A novel knowledge distillation framework for enhancing small object detection in blurry environments with unmanned aerial vehicle-assisted images by Sayed Jobaer, Xue-song Tang, Yihong Zhang, Gaojian Li, Foysal Ahmed

“…Using image deblurring before object detection is an option, but it demands significant computing power and relies heavily on the accuracy of the deblurring algorithms. Another common issue is the suitable dataset for the specific problem. …”
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Inheritance of yellow colour in safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) by T. V. Leus

“…Safflower is a minor crop, and its genetics is poorly known. Four types of safflower corolla color are recognized: red, orange, yellow, and white. …”
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Competing Deactivation Channels for Excited π-Stacked Cytosines by Shuai Yuan, Huiling Hong, Gang Wang, Wenying Zhang, Yusheng Dou, Glenn V. Lo

“…The deactivation of π-stacked cytosine molecules following excitation by ultrashort laser pulses was studied using semiclassical dynamics simulations. Another deactivation channel was found to compete with a previously reported path that led to dimerization. …”
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Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia Associated with Massive Intracardiac Thrombosis: A Case Report by Atheer Ahmed, Hamid AL-Mondhiry, Truman J. Milling, David Campbell

“…Trans-Esophageal Echocardiogram showed a thrombus in the right atrium, a small portion of which extended to the left atrium through a patent foramen ovale. Another large thrombus was noted in the right ventricle, which extended to the pulmonary artery. …”
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Glycogen Storage Disease Type IX due to a Novel Mutation in PHKA2 Gene by Hamza Hassan Khan, Lauren Parr, Allison Jay, Saleem Raza, Hernando Lyons, Sanjay Kumar

“…This change in the PHKA2 gene was in a highly conserved region and had been reported in another patient with decreased enzymatic activity of the phosphorylase kinase and who had symptoms of GSD IX. …”
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Improving person re-identification based on two-stage training of convolutional neural networks and augmentation by S. A. Ihnatsyeva, R. P. Bohush

“…The use of different data at different training stages does not allow the CNN to remember training examples, thereby preventing overfitting.Proposed method as expanding the training sample differs as it combines an image pixels cyclic shift, color  exclusion and fragment replacement with a reduced copy of another image. …”
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An Assessment of Clinically Important Differences on the Worst Pain Severity Item of the Modified Brief Pain Inventory in Patients with Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathic Pain by James Marcus, Kathryn Lasch, Yin Wan, Mei Yang, Ching Hsu, Domenico Merante

“…Our objective was to define the CID for another pain measure, the worst pain severity (WPS) item of the modified Brief Pain Inventory (m-BPI). …”
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Investigating the Reliability of Ground Motion Intensity Measures by Ali Jafari, Elham Rajabi, Gholamreza Ghodrati Amiri

“…The reliability of the intensity measures can also be considered as another important criterion for intensity measure (IM) selection, which has not been investigated extensively. …”
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Pelvic Muscle Rehabilitation: A Standardized Protocol for Pelvic Floor Dysfunction by Rodrigo Pedraza, Javier Nieto, Sergio Ibarra, Eric M. Haas

“…Pelvic floor dysfunction syndromes present with voiding, sexual, and anorectal disturbances, which may be associated with one another, resulting in complex presentation. Thus, an integrated diagnosis and management approach may be required. …”
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Effects of Intravenous Immunoglobulin and Acyclovir in Preventing Neonatal Varicella by Waritsara Piyanonpong

“…The patient’s mother initially developed maculopapular rash over her trunk 1 day after giving birth; she had a family member in the same household diagnosed with herpes zoster recently, and another member with diagnosed varicella, whose rash disappeared before the patient's birth. …”
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The Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic on Emitted PM2.5 in Urban Road Networks: Using Loop Data and Kriging Method for Passenger Cars in the Central Part of the City of Lodz by Marta Borowska-Stefańska, Michał Kowalski, Paulina Kurzyk, Alireza Sahebgharani, Szymon Wiśniewski

“…Outputs also illustrate that restrictions not only lower the car-induced PM2.5 but also have a significant effect on the impact zones, areas affected by the pollutants. Another finding is that although the COVID-19 outbreak clearly poses a serious threat to life and health, it has had an exceptionally positive impact on the natural environment, becoming an unconventional mechanism for its restoration.…”
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Networked Air Defense Radar Resource Management Under Power and Tracking Constraints by O. Tuncer, Hakan Ali Cirpan

“…Sharing resources is beneficial, especially in saturation constraints where a single radar’s tracking capacity is overwhelmed. Another important aspect is to lower the transmit power of the networked radars to decrease detectability from the adversary’s electronic warfare capability. …”
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The Chromatin Pattern of Cell Nuclei Is of Prognostic Value for Renal Cell Carcinomas by Christine François, Myriam Remmelink, Michel Petein, Roland van Velthoven, André Danguy, Eric Wespes, Isabelle Salmon, Robert Kiss, Christine Decaestecker

“…In the case of 10 new patients, this model identified all the dead patients as having a bad survival status, with a total of 8 correct predictions. Another prognostic model similarly generated enabled the correct predictions to be confirmed.…”
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A Novel Metamaterial MIMO Antenna with High Isolation for WLAN Applications by Nguyen Khac Kiem, Huynh Nguyen Bao Phuong, Quang Ngoc Hieu, Dao Ngoc Chien

“…The MIMO antenna is designed by placing side by side two single metamaterial antennas which are constructed based on the modified composite right/left-handed (CRLH) model. By adding another left-handed inductor, the total left-handed inductor of the modified CRLH model is increased remarkably in comparison with that of conventional CRLH model. …”
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FSB-DReViSeR: Flow Splitting-Based Dynamic Replacement of Virtual Service Resources for Mobile Users in Virtual Heterogeneous Networks by Jean Frédéric Myoupo, Vianney Kengne Tchendji, Yannick Florian Yankam, Joël Casimir Tagne

“…When a virtual service resource can no longer provide a good quality of service to end users due to the traffic variation generated by their mobility, two approaches are commonly implemented: provisioning the virtual network with resources or replacing the virtual service resource by migrating the service to another node that offers the most suitable amount of resource to satisfy the quality of service (QoS). …”
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Liver Cirrhosis/Severe Fibrosis Is a Risk Factor for Anastomotic Leakage after Colorectal Surgery by Samuel Andreas Käser, Irina Hofmann, Niels Willi, Felix Stickel, Christoph Andreas Maurer

“…More than one-third of the patients (n=691) had postoperative contrast enema, either at the occasion of another study or prior to closure of ileostomy. The presence of liver cirrhosis and the development of anastomotic leakage were assessed by chart review. …”
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The impact of metabolic syndrome on hepatocellular carcinoma: a mendelian randomization study by Chendong Yuan, Xufeng Shu, Xiaoqiang Wang, Wenzheng Chen, Xin Li, Wenguang Pei, Xujie Su, Zhenzhen Hu, Zhigang Jie

“…To clarify the impact of metabolic syndrome and its diagnostic components on hepatocellular carcinoma, we conducted a preliminary mendelian randomization analysis with metabolic syndrome and its diagnostic components as exposures and hepatocellular carcinoma as the outcome. Another set of genetic data related to hepatocellular carcinoma was used as a validation cohort, repeating the mendelian randomization analysis and combining the two groups for a meta-analysis. …”
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Comparison of handheld rebound tonometry with Goldmann applanation tonometry in children with glaucoma: a cohort study by Catey Bunce, Peng Tee Khaw, John Brookes, Maria Papadopoulos, Amanda Lewis, Poornima Rai, Renata Puertas, Annegret Hella Dahlmann-Noor, Shenille Tabasa-Lim, Ahmed El-Karmouty, Mustafa Kadhim, Nicholas Kloster Wride, Dawn Grosvenor

“…High RBT readings should prompt the practitioner to use another standard method of IOP measurement if possible, or consider the RBT measurement in the context of clinical findings before referring the child to a specialist clinic or considering EUA.…”
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Cell Death and Ageing – A Question of Cell Type by Pidder Jansen-Dürr

“…Recent experimental findings, summarized in this article, suggest that apoptotic cell death (and probably other forms of cell death) are important features of the ageing process that can also be recapitulated in tissue culture systems to some extent. Another important lesson to learn from these studies is that mechanisms of in vivo senescence differ considerably between various histotypes.…”
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Pengidentifikasian dan Pencarian Manusia Berbasis Citra Menggunakan Unmanned Aerial Vehicle by Zulkifli Amin, Derry Meldi

“…Image processing is an image processing technique that converts the input image into another better quality image. An image processing device mounted on a UAV that can fly at a certain height can search with missions that have been entered on the software mission planner. …”
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