The Adversarial Robust and Generalizable Stereo Matching for Infrared Binocular Based on Deep Learning by Bowen Liu, Jiawei Ji, Cancan Tao, Jujiu Li, Yingxun Wang

“…To compute the matching cost volume, we apply the multi-scale census transform to the input stereo images. A stacked sand leak subnetwork is subsequently employed to address the matching task. …”
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MOCA: A Low-Power, Low-Cost Motion Capture System Based on Integrated Accelerometers by Elisabetta Farella, Luca Benini, Bruno Riccò, Andrea Acquaviva

“…To this purpose, we characterized the system from both a quantitative point of view and a qualitative point of view. …”
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Nothing about them without them: insights from six countries on involving “beneficiaries” in co-design, monitoring, and evaluation of research-to-impact projects by Zenebe Uraguchi

“…Methodological integration of qualitative sensemaking and quantitative modeling offers practical insights into navigating complexity in research-to-impact pathways. …”
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Ångström exponent impact on the aerosol optical properties obtained from vibrational–rotational Raman lidar observations by G. Malollari, A. Ansmann, H. Baars, C. Jimenez, J. Hofer, R. Engelmann, N. Skupin, S. Shallari

“…An alternative approach is the rotational Raman lidar method, which does not need an Ångström exponent as input. This study presents a quantitative comparison between the pure rotational and vibrational–rotational Raman lidar approaches to assess the impact of the Ångström exponent assumption on the vibrational–rotational Raman lidar solutions. …”
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Design and Validation of a Discipline-Oriented Curriculum Model for Elementary Education with an Emphasis on Gardner\'s Five Minds Approach by Mehzad Alirezaei, Faezeh Nateghi, Mohammad Seifi

“…Subsequently, the proposed model's validity was assessed using quantitative method (survey) with input from the experts. …”
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Digital Administration Acceptance for Mountain Climbers in Mount Merbabu National Park by Achmad Wahyu Mochtar, Rino Ardhian Nugroho, Roisa Nur Hanifah, Septyanto Galan Prakoso

“…In this study, associative quantitative methods and convenience sampling are employed. …”
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Identifying the Complexity of the Food-Energy-Water Nexus Based on Emergy Analysis in Crop Production Systems of China by Beibei Guo, Tingting Cheng, Tingting Sun, Yi Tong, Sifeng Nian

“…The study revealed that China has witnessed an expansion in its total CPS inputs, with renewable inputs accounting for 32.89% and an average annual input-output ratio of 37.98%. …”
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Experimental Investigation of Characteristics and Development of Nonlinearity Models for FR1-Range Radio-Frequency Amplifiers by V. I. Mordachev, E. V. Sinkevich, Wan Fayu, D. А. Tsyanenka, I. V. Shakinka, А. А. Dubovik

“…The synthesized models are suitable for use in a wide dynamic range of input signals in case of simultaneous modeling of nonlinear effects of all kinds that pose a danger to radio reception in a complex electromagnetic environment created in the frequency bands of mobile (cellular) communications: both “subtle” effects (intermodulation) and “rough” effects (desensitization, cross-modulation). …”
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Mastering The Art of Speaking: Enhancing Grade 11 Students’ Speaking Skill Through Speakup Scaffold by Amer Mehmood Jason P. Ahmed, Lhea D. Ildefonso, Othaniel Lubbong, Jayson Blanza

“…The research utilized both qualitative and quantitative data gathering instruments in the form of pre- and post-intervention speaking performance rubric, teacher observation, and student reflective journals. …”
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The public’s perceptions of patient safety in healthcare by Ilya Kagan, Dana Arad, Joseph Mendlovic, Yossi Tal, Yaron Niv

“…This study was therefore designed to examine the views and opinions of the public concerning patient safety in the Israeli healthcare system with the aim to serve as an important input in determining patient safety goals and policies. …”
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Wavelet deep unfolding network for iterative stripe noise removal in wideband microwave imaging system for EMS localization by Yanju Zhu, Zihan Zhao

“…The extensive experiments on simulated and real data demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms several classical de-striping methods on both quantitative and qualitative assessments.…”
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COVID-19 global risk evaluation: rankings, reducing surveillance bias, and infodemic by Michał P. Michalak, Elżbieta Węglińska, Agnieszka Kulawik, Jack Cordes, Michał Lupa, Andrzej Leśniak

“…Classification methods used to assess COVID-19 risk often treat testing as a secondary, qualitative factor, overlooking its value as a quantitative input. Integrating testing data with case counts can improve the accuracy of regional infection probability estimates. …”
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Adaptive Stylized Image Generation for Traditional Miao Batik Using Style-Conditioned LCM-LoRA Enhanced Diffusion Models by Qingqing Hu, Yiran Peng, Jing Xu, Zichun Shao, Zhen Tian, Junming Chen

“…In addition, a Style-Conditioned Linear Fusion (SCLF) strategy is proposed to dynamically adjust the fusion of LoRA and LCM outputs according to the semantic complexity of input prompts, thereby overcoming the limitation of static weighting in existing frameworks. …”
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Productive efficiency of wine grape producers in the North of Portugal by Micael Santos, Xosé Antón Rodríguez, Ana Marta-Costa

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ANALYTICAL SYNTHESIS OF FORCED PULSE ELECTRONIC DRIVE CONTROL OF A TRACKING SYSTEM by A. S. Abufanas, A. A. Lobaty, Y. F. Yacina

“…Qualitative illustrations of the operability of the proposed approach, obtained by modeling in the Mathcad environment, and quantitative characteristics of the change in the input and output signals of the hypothetical control system are presented. …”
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RGB imaging-based detection of rice leaf blast spot and resistance evaluation at the canopy scale by XIE Pengyao, FU Haowei, TANG Zheng, MA Zhihong, CEN Haiyan

“…Preprocessing and labeling of the input images were then performed. A Mask-RCNN model for the recognition of rice leaf blast spots was developed to perform the rectangular frame detection, mask segmentation and classification. …”
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Dual-Branch Seasonal Error Elimination Change Detection Framework Using Target Image Feature Fusion Generator by Hongming Zhu, Jipeng Zhang, Zeju Wang, Xinyu Liu, Qin Liu, Bowen Du

“…The experimental results demonstrate significant improvements in both quantitative and qualitative assessments of change detection tasks compared to directly performing change detection with various models, highlighting the effectiveness of the proposed DBSEE-CDF.…”
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An Innovative Neighbor Attention Mechanism Based on Coordinates for the Recognition of Facial Expressions by Cheng Peng, Bohao Li, Kun Zou, Bowen Zhang, Genan Dai, Ah Chung Tsoi

“…For solving the facial expression recognition (FER) problem, we introduce a novel feature extractor called the coordinate-based neighborhood attention mechanism (CNAM), which uses the coordinate attention (CA) method to capture the directional relationships in separate horizontal and vertical directions, the input features from a preprocessing unit, and then passes this to two residual blocks, one consisting of the neighborhood attention (NA) mechanism, which captures the local interaction of features within the neighborhood of a feature vector, while the other one contains a channel attention implemented by a multilayer perceptron (MLP). …”
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Strategic Management of Multiculturalism for Social Sustainability in Hospitality Services: The Case of Hotels in Athens by Michalis Skordoulis, Olga Patsatzi, Stavros Kalogiannidis, Christina Patitsa, Aristidis Papagrigoriou

“…This study uses both quantitative and qualitative research methods through structured questionnaires on 242 employees from the units of the hotel. …”
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Comparative study of dynamic response by three types of energy storage systems for grid studies: A Microgrid Laboratory experimental-based study by Danny Ochoa-Correa, Edisson Villa-Ávila, Vinicio Iñiguez-Morán, Patricio Astudillo-Salinas

“…The methodological framework used in this research is descriptive, experimental, and quantitative. …”
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