Experiences and perceptions of students in occupational therapy regarding the use of desktop virtual environments-based simulation: a qualitative study by Zhizhuo Wang, Peiyun Wu, Shaoyun Shi, Weiwei Zhang, Cheng Lin

“…The interviewees were randomly selected via computer-generated randomization from a pool of 53 invited students studying occupational therapy. …”
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Optimizing Plant Oil-Derived Lubricants: A Sustainable Alternative to Petroleum-Based Lubricants Using Integer Programming by Lutfu S. Sua, Figen Balo

“…An integer programming model was then employed to optimize the selection process. The integer programming method extends previous research by providing a structured, computationally efficient approach that ensures a single optimal solution rather than a ranked list of potential candidates. …”
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Dynamic analysis of water-rich heavy haul railway tunnels considering basement defects evolution and train effects by Zhu Peng, Chenghua Shi, Zixu Zhu, Lei Xu, Cong Liu, Mingfeng Lei

“…Firstly, the study reveals the four-stage evolution process of initial defects in the tunnel basement under complex environmental conditions. …”
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Research on Lightweight Method of Insulator Target Detection Based on Improved SSD by Bing Zeng, Yu Zhou, Dilin He, Zhihao Zhou, Shitao Hao, Kexin Yi, Zhilong Li, Wenhua Zhang, Yunmin Xie

“…Aiming at the problems of a large volume, slow processing speed, and difficult deployment in the edge terminal, this paper proposes a lightweight insulator detection algorithm based on an improved SSD. …”
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Bridging Hydrological Ensemble Simulation and Learning Using Deep Neural Operators by Alexander Y. Sun, Peishi Jiang, Pin Shuai, Xingyuan Chen

“…Abstract Ensemble‐based simulation and learning (ESnL) has long been used in hydrology for parameter inference, but computational demands of process‐based ESnL can be quite high. …”
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Implications of reduced-complexity aerosol thermodynamics on organic aerosol mass concentration and composition over North America by C. Serrano Damha, K. Gorkowski, A. Zuend

“…Current chemical transport models (CTMs) neglect this process. We have implemented the Binary Activity Thermodynamics model coupled to a volatility basis set partitioning scheme in the GEOS-Chem CTM, providing an efficient reduced-complexity OA model that predicts relative-humidity-dependent mixing and partitioning thermodynamics, while limiting the impact on computational efficiency. …”
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Transparency of social-economic determinants in developing the efficient public healthcare system by Svitlana Kolomiiets, Anna Buriak, Maksym Fritsak

“…To conduct the public healthcare bibliometric analysis, we applied the VOSviewer computer software. It engages wide functional possibilities of smart text processing, which generates and visualises joint networks of the most significant terms and notions in a certain branch. …”
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Semantic-Aware Remote Sensing Change Detection with Multi-Scale Cross-Attention by Xingjian Zheng, Xin Lin, Linbo Qing, Xianfeng Ou

“…Second, old-school methods usually simply rely on differences and computation at the pixel level without giving enough attention to the information at the semantic level. …”
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Insights into the linkages of forest structure dynamics with ecosystem services by T. V. Ramachandra, Paras Negi, Tulika Mondal, Syed Ashfaq Ahmed

“…Likely land uses predicated through the CA-Markov-based Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) highlight a decline in evergreen forest cover of 10.98%. …”
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Complex Large-Deformation Multimodality Image Registration Network for Image-Guided Radiotherapy of Cervical Cancer by Ping Jiang, Sijia Wu, Wenjian Qin, Yaoqin Xie

“…The model uses wavelet transform to extract different components of the image and performs fusion and enhancement processing as the input to the model. The model performs multiple registrations from local to global regions. …”
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Prefabricated Urban Underground Utility Tunnels: A Case Study on Mechanical Behaviour with Strain Monitoring and Numerical Simulation by Yonggang Xiao, Jubing Zhang, Jie Cao, Changhong Li

“…Combined with the construction process of the UUTs, a three-dimensional numerical model was established by COMSOL, where the build-in bolt assembly was used to simulate the longitudinal connection of the tunnel. …”
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Leveraging autoencoder models and data augmentation to uncover transcriptomic diversity of gingival keratinocytes in single cell analysis by Pradeep Kumar Yadalam, Prabhu Manickam Natarajan, Carlos M. Ardila

“…Single-cell RNA sequencing data from GSE266897 were processed using the Scanpy library, with quality control implemented to filter cells based on predefined metrics. …”
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Lesion classification and diabetic retinopathy grading by integrating softmax and pooling operators into vision transformer by Chong Liu, Weiguang Wang, Jian Lian, Wanzhen Jiao

“…However, the human visual system-based screening process is labor-intensive, time-consuming, and error-prone. …”
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Flare-IBD: development and validation of a questionnaire based on patients’ messages on an internet forum for early detection of flare in inflammatory bowel disease: study protocol... by Francis Guillemin, Jonathan Epstein, Anne Buisson, Laetitia Ricci, Corinne Devos, Yannick Toussaint

“…This study aimed to use an innovative methodology to collect messages posted by patients in an internet forum for developing and validating a PRO measuring flare in IBD.Methods and analysis The design involves (1) computer engineering sciences for scraping extraction of messages posted in an internet forum and for identification of messages related to flare; (2) qualitative methods for thematic content analyse of the messages posted, for candidate items generation, for items selection (Delphi process) and for items adjustment (‘think-aloud’ interviews) and (3) quantitative methods for psychometric validation of the PRO.Ethics and dissemination Ethical approval was obtained from the Comité de Protection des Personnes (CPP) CPP Nord-Ouest I (19.07.15.44139) in November 2019. …”
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Multistability bifurcation analysis and transmission pathways for the dynamics of the infectious disease-cholera model with microbial expansion inducing the Allee effect in terms o... by Muhammad Aon Raza, Fekadu Tesgera Agama, Sobia Sultana, Saima Rashid, Mohammed Shaaf Alharthi

“…As a result, the analytical insights are validated using computational modeling, providing a novel viewpoint on spreading diseases in a societal environment.…”
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Study of the Backscatter Radiation Pattern of a Quadrupole Antenna with a High-Impedance Ground Plane of Large Electrical Sizes by E. R. Gafarov, Yu. P. Salomatov

“…To analyse the impact of the diameter of conventional and high-impedance ground planes on the backscatter radiation pattern of a quadrupole antenna at sliding angles.Materials and methods. Computer simulations were carried out in CAD CST Studio Suite using the methods of finite element analysis (FEM), finite difference time domain (FDTD) and template based post-processing.Results. …”
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FastSLAM-MO-PSO: A Robust Method for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping in Mobile Robots Navigating Unknown Environments by Xu Bian, Wanqiu Zhao, Ling Tang, Hong Zhao, Xuesong Mei

“…Moreover, these methods can be computationally intensive, limiting their applicability in real-world scenarios. …”
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Benchmarking biomolecular force fields for molecular dynamics simulations of native fold and enzymatic activity of SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease by Kateryna O. Lohachova, Alexander Kyrychenko, Oleg N. Kalugin

“…The papain-like protease (PLpro) of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is crucial for viral processing and disrupting the immune response. Therefore, it is a promising target for treating acute COVID-19 infection. …”
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Methodology for Occupant Head-Neck Injury Testing in Under-Body Blast Impact Based on Virtual-Real Fusion by Xinge Si, Changan Di, Peng Peng, Cong Xu

“…A mapping test model based on 1D convolutional neural network (1D-CNN) is developed as the virtual counterpart to process physical model test data, specifically head and chest centroid accelerations, into head centroid acceleration and upper neck axial compression force matching the Hybrid III 50th numerical model. …”
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Quantitative Analysis of the Labeling Quality of Biological Images for Semantic Segmentation Based on Attribute Agreement Analysis by Rong Xiang, Xinyu Yuan, Yi Zhang, Xiaomin Zhang

“…Confusion matrices for each image’s dual labeling results were calculated, followed by Kappa value computation. Finally, labeling quality was evaluated by comparing Kappa values against quality criteria. …”
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