Robot-assisted Neuroendoscopy: Surgeon’s Third Hand – a Proof of Concept Study by Karnam Murali, Rychen Jonathan, Guzman Raphael, Cattin Philippe C., Rauter Georg, Gerig Nicolas

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Aesthetic and Mechanical Suitability of a Clear Synthetic Resin as a Unconventional Binder for Road Pavements by Marco Pasetto, Andrea Baliello, Giovanni Giacomello, Emiliano Pasquini

“…Chromatic characteristics were assessed through digital image analysis at different aging conditions. A dynamic shear rheometer was used to evaluate the linear viscoelastic properties as well as fatigue and rutting potential of the binder in a wide range of temperatures and frequencies. …”
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Esterification of Oleic Acid for Biodiesel Production Using a Semibatch Atomization Apparatus by Marcell S. Deus, Katherine C. O. Deus, Daniel S. Lira, Jackson A. Oliveira, Carlos E. A. Padilha, Domingos F. S. Souza

“…The size of droplets was determined by computational image processing. A mathematical model was also developed to describe the conversion of oleic acid to ethyl ester as a function of molar concentration of components and operating conditions of the reactor. …”
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Efficacy of a Novel Bioactive Glass-Polymer Composite for Enamel Remineralization following Erosive Challenge by Farnoosh Fallahzadeh, Soolmaz Heidari, Farhood Najafi, Maryam Hajihasani, Nooshin Noshiri, Neda F. Nazari

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Statistical Characteristics of Polymer Grouting Material Microstructure by Juan Wang, Xun Li, Hongyuan Fang, Juan Zhang, Jinping Li

“…The microstructure morphology of polymer was observed and described by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and the microstructure feature parameters were extracted and calculated by image processing technology. The quantitative analysis of section cell roundness distribution, cell diameter distribution, and polymer porosity shows that low-density polymer materials have anisotropy. …”
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Isolation and Characterization of Nanofibrillar Cellulose from Agave tequilana Weber Bagasse by Hasbleidy Palacios Hinestroza, Javier A. Hernández Diaz, Marianelly Esquivel Alfaro, Guillermo Toriz, Orlando J. Rojas, Belkis C. Sulbarán-Rangel

“…The X-ray diffraction technique allowed the determination of the degree of crystallinity of the cellulose nanofibers, which was 68.5%, with a negative zeta potential of −42 mV. The images from the atomic force microscopy helped for the observation of the degree of fibrillation in the cellulose, and with the software ImageJ, the average diameter of the nanofibers was determined to be 75 ± 5 nm with a relatively uniform length of 1.0–1.2 μm. …”
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How to Handle Data Imbalance and Feature Selection Problems in CNN-Based Stock Price Forecasting by Zinnet Duygu Aksehir, Erdal Kilic

“…In addition, a CNN-based model, which was presented to predict the next day’s trade action of stocks in the Dow30 index, was constructed to check the effectiveness of the data labeling and the feature selection approach. Different image-based input variable sets were created using technical indicators, gold, and oil price data to feed the CNN model. …”
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Automatic Detection of Cracks in Cracked Tooth Based on Binary Classification Convolutional Neural Networks by Juncheng Guo, Yuyan Wu, Lizhi Chen, Guanghua Ge, Yadong Tang, Wenlong Wang

“…The results show that the proposed method can effectively detect cracks in images under various conditions (stained, overexplosion, images affected by other diseases). …”
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The Meso-Analysis of the Rock-Burst Debris of Rock Similar Material Based on SEM by Manqing Lin, Lan Zhang, Xiqi Liu, Yuanyou Xia, Jiaqi He, Xiaosu Ke

“…It was found that the fractal dimensions of the crystal contours of the specimen’s detrital section had fractal characteristics, and the box-counting dimension based on the SEM image could quantitatively describe the rock-burst failure characteristics. …”
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Improving Industrial Quality Control: A Transfer Learning Approach to Surface Defect Detection by Ângela Semitela, Miguel Pereira, António Completo, Nuno Lau, José P. Santos

“…The inspection system consistently obtained fast and accurate surface classifications because it imposed OK classification on models trained with images from both illumination modes. The obtained surface information was then successfully sent to a server to be forwarded to a graphical user interface for visualization. …”
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Operant Discriminative Learning and Evidence of Subtelencephalic Plastic Changes After Long-Term Detelencephalation in Pigeons by S. M. Cerutti, S. Diaz-Cintra, L. Cintra, E. A. M. Ferrari

“…Experiment II analyzed the morphology of the nucleus rotundus and optic tectum in long-term detelencephalated and control birds, using a Klüver-Barrera staining and image analyzer system. Detelencephalated birds had more training sessions for response shaping and steady-state behavior (p<0.001), higher red key peck rates during discrimination (p<0.01), and reversal discrimination indexes around 0.50. …”
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MPAR-RCNN: a multi-task network for multiple person detection with attribute recognition by S. Raghavendra, S. K. Abhilash, Venu Madhav Nookala, Jayashree Shetty, Praveen Gurunath Bharathi

“…Validated on the WIDER (Web Image Dataset for Event Recognition) dataset, the proposed model demonstrates an improvement over current state-of-the-art (SOTA) architectures, showcasing its potential in advancing multi-label attribute recognition.…”
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«CULTURAL REVOLUTION» IN THE USSR IN 1929–1932 AND THE EARLY ATTACKS AGAINST N.I. VAVILOV’S SCHOOL. A STUDY BASED ON DOCUMENTS FROM ST. PETERSBURG ARCHIVES by E. I. Kolchinsky

“…These documents testify against the image, wide-spread in current literature, that the conflict between N.I. …”
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The Russian Public Movement: program positions and place in the political spectrum of Russia (1994–1996) by S. V. Novikov

“…The political fate of the movement reflected the evolution of the views of the ruling elite on the formation of their political image against the background of the rejection of the liberal doctrine by the population.…”
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Le tourisme à moto : les géographies renouvelées d'un phénomène marginal by Jean Scol

“…Le tourisme à moto fut, par ailleurs, longtemps ignoré voire rejeté par les territoires et les professionnels du tourisme qui gardaient de la moto et du motocycliste une image négative. Or, les motards ont changé. Ils sont, en moyenne, plus âgés que par le passé, bien insérés au sein de la société civile et disposent souvent de bons revenus. …”
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Artificial neural networks and remote sensing in the analysis of the highly variable Pampean shallow lakes by Graciela Canziani, Rosana Ferrati, Claudia Marinelli, Federico Dukatz

“…Using bands 2 and 4 of LandSat 5 TM and LandSat 7 ETM+ images andconstructing adequate artificial neural network models (ANN), aclassification of shallow lakes according to their turbidity is obtained.ANN models are also used to determine chlorophyll-a and total suspendedsolids concentrations from satellite image data. …”
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University students’ understanding and opinions of eating disorders: a qualitative study by Sheila Greenfield, Millie Manning

“…Qualitative research exploring the MHL of this population is incomplete.Objective Explore university students’ beliefs and opinions of EDs, their knowledge of symptoms, treatment and help sources and how these are influenced by biological sex.Design A qualitative study, using semistructured interviews analysed using inductive thematic analysis.Setting The University of Birmingham.Participants Seven female and seven male University of Birmingham students.Results Analysis revealed six themes, each with subthemes: ED characteristics, causes, body image, seeking help, stigma and awareness. Students displayed poor awareness towards ED signs and symptoms, causes and help sources. …”
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FUNCTIONS OF HIGHER PROFESSIONAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION by M. A. Bogatyreova

“…The language conjures a subjective image of the objective world, and in the context of individual approach it does not only mean building one's own trajectory of covering the academic material, but also developing strategies of transforming the world. …”
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An Overview of Human Pose Estimation Based on Wireless Signals by Yan CHEN, Rui ZHANG, Yadong LI, Ruiyuan SONG, Ruixu GENG, Hanqin GONG, Binquan WANG, Dongheng ZHANG, Yang HU

“…Human pose estimation holds tremendous potential in fields such as human-computer interaction, motion capture, and virtual reality, making it a focus in human perception research. However, optical image-based pose estimation methods are often limited by lighting conditions and privacy concerns. …”
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Computer-aided cholelithiasis diagnosis using explainable convolutional neural network by Dheeraj Kumar, Mayuri A. Mehta, Ketan Kotecha, Ambarish Kulkarni

“…First, a custom CNN architecture is proposed to classify and predict cholelithiasis from ultrasound image. Second, a modified deep convolutional generative adversarial network is proposed to produce synthetic ultrasound images for better model generalization. …”
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