Pilot Study for OCT Guided Design and Fit of a Prosthetic Device for Treatment of Corneal Disease by Hong-Gam T. Le, Maolong Tang, Ryan Ridges, David Huang, Deborah S. Jacobs

“…To assess optical coherence tomography (OCT) for guiding design and fit of a prosthetic device for corneal disease. Methods. A prototype time domain OCT scanner was used to image the anterior segment of patients fitted with large diameter (18.5–20 mm) prosthetic devices for corneal disease. …”
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Fault Detection and Behavior Analysis of Wheelset Bearing Using Adaptive Convolutional Sparse Coding Technique Combined with Bandwidth Optimization by Liu He, Cai Yi, Jianhui Lin, Andy C.C. Tan

“…However, dictionary learning is easily affected by foundation vibration and harmonic interference and cannot learn the key structure related to fault impulses. At the same time, the detection performance of fault impulse heavily depends on the selection of parameters in this approach. …”
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A Fast and Validated HPLC Method for the Simultaneous Analysis of Five 5-HT3 Receptor Antagonists via the Quantitative Analysis of Multicomponents by a Single Marker by Fuchao Chen, Baoxia Fang, Peng Li, Sicen Wang

“…The quantitative analysis of multicomponents by a single marker method was conducted with ondansetron as an internal reference substance and performed using relative retention time and ultraviolet spectral similarity as the double indicator. …”
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Intravitreal Therapy for Diabetic Macular Edema: An Update by Claudio Furino, Francesco Boscia, Michele Reibaldi, Giovanni Alessio

“…The new evidence suggested that, in eyes that did not adequately respond to anti-VEGF, switching to a DEX implant at the time to 3 monthly anti-VEGF injections provided better functional outcomes.…”
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A Qualitative Study Exploring Factors Associated with Retention in HIV Care among Women with HIV in a Large HIV Clinic in Lagos, Nigeria, after Implementing the Test and Treat Poli... by Omoladun O. Odediran, Oluwakemi O. Odukoya, Mobolanle R. Balogun, Jonathan A. Colasanti, Alani S. Akanmu

“…Other themes were the presence of a dependable source of income and the ability to overcome the challenges encountered in obtaining income, ease of travel to and from the clinic (length of travel time and transportation costs), securing support from the clinic, challenges encountered in the process of accessing care at the clinic, and the ability to overcome these challenges. …”
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Maternal HIV and syphilis are not syndemic in Brazil: Hot spot analysis of the two epidemics. by Mary Catherine Cambou, Eduardo Saad, Kaitlyn McBride, Trevon Fuller, Emma Swayze, Karin Nielsen-Saines

“…In order to evaluate how the epidemics evolved over the time period, ArcGIS software was used to generate spatiotemporal maps of annual rates of detection of maternal HIV and syphilis in 2010 and 2018. …”
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Interleukins Affect Equine Endometrial Cell Function: Modulatory Action of Ovarian Steroids by Anna Z. Szóstek, Antonio M. Galvão, Takuo Hojo, Kiyoshi Okuda, Dariusz J. Skarzynski

“…In Experiment 3, cells were exposed to P4 (10−7 M), E2 (10−9 M) or P4+E2 for 24 h and the IL receptor mRNAs transcription was determined using Real-time PCR. Prostaglandins concentration was determined using the direct enzyme immunoassay (EIA) method. …”
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Attention-enhanced corn disease diagnosis using few-shot learning and VGG16 by Ruchi Rani, Jayakrushna Sahoo, Sivaiah Bellamkonda, Sumit Kumar

“…Traditionally, it was done manually by the farmers, which is a laborious and time-intensive task. With the advent of AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning methods are used to detect and categorize plant diseases. …”
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Development and Validation of an LC-MS/MS Method and Comparison with a GC-MS Method to Measure Phenytoin in Human Brain Dialysate, Blood, and Saliva by Raphael Hösli, Stefan König, Stefan F. Mühlebach

“…The LC-MS/MS was more sensitive, needed a smaller sample volume (25 µL) and less chemicals, was less time consuming (cleaning up, sample preparation, and analysis), and resulted in a better LOD (<1 ng/mL)/LOQ (10 ng/mL). …”
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From the Competence Model of a Specialist Engineer to STEAM Education, or … Going Ahead to the Past? by N. G. Bagdasaryan, R. M. Petruneva, V. D. Vasilyeva

“…This experience which has already given the world great engineers and adapted at the same time to the modern technological capabilities of its transmission can become a fulcrum in a transitive world.…”
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THE THEORY OF CIVILIZATIONS THROUGH THE LENS OF CONTEMPORARY HUMANITIES by T. V. Danylova

“…Faced with the challenges of our time, researchers are turning to the civilizational approach, according to which world history appears to us as a colourful spectrum of the options for the development of humanity. …”
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Evolution Law of Overburden Longitudinal Connected Fissures in a Shallowly Buried Coal Face with Thin Bedrock by Housheng Jia, Kun Pan, Luyao Wang, Shaowei Liu, Mengxiong Fu, Xiang Ji

“…Physical simulation, numerical simulation, field measurements, and other measures were carried out to analyze thoroughly the opening and closure of fissures. At the same time, the stage characteristics of fissures evolution process are also obtained. …”
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Analysis Employment Changes in Tourism Sector and It’s Impact on Balanced Regional Development (Case Study: Gilan Province) by Mohammad Eskandari Noudeh, Ahmad Pourahmad, Mghgan Khoshdelan

“…This study has investigated employment changes in tourism sector and it’s impact on balanced regional development in Gilan province during two time periods 1996-2006 and 2006-2011. The research method is descriptive–analytical. …”
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Resource Allocation in D2D-Enabled 5G Networks Using Multiagent Reinforcement Learning by Kwame Opuni-Boachie Obour Agyekum, Alex Yaw Boakye, Benedict Appati, Jochebed Akoto Opoku, Justice Owusu Agyemang, Gordon Owusu Boateng, James Dzisi Gadze

“…Staggered training improves agent performance and minimizes computational complexity by training agents one at a time in a sequential manner. This allows agents to learn from each other’s mistakes and avoid local minima. …”
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EXPLORING KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS FOR JOINT VENTURE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN LAGOS STATE, NIGERIA by I.O Famakin, D.R. Ogunsemi

“…The study revealed that all the performance indicators identified were significant to joint venture construction projects with time performance, client satisfaction, cost performance and sharing resources ranked as the most important performance indicators for joint venture construction projects in Nigeria. …”
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Improved BCI calibration in multimodal emotion recognition using heterogeneous adversarial transfer learning by Mehmet Ali Sarikaya, Gökhan Ince

“…Moreover, in the GraffitiVR dataset, using CWGAN-GP-generated EEG data with non-EEG sensory data for emotion recognition models resulted in up to a 30% reduction in calibration time compared to classifiers trained on real EEG data with non-EEG sensory data. …”
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BUILDing SCHOLARS: A program exemplar at a Hispanic serving institution to develop biomedical researchers. by Rafael Aguilera, Guadalupe Corral, Angelica Monarrez, Amy E Wagler, Lourdes E Echegoyen

“…Validated scales on science identity and research self-efficacy were completed by program fellows, and academic metrics such as retention, grade point average (GPA), and time to degree were collected for both program fellows and a comparison group. …”
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Composition of Web Services Using Markov Decision Processes and Dynamic Programming by Víctor Uc-Cetina, Francisco Moo-Mena, Rafael Hernandez-Ucan

“…Finally, a comparison with two popular reinforcement learning algorithms, sarsa and Q-learning, shows that these algorithms require one or two orders of magnitude and more time than policy iteration, iterative policy evaluation, and value iteration to handle WSC problems of the same complexity.…”
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Evolution of Artificial Intelligence in Medical Education From 2000 to 2024: Bibliometric Analysis by Rui Li, Tong Wu

“…The resulting heat map highlighted several high-frequency keywords, including performance, education, AI, and model. The citation burst time of terms revealed that AI technologies shifted from imaging processing (2000), augmented reality (2013), and virtual reality (2016) to decision-making (2020) and model (2021). …”
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A Survey of Deep Learning Approaches for Pedestrian Detection in Autonomous Systems by Majdi Sukkar, Rajendrasinh Jadeja, Madhu Shukla, Rajesh Mahadeva

“…This paper surveys real-time object detection literature critically and analytically, focusing particularly on pedestrian detection for safe autonomous vehicles. …”
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