The influence of the use of regulatory codes on the diagnosis of pathologies of reinforced concrete frame bridges by Lakhal Sebahi, Mohamed Bensoula, Mohamed Zaoui, Tahar Kadri

“…A diagnosis of the condition of the bridge was carried out on the basis of a preliminary visual inspection by making a schematic and photographic finding of the main issues and another inspection based on experimentation by carrying out several tests in situ and in the laboratory, which led to its classification in 2E according to the manual image of the quality of works of art (IQOA). Two types of regulatory loads are applied in this article; the Algerian regulation in force and the European regulation Eurocode 1 in order to carry out a comparative numerical simulation using the lowest compression constraint found during the experiment on the cores taken from the expert bridge. …”
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Noncontact Palm Vein ROI Extraction Based on Improved Lightweight HRnet in Complex Backgrounds by Fen Dai, Ziyang Wang, Xiangqun Zou, Rongwen Zhang, Xiaoling Deng

“…The model size was only 0.45 M, and on a CPU with a clock speed of 3 GHz, the average running time of ROI extraction for one image was 0.029 s. Based on the keypoints and corresponding ROI extraction, the equal error rate (EER) of palm vein recognition was 0.000362%, 0.014541%, and 0.005951% and the false nonmatch rate was 0.000001%, 11.034725%, and 4.613714% (false match rate: 0.01%) in the self-built dataset, TJU-PV, and CASIA, respectively. …”
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Dynamic Impact-Based Heavy Rainfall Warning with Multi-classification Machine Learning Approaches by Anand Shankar

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Comparison and Estimation of Surface Albedo of Various Levels of Land use by SEBAL and METRIC Methods by Mehdi Asadi, Khalil Valizadeh khamran, Mohammad Baaghdeh, Hamed Adab

“…Using Landsat satellite images taken in 2015/08/10 and also SEBAL and metric methods, surface albedo amounts for various land uses in the northern half of the Ardabil province was estimated. …”
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Why do people use a mobile wallet? The case of fintech companies in Jordan by Ohoud Khasawneh, Rana AlBahsh

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From European to World War: Dynamics of ‘Totalization’ and ‘Globalization’ of the Warfare in September 1939 — December 1941 by I. E. Magadeev

“…This paper concludes that the picture of WWII during the period under research was not identical to its textbook image of the total and global military conflict. …”
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China’s peacekeeping activities within the UN: Features, challenges, and prospects by Qian Li

“…In recent years, China has been vigorously strengthening its international authority, consistently building its image as a responsible great power. One of the vivid manifestations of these efforts has been China’s active involvement in peacekeeping activities under the auspices of the United Nations. …”
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The impact of temporary occupation and hostilities on the water conditions of the North Crimean and Kakhovka Main Canals by K. Borovyk, S. Gapon, I. Pyshnograiev

“…Manual digitisation of the canals was performed based on time composites of satellite images over the study period. The analysis revealed significant changes in the water conditions of the canals due to natural and anthropogenic factors. …”
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ANTHROPOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE CONCEPT OF "CRIME" IN HISTORICO-PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE by I. O. Kovnierova

“…The second Theocentric considers a man the image and likeness of God, though he is at the same time burdened with original sin. …”
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Initial Cytotoxicity of Mineral Trioxide Aggregate (MTA) during Setting on Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells by Soo-Youn Kim, Su-Min Lee, Jung-Hwan Lee

“…Endocem MTA showed severe cytotoxicity at 12.5% extract, while others showed relatively higher cell viability compared to Endocem MTA. Images of live and dead cells represented less live cells at 25% and 12.5%, confirming cell viability assay. …”
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Towards better and unlinkable protected biometric templates using label‐assisted discrete hashing by Kiran Raja, R. Raghavendra, Christoph Busch

“…The proposed approach can easily be adopted for a closed‐enrolment set in which enrolment images are known a priori whereas the challenge of learning templates for a single subject remains open. …”
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Experimental Study of Two Rows Hybrid Film Cooling Holes Over Flat Plate Surface Using IR Technology by Ahmed A. Naji, Harbi A. Daud, Nabil J. Yasin, Ahmed A. Jasim

“…In addition, thermal images of the test surface were taken via an infrared camera after reaching a steady state. …”
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Mechanical Properties of Tunnel Muck with Fly-Ash Geopolymer by Dong Yang, Zhiqin Xi, Qiang Chen, Shuisheng Li

“…Moreover, the optimum scheme is concluded according to the experimental results as follows: the mass ratio between tunnel muck and fly ash, the mass ratio between Na2SiO3 solution and NaOH solution, the ratio between liquid and solid, and molarity of NaOH are 1 : 2, 1.8, 0.18, and 10 mol/L, respectively. Meanwhile, the SEM images indicate that flocculence from the active substance in fly ash is a crucial component as the cementing material.…”
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An Optimized Deep-Learning-Based Network with an Attention Module for Efficient Fire Detection by Muhammad Altaf, Muhammad Yasir, Naqqash Dilshad, Wooseong Kim

“…Additionally, we contribute a medium-scale custom fire dataset, comprising high-resolution, imbalanced, and visually similar fire/non-fire images. Moreover, this study conducts an extensive experiment by exploring various pretrained DNN networks with attention modules and compares the proposed network with several state-of-the-art techniques using both a custom dataset and a standard benchmark. …”
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Plucking Point and Posture Determination of Tea Buds Based on Deep Learning by Chengju Dong, Weibin Wu, Chongyang Han, Zhiheng Zeng, Ting Tang, Wenwei Liu

“…In order to improve the accuracy and efficiency of machine plucking tea leaves, a method is presented in this paper to determine the plucking point and plucking posture based on the instance segmentation deep learning network. In this study, tea images in the dataset were first labeled using the Labelme software (version 4.5.13), and then the LDS-YOLOv8-seg model was proposed to identify the tea bud region and plucking area. …”
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Towards unbiased skin cancer classification using deep feature fusion by Ali Atshan Abdulredah, Mohammed A. Fadhel, Laith Alzubaidi, Ye Duan, Monji Kherallah, Faiza Charfi

“…Extensive experiments were conducted using publicly accessible datasets to evaluate SWNet’s effectiveness.This study utilized four datasets-Mnist-HAM10000, ISIC2019, ISIC2020, and Melanoma Skin Cancer-comprising skin cancer images categorized into benign and malignant classes. …”
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Individual-specific strategies inform category learning by Jared S. Collina, Gozde Erdil, Mingyi Xia, Christopher F. Angeloni, Katherine C. Wood, Janaki Sheth, Konrad P. Kording, Yale E. Cohen, Maria N. Geffen

“…Individuals learn category labels using a variety of strategies to ensure that sensory signals, such as sounds or images, can be assigned to proper categories. Categories are often learned on the basis of extreme examples, and the boundary between categories can differ among individuals. …”
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Evaluation of the Economic Efficiency of Radiology Units in Hospitals Affiliated with Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd by Ebrahim Bahrami Nia, Reza Shams Allahi, Sedigheh GHolamrezaee, Mohamad mehdi Zare shahne

“…Output variables comprised the number of admitted patients, the number of registered radiological images, and the total revenue generated. Results: The average technical and scale efficiency score was 0.910. …”
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Normative and Legal Regulation and Procedure for Bringing Officials to Liability for the Violation of the Right to Public Information’s Access by V. S. Vitkova

“…However, there is no need to mention that there is an objective need to do a thorough job on changing the approach and, above all, the attitude of public officials to the population; the need to develop and cultivate respect for the individual as the highest social value in the state and maintain a high flawless image, which, among other things, will help to restore public confidence in the state, its agencies and officials.…”
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Two-dimensional Green’s function for an isotropic equal-thickness double-layer structure by Jie Tong, Juan Li, Jiang Su, Ying-jie Liu

“…This derivation was based on the mirroring image method and Dirichlet’s principle of singularity. …”
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