Filters in 2D and 3D Cardiac SPECT Image Processing by Maria Lyra, Agapi Ploussi, Maritina Rouchota, Stella Synefia

“…Between the two reconstruction methods, the iterative one might be more appropriate for cardiac SPECT, since it improves lesion detectability due to the significant improvement of image contrast.…”
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Antimicrobial Susceptibility Patterns of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from Diabetes Patients with Foot Ulcers by Tamil Selvi Sivanmaliappan, Murugan Sevanan

“…Eighteen strains (14.28%) of P. aeruginosa from 270 diabetic foot ulcers were detected. Almost all the strains exhibited a varying degree of resistance to the antibiotics tested. …”
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Gastrointestinal helminth of Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus), in Arba Minch Crocodile Ranch, Ethiopia by Meheret Utele, Alemayehu Gebeyehu, Tamirat Kaba

“…Among the endoparasite eggs detected Dujardinascaris (18.01%) species was the most dominant species followed by Trichinella species (5.62%), polydeliphs (3.1%) and Renifers species (0.62%). …”
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Comprehensive Update on Rabies: A Neglected Zoonotic Disease of Public Health Concern by Kavitha Guladahalli Manjunatha, Chethana Chandrahasa, Sadanand Dangari Akshay, Akhila Dharnappa Sannejal, Rajeshwari Vittal, Govindaiah Kavitha, Khang Wen Goh, Shrikrishna Isloor, Devananda Devegowda

“…Diagnostic technologies like RT PCR, qPCR, dRIT, dFAT, and LFA are highly sensitive and specific in the rapid detection of rabies virus and play a crucial role in preventing the disease. …”
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Genome Resequencing of the Honeybee Apis mellifera jemenetica (Hymenoptera: Apidae): A Key Tool towards Characterization, Conservation, and Genomic Selection by Ahmad Alghamdi, Yehya Alattal

“…Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK) detected 1097962–1109829 InDels and 10090–11962 structural variations (SV) from which 22.1 to 33.8% were in the form of deletions. …”
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Analysis of College Students’ Public Opinion Based on Machine Learning and Evolutionary Algorithm by Jinqing Zhang, Pengchao Zhang, Bin Xu

“…First, the singular value decomposition is used in pretreatment of data set which includes outlier detection and dimension reduction. Then, the genetic algorithm is introduced in the training process to find the proper initial parameters of network, and in this way, it can prevent the network from falling into the local minimum. …”
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Primary Hydatid Cyst of Umbilicus, Mimicking an Umbilical Hernia by Mohammadreza Tarahomi, Hamidreza Alizadeh Otaghvar, Nazila hasanzadeh Ghavifekr, Daryanaz Shojaei, Farhood Goravanchi, Amir Molaei

“…A 57-year-old woman presented with an abdominal wall lesion in umbilical area that had been evolving for about 2 years with recent complaint of pain and discomfort. We detected a midline abdominal mass 12⁎13 centimeters in diameter which was bulged out in umbilicus. …”
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Monitoring Driving in a Monotonous Environment: Classification and Recognition of Driving Fatigue Based on Long Short-Term Memory Network by Hao Han, Kejie Li, Yi Li

“…A recognition model of different fatigue degrees of drivers is built based on the deep learning method of a long short-term memory network (LSTM) to detect the varied fatigue degrees of drivers. The result shows that the fatigue degree of drivers increases as driving time increases on both expressways and low-grade rural roads. …”
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Extremely serious maternal morbidity by María Laura Gutiérrez Alba, Mireya Cepero Montalván

“…Introduction: the detection and notification of patients with extremely severe maternal morbidity should be accepted as an important complementary tool to maternal mortality studies. …”
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Deep Brain Stimulation of Hemiparkinsonian Rats with Unipolar and Bipolar Electrodes for up to 6 Weeks: Behavioral Testing of Freely Moving Animals by Kathrin Badstuebner, Ulrike Gimsa, Immo Weber, Armin Tuchscherer, Jan Gimsa

“…Six behavioral parameters were compared with respect to their potential to detect DBS effects. Locomotor function was quantified by (i) apomorphine-induced rotation, (ii) initiation time, (iii) the number of adjusting steps in the stepping test, and (iv) the total migration distance in the open field test. …”
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The Local Triangle Structure Centrality Method to Rank Nodes in Networks by Xiaojian Ma, Yinghong Ma

“…Detecting influential spreaders had become a challenging and crucial topic so far due to its practical application in many areas, such as information propagation inhibition and disease dissemination control. …”
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Performance of a Leaf-Galling Phylloxera (Daktulosphaira vitifoliae) on Roots of Diverse Vitis spp. Rootstocks in North East Victoria, Australia by C. W. Clarke, K. S. Powell, S. Norng, B. M. Carmody, M. Walpole, J. P. Cunningham

“…The G38 phylloxera strain was detected on roots of Vitis spp., for the first time in North East Victoria in 2015. …”
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Investigation into the sero-molecular prevalence of Brucella melitensis in small ruminants in districts Mohmand and Charsadda Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan. by Sohaib Ul Hassan, Farhan Anwar Khan, Muhammad Shuaib, Muhammad Shahid, Said Sajjad Ali Shah, Shahrood Ahmed Siddiqui, Anthony Pokoo-Aikins, Ayman A Swelum

“…The findings of the study concluded that B. abortus and B. melitensis were circulating in sheep and goats with a higher prevalence in the study areas. This study detected the presence of B. mellitensis for the first time in small ruminants in the study areas.…”
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Developmental Changes in Sleep Oscillations during Early Childhood by Eckehard Olbrich, Thomas Rusterholz, Monique K. LeBourgeois, Peter Achermann

“…Following sleep stage scoring, we detected and characterized oscillatory events across age and examined how their features corresponded to spectral changes in the sleep EEG. …”
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First-Principles Simulation of the Interaction Between DNA Nucleotides and One-Dimensional Carbon Chain in Electrical Based Sequencing by Zeina Salman, Jin-Woo Kim, Steve Tung

“…Quantitatively, base A is the most difficult base to detect due to its relatively small current change. …”
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Harmonization and Verification of Three National European Icing Forecast Models Using Pilot Reports by Christoph Knigge, Katie Bennett, Christine Le Bot, Mara Gehlen-Zeller, Svenja Koos

“…In order to assess the individual icing forecasts and the resulting combinations, the probability of detection skill score is calculated based on multicategory contingency tables for the forecast icing intensities. …”
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Computer Vision-Based Patched and Unpatched Pothole Classification Using Machine Learning Approach Optimized by Forensic-Based Investigation Metaheuristic by Nhat-Duc Hoang, Thanh-Canh Huynh, Van-Duc Tran

“…During the phase of periodic asphalt pavement survey, patched and unpatched potholes need to be accurately detected. This study proposes and verifies a computer vision-based approach for automatically distinguishing patched and unpatched potholes. …”
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The Analysis of E-Government Services Adoption and Use in Slovenian Information Society between 2014 and 2017 by Mitja Dečman

“…The analysis of this data, presented in the paper, exhibits that changes for the better are detected in Slovenian society, but the situation in public-sector services is not optima. …”
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Anthelmintic Drug Resistance of Gastrointestinal Nematodes of Naturally Infected Goats in Haramaya, Ethiopia by Anteneh Wondimu, Yehualashet Bayu

“…In group treated with tetramisole, Teladorsagia (54.3%) were the most frequently detected nematode followed by Trichostrongylus (25.7%) and Haemonchus (11.4%). …”
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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Calcium Deposit in the Surgically Transacted Transverse Carpal Ligament by Ali Abbas Hashim Al-Musawi, Nadia Mahmoud Tawfiq Jebril, Amer Abbas. H. AL-Auhaimid, Zaid Hadi. K. Hammoodi

“…In assessing patients’ environmental pollution, it was observed that the Cd and Pb concentrations were significant with a higher Ca concentration, and XRF was useful for direct detection of the elements in samples of the human body. …”
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