Urinary tract infection in adults: gaps in current guidelines – opinions from an international multidisciplinary panel and relevance to clinical practice by Kalpana Gupta, Florian Wagenlehner, Mark Wilcox, Sonali D. Advani, Manu Bilsen, Gernot Bonkat, Rafael Cantón, Suzanne Geerlings, Beatrice Grabein, Juan P. Horcajada, Pamela Kushner, Navaneeth Narayanan, Marc Scheetz

“…Abstract Purpose Although urinary tract infections (UTIs) are one of the most common infections encountered in clinical practice, many challenges remain with respect to classification and management. The purpose of this report is to discuss key issues in the management of UTIs and identify gaps in current knowledge and guidelines, as well as future research needs. …”
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Species Identification and Orthologous Allergen Prediction and Expression in the Genus <i>Aspergillus</i> by Maria C. Zuleta, Oscar M. Gómez, Elizabeth Misas, Susana Torres, Álvaro L. Rúa-Giraldo, Juan G. McEwen, Ana M. Garcia, Clayton L. Borges, Orville Hernández, Angela M. López

“…This genus taxonomic classification has been subject to frequent updates, which has generated considerable difficulties for its classification when traditional identification methodologies are employed. …”
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GD-Det: Low-Data Object Detection in Foggy Scenarios for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Imagery Using Re-Parameterization and Cross-Scale Gather-and-Distribute Mechanisms by Rui Shi, Lili Zhang, Gaoxu Wang, Shutong Jia, Ning Zhang, Chensu Wang

“…(iii) A decoupled prediction module with three branches is to implement classification and regression, enhancing detection accuracy by combining the prediction values from tri-level features. …”
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OPPORTUNITIES OF ELECTRO-OPTIC VISUALIZATION PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS ON BOARD THE AIRCRAFT by S. B. Stukalov, D. S. Stukalov, V. I. Kondrikov

“…The article covers the following issues: the development and practical application of airborne electro-optic systems in the civil aviation aircraft. …”
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Advanced Learning Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems: Prospects and Challenges by Ruhul Amin Khalil, Ziad Safelnasr, Naod Yemane, Mebruk Kedir, Atawulrahman Shafiqurrahman, NASIR SAEED

“…We hope that this effort will inspire further exploration of fresh perspectives and issues, which, in turn, will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of transportation systems.…”
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PERSONAL INCOME TAX GAPS: BIBLIOMETRIC AND ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS by I. Tiutiunyk, O. Mazurenko

“…The article identifies the top Scientific Journals indexed by the Scopus database in which the issues of tax gap management were published most often. …”
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Eternal-MAML: a meta-learning framework for cross-domain defect recognition by Jipeng Feng, Haigang Zhang, Zhifeng Wang

“…We noticed there exists serious label arrangement issues in MAML because of the random selection of recognition tasks, which seriously affects the performance of MAML model during both training and testing phase. …”
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The strategic alliance of higher education institutions: Experience of contemporary Germany by A. M. Petrov

“…In Russia, insufficient attention is paid to the issues of alliance formation within the sphere of higher education. …”
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Identifying Food Preferences and Malnutrition in Older Adults in Care Homes: Co-Design Study of a Digital Nutrition Assessment Tool by Jenni Connelly, Kevin Swingler, Nidia Rodriguez-Sanchez, Anna C Whittaker

“…However, the dietary intake monitoring needed to identify malnutrition for early intervention is affected by issues such as difficulty remembering or needing a dietitian to interpret the results. …”
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THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF STUDYING TERM VOCABULARY WITH STUDENTS OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNICAL SPECIALTIES by Zoriana Y. Kunch

“…A number of general scientific research methods were used: analysis, classification, systematization, interpretation. This made it possible to solve a number of specific tasks: a) to identify the most relevant issues in the current context of terminology and group them into certain areas of study; b) describe typical problems related to the understanding of each aspect; c) identify the latest challenges in the study of term vocabulary and propose original approaches to their analysis. …”
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Sclerosing mesenteritis as a surgical problem: a review of the literature and own clinical observation by V. Yu. Bogachev, B. V. Boldin, P. Yu. Golosnitskiy, P. Yu. Turkin, I. M. Dizengof, D. A. Kobzarev, V. Yu. Tsukan

“…The article provides a review of the literature on this rare surgical pathology, presents our own clinical observation, and discusses diagnostic issues and treatment options for this disease.…”
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Enhanced anomaly network intrusion detection using an improved snow ablation optimizer with dimensionality reduction and hybrid deep learning model by Fatimah Alhayan, Asma Alshuhail, Ahmed Omer Ahmed Ismail, Othman Alrusaini, Sultan Alahmari, Abdulsamad Ebrahim Yahya, Sami Saad Albouq, Mutasim Al Sadig

“…Abstract With the enlarged utilization of computer networks, security has become one of the critical issues. A network intrusion by malicious or unauthorized consumers may cause severe interruption to networks. …”
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Current status and management strategies of medical waste in Jinshan District， Shanghai by WANG Jinzhen, JIANG Yan, JIANG Yong, YANG Haojie, YANG Guang, FAN Lei, NIE Lianlian, YANG Danhong

“…ObjectiveTo assess the current status of medical waste management in Jinshan District of Shanghai, China, to identify existing issues, and to provide a scientific basis for formulating targeted strategies.MethodsData were collected from the routine supervision and inspection records of the Jinshan District Health Commission Supervision Institute from 2017 to 2021, covering all aspects of medical waste management, including collection, classification, transportation, storage, and administrative penalties.ResultsThe compliance rates for the establishment of institutional frameworks, staffing, internal handover, and registration in medical and healthcare institutions all exceeded 95.00%. …”
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Comprehensive rehabilitation of cancer patients: the role of pharmaceutical support in the recovery process by O. H. Aleksieiev, V. V. Chemyrysov, Yu. Yu. Sizintsova, D. Yu. Tarnavska

“…During the work, the method of analysis, comparison, synthesis, generalization, explanation and classification were used. Results. Study of the problems of complex rehabilitation of cancer patients. …”
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TIAR-SAR: An Oriented SAR Ship Detector Combining a Task Interaction Head Architecture with Composite Angle Regression by Yu Gu, Minding Fang, Dongliang Peng

“…These issues hinder efficient and accurate ship detection in complex scenarios. …”
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Adulteration Detection and Origin Identification of Yak Milk Powder Based on Near-infrared Spectroscopy Technology by Haiyang PENG, Zhongdong WU, Tao LIN, Hongcheng LIU, Ying GU

“…The K-nearest neighbors (KNN) method was employed to establish a classification model. Partial least squares regression (PLSR) was used to establish a quantitative prediction model. …”
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Neural network-based segmentation model for breast cancer X-ray screening by N. I. Rozhkova, P. G. Roitberg, A. A. Varfolomeeva, M. M. Mazo, A. N. Dobrenkii, D. S. Blinov, E. V. Sushkov, O. N. Deryabina, A. I. Sokolov

“…Diagnostic efficiency of breast cancer screening remains one of the most important issues in oncology and radiology. Artificial intelligence technologies are widely used in clinical medicine to effectively solve a number of technological and diagnostic problems. …”
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Pruned hierarchical Random Forest framework for digital soil mapping: Evaluation using NEON soil properties by Chengcheng Xu, Jingyi Huang, Alfred E. Hartemink, Nathaniel W. Chaney

“…The pHRF-derived soil classification showed out-of-bag scores above 0.7 at different taxonomic levels. …”
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Decentralized EEG-based detection of major depressive disorder via transformer architectures and split learning by Muhammad Umair, Jawad Ahmad, Nada Alasbali, Oumaima Saidani, Muhammad Hanif, Aizaz Ahmad Khattak, Muhammad Shahbaz Khan

“…This approach meets institutional privacy requirements while providing robust classification outcomes.…”
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Evaluation of open and closed-source LLMs for low-resource language with zero-shot, few-shot, and chain-of-thought prompting by Zabir Al Nazi, Md. Rajib Hossain, Faisal Al Mamun

“…., three closed-source (GPT-3.5, GPT-4o, Gemini) and three open-source (Aya 101, BLOOM, LLaMA) across key natural language processing (NLP) tasks, including text classification, sentiment analysis, summarization, and question answering. …”
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