Multidisciplinary understanding of modifiable physical disability risk factors for health professionals: A scoping review protocol. by Derek Hanson, Stephen Samendinger, Edwin McCulley

“…This scoping review will map and synthesize the literature across healthcare disciplines to identify modifiable risk factors and the evidence related to their ability to predict physical disability. We will also draw attention to the possibility of modifiable risk factors for physical disability being operationalized as pre-disability in order to strengthen primary and secondary prevention efforts.…”
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In Praise of Diversity in Participatory Heritage Planning Empowered by Artificial Intelligence: Windcatchers in Yazd by Mahda Foroughi, Tong Wang, Ana Pereira Roders

“…Heritage planning is changing, in both theory and practice. There is greater attention to the cultural significance (values and attributes) conveyed to a heritage property, rather than focusing on the property alone. …”
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Iterative optimization annotation pipeline and ALSS-YOLO-Seg for efficient banana plantation segmentation in UAV imagery by Ang He, Ang He, Ximei Wu, Ximei Wu, Xing Xu, Xing Xu, Jing Chen, Jing Chen, Xiaobin Guo, Xiaobin Guo, Sheng Xu, Sheng Xu

“…Additionally, a Multi-Scale Channel Attention (MSCA) module combines multi-scale feature extraction with channel attention to tackle challenges of varying target sizes and complex ground backgrounds. …”
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Coups de pieds en talons hauts : politiques du corps et performancescapes dans les scènes drag et ballroom grecques contemporaines by Natalia Koutsougera, Amalia Maria Kontou

“…In this respect, this paper proposes an exploratory analysis of the mischievous and dubious performances of the drag and ballroom scenes in Athens. In so doing, we unveil the political configurations and performative rhizomes that reach beyond inter-communal and extra-communal interpretations and imageries of resistance.…”
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Power and authority in Matthew's gospel by F. P. Viljoen

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‘DeltaCAN - A new data set of Canadian Arctic and subarctic coastal deltas’ by Mette Bendixen, Beatrice Roberge, Jenny Park, David Didier, Antoine Boisson, Haley Yorston, Lindsay Trottier, Ashley Hoblyn, Jackie Lee, Sadie MacDonald, Shan Zhao, Lauren Traboulsee, Arthur Rebillard, Lars Lønsmann Iversen

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Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) Growth and Yield as Influenced by Preemergence Herbicides by W. J. Grichar, P. A. Dotray, D. R. Langham

“…Although some herbicide treatments resulted in sesame stunting, this did not result in any yield reductions and this can be attributed to the ability of the sesame plant to compensate for injury and/or reduced stands.…”
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La préhistoire de l’enseignement de l’occitan à travers quelques manuels et traités pédagogiques by Marie-Jeanne Verny

“…This attitude does not escape the diglossic prejudices on the functional inequality of languages. …”
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Carrier-independent screen-shooting resistant watermarking based on information overlay superimposition by Xiaomeng LI, Daidou GUO, Xunfang ZHUO, Heng YAO, Chuan QIN

“…Financial security, an important part of national security, is critical for the stable and healthy development of the economy.Digital image watermarking technology plays a crucial role in the field of financial information security, and the anti-screen watermarking algorithm has become a new research focus of digital image watermarking technology.The common way to achieve an invisible watermark in existing watermarking schemes is to modify the carrier image, which is not suitable for all types of images.To solve this problem, an end-to-end robust watermarking scheme based on deep learning was proposed.The algorithm achieved both visual quality and robustness of the watermark image.A random binary string served as the input of the encoder network in the proposed end-to-end network architecture.The encoder can generate the watermark information overlay, which can be attached to any carrier image after training.The ability to resist screen shooting noise was learned by the model through mathematical methods incorporated in the network to simulate the distortion generated during screen shooting.The visual quality of the watermark image was further improved by adding the image JND loss based on just perceptible difference.Moreover, an embedding hyperparameter was introduced in the training phase to balance the visual quality and robustness of the watermarked image adaptively.A watermark model suitable for different scenarios can be obtained by changing the size of the embedding hyperparameter.The visual quality and robustness performance of the proposed scheme and the current state-of-the-art algorithms were evaluated to verify the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.The results show that the watermark image generated by the proposed scheme has better visual quality and can accurately restore the embedded watermark information in robustness experiments under different distances, angles, lighting conditions, display devices, and shooting devices.…”
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Disease burden of biliary tract cancer in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2021: A comprehensive demographic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Xuheng Sun, Jiangmei Liu, Wei Zhang, Yijun Wang, Yan Jiang, Lijun Wang, Yixin Zou, Yuxuan Xiao, Yongbing Xiang, Maolan Li, Maigeng Zhou, Yingbin Liu, Sihan Zhou, Xiuyuan Hao

“…The burden of BTCs varies according to sex, age, region, and country, but limited attention has been paid to the burden of BTCs. We sought to explore the up-to-date data from the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) and expand findings by accessing the demographic features of BTC disease burden. …”
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Digital-Twin-Based Evaluation of Nearly Zero-Energy Building for Existing Buildings Based on Scan-to-BIM by Liang Zhao, Hong Zhang, Qian Wang, Haining Wang

“…In recent years, the global energy environment has become increasingly severe, and the problems such as global warming, soaring carbon emissions, and excessive use of petrochemical energy have attracted increasing attention from all walks of life. …”
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Efectividad del tratamiento con dieta, ejercicios físicos, metformina y tintura de ajo en pacientes con obesidad mórbida by Norileiny Lugones Clavero, Juliet de la Caridad Brito Bejerano, Amaury Ledón Casals, Mayulin Bárbara Argote Molina, Teresa María Pedroso Garriga, Madelayne Cruz Valle

“…Métodos: Se realizó un estudio longitudinal prospectivo de 45 pacientes con obesidad mórbida atendidos en la consulta de Endocrinología y Nutrición, del Hospital Militar "Dr. …”
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Complex resistance of spring and winter bread wheat lines to biotic and abiotic stresses by I. F. Lapochkina, N. R. Gainullin, O. A. Baranova, N. M. Kovalenko, L. A. Marchenkova, O. V. Pavlova, O. V. Mitroshina

“…The listed lines are of interest as sources of resistance to anaerobic and salt stress, as well as donors of resistance to a group of fungal diseases: leaf and stem rust and tan spot. We attribute the increased level of resistance of the new initial material to the presence of alien translocations in the original parental forms involved in the origin of the lines.…”
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Physician Kitasato Shibasaburō: Achievements and posthumous veneration in Shintō by V. A. Gorshkov-Cantacuzene

“…As it happened, Kitasato is almost unknown in European science, and some of his achievements are attributed to other researchers. In this article, for the first time in the Russian-language scientific literature, his life and achievements are discussed in detail. …”
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Memristors Based on Ni(II)‐tetraaza[14]annulene Complexes: Toward an Unconventional Resistive Switching Mechanism by Andrzej Sławek, Lulu Alluhaibi, Ewelina Kowalewska, Gisya Abdi, Tomasz Mazur, Agnieszka Podborska, Krzysztof Mech, Marianna Marciszko‐Wiąckowska, Alexey Maximenko, Konrad Szaciłowski

“…Yet, the formation of these filaments is not related to any significant configurational changes at the atomic scale.…”
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Need for travel health clinic: A cross-sectional study among international travellers availing yellow fever vaccination in a teaching institution by Deepika Sadawarte, Kosturi Dakshit, Mandar Sadawarte, C. Maria, Vaishnavi Yadav

“…Methodology: A cross-sectional study among adults attending the Outpatient Department of International Travellers vaccination was conducted for 3 months. …”
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Jan Targoyn: introligator poznański ery Odrodzenia by Michał Muraszko

“…Wnioski: w świetle dotąd poznanego materiału zabytkowego sygnalizowaną w literaturze przedmiotu aktywność warsztatu Targoyna, obejmującą lata 1534–1544, należy rozszerzyć co najmniej o przeszło jedno dziesięciolecie – do połowy szóstej dekady XVI wieku. Większość opraw atrybuowanych Targoynowi opiera się na schematycznych rozwiązaniach materiałowych i dekoracyjnych rozpowszechnionych wśród przedstawicieli ówczesnego środowiska poznańskiego, czerpiących wzorce z renesansowego introligatorstwa niemieckiego. …”
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Stress Measurement of Steel Strands Based on System Identification Method by Ji Qian, Jianbin Li, Changchun Li, Jianting Zhou, Guowen Yao

“…Among the existing nondestructive testing methods for measuring the stress state of steel strands, ultrasonic guided wave methods have received the most research attention and are most likely to be applied to actual engineering. …”
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Experimental Study of the Combustion of Kerosene and Binary Surrogate in the Model Combustion Chamber by Sergey S. Matveev, Ivan V. Chechet, Aleksander S. Semenikhin, Valerii Y. Abrashkin, Sergey V. Lukachev, Sergey G. Matveev

“…The combustion chamber operation mode was φ = 0.435, Tpreheat = 423 K, and the atmospheric pressure. The liquid fuel burn rate was 0.77 g/s. …”
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Consumption of Nuts at Midlife and Healthy Aging in Women by Tania-Marisa Freitas-Simoes, Maude Wagner, Cecilia Samieri, Aleix Sala-Vila, Francine Grodstein

“…After age adjustment, we observed a significant association between total nut consumption at midlife and higher odds of healthy aging, with strongest associations observed excluding peanut butter (odds ratio (OR) = 1.46, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.32–1.62, ≥3 servings/week versus none). Findings were attenuated after further control for covariates, including overall diet quality (OR = 1.14, 95% CI 1.02–1.28, P trend = 0.05). …”
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