Cross-Attention Fusion of Visual and Geometric Features for Large-Vocabulary Arabic Lipreading by Samar Daou, Achraf Ben-Hamadou, Ahmed Rekik, Abdelaziz Kallel

“…To fuse these complementary features, we introduce a cross-attention mechanism that combines visual and geometric information to obtain an optimal representation of lip movements for lipreading tasks. …”
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Motivation, barriers and preferences of lifestyle changes among older adults with frailty and mild cognitive impairments: A scoping review of qualitative analysis. by Jamilah Mohammad Hanipah, Arimi Fitri Mat Ludin, Devinder Kaur Ajit Singh, Ponnusamy Subramaniam, Suzana Shahar

“…Out of 5226 retrieved, 253 articles were selected after the deletion of duplicates, title, abstract screening, and. We included fourteen articles for final analysis at the end of the review process. …”
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Effect of Statins on Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Patients with Coronary Artery Spasm: A Meta-Analysis of the Asia Region by Tian-Jun Zhao, Duan Luo, Xi Jiang, Feng Tang, Hui Jiang

“…We included data on MACE in a statin therapy patient group and a no-statin therapy control group. …”
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Learning From High-Cardinality Categorical Features in Deep Neural Networks by Mustafa Murat Arat

“…Therefore, in an early stage of modelling, feature engineering is required when categorical variables present in the dataset. As a result, we must encode those attributes into an appropriate feature vector. …”
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A Knotless Technique for Kidney Transplantation in the Mouse by Song Rong, Alfor G. Lewis, Uta Kunter, Hermann Haller, Faikah Gueler

“…However, the surgical technique necessary to result in a viable allograft has traditionally proven to be complex and very demanding. Here, we introduce a new, simple, and rapid knotless technique for vessel anastomosis wherein the last stitch of the anastomosis is not tied to the short end of the upper tie as in the classical approach but is left free. …”
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Selective Screening Strategies for Gestational Diabetes: A Prospective Cohort Observational Study by Sumaiya Adam, Paul Rheeder

“…Aim. We aimed to develop a prediction model for the diagnosis of gestational diabetes and to evaluate the performance of published prediction tools on our population. …”
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A linear filter regularization for POD-based reduced-order models of the quasi-geostrophic equations by Girfoglio, Michele, Quaini, Annalisa, Rozza, Gianluigi

“…We propose a regularization for reduced-order models (ROMs) of the quasi-geostrophic equations (QGE) to increase accuracy when the proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) modes retained to construct the reduced basis are insufficient to describe the system dynamics. …”
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Obstacle Aware Connectivity Restoration for Disjoint Wireless Sensor Networks Using a Mix of Stationary and Mobile Nodes by Guizhen Ma, Yang Yang, Xuesong Qiu, Zhipeng Gao

“…Finally we optimize the tour path of MDCs. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is validated through simulation experiments.…”
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Hepatic transcript profiling in beef cattle: Effects of rumen-protected niacin supplementation. by Gastón F Alfaro, Valentino Palombo, Mariasilvia D'Andrea, Wenqi Cao, Yue Zhang, Jonathan Beever, Russell B Muntifering, Wilmer J Pacheco, Soren P Rodning, Xu Wang, Sonia J Moisá

“…The objective of our study was to assess the effect of rumen-protected niacin supplementation on the transcriptome of liver tissue in growing Angus × Simmental steers and heifers through RNA-seq analysis. Consequently, we wanted to assess the known role of niacin in the physiological processes of vasodilation, detoxification, and immune function in beef hepatic tissue. …”
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CC2: Defending Hybrid Worm on Mobile Networks with Two-Dimensional Circulation Control by Hailu Yang, Deyun Chen, Guanglu Sun, Xiaoyu Ding, Yu Xin

“…This problem is expected to become worse with the boom of social applications and mobile services. In this work, we study the propagation dynamics of hybrid worms and propose a systematic countermeasure. …”
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The influence of infantile cues on motivated perception of threats among caregivers by Emma Murrugarra, Michael H. Goldstein

“…Here we review evidence that the task of providing care to children shapes how adults process information about threat, such as attention towards potential threat cues, perception of the social and physical world, and judgment of risk under uncertainty. …”
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The role of Airbnb creating a “new”-old city centre: facts, problems and controversies in Porto by Pedro Chamusca, José Rio Fernandes, Luís Carvalho, Thiago Mendes

“…We conclude that the growth of floating city-users –stimulated by Airbnb– has been the main driver of urban change. …”
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Threat to the predator suppresses defence of its prey by Monika Sysiak, Piotr Maszczyk, Andrzej Mikulski

“…Surprisingly, we found no evidence of a suppressive response to alarm cues. …”
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Differential Sensitivity of Nitrogen-Fixing, <i>Azolla Microphylla</i> to Organochlorine and Organophosphate Insecticide by W Raja, P Rathaur, R Ashiq

“…Using chemical products as nutrients, fertilizers and pesticides, we believe that we attack our safety and we must know the effects of pesticides from these compounds. …”
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Sample-prototype optimal transport-based universal domain adaptation for remote sensing image classification by Xiaosong Chen, Yongbo Yang, Dong Liu, Shengsheng Wang

“…To address these challenges, we propose Sample-Prototype Optimal Transport-Based Universal Domain Adaptation (SPOT). …”
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Social Network Analysis of Ancient Japanese Obsidian Artifacts Reflecting Sampling Bias Reduction by Sakahira, Fumihiro, Tsumura, Hiroomi

“…To improve regional representation and reduce the distortions caused by small sample sizes, we performed clustering based on a large-scale dataset and conducted social network analysis. …”
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Epidemiological trends and healthcare disparities in onychomycosis: An analysis of the All of Us research program. by Aditya K Gupta, Vasiliki Economopoulos, Tong Wang, Vincent Piguet

“…Our objective was to explore disparities in current clinical management practices for onychomycosis in patients from underrepresented groups and with specific comorbidities. We conducted a cross-sectional study using the All of Us (AoU) research program. …”
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Synthetic graphs for link prediction benchmarking by Alexey Vlaskin, Eduardo G Altmann

“…We propose a family of random graphs that incorporates both micro-scale motifs and meso-scale communities, two ubiquitous structures in complex networks. …”
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Assessment of Visual Acuity, Refraction Changes, and Proptosis in Different Ages of Patients with Thyroid Diseases by J. Jankauskiene, D. Jarusaitiene

“…Results. In the present study we observed a significant decrease of visual acuity in teenagers (0.73±0.18, P=0.001) and adults (0.7±0.16, P=0.001) with Graves’ disease. …”
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Metabolic engineering approaches for the biosynthesis of antibiotics by Geunsoo Yook, Jiwoo Nam, Yeonseo Jo, Hyunji Yoon, Dongsoo Yang

“…Abstract Background Antibiotics have been saving countless lives from deadly infectious diseases, which we now often take for granted. However, we are currently witnessing a significant rise in the emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria, making these infections increasingly difficult to treat in hospitals. …”
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