Real-Time Audio-Visual Analysis for Multiperson Videoconferencing by Petr Motlicek, Stefan Duffner, Danil Korchagin, Hervé Bourlard, Carl Scheffler, Jean-Marc Odobez, Giovanni Del Galdo, Markus Kallinger, Oliver Thiergart

“…They comprise continuous localisation of audio objects and its application for spatial audio object coding, detection, and tracking of faces, estimation of head poses and visual focus of attention, detection and localisation of verbal and paralinguistic events, and the association and fusion of these different events. …”
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Direct Quantitative Detection and Identification of Lactococcal Bacteriophages from Milk and Whey by Real-Time PCR: Application for the Detection of Lactococcal Bacteriophages in G... by Mai Huong Ly-Chatain, Loïc Durand, Véronique Rigobello, Annabelle Vera, Yann Demarigny

“…The curve slopes were −3.49, −3.69, and −3.45 with the amplification efficiency estimated at 94%, 94%, and 98% and the correlation coefficient (𝑅2) of 0.999, 0.999, and 0.998 for c2, 936 and P335 group, respectively. …”
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Attentional Capture and Inhibition of Saccades after Irrelevant and Relevant Cues by Heinz-Werner Priess, Nils Heise, Florian Fischmeister, Sabine Born, Herbert Bauer, Ulrich Ansorge

“…Here, we tested the relationship between capture and inhibition in a setup allowing for estimates of the capture and inhibition based on the very same trials. …”
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Neuroendocrine Cell Carcinoma of Unknown Primary Arising in Long Standing History of Multiple Sclerosis by Stergios Boussios, Vasiliki Kostadima, Anna Batistatou, Ioannis Tourkantonis, George Fotopoulos, Maria I. Argyropoulou, Nicholas Pavlidis

“…The discussion includes data from all available population-based register studies with estimates of certain malignancies in patients with MS.…”
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Understanding the private-public school performance gap in PISA: evidence from Portugal by Ricardo Colaço, Pedro Freitas, Luis Catela Nunes, Ana Balcão Reis

“…To account for those differences, we apply a post-stratification adjustment; however, sample sizes are small, resulting in estimates with low precision for several subgroups. …”
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Hybrid Model: An Efficient Symmetric Multiprocessor Reference Model by Shupeng Wang, Kai Huang, Tianyi Xie, Xiaolang Yan

“…Functional verification has become one of the main bottlenecks in the cost-effective design of embedded systems, particularly for symmetric multiprocessors. It is estimated that verification in its entirety accounts for up to 60% of design resources, including duration, computer resources, and total personnel. …”
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Exploring Influencing Factors of Intercity Mode Choice from View of Entire Travel Chain by Xiaowei Li, Siyu Zhang, Yao Wu, Yuting Wang, Wenbo Wang

“…The results show that the Bayesian mixed multinomial logit model outperforms the traditional Bayesian multinomial logit model, indicating that accommodating the unobserved heterogeneity across observations can improve the model fit. The model estimation results show that ticket purchasing method, comfort, punctuality, and access time are random parameters that have heterogeneous effects on intercity travel mode choice.…”
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Flexural Properties of Steel-Bamboo Composite Slabs in Different Connection Methods by Hui Zhong, Qifeng Shan, Jialiang Zhang, Xiaocun Zhang, Yushun Li

“…This paper presents a study aimed to estimate the flexural performance of profiled steel sheet-bamboo plywood composite slabs as a first step to evaluate its potential application as structural components. …”
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Spatiotemporal variability of turbidity water in tidal areas of Perak River, Malaysia, based on field survey and Sentinel-2 image analysis by Takahashi Haruna, Yamasaki Yosei, Nakata Akane, Okada Shoji

“…In this study, water sampling and turbidity measurements were conducted in the tidal sensitive area of the Perak River during the satellite Sentinel-2 transit. An equation to estimate turbidity from surface reflectance at near-infrared wavelengths was experimentally developed using fine sand collected from the Perak River, and this equation was applied to past Sentinel-2 images to clarify the spatiotemporal variability characteristics of turbidity in the tidal zone. …”
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Apparent Prevalence of Beef Carcasses Contaminated with Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis Sampled from Danish Slaughter Cattle by Hisako Okura, Nils Toft, Nicola Pozzato, Annalucia Tondo, Søren Saxmose Nielsen

“…Cheek muscle tissues from carcasses of two dairy cows were positive by culture whereas 4% of the animals were estimated with ≥10 CFU/gram muscle based on realtime PCR. …”
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Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control of Hypertension among Saudi Adult Population: A National Survey by Abdalla A. Saeed, Nasser A. Al-Hamdan, Ahmed A. Bahnassy, Abdelshakour M. Abdalla, Mostafa A. F. Abbas, Lamiaa Z. Abuzaid

“…This cross-sectional study aimed at estimating prevalence, awareness, treatment, control, and predictors of hypertension among Saudi adult population. …”
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Applying Data Clustering Feature to Speed Up Ant Colony Optimization by Chao-Yang Pang, Ben-Qiong Hu, Jie Zhang, Wei Hu, Zheng-Chao Shan

“…And this feature makes the idea of divide and rule feasible for the estimate of solution of TSP. In this paper an improved ACO algorithm is presented, which firstly divided all data into local clusters and calculated small TSP routes and then assembled a big TSP route with them. …”
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Using ecological niche modeling to determine avian richness hotspots by R. Mirzaei, M.R. Hemami, A. Esmaili Sari, H.R. Rezaei, A.T. Peterson

“…In this paper, the spatial pattern of diversity of birds in Golestan Province, Iran was estimated. Ecological niche modeling was used to determine distributions of 144 bird species across the province using a maximum entropy algorithm. …”
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Fixed-Time Sliding Mode Control for Vehicle Platoon With Input Dead-Zone and Prescribed Performance by Yongqiang Jiang, Yiguang Wang, Xiaojie Li, Xiaoyan Zhan, Xubing Tang

“…Furthermore, Chebyshev neural network (CNN) is adopted to approximate unknown nonlinearities, and new adaptive mechanisms are designed to estimate IDZ slope and external disturbances. Utilizing the proposed TFTPPF, CNN, and adaptive mechanisms, a novel FTSMC strategy for vehicle platoon is proposed to ensure string stability and achieve predefined tracking performance within a fixed time. …”
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Forest Fire Prevention, Detection, and Fighting Based on Fuzzy Logic and Wireless Sensor Networks by Josué Toledo-Castro, Pino Caballero-Gil, Nayra Rodríguez-Pérez, Iván Santos-González, Candelaria Hernández-Goya, Ricardo Aguasca-Colomo

“…With respect to this, meteorological variables, polluting gases and the oxygen level are measured in real time to estimate the existence of forest fire risks in the short-term and to detect the recent occurrence of fire outbreaks over different forest areas. …”
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Thermodynamic Insights into the Separation of Carotenoids in Reversed-Phase Liquid Chromatography by Nicola Marchetti, Pier Paolo Giovannini, Martina Catani, Luisa Pasti, Alberto Cavazzini

“…Traditional Van’t Hoff analysis has been used to estimate changes of standard enthalpy (ΔH∘) and Gibbs free energy (ΔG∘) associated with the solute transfer from the mobile to the stationary phase at each mobile phase composition. …”
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Optical Coherence Tomography of Van Der Waals Heterostructures Using Extreme Ultraviolet Light by Felix Wiesner, Johann J. Abel, Muhammad Hussain, Vipin Krishna, Alisson R. Cadore, Juan P. G. Felipe, Ana M. Valencia, Martin Wünsche, Julius Reinhard, Marco Gruenewald, Caterina Cocchi, Gerhard G. Paulus, Giancarlo Soavi, Silvio Fuchs

“…The EUV coherence tomography contrast is estimated in a broad spectral range (photon energy 65 –100 eV). …”
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Isolation of Pleurotus florida derived acetylcholinesterase inhibitor for the treatment of cognitive dysfunction in mice by Kudrat Randhawa, Varinder Singh, Sanimardeep Kaur, Ravinder Kaur, Suresh Kumar, Richa Shri

“…Morris water maze test was used for evaluating memory, followed by biochemical estimations and histopathological studies. Bioactivity guided fractionation resulted in isolation of resveratrol (identified by IR, NMR and MS) and its content in P. florida fruiting bodies was 0.0098% (m/m, by a validated TLC densitometric method). …”
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Suspended Load Path Tracking Control Strategy Using a Tilt-Rotor UAV by M. A. Santos, B. S. Rego, G. V. Raffo, A. Ferramosca

“…An unscented Kalman filter (UKF) is designed for nonlinear state estimation of all the system states, assuming that available information is provided by noisy sensors with different sampling rates that do not directly measure the load’s attitude. …”
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The ichthyofauna of the upper Neretva River by Jakob Neuburg, Thomas Friedrich, Elisabeth Haring, Sarah Höfler, Ana Maric, Saša Marić, Stephanie Popp, Predrag Simonović, Aleš Snoj, Simona Sušnik Bajec, Simon Vitecek, Alexandra Wanka, Steven Weiss, Kurt Pinter

“…However, the relatively low biomass estimates may be the result of overharvesting. A new haplotype of the mitochondrial control region of the bullhead (Cottus gobio) was detected and confirmation of native S. trutta, Barbatula barbatula, Phoxinus sp., and C. gobio in the upper reaches, underlining the importance of this river stretch. …”
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