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The numbers did not compute. Even before Terry Rozier dropped out of the 2023 NBA game in which he's accused of rigging his statistics, computers at an "integrity monitor" firm flagged a flood of bets ...

Abstract: This paper examines the target localization problem with gain-phase errors, utilizing a uniform linear polarization sensitive array. An algorithm is proposed to address the problem with ...