Secrecy-Constrained UAV-Mounted RIS-Assisted ISAC Networks: Position Optimization and Power Beamforming by Weichao Yang, Yajing Wang, Dawei Wang, Yixin He, Li Li

“…This paper investigates secrecy solutions for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems, leveraging the combination of a reflecting intelligent surface (RIS) and an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to introduce new degrees of freedom for enhanced system performance. Specifically, we propose a secure ISAC system supported by a UAV-mounted RIS, where an ISAC base station (BS) facilitates secure multi-user communication while simultaneously detecting potentially malicious radar targets. …”
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Laws for health and care worker protection and rights: A study of 182 countries. by Matthew M Kavanagh, Adi Radakrishnan, Vishakh Unnikrishnan, Giorgio Cometto, Catherine Kane, Eric A Friedman, Varsha Srivatsan, Luis Gil Abinader, James Campbell, Health & Care Worker Policy Lab

“…Comparing the key legal issues facing health and care workers, well over half of countries studied are fully aligned with the Care Compact on occupational health and safety, fair remuneration, enabling work environments, freedom of association, and collective bargaining. …”
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Sacred Bonds or Sinful Ties? Interreligious Marriage in Islamic Law by Rafli Zidan Eka Ramadhan, Rohadhatul Aisy, Shofriya Qonitatin Abidah, Fateema Muslihatun Najihah, Bagus Hendradi Kusuma

“…Critics argue that such prohibitions conflict with fundamental human rights, particularly the right to marry and religious freedom. Additionally, interfaith couples often encounter significant legal and social hurdles, including issues related to inheritance, child custody, and religious conversion. …”
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The Qur’ans of the Spanish Moriscos and the Tatars of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Drawing Comparisons and Tracing Patterns by Katarzyna K. Starczewska

“…While the Tatars of the GDL were granted full religious freedom, the Moriscos were heavily persecuted for any signs of adherence to Islam. …”
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Overview of animal infectious disease situation in the Republic of Dagestan in 2023 by M. M. Mikailov, N. R. Budulov, Sh. A. Gunashev, E. A. Yanikova

“…In order to maintain animal disease freedom and sustainable growth of livestock production, the Veterinary Committee of the Republic of Dagestan annually implements measures to prevent the occurrence and spread of 75 diseases of animals and birds, including 10 highly dangerous ones. …”
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Leader’s management decision-making style and emotional intelligence of higher education students studying in the speciality “Law Enforcement” by S. V. Kharchenko, O. V. Koldashov

“…It has also been revealed that a leader with developed emotional intelligence is not focused on emphasising his or her status as a leader, but, on the contrary, provides a certain freedom of action to his or her subordinates. It has been noted that the developed components of emotional intelligence are important, but not decisive, for making managerial decisions by future law enforcement officers. …”
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Estimation level of public welfare on the basis of methods of intellectual analysis by S. Kozlovskyi, L. Nikolenko, O. Peresada, O. Pokhyliuk, O. Yatchuk, N. Bolgarova, O. Kulhanik

“…Input factors of the model are international indices and indicators, such as Index of Economic Freedom, Global Peace Index, Democracy Index, Corruption Perceptions Index, Human Development Index, Prosperity Index, Global Competitiveness Index as well as an indicator that reflects the characteristic property of the Ukrainian economy, namely the minimum living wage. …”
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WORDS ARE LIFE. WRITTEN MEMORIES IN THE HOSPICE EXPERIENCE: A QUALITATIVE STUDY by Pieralba Chiarlone, Silvio Giono-Calvetto, Flavia Lena, Gaetano Giuseppe Saita, Roberta Maci, Giovanni Moruzzi, Salvatore Bonanno

“…Conclusions The blank pages inside the diaries allowed patients and caregivers to express their subjectivity in relation to profound experiences such as illness and death, with absolute stylistic and semantic freedom. This work is only the beginning of a journey of interpretation of the texts, but, despite all the limitations, we believe that provides an unusual image of the hospice experience.…”
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A Hybrid Approach for Sports Activity Recognition Using Key Body Descriptors and Hybrid Deep Learning Classifier by Muhammad Tayyab, Sulaiman Abdullah Alateyah, Mohammed Alnusayri, Mohammed Alatiyyah, Dina Abdulaziz AlHammadi, Ahmad Jalal, Hui Liu

“…Various feature descriptors, including MSER (Maximally Stable Extremal Regions), SURF (Speeded-Up Robust Features), distance transform, and DOF (Degrees of Freedom), were applied to skeleton points, while BRIEF (Binary Robust Independent Elementary Features), HOG (Histogram of Oriented Gradients), FAST (Features from Accelerated Segment Test), and Optical Flow were used on silhouettes or full-body points to capture both geometric and motion-based features. …”
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An Unenclosed Quasi-Static Cavity Resonator-Based Ubiquitous 3-D Wireless Power Transfer System Supporting Simultaneous Through-Wall Wireless Communications by Qiaoli Zhang, Lingao Fan, Fangcheng Ren, Zhen Yue, Deshuang Zhao, Shuai Ding, Bingzhong Wang

“…With the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT), the demand on the wireless power supply to consumer electronics simultaneously requires much more location freedom, ease of use, and performance with wireless communications. …”
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Physical Implications and Physics-Based Design Conditions of Nominal Inertia Matrix for Operational Space Perturbation Observer by Sang Hyun Park, Seongil Hwang, Murim Kim, Sang Hoon Kang

“…Extensive experiments using a 2 degree-of-freedom robot verified these physical implications and physics-based conditions. …”
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Design and Experiment of Assistive Mechanism for Adjustment of Transrectal Ultrasound Probe by Jin-Gang Jiang, Hui Zuo, Yong-De Zhang, Zhi-Yuan Huang, Xiao-Wei Guo, Yong Xu

“…The overall mechanism has 7 degrees of freedom, consisting of a position adjustment module, a posture adjustment module, and an ultrasonic probe rotation and feed module. …”
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Fondling Breasts and Playing Guitar. Textual and Contextual Expressions of a Sociomusical Conflict in Accra by Tobias Robert Klein

“…Its violation by charismatic churches sparked off a fierce debate on the freedom of worship, in which traditional religion quarrels with Africanised congregations, for whom electric guitars, dances and tongue-speaking form part and parcel of their services. …”
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Retrievals of water vapour and temperature exploiting the far-infrared: application to aircraft observations in preparation for the FORUM mission by S. Panditharatne, S. Panditharatne, S. Panditharatne, H. Brindley, H. Brindley, C. Cox, R. Siddans, R. Siddans, J. Murray, J. Murray, L. Warwick, S. Fox

“…Comparable retrieval biases are observed for retrievals of temperature and water vapour; however, there is an increase of <span class="inline-formula">∼</span> 1 degree of freedom for water vapour and temperature for the FORUM configuration. …”
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How Does a Ceramic Melt Under Laser? Tunnel Ionization Dominant Femtosecond Ultrafast Melting in Magnesium Oxide by Hui Zhao, Shiqi Hu, Mengxue Guan, Xinbao Liu, Daqiang Chen, Jiyu Xu, Sheng Meng

“…Laser-induced melting plays a crucial role in advanced manufacturing technology and ultrafast science; however, its atomic processes and microscopic mechanisms, especially in a wide-gap ceramic, remain elusive due to complex interplays between many degrees of freedom within a timescale of ~100 fs. We report here that laser melting is greatly accelerated by intense laser-induced tunnel ionization, instead of a priori multiphoton absorption, in the archetypal ceramic magnesium oxide (MgO). …”
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Multi-parameter control of photodetection in van der Waals magnet CrSBr by Shiqi Yang, Zhigang Song, Yuchen Gao, Leyan Huang, Xinyue Huang, Pingfan Gu, Wenjing Liu, Zuxin Chen, Yu Ye

“…Nevertheless, the integration of such capabilities within a single device is challenging due to the necessity of harmonizing multiple materials with varying degrees of freedom. In this study, we introduce the van der Waals magnet CrSBr, featuring inherent anisotropy and distinctive spin-electronic coupling, to this realm. …”
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Relations between Russia and Lithuania in the contemporary Lithuanian historiography by Nerijus Šepetys

“…The situation of Lithuanian historiography, considering the aspect of political and scientific freedom, is obviously better than the one in Russia, although Lithuanian historians have not produced many substantial works on the 20th-century interstate relations. …”
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Compensation for moral damages for violation of police officer’s personal non-property rights: problems of law enforcement by S. O. Popova

“…To support the positions of national scholars, the author proposes to create a separate regulatory act which would provide guarantees for the protection of personal non-property rights of law enforcement officers and establish a balance between the observance of freedom of expression in the media regarding police activities and the observance of the rights of law enforcement officers in the performance of their official duties.…”
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TEACHING AND ASSESSING INDEPENDENT LISTENING IN AN ONLINE COURSE FOR TRANSLATION MAJORS by Olga G. Kvasova, Nataliia K. Liamzina, Roksoliana I. Radchuk, Yulia I. Trykashna

“…Basic principles applied in teaching independent listening include giving learners enough freedom for self-regulation, i.e., choosing a text and time for listening, self-evaluating results, and developing strategies for further learning with a teacher’s support for scaffolding learning. …”
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A feasibility study on using soft insoles for estimating 3D ground reaction forces with incorporated 3D-printed foam-like sensors by Nick Willemstein, Saivimal Sridar, Herman van der Kooij, Ali Sadeghi

“…However, these insoles often assemble commercial components restricting design freedom and customization. Within this work, we incorporated four 3D-printed soft foam-like sensors to sensorize an insole. …”
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