DeLoCo: Decoupled location context-guided framework for wildlife species classification using camera trap images by Lifeng Wang, Shun Wang, Chenxun Deng, Haowei Zhu, Ye Tian, Junguo Zhang

“…Experiments on two typical camera trap datasets (IWildCam and TerraInc) validates that our approach outperforms eight benchmark methods. …”
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Hot water treatment combined with <i>Trichoderma</i> inoculation in the nursery protects planting material against grapevine trunk disease by Dorottya Agnes Simon, Patrick Winterhagen, Ruth Walter, Thierry Wetzel, Andreas Kortekamp, Andreas von Tiedemann, Joachim Eder

“…To enhance the phytosanitary quality of planting material, a method was developed to control the common GTD pathogens Phaeomoniella chlamydospora, Phaeoacremonium minimum, and Diplodia seriata using hot water treatment (HWT) and inoculation with the biocontrol agent Trichoderma atroviride SC1 (Vintec®, Certis Belchim B. …”
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Encapsulation of Gallic Acid with Acid-Modified Low Dextrose Equivalent Potato Starch Using Spray-and Freeze-Drying Techniques by Sepelevs Igor, Stepanova Valentina, Galoburda Ruta

“…The main objective of the present study was to investigate the effect of spray- and freeze-drying techniques on the microencapsulation of a gallic acid compound using the acid-hydrolyzed low dextrose equivalent potato starch as a wall material. During the experiment, it was possible to achieve encapsulation efficiency of 70–84% for the freeze-dried and 65–79% for spray-dried samples, without statistically significant difference (P>0.05) in the encapsulation efficiency between the mentioned methods. …”
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Assessing dental surgeons' understanding of bisphosphonates: Implications for patient health in oral surgery by Vilson Rocha Cortez Teles de Alencar, Marcília Ribeiro Paulino, Inês Andrea Luna Martinis de Alencar, Jaime Ribeiro-Filho, Ana Valéria de Oliveira Braz, Edinardo Fagner Ferreira Matias, João Paulo Martins de Lima, Sloana Giesta Lemos Florencio, Henrique Douglas Melo Coutinho, Antônio Marcos Montagner

“…Objectives: This study aimed to analyze the knowledge of dental surgeons concerning the pharmacological effects of bisphosphonates (BP) and their impact on the health of patients undergoing oral surgery treatment. Materials and methods: A quantitative study was conducted with professionals in the Cariri region of Ceará, Brazil. …”
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The Relationship Between Psychological Factors and Nutritional Status in Adolescence by Bojana Marinković, Bojan Ćorluka, Mile Vukajlović, Bojan Bjelica, Nikola Aksović, Saša Bubanj, Emilija Petković, Adem Preljević, Ljubiša Lilić, Tatiana Dobrescu, Adina-Camelia Şlicaru

“…Developmentally oriented scientists are unique in their approach to explaining the problem of body image, focusing on multiple aspects and attempting to understand the intrapersonal and interpersonal factors that are important for the formation of body image. Methods: The sample included 260 adolescents aged 11 to 15. …”
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The Physicochemical and Structural Characteristics of Cultivated Sahlep by Abdullah Kurt, Talip Kahyaoglu

“…Amorph structure was determined with the XRD experiment for all samples. The variation of surface morphology of sahlep was observed with the cultivation by SEM. …”
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Improved cohesin HiChIP protocol and bioinformatic analysis for robust detection of chromatin loops and stripes by Karolina Buka, Zofia Parteka-Tojek, Abhishek Agarwal, Michał Denkiewicz, Sevastianos Korsak, Mateusz Chiliński, Krzysztof H. Banecki, Dariusz Plewczynski

“…Additionally, we propose an automated pipeline called nf-HiChIP ( https://github.com/SFGLab/hichip-nf-pipeline ) for processing HiChIP samples starting from raw sequencing reads data and ending with a set of significant chromatin interactions (loops), which allows efficient and timely analysis of multiple samples in parallel, without requiring additional ChIP-seq experiments. …”
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Challenges and Obstacles in the Development of Winter Sports Tourism in the Ski Slopes of Tehran by Siavash Imeni, Leyla Asadpour Shirazi

“…The research population comprised all tourists and athletes frequenting these slopes, who responded to a 40-item, researcher-developed questionnaire. Using available sampling methods and Cochran's formula, 384 samples were collected from an unlimited population. …”
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Perspectives of the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccination among racially and ethnically diverse gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men with and without HIV in the US South:... by Jake S. Waldman, Jorge Alonzo, Lilli Mann-Jackson, Sandy K. Aguilar-Palma, Manuel Garcia, Benjamin D. Smart, Scott D. Rhodes

“…Methods We collected, analyzed, and interpreted qualitative in-depth interview data from a diverse sample of GBMSM (N = 30) in North Carolina, USA. …”
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Nondestructive detection of sweet potato leaf curl virus using 3D laser imaging combined with deep learning by Yican Yang, Nuwan K. Wijewardane, Tyler J. Slonecki, Phillip A. Wadl, Sharon A. Andreason, Jingdao Chen, Lorin Harvey

“…Experiments were then conducted to fine-tune the hyperparameters of the PointNet++ algorithm. …”
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Comparison of the HDS DBT reaction using bulk and supported catalysts by Polina P. Mukhacheva, Yuliya V. Vatutina, Ksenia A. Nadeina, Sergey V. Budukva, Maxim A. Panafidin, Vera P. Pakharukova, Mikhail V. Parfenov, Evgeny Yu. Gerasimov, Oleg V. Klimov, Aleksandr S. Noskov

“…It is shown by the X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy method that in both samples Mo on the surface is present exclusively in the form of Mo4+ ion. …”
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Forecasting Human Core and Skin Temperatures: A Long-Term Series Approach by Xinge Han, Jiansong Wu, Zhuqiang Hu, Chuan Li, Boyang Sun

“…Specifically, the approach of pretraining the model on in-distribution samples followed by fine-tuning markedly outperformed other methods in terms of prediction accuracy, with a prediction error for T_cr within ±0.14 °C and T_{sk, mean} within ±0.46 °C. …”
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Restoration of Lost Functions in Students after Blast Traumatic Brain Injuries in the Process of Inclusive Physical Education by Oksana Blavt, Oleksandr Herasymenko

“…The purpose of the article is to determine the effectiveness of the developed program of inclusive physical education on the restoration of dynamic balance functions in students after blast traumatic brain injury. Materials and methods. The research combined theoretical (analysis, synthesis, generalization) and empirical methods (pedagogical experiment, testing). …”
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Effect of a Bacillus-based probiotic on fecal shedding and cecal colonization of Salmonella Enteritidis in laying hens by I. Poudel, A. Calvert, A.S. Kiess, L. Zhang, P.A. Adhikari

“…Both fecal and cecal samples were plated on xylose lysine tergitol 4 (XLT4) plates with 200 ppm nalidixic acid using the direct plate method. …”
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ANALYSIS OF MUTATIONS IN KRAS AND BRAF GENES IN COLORECTAL CANCER IN RUSSIAN PATIENTS by E. E. Pisareva, L. N. Ljubchenko, S. P. Kovalenko, V. A. Shamanin

“…Results. In 5 (6.3 %) cases samples had low tumor tissue content (&lt;20 %). In reconstruction experiments both methods detected 1–5 % mutant allele. …”
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Effect of High Voltage Electrical Pulses on the Oil Yield of Sunflower Meal by Shorstkii I.

“…One of the most important tasks of the modern oil and cake industry is to develop advanced technologies that could increase the yield of high quality oil and related target components from oilseeds. Study objects and methods. The present research featured sunflower oilseeds. …”
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Boosting adversarial transferability in vision-language models via multimodal feature heterogeneity by Long Chen, Yuling Chen, Zhi Ouyang, Hui Dou, Yangwen Zhang, Haiwei Sang

“…However, due to the under-utilization of modal differences and consistent features in existing methods, the attack effectiveness and migration of adversarial samples are not satisfactory. …”
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An action decoding framework combined with deep neural network for predicting the semantics of human actions in videos from evoked brain activities by Yuanyuan Zhang, Manli Tian, Baolin Liu

“…The proposed method enriches the semantic decoding model. We have also conducted several experiments with data from different subsets of brain regions known to process visual stimuli. …”
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CFP-SwinT: building damage classification during floods using cross fusion pyramid Swin-T by Chuyi Wu, Zeyu Wang, Junshi Xia, Feng Zhang

“…The code for the proposed method is available at https://github.com/WuChuYi/Cross-Fusion-Pyramid-Swin-Transformer.…”
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An Integrated Fault Identification Approach for Rolling Bearings Based on Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet Packet Transform and Generalized Composite Multiscale Amplitude-Aware Permutatio... by Wuqiang Liu, Xiaoqiang Yang, Shen Jinxing

“…Besides, this solution can judge the different faults more accurately compared with other ordinary methods.…”
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