Effect of Cutting Phenological Stage, Chemical Treatments, and Substrate on Rooting Softwood Cuttings of Tree Peony by Dongli Li, Fangyun Cheng, Xiwen Tao, Yuan Zhong

“…Tree peony is well-known for its ornamental value, medicine function, oil, and edible use. However, the difficulty in propagating tree peony impedes its cultivation and industrial advancement. …”
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Randomized clinical study of electrical impedance tomography-guided chest physiotherapy in difficult-to-wean patients: study protocol by Hao Wang, Jianing Xi, Hongying Jiang

“…Background Diaphragm dysfunction and inadequate chest wall and respiratory muscle function are common in critically ill patients who face difficulties in weaning from mechanical ventilation (MV). …”
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Analyses exploratoires dendrochronologique et dendro-isotopique des ripisylves de la rivière Milo (Guinée) by Soumaïla Condé, Thierry Otto, Issam Moussa, Luc Lambs, Dov Corenblit

“…These data are nevertheless essential for measuring the impact of environmental changes on the functioning and sustainability of riparian forests. …”
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Module Partition of Mechatronic Products Based on Core Part Hierarchical Clustering and Non-Core Part Association Analysis by Shuai Wang, Yi-Fei Song, Guang-Yu Zou, Jia-Xiang Man

“…Production using modular architecture can not only shorten the product development cycle and improve the efficiency of product development, but also facilitate the upgrading of a product’s main functions and the recycling of materials. However, mechatronic products are plagued by various problems, such as greater difficulty in development and longer product development cycles due to their large numbers of parts with intricate internal relationships. …”
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Effects of a 12-week intrinsic foot muscle strengthening training (STIFF) on gait in older adults: a parallel randomized controlled trial protocol by Lydia Willemse, Eveline J. M. Wouters, Martijn F. Pisters, Benedicte Vanwanseele

“…Methods For this assessor-blinded RCT, older adults (> 65 years) are recruited who are involved in a group-based functional exercise program. Eligibility criteria include: being able to ambulate 10 m barefoot without using a walking aid and reporting to have either fear of falling or experienced a fall in the previous 12 months or have difficulties with mobility, gait, or balance in daily life. …”
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Presence of symptoms after COVID-19 infection may explain the onset of female urinary incontinence: a cross-sectional study by Ana Jéssica dos Santos Sousa, Ana Paula Rodrigues Rocha, Jordana Barbosa-Silva, Patrícia Driusso

“… Introduction: Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) is a multisystem disease that may affect lower urinary tract function. Objective: To determine if symptoms after COVID-19 infection may explain the onset of urinary incontinence (UI) in female survivors; to investigate the impacts of symptoms on the quality of life of incontinent women. …”
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SDMSEAF-YOLOv8: a framework to significantly improve the detection performance of unmanned aerial vehicle images by Linxuan Li, Xiaoyu Liu, Xuan Chen, Fengjuan Yin, Bin Chen, Yufeng Wang, Fanbin Meng

“…The conventional non-maximum suppression algorithm is improved, so as to reduce the problem of missed detections under a densely occluded scene by setting the attenuation function to adjust the confidence of the treated box based on the overlap between it and the highest-scoring box. …”
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A TD3-Based Reinforcement Learning Algorithm With Curriculum Learning for Adaptive Yaw Control in All-Wheel-Drive Electric Vehicles by Reza Jafari, Pouria Sarhadi, Amin Paykani, Shady S. Refaat, Pedram Asef

“…This work proposes a model-free RL-based controller with curriculum learning to train the strategy, where the model learns simpler tasks first, progressively increasing difficulty to enhance stability and convergence. A detailed reward function and well-structured actor-critic networks are devised, and the proposed algorithm is compared with a conventional model-based linear quadratic regulator (LQR) approach. …”
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MCL-SWT: Mirror Contrastive Learning with Sliding Window Transformer for Subject-Independent EEG Recognition by Qi Mao, Hongke Zhu, Wenyao Yan, Yu Zhao, Xinhong Hei, Jing Luo

“…Inspired by left/right hand motor imagery inducing event-related desynchronization (ERD) in the contralateral sensorimotor cortex, we develop a mirror contrastive loss function. It segregates feature spaces of EEG signals from contralateral ERD locations while curtailing variability in signals sharing similar ERD locations. …”
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Detection of Parabolic Antennas in Satellite Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar Images Using Component Prior and Improved-YOLOv8 Network in Terahertz Regime by Liuxiao Yang, Hongqiang Wang, Yang Zeng, Wei Liu, Ruijun Wang, Bin Deng

“…In order to tackle the challenges associated with component identification in satellite ISAR imagery, this study employs the Improved-YOLOv8 model, which was developed by incorporating the YOLOv8 algorithm, an adaptive detection head known as the Dynamic head (Dyhead) that utilizes an attention mechanism, and a regression box loss function called Wise Intersection over Union (WIoU), which addresses the issue of varying sample difficulty. …”
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Management of total penile amputation following circumcision in a resource-limited setting: A case report by Suleiman Ayalew, Michael A. Negussie, Helina K. Teklehaimanot, Nahom Getachew Mulatu, Yishak Abdulsemed, Mesfin Tesera Wassie

“…Blood tests showed anemia (hemoglobin 8.2 g/dL) but normal renal function. The urinalysis was normal. An abdominal ultrasound (US) ruled out hydronephrosis. …”
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Combined cardiac surgery in a Marfan syndrome patient with severe scoliosis via lower hemisternotomy: a case report by Shun-Ichiro Sakamoto, Ryosuke Amitani, Yusuke Motoji, Takako Yamaguchi, Atsushi Hiromoto, Kenji Suzuki, Yosuke Ishii

“…Echocardiography revealed severe regurgitation with reduced left ventricular ejection function (32%) and massive left ventricular diastolic dimension (88 mm). …”
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Beam Dynamics Study on Intense Beam Linac LEBT by WANG Changqiang, YANG Jinghe, YANG Yu, YAN Jie, FAN Yuxuan, LYU Yuepeng, LI Liang, WANG Xiulong, WANG Guobao

“…The beam chopper is a longitudinal excision of the beam to achieve a different pulse time structure. Finally, the function of the double beam scraper is to control the beam emittance and scrape off the , impurity particles. …”

Multi-Level Spectral Attention Network for Hyperspectral BRDF Reconstruction from Multi-Angle Multi-Spectral Images by Liyao Song, Haiwei Li

“…Therefore, it is necessary to establish a hyperspectral bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) model suitable for the area of imaging. …”
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AdaptRehab VR: Development of an Immersive Virtual Reality System for Upper Limb Stroke Rehabilitation Designed for Low- and Middle-Income Countries Using a Participatory Co-Creati... by Chala Diriba Kenea, Teklu Gemechu Abessa, Dheeraj Lamba, Bruno Bonnechère

“…Rehabilitation plays a critical role in restoring function and independence, but it faces challenges such as low engagement, limited customization, difficulty tracking progress, and accessibility barriers, particularly in LMICs. …”
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Interlaminar Endoscopic Treatment of Adjacent Segment Disease After Posterior Instrumented Lumbar Fusion by Liang M, Shao X, Zhu R, Li K, Shi L, Wang Y

“…Regarding recovery of lower limb function, the results of both groups were similar, according to the modified MacNab criteria, the good-to-excellent rate was 81.82% in R-ILT group and 86.66% in P-ILT group. …”
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Comparison of Primary Dysmenorrhea, Anxiety, Depression, Sexual Experience, and Quality of Life in Women Receiving a Copper-containing and Levonorgestrel-releasing Intrauterine Dev... by Rukiye Türk Delibalta, Tuğçe Sönmez, Hasan Çılgın, Füsun Terzioğlu

“…The post-test scores of the SF 36-quality of life scale of the TCu380A-IUD group were statistically significantly higher than those of the LNG-IUD group in physical function, physical and emotional role difficulty (p<0.05). …”
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More than just a broken limb: Unmasking CRPS in Pakistan by Zahra Aamir Khan

“…This leads to a further decline in limb function, muscle wasting, difficulty in performing everyday activities, and eventually, social isolation. …”
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Turkish validity and reliability of children’s environmental health knowledge and skills questionnaires for nursing students by Hatice Gürgen Şimşek, Şafak Dağhan

“…The validity of the scales was analysed via “Rasch measurement theory”, and whether the necessary preconditions for the analysis (the item function difference, local independence, reliability, and unidimensionality) were met was checked. …”
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Machine learning enhanced formation pressure prediction using integrated well logging and mud logging by Jiwen Liang, Ming Luo, Wentuo Li, Bo Sun, Chuanliang Yan, Zhongying Han, Yuanfang Cheng

“…Abstract The difficulty of accurately predicting abnormally high-pressure formation pressure is one of the critical challenges in the field of petroleum engineering. …”
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