Clinical Specimens are the Pool of Multidrug- resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa Harbouring oprL and toxA Virulence Genes: Findings from a Tertiary Hospital of Nepal by Yamuna Chand, Sujan Khadka, Sanjeep Sapkota, Suprina Sharma, Santosh Khanal, Alina Thapa, Binod Rayamajhee, Dhruba Kumar Khadka, Om Prakash Panta, Dipendra Shrestha, Pramod Poudel

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A NEW INTELLIGENT DRIVER VIGILANCE SYSTEM DESIGN USING TILT SENSORS by Ali Zuhair Ghazi Zahid, Karrar Shakir Muttair, Oras Ahmed Shareef, Abbas Ali Diwan, Hazeem Baqir Taher, Raed Hameed Chyad Alfilh, Ahmed Mahmood Farhan, Mahmood Farhan Mosleh, Faiz Arith

“…Moreover, a camera was mounted in front of the driver to take photos and record videos of the driver's health. As a result, the results were entirely satisfactory, and if the driver was operating the vehicle while fatigued, the response was 95% reliable and fast. …”
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Emotional and physical experiences of people with neovascular age-related macular degeneration during the injection process in Germany: a qualitative study by Oliver Zeitz, Martina Breuning, Christine Holmberg, Christian Wolfram, Anne Thier

“…After some years of receiving multiple injections, the pain and not experiencing any positive effects made participants with significant vision loss want to discontinue therapy. Furthermore, they narrated negative injection experiences in association with their interactions with medical staff and doctors.Conclusion Although time in the medical setting is limited, efficient and good doctor-patient relationships seem crucial for satisfying care experiences. …”
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Rural Development in Community Empowerment Through the Governance of Village-Owned Enterprises (BUMDES) by Sofyan Hadi, Auradian Marta, Raja Muhammad Amin, Rury Febrina

“…Accountably, it is assessed that the resource capacity of BUMDes managers, lack of understanding of the role and vision and mission of BUMDes, in a sustainable way, has not been oriented towards the sustainability of BUMDes institutions and businesses. …”
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Degrade or Super-Resolve to Recognize? Bridging the Domain Gap for Cross-Resolution Face Recognition by Klemen Grm, Berk Kemal Ozata, Alperen Kantarci, Vitomir Struc, Hazim Kemal Ekenel

“…Our results show that the combination of standard computer vision approaches such as degradation, super-resolution, feature fusion, and score fusion can be used to substantially improve performance on the task of low resolution face recognition using off-the-shelf face recognition models without re-training on the target domain.…”
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Face Detection Using Hybrid SNN-ANN to Process Neuromorphic Event Stream by Waseem Shariff, Paul Kielty, Joe Lemley, Peter Corcoran

“…This paper tackles the challenges of face detection, a vital computer vision task with wide-ranging applications, particularly in driver monitoring systems, where both accuracy and computational efficiency are crucial. …”
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E-Tourism in Nigeria: An Examination of Internet as a Tool for Tourism Marketing in Ikogosi Warm and Cold Spring Holiday Resort by Deborah Olasupo, Ibidapo Adebayo, Olakunle Orimaye

“…On content type, 72% expressed a preference for visuals (photos and videos) showcasing the site’s attractions and cultural elements, believing that such content would have the greatest impact on attracting tourists. …”
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Novel Strategies for the Improvement of Stem Cells’ Transplantation in Degenerative Retinal Diseases by Simona Delia Nicoară, Sergiu Șușman, Oana Tudoran, Otilia Bărbos, Gabriela Cherecheș, Simion Aștilean, Monica Potara, Olga Sorițău

“…Currently, there is no cure for the permanent vision loss caused by degenerative retinal diseases. …”
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Surgical Outcomes in Macular Telangiectasia Type 2-Related Macular Holes: A Report on Four Patients by Kinza T. Ahmad, Joseph Chacko, Ahmed B. Sallam, David B. Warner, Sami H. Uwaydat

“…A retrospective review of clinical, surgical, and imaging data of five eyes in four patients with MacTel Type 2 FTMH who underwent pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) with internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling and 30% SF6 or 15% C3F8 gas tamponade within 3-9 months of initial vision decline. Results. Visual acuity (VA) at the time of surgery ranged from 20/50 to 20/200. …”
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Similarity Learning and Generalization with Limited Data: A Reservoir Computing Approach by Sanjukta Krishnagopal, Yiannis Aloimonos, Michelle Girvan

“…We demonstrate our results on the simple MNIST handwritten digit database as well as a database of depth maps of visual scenes in videos taken from a moving camera. We consider image pair relationships such as images from the same class; images from the same class with one image superposed with noise, rotated 90°, blurred, or scaled; images from different classes. …”
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Exploitation of Unconventional CD8 T-Cell Responses Induced by Engineered Cytomegaloviruses for the Development of an HIV-1 Vaccine by Joseph Bruton, Tomáš Hanke

“…Despite some safety concerns regarding using HCMV as a vaccine vector in humans, there is a vision of immune programming of HCMV to induce pathogen-tailored CD8⁺ T-cells effective against HIV-1 and other life-threatening diseases.…”
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Combination of a monofocal and one type of extended depth-of-focus (zonal refractive) intraocular lens (COMEDI) in bilateral cataract surgery protocol: a monocentric, randomised, p... by Sorcha Ní Dhubhghaill, Silke Oellerich, Wilfried Cools, Heleen Delbeke, Iva Krolo, Karolien Termote, Roger Van Schoor

“…In contrast, EDOF IOLs provide a greater range of vision, extending spectacle independence to intermediate distance, while multifocal IOLs enable spectacle independence at all distances with the drawback of positive dysphotopsias and reduced contrast perception.EDOF lenses are an attractive compromise with fewer dysphotopic side effects than multifocals. …”
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Multi-Scale Channel Distillation Network for Image Compressive Sensing by Tianyu Zhang, Kuntao Ye, Yue Zhang, Rui Lu

“…Recently, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated striking success in computer vision tasks. Methods based on CNNs for image compressive sensing (CS) have also gained prominence. …”
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El proceso pedagógico de posgrado en la especialización de Medicina General Integral: hacia una praxis sustentada desde el enfoque histórico cultural del desarrollo humano by Ana Teresa Fernández Vidal, José Aurelio Díaz Quiñones, Silvia Enrique Vilaplana

“…El objetivo de este trabajo es precisar la importancia del enfoque histórico cultural en el proceso pedagógico contextualizado en la especialización en Medicina General Integral en la educación médica de posgrado, para lo que se realizó una sistematización teórica y metodológica con importantes repercusiones para el acercamiento a una praxis con una visión emergente, sustentada en los núcleos invariantes de dicho enfoque que superan prácticas tradicionalistas y enriquecen las múltiples potencialidades presentes en la formación de estos profesionales en nuestras universidades médicas.…”
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Enhancing unsupervised learning in medical image registration through scale-aware context aggregation by Yuchen Liu, Ling Wang, Xiaolin Ning, Yang Gao, Defeng Wang

“…This model effectively combines convolutional networks and vision transformers, addressing various registration tasks. …”
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Learning from crises: challenges and opportunities for rural inland territories in the south-west of France after COVID-19 by Inmaculada Diaz-Soria, Sébastien Rayssac, Asunción Blanco-Romero

“…Este contexto les puso además frente a nuevas situaciones que se vieron obligados a gestionar, como el incremento de los flujos de visitantes de proximidad en espacios naturales y abiertos. …”
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Zone Specific Fractal Dimension of Retinal Images as Predictor of Stroke Incidence by Behzad Aliahmad, Dinesh Kant Kumar, Hao Hao, Premith Unnikrishnan, Mohd Zulfaezal Che Azemin, Ryo Kawasaki, Paul Mitchell

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A arte como refúgio: intertextualidade, espaço e (imagi)nação em “Aqueles dois”, de Caio Fernando Abreu by Jacob Brown

“…Las obras referenciadas suelen venir asimismo del extranjero, contribuyendo a la visión cosmopolita del cuento para un Brasil en plena transición de la dictadura militar a la democracia. …”
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Construcción de una Identidad Profesional consistente como palanca para el cambio by Miguel Angel Gastelurrutia

“…En el mundo de la farmacia se han identificado varias identidades profesionales diferentes lo que puede dar idea de un cierto grado de ambigüedad en el rol que se espera de este profesional y de una falta de dirección clara y de la caracterización de aquello que hace “único” al farmacéutico, aunque también puede sugerir una visión flexible y amplia del rol de este profesional. …”
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Leveraging Partial Labels for Cervical Lesion Classification via a Multilabel Approach by Margaret Dy Manalo, Kota Aoki, Shuqiong Wu, Mariko Shindo, Yutaka Ueda, Yasushi Yagi

“…This refined dataset is then fed to a Vision Transformer, which performs per-class feature extraction and incorporates a part selection module that emphasizes critical areas within the cervigram, while integrating inter-class information within both early and late stages of the model. …”
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