A hybrid Framework for plant leaf disease detection and classification using convolutional neural networks and vision transformer by Sherihan Aboelenin, Foriaa Ahmed Elbasheer, Mohamed Meselhy Eltoukhy, Walaa M. El-Hady, Khalid M. Hosny

“…This proposed model leverages the strength of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViT), where an ensemble model, which consists of the well-known CNN architectures VGG16, Inception-V3, and DenseNet20, is used to extract robust global features. …”
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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

“…Three decision-making algorithms were tested for implementation: a new model built and trained from scratch and transfer learning of pre-trained networks (ResNet-50 and Inception V3). The results revealed that the two illumination modes employed widened the type of defects that could be identified with this system, while maintaining its lower computational complexity by performing multi-modal fusion at the decision level. …”
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WGAN-GP for Synthetic Retinal Image Generation: Enhancing Sensor-Based Medical Imaging for Classification Models by Héctor Anaya-Sánchez, Leopoldo Altamirano-Robles, Raquel Díaz-Hernández, Saúl Zapotecas-Martínez

“…The proposed method outperformed traditional generative models, such as conditional GANs and PathoGAN, achieving the best performance on key metrics: a Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) of 15.21, a Mean Squared Error (MSE) of 0.002025, and a Structural Similarity Index (SSIM) of 0.89 in the Kaggle dataset. …”
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Acupuncture for military veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder and related symptoms after combat exposure: Protocol for a scoping review of clinical studies. by Hye-Bin Seung, Jungtae Leem, Hui-Yong Kwak, Chan-Young Kwon, Sang-Ho Kim

“…We will perform a comprehensive search of Medline, Excerpta Medica dataBASE, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Web of Science, Scopus databases, Allied and Complementary Medicine Database, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, and PsycArticles databases, as well as Chinese, Korean, and Japanese databases, from inception to June 2022. Data from the included studies will be collected and descriptively analyzed in relation to our research question. …”
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Epidemiology and risk factors of self-reported systemic allergic reactions to a Hymenoptera venom in beekeepers worldwide: a protocol for a systematic review of observational studi... by Igor Locatelli, Tanja Carli, Mitja Košnik, Andreja Kukec

“…We aim to provide a critical appraisal and a synthesis of evidence-based data from epidemiological observational studies, focusing on SARs to a Hymenoptera venom and the associated risk factors for SARs in beekeepers worldwide.Methods and analysis Searching will include seven electronic databases for published studies without language restrictions, from inception up to 3 August 2021, and it will be rerun for all electronic databases prior publication. …”
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Relative perioperative analgesic efficacy of single-shot serratus anterior plane block versus thoracic paravertebral block in breast and thoracic surgeries – A systematic review an... by Jeetinder K. Makkar, Narinder P. Singh, Bisman Jeet Kaur Khurana, Preet M. Singh

“…Methods: A systematic search for randomised controlled trials (RCTs) was conducted in PubMed, EMBASE and Scopus databases, covering studies from their inception to September 2023. We included active treatment arms from RCTs comparing these analgesic modalities. …”
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A Lightweight Convolutional Neural Network for Real-time Detection of Aircraft Engine Blade Damage by Wenzhe Wang, Hua Su, Xinliang Liu, Jawad Munir, Jingqiu Wang

“…Second, to ensure that the lightweight model has a certain level of detection accuracy, a feature fusion module CA-FPN combined with coordinate attention and a small damage detection enhancement module W-Inception are embedded. Finally, the knowledge distillation algorithm is used to further improve the detection accuracy of the model. …”
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Ten Years of Earth and Space Science: Introduction to the Special Collection by Graziella Caprarelli, David Baratoux, Subrahmanyam Bulusu, Cinzia Cervato, Paolo Diviacco, Alina Donea, Steven J. Fletcher, Helen M. Glaves, Cathleen E. Jones, Gaopeng Lu, Astrid Maute, Franklin P. Mills, Sara C. Pryor, Kristy Tiampo, Zunyi Xie

“…In this context, the journal has been, since its inception, the preferred home for studies stemming from both global and local geoscience research. …”
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Modelling and in vivo evaluation of tendon forces and strain in dynamic rehabilitation exercises: a scoping review by Antonio I Cuesta-Vargas, Adrian Escriche-Escuder, Jose Casaña

“…The objective of this study was to review the techniques that have been applied in vivo to estimate the forces and strain that act on the human tendon in dynamic exercises used during rehabilitation.Design Scoping review.Data sources Embase, PubMed, Web of Science and Google Scholar were searched from database inception to February 2021.Eligibility criteria Cross-sectional studies available in English or Spanish language were included if they focused on evaluating the forces or strain of human tendons in vivo during dynamic exercises. …”
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Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision's (VMMC) strategy for HIV prevention in Sub-Saharan Africa, prevalence, risks, costs, benefits and best practice: A scoping review study protoco... by Charles Maibvise, Takaedza Munangatire, Nestor Tomas, Daniel O Ashipala, Priscilla S Dlamini

“…The scoping review will target all scientific literature published on the Web of Science, Cochrane Library, Scopus, Science Direct, PubMed as well as grey literature from Google Scholar and WHO Institutional Repository for Information Sharing (IRIS) from the inception of the campaigns. The review shall be guided by Arksey and O'Malley's (2005) framework for scoping reviews, and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) checklist shall be followed. …”
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Effect of acupuncture on patients with major psychiatric disorder and related symptoms caused by earthquake exposure: Protocol for a scoping review of clinical studies. by Hui-Ju Kwon, Jungtae Leem, Da-Woon Kim, Chan-Young Kwon, Sang-Ho Kim

“…Medline, Excerpta Medica dataBASE, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Web of Science, Scopus, Allied and Complementary Medicine Database, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, PsycArticles databases, and Chinese, Korean, and Japanese databases will be comprehensively searched electronically from their inception to November 2022. Data from the included studies will be collected and descriptively analyzed in relation to our research question. …”
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Frameworks for mitigating the risk of waterborne diarrheal diseases: A scoping review. by Chisala D Meki, Esper J Ncube, Kuku Voyi

“…Frameworks published in English, from around the world and published since inception to date.<h4>Sources of evidence</h4>PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar, Google Free Search, organization websites and reference lists of identified sources.…”
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Effectiveness of mHealth/eHealth interventions on obesity treatment: a protocol for umbrella review of meta-analyses by Xi Yang, Xiang-Guo Lei, Zhongheng Huang, Tamrakar Rashi

“…The aim of the paper was to systematically summarise published studies about the weight loss efficacy of mHealth/eHealth.Methods and analysis A comprehensive review of PubMed, Embase and Cochrane Library databases published from inception to 21 March 2021 will be conducted. The selected articles are meta-analyses that integrated the studies, which evaluated efficacy of mHealth/eHealth. …”
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Consumer Savings and Digital Remittance in Open Banking: Insights From Bibliometric and Geospatial Econometric Analysis by Ibrahim Niankara, Hassan Ismail Hassan, Rachidatou I. Traoret, Abu Reza Mohammad Islam

“…Open banking (OB) refers to financial institutions opening their data and services to external parties via application programming interfaces (APIs), a practice that has been increasingly adopted globally since its 2018 regulatory inception in the United Kingdom. Despite its growth, there is still a lack of academic studies examining its impact on consumer financial behaviors on a global scale. …”
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Influencing Factors of Health Management Practices for Older Adults Contracted by Family Doctors in Rural Areas of China: a Scoping Review by LIU Haiyan, NING Yanhua, KONG Weijuan, GUO Yahong, SHI Jing, LIU Lingna, LYU Xiongxiong, LI Meiman

“…Studies on health management by family doctor contract service were searched from databases of Web of Science, PubMed, Embase, Medline, CINAHL, CNKI, Wanfang Data, VIP, and CBM from inception to December 2022, and enrolled according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria. …”
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Text to Realistic Image Generation with Attentional Concatenation Generative Adversarial Networks by Linyan Li, Yu Sun, Fuyuan Hu, Tao Zhou, Xuefeng Xi, Jinchang Ren

“…The experimental results show that the inception scores of the proposed model on the CUB and Oxford-102 datasets have reached 4.48 and 4.16, improved by 2.75% and 6.42% compared to Attentional Generative Adversarial Networks (AttenGAN). …”
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Measurement properties of the sit-to-stand test in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis using the COSMIN guidelines... by Christopher Farley, Stuart M Phillips, Jenna Smith-Turchyn, Dina Brooks

“…We will search six databases from inception. Study selection and data extraction will be conducted independently and in duplicate. …”
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Efficacy of High-Voltage Pulsed Radiofrequency in Zoster-Associated Pain: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review by Yinghao Song, Ziheng Yu, Jingjing Guan, Haisheng Wu, Jinglang Zhang, Liu Qiaoling, Min Yuan, Xinzhi Cheng, Bingyu Ling

“…PubMed, Embase, and the Cochrane library were searched from their inception to June 2022 to identify controlled trials which evaluated the effectiveness of H-PRF compared with standard PRF and sham operations. …”
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The work of return to work. Challenges of returning to work when you have chronic pain: a meta-ethnography by Martin Underwood, Mary Grant, Kate Seers, Robert Froud, Joanne O-Beirne-Elliman

“…Aims To understand obstacles to returning to work, as perceived by people with chronic non-malignant pain and as perceived by employers, and to develop a conceptual model.Design Synthesis of qualitative research using meta-ethnography.Data sources Eleven bibliographic databases from inception to April 2017 supplemented by citation tracking.Review methods We used the methods of meta-ethnography. …”
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Development of psychological and pedagogical classes of the Orenburg region by Artur M. Allagulov, Ol'ga V. Kuz'menkova, Natal'ja V. Drozdova

“…Based on the analysis of scientific sources and the accumulated pedagogical experience, the dynamics of the development of psychological and pedagogical classes from the moment of inception to the present day is traced. As the study showed, this phenomenon has not been fully studied in pedagogical science and practice. …”
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