GFA-Net: Geometry-Focused Attention Network for Six Degrees of Freedom Object Pose Estimation by Shuai Lin, Junhui Yu, Peng Su, Weitao Xue, Yang Qin, Lina Fu, Jing Wen, Hong Huang

“…To overcome these limitations, we introduce the Geometry-Focused Attention Network (GFA-Net), a novel framework designed for more comprehensive feature extraction by analyzing critical geometric and textural object characteristics. …”
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Legislative framework of career guidance and counselling in Serbia by Miljković Jovan, Čairović-Pavlović Neda, Robertson Kristina

“…For career guidance and counselling to be managed adequately and to optimize its expected outcomes, it is necessary to have a consistent, carefully designed legislative framework in place. Using a qualitative research approach, we conducted our research with the aim of discovering how the phenomenon of career guidance and counselling is perceived in the legislative documents of the Republic of Serbia. …”
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Propensity Score Matching Analysis for Alcohol‐Related Liver Disease by Fangfang Duan, Shanshan Song, Hang Zhai, Yazhi Wang, Jun Cheng, Song Yang

“…Methods Patients with ARLD and those with ARLD co‐morbid with CHB were included in this study and designated as the ARLD group and the ARLD + HBV group, respectively. …”
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Machine learning helps reveal key factors affecting tire wear particulate matter emissions by Zhenyu Jia, Jiawei Yin, Tiange Fang, Zhiwen Jiang, Chongzhi Zhong, Zeping Cao, Lin Wu, Ning Wei, Zhengyu Men, Lei Yang, Qijun Zhang, Hongjun Mao

“…In this study, we obtained a TWPs dataset by simulating tire wear process under real driving conditions using a tire wear simulator and custom-designed test conditions. This study shows that tire wear PM2.5 accounts for about 65 % of PM10. …”
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Computationally Efficient Minimum-Time Motion Primitives for Vehicle Trajectory Planning by Mattia Piccinini, Simon Gottschalk, Matthias Gerdts, Francesco Biral

“…We present a novel neural network, named PathPoly-NN, whose internal architecture is designed to learn the minimum-time vehicle path. Our motion primitives combine PathPoly-NN with a fast forward-backward method to compute the minimum-time speed profile. …”
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NLOS Dies Twice: Challenges and Solutions of V2X for Cooperative Perception by Lantao Li, Wenqi Zhang, Xiaoxue Wang, Tao Cui, Chen Sun

“…To demonstrate the effectiveness of our solution, a new simulation framework is designed to consider autonomous driving, cooperative perception and V2X communication in general, paving the way for end-to-end performance evaluation and further solution derivation.…”
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A New Bearing Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Deep Transfer Network and Supervised Joint Matching by Chengyao Liu, Fei Dong, Kunpeng Ge, Yuanyuan Tian

“…The experimental analysis indicates that the designed methods can achieve desirable diagnostic accuracy and possess robust generalization ability.…”
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Technical Report on the New Ultrasound Lateral Mid-Shaft Approach to the Sciatic Nerve: A Never-Ending Story by Giuseppe Sepolvere, Mario Tedesco, Mario Cibelli, Dario Cirillo, Angelo Sparaco, Giuseppe Gagliardi, Giuseppina Costagliola, Loredana Cristiano, Valeria Rita Scialdone, Maria Rosaria Pasquariello, Fabrizio Di Zazzo, Luigi Merola, Mirco Della Valle, Daniela Arminio, Leonardo Maria Bottazzo, Marco Folliero, Giorgio Ranieri, Domenico Pietro Santonastaso, Antonio Coviello

“…The objective of this brief technical report is to describe a new technical approach to sciatic nerve block, designed to simplify the procedure for certain categories of patients and less experienced practitioners. …”
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Intrusion detection using synaptic intelligent convolutional neural networks for dynamic Internet of Things environments by Hui Chen, Zhendong Wang, Shuxin Yang, Xiao Luo, Daojing He, Sammy Chan

“…Additionally, a novel loss function is designed to address the class imbalance present in IoT traffic data and to mitigate the gradient vanishing issue observed in traditional loss functions. …”
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Epilepsy Prediction and Detection Using Attention-CssCDBN with Dual-Task Learning by Weizheng Qiao, Xiaojun Bi, Lu Han, Yulin Zhang

“…Initially, our model was designed to extract high-order and deep representations from EEG spectrum images, enabling the simultaneous capture of spatial and temporal information. …”
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Reciprocal Effects of Oxidative Stress on Heme Oxygenase Expression and Activity Contributes to Reno-Vascular Abnormalities in EC-SOD Knockout Mice by Tomoko Kawakami, Nitin Puri, Komal Sodhi, Lars Bellner, Toru Takahashi, Kiyoshi Morita, Rita Rezzani, Tim D. Oury, Nader G. Abraham

“…In light of these conflicting reports, this study was designed to evaluate effects of chronic oxidative stress on HO system and its role in contributing towards patho-physiological abnormalities observed in extracellular superoxide dismutase (EC-SOD, SOD3) KO animals. …”
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Joint Channel and Nonlinearity Estimation for Memoryless Nonlinear Systems by Zahra Mokhtari, Rui Dinis, Sha Hu, Dzevdan Kapetanovic

“…Therefore, in this paper we propose a joint channel and NL parameter estimation technique by designing appropriate training signals for each estimation phase (i.e. channel estimation and NL parameter estimation). …”
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Therapeutic Effect and Location of GFP-Labeled Placental Mesenchymal Stem Cells on Hepatic Fibrosis in Rats by Jiong Yu, Guangshu Hao, Dan Wang, Jingqi Liu, Xiaotian Dong, Yanni Sun, Qiaoling Pan, Yang Li, Xiaowei Shi, Lanjuan Li, Hongcui Cao

“…The present study was designed to investigate the effect of human placenta mesenchymal stem cells (hPMSCs) expressing green fluorescent protein (GFP) on carbon tetrachloride- (CCl4-) induced liver fibrosis in rats. …”
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Finding Neural Biomarkers for Motor Learning and Rehabilitation Using an Explainable Graph Neural Network by J. Han, A. Embs, F. Nardi, S. Haar, A. A. Faisal

“…We used it to analyse EEG data collected during a visuomotor rotation (VMR) task designed to elicit distinct types of learning: error-based and reward-based. …”
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Biomimetic Targeted Co‐Delivery System Engineered from Genomic Insights for Precision Treatment of Osteosarcoma by Tianqi Luo, Zhijin Fan, Anyu Zeng, Anqi Wang, Yuanwei Pan, Yanyang Xu, Hongmin Chen, Weiqing Chen, Dingmeng Nie, Jiaming Lin, Anfei Huang, Ming Gong, Yufeng Huang, Yun Ding, Xiaojun Zhu, Lang Rao, Jin Wang

“…Based on these findings, a co‐delivery system loaded with CDK4/6 inhibitors and poly ADP‐ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitors is designed. By employing metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) as carriers, issue of drug insolubility is effectively addressed, while also enabling controlled release in response to the tumor microenvironment. …”
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Short-term results of laparoscopic and open complete mesocolic excision with D3 lymph node dissection for left-sided colon cancer by P. V. Tsarkov, I. A. Tulina, A. Yu. Kravchenko, A. V. Leont’Yev

“…Material and methods. Investigation was designed as retrospective-prospective case-control study (with analog group comparison). …”
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Levels of Inflammatory Cytokines in Type 2 Diabetes Patients with Different Urinary Albumin Excretion Rates and Their Correlation with Clinical Variables by Fen-qin Chen, Jiao Wang, Xiao-bo Liu, Xiao-yu Ma, Xiu-bin Zhang, Ting Huang, Dong-wei Ma, Qiu-yue Wang

“…Although the pathogenetic mechanism of DN has not been elucidated, an inflammatory mechanism has been suggested as a potential contributor. This study was designed to explore the relationship between low-grade inflammation and renal microangiopathy in T2DM. …”
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Pulsed Electromagnetic Field-Assisting Reduced Graphene Oxide-Incorporated Nanofibers for Osteogenic Differentiation of Human Dental Pulp Stem Cells by Juo Lee, Sungmin Lee, Iksong Byun, Myung Chul Lee, Jungsil Kim, Hoon Seonwoo

“…However, current scaffold designs face limitations in combining structural guidance with effective electromagnetic stimulation. …”
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Immunization of cattle with a Rhipicephalus microplus chitinase peptide containing predicted B-cell epitopes reduces tick biological fitness by María Martina Esperanza Perez-Soria, Daniel Gustavo López-Díaz, Rafael Jiménez-Ocampo, Gabriela Aguilar-Tipacamú, Massaro W. Ueti, Juan Mosqueda, Ala Tabor

“…Four peptides containing predicted B-cell epitopes were designed. The immunogenicity of each peptide was assessed by inoculating 2 cattle, 4 times at 21 days intervals, and the antibody response was verified by indirect ELISA. …”
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Occupational health risk assessment and risk monetization based on xylene exposureMendeley Data by Fei Li, Boshen Wang, Baoli Zhu

“…In this study, a number of xylene-related companies in seven industries from 2020 to 2023 were collected as research subjects, and the health risks caused by xylene exposure were evaluated using the EPA model designated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Singapore Semi-Quantitative Risk Assessment Model (MOM), and the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) Occupational Health Risk Assessment Model. …”
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