Functional Elements of Entrusted Professional Activities for Dental Educators: Protocol for a Scoping Review by Noraini Abu Bakar, Nurhanis Syazni Roslan, Muhammad Ainul Haq, Yasmin Mustafa Byrnes, Muhamad Saiful Bahri Yusoff

“…ObjectiveThis paper presents a scoping review protocol aimed at systematically elucidating the extent, range, and nature of the literature on EPAs for dental educators, as evaluated in the included resources. This review seeks to answer the following research question: what are the key functional elements of EPAs for dental educators as described in the existing literature? …”
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Evaluation of a coastal acoustic buoy for cetacean detections, bearing accuracy and exclusion zone monitoring by Kaitlin J. Palmer, Sam Tabbutt, Douglas Gillespie, Jesse Turner, Paul King, Dominic Tollit, Jessica Thompson, Jason Wood

“…Field trials indicated maximum detection ranges from 4–7.3 km depending on source and ambient noise levels. …”
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Soil quality response to land use change in a tropical semi-deciduous forest zone of Ghana by Alex Amerh Agbeshie, Richard Awuah, Vicentia Amoako, Roseline Awinmah Akurugu, Nana Bonsu Ofori-Adjei, Simon Abugre, Daniel Akoto Sarfo

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SHIVA-CMB: a deep-learning-based robust cerebral microbleed segmentation tool trained on multi-source T2*GRE- and susceptibility-weighted MRI by Ami Tsuchida, Martin Goubet, Philippe Boutinaud, Iana Astafeva, Victor Nozais, Pierre-Yves Hervé, Thomas Tourdias, Stéphanie Debette, Marc Joliot

“…An increasing number of automated CMB detection methods being proposed are based on supervised deep learning (DL). …”
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Dual Function Radar and Communication Waveform Design Based on Sub-pulse Hybrid Modulation by Yu LIU, Junhao ZHANG, Xue YAO, Xianxiang YU, Guolong CUI

“…To address the low data rate issue in the design of Dual-Function Radar-Communication (DFRC) waveforms with radar detection as the primary function, this paper proposes an information modulation method for multiple sub-pulse structure waveforms called Sub-pulse Hybrid Modulation (SHM). …”
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SITE CHARACTERISTICS AND VEGETATION DRIVE THE ABUNDANCE AND DIVERSITY OF ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA FUNGI IN SELECTED LAND DEGRADATION SURVEILLANCE FRAMEWORK STUDY SITES IN KENYA by Lukelysia Nyawira Mwangi, S. Kamau, G. Cheruto, T. Vågen, D. Lelei, L. Winowiecki

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User preference–based QoS-aware service function placement in IoT-Edge cloud by Briytone Mutichiro, Younghan Kim

“…We formulate the service function placement at the edge problem. We employ user service request patterns in terms of user preference and service selection probability to model service placement. …”
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Finite mixtures of functional graphical models: Uncovering heterogeneous dependencies in high-dimensional data. by Qihai Liu, Kevin H Lee, Hyun Bin Kang

“…In this work, we propose finite mixtures of functional graphical models (MFGM), which detect the heterogeneous subgroups of the population and estimate single graph for each subgroup by considering the correlation structures. …”
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Diversity and Abundance of Breeding Birds, Habitat, and Nesting Substrate Selection in Urban Areas: A Relevant Case from the Southern Slope of the Mediterranean by Ikram Douini, Wafae Squalli, Ismail Mansouri, Mohamed Mounir, El-Mostafa Benka, Mohamed Dakki, Soumaya Hammada

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Multimodal imaging analysis and structure-function correlation in patients exposed to pentosan polysulfate sodium by Sandra Hoyek, Eleni Konstantinou, Francesco Romano, Darren Chen, Celine Chaaya, Magdalena G. Krzystolik, Daniel Hu, Rachel Huckfeldt, Demetrios G. Vavvas, Leo A. Kim, Jason Lee, Elise De, John B. Miller, Nimesh A. Patel

“…Purpose: To study the anatomic and functional retinal changes in patients exposed to pentosan polysulfate (PPS) using multimodal imaging and mesopic microperimetry. …”
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Fluorescent carbon quantum dots from Syzygium aromaticum as a selective sensor for Fe3+ and Cd2+ detection in aqueous solution by Said Ali Akbar, Muhammad Hasan, Muhammad Nazar, Ilham Zulfahmi, Edy Miswar, Muhammad Iqhrammullah, Zulkarnain Jalil

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A Surrogate Piecewise Linear Loss Function for Contextual Stochastic Linear Programs in Transport by Qi Hong, Mo Jia, Xuecheng Tian, Zhiyuan Liu, Shuaian Wang

“…We test our method with a binary route selection task—the simplest setting to isolate and assess the impact of our modeling approach on decision quality. …”
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Identification of Genomic Variants and Candidate Genes for Reproductive Traits and Growth Traits in Pishan Red Sheep Using Whole-Genome Resequencing by Maimaitijiang Muhetapa, Mengting Zhu, Aladaer Qi, Sulaiman Yiming

“…In this study, we performed whole-genome resequencing of Pishan red sheep, generating 9084.81 Gb of raw data and identifying 53,968,686 high-quality single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Through selective sweep analysis, 92 genomic regions under selection were detected, containing 90 positional candidate genes significantly associated with growth, reproduction, and immune functions. …”
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Echocardiographic Assessment of Cardiac Structural and Functional Indices in Broiler Chickens Treated with Silver Nanoparticles by Hamid Raieszadeh, Vahid Noaman, Mehrdad Yadegari

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CHILDREN’S MAP READING ABILITIES IN RELATION TO DISTANCE PERCEPTION, TRAVEL TIME AND LANDSCAPE by Aikaterini APOSTOLOPOULOU, Aikaterini KLONARI

“… Children’s cognition of distance is influenced by functional distance and estimations of travel time which increases with the presence of natura l or artificial barriers. …”
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Modeling the performance indicators of geotechnological blocks and the movement of the discovered reserves of an underground borehole leaching of uranium by D. R. Podrezov

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Coupling Enteromorpha prolifera-derived N-doped biochar with Cu-Mo2C clusters for selective CO2 hydrogenation to CO by Xueyuan Pan, Caikang Wang, Bei Li, Mingzhe Ma, Hao Sun, Guowu Zhan, Kui Wang, Mengmeng Fan, Linfei Ding, Gengtao Fu, Kang Sun, Jianchun Jiang

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Cross-Domain Communication Method Based on Load Balancing for SDNs by Xiaomao Wang, Yi Zhou, Feng Dan, Xian Yang

“…Therefore, the multi-domain control plane needs to consider more network resource states during the path selection, such as link weights, load saturation, and resource occupancy rates, in order to select the optimal paths to maximize the satisfaction of data plane requirements while maintaining network load balance. …”
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A Wind Power Density Forecasting Model Based on RF-DBO-VMD Feature Selection and BiGRU Optimized by the Attention Mechanism by Bixiong Luo, Peng Zuo, Lijun Zhu, Wei Hua

“…This paper proposes a novel WPD forecasting model based on RF-DBO-VMD feature selection and BiGRU optimized by an attention mechanism. …”
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Implementation and Effectiveness of community-based resources to increase cervical cancer screening uptake among women living in sub-Saharan Africa: A protocol for systematic revie... by Danladi B Adamu, Nicole Robertson, David Weller, Christine Campbell

“… # Methods We will systematically search selected databases and websites from 1980 to date for published and grey literature including citation and reference list tracking, on studies with a community focus carried out in sub-Saharan Africa, without language restrictions. …”
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