Urdu Handwritten Characters Data Visualization and Recognition Using Distributed Stochastic Neighborhood Embedding and Deep Network by Mujtaba Husnain, Malik Muhammad Saad Missen, Shahzad Mumtaz, Dost Muhammad Khan, Mickäel Coustaty, Muhammad Muzzamil Luqman, Jean-Marc Ogier, Hizbullah Khattak, Sikandar Ali, Ali Samad

“…We performed three tasks in a disciplined order; namely, (i) we generated a state-of-the-art dataset of both the Urdu handwritten characters and numerals by inviting a number of native Urdu participants from different social and academic groups, since there is no publicly available dataset of such type till date, then (ii) applied classical approaches of dimensionality reduction and data visualization like Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Autoencoders (AE) in comparison with t-Stochastic Neighborhood Embedding (t-SNE), and (iii) used the reduced dimensions obtained through PCA, AE, and t-SNE for recognition of Urdu handwritten characters and numerals using a deep network like Convolution Neural Network (CNN). …”
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Thermodynamics of Cadmium Sorption on Different Soils of West Bengal, India by Tanmoy Karak, Ranjit Kumar Paul, D. K. Das, Romesh K. Boruah, Indira Sonar

“…Thermodynamic parameters, namely, thermodynamics equilibrium constant at a particular temperature T  (KT0), Gibbs free energy at a particular temperature T  (ΔGT0), and change of enthalpy (ΔH0) and change of entropy at temperature T  (ΔST0), were also determined by applying sorption value and concentrations of Cd in equilibrium solution within the temperature range. …”
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Analysis of the Effect and Role of Indoor Environmental Quality in the COVID-19 Transmission by Katharina Oginawati, Rinaldy Jose Nathanael, Udjianna Sekteria Pasaribu, Utriweni Mukhaiyar, Afif Humam, Nisa Fadlilah Fathul Ilmi, Septian Hadi Susetyo

“…This study used environmental quality, namely ventilation, humidity, brightness, temperature, and personal space area as house environment parameters. …”
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Controlling Embedded Systems Remotely via Internet-of-Things Based on Emotional Recognition by Mohammad J. M. Zedan, Ali I. Abduljabbar, Fahad Layth Malallah, Mustafa Ghanem Saeed

“…In this paper, a biosignal type, namely, facial emotional signal, is proposed to control electronic devices remotely via emotional vision recognition. …”
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Bibliometric and Altmetric Analysis of the 100 Most Cited Articles on Piriformis Syndrome by Burak Tayyip Dede, Muhammed Oguz, Fatih Bagcier, Ebru Aytekin

“…In the bibliometric analysis, the title, number of authors, author names (first authors and corresponding authors), year and country of publication, number of citations, citation index, genre, subject, Q classification, h-index, impact factor, and publication area were recorded. …”
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Forecasting epidemic spread of SARS-CoV-2 using ARIMA model (Case study: Iran) by T.T. Tran, L.T. Pham, Q.X. Ngo

“…Currently, the pandemic caused by a novel coronavirus, namely severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is one of the most serious issues worldwide. …”
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Fitting Tips and Visual Rehabilitation of Irregular Cornea with a New Design of Corneoscleral Contact Lens: Objective and Subjective Evaluation by Waleed Ali Abou Samra, Amani E. Badawi, Hanem Kishk, Ayman Abd El ghafar, Mohamed M. Elwan, Hossam Youssef Abouelkheir

“…To study the fitting and the visual rehabilitation obtained with a corneoscleral contact lens, namely, Rose K2 XL in patients with irregular cornea. …”
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Study on the regulation of tea polyphenols on the structure and gel properties of myofibrillar protein from Neosalanx taihuensis by Xiangxiang Ni, Mengting Li, Zhiwei Huang, Yinyin Wei, Chaoyi Duan, Ruixi Li, Yajie Fang, Xiu Wang, Mingfeng Xu, Rongrong Yu

“…The research examined the impacts of three typical catechins, namely epicatechin (EC), epigallocatechin (EGC), and epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), on the structure and gel characteristics of MP from N. taihuensis under oxidative treatment conditions. …”
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A sedimentological oxymoron: highly evolved glauconite of earliest diagenetic origin by Tribovillard, Nicolas, Bout-Roumazeilles, Viviane, Guillot, François, Baudin, François, Deconinck, Jean-François, Abraham, Romain, Ventalon, Sandra

“…The materials studied here are uppermost Jurassic alternations of carbonate beds and marly interbeds, namely, the Assises de Croï Formation of the Boulonnais area (northernmost France). …”
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Urban solid waste characterization in the east part of Black Sea region by K.O. Demirarslan, B.Y. Çelik

“…Moreover, for collecting recyclable wastes for the city centre 3 different methods are proposed named as methods collection from households, collection from buildings and collection from neighborhoods. …”
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Health professionals’ experience of implementing and delivering a ‘Community Care’ programme in metropolitan Melbourne: a qualitative reflexive thematic analysis by Cylie Williams, Kelly-Ann Bowles, Brendan Shannon, Hollie Shannon, Nadine Andrew, Julia Morphet

“…Objectives To explore the experiences of health professionals involved in delivering a multidisciplinary Community Care programme that provides a transitional care coordination service for patients visiting a tertiary hospital service in Melbourne, Australia.Design Reflexive thematic analysis was used to identify themes from descriptions of delivering the programme, including its perceived strengths and challenges.Participants 12 healthcare professionals from four disciplines working in the Community Care programme were interviewed.Results Four themes were identified: (1) ‘increasingly complex’, depicts the experience of delivering care to patients with increasingly complex health needs; (2) ‘plugging unexpected gaps’, describes meeting patient’s healthcare needs; (3) ‘disconnected’, explains system-based issues which made participants feel disconnected from the wider health service; (4) ‘a misunderstood programme’, illustrates that a poor understanding of the programme within the health service is a barrier to patient enrolment which may have been exacerbated by a service name change.Conclusions The healthcare professionals involved in this study described the experience of providing care to patients as challenging, but felt they made a positive difference. …”
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On the Differential Diagnosis of Anxious from Nonanxious Major Depression by means of the Hamilton Scales by George Konstantakopoulos, Vasilios G. Masdrakis, Manolis Markianos, Panagiotis Oulis

“…We found medium and large effect size differences between A-MDD and NA-MDD patients in only four out of the six ASF items, as well as in three further HAM-D items, namely, those of agitation, middle insomnia, and delayed insomnia. …”
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Public and/or Private? Remedies Against the Different Decisions on Social Care Services in Hungary by István Hoffman

“…The research examines the remedy system using legal study methods based on dogmatic analysis and involves an examination of judicial practice, namely Hungarian courts decisions on major public law remedies. …”
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Multiscale guided attention network for optic disc segmentation of retinal images by A Z M Ehtesham Chowdhury, Andrew Mehnert, Graham Mann, William H. Morgan, Ferdous Sohel

“…This paper presents a deep machine-learning method for semantically segmenting OD from retinal images. The method is named multiscale guided attention network (MSGANet-OD), comprising encoders for extracting multiscale features and decoders for constructing segmentation maps from the extracted features. …”
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MIESTC: A Multivariable Spatio-Temporal Model for Accurate Short-Term Wind Speed Forecasting by Shaohan Li, Min Chen, Lu Yi, Qifeng Lu, Hao Yang

“…To address these issues, this study introduces a novel short-term wind speed forecasting model named as MIESTC. The proposed model employs an independent encoder to extract features from each meteorological variable, mitigating the issues of noise that are caused by variable mixing. …”
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Physico-chemical changes and maturity evaluation of composts from wood residue mixed with sewage sludge and chicken manure by Mohammad Hossein Saghi, Payam Ghorbannezhad, Abotaleb Bay, Farangis Saeidi

“…Method Three materials, namely sawdust, sewage sludge, and chicken manure were mixed at different ratios (dry weight basis) to reach the initial bulk density of 0.40 Kg.L-1, the temperature of 30 °C, the C/N ratio of 25, and the moisture content of 60 %. …”
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Analysis of the Production and Economic Indicators of Broiler Chicken Rearing in 2020–2023: A Case Study of a Polish Farm by Michalina Adaszyńska-Skwirzyńska, Paweł Konieczka, Mateusz Bucław, Danuta Majewska, Arkadiusz Pietruszka, Sławomir Zych, Danuta Szczerbińska

“…Despite these challenges, namely the consistently rising production costs, broiler production in the study farm remained profitable.…”
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Designing innovation ecosystems for biointelligent value creation – Identification of promising technology fields and pioneer countries by Michael Rentschler, Silja Hohmann, Philipp Heuermann, Livio Valenti, Robert Miehe

“…Countries such as Israel, Finland, the USA, Canada, and Germany can be named pioneers in biointelligent value creation. …”
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Flexural Toughness of Basalt Fibre-Reinforced Shotcrete and Industrial-Scale Testing by Huazhe Jiao, Yachuang Wu, Xinming Chen, Yixuan Yang

“…The flexural performance was analysed based on the toughness standards, namely, DBV-1998, JSCE SF-4, and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) pore testing. …”
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Flexural Performance of RC Continuous Beams Strengthening by CFRP with Grooves by Hanan Qassim, Mohammed Mashrei

“…Recently, a new proposed technique was named Externally Bonded Reinforcement on Grooves (EBROG) has been presented as an alternative method to avoid or eliminate the undesirable de-bonging failure mode that is accompanying to EBR method. …”
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