Learning-based early detection of post-hepatectomy liver failure using temporal perioperative data: a nationwide multicenter retrospective study in ChinaResearch in context by Kai Wang, Qian Yang, Kang Li, Shanhua Tang, Baoluhe Zhang, Xiangyun Liao, Shunda Du, Wenguang Fu, Zhiwei Li, Huanwei Chen, Haorong Xie, Pengxiang Huang, Jieyuan Li, Qiuting Wang, Haiqing Liu, Zhiwei Huang, Pheng Ann Heng, Xueshuai Wan, Chuanjiang Li, Weixin Si

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Automatic segmentation of chest X-ray images via deep-improved various U-Net techniques by Sedat Orenc, Mehmet Sirac Ozerdem, Emrullah Acar, Musa Yilmaz

“…These models also incurred significantly higher computational costs. In contrast, U-Net16 and U-Net32 demonstrated reduced segmentation accuracy compared to U-Net9. …”
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The series solutions of fractional foam drainage and fractional modified regularized long wave problems by Abdul Hamid Ganie, N. S. Alharthi, Adnan Khan, Abdulkafi Mohammed Saeed, Mohd Asif Shah, Saurav Mallik

“…Furthermore, the results of this study support the value and significance of fractional operators in real-world applications.…”
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A novel lightweight YOLOv8-PSS model for obstacle detection on the path of unmanned agricultural vehicles by Zhijian Chen, Yijun Fang, Jianjun Yin, Shiyu Lv, Farhan Sheikh Muhammad, Lu Liu

“…This YOLOv8-based model incorporates a depth camera to precisely identify and locate impediments in the way of autonomous agricultural equipment. Firstly, this work integrates partial convolution (PConv) into the C2f module of the backbone network to improve inference performance and minimize computing load. …”
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Enhanced gait tracking measures for individuals with stroke using leg-worn inertial sensors by Francesco Lanotte, Shusuke Okita, Megan K. O’Brien, Arun Jayaraman

“…Methods Forty-one individuals with stroke were recruited from two acute rehabilitation settings and completed brief walking bouts with two leg-worn IMUs. We compared foot-off (FO), foot contact (FC), and temporal gait parameters computed from the SGSA and EGSA against ground truth measurements from an instrumented mat. …”
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Machine learning-based prediction of FeNi nanoparticle magnetization by Federico Williamson, Nadhir Naciff, Carlos Catania, Gonzalo dos Santos, Nicolás Amigo, Eduardo M. Bringa

“…This work proposes a computationally efficient approach for estimating the magnetization of Fe0.7Ni0.3 body-centered cubic (bcc) nanoparticles (NPs) at room temperature using machine-learning algorithms, in terms of the average magnetic moment per atom, ⟨μ⟩. …”
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Health management information system utilization and associated factors in public and private health facilities of Mogadishu, Somalia by Adam Sheikh Said, Dmitry Ivanovich Kicha, Yulia Sh. Gushchina, Amenti Teka Geferso, Maye Omar

“…Healthcare workers who had not received HMIS training were 60.9% less likely to use HMIS (AOR = 0.391, 95% CI: 0.200–0.764) compared to those who had received HMIS training. Health workers who did not receive regular supportive supervision were 69.5% less likely to use HMIS (AOR = 0.432, 95% CI: 0.218–0.856) than those who did receive regular supportive supervision. …”
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NeuroFuzzXAI: A Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Framework for Epileptic Seizure Detection by Flavia COSTI, Emanuel COVACI, Ovidiu ROMAN, Darian ONCHIS

“…By bridging artificial intelligence-based classification with human-intuitive decision-making, this approach holds promise for clinical applications. Future work will focus on real-time deployment in healthcare settings to support epilepsy diagnosis and monitoring. …”
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Evaluation of a biomarker for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis derived from a hypomethylated DNA signature of human motor neurons by Calum Harvey, Alicja Nowak, Sai Zhang, Tobias Moll, Annika K Weimer, Aina Mogas Barcons, Cleide Dos Santos Souza, Laura Ferraiuolo, Kevin Kenna, Noah Zaitlen, Christa Caggiano, Pamela J Shaw, Michael P Snyder, Jonathan Mill, Eilis Hannon, Johnathan Cooper-Knock

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Numerical analysis of the thermal and electrical performance of concentrated photovoltaic systems integrated with multiple phase change materials by Atef Chibani, Slimane Merouani, Riad Badji, Farhan Lafta Rashid, Mohamed Kezzar, Sahar Ahmed Idris, Mohamed Rafik Sari, B. Rushi Kumar, Sunitha Nagarathnam

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Modeling of Ionization and Recombination Processes in Plasma with Arbitrary Non-Maxwellian Electron Distribution by Chengcai Shen, Xiaocan Li, Yuan-Kuen Ko, John C. Raymond, Fan Guo, Vanessa Polito, Viviane Pierrard

“…For standard κ -distributions, the calculated ionization and recombination rate coefficients show comparable accuracy to other public packages. Additionally, our methods support arbitrary electron distributions and can be easily extended to updated atomic databases. …”
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Point Cloud Completion of Occluded Corn with a 3D Positional Gated Multilayer Perceptron and Prior Shape Encoder by Yuliang Gao, Zhen Li, Tao Liu, Bin Li, Lifeng Zhang

“…The experimental results show that the proposed method can complete the corn point cloud more effectively, using a small model to help estimate the pose and dimensions of corn accurately. This work supports the precise phenotypic analysis of corn and similar crops, such as citrus and tomatoes, and promotes the development of smart agricultural technology.…”
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Congestion Management Using an Optimized Deep Convolution Neural Network in Deregulated Environment by Dhanadeepika B., Vanithasri M., Chakravarthi M.

“…This failure is primarily caused due to an increase in loads or loss of transmission lines or generators in modern restructured power networks. This work introduces a CM approach using Deep Convolution Neural Network (DCNN) for minimizing congestion and supporting Independent System Operators (ISOs). …”
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TECRR: a benchmark dataset of radiological reports for BI-RADS classification with machine learning, deep learning, and large language model baselines by Sadam Hussain, Usman Naseem, Mansoor Ali, Daly Betzabeth Avendaño Avalos, Servando Cardona-Huerta, Beatriz Alejandra Bosques Palomo, Jose Gerardo Tamez-Peña

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Semantic analysis of social media messages of patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration and diabetic macular edema by open Internet sources — a study of patients'... by V. V. Neroev, O. V. Zaytseva, A. Yu. Berdieva, Z. M. Gabdullina, M. N. Pudikov, A. A. Leonova, V. F. Khoroshevsky

“…Quality of life (QoL) was shown to be significantly affected with inability to work as a major burden for 30 % of nAMD patients, and diabetes-associated comorbidities as a key factor compromising QoL in 20 % of DR patients. …”
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The Effect of Gamified Physical Activities on the Quality of Students' Leisure Time (Case Study: Female Secondary School Students in Ardabil City) by aylar sefidgar, Hamed Kheirollahi Meidani, Mehrdad Moharramzadeh

“…Excessive engagement with computer games by students and emulation of these games can foster tension and unhealthy behaviors. …”
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Comprehensive performance and optimization of micro textured slipper pair of axial piston pumps by Ping Xu, Jing Luo, Yinghua Yu, Jiaxing Shen, Wenli Li

“…A texture design that integrates an elliptical opening with an elliptical offset parabolic pit body situated at the innermost two-ring support band of the slipper is recommended. Compared with the original prototype, this optimized design yields a 19.69% increase in the bearing pressure and a 21.08% reduction in the friction coefficient, coupled with a 14.20% decrease in the average temperature and a 14.03% reduction in oil film leakage. …”
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Effectiveness of interventions for improving educational outcomes for people with disabilities in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A systematic review by Xanthe Hunt, Ashrita Saran, Howard White, Hannah Kuper

“…The category of interventions most represented across studies was ‘Educational attainment support’, for instance, a reading comprehension intervention that combined strategy instruction (graphic organisers, visual displays, mnemonic illustrations, computer exercises, predicting, inference, text structure awareness, main idea identification, summarisation, and questioning) for children with dyslexia. …”
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Impact of Y chromosome loss on the risk of Parkinson's disease and progressionResearch in context by Junhao Wang, Xinyi Chen, Wenxuan Du, Cha Lin, Yu Liao, Jean-Christophe Corvol, Jodi Maple-Grødem, Meghan C. Campbell, Alexis Elbaz, Suzanne Lesage, Alexis Brice, Michael A. Schwarzschild, Pille Taba, Sulev Kõks, Guido Alves, Ole-Bjørn Tysnes, Joel S. Perlmutter, Baijayanta Maiti, Jacobus J. van Hilten, Roger A. Barker, Caroline H. Williams-Gray, Clemens R. Scherzer, Ganqiang Liu, Ganqiang Liu, Rebecca R. Valentino, Zhixiang Liao, Joseph J. Locascio, Jean-Christophe Corvol, Xianjun Dong, Jodi Maple-Grødem, Meghan C. Campbell, Alexis Elbaz, Suzanne Lesage, Alexis Brice, Graziella Mangone, John H. Growdon, Albert Y. Hung, Michael A. Schwarzchild, Michael T. Hayes, Anne-Marie Wills, Todd M. Herrington, Bernard Ravian, Ira Shoulson, Pille Taba, Sulev Kõks, Thomas G. Beach, Florence Cormier-Dequaire, Guido Alves, Ole-Bjørn Tysnes, Joel S. Perlmutter, Peter Heutink, Jacobus J. van Hilten, Meike Kasten, Brit Mollenhauer, Claudia Trenkwalder, Christine Klein, Roger A. Barker, Caroline H. Williams-Gray, Johan Marinus, Clemens R. Scherzer

“…C.R.S.'s work is supported by NIH grants NINDS/NIA R01NS115144, the U.S. …”
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Influences of electrode density on intracranial seizure localisation: a single-blinded randomised crossover studyResearch in context by Ebenezer O. Chinedu-Eneh, Sharon Chiang, John P. Andrews, Ehsan Tadayon, Joline M. Fan, Paul A. Garcia, Ernesto Gonzalez-Giraldo, Manu Hegde, Patrick Hullett, Vikram R. Rao, Robert C. Knowlton, Edward F. Chang, Jonathan K. Kleen

“…While further studies assessing surgical outcomes in more patients are needed, these results suggest higher densities of electrodes on already-implanted hardware may reveal sub-centimetre extensions and clearer functional contiguity of the SOZ(s) for better appraisals of pathophysiological margins in epilepsy surgery. Funding: This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health through NINDS grant K23NS110920 and through a UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences Pilot Award.…”
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