A novel approach in controlling the spread of a rumor within a crowd by Imane Dehaj, Abdessamad Dehaj, Abdessamad Tridane, M.A. Aziz-Alaoui, Mostafa Rachik

“…The spread of rumors within a crowd can lead to harmful consequences, ranging from misinformation and social disturbances to public panic and injuries or fatalities. …”
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The Global Spread of Microplastics: Contamination in Mussels, Clams, and Crustaceans from World Markets by Tamara Mutić, Jelena Mutić, Miloš Ilić, Vesna Jovanović, Jelena Aćimović, Boban Andjelković, Dragana Stanić-Vucinić, Maria Krishna de Guzman, Mirjana Andjelkovic, Mirjana Turkalj, Tanja Cirkovic Velickovic

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Fire spread simulations using Cell2Fire on synthetic and real landscapes by Minho Kim, Cristobal Pais, Marta C. Gonzalez

“…Abstract Fire spread models (FSMs) are used to reproduce fire behavior and can simulate fire propagation over landscapes. …”
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Enhancing Communication Security in Drones Using QRNG in Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum by J. de Curtò, I. de Zarzà, Juan-Carlos Cano, Carlos T. Calafate

“…Our method introduces a concurrent access protocol for multiple drones to share a QRNG device efficiently, incorporating robust error handling and a shared memory system for random number distribution. …”
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Performance analysis of uplink CDMA cellular systems based on the large system method by YU Kai1, FAN Ping-zhi2, HAO Li2

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Modeling melt relocation with solidification and remelting using a coupled level-set and enthalpy-porosity method by Liang Chen, Yan Xiang, Lu Zhao, Di Fang, Walter Villanueva, Andrei Komlev, Weimin Ma, Sevostian Bechta

“…The numerical model is validated by a melting experiment involving a Sn–Bi eutectic alloy on a copper substrate, wherein the alloy's transient morphology and spreading diameter are measured. The numerical simulation effectively replicates the observed melting and spreading behaviors of the metal on the solid surface. …”
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Assessing the Determinants of Bank Interest Rate Spread: Evidence From Western Balkan Countries by Artor Nuhiu, Florin Aliu, Arbër Hoti

“…This study investigates the effect of macroeconomic and bank-specific factors on the bank interest rate spread (IRS) of six Western Balkan countries (referred to as WB6). …”
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Whispers in End Hopping: High-Robustness Network Covert Channel Based on End Spreading by Zhengwen Wang, Fangxiao Li, Leyi Shi

“…To evaluate the performance of the CCES scheme, three evaluation metrics are adopted: non-detectability, robustness, and transmission efficiency. Experimental results show that CCES achieves a bit error rate (BER) below 5% under 30% packet loss, entropy values ranging from 0.15 to 0.82 (comparable to normal traffic), and a transmission efficiency of up to 800 bits per second. …”
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The Happiness Group and the Baptism Competition: How a Gospel-Spreading Program Led to Failure by Wenwen Chen

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SSB Pruned DFT-Spread FBMC Signal With Low PAPR in Direct-Detection PONs by Xiaoling Zhang, Chongfu Zhang, Mingyue Zhu, Wei Jin, Chen Chen, Xiang Gao, Kun Qiu

“…It is demonstrated that the PAPR of the SSB pruned DFT-spread FBMC signal with the overlapping factor of 1.56 outperforms the conventional FBMC signal and the simple DFT-spread FBMC signal by ∼2 dB and 1 dB at the complementary cumulative distribution function (CCDF) of 1 × 10^−3, respectively. …”
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Fire Hazard Risk Grading of Timber Architectural Complexes Based on Fire Spreading Characteristics by Chong Wang, Zhigang Song, Jian Zhang, Lijiao Liu, Feiyang Zheng, Siqi Cao

“…Results demonstrate that the approach efficiently computes fire spread characteristics across different scenarios and quantitatively evaluates risk levels, enabling targeted fire safety interventions based on village-specific spread patterns. …”
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Fractional Optimal Control Problem and Stability Analysis of Rumor Spreading Model with Effective Strategies by Hegagi Mohamed Ali, Saud Owyed, Ismail Gad Ameen

“…Different optimal control strategies are proposed to reduce the negative effects of rumor spreading and achieve the maximum social benefit. Numerical simulation is implemented using a forward–backward sweep (FBS) approach based on the predictor–corrector method (PCM) to clarify the efficiency of the proposed strategies in order to decrease the number of rumor spreaders and increase the number of aware populations.…”
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The pilot study of the features of HIV-1 resistant variants spread using molecular clusters by Alina A. Kirichenko, Dmitry E. Kireev, Yulia N. Sidorina, Natalia D. Abashina, Elena E. Brusentseva, Vasily G. Akimkin

“…Combined with the increasing use of bioinformatics methods in practice, it has become possible to study the features of HIV-1 resistant variants spread using molecular clustering analysis. The aim of the study was to validate the molecular clustering analysis in a pilot region of Russia using a significant number of nucleotide sequences to study the features of the spread of HIV-1 resistant variants. …”
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LinU-Mamba: Visual Mamba U-Net with Linear Attention to Predict Wildfire Spread by Henintsoa S. Andrianarivony, Moulay A. Akhloufi

“…In this study, we develop a deep learning model to predict wildfire spread using remote sensing data. We propose LinU-Mamba, a model with a U-Net-based vision Mamba architecture, with light spatial attention in skip connections, and an efficient linear attention mechanism in the encoder and decoder to better capture salient fire information in the dataset. …”
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Neural Posterior Estimation for Cataloging Astronomical Images with Spatially Varying Backgrounds and Point Spread Functions by Aakash Patel, Tianqing Zhang, Camille Avestruz, Jeffrey Regier, The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

“…Neural posterior estimation (NPE), a type of amortized variational inference, is a computationally efficient means of constructing probabilistic catalogs of light sources from astronomical images. …”
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Multiple UAV Swarms Collaborative Firefighting Strategy Considering Forest Fire Spread and Resource Constraints by Pei Zhu, Rui Song, Jiangao Zhang, Ziheng Xu, Yaqi Gou, Zhi Sun, Quan Shao

“…To address the demands of efficient forest fire detection and suppression, an adaptive multiple UAV swarm collaborative firefighting strategy considering dynamic forest fire spread and resource constraints was proposed in this paper. …”
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CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CAUSATIVE AGENTS OF ACUTE RESPIRATORY VIRAL INFECTIONS AND THE IMPORTANCE OF DISINFECTION MEASURES IN PREVENTING THEIR SPREAD by L. V. Rubis

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Emerging 5G Multicarrier Chaotic Sequence Spread Spectrum Technology for Underwater Acoustic Communication by Wu Jinqiu, Qiao Gang, Kang Pengbin

“…Therefore, GFDM cannot be implemented directly in UWA communication; to solve this problem, a system combining chaotic sequence spread spectrum technology with GFDM is proposed, which is a novel technique with high spectrum efficiency. …”
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Jointing sparse recovery estimation algorithm of underwater acoustic channels with long time delay spread by Yue-hai ZHOU, Xiu-ling CAO, Dong-sheng CHEN, Feng TONG

“…Efficient estimation of underwater acoustic channels with a large time ay spread was addressed. …”
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Sensitivity to the Representation of Wind for Wildfire Rate of Spread: Case Studies with the Community Fire Behavior Model by Masih Eghdami, Pedro A. Jiménez y Muñoz, Amy DeCastro

“…The results show that WAF implementation improves fire perimeter predictions for both grass and canopy fires while reducing the overestimation of fire spread. Moreover, this approach solely depends on the fuel bed depth and estimation of canopy density, enhancing operational efficiency by eliminating the need for users to specify a wind height for simulations.…”
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