Optimizing Image Feature Extraction with Convolutional Neural Networks for Chicken Meat Detection Applications by Azeddine Mjahad, Antonio Polo-Aguado, Luis Llorens-Serrano, Alfredo Rosado-Muñoz

“…Finally, in the third phase, additional filters, such as Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG), Local Binary Pattern (LBP), and saliency, were incorporated to extract complementary features from the images, without discontinuing the use of a CNN for processing. …”
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Novel insights into palatal shelf elevation dynamics in normal mouse embryos by Jeremy P. Goering, Michael Moedritzer, Marta Stetsiv, Dona Greta Isai, Brittany M. Hufft-Martinez, An J. Tran, Zaid Umar, Madison K. Rickabaugh, Paul Keselman, Munish Chauhan, Pamela V. Tran, William M. Brooks, William M. Brooks, Kenneth J. Fischer, Andras Czirok, Andras Czirok, Irfan Saadi, Irfan Saadi

“…Within the bulge, cell orientation was tilted towards the tongue, and actomyosin activity was increased, which together may participate in horizontal projection of the bulge. …”
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Preferences and access to community-based HIV testing sites among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Côte d’Ivoire by Christine Danel, Joseph Larmarange, Lazare Sika, Maxime Inghels, Arsène Kra Kouassi, Serge Niangoran, Anne Bekelynck, Séverine Carilon, Mariatou Koné, Annabel Degrées du Loû

“…Both knowing of and ever visiting an MSM-CBTS were significantly associated with a higher number of HIV tests performed in the past 12 months and having disclosed sexual orientation to one family member.In terms of preferences, 37% of respondents said they preferred undifferentiated HIV testing sites (ie, ‘all patients’ HIV testing sites), 34% preferred MSM-CBTS and 29% had no preference.Those who reported being sexually attracted to women, being bisexual and those who did not know an MSM non-governmental organisation were less likely to prefer MSM-CBTS. …”
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Contemporaneous Emotion Regulation Theoretical Models: A Systematic Review by Camila Florencia Cremades, Cristian Javier Garay, Martín Juan Etchevers, Roberto Muiños, Graciela Mónica Peker, Juan Martín Gómez Penedo

“…The main components found in the definition were the complexity of the construct, goal orientation, intra- or interpersonal regulation, the proposal of moderators, and its voluntary character. …”
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EventSegNet: Direct Sparse Semantic Segmentation from Event Data by Pengju Li, Yuqiang Fang, Jiayu Qiu, Jun He, Jishun Li, Qinyu Zhu, Xia Wang, Yasheng Zhang

“…In addition, a lightweight and edge-oriented AI inference deployment technique was implemented for the network model. …”
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Exploring the process—structure–property relationship of nylon aramid 3D printed composites and parameter optimization using supervised machine learning techniques by Mohammed Raffic Noor Mohamed, Ganesh Babu Karuppiah, Dharani Kumar Selvan, Rajasekaran Saminathan, Shubham Sharma, Shashi Prakash Dwivedi, Sandeep Kumar, Mohamed Abbas, Dražan Kozak, Jasmina Lozanovic

“…To develop an experimental layout using Taguchi’s L 18 orthogonal array, six different FDM parameters such as infill pattern, infill density, layer thickness, component orientation, print temperature, and raster angle have been taken into consideration.Using an Ultimaker FDM printer, rectangular samples were created, and the values of face hardness, thickness regions, printing time, and component weight were assessed. …”
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Fabrication of Cu: ZnO thin film sensor for ethanol vapor detection by Robin Simkhada, Dalton R. Gibbs, Soma Dhakal, Dipak Oli, Rishi Ram Ghimire, Deependra Das Mulmi, Leela Pradhan Joshi

“…The XRD analysis showed a polycrystalline nature with preferred orientation along (100) and (002) crystal planes. The morphology study showed their porous and granular surface structure. …”
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Decreased Spp1 Expression in Acute Myocardial Infarction after Ischemia and Reperfusion Injury by Ling Li, Jungang Huang, Zongkai Zhao, Zhuzhi Wen, Kang Li, Tianjiao Ma, Lisui Zhang, Junmeng Zheng, Shi Liang

“…Besides, Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA), a tool to find the pathway orientation of a gene set, was used for further study in the four most significant KEGG pathways. …”
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Neurological post-COVID syndrome is associated with substantial impairment of verbal short-term and working memory by Jeyanthan Charles James, Hannah Schulze, Nadine Siems, Christian Prehn, Daniel R. Quast, Nadine Trampe, Ralf Gold, Simon Faissner

“…This was followed by a detailed neuropsychological test battery, including assessments of general orientation, motor and cognitive fatigue, screening of depressive and anxiety symptoms, information processing speed, concentration, visuomotor processing speed, attention, verbal short-term and working memory, cognitive flexibility, semantic and phonematic word fluency, as well as verbal and visual memory functions. …”
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Elevated Rates of Tidal Disruption Events in Active Galactic Nuclei by Karamveer Kaur, Nicholas C. Stone

“…The orbits of collisionless TDEs sometimes have a preferred orientation in apses, carrying implications for observational signatures of resulting flares.…”
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Multi-metal mixture exposure and cognitive function in urban older adults: The mediation effects of thyroid hormones by Zhuoqi Zhu, Juanhua Li, Yang Peng, Ning Qin, Jiemei Li, Ying Wei, Biwen Wang, Yunfei Liao, Huaicai Zeng, Lu Cheng, Han Li

“…Total thyroxine (TT4) mediated the link between Cu and orientation score by 24.69 %, and Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) mediated the association between Cu and attention score by 38.96 %. …”
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Geodynamics of basins above subducted slabs: An integrated modelling study of tectonics, sedimentation, and magmatism in the Timok Magmatic Complex by Stojadinović Uroš, Toljić Marinko, Trivić Branislav, Pantović Radoje, Srećković-Batoćanin Danica, Krstekanić Nemanja, Kostić Bojan, Velojić Miloš, Stefanović Jelena, Ranđelović Nikola, Maleš Maja

“…The TMC basin, with the associated intrusive and extrusive magmatics and volcano‐sedimentary deposits, represents an excellent area for a process‐oriented study on the interplay between tectonics, sedimentation, and magmatism in the basins above evolving subducted slabs. …”
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Resveratrol-Based Carbamates as Selective Butyrylcholinesterase Inhibitors: Design, Synthesis, Computational Study and Biometal Complexation Capability by Maja Sviben, Ilijana Odak, Danijela Barić, Milena Mlakić, Ottó Horváth, Lajos Fodor, Sunčica Roca, Ivana Šagud, Irena Škorić

“…Molecular docking of the most promising inhibitor candidates, compounds <b>1</b> and <b>7</b>, revealed that stabilizing interactions between the active site residues of BChE and the ligands involve π-stacking, alkyl-π interactions, and, when the carbamate orientation allows, H-bond formation. MD analysis confirmed the stability of the obtained complexes. …”
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HALAL INDUSTRY IN KYRGYZSTAN: CURRENT STATE AND DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS by Niyazali Turdalievich Aripov, Murat Zhuratovich Abdiev, Ahmad Syukran Baharuddin, Mirlanbek Baidusenovich Ubaidullaev

“…The subject of the study are the organisational and economic mechanisms of the halal industry in the Kyrgyz Republic where the development of the halal industry relies on the basis of innovative investments by orienting themselves on international standards. The use of theoretical and practical recommendations. …”
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Application of photogrammetry and laser scanner on the Bronze Age structures of the Castillejos de Luna cist tomb necropolis (Pizarra, Spain) by Alejandro Muñoz-Muñoz, Diego Fernández-Sánchez, Eduardo Vijande-Vila, Serafín Becerra-Martín, Juan Jesús Cantillo-Duarte, Salvador Domínguez-Bella, Virgilio Martínez Enamorado, Francisca Rengel Castro, Pedro Cantalejo Duarte, María del Mar Espejo-Herrerías, José Suárez-Padilla, Juan Antonio Martín-Ruiz, José Ramos-Muñoz

“…The results shown here are of metric character, with orientation and geographical location of the structures. …”
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BDNF Levels and Cognitive Function in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Treated with SGLT2 Inhibitors by Betül SÜMBÜL ŞEKERCİ, Şeymanur DEMİRHAN, Esra ÇALIŞICI, Abdüsselam ŞEKERCİ

“…Results: There were no significant differences between SGLT2 inhibitor users and metformin users in MoCA total scores, as well as in the Visuospatial/Executive, Naming, Attention, Language, Abstraction, Memory, and Orientation subdomains. Although BDNF levels were relatively higher in the SGLT2 inhibitor group, the difference was not statistically significant. …”
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Effect of copper addition on microstructure and texture of TC4 titanium alloy manufactured by laser melting deposition by XIE Shao, LIU Yan, LI Junjie, ZHANG Zhenlin, CHEN Hui

“…Due to the large temperature gradient in the laser melting deposition process， the coarse primary β columnar grains with preferred orientation are formed along the deposition direction， resulting in significant anisotropy of materials. …”
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Cellular EMT-status governs contact guidance in an electrospun TACS-mimicking in vitro model by Lorenz Isert, Mehak Passi, Benedikt Freystetter, Maximilian Grab, Andreas Roidl, Christoph Müller, Aditi Mehta, Harini G. Sundararaghavan, Stefan Zahler, Olivia M. Merkel

“…By employing a rotating cylinder or static plate collector set-up, aligned fibers (TACS5-like structures) and randomly orientated fibers (TACS6-like structures) fibers were produced, respectively. …”
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Few-shot Remote Sensing Imagery Recognition with Compositionality Inductive Bias in Hierarchical Representation Space by Shichao Zhou, Zhuowei Wang, Zekai Zhang, Wenzheng Wang, Yingrui Zhao, Yunpu Zhang

“…We establish a clustering-oriented factorized representation with a mixture model to represent multipart distributions of tokens. …”
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Deep learning based tractography with TractSeg in patients with hemispherotomy: Evaluation and refinement by Johannes Gruen, Tobias Bauer, Theodor Rüber, Thomas Schultz

“…At the same time, TractSeg failed to reconstruct or undersegmented some tracts that are known to be preserved.We subsequently propose a refinement of TractSeg which aims to improve its applicability to data with pathologies, by using its Tract Orientation Maps as an anatomical prior in low-rank tensor approximation based tractography such that tracking is guaranteed to continue only where presence of the tract is directly supported by the data (“data fidelity”). …”
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