Unsupervised Cross-Domain Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) Change Monitoring Based on Limited-Label Transfer Learning and Vision Transformer by Xinyue Zhang, Rong Gui, Jun Hu, Jinghui Zhang, Lihuan Tan, Xixi Zhang

“…Four groups of cross-domain change monitoring experiments were conducted on the Radarsat-2, Sentinel-1, and UAVSAR datasets, with about 10% labeled samples from the source-domain PolSAR. …”
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Waveform Optimization for Enhancing the Performance of a Scanning Imaging Radar Utilizing a Terahertz Metamaterial Antenna by Heng Zhang, Hongqiang Wang, Chenggao Luo, Chuanying Liang, Feng Lan

“…The effectiveness of the proposed waveform optimization method for enhancing the performance of a TMPA scanning imaging radar is verified through simulations and experiments.…”
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Underwater Acoustic Signal LOFAR Spectrogram Denoising Based on Enhanced Simulation by Tianxiang He, Sheng Feng, Jie Yang, Kun Yu, Junlin Zhou, Duanbing Chen

“…The results on simulation experiments and sea trials demonstrate that the proposed method can significantly reduce ocean noise while preserving the characteristics of target line spectrum. …”
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Identification and Experimental Study of Sand Gravel Formations Driven by an Earth Pressure Balance Shield Machine Based on GTNet by Peng Zhou, Qian Wang, Ziwen Wang, Jiacan Xu, Zi Wang

“…Finally, a GTNet (gated Transformer network) based on the formation identification method was proposed. The reliability of the network model was verified by contrasting the model used with other network models and by analyzing the results of experiment and visualization. …”
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The expression landscape and clinical significance of methyltransferase-like 17 in human cancer and hepatocellular carcinoma: a pan-cancer analysis using multiple databases by Yezhou Ding, Mingyang Feng, Wanqing Chi, Xiaoyin Wang, Baoyan An, Kehui Liu, Shike Lou, Xiaolin Wang, Hui Wang

“…However, the function of METTL17 across pan-cancers, especially in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is still poorly understood. Methods All original data were downloaded from TCGA, GTEx, HPA, UCSC databases and various data portals. …”
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MWMOTE-FRIS-INFFC: An Improved Majority Weighted Minority Oversampling Technique for Solving Noisy and Imbalanced Classification Datasets by Dong Zhang, Xiang Huang, Gen Li, Shengjie Kong, Liang Dong

“…Then, the fuzzy rough instance selection (FRIS) method is used to eliminate the subsets of synthetic minority samples with low clustering membership, which effectively reduces the overfitting tendency of minority samples caused by synthetic oversampling. …”
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PLY-SLAM: Semantic Visual SLAM Integrating Point–Line Features with YOLOv8-seg in Dynamic Scenes by Huan Mao, Jingwen Luo

“…A series of simulations and experiments demonstrate the superior performance of our method.…”
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Numerical Analysis of the Anisotropy and Scale Effects on the Strength Characteristics of Defected Rockmass by Xiabing Liu, Shaohui He, Dahai Wang

“…In the present study, intact tuff samples cored from the Xiabeishan tunnel engineering in situ are conducted by experiment tests (i.e., uniaxial compression test, triaxial compression test, and Brazilian tensile test) to obtain the corresponding mechanical parameters. …”
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Rolling Bearing Fault Diagnosis via Temporal-Graph Convolutional Fusion by Fan Li, Yunfeng Li, Dongfeng Wang

“…Finally, a SoftMax classifier performed end-to-end fault recognition. Experiments demonstrated that the proposed method significantly improved fault recognition accuracy under small-sample scenarios. …”
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The effect of special exercises in developing some bio-kinetic abilities and improving the performance of the volley in tennis for players by Samah Saleem Radhy1, Ahmed Aboodee Hussein, Hassanein Abdel Kadhem fairouz, Ghaith Mohammed Karim, Mahmoud Nasser Radhi

“…Research methodology: the researcher used the experimental method (and designed the two equivalent groups), as the experimental method. …”
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Fusing multiplatform topo-bathymetric point clouds based on a pseudo-grid model: A case study around Ganquan Island, South China sea by Fanlin Yang, Xiaolin Yu, Xiankun Wang, Xiaozheng Mai, Chunxiao Wang, Anxiu Yang, Dianpeng Su

“…To verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, four typical samples along with six reference samples exhibiting diverse features collected from Ganquan Island in the South China Sea are utilized in the experiment. …”
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Chest Tube Removal: Efficacy of Cold Application and Breathing Exercises on Pain and Anxiety Level by Rasha M. Elmetwaly, Reham A. E. El Sayed

“… Context: Post-cardiothoracic surgical chest tube removal (CTR) is considered a painful technique and one of the most painful patients' experiences in the intensive care unit. Painkillers are the most prevalent method to relieve the pain, but the patient may not respond well and achieved complete relaxation. …”
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Thermocoagulation of resection surfaces of parenchymal organs using a new source of ultrahigh frequency energy (experimental study) by G. G. Gorokhov, A. V. Strikovskiy, L. V. Shkalova, V. E. Zagaynov

“…The study of the applicability of new surgical devices and the search for technological techniques are an important task.The aim of the study: to evaluate the capabilities of the developed device based on microwave energy for hemostatic coagula­tion of resection surfaces of parenchymal organs.Materials and methods. The method is based on the principle of converting microwave energy into heat when it is absorbed in biological tissue. …”
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Few-Shot Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Based on Refined Bi-Directional Prototypical Contrastive Learning for Cross-Scene Hyperspectral Image Classification by Xuebin Tang, Hanyi Shi, Chunchao Li, Cheng Jiang, Xiaoxiong Zhang, Lingbin Zeng, Xiaolei Zhou

“…Finally, extensive experiments and ablation analysis implemented on two public cross-scene data pairs and three pairs of self-collected ultralow-altitude hyperspectral datasets under different illumination conditions verify the effectiveness of our method, which will further enhance the practicality of hyperspectral intelligent sensing technology.…”
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The Amplitude and Frequency Spectrum of Skin Blood Flow Fluctuations in Acute Blood Loss (An Experimental Study) by I. A. Ryzhkov, I. S. Novoderzhkina, Yu. V. Zarzhetsky

“…Objective: to study the specific features of skin blood flow changes in blood loss and after its replacement.Material and methods. Experiments were carried out on 22 outbred male rats weighing 400—550 g, anesthetized with nembutal or chloralhydrate. …”
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In-vessel co-composting of yard waste and food waste: an approach for sustainable waste management in Cameron Highlands, Malaysia by Amirhossein Malakahmad, Natasha Binti Idrus, Motasem S. Abualqumboz, Sara Yavari, Shamsul Rahman M. Kutty

“…Therefore, this study aims to evaluate the applicability of converting yard waste generated in Cameron Highlands Malaysia into high-quality and fast compost via in-vessel method. Methods In-vessel composting technique was applied for speedy biotransformation of yard waste. …”
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Factors Affecting the Intention of Healthcare Providers in Responding to Disasters: A Systematic Literature Review by Mehdi Raadabadi, Mohammad Reza Khajehminian, Maryam Nikfard, Mahnaz Eider

“…The relevant data (title, author/s, year of publication, country, population of HCPs, sample size, response rate, study design, tools, data collection method, and type of disasters) in the included studies were extracted using a checklist designed for this purpose. …”
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Investigating facilitators and barriers to the routine provision of HIV PrEP in community pharmacies in London by Marsha Alter, Shivali Lakhani, Aos Alaa, Manisha Karki, Eva Riboli-Sasco, Austen El-Osta

“…The aim of this study was to explore the perspectives of pharmacy team members regarding the barriers and facilitators to the routine provision of PrEP in community pharmacies in the UK, as well as any recommendations for mitigating these challenges. Methods Exploratory mixed-method cross-sectional study utilising an online survey and semi-structured interviews with community pharmacists and non-pharmacist team members across the North Thames area of London, England. …”
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Interpolyelectrolyte Complexes Based on Eudragit^® Copolymers as Carriers for Bioadhesive Gastroretentive Metronidazole Delivery System by D. S. Gordeeva, A. V. Sitenkova (Bukhovets), R. I. Moustafine

“…The study of the release of metronidazole (MZ) from matrices based on the corresponding IPEC was performed on a DFZ II instrument (ERWEKA, Germany) according to the Flow Trough Cell method in 0.1 M HCl medium, pH 1.2, flow rate 4 ml/min in a closed cycle within 6 hours. …”
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LULC-SegNet: Enhancing Land Use and Land Cover Semantic Segmentation with Denoising Diffusion Feature Fusion by Zongwen Shi, Junfu Fan, Yujie Du, Yuke Zhou, Yi Zhang

“…The LULC-SegNet demonstrated an IOU score of 73.67%, particularly in segmenting the small-sample river class. Our method adapts to the complex geophysical characteristics of remote sensing datasets, enhancing the performance of automatic semantic segmentation tasks for land use and land cover changes and making critical advancements.…”
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