Internal Control Systems and Performance of Microfinance Institutions in Uganda: A Case Study of Kabale Municipality by Nandaula, Mwebe Lilian

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CMOS-integrated organic neuromorphic imagers for high-resolution dual-modal imaging by Salihuojia Talanti, Kerui Fu, Xiaolong Zheng, Youzhi Shi, Yimei Tan, Chenxi Liu, Yanfei Liu, Ge Mu, Qun Hao, Kangkang Weng, Xin Tang

“…The fabricated imager allows in-sensor memorization (>18 min) and real-world spatiotemporal imaging with reduced computation resource, demonstrating its potential for industrial monitoring and motion detection.…”
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Design of Smart Plant Electrical Signal Monitoring System for Indoor Farming by Afif Saifuddin, Wiratmoko Ardan, Nugroho Andri Prima, Okayasu Takashi, Sutiarso Lilik

“…Precision agriculture is widely applied in indoor farming to optimize resource use and improve sustainability. Spectral technology has limitations in operation in plant health monitoring in indoor farming. …”
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Exploring the Complexities of Seafood: From Benefits to Contaminants by Bettina Taylor, Kelvin Fynn Ofori, Ali Parsaeimehr, Gulsun Akdemir Evrendilek, Tahera Attarwala, Gulnihal Ozbay

“…Seafood plays a vital role in human diets worldwide, serving as an important source of high-quality protein, omega-3 fatty acids, and essential vitamins and minerals that promote health and prevent various chronic conditions. …”
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Boundary-enhanced dual-stream network for semantic segmentation of high-resolution remote sensing images by Xinghua Li, Linglin Xie, Caifeng Wang, Jianhao Miao, Huanfeng Shen, Liangpei Zhang

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Three-Dimensional Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework-8 as Sorbent Integrated with Active Capillary Plasma Mass Spectrometry for Rapid Assessment of Low-Level Wine and Grape Quality-Rel... by Morphy C. Dumlao, Liang Jiang, Saroj Kumar Bhattacharyya, William A. Donald, Christopher C. Steel, Leigh M. Schmidtke

“…The most commonly used methods to chemically assess grape and wine quality with high sensitivity and selectivity require lengthy analysis time and can be resource intensive. Here, we developed a rapid and non-destructive method that would help in grading and decision support. …”
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Habitat and Predator Influences on the Spatial Ecology of Nine-Banded Armadillos by Robert C. Lonsinger, Ben P. Murley, Daniel T. McDonald, Christine E. Fallon, Kara M. White

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The whole set of constitutive promoters recognized by RNA polymerase RpoD holoenzyme of Escherichia coli. by Tomohiro Shimada, Yukiko Yamazaki, Kan Tanaka, Akira Ishihama

“…Concomitant with the increase in detection of promoters functioning in vivo under various stressful conditions, the variation is expanding in the consensus sequence of RpoD promoters. …”
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Lightweight deep learning system for automated bone age assessment in Chinese children: enhancing clinical efficiency and diagnostic accuracy by Pang Hai, Zhang Bin, Liu Kesheng, Li Cong, Xu Fei

“…In the first stage, the YOLOv8 algorithm precisely localizes 13 key epiphyses in hand radiographs, achieving a mean Average Precision (mAP) of 99.5% at Intersection over Union (IoU) = 0.5 and 94.0% within IoU 0.5–0.95, demonstrating robust detection performance. The second stage employs a modified EfficientNetB3 architecture for fine-grained epiphyseal grade classification, enhanced by the Rectified Adam (RAdam) optimizer and a composite loss function combining center loss and weighted cross-entropy to mitigate class imbalance. …”
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Ensemble machine learning-based pre-trained annotation approach for scRNA-seq data using gradient boosting with genetic optimizer by Osama Elnahas, Waleed M. Ead, Yushan Qiu, Jian Lu

“…The problem of single-cell RNA annotation involves assigning meaningful labels or annotations to each cell in the scRNA-seq dataset, indicating its corresponding cell type, state, or biological function. Current annotation methods are often challenged by limited source data quality, sensitivity to batch effects, and poor adaptability to uncharacterized cell types. …”
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Research on Virtual Color Restoration of Complex Building System Based on Discrete Wavelet Transform by Chunqiao Song, Xutong Wu

“…In response to these problems, this paper proposes automatic selection of sample color migration. Considering that the respective gray-scale histograms of the visual source image and the target image are approximately normal distributions, this paper takes the peak point as the mean value of the normal distribution to construct the objective function. …”
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Organics in the stratosphere: new insights from weather balloon flights conducted in France by Roland Benoit, Hazel Vernier, Jean-Paul Vernier, Lilian Joly, Nicolas Dumelié, Gisèle Krysztofiak, Loïc Vieille, Sandrine Delpeux, Cyril Crevoisier, Philippe Dagaut, Gwenaël Berthet

“…Activated and functionalized carbon fabrics were used to target chemical compounds in the gaseous and aerosol forms during three flights over France. …”
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Phase reconstruction via metasurface-integrated quantum analog operation by Qiuying Li, Minggui Liang, Shuoqing Liu, Jiawei Liu, Shizhen Chen, Shuangchun Wen, Hailu Luo

“…Besides, the consistency of entangled photon pairs in time domain makes it possible to achieve a high SNR imaging by trigger detection. The results may potentially empower the application of metasurfaces in optical chip, wave function reconstruction, and label-free biology imaging.…”
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The Propagation Properties of a Longitudinal Orbital Angular Momentum Multiplexing System in Atmospheric Turbulence by Qinghua Tian, Lei Zhu, Yongjun Wang, Qi Zhang, Bo Liu, Xiangjun Xin

“…The influences of system parameters on the average OAM mode probability densities are analyzed and discussed, such as propagation distance, strength of turbulence, sizes of finite aperture function, OAM mode numbers, and source parameters. …”
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Chi-circ_0009659 modulates goat intramuscular adipocyte differentiation through miR-3431-5p/STEAP4 axis by Xin Li, Hao Zhang, Yong Wang, Yanyan Li, Youli Wang, Yan Xiong, Wei Liu, Yaqiu Lin

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Extracellular vesicles in cancer´s communication: messages we can read and how to answer by Alena Semeradtova, Michaela Liegertova, Regina Herma, Magdalena Capkova, Chiara Brignole, Genny Del Zotto

“…This review provides a comprehensive overview of the biogenesis, composition, and functional roles of EVs in cancer, highlighting their significance in both basic research and clinical applications. …”
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Performance Analysis of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Assisted Underwater Wireless Optical Communication Systems by Qi Zhang, Dian-Wu Yue, Xian-Ying Xu

“…In the RIS-assisted UWOC systems with intensity modulation and direct detection (IM-DD), we apply the approximate distribution of the sum of Gamma-Gamma random variables to derive the probability density function (PDF) of the instantaneous received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for the first time. …”
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Retracted: Wuju Opera Cultural Creative Products and Research on Visual Image Under VR Technology by Yahong Wang, Xiaobing Hu

“…The VR-Platform platform is used to establish a virtual three-dimensional landscape planning scene, and the roaming function can be realized by making cameras and adding collision detection. …”
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Systematic Analysis for fNIRS Measurement Combining Sensitivity and SNR Based on the Colin27 Brain Template by Yalin Wang, Wei Chen

“…Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is widely used in brain science. …”
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Unified Weak Lensing Constraints on the Evolution of the Mass–X-Ray Luminosity Relation for Galaxy Clusters by I. Pederneiras, A. Finoguenov, E. Cypriano, J. Comparat, K. Kiiveri, L. van Waerbeke, R. Dupke

“…We also analyzed the impact of the selection function on calibration, finding that its full modeling is essential.…”
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