Comparing circular and flexibly-shaped scan statistics for disease clustering detection by Lina Wang, Xiang Li, Zhengbin Zhang, Haoxun Yuan, Pengfei Lu, Yaru Li

“…This study aims to analyze the impact of parameter settings on the results of these methods and compare their performance in disease clustering detection. …”
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Resin-based sealant effectiveness in high-caries risk children: a systematic review by Yodsapat Paemanukornruk, Nicha Luksamijarulkul, Piyada Gaewkhiew

“…However, generalizability and an appropriate threshold for risk assessment remain unclear owing to the limited number of studies from low- to middle-income countries and variability in risk assessment methods. …”
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Sensomics evaluation of sun drying for reducing the bitterness and astringency of crude Ancha tea by Zhibin Ye, Wenjing Huang, Zhenbin Chen, Jixin Zhang, Chenxin Hu, Huan Zhou, Qian Xu, Jingming Ning

“…Taste addition experiments confirmed that these six target compounds were the main contributors to the differences in bitterness and astringency between the CAT samples prepared using different drying methods. …”
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Methodological Innovation in Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness of Simulation Training Combining Transfer Effectiveness and Change-Point Analysis by Zhehan Jiang, Hao Hang, Xinyu Wu, Shate Xiang, Shucheng Pan

“…This study introduces a novel approach to assess the cost-effectiveness of simulation training. Methods This study uses simulated data from 120 medical students, set in a teaching hospital scenario, and randomly assigns them to 6 groups with different training durations. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Audio Features for Unsupervised Speaker Change Detection by Alymzhan Toleu, Gulmira Tolegen, Rustam Mussabayev, Alexander Krassovitskiy, Bagashar Zhumazhanov

“…The analysis is conducted using two unsupervised methods: Bayesian information criterion with Gaussian mixture model (BIC-GMM), a model-based approach, and Kullback-Leibler divergence with Gaussian Mixture Model (KL-GMM), a metric-based approach. …”
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MBFE-UNet: A Multi-Branch Feature Extraction UNet with Temporal Cross Attention for Radar Echo Extrapolation by Huantong Geng, Han Zhao, Zhanpeng Shi, Fangli Wu, Liangchao Geng, Kefei Ma

“…Existing deep learning echo extrapolation methods often face issues such as high-threshold echo attenuation and blurring distortion. …”
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Regional Spatial planning based on supply and demand of ecosystem services by Hassan Esmaeilzadeh, naghmeh mobarghaee, Mehrdad Kashef, Nematallah Akbari

“…Nowadays, the use of different approaches and methods of land evaluation, including the evaluation of ecosystem services, especially in terms of supply and demand, can be quite important in determining the balance of land use. …”
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Deep learning models for detection of explosive ordnance using autonomous robotic systems: trade-off between accuracy and real-time processing speed by Vadym Mishchuk, Herman Fesenko, Vyacheslav Kharchenko

“…The following results were obtained. 1) The results of a comparative analysis of YOLOv8 and RT-DETR models for EO detection in the context of speed-accuracy trade-offs. 2) Recommendations for EO detection model configurations aimed at improving the efficiency of autonomous demining robotic systems, including optimal camera parameter selection. 3) Methods for improving EO detection model performance to increase its accuracy in complex environments, including synthetic data generation and confidence threshold tuning. …”
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Quantitative and qualitative investigation of shunt failure in an in vitro hemorrhagic hydrocephalus model by Shaheer Ajaz, Ahmad Faryami, Ayman Suhrawardy, Carolyn A. Harris

“…All the barium-impregnated and antibiotic-impregnated catheters reached 30 cmH2O threshold at 0.5% concentration. A statistically significant difference was observed in the pressurization rate (P = 0.029). …”
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Reservoir Characterisation and Modelling for CO2 Sequestration in ‘‘Han’’ Field, Onshore Niger Delta, Nigeria by S. Kemisola Oyero, Abiola Olubola, O. Kazeem Ayinde

“…In particular, by carrying out regional and local characterization and field projects to demonstrate that different types of geologic storage reservoirs distributed over different basins can permanently and safely store CO2. …”
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Inferring influenza infection attack rate from seroprevalence data. by Joseph T Wu, Kathy Leung, Ranawaka A P M Perera, Daniel K W Chu, Cheuk Kwong Lee, Ivan F N Hung, Che Kit Lin, Su-Vui Lo, Yu-Lung Lau, Gabriel M Leung, Benjamin J Cowling, J S Malik Peiris

“…We hypothesize that such conventions are not necessarily robust because different thresholds may result in different IAR estimates and serologic responses of clinical cases may not be representative. …”
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Evolution of Hydrological Drought in Human Disturbed Areas: A Case Study in the Laohahe Catchment, Northern China by Yi Liu, Liliang Ren, Ye Zhu, Xiaoli Yang, Fei Yuan, Shanhu Jiang, Mingwei Ma

“…Using hydrometeorological observations during 1964–2009, meteorological and hydrological droughts are firstly analyzed with the threshold level method. Then, a comprehensive analysis on the changes within the catchment is conducted on the basis of hydrological variables and socioeconomic indices, and the whole period is divided into two parts: the undisturbed period (1964–1979) and the disturbed period (1980–2009). …”
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Atezolizumab plus bevacizumab and chemotherapy versus bevacizumab plus chemotherapy for metastatic cervical cancer: a cost-effectiveness analysis by Hongfu Cai, Ling Fang, Jingwen Lin, Zhiwei Zheng

“…AimThe objective of this study is to conduct a cost-effectiveness analysis in order to evaluate the economic advantages of incorporating atezolizumab into a standard bevacizumab plus platinum regimen for the treatment of metastatic cervical cancer from the Chinese medical system perspective.MethodWe developed a partitioned survival model based on data obtained from the recently published BEATcc clinical trial and economic cost data. …”
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Observing the Poisson Distribution of a Coherent Microwave Field With a Parametric Photon Detector by Jiaming Wang, Kirill Petrovnin, J. Pertti Hakonen, Gheorghe Sorin Paraoanu

“…We show that these tests provide conclusive evidence for the Poissonian statistics in the case of a coherent state, in agreement with the experimental data. In addition, this method enables us to distinguish between different statistics of the incoming probe field. …”
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Improving Circulating Tumor Cell Detection Using Image Synthesis and Transformer Models in Cancer Diagnostics by Shuang Liang, Xue Bai, Yu Gu

“…To effectively utilize both generated and real data, we introduce an improved loss function that includes a regularization term to ensure consistency across different data distributions. Our model demonstrates exceptional performance across five evaluation metrics: accuracy (0.9960), recall (0.9961), precision (0.9804), specificity (0.9975), and mean average precision (<i>mAP</i>) of 0.9400 at an Intersection over Union (IoU) threshold of 0.5. …”
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Ambient Atmospheric Aerosol Extinction Coefficient Reconstruction from PM2.5 Mass Concentrations and Application to Haze Identification in China by Lina Gao, Peng Yan, Jietai Mao, Xiaochun Zhang, Xiaoling Zhang, Yongxue Wu, Junshan Jing, Jianming Xu, Xuejiao Deng, Wenxue Chi

“…Abstract This study developed a method of reconstructing the aerosol extinction coefficient based on hourly observations of the fine-particle (PM2.5) mass concentration, relative humidity (RH), and visibility at 9 stations in China between 2014 and 2015. …”
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Low-Shot Weakly Supervised Object Detection for Remote Sensing Images via Part Domination-Based Active Learning and Enhanced Fine-Tuning by Peng Liu, Boxue Huang, Tingting Jin, Hui Long

“…PDAAL also applies an adaptive threshold to balance sampling frequencies for long-tailed class distributions. …”
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Environmental regulation, green innovation, and international competitiveness of manufacturing enterprises in China: From the perspective of heterogeneous regulatory tools. by Yuanhong Hu, Sheng Sun, Yixin Dai

“…Given deepening international market segmentation of production and the increasing proportion of intermediate trade, and compared with the traditional method based on exports, the export technological sophistication calculated here, based on value-added, is closer to the true level. …”
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Development of the technology of a new flour culinary fish product enriched with iodine of the White Sea kelp by Savkina K. N., Cshetinsky V. V., Tihonova P. A., Shokina Yu. V.

“…The recipe has been optimized using the fuzzy logic method and the MatLab software package; during the experiments, the organoleptic properties of prototypes of products with different filling compositions have been assessed (the variable ingredients are carrots and the additive H-Serval80). …”
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RS-DETR: An Improved Remote Sensing Object Detection Model Based on RT-DETR by Hao Zhang, Zheng Ma, Xiang Li

“…This result demonstrates the effectiveness and robustness of our proposed method for remote sensing image object detection.…”
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