Use of virtual reality to remotely train healthcare professionals in paediatric emergency tracheostomy skills: protocol for a multi-centre, non-inferiority educational intervention... by Jonathan R. Abbas, Noorulanne Younis, Emily Johnstone, Azita Rajai, Rachel Isba, Antony Payton, Brendan A. McGrath, Neil Tolley, Iain A. Bruce

“…To minimise the risk of cybersickness, teleportation was the preferred locomotion method for the user navigation within the VR environment. Trial registration Full registration of this study was completed at ClinicalTrials.gov. …”
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Robotic Assistance in Percutaneous Liver Ablation Therapies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Ana K. Uribe Rivera, MD, Barbara Seeliger, MD, PhD, Laurent Goffin, MSc, Alain García-Vázquez, MD, Didier Mutter, MD, PhD, Mariano E. Giménez, MD, PhD

“…Image-guided surgical approaches are increasingly common. Assistance by navigation and robotic systems allows to optimize procedural accuracy, with the aim to consistently obtain adequate ablation volumes. …”
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THE PLACE OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION SYSTEM IN FORMATION OF GRADUATES’ COMPETITIVENESS by G. F. Shafranov-Kutsev, G. Z. Efimova

“…Today, the main task of students is the acquisition of skills of orientation and navigation in the information flow and space of powerful socio-cultural transformations. …”
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Eukaryotic plankton community and assembly processes in a large-scale water diversion project in China by Liming Zhu, Lihui Feng, Daoxi Zhang, Fang Shi, Xi Zou, Qing Yang, Shan He, Wen Zhu

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Ultrahigh-Performance Radio Frequency System-on-Chip Implementation of a Kalman Filter-Based High-Precision Time and Frequency Synchronization for Networked Integrated Sensing and... by Roghayeh Ghasemi, Patrick Fenske, Tobias Koegel, Markus Hehn, Ingrid Ullmann, Martin Vossiek

“…The integration of radar sensing and imaging capabilities into future integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) networks enables advanced use cases, including autonomous vehicle navigation, real-time health monitoring, and smart city management. …”
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Seasonal variation of underwater sound propagation in the Beibu Gulf by Feihong Zeng, Feihong Zeng, Lingling Xie, Lingling Xie, Lingling Xie, Mingming Li, Mingming Li, Mingming Li, Qiang Li, Qiang Li, Qiang Li, Simeng Liu, Simeng Liu

“…Variations in the underwater sound speed significantly influence sound propagation in the ocean, thereby impacting both underwater navigation systems and a substantial portion of marine organisms reliant on sound. …”
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Enhanced CyGNSS Soil Moisture Retrieval Validated by In-Situ Data in Argentina's Pampas by Javier Arellana, Francisco Grings, Mariano Franco

“…Specifically, with the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CyGNSS), the reflected signal is often modeled in its simplest form, utilizing the Fresnel reflection coefficients for a semi-infinite dielectric medium corrected with an effective roughness parameter. …”
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Clinicians’ user experience with health information exchange technologies during simulated medication reconciliation by Himalaya Patel, April Savoy, Steven L. Sanchez, Morgan Traylor, Khoa A. Nguyen, Kenneth S. Boockvar, Vincent S. Fan, Emily R. Locke, Bryan Gibson, Amanda S. Mixon, Susan H. Byerly, David A. Haggstrom, Teresa M. Damush, Michael Weiner, Alissa L. Russ-Jara

“…Across technologies, frequent user-experience problems included unclear screen layout (35 [80 % of] participants), difficult navigation (35 [80 %]), and task-irrelevant data (34 [77 %]). …”
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Analysis of Radio Science Data from the KaT Instrument of the 3GM Experiment During JUICE’s Early Cruise Phase by Paolo Cappuccio, Andrea Sesta, Mauro Di Benedetto, Daniele Durante, Umberto De Filippis, Ivan di Stefano, Luciano Iess, Ruaraidh Mackenzie, Bernard Godard

“…The radiometric data were fitted using both NASA’s Mission Analysis, Operations, and Navigation Toolkit Environment (MONTE) and ESA’s General Orbit Determination and Optimization Toolkit (GODOT) software. …”
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Apical transportation of nickel titianium reciprocating instruments. An in vitro study by Dario Di Nardo, Massimo Galli, Morgana Foghetti, Almira Isufi, Ivana Vidovic, Tugba Turk, Gabriele Miccoli

“…This alloy allows for easy navigation of the canal curvatures, enabling more conservative root canal preparations in a significantly reduced time. …”
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PlaceField2BVec: A bionic geospatial location encoding method for hierarchical temporal memory model by Zugang Chen, Shaohua Wang, Kai Wu, Guoqing Li, Jing Li, Jian Wang

“…Our research can be utilized for machine self-localization, navigation, and location-related GeoAI applications, and it also contributes to the theory of cognitive maps.…”
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Increasing the contrast and accuracy of localization of objects of interest on orthophotomaps of the terrain built from distorted images from an unmanned aerial vehicle by A. S. Zakhlebin, M. I. Kuryachiy, V. V. Kapustin, A. V. Kamenskiy, A. K. Movchan

“…To conduct the study, aerial work is performed, during which initial images of the underlying surface with different exposure times are obtained, as well as data from the unmanned aerial vehicle navigation module. Further, cameral processing of the received materials is carried out. …”
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Optomechanical Gyroscope Based on Micro-Hemispherical Shell and Optical Ring Resonators by Jamal N. A. Hassan, Wenyi Huang, Maoyuan Wang, Senyu Zhang, Guangjun Wen, Yongjun Huang

“…These performance metrics suggest the proposed integrated optomechanical gyroscope design holds promise for applications requiring chip-scale inertial navigation, attitude measurement, and stabilization.…”
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Efficacy and Safety of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Attention‐Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis by Binbin Fu, Xiangyue Zhou, Xuan Zhou, Xin Li, Zhengquan Chen, Yanbin Zhang, Qing Du

“…Future research should focus on the association between different brain regions and symptoms in ADHD patients, which is crucial for stimulation navigation in TMS interventions. The trial is registered in PROSPERO (PROSPERO registry number: CRD42023473853).…”
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Non-communicable diseases and their associations with outpatient services utilisation: insight from a population-based survey in Malaysia by Jabrullah Ab Hamid, Awatef Amer Nordin, Suhana Jawahir, Adilius Manual, Iqbal Ab Rahim, Sarah Nurain Mohd Noh, Nur Elina Ab Mutalib, Nurul Salwana Abu Bakar

“…Strengthening primary care services and improving patient navigation across healthcare levels are critical to supporting individuals with multimorbidity. …”
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A double dissociation between semantic and spatial cognition in visual to default network pathways by Tirso RJ Gonzalez Alam, Katya Krieger-Redwood, Dominika Varga, Zhiyao Gao, Aidan J Horner, Tom Hartley, Michel Thiebaut de Schotten, Magdalena Sliwinska, David Pitcher, Daniel S Margulies, Jonathan Smallwood, Elizabeth Jefferies

“…Processing pathways between sensory and default mode network (DMN) regions support recognition, navigation, and memory but their organisation is not well understood. …”
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CitySEIRCast: an agent-based city digital twin for pandemic analysis and simulation by Shakir Bilal, Wajdi Zaatour, Yilian Alonso Otano, Arindam Saha, Ken Newcomb, Soo Kim, Jun Kim, Raveena Ginjala, Derek Groen, Edwin Michael

“…Here, we describe how we have coupled advances in the construction of digital or virtual models of real-world cities with an agile, modular, agent-based model of viral transmission and data from navigation and social media interactions, to overcome these challenges in order to provide a new simulation tool, CitySEIRCast, that can model viral spread at the sub-national level. …”
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Wisdom of the Established Pattern by Joel Janhonen

“…Attaining an exhaustive comprehension of the complex interactions of natural and social worlds is impossible, so we have evolved to operate by relying on a built-in navigation system. Most of our choices we do not base on precise rational modeling but on a far more ancient response mechanism. …”
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CHAT-S study protocol: A randomized controlled trial of a health insurance literacy education program for young adult cancer survivors by Mary Killela, Cindy A. Turner, Amy Chevrier, Monique Stefanou, Perla L. Vaca Lopez, Heydon K. Kaddas, Karely M. van Thiel Berghuijs, Echo L. Warner, Giselle K. Perez, Austin R. Waters, Douglas B. Fair, Richard E. Nelson, Mark A. Lewis, Elyse R. Park, Anne C. Kirchhoff

“…Background: Health insurance education could mitigate financial toxicity experienced by young adult (YA) cancer survivors by increasing confidence when navigating cancer care costs. This paper describes the protocol in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to test a virtual patient navigation program designed to help YA cancer survivors understand their health insurance.Methods: This is a two-arm, multi-site (Huntsman Cancer Institute, Intermountain Health) RCT wherein intervention participants receive four sessions with a patient navigator and a booklet on insurance; usual care receives the booklet. …”
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Supporting rotational grazing systems with virtual fencing: paddock transitions, beef heifer performance, and stress response by N.A. Grinnell, D. Hamidi, M. Komainda, F. Riesch, J. Horn, I. Traulsen, R. Palme, J. Isselstein

“…Virtual fencing (VF) is an innovative technology for simplified, less laborious grazing management and remote animal monitoring, potentially facilitating the expansion of sustainable livestock production. VF uses Global Navigation Satellite System technology, wireless communication, and stimuli (auditory and electrical) to manage livestock movements and contain animals without physical barriers. …”
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