A lightweight deep-learning model for parasite egg detection in microscopy images by Wenbin Xu, Qiang Zhai, Jizhong Liu, Xingyu Xu, Jing Hua

“…Therefore, we have designed a lightweight deep-learning model, YAC-Net, to achieve rapid and accurate detection of parasitic eggs and reduce the cost of automation. Methods This paper uses the ICIP 2022 Challenge dataset for experiments, and the experiments are conducted using fivefold cross-validation. …”
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Detecting muscle fatigue among community-dwelling senior adults with shape features of the probability density function of sEMG by Jiarui Ou, Na Li, Haoru He, Jiayuan He, Le Zhang, Ning Jiang

“…TMK was shown to be sensitive in detecting fatigue with respect to time with lower computational complexity than the Sample Entropy. Conclusion This study investigated PDF shape features of sEMG signals during a handgrip exercise to identify muscle fatigue in older adults in community experiments. …”
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Online simultaneous determination of lactoferrin and immunoglobulin G in dairy products by two-dimensional liquid chromatography by CHEN Qin, ZHOU Langjun, CHEN Zijing, LIU Mengni, LIN Senyu

“…ObjectiveA method of two-dimensional liquid chromatograohy was established to simultaneously determine the content of lactoferrin and immunoglobulin G in dairy products.MethodsThe pretreated samples were directly injected into the constructed system. …”
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Modified silica gel and cation-exchanger based on activated carbon for fullerenes separation by V. A. Diamant, L. M. Rozhdestvenska, K. O. Kudelko

“…The adsorbents were described by the methods of IR spectroscopy, thermogravimetry, the main characteristics of the porous structure were determined by the method of low-temperature adsorption-desorption of nitrogen. …”
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Fine-Grained Local and Global Semantic Fusion for Multimodal Image–Text Retrieval by Shenao Peng, Zhongmei Wang, Jianhua Liu, Changfan Zhang, Lin Jia

“…Through extensive comparative experiments conducted on the Flickr30K and MS-COCO benchmark datasets, the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method were verified. …”
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FLSH: A Framework Leveraging Similarity Hashing for Android Malware and Variant Detection by Hassan Jalil Hadi, Alina Khalid, Faisal Bashir Hussain, Naveed Ahmad, Mohammed Ali Alshara

“…We conducted experiments on a dataset of 2000 APK files, including both benign and malicious samples, and classified malware into six categories trojan, adware, spyware, virus, downloader, and hacktool. …”
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Aiming at reproducibility in lining canvas paintings by Antonio Iaccarino Idelson, Valerio Garofalo

“…This paper describes a process started in 2011 with the use of the “mist lining” technique for a large painting by Titian, conserved in Venice uncontrolled environment. After several experiences with a specific version of the method, Valerio Garofalo’s research thesis helped the standardisation of lining procedures aiming to obtain predictable, reproducible results. …”
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Energy-efficient recognition of human activity in body sensor networks via compressed classification by Ling Xiao, Renfa Li, Juan Luo, Zhu Xiao

“…Compressive classification can be applied directly on the compressed samples received from all nodes. This method was validated on the Wearable Action Recognition Dataset and implemented on embedded nodes for offline and online experiments. …”
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Focal CTC Loss for Chinese Optical Character Recognition on Unbalanced Datasets by Xinjie Feng, Hongxun Yao, Shengping Zhang

“…To solve this issue, we modify the traditional CTC by fusing focal loss with it and thus make the model attend to the low-frequent samples at training stage. In order to demonstrate the advantage of the proposed method, we conduct experiments on two types of datasets: synthetic and real image sequence datasets. …”
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Dental caries prevalence, preventive behaviour and related factors among adolescents in Nigeria: a 10-year systematic review and meta-analysis by Adebukunola O. Afolabi, Adebola O. Ehizele, Ukachi Chiwendu Nnawuihe, Francisca O. Nwaokorie, Ucheoma Nwaozuru, Foluso Owotade, Joanne Lusher, George Uchenna Eleje, Omolola T. Alade, Folahanmi T. Akinsolu, Oliver C. Ezechi, Moréniké Oluwátóyìn Foláyan

“…Methods A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies on dental caries among adolescents was undertaken in September 2023. …”
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Characterization of the gut microbiota and systemic inflammation in HIV-exposed uninfected infants from a resource-limited setting at 6 weeks of age by P. Munjoma, A. Mazhandu, J. Wyss, S. Ulrich Jordi, L. Katsidzira, B. Yilmaz, B. Misselwitz, K. Duri

“…However, the degree of variation in biomarkers and systemic inflammation between HIV-exposed uninfected (HEU) infants and their HIV-unexposed uninfected (HUU) peers remains uncertain. Materials and Methods: A total of 78 infants, including one set of twins, were enrolled in this study at approximately 6 weeks of age. …”
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Sleep Quality and Insomnia Prevalence Among a Saudi Population: A Descriptive Study by Senitan M, BinDhim NF, Althumiri NA

“…The sample comprised 6051 participants aged between 18 and 90 years. …”
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Crystal’s Self-Alignment for High Power Laser Facility Based on Machine Learning by Yaohan Kang, Daizhong Liu, Xiuqing Jiang, Lei Gong, Xingqiang Lu, Mingying Sun

“…The crystal alignment beam is sampled using grating diffraction. This method employs a machine learning algorithm running on a Raspberry Pi to automatically locate the reflective spot from the crystal’s back surface and adjust its position to achieve alignment. …”
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Knowledge and attitude of the families with a mental patient about the‏ ‏electroconvulsive therapy at the Ebn-e- Sina psychiatric center of Mashhad by Zahra Yazdandoost, Mehdi Bakaian, Tahereh Khaleghdoost, HamidReza Behnam Veshani, Atefeh Ghanbari Khanghah, Rabiollah Farmanbar

“…‎ Objective: The goal was to determine the knowledge and attitude of the mental patients, ‎families about the electroconvulsive therapy at the Ebn-e- Sina psychiatry center of Mashad Methods: This research is a descriptive study and its samples consist of ‎‏71‏member of the ‎families whose patients previously experienced ECT at least once. …”
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Women and Drugs : A Sociological study by Dr. Khalid Hantoosh Sachit

“…For this purpose, two questionnaires are designed with common questions for both groups. The social survey method is adopted in a comprehensive census method for all convicts in this correctional institution during the field study period, which has been at the end of 2024, where the number of tables extracted from the data obtained by the researcher with his tools amounted to about (42) tables, and its findings can be summarized as follows:                                                                                                    First: General Findings for Female Activists and Addicts; • Women constitute approximately 3% of the number of people convicted in drug cases. …”
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Nanomechanical characterization of soft nanomaterial using atomic force microscopy by Chi-Dat Lam, Soyeun Park

“…Especially, the Chen, Tu, and Cappella models, developed from the Hertz model, are used for thin samples on hard substrates. Additionally, the establishment of physical or chemical bonds during indentation experiments, observable in retract f-d curves, is crucial for the adhesive properties of samples and binding affinity between antibodies (receptors) and antigens (ligands). …”
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DBDST-Net: Dual-Branch Decoupled Image Style Transfer Network by Na Su, Jingtao Wang, Jingjing Zhang, Ying Li, Yun Pan

“…Additionally, to mitigate the limited availability of style data, we employ the Stable Diffusion model to generate stylized samples for data augmentation. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves a better balance between content preservation and style rendering compared to existing approaches.…”
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MSFF-Net: Multi-Sensor Frequency-Domain Feature Fusion Network with Lightweight 1D CNN for Bearing Fault Diagnosis by Miao Dai, Hangyeol Jo, Moonsuk Kim, Sang-Woo Ban

“…These features are processed by a compact one-dimensional convolutional neural network, where modality-specific representations are fused at the feature level to capture complementary fault-related information. The proposed method demonstrates robust and superior performance under both full and scarce data conditions, as verified through experiments on a publicly available dataset. …”
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Effect of White Tea on Leptin and Asprosin Levels in Rats Feeding a High-Fat Diet by Adnan Yilmaz, Merve Nur Toraman, Sibel Mataraci Karakas, Zulkar Ozden, Esra Pinarbas, Tolga Mercantepe

“…During this study, the case groups were administered white tea together with a high-fat diet, whereas the positive control group was administered orlistat along with a high-fat diet through oral gavage. After the experiment concluded, the levels of leptin, asprosin, and insulin hormones were evaluated in serum samples collected from rats using the ELISA method. …”
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Adversarial Contrastive Autoencoder With Shared Attention for Audio-Visual Correlation Learning by Jiwei Zhang, Yi Yu, Suhua Tang, Wei Li

“…Extensive experiments on the VEGAS and AVE datasets demonstrate that the proposed ACASA method outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in cross-modal audio-visual retrieval.…”
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