FcFNet: A Challenge-Based Feature Complementary Fusion Network for RGBT Tracking by Wensheng Wang, Congjian Li, Di Zhang, Huihui Zhou, Mingli Xie, Haoran Zhou, Kun Fu

“…The proposed FcFNet exhibits competitive performance compared with other state-of-the-art tracking algorithms, especially in continuous tracking tasks for noncooperative targets.…”
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Salivary proteomics and metaproteomics identifies distinct molecular and taxonomic signatures of type-2 diabetes by Diana Samodova, Evelina Stankevic, Mathilde Sonne Søndergaard, Naiyu Hu, Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia, Daniel R. Witte, Daniel Belstrøm, Anniek Frederike Lubberding, Pratik D. Jagtap, Torben Hansen, Atul S. Deshmukh

“…Results We conducted ultrafast, in-depth MS-based proteomic and metaproteomic profiling of saliva from 15 newly diagnosed T2D individuals and 15 age-/BMI-matched healthy controls (HC). Using state-of-the-art proteomics, over 4500 human and bacterial proteins were identified in a single 21-min run. …”
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Franz-Paul de Almeida Langhans by Paulo Morais-Alexandre

“…É ainda feita uma crítica à obra que produziu, quer em termos de ciência heráldica, quer em termos estéticos, esta já no âmbito da História da Arte. Por fim, apresenta-se sumariamente a sua atividade como autor, nomeadamente como investigador e teórico da área Armaria.   …”
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Swarm-Based Trajectory Generation and Optimization for Stress-Aligned 3D Printing by Xavier Guidetti, Efe C. Balta, and John Lygeros

“…Through comprehensive evaluations in both simulation and experiments, we compare our method to state-of-the-art approaches. Our results demonstrate a remarkable improvement in computational efficiency, achieving a <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$115\times $ </tex-math></inline-formula> faster computation speed than existing methods. …”
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On-Demand Energy Provisioning Scheme in Large-Scale WRSNs: Survey, Opportunities, and Challenges by Gerald K. Ijemaru, Kenneth Li-Minn Ang, Jasmine Kah Phooi Seng, Augustine O. Nwajana, Phee Lep Yeoh, Emmanuel U. Oleka

“…This paper presents a comprehensive survey on the state-of-the-art approaches and technologies in on-demand energy provisioning in large-scale WRSNs. …”
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A Vision of the Policy Concerning the Financing and Management of Physical Infrastructure in Network Industries in Slovenia by Dejan Makovšek, Klavdij Logožar

“…In the future, EU regulations might also expand and raise their requirements to meet the state of the art, but Slovenia need not wait for the EU. The introduction of such a policy would also mean a quantum leap in terms of the competitiveness of Slovenia's economy and bring the country closer to the world's most developed economies.…”
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An EfficientNetv2-based method for coal conveyor belt foreign object detection by Tao Hu, Deyu Zhuang, Jinbo Qiu

“…It also outperforms some other state-of-the-art (SOTA) models and can effectively complete the detection of foreign objects on coal conveyor belts.…”
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Karandu (Gong): History, Functions, and Symbols in the Life of the Tolaki People in 17th -20th Century Southeast Sulawesi by Akhmad Marhadi, Syahrun Syahrun, Basrin Melamba, Marwati Marwati, Hayari Hayari

“…Gongs at that time were used as royal and confidential treasures of high value, art, ceremonies, social status, and many more. The gong evolved to communicate in particular situations, such as codes or signs of danger, meetings, grief, etc. …”
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DISCIPLINA OU RESSOCIALIZAÇÃO? RACIONALIDADES PUNITIVAS, TRABALHO PRISIONAL E POLÍTICA PENITENCIÁRIA by Bruno Amaral Machado, Marcos Aurélio Sloniak

“…As pesquisas realizadas indicam que, no Brasil, o trabalho prisional, especialmente no regime fechado, a despeito de sua posição central no modelo clínico reabilitador (art. 1º da LEP), ocupa pouco espaço na agenda política. …”
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Thermal-Aware Multiconstrained Intrabody QoS Routing for Wireless Body Area Networks by Muhammad Mostafa Monowar, Mohammad Mehedi Hassan, Fuad Bajaber, Md. Abdul Hamid, Atif Alamri

“…The performance of TMQoS has been evaluated through simulation which demonstrates that the protocol achieves desired QoS demands while maintaining low temperature in the network compared to the state-of-the-art thermal-aware approaches.…”
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Best practices for cryopreserving sperm in Nonhuman Primates: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Niloofar Sadeghi, Ndifereke Uboh, Corinna N. Ross, John R. McCarrey, Brian P. Hermann

“…Thus, this systematic review assesses the state-of-the-art in NHP sperm cryopreservation and uses meta-analyses to describe the impact of varied cryopreservation approaches on NHP sperm. …”
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Identification and Removal of Light Pollution in Maritime Night-Time Images Based on Spatial Frequency Blocks by Hui Sun, Jingyang Wang, Mingyang Pan, Zongying Liu, Shaoxi Li, Ruolan Zhang, Yang Wei

“…The experimental results show that on the nighttime light pollution dataset, the Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) of the model is improved to 24.91 compared to the current state-of-the-art image restoration model, while the Frechet inception distance (FID) is reduced to 64.85. …”
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Micro-Expression Recognition Using Convolutional Variational Attention Transformer (ConVAT) With Multihead Attention Mechanism by Hafiz Khizer Bin Talib, Kaiwei Xu, Yanlong Cao, Yuan Ping Xu, Zhijie Xu, Muhammad Zaman, Adnan Akhunzada

“…These outcomes not only surpass current state-of-the-art benchmarks but also highlight ConVAT&#x2019;s robustness and reliability in capturing micro-expressions, marking a significant advancement toward developing sophisticated automated systems for real-world applications in micro-expression recognition.…”
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SE-HCL: Schema Enhanced Hybrid Curriculum Learning for Multi-Turn Text-to-SQL by Yiyun Zhang, Sheng'an Zhou, Gengsheng Huang

“…Our experiments show that our proposed method improves SQL-generated performance over previous state-of-the-art models on SparC and CoSQL, especially for hard and long-turn questions.…”
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A Novel Ensemble Meta-Model for Enhanced Retinal Blood Vessel Segmentation Using Deep Learning Architectures by Mohamed Chetoui, Moulay A. Akhloufi

“…<b>Results:</b> The ensemble meta-model integrates predictions from these architectures using a stacking approach, achieving state-of-the-art performance with an accuracy of 0.9778, an AUC of 0.9912, and an F1-Score of 0.8231. …”
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NeRF View Synthesis: Subjective Quality Assessment and Objective Metrics Evaluation by Pedro Martin, Antonio Rodrigues, Joao Ascenso, Maria Paula Queluz

“…Additionally, the performance of a wide range of state-of-the-art conventional and learning-based full-reference 2D image and video quality assessment metrics is evaluated against the subjective scores of the subjective study. …”
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Combining Region-Guided Attention and Attribute Prediction for Thangka Image Captioning Method by Fujun Zhang, Wendong Kang, Wenjin Hu

“…On the COCO dataset in the natural domain, RGFEAP achieves performance comparable to other state-of-the-art models, showcasing its strong adaptability.…”
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QoS Strategies for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks in the Context of IoT at the MAC Layer, Application Layer, and Cross-Layer Algorithms by Muwonge Ssajjabbi Bernard, Tingrui Pei, Kimbugwe Nasser

“…This paper also surveys a number of state-of-the-art machine-to-machine, publish/subscribe, and request/response protocols at the application layer. …”
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A DBN-Based Deep Neural Network Model with Multitask Learning for Online Air Quality Prediction by Jiangeng Li, Xingyang Shao, Rihui Sun

“…Comparison with multiple baseline models shows that the proposed MTL-DBN-DNN achieve state-of-art performance on air pollutant concentration forecasting.…”
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Enhanced Lithographic Hotspot Detection via Multi-Task Deep Learning With Synthetic Pattern Generation by Xinguang Zhang, Shiyang Chen, Zhouhang Shao, Yongjie Niu, Li Fan

“…Experimental results on the ICCAD-2019 benchmark dataset demonstrate that our approach achieves 98.5&#x0025; accuracy in hotspot detection with only 1.2&#x0025; false alarm rate, significantly outperforming state-of-the-art methods. Furthermore, we show a 22&#x0025; improvement in TNSB hotspot detection and a 5X reduction in false alarms on HTC patterns compared to previous techniques. …”
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