Asymmetric Network Based on CNN and Attention Mechanisms for Thyroid Nodule Segmentation by Zhiheng Zhang, Lin Li, Cheng Zhao, Peng Ren, Ran Zhang

“…In current clinical practice, the annotation of nodule regions primarily relies on manual operations performed by physicians. This process is not only time-consuming but also labor-intensive. …”
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Self-perceived health status, psychological resilience, and life satisfaction of healthcare workers after 2 years of COVID-19 pandemic by Yu-Ting Chu, In-Chi Hu, Chung-Po Ko, Yu-Kang Chang, Chin-Chih Ho

“…Furthermore, the psychological process of employees’ resilience can be explained by self‑perceived health.…”
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A New Contact Force Estimation Method for Heavy Robots Without Force Sensors by Combining CNN-GRU and Force Transformation by Peizhang Wu, Hui Dong, Pengfei Li, Yifei Bao, Wei Dong, Lining Sun

“…This method can achieve robot end contact force estimation without a force sensor, avoiding the cumbersome manual modeling and identification process. Compared with traditional manual modeling and identification methods, experiments show that the proposed method in this paper can approximately double the estimation accuracy of the contact force of heavy robots and reduce the time consumption by approximately half, with advantages such as convenience, efficiency, strong real-time performance, and high accuracy.…”
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The Effect of Pomegranate-Black Carrot Juice on Serum and Erythrocytes of Sedentary Subjects Exposed to Exhausting Exercise by Kursat Yusuf Aytac, Ahmet Ozkaya, Aykut Oztekin, Vedat Cinar, Taner Akbulut, Ramazan Demirdag, Veysel Comaklı, Kenan Bozbay

“…Blood samples were taken at the end of each process. Results. In the erythrocytes, while the oxidative stress condition malondialdehyde (MDA) level and carbonic anhydrase (CA) enzyme activity levels increased compared to the baseline, reduced glutathione (GSH) level, glutathione reductase (GR), and glutathione S-transferase (GST) enzyme activity levels decreased. …”
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Model Based Control System Design Using SysML, Simulink, and Computer Algebra System by Takashi Sakairi, Eldad Palachi, Chaim Cohen, Yoichi Hatsutori, Junya Shimizu, Hisashi Miyashita

“…The integration with Simulink enables users to perform systems engineering process in a SysML model, while designing continuous control algorithms and plant behavior in Simulink, and to validate the behavior by simulating the overall composition in Simulink. …”
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Understanding Ukrainian military chaplains as defenders of the human soul by Jan Grimell

“…By offering confidential pastoral care, MCs created spaces for military personnel to process and interpret their experiences, reconnect with their moral and spiritual identities, or Me's, and maintain operational effectiveness. …”
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Hydrological Object‐Based Flow Direction Model for Constructing a Lake‐Stream Topological System by Fei Zhao, Liyang Xiong, Chuzhi Zhang, Hong Wei, Kai Liu, Guoan Tang

“…Abstract The topological system of lakes and streams is the basis for deriving a multitude of patterns and processes in hydrology, geomorphology and ecology. …”
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Microstructure and dynamic mechanical properties of laser alloyed coating on 97W surface by Lijuan ZHENG, Jiwei WANG, Mengqin CHEN, Yuming FU

“…In order to improve the dynamic mechanical properties of tungsten heavy alloys, 65W10Cr5V4Co2 and 65W10Cr5V4Co2 + 2% C3N4 composite coatings were prepared on the surface of 97W matrix by laser alloying process. With the help of scanning electron microscope, separated Hopkinson press rod, and other experimental instruments, the microstructure, microhardness, and dynamic compression mechanical properties of the alloyed specimens were studied, and the Johnson-Cook ontological relationship of uncoated tungsten alloy and tungsten alloy with coating was fitted by using the method of separation of variables to explore the influence of composite coatings on the dynamic mechanical properties of 97W alloy. …”
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CMOS Single-Photon Avalanche Diode Circuits for Probabilistic Computing by William Whitehead, Wonsik Oh, Luke Theogarajan

“…This work develops a more advanced understanding of these VRSCs by introducing several VRSC design options and studying their tradeoffs as implemented in a 65-nm CMOS process. Each VRSC is composed of a SPAD and a processing circuit. …”
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Sarcopenia in Peritoneal Dialysis: Prevalence, Pathophysiology, and Management Strategies by Xiaohua Hu, Bibo Wu, Yang Yang, Liming Zhang, Cheng Xue

“…Diagnostic challenges arise from fluid overload and the PD process, affecting the accuracy of muscle mass measurements. …”
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The assessment of lacrimal film condition in patients with dry eye syndrome during therapy by F. A. Bakhritdinova, E. N. Bilalov, B. A. Oralov, S. Sh. Mirrakhimova, J. O. Safarov, O. I. Oripov, I. F. Nabiyeva

“…In both SDES groups, a significant decrease of the OSDI (Ocular Surface Disease Index) in the treatment process was observed (p ≤ 0.05), which corresponded to low intensity of SDES symptoms. …”
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Methodology for Data Integration in 3D-HBIM Digital Models. Case Study: the Holy Chalice Chapel of Valencia Cathedral by Pablo Ariel Escudero, Concepción López González, Jorge Luis García Valldecabres

“…<br />Following data acquisition, a meticulous process of segmentation and processing is undertaken. …”
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Towards a computer-assisted assessment of imitation in children with autism spectrum disorder based on a fine-grained analysis by Rujing Zhang, Jingying Chen, Xiaodi Liu, Yanling Gan, Guangshuai Wang

“…First, 25 children with ASD and 25 age-matched typically developing (TD) children between 60 and 78 months old were recruited to imitate meaningful actions on objects and nonmeaningful gestures. In this process, several quantitative indicators were applied to quantify the children’s imitation ability based on a fine-grained analysis of their visual attention and motor execution patterns. …”
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THE RESULTS OF USE OF THE INITIAL MATERIAL DURING DURUM WINTER WHEAT BREEDING IN THE KUBAN CONDITIONS by A. A. Mudrova, A. S. Yanovsky

“…The problem of its disadvantage and its diversity of use in the breeding process has been considered. The methods of work with the initial material have been described. …”
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Reversible data hiding scheme based on enhanced image smoothness by Jinghan WANG, Hui ZHU, Helin LI, Hui LI, Xiaopeng YANG

“…With the prosperity of Internet technology and the popularity of social networks, reversible data hiding technology has been widely adopted in concealed information transmission of medical and military fields with its advantages on secret information recovery.Traditional reversible data hiding schemes mainly focus on the enhancement of embedding capacity and the reduction of the distortion rate of stego image, but pay less attention to the understanding of image details with the human eyes.Thus, it is difficult to resist hidden information detection methods.To solve the above challenge, a reversible data hiding algorithm was proposed, which ensured the visual quality of the stego image in the process of data hiding through the image visual smoothness enhancement.Specifically, the original image was divided into reference area and non-reference area.The secret data was embedded through the translation of the difference, which was calculated according to the predicted pixel value and the original pixel value of the non-reference area.To guarantee the visual quality of the image, smoothing mechanism was constructed, in which a Gaussian filter was utilized as a template to filter the predicted value and to add the filter difference into the cover image without loss.The pixel value of the reference region was used as edge information for lossless restoration of the original image.The filtering coefficient in Gaussian function was exploited as the embedded key to ensure the security of secret information.Simulation results regarding a large number of classical image data sets illustrated that the visual smoothness of stego image processed by this scheme was effectively enhanced with lower distortion rate, higher embedding rate, and higher embedding and extraction efficiency.In a typical circumstance, the similarity between the generated stego image and the Gaussian filter image can reach 0.9963.The PSNR and the embedded capacity can be up to 37.346 and 0.3289 BPP, respectively.…”
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Optimization analysis of air cooled open cathode proton exchange membrane fuel cell flow channel structure by Zhijun Deng, Qingwei Wang, Xun Fang, Yaru Han, Kunxiang Liu, Chen Zhao

“…In addition, in order to further improve the power density of the fuel cell, two agent models, support vector regression and Gaussian process regression, are constructed and trained, and a genetic algorithm is used to find the parameter optimization for the bending angle, width and height of the cathode channel. …”
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Flax Harvesting Technologies for Flax Harvesting Machines by V. G. Chernikov, R. A. Rostovtsev, V. Yu. Romanenko

“…(Materials and methods) Based on system analysis, mathematical models of the technological process of flax harvesting were developed. Information models were introduced for examining the main flax harvesters. …”
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Efficient Adsorption and Utilisation of Methylene Blue by NaOH-Modified Nanocellulose–Polyacrylamide Interpenetrating Network Gels by Yanan Wang, Yanan Lu, Hao Zhong, Minghui Guo, Jingkui Li

“…This gel, which exhibits low toxicity and excellent recycling properties, serves to reduce environmental impact during the adsorption process. Furthermore, the potential exists for utilising the gel’s methylene blue-releasing (MB) properties as a fungicide for fish.…”
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Research Progress of Small-scale CO2 Two-phase Expanders by Qin Pengwei, Ma Yitai, Dang Chaobin, Liu Kai, Li Minxia, Huo Wenming, Wang Pai

“…The compression work is supplied to the compressor, increasing the flow rate during the expansion process, which requires designing a CO2 expander with an adjustable expansion ratio. …”
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Identification of Prognostic Immune-Related Genes by Integrating mRNA Expression and Methylation in Lung Adenocarcinoma by Jie Zhu, Min Wang, Daixing Hu

“…There is plenty of evidence showing that immune-related genes (IRGs) and epigenetic modifications play important roles in the biological process of cancer. The purpose of this study is to establish novel IRG prognostic markers by integrating mRNA expression and methylation in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD). …”
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