An Overview of the Florida Bull Test by G. Cliff Lamb

“…Cliff Lamb, describes this test designed as an educational aid for the improvement of beef cattle, its history since inception in 2000, and summarizes the consignors, bulls, breeds, performance, and sale averages of all previous Florida Bull Tests. …”
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Beware of diffusion models for synthesizing medical images—a comparison with GANs in terms of memorizing brain MRI and chest x-ray images by Muhammad Usman Akbar, Wuhao Wang, Anders Eklund

“…However, commonly used metrics such as Frechet inception distance and inception score are not suitable for determining whether diffusion models are simply reproducing the training images. …”
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A New Deep Vision-Based Identifier As An Intelligent Herbicide Spraying Agent For Potato Farm Application by Halo Omer Anvar, Fardin Akhlaghian Tab, Mohsen Ramezani, Kaveh Mollazade

“…The results showed that the YOLOV3 algorithm is well able to localize the plants in the images. EN-Inception-V3 classifier was able to distinguish weeds from potato plants in the set of test images with 99.42% accuracy. …”
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Application of Artificial Intelligence Virtual Image Technology in Photography Art Creation Under Deep Learning by Qiong Yao

“…Moreover, the cGANs + VAEs model demonstrates strong performance in Frechet Inception Distance (FID) and Inception Score (IS) across multiple datasets, yielding FID values of 13.67, 9.45, and 11.90 on the COCO, CelebA, and WikiArt datasets, respectively. …”
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Analysis of preprocessing for Generative Adversarial Networks: A case study on color fundoscopy to fluorescein angiography image-to-image translation by Veena K.M., Veena Mayya, Rashmi Naveen Raj, Sulatha V. Bhandary, Uma Kulkarni

“…The evaluation utilized Frechet Inception Distance (FID) and Kernel Inception Distance (KID) metric scores to measure the performance of the GAN variants. …”
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Modified MobileNetV2 transfer learning model to detect road potholes by Neha Tanwar, Anil V. Turukmane

“…Fourteen models were evaluated, including MobileNet, MobileNetV2, NASNetMobile, DenseNet121, DenseNet169, InceptionV3, DenseNet201, ResNet152V2, EfficientNetB0, InceptionResNetV2, Xception, and EfficientNetV2M. …”
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Use of Hospital Patient and Family Advisory Councils: A Scoping Study by Barbara Lewis MBA, Chris Cochran PhD, Erika Marquez PhD, MPH, Neeraj Bhandari PhD, Jennifer Pharr PhD, Soumya Upadhyay PhD, Stowe Shoemaker PhD

“…With the aim of fostering patient-centered care, Patient and Family Advisory Councils (PFACs) have emerged as a way for hospitals to garner input for initiatives and programs from patients and patients’ families who have used the hospitals’ services. Despite their inception in the early 1980s, only 54% of United States hospitals field a PFAC. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Pre-trained based CNN-RNN Deep Learning Models on Anomaly-5 Dataset for Action Recognition by Fayaz Ahmed Memon, Umair Ali Khan, Pardeep Kumar, Imtiaz Ali Halepoto, Farida Memon

“…In this paper, we present an in-depth comparative analysis of five CNN-RNN models based on pre-trained networks such as InceptionV3, VGG16, MobileNetV2, ResNet152V2 and InceptionResNetV2 with recurrent LSTM units for action recognition on Anomaly-5 dataset. …”
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Les études féministes au Mirail : quoi de neuf entre 1978 et 2008 ? by Jacqueline Martin 

“…As an actress and witness of this deployment from its inception, I present in this article five specific features or innovations in the organization and choices made by the professors of our university between 1978 and 2008.…”
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Editorial by Crystal Fulton

“…Notably, the journal still follows an open access publication model as it did from its inception at a time when ideas around open science tended not to be at the heart of research and publishing.  …”
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Deep Learning-Based Damage Assessment in Cherry Leaves by Burakhan Cubukcu, Hazel BOZCU

“…On the PlantVillage dataset, AlexNet, VGG-16, MobileNet-V2, Inception-V3, and CNN models were compared. Due to the low performance of AlexNet and the long training time of VGG-16, MobileNet-V2, Inception-V3, CNN, and two different CNN+RNN models were compared on the Kozlu dataset. …”
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Frequency and Texture Aware Multi-Domain Feature Fusion for Remote Sensing Scene Classification by Russo Ashraf, Kang-Hyun Jo

“…Delving into these complexities, the Efficient Spectral Inception Former (ESIF) architecture is proposed, which introduces a novel paradigm to RS scene classification by integrating multi-domain feature fusion of the spatial, texture, and spectral (frequency) domains. …”
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A real time monitoring system for accurate plant leaves disease detection using deep learning by Kazi Naimur Rahman, Sajal Chandra Banik, Raihan Islam, Arafath Al Fahim

“…Subsequently, the dataset was partitioned for individual plant disease detection, applying nine different CNN models (custom CNN, VGG16, VGG19, InceptionV3, MobileNet, DenseNet121, Xception, and two hybrid models) to each plant type. …”
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WDRIV-Net: a weighted ensemble transfer learning to improve automatic type stratification of lumbar intervertebral disc bulge, prolapse, and herniation by Ichiro Nakamoto, Hua Chen, Rui Wang, Yan Guo, Wei Chen, Jie Feng, Jianfeng Wu

“…We devised a weighted transfer learning framework WDRIV-Net by ensembling four pre-trained models including Densenet169, ResNet101, InceptionV3, and VGG19. The proposed approach was applied to the clinical data and achieved 96.25% accuracy, surpassing the benchmark ResNet101 (87.5%), DenseNet169 (82.5%), VGG19 (88.75%), InceptionV3 (93.75%), and other state-of-the-art (SOTA) ensemble deep learning models. …”
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American Polka in the Media: From Next to Nothing to 24/7 by Richard March

“…From its very inception as a nineteenth century popular culture fad, the media presence of polka music has been crucial to its diffusion. …”
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Televisie en die kind by D.P. Van Vuuren

“… The South African Institute for Communication Research at the Human Sciences Research Council started its research programme on possible social effects of television in 1974, two years before the inception of this medium in South Africa. One of the major studies involves the effect of television on the general behaviour of school-going children. …”
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Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy in Children by Wael El-Matary

“…Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy has been a valuable tool in nutritional rehabilitation since its inception in 1980. Although it was originally described in children, a large sector of the adult population is dependant on it for nutritional support. …”
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It’s a Wonderful Life:Representations of the Small Town in American Movies by Thomas Halper- Douglas Muzzio

“…As America thinks about itself – its values, its roots, its evolution – a central theme is the small town, cherished as a wholesome refuge, warm and friendly, and derided as dull and provincial, intrusive and nosy. From their inception, movies have served as one of the society’s principal means of discourse on the topic, generally lauding small towns during the silent era and the Depression, becoming steadily more critical after the war, and more recently depicting them as faded anachronisms. …”
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The First Development Decade of the Network of ASEAN–China Think-tanks: Review and Prospects by Yue YANG, Zhengyang LI

“…This article examines the evolution and impact of the Network of ASEAN–China Think-tanks (NACT) since its inception, with a focus on its crucial Track II role in promoting ASEAN–China cooperation through policy dialogues and collaborative research. …”
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Protocol for a meta-review of interventions to prevent and manage ICU delirium by Andrew Booth, Maria Pufulete, Ben Gibbison, Burak Kundakci, Katherine Louise Jones

“…The objective of this meta-review is to systematically map the quantity and certainty of the available evidence from reviews and meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions, which will be used to design a multicomponent intervention to prevent and manage ICU delirium.Methods and analysis A systematic search strategy was performed in MEDLINE (Ovid), Embase (Elsevier), Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Scopus, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), PsycINFO and Web of Science (from inception to 26 September 2023), as well as Epistemonikos (from inception to 19 July 2023). …”
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