Effectiveness of canine‐assisted surveillance and human searches for early detection of invasive spotted lanternfly by Angela K. Fuller, Ben C. Augustine, Eric H. Clifton, Ann E. Hajek, Arden Blumenthal, Josh Beese, Aimee Hurt, Carrie J. Brown‐Lima

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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

“…Abstract Understanding how ecological assemblages vary in space and time is essential for advancing our knowledge of biodiversity dynamics and ecosystem functioning. Metabarcoding of environmental DNA (eDNA) is an efficient method for documenting biodiversity changes in both marine and terrestrial ecosystems. …”
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Unlocking the potential: A comprehensive review on blast furnace slag and silica analog adsorbents for sustainable industrial and pharmaceutical pollution control and resource util... by Qing-Guo Dong, Jing Li, Zhi-Qing Kang, Muhammad Imran Anwar, Muhammad Asad, Baoji Miao, Shuanghu Wang, Ayesha Younas

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Rapid Spectral Evolution of SGR 1935+2154 during Its 2022 Outburst by Chin-Ping Hu, Zorawar Wadiasingh, Wynn C. G. Ho, Matthew G. Baring, George A. Younes, Teruaki Enoto, Sebastien Guillot, Tolga Güver, Marlon L. Bause, Rachael Stewart, Alex Van Kooten, Chryssa Kouveliotou

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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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A Contrast-Enhanced Approach for Aerial Moving Target Detection Based on Distributed Satellites by Yu Li, Hansheng Su, Jinming Chen, Weiwei Wang, Yingbin Wang, Chongdi Duan, Anhong Chen

“…This method compensates for the range difference rather than the target range. In the detection period, we develop two weighting functions, i.e., the Doppler frequency rate (DFR) variance function and smooth spatial filtering function, to extract prominent areas and make efficient detection, respectively. …”
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Tomato Pomace as a Valuable Resource: Characterization of Sunflower and Rapeseed Oil Extracts from Ox Heart Tomato (<i>Lycopersicon esculentum</i>) by Dumitriţa Flaiş, Mariana Spinei, Mircea Oroian

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SurfaceVision: An Automated Module for Surface Fault Detection in 3D Printed Products by Laukesh Kumar, Manoj Kumar Satyarthi

“…The traditional method currently requires visual information processing devices or continuous monitoring of the process via a camera, which is very resource consuming and costly. Machine learning techniques being used for automatic detection of the faults suffer in real time conditions with inefficient fault detection due to the inability of adaptation to real time changes in the printing process. …”
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A lightweight algorithm for steel surface defect detection using improved YOLOv8 by Shuangbao Ma, Xin Zhao, Li Wan, Yapeng Zhang, Hongliang Gao

“…Finally, the SIoU (Simplified IoU ) is used to replace the traditional CIoU loss function, which can make the anchor frame more fast and accurate in the regression process, to improve the stability and the robustness of detection. …”
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Yarn-electrospun PVDF-HFP/CNC smart textiles for self-powered sensor in wearable electronics by Jiawei Chen, Subhamoy Mahajan, Manisha Gupta, Cagri Ayranci, Tian Tang

“…The success of developing such sensor-integrated touchscreen gloves paves new avenues for human-technology interactions, highlights the dual functionality of these yarns as power sources and sensors, and represents a milestone in broadening the applications of wearable technologies.…”
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Lightweight and Accurate YOLOv7-Based Ensembles With Knowledge Distillation for Urinary Sediment Detection by Keita Sasaki, Hiroki Nishikawa, Ittetsu Taniguchi, Takao Onoye

“…Urine sediment analysis plays an important role in evaluating kidney function. In addition to improving detection accuracy, reducing model size is also a key challenge, especially when considering deployment on medical devices where computational resources are limited. …”
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Research on a UAV-View Object-Detection Method Based on YOLOv7-Tiny by Yuyang Miao, Xihan Wang, Ning Zhang, Kai Wang, Lianhe Shao, Quanli Gao

“…The algorithm’s performance in handling object occlusion and multi-scale detection is enhanced by introducing the VarifocalLoss loss function and improving the feature fusion network to BiFPN. …”
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Research on the detection of obstacles in front of unmanned vehicles in opencast mines based on binocular vision by Shunling RUAN, Huiguo ZHANG, Qinghua GU, Caiwu LU, Di LIU, Jing MAO

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Characteristics of soil microbial phospholipid fatty acids in artificial, black-soil mountain degraded, and natural grasslands in the source region of the Three Rivers by Lele Xie, Yushou Ma, Yanlong Wang, Yuan Ma, Xiaoli Wang, Ying Liu

“…Background The source region of the Three Rivers is a concentrated distribution area of alpine grassland. …”
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Automatic Detection and Identification of Underdense Meteors Based on YOLOv8n-BP Model by Siyuan Chen, Guobin Yang, Chunhua Jiang, Tongxin Liu, Xuhui Liu

“…Utilizing the Fresnel oscillation properties of meteor echoes, a BP network based on a Gaussian activation function is designed in this paper to enable it to detect meteor head and tail positions more accurately. …”
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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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Automated Dead Chicken Detection in Poultry Farms Using Knowledge Distillation and Vision Transformers by Ridip Khanal, Wenqin Wu, Joonwhoan Lee

“…Then, a deep learning classifier, enhanced through knowledge distillation, confirms whether the detected stationary object is indeed a chicken. EfficientNet-B0 is employed as the teacher model, while DeiT-Tiny functions as the student model, balancing high accuracy and computational efficiency. …”
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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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MSSA: multi-stage semantic-aware neural network for binary code similarity detection by Bangrui Wan, Jianjun Zhou, Ying Wang, Feng Chen, Ying Qian

“…Binary code similarity detection (BCSD) aims to identify whether a pair of binary code snippets is similar, which is widely used for tasks such as malware analysis, patch analysis, and clone detection. …”
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