An enhanced lightweight model for apple leaf disease detection in complex orchard environments by Ge Wang, Wenjie Sang, Fangqian Xu, Yuteng Gao, Yue Han, Qiang Liu

“…However, in complex natural environments, factors such as light variations, shading from branches and leaves, and overlapping disease spots often result in reduced accuracy in detecting apple diseases. To address the challenges of detecting small-target diseases on apple leaves in complex backgrounds and difficulty in mobile deployment, we propose an enhanced lightweight model, ELM-YOLOv8n.To mitigate the high consumption of computational resources in real-time deployment of existing models, we integrate the Fasternet Block into the C2f of the backbone network and neck network, effectively reducing the parameter count and the computational load of the model. …”
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An optimization method of multiscale storage tank target detection introducing an attention mechanism by Wenjia Sun, Chunchun Hu, Nianxue Luo, Qiansheng Zhao

“…As containers for chemical storage, storage tanks are potential sources of hazards. Conducting target detection for hazard risk analysis is essential. …”
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Review of Fault Detection and Diagnosis Methods in Power Plants: Algorithms, Architectures, and Trends by Camelia Adela Maican, Cristina Floriana Pană, Daniela Maria Pătrașcu-Pană, Virginia Maria Rădulescu

“…Key findings are summarized in a comparative matrix, highlighting trends, gaps, and inconsistencies across publication sources. This review identifies critical research gaps—including the underuse of hybrid models, lack of benchmark datasets, and limited integration between detection and control layers—and offers concrete recommendations for future research. …”
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Harnessing polydiacetylene (PDA): A review of structural mechanics and infectious disease detection by Soumendu Patra, Harshita Shand, Sayan Ghosal, Suvankar Ghorai

“…These biosensors can also be functionalized with particular capture agents, such as antibodies or nucleic acid probes, to selectively bind and detect the target analytes. …”
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Application of VGG16 in Automated Detection of Bone Fractures in X-Ray Images by Resky Adhyaksa, Bedy Purnama

“…The training and testing phases utilized an 80:20 split of the data, employing binary cross-entropy as the loss function and the Adam optimizer for efficient weight updates. …”
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Multi-Person Fall Detection Using Data Assimilation Method With Kalman Filter by Jinmo Yang, Ye Jin Jin, R. Young Chul Kim

“…Fall detection is an essential technology for ensuring the safety of elderly individuals, as falling accidents are critical and can cause significant functional damage in old age. …”
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Detection of Elementary White Mucosal Lesions by an AI System: A Pilot Study by Gaetano La Mantia, Federico Kiswarday, Giuseppe Pizzo, Giovanna Giuliana, Giacomo Oteri, Mario G. C. A. Cimino, Olga Di Fede, Giuseppina Campisi

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Securing Electric Vehicle Performance: Machine Learning-Driven Fault Detection and Classification by Mahbub Ul Islam Khan, Md. Ilius Hasan Pathan, Mohammad Mominur Rahman, Md. Maidul Islam, Mohammed Arfat Raihan Chowdhury, Md. Shamim Anower, Md. Masud Rana, Md. Shafiul Alam, Mahmudul Hasan, Md. Shohanur Islam Sobuj, Md. Babul Islam, Veerpratap Meena, Francesco Benedetto

“…In addition, the superiority of the proposed fault detection and classification approaches using ML tools was assessed by comparing the detection and classification efficiency through some statistical performance parameter comparisons among the classifiers.…”
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Near-source wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2, norovirus, influenza virus and RSV across five different sites in the UK. by Jay C Bullen, Mina Mohaghegh, Fatima Tahir, Charlotte Hammer, Jacob Sims, Frederico Myers, Lucas Eisinger, Ali Reza Kasmati, Claire F Trant

“…The key findings are (1) near-source wastewater detections were linked to local events (staff sickness, enhanced cleaning, changing populations); (2) wastewater detections decreased in the order norovirus GII > norovirus GI > SARS-CoV-2 ≈ influenza A ≈ RSV A > influenza B ≈ RSV B; (3) correlation between near-source wastewater data and national surveillance data increases as a function of catchment size and viral prevalence (examples include the SARS-CoV-2 BA.4/BA.5 variant peak at a museum and wastewater tracking the winter norovirus season); (4) strong weekday periodicity in near-source wastewater SARS-CoV-2 detections, with the correlation against COVID-19 case numbers increasing when modelling variable lag times between faecal shedding onset and clinical diagnosis (R2 = 0.45 increases to 0.84-0.86); (5) a log-linear relationship between the frequency of wastewater SARS-CoV-2 detection and log(catchment size⋅viral prevalence) (R2 = 0.6914-0.9066). …”
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Three-Dimensional Real-Scene-Enhanced GNSS/Intelligent Vision Surface Deformation Monitoring System by Yuanrong He, Weijie Yang, Qun Su, Qiuhua He, Hongxin Li, Shuhang Lin, Shaochang Zhu

“…The system integrates GNSS monitoring terminals and multi-source meteorological sensors to accurately capture minute displacements at monitoring points and multi-source Internet of Things (IoT) data, which are then automatically stored in MySQL databases. …”
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Effect of cochlear implant surgery on vestibular function: meta-analysis study by Iman Ibrahim, Sabrina Daniela da Silva, Bernard Segal, Anthony Zeitouni

“…No significant effect of CI surgery was detected in HIT, posturography, or DHI scores. Overall, the clinical effect of CI surgery on the vestibular function was found to be insignificant. …”
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Automatic Recognition of Authors Identity in Persian based on Systemic Functional Grammar by Fatemeh Soltanzadeh, Azadeh Mirzaei, Mohammad Bahrani, Shahram Modarres Khiabani

“…First, a corpus composed of documents written by seven contemporary Iranian authors was collected. Second, a list of function words was extracted from the corpus. Moreover, conjunction, modality and comment adjunct system networks were applied to form a lexicon using linguistics resources. …”
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Hybrid Capsule Network for precise and interpretable detection of malaria parasites in blood smear images by Bader Alawfi

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DP-YOLO: A Lightweight Real-Time Detection Algorithm for Rail Fastener Defects by Lihua Chen, Qi Sun, Ziyang Han, Fengwen Zhai

“…To enable accurate and efficient real-time detection of rail fastener defects under resource-constrained environments, we propose DP-YOLO, an advanced lightweight algorithm based on YOLOv5s with four key optimizations. …”
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Testing the functionality and contact error of a GPS‐based wildlife tracking network by Melanie J. Davis, Sravan Thokala, Xinyu Xing, N. Thompson Hobbs, Michael W. Miller, Richard Han, Shivakant Mishra

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Classification of SERS spectra for agrochemical detection using a neural network with engineered features by Mateo Frausto-Avila, Monserrat Ochoa-Elias, Jose Pablo Manriquez-Amavizca, María del Carmen González-López, Gonzalo Ramírez-García, Mario Alan Quiroz-Juárez

“…Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) substrates offer a promising solution for the sensitive and specific detection of agrochemicals, enabling timely interventions to mitigate their harmful effects on humans and ecosystems. …”
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Leveraging large language models for automated detection of velopharyngeal dysfunction in patients with cleft palate by Myranda Uselton Shirk, Catherine Dang, Jaewoo Cho, Hanlin Chen, Lily Hofstetter, Jack Bijur, Claiborne Lucas, Andrew James, Ricardo-Torres Guzman, Andrea Hiller, Noah Alter, Amy Stone, Maria Powell, Matthew E. Pontell, Matthew E. Pontell

“…BackgroundHypernasality, a hallmark of velopharyngeal insufficiency (VPI), is a speech disorder with significant psychosocial and functional implications. Conventional diagnostic methods rely heavily on specialized expertise and equipment, posing challenges in resource-limited settings. …”
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A spatial matrix factorization method to characterize ecological assemblages as a mixture of unobserved sources: An application to fish eDNA surveys by Letizia Lamperti, Olivier François, David Mouillot, Laëtitia Mathon, Théophile Sanchez, Camille Albouy, Loïc Pellissier, Stéphanie Manel

“…We present a spatial matrix factorization method that identifies optimal eDNA sample assemblages—called pools—assuming that taxonomic unit composition is based on a fixed number of unknown sources. These sources, in turn, represent taxonomic units sharing similar habitat properties or characteristics. …”
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Deep learning vulnerability detection method based on optimized inter-procedural semantics of programs by Yan LI, Weizhong QIANG, Zhen LI, Deqing ZOU, Hai JIN

“…In recent years, software vulnerabilities have been causing a multitude of security incidents, and the early discovery and patching of vulnerabilities can effectively reduce losses.Traditional rule-based vulnerability detection methods, relying upon rules defined by experts, suffer from a high false negative rate.Deep learning-based methods have the capability to automatically learn potential features of vulnerable programs.However, as software complexity increases, the precision of these methods decreases.On one hand, current methods mostly operate at the function level, thus unable to handle inter-procedural vulnerability samples.On the other hand, models such as BGRU and BLSTM exhibit performance degradation when confronted with long input sequences, and are not adept at capturing long-term dependencies in program statements.To address the aforementioned issues, the existing program slicing method has been optimized, enabling a comprehensive contextual analysis of vulnerabilities triggered across functions through the combination of intra-procedural and inter-procedural slicing.This facilitated the capture of the complete causal relationship of vulnerability triggers.Furthermore, a vulnerability detection task was conducted using a Transformer neural network architecture equipped with a multi-head attention mechanism.This architecture collectively focused on information from different representation subspaces, allowing for the extraction of deep features from nodes.Unlike recurrent neural networks, this approach resolved the issue of information decay and effectively learned the syntax and semantic information of the source program.Experimental results demonstrate that this method achieves an F1 score of 73.4% on a real software dataset.Compared to the comparative methods, it shows an improvement of 13.6% to 40.8%.Furthermore, it successfully detects several vulnerabilities in open-source software, confirming its effectiveness and applicability.…”
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Employing SAE-GRU deep learning for scalable botnet detection in smart city infrastructure by Usman Tariq, Tariq Ahamed Ahanger

“…These findings enhance the understanding of IoT security by offering a scalable and resource-efficient solution for botnet detection. The functional investigation establishes a foundation for future research into adaptive security mechanisms that address emerging threats and highlights the practical potential of advanced deep learning techniques in safeguarding next-generation smart city ecosystems.…”
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