Lightweight obstacle detection for unmanned mining trucks in open-pit mines by Guangwei Liu, Jian Lei, Zhiqing Guo, Senlin Chai, Chonghui Ren

“…This design can introduce the self-attention mechanism from the three dimensions of scale, space, and task, significantly improving the detection accuracy of the model while avoiding the additional computational burden. In terms of loss function, this paper introduces a combination of SIoU loss and NWD (normalized Gaussian Wasserstein distance) loss. …”
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Motherhood role concerns in young women with breast cancer: a mixed-methods study by Qian Zhang, Wenjuan Gao, Xiaoxu Li, Dan Wang, Linping Zhang, Mengjiao Xu, Yuping Liu, Jing Han

“…However, breast cancer diagnosis and treatment often interrupt motherhood role function and trigger concerns, which have not been adequately addressed. …”
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Leaving no one behind: the impact of disability and socioeconomic status on maternal continuum of care by Ebisa Turi, Lisa Gold, Ha N.D Le, Hasheem Mannan, Eric H.Y. Lau, Julie Abimanyi-Ochom

“…Results A total of 14.0% of women had a disability of at least some difficulty in one domain of function. Among women who made their first antenatal care contact, only 35.8% completed CoC; this percentage was lower among women with disability (32.7%). …”
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The benefit of inhibitory control training for insomnia with short sleep duration phenotype: a pilot randomized trial by Haobo Zhang, Zhangwei Lv, Hanfei Chen, Zijie Tang, Xu Lei

“…Recent proposals suggested that insomnia with objective short-sleep duration (TST < 7 h) is associated with impaired inhibitory function, leading to a dysregulation of cortical inhibition, which may underlie its prevalence. …”
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On the (in)consistency of perturbation theory at finite temperature by Peter Lowdon, Owe Philipsen

“…In this work, we use lattice simulations of scalar correlation functions in massive ϕ 4 theory to analyse the extent to which these constraints affect the perturbative predictions. …”
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Psychometric evaluation of the Chinese version of the Patient Self-Advocacy Scale using classical test theory and item response theory by Jialu Cui, Jing Wang, Ailin Yue, Jiayan Cao, Zhijie Zhang, Baoxin Shi

“…The Wright map showed good matching between item difficulty and person ability. Differential item functioning (DIF) analysis revealed no significant differences across gender. …”
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A usability evaluation framework for a mobile application in supporting home-based rehabilitation for stroke patients: A qualitative study by Shih-Ying Chien

“…Conclusions Satisfaction and performance surveys and qualitative data analysis revealed that most participants described the interface design of the app as intuitive and easy to use. Although some functions presented challenges, there was still a high level of satisfaction among both groups. …”
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Psychoregulation of polymodal perception of older preschoolers with different speech characteristics by Irina Y. Murashova

“…Polymodal perception, being a basic cognitive function, is closely related to a child’s speech and mental development. …”
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Health disparities among Deaf communities from Colombia: assessing communication, technology and healthcare access by Nora Groce, Jyoti Dalal, Minerva Rivas Velarde, Laura Catalina Izquierdo Martínez, Angela Martínez-R, Jess Cuculick

“…Better self-perception of health was linked to fewer functional difficulties (all ORs &lt;1), while recent hospitalisation was associated with more functional difficulties (all ORs &gt;1).Conclusions We found that Deaf individuals generally experience poorer health outcomes compared with hearing individuals. …”
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The Effects of Progressive Velocity Robot-assisted Gait Training on Balance and Gait Abilities in Stroke Patients by Jae-ho Park

“…Background: Stroke patients commonly suffer from balance impairments that limit functional activities, such as walking difficulties. …”

Telehealth-delivered cognitive rehabilitation for people with cognitive impairment as part of the post-COVID syndrome: protocol for a randomised controlled trial as part of the CIC... by Martina Vanova, Aysha Mohamed Rafik Patel, Iona Scott, Gina Gilpin, Emily N. Manning, Charlotte Ash, Philippa Wittenberg, Jason Lim, Zoe Hoare, Rachel Evans, Nathan Bray, Christopher M. Kipps, Ciara Devine, Saliha Ahmed, Ross Dunne, Anna Koniotes, Catherine Warren, Dennis Chan, Aida Suarez-Gonzalez

“…Abstract Background Between 25 and 75% of people with persistent post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC) experience cognitive difficulties, compromising functional ability, quality of life, and activities of daily living, including work. …”
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Symptom network analysis of pregnancy stress, depressive symptoms and quality of life: a cross-sectional study of pregnant women in Xinjiang, China, 2023–2024 by Sufeila Shalayiding, Weicui Meng, Xiaoting Wang, Bahedana Sailike, Ting Jiang

“…In the network of maternal pregnancy stress and depressive symptoms, “difficulty sleeping, restlessness, or sleeping too much” had the strongest correlation with “feelings of stress stemming from ensuring the health and safety of the mother and child” (egde = 0.07), and in the network of depression and quality of life “Irritability, fidgeting, moving around to the point where others perceive individual behavior or talking slowly” had the strongest correlation with “affective functioning” (egde = -0.07); In the stress and quality of life network was the strongest correlation with “affective function” (egde = -0.05); “other factors” was the core symptom of the whole network. …”
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Microevolution of cis-regulatory elements: an example from the pair-rule segmentation gene fushi tarazu in the Drosophila melanogaster subgroup. by Mohammed Bakkali

“…This study illustrates ways in which functional assignments of sequences within cis-acting sequences can be used in the search for adaptive evolution, but also highlights difficulties in how such functional assignment and analysis can be carried out.…”
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Rasch Model: Analysing the Items Quality of Mathematics Higher-Order Thinking Skill Instrument by Muhamad Syahidul Qirom, Elah Nurlaelah

“…The result showed, based on Rasch Model analysis, 1) from 20 items, there are only ten items that can be used to measure HOTS of students in mathematics with the difficulty of 3 items being hard and seven items being easy; 2) the reliabilities of the instrument are moderate; 3) the instrument only can divide students into two groups of level ability; and 4) there is no significant differential item functioning (DIF) bias detected on the instrument.…”
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Age-related changes in brain signal variability in autism spectrum disorder by Priyanka Sigar, Nicholas Kathrein, Elijah Gragas, Lauren Kupis, Lucina Q. Uddin, Jason S. Nomi

“…Abstract Background Brain signal variability (BSV) is an important understudied aspect of brain function linked to cognitive flexibility and adaptive behavior. …”
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Tongue-tie in Newborns – a History of Changing Medical Attitudes by Tomasz Sioda, Virginia Thorley

“…The sudden surge in interest, since 1990, in the impact of tongue-tie on tongue functions during breastfeeding and during speech development has renewed the historical controversies in contemporary terms and circumstances. …”
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Research on heterogeneous resource modeling and encapsulation technology of industrial cyber range by Du Lin, Zhu Junhu, Bai Yongqiang

“…In order to solve the controlling difficulty of the diversified heterogeneous resources of industrial network cyber range, a various-resource-based meta-modeling approach is adopted to model, classify and describe the functions, performance, interfaces, forms and other attributes of the real resource in a unified way, which maps the real resource to achieve model reuse and rapid reconstruction. …”
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Transformation of Snow White to Ugly Duckling: Neurobehavioral Impact of Childhood Craniopharyngioma by Suravi Patra, Ashok K. Mahapatra

“…These children have impairment in psychosocial functioning and have a poor quality of life. Family members face a lot of difficulty in managing these difficulties. …”
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The Effect of Mental Fatigue and Gender on Working Memory Performance during Repeated Practice by Young and Older Adults by Valentina Pergher, Nele Vanbilsen, Marc Van Hulle

“…Working memory (WM) is one of the most investigated cognitive functions albeit the extent to which individual characteristics impact on performance is still unclear, especially when older adults are involved. …”
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Analytical coordinate time at the second post-Newtonian order by Vittorio De Falco, Marco Gallo

“…The parametrization of t with u permits to reduce at the minimum the presence of discontinuous trigonometric functions. This is helpful as they must be properly connected via accumulation functions to finally have a smooth coordinate time t(u). …”
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