USING A DIDACTIC TOOL WITH IT-SUPPORT FOR TEACHING GEOGRAPHY IN A SPECIAL SCHOOL IN SLOVAKIA by Viktor Hladush, Slávka Bendíková, Barbora Kovačova, Marcela Čarnická

“…In the course of preparing the didactic guide, the peculiarities of psychophysical development of children in special schools, the problems of perception and understanding of new educational information were taken into account. …”
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Auditory Cortical Maturation in a Child with Cochlear Implant: Analysis of Electrophysiological and Behavioral Measures by Liliane Aparecida Fagundes Silva, Maria Inês Vieira Couto, Robinson Koji Tsuji, Ricardo Ferreira Bento, Ana Claudia Martinho de Carvalho, Carla Gentile Matas

“…She was evaluated using the P1 component of Long Latency Auditory Evoked Potential (LLAEP); speech perception tests of the Glendonald Auditory Screening Procedure (GASP); Infant Toddler Meaningful Auditory Integration Scale (IT-MAIS); and Meaningful Use of Speech Scales (MUSS). …”
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A generative adversarial network with multiscale and attention mechanisms for underwater image enhancement by Liquan Zhao, Yuda Li, Tie Zhong

“…Then, we design a feature fusion adaptive attention module to reduce the interference of redundant features and enhance the local perception capabilities. Finally, we construct the generative network using these modules along with conventional modules. …”
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Linguistic means of creating an image of a person with intellectual disabilities in D. Keyes’s novel «Flowers for Algernon» by Olga Kanevska, Iryna Klymenko

“…Charlie Gordon’s path from a person with intellectual disability to an intellectual genius and vice versa is shown in his reports-records, in which all that happened to him is successively reproduced, and the people he had to communicate with, his worldview and his perception of the world are described. In order to create the image of a character with intellectual disabilities, D. …”
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Liras into Lyres: Talking Across Difference in the Works of Edith Nesbit by Melissa Jenkins

“…The mistakes found in the child’s acts of narration and perception present familiar places from new perspectives. …”
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Exploring community stakeholder perspectives of partnership development in community-engaged undergraduate Global Health Education in the UK: a qualitative study by Shyam Sundar Budhathoki, Helen Ward, Dorota Chapko, Christine Pettitt, Keitumetse-Kabelo Murray

“…Partnership development was influenced by the CBOs’ perception of students which caused power differentials in the development of learning plans. …”
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Neuromorphic Vision Based Multivehicle Detection and Tracking for Intelligent Transportation System by Guang Chen, Hu Cao, Muhammad Aafaque, Jieneng Chen, Canbo Ye, Florian Röhrbein, Jörg Conradt, Kai Chen, Zhenshan Bing, Xingbo Liu, Gereon Hinz, Walter Stechele, Alois Knoll

“…This results in advantageous characteristics, in terms of low energy consumption, high dynamic range, sparse event stream, and low response latency, which can be very useful in intelligent perception systems for modern intelligent transportation system (ITS) that requires efficient wireless data communication and low power embedded computing resources. …”
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SCM-YOLO for Lightweight Small Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images by Hao Qiang, Wei Hao, Meilin Xie, Qiang Tang, Heng Shi, Yixin Zhao, Xiaoteng Han

“…These three modules effectively improve the performance of the detector from three aspects: feature extraction, feature fusion, and feature perception. The ability of SCM-YOLO to detect small objects in complex remote sensing environments has been significantly improved while maintaining its lightweight characteristics. …”
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Readiness for self-directed learning among undergraduate medical students in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during COVID-19, Pakistan by Ejaz Hassan Khan, Ahsan Sethi, Syed Muhammad Junaid, Tania Khattak, Malghalara Khattak

“…A self-reported validated SRSSDL scale was used to obtain data. The perception of public and private medical colleges students was compared and analyzed using SPSS version 24. …”
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The Relationship Between Body Composition, Physical Activity, Self-Esteem, and Body Image in Female and Male Adolescents by Ligia Rusu, Denisa Piele, Eva Ilie, Gheorghe Ionescu, Mihnea Ion Marin, Mihai Robert Rusu, Mirela Lucia Calina

“…The evaluation included anthropometric parameters, body composition, self-esteem, physical activity index, and body image perception assessment. The results show that the males exhibited a higher percentage of exceeding the upper limit of normal and average weight; in contrast, there were two times more females exhibiting normal weight than those exceeding the upper limit. …”
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Medication-related experiences of patients with polypharmacy: a systematic review of qualitative studies by Anne Frølich, Christian Ulrich Eriksen, Stavros Kyriakidis, Line Due Christensen, Ramune Jacobsen, Jannie Laursen, Mikkel Bring Christensen

“…We extracted 140 findings, synthesised these into 17 categories, and developed five interrelated syntheses: (1) patients with polypharmacy are a heterogeneous group in terms of needing and appraising medication information; (2) patients are aware of the importance of medication adherence, but it is difficult to achieve; (3) decision-making about medications is complex; (4) multiple relational factors affect communication between patients and physicians, and these factors can prevent patients from disclosing important information; and (5) polypharmacy affects patients’ lives and self-perception, and challenges with polypharmacy are not limited to practical issues of medication-taking.Discussion Polypharmacy poses many challenges to patients, which have a negative impact on quality of life and adherence. …”
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Ankle reflex and neurological symptom score: a primary level screening method for diabetic peripheral neuropathy by Xueya Ma, Mengyuan Li, Hui Xie, Ting Sun, Liang Lu, Sumei Li, Yining Sun, Zuchang Ma

“…Nerve conduction studies were conducted on 214 patients with diabetes, encompassing the outcomes of five distinct assessments: diabetic neuropathy symptom (DNS), vibration perception threshold (VPT), and nerve screening. The diagnostic accuracy of the VPT and nerve screening was evaluated by comparing them with that of the nerve conduction study. …”
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Tampered text detection via RGB and frequency relationship modeling by Yuxin WANG, Boqiang ZHANG, Hongtao XIE, Yongdong ZHANG

“…In recent years, the widespread dissemination of tampered text images on the Internet constitutes an important threat to the security of text images.However, the corresponding tampered text detection (TTD) methods have not been sufficiently explored.The TTD task aims to locate all text regions in an image while judging whether the text regions have been tampered with according to the authenticity of the texture.Thus, different from the general text detection task, TTD task further needs to perceive the fine-grained information for real-world and tampered text classification.TTD task has two main challenges.One the one hand, due to the high similarity in texture between real-world texts and tampered texts, TTD methods that only learn from RGB domain features have limited capability to distinguish these two-category texts well.On the other hand, as the different detecting difficulty exists in real-world texts and tampered texts, the network cannot well balance the learning process of the two-category texts, resulting in the imbalance detection performance between real-world and tampered texts.Compared with RGB domain features, the discontinuity of text texture in frequency domain can help the network to identify the authenticity of text instances.Accordingly, a new TTD method based on RGB and frequency information relationship modeling was proposed.The features in the RGB and frequency domains were extracted by independent feature extractors respectively.Thus, the identification ability of tampered texture can be enhanced by introducing frequency information during the texture perception.Then, a global RGB-frequency relationship module (GRM) was introduced to model the texture authenticity relationship between different text instances.GRM referred to the RGB-frequency features of other text instances in the same image to assist in judging the authenticity of the current text instance, which solved the problem of imbalanced detection performance.Furthermore, a new TTD dataset (Tampered-SROIE) was proposed to evaluate the effectiveness of proposed method, which contains 986 images (626 training images and 360 test images).By evaluating on the Tampered-SROIE, the proposed method obtains 95.97% and 96.80% in F-measure for real-world and tampered texts respectively and reduces the imbalanced detection accuracy by 1.13%.The proposed method will give new insights to the TTD community from the perspective of network structure and detection strategy.Tampered-SROIE also provides an evaluation benchmark for future TTD methods.…”
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Virtual reality in pediatric emergency department and burn unit: a scoping review of current applications by Ignazio Cammisa, Gemma Eftimiadi, David Korn, Serena Ferretti, Lavinia Capossela, Antonio Gatto, Antonio Chiaretti

“…Specifically, VR distraction competes for the patient’s attentional resources, reducing their focus on the painful stimulus and, consequently, diminishing the perception of pain. The primary objective of this review was to assess and summarize the current knowledge regarding the use of VR for painful procedures in pediatric emergency and burn units by comparing and analyzing the existing literature. …”
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Transcranial direct current stimulation combined with physical exercise in rotator cuff tendinopathy: a protocol for a blinded randomised controlled trial by César Augusto Medeiros Silva, Clécio Gabriel de Souza, Vinicius Batista Lima, Hannely Beatriz Menezes Cosme, Romário Nóbrega Santos Fonseca, Fuad Ahmad Hazime, Rodrigo Scattone da Silva, Rodrigo Pegado de Abreu Freitas

“…Secondary outcomes will include physical function, range of motion, global perception of change and treatment adherence.Ethics and dissemination This protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee Health Sciences College of Trairi, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (number: 6.821.408). …”
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Experimenter Effects on Pain Reporting in Women Vary across the Menstrual Cycle by Jacob M. Vigil, Jared DiDomenico, Chance Strenth, Patrick Coulombe, Eric Kruger, Andrea A. Mueller, Diego Guevara Beltran, Ian Adams

“…These findings have implications for standardizing pain measurement protocols and understanding how basic biopsychosocial mechanisms (e.g., person-perception systems) can modulate pain experiences.…”
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Determining sensory drivers of complex metadescriptors through regression modelling by Emily Fisher, Charles Diako, Rebecca Shingleton, Sidsel Jensen, Joanne Hort

“…Least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO), a regression technique known for automatic predictor selection, and partial least squares regression, which handles multicollinearity, were compared for their ability to accurately identify the underlying sensory attributes driving creaminess perception.Twenty-eight sensory attributes were selected after discussions with milk consumers. …”
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Describing team development within a novel GP-led urgent care centre model: a qualitative study by Azeem Majeed, Geva Greenfield, Sarah Morton, Shamini Gnani, Agnieszka Igantowicz

“…Eight key facilitating factors for the team were identified: appointment of leaders, perception of fair workload, education on roles/skill sets and development of these, shared professional understanding, interdisciplinary working, ED collaboration, clinical guidelines and social interactions.Conclusions A strong interprofessional team has evolved within the GP-led UCCs over time, breaking down traditional professional divides. …”
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Evaluation of Comparative Efficacy of Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera) vs Brahmi (Bacopa monnieri Linn) on Stress Level and Quality of Sleep in the Subjects Experiencing Mental Str... by Mohnish Vijay Gokhale, Vaishali Kuchewar, Pankaj Yadav, Bhishmani Tarare

“…Sleep deprivation causes loss of sleep-dependent processes in the hippocampus and pyriform cortex, which are responsible for memory and perception. N eed of the Study: Everyone in today’s world has stress and insufficient sleep as a result of their work load, hectic lifestyle, adoption of sedentary habits and other factors. …”
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Index-based livestock insurance schemes to manage climate risks in Ethiopia: determinants of farmer’s willingness to pay and lessons learned from Dasenech district, South Omo by Tagesse Melketo, Degefa Tolossa, Meskerem Abi, Sisay Bedeke, Tenaw Fentaw

“…Those households that are headed by a men, who are better educated, who are better experienced in farming system, and those who have access to credit and training are more likely to pay for the insurance. Farmers’ perception of weather-related risks and awareness about insurance also influenced farmers’ willingness to pay positively. …”
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