Infectivity and fatality of influenza in pre- and post-COVID-19 pandemic year. by Shuanglin Jing, Hao Wang

“…We aim to compare influenza's epidemiological characteristics between pre-pandemic and post-pandemic periods to inform public health responses. We develop two influenza transmission models incorporating age structure and multi-strain dynamics, featuring time-varying transmission and mortality rates. …”
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Investigating bearing and gear vibrations with a Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and machine learning approach by Gagandeep Sharma, Tejbir Kaur, Sanjay Kumar Mangal, Amit Kohli

“…Further, an RF model is also developed to classify different types of faults based on features extracted from the acquired vibration data. …”
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Linking sensory processing challenges to autism-related factors: observational evidence from Pakistan by Sana Khawer, Mohammad Ismail, Sitwat Zehra

“…Abstract Background Sensory processing dysfunction (SPD) is a salient feature of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) that has garnered substantial clinical and research attention. …”
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Expert decision-making in clinicians: An auto-analytic ethnographic study of operational decision-making in urgent care. by Nicola Irvine, Robert Van Der Meer, Itamar Megiddo

“…Novel solution generation was not a feature of trainee decisions but moments of intuition were. …”
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Multi-source Data-driven Analysis of Deformation and Influencing Factors for Expansive Soil Canal Slopes by ZHANG Yuhan, HU Jiang, LI Xing

“…Deformation serves as a direct indicator of slope stability, making the analysis of deformation patterns and trends essential for assessing stability. …”
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A Reinforced, Event-Driven, and Attention-Based Convolution Spiking Neural Network for Multivariate Time Series Prediction by Ying Li, Xikang Guan, Wenwei Yue, Yongsheng Huang, Bin Zhang, Peibo Duan

“…Second, an advanced LIF-pooling strategy is developed, which is then theoretically and empirically proved to be effective in preserving more features from the regions of interest in spike images than average-pooling strategies. …”
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The Rise of FinTech and the Journey Toward a Cashless Society: Investigating the Use of Mobile Payments by SMEs in Oman in the Context of Vision 2040 by Hisham Al Ghunaimi, Faozi A. Almaqtari, Ronald Wesonga, Ahmed Elmashtawy

“…By utilizing secondary sources of data from the Central Bank of Oman and global FinTech reports, this research identifies essential enablers, such as security features and ease of use, which are propelled by developments in FinTech solutions. …”
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Critical Analysis of Audit Committee Reporting in National Government Departments: The Case of South Africa by Tankiso Moloi

“…These benchmark features (categories) were developed using an inductive or bottom up thematic analysis which was applied on the applicable regulations as well as on all NGD’s annual reports to determine the comprehensive themes and patterns of audit committee reporting across the departments. …”
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INTRODUCTION by Ken HYLAND, Octavia-Raluca ZGLOBIU-SANDU, Andrada FĂTU-TUTOVEANU

“…It then seeks to make these salient to students, encouraging them to engage analytically with target discourses to develop a critical understanding of group communication. …”
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Ecological portraits: Mapping functional spectra and space characteristics of birds in China by Fei Duan, Ming Gao, Shuyi Zhu, Xiaoli Shen, Sheng Li

“…The results showed that birds in China exhibited a clustered distribution pattern within the functional spectra and spaces. …”
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MAFcounter: an efficient tool for counting the occurrences of k-mers in MAF files by Michail Patsakis, Kimonas Provatas, Aris Karatzikos, Charalampos Koilakos, Ioannis Mouratidis, Ilias Georgakopoulos-Soares

“…These alignments facilitate the exploration of sequence similarity patterns, providing valuable insights into sequence conservation, evolutionary relationships and for functional analyses. …”
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Proliferative Verrucous Leukoplakia: A Diagnostic Challenge in a Clinical and Histopathological Context—With Reflections on the Health Reality in Brazil by Michele Di Benedetto, Gabriela de Figueiredo Meira, Milena Martins da Rocha, Mariel Ruivo Biancardi, Jéssica Barroso Barbosa, Jeconias Câmara, Gerson de Oliveira Paiva Neto, Roberto Luiz de Menezes Martinho, Cássia Maria Fischer Rubira, Silvia Helena de Carvalho Sales Peres

“…However, due to the diverse histological features observed in PVL, identifying clinical criteria and histological patterns that can be applied by unfamiliar professionals is challenging. …”
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Spatiotemporal Changes and Driving Mechanisms of Cropland Reclamation and Abandonment in Xinjiang by Yuling Fang, Shixin Wu, Guanyu Hou, Weiyi Long

“…Since China’s reform and opening up in 1978, the reclamation and abandonment of cropland in Xinjiang have become significant features of the land use change in the arid land of Northwest China. …”
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Simulation of single-species bacterial-biofilm growth using the Glazier-Graner-Hogeweg model and the CompuCell3D modeling environment by Nikodem J. Poplawski, Abbas Shirinifard, Maciej Swat, James A. Glazier

“…In our simulations, which generalize the PLHmodel by treating cells as spatially extended, deformable bodies, differentialadhesion between cells, and their competition for a substrate (nutrient), sufficeto produce a fingering instability that generates the finger shapes of biofilms.Our results agree with most features of the PLH model, although our inclu-sion of cell adhesion, which is difficult to implement using other modelingapproaches, results in slightly different patterns. …”
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CINEMA SPACES: AN IMAGINATIVE WORLD OF THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE. REVIEW OF THE 6TH INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE “GEOGRAPHY OF ART” / ПРОСТРАНСТВА КИНО: ОБРАЗНЫЙ МИР КУЛЬТУРНОГ... by LAVRENOVA OLGA A. / ЛАВРЕНОВА О.А.

“…It traditionally considers not only spacing of artifacts and monuments over the earth’s surface, but also specific features related to the reflection of geographical space in art and creation of fantasy worlds in which the dependence on consistent patterns of the real world formation can easily be traced. …”
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Knowledge Graph-Augmented ERNIE-CNN Method for Risk Assessment in Secondary Power System Operations by Xiang Huang, Ping Li, Ye Wang, Xuchao Ren, Zhenbing Zhao, Gang Li

“…Second, an improved ERNIE-CNN model is developed, incorporating an attention mechanism to effectively fuse semantic features and spatial patterns from operational texts. …”
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A Kansei-Oriented Morphological Design Method for Industrial Cleaning Robots Integrating Extenics-Based Semantic Quantification and Eye-Tracking Analysis by Qingchen Li, Yiqian Zhao, Yajun Li, Tianyu Wu

“…First, we used web crawlers to harvest user-generated descriptors for industrial floor-cleaning robots and applied Extenics theory to quantify and filter key perceptual imagery features. Second, eye-tracking experiments captured users’ visual-attention patterns during robot observation, allowing us to identify pivotal design elements and assemble a sample repository. …”
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Investigation of brain response to acquisition and learning the second languages based on EEG signals and machine learning techniques by Talal A. Aldhaheri, Sonali B. Kulkarni, Pratibha R. Bhise, Baraq Ghaleb

“…By comparing brain activity patterns between Arabic and Hindi, this study contributes to neurolinguistics and offers data that can be used to develop more effective language learning strategies and interventions.…”
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A Survey on Android Malware Detection Techniques Using Supervised Machine Learning by Safa J. Altaha, Ahmed Aljughaiman, Sonia Gul

“…The findings reveal that the existing researches utilize different ML models, features, and detection techniques, including static, dynamic, and hybrid approaches. …”
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A dual-core model for ENSO diversity: unifying model hierarchies for realistic simulations by Jinyu Wang, Xianghui Fang, Nan Chen, Bo Qin, Mu Mu, Chaopeng Ji

“…To address this, we build upon existing model hierarchies to develop a new unified modeling platform, which provides practical, scalable, and accurate tools for advancing ENSO research. …”
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