Enhancing Thyroid Nodule Detection in Ultrasound Images: A Novel YOLOv8 Architecture with a C2fA Module and Optimized Loss Functions by Shidan Wang, Zi-An Zhao, Yuze Chen, Ye-Jiao Mao, James Chung-Wai Cheung

“…Ultrasound imaging has inherent limitations—high noise, low contrast, and blurred boundaries—that make manual interpretation subjective and error-prone. To address these challenges, YOLO-Thyroid, an improved model for the automatic detection of thyroid nodules in ultrasound images, is presented herein. …”
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Effects of Lactiplantibacillus plantarum HNU082 intervention on fungi and bacteriophages in different intestinal segments of mice by Xinlei Liu, Zhe Han, Wenyao Ma, Weipeng Cui, Dongyu Zhen, Shuaiming Jiang, Jiachao Zhang

“…Therefore, this study used Lactiplantibacillus plantarum HNU082 (Lp082) as the research subject and aimed to investigate the changes of the gut fungi and bacteriophages in the small intestine and the large intestine after the gavage of Lp082. …”
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DIAGNOSTIC COMPETENCE IN BONE TUMORS: INFLUENCE OF ONCO-ORTHOPEDIC TRAINING by Julia Pozzetti Daou, Caio Falk Giannotti, Jairo Greco Garcia, Marcelo de Toledo Petrilli, Dan Carai Maia Viola, Reynaldo Jesus Garcia Filho

“…We aim to gain an in-depth understanding of their diagnostic competence and provide insights into teaching the subject in orthopedic residency programs. Methods: The sample consisted of 90 participants who answered the questionnaire: 18 orthopedic oncology specialists, 58 non-specialist orthopedists, and 14 orthopedic residents. …”
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Impact of patient compliance with inhaler therapy on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease severity: a rural tertiary care perspective by Nandakishore K. S., Preethiraj Ballal, Anirudha Katipalla, Shruthi Rai P., Supreetha T., Dixith T., Sanjay Srinivas, Shree Dhanusha, Pramod Pujar, Sushmitha Sudeesh, Vignesh T. M.

“…Methods In our cross-sectional observational study conducted in the rural medical college hospital in Dakshina Kannada of Karnataka, 69 subjects with COPD were evaluated for the compliance of inhaler usage, and the morbidity related to the disease was assessed with number of hospital visits in the past 6 months. …”
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History of Illicit Stimulant Use Is Not Associated with Long-Lasting Changes in Learning of Fine Motor Skills in Humans by Gabrielle Todd, Verity Pearson-Dennett, Stanley C. Flavel, Miranda Haberfield, Hannah Edwards, Jason M. White

“…Motor learning was assessed with a three-minute visuomotor tracking task. Subjects were instructed to follow a moving target on a computer screen with movement of the index finger. …”
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Mineral Composition of Traditional Non-GMO Soybean Cultivars in relation to Nitrogen Fertilization by Bogdan Szostak, Aleksandra Głowacka, Renata Klebaniuk, Anna Kiełtyka-Dadasiewicz

“…Genetic factors, as well as agrotechnical procedures, affect the yield and quality of soybeans. The subject of our research was the synchronization between soil N supply (from both mineralization and fertilization) and crop N demand. …”
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Characterization of Soft Contact Lens Fitting Using Ultra-Long Scan Depth Optical Coherence Tomography by Lele Cui, Ming Li, Meixiao Shen, Fan Lu, Jianhua Wang

“…A 1-day Acuvue® Define™ lens was tested on both eyes of 10 subjects (5 males and 5 females; mean age, 31.6 years). …”
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CD40 Gene Polymorphisms Associated with Susceptibility and Coronary Artery Lesions of Kawasaki Disease in the Taiwanese Population by Ho-Chang Kuo, Mei-Chyn Chao, Yu-Wen Hsu, Ying-Chi Lin, Ying-Hsien Huang, Hong-Ren Yu, Ming-Feng Hou, Chi-Di Liang, Kuender D. Yang, Wei-Chiao Chang, Chih-Lu Wang

“…Methods. A total of 950 subjects (381 KD patients and 569 controls) were investigated to identify 2 tagging single-nucleotide polymorphisms (tSNPs) of CD40 (rs4810485 and rs1535045) by using the TaqMan allelic discrimination assay. …”
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Quality of seedlings of different pepper genotypes grown in millicompost: An organic substrate generated by millipedes' activity by Talita dos Santos Ferreira, Rogério Gomes Pêgo, Luiz Fernando de Sousa Antunes, Maria Fernandes Correia, Rosária da Costa Faria Martins, Margarida Goréte Ferreira do Carmo

“…Variables evaluated: shoot and root dry mass (SDM and RDM), number of leaves (NL), plant height (PH), seedling vigor (SV) and clod stability (CS). The data were subjected to the analysis of variance and the means were compared by the Tukey’s test at 5% probability level.Results For the ENAS-5007 and ENAS-5032 genotypes, there was a significant difference in all the variables analyzed, being S1 and S3 the substrates with the highest and the lowest performances, respectively. …”
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Corneal Biomechanical Findings in Contact Lens Induced Corneal Warpage by Fateme Alipour, Mojgan Letafatnejad, Amir Hooshang Beheshtnejad, Seyed-Farzad Mohammadi, Seyed Reza Ghaffary, Narges Hassanpoor, Mehdi Yaseri

“…The mean age of the participants was 23.8 ± 3.8 years, and 66.2% of the subjects were female. The demographic and refractive data were not different between warpage and normal groups but were different in the keratoconus group. …”
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Sexual Satisfaction in Fully Ambulatory People with Multiple Sclerosis: Does Disability Matter? by Pawel Dobrakowski, Agnieszka Machowska-Majchrzak, Beata Labuz-Roszak, Ewa Niewiadomska, Krystyna Pierzchala

“…Methods. 76 PwMS with the EDSS score<5.0 points were enrolled in the study. The subjects completed the Montgomery-Asberg Depression Scale (MADRS), the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS), the Multiple Sclerosis Intimacy and Sexuality Questionnaire (MSISQ-19), and the Sexual Satisfaction Questionnaire (SSQ). …”
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Automated Segmentation and Object Classification of CT Images: Application to In Vivo Molecular Imaging of Avian Embryos by Alexander Heidrich, Jana Schmidt, Johannes Zimmermann, Hans Peter Saluz

“…However, the manual analysis of acquired images is both time consuming and subjective. Methods. We have developed a system for automated image segmentation that entails object-based image analysis followed by the classification of the extracted image objects. …”
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The Use of Principal Component Analysis for Reduction in Sleep Quality and Quantity Data in Female Professional Soccer by Eider Barba, David Casamichana, Pedro Figueiredo, Fábio Yuzo Nakamura, Julen Castellano

“…Players should undergo a training process to improve self-assessment of sleep quality recorded from a subjective questionnaire, contrasting the perceived information with the sleep quality recorded objectively during a defined period in order to optimize the validity of their perceptions. …”
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Positive Antithyroid Antibodies and Nonsuppressed TSH Are Associated with Thyroid Cancer: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study by Jan Krátký, Jana Ježková, Mikuláš Kosák, Hana Vítková, Jana Bartáková, Miloš Mráz, Jindřich Lukáš, Zdenka Límanová, Jan Jiskra

“…In conclusion, nodules in subjects with positive antithyroid antibodies could be considered to have a higher risk of malignancy. …”
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Studies on effective solar photovoltaic integration in distribution network with a blend of Monte Carlo simulation and artificial hummingbird algorithm by Ibrahim Cagri Barutcu, Gulshan Sharma, Emre Çelik, Pitshou N. Bokoro

“…In the upper level, artificial hummingbird algorithm (AHA) handles the expected power loss minimisation subjected to chance constraints, which are related to bus voltages and branch currents, by optimising photovoltaic (PV) system capacities. …”
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High-Fidelity Depth Map Reconstruction System With RGB-Guided Super Resolution CNN and Cross-Calibrated Chaos LiDAR by Yu-Chun Ding, Chia-Yu Chang, Pei-Rong Li, Chao-Tsung Huang, Yung-Chen Lin, Tsung Chen, Wei-Lun Lin, Cheng-Ting Lee, Fan-Yi Lin, Yuan-Hao Huang

“…Experimental results show that our proposed system significantly outperforms the commercial RGB-D recording device RealSense D435i in terms of subjective visual perception, precision, and density of depth estimates, making it a promising solution for general indoor scene recording.…”
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Monocyte Subsets, Stanford-A Acute Aortic Dissection, and Carotid Artery Stenosis: New Evidences by Noemi Cifani, Maria Proietta, Maurizio Taurino, Luigi Tritapepe, Flavia Del Porto

“…Methods. 20 patients with carotid artery stenosis (CAS group), 17 patients with Stanford-A AAD (AAD group), and 17 subjects with traditional cardiovascular risk factors (RF group) were enrolled. …”
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Short-Term Efficacy of Exclusive Enteral Nutrition in Pediatric Crohn’s Disease: Practice in China by Youyou Luo, Jindan Yu, Hong Zhao, Jingan Lou, Feibo Chen, Kerong Peng, Jie Chen

“…Remission was defined as PCDAI < 10 points. Results. Ten subjects received EEN and 18 patients received corticosteroids. …”
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High-intensity acute noise exposure causes anxiety in female rats by inducing hippocampal neuron apoptosis by Yifei Song, Xiaoni Wang, Haoyu Zhang, Rui Ma, Yiting Kang, Xiaohui Di, Zeguo Feng, Can Ni, Fadong Zhao, Hongwei Zhuang, Jianbao Zhang

“…Methods: Female rats were subjected to acute noise exposure at levels of 105, 115, 125, and 135 dB to determine the intensity thresholds that elicit anxiety-like behaviors and brain damage were assessed at the 3th day and 1 month post-exposure. …”
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High‐Precision Drop‐on‐Demand Printing of Charged Droplets on Nonplanar Surfaces with Machine Learning by Shaheer Mohiuddin Khalil, Shahzaib Ali, Vu Dat Nguyen, Dae‐Hyun Cho, Doyoung Byun

“…The technique involves using a grounded 3D substrate as the target, where in‐flight droplets are subjected to an external electric field generated by gate electrode installed on a piezo activated droplet dispenser. …”
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