Degrees of freedom of MIMO interference channel with distributed space-time interference alignment by Tengda YING, Wenjiang FENG, Weiheng JIANG, Guoling LIU, Chunan YAO, Taotao BAO

“…In the context of K-user MIMO interference channel (IC),achievable degrees of freedom (DoF) were investigated with distributed space-time interference alignment (DSTIA).By precoding with distributed current and outdated channel state information at the transmitters (CSIT),new tradeoff regions between achievable DoF and CSI feedback delay/frequency were achieved for MISO system.The impact of the number of transmit antennas on achievable DoF in the MISO system was analyzed,revealing that DoF results approach to the outer bound as the number of transmit antennas increases.Further,the impact of the number of receive antennas on achievable DoF was characterized,deriving the range of CSI feedback delay that preserves achievable DoF in the MIMO system.Theoretical and numerical analyses show that,the proposed DSTIA scheme can achieve better sum-DoFs by eliminating inter-user interference perfectly,tighten the gap between achievable DoF and outer bound,as well as improve the achievable rate of the system.…”
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CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR OF PRODUCTS OBTAINED FROM MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS: A SEGMENTATION BASED ON FREQUENCY AND PURPOSE OF THEIR USE by Roxana-Larisa CADAR, Antonio AMUZA, Diana Elena DUMITRAȘ, Cristina Bianca POCOL

“…The consumption behaviour for products obtained from medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) has been little studied, until nowadays, in Romania. In the current context, in which there can be noticed an accentuated increase of these products’ supply on the market and the consumers’ concern with a healthy lifestyle, this study has aimed at a segmentation of the consumers of MAPs products, according to their frequency, purpose of use and sociodemographic features. …”
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Determining Impacts on Non-Performing Loan Ratio in Romania by Adriana Daniela CIUREL, Tiberiu STOICA

“…This paper aims to investigate some of the determinants of non-performing loans in the Romanian banking sector by means of Vector Error Correction (VEC). The increase in non-performing loans is the most relevant factor that financial institutions face in order to maintain an adequate level of solvency in the context of current economic decline. …”
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Fishing amongst industrial ghosts by Charlotte Gagnon-Lewis

“…Grounded in political ecology, the article argues that while expanding into emerging species may offer short-term relief, it cannot constitute a viable long-term response to the structural dimensions of the current ecological crisis. This calls for more transformative approaches to fisheries governance—approaches that challenge inherited management systems and engage with an era increasingly defined by socio-ecological unpredictability. …”
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Progress in visible-light-activated photocatalytic coatings to combat implant-related infections: From mechanistic to translational roadmap by Bruna E. Nagay, Samuel S. Malheiros, Maria H.R. Borges, Conrado Aparicio, Jeroen J.J.P. van den Beucken, Valentim A.R. Barão

“…Biomedical and dental implants have enhanced healthcare but concurrently increased the risk of infections. Innovations in smart biomaterials, especially those responding to light stimuli through photocatalytic mechanisms, are emerging as promising solutions for activating targeted antimicrobial responses. …”
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The Significance of Team Dynamics in Students’ Entrepreneurial Decision-Making by Quynh Duong Phuong

“…Among various factors, reasons are rooted in the team membership decreasing uncertainty, students’ decision dependencies on team members and the increased importance placed on the team relative to the idea. …”
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Prediction of potential habitat of Verbena officinalis in China under climate change based on optimized MaxEnt model by Shimao Chen, Zixuan Jiang, Jia Song, Tao Xie, Yu Xue, Qingshan Yang, Qingshan Yang, Qingshan Yang

“…Under future climate change scenarios (SSP1-2.6 and SSP5-8.5), the total suitable habitat area shows an overall increasing trend, reaching a maximum in the 2070s under the high-emission scenario (an increase of 3.6 × 105 km2 compared to the current distribution). …”
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Federated Deep Learning for Scalable and Privacy-Preserving Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack Detection in Internet of Things Networks by Abdulrahman A. Alshdadi, Abdulwahab Ali Almazroi, Nasir Ayub, Miltiadis D. Lytras, Eesa Alsolami, Faisal S. Alsubaei, Riad Alharbey

“…Industry-wide IoT networks have altered operations and increased vulnerabilities, notably DDoS attacks. IoT systems are decentralised. …”
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Characterization of the Power Distribution Network for Commercialized STM32s Using a Resonance Frequency Measurement Method by Marie Peyrard, Gilles Jacquemod, Nicolas Froidevaux

“…The present tendency of increasing current density and operating frequency, along with decreasing operating voltage, significantly diminishes voltage margins. …”
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Enhancing Smart Cities with IoT and Cloud Computing: A Study on Integrating Wireless Ad Hoc Networks for Efficient Communication by Haider Mohammed Abdulhadi, Yousra Abdul Alsahib S. Aldeen, Maryam A. Yousif, Mays jalal jaseem, Syed Hamid Hussain Madni

“…IoT data is first collected in the context of smart cities. The data that is gathered is uniform. …”
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Lipidomic markers of obesity and their dynamics after bariatric surgery by T. V. Saprina, A. S. Bashirova, V. V. Ivanov, S. I. Pekov, I. A. Popov, S. R. Bashirov, E. A. Vasilyeva, O. A. Pavlenko, D. V. Krinitskii, M. Chen

“…Currently available studies and their results suggest that we are only at the very start of studying this promising biomedical field.…”
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Physicians’ experiences of assessing and supporting fatigued patients in primary care: a focus group study by Conrad Samuelsson, Lisa Gunnarsson, Frank Svärdman, Christian Rück, Elin Lindsäter

“…Abstract Background Fatigue is a common symptom in primary healthcare, affecting 10–30% of patients, and is associated with increased healthcare consumption and functional disability. …”
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The Impact of brain-gut microbiota composition on depression by Aleksander Ptasiński, Marta Targońska, Oskar Targoński, Adrianna Madej, Adrian Suława, Julia Furgalska, Sebastian Fedorowicz, Aneta Basiak, Rafał Niekurzak, Agnieszka Buczek

“…It is important to note the significant individual variability in the context of changes in the depressive microbiome and the response to various modification methods. …”
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The specificity and flexibility of l1 reverse transcription priming at imperfect T-tracts. by Clément Monot, Monika Kuciak, Sébastien Viollet, Ashfaq Ali Mir, Caroline Gabus, Jean-Luc Darlix, Gaël Cristofari

“…Third, efficient priming in the context of duplex DNA requires a 3' overhang. This suggests the possible existence of additional DNA processing steps, which generate a single-stranded 3' end to allow L1 reverse transcription. …”
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Semantic approaches for query expansion: taxonomy, challenges, and future research directions by Azzah Allahim, Asma Cherif, Abdessamad Imine

“…Of late, semantic query expansion techniques have attracted increased interest among researchers since these techniques offer more pertinent and practical results to the users. …”
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The Impact of the Fibrinolytic System on the Outcomes of Thrombolytic Therapy by R. E. Kalinin, E. A. Klimentova, I. A. Suchkov, A. A. Egorov, A. S. Pshennikov

“…Resistance to thrombolytic agents with subsequent unsatisfactory reperfusion of the vascular bed is the most important of them. Currently, despite advances in the pharmacotherapy of drugs used in thrombolysis and improvements in the technical basis for its performance, the predictors that influence its outcome are still not clearly defined. …”
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Les routes forestières au Québec : Les impacts environnementaux, sociaux et économiques by Laurence Bourgeois, Daniel Kneeshaw, Gaétane Boisseau

“…In Quebec, the kilometers of forest roads built per year are consistently increasing despite the fact that they have important ecological and socio-economic impacts. …”
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Aircraft overrun warning systems capabilities and disadvantages by S. F. Borodkin, A. I. Volynchuk, M. A. Kiselev, Yu. V. Petrov

“…Currently, attention of the aviation community and authorities is being increasingly focused on flight safety in the landing phase. …”
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THE ROLE OF CYBERHATE AS A COMPONENT OF CYBERBULLYING IN THE SYSTEM OF STAFF DEVELOPMENT IN PUBLIC SERVICE by Mykola Atanasov

“…The introductory part emphasizes that the issue of cyberhate is a complex combination of misused, mediated and unregulated freedom of speech. Currently, debates continue in the world about its universal conceptualization. …”
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Predictors of underachieved and overachieved fertility among women with completed fertility in Ghana. by Isaac Yeboah, Stephen Owusu Kwankye, Faustina Frempong-Ainguah

“…<h4>Background</h4>A woman's ability to achieve her preferred family size is critical in addressing issues of high fertility in sub-Saharan Africa. The socio-cultural context in sub-Saharan Africa presents some difficulty for the attainment of preferred fertility for many women. …”
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