A Cross-Stage Focused Small Object Detection Network for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Assisted Maritime Applications by Gege Ding, Jiayue Liu, Dongsheng Li, Xiaming Fu, Yucheng Zhou, Mingrui Zhang, Wantong Li, Yanjuan Wang, Chunxu Li, Xiongfei Geng

“…Then, structural pruning was applied to refine the model and enhance its capability in detecting small objects. Moreover, to conserve computational resources, a lightweight CED module was introduced to reduce parameters and conserve the computing resources of the UAV. …”
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Correlation between D-dimer and size of middle cerebral artery infarction and its relation to functional outcome by Ramy Taha Alloush, Mohamed Hamdy Ibrahim, Shahinaz Mohamed Helmy, Aya Ebrahim Marwan, Mona Ali Eissa, Adel T. Alloush, Mohamed Khaled Elewa

“…Furthermore, data from neuroimaging, clinical, laboratory, and demographic sources were examined. Additionally, the modified Rankin Scale (mRS) score was used to evaluate the predictive usefulness of plasma D-dimer on a patient's functional outcome after three months. …”
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A Lightweight YOLOv8s Algorithm for Ceiling Fan Blade Defect Detection With Optimized Pruning and Knowledge Distillation by Qinyuan Huang, Chen Fan, Yuqi Sun, Jiaxiong Huang, Wengziyang Jiang

“…While industrial ceiling fans play a vital role in maintaining efficient airflow and system stability within factory settings, surface defects on their blades that arise over time can disrupt their functionality and create safety hazards. Detecting these surface defects is crucial; however, accurate and rapid detection typically involves complex machine vision algorithms, such as You Only Look Once (YOLO) networks, that require considerable computing resources, which contradicts the industry’s preference for simpler algorithms that can be deployed using low-cost computing power. …”
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Cholinergic Mechanisms of Target Oddball Stimuli Detection: The Late “P300-Like” Event-Related Potential in Rats by A. Ahnaou, R. Biermans, W. H. I. M. Drinkenburg

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Multiepoch Observations of the Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC 3938 with the Chandra X-Ray Observatory by Siddhi Raut, Eric M. Schlegel, Thomas G. Pannuti, Brannon W. Jones, Jacobo Matallana

“…A total of 47 discrete merged sources from both epochs were detected at the ≈3 σ level or greater with the D25 radius. …”
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Ensuring Effective Functioning of Gas-Discharge Counters, Used in the Military Dose Rate Meters, in the Arctic Zone by A. V. Vasiliev, Yu. A. Glukhov, I. Y. Kulagin, K. S. Abaeva

“…At the same time, the region's rich natural resources create conditions for military conflicts and armed struggle of states for possession of these resources. …”
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Bacterial community composition and function in different habitats in Antarctic Fildes region revealed by high-throughput sequencing by Yi-He Zhang, Yi-He Zhang, Yong-Qiang Hu, Yin-Xin Zeng, Yin-Xin Zeng, Yin-Xin Zeng, Yin-Xin Zeng, Yin-Xin Zeng, Ting Hu, Wei Han, Yu Du, Zhong Hu, Shan-Shan Meng

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Combining Open-Source Machine Learning and Publicly Available Aerial Data (NAIP and NEON) to Achieve High-Resolution High-Accuracy Remote Sensing of Grass–Shrub–Tree Mosaics by Brynn Noble, Zak Ratajczak

“…NAIP underperformed in detecting evergreen trees (52–78% vs. 83–86% accuracy with NEON). …”
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Improved smart city security using a deep maxout network-based intrusion detection system with walrus optimization by Wahid Rajeh, Majed Aborokbah, Manimurugan S., Umar Albalawi, Ahamed Aljuhani, Osama Shibl Abdalghany Younes, Karthikeyan Periyasami

“…Methods This research addresses the need for robust intrusion detection systems (IDS) tailored to the unique challenges of securing public transportation within smart cities. …”
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ContDataQC: An R package and Shiny app for quality control of continuous water quality sensor data by Michael J. Pennino, Jen Stamp, Erik W. Leppo, David A. Gibbs, Britta G. Bierwagen

“…ContDataQC helps users speed up and standardize the QC process, minimize undetected data errors, and make full use of their sensor data. It has three main functions: generate QC reports to detect anomalies and erroneous data values, merge QC'd data files from different time periods, and generate time series plots and basic summary statistics. …”
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APPLICATION OF THE SPECTROMETRIC METHOD FOR CALCULATING THE DOSE RATE FOR CREATING CALIBRATION HIGHLY SENSITIVE INSTRUMENTS BASED ON SCINTILLATION DETECTION UNITS by R. V. Lukashevich, G. A. Fokov

“…The results of the calculation function G(E) for the detection unit on the basis of NaI(Tl) detector (Ø40 mm, h = 40 mm) to use it as a comparator for kerma rate in the air certification of low intenseе photon radiation fields.…”
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Molecular signature of selective microRNAs in Cyprinus carpio (Linnaeus 1758):a computational approach by Soumendu Ghosh, Manojit Bhattacharya, Avijit Kar, Basanta Kumar Das, Bidhan Chandra Patra

“…Their conserved nature in various organisms provide a good source of miRNA identification and characterization using comparative genomic approaches through the bio-computational tools. …”
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A Method for Service Function Chain Migration Based on Server Failure Prediction in Mobile Edge Computing Environment by Joelle Kabdjou, Norihiko Shinomiya

“…However, traditional hardware-based middleboxes limit flexibility and scalability, leading to the adoption of Network Function Virtualization (NFV). NFV enables the deployment of network functions as software, optimizing resource allocation and reducing costs. …”
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Short-Circuit Protection Circuit With Current Slope-to-Digital Conversion Short-Circuit Detection and Adaptive Soft Turn-Off by Seungjik Lee, Jinman Myung, Geonwoo Park, Yoseph Kim, Ockgoo Lee, Ilku Nam

“…It ensures that the drain–source voltage overshoot remains below 14.5% of the drain–source voltage while achieving a consistent response delay of approximately 750 ns for short-circuit detection and a turn-off time of approximately 500 ns for soft turn-off operation.…”
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A Fault-Tolerant Localization Method for 5G/INS Based on Variational Bayesian Strong Tracking Fusion Filtering with Multilevel Fault Detection by Zhongliang Deng, Ziyao Ma, Haiming Luo, Jilong Guo, Zidu Tian

“…Sudden and gradual faults were quickly detected through a dual-channel pre-check, and then, the fault source was identified through AIME. …”
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First Stability Characterization for a CZT Detection System in an e⁺e⁻ Collider Environment by Leonardo Abbene, Francesco Artibani, Manuele Bettelli, Antonino Buttacavoli, Fabio Principato, Andrea Zappettini, Massimiliano Bazzi, Giacomo Borghi, Mario Bragadireanu, Michael Cargnelli, Marco Carminati, Alberto Clozza, Francesco Clozza, Luca De Paolis, Raffaele Del Grande, Kamil Dulski, Laura Fabbietti, Carlo Fiorini, Carlo Guaraldo, Mihail Iliescu, Masahiko Iwasaki, Aleksander Khreptak, Simone Manti, Johann Marton, Pawel Moskal, Fabrizio Napolitano, Szymon Niedźwiecki, Hiroaki Ohnishi, Kristian Piscicchia, Yuta Sada, Francesco Sgaramella, Diana Laura Sirghi, Florin Sirghi, Magdalena Skurzok, Michal Silarski, Antonio Spallone, Kairo Toho, Lorenzo Toscano, Marlene Tüchler, Oton Vasquez Doce, Johann Zmeskal, Catalina Curceanu, Alessandro Scordo

“…Additionally, this study introduces a validated model of the response function of the detector. The relative deviations from the nominal values for the source transitions, obtained by fitting the entire spectrum with a background function and the previously introduced response function, are reported. …”
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Context-dependent PSIICOS: A novel framework for functional connectivity estimation accounting for task-related power leakage by Daria Kleeva, Alexei Ossadtchi

“…The results demonstrate that CD-PSIICOS outperforms the original PSIICOS in suppressing artifacts at the lower projection ranks, maintaining robust detection of functional networks across theta and gamma frequency bands. …”
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Wearable MXene-enhanced organic Bio-FET paper patch for glucose detection in sweat with pH and temperature calibration by Milad Farahmandpour, Zoheir Kordrostami

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BiEHFFNet: A Water Body Detection Network for SAR Images Based on Bi-Encoder and Hybrid Feature Fusion by Bin Han, Xin Huang, Feng Xue

“…Water body detection in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery plays a critical role in applications such as disaster response, water resource management, and environmental monitoring. …”
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VIRify: An integrated detection, annotation and taxonomic classification pipeline using virus-specific protein profile hidden Markov models. by Guillermo Rangel-Pineros, Alexandre Almeida, Martin Beracochea, Ekaterina Sakharova, Manja Marz, Alejandro Reyes Muñoz, Martin Hölzer, Robert D Finn

“…Overall, we demonstrate that VIRify is a novel and powerful resource that offers an enhanced capability to detect a broad range of viral contigs and taxonomically classify them.…”
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