Discomforting sensations associated with self-induced ear care experiences among patients visiting the ear, nose, and throat clinic in Ghana by Judith Agyeiwaa Donkor, Veronica Adwoa Agyare, Olivia Nyarko Mensah

“…They were poking the ears with their fingers, using safety/hair pins, chicken features, broomsticks, herbs, Dr. Côte d’Ivoire ointment, and cotton wool rather than reporting to the hospital. …”
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Development of Social institution of Mass media in Information Society and Legal Field of the Personal and Corporative Information Security by Alexander Anatolyevich Markov, Nadezhda Nikolaevna Pokrovskaya, Pavel Dmitrievich Smirnov

“…As part of this perspective, the proposed material focuses on the problems of the evolution and dynamics of security issues from the point of view of social-legal assessment of the functioning of the Institute of Mass Communication in the Information Society. …”
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History and modernity: about science over 50 years by A. I. Kozlov

“…It is shown that these days the University has the considerable scientific potential, which is capable of both identifying industry-specific scientific problems and solving them.…”
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A lung nodule segmentation model based on the transformer with multiple thresholds and coordinate attention by Tianjiao Hu, Yihua Lan, Yingqi Zhang, Jiashu Xu, Shuai Li, Chih-Cheng Hung

“…In this model, we construct a multi-threshold feature separation module to capture edge and texture features from different levels and specified intensities of the input image. …”
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Psychological Linguodidactics of Speech Development Activity of Senior School Age Children with Autistic Abnormalities by Daria Suprun, Maryna Fedorenko

“…Children of senior preschool age with autistic problems have a predominantly low level of speech activity, therefore, the aim of the article is to theoretically substantiate and develop a phased correctional developmental psycholinguodidactic technology of forming speech activity of children determined age by using theoretical (study, analysis and generalization of the theoretical and methodological foundations of the research for determining the state of development of the problem and perspective directions of its study) and empirical (psychological and pedagogical experiment to study the state and features of the development of speech activity of children of senior preschool age with autistic disorders) research methods. …”
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Communication Platforms for Cities: Critical Analysis of Management Technology by A. G. Baryshkin, I. A. Bykov, O. A. Ignatieva, K. S. Kondratenko

“…The article substantiates the following typology: (1) platforms (sections of sites, pages) of citizens’ appeals; (2) portals of urban (regional) problems; (3) portals for evaluating initiatives; (4) public participation portals / platforms. …”
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Multiple modes of impulsivity in Parkinson's disease. by Cristina Nombela, Timothy Rittman, Trevor W Robbins, James B Rowe

“…Cognitive problems are a major factor determining quality of life of patients with Parkinson's disease. …”
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ConvNeXt embedded U-Net for semantic segmentation in urban scenes of multi-scale targets by Yanyan Wu, Qian Li

“…This method captures features of different scales and effectively solves the problem of urban scene image segmentation of memory scenes by objects of different scales. …”
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Detection of weeds in teff crops using deep learning and UAV imagery for precision herbicide application by Alemu Setargew Kebede, Tsehay Wasihun Muluneh, Abebe Belay Adege

“…A dataset of 1308 high-resolution drone-captured images was collected across various growth stages and weather conditions from the University of Gondar Agricultural Research Farm and surrounding farms. Key shape-based features such as aspect ratio (AR) and solidity were utilized to enhance model performance. …”
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Rare childhood tumors in a Turkish pediatric oncology center by Nurdan Tacyildiz, Derya Özyörük, Gülsan Yavuz, Emel Cabı Ünal, Handan Dinçaslan, Gülşah Oktay Tanyıldız, Zülfikar Gördü, Zeynep Şıklar, Merih Berberoğlu, Gönül Öcal

“…Aim: To investigate the frequency and clinical features of rare tumors in our pediatric oncology center. …”
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An Energy-Saving and Environment-Friendly Networked Intelligent Door Lock System for Offices by A. Wendong Zhao, B. Hao Wang, C. Mengjie Shi, D. Yinghao Li, E. Yan Ma

“…This paper addresses the problems existing in current networked lock systems and leverages the centralized office characteristics of enterprises and institutions. …”
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Regional Specificity of the Personality of the Bribe-Giver: the Experience of Sociological Analysis by R. R. Agishev, O. N. Barinova, I. V. Manaeva

“…The following regional features of the personality of the bribe-giver are revealed: the age of the highest economic and social lability, the average level of corruption activity, the low size of the average amount of a bribe, acting as the initiator of a corrupt bribe, the perception of a bribe as a rational means of solving problems, pronounced negativism in assessing the authorities.Conclusion. …”
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Multi-Scenario Simulation Evaluation and Strategic Zoning of Habitat Services Based on Habitat Quality and Ecological Network: A Case Study of Lanzhou City by Jin Shi, Xianglong Tang

“…The ecological priority scenario features the most corridors, while the cultivated land protection scenario incurs the lowest construction costs. …”
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Graph neural network-based transaction link prediction method for public blockchain in heterogeneous information networks by Zening Zhao, Jinsong Wang, Jiajia Wei

“…It is difficult to extract attributes and predict transaction behavior by traditional methods. To solve these problems, we extract transaction features to construct an Ethereum transaction heterogeneous information network (HIN) and propose a graph neural network (GNN)-based transaction prediction method for public blockchains in HINs, which can divide the network into subgraphs according to connectivity and increase the accuracy of the prediction results of transaction behavior. …”
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Application of numerical methods to the analysis of the magnetic field in AC traction machines by A. S. Zuev, M. D. Gluschenko

“…It describes how modern Russian researchers solve a wide range of problems, from studying traction performance, to analysing electromagnetic disturbances, noise and vibration, to modelling and diagnosing faults. …”
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IMPACT: an interactive multi-disease prevention and counterfactual treatment system using explainable AI and a multimodal LLM by Prasant Kumar Mohanty, Sharmila Anand John Francis, Rabindra Kumar Barik, K. Hemant Kumar Reddy, Diptendu Sinha Roy, Manob Jyoti Saikia

“…This article proposes an interactive multi-disease prevention system that uses Google Gemini Pro, a multimodal LLM, and a non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm, namely NSGA-II, to overcome such problems. This system recommends changes in feature values to concurrently minimize the risk of diseases such as heart attacks and diabetes. …”
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Wearable Medical Devices: Application Status and Prospects by Xiaowen Wang, Yingnan Gao, Yueze Yuan, Yaping Wang, Anqin Liu, Sen Jia, Wenguang Yang

“…This paper outlines the latest progress in the application of E-skin in physiological monitoring, disease treatment, human–computer interaction and other fields. The existing problems and development prospects in this field are presented.…”
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Implementasi Re-design UI/UX Website Fumigasi Untuk Meningkatkan Customer Experience by Faisal Maulana Akbar, Ayouvi Poerna Wardhanie2, Tan Amelia

“…The result of this research is a redesign of the UI/UX design by adding new features such as a price quote feature, an appointment feature, and a transaction feature. …”
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INFORMATION MODELS FOR MANUFACTURING WORKSPACES IN ROBOTIC PROJECTS by Igor Nevlyudov, Oleksandr Tsymbal, Artem Bronnikov

“…The following results were obtained: there were analysed the main features of informational models development to solve robotic tasks of different nature and were pointed the limitations of existing approaches of formal description, the need of integration of workspace models to decision-support systems and systems of graphical and mathematical simulation of integrated systems; the set theory-based model of information representation for problem-solving processes of flexible integrated robotic systems is proposed; the information-logic model of workspace for mobile robot applications, functioning in flexible integrated systems. is developed and contains the list of objects, includes their geometrical dimensions and supplies the preservation of parameters in time and space; information presentation for automated control system of flexible integrated manufacturing, which implements proposed models, is considered. …”
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A Tunnel Crack Detection Method Based on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Equipped with a High-Speed Camera and Crack Recognition Algorithm Using Improved Multi-Scale Retinex and P... by Wei Sun, Xiaohu Liu, Zhiyong Lei

“…The experimental results show that the method proposed in this paper improves the recognition ability of the small-texture features of the tunnel’s surface, and the overall crack recognition accuracy is higher than the existing methods. …”
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