Du coton traditionnel au coton colonial, le coup de force du progrès (Nord-Cameroun) by Christian Seignobos

“…Its success resided in the creation of a dedicated team of experts, led by the director of the Cfdt, the Compagnie Française pour le Développement des Fibres Textiles (French Company for the Development of Textile Fibres). The inception of colonial cotton production in Cameroun shows the extent of state interventionism and greatly influenced the business model of the African cotton industry, dominated by the ever-powerful Cfdt-Sodecoton.…”
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Malaria Diagnosis Using a Lightweight Deep Convolutional Neural Network by Varun Magotra, Mukesh Kumar Rohil

“…To compare the accuracy of our model, we used transfer learning on two models, namely, the VGG-19 and the Inception v3. We train our model in three different configurations depending on the proportion of data being fed to the model for training. …”
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Time-Frequency Characterization of Rotating Instabilities in a Centrifugal Pump with a Vaned Diffuser by G. Pavesi, G. Cavazzini, G. Ardizzon

“…A spectral analysis was carried out on the pressure signals in frequency and in time-frequency domains to identified precursors, inception, and evolution of the pressure instabilities. …”
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The urban regulation of rural land from the perspective of the new Law for the Promotion of Territorial Sustainability in Andalusia (Andalusian Land Law) by Federico Benjamín Galacho Jiménez, Sergio Reyes Corredera

“… Since their inception, various urban planning laws have focused on meeting the growth needs of cities, with urban planning as a discipline paying minimal attention to rural settlement planning. …”
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Application of convolutional neural networks in the intelligence security system subsystem by V. S. Demeshko, A. I. Фёдоров

“…To eliminate this drawback, it is proposed to apply a classifier based on the convolutional neural network, which distributes the selected objects to specific classes.The analysis and experimental studies to evaluate the accuracy of recognition of ground objects by convolutional architectures such as VGG-16, VGG-19, Inception v3, ResNet-50, MobileNet. Training and verification of the recognition quality of architecture data was carried out on an experimentally created data set with a human image on a contrasting background and at different ranges. …”
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Meeting report: MyoIN – Pan-India collaborative network for myositis research by Latika Gupta, Sravan Kumar Appani, Ramya Janardana, Hafis Muhammed, Able Lawrence, Sanjiv Amin, Vineeta Shobha, Liza Rajasekhar, Ramnath Misra

“…This report describes the activities since the inception of this group.…”
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School of Spanish by V. A. Iovenko

“…Spanish language was among foreign languages, studied at MGIMO from its inception. Maria Luisa Gonzalez Vincens was at the origin of the establishment of the School of Spanish language at MGIMO. …”
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Subjects of law and their representation: Historical review by Prelević-Plavšić Snežana, Spasojević Đorđe

“…Representation as a legal institute that allows a representative to express the will of the represented within the limits of the given authorization, which directly binds the represented, was first defined by the German Civil Code of 1896. Since its inception, law has been a reflection of the development of society. …”
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Intelligent Image Recognition System for Marine Fouling Using Softmax Transfer Learning and Deep Convolutional Neural Networks by C. S. Chin, JianTing Si, A. S. Clare, Maode Ma

“…Transfer learning using Google’s Inception V3 model with Softmax at last layer was carried out on a fouling database of 10 categories and 1825 images. …”
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Evaluation of Natural Image Generation and Reconstruction Capabilities Based on the β-VAE Model by Zhang Honghao

“…Train the model on the CelebA dataset, using three metrics: Mean Squared Error (MSE), Structural Similarity Index (SSIM), and Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) for matrix evaluation, to analyze the generation quality and reconstruction capability of each model. …”
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Pastoral care and counselling in current times: Relevance and context of care by Glenda A. Dames, Gordon E. Dames

“…Since the inception of the Pastoral Care Movement, the approach to pastoral care has evolved from the traditional shepherd model to a more clinical, client-centred method. …”
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From the Internet of Things to the Objectification of the Human Being: Sociopolitical Construction of Technology and a Critique of Society 5.0 by Cahit Bağcı

“…This announcement discussed the organic bond between Industry 4.0 and Society 5.0; the goals of Society 5.0; the aspects affecting, changing, and transforming individuals and society within this framework; the new relationship networks and cultural elements; and their impact on values and meaning, individualization, and objectification of the individual. Since the inception of the idea of panopticon, the control, inspection, and surveillance of public and social order have been treated as a culturally romantic and engineering critique of technology in the connection of the power-individual relationship. …”
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Necessary and sufficient conditions for the BRI success by Yongjun Chen, Chenglong Guo

“…We begin with an introduction to the connotations of the BRI and a review of the initiative's main achievements since its inception. From these achievements, we identify the existence of a potential match between supply and demand in jointly building the BRI to be the foremost necessary condition for win–win cooperation for participating countries. …”
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Small Bowel Obstruction due to Migrated Intragastric Balloon: A Case Report and Literature Review by Min Yien Tan, Kar Yin Fok, Huong Nguyen, Senarath Edirimanne, Michael Devadas

“…Endoscopic intragastric balloons (IGB) have gained popularity since its inception three decades ago and is viewed as a less invasive alternative to bariatric surgery. …”
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Dual Convolution Neural Networks of Ensemble Learning with Attention Mechanism for Rice Classification by Cheng Linfeng

“…The ensemble model in this article combines two deep models, InceptionNet and ResNet, and incorporates self-attention block method to construct an attention mechanism that uses multi head attention layers to capture relationships in the input. …”
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Long-term outcome in people who use drugs successfully treated for hepatitis C infection with glecaprevir/pibrentasvir by Shana Yi, David Truong, Brian Conway

“…Results: Of the 108 individuals making up the inception cohort for this analysis, all chose to remain in care at the VIDC. …”
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Intravenous amino acids for kidney protection in patients undergoing cardiac surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials by Malik Waleed Zeb Khan, Aizaz Ali, Amna Hussain, Aban Masaud Mian, Abdul Moeez, Waqas Inayat, Bushra Noor, Izhar Ali Shah, Muhammad Osama, Bushra Khan, Muhammad Sajid, Touba Azeem, Mohammad Ebad Ur Rehman, Ashraf Ali, Ubaid Khan Afridi

“…Methods PubMed, EMBASE, and Cochrane Library databases were systematically searched for all relevant randomised controlled trials (RCTs) published from inception to July 25, 2024. A random effects model was used to pool the risk ratios (RR) for dichotomous outcomes, and the combined data was visually represented using forest plots. …”
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The growing challenge of autism spectrum disorder: a comprehensive review of etiology, diagnosis, and therapy in children by Chunyuan Wang, Hong Wang

“…We searched for potentially relevant studies in three databases (Web of Science, PubMed and CINAHL) from inception until March 2024. In addition, we manually searched the bibliographies of the included studies to find articles that might otherwise have been missed. …”
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Analysis of Geometries' Effects on Rotating Stall in Vaneless Diffuser with Wavelet Neural Networks by Chuang Gao, Chuangang Gu, Tong Wang, Bo Yang

“…With the trained WNN, detailed investigation was carried out mainly to understand the effects of impeller blade number, blade-exit angle, impeller rotating speed, diffuser radius ratio, and width ratio on stall inception and cell speed of vaneless diffuser. Network results clearly show the existence of distinct stall mechanisms for narrow and wide diffusers, which also make different responses to variation of the above- mentioned parameters.…”
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Pioneering case: Robotic single port (SP) transvaginal NOTES (RSP-vNOTES) for hysterectomy in ten steps by Xiaoming Guan, Daniel Lovell, Emily Sendukas

“…Transvaginal Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) has become popular since its inception in 2012, offering advantages by combining vaginal surgery principles with laparoscopic instruments for procedures like hysterectomy and myomectomy. …”
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