A novel method for monitoring Cladophora blooms in Qinghai Lake based on UAV imagery by Juan Zhang, Xiaojun Yao, Xinde Chu, Hongyu Duan, Yuxuan Zhang, Hui Chang, Ju Huang

“…However, existing satellite remote sensing methods for monitoring Cladophora blooms have several limitations owing to cloud cover in optical images and the small areas of Cladophora bloom patches, making it challenging to obtain detailed dynamic characteristics of these blooms. …”
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Detecting urban vegetation categories based on object-oriented method from IKONOS data by ZHANG Xiu-ying, FENG Xue-zhi, DING Xiao-dong, WANG Ke

“…Firstly, vegetated area and non-vegetated area were separated by the threshold of NDVI and digital number (DN) value of blue band, and further, region growing method was adopted to segment the vegetated area into “objects”, which represent the aggregation of pixels adjacent in location and in DN value. …”
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Identification of Non-HLA Genes Associated with Celiac Disease and Country-Specific Differences in a Large, International Pediatric Cohort. by Ashok Sharma, Xiang Liu, David Hadley, William Hagopian, Edwin Liu, Wei-Min Chen, Suna Onengut-Gumuscu, Ville Simell, Marian Rewers, Anette-G Ziegler, Åke Lernmark, Olli Simell, Jorma Toppari, Jeffrey P Krischer, Beena Akolkar, Stephen S Rich, Daniel Agardh, Jin-Xiong She, TEDDY Study Group

“…<h4>Objectives</h4>There are significant geographical differences in the prevalence and incidence of celiac disease that cannot be explained by HLA alone. …”
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Multiple Modern Methods of Blood Pressure Measurement and the 2018 European Society of Hypertesion Guidelines by V. M. Gorbunov, E. Y. Fedorova, E. V. Platonova

“…Therefore, it is important to be aware of the current multiplicity of BP measurement methods and respective threshold values recommended for each method. …”
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Improved sub-band JND model with textural decomposition and its application in perceptual image coding by Ming-kui ZHENG, Kai-xiong SU, Wei-xing WANG, Cheng-dong LAN, Xiu-zhi YANG

“…In order to improve the accuracy of the just noticeable difference (JND) model in transform domain, an en-hanced JND model with a new method for contrast masking factor estimation was proposed. …”
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Battery Cell Charging Behavior Analysis Using Constant Current and Constant Voltage Methods by Anna Cyntia, Muhammad Imran Hamid, Ayu Elsa Afriyanti

“…The simulation analyzes the charging efficiency, usable capacity, and internal impedance variation under various current levels and voltage thresholds. The CC/CV method is compared with findings from other studies that also used the CC/CV charging technique, highlighting similarities and differences in the results. …”
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A method for English paragraph grammar correction based on differential fusion of syntactic features. by Weiling Liu, Caijun Zhao, Yongyi Li, Chenglong Cai, Hong Liu, Ruilin Qiu, Ruoci Su, Bingbing Li

“…Firstly, the sentence vector representation is constructed by BERT, and then the syntactic structure is extracted by dependency parsing. Then carry out difference fusion analysis, measure the syntactic differences of adjacent sentences by cosine similarity, identify the significant differences caused by grammatical errors according to the preset threshold, lock the position and type of errors, and input the original sentence vector into the Seq2Seq model based on Transformer. …”
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A method of urban high-precision DEM construction based on point cloud model by Weibo Zeng, Xiaoxiao Zhang, Shuangxi Gu, Ran Zhang, Lele Yu, Yijun Zhou, Yuqing Zhuo

“…Subsequently, the slope factor is introduced to achieve an adaptive adjustment of the threshold for the height difference of the point cloud surface fitting. …”
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Film mulching can alleviate soil quality decrease and produce high maize yield under different irrigation strategies by Hao Quan, Lihong Wu, Jiaming Sun, Tibin Zhang, Lianhai Wu, Kadambot H.M. Siddique, Hao Feng, Bin Wang

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Applying the Triangle Taste Test to Assess Differences between Low Sodium Salts and Common Salt: Evidence from Peru. by Lorena Saavedra-Garcia, Antonio Bernabe-Ortiz, Robert H Gilman, Francisco Diez-Canseco, María Kathia Cárdenas, Katherine A Sacksteder, J Jaime Miranda

“…<h4>Methods and results</h4>A triangle taste test was conducted and participants were offered samples of cooked rice prepared with different salts. …”
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Tumor-specific PET tracer imaging and contrast-enhanced Mri based tumor volume differences inspection of glioblastoma patients by Irshad Ahmed Abbasi, Mohammed Alshehri, Yahya AlQahtani

“…These methods encompassed adaptive threshold algorithms, batch processing pipelines, and image attribute extraction algorithms. …”
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Timing of activation of different inspiratory muscles during incremental inspiratory loading in healthy adults: A cross-sectional study by Umi Matsumura, Antenor Rodrigues, Tamires Mori, Peter Rassam, Marine Van Hollebeke, Dmitry Rozenberg, Laurent Brochard, Ewan C Goligher, Darren Roblyer, W Darlene Reid

“…# Purpose To evaluate whether the onset and duration of electromyography (EMG) activity of different inspiratory muscles vary during an incremental inspiratory threshold loading (ITL) in healthy adults and whether it is associated with dyspnea and inspiratory mouth pressure (Pm) at task failure…”
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Preoperative factors associated with failure to achieve the minimal clinically important difference in quality of life following total knee arthroplasty by Takaya Watabe, Takuya Sengoku, Ryota Muramatsu, Masafumi Kubota, Goro Sakurai, Shinya Yoshida, Yuta Taniguchi

“…Methods This single-center cohort study included 149 patients with knee osteoarthritis who underwent primary TKA using the subvastus approach. …”
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Digestate Application on Grassland: Effects of Application Method and Rate on GHG Emissions and Forage Performance by Petr Šařec, Václav Novák, Oldřich Látal, Martin Dědina, Jaroslav Korba

“…Vegetation status was assessed via Sentinel-2-derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Water Index, and Modified Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index, and agronomic performance through dry matter yield (DMY), net energy for lactation (NEL), and relative feed value (RFV). …”
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Fecal 16S rRNA sequencing and metabolomics reveal abnormal metabolism activity in preterm infants with different gestational ages by Ling Liu, Liang Guo, Jincheng Dai, Xiangsheng Cai, Benqing Wu, Benqing Wu

“…ObjectiveThis study aims to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the differences in gut microbiota and metabolomics in preterm infants stratified by gestational age.MethodsFresh fecal samples were collected from neonates within the first 3 days after birth. …”
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Research note: bright-field automated identification method for eggshell moist spots detection by Jiajie Yang, Lin Xuan, Guoxuan Huang, Anning Huang, Qi liu, Guiyun Xu, Jiangxia Zheng

“…Second, a bright-field automated method was established using optimized threshold, background subtraction, and feature filters. …”
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No compromise in efficiency from the co-application of a marine and a terrestrial CDR method by Yiannis Moustakis, Hao-Wei Wey, Tobias Nützel, Andreas Oschlies, Julia Pongratz

“…Abstract Modelled pathways consistent with the Paris Agreement goals to mitigate warming typically include the large-scale application of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR), which can include both land- and marine-based CDR methods. However, the Earth system responses and feedbacks to scaling up and/or combining different CDR methods remain understudied. …”
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FPGA-based point processing for denoising of the show-through effect in scanned document images by Habibunnisha Nazeer, Nedumaran Damodaran

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Development and Validation of the Multi-Residue Method for Identification and Quantitation of Six Macrolide Antiparasitic Drugs by Chuanmin Cheng, Yannan Chen, Xinyu Liu, Yanmin Lei, Qianxi Qin, Linli Cheng

“…These thresholds meet the stringent requirements for trace drug analysis, supporting the method’s suitability for regulatory surveillance and monitoring of these specified antibiotics in animal feeds.…”
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Effects of different defecation angles on imaging, pelvic floor morphology and anorectal dynamics during defecation in patients with functional constipation by Shan Chao, Guo Xuefei, Li Xiaolu, Qi Shujie, Xu Caihong, Yu Xiang, Wu Xiaowei

“…[Conclusion] Compared with sitting defecation, adopting a squatting position, especially the Asian squatting position, increases perineal descent and anorectal angle, reduces puborectal muscle thickness during defecating phase, narrows the difference in puborectal muscle thickness between resting and defecating phases, improves anal sphincter function, and exhibits advantages in enhancing rectal sensitivity and lowering rectal tolerance thresholds.…”
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