Hierarchical Transfer Learning with Transformers to Improve Semantic Segmentation in Remote Sensing Land Use by Miaomiao Chen, Lianfa Li

“…Results show that the Swin-Unet model outperforms the other models used in this study. It achieved the highest test mean intersection over union (MIoU) of 0.837 and 0.810 for residential and transportation in level 1 (coarse) classification, respectively, and 0.545 for irrigated land in level 2 (fine-grained) classification. …”
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LFN-YOLO: precision underwater small object detection via a lightweight reparameterized approach by Mingxin Liu, Mingxin Liu, Yujie Wu, Ruixin Li, Cong Lin, Cong Lin

“…However, traditional underwater object detection methods struggle to achieve accurate detection in complex underwater environments with limited computational resources. …”
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Investigating the Effect of Empirical Interventions on Improving the Historical Urban Texts of Iran and the World A Comparative Study of Historical Cities of Birjand in Iran and Pe... by nazli pakro, arash saghafi asl

“…The scenario of the fundamental movement to revive Birjand's historic texture in line with the historic city of Pennsylvania is the best scenario, and the revival of Birjand's historic texture is best achieved in this scenario, in line with the historic Pennsylvania city.…”
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Effectiveness of Developing A STAD Model Integrated into Group Work Projects to Enhance Students' Writing Skills by Karnedi Karnedi

“…This study aims to analyze and characterize the effectiveness of developing the Student Teams Achievement Division (STAD) model integrated with group work projects to improve students’ writing skills. …”
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Coverage Probability and Area Spectral Efficiency of Full Duplex Communication in C-V2X Network With Dual Connectivity by Adeel Ahmad, Muhammad Nadeem Sial, Junaid Ahmed, Sadiq Ullah

“…Success probability of FD remains close to HD in terms of signal to interference noise ratio (SINR) in the range from -40 dBW to 60 dBW. Importance of achieving perfect self-interference cancellation (SIC) for different values of self-interference (SI) in FD network has also been evaluated. …”
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Clinical Characteristics, Intraoperative Findings, and Surgical Outcomes of Canalicular Laceration Repair with Monocanalicular Stent in Asia by Chun-Hsien Lin, Chun-Yuan Wang, Ying-Cheng Shen, Li-Chen Wei

“…Early repair after trauma with Mini-Monoka stents achieved good eyelid position (100%) as well as good anatomical (87.5%) and functional (91.7%) success without serious complication.…”
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Application of photodynamic therapy with 5-aminolevulinic acid and fractional CO2 laser for the management of recalcitrant plantar warts by Jiaoquan Chen, Xinyi Xie, Yingxue Liu, Fengyi Chen, Yeqing Gong, Bihua Liang, Yiling Wu, Shiqi He, Yueming Li, Huilan Zhu, Shaoyin Ma

“…Complete clearance was achieved in 3 patients (30 %), 4 patients (40 %) showed an excellent response (≥80 % improvement), while 2 patients had a partial response. …”
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The success rate of 2619 consecutively inserted extra-alveolar miniscrews for temporary skeletal anchorage by soroush basafa, Johnny Liaw, Nikhilesh Vaid, Donald Ferguson

“…These findings can aid orthodontists in TAD selection and treatment planning to achieve optimum outcomes…”
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Acupuncture mediates the “gut–testis axis” to improve asthenozoospermia by Jianheng Hao, Jianheng Hao, Huichao Xu, Boya Chang, Jia Ren, Haijun Wang, Laixi Ji, Laixi Ji

“…Furthermore, reproductive function improvements in asthenozoospermic mice through acupuncture were achieved via an FMT.ConclusionAcupuncture may alleviate asthenozoospermia symptoms by modulating the gut–testis axis and repairing the gut–testis barrier.…”
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Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Reduces Metaboreflex Contribution to the Ventilatory Response in Heart Failure Population by Jérémie Jaussaud, Laurie Aimable, Pierre Bordachar, Pierre Dos Santos, Laurent Barandon, Philippe Ritter, Raymond Roudaut, Hervé Douard

“…At baseline and after 6 month follow up two maximal cardiopulmonary exercise tests with and without regional circulatory occlusion (RCO) during recovery were performed. RCO was achieved by inflation of bilateral upper thigh tourniquets 30 mmHg above peak systolic blood pressure during 3 minutes after peak exercise. …”
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Experimental Study on Impermeability Law of Aquiclude Reconstructed by Mudstone of External Dump in Arid Zone by Li Ma, Chendong Liu, Yinli Bi, Suping Peng, Kaisheng Jiang, Hui Zhang, Qiang Luo, Fei Xue, Tianxin Xu, Tianxiang Li, Jing Wu, Jiahao Tian, Dongxu Zhang

“…In order to achieve the goal of ecological restoration, plant irrigation, and water retention in the external dump of open-pit coal mine in the arid desert area, it is proposed to use the mudstone in the stripped material to reconstruct the surface aquiclude and improve the water holding capacity of the topsoil. …”
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A broad spectrum Shigella vaccine based on VirG53 – 353 multiepitope region produced in a cell-free system by Girmay Desalegn, Charlotte Abrahamson, K. Ross Turbyfill, Lucy Pill-Pepe, Leslie Bautista, Chitradevi S. Tamilselvi, Dylan Dunn, Neeraj Kapoor, Barbara Sullinger, Matheo Herrera, Edwin V. Oaks, Jeff Fairman, Marcela F. Pasetti

“…Seeking to refine the vaccine antigenic target and achieve scalable manufacturing compatible with Good Manufacturing Practices, we mapped linear B-cell epitopes spanning the entire VirG protein sequence by probing the immune reactivity of 10-mer peptides (overlapping 4–8 aa) with sera from Shigella-infected rhesus monkeys. …”
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La tardive floraison des campagnes. L’architecture moderniste des kolkhozes dans l’Estonie soviétique by Mart Kalm

“…The implementation of the idea of eliminating the differences between the country and the city meant that an urban lifestyle would be established in the country. To achieve the desired conveniences, building homes in the country meant building apartment blocks. …”
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Assessing the clinical support capabilities of ChatGPT 4o and ChatGPT 4o mini in managing lumbar disc herniation by Suning Wang, Ying Wang, Linlin Jiang, Yong Chang, Shiji zhang, Kun Zhao, Lu Chen, Chunzheng Gao

“…In evaluating lumbar disc herniation images, ChatGPT 4o achieved an overall accuracy of 0.81, with LDH recognition precision, recall, and F1 scores exceeding 0.80. …”
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Primary small cell carcinoma of the esophagus: Comparison between a Chinese cohort and Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) data by Qin Xiao, Haifan Xiao, Shuyu Ouyang, Jinming Tang, Baihua Zhang, Hui Wang

“…Further analysis found that surgery tended to achieve clinical benefits only for patients with localized disease (T1‐4aN0M0). …”
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The anti-staphylococcal activity (planktonic and biofilm) of Cnestis ferruginea is due to benzoquinone, the oxidation product of hydroquinone by Sujogya Kumar Panda, Sujogya Kumar Panda, Michelle Reynders, Purity N. Kipanga, Walter Luyten

“…S. aureus.MethodsWe, examined whether hydroquinone or its oxidation product, benzoquinone, is the active compound against bacteria such as S. aureus. To achieve this we performed broth microdilution (planktonic) and biofilm activity tests against two different strains of S. aureus. …”
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‘Vychegodsky’: a new potato cultivar for the Republic of Komi by A. G. Tulinov, A. Yu. Lobanov

“…Thus, a new potato cultivar has been released and included into the State Register of Selection Achievements (National List of the Russian Federation).…”
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Protection of minority rights: System of guarantees in the Covenant of the League of Nations by N.G. Nougaeva, Ju.S. Ovchinnikova

“…The primary goal of the paper is to reveal the reasons for the ultimate weakening of the League of Nations procedure for addressing petitions concerning violations of minority rights. In order to achieve this goal, the author uses the methods of objective, historical, and scientific analysis. …”
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Between Charybdis and Scylla—an Odyssey in AL amyloidosis: insights and learnings from a narrative review and case report series by Hani Sabbour, Ahmad Alhuraiji, Amr Hanbali, Faraz Khan, Jawahir Alameri, Sultan Alzaher, Dania Mohty, Giovanni Palladini

“…Through our case series, we illustrate that to achieve an accurate diagnosis, a high degree of clinical suspicion is needed, and we stress the important requirement of substantial multi-disciplinary collaboration. …”
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Transformation of the value and sense sphere of the cadets from higher education institutions with specific study conditions for police training by S. V. Kharchenko, A. O. Siroshtan

“…The least important for them were such value orientations as “search for beauty”, “social activity to achieve positive changes in society”, “discovering new things in the world, nature, and people”, and “communication”. …”
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