Mesenchymal Stem Cells for the Treatment of Spinal Arthrodesis: From Preclinical Research to Clinical Scenario by F. Salamanna, M. Sartori, G. Barbanti Brodano, C. Griffoni, L. Martini, S. Boriani, M. Fini

“…This descriptive systematic literature review summarizes the in vivo studies, dealing with the use of MSCs in spinal arthrodesis surgery and the state of the art in clinical applications. The review has yielded promising evidence supporting the use of MSCs as a cell-based therapy in spinal fusion procedures, thus representing a suitable biological approach able to reduce the high cost of osteoinductive factors as well as the high dose needed to induce bone formation. …”
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Exploiting a Spatial Attention Mechanism for Improved Depth Completion and Feature Fusion in Novel View Synthesis by Anh Minh Truong, Wilfried Philips, Peter Veelaert

“…Experimental results on challenging datasets demonstrate that our method achieves superior synthesized image quality compared to state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods.…”
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Finite Element and Multibody Dynamics Analysis of a Ball Mill Glass Crusher by Jihad Rishmany, Rodrigue Imad

“…The main enhanced features of this machine with respect to state-of-the-art designs are the continuous feed aspect and the powder discharge technique. …”
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PC-CS-YOLO: High-Precision Obstacle Detection for Visually Impaired Safety by Jincheng Li, Menglin Zheng, Danyang Dong, Xing Xie

“…Compared to state-of-the-art networks, our system shows improvements of 2.0%, 3.9%, and 1.5% in precision, recall, and mAP50, respectively. …”
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AtOMICS: a deep learning-based automated optomechanical intelligent coupling system for testing and characterization of silicon photonics chiplets by Jaime Gonzalo Flor Flores, Jim Solomon, Connor Nasseraddin, Talha Yerebakan, Andrey B Matsko, Chee Wei Wong

“…The presented approach combines state-of-the-art computer vision techniques with time-series analysis, to control a testing setup that can process multiple devices and be quickly tuned to incorporate additional hardware. …”
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Image Encryption Based on Dynamic Filtering and Bit Cuboid Operations by Xinsheng Li, Zhilong Xie, Jiang Wu, Taiyong Li

“…The experiments on several testing images demonstrate that the DFBC achieves state-of-the-art results in terms of several evaluation criteria, showing that the DFBC is promising for image encryption.…”
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The Concepts and Contextualization of Incantations in Nigerian Popular Music: Juju Music as Paradigm by Kayode Olusola

“…This paper, therefore, highlights and documents the phenomenon of incantation as a Yoruba linguistic verbal art in popular music in Nigeria. …”
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Early harmonies, enduring echoes—how early life experiences and personality traits shape music performance anxiety by Ludivine Aubry, Ludivine Aubry, Mats B. Küssner

“…Music performance anxiety (MPA) is a deeply personal and often debilitating experience, causing talented musicians to dread the very stages upon which they showcase their art. An increasing number of studies have addressed this anxiety phenomenon, however, definitions vary and the underlying causes remain unclear. …”
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Twinkle: A GPU-based Binary-lens Microlensing Code with the Contour Integration Method by Suwei Wang, Lile Wang, Subo Dong

“…We have advanced the state of the art by optimizing Twinkle specifically for heterogeneous computing devices by taking into account the unique task and cache memory dispatching patterns of GPUs, while the compatibility with the traditional computing architectures of CPUs is still maintained. …”
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Panoramic video coding based on spherical distortion with spatio-temporal dependency by Xu YANG, Ce ZHU, Hongwei GUO, Lei LUO

“…The planar coding distortion, which affects objective quality, and spherical distortion, which affects subjective quality, as well as existing independent rate-distortion optimization techniques that fail to consider the temporal propagation of spherical distortion and its impact on coding performance, result in coding performance degradation.To address these issues, a spatio-temporal dependent spherical distortion model was proposed for optimizing panoramic video coding.Firstly, a spatial mapping model was proposed to map spherical distortions to coding distortions, aiming to align subjective and objective quality assessments.Secondly, a temporal propagation model for spherical distortions was introduced to enhance the overall coding performance of all coding units in the propagation chain.Finally, the coding parameters were adjusted by computing the weights for spatial mapping and temporal propagation of spherical distortions.Experimental results demonstrate that, under low-delay encoding configurations, compared to the VTM14.0, a state-of-the-art video coding benchmark, the proposed algorithm achieves an average bitrate savings of 7.4% (up to 22.1%) and reduction in coding time of 9%.…”
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In Vitro 3D Models of Haematological Malignancies: Current Trends and the Road Ahead? by Carlotta Mattioda, Claudia Voena, Gianluca Ciardelli, Clara Mattu

“…This review aims at reporting an updated overview of state-of-the-art hematological malignancies 3D in vitro models, emphasizing the key features and limitations of existing systems to inspire further research in this underexplored field.…”
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Potential Mechanisms for Racial and Ethnic Differences in Antimüllerian Hormone and Ovarian Reserve by Reshef Tal, David B. Seifer

“…Racial differences have been demonstrated in pubertal timing, infertility, outcomes after assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatment, and reproductive aging. Recently, racial differences have also been described in serum antimüllerian hormone (AMH), a sensitive biomarker of ovarian reserve, supporting the notion that ovarian reserve differs between racial/ethnic groups. …”
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A Critique of the Literary School of Critical Realism in Iran (Based on the Stories of “Farsi Shekar Ast/Persian is Sugar” and “Gileh Mard”) by Nahid Akbarzadeh, Janolah Karimi Motahhar

“…The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were the time for the formation of new schools of art in Europe. The rise of realism was the result of fundamental changes in the understanding of the world and a fundamental revision of the relationship between man and the world. …”
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Gut für dich, gut für den Planeten by Nina Janich, Gina-Maria Sachse, Niklas Simon

“…Der Vergleich dieser beiden Branchen zeigt, dass Raumbezüge sprachlicher und visueller Art in vielfältiger Weise und zugunsten ganz unterschiedlicher Raumkonzepte vorkommen. …”
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Comparison of modularity-based approaches for nodes clustering in hypergraphs by Poda, Veronica, Matias, Catherine

“…Subsequently, we provide an overview of the state-of-the-art codes available to maximize hypergraph modularities for detecting node communities in hypergraphs. …”
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Firefly Algorithm for Cardinality Constrained Mean-Variance Portfolio Optimization Problem with Entropy Diversity Constraint by Nebojsa Bacanin, Milan Tuba

“…Our proposed modified firefly algorithm proved to be better than other state-of-the-art algorithms, while introduction of entropy diversity constraint further improved results.…”
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Performance Prediction of Building Integrated Photovoltaic System Using Hybrid Deep Learning Algorithm by Manivannan Ragupathi, Rengaraj Ramasubbu

“…The proposed approach consistently outperformed state-of-the-art single-timescale forecasting algorithms across all time scales.…”
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Proverbs in Yorùbá Contemporary Songs by Oluwafunminiyi Mabawonku

“…This study reveals that the use of proverbs as indigenous tattoos has elevated both the language of the song artists to the status of living art of popular communication and their personalities to that of a mystic ‘massieur’ as there is the need to localize the global issues and globalized the local ones. …”
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Critical discourse analysis on gender relations: women's images in Sasak song by Khirjan Nahdi, Usuludin Usuludin, Herman Wijaya, Muh. Taufiq

“…The six images of women in Sasak song texts are contained in works of art for the purpose of disguising the tendencies behind artistic elements, so that they are accepted as truth and reasonableness in history inherited between generations.…”
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Defense and Security Mechanisms in the Internet of Things: A Review by Sabina Szymoniak, Jacek Piątkowski, Mirosław Kurkowski

“…In particular, this paper reviews state-of-the-art approaches for intrusion detection, key agreement protocols, and anomaly detection systems, pointing out their advantages and disadvantages and identifying the gaps in each field requiring more research. …”
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