Advancing a Vision Foundation Model for Ming-Style Furniture Image Segmentation: A New Dataset and Method by Yingtong Wan, Wanru Wang, Meng Zhang, Wei Peng, He Tang

“…Our experiments demonstrate that the proposed method significantly improves the segmentation accuracy, outperforming state-of-the-art models in terms of the mean intersection over union (mIoU). Ablation studies highlight the contributions of the MAP and SRM to both the performance and computational efficiency. …”
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A Bracket-Stiffened Two-Planar Overlapped Tubular KT-Joint for Offshore Jack-Up Fatigue Analysis by Jian Zhang, Xinxin Yue, Jiajia Qiu, Lei Chen, Wei Shen

“…In this paper, a novel bracket-stiffened two-planar overlapped tubular KT-joint is proposed by adding two brackets between the upper diagonal and horizontal braces to alleviate the stress concentration at the brace-to-chord intersection area. As compared with the original KT-joint and KT-joint of larger brace gap, stress concentration reduction and fatigue strength enhancement at the most critical point of the proposed KT-joint are significant under both axial and in-plane bending (IPB) loads. …”
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DFMA: an improved DeepLabv3+ based on FasterNet, multi-receptive field, and attention mechanism for high-throughput phenotyping of seedlings by Liangquan Jia, Tao Wang, Xiangge Li, Lu Gao, Qiangguo Yu, Xincheng Zhang, Shanlin Ma

“…On our self-constructed rice seedling dataset, the model achieved a mean Intersection over Union (mIoU) of 81.72%. On publicly available datasets, including Arabidopsis thaliana, Brachypodium distachyon, and Sinapis alba, detection scores reached 87.69%, 91.07%, and 66.44%, respectively, outperforming existing models. …”
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Prevalence of Non-Communicable Diseases Among Elderly in India: A Scoping Review by Patlolla Sriram Yadav, Ajitha Katta, Gooty Shirisha, Mousami Kirtania

“…Further research is needed on the intersection of aging and NCDs in India to improve the quality of life for elderly individuals. …”
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Link-Based Signalized Arterial Progression Optimization with Practical Travel Speed by Wu Xianyu, Hu Peifeng, Yuan Zhenzhou

“…In practice, a balance between link bandwidth and arterial bandwidth has proven to be important in optimizing coordinated signal timing plans, because not all drivers need to pass through all the intersections on an arterial. This study proposes an algorithm on how to obtain an optimal coordinated signal timing plan with both optimal link bandwidth and optimal arterial bandwidth considering practical vehicles’ speed. …”
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Global Research Priorities for Holistic Integration of Water and Power Systems by Rebecca O'Neil, Konstantinos Oikonomou, Vince Tidwell, Nathalie Voisin, Jessica Kerby, Z. Jason Hou, Masood Parvania, Ali T. Al-Awami, Mathaios Panteli, Steven A. Conrad, Ted K. A. Brekken

“…Although technological innovations emerge at the intersection of energy and water, these sectors largely operate independently, despite their mutual importance. …”
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Resilient Schedule Coordination for a Bus Transit Corridor by Xiongfei Lai, Jing Teng, Paul Schonfeld, Lu Ling

“…This paper proposes a resilient schedule coordination method for a bus transit corridor, which analyzes link travel time, passenger loading delay, and priority signal intersection delay. It maximizes resilience based on realistic passenger flow volume, whether or not transit priority is provided. …”
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Blockchain-IoT Healthcare Applications and Trends: A Review by Wafaa A. N. A. Al-Nbhany, Ammar T. Zahary, Asma A. Al-Shargabi

“…The methodology of our paper is to review the literature from 2018 to 2023, paying more attention to research that intersects and integrates IoT, Blockchain, and healthcare applications. …”
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Bioprinting and Intellectual Property: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Road Ahead by Antreas Kantaros, Theodore Ganetsos, Florian Ion Tiberiu Petrescu, Elli Alysandratou

“…Findings suggest that current IP laws inadequately address the complexities of bioprinting, particularly in managing the intersection of proprietary technologies and ethical considerations. …”
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Evaluating AI performance in nephrology triage and subspecialty referrals by Priscilla Koirala, Charat Thongprayoon, Jing Miao, Oscar A. Garcia Valencia, Mohammad S. Sheikh, Supawadee Suppadungsuk, Michael A. Mao, Justin H. Pham, Iasmina M. Craici, Wisit Cheungpasitporn

“…This included the need for better integration of multidisciplinary care for patients with complex, intersecting medical conditions. This study’s findings highlight the potential of AI in enhancing decision-making processes in clinical workflow, and it can inform the development of AI-assisted triage systems tailored to institution-specific practices including multidisciplinary approaches.…”
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Finite Element Research of Cup Wheel Grinding Heat Based on Trochoid Scratch Model by Pengcheng Zhao, Bin Lin, Jingguo Zhou, Bingrui Lv, Tianyi Sui

“…Furthermore, this investigation explored the influence of trochoid trajectories and process parameters on the temperature field, highlighting intersection and curvature thermal effects. These findings contribute valuable analytical methods and theoretical insights for controlling grinding heat in precision machining processes.…”
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Treatment of gouty lumbar spinal stenosis: a case report and bioinformatics analysis by Xiao Zhang, Wenbo Gu, Di Luo, Xi Zhu, Xusheng Li, Haifeng Yuan

“…In addition, in order to further investigate the deep mechanism of LSS associated with gout, we obtained the intersecting genes of the two diseases based on a machine learning approach by obtaining the dataset GSE113212 related to LSS from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database, and the genes related to gout from the human gene database. …”
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Posthuman Communication Design in South Africa by Katarzyna Chmela-Jones, Johannes Cronje, Bruce Snaddon

“…Framed by the research question —"What elements contribute to Posthumanism in South African communication design, and how do these elements intersect?"— this study aims to uncover commonalities between Posthumanist principles and elements evident in contemporary visual communication design practice. …”
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Shale-pore Semantic Segmentation Network Based on Pseudo-labeling by Chenzhang WANG, Yanfei WANG, Zhijing BAI

“…The iteratively trained model has a mean intersection-over-union (MIoU) score exceeding 0.70. …”
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Developing an effective approach to assess pavement condition for high friction surface treatment (HFST) installation by Alireza Roshan, Magdy Abdelrahman

“… For more than two decades, High Friction Surfacing Treatments (HFST) have been used worldwide to improve road safety at critical locations, such as sharp curves and intersections. However, the costs associated with HFST installation and the rapid deterioration observed on pavements with poor structural conditions cannot be overlooked. …”
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Spatiotemporal characteristics and influencing factors of China’s knowledge spillover network of the marine industry by Kai Liu, Kai Liu, Yi Zhang, Fei Peng, Fei Peng, Tong Xie, Qiang Du, Jia-yin Tan

“…The central and western regions are low value areas, while the eastern region is the core area, and the core cities have built an “X” shaped spatial structure with Qingdao as the intersection; Knowledge proximity, social proximity, cognitive proximity and economic proximity are important factors that affect knowledge spillover networks. …”
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QUERY2BERT: Combining Knowledge Graph and Language Model for Reasoning on Logical Queries by Truong H. V. Phan, Phuc do

“…Finally, we used nearest neighbor search on K-D tree to retrieve neighbor-embedded nodes and implemented logical operations like projection, intersection, union, and negation to find answers to complex questions. …”
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LDDP-Net: A Lightweight Neural Network with Dual Decoding Paths for Defect Segmentation of LED Chips by Jie Zhang, Ning Chen, Mengyuan Li, Yifan Zhang, Xinyu Suo, Rong Li, Jian Liu

“…Experimental results demonstrate that LDDP-Net achieves an mIoU (mean Intersection over Union) of 90.29% on the chip dataset, with parameter numbers and FLOPs (Floating Point Operations) of 2.98 M and 2.24 G, respectively. …”
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Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: A Bioethical Lens by Arcangelo Liso, Margherita Neri, Francesca Maglietta, Raffaele La Russa, Emanuela Turillazzi

“…In the final decision, the judgements of different parties, such as patients, family members, and healthcare professionals, intersect and overlap and this is particularly true when the patient is a minor. …”
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Defect identification of fan blade based on adaptive parameter region growth algorithm by Wang Yifan, Wang Xueyao, Yang Dongmei, Ru Xinqin, Zhang Yuxin

“…Finally, the image of defect recognition is demonstrated through morphological algorithm and framing optimization, the Mean Intersection over Union (MIoU) performance evaluation index is analyzed, and the effectiveness of the algorithm is verified through experimental data comparison.…”
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