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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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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Surface Defect Detection for Small Samples of Particleboard Based on Improved Proximal Policy Optimization by Haifei Xia, Haiyan Zhou, Mingao Zhang, Qingyi Zhang, Chenlong Fan, Yutu Yang, Shuang Xi, Ying Liu

“…The method integrates the variable action space and the composite reward function and achieves the balanced optimization of different types of defect detection performance by adjusting the scaling and translation amplitude of the detection region. …”
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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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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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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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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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A Lightweight Network for UAV Multi-Scale Feature Fusion-Based Object Detection by Sheng Deng, Yaping Wan

“…To tackle the issues of small target sizes, missed detections, and false alarms in aerial drone imagery, alongside the constraints posed by limited hardware resources during model deployment, a streamlined object detection approach is proposed to enhance the performance of YOLOv8s. …”
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A lightweight UAV target detection algorithm based on improved YOLOv8s model by Fubao Ma, Ran Zhang, Bowen Zhu, Xirui Yang

“…Furthermore, the original loss function is replaced with SIoU to enhance detection accuracy. …”
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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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Research on underwater disease target detection method of inland waterway based on deep learning by Tao Yu, Yu Xie, Jinsong Luo, Wei Zhu, Jie Liu

“…Abstract Aiming at the problems of low detection accuracy and poor generalization ability of underwater disease targets in inland waterways, an underwater disease target detection algorithm for inland waterways based on improved YOLOv5 is designed, which is denoted as YOLOv5-GBCE. …”
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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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Enhancing Drone Detection via Transformer Neural Network and Positive–Negative Momentum Optimizers by Pavel Lyakhov, Denis Butusov, Vadim Pismennyy, Ruslan Abdulkadirov, Nikolay Nagornov, Valerii Ostrovskii, Diana Kalita

“…The developed algorithms for training NN architectures improved the accuracy of drone detection by achieving the global extremum of the loss function in fewer epochs using positive–negative pulse-based optimization algorithms. …”
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STAR-YOLO: A High-Accuracy and Ultra-Lightweight Method for Brain Tumor Detection by Liyan Sun, Linxuan Zheng, Zhiguo Xiao, Yi Xin, Linqing Jiang

“…STAR-YOLO accomplishes a lightweight design while guaranteeing high detection accuracy, prominently demonstrating its immense potential in the diagnosis of clinical brain tumors, particularly in circumstances with constrained computing resources.…”
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Effects of riparian buffer width on activity and detection of common bats in the southern Appalachian Mountains by Joy M. O'Keefe, Susan C. Loeb, Patrick D. Gerard, J. Drew Lanham

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DETECTIVE STORY: TO THE PROBLEM OF VARIABILITY OF THE MAIN EVENT AND CHARACTERS (BY THE CASE OF A. SARAKHOV’S STORIES) by I. A. KAZHAROVA

“…The functionality of stereotypes of perception and «memory of the genre» is briefly presented, which manifests itself in the history of understanding a domestic detective story as a constant appeal to the foreign sources of the genre. …”
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Cellulose-Based Colorimetric Test Strips for SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Detection by Mariana P. Sousa, Ana Cláudia Pereira, Bárbara Correia, Anália do Carmo, Ana Miguel Matos, Maria Teresa Cruz, Felismina T. C. Moreira

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Study on Point Spread Function of Perovskite Fast Neutron Scintillation Imaging Screen by FENG Zhelin1, LIU Linyue2, , SONG Yan2, DUAN Baojun2, BAO Zizhen3, OUYANG Xiaoping2

“…Additionally, the limited availability of experimental machines for fast neutron imaging and the high cost of imaging systems hinders the efficient detection of large number of materials by using common fast neutron sources. …”