Safe Resection of Renal Cell Carcinoma with Liver Invasion Using Liver Hanging Technique Supported by Preoperative Portal Vein Embolization by Masato Fujii, Toshio Kamimura, Hiromasa Tsukino, Eiji Furukoji, Tatefumi Sakae, Koichi Yano, Naoya Imamura, Shoichiro Mukai, Atsushi Nanashima, Toshiyuki Kamoto

“…During the procedure, a nasogastric tube was placed in the retrohepatic space for liver hanging maneuver according to the original Belghiti’s maneuver after dissection of the renal artery and vein. …”
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Development of a Lightweight Model for Rice Plant Counting and Localization Using UAV-Captured RGB Imagery by Haoran Sun, Siqiao Tan, Zhengliang Luo, Yige Yin, Congyin Cao, Kun Zhou, Lei Zhu

“…The results demonstrate that our method achieves a MAE of 3.12 and an RMSE of 4.12 while utilizing only 33% of the original network parameters. We also evaluated our method on other plant counting datasets, and the results show that our method achieves a high counting accuracy while maintaining a lightweight architecture.…”
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A Real-Time Timetable Rescheduling Method for Metro System Energy Optimization under Dwell-Time Disturbances by Guang Yang, Junjie Wang, Feng Zhang, Shiwen Zhang, Cheng Gong

“…A reliable ATS can reschedule timetables adaptively and rapidly whenever a possible disturbance breaks the original timetable. Most research focuses the timetable rescheduling problem on minimizing the overall delay for trains or passengers. …”
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Improved insulator location and defect detection method based on GhostNet and YOLOv5s networks by Jianjun Huang, Xuhong Huang, Ronghao Kang, Zhihong Chen, Junhan Peng

“…Finally, Focal-EIoU was introduced to optimize the CIoU bounding box regression loss function in the original algorithm to improve the convergence speed and target location accuracy of the model. …”
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Navigating trauma: Venezuelan women's and adolescent's experiences before and after migration amidst the humanitarian crisis by C. Correa-Salazar, J.J. Amon, K.R. Page, A.K. Groves, E.N. Agudelo-Avellaneda, D.S. Torres-Benítez, A. Martínez-Donate

“…Key findngs suggest that parental abandonment in origin contexts, experiences of household and community violence before and after migration and structural barriers to access services are main factors impacting this population. …”
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Spillover of uncertainties of parallel markets on types of profit management with VAR-MGARCH approach by Adel Gardoon, Nader Khedri, Ali Mahmoodi, Mehdi Basert

“…The variance analysis results show that oil price uncertainty has the highest contribution in the interpretation of real profit management change and exchange rate uncertainty in the interpretation of accrual profit management change.Originality/Value: Uncertainties of parallel markets reinforce each other and increase the level of profit management in the investigated companies.…”
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25 years of the Natura Sloveniae journal by Rok Kostanjšek, Nataša Mori, Matjaž Bedjanič, Maarten de Groot, Nina Šajna, Jernej Polajnar, Maja Zagmajster

“…After a quarter of a century of continuous publication, the journal occupies an important niche among Slovenian scientific biological journals and continues its mission to publish original scientific contributions in the field of biogeographical, biodiversity and ecological research in Central and Southeastern Europe and to encourage young authors to publish their field observations. …”
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The Role of miR-378a in Metabolism, Angiogenesis, and Muscle Biology by Bart Krist, Urszula Florczyk, Katarzyna Pietraszek-Gremplewicz, Alicja Józkowicz, Jozef Dulak

“…Its two mature strands, miR-378a-3p and miR-378a-5p, originate from the first intron of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma, coactivator 1 beta (ppargc1b) gene encoding PGC-1β. …”
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A heuristic method based on LP relexation to solve the multiple allocation modular hub location problem by Zahra Arabzadeh Nosrat Abad, Farid Momayezi, Nader Ghaffarinasab

“…The results give the optimal number of hubs, as well as the optimal number of transportation units on each arc of the network, which depend on the capacity of the means of transportation.Originality/Value: In this research, a mixed integer programming model is developed for the multiple allocation modular hub location problem. …”
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Aggressive Recurrence of Primary Hepatic Epithelioid Haemangioendothelioma after Liver Transplantation by Qusay A. Abdoh, Asma M. Alnajjar, Faisal A. Abaalkhail, Mohammed Al Sebayel, Hussa F. Al-Hussaini, Waleed K. Al-Hamoudi, Hazem Helmy, Mohamad Almansour, Hussien A. Elsiesy

“…HEHE is a rare neoplasm of vascular origin that occurs in the liver; UNOS reported a favorable outcome after liver transplantation in 110 patients with 1-year and 5-year survival of 80% and 64%. …”
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Increasing Robustness by Reallocating the Margins in the Timetable by Lingyun Meng, Malik Muneeb Abid, Xinguo Jiang, Afaq Khattak, Muhammad Babar Khan

“…Secondly, the paper evaluates the original and modified timetable under different disturbed situations. …”
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Electric and Magnetic Properties of Sputter Deposited BiFeO3 Films by N. Siadou, I. Panagiotopoulos, N. Kourkoumelis, T. Bakas, K. Brintakis, A. Lappas

“…Despite the deposition on amorphous silicon oxide substrate weak ferromagnetism phenomena and displaced loops have been observed at low temperatures showing that their origin is not strain. Ba, La, Ca, and Sr doping suppress the formation of impurity phases and leakage currents.…”
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Impact of Strain on Sub-3 nm Gate-All-Around CMOS Logic Circuit Performance Using a Neural Compact Modeling Approach by Ji Hwan Lee, Kihwan Kim, Kyungjin Rim, Soogine Chong, Hyunbo Cho, Saeroonter Oh

“…The resulting neural compact model demonstrated a close approximation to the original simulation results, achieving a minimal error of 1%. …”
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Electrochemically synthesized H2O2 at industrial-level current densities enabled by in situ fabricated few-layer boron nanosheets by Yuhan Wu, Yuying Zhao, Qixin Yuan, Hao Sun, Ao Wang, Kang Sun, Geoffrey I. N. Waterhouse, Ziyun Wang, Jingjie Wu, Jianchun Jiang, Mengmeng Fan

“…Theoretical simulations and experimental studies demonstrate that the superior catalytic performance originates from B atoms with adsorbed O atoms in the boron nanosheets. …”
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Copper in the colorectal cancer microenvironment: pioneering a new era of cuproptosis-based therapy by Qixuan Feng, Yue Sun, Zhe Yang, Zhiyu Wang, Zhangyi Chen, Fang Liu, Lingxiang Liu

“…Colorectal cancer (CRC), the most common cancer originating in the intestines, thrives in an environment with elevated copper concentrations. …”
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Navigating AI and chatbot applications in education and research: a holistic approach by Abhishek N., Sonal Devesh, Ashoka M.L., Neethu Suraj, Parameshwara Acharya, Divyashree M.S.

“…These insights can assist policymakers in making decisions and developing strategies for the efficient adoption of AI/interactive tools in academia and research to enhance the overall quality of learning experiences. Originality/value – The present study adds value to the existing literature on AI/interactive tool adoption in academia and research by offering a quantitative analysis of the factors impacting teachers' perception of the usage of such tools. …”
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Evaluation and Prediction Method of Rolling Bearing Performance Degradation Based on Attention-LSTM by Yaping Wang, Chaonan Yang, Di Xu, Jianghua Ge, Wei Cui

“…First, to reduce the uncertainty of the manual intervention, performance degradation characteristic indexes of rolling bearings are evaluated and screened by the correlation, the monotonicity, and the robustness. Second, the original characteristic indicator curve is divided into the Health Indicator (HI) curve and the residual curve by means of fixed-window averaging to quantitatively and intuitively reflect the deterioration degree of the rolling bearing performance. …”
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Type 2 diabetes prediction method based on dual-teacher knowledge distillation and feature enhancement by Jian Zhao, Hanlin Gao, Lei Sun, Lijuan Shi, Zhejun Kuang, Haiyan Wang

“…The variables of the original data are expanded by SAE to enhance the expressive power of the features. …”
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Late Onset Graft Plasmacytoma-Like PTLD Presenting as Acute Hyperglycemia in a Kidney-Pancreas Transplant Recipient by P. Ventura-Aguiar, M. T. Cibeira, A. Martinez, M. Cuatrecasas, M. Aymerich, J. Ferrer, J. Blade, F. Diekmann, M. J. Ricart

“…PET-scan FDG uptake was limited to pancreas allograft. Tumor origin could not be established (using DNA microsatellite analysis). …”
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The Chromatin Pattern of Cell Nuclei Is of Prognostic Value for Renal Cell Carcinomas by Christine François, Myriam Remmelink, Michel Petein, Roland van Velthoven, André Danguy, Eric Wespes, Isabelle Salmon, Robert Kiss, Christine Decaestecker

“…., who survived at least 24 months following nephrectomy). An original method of data analysis related to artificial intelligence (decision tree induction) enabled a strong prognostic model to be set up. …”
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