Hybrid Simulated Annealing-Evaporation Rate-Based Water Cycle Algorithm Application for Medical Image Enhancement by Eyob Mersha Woldamanuel

“…The findings of the present study showed that the proposed strategy outperforms all of the compared methods in terms of objective function fitness and perceptual visual IQA metrics such as the Harr wavelet-based perceptual similarity index (HaarPSI), visual signal-to-noise ratio (VSNR), and information content weighted structural similarity index measure (IW-SSIM). …”
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Six-Dimensional Pose Estimation of Molecular Sieve Drying Package Based on Red Green Blue–Depth Camera by Yibing Chen, Songxiao Cao, Qixuan Wang, Zhipeng Xu, Tao Song, Qing Jiang

“…The results showed that the proposed method achieved a recognition rate of 99.02%, processing time of 2 s, pose error rate of 1.31%, and spatial position error of 3.278 mm, significantly outperforming the comparative methods. These findings demonstrated the effectiveness of the method in addressing the issue of accurate 6D pose estimation of molecular sieve drying bags, with potential for future applications to other complex-shaped objects.…”
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Pushing boundaries in the measurement of language attitudes: Enhancing research practices with the L’ART Research Assistant app by Florian Breit, Marco Tamburelli, Ianto Gruffydd, Lissander Brasca

“…Consequently, we argue that there is a need to move toward both the adoption of more consistent, comparable methods as well as toward a more holistic approach to measuring language attitudes, where a battery of tests — as opposed to a single measure — should become the norm. …”
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Scientific and Technical Texts: Translation Aspects in Electrical and Computer Engineering by Irina Suima

“…Research methods: theoretical study and analysis of literary sources on the problem of research; methods of linguistic analysis: descriptive and comparative methods, methods of classification and systematization. …”
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The Evolution of Dendritic Cell Immunotherapy against HIV-1 Infection: Improvements and Outlook by Hager Mohamed, Vandana Miller, Stephen R. Jennings, Brian Wigdahl, Fred C. Krebs

“…This review summarizes and compares methods and efficacies of a number of DC vaccine trials utilizing autologous dendritic cells loaded with HIV-1 antigens. …”
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A Robust Approach for Blur and Sharp Regions’ Detection Using Multisequential Deviated Patterns by Awais Khan, Ali Javed, Aun Irtaza, Muhammad Tariq Mahmood

“…Experimental results of qualitative and quantitative comparisons of the proposed method with ten comparative methods demonstrate the superiority of our method. …”
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‘You Choose No Time to Live and Die’: Dinmukhamed A. Kunayev and His Time by Ziyabek Y. Kabuldinov, Konstantin V. Cherepanov, Didar B. Kassymova

“…The article employs the historical-genetic and historical-comparative methods, addresses the concept of biographic approach and theory of ethnic mobilization to reconstruct some episodes of D. …”
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Risk assessment method for the organization of environmental safety in the sphere of residential and industrial construction by A. N. Larionov, E. E. Smirnova

“…The authors faced the task to find the optimal distribution of funds aimed at reducing the probability of occurrence of environmental risk, and funds for preventing possible environmental damage, as well as to analyze and compare methods for determining the amount of risk during the design and construction of facilities. …”
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BuDDI: Bulk Deconvolution with Domain Invariance to predict cell-type-specific perturbations from bulk. by Natalie R Davidson, Fan Zhang, Casey S Greene

“…In each experiment, BuDDI outperformed all other comparative methods and baselines. As more reference atlases are completed, BuDDI provides a path to combine these resources with bulk-profiled treatment or disease signatures to study perturbations, sex differences, or other factors at single-cell resolution.…”
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ADMNet: adaptive deformable convolution large model combining multi-level progressive fusion for Building Change Detection by Liye Mei, Haonan Yu, Zhaoyi Ye, Chuan Xu, Cheng Lei, Wei Yang

“…The results show that ADMNet outperforms all comparative methods. The source code is available at https://github.com/spaceYu180/ADMNet.…”
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The status of a woman in the ancient world: features of marital and family relations in Ancient Athens by I. A. Lohvynenko, Ye. S. Lohvynenko

“…Systematic analysis, hermeneutic and normative comparative methods were used in the work on primary sources, primarily the legislation of Athens, which helped to describe in more detail the social status of women of that time. …”
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Cyber Threat Inference Focused on Threat Class Sequence With Threat Class Sequence System by Hyoungjun Kim, Jae-Yeol Kim, Kyung-Ho Lee

“…Various experimental results demonstrate the superiority of TCSS over comparable methods, achieving an impressive 98.73% post-connection attack detection rate. …”
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Diffused Multi-scale Generative Adversarial Network for low-dose PET images reconstruction by Xiang Yu, Daoyan Hu, Qiong Yao, Yu Fu, Yan Zhong, Jing Wang, Mei Tian, Hong Zhang

“…Results Our proposed method achieved the highest PSNR and SSIM scores among the compared methods, which improved PSNR by at least 6.2% compared to the other methods. …”
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The influence of the choice of foreign policy strategies of the Republic of Serbia and Montenegro on the development of their bilateral military relations by Spasojević Čedo D.

“…Using content analysis, discourse analysis and comparative methods, the paper tried to prove the existence of a link between the oscillations in the bilateral military relations between Serbia and Montenegro and the dynamics in the choice of their foreign policy strategies. …”
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ETHICS OF LIABILITY K.-O.APELY IN THE LANDSCAPES OF CONTRACTUALISM by Dmytro V. Usov

“…Apel’s view of counteractualism the author uses genealogical, hermeneutic and comparative methods that allow to reconstruct Apel’s philosophy as the ethics of global responsibility and solidarity of communicative interaction under the conditions of global environmental and social crisis and the urgent need of vital combination of social contract idea, fairness and responsibility. …”
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Three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy for the osteoarthritis of knee joint: the radiobiological background, dose distribution analysis by М. V. Маkаrоvа, M. Yu. Vаlkov, D. Yu. Tretjakov

“…It can be considered that the target coverage for the compared methods is similar as for OVRT, and for 3D conformal radiation therapy plans for dose distribution of the orthogonal beam in the axial plane in comparison with dose distributions for conformal radiation techniques.Conclusion. …”
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Relationship between serum lipid level and colorectal cancer: a systemic review and meta-analysis by Shuai Lu, Zhenpeng Yang, Huazhen Tang, Xibo Sun, Benqiang Rao

“…Nevertheless, the heterogeneity brought about by comparative methods, demographic differences and pathological differences between the research subjects limits the effectiveness of the overall pooled results.…”
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Application of PNR Detection in the Diagnosis and Drug-efficacy Evaluation of Diabetic Kidney Disease in Rats by ZHANG Naiqun, YUAN Piaopiao, CAO Linrong, YING Na, YANG Taotao

“…Additionally, the early intervention effects of valsartan and fosinopril sodium on DKD were compared. Methods The DKD rat model was established by caudal intravenous injection of streptozotocin (STZ) at a dosage of 60 mg/kg. …”
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Application of metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) to describe the microbial characteristics of diabetic foot ulcers at a tertiary medical center in South China by Hongteng Xie, Zhaohong Chen, Guohua Wu, Pei Wei, Teng Gong, Shun Chen, Zhaorong Xu

“…In this study, we utilized a routine culture method and mNGS to analyze the same DFU wound samples and the results were compared. Methods Forty samples from patients with DFUs at a tertiary medical center in South China were collected, the microorganisms were identified with mNGS and routine culture method simultaneously. …”
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Bio-oil production by pyrolysis of Azolla filiculoides and Ulva fasciata macroalgae by S. Pourkarimi, A. Hallajisani, A. Alizadehdakhel, A. Nouralishahi

“…Azolla ‎filiculoides and Ulva fasciata, at optimized conditions were determined and compared. METHODS: For this purpose, the effects of temperature (300-500 °C), carrier gas flow rate (0.2-0.8 L/min), ‎and heating rate (10-20 °C/min) on the final bio-oil production were optimized using response ‎surface methodology established by a central composite design. …”
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