Requirements for Universally Accessible Upper-Body Exercise Equipment: The Case of People with Spinal Cord Injuries in Korea by Kwang-Ok An, Myo-Jung Choi, Sung-Shin Kim, Bo-Ra Kang, Young-Hyeon Bae, Hyosun Kweon

“…Information such as explanations of the exercise equipment and how to use it should be located within the wheelchair user’s field of vision. Considering the participation rate in sports for people with disabilities in Korea, it is necessary to explain the exact exercise equipment and exercise method. …”
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Attention-enhanced optimized deep ensemble network for effective facial emotion recognition by Taimoor Khan, Muhammad Yasir, Chang Choi

“…Facial emotion recognition (FER) is rapidly advancing, with significant applications in healthcare, human-computer interactions, and biometric security, driven by recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI), computer vision, and deep learning. In recent studies, various algorithms have encountered several challenges such as data scarcity, low-resolution images, and suboptimal performance, particularly in real-time applications. …”
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Sign Language Recognition System for Deaf Patients: Protocol for a Systematic Review by Milena Soriano Marcolino, Lucca Fagundes Ramos Oliveira, Lucas Rocha Valle, Luiza Marinho Motta Santa Rosa, Zilma Silveira Nogueira Reis, Thiago Barbabela de Castro Soares, Elidéa Lúcia Almeida Bernardino, Raniere Alislan Almeida Cordeiro, Raquel Oliveira Prates, Mario Fernando Montenegro Campos

“…ObjectiveThis study aims to systematically review the evidence on communication systems using human-computer interaction techniques developed for deaf people who communicate through sign language that are already in use or proposed for use in health care contexts and have been tested with human users or videos of human users. MethodsA systematic review will be performed based on a literature search in MEDLINE, Web of Science, ACM, and IEEE Xplore as well as top-tiered conferences in the area to identify relevant studies. …”
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The impact of teaching approach on horse and rider biomechanics during riding lessons by Anna Byström, Agneta Egenvall, Marie Eisersiö, Maria Terese Engell, Sigrid Lykken, Susanne Lundesjö Kvart

“…Each rider rode two horses, 40 lessons total. Videos, horse and rider kinematics and rein tension were recorded. …”
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Multitask Learning-Based Pipeline-Parallel Computation Offloading Architecture for Deep Face Analysis by Faris S. Alghareb, Balqees Talal Hasan

“…Therefore, the presented pipeline-parallel architecture can be a cost-effective framework for real-time computer vision applications implemented on resource-limited devices.…”
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Explainable artificial intelligence with fusion-based transfer learning on adverse weather conditions detection using complex data for autonomous vehicles by Khaled Tarmissi, Hanan Abdullah Mengash, Noha Negm, Yahia Said, Ali M. Al-Sharafi

“…Autonomous vehicles (AVs), particularly self-driving cars, have produced a large amount of interest in artificial intelligence (AI), intelligent transportation, and computer vision. Tracing and detecting numerous targets in real-time, mainly in city arrangements in adversarial environmental conditions, has become a significant challenge for AVs. …”
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Quality of life in children with glaucoma: a qualitative interview study in Australia by Emmanuelle Souzeau, Jamie E Craig, Sandra E Staffieri, Lachlan S W Knight, Bronwyn Ridge, Mallika Prem Senthil

“…Objective Childhood glaucoma is a chronic vision-threatening condition that may significantly impact an individual’s psychosocial well-being. …”
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Multiple air pollutants exposure and leukaemia incidence in Tehran, Iran from 2010 to 2016: a retrospective cohort study by Narges Khanjani, Nino Künzli, Zahra Khorrami, Mohsen Pourkhosravani, Marzieh Eslahi, Maysam Rezapour, Mohammad Esmail Akbari, Heresh Amini, Seyed Mahmood Taghavi-Shahri, Koorosh Etemad

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Technicolor Middle Ages: (Ex)changes and Transformations from Medieval to Present Day Perception of Colour by Agnès Blandeau

“…L’apparition du procédé du Technicolor en 1934 accentue la vision fantasmée du moyen-âge donnée par le septième art, lequel crée un univers revêtu des atours et des couleurs éclatantes de ces temps anciens. …”
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Recording of Falls in Elderly Fallers in Northern Greece and Evaluation of Aging Health-Related Factors and Environmental Safety Associated with Falls: A Cross-Sectional Study by Dimitrios Lytras, Evaggelos Sykaras, Paris Iakovidis, Konstantinos Kasimis, Ioannis Myrogiannis, Anastasios Kottaras

“…Extrinsic factors that led to both indoor and outdoor falls were the administration of psychotropic medication, poor space ergonomics, lack of basic safety standards, and poor lighting conditions. Vision problems and dizziness resulted in more falls than other intrinsic factors. …”
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Screening for diabetic retinopathy at a health centre in South Africa: A cross-sectional study by Ntokozo Zulu, Patrick Ngassa Piotie, Elizabeth M. Webb, Wezi G. Maphenduka, Steve Cook, Paul Rheeder

“…This leads to preventable vision loss. Aim: To describe the clinical characteristics and outcomes of eye screenings and subsequent referrals. …”
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A Cross-Sectional Study on the Affordable Care Act from the Perspective of People Living with HIV: The Interplay between Knowledge, Stigma, Trust, and Attitudes by Christopher Kaperak, Sarah Elwood, Tamara Saint-Surin, Christopher Winstead-Derlega, Robert O. Brennan, Rebecca Dillingham, Kathleen A. McManus

“…HIV clinicians and case managers should consider disseminating information about the ACA and its impact on HIV care delivery via internet videos. Lack of internet and stigma are a threat to PLWH gaining actionable healthcare information.…”
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Accelerating phase field simulations through a hybrid adaptive Fourier neural operator with U-net backbone by Christophe Bonneville, Nathan Bieberdorf, Arun Hegde, Mark Asta, Habib N. Najm, Laurent Capolungo, Cosmin Safta

“…U-AFNO employs U-Nets for extracting and reconstructing local features within the physical fields, and passes the latent space through a vision transformer (ViT) implemented in the Fourier space (AFNO). …”
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Clinical validation of explainable AI for fetal growth scans through multi-level, cross-institutional prospective end-user evaluation by Zahra Bashir, Manxi Lin, Aasa Feragen, Kamil Mikolaj, Caroline Taksøe-Vester, Anders Nymark Christensen, Morten B. S. Svendsen, Mette Hvilshøj Fabricius, Lisbeth Andreasen, Mads Nielsen, Martin Grønnebæk Tolsgaard

“…We used 9352 annotated images for model development and 100 videos for prospective evaluation. Overall classification accuracy was 96.3%. …”
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Recognizing and addressing burnout among healthcare workers in rural Nepal: a proof-of-concept study using Kern’s six-step theoretical framework by Raj Kumar Dangal, Eva Studer, Tula Krishna Gupta, Kristin Nguyen, Amit Suneja, Karuna Khadka, Shailina Bata Shrestha, Bibhav Acharya

“…Then, we created animated educational videos designed to meet the learning objectives. We then implemented the educational intervention with rural physicians and assessed their knowledge, attitudes, and feedback. …”
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La arquitectura de madera en La Habana by Ángel Manuel Álvarez Gómez, María Victoria Zardoya Loureda, Yliem Álvarez Falero, Beatriz Villavicencio Oramas

“…Los resultados alcanzados permiten una mejor comprensión de la arquitectura construida a base de madera entre 1900 y 1930 en La Habana, no sólo desde el punto de vista histórico, sino también desde el diseño y la tecnología y constituyen una visión actualizada sobre el tema al demostrar que la arquitectura de madera que se analiza no fue importada desde los Estados Unidos, sino que fue elaborada en la isla, por operarios cubanos y además, que poco de lo construido en esa etapa empleó el esquema portante de tipo Balloon frame, como se ha afirmado. …”
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ESPACIO PÚBLICO Y PARTICIPACIÓN CIUDADANA: RESIGNIFICACIONES EN TIEMPOS DE COVID-19 by Romina Valeria Schroeder, Mariana Elena Vilo

“…Al espacio público lo entendemos más allá de su visión estrictamente espacial. Responde a la importancia para producir ciudad y generar integración social, sustentado en la participación comunitaria, también, a través de las redes sociales. …”
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Clinical Research Network: JHCRN Infrastructure and Lessons Learned by Rahul Kashyap, Gayane Yenokyan, Robert Joyner, Melissa Gerstenhaber, Mary Alderfer, Erika Siegrist, Joan Moore, Channing J. Paller, Hanan Aboumatar, James J. Potter, Stanley Watkins Jr, John E. Niederhuber, Daniel E. Ford, Adrian Dobs

“…We report on the Johns Hopkins Clinical Research Network (JHCRN), established in 2009 as a multi‐disease research collaboration between the academic medical centers and community hospitals/health systems. We have discussed vision, governance, infrastructure, participating hospitals' characteristics, and lessons learned in creating this partnership. …”
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Progressive Self-Prompting Segment Anything Model for Salient Object Detection in Optical Remote Sensing Images by Xiaoning Zhang, Yi Yu, Daqun Li, Yuqing Wang

“…Recently, prompt engineering has been employed to enhance the generalization ability of networks in the Segment Anything Model (SAM), an emerging vision foundation model that has achieved remarkable success across various tasks. …”
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Umbilical Cord Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Derived Small Extracellular Vesicles Deliver miR-21 to Promote Corneal Epithelial Wound Healing through PTEN/PI3K/Akt Pathway by Xiaolong Liu, Xuran Li, Guangyuan Wu, Pengfei Qi, Yanyan Zhang, Zhiyu Liu, Xinyue Li, Yu Yu, Xiangmei Ye, Yang Li, Dongguang Yang, Yueqiu Teng, Ce Shi, Xin Jin, Sen Qi, Yuting Liu, Shudan Wang, Ying Liu, Fenglin Cao, Qingran Kong, Zhenkun Wang, Hong Zhang

“…Rapid restoration of corneal epithelium integrity after injury is particularly important for preserving corneal transparency and vision. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) can be taken into account as the promising regenerative therapeutics for improvement of wound healing processes based on the variety of the effective components. …”
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