Building a Framework for Visual Question Answering Systems by Maya Abu Hamoud, Wasim Safi

“…VQA (Visual Question Answering) systems are among the latest advancements in the fields of artificial intelligence and deep learning. They integrate image processing with natural language understanding to enable intelligent systems to answer questions related to image content. …”
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The Effects of Laurencia caspica Algae Extract on Hemato-Immunological Parameters, Antioxidant Defense, and Resistance against Streptococcus agalactiae in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis... by Majid Khanzadeh, Babak Beikzadeh, Seyed Hossein Hoseinifar

“…The white blood cells (WBCs), hemoglobin, and neutrophils significantly increased after 50 days of feeding with the L. caspica extract, but until the 25th day, no significant difference was observed among the treatments except for hemoglobin. …”
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Fully Automated Bone Age Assessment on Large-Scale Hand X-Ray Dataset by Xiaoying Pan, Yizhe Zhao, Hao Chen, De Wei, Chen Zhao, Zhi Wei

“…Even though U-Net can perform the segmentation with high precision, it needs a bigger annotated dataset. To alleviate the annotation burden, we propose to use deep active learning (AL) to select unlabeled data samples with sufficient information intentionally. …”
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The Hydrogeochemical Stratigraphy of Brines and Its Implications on Water Management in the Central Jordan-Dead Sea Rift Valley, Israel by Eliahu Rosenthal, Peter Möller, Orna Buch-Leviatan, Moshe Politi

“…Evidence of very high pressures in deep boreholes Devora 2A, Rosh Pinna 1, and MJ1 revealed the existence of a mechanism in which the deep brines are “piston-driven” upwards and possibly also laterally. …”
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Exploring the perspectives of new-in-practice specialists about the Health Advocate role: “I didn’t even know where to start” by Jacqueline Dorothy Cochrane, Nancy Dudek, Kelsey Crawford, Lindsay Cowley, Kori A LaDonna

“…In turn, participants grappled with lack of preparation, waning motivation, feelings of futility, lack of value for advocacy and need for self-preservation. …”
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Understanding the affinity of Cyphos Nitrate for Zr(IV) over other metal ions present in simulated high level liquid waste compositions by Alok Rout, S. Sriram, N. Ramanathan

“…The separation of Zr(IV) from nitric acid feed through solvent extraction route is a challenging task as far as its aqueous chemistry and the selectivity of the proposed extractants for it is concerned. …”
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Utilizing Invasive <i>Pterygoplichthys pardalis</i> as a Sustainable Fish Meal Substitute and <i>Euphorbia hirta</i> Extract Supplement: Effects on Growth Performance, Organosomati... by Sontaya Sookying, Phanit Srisuttha, Vipada Rodprasert, Chanthima Chaodon, Wikit Phinrub, Nantaporn Sutthi, Paiboon Panase

“…The results indicate that PPM can serve as an effective replacement for up to 75% of CFM in <i>H. chinensis</i> feed, without compromising their growth performance. …”
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Evaluation of Priority Fodder Trees for Leaf Yield and Nutritional Value at Arba Minch, Ethiopia by Habtamnesh Adane, Agena Anjulo

“…Tree fodder is an important supplement to livestock feed particularly where the shortage of palatable herbaceous biomass affects the animal production in dry seasons. …”
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EFFECT OF REPLACING SOYBEAN MEAL WITH LARVAE MEAL OF BLACK SOLDIER FLY HERMETIA ILLUCENS IN GROWTH PERFORMANCE AND SOME BIOCHEMICAL BLOOD PARAMETERS OF COMMON CARP CYPRINUS CARPIO... by Ahmed I. Albayati, R. S. Attee, M. S. Al-Khshali

“…The first treatments (T1 control group) was fed with standard diet without black soldier fly larvae meal (0% BSFLM), black soldier fly larvae meal were substituted for soybean meal in other experimental groups at 25%, 50%, 75% and 100% (T2, T3, T4 and T5), respectively. After 12 weeks of feeding, no significant differences (P>0.05) were found in feed conversion ratio (FCR) and protein efficiency ratio (PER) between control and experimental groups. …”
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Dietary Pyridoxine Requirements of Coho Salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) Post-Smolts by Hairui Yu, Xinyue Zhang, Ziyi Yuan, Leyong Yu, Youzhi Zhao, Lingyao Li

“…A 10-week feeding trial was conducted to investigate the dietary pyridoxine requirements of coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) post-smolts with an initial mean body weight of 180.22 ± 0.41 g. …”
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Review of communication optimization methods in federated learning by YANG Zhikai, LIU Yaping, ZHANG Shuo, SUN Zhe, YAN Dingyu

“…With the development and popularization of artificial intelligence technologies represented by deep learning, the security issues they continuously expose have become a huge challenge affecting cyberspace security. …”
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Diet of smooth-coated otter Lutrogale perspicillata (Geoffroy, 1826) in the Moyar River, Western Ghats, South India by Kannadasan Narasimmarajan, Manu Thomas Mathai, Matt W. Hayward, Sonaimuthu Palanivel

“…However, season-wise fish surveys occasionally revealed low fish diversity, and otter diet and feeding patterns did not alter significantly between seasons. …”
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Perception of Loneliness in Adolescence: Role of Maladaptive Personality Traits and Trauma-Related Symptomatology by Fiorenza Giordano, Danilo Calaresi, Valeria Saladino, Valeria Verrastro

“…Adolescence is particularly vulnerable to loneliness because of the many changes in values, feelings, and emotions that characterize it. Among the aspects that may influence this feeling of discomfort, the literature identifies maladaptive personality and a dysfunctional response to traumatic events. …”
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Experimental Investigation of the Impact of Necking Position on Pile Capacity Assisted with Transparent Soil Technology by Qingnian Yang, Jianli Shao, Zhijun Xu, Yu Miao

“…The soils at the top, side, and near the end of a pile were mainly influenced by shallow necking, middle necking, and deep necking, respectively. The soils at the location of necking had apparent settlement phenomenon as the piles subsided. …”
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Accelerated Warming and Salinification of the Mediterranean Sea: Implications for Dense Water Formation by Nikolaos Skliris, Robert Marsh, Matthew Breedon, Simon A. Josey

“…Results suggest that salinification over the last 45 years may have strongly enhanced salt preconditioning in all major dense water formation sites, sustaining or even increasing deep water formation despite the increasingly warming climate.…”
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Interpretable DWT-1DCNN-LSTM Network for Power Quality Disturbance Classification by Shuangquan Yang, Tao Shan, Xiaomei Yang

“…Accurate identification of these disturbances is crucial for effective grid management and protection. Although deep learning methods have high accuracy, their lack of interpretability can limit their acceptance in engineering applications. …”
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Characteristics of chicken production systems in rural Burkina Faso: A focus on One Health related practices and food security. by Michel Dione, Guy Ilboudo, Abdoul Aziz Ouedraogo, Sidonie Aristide Ima, Brice Ouedraogo, Theodore Knight-Jones, Assèta Kagambèga, Robyn Alders

“…The chicken management system is mainly extensive scavenging, with most farmers (81.4%) keeping 5 to 50 birds with little or no supplementary feeding and rudimentary housing. …”
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In vitro evaluation of anthelmintic activity of biocompatibile carbon quantum dot nanocomposite against egg and larval stages of equine strongyles by Armin Fakheri, Bijan Esmaeilnejad, Hamid Akbari, Rahim Molaei

“…We assessed the nematicidal effects of CQDs and Cu@CQDs through larval feeding inhibition of first-stage larvae (L1), egg hatch inhibition (EHI), and the mobility and mortality of infectious larvae (L3s). …”
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Aperture-Fed Quad-Port Dual-Band Dielectric Resonator-MIMO Antenna for Sub-6 GHz 5G and WLAN Application by Trushit Upadhyaya, Ikmo Park, Rajat Pandey, Upesh Patel, Killol Pandya, Arpan Desai, Jayesh Pabari, Gangil Byun, Yogeshwar Kosta

“…The presented antenna was excited through the aperture feeding technique. The dual bands are achieved by optimally feeding the rectangular dielectric resonator through engineered triangular slots. …”
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A national study of choanal atresia in tertiary care centers in Canada – part I: clinical presentation by Josee Paradis, Agnieszka Dzioba, Hamdy El-Hakim, Paul Hong, Frederick K. Kozak, Lily H. P. Nguyen, Demitri Perera, Evan Jon Propst, Jennifer M. Siu, Monika Wojtera, Murad Husein, National Choanal Atresia Study Working Group

“…The most common presenting symptoms for bilateral CA in decreasing order were respiratory distress (96.4%), feeding difficulties (68.2%), and rhinorrhea (65.5%), and for unilateral cases in decreasing order were rhinorrhea (92.0%), feeding difficulties (24.7%), and respiratory distress (18.0%). …”
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