Efficient Moving Object Segmentation in LiDAR Point Clouds Using Minimal Number of Sweeps by Zoltan Rozsa, Akos Madaras, Tamas Sziranyi

“…LiDAR point clouds are a rich source of information for autonomous vehicles and ADAS systems. However, they can be challenging to segment for moving objects as - among other things - finding correspondences between sparse point clouds of consecutive frames is difficult. …”
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Identification of Pediatric Oral Health Core Competencies through Interprofessional Education and Practice by D. Hallas, J. B. Fernandez, N. G. Herman, A. Moursi

“…Over the past seven years, the Department of Pediatric Dentistry at New York University College of Dentistry (NYUCD) and the Advanced Practice: Pediatrics and the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (PNP) program at New York University College of Nursing (NYUCN) have engaged in a program of formal educational activities with the specific goals of advancing interprofessional education, evidence-based practice, and interprofessional strategies to improve the oral-systemic health of infants and young children. Mentoring interprofessional students in all health care professions to collaboratively assess, analyze, and care-manage patients demands that faculty reflect on current practices and determine ways to enhance the curriculum to include evidence-based scholarly activities, opportunities for interprofessional education and practice, and interprofessional socialization. …”
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Evaluation of the EndoPAT as a Tool to Assess Endothelial Function by M. Moerland, A. J. Kales, L. Schrier, M. G. J. van Dongen, D. Bradnock, J. Burggraaf

“…Endothelial dysfunction is a potential target for (pharmaceutical) intervention of several systemic pathological conditions. We investigated the feasibility of the EndoPAT to evaluate acute changes in endothelial function with repeated noninvasive measurements and assessed its discriminating power in different populations. …”
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Latitudinal Variation into the Macrofaunal Assemblages Associated to Zostera noltei Seagrass along the Atlantic Coast of Morocco by Oussama Bououarour, Soilam Boutoumit, Reda El Kamcha, Hocein Bazairi

“…In our study, we investigated spatial and latitudinal variation of benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages associated to Zostera noltei Hornemann, 1832 beds from five semi-enclosed coastal systems (SECSs) ranging from 23°N to 34°N along the Atlantic coast of Morocco. …”
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Ocular Surface Temperature in Age-Related Macular Degeneration by Andrea Sodi, Sara Matteoli, Giovanni Giacomelli, Lucia Finocchio, Andrea Corvi, Ugo Menchini

“…Exclusion criteria were represented by any other ocular diseases other than AMD, tear film abnormalities, systemic cardiovascular abnormalities, diabetes mellitus, and a body temperature higher than 37.5°C. …”
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Improving clinical care of patients in Nipah outbreaks: moving beyond ‘compassionate use’ by Md Zakiul Hassan, Amanda Rojek, Piero Olliaro, Peter Horby

“…By integrating these strategies, healthcare systems in NiV-endemic regions will be better equipped to manage both current and future outbreaks.…”
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HARMONIC ANALYSIS OF MAGNETOMOTIVE FORCE IN THE AIR GAP OF SIX-PHASE ASYNCHRONOUS MACHINES by TODOS, Petru, TERTEA, Ghenadie, NUCA, Ilie

“…Asynchronous motors with six and more phases (usually n-three-phase) are increasingly accepted in electric drive systems of road transport, marine and even aeronautical transport. …”
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Systematic Review of Usability Factors, Models, and Frameworks with Blockchain Integration for Secure Mobile Health (mHealth) Applications by Irum Feroz, Nadeem Ahmad

“…This review also explores the potential role of blockchain technology in enhancing multimodal medical data systems within mHealth applications. A comprehensive search across six databases yielded 1,073 studies, with 60 meeting inclusion criteria. …”
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AI-driven automated discovery tools reveal diverse behavioral competencies of biological networks by Mayalen Etcheverry, Clément Moulin-Frier, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, Michael Levin

“…However, few quantitative tools exist for exploring the competencies of non-conventional systems. Here, we view gene regulatory networks (GRNs) as agents navigating a problem space and develop automated tools to map the robust goal states GRNs can reach despite perturbations. …”
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Range-Dependent Variance Correction Method for High-Resolution and Wide-Swath Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging Based on Block Processing in Range Dimension by Zhenyu Hou, Zehua Zhang, Pin Li, Zhuo Yun, Feng He, Zhen Dong

“…With increasing demands for SAR image applications, spaceborne SAR systems are evolving towards higher resolution and wider swath capabilities. …”
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Creating a Health Data Marketplace for the Digital Health Era by Imtiaz Khan, PhD, Mohamed A. Maher, Moderator: Anjum Khurshid, PhD

“…• What are the potential socioeconomic impacts of a digital health data marketplace on patients, healthcare providers, and researchers, and how do you see the economics of health data developing into dynamic systems that will reflect in the processes of care delivery and management? …”
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The effects of Ramadan fasting on various physiological and biochemical parameters on Muslim soccer players by Yakoub Fenni, Mourad Ikiouane, Mourad Redjal, Hocine Remini, Ayoub Allam, Salim Zaabar

“…Notably, maintaining a training program during Ramadan did not increase oxidative stress. Fasting improved systemic inflammation biomarkers in obese males and did not adversely affect liver and renal function biomarkers. …”
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A Functional Neuroimaging Analysis of the Trail Making Test-B: Implications for Clinical Application by Mark D. Allen, Tyler E. Owens, Alina K. Fong, Douglas R. Richards

“…Likewise, there is relatively more ambiguity about the neural systems associated with this test than many other tests of comparable clinical use. …”
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Quality Characteristics and In Vitro Digestibility of Starch Gel in White Noodles Prepared with Short-Chain Glucan Aggregates (SCGA) by Jae-Geun Park, Sang-Jin Ye, Seon-Min Oh, Jae-Sung Shin, Ji-Eun Bae, Hyun-Wook Choi, Moo-Yeol Baik

“…Despite its low digestibility and high RS content, SCGA has not been applied to real food systems, especially noodles. The objective of this study was to determine the feasibility of low-digestible noodles using SCGA and to evaluate their quality characteristics and in vitro digestibility of starch gel. …”
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Gamma Irradiation of Plukenetia volubilis L. Seeds Promotes Several Changes during Its Germination and Vegetative Growth by Mike Anderson Corazon-Guivin, Sofia Rengifo-Del Aguila, Angel David Hernández-Amasifuen, Víctor Manuel Arévalo-Rojas, Ronny Anthony Acosta-Córdova, Agustín Cerna-Mendoza, Thiago de Araújo Mastrangelo, Jorge Damian Valverde-Iparraguirre, Juan Carlos Guerrero-Abad

“…Inca nut seeds have potential use for lowering malnutrition, enhancing sustainable food production systems, reforestation, and the pharmaceutical industry. …”
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A Constitutively Mannose-Sensitive Agglutinating Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica Serovar Typhimurium Strain, Carrying a Transposon in the Fimbrial Usher Gene stbC, Exhibits Mul... by Kuan-Hsun Wu, Ke-Chuan Wang, Lin-Wen Lee, Yi-Ning Huang, Kuang-Sheng Yeh

“…A complementation test revealed that transforming a recombinant plasmid possessing the stbC restored the mannose-sensitive agglutination phenotype to the stbC mutant much as that in the parental Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Typhimurium LB5010 strain, indicating the possibility of an interplay of different fimbrial systems in coordinating their expression.…”
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Artificial Intelligence in Robotic Manipulators: Exploring Object Detection and Grasping Innovations by Montassar Aidi Sharif, Hanan Hameed Ismael, Muamar Almani Jasim, Farah Zuhair Jasim

“…The impact of this research extends lays the groundwork for future developments in robotic autonomy, offering insights into the integration of deep learning algorithms with robotic systems. This also serves as a beacon for future research aimed at fully unleashing the potential of robots as autonomous agents in complex, real-world settings. …”
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PHARAOH: A collaborative crowdsourcing platform for phenotyping and regional analysis of histology by Kevin Faust, Min Li Chen, Parsa Babaei Zadeh, Dimitrios G. Oreopoulos, Alberto J. Leon, Ameesha Paliwal, Evelyn Rose Kamski-Hennekam, Marly Mikhail, Xianpi Duan, Xianzhao Duan, Mugeng Liu, Narges Ahangari, Raul Cotau, Vincent Francis Castillo, Nikfar Nikzad, Richard J. Sugden, Patrick Murphy, Safiyh S. Aljohani, Philippe Echelard, Susan J. Done, Kiran Jakate, Zaid Saeed Kamil, Yazeed Alwelaie, Mohammed J. Alyousef, Noor Said Alsafwani, Assem Saleh Alrumeh, Rola M. Saleeb, Maxime Richer, Lidiane Vieira Marins, George M. Yousef, Phedias Diamandis

“…Both the custom model design and feature extraction pipelines are amenable to crowdsourcing, positioning PHARAOH to become a fully scalable, systems-level solution for the expansion, generalization and cataloging of computational pathology applications.…”
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A Piecewise Linearization Based Method for Crossed Frequency Admittance Matrix Model Calculation of Harmonic Sources by Youhang Yang, Shaorong Wang, Mingming Shi, Xian Zheng

“…The integration of large-scale power electronic equipment has intensified harmonic issues in power systems. Accurate harmonic models are fundamental for evaluating and mitigating harmonic problems, but existing models still exhibit deficiencies in harmonic mechanism, model complexity and accuracy. …”
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Semantic Modeling for SNPs Associated with Ethnic Disparities in HapMap Samples by HyoYoung Kim, Won Gi Yoo, Junhyung Park, Heebal Kim, Byeong-Chul Kang

“…Our semantic modeling for ethnicity-specific SNPs showed interesting results in the three categories, including three diseases ("AIDS-associated nephropathy," "Hypertension," and "Pelvic infection"), one drug ("Methylphenidate"), and five pathways ("Hemostasis," "Systemic lupus erythematosus," "Prostate cancer," "Hepatitis C virus," and "Rheumatoid arthritis"). …”
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