A novel pythonic paradigm for image encryption using axis-aligned bounding boxes by Abdulbasid Banga, Akifa Abbas, Danish Ali, Nisreen Innab, Ala Saleh Alluhaidan, Nadeem Iqbal, Hossam Diab

“…To further enhance security, diffusion effects are introduced by performing an XoR operation between the confused image and random numbers provided by the piece-wise linear chaotic map. …”
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AFHNet: Attention-Free Hybrid Network for Salient Object Detection in Underwater Images by Qian Tang, Zhen Wang, Xuqi Wang, Shan-Wen Zhang

“…AFHNet integrates an attention-free mechanism, global feature enhancement, and a convolution-free Transformer-based dual-encoder to effectively fuse RGB and depth features while preserving essential information. …”
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Lumped Parameter Model for Structural Analysis of Over-Constrained Multi-Legged Parallel Mechanism Supporting System Applied to Cryogenic Devices by Luca Piacentini, Luca Dassa, Diego Perini, Andris Ratkus, Toms Torims, Stefano Uberti

“…Comparable and accurate results are obtained, which are about 130 times faster than in finite element analysis, thus proving the effective reduction in computational cost. Additionally, the proposed code lets designers change input parameters in a quicker and reliable way.…”
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Reconstruction and Separation Method of Ranging and Communication Phase in Beat-Note for Micro-Radian Phasemeter by Tao Yu, Hongyu Long, Ke Xue, Mingzhong Pan, Zhi Wang, Yunqing Liu

“…To mitigate the impact of phase modulation, existing solutions mostly alleviate it by reducing the modulation depth and optimizing the structure of the pseudo-random noise (PRN) codes. Since the phase modulation is not effectively separated from the phase of the beat-note phase measurement, it has a potential impact on the phase extraction of the micro-radian accuracy of the beat-note. …”
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Simulation of Flood-Control Reservoirs: Comparing Fully 2D and 0D–1D Models by Susanna Dazzi, Riccardo Verbeni, Paolo Mignosa, Renato Vacondio

“…Flood-control reservoirs are often used as a structural measure to mitigate fluvial floods, and numerical models are a fundamental tool for assessing their effectiveness. This work aims to analyze the suitability of fully 2D shallow-water models to simulate these systems by adopting internal boundary conditions to describe hydraulic structures (i.e., dams) and by using a parallelized code to reduce the computational burden. …”
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A survival prediction network based on multi-scale hypergraph enhancement and cross-modal refinement by Chaofeng Yang, Yongjie Liang, Fan Qin, Yulong Cao, Peiyuan Wang, Jiaying Fan, Bizhong Wei

“…In the method design, the hypergraph construction module captures high-order feature associations of pathological images at different resolutions and effectively aligns feature distributions across scales through homomorphic nonlinear mapping; subsequently, the cross-modal refinement Transformer module based on rotary encoding achieves dynamic information transfer and complementary refinement between visual features and multi-omics data through attention mechanisms and position decay designs; finally, a feature fusion attention mechanism is introduced to fuse multi-modal features, which both suppresses inter-modal redundancy and effectively mitigates information conflicts, thereby enhancing the precision of individualized prognosis analysis. …”
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Identification of Solutions for Utilizing Donors' Capacity as Non-commercial Partners in Sports Infrastructure Development by Hossein Kordloo, Abbas Naghizadeh-Baghi, Farzad Nobakht, Mehrdad Moharam Zadeh

“…The study also proposes an innovative framework for effectively engaging and collaborating with donors to drive sports infrastructure growth.…”
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Investigating Morison Modeling of Viscous Forces by Steep Waves on Columns of a Fixed Floating Offshore Wind Turbine (FOWT) Using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) by Fatemeh Hoseini Dadmarzi, Babak Ommani, Andrea Califano, Nuno Fonseca, Petter Andreas Berthelsen

“…Moreover, it is shown that the proposed model can capture the contribution of viscous effects to mean drift forces for fixed columns in waves.…”
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A Large Catalog of DA White Dwarf Characteristics Using SDSS and Gaia Observations by Nicole R. Crumpler, Vedant Chandra, Nadia L. Zakamska, Gautham Adamane Pallathadka, Stefan Arseneau, Nicola Gentile Fusillo, J. J. Hermes, Carles Badenes, Priyanka Chakraborty, Boris T. Gänsicke, Sean Morrison, Hans-Walter Rix, Stephen P. Schmidt, Axel Schwope, Keivan G. Stassun

“…This is the largest catalog of both spectroscopic and photometric measurements of DA WDs available to date, and we make this catalog and all codes used to create it publicly available. We measure the apparent radial velocity, spectroscopic effective temperature and surface gravity, and photometric effective temperature and radius for all objects in our catalog. …”
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The thermal properties of submarine rhyolite lavas from Havre volcano (Kermadec arc, Pacific Ocean) by Rebecca Carey, Michael Heap, Samuel Mitchell, Fabian Wadsworth

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Development of Automatic Inspection and Optimization Platform for Computer Numerical Control Machining Using Automatic Optical Inspection and Artificial Intelligence by Qi-Ren Lin, Bo-Cing Hu, Liang-Yin Kuo, Ting-Yi Shen

“…Experiments were conducted in a pre-planned CNC machining environment to validate the effectiveness of the proposed AOI system. The system was tested on metals and composites and CNC lathes and milling machines. …”
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Underwater Ionic Current Signal Sensing and Information Transmission by Contact-Induced Charge Transfer by Boru Su, Junyan Zhang, Yunfei Deng, Lin Chi

“…A proof-of-concept demonstration of underwater information transmission via Morse code with this method was successfully achieved.…”
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COMBINED METHOD OF BULK MATERIAL SHIELDING EVALUATION FOR 200 MEV HIGH ENERGY NEUTRON SOURCE USING PHITS MODELLING AND PARTIAL DENSITY by Fitrotun Aliyah, Azhar Abdul Rahman, Yasmin Md Radzi, Imam Kambali

“…The integrated fluence and effective dose profiles were consistent with previous results in the literature. …”
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Extracting Realistic Pedestrian, Cycling, and Driving Street Networks from OpenStreetMap by J. P. Duque, M. A. Brovelli

“…Code and examples are available in a GitHub repository.…”
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BDEKD: mitigating backdoor attacks in NLP models via ensemble knowledge distillation by Zijie Zhang, Xinyuan Miao, Chenyu Zhou, Chenming Shang, Xi Chen, Xianglong Kong, Wei Huang, Yi Cao

“…Our empirical analysis demonstrates that BDEKD effectively lowers the success rate of six sophisticated backdoor attacks to approximately 17%, while only requiring 20% of the training data. …”
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Development of Smart Apps Creator (SAC)-Based Android Application Learning Media to Improve Students' Understanding of Islamic Education Materials in Elementary Schools by Ani Nur Aeni, Nurdinah Hanifah, Rahimah Rahimah, Ahmad Arifuddin

“…The SAHIH application has gone through a limited, extensive trial stage and has received a very good and very feasible assessment, it has also been tested for its effectiveness. Thus, it can be concluded that the SAHIH application can be applied to Islamic education.…”
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Strategy Evaluation for Cavity Flooding during an ESBO Initiated Severe Accident by Nan Jiang, Minjun Peng, Wei Wei, Tenglong Cong

“…Therefore, consideration of these conflicting issues and the ways in which plants operate is crucial for strengthening the strategies outlined in SAMGs. In this paper, the effects of intentional depressurization and cavity flooding in an ESBO for a representative 900 MW second-generation pressurized water reactor (PWR) are simulated with MAAP4 code. …”
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Analyzing teachers’ competencies in career guidance: a systematic review by Corinne Joho, Sog Yee Mok, Christine Hoffelner, Albert Düggeli

“…Understanding these competencies is important for enhancing the effectiveness of the career guidance provided by teachers. …”
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Computational evaluation on spectroscopic (FT-IR, Raman), electronic and biological, and NLO properties of cirsilineol by DFT, ADMET, and molecular docking method by Tirth Raj Paneru, Poonam Tandon, Bhawani Datt Joshi

“…The electrostatic potential mapped with the van der Wall surface predicted effective electrophiles and nucleophiles, allowing for the layout of intra- and intermolecular hydrogen bonds. …”
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Computational evaluation on spectroscopic (FT-IR, Raman), electronic and biological, and NLO properties of cirsilineol by DFT, ADMET, and molecular docking method by Tirth Raj Paneru, Poonam Tandon, Bhawani Datt Joshi

“…The electrostatic potential mapped with the van der Wall surface predicted effective electrophiles and nucleophiles, allowing for the layout of intra- and intermolecular hydrogen bonds. …”
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