Enhancing Road Scene Segmentation With an Optimized DeepLabV3+ by Zhe Ren, Libao Wang, Tianming Song, Yihang Li, Jian Zhang, Fengfeng Zhao

“…Second, the Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP) module is optimized by introducing depthwise separable convolutions and a hierarchical feature fusion strategy, reducing computational complexity and mitigating the grid effect, a limitation in many current models. …”
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A Finger Vein Recognition Algorithm Based on the Histogram of Variable Curvature Directional Binary Statistics by Min Li, Xue Jiang, Honghao Zhu, Fei Liu, Huabin Wang, Liang Tao, Shijun Liu

“…Finally, competitive Gabor directional binary statistical features are combined, and a matching score-level fusion scheme is employed based on maximizing the interclass distance and minimizing the intraclass distance to determine the optimal weights. …”
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The City of Orik in the Writings of Ancient Authors and Archaeological Records by Aleks Trushaj, Gladiola Elezi

“…Overall, by systematically collecting and critically analysing all available ancient sources, this study offers a multi-layered portrait of Orik as a strategic Greek colony, Illyrian stronghold, maritime trade hub, and crossroads of cultural fusion in the Adriatic.…”
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YOLOv8n-CA: Improved YOLOv8n Model for Tomato Fruit Recognition at Different Stages of Ripeness by Xin Gao, Jieyuan Ding, Ruihong Zhang, Xiaobo Xi

“…The CARAFE up-sampling operator was integrated to expand the receptive field for improved feature fusion. Finally, the SIoU loss function was used to solve the problem of insufficient CIoU of the original loss function. …”
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YENİ SAĞ VE DEMOKRATİKLEŞME ARASINDAKİ İLİŞKİ: TURGUT ÖZAL DÖNEMİ TÜRKİYE’Sİ ÖRNEĞİ - THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE NEW RIGHT AND DEMOCRATIZATION: THE CASE OF TURGUT ÖZAL PERIOD IN... by İsmail Kurun

“…Makale, bu yönden, liberalizasyon politikaları nedeniyle Yeni Sağile demokratikleşme arasında paralel bir ilişki bulunduğuna dair genel birçıkarım ile son bulmaktadır.AbstractThe New Right is the name attributed to an eclectical governmentalprogram which formed with the fusion of classical liberal economy and politicalconservatism. …”
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Use of a Free Vascularized Medial Femoral Condyle Flap for Revision Surgery in a Pediatric Patient with Congenital Pseudarthrosis of the Clavicle by Atsuro Murai, Kaoru Tada, Mika Nakada, Masashi Matsuta, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Hiroyuki Tsuchiya

“…However, in some cases, bone fusion cannot be achieved at the first surgery, and an additional surgery is required. …”
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Enhancing concealed object detection in active THz security images with adaptation-YOLO by Aiguo Cheng, Shiyou Wu, Xiaodong Liu, Hangyu Lu

“…By dynamically combining local features and their global relationships, contextual association information can be obtained from the input features, and enhanced attention features can be achieved through feature fusion to enable precise detection of concealed objects. …”
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Attention activation network for bearing fault diagnosis under various noise environments by Yu Zhang, Lianlei Lin, Junkai Wang, Wei Zhang, Sheng Gao, Zongwei Zhang

“…The model has enhanced filtering performance and multi-location information fusion ability. Our comparative and ablation experiments demonstrate that the model’s components, including the multi-location and multi-scale vibration extraction module, soft threshold noise filtering module, multi-scale self-activation mechanism, and layer attention mechanism, are highly effective in filtering noise from various locations and extracting multi-dimensional features. …”
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Reach&Grasp: a multimodal dataset of the whole upper-limb during simple and complex movements by Dario Di Domenico, Inna Forsiuk, Simon Müller-Cleve, Simone Tanzarella, Florencia Garro, Andrea Marinelli, Michele Canepa, Matteo Laffranchi, Michela Chiappalone, Chiara Bartolozzi, Lorenzo De Michieli, Nicolò Boccardo, Marianna Semprini

“…It can be used to investigate upper-limb movements in physiological conditions, and to test sensor fusion approaches and control algorithms for prosthetics and robotic applications.…”
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Uncovering new Higgses in the LHC analyses of differential t t ¯ $$ t\overline{t} $$ cross sections by Sumit Banik, Guglielmo Coloretti, Andreas Crivellin, Bruce Mellado

“…In this article, we use the differential lepton distributions from the latest ATLAS t t ¯ $$ t\overline{t} $$ analysis to study a new physics benchmark model motivated by existing indications for new Higgses: a new scalar H is produced via gluon fusion and decays to S ′ (95 GeV) and S (152 GeV), which subsequently decay to b b ¯ $$ b\overline{b} $$ and WW, respectively. …”
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Morphologic and Chemical Properties of PMMA/ATH Layers with Enhanced Abrasion Resistance Realised by Cold Plasma Spraying at Atmospheric Pressure by L. Wallenhorst, R. Rerich, M. Vovk, S. Dahle, H. Militz, G. Ohms, W. Viöl

“…In this work, results from morphologic and chemical analysis suggested an encasement of the PMMA/ATH particles by plasma-modified PF and thus a fusion of individual particles, explaining the enhanced bonding. …”
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MSCD-YOLO: A Lightweight Dense Pedestrian Detection Model with Finer-Grained Feature Information Interaction by Qiang Liu, Zhongmin Li, Lei Zhang, Jin Deng

“…In our model, the light-weight backbone network MobileViT is used to reduce the number of parameters while efficiently extracting both local and global features; the SCNeck neck network is designed to fuse the extracted features without losing information; and the DEHead detection head is utilized for multi-scale feature fusion to detect the targets. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our model, we conducted tests on the highly challenging dense pedestrian detection datasets Crowdhuman and Widerperson. …”
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Sandwich structures with TPMS core and printed circuit board faces by Gustavo Ferreira Malta, Pedro Henrique dos Santos Alves, Manuel Barcelos Júnior

“…One of the most common types of 3D printing is Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), which is based on the fusion and deposition of various materials, such as thermoplastic materials. …”
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Overexpression of CsBRC, an F‐box gene from Camellia sinensis, increased the plant branching in tobacco and rice by Bokun Zhou, Qi Sheng, Xinzhuan Yao, Tong Li, Litang Lu

“…We named it CsBRC. CsBRC‐GFP fusion proteins were mainly localized in the plasma membrane. …”
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Cisplatin-Induced Nephrotoxicity and HIV Associated Nephropathy: Mimickers of Myeloma-Like Cast Nephropathy by Muhammad Siddique Khurram, Ahmed Alrajjal, Warda Ibrar, Jacob Edens, Umer Sheikh, Ameer Hamza, Hong Qu

“…First two cases revealed foci of diffuse tubular dilatation containing hyaline casts and interstitial inflammatory infiltrate, in addition to globally sclerotic glomeruli with ultrastructural foot process fusion and mesangium expansion. The third case showed acute tubular injury and cast formation of irregular casts composed of amorphous or granular material of low density admixed with scattered high electron-dense globules. …”
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Prediction of early postoperative recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma by habitat analysis based on different sequence of contrast-enhanced CT by Yubo Zhang, Yubo Zhang, Hongyan Ma, Peng Lei, Zhiyuan Li, Zhao Yan, Xinqing Wang

“…Machine learning classification models were constructed as a fusion model combining the three different models, and the models were assessed.ResultsA comprehensive retrospective analysis was conducted on a cohort of 344 patients who underwent hepatic cancer resection at one of the two centers. it was found that the combined SVM model yielded superior results after comparing various metrics, such as the AUC, accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, and DCA.ConclusionsHabitat analysis of sequential CT images can delineate distinct subregions within a tumor, offering valuable insights for early prediction of postoperative HCC recurrence.…”
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Thoracic Radicular Pain Caused by Extravertebral Gas and Fluid Collections Associated with Osteoporotic Vertebral Fracture Containing a Vacuum Cleft by Kazunobu Kida, Toshikazu Tani, Tateo Kawazoe, Michio Toda

“…Because these extravertebral collections were located where the 10th thoracic nerve root just exits the intervertebral foramina, her chest pain of a posture-dependent nature most likely resulted from nerve root compression by extravertebral gas and fluid forced out of the vertebral cleft. Posterior spinal fusion with pedicle screw instrumentation resulted in a complete resolution of the chest pain with disappearance of the extravertebral gas and fluid accumulations. …”
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Active Hard Sample Learning for Violation Action Recognition in Power Grid Operation by Lingwen Meng, Di He, Guobang Ban, Guanghui Xi, Anjun Li, Xinshan Zhu

“…We design a hard instance sampling module with multi-strategy fusion based on active learning to improve training efficiency. …”
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SAR-Assisted Energy-Efficient Hybrid ADCs by Kent Edrian Lozada, Dong-Jin Chang, Dong-Ryeol Oh, Min-Jae Seo, Seung-Tak Ryu

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Calcium-mediated mitochondrial fission and mitophagy drive glycolysis to facilitate arterivirus proliferation. by Zhe Sun, Zicheng Ma, Wandi Cao, Chenlong Jiang, Lei Guo, Kesen Liu, Yanni Gao, Juan Bai, Jiang Pi, Ping Jiang, Xing Liu

“…Mitochondria, recognized as the "powerhouse" of cells, play a vital role in generating cellular energy through dynamic processes such as fission and fusion. Viruses have evolved mechanisms to hijack mitochondrial function for their survival and proliferation. …”
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