Automatic Detection of Cracks in Cracked Tooth Based on Binary Classification Convolutional Neural Networks by Juncheng Guo, Yuyan Wu, Lizhi Chen, Guanghua Ge, Yadong Tang, Wenlong Wang

“…A CNN model is designed by modifying the size of the input layer and adding a fully connected layer with 2 units based on the ResNet50, and then, the proposed CNN is trained and validated with a self-prepared cracked tooth dataset including 20,000 images. …”
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Strategic Management at Mormaii - the Brazilian Surf Industry Leader by Marcos Abilio Bosquetti, Gabriela Gonçalves Silveira Fiates, Jess Ponting

“…The sport of surfing has been growing rapidly in popularity worldwide and Brazil is among the countries with the largest surfing population, behind the United States and Australia, however, multinational surf companies are rushing in emerging markets like Brazil to find new opportunities for growth. …”
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Carbon utilization and storage through rehabilitation of groundwater wells by Vivek V. Patil, Gabriella Basso, Steven Catania, Christopher Catania, Timothy Ostapuk, Robert Vince

“…Abstract According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the United Nations (UN), rise in atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO $${_2}$$ 2 ) due to anthropogenic factors is considered as the primary driver for global climate change. …”
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Network security of the National Natural Science Foundation of China: today and prospects by Dong LI, Yanni HAO, Shenghui PENG, Ruijie ZI, Ximeng LIU

“…The National Natural Science Foundation of China (hereinafter referred to as the Natural Science Foundation of China) is responsible for effectively utilizing the National Natural Science Foundation of China, supporting basic research, adhering to free exploration, playing a guiding role, and discovering and cultivating science and technology in accordance with the national guidelines, policies and plans for the promotion of scientific and technological progress and coordinated economic and social development.With the continuous development of new productive forces represented by information technology, the Natural Science Foundation of China has been committed to promoting the informatization and intelligence of fund management.With the increasing complexity of business types, various types of network attacks, such as information leakage attacks, are encountered in the construction of informatization and make network security face severe challenges.The network security construction of the Natural Science Foundation of China was took as the main line and the network security construction of the existing platform was introduced.At present, a network security system structure with the science fund project management as the core has been established to ensure the safe and stable operation of the network system.The main information systems of the Natural Science Foundation of China (Natural Science Foundation Shared Service Network, business department website, email system) and its main threats were analyzed and introduced.Then the thoughts and suggestions in the follow-up informatization and network security construction were given.The Natural Science Foundation of China will start the construction of a new generation of secure network.Under the premise of fully considering the characteristics of science fund review, management, and open sharing, it will achieve the overall goal of “smarter, safer, and better” and carry out network security system construction for relevant units.…”
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Design and Profit Allocation in Two-Echelon Heterogeneous Cooperative Logistics Network Optimization by Yong Wang, Yingying Yuan, Kevin Assogba, Ke Gong, Haizhong Wang, Maozeng Xu, Yinhai Wang

“…GA-PSO is employed to provide good solutions to customer clustering units’ reallocation problem. In addition, a negotiation process is established based on logistics centers as coordinators. …”
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Implementing an Outgoing Longwave Radiation Climate Dataset from Fengyun 3E Satellite Data with a Machine-Learning Algorithm by Yanjiao Wang, Feng Yan

“…In this study, we compared outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) measurements from the FY3E satellite (FY3E OLR) and from a series of satellites operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA, United States of America; hereafter NOAA OLR) and analyzed the spatiotemporal differences between the datasets. …”
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Groundwater quality evaluation and its suitability for domestic and irrigation use in the hard rock terrain of Olakkur block, Tamilnadu, India by D. Vinodh., S. Senthilkumar, B. Gowtham, Talelign Wegene, M. Jeevanandam

“…The SAR values were less than 10. Based on United States Salinity Laboratory Staff (USSL) diagram the dominant categories were C2-S1, C3-S1, C2-S1, C3-S1, C3-S2 in both pre and post-monsoon. …”
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UKRAINIAN MEDIALANDSCAPE IN THE TIME OF WAR (2022–2024): TRANSFORMATION, RESPONSE TO THE WAR, DYNAMICS OF MEDIA CONSUMPTION by Svitlana Bezchotnikova, Nina Zrazhevska

“…Despite losses in TV channels, radio stations and printed media, most media companies hadn't stopped broadcasting near war zone and launched united initiatives at the start of the war. Humanitarian media activities focused on crowdsourcing, fundraising, and information support for displaced people, army divisions, and the general Ukrainian public. …”
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Marketing in the food trade by Ewa Bąk-Filipek, Urszula Tetwejer

“…The methods and marketing strategies resulting from the sale of forms and types of units in retail and wholesale. This paper reviews the various combinations of the sale of food products, offering various opportunities for marketing activities. …”
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Forensic classification of military criminal offences and the place of abuse of power or authority by a military official by I. Kostiuk

“…This type covers a wide sector of socially dangerous acts united by common generic features. Within the specified type, groups and forms of offences were identified, characterised by specific features depending on the object of illegal encroachment. …”
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Naturally russeted and wound russeted skins of mango (cv. ‘Apple’) show no differences in anatomy, chemical composition or gene expression by Jannis Straube, Thomas O. Athoo, Viktoria Zeisler-Diehl, Kiran Suresh, Lukas Schreiber, Moritz Knoche

“…Lignin monomers in natural and wound-induced periderms contained p-hydroxyphenyl, guaiacyl and syringyl units, but only traces of these occurred in cuticles. …”
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Current Status and Future Directions of Artificial Intelligence in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Literature Measurement Analysis by Ruoyu Wan, Ruohong Wan, Qing Xie, Anshu Hu, Wei Xie, Junjie Chen, Yuhan Liu

“…Ressler has emerged as the most influential author in the field to date. The United States leads in the number of publications, producing seven times more papers than Canada, the second-ranked country, and demonstrating substantial influence. …”
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Preferences for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Non-Stimulant Treatment Characteristics Among Children and Adolescents With ADHD and Their Caregivers by Emuella Flood, Kavita Gajria, Vanja Sikirica, Paul Hodgkins, M. Haim Erder, Frank Lopez, Daniel Connor

“…Guanfacine extended release (GXR) and atomoxetine (ATX) are two non-stimulant medications approved in the United States for the treatment of ADHD. **Objective:** To identify non-stimulant ADHD medication attributes important to caregivers/patients. …”
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A multimodal multistream multilevel fusion network for finger joint angle estimation with hybrid sEMG and FMG sensing by Zhouping Chen, Mohamed Amin Gouda, Longcheng Ji, Hong Wang

“…MMMFNet utilises gate-recurrent units (GRU) networks to capture spatial dependencies among features and adopts a multilevel fusion strategy to extract more comprehensive representations from information sources than a single-level fusion. …”
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Improved constructs for bait RNA display in a bacterial three-hybrid assay by Linh D. Nguyen, Hannah LeBlanc, Katherine E. Berry

“…To support correct folding of hybrid bait RNAs, we have explored the use of a highly stable stem (“GC clamp”) to isolate regions of a hybrid RNA as discrete folding units. In this work, we introduce new bait RNA constructs to (1) insulate the folding of individual components of the hybrid RNA with GC clamps and (2) express bait RNAs that do not encode their own intrinsic terminator. …”
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MMP-9 Contributes to Dendritic Spine Remodeling Following Traumatic Brain Injury by Barbara Pijet, Marzena Stefaniuk, Leszek Kaczmarek

“…Such change in brain homeostasis may often lead to brain disorders. The basic units of neuronal connectivity are dendritic spines that are tiny protrusions forming synapses between two cells in a network. …”
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Relationship between hospitalization from cannabis usage and pulmonary tuberculosis in Thailand from 2017 to 2022. by Kemmapon Chumchuen, Wit Wichaidit, Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong

“…Both admission types were aggregated to the number of admissions in monthly and provincial units. Temporal and spatial patterns were visualized using line plots and choropleth maps, respectively. …”
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Lipids in parenteral nutrition – expert consensus statements: Translating guidelines into clinical practice by Robert G. Martindale, Philip C. Calder, Sarah V. Cogle, David C. Evans, Leah Gramlich, Stephen A. McClave, Manpreet S. Mundi, Maurizio Muscaritoli, Reid Nishikawa, Jayshil Patel, Lorenzo Pradelli, Martin Rosenthal, Christian Stoppe, Kelly A. Tappenden, Malissa Warren, Dan Waitzberg, Paul E. Wischmeyer, Stanislaw Klek

“…This summit built upon outcomes from an earlier summit, and focused on adult patients in three distinct clinical settings: intensive care units, hospital wards, and the home environment/long-term PN. …”
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The Experience of Survivors of Firearm Suicide Attempts: A Retrospective Case Series by Jeffrey R. Savarino, MD, MPH, Emily Rubin, MD, JD, Peter T. Masiakos, MD, MS, Rachel McLellan, BA, Myron L. Rolle, MD, MSc, Pranav Nanda, MD, Christopher J. Stapleton, MD, Chana A. Sacks, MD, MPH

“…Most firearm deaths in the United States are the result of suicide. Because firearm suicide attempts have a case fatality rate of approximately 90%, little is known about the precipitating factors that lead to firearm suicide attempts. …”
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Diplomatic Geography of Xi Jinping: What the Statistics of the Chinese Leader’s Foreign Visits Reveal by I. Y. Zuenko, A. S. Osokin

“…The findings indicate that from 2018 to 2023, Xi Jinping increased his visits to Southeast Asian countries, particularly Indonesia and Vietnam, while maintaining a consistent focus on Russia and the United States, akin to the approach under Jiang Zemin. …”
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