Healthcare trajectories of aging individuals during their last year of life: application of process mining methods to administrative health databases by Delphine Bosson-Rieutort, Alexandra Langford-Avelar, Juliette Duc, Benjamin Dalmas

“…Conclusion Despite some limitations related to data and visual limitations, process mining seems to be a method that is both relevant and simple to implement. …”
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Distributed Control Method for Improving Renewable Energy Penetration Rate and Maintaining Low-Bus-Voltage Fluctuation in DC Local Grid by Su-Seong Park, Rae-Young Kim, Dong-Geun Lee

“…The proposed method designs droop gains for state of charge (SoC)-based droop control considering line impedance and other parameters in the DC local grid, thereby facilitating precise SoC equalization among different energy storage systems (ESS) considering the dc bus voltage fluctuation and power sharing of each component. …”
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Pain assessment on a numerical scale with uncertainty intervals: a proof-of-concept simulation study by Markus Huber, Ulrike Stamer, Ulrike Stamer

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The Exoplanet Edge: Planets Do Not Induce Observable Transit Timing Variations with a Dominant Transit Timing Variation Period Faster than Half Their Orbital Period by Daniel A. Yahalomi, David Kipping, Eric Agol, David Nesvorný

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Beyond Handcrafted Features: A Deep Learning Framework for Optical Flow and SLAM by Kamran Kazi, Arbab Nighat Kalhoro, Farida Memon, Azam Rafique Memon, Muddesar Iqbal

“…Traditional SLAM methods rely on handcrafted features, which are susceptible to viewpoint changes, occlusions, and illumination variations. …”
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Reduced-Reference Image Quality Assessment based on saliency region extraction by Farzin Yaghmaee, Ehsanhosein Kalatehjari

“…Experimental results indicate that the proposed method performs in accordance with the human visual perception and uses few reference data (maximum 90 values).…”
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Revisiting the Interval and Fuzzy TOPSIS Methods: Is Euclidean Distance a Suitable Tool to Measure the Differences between Fuzzy Numbers? by Hosein Arman, Abdollah Hadi-Vencheh, Reza Kiani Mavi, Mehdi Khodadadipour, Ali Jamshidi

“…Euclidean distance (ED) calculates the distance between n-coordinate points that n equals the dimension of the space these points are located. …”
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Automated underwater plectropomus leopardus phenotype measurement through cylinder by Mengran Liu, Yaocheng Huang, Guojun Xu, Junwei Zhou, Cun Wei, Jingjie Hu, Zhenmin Bao

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Comparative analysis of the effectiveness of BPG, AGU, AVIF and HEIF compression methods for medical images corrupted by noise of two types by Viktoriia Naumenko, Volodymyr Lukin, Vitalii Naumenko, Nadiia Kozhemiakina, Mykyta Solodovnyk

“…The subject matter is lossy compression using the BPG, AGU, AVIF, and HEIF encoders for medical images with different levels of visual complexity corrupted by additive Gaussian and Poisson noise. …”
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Investigating textile wastewater treatment by electro-Fenton method with Fe-MIL-88(A) catalyst composited with graphene oxide by Farzane Esmaili, Hasti Hasheminejad, Kimia Zarean Mousaabadi

“…In each experiment, the value of the current density and the distance of the electrodes were considered equal to 9 Am−2 and 1 cm, respectively. The response surface method (RSM) was utilized to optimize parameters such as pH, time, the quantity of MIL-88A(Fe)/rGO composite, and the concentration of Na2S2O8 oxidant. …”
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Presenting a Model for Color Effectiveness in Marketing Using Consumer Neuroscience: A Sequential Exploratory Mixed-Methods Approach by Allahyar Ghasemi, Ahmad Rahchamani, Hamidreza Saeednia

“…The applied sampling methods were non-probability purposive (judgmental) and theoretical sampling. …”
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TREATMENT OF DEGENERATIVE-DYSTROPHIC DISEASES OF MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM WITH PLATELET-RICH PLASMA, OBTAINED BY DIFFERENT METHODS AND COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF THEIR EFFECTS by Алексей Александрович Панов, Алексей Владимирович Школьников

“…Objective – PRP obtaining for the treatment of degenerative-dystrophic changes of the musculoskeletal system, assessment of pain dynamics in the treatment of myofascial diseases and osteoarthrosis. Methods. Estimation the number of platelets in the enriched autoplasma, using two basic enrichment methods. …”
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Stepped Fault Line Selection Method Based on Spectral Kurtosis and Relative Energy Entropy of Small Current to Ground System by Xiaowei Wang, Xiangxiang Wei, Jie Gao, Yaxiao Hou, Yanfang Wei

“…This paper proposes a stepped selection method based on spectral kurtosis relative energy entropy. …”
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GLEM: a global–local enhancement method for fine-grained image recognition with attention erasure and multi-view cropping by Chenglong Zhou, Damin Zhang, Qing He, MingFang Li, MingRong Li, Xiaobo Zhou

“…Due to the highly similar features between categories in fine-grained image recognition tasks, the model requires more substantial discriminative capability. Existing methods mainly focus on learning prominent visual patterns, often neglecting other potential features, which makes it difficult for the model to fully distinguish subtle differences in both global and local features of objects, thus limiting the performance of FGIR tasks. …”
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Efficacy of Papain Gel—A Smart Alternative to Conventional Methods of Carious Dentin Removal: An <i>In Vitro</i> Study by Paras Angrish, Ashish Kamboj, Malay Mitra, Rahul Kaul, Dempsy MM Chengappa, Aarti Sharma

“…Aim: The study was aimed at finding out the efficacy of the caries removal ability of a chemomechanical agent (papain gel) and comparing it with that of conventional slow-speed rotary carbide burs and mechanical hand excavators in deciduous extracted molars. Materials and methods: A total of 30 extracted teeth that were used for the present study were distributed equally among two major categories (15 each) by simple random sampling technique. …”
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Methods for assessing the condition of the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses in the phased conservative treatment of rhinosinusitis patients with drugs of plant origin by Yu. V. Nazarochkin, O. V. Nazarochkina

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Lightning Damage Detection Method Using Autoencoder: A Case Study on Wind Turbines with Different Blade Damage Patterns by Takuto Matsui, Kazuki Matsuoka, Kazuo Yamamoto

“…In this study, an approach was proposed: a SCADA data analysis method using an autoencoder to assess the soundness of wind turbines without visual inspection. …”
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How do clinicians use, experience, and value applications of outcome information in daily care? A mixed-methods study by Yara van Kooij, Nina Loos, Grada Arends, Kasia Tabeau, Harm Slijper, Joris Veltkamp, Ruud Selles, Robbert Wouters

“…The applications, bundled in dashboards, include visual representations of patient information, individual treatment goals, screening tools for mental health, pain, and physical function, individual predictions of recovery and treatment effect, visuals of treatment outcome information, and identification of extreme values that fall outside the expected values. …”
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A Semi-Automated RGB-Based Method for Wildlife Crop Damage Detection Using QGIS-Integrated UAV Workflow by Sebastian Banaszek, Michał Szota

“…A dedicated QGIS plugin enables drone data analysts (Drone Data Analysts—DDAs) to adjust index thresholds, based on visual interpretation, interactively. The method was validated on a 50-hectare maize field, where 7 hectares of damage (15% of the area) were identified. …”
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A mixed methods evaluation of a peer mentoring programme (PASS) for international postgraduate students; Mentee and Mentor perspectives by Menna Brown, Nicole Chartier

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