Assessment of the capacity of health facilities in preventing and managing non-communicable diseases in selected regions of Somaliland by Opeolu O. Ojo, Omar O Hersi, Ayodele A Falobi, Nura Ali, Lawrence Tan, Yusuf A. Ali

“…The survey focused on assessing the capacity of selected hospitals in detecting and managing NCDs by collecting data on the availability of health workers, equipment, screening and management services, medications, and laboratory tests. …”
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Characteristics and Source-specific Health Risks of Ambient PM2.5-bound PAHs in an Urban City of Northern Taiwan by Yu-Chieh Ting, Chun-Hung Ku, Yu-Xuan Zou, Kai-Hsien Chi, Jhy-Charm Soo, Chin-Yu Hsu, Yu-Cheng Chen

“…We utilized a positive matrix factorization (PMF) model, diagnostic ratios, and potential source contribution function (PSCF) to identify the origins of PM2.5-bound PAHs. …”
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Data‐Driven Materials Research and Development for Functional Coatings by Kai Xu, Xuelian Xiao, Linjing Wang, Ming Lou, Fangming Wang, Changheng Li, Hui Ren, Xue Wang, Keke Chang

“…In this paper, recent advances in data‐driven materials research and development (R&D) for functional coatings, highlighting the importance, data sources, working processes, and applications of this paradigm are summarized. …”
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Enhancing Antioxidant Benefits of Kombucha Through Optimized Glucuronic Acid by Selected Symbiotic Fermentation Culture by Yu-Chieh Chou, Hui-Wen Lin, Chung-Yi Wang, Chen-Che Hsieh, Shella Permatasari Santoso, Shin-Ping Lin, Kuan-Chen Cheng

“…To optimize the glucuronic acid content in kombucha, various strain combinations by selecting fermented sources were accomplished. According to the experimental results, kombucha produced through co-fermentation with <i>Pichia anomala</i> and <i>Komagataeibacter hansenii</i>, with glucose-added black tea as the carbon source, exhibited the highest glucuronic acid production. …”
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Are Your kidneys ok? Detect early to protect kidney health by Joseph A. Vassalotti, Anna Francis, Augusto Cesar Soares Dos Santos Jr, Ricardo Correa-Rotter, Dina Abdellatif, Li-Li Hsiao, Stefanos Roumeliotis, Agnes Haris, Latha A. Kumaraswami, Siu-Fai Lui, Alessandro Balducci, Vassilios Liakopoulos

“…using serum creatinine to estimate kidney function and urine albumin to assess for kidney and endothelial damage. …”
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Randomization-Driven Hybrid Deep Learning for Diabetic Retinopathy Detection by A. M. Mutawa, G. R. Hemalakshmi, N. B. Prakash, M. Murugappan

“…This study pioneers an innovative framework, using Multi-Scale Discriminative Robust Local Binary Pattern (MS-DRLBP) features, combined with a hybrid Convolutional Neural Network-Radial Basis Function (CNN-RBF) classifier, to enhance the detection of DR. …”
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Performance Analysis of Diabetes Detection Using Machine Learning Classifiers by Hung Huynh, Liu Hui, Ngoc Han Nguyen, Ruixuan Qiao

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First Principles Calculation Guided Material Selection of Poly(propylenemonothiocarbonate) for High-Performance Triboelectric Nanogenerators by Muhammad Naeem Shah, Jiaqi Lu, Dinku Hazarika, Munir Ullah Khan, Srinivasa Rao Pathipati, Kaihang Zhang, Liangquan Xu, Jie Li, Xiaozhi Wang, Shurong Dong, Jikui Luo

“…Density functional theory analysis revealed that PPMNTC exhibits superior electron-donating capabilities due to the existence of high contents of thiol and methoxy groups. …”
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Are Your Kidneys Ok? Detect Early to Protect Kidney Health by Joseph A. Vassalotti, Anna Francis, Augusto Cesar Soares Dos Santos Jr, Ricardo Correa-Rotter, Dina Abdellatif, Li-Li Hsiao, Stefanos Roumeliotis, Agnes Haris, Latha A. Kumaraswami, Siu-Fai Lui, Alessandro Balducci, Vassilios Liakopoulos

“…using serum creatinine to estimate kidney function and urine albumin to assess for kidney and endothelial damage. …”
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Toward global rooftop PV detection with Deep Active Learning by Matthias Zech, Hendrik-Pieter Tetens, Joseph Ranalli

“…It is crucial to know the location of rooftop PV systems to monitor the regional progress toward sustainable societies and to ensure the integration of decentralized energy resources into the electricity grid. However, locations of PV are often unknown, which is why a large number of studies have proposed variants of Deep Learning to detect PV panels in remote sensing data using supervised Deep Learning. …”
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Are your kidneys ok? Detect early to protect kidney health by Joseph A. Vassalotti, Anna Francis, Augusto Cesar Soares Dos Santos Jr, Ricardo Correa-Rotter, Dina Abdellatif, Li-Li Hsiao, Stefanos Roumeliotis, Agnes Haris, Latha A. Kumaraswami, Siu-Fai Lui, Alessandro Balducci, Vassilios Liakopoulos

“…using serum creatinine to estimate kidney function and urine albumin to assess for kidney and endothelial damage. …”
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Lightweight Detection Algorithm for Breast-Mass Features in Ultrasound Images by Taojuan Li, Wen Liu, Mingxian Song, Zheng Gu, Ling Hai

“…Thus, the proposed model effectively balances detection performance and lightweight design, making it well-suited for real-time applications on resource-constrained computing devices.…”
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A lightweight personnel detection method for underground coal mines by Shuai WANG, Wei YANG, Yuxiang LI, Jiaqi WU, Wei YANG

“…Introduce SIoU instead of the original loss function to accelerate model convergence. Finally, the introduction of the Ghost module to optimize the backbone network can reduce the computational and parametric quantities of the model without losing the model performance, improve the detection speed, and make the model easier to be deployed on resource-constrained devices. …”
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Are Your Kidneys Ok? Detect Early to Protect Kidney Health by Joseph A. Vassalotti, Anna Francis, Augusto Cesar Soares dos Santos, Jr., Ricardo Correa-Rotter, Dina Abdellatif, Li-Li Hsiao, Stefanos Roumeliotis, Agnes Haris, Latha A. Kumaraswami, Siu-Fai Lui, Alessandro Balducci, Vassilios Liakopoulos

“…using serum creatinine to estimate kidney function and urine albumin to assess for kidney and endothelial damage. …”
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Scientific rationale of ingredients choice for functional fish pastes by A. S. Kupriy, N. I. Dunchenko, E. S. Voloshina

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A Benchmark Review of YOLO Algorithm Developments for Object Detection by Zhengmao Hua, Kaviya Aranganadin, Cheng-Cheng Yeh, Xinhe Hai, Chen-Yun Huang, Tsan-Chuen Leung, Hua-Yi Hsu, Yung-Chiang Lan, Ming-Chieh Lin

“…You Only Look Once (YOLO) has established itself as a prominent object detection framework due to its excellent balance between speed and accuracy. …”
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A Lightweight Citrus Object Detection Method in Complex Environments by Qiurong Lv, Fuchun Sun, Yuechao Bian, Haorong Wu, Xiaoxiao Li, Xin Li, Jie Zhou

“…Aiming at the limitations of current citrus detection methods in complex orchard environments, especially the problems of poor model adaptability and high computational complexity under different lighting, multiple occlusions, and dense fruit conditions, this study proposes an improved citrus detection model, YOLO-PBGM, based on You Only Look Once v7 (YOLOv7). …”
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Lightweight detection algorithms for small targets on unmanned mining trucks by Shuoqi CHENG, Yilihamu·YAERMAIMAITI, Lirong XIE, Xiyu LI, Ying MA

“…Accurate target category detection is a prerequisite for obstacle avoidance decisions, and model lightweighting facilitates deployment in resource-limited conditions. …”
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Radar Detection Simulation by Digital Twins of Target and Antenna System by A. S. Grigoriev, A. A. Kazantsev, A. M. Terentyev, B. S. Stavtsev

“…The application of digital twin technology allows the focus of development to be shifted to the earliest stages, thereby significantly reducing not only potential risks, but also saving the required time and material resources. Classical statistical approaches to evaluating the detection capabilities of radar systems fail to provide a complete dynamic picture due to the large number of varying parameters.Aim. …”
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Peculiarities of the Functioning of the Taboo Lexicon in the Modern Western Cinematography by S. A. Pankratova

“…The implementation presupposes analysis of taboo lexical units, revealing their functioning features as regards to acceptable implementation of the taboo and to depict the possible ways of optimization of its use in modern cinema.Methodology and sources. …”
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