Linking the life stages of fish into a habitat-ecological flow assessment scheme under climate change and human activities by Yiming Zhang, Wensheng Wang, Siyi Yu

“…The current study provides an innovative and feasible habitat-ecological flow assessment scheme for managers to address the aquatic ecological degradation.…”
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Clinical Role of Epigenetics and Network Analysis in Eye Diseases: A Translational Science Review by Michele Lanza, Giuditta Benincasa, Dario Costa, Claudio Napoli

“…Determining how, where, and when specific epigenetic changes trigger ocular diseases may provide useful clinical biomarkers for their prevention, diagnosis, and management, as well as innovative drug targets. PF-04523655, a 19-nucleotide methylated double-stranded siRNA targeting the RTP80 gene, showed a dose-related improvement in best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) in patients affected by diabetic macular edema. …”
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The Effect of Waxing Options on Shelf Life and Postharvest Quality of “ngowe” Mango Fruits under Different Storage Conditions by Benson Maina, Jane Ambuko, Margaret J. Hutchinson, Willis O. Owino

“…This study aimed at evaluating the effect of innovative waxing options on shelf life and postharvest quality of “ngowe” mango fruits stored under different storage conditions. …”
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Algorithm of Behaviour of Virtual Avatars During Public Speaking Training in a VR Environment by Karol Jędrasiak, Robert Robert Wolański, Damian Bereska

“…Project and methods: The project involved developing an innovative algorithm designed to control the behaviour of virtual avatars during public speaking training in a VR environment. …”
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Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System guided objective function parameter optimization for inverse treatment planning by Eduardo Cisternas Jiménez, Fang-Fang Yin, Fang-Fang Yin, Fang-Fang Yin

“…This process is informed by a Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) that incorporates prior knowledge from experienced planners, captured through “if-then” rules based on routine planning adjustments. The innovative aspect of our research lies in employing ANFIS's adaptive network to fine-tune the FIS components (membership functions and rule strengths), thereby enhancing the accuracy of the system. …”
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Potential for circular economy in the construction sector. An explorative study about single-use masks and sustainable building material based on a customer and construction compan... by Daniela Ludin, Erika Mueller, Asli Ercengiz, Jannick Lumpp, Wanja Wellbrock

“…Objective:: The objective of this paper is to evaluate the position of consumers and construction companies in regard to innovative and sustainable construction materials, as well as to find out about their behaviour and knowledge in single-use mask waste. …”
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Computational identification of promising genetic markers associated with molecular mechanisms of reduced rice resistance to <i>Rhizoctonia solani</i> under excess nitrogen fertili... by E. A. Antropova, A. R. Volyanskaya, A. V. Adamovskaya, P. S. Demenkov, I. V. Yatsyk, T. V. Ivanisenko, Y. L. Orlov, Ch. Haoyu, M. Chen, V. A. Ivanisenko

“…This study opens prospects for developing innovative strategies in rice breeding aimed at optimizing the balance between yield and disease resistance in modern agrotechnical conditions.…”
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Five-Year Predictors of Insulin Initiation in People with Type 2 Diabetes under Real-Life Conditions by Sandro Gentile, Felice Strollo, Francesca Viazzi, Giuseppina Russo, Pamela Piscitelli, Antonio Ceriello, Carlo Giorda, Piero Guida, Paola Fioretto, Roberto Pontremoli, Salvatore De Cosmo, the AMD-Annals Study Group

“…We have to stick to this real-life picture, of course, until enough data are collected on patients treated with innovative medications which are expected to improve beta cell survival and further delay treatment-related insulin requirement.…”
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Studying Alzheimer’s disease through an integrative serum metabolomic and lipoproteomic approach by Alessia Vignoli, Giovanni Bellomo, Federico Paolini Paoletti, Claudio Luchinat, Leonardo Tenori, Lucilla Parnetti

“…Conclusions The identification of potential novel peripheral biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease, as proposed in this study, opens a new prospect for an innovative and minimally invasive method to identify AD in its very early stages. …”
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Collaborative Governance in the Digital Transformation Age: A Systematic Literature Review with Bibliometric Mapping by Rio Yusri Maulana, Mitja Dečman

“…The analysis covers 286 articles published in the Scopus and Web of Science databases over the past two decades in the area of collaborative governance and digital transformation, employing established and innovative bibliometric approaches. Graphical analyses are used to illustrate co-authorship, keywords co-occurrence, research topics evolution, and the network of influential researchers within collaborative governance and digital transformation. …”
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Towards implementing new payment models for the reimbursement of high-cost, curative therapies in Europe: insights from semi-structured interviews by Thomas Desmet, Thomas Desmet, Sissel Michelsen, Sissel Michelsen, Elena Van den Brande, Walter Van Dyck, Steven Simoens, Isabelle Huys

“…Due to the complex nature of ATMPs, new payment models and reimbursement modalities are proposed yet not widely applied across Europe.ObjectivesThis study aimed to elicit opinions on and insights into the governance aspect of implementing outcome-based spread payments (OBSP) in Belgium for the reimbursement of innovative therapies. Stakeholders’ responsibilities and roles were analysed and proposed solutions or general beliefs were assessed to identify necessary or sufficient conditions to establish outcome-based spread payments.MethodsSemi-structured interviews (n = 33) were conducted with physicians (n = 2), hospital pharmacists (n = 4), hospital managers (n = 2), Belgian policymakers (n = 6), legislative experts (n = 2), accounting experts (n = 5), representatives of patients (n = 3), of industry (n = 5), and sickness funds (n = 4). …”
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Reconfigurable Ultra-Miniaturized MIMO Antenna for Tissue-Independent Communication in Injectable Medical Implants by L. Harlan, M. Susila, Sachin Kumar, Hyun Chul Choi, Kang Wook Kim

“…The antenna&#x2019;s performance is evaluated through simulations in homogeneous single-layer (fat/muscle) and three-layer (skin, fat, and muscle) phantoms, along with a realistic heterogeneous hand model, and validated through an ex-vivo setup, which includes fabricating the antenna prototype and measuring its performance in pork meat and a phantom solution. This innovative, miniaturized, tissue-independent MIMO antenna achieves isolation greater than 15 dB via orthogonal arrangement and 1 mm element spacing, with impedance bandwidths of 60 MHz in fat and 100 MHz in muscle. …”
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Leveraging Smart Telemedicine Technology to Enhance Nursing Care Satisfaction and Revolutionize COVID-19 Care: Prospective Cohort Study by You-Lung Chang, Chi-Ying Lin, Jiun Hsu, Sui-Ling Liao, Chun-Ti Yu, Hung-Chueh Peng, Chung-Yu Chen, Matthew Huei-Ming Ma, Juey-Jen Hwang

“…Case managers and physicians provided telemedicine appointments and medications. Innovative methods were developed to enhance usage, including online health education, remote care equipment instructions via QR core links, and video consultations for patients without smartphones. …”
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Influence of diglyme and cumene additives upon emission and combustion behaviour of diverse biodiesel fuelled diesel engine by Swarup Kumar Nayak, Dinesh Babu Munuswamy, Ganesan Subbiah, Mallireddy Naresh, Yuvarajan Devarajan

“…This study addresses these goals by investigating the potential of biodiesel blends supplemented with innovative fuel additives to improve engine performance and reduce environmental impact. …”
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Earth–lunar thermal effect on the temperature stability of TianQin telescope and the suppression methods by Wenbo Chang, Yuxiang Wang, Wenhai Tan, Guanhua Wu, Houyuan Chen, Wei Li, Zizheng Li, Fan Zhu, Zhu Li, Xuefeng Zhang, Shanqing Yang

“…In this article, an innovative algorithm is proposed for accelerating the Gebhart factors calculation, and the detailed evaluation from the direct earth and lunar heat flux to the telescope’s temperature stability has been accomplished. …”
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Attention-enhanced optimized deep ensemble network for effective facial emotion recognition by Taimoor Khan, Muhammad Yasir, Chang Choi

“…Therefore, in this study, we propose an innovative framework called an attention-based ensemble network (EA-Net) for accurate FER. …”
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Multiple Comorbidities, Psychiatric Disorders, Healthcare Resource Utilization and Costs Among Adults with Essential Tremor: A Retrospective Observational Study in a Large US Comme... by Dingwei Dai, Ali Samiian, Joaquim Fernandes, Henriette Coetzer

“…These findings underscore the need for innovative care for this complex population.…”
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Detection of Masses in Mammogram Images Based on the Enhanced RetinaNet Network With INbreast Dataset by Wang M, Liu R, Luttrell IV J, Zhang C, Xie J

“…Additionally, we introduced transfer learning techniques into training process through leveraging pre-trained weights from other RetinaNet applications, and fine-tuned our improved model using the INbreast dataset.Results: The aforementioned innovations facilitate superior performance of the enhanced RetiaNet model on the public dataset INbreast, as evidenced by a mAP (mean average precision) of 1.0000 and TPR (true positive rate) of 1.00 at 0.00 FPPI (false positive per image) on the INbreast dataset.Conclusion: The experimental results demonstrate that our enhanced RetinaNet model defeats the existing models by having more generalization performance than other published studies, and it can also be applied to other types of patients to assist doctors in making a proper diagnosis. …”
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Multitask Learning-Based Pipeline-Parallel Computation Offloading Architecture for Deep Face Analysis by Faris S. Alghareb, Balqees Talal Hasan

“…Therefore, this manuscript explores levels of parallelism techniques along with edge computation offloading to develop an innovative hardware platform that improves the efficacy of deep learning computing architectures. …”
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Strengthening public health education and humanitarian response through academic volunteerism by Faiza Rab, Mekdes Assefa, Salim Sohani, Ilja Ormel, Farwa Arshad, Ahmad Firas Khalid

“…They provide critical support for scaling up programs, especially during emergency situations, offering innovative solutions to address human resource shortages driven by funding constraints.…”
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