D2CBDAMAttUnet: Dual-Decoder Convolution Block Dual Attention Unet for Accurate Retinal Vessel Segmentation From Fundus Images by Vo Trong Quang Huy, Chih-Min Lin

“…However, these methods often grapple with challenges such as loss of vital information during pooling and insufficient handling of local context in skip connections, leading to less than optimal results. …”
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Energy Poverty in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Challenges, Solutions, and Policy Recommendations by Maja Muftić Dedović, Samir Avdaković, Adnan Mujezinović, Nedis Dautbašić, Ajdin Alihodžić, Adin Memić

“…The paper underscores the potential of energy communities in pooling resources, facilitating rooftop leasing for PV installations, and promoting policy reforms to promote renewable energy adoption. …”
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Diagnosis of the mechanisms of different types of discordances between phylogenies inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial markers by A. A. Poroshina, D. Y. Sherbakov, T. E. Peretolchina

“…Mitochondrial and nuclear introgression is a particularly interesting and complex case, which is the process of incorporating the gene alleles of one species into the gene pool of a sister species due to interspecific hybridization (introgressive hybridization). …”
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Systematic review and meta-analysis of pain management after tonsillectomy by Katharina Geißler, Daniel Scham, Winfried Meißner, Peter Schlattmann, Orlando Guntinas-Lichius

“…The systematic literature review followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. Data were pooled using random-effects and fixed-effects models. …”
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Ecological significance of protected areas in the tropical mountains of Eastern Africa by Marco Andrew Njana

“…The study also highlights that carbon pools are either affected positively or negatively by ecological and physical factors. …”
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Foreign experience in the implementation of publicprivate partnership projects in the field of health and education by Fail Ibyatov

“…Interaction between the state authorities and the private sector in terms of pooling resources and potentials within this task will actively attract investment, efficiently and timely implement social projects, improve the quality of social services to the population, increase the level of management of social infrastructure, promote the development of public institutions of the social sphere. …”
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Ecological plant breeding: types and practice by V. V. Syukov, V. G. Zakharov, A. I. Menibaev

“…The organizational scheme of selection lies in parallel testing pooled breeding material at all points of the ecological vector and isolating the most compliant lines. …”
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Physical activity and screen time among children and adolescents in Kazakhstan by Kwok Ng, Shynar Abdrakhmanova, Assel Adayeva

“…The aims of the study are to examine the associations between PA and screen time behaviours (STB) among children and young adolescents in Kazakhstan. Data were pooled from the 2015/16 Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI) study (N=4932, 49.8% girls, mean (age)=8.77 SD (age) =0.68) and the 2017/18 Health Behaviour in Schoolaged Children (HBSC) study (N=4153, 49.3% girls, Mean(age)=12.93 SD (age)=1.64). …”
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Demographic rates and diversity vary with tree stature and ontogenetic stage in an African tropical rainforest by Moses B. Libalah, Sabrina E. Russo, George B. Chuyong, Duncan Thomas, David Kenfack

“…Differences in how historical biogeography has shaped species pools may ultimately cause variation in how adult stature contributes to tropical forest diversity.…”
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Encrypted traffic classification method based on convolutional neural network by Rongna XIE, Zhuhong MA, Zongyu LI, Ye TIAN

“…Aiming at the problems of low accuracy, weak generality, and easy privacy violation of traditional encrypted network traffic classification methods, an encrypted traffic classification method based on convolutional neural network was proposed, which avoided relying on original traffic data and prevented overfitting of specific byte structure of the application.According to the data packet size and arrival time information of network traffic, a method to convert the original traffic into a two-dimensional picture was designed.Each cell in the histogram represented the number of packets with corresponding size that arrive at the corresponding time interval, avoiding reliance on packet payloads and privacy violations.The LeNet-5 convolutional neural network model was optimized to improve the classification accuracy.The inception module was embedded for multi-dimensional feature extraction and feature fusion.And the 1*1 convolution was used to control the feature dimension of the output.Besides, the average pooling layer and the convolutional layer were used to replace the fully connected layer to increase the calculation speed and avoid overfitting.The sliding window method was used in the object detection task, and each network unidirectional flow was divided into equal-sized blocks, ensuring that the blocks in the training set and the blocks in the test set in a single session do not overlap and expanding the dataset samples.The classification experiment results on the ISCX dataset show that for the application traffic classification task, the average accuracy rate reaches more than 95%.The comparative experimental results show that the traditional classification method has a significant decrease in accuracy or even fails when the types of training set and test set are different.However, the accuracy rate of the proposed method still reaches 89.2%, which proves that the method is universally suitable for encrypted traffic and non-encrypted traffic.All experiments are based on imbalanced datasets, and the experimental results may be further improved if balanced processing is performed.…”
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Limited preventive care among Medicaid enrollees with HIV in the US South by Jessica S. Kiernan, Rose S. Bono, Deo Mujwara, Zhongzhe Pan, Bassam Dahman, April D. Kimmel

“…Abstract Routine preventive care (RPC) services are recommended for people with HIV, who have higher risk of certain preventable conditions. We used a pooled cross-section of patient-years to examine receipt of 5 annual RPC services among Medicaid enrollees in the US South. …”
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Relationship of Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition to Soil Nitrogen Cycling Along an Elevation Gradient in the Colorado Front Range by Deborah A. Repert, Ruth C. Heindel, Sheila F. Murphy, Kaitlyn M. Jeanis

“…Although rates of N deposition and pools of extractable N increased down the elevation transect, soil microbial communities and N transformation rates did not follow clear elevational patterns. …”
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Cytoplasmic male sterility and prospects for its utilization in breeding, genetic studies and seed production of potato by I. N. Anisimova, T. A. Gavrilenko

“…According to classification of Hosaka, Sanetomo (2012), these types include: T/beta, W/gamma and D, each distinguished by the phenotypic appearance of male sterility traits and also by the frequency of occurrence in the breeding varieties gene pool and in various potato species. The results of studies on developing DNA markers for identification of various potato cytoplasm types are presented.…”
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Exploring the relationship between ambient sulfur dioxide and semen quality parameters: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Seyed Sobhan Bahreiny, Mojtaba Aghaei, Mohammad Reza Dabbagh, Hamid Ghorbani, Moslem Javidan, Reza Mohammadpour Fard

“…This search encompassed the timeframe from January 2000 to May 2023 and included electronic databases such as Web of Science, Google Scholar, PubMed, Cochrane, and Scopus. Pooled effect estimates with 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated using percent changes (PC). …”
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Coinfection of Hepatitis B and C Viruses and Risk of Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis by Abdullah A. Awadh, Abdulrahman A. Alharthi, Basil A. Alghamdi, Seraj T. Alghamdi, Mohammed K. Baqays, Ibrahim S. Binrabaa, Israa A. Malli

“…Results: We included 63 studies. The pooled analysis showed that the risk of HCC was significantly higher in the case-cohort who were positive for HBsAg (odds ratio [OR] = 9.70 [3.75, 25.12], P = 0.0001), HBV DNA or HBeAg (OR = 22.77 [10.00, 51.88], P = 0.0001), HBV and HCV coinfection (OR = 46.07 [26.33, 80.60], P = 0.0001) than the control cohort. …”
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Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in white-tailed deer in Pennsylvania 2021-2024. by Andrew D Marques, Matthew Hogenauer, Natalie Bauer, Michelle Gibison, Beatrice DeMarco, Scott Sherrill-Mix, Carter Merenstein, Ronald G Collman, Roderick B Gagne, Frederic D Bushman

“…Phylodynamic analysis of pooled genomic data from Pennsylvania documents at least 12 SARS-CoV-2 spillovers from humans into WTD, including a recent series of Omicron spillovers. …”
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Age of detection of congenital hearing loss in South Africa: A systematic review by Mukovhe Phanguphangu, Khomotjo Kgare, Andrew J. Ross

“…The computed Q-test of homogeneity was 5870.97 and the pooled mean age of identification was 30 months (95% confidence intervals [CI]: 19.3–41.3). …”
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Leisure Time Physical Activity Reduces the Risk for Stroke in Adults: A Reanalysis of a Meta-Analysis Using the Inverse-Heterogeneity Model by George A. Kelley, Kristi S. Kelley

“…Relative risks (RR) from each study were pooled using the inverse-heterogeneity model. Heterogeneity was examined using the Q statistic, inconsistency using I2, and small-study effects using Doi plots and the LFK index. …”
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Construire un outil d’association de données à l’heure de l’open data : La Fabrique Numérique du Passé (FNP) by Laurent Costa

“…The FNP is a way of bridging the gap for our disciplines between permanent repositories (data warehouses such as Nakala for the humanities and social sciences), players who produce data as part of research projects and a pool of data that needs to be both durable and accessible so that it can be mobilised by new players.…”
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Tumor Budding, uPA, and PAI-1 in Colorectal Cancer: Update of a Prospective Study by Bruno Märkl, Jochen Hardt, Simon Franz, Tina Schaller, Gerhard Schenkirsch, Bernadette Kriening, Reinhard Hoffmann, Stefan Rüth

“…The combination of high-grade PAI-1 and tumor budding was associated with significantly reduced cancer specific survival (60 versus 83 months; P=0.021). After pooling the data from both sets, multivariate analyses revealed that the factors pN-stage, V-stage, and a combination of tumor budding and PAI-1 were independently prognostic for the association with distant metastases. …”
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