A review of university chatbots for student support: FAQs and beyond by Kevin Peyton, Saritha Unnikrishnan, Brian Mulligan

“…Two of the main findings of the review are that datasets associated with closed domains are still difficult to obtain and curate, and that universities unlike other sectors, have not yet realised the potential for chatbot implementation. …”
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Faculty Profile Management System Using IRINS for the Analysis of Research Performance in the Field of Science and Technology by S. Thanuskodi, P. Kannan

“…Academic institutes and Research and Development organizations collect, curate, and organize research-related activities from various sources. …”
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A Custom Backbone UNet Framework with DCGAN Augmentation for Efficient Segmentation of Leaf Spot Diseases in Jasmine Plant by Shwetha V., Arnav Bhagwat, Vijaya Laxmi, Sakshi Shrivastava

“…Leveraging the capabilities of DCGAN, we curate a dataset comprising 10,000 images with two distinct classes specifically designed for segmentation applications. …”
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The increasing need for Geographical Information Technology (GIT) tools in Geoconservation and Geotourism by Mark Williams, Melinda McHenry

“…Opportunities for further improvement in the field will most likely be realised when more sophisticated decision-making tools become available for geoconservationists and geotourism professionals, especially in the use of GIS Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (GIS-MCDA) to rank and curate inventory, geosites or geotouristic experiences. …”
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Network Pharmacology Analysis of the Therapeutic Potential of Colchicine in Acute Lung Injury by Fei Sun, Lijuan Zhang, Lulu Shen, Chunman Wang

“…ALI-related genes were curated using databases such as DisGeNET, Therapeutic Target, and Comparative Toxicogenomics Database to curate ALI-related genes. …”
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Predicting microRNA target genes using pan-cancer correlation patterns by Shuting Lin, Peng Qiu

“…In the literature, several databases have been constructed to curate known miRNA target genes, which are valuable resources but likely only represent a small fraction of all miRNA-gene interactions. …”
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AfriSign: African sign languages machine translation by Kate Takyi, Rose-Mary Owusuaa Mensah Gyening, Shester Msouobu Gueuwou, Marco Stanley Nyarko, Richard Adade, Reindorf Nartey Borkor, Samuelson Israel Boadu-Acheampong, Linus Tabari

“…Research on translating sign languages from high-income nations has grown significantly, but little is known about translating sign languages from Africa. In this paper, we curate a novel video-to-text African sign languages translation dataset containing sign language videos of Bible verses from six (6) different African countries. …”
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Learning Dendritic-Neuron-Based Motion Detection for RGB Images: A Biomimetic Approach by Tianqi Chen, Yuki Todo, Zhiyu Qiu, Yuxiao Hua, Delai Qiu, Xugang Wang, Zheng Tang

“…This demonstrates the practical advantage of the AVS model in applications where large-scale annotated datasets are unavailable or expensive to curate. This AVS model not only advances biologically inspired multi-channel processing but also provides a practical framework for efficient, integrated visual processing in computational models.…”
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Advanced Algorithmic Model for Real-Time Multi-Level Crop Disease Detection Using Neural Architecture Search by Slimani Hicham, El Mhamdi Jamal, Jilbab Abdelilah

“…This research paper comprehensively evaluates deep transfer learning techniques for identifying the degree of rust disease infection in Vicia faba L. production systems. We curate a vast dataset comprising images captured under natural lighting conditions and at different growth stages of the crop under study. …”
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ChatGPT Versus Modest Large Language Models: An Extensive Study on Benefits and Drawbacks for Conversational Search by Guido Rocchietti, Cosimo Rulli, Franco Maria Nardini, Cristina Ioana Muntean, Raffaele Perego, Ophir Frieder

“…Not only do we improve effectiveness over the current state-of-the-art, but we also curate the cost and efficiency aspects. We explore the use of pre-trained LLMs fine-tuned to generate quality user query rewrites, aiming to reduce computational costs while maintaining or improving retrieval effectiveness. …”
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Organ Donation Conversations on X and Development of the OrgReach Social Media Marketing Strategy: Social Network Analysis by Wasim Ahmed, Mariann Hardey, Josep Vidal-Alaball

“…The OrgReach strategy developed is based on 5 C’s (Create, Connect, Collaborate, Correct, and Curate), 2 A’s (Access and Analyse), and 3 R’s (Recognize, Respond, and Reevaluate). …”
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Addressing genome scale design tradeoffs in Pseudomonas putida for bioconversion of an aromatic carbon source by Deepanwita Banerjee, Javier Menasalvas, Yan Chen, Jennifer W. Gin, Edward E. K. Baidoo, Christopher J. Petzold, Thomas Eng, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay

“…However, sustainable feedstocks pose a challenge due to incomplete high-resolution metabolic data for non-canonical carbon sources required to curate GSMM and identify implementable designs. Here we address a four-gene deletion design in the Pseudomonas putida KT2440 strain for the lignin-derived non-sugar carbon source, p-coumarate (p-CA), that proved challenging to implement. …”
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Signature for Pain Recovery IN Teens (SPRINT): protocol for a multisite prospective signature study in chronic musculoskeletal pain by Fiona Campbell, Jennifer Stinson, Sara E Williams, Christopher D King, Laura Simons, Massieh Moayedi, Robert C Coghill, Martin S Angst, Nima Aghaeepour, Brice Gaudilliere, Marina López-Solà, Marie-Eve Hoeppli, Emma Biggs, Ed Ganio, Kenneth R Goldschneider, Danielle Ruskin, Elliot J Krane, Suellen Walker, Gillian Rush, Marissa Heirich

“…This will facilitate risk stratification in adolescent patients with chronic MSK pain and more resourceful allocation of patients to costly and potentially burdensome multidisciplinary pain treatment approaches.Methods and analysis Here we describe a multi-institutional effort to collect, curate and analyse a high dimensional data set including epidemiological, psychometric, quantitative sensory, brain imaging and biological information collected over the course of 12 months. …”
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Evaluation of Fungicides, Host-plant Defense Inducer, and Anti-transpirant in Management of Boxwood Blight by Bhawana Ghimire, Madhav Parajuli, Terri Simmons, Prabha Liyanapathiranage, Fulya Baysal-Gurel

“…Vapor Gard, and preventive and curative treatments of the high rate of Postiva alt. …”
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Radiation Therapy of Carcinoma of the Esophagus by Thomas J Keane

“…Radical radiation therapy with curative intent for esophageal squamous carcinoma is used both as a single modality and combined with chemotherapy. …”
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Comparative Analysis of US Guidelines for the Management of Cutaneous Squamous Cell and Basal Cell Carcinoma by Amit Mittal, Bharat B. Mittal

“…There are opportunities for research, particularly in the areas of staging, indications for adjuvant treatment in curative settings, extent of nerve invasion and prognosis, and the role of systemic treatments in curative and palliative settings.…”
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Nathan Lyons: In Pursuit of Magic at the George Eastman Museum (Rochester, NY), retrospective or exhibition? by Bruno Chalifour

“…Nathan Lyons (1930 – 2016) lived in Rochester NY from 1957 to his death. He was a curator then an assistant director of the George Eastman Museum (1957 – 1969), working with Beaumont Newhall and Minor White, the co-founder of the Society for Photographic Education (1963) and Oracle (international conference of photo historians and curators since 1983), the founder of Visual Studies Workshop (1969) and its magazine (Afterimage, 1972 – 2018), and a consultant for the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts (president 1976 – 1991). …”
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Exposer la sculpture au Louvre au temps de Rodin, 1860-1914 by Geneviève Bresc-Bautier

“…In the rooms of the Musée du Louvre, curators were faced with many constraints: space limited in surface, height and the repartition into rooms by the architecture of an existing palace; lateral light from windows on a single side; existing original collection; multiple improvements, influenced by the curiosity and appetite of the curators, the taste of the donors and the assignments from the Musée du Luxembourg. …”
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Writing about displays of sculpture: historiography and some current questions by Malcolm Baker

“…These questions are examined here in terms of changing approaches within the discipline of art history as well as the options open to the curator.…”
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