Evaluating strategies for global respiratory pandemic control at ports: a modelling study by Gregory Gan, Jue Tao Lim, Tong Guan, Sharon Esi Duoduwa, S Balakumar, Janhavi A, Borame L Dickens

“…With additional predeparture PCR testing, this increases further to 102 100 (100 100–104 500) and 106 800 (106 100–108 100) respectively. Should ART testing be used instead, 92 600 (92 200–93 200) and 100 000 (98 900–101 100) estimated cases are averted. …”
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Therapeutic dose prediction using score-based diffusion model for pretreatment patient-specific quality assurance by Xiuwen Yu, Jiabin Lin, Changfei Gong, Minhui Zhang, Xianyu Luo, Qiegen Liu, Yun Zhang

“…It indicates that the proposed method is highly effective and accurate in its dose prediction capabilities.ConclusionsThe proposed method has proven to be highly effective, consistently outperforming state-of-the-art techniques in MDose prediction across multiple anatomical regions and evaluation metrics. …”
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Associations of maternal PM2.5 exposure with preterm birth and miscarriage in women undergoing in vitro fertilization: a retrospective cohort study by Miaoxin Chen, Qiaoyu Chen, Gengze Liao, Chunyan Sun, Cong Liu, Xia Meng, Wentao Li, Andong Qiu, Orhan Bukulmez, Haidong Kan, Feng Wang, Lap Ah Tse, Xiaoming Teng

“…Our stratified analyses revealed that women with an endometrial thickness <11 mm or who underwent frozen embryo transfer were more vulnerable to PM2.5 exposure, leading to higher rates of preterm birth.ConclusionExcessive PM2.5 exposure after biochemical pregnancy or clinical pregnancy was associated with increased risks of preterm birth and miscarriage among women who underwent ART.…”
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DEMOGRAFİK DEĞİŞKENLERİN FARKLI KUŞAK AYRIMLARINDA ÖRGÜTSEL SİNİZME ETKİSİ - THE EFFECT OF DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES ON ORGANIZATIONAL CYNICISM ON THE BASIS OF DIFFERENT GENERATION... by Seher Yastıoğlu, Esin Barutçu, Mehmet Ali Taş

“…Çalışanlarınyöneticilerine karşı inançsızlığı, davranışların ardında art niyet arama,güvensizlik, öfke, şüphecilik ve eleştirel tavırlar gibi olumsuz tutum vedavranışları içeren örgütsel sinizm, günümüz örgütlerinde giderek yaygın halegelmekte, çatışma ortamı oluşturmakta ve bertaraf edilmek istenilen çalışandavranışlarının içerisinde yer almaktadır. …”
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Severity and Determinants of Anemia in TB/HIV Coinfected Adults at Mekelle, Ethiopia: Hospital Based Retrospective Study by Kebede Embaye Gezae, Kiflom Hagos, Assefa Ayalew Gebreslassie

“…A hospital based retrospective study was conducted among 305 TB/HIV coinfected adults who enrolled for antiretroviral therapy (ART) from January, 2009 to December, 2016 in two public hospital of Mekelle, Ethiopia, by reviewing ART register. …”
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¿Buena praxis profesional o dinero fácil? by Carlos Serrano Martin, Isaac López Redondo, Luisa Graciela Arumburu Moncada

“…Objetivo: Ante las recientes campañas gubernamentales para concienciar a la población en contra de las Fake News, vemos en el cine una herramienta didáctica ideal para estudiar la representación que el séptimo arte ha realizado del ámbito de la empresa informativa bajo las siguientes cuestiones: ¿Qué caminos y estrategias toman las empresas de la información para ganar la credibilidad de la audiencia? …”
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Distribution of Candida Species Isolated from People Living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus With Oropharyngeal and Oral Candidiasis in Africa in the Era Of Universal Test and Tre... by Musinguzi, Benson, Obuku, Ekwaro A., Mwesigwa, Alex, Migisha, Richard, Kinengyere, Alison Annet, Ndagire, Regina, Baguma, Andrew, Okek, Erick Jacob, Olum, Ronald, Itabangi, Herbert, Mboowa, Gerald, Sande, Obondo James, Achan, Beatrice

“…Background The introduction of antiretroviral therapy (ART) and the implementation of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) universal test and treat (UTT) policy have led to a decline in the incidence of opportunistic infections. …”
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Slow Motion and Zoom in HD Digital Videos Using Fractals by Maurizio Murroni, Cristian Perra, Daniele D. Giusto

“…Experiments show that the proposed scheme achieves better results in terms of overall visual quality compared to the state-of-the-art techniques.…”
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Arrêt sur image(s) : « The Old Icons » de Seamus Heaney by Pascale Amiot-Jouenne

“…As the title suggests, the three pictures are not fictitious works of art, but icons of Irish republicanism and Catholicism associated with the 1798 Rebellion, which anchored the poet’s attachment to the nationalist cause. …”
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Methods for User-Controlled Synthesis of Blood Vessel Trees in Medical Applications: A Survey by Nikolaus Rauch, Matthias Harders

“…Therefore, in this paper we provide a survey of state-of-the-art methods for blood vessel synthesis, with a focus on user-control. …”
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De gatos, ratones y caracoles. Continuidad y ruptura de las imágenes cinematográficas de la sociedad colombiana by Sonia Sánchez-Rivera

“…The analysis of the films will allow to deepen the political status of the seventh art (Soulez, 2013), its ability to communicate and build representations, as well as to circulate other views of the Latin American.…”
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A Comprehensive Review of Artificial Intelligence Applications in the Photovoltaic Systems by Jiaming Hu, Boon-Han Lim, Xiaoyun Tian, Kang Wang, Dachuan Xu, Feng Zhang, Yong Zhang

“…Finally, we describe forward-looking solutions including transfer learning, few-shot learning, and edge computing, as well as the state of the art.…”
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Learning transactions representations for information management in banks: Mastering local, global, and external knowledge by Alexandra Bazarova, Maria Kovaleva, Ilya Kuleshov, Evgenia Romanenkova, Alexander Stepikin, Aleksandr Yugay, Dzhambulat Mollaev, Ivan Kireev, Andrey Savchenko, Alexey Zaytsev

“…Therefore, to better facilitate information management, we compared eight state-of-the-art unsupervised methods on 11 tasks in search for a one-size-fits-all solution. …”
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ABioNER: A BERT-Based Model for Arabic Biomedical Named-Entity Recognition by Nada Boudjellal, Huaping Zhang, Asif Khan, Arshad Ahmad, Rashid Naseem, Jianyun Shang, Lin Dai

“…The model performance was compared with two state-of-the-art models (namely, AraBERT and multilingual BERT cased), and it outperformed both models with 85% F1-score.…”
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Hardware and Deep Learning-Based Authentication Through Enhanced RF Fingerprints of 3D-Printed Chaotic Antenna Arrays by Justin O. McMillen, Fawaz Abdul Razak, Gokhan Mumcu, Yasin Yilmaz

“…Existing RF fingerprinting methods only utilize the naturally occurring hardware imperfections during fabrication; hence their authentication accuracy is limited in practical settings even when state-of-the-art deep learning classifiers are used. In this work, we propose a Chaotic Antenna Array (CAA) system for significantly enhanced RF fingerprints and a deep learning-based device authentication method for CAA. …”
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Single-Object-Based Region Growth: Key Area Localization Model for Remote Sensing Image Scene Classification by Feiyang Li, Jiangtao Wang, Mingyang Wang, Ziyang Wang

“…Experiments are performed on three publicly available data sets, and the results show that this method can achieve higher accuracy compared to most existing state-of-the-art methods.…”
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The Process‐Oriented Understanding on the Reduced Double‐ITCZ Bias in the High‐Resolution CESM1 by Enze Dong, Fengfei Song, Lixin Wu, Lu Dong, Shengpeng Wang, Fukai Liu, Hong Wang

“…Here, by comparing a high‐ and low‐resolution state‐of‐the‐art model CESM1, it is found that the double‐ITCZ bias is largely reduced in the high‐resolution CESM1. …”
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Les Fleurs du Mal, de la censure au musée by Léo Rivaud Chevaillier

“…From the Poulet-Malassis editions in 1857 to the creation of a facsimile edition by the Société des Amis du Livre Moderne in 1918, the history of this objet d’art is a subject at the crossroads of many contemporary issues in a new “bibliopolis” (O. …”
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Real-Time Audio-Visual Analysis for Multiperson Videoconferencing by Petr Motlicek, Stefan Duffner, Danil Korchagin, Hervé Bourlard, Carl Scheffler, Jean-Marc Odobez, Giovanni Del Galdo, Markus Kallinger, Oliver Thiergart

“…We describe the design of a system consisting of several state-of-the-art real-time audio and video processing components enabling multimodal stream manipulation (e.g., automatic online editing for multiparty videoconferencing applications) in open, unconstrained environments. …”
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Jóvenes y política: de la participación formal a la movilización informal by Ana María Arias-Cardona, Sara Victoria Alvarado

“…Este artículo de revisión de tema está estructurado en dos secciones:en la primera exponemos diversas perspectivas desde las que realizamos el acercamiento teórico alconcepto “juventud”, agrupándolas en tres: bio-psicoevolutiva, sociohistórica y cultural- política.En la segunda sintetizamos el estado del arte consolidado a partir de las categorías “jóvenes” y“política”; para ello retomamos investigaciones relacionadas con jóvenes y política formal a travésde sus expresiones convencionales (participación, afiliación a partidos, conducta de voto, etc.), yestudios sobre jóvenes y política informal en los que se analizan acciones alternativas (movimientossociales, acción colectiva, etc.)Finalmente proponemos comprender a los sujetos jóvenes desde la transdisciplinariedad, ladiversidad y el contexto, trascendiendo miradas adultocéntricas que los señalan de “apáticos ydesinteresados”.…”
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