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

“…To address this, we conducted wastewater surveillance at five sites for SARS-CoV-2 and two sites for norovirus GI, norovirus GII, influenza A virus, influenza B virus, and human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV A and RSV B). Sites were selected for contrasting functions: an office, charity centre, museum, university, and care home. …”
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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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Cyclostationary Near-field Acoustic Holography for Gearboxes by Zhu Song, Zhang Erliang, Gao Xiaoyu

“…Firstly, the set of cyclic frequencies was estimated from the noise signal; secondly, the cyclic frequency of interest was selected, and the corresponding cyclic spectral density function was calculated; thirdly, the equivalent source NAH method was developed to reconstruct the potential sound source of the gearbox. …”
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Metagenomic and phylogenetic analyses reveal gene-level selection constrained by bacterial phylogeny, surrounding oxalate metabolism in the gut microbiota by Sromona D. Mukherjee, Mangesh Suryavanshi, John Knight, Dirk Lange, Aaron W. Miller

“…The frc gene was primarily allocated to the Pseudomonodota phylum, particularly the Bradyrhizobium genus, which is a species capable of utilizing oxalate as a sole carbon and energy source. Collectively evidence provides strong support that, for oxalate metabolism, evolutionary selection occurs at the gene level, through horizontal gene transfer, rather than at the species level.IMPORTANCEA critical function of the gut microbiota is to neutralize dietary toxins, such as oxalate, which is highly prevalent in plant-based foods and is not degraded by host enzymes. …”
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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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Conception de l’artefact, conception du collectif : dynamique d’un processus de conception ouvert et continu dans une communauté de développement de logiciels libres by Flore Barcellini

“…Elicitation of needs and valorization of the new functionality take place in the use-oriented mailing-list, refinements of the functionality specifications take place in the design-oriented mailing list, whereas proper specifications take place in parallel in the two mailing-lists. …”
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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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Bio-Inspired Object Detection and Tracking in Aerial Images: Harnessing Northern Goshawk Optimization by Agnivesh Pandey, Rohit Raja, Sumit Srivastava, Krishna Kumar, Manoj Gupta, Chanyanan Somthawinpongsai, Aziz Nanthaamornphong

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Joint planning of energy storage site selection and line capacity expansion in distribution networks considering the volatility of new energy by Xu Feifei, Pan Xia, Chen Bowei, Li Xiaoshuang, Nie Zhi, Feng Miaoyong, Feng Miaoyong

“…This technology uses CHk-means clustering calculations based on actual large-scale operation data of new energy sources to generate typical operating curves. Then, it finely constructs an objective function considering power transmission in the transmission-distribution network, abandonment of new energy, line limits, and energy storage construction. …”
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Stimuli Selection Criteria for the Experiment “Visual Perception of Imitative Words in Native and Non-Native Language by the Method Lexical Decision” by M. A. Flaksman, Yu. V. Lavitskaya, Yu. G. Sedelkina, L. O. Tkacheva

“…The authors also use psycho-semantic methods such as the method of lexical decision. The main sources of stimuli selection are The Russia Etymological Dictionary by M. …”
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New Horizon in Selective Tocols Extraction from Deodorizer Distillates Under Mild Conditions by Using Deep Eutectic Solvents by Dian Maria Ulfa, Asep Bayu, Siti Irma Rahmawati, Peni Ahmadi, Masteria Yunovilsa Putra, Surachai Karnjanakom, Guoqing Guan, Abdul Mun’im

“…The basic principles of intermolecular interactions (H-bond, van der Walls bond, and misfit interaction) between DESs or their components with tocols are discussed to understand the mechanism by which DESs selectively extract tocols from the mixture. This is mainly observed to be a function of the intrinsic properties of DESs and/or tocols, which could be beneficial for tuning the appropriate DESs for extracting tocols selectively and effectively under mild operation conditions. …”
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A Susceptible Cell‐Selective Delivery (SCSD) of mRNA‐Encoded Cas13d Against Influenza Infection by Zhuanli Wu, Chengcheng Zhao, Hui Ai, Zhen Wang, Mingyue Chen, Yanli Lyu, Qi Tong, Litao Liu, Honglei Sun, Juan Pu, Ran Zhang, Xiaoxiang Hu, Jinhua Liu, Xiaowei Ma, Yipeng Sun

“…Given that the virus targets cells with specific receptors but is not limited to a single organ, a Susceptible Cell Selective Delivery (SCSD) system is developed by modifying a lipid nanoparticle with a peptide mimicking the function of the hemagglutinin of influenza virus to target sialic acid receptors. …”
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Synthesis of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers for Selective Extraction Followed by Solid Phase Determination of Metformin in Pharmaceutical Preparation and in Human Serum by Rana A. Kamal Aldeen, Yehya K. Al-Bayati

“…A solid-phase extraction (SPE) syringe packed with molecular imprinted polymers (MIPs) was employed to selectively separate and pre-concentrate the Metformin in multiple pharmaceutical drugs from several sources. …”
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Structural and functional characterization of a porcine intestinal microbial ecosystem developed in vitro by LinShu Liu, Jenni A. Firrman, Adrienne B. Narrowe, Karley K. Mahalak, Johanna M. S. Lemons, Massimo Marzorati, Cindy Duysburgh, Chloë Rotsaert, Tom Van de Wiele

“…Environmental selection and bacterial functional redundancy were considered the two key elements in microbial compositional shifts and functional preservation.…”
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YOLOLS: A Lightweight and High-Precision Power Insulator Defect Detection Network for Real-Time Edge Deployment by Qinglong Wang, Zhengyu Hu, Entuo Li, Guyu Wu, Wengang Yang, Yunjian Hu, Wen Peng, Jie Sun

“…However, deploying deep learning models on edge devices presents significant challenges due to limited computational resources and strict latency constraints. To address these issues, we propose YOLOLS, a lightweight and efficient detection model derived from YOLOv8n and optimized for real-time edge deployment. …”
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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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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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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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