Weight-RSS: A Calibration-Free and Robust Method for WLAN-Based Indoor Positioning by Zengwei Zheng, Yuanyi Chen, Tao He, Fei Li, Dan Chen

“…In this paper, we first show the RSS variance based on a real dataset and analyze the relation existing in the RSS raw values. …”
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Performance Comparison of Cherry Tomato Ripeness Detection Using Multiple YOLO Models by Dayeon Yang, Chanyoung Ju

“…It specifically evaluates the performance of YOLO (You Only Look Once) v5 and YOLOv8 (with a ResNet50 backbone) models. A new dataset was created by augmenting the original 300 images to 742 images using techniques such as rotation, flipping, and brightness adjustments. …”
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Ignoring Gender-Based Immunometabolic Reprograming, a Risky Business in Immune-Based Precision Medicine by Vijay Kumar

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PANEL STUDY OF CREDIT MANAGEMENT DIMENSIONS AND LOAN PERFORMANCE OF NIGERIAN BANKS by Oloruntoba Oyedele, A. O Ahmed

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Static and Dynamic Measurement of Ocular Surface Temperature in Dry Eyes by Li Li Tan, Srinivasan Sanjay, Philip B. Morgan

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Winter and early spring assemblages of ladybird beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in two forest habitats in suburban area of Warsaw, central Poland by Karolina Bodzon, Piotr Ceryngier

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Adaptive enhancement of shoulder x-ray images using tissue attenuation and type-II fuzzy sets. by Qifeng Liu, Yong Han, Lu Shen, Jialei Du, Marzia Hoque Tania

“…When tested on certain images from the MURA dataset, the proposed method achieved the best or second-best results, outperforming five no-reference image quality assessment metrics. …”
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Diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Lineages Associated with Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Southwestern, Uganda by Lisa, Nkatha Micheni, Kennedy, Kassaza, Hellen, W. Kinyi

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Construction of “Biomigration – Regional Cooling” Multi-functional Ecological Network in Wuhan Urban Agglomeration by Jiajie LI, Yuanyuan GU, Zhong XING

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Remote Sensing of Sun-Induced Fluorescence in a Deep Lake: Disentangling Quenching Mechanisms Improves Relationship With Chlorophyll-a Concentration Estimates by Remika S. Gupana, Daniel Odermatt, Abolfazl Irani Rahaghi, Camille Minaudo, Mortimer Werther, Claudia Giardino, Alexander Damm

“…We assembled a unique dataset collected between 2018 and 2022 by an autonomous profiler in Lake Geneva (Western Europe). …”
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Study Protocol of the Korean EGFR Registry: A Multicenter Prospective and Retrospective Cohort Study in Nonsmall Cell Lung Cancer Patients With EGFR Mutation by Chang Dong Yeo, Dong Won Park, Seong Hoon Yoon, Eun Young Kim, Jeong Eun Lee, Shin Yup Lee, Chang‐Min Choi, In‐Jae Oh, Do Jin Kim, Jeong Seon Ryu, Jae Cheol Lee, Young‐Chul Kim, Tae Won Jang, Kye Young Lee, Seung Hun Jang, Seung Joon Kim, for the Korean EGFR Registry Investigators

“…However, multicenter studies on the clinicopathologic dataset and treatment outcomes, using a large‐scale dataset, have not been conducted. …”
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Modelling the seasonal dynamics of Aedes albopictus populations using a spatio-temporal stacked machine learning model by Daniele Da Re, Giovanni Marini, Carmelo Bonannella, Fabrizio Laurini, Mattia Manica, Nikoleta Anicic, Alessandro Albieri, Paola Angelini, Daniele Arnoldi, Federica Bertola, Beniamino Caputo, Claudio De Liberato, Alessandra della Torre, Eleonora Flacio, Alessandra Franceschini, Francesco Gradoni, Përparim Kadriaj, Valeria Lencioni, Irene Del Lesto, Francesco La Russa, Riccardo Paolo Lia, Fabrizio Montarsi, Domenico Otranto, Gregory L’Ambert, Annapaola Rizzoli, Pasquale Rombolà, Federico Romiti, Gionata Stancher, Alessandra Torina, Enkelejda Velo, Chiara Virgillito, Fabiana Zandonai, Roberto Rosà

“…In our study, we utilized a recently published dataset documenting egg abundance observations of Aedes albopictus collected using ovitraps. and a set of environmental predictors to forecast the weekly median number of mosquito eggs using a stacked machine learning model. …”
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Behavioral factors associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection. Results from a web-based case-control survey in the Capital Region of Denmark by Mikkel Porsborg Andersen, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Helle Collatz Christensen, Ulrik Pedersen-Bjergaard, Thomas Alexander Gerds, Amalie Lykkemark Moeller, Birgitte Lindegaard, Mille Dybdal Cajar, Florence Chia Chin Tan, Mogens Karsboel Boisen, Sebastian Moretto Krog, Rúna Nolsoee, Peter Lommer Kristensen, Thomas Broe Christensen, Maria Elisabeth Lendorf

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Evaluating the effectiveness of immediate vs. elective thoracic endovascular aortic repair for blunt thoracic aortic injury by Zhaohui Hua, Baoning Zhou, Wenhao Xue, Zhibin Zhou, Jintao Shan, Lei Xia, Yunpeng Luo, Yiming Chai, Zhen Li

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Assessing the feasibility of measuring residents’ quality of life in English care homes and the construct validity and internal consistency of measures completed by staff proxy: a... by Claire Goodman, Julienne Meyer, Karen Spilsbury, Barbara Hanratty, Rachael Carroll, Adam L Gordon, Gizdem Akdur, Anne Killett, Jennifer Burton, Ann-Marie Towers, Stacey Rand, Nick Smith, Sinead Palmer, Stephen Allan, Lucy Anne Webster

“…Objectives To assess the feasibility of capturing older care home residents’ quality of life (QoL) in digital social care records and the construct validity (hypothesis testing) and internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha) of four QoL measures.Design Cross-sectional data collected in wave 1 of the DACHA (Developing resources And minimum dataset for Care Homes’ Adoption) study, a mixed-methods pilot of a prototype minimum dataset (MDS).Setting Care homes (with or without nursing) registered to provide care for older adults (>65 years) and/or those living with dementia. …”
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An improved lightweight ConvNeXt for rice classification by Pengtao Lv, Heliang Xu, Qinghui Zhang, Lei Shi, Heng Li, Youyang Chen, Yana Zhang, Dengke Cao, Zhongyang Liu, Yixin Liu, Jingwen Han, Zhan Zhang, Yiran Qi

“…We conducted comprehensive experiments on the rice dataset from the GrainSpace public dataset to ensure the thoroughness and rigor of the study. …”
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LoCS-Net: Localizing convolutional spiking neural network for fast visual place recognition by Ugur Akcal, Ugur Akcal, Ugur Akcal, Ivan Georgiev Raikov, Ekaterina Dmitrievna Gribkova, Ekaterina Dmitrievna Gribkova, Anwesa Choudhuri, Anwesa Choudhuri, Seung Hyun Kim, Mattia Gazzola, Rhanor Gillette, Rhanor Gillette, Ivan Soltesz, Girish Chowdhary, Girish Chowdhary, Girish Chowdhary

“…The proposed method significantly outperforms existing SOTA SNNs on challenging datasets like Nordland and Oxford RobotCar, achieving 78.6% precision at 100% recall on the Nordland dataset (compared to 73.0% from the current SOTA) and 45.7% on the Oxford RobotCar dataset (compared to 20.2% from the current SOTA). …”
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AI-Driven Innovations for Early Sepsis Detection by Combining Predictive Accuracy With Blood Count Analysis in an Emergency Setting: Retrospective Study by Tai-Han Lin, Hsing-Yi Chung, Ming-Jr Jian, Chih-Kai Chang, Hung-Hsin Lin, Chiung-Tzu Yen, Sheng-Hui Tang, Pin-Ching Pan, Cherng-Lih Perng, Feng-Yee Chang, Chien-Wen Chen, Hung-Sheng Shang

“…ResultsPathogen identification in ICU patients found 243 FilmArray-positive, 411 culture-positive, and 92 undetected cases, yielding a final dataset of 654 (43.8%) sepsis cases out of 1492 total cases. …”
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Vegetation height estimation based on machine learning model driven by multi-source data in Eurasian temperate grassland by Wuhua Wang, Jiakui Tang, Na Zhang, Xuefeng Xu, Anan Zhang, Yanjiao Wang, Kaihui Li, Yidan Wang

“…This study reveals both temporal and spatial dynamics by offering a comprehensive dataset on vegetation height in Eurasian temperate grassland. …”
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Association of Fontan Pathophysiology With Plasma Bile Acids by Ashish H. Shah, MD, MD-Research, Arun Surendran, MSc, Pedram Hassan-Tash, BSc, MD, C. Nolan Turnbull, BSc, Nicole Johnston, MSc, David Goodlett, BSc, PhD, Jun Han, PhD, Robin A. Ducas, MD, James W. Tam, MD, Eberhard Renner, MD, Todd A. Duhamel, PhD, Michel Aliani, MSc, PhD, Amir Ravandi, MD, PhD, Richard A. Krasuski, MD

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