High-quality one-shot interactive segmentation for remote sensing images via hybrid adapter-enhanced foundation models by Zhili Zhang, Xiangyun Hu, Yue Yang, Bingnan Yang, Kai Deng, Hengming Dai, Mi Zhang

“…Interactive segmentation of remote sensing images enables the rapid generation of annotated samples, providing training samples for deep learning algorithms and facilitating high-quality extraction and classification for remote sensing objects. …”
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Assessing ethical practices among community pharmacists in Nigeria: prevalence, drivers, challenges, and implications—a mixed methods study by Olanrewaju Olamide Popoola, Olanrewaju Olamide Popoola, Igbagboyemi Adebowale Adebisi, Igbagboyemi Adebowale Adebisi, Adebowale Sylvester Adeyemi, Damilola Samson Adepitan, Damilola Samson Adepitan, Opeyemi Fortunate Oladeru, Opeyemi Fortunate Oladeru

“…Pharmacists who regularly consulted the PCN code of ethics were less likely to dispense antibiotics without prescriptions (p = 0.011), stock medicines not approved by NAFDAC (p = 0.010), or purchase from open markets (p = 0.027). …”
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Relationship between Environmental Factors and Menarche Of 11-14 Year Old Students in Rasht City by Shiva Salehi, Sedigheh Pakseresht, Seyedeh Noshaz Mirhaghjoo, Ehsan KazemnejadLeili

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Methodology for collective location fixing of observed emergencies by intersection/resection based on mobile telecomunication application with cartographic interface by A. G. Miheev, V. D. Bryljov, V. S. Gruzinov, M. V. Savel'ev

“…This paper presents a description of the project, the proposed solution architecture. References to source code repositories are given. The results of the pilot versions of the software are given.…”
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Evaluation of open and closed-source LLMs for low-resource language with zero-shot, few-shot, and chain-of-thought prompting by Zabir Al Nazi, Md. Rajib Hossain, Faisal Al Mamun

“…For transparency and reproducibility, all methodologies and code from this study are available on our GitHub repository: https://github.com/zabir-nabil/bangla-multilingual-llm-eval.…”
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Quality of Life in Patients with Diabetic Retinopathy by Jannat Soleimani Kamran, Shirin Jafroudi, Ehsan KazemNejad Leili, Asieh Sedighi Chafjiri, Ezzat Paryad

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EVALUATION OF PATIENTS WITH ORGANOPHOSPHATE POISONING IN THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT: A RETROSPECTIVE TWO-CENTER STUDY by Abdussamed Vural, Turgut Dolanbay, Levent Şahin, Mustafa Cihan Altay, Hayri Canbaz

“…Patients diagnosed with OP poisoning (international classification of diseases (ICD) code T60.0) between 15 June 2020 and 15 June 2023 were included in the study.Results: The study included 24 patients meeting inclusion and exclusion criteria. …”
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Factors Associated With Patient Experience From 2 Tertiary Care Hospitals—A Cross-Sectional Study From Karachi, Pakistan by Aqsa Amjad MBBS, Zaibun Nisa MBBS, FCPS, Sana Javed Khan MBBS, Sania Sabir Sethi BS, Asmara Ghafoor MBBS, Anoosha Iqbal MBBS, Farheen Shahzad MBBS, Mehmood Riaz MBBS, FCPS, Uzma Ghori MBBS, FCPS, Aysha Almas MBBs, FCPS, PhD

“…However, disparities exist, emphasizing the need for policies to improve patient awareness, physician training, and equitable care for all of those with functional limitations.…”
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A framework for flood risk zoning and prioritization combining maximum entropy and game theory by Ali Haghizadeh, Reza Fathiganji, Ehsan Sohrabi, Aghdas Lotfi, Leila Ghasemi

“…Following this were parameters of agricultural land usage and the average slope %. Sub-basin code 2221 ranked highest in choosing and prioritizing important sub-watersheds depending on flood susceptibility inside the Kashkan basin. …”
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AI bias in lung cancer radiotherapy by Kai Ding, Shelby Forbes, Fangfang Ma, Ganxi Luo, Jiayou Zhou, Yian Qi

“…We conclude by outlining several strategies for addressing AI bias, including generating a more robust training dataset, developing software tools to detect bias, making the model’s code open access and soliciting user feedback, inviting oversight from an ethics review board, and augmenting patient datasets by synthesizing the underrepresented data.…”
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Tuning vision foundation models for rectal cancer segmentation from CT scans by Hantao Zhang, Weidong Guo, Shouhong Wan, Bingbing Zou, Wanqin Wang, Chenyang Qiu, Kaige Liu, Peiquan Jin, Jiancheng Yang

“…The original new source 398 CT scans and our code are openly available for research. Results Our method achieves Dice of 71.23% for normal rectum and 76.38% for rectal tumor, with IoU of 55.32% and 61.78%, and NSD values of 83.63% and 58.59%, respectively, surpassing state-of-the-art methods. …”
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Cross-Project Defect Prediction Using Transfer Learning with Long Short-Term Memory Networks by Hongwei Tao, Lianyou Fu, Qiaoling Cao, Xiaoxu Niu, Haoran Chen, Songtao Shang, Yang Xian

“…This is because LSTM capture long-term dependencies in sequence data and extract features that contain source code structure and context information. It can be concluded that: (1) the TLSTM model has the advantage of preserving information, which can better retain the semantic features related to software defects; (2) compared with the CPDP model trained with traditional metric features, the performance of the model can validly enhance by combining semantic features and metric features.…”
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Multi-scale information fusion and decoupled representation learning for robust microbe-disease interaction prediction by Wentao Wang, Qiaoying Yan, Qingquan Liao, Xinyuan Jin, Yinyin Gong, Linlin Zhuo, Xiangzheng Fu, Dongsheng Cao

“…This indicates that our model can accurately predict unknown MDIs and is likely to aid in disease discovery and precision pharmaceutical research. Code and data are accessible at: https://github.com/shmildsj/MDI-IFDRL.…”
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Survey of Hand Hygiene, High-Touch Device Use, and Proper Habits of Health Care Workers for Infection Risk Prevention: Protocol for a Cross-Sectional Study by Antonio Aprile, Giustino Morlino, Claudia Mosconi, Luca Guarente, Alessandra Messina, Mariachiara Carestia, Patrizia De Filippis, Francesca Pica, Massimo Maurici, Leonardo Palombi

“…The protocol was properly evaluated and approved by the territorial ethics committee “Lazio Area 2” on March 21, 2024, with the code 76.24 CET2 utv_ptv. ConclusionsThe findings of this study will be crucial in highlighting the need for targeted education and training of health care practitioners involved in the study, with a focus on the prevention of HAIs. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Automated vs. Expert-Designed Machine Learning Models in Age-Related Macular Degeneration Detection and Classification by Ceren Durmaz Engin, Ufuk Beşenk, Denizcan Özizmirliler, Mustafa Alper Selver

“…Objectives: To compare the effectiveness of expert-designed machine learning models and code-free automated machine learning (AutoML) models in classifying optical coherence tomography (OCT) images for detecting age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and distinguishing between its dry and wet forms. …”
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Role of large language models in mental health research: an international survey of researchers’ practices and perspectives by John Torous, Zoë McClure, Jake Linardon, Mariel Messer, Cleo Anderson, Claudia Liu, Hannah K. Jarman, Simon B. Goldberg

“…The most common applications were for proofreading written work (69%) and refining or generating code (49%). LLM use was more prevalent among early career researchers. …”
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Estimating hip impact velocity and acceleration from video-captured falls using a pose estimation algorithm by Reese Michaels, Tiago V. Barreira, Stephen N. Robinovitch, Jacob J. Sosnoff, Yaejin Moon

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Deep Learning-Based Image Denoising Approach for the Identification of Structured Light Modes in Dusty Weather by Ahmed B. Ibrahim, Amr M. Ragheb, Ahmed S. Almaiman, Abderrahmen Trichili, Waddah S. Saif, Saleh A. Alshebeili

“…The input to the classifier was set to be either the denoised image or the latent code of the convolutional autoencoder. This code is a low-dimensional representation of the inputted images. …”
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Forestry climate adaptation with HarvesterSeasons service—a gradient boosting model to forecast soil water index SWI from a comprehensive set of predictors in Destination Earth by Mikko Strahlendorff, Anni Kröger, Golda Prakasam, Miriam Kosmale, Mikko Moisander, Heikki Ovaskainen, Asko Poikela

“…The training data and ML models are at https://destine.data.lit.fmi.fi/soilwater/. …”
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Only severe Injuries are effectively reduced by muscles' injury prevention protocols in football players: A systematic review [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Amani Kacem, Iheb Belhadj Youssef, Sana Bhiri, Marwa Ghanmi, Rihab Moncer, Sinen Frigui, Dhekra Chebil, walid Ouannes, Sonia Jemni, Sahbi Mtaouaa, Sana Salah

“…The intervention in question was structured injury preventive protocols, including specific training or pre-established protocols such as the FIFA 11+ program, compared to each other or with regular training sessions. …”
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