Asian Zika virus can acquire generic African-lineage mutations during in utero infection by Ahmad Jawad Sabir, Prince Pal Singh, Ivan Trus, Nguyen Phuong Khanh Le, Uladzimir Karniychuk

“…It will be essential to identify how persistent in utero infection affects virus evolution and whether in utero-emerged Zika variants have the potential for shedding into the environment, more efficient transmission, and more aggressive infection phenotypes.…”
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Effective Stochastic Modeling of Energy-Constrained Wireless Sensor Networks by Ali Shareef, Yifeng Zhu

“…Since these nodes usually operate on batteries, the maximum utility of the network is dependent upon the optimal energy usage of these nodes. …”
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LED lights and plant growth regulators enhance the in vitro mass propagation of rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis L.) by Jelena Davidović Gidas, Svjetlana Zeljković, Nikolina Đekić, Gordana Đurić

“…The highest number of nodes (3.91 ± 0.08) was recorded under BL in the cytokinin-free medium. …”
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Soft value flipping decoding algorithm for LDPC codes based on adjoint vectors sum by LIU Jian-quan1, XU You-yun1, CAI Yue-ming1

“…By analyzing the soft value distribution while belief propagation defeated, a soft value flipping decoding algo-rithm based on adjoint vectors sum was presented.With translating the error times of check equation which obtained by adjoint vectors sum into error bits distribution parameter and flipping some bit nodes soft value only once at certain itera-tion by a selection regulation, the frame error rate of the proposed algorithm for LDPC codes which have much more correlative rows can be reduced to a larger extent without complexity increase nearly（only O（N））.…”
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Coverage Restoration Method for Wireless Sensor Networks of Distributed PV System by Zhixin Fu, Zhen Liu, Yue Yuan, Min Zhao, Qiaomu Li

“…Continuous capacity increase of distributed grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) system produces more obvious disturbance on the grid. Monitoring network technology can provide protection for the safety and stability of power grid operation, but sensor nodes of the monitoring network will fall to failure due to environmental interference. …”
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A New User Authentication Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Elliptic Curves Cryptography by Wenbo Shi, Peng Gong

“…The comparisons show that our protocol is more suitable for WSNs.…”
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IDUC: An Improved Distributed Unequal Clustering Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks by Chuanqing Chen, Li Feng, Xin Gu, Jiguo Yu, Dongxiao Yu, Baogui Huang

“…Due to the imbalanced energy consumption among nodes in wireless sensor networks, some nodes die prematurely, which decreases the network lifetime. …”
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Self-Organized Connectivity Control and Optimization Subjected to Dispersion of Mobile Ad Hoc Sensor Networks by Zhenqiang Mi, Yang Yang, Hao Ding

“…This paper addresses the problem of the connectivity control and the self-organized deployment/dispersion of a team of mobile ad hoc sensor nodes. First, to reduce redundant communication links while preserving global connectivity, a distributed link removal algorithm is developed that only requires local information of no more than two-hop neighbors. …”
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Energy-Efficiency of Cooperative Communication with Guaranteed E2E Reliability in WSNs by Deyu Zhang, Zhigang Chen

“…It is found that the cooperative communication is more suitable for harsh transmission environment with long-haul distance. …”
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Increasing Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks by Minimizing Displacements Using a Greedy Method based on Nodesâ Location and Neighborhood by Yaser Mehregan, Keyvan Mohebbi

“…Then a greedy method based on the topology and properties of the nodes and the network deployment region is presented to select the optimal nodes and cover the region. …”
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Energy-Efficient Routing Protocol Based on Zone for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks by Jia Yanfei, Chen Guangda, Zhao Liquan

“…The cluster head will consume much more energy to receive and transmit data than the other nodes. …”
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Weighted zigzag decodable fountain codes for unequal error protection by Yin Zhang, Yuli Zhao, Francis C. M. Lau, Bin Zhang, Zhiliang Zhu, Hai Yu

“…In the proposed scheme, the input symbols of different importance levels are first pre‐coded into variable nodes using low‐density parity‐check codes. Then, bit‐shift operations prior to exclusive‐or are performed on the non‐uniformly selected variable nodes to generate encoded symbols. …”
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Detecting Pragmatic Ambiguity in Requirement Specification Using Novel Concept Maximum Matching Approach Based on Graph Network by Khadija Aslam, Faiza Iqbal, Ayesha Altaf, Naveed Hussain, Monica Gracia Villar, Emmanuel Soriano Flores, Isabel De La Torre Diez, Imran Ashraf

“…This research aims to develop a more effective model for identifying pragmatic ambiguity in requirement definition. …”
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A Key Distribution Scheme for WSN Based on Hash Chains and Deployment Knowledge by Lin You, Younan Yuan, Wangke Yu, Qiuhua Wang

“…In DKH-KD scheme, before the nodes in the network are deployed, the offline server constructs a number of hash chains and uses the values from a pair of reverse hash chains to establish their pairwise keys among the nodes in the same region, while, among the neighbor nodes in the different regions, some pairs of the hash chains based on the deployment knowledge are employed to establish the pairwise keys. …”
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Soft value flipping decoding algorithm for LDPC codes based on adjoint vectors sum by LIU Jian-quan1, XU You-yun1, CAI Yue-ming1

“…By analyzing the soft value distribution while belief propagation defeated, a soft value flipping decoding algo-rithm based on adjoint vectors sum was presented.With translating the error times of check equation which obtained by adjoint vectors sum into error bits distribution parameter and flipping some bit nodes soft value only once at certain itera-tion by a selection regulation, the frame error rate of the proposed algorithm for LDPC codes which have much more correlative rows can be reduced to a larger extent without complexity increase nearly（only O（N））.…”
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Latent Tuberculosis Infection and Residual Post-Tuberculous Changes in Children by Tatyana Y. Tyulkova, Alesya V. Mezentseva

“…It was  noted that with the introduction of new technologies (computer  programs, immunological tests) into the practice of a  phthisiopaediatrician, small calcified foci in the intrathoracic lymph  nodes and lungs, previously invisible with traditional radiation  methods of examination (plan radiography, fluorography), began to  be detected more often. …”
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Topologically inferring active miRNA‐mediated subpathways toward precise cancer classification by directed random walk by Ziyu Ning, Chenchen Feng, Chao Song, Wei Liu, Desi Shang, Meng Li, Qiuyu Wang, Jianmei Zhao, Yuejuan Liu, Jiaxin Chen, Xiaoyang Yu, Jian Zhang, Chunquan Li

“…The high‐frequency miRNA‐mediated subpathways are more reliable in classifying samples and for selecting therapeutic strategies.…”
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Scintigraphy in Thyroid Nodular Pathology by S. P. Mironov, V. B. Sergienko

“…Thyroid scintigraphy is a method that formed more than 60 years ago and retains its importance for the diagnosis and assessment of the risk of nodular malignancy. …”
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Near-Optimal Diagnosis System Deployment in Wireless Sensor Networks by Shuo Lian, Jizhong Zhao, Xu Zhao

“…The existing approaches fail to consider this multidimensional feature of evidence in diagnosis nodes selection problem. To address the above issues, we propose a solution for the multidimensional diagnosis nodes selection problem and give the corresponding upper bound. …”
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Distributed Hybrid Localization Using RSS Threshold Based Connectivity Information and Iterative Location Update by Nyein Aye Maung Maung, Makoto Kawai

“…Finally, locations of the nodes are iteratively updated using both connectivity information and RSS-based distance information between the nodes to get more precise localization accuracy. …”
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