Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation of Remote Sensing Images Using Siamese Affinity Network by Zheng Chen, Yuheng Lian, Jing Bai, Jingsen Zhang, Zhu Xiao, Biao Hou

“…Second, leveraging the prior notion of cross-view consistency, we employ a Siamese network to regularize the consistency of CAMs from different affine-transformed images, providing additional supervision for weakly supervised learning. …”
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Navigating the microarray landscape: a comprehensive review of feature selection techniques and their applications by Fangling Wang, Azlan Mohd Zain, Yanjie Ren, Mahadi Bahari, Azurah A. Samah, Zuraini Binti Ali Shah, Norfadzlan Bin Yusup, Rozita Abdul Jalil, Azizah Mohamad, Nurulhuda Firdaus Mohd Azmi

“…It addresses the challenges posed by the high dimensionality and noise of microarray data, aiming to integrate the strengths and limitations of various methods while exploring their applicability across different scenarios. …”
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Deep learning models for deriving optimised measures of fat and muscle mass from MRI by Belvin Thomas, M. Adam Ali, Fatima M. H. Ali, Anthony Chung, Manjiri Joshi, Sophia Maiguma-Wilson, Gabrielle Reiff, Hadil Said, Pardis Zalmay, Michael Berks, Matthew D. Blackledge, James P. B. O’Connor

“…In summary, DL model accuracy and precision of delineating fat and muscle volumes varies between CNN-based and transformer-based models, between different tissues and in some cases with gender. …”
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The “prostate-pelvic syndrome” theory used in patients with type-III prostatitis and its correlation with prostate volume by Xiao-Ma Zhang, Wei-Yi Li, Zong-Yao Hao, Lei Zhou, Cheng Yang, He-Xi Du, Chao-Zhao Liang

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From Pixels to Patterns: Trait Plasticity and Species Overlap of Calanus spp. in Arctic Fjords by Emilia Trudnowska, Ali Bukhari, Marta Gluchowska, Mads Schultz, Irina Smolina, Joanna Stoń‐Egiert, Jędrzej Świeżewski, Kaja Balazy

“…Our goal was to study life‐history traits of two Calanus species (C. glacialis and C. finmarchicus) across slightly different environments in order to better understand their functioning within Arctic ecosystems undergoing substantial transformations. …”
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New tourism concept of Ekaterinburg: How to change the tourism product from “historical” to “modern” by Tatiana S. Belik, Konstantin V. Kuzmin

“…Ekaterinburg is one of the leading centers of creative economy in Russia; the task of developing a new tourist concept of the city is to change the tourist product from “historical” to “modern” with subsequent transformation into an attractive city for potential relocation and demonstration of its unique opportunities for individuals and businesses.…”
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‘Connecting the dots’ for generating a momentum for Universal Health Coverage in Bangladesh: findings from a cross-sectional descriptive study by Nahitun Naher, Syed Masud Ahmed, Lal B Rawal, Tarek Hossain

“…Objective This study was conducted to explore how and whether, the strategic grants made by the Rockefeller Foundation (RF) in different sectors of health systems in the inception phase were able to ‘connect the dots’ for ‘generating a momentum for Universal Health Coverage (UHC)’ in the country.Design Cross-sectional descriptive study, using document review and qualitative methods.Setting Bangladesh, 17 UHC-related projects funded by the RF Transforming Health Systems (THS) initiative during 2010–2013.Data Available reports of the completed and on-going UHC projects, policy documents of the government relevant to UHC, key-informant interviews and feedback from grant recipients and relevant stakeholders in the policy and practice.Outcome measures Key policy initiatives undertaken for implementing UHC activities by the government post grants disbursement.Results The RF THS grants simultaneously targeted and connected the academia, the public and non-profit development sectors and news media for awareness-building and advocacy on UHC, develop relevant policies and capacity for implementation including evidence generation. …”
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Implementation of the School as a Learning Organisation Approach in Vocational Education: The Case of Latvia by Gunta Siliņa-Jasjukeviča, Ilze Briška, Inese Lūsēna-Ezera, Agnese Lastovska, Inga Linde

“…Although vocational education has different predominant goals and different target groups, likewise general education, it is exposed to dynamic change and new challenges.Purpose. …”
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Physical activity levels and psychological parameters among university students following the COVID-19 pandemic by Ahmet Yapar, Can Özgider, İlhan Adiloğulları, Özhan Bavlı, Gamze Elif Adiloğulları

“…Methods The study was a cross-sectional design. The Sample comprised 2,868 undergraduate students, 1,405 female and 1,463 male, enrolled in 10 different faculties at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University. …”
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A novel spatiotemporal fractal dimension (STFD) for assessing ecological environment of the large-scale Yangtze River Basin China from 2012 to 2021 remote sensing data by Chang Li, Jiao Guo, Yongjun Zhang

“…This study not only enriches the theory and methods of controlling spatiotemporal uncertainty of EEA, but also reveals the ecological environmental law in the Yangtze River basin at different river grades and offers a scientific basis for regional sustainable development and government decision-making.…”
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Explaining Concept of Smart Power and Identifying Its Components in Universities of Medical Sciences: A Qualitative Study by Elham Shakiba, Mahboobeh Sadat Fadavi, Mohammad Ali Nadi

“…The aim of this research is Explaining the concept of Smart power and identifying its components in Universities of Medical Sciences Materials and Methods: The current research was done qualitatively in 2023 using the grounded theory method. …”
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Teachers’ autonomous motivation and work engagement: The role of the principal’s democratic leadership style and psychological climate by L. A. Mokretsova, O. A. Sychev, A. M. Bespalov, M. S. Vlasov, M. M. Prudnikova

“…The dependence of autonomous motivation of teachers on the principal’s leadership style was previously considered on the basis of the concept of transformational leadership by B. Bass, whereas its relationship with the styles described in the concept of K. …”
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Accompanying study of the development process towards a smart city strategy-with a particular focus on social change by Christian SCHACHTNER, Nadine BAUMANN

“…The Implications include enabling government leaders to initiate and manage transformative approaches to the digitization of public space. …”
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Climate change and the size of glaciers in the Kuznetsky Alatau Mountains between 1975 and 2015 by M. M. Adamenko, Ya. M. Gutak, V. A. Antonova

“…The analysis of current changes in the glacio-nival systems demonstrated that different morphological types of glaciers reacted to the current climate change in different ways. …”
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Effects of high glucose on expression of PINCH-1 inrenal interstitial fibroblasts from rats by XIE Rong, ZHANG He-ping, LIU Xiao-hui, LIU Jia-li, LI Qin-yun

“…Conclusions High glucose can promote the expression of the regulatory proteins PINCH-1 and ILK in NPK49 F, the phenotype transformation of fibroblasts, and the secretion of fibrotic proteins Col I and FN. …”
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Learning super-resolution and pyramidal convolution residual network for vehicle re-identification by Mengxue Liu, Weidong Min, Qing Han, Hongyue Xiang, Meng Zhu

“…The experimental results show that the method proposed in this paper effectively captures the detail information of vehicle images, accurately distinguishes the subtle differences between different vehicles of the same type, and is superior to state-of-the-art methods.…”
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The fine art of fine-tuning: A structured review of advanced LLM fine-tuning techniques by Samar Pratap, Alston Richard Aranha, Divyanshu Kumar, Gautam Malhotra, Anantharaman Palacode Narayana Iyer, Shylaja S.S.

“…Transformer-based models have consistently demonstrated superior accuracy compared to various traditional models across a range of downstream tasks. …”
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Multi-Dimensional Feature Perception Network for Open-Switch Fault Diagnosis in Grid-Connected PV Inverters by Yuxuan Xie, Yaoxi He, Yong Zhan, Qianlin Chang, Keting Hu, Haoyu Wang

“…This network captures multi-scale fault features under complex operating conditions through a multi-dimensional dilated convolution feature enhancement module and extracts non-causal relationships under different conditions using convolutional feature fusion with a Transformer. …”
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Regimes with high levels of pressure pulsations in the model of Francis-99 hydro-turbine draft tube by I. V. Litvinov, A. S. Mitryakov, S. I. Shtork

“…Variation of velocity distributions at the model inlet represented 866 regimes under different conditions of turbine load, including regimes with maximal coherent pulsations of pressure on the model walls. …”
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Development of students’ subject position in the process of internship in an inclusive school by A. A. Baranov, A. S. Suntsova

“…An important component of a future teacher education is internship in inclusive schools, in the course of which direct interactions with children with different physical and intellectual capabilities actualise own resources of students and acquisition of required skills.The aim of the experimental work presented in this publication is to identify the development factors and characteristics of a student’s subjective position in the process of continuous internship in inclusive education institutions.Methodology and research methods. …”
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