Exploring the maternal inheritance transmitted by the oocyte to its progeny by Verlhac, Marie-Hélène

“…Fertility is declining worldwide and many couples are turning towards assisted reproductive technologies (ART) to conceive babies. Organisms that propagate via sexual reproduction often come from the fusion between two gametes, an oocyte and a sperm, whose qualities seem to be decreasing in the human species. …”
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EFNet: estimation of left ventricular ejection fraction from cardiac ultrasound videos using deep learning by Waqas Ali, Wesam Alsabban, Muhammad Shahbaz, Ali Al-Laith, Bassam Almogadwy

“…Experimental results demonstrate that EFNet outperforms state-of-the-art techniques, providing accurate EF predictions.…”
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Remendar el paisaje: Aportes de la práctica de diseño a la teoría del aprendizaje situado. Estrategias aplicadas en Tejiendo la calle by Marina Fernández Ramos

“… Este artículo se centra en el gran potencial del espacio público como contexto de interacción colectiva donde desarrollar procesos de arte comunitario que fomenten aprendizajes situados. …”
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Privacy-Preserving Continual Federated Clustering via Adaptive Resonance Theory by Naoki Masuyama, Yusuke Nojima, Yuichiro Toda, Chu Kiong Loo, Hisao Ishibuchi, Naoyuki Kubota

“…Experimental results with synthetic and real-world datasets show that the proposed algorithm has superior clustering performance to state-of-the-art federated clustering algorithms while realizing data privacy protection and continual learning ability. …”
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Climate change–drylands–food security nexus in Africa: From the perspective of technical advances, challenges, and opportunities by Hirwa, Hubert, Li, Fadong, Qiao, Yunfeng, Measho, Simon, Muhirwa, Fabien, Tian, Chao, Leng, Peifang, Muhirwa, Fabien, Tian, Chao, Leng, Peifang, Ingabire, Romaine, Itangishaka, Auguste Cesar, Chen, Gang, Turyasingura, Benson

“…To bridge the gap from science to policy making in the CDF nexus, it is vital to enhance the impacts and feedbacks of ecohydrological processes on agrarian production, ecosystem service tradeoffs and their effects on livelihoods, and regional development and preservation by optimization of the ecological water security pattern. This state-of-the-art assessment uses acquired information and knowledge to conceptually evaluate the past, current, and future impacts and risks and facilitates decision making through the delivery of long-term sustainability and socio-ecological resilience.…”
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Climate change–Drylands–Food Security Nexus in Africa: From the Perspective of Technical Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities. by Hirwa, Hubert, Fadong, Li, Qiao, Yunfeng, Measho, Simon, Muhirwa, Fabien, Tian, Chao, Leng, Peifang

“…To bridge the gap from science to policy making in the CDF nexus, it is vital to enhance the impacts and feedback of ecohydrological processes on agrarian production, ecosystem service tradeoffs and their effects on livelihoods, and regional development and preservation by optimization of the ecological water security pattern. This state-of-the-art assessment uses acquired information and knowledge to conceptually evaluate the past, current, and future impacts and risks and facilitates decision-making through the delivery of long-term sustainability and socio-ecological resilience.…”
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Water Accounting and Productivity Analysis to Improve Water Savings of Nile River Basin, East Africa: From Accountability to Sustainability. by Hirwa, Hubert, Zhang, Qiuying, Li, Fadong, Qiao, Yunfeng, Measho, Simon, Muhirwa, Fabien, Xu, Ning, Tian, Chao, Cheng, Hefa, Chen, Gang, Ngwijabagabo, Hyacinthe

“…To bridge the gap from science to policy making in the CDF nexus, it is vital to enhance the impacts and feedback of ecohydrological processes on agrarian production, ecosystem service tradeoffs and their effects on livelihoods, and regional development and preservation by optimization of the ecological water security pattern. This state-of-the-art assessment uses acquired information and knowledge to conceptually evaluate the past, current, and future impacts and risks and facilitates decision-making through the delivery of long-term sustainability and socio-ecological resilience.…”
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Design of Coffee Disease Detection Web Application Using Image Processing: A Case Study of Kyabugimbi-Kajunju Cooperative Farms in Bushenyi District. by Asiimwe, Mark, Kakuru, Ambrose

“…The methodology involves acquiring high-resolution images, employing pre-processing methods to enhance data quality, and implementing state-of-the-art machine-learning algorithms for disease classification. …”
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Evaluating the Potential of Cultural Tourism for Community Development in South Western Uganda: A Case Study of Kisoro District. by Niyigaba, Ishmael

“…The findings identified a variety of cultural tourism resources, such as cultural values and lifestyles, architectural landmarks, museums, theatres, indigenous communities, art crafts (20%), cultural differences (18%), local resistance (12%), and conflicts arising from interactions between locals and tourists (13%). …”
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From the Critical Attitude to Self-Care: Review of What Is Critique and the Care of the Self by Muhammad Asghari, Neda Mohajel

“…He believes that it is an artwork in itself. An art work that everybody has to make, and everybody has it in their own way. …”
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Os Murais e a Arquitetura em Teresina by Roberto Alves de Lima Montenegro Filho, Gustavo Silvano Batista

“…É uma contribuição significativa para a arte urbana moderna da cidade, marcante não somente para a composição do espaço urbano, mas também para a vida cultural da cidade, em tempos quando a arquitetura enfrentava as relações de continuidade com a cidade e com a cultura. …”
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American Transcendentalist’s Conceptions of Self: Comparison Among Emerson, Thoreau And Whitman by Dian Natalia Sutanto

“… American Transcendentalism was a unique movement in the country’s history as it had a vitalizing effect on the development of American identity and fostered the development of American democracy, liberalism, art and literature. Its basic tenet is the belief on the dignity of human as the manifestation of the divine. …”
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Subset-Selection Weight Post-Training Quantization Method for Learned Image Compression Task by Jinru Yang, Xiaoqin Wang, Qiang Li, Shushan Qiao, Yumei Zhou

“…Compared to the state-of-the-art LIC PTQ method, experimental results show that our proposed method achieves an average 0.8% better BD-rate on several LIC models. …”
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Spectral Telepathy: the Late Style of Susan Howe by Marjorie Perloff

“…Two books recently published—The Quarry (New Directions, 2015) and Tom Tit Tot (Museum of Modern Art, 2015) illustrate this point. Whereas Howe’s earlier books of critical prose—for example, My Emily Dickinson (1985)—used scholarship to buttress Howe’s critical positions and arguments, her new “essays” in The Quarry are more properly understood as poems. …”
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Color Face Recognition Based on Steerable Pyramid Transform and Extreme Learning Machines by Ayşegül Uçar

“…Furthermore, it achieves faster recognition compared with state-of-the-art studies.…”
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The Incredible Shrinking Man in Paul Auster’s Report from the Interior: The Film and the Myths by Marie GOURRUT

“…The plot undeniably recalls the process of regression, the so-called “art of hunger” that most Austerian protagonists experience. …”
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The Music in the Silence by Andrew Parkin

“…Il n’y a pas de fin possible, car l’art de métamorphoser des images silencieuses en musique des mots est fortuit et interminable.…”
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Spectral Clustering-Guided News Environments Perception for Fake News Detection by Kun Wang, Yuzhen Yang, Xiaoyang Wang

“…Compared with the state-of-the-art methods, the SEAFND method improves the detection performance by 1% to 2% on the multidomain datasets Ch-9 and En-3.…”
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As companhias brasileiras são socialmente sustentáveis? Uma análise das iniciativas nos relatórios de sustentabilidade de companhias brasileiras by Ligia Pires Pinto, André Terreri, Heloisa Bianquini

“…A pesquisa tem como objetivo realizar uma análise crítica do estado da arte da gestão da sustentabilidade social no contexto corporativo brasileiro. …”
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Towards a Low-Cost Mobile Subcutaneous Vein Detection Solution Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy by Simon Juric, Vojko Flis, Matjaz Debevc, Andreas Holzinger, Borut Zalik

“…We propose a low-cost mobile health solution for subcutaneous vein detection using near-infrared spectroscopy, along with an assessment of the current state of the art in this field. The first objective of this study was to get a deeper overview of the research topic, through the initial team discussions and a detailed literature review (using both academic and grey literature). …”
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