The Weeds in Sunflower Crops when Grown in Arid Conditions of The Steppe of Ukraine by Igor Aksyonov

“…The species composition is dominated by weeds of the Compositae family (Asteraceae) of the dicotyledonous class (Magnoliopsida), which leads to a significant decrease in the yield level. …”
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La folie de l’arc-en-ciel ou la longue errance de Bwila by Claudie Haxaire

“…The Guro people in the Guo territorial unit in Ivory Coast practice a divination dance called Dawa, which we analysed in detail. …”
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Intrusion detection in metaverse environment internet of things systems by metaheuristics tuned two level framework by Milos Antonijevic, Miodrag Zivkovic, Milica Djuric Jovicic, Bosko Nikolic, Jasmina Perisic, Marina Milovanovic, Luka Jovanovic, Mahmoud Abdel-Salam, Nebojsa Bacanin

“…A thorough analysis utilizing a real-world IoT network attacks dataset validates the proposed architecture’s efficacy in identification of the specific variants of malevolent assaults, that is a classic multi-class classification challenge. Three experiments were executed utilizing data open to public, where the top models attained a supreme accuracy of 99.83% for multi-class classification. …”
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Assessment of Physicochemical Properties of Water and Public Perceptions of Water Quality in Tasik Chini, Pahang, Malaysia by M. S. Islam, T. M. Ekhwan, F. N. Rasli and C. T. Goh

“…The DOE-WQI value categorized the lake under class II and class III. The Principal Component Analysis (PCA) revealed that the major sources of contamination were due to anthropogenic activities, especially settlement, mining, agriculture, and illegal activities. …”
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Prevalence, Spectrum, and Outcomes of Single Coronary Artery Detected on Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography (CCTA) by Rashid Al Umairi, Maryam Al-khouri

“…The most common class was RIII-C seen in 4 patients. Other SCA included RII-C, RII-A, and RII-S, two in each class. …”
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East Antarctic Ice Sheet variability in the central Transantarctic Mountains since the mid Miocene by G. R. M. Bromley, G. R. M. Bromley, G. Balco, G. Balco, M. S. Jackson, A. Balter-Kennedy, A. Balter-Kennedy, H. Thomas

“…Nonetheless, it remains uncertain whether the ice sheet is likely to undergo net loss due to amplified melting coupled with dynamic instabilities or whether such losses will be balanced, or even offset, by enhanced accumulation under a higher-precipitation regime. …”
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The effects of vessel speed and size on the lethality of strikes of large whales in U.S. waters by Lance P. Garrison, Niki E. Lisi, Meghan Gahm, Eric M. Patterson, Hannah Blondin, Hannah Blondin, Caroline P. Good

“…We found a significant effect of vessel size class on the probability of lethality. In addition, decreasing vessel speeds reduced the likelihood of a lethal outcome for all vessel size classes, but this effect was strongest for vessels less than 108m in length. …”
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Satisfaction of Students with the Quality of Educational Services at Technical University by D. V. Maltsev, D. S. Repetskiy

“…However, some comments revealed dissatisfaction with the technical means, the quality of the content audiences, the organization of pedagogic assistance and students’ self-directed learning, schedule of classes, quality of teaching materials, organization of traineeships, quality control test, availability of laboratories and computer classes outside the classroom.The assessment of the socio-cultural environment considered aspects of the organization of students’ extracurricular work, the socio-psychological climate; the conditions of life support of the educational process (sanitary and social); socio-cultural activities related to the satisfaction of spiritual and physical needs of an individual; socio-cultural fostering. …”
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Status and associations of transition shock among nursing students during clinical practice: A cross-sectional study. by Yinying Tang, Xiuwen Chen, Yuying Liao, Tingyu Zheng, Yao Xiao, Yunhui You

“…Understanding the key factors contributing to this shock is crucial for developing effective support strategies and improving overall educational outcomes.<h4>Methods</h4>This cross-sectional study was conducted on October 8-28, 2022 at four tertiary Class A hospitals in Changsha, Hunan Province, located in south-central China. …”
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Zero-Shot Remote Sensing Scene Classification Based on Automatic Knowledge Graph and Dual-Branch Semantic Correlation Supervision by Chao Wang, Jiajun Yang, Tanvir Ahmed, Yang Zhao, Tong Zhang, Bing Sun, Tao Xie, Jie Wang, Tianyu Chen

“…Extensive experiments on the UCM, AID, and NWPU datasets demonstrate that AKG-DBSS achieves class average accuracy and overall accuracy of up to 98&#x0025;, and 59.56&#x0025;, respectively, for the classification of unseen class scenes, with standard deviations below 6.91&#x0025;, significantly outperforming four other advanced comparative methods. …”
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A deep learning based model for diabetic retinopathy grading by Samia Akhtar, Shabib Aftab, Oualid Ali, Munir Ahmad, Muhammad Adnan Khan, Sagheer Abbas, Taher M. Ghazal

“…In our research, we have developed a deep neural network named RSG-Net (Retinopathy Severity Grading) to classify DR into 4 stages (multi-class classification) and 2 stages (binary classification). …”
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Funding for China’s Top Universities: Does Size Matter? by S. S. Donetskaya, Liang Bin

“…Over the past thirty years, thanks to government initiatives for the “construction” of world-class universities, a cohort of elite (leading) universities has been created in China, covering about 5 % of universities, which have tangible advantages over other universities in student recruitment, teaching, research, funding, and support from local authorities. …”
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Pathogen Detection and Resistome Analysis in Healthy Shelter Dogs Using Whole Metagenome Sequencing by Smriti Shringi, Devendra H. Shah, Kimberly Carney, Ashutosh Verma

“…A total of 4560 ARGs signatures representing 182 unique genes across 14 antibiotic classes were detected. Tetracycline resistance genes were most abundant (49%), while β-lactam resistance genes showed the highest diversity with 75 unique ARGs. …”
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Gambaran Radiografi Toraks Sebagai Prediktor Outcome Pasien COVID-19 by Bekti Safarini, Dria Anggraeny Sutikno, Dewi Intisari

“…<div class="WordSection1"><div class="WordSection1"><p>COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) is a pulmonary infection disease caused by SARS-CoV-2. …”
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Cyclophosphamide and mycophenolate mofetil as induction therapy in lupus nephritis by Božić-Majstorović Ljubinka, Popović-Pejičić Snježana, Mrđa Jelena, Mrđa Vladimir, Ovčina Irma

“…Methods: Study included 53 SLE patients with biopsy-proven class III and class IV LN. Twenty-two patients (42 %) were treated with MMF (dosage 2-3 g/day) and 31 patients (58 %) were treated with CYC (0.5 to 1.0 g/m2 in monthly pulses) in a 24-week induction study. …”
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Assessment of Selected Health Determinants among <i>Almajiri</i> Students in Gwadabawa Local Government, Sokoto State, Nigeria by Y. Sarkingobir, M.S. Nahantsi, Z. Shehu, A.A. Sadiq, N. Malami, A. Saadu, A. Hamza

“…Most (50.0%) of the Almajiri live in buildings own by school,whereas, 33.5% of them in donated buildings .There were three types of houses / classes where Almajiri live.Most (50.0%) were made of cement/modern style ,then (33.3%) the mud houses / classes, and (16.7%) were the ones from zinc .There were toilets for urination only ,no one was slated for defecation . …”
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Microstructural Analysis and Constitutive Modeling of Superplastic Deformation Behavior of Al-Mg-Zn-Cu-Zr-xNi Alloys with Different Ni Contents by Zarnigor S. Turaeva, Ahmed O. Mosleh, Olga A. Yakovtseva, Anton D. Kotov, Anastasia V. Mikhaylovskaya

“…The aluminum solid solution and coarse precipitates of the T(Mg₃₂(Al,Zn)₄₉ and Al₃Ni second phases were formed in the studied alloy and Cu dissolved in both second phases. …”
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Classification-augmented survival estimation (CASE): A novel method for individualized long-term survival prediction with application to liver transplantation. by Hamed Shourabizadeh, Dionne M Aleman, Louis-Martin Rousseau, Katina Zheng, Mamatha Bhat

“…Machine learning classification models, even those designed for survival predictions like random survival forest (RSF), also struggle to provide accurate long-term predictions due to class imbalance. We improve upon traditional survival machine learning approaches through a novel framework called classification-augmented survival estimation (CASE), which treats survival as a classification task that ultimately yields survival curves, beginning with dataset augmentation to improve class imbalance for use with any classification model. …”
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CardioMEMS in a Busy Cardiology Practice: Less than Optimal Implementation of a Valuable Tool to Reduce Heart Failure Readmissions by Robby Singh, Leon Varjabedian, Georgy Kaspar, Marcel Zughaib

“…All patients were on ACC/AHA guideline-directed medical therapy and had at least one hospital admission for NYHA class III symptoms. Results. 473 patients met the inclusion criteria, of which, 85 patients were found to be eligible for implantation of CardioMEMS device based on the CHAMPION trial definition. …”
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The Modified Frailty 5-Factor Index Predicts Adverse Outcomes After Ventral Hernia Repair in a National Database by Allison L. Diaz, BS, Wen-Yu Lee, MS, Cheongeun Oh, PhD, Laura L. Kimberly, PhD, MSW, MBE

“…Smoking status and American Society of Anesthesiologists class of 4 were associated with all outcomes. Body mass index predicted surgical site complications and reoperation. …”
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