Utilizing Indonesian Empty Palm Fruit Bunches: Biochar Synthesis via Temperatures Dependent Pyrolysis by Fairuz Gianirfan Nugroho, Abu Saad Ansari, Nurul Taufiqu Rochman, Shubhangi Satish Khadtare, Vijaya Gopalan Sree, Nabeen K. Shrestha, Afina Faza Hafiyyan, Hyunsik Im, Abu Talha Aqueel Ahmed

“…Indonesia, the world’s top palm oil producer, generated around 12 million tons of empty fruit bunches (EFBs) in 2023, making EFBs a promising biochar source. …”
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A Metabolic Study on Colon Cancer Using 1H Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy by Zahra Zamani, Mohammad Arjmand, Farideh Vahabi, Seyed Mahmood Eshaq Hosseini, Sadegh Mohammad Fazeli, Ayda Iravani, Parastoo Bayat, Akbar Oghalayee, Mahshid Mehrabanfar, Reza Haj Hosseini, Mohammad Tashakorpour, Mohsen Tafazzoli, Sedigheh Sadeghi

“…Colorectal carcinoma is the third cause of cancer deaths in the world. For diagnosis, invasive methods like colonoscopy and sigmoidoscopy are used, and noninvasive screening tests are not very accurate. …”
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Micro-Expression Recognition Using Convolutional Variational Attention Transformer (ConVAT) With Multihead Attention Mechanism by Hafiz Khizer Bin Talib, Kaiwei Xu, Yanlong Cao, Yuan Ping Xu, Zhijie Xu, Muhammad Zaman, Adnan Akhunzada

“…To address these limitations, we propose the Convolutional Variational Attention Transformer (ConVAT), a novel model that leverages a multi-head attention mechanism integrated with convolutional networks, optimized specifically for detailed micro-expression analysis. Our methodology employs the Leave-One-Subject-Out (LOSO) cross-validation technique across three widely used datasets: SAMM, CASME II, and SMIC. …”
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Genetic ancestry and the colonial legacies of race in genomics: a cross-disciplinary dialogue by Ernesto Schwartz-Marin, Tayyaba Jiwani, Sarah Abel, Yulia Egorova, Amade M’charek, Diogo Meyer, Andrés Moreno Estrada, Katharina Schramm, Peter Wade, Michel Naslavsky, Michel Naslavsky

“…As genomics initiatives have spread around the world–often in the name of genetic diversity and inclusion–they have not only invoked promises of a medical revolution, but also revived categories of human difference that resemble erstwhile racial classifications. …”
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Post-COVID-19 resurgence of scabies’ cases in the Lazio Region, Italy: a new emerging public health threat? by Martina Spaziante, Alessandro Agresta, Maurizio D’Amato, Gabriella De Carli, Gilda Tonziello, Valentina Vantaggio, Giorgio Nicolò Malatesta, Enrico Girardi, Alessandra Barca, Paola Scognamiglio, Francesco Vairo

“…Abstract Scabies represents a global health issue and in 2017 was added to the World Health Organization’s list of neglected tropical diseases. …”
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Topological Properties of Large-Scale Cortical Networks Based on Multiple Morphological Features in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment by Qiongling Li, Xinwei Li, Xuetong Wang, Yuxia Li, Kuncheng Li, Yang Yu, Changhao Yin, Shuyu Li, Ying Han

“…All the cortical networks showed small-world properties. Regions showing significant differences mainly located in the medial temporal lobe and supramarginal and right inferior parietal lobe. …”
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GFA-Net: Geometry-Focused Attention Network for Six Degrees of Freedom Object Pose Estimation by Shuai Lin, Junhui Yu, Peng Su, Weitao Xue, Yang Qin, Lina Fu, Jing Wen, Hong Huang

“…While estimating pose from a single RGB image is highly desirable for real-world applications, it presents significant challenges. …”
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Acromegaly: Is earlier diagnosis possible? Exploration of a screening algorithm to select high-risk patients by Tessa N.A. Slagboom, David de Jong, Peter H. Bisschop, Madeleine L. Drent

“…Data were extracted from the electronic health records of a tertiary centre. Multiple sources (literature review, real-world evidence and expert opinion) were used to identify predictors such as clinical manifestations, comorbidities and frequently consulted specialists, for inclusion in the algorithm. …”
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PUPIL DIAMETER AND MACHINE LEARNING FOR DEPRESSION DETECTION: A COMPARATIVE STUDY WITH DEEP LEARNING MODELS by Islam MOHAMED, Mohamed EL-WAKAD, Khaled ABBAS, Mohamed ABOAMER, Nader A. Rahman MOHAMED

“…This study aims to utilize machine learning and pupil diameter features to identify depression and evaluate the accuracy of these classifiers in comparison to our previous deep learning model. While limited research has explored the use of pupillary diameter as a classification tool for distinguishing between individuals with and without depression, several studies have focused on EEG signals for this purpose. …”
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STFCropNet: A Spatiotemporal Fusion Network for Crop Classification in Multiresolution Remote Sensing Images by Wei Wu, Yapeng Liu, Kun Li, Haiping Yang, Liao Yang, Zuohui Chen

“…STFCropNet achieves an overall accuracy of 83.2% and 90.6%, representing improvements of 3.6% and 4.1%, respectively, compared to the second-best baseline model. We release our code at.…”
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Fish Tank Granuloma Presenting as a Nasal Cavity Mass by Motoki Sekine, Fumiyuki Goto, Kosuke Saito, Shoji Kaneda, Hikaru Yamamoto, Tomoaki Murakami, Takahide Hamano, Kenji Okami

“…A 57-year-old woman who was receiving infliximab for psoriatic arthritis visited our hospital with a complaint of right nasal obstruction. …”
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Depression Detection in Social Media: A Comprehensive Review of Machine Learning and Deep Learning Techniques by Waleed Bin Tahir, Shah Khalid, Sulaiman Almutairi, Mohammed Abohashrh, Sufyan Ali Memon, Jawad Khan

“…In addition, we highlight key open research areas, providing a useful starting point for further research and development. By narrowing our focus to social media, this review contributes to advancing the understanding and application of cutting-edge methods for depression detection. …”
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Peri Cholecystectomy Bile Analysis for Fasciola hepatica Eggs in Sulaimani Teaching Hospital by Seerwan Hama Shareef, Taher Abdullah Hawramy, Osman jamal nasrulla, Karwn Hama amin, Dara Ahmed Mohammed, Raz Seerwan Hama

“…It is a widespread disease throughout the world; nearly (2.4 – 17) millions of people is infected. …”
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Effect of Opuntia ficus-indica Mucilage Edible Coating in Combination with Ascorbic Acid, on Strawberry Fruit Quality during Cold Storage by Giorgia Liguori, Raimondo Gaglio, Luca Settanni, Paolo Inglese, Fabio D’Anna, Alessandro Miceli

“…Strawberry fruit is a nonclimacteric fruit and is one of the most consumed berries in the world. It is characterized by high levels of vitamin C, folate, vitamin E, β-carotene, and phenolic constituents as well asanthocyanins that are strictly related to health benefits. …”
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Electromagnetic metamaterial agent by Shengguo Hu, Mingyi Li, Jiawen Xu, Hongrui Zhang, Shanghang Zhang, Tie Jun Cui, Philipp del Hougne, Lianlin Li

“…In response to live environmental feedback within a real-world setting emulating an ambient-assisted living context (including human requests in natural language), our metaAgent prototype self-organizes a hierarchy of EM manipulation tasks in conjunction with commanding a robot. metaAgent masters foundational EM manipulation skills related to wireless communications and sensing, and it memorizes and learns from past experience based on human feedback.…”
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PositivMasc: masculinities and violence against women among young people. Identifying discourses and developing strategies for change, a mixed-method study protocol by N Daoud, M Salazar, Claire Edwards, Margaret Scanlon, C Vives-Cases

“…Introduction Despite public policies and legislative changes aiming to curtail men’s violence against women (VAW) around the world, women continue to be exposed to VAW throughout their life. …”
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Iranian Pediatric COVID-19 Epidemiology and Clinical Characteristics by Shahnaz Armin, Mohammadreza Mirkarimi, Zahra Pourmoghaddas, Marjan Tariverdi, Azadeh Jafrasteh, Noushin Marhamati, Armin Shirvani, Abdollah Karimi, Sedigheh Rafiei Tabatabaei, Roxana Mansour Ghanaei, SeyedAlireza Fahimzad, Fariba Shirvani, Seyedeh Mahsan Hoseini-Alfatemi

“…In addition, the prevalence of this disease is still very high in some parts of the world, including Iran. Thus, this study aims to evaluate the epidemiological features, laboratory and imaging findings, and the type of treatments in children with novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19). …”
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Addressing challenges in vector control: a review of current strategies and the imperative for novel tools in India’s combat against vector-borne diseases by Kuldeep Singh, Amit Sharma, Manju Rahi, Sanjeev Kumar Gupta, Gaurav Kumar, Rajendra Baharia, Sam Joy

“…Among the six VBDs, India is committed to the elimination of three (malaria, visceral leishmaniasis and lymphatic filariasis) and it will require additional and/or novel tools to overcome the roadblocks in our current journey to the goal of control/elimination of these VBDs.…”
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Ecological portraits: Mapping functional spectra and space characteristics of birds in China by Fei Duan, Ming Gao, Shuyi Zhu, Xiaoli Shen, Sheng Li

“…By mapping the gradient across the diversity of bird ecological strategies (functional spectra) and quantifying the functional spaces of the focus taxon, we can better understand their ecological requirements and acquire critical information needed for developing effective conservation strategies. As one of the world’s 17 mega-diversity countries China harbors a highly diverse avian fauna. …”
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Clinical Outcomes and Patient Experience of Biosimilar to Biosimilar Infliximab Switching in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Prospective, Single-Centre, Phase IV Interv... by Clare Harris, Richard James Harris, David Young, Martin McDonnell, Bridget Clancy, Justin Harvey, Carlos Araujo, Ines Iria, Joao Goncalves, Susan Latter, J. R. Fraser Cummings

“…Data is emerging but there is still a gap in the evidence on switching between infliximab biosimilars. Our aim was to conduct a full evaluation of switching a cohort of IBD patients from one biosimilar (CT-P13) to another (SB2) in a real-world setting including clinical and patient experience and molecular and drug immunogenicity aspects of the process. …”
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