Research on Fine‐Grained Phenotypic Analysis of Temporal Root Systems – Improved YoloV8seg Applied for Fine‐Grained Analysis of In Situ Root Temporal Phenotypes by Qiushi Yu, Meng Zhang, Liuli Wang, Xingyun Liu, Lingxiao Zhu, Liantao Liu, Nan Wang

“…An improved YoloV8n‐seg network tailored for detecting elongated roots is proposed, which outperforms the original YoloV8seg in all network performance metrics. Additionally, the post‐processing method introduced reduces root identification errors, ensuring a one‐to‐one correspondence between each root system and its detection box. …”
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BOOK REVIEW: CIPRIAN PORUMBESCU NECUNOSCUT (CIPRIAN PORUMBESCU UNKNOWN), PUBLISHING BY ED. LIDANA, SUCEAVA, 3 EDIŢII, 2011-2013 (ISSN: 2284-712X) by Gabriela COCA

“…Within it have been presented the following papers dedicated to the composer's life and activity: Leca Morariu and the Monumental Monograph Worshiped to Ciprian Porumbescu (author: Vasile Vasile – from the University of Piteşti); The Architectural and Tonal Support of the Dramaturgy of the “Crai nou” (New Philanderer) Operetta by Ciprian Porumbescu (author: Gabriela Coca – from the Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca); “Balada” (The Ballad) of Ciprian Porumbescu – a Representative Creation of the Art Music of Bucovina (19th century) (author: Zamfira Dănilă – from the “George Enescu” Academy of Art - Iaşi); The Reception of Ciprian Porumbescu’s Creation in Banat (author: Constantin Tufan Stan – from the Filaret Barbu School of Fine Arts of Lugoj); „Altarul Mănăstirii Putna” (The Altar of Putna Monastery) (author: Sever Paraschiv Dumitrache – from the Bucovina Cultural Center of Suceava); and The Musicological Trilogy “Ciprian Porumbescu Unknown” to an end (autor: Constanţa Cristescu – from the Bucovina Cultural Center - Suceava). These papers are all included, in this presented volume, with other two studies: Ciprian Porumbescu – Friends and his Collaborators of Braşov (author: the regretted musicologist professor Constantin Catrina from the Transylvania University of Braşov) and The Aspects of the Musical Language and of its Architecture in Compositions by Ciprian Porumbescu (author: Ozana Kalmuski-Zarea – from the “Mihail Jora” Philharmonic of Bacău). …”
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The Evaluation of In-Hospital Transportation of Emergency Room Critically Ill Patients by Turan Tahirli, Sercan Yalçınlı, Yusuf Ali Altuncı

“…The significance level for all hypothesis tests was set at 0.05. Results:Of the 588 patients included in the study, 36.9% were female and 63.1% were male, with an average age of 61.9 years. …”
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Measuring the impact of managing incontinence on people with dementia and informal caregivers: Cognitive debriefing interviews of ‘ICIQ-Cog’ (English translation) by Miriam Avery, Nikki Cotterill, Mandy Fader, Margaret Macaulay, Ruth Kirschner-Hermanns, Cathy Murphy

“…Interviews were conducted across 3 rounds and transcribed then thematically analysed based on the questionnaire framework. Results:: All participants were unpaid caregivers; they highlighted the need for the questionnaire. …”
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Quetiapine-related weight loss: Report of a rare adverse effect by Nicodemus Okwudili K Obayi, David HN Nweke, Edidiong Idio, Darlington Okey, Cletus Ozibo

“…Her repeated complaints about the weight gain and threats to stop all medications if nothing was done led to her being switched over to quetiapine. …”
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Toward the calibration of 2D thermomechanical simulations of magma poor passive continental margins: method, validation and case example by Perron, Paul, Le Pourhiet, Laetitia, Jourdon, Anthony, Cornu, Tristan, Gout, Claude

“…Acknowledging structural inheritance as a form of kinematic forcing in the models, and recognizing the challenge of anticipating and identifying all inherited geological structures present before rifting, a new modeling approach was devised. …”
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Epidemiology of Brucellosis in Small Ruminants of Rural and Peri-Urban Areas of Multan, Pakistan by Mian Muhammad Awais, Bakhtawar Khadim, Masood Akhtar, Muhammad Irfan Anwar, Gohar Khadim, Abdul Sammad Ali Khan Shirwany, Halil Selcuk Biricik, Abdul Razzaq, Muhammad Sibtain Bhatti

“…For this purpose, sera samples (n = 392) of small ruminants were collected and subjected to preliminary screening using commercially available RBPT reagents followed by serodetection of brucellosis using multispecies i-ELISA kit (ID.vet, France). All the ELISA positive samples were confirmed by PCR using genus-specific primers, and frequencies of Brucella species in positive samples were enumerated using species-specific primers. …”
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Silicone Foley's catheter: A useful splint in ear surgeries by Siddharth K. Karanth, Nitin J. Mokal

“…The results following its usage have been uniformly good in all cases without causing any adverse events at the operated site or discomfort to the patient ensuring good compliance.…”
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Risk of Stroke Associated with Temperature and PM2.5: Taiwan Stroke Registry-based Study by Fung-Chang Sung, Hei-Tung Yip, Cheng-Li Lin, Jiann-Shing Jeng, Jiunn-Tay Lee, Yu Sun, Cheng-Yu Wei, Po-Yen Yeh, Kuang-Hsi Chang, Shang-Yu Chien, Kai-Cheng Hsu, TSR team

“…No adjusted RRs of strokes were significantly associated with PM2.5 in all temperature zones after controlling for sex, age, BMI, smoking and drinking. …”
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Spatiotemporal Variance Image Reconstruction for Thermographic Inspections by Logan M. Wilcox, Emily M. Johnson, Emma T. Bohannon, Catherine E. Johnson, Kristen M. Donnell

“…Additional thermographic measurements were completed utilizing a halogen lamp source on a pressed high explosive (HE) SUT. In all cases, the STVR-processed results provide an indication of the defect, within 5% spatial error, without the need for a reference measurement or signal manipulation, which was not previously possible.…”
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Cardiovascular mortality risk among small bowel adenocarcinoma patients: a population-based study by Yao Zhang, Shicong Zeng, Zongwen Wang, Qiankun Zhu, Jingtao Li, Xiaohang Ren, Shuoheng Ma, Gang Tan, Bo Zhai

“…To evaluate the cumulative mortality (CM) rate for all causes of death (COD), cumulative hazard curves were constructed. …”
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Genome-Wide Association Analysis of Boar Semen Traits Based on Computer-Assisted Semen Analysis and Flow Cytometry by Xiyan Yang, Jingkun Nie, Yaxuan Zhang, Suqing Wang, Xiaoping Zhu, Zhili Li, Yunxiang Zhao, Xiuguo Shang

“…Additionally, trait heritability was estimated using single- and multiple-trait PBLUP models, yielding 0.19, 0.29, 0.13, 0.18, 0.11, and 0.14 heritability for MOT, DEN, ABN, MMP, AIR, and ROS, respectively. All semen traits exhibited low heritability except ABN, which demonstrated medium heritability. …”
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Trends and critical points of Aspergillus contamination along Ethiopian chili postharvest value chain by Tariku Hunduma Tolera, Anteneh Tesfaye, Melaku Alemu

“…Results Aspergillus was detected in 44% of PiPP, all (100%) of DPP, CP, UpPPo, and PaPPo. Counts were in the range of 5.00 × 103 to 2.10 × 105 CFU g−1 up along the PVC with fold changes of 19.6, 30, 42, and 38-fold in DPP, CP, UpPPo, and PaPPo, respectively. …”
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An Evaluation of the Antibacterial Properties of Tormentic Acid Congener and Extracts From Callistemon viminalis on Selected ESKAPE Pathogens and Effects on Biofilm Formation by Tafadzwa Chipenzi, Genuine Baloyi, Tatenda Mudondo, Simbarashe Sithole, Godloves Fru Chi, Stanley Mukanganyama

“…ESKAPE pathogens, namely, Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter species, are responsible for a majority of all healthcare-acquired infections (HAI). The bacteria cause nosocomial infections in immunocompromised patients. …”
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Glacier mass balance and its climatic and nonclimatic drivers in the Ladakh region during 2000–2021 from remote sensing data by Arindan Mandal, Bramha Dutt Vishwakarma, Thupstan Angchuk, Mohd Farooq Azam, Purushottam Kumar Garg, Mohd Soheb

“…This study investigates the geodetic mass balance of nearly all glaciers in the Ladakh region, which are crucial for local water security. …”
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Advancing Wildlife Protection: Mask R-CNN for Rail Track Identification and Unwanted Object Detection by Istiak Mahmud, Md. Mohsin Kabir, Jungpil Shin, Chayan Mistry, Yoichi Tomioka, M. F. Mridha

“…Similarly, sometimes train accident is prevalent at the rail gates, where motor vehicles are crossing the train line. All that happens due to the lack of detecting the objects correctly on the train line. …”
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The efficiency of short-term crop rotations with different sunflower saturation by Zinaida Dehtiarova, Mykola Shevchenko, Yurii Dehtiarov, Victor Budyonny

“…Winter rye exhibited the lowest production costs among all crops, regardless of the crop rotation, at 268.9- 321.1 USD/ha. …”
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Remission: does it already exist in chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis? by Yvonne Chan, Andrew V. Thamboo, Joseph K. Han, Martin Desrosiers

“…Results Findings of the studies revealed that endoscopic sinus surgery with continued medical therapy achieved remission in approximately 50% of all patients. CRSwNP patients after primary endoscopic sinus surgery were able to achieve remission in 72% of instances, however this drops to 42% for patients having revision sinus surgery. …”
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Рrospects for the development of retreat tourism in Ukraine by Irina Shamara, Hanna Haponenko, Olena Yevtushenko, Tymur Vygovskyi

“…Thus, a phenomenon has appeared in society that has become to some extent a "spiritual" trend and is the root of all world spiritual and physical practices, which includes various types of meditation - this is "retreat tourism", which implies a combination of various spiritual and physical practices in places remote from society, as a rule, where means of communication are not used. …”
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Mortality in the families of children during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from a repeated cross-sectional study of children in the United States by Kao-Ping Chua, Rena M. Conti, Nora V. Becker

“…Some children lost adult siblings, suggesting that screening for child bereavement should include all family members, not just parents/guardians.…”
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