026;P500 are identified. …”
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Retinal Surface Macrophage Changes in Thyroid Eye Disease before and after Treatment with Teprotumumab by Oscar Otero-Marquez, Mona Fayad, Alexander Pinhas, Toco Y. P. Chui, Richard B. Rosen, Harsha S. Reddy

“…We examined the variation of parafoveal surface macrophages in a thyroid eye disease (TED) patient before and after treatment with teprotumumab (Tepezza, Horizon therapeutics). …”
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Application of Bayesian Optimization in Gripper Design for Effective Grasping by Marco Todescato, Dominik T. Matt, Andrea Giusti

“…Numerical results on a set of industrial objects demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach showing up to <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\approx 300 \%$ </tex-math></inline-formula> improvement compared to the performance obtained using a fixed set of grippers.…”
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Quantized <italic>l</italic>&#x2082;-<italic>l</italic>&#x221E; Control for Nonlinear Discrete-Time Systems With DoS Attacks by Ying Tian, Ming-Yang Qiao

“…By defining the mode-dependent Lyapunov function, the design conditions of quantizers and controllers can be obtained to satisfy the system mean-square exponential stability and the desired <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$l_{2}-l_{\infty }$ </tex-math></inline-formula> performance. …”
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Optical Mode Calculation in Large-Area Photonic Crystal Surface-Emitting Lasers by Mindaugas Radziunas, Eduard Kuhn, Hans Wenzel, Ben King, Paul Crump

“…We discuss algorithms and numerical challenges in constructing and resolving spectral problems for photonic crystal surface-emitting lasers (PCSELs) with photonic crystal layers and large (up to several tens of mm<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$^{2}$</tex-math></inline-formula>) emission areas. …”
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