A Multi-Feature Fusion Approach for Road Surface Recognition Leveraging Millimeter-Wave Radar by Zhimin Qiu, Jinju Shao, Dong Guo, Xuehao Yin, Zhipeng Zhai, Zhibing Duan, Yi Xu

“…Firstly, the discriminability of radar echo signals corresponding to different road surface types is verified via statistical analysis. During this process, six-dimensional statistical features that display remarkable differences are extracted. …”
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Foreign object recognition for mine conveyor belt iron separators based on transfer learning with EfficientNet by Hailong YANG, Yiping YUAN, Panpan FAN, Lu XIAO, Feiyang ZHAO, Shaoke YUAN

“…Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization was applied to pre-process low-illumination images, enhancing image contrast and clarity. …”
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Building a Robust Scenario Library for Safety Assurance of Automated Driving Systems: A Review by Antonio A. Bruto da Costa, Patrick Irvine, Tudor Dodoiu, Siddartha Khastgir, Paul Jennings

“…This paper offers an in-depth analysis of best practices and research in scenario-based safety assurance, aiming to develop a detailed scenario library tailored for testing ADSs within diverse driving conditions. …”
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Timeseries Fault Classification in Power Transmission Lines by Non-Intrusive Feature Extraction and Selection Using Supervised Machine Learning by Rab Nawaz, Hani A. Albalawi, Syed Basit Ali Bukhari, Khawaja Khalid Mehmood, Muhammad Sajid

“…Decision Tree, Random Forest, etc.) has been analyzed with various preprocessing techniques (e.g. data scaling, transformation, etc.) and tuning of parameters, focusing on the accuracy and computational time (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$T_{c}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>), for performance generalization and efficiency. Performing specific operations on data in sequence of steps provided flexibility and adaptability in processing the data, making it easy to train, evaluate, and validate the learning algorithms. …”
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Federated learning with tensor networks: a quantum AI framework for healthcare by Amandeep Singh Bhatia, David E Bernal Neira

“…This reduction in parameters not only improves the efficiency of the communication process but also significantly decreases data consumption during training. …”
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Morphological and metabolic changes in Changshan Huyou (Citrus changshan-huyou) following natural tetraploidization by Peiru Huang, Tianyu Xu, Gang Wang, Lin Zhang, Ying Yao, Min Zhang, Chi Zhang

“…Abstract Background Polyploids in citrus are generally used to improve crop varieties. Changshan Huyou (Citrus changshan-huyou) is a native citrus species in China that is highly adaptable and has pharmaceutical value. …”
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Hearing loss is associated with decreased default-mode network connectivity in individuals with mild cognitive impairment by Nicole Grant, Natalie Phillips

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Unraveling the significance of cuproptosis in hepatocellular carcinoma heterogeneity and tumor microenvironment through integrated single-cell sequencing and machine learning appro... by Wang Liu, Liangjing Xia, Yuan peng, Qiang Cao, Ke Xu, Huiyan Luo, Yongjun Peng, Yanping Zhang

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« Paroles de flics ». Communications policières et actualité politique au Maroc (2005-2023) by Mériam Cheikh

“…One of these is the new police journal, entitled Police Magazine, which has been heralded with great fanfare as a move away from the traditional institutional publications that have existed until now and which were not always aimed at the general public. Driven by a strong desire to address the general public directly in Arabic and French, the magazine’s editors - who happen to be in positions of responsibility within the police force - aim to reconcile their security service, which suffers from a bad reputation, and to seize upon the new vulgate on political liberalisation and the democratisation process. …”
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Coffees Brewed from Standard Capsules Help to Compare Different Aroma Fingerprinting Technologies—A Comparison of an Electronic Tongue and Electronic Noses by Biborka Gillay, Zoltan Gillay, Zoltan Kovacs, Viktoria Eles, Tamas Toth, Haruna Gado Yakubu, Iyas Aldib, George Bazar

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Pulp Color Change and the Differences of Carotenoids Metabolism in Flesh of Tainong Mango of Different Ripeness by Chunmei FENG, Chaodan LUO, Jianqiang LI, Xinrong LI, Lixiang WEN, Yanting HUANG, Xiyu ZHANG, Chunxiu PANG

“…The contents of the 20 measured carotenoid substances generally showed an upward trend during the ripening process of mangoes (60.94~98.12 μg/g). …”
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Construction of Pain Management Strategies After Hepatectomy: Evidence Summary and Delphi Study by Wang Y, Song X, Wang S, Bai T, Li R, Liu H, Liu Y, Han Z

“…Subsequently, a Delphi process was performed to improve the strategy. The scientific soundness of the Delphi method was expressed by the effective response rate, authority coefficient (Cr), and coordination coefficient. …”
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A Forecasting Method for COVID-19 Epidemic Trends Using VMD and TSMixer-BiKSA Network by Yuhong Li, Guihong Bi, Taonan Tong, Shirui Li

“…The two input branches are then processed in parallel by the TSMixer-BiKSA network model. …”
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Impact of treatment of hyperkalaemia on quality of life: design of a prospective observational cohort study of long-term management of hyperkalaemia in patients with chronic kidney... by Ken-ei Sada, Shunichi Fukuhara, Hajime Yamazaki, Yosuke Yamamoto, Jui Wang, Yugo Shibagaki, Yoshihiro Onishi, Takafumi Wakita, John E Ware, Toshitaka Yajima

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Clinical and immunological characteristics of medical students depending on the duration and program of study by S. A. Chebotov, R. T. Urazmambetov, I. I. Andreeva, M. V. Kharitonova

“…By the third year of study, the students of the military training center have the best clinical and immunological indicators of the functioning of the immune system in comparison with the students of the standard educational program of general practitioners. It is likely that during this period the process of psychological adaptation of military medical students is completed.…”
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Ethical issues raised in the care of the elderly during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and possible solutions for the future: a systematic review of qualitative scientific literature by Mohamed Amine Bouchlaghem, Zoé Estey-Amyot, Erika Ethier, Miruna Anohim, Marie-Laurence Ouellet-Pelletier, Lyse Langlois, Félix Pageau

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The substantive right to environment and the procedural environmental rights under the Aarhus Convention – Part II by Jerzy Jendrośka

“…This is complemented with a brief overview of the scope and structure of the Convention and its links with Principle 10 of the rio declaration as well as with some comments regarding the design of the Convention which is commonly considered to employ a “rights based approach”. The above analysis provides the basis for the remarks regarding the respective roles of the three types of legal schemes of access to justice as regulated by paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of article 9 of the aarhus Convention in protecting environmental rights covered by the Convention and – more generally – in participatory democracy. …”
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Clinical characteristics of postmenopausal women with endometrial polyps by E. G. Kobaidze, Y. N. Matveeva, E. V. Shirinkina, N. V. Statnykh, N. M. Pirozhnikova

“…Clinical and laboratory data of the obstetric and gynecological history were analyzed; the somatic history was assessed (cardiovascular diseases, arterial hypertension, coronary heart disease). Analysis of laboratory data was performed: complete blood count (CBC), general urinalysis, biochemical parameters – level of cholesterol (Cholesterol), low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C) and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), triglycerides (TG), glucose, alanine aminotransferase (ALAT), asparagine aminotransferase (ASAT), tumor marker CA-125. …”
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Instruments for measuring head nurses’ competencies in a hospital setting: a scoping review by Lukas Billiau, Dries Taghon, Veerle Duprez, Kristof Eeckloo, Simon Malfait

“…A total of 477 head nurse competencies were identified across 12 measurement instruments. Thematic analysis revealed four key competency areas, encompassing 20 related subthemes. …”
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Prospects for the Use of Information and Communication Technologies in the Provision of New Types of Insurance in the Republic of Uzbekistan by A. B. Abdusalomov

“…In the course of preparing the material for this article, the methods of system analysis, economic and mathematical methods and models, special methods of working with information systems and computer networks of various levels were used. …”
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