Subseasonal Prediction of Heat‐Related Mortality in Switzerland by Maria Pyrina, Ana M. Vicedo‐Cabrera, Dominik Büeler, Sidharth Sivaraj, Christoph Spirig, Daniela I. V. Domeisen

“…Heat‐related mortality peaks occurring for a few days can be accurately predicted up to 2 weeks ahead, while longer periods of heat‐related mortality lasting a few weeks can be anticipated 3 to even 4 weeks ahead. …”
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Os cavaleiros do Graal e o anti-heroísmo hagiográfico by Ana Margarida Chora

“…Medieval Arthurian heroes who, in the Vulgate and Post-Vulgate texts, are destined to the Grail adventure (Lancelot, Boorz, Perceval and Galaad) follow a very similar pathway to those of saints narratives of the same period, which goes through predestination and change of behaviour, from a certain moment, taking them to spiritual life. …”
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Optimization of Urban-Scale Sustainable Energy Strategies to Improve Citizens’ Health by Mohammad Anvar Adibhesami, Hirou Karimi, Ayyoob Sharifi, Borhan Sepehri, Hassan Bazazzadeh, Umberto Berardi

“…This study aims to assess the level of alignment with health factors in Mahabad, a major medium-sized city in Iran. Previous studies indicate that the built environment can influence health dimensions. …”
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Left-Deviating Prism Adaptation in Left Neglect Patient: Reflexions on a Negative Result by Jacques Luauté, Sophie Jacquin-Courtois, Jacinta O'Shea, Laure Christophe, Gilles Rode, Dominique Boisson, Yves Rossetti

“…In order to test the lateral specificity of prism adaptation on left neglect, the present study evaluated the effect of left-deviating prism on straight-ahead pointing movements and on several classical neuropsychological tests in a group of five right brain-damaged patients with left spatial neglect. …”
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On short cracks that depart from elastoplastic notch tips by Verônica Miquelin Machado, Jaime Tupiassú Pinho de Castro, Marco Antonio Meggiolaro

“…In the elastoplastic case, the stress gradient ahead of the notch tip is quantified by a J-field to consider the short crack behavior. …”
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Forecasting of virtual power plant generating and energy arbitrage economics in the electricity market using machine learning approach by Tirunagaru V. Sarathkumar, Arup Kumar Goswami, Baseem Khan, Kamel A. Shoush, Sherif S. M. Ghoneim, Ramy N. R. Ghaly

“…This paper presents a dual-pronged, innovative approach to maximize income in the day-ahead power market through VPP. On one front, forecasting VPP generation units, including solar photovoltaic, wind power, and combined heat and power, employs a novel Adam Optimizer Long-Short-Term-Memory (AOLSTM) machine learning technique. …”
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Le Mäṣḥafä Seddät et le Futūḥ al-Ḥabaša : un cas de contact entre manuscrits islamiques et manuscrits chrétiens d’Éthiopie au XVIe siècle ? by Amélie Chekroun

“…The Mäṣḥafä Seddät (“Book of Persecution”) is the Christian version of the description of the wars initiated by Imām Aḥmad from the Barr Sa‘d ad-Dīn sultanate against the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia between the 1520’s and the year 1543. …”
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SHOULD HIGHER EDUCATION MEET THE DEMAND IN THE LABOR MARKET? by Alexandra A. Moskovskaya

“…It shows that the labor market demand is indirect, not a direct reference point for universities, and can best be satisfied if a University in its goals and curriculums is ahead of the demand in the economy and not follows it.…”
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An engineering model for creeping flame spread over idealized electrical wires in microgravity by Coimbra, Alain, Li, Yutao, Guibaud, Augustin, Citerne, Jean-Marie, Legros, Guillaume, Consalvi, Jean-Louis

“…The heat transfer mechanisms ahead of the pyrolysis front are investigated with a special emphasis on the LDPE thickness and the conductivity of the metallic core. …”
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UEFA EURO 2020: An Analysis on The First Goal and The First Half Lead in Football Matches by Kemal Göral, Gökhan Hadi

“…This study was carried out in order to analyze the goals scored in the competitions played in the UEFA EURO 2020 tournament and to examine how finishing the first half affects the outcome of the matches.In the research, a total of 142 goals scored in 51 matches played in the tournament, the distribution of goals in 15-minute periods, the contribution to the score by starting in the first 11 and coming from the bench, and the effect of finishing the first half ahead on the results of the matches were examined.The time interval for the most goals scored in competitions is 46-60. minutes (30 goals - 21.13%).In all the matches played in the tournament, the majority of the goals scored, such as 88.9%, were scored by the players who started the matches in the first 11.In all the matches played in the tournament, 73.33% of the teams that finished the first half ahead and 71.43% of the teams that scored the first goal left the matches with victory.As a result, based on the findings of the research, it can be said that reaching the first goal in the competitions and finishing the first half of the match emerge as a very important criterion in high-level tournaments such as the European Championship, where competitions with high difficulty levels are played.…”
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A Prediction Model of Relativistic Electrons at Geostationary Orbit Using the EMD‐LSTM Network and Geomagnetic Indices by H. Zhang, H. R. Xu, G. S. Peng, Y. D. Qian, X. X. Zhang, G. L. Yang, C. Shen, Z. Li, J. W. Yang, Z. Q. Wang, F. He, C. L. Gu, M. B. Zhu

“…Abstract In this study, the Empirical Mode Decomposition algorithm (EMD) and the Long Short Term Memory neural network (LSTM) are combined into an EMD‐LSTM model, to predict the variation of the >2 MeV electron fluxes 1 day ahead. Input parameters include the Pc5 power, AP, AE, Kp, >0.6 MeV, and historical electron flux values, are used for predictions. …”
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Une éducation scientifique émancipatrice pour les élèves de maternelle et leur professeur by Joël Bisault

“…The actor’s ability of thinking by themselves is put ahead to consider in the same time emancipation of pupils and teacher. …”
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Our tenth anniversary

“…Here, we look back at how we have stayed true to our guiding mission and reflect on what lies ahead for this journal but also scholarly publishing more broadly.…”
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Deep-Reticular Pseudodrusen-Net: A 3-Dimensional Deep Network for Detection of Reticular Pseudodrusen on OCT Scans by Amr Elsawy, PhD, Tiarnan D.L. Keenan, PhD, MD, Alisa T. Thavikulwat, MD, Amy Lu, MD, Sunil Bellur, MD, Souvick Mukherjee, PhD, Elvira Agron, MS, Qingyu Chen, PhD, Emily Y. Chew, MD, Zhiyong Lu, PhD

“…The AREDS2 RPD labels were transferred from fundus autofluorescence images, which were captured at the same visit for OCT scans, and DAAMD RPD labels were obtained from the Wisconsin reading center. …”
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A reduced-complexity compressed sensing channel estimation for underwater acoustic channel by Xuan YU, Xuan GENG

“…Aiming at the sparse characteristics of underwater acoustic channels for shallow seas, a reduced-complexity look-ahead backtracking orthogonal matching pursuit (RC-LABOMP) channel estimation algorithm was proposed.Firstly, two types of support sets of orthogonal matching pursuit and subspace pursuit channel estimation algorithms were calculated, and then prior information based on the intersection and union of the two support sets were preprocessed.At last, the preprocessed prior information was used to complete look-ahead backtracking orthogonal matching pursuit channel estimation.The preprocessed prior information leads to the decrease of the iteration number of original LABOMP, and reduction of the atom index range, thus the proposed algorithm can reduce the computational complexity of original LABOMP significantly.In addition, combining the proposed algorithm with the underwater acoustic Turbo equalization system is more suitable for underwater acoustic communication systems.Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm demonstrates high estimation accuracy and low bit error rate performance under both conditions of random channels and underwater acoustic channels.It also reduces the computational complexity of the LABOMP algorithm.Therefore, it is an effective method for shallow seas underwater acoustic channels estimation algorithm.…”
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Transform coding of DCT coefficients in video encoder by WANG Zhong-yuan, HU Rui-min, TIAN Gang, LI Ming

“…The redundancy among discrete cosine transform（DCT） coefficients in video encoder was found very strong,a method for subband decomposition and transform coding was proposed.Each 8×8 DCT spectrum date of macroblock was regrouped to gather the same frequency bands.The Hadamard transform function was used and orthogonal integer Ha-damard transform formula was derived.Simulation results shows that the proposed approach reduces the spectrum redun-dancy and improves the compression efficiency further compared with conventional DCT coder,however the PSNR loss are almost invisible.This work is expected to contribute to the under drafted international video compression standard H.265.…”
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Design and application of electrocardiograph diagnosis system based on multifractal theory by Chun-kai ZHANG, Ao,ZHANGJing-wang YIN, Pan-bo TIAN, Ying ZHOU, Chang-qing QI

“…An automatic segmentation algorithm for ECG data using differential threshold method was designed,which could identify the various ECG cycles of continuous ECG data.And it could obtain the multifractal features of multiple fractal and generalize hurst index feature of ECG data,these features were used to train artificial neural network in order to classify ECG data,the accuracy of the classifier could reach 97%.An ECG diagnosis system was implemented,which can automatically identify ECG sequences that contain multiple ECG cycles,and can automatically ignore the incomplete ECG cycle data,and could annotate every cycle of ECG data.…”
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Improving Crack Detection Precision of Concrete Structures Using U-Net Architecture and Novel DBCE Loss Function by Andrew Prasetyo, I Ketut Eddy Purnama, Eko Mulyanto Yuniarno, Priyo Suprobo

“…The proposed method is 7.69% ahead of the largest comparison method (DICE Loss) on Average IOU, while on Average Precission is leading 6.72% ahead of the largest comparison method (DICE). …”
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Unsupervised machine learning model for phenogroup-based stratification in acute type A aortic dissection to identify postoperative acute gastrointestinal injury by Yuhu Ma, Xiaofang Yang, Chenxiang Weng, Xiaoqing Wang, Baoping Zhang, Ying Liu, Rui Wang, Zhenxing Bao, Peining Yang, Hong Zhang, Yatao Liu

“…ObjectiveWe aimed to explore the application value of unsupervised machine learning in identifying acute gastrointestinal injury (AGI) after extracorporeal circulation for acute type A aortic dissection (ATAAD).MethodsPatients who underwent extracorporeal circulation for ATAAD at the First Hospital of Lanzhou University from January 2016 to January 2021 were included. …”
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A discrete wavelet analysis of freak waves in the ocean by En-Bing Lin, Paul C. Liu

“…A freak wave is a wave of very considerable height, ahead of which there is a deep trough. A case study examines some basic properties developed by performing wavelet analysis on a freak wave. …”
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