Local and Deep Features Based Convolutional Neural Network Frameworks for Brain MRI Anomaly Detection by Sajad Einy, Hasan Saygin, Hemrah Hivehch, Yahya Dorostkar Navaei

“…The first proposed system is Directional Bit-Planes Deep Autoencoder (DBP-DAE) which extracts and learns local and direction features. …”
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Drag-Reduction Performance Evaluation of Controllable Hybrid Steering Drilling System by Jianyan Zou, Ping Chen, Tianshou Ma, Yang Liu, Xingming Wang

“…Friction reduction increases with the rotary speed and the drilling fluid density, whereas it decreases with the increase in the surface weight-on-bit and the bit reaction torque. Field tests confirm the separation and meshing function of the CHSDS. …”
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Optical Orbital Angular Momentum Demultiplexing and Channel Equalization by Using Equalizing Dammann Vortex Grating by Mingyang Su, Junmin Liu, Yanliang He, Shuqing Chen, Ying Li

“…Numerical simulation shows that the bit error rate (BER) of each OAM channel can decrease to 10-4 when the bit SNR is 22 dB, and the intensity is distributed over the necessary order of diffraction evenly.…”
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Beam steering by two vertically faced metasurfaces using polarization free unit cells with three operating modes by Mohammadreza Jahangiri, Hossein Soleimani, Mohammad Soleimani

“…In this work, a unit cell with three polarization modes, consisting of absorption, reflection, and a 1-bit phase shift, is designed and investigated. The unit cell in the nonplanar metasurface is composed of two vertical surfaces. …”
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Energy, Exergy, Entropy, Emission Factors (4E’s) and Sustainability Index analyses of thermal splintering waste paraffin Oil, di-ethyl ether − diesel blends by R. Saravanan, P. Navaneetha Krishnan, M. Rengasamy, V. Manieniyan

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A Review of the Research and Development of High-Frequency Measurement Technologies Used for Nonlinear Dynamics of Drillstring by Lixin Li, Jin Wang, Yingmei Yu, Yifei Xing, Fengyan Zhang, Yi Zhang, Yanyan Li

“…High-frequency measurements have been used for enabling drillers to improve drill performance, especially for field decision making, BHA selection, and bit design, usually through the ways of minimizing vibrations to obtain high-efficient drilling conditions, the high-frequency response near bit can also be used for lithology identification during drilling. …”
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Integration in CNN and FIR filters for improved computational efficiency in signal processing by A. Sridevi, A. Sathiya

“…To effectively generate a 16-bit product, the used architecture consists of four four-by-four Vedic modules, an 8:1 carry-save adder, and two nine-bit binary adders. …”
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Physically non-cloneable arbiter-type function with non-linear path pairs by A. A. Ivaniuk, A. Y. Shamyna

“…Among the variety of PUF types, an Arbiter PUF (APUF) is distinguished, which is a digital circuit with N-bit challenge input and single output for one-bit response generation. …”
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Equalizer Design: HBOA-DE-trained radial basis function neural networks by Santosh Kumar Das, Satya Ranjan Pattanaik, Pradyumna Kumar Mohapatra, Saroja Kumar Rout, Abdulaziz S. Almazyad, Muhammed Basheer Jasser, Guojiang Xiong, Ali Wagdy Mohamed

“…To make sure the signal is recovered with a minimum bit error rate, equalizers are needed at the front end of the receiver. …”
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Enhanced Lightweight Quantum Key Distribution Protocol for Improved Efficiency and Security by Ashutosh Bhatia, Sainath Bitragunta, Kamlesh Tiwari

“…In this work, we propose three key optimizations for BB84: (1) PRNG-based predetermined key bit positioning, which eliminates redundant bit exchanges during sifting, (2) hash-based subsequence comparison, enabling lightweight and efficient key verification, and (3) adaptive basis reconciliation, which minimizes the communication costs associated with basis matching. …”
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Undesirable Postoperative Anesthesia Outcomes at Two National Referral Hospitals: A Cross-Sectional Study in Eritrea by Yonatan Mehari Andemeskel, Traudl Elsholz, Ghidey Gebreyohannes, Eyasu H. Tesfamariam

“…Prevalence of the predominant undesirable outcome, postoperative pain, for ‘at least a little bit’ and ‘more than moderate’ were 82.6% and 43.6%, respectively. …”
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An efficient medical data encryption scheme using selective shuffling and inter-intra pixel diffusion IoT-enabled secure E-healthcare framework by Dhivya Ravichandran, W. Sylvia Lilly Jebarani, Hemalatha Mahalingam, Padmapriya Velupillai Meikandan, Padmapriya Pravinkumar, Rengarajan Amirtharajan

“…Finally, the intra and inter-pixel diffusion is carried out using bit permutation and bit-wise XOR operation to create a highly random cipher image. …”
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Fast Video Encoding Algorithm for the Internet of Things Environment Based on High Efficiency Video Coding by Jong-Hyeok Lee, Kyung-Soon Jang, Byung-Gyu Kim, Seyoon Jeong, Jin Soo Choi

“…HEVC RExt provides high resolution video with a high bit-depth and an abundance of color formats. In this paper, a fast intraprediction unit decision method is proposed to reduce the computational complexity of the HEVC RExt encoder. …”
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Generative Image Steganography via Encoding Pose Keypoints by Yi Cao, Wentao Ge, Chengsheng Yuan, Quan Wang

“…It also achieves an average hiding capacity of 178.4 bits per image. This method is robust against common image attacks, such as salt and pepper noise, median filtering, compression, and screenshots, with an average bit error rate of less than 0.87%. …”
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GIS-based frequency ratio and Shannon entropy modeling for landslide susceptibility mapping: A case study in Kundah Taluk, Nilgiris District, India by Senthilkumar Harithaa, Selvaraj Evany Nithya

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Improve Quality Factor by Using DWDM Technology for Long Distances and Different Power Levels by Mariam lazem, Ali Mahdi Hammadi, Ali Al-Askery

“…The DWDM design uses 48 channels, 200 GHz channel spacing, and a bit rate of 40 Gbps for each channel The link length used is 240 and 300 km, using SMF (Single Fiber Mode) and DCF (Dispersion Compensation Amplifier). …”
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Dual-Mode Encryption for UC-Secure String OT from Learning with Errors by Momeng Liu, Yupu Hu, Qiqi Lai, Shanshan Zhang, Huiwen Jia, Wen Gao, Baocang Wang

“…(PKC’20), which is utilized to extend the single-bit symmetric encryption key (produced by the aforementioned rounding function) to a multibit case. …”
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Time Domain Equalization and Digital Back-Propagation Method-Based Receiver for Fiber Optic Communication Systems by Fazal Muhammad, Farman Ali, Usman Habib, Muhammad Usman, Imran Khan, Sunghwan Kim

“…The simulations are performed considering Dual Polarization- (DP-) QPSK modulation format to achieve two-fold data rate to achieve spectral efficiency of 3.28 bits/s/Hz by making use of the polarization diversity and system performance is investigated in terms of bit error rate (BER), constellation diagrams, and quality factor (Q-factor) for different values of optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR), launch power (PL), and fiber length.…”
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Utilizing MRAMs With Low Resistance and Limited Dynamic Range for Efficient MAC Accelerator by Sateesh, Kaustubh Chakarwar, Shubham Sahay

“…Although ultra-dense magnetic memories with multi-bit capability (MLC) were proposed recently, their application in hybrid CMOS-non-volatile memory accelerators is limited due to their low dynamic range (memory window) and high cell currents (ON/OFF-state resistance in ∼kΩ). …”
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