Multiple Morphological Constraints-Based Complex Gland Segmentation in Colorectal Cancer Pathology Image Analysis by Kun Zhang, JunHong Fu, Liang Hua, Peijian Zhang, Yeqin Shao, Sheng Xu, Huiyu Zhou, Li Chen, Jing Wang

“…Considering that poorly differentiated colorectal glands cannot be accurately segmented, we propose an approach for segmentation of glands in colon cancer images, based on the characteristics of lumens and rough gland boundaries. First, we use a U-net for stain separation to obtain H-stain, E-stain, and background stain intensity maps. …”
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Every sip counts: Understanding hydration behaviors and user-acceptability of digital tools to promote adequate intake during early and late pregnancy. by Abigail M Pauley, Asher Y Rosinger, Jennifer S Savage, David E Conroy, Danielle Symons Downs

“…Descriptive statistics quantified women's knowledge of hydration recommendations, behaviors, and attitudes about utilizing digital tools to promote adequate intake, and Mann-Whitney U and chi-squared tests were used to determine group differences. …”
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High serum level of endostatin in multiple myeloma at diagnosis but not in the plateau phase after treatment by Halina Urbanska-Rys, Tadeusz Robak

“…Also, patients with a normal value of lactate dehydrogenase had a higher concentration of endostatin than those with values >425 U/l (median, 70 ng/ml versus 39 ng/ml; P=0.019). …”
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Bases de datos para Refining music tempo for an ergogenic effect on stationary cycling exercise by Jorge Alberto Aburto Corona, Luis Fernando Aragón-Vargas

“…There was no significant difference among conditions for PE (4.47±1.52; 4.22±1.5; 3.83±2.06 a.u. for NM, MT and FT, respectively, p=.162) or HR (142.4±24.53; 142.6±24.37; 142.9±18.36 bpm for NM, MT and FT, respectively, p=.994), but W was different (43.4±19.02; 46.1±20.34; 47.1±20.97, kJ for NM, MT and FT, respectively, p=.009); post-hoc analysis showed that the W difference was only between FT and NM. …”
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Nutritional care for children with feeding difficulties and disabilities: A scoping review. by Alyssa Klein, Malia Uyehara, Andrew Cunningham, Madina Olomi, Kristen Cashin, Catherine M Kirk

“…The prevalence of feeding difficulties globally ranges from 25-45 percent to 33-80 percent in children without and with disabilities, respectively. The U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) flagship multi-sectoral nutrition project, USAID Advancing Nutrition, conducted a scoping review of programs supporting nutritional care of children with disability and non-disability related feeding difficulties. …”
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Comparing the Influences on NO₂ Changes in Terms of Inter-Annual and Seasonal Variations in Different Regions of China: Meteorological and Anthropogenic Contributions by Xuehui Bai, Yi Wang, Lu Gui, Minghui Tao, Mingyu Zeng

“…Seasonal variations display a U-shaped trend, and there are significant differences in the impact of meteorological factors on seasonal variations among different regions. …”
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Tuzūkāt-i Tīmūrī as a Source on Chagatai Military Tactics, Late Fourteenth to Early Fifteenth Centuries by Leonid A. Bobrov, Aibolat K. Kushkumbayev, Zhaksylyk М. Sabitov, Myltykbayuly

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A Novel Approach to Cognitive Load Measurement in N-Back Tasks Using Wearable Sensors, Empirical Mode Decomposition With Machine Learning, and Explainable AI for Feature Importance by Aakanksha Dayal, Ziaullah Khan, Kiramat Ullah, Hee-Cheol Kim

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Sex and gender in perioperative cardiovascular research: protocol for a scoping review by Ana Sjaus, Nicole Fakhory

“…Scoping review registration Submitted on August 15th, 2023 (Web of Science osf.io/u25sf)…”
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Willingness and Hesitancy to Vaccinate Against COVID-19 in People with Multiple Sclerosis by D. Bučaitė, J. Valinčiūtė, D. Mickevičienė

“…Data were analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics 27.0 with Chi-square and Mann-Whitney U tests and p-value (statistically significant at <0.05) for each hypothesis. …”
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Disturbance Observer-Based Super-Twisting SMC for Variable Speed Wind Energy Conversion System Under Parametric Uncertainties by Ahmad Bala Alhassan, Muhammad Auwal Shehu, Vijayakumar Gali, Ton Duc do

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Association of serum calcium level with periodontitis: a cross-sectional study from NHANES 2009–2014 by Hongliang Cao, Min Wang, Mengna Duan, Song Wang, Haiyang Zhang

“…PurposeThis study aimed to investigate the association between serum calcium levels and periodontitis in a U.S. adult population, using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2009–2014.MethodData were analyzed from 8,601 participants aged over 30 years, who were categorized based on the presence or absence of periodontitis. …”
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Investigation of Vorticity during Prevalent Winter Precipitation in Iran by Iman Rousta, Farshad Javadizadeh, Fatemeh Dargahian, Haraldur Ólafsson, Amin Shiri-Karimvandi, Sayed Hossein Vahedinejad, Mehdi Doostkamian, Edgar Ricardo Monroy Vargas, Anayat Asadolahi

“…In this study, precipitation data for 483 synoptic stations, and the U&V component of wind and HGT data for 4 atmospheric levels were respectively obtained from IRIMO and NCEP/NCAR databases (1961–2013). …”
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Integrating Forward Modeling and Deep Learning for Precise Detection of Geological Anomalies in Coal Seams Using the Radio Imaging Method by Shun Yang, Yanqing Wu, Yinan Zhao, Mingwei Liu, Peng Lu, Zhifang Liu

“…Additionally, we compared the performance of four UNet architectures, with the Transformer UNet achieving the best results: the average ratio of FGA decreased by 37.37%, and the mean intersection over union (IoU) and average F1 score increased by 24.26% and 23.78%, respectively, confirming the feasibility of our approach.…”
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Experimental Study on the Flow Regimes and Pressure Gradients of Air-Oil-Water Three-Phase Flow in Horizontal Pipes by Luai M. Al-Hadhrami, S. M. Shaahid, Lukman O. Tunde, A. Al-Sarkhi

“…The flow patterns were observed and recorded using high speed video camera while the pressure drops were measured using pressure transducers and U-tube manometers. The flow patterns show strong dependence on water fraction, gas velocities, and liquid velocities. …”
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An assessment of awareness, knowledge and perception of monkeypox (mpox) disease among internet users in Nigeria: a cross-sectional survey by Omotayo Olojede, Damola Bakare, Abiodun Sogbesan, Julius Salako, Ayobami Bakare

“…We assessed participants’ knowledge of mpox in three domains (transmission, signs and symptoms, prevention and treatment) and perception based on five constructs of HBM (susceptibility, severity, benefit, barriers and self-efficacy). We used Mann-Whitney U tests to identify factors associated with perception. …”
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Patterns and Determinants of Change in Cortisol Levels and Thyroid Function as a Function of Cardiac Risk in Children Undergoing Cardiac Surgery by Khouloud Abdulrahman Al-Sofyani, Mohammed Shahab Uddin, Ebtehal Ahmed Qulisy, Osman Osama Al-Radi

“…Overall, the changes in thyroid function parameters resulted in a U-shaped curve, while cortisol levels yielded a bell-shaped curve. …”
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Novel Osteo Refurbishment Method and Choice of Colouring Materials for Anatomy Specimens by Dibakar BORTHAKUR, Rajesh KUMAR, Neerja RANI, Rima DADA

“…For a comparison of the two coloring agents Mann-Whitney U test was applied to the responses toward the Likert scale-based questionnaire. …”
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Okur Yazar Nüfus Oranı Türkiye Ortalamasının Altında Olan Bir İlçe: Altınyayla Sivas by Adnan Pınar, Mustafa Sarıbaş, Safiye Sarıbaş

“…Altınyayla ilçe merkezinde nüfusun % 10,9’u okuma yazma bilmez iken, bu oran Altınyayla kırsalında % 13,1’dir. …”
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Cyclic Learning Rate-Based Co-Training for Image Classification With Noisy Labels by Ying Zheng, Yu Gu, Pingping Bai, Dong Yuan, Siqi Zhou, Xin Lyu, Ang Chen

“…Especially on CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100 with 40% symmetric noise ratio, and Clothing1M, it outperforms the most relevant O2U-Net by 2.59%, 6.11%, and 0.57% in test accuracy, respectively, demonstrating superior noise resistance and classification accuracy under various noise conditions. …”
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