Comparative Study on the Efficacy and Safety of Tumor Resection in Vitrectomy for Retinal Vasoproliferative Tumors by Bin Zheng, Yan Chen, Lifeng Chen, Huan Chen, Jingwei Zheng, Feng Chen, Zongming Song, Lin Fu, Xuting Hu, Jiandong Pan, Hengli Lian, Lijun Shen, Qiuming Li

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Query-Based Instance Segmentation with Dual Attention Transformer for Autonomous Vehicles by Aya Taourirte, Li-Hong Juang

“…To address these challenges, we propose an enhanced QueryInst-based instance segmentation framework. First, we replace the traditional CNN backbone with the DaViT Transformer to extract richer, multi-scale features. …”
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Atmospheric microplastic accumulation in Ramalina celastri (Sprengel) Krog & Swinscow Thalli: a transplant study across different levels of urbanization by Gollo Maira S., Villagra Elizabeth L.B., Gomez Jonatan J.

“…This study investigates MP accumulation in natural populations of Ramalina celastri across an urbanization gradient in Luján, Argentina, marking the first report for this species. MP concentrations ranged from 16.54 ± 3.59 MPs g–1 in baseline sites to significantly higher levels in urban zones. …”
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Beyond Standard Model Searches in the MiniBooNE Experiment by Teppei Katori, Janet M. Conrad

“…This review describes these studies, demonstrating that short baseline neutrino experiments are rich environments in new physics searches.…”
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Joint embedding–classifier learning for interpretable collaborative filtering by Clémence Réda, Jill-Jênn Vie, Olaf Wolkenhauer

“…Finally, JELI induces a restriction in the number of parameters compared to baselines in synthetic and drug-repurposing data sets.…”
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Orígenes, evolución y retos de la etnobiología boliviana by Victoria Reyes-García, Mónica Moraes R., Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana

“…In this article, we document the biological and anthropological precursors of Bolivian ethnobiology and we analyze its evolution through three emblematic case studies: the first two show the confluence of a biological and an anthropological project towards ethnobiology, and the third one illustrates the benefits of the participatory approach. …”
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Association between the hemoglobin A1c/High-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio and stroke incidence: a prospective nationwide cohort study in China by Chaojuan Huang, Hongtao You, Yuyang Zhang, Ligang Fan, Xingliang Feng, Naiyuan Shao

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Evaluating the effectiveness of prompt engineering for knowledge graph question answering by Catherine Kosten, Farhad Nooralahzadeh, Kurt Stockinger

“…In this work, we evaluate six different few-shot prompting methods. The first set of experiments evaluates three frameworks that focus on the quantity or type of shots in a prompt: a baseline method with a simple prompt and a small number of shots, random few-shot prompting with 10, 20, and 30 shots, and similarity-based few-shot prompting. …”
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The Effectiveness of a Behavioral Program in Reducing the Aggressive Behavior of Children with Mild Mental Disabilities at the Mu'tah Center for Special Education by Sameer Alremawi, Ahmed A. Arabiyat

“…The list of aggressive behavior was applied to the study sample in three stages: The first stage was a baseline (pre-test) and lasted a week, and the second stage was a stage after the completion of the application of the guidance program (post-test), where it lasted for six weeks, while the third stage was the (follow-up measurement) phase, which was carried out two months after stopping the implementation of the program, the repetitions of aggressive behavior were counted. …”
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THE NEW WORLD INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION ORDER DEBATE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY IN NIGERIA by BECKY ADE ALIEGBA

“… While the New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) debate underlines the centrality of information and communication development to societal transformation in the twenty-first century, it has unarguably led to explosion in human communication in ways previously thought impossible. …”
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Aerodynamic Load Reduction on a Supercritical Airfoil Using Tilted Microjets by Cheng Xue, Feng Deng, Haifeng Wang, Ning Qin

“…The numerical method was first validated against the experimental and previous numerical data. …”
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MU’TEZİLE’NİN TARİH ALGISI by Osman Aydınlı

“…In the history of Islamic thought, the Mu’tazilite school is characterized by its particular method in understanding religion and religious tradition and by its rational attribution to Islamic precepts. First of all, Mu’tazilite theologians laid down their principles as ‘al-usûl al-khamsah (five root and fundamentals) and focused on theological and philosophical issues. …”
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A phase III, randomized, controlled noninferiority trial to study the efficacy and safety of imipenem/cilastatin/relebactam (IMI/REL) vs piperacillin/tazobactam (PIP/TAZ) in patien... by Junjie Li, Feng Wei, Peng Xiang, Zhengang Tang, Lianshu Ding, Luke Francis Chen, Maria Losada, Zlatka Iamboliyska, Fang Sun, Mingfen Zhu, Xiaodan Guo, Xiaoling Du, Chang Chen, Christopher Bruno, Sandra Koseoglu, Katherine Young, Min Zhou, Jieming Qu

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Risk of All-Cause Mortality in US Adults With Preserved Ratio Impaired Spirometry: An Observational Study by Xiao S, Ou J, Qiu W, Ye C, Li N, Chen S, Lai Y, Deng Z, Wu F, Shen Y

“…Participants aged 20– 79 years at baseline and who underwent spirometry were included. …”
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An Improved Stochastic Configuration Networks With Compact Structure and Parameter Adaptation by Sanyi Li, Hongyu Guan, Peng Liu, Weichao Yue, Qian Wang

“…There are two key improvements: First, the stopping condition for generating neurons is optimized to improve the effectiveness of new neurons. …”
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Türkiye’de Uluslararası İlişkiler Disiplininde Kadın Akademisyen Olmak: Cam Tavanlar ve Fildişi Bodrumlar by Birgül DEMİRTAŞ, Zuhal YEŞİLYURT GÜNDÜZ

“…How do glass ceilings, ivory basements and maternal walls affect female academics? …”
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The Impact of Weighted Blanket Use on Adults with Sensory Sensitivity and Insomnia by Rhonda Davis-Cheshire, Savannah Bennington, Allison Hartsek, Teresa Kelly, Janeene Marinelli, Amanda Perez

“…Through convenience sampling, four participants scoring 15 or greater on the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI), which categorizes them as having moderate to severe insomnia, and much more than most people in sensory sensitivity on the Adolescent/Adult Sensory Profile were recruited. First, seven-day baseline sleep data was gathered, followed by two weeks of weighted blanket use, concluding with a seven-day withdrawal phase. …”
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LCFF-Net: A lightweight cross-scale feature fusion network for tiny target detection in UAV aerial imagery. by Daoze Tang, Shuyun Tang, Zhipeng Fan

“…Empirical assessments conducted on the VisDrone dataset validate the efficacy of the algorithm proposed. Compared to the baseline-s model, the LCFF-Net-n model outperforms baseline-s by achieving a 2.8% increase in the mAP50 metric and a 3.9% improvement in the mAP50-95 metric, while reducing parameters by 89.7%, FLOPs by 50.5%, and computation delay by 24.7%. …”
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Alcidodes karelinii (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea: Molytinae): New weevil species for the fauna of Serbia by Vukajlović Filip N., Ugrnov Danilo, Rapajić Branko, Ćoćić Danijela, Banjanac Sanja, Tot Ivan

“…This paper reports the first findings of the allochthonous weevil species Alcidodes karelinii (Boheman, 1844) in Serbia. …”
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Short-term urban traffic forecasting in smart cities: a dynamic diffusion spatial-temporal graph convolutional network by Xiang Yin, Junyang Yu, Xiaoyu Duan, Lei Chen, Xiaoli Liang

“…Compared to several baseline models, the experimental results show that the model is 7% better than other models on several metrics and demonstrates the necessity of the module through ablation experiments.…”
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