Small-scale land use effects on plant communities in Mediterranean urban ecosystems by Vincenzo Baldi, Alessandro Bellino, Daniela Baldantoni

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A Combined Frame Difference and Convolution Method for Moving Vehicle Detection in Satellite Videos by Xin Luo, Jiatian Li, Xiaohui A, Yuxi Deng

“…Experiments using the Jilin-1 satellite video dataset demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms comparison models, significantly reducing missed detections caused by weak color and texture features and blurred boundaries. …”
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Intervention Models in Functional Connectivity Identification Applied to fMRI by João Ricardo Sato, Daniel Yasumasa Takahashi, Ellison Fernando Cardoso, Maria da Graça Morais Martin, Edson Amaro Júnior, Pedro Alberto Morettin

“…Furthermore, an illustrative application to real fMRI dataset from a simple motor task is presented.…”
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Efficient Generative-Adversarial U-Net for Multi-Organ Medical Image Segmentation by Haoran Wang, Gengshen Wu, Yi Liu

“…Consequently, EGAUNet demonstrates exemplary segmentation performance on public multi-organ datasets while maintaining high efficiency. For instance, in evaluations on the CHAOS T2SPIR dataset, EGAUNet achieves approximately <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>2</mn><mo>%</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> higher performance on the Jaccard metric, <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>1</mn><mo>%</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> higher on the Dice metric, and nearly <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>3</mn><mo>%</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> higher on the precision metric in comparison to advanced networks such as Swin-Unet and TransUnet.…”
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CMIP6-based global estimates of future aridity index and potential evapotranspiration for 2021-2060 [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] by Jianchu Xu, Robert J. Zomer, Antonio Trabucco, Donatella Spano

“…Historical results were compared for technical validation with weather station data (PET: r 2 = 0.72; AI: r 2 = 0.91) and the CRU_TS v 4.04 dataset (PET: r 2 = 0.67; AI: r 2 = 0.80). Within the context of projected significant change in the near- and medium-term, the “Future_Global_AI_PET Database” provides a set of data projections and tools available for a variety of scientific and practical applications, illustrating trends and magnitude of predicted climatic and eco-hydrological impacts on terrestrial ecosystems. …”
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Effects of Various Extents of High-Frequency Hearing Loss on Speech Recognition and Gap Detection at Low Frequencies in Patients with Sensorineural Hearing Loss by Bei Li, Yang Guo, Guang Yang, Yanmei Feng, Shankai Yin

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The Weight of HLA-DPA1 rs3077 Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in Prostate Cancer, a Multicenter Study by Mohammed Jayed Alenzi, Amany A. Ghazy, Diaa-Eldin Taha

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Pangenome mining of the Streptomyces genus redefines species’ biosynthetic potential by Omkar S. Mohite, Tue S. Jørgensen, Thomas J. Booth, Pep Charusanti, Patrick V. Phaneuf, Tilmann Weber, Bernhard O. Palsson

“…Conclusions Our analysis of a genomic dataset at a scale of thousands of genomes refines predictions of BGC diversity using Mash-clusters as a basis for pangenome analysis. …”
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C-Reactive Protein As A Response Indicator In Drug-Naïve Patients With Major Depressive Disorder: A Hospital-Based Study by Ather Muneer, Nargis Munir, Nadia Shams, Mirza Inam, Usman Ghani, Neelam Ayub

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Processing of retransmitted GPS signals in the problem of measuring the total electron content in the ionosphere by Y. A. Kapliarchuk, S. V. Kozlov, I. E. Savinykh, A. S. Shapkin

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Rice suitability mapping using the analytic hierarchy process approach in a river catchment by N. Robertson, B. Oinam

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Complementarity-Oriented Feature Fusion for Face-Phone Trajectory Matching by Changfeng Cao, Wenchuan Zhang, Hua Yang, Dan Ruan

“…We evaluated our method on a large real-world face-phone trajectory dataset and showed promising results with the accuracy of 97.1% which exceeds the comparable similarity-based methods. …”
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Oxytocin Versus Dinoprostone For Labor Induction in Multiparous Women with Unfavorable Cervix by Gul Nihal Buyuk, Umit Yasemin Sert, Zeynep Asli Oskovi Kaplan, Serkan Kahyaoglu

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Enhancing Intelligent Road Target Monitoring: A Novel BGS-YOLO Approach Based on the YOLOv8 Algorithm by Xingyu Liu, Yuanfeng Chu, Yiheng Hu, Nan Zhao

“…Experiments on the public COCO dataset demonstrate that the BGS-YOLO model significantly outperforms the existing YOLOv8n model. …”
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Clinical performance of class II MOD fiber reinforced resin composite restorations: an 18-month randomized controlled clinical trial by Mohamed Hamdy Mohamed, Eman Ali Abouauf, Rania Sayed Mosallam

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Uncovering antidepressant prescription patterns: a three-year analysis of outpatient trends by Hossein Karami, Reza Mehrizi, Mohammad Effatpanah, Azamsadat Rivandi, Rajabali Daroudi, Nezam Armand, Leila Ghamkhar

“…Methods A retrospective cohort study was conducted using prescription data from the Iranian Health Insurance Organization (IHIO) between March 2021 and March 2024. The dataset included 8,924,431 prescriptions from 3,524,273 patients who received at least one ADs. …”
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How does BMI correlate with menarche onset? Evidence from the Italian HBSC cross-sectional study by Domitilla Marconi, Dario Lipari, Andrea Pammolli, Paola Dalmasso, Paola Nardone, Alessio Vieno, Rita Simi, Giacomo Lazzeri

“…Two independent nationally representative survey datasets: one on 15-year-olds (n = 6505, year 2017/2018) and one on 11-year-olds (n = 6548, year 2013/2014) were analysed. …”
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The relationship between neutrophil percentage-to-albumin ratio and slow and normal coronary flow phenomenon by Renlin Yin, Wei Zhu, Weihai Chen, Jun Shen, Yanming Wu, Zhiming Wang

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Ocular Surface Disorders in a Group of Egyptian Children with End Stage Renal Failure on Dialysis: A Cross-Sectional Study by Mohamed Anbar, Ahmed R. H. Ahmed, Abdel-Azeem M. El-Mazary, Ramadan A. Mahmoud

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Improved Outcomes of Combined Main Branch Stenting and Side Branch Drug-Coated Balloon versus Two-Stent Strategy in Patients with Left Main Bifurcation Lesions by Hengdao Liu, Hailong Tao, Xufei Han, Yang Lu, Xiaofei Xue, Ruihan Feng, Fenghua Lv, Yanwei Liu, Hongrui Jin, Lianjie Li, Heping Gu

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