African Oil Bean (Pentaclethra Macrophylla Benth): Unsung Hero of Tropical Africa by Rukayat Queen Adegbola, Jacob Adetayo Adegbola, Temitope Adepeju Ihum, Lateef Oladimeji Sanni

“…Essentially, the review asserts that improved postharvest management practices, modern processing techniques as well as storage of fermented seeds (which are notorious for its very short shelf life) would increase its shelf life. …”
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Waveshift Augmentation: A Physics-Driven Strategy in Fine-Grained Plant Disease Classification by Gent Imeraj, Hitoshi Iyatomi

“…However, the necessity for meticulous data segmentation by origin and the demand for extensive data collection lead to performance degradation in even state-of-the-art models. These issues arise because symptom-identifying features are often weak and diverse, and domain differences can overshadow these distinctions. …”
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Combined Effect of Low-Temperature Stress and Slightly Acidic Electrolyzed Water (SAEW) on the Microbial Control of Oat Sprout Production by Shaokang Liu, Hongrui Ren, Lin Chen, Tongjiao Wu, Jianxiong Hao

“…Therefore, the application of SAEW combined with low temperature stress treatment in sprout production and processing has high potential.…”
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Large Language Model‐Based Chatbots in Higher Education by Defne Yigci, Merve Eryilmaz, Ail K. Yetisen, Savas Tasoglu, Aydogan Ozcan

“…Large language models (LLMs) are artificial intelligence (AI) platforms capable of analyzing and mimicking natural language processing. Leveraging deep learning, LLM capabilities have been advanced significantly, giving rise to generative chatbots such as Generative Pre‐trained Transformer (GPT). …”
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Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and ultrasound markers of obesity as unfavorable factors in the course of coronary artery disease by D. A. Tsygankov, O. M. Polikutina

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Research on cardiac image segmentation algorithm based on improved level set modeling by Shuaishuai ZHANG, Ruixia LIU, Ke SHAN, Zhenhua GUO

“…In recent years, cardiac medical image segmentation using the variational level-set method has been widely applied in image processing. However, the uneven grayscale of images and the symbolic distance function in the gradient descent method lead to issues such as computational complexity and high computational cost during segmentation. …”
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Evaluating the effectiveness of hermetic grain storage bags for kocho production in two agro-ecologies of Gera district, Ethiopia by Zeleke Tesfahun Demissie, Kumela Dibaba Tolera, Chala G. Kuyu

“…The community is aware of several quality and safety issues related to traditional enset fermentation, including contamination risks from soil microorganisms, hygiene concerns, inconsistent product quality, and the labor-intensive nature of the process. …”
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Long COVID Discourse in Canada, the United States, and Europe: Topic Modeling and Sentiment Analysis of Twitter Data by Ahmed Ghassan Tawfiq AbuRaed, Emil Azuma Prikryl, Giuseppe Carenini, Naveed Zafar Janjua

“…The use of social media analysis in understanding public health issues is underscored, emphasizing the role of emerging technologies in enhancing public health responses.…”
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Effect of Quality Control Circle Activities on Reducing the Failure Rate of Surgical Instrument Pre-Treatment by Wang Y, Zhou X, Zhu Y, Dan Y, Huang Z, Xiang L

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Properties of Celery Soluble Dietary Fiber and Its Synergistic Effect with TG Enzyme to Improve Gel Properties of Nemipterus virgatus Unrinsed Surimi by Shengnan TONG, Jinmei WANG, Xingsheng MA, Shumin YI, Xuepeng LI, Jianrong LI, Guangren JI

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Design of a Visual Communication System for Animated Characters in Virtual Reality Using Sobel Edge Detection and Motion Capture by Zhengyu Yang

“…Through three main design processes-target optimization, graphic image restructuring, and refinement-the system enhances the impact of graphic image processing in visual communication design by integrating image processing, visual image processing, and text processing technologies. …”
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Health information disorders types and origins in health communication: A qualitative study by Amir Zalpour, Ehsan Geraei, Mohammadreza Hashemian, Firoozeh Zare-Farashbandi

“…The origins of HIDs have emerged into four main categories and 12 subcategories: sender (includes purpose and motivation, educational issues, psychological issues); message or content (includes content validity, content type); channel (includes media, access issues, type and manner of information dissemination); and receiver (includes educational issues, psychological issues, personal issues, social issues). …”
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Empowering cancer research in Europe: the EUCAIM cancer imaging infrastructure by Luis Martí-Bonmatí, Ignacio Blanquer, Manolis Tsiknakis, Gianna Tsakou, Ricard Martinez, Salvador Capella-Gutierrez, Sara Zullino, Janos Meszaros, Esther E. Bron, Jose Luis Gelpi, Katrine Riklund, Linda Chaabane, Heinz-Peter Schlemmer, Mario Aznar, Patricia Serrano Candelas, Peter Gordebeke, Monika Hierath, the EUCAIM Consortium, European Society of Radiology

“…In summer 2024, the EUCAIM project released the first prototype of an EU-wide infrastructure, with a comprehensive dashboard integrating applications for dataset discovery, federated search, data access request, metadata harvesting, annotation, secure processing environments and federated processing. Critical relevance statement EUCAIM’s federated infrastructure for cancer image data advances medical research and related AI development in Europe. …”
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Transformation of CO2 to C2+ alcohols by tailoring the oxygen bonding via Fe-based tandem catalyst by Wenhang Wang, Xiangyu Guo, Yang Wang, Simin Lin, Xinhua Gao, Jie Liang, Jinqiang Zhang, Jinghao Xie, Hu Jiang, Fengliang Cao, Yongjie Chen, Guohui Yang, Thomas Frauenheim, Mingqing Wang, Tao Xing, Yiwu Lu, Qiang Liu, Kostya S. Novoselov, Noritatsu Tsubaki, Mingbo Wu

“…Abstract Direct conversion of CO2 into valuable organic products is probably the most important but challenging issue for global sustainability efforts. Metal carbides are promising as vital catalytic components in achieving this goal. …”
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Enhancing fresh-cut spinach preservation with carbon quantum dot-based composite coatings by Sijing Zhu, Linxuan Jin, Yueyue Zhang, Feiping Chen, Amr Farouk, Tao Yang, Guohui Yi, Houxue Li, Zhao-Jun Ban, Lingling Liu

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Technologies for Interoperable Internet of Medical Things Platforms to Manage Medical Emergencies in Home and Prehospital Care: Scoping Review by Mattias Seth, Hoor Jalo, Åsa Högstedt, Otto Medin, Bengt Arne Sjöqvist, Stefan Candefjord

“…Gaining more knowledge about addressing higher levels of interoperability issues is essential to unlock the full potential of IoMT platforms. …”
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Advances in Bedload Monitoring Technologies in Mountain Rivers by Ming LUO, Xingnian LIU, Wanbing PENG, Xiaokang WU, Yimin HE, Er HUANG

“…Despite extensive research and progress, the complexity of bedload monitoring issues presents considerable exploration space based on existing advancements and results. …”
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Cocoa bean quality identification using a computer vision-based color and texture feature extraction by Basri Basri, Indrabayu Indrabayu, Andani Achmad, Intan Sari Areni

“…The current pressing issue in the downstream processing of cocoa beans in cocoa production is a strict quality control system. …”
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The Vatican’s Test Through Women, Gender, and Sexual Abuse in the Context of the Synod on Synodality by Osman Şahin

“…The Synod is placing particular emphasis on listening to women and those who feel excluded by the Church, and during the Synod a number of issues have stood. As anticipated, some of these issues involve women more actively participating in decision-making processes within the Church, establishing a deaconate for women, addressing the problem of sexual abuse, and welcoming LGBTQ+ individuals into the Church. …”
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Quantitative Analysis of 3-Monochloropropane-1,2-diol in Fried Oil Using Convolutional Neural Networks Optimizing with a Stepwise Hybrid Preprocessing Strategy Based on Fourier Tra... by Xi Wang, Siyi Wang, Shibing Zhang, Jiping Yin, Qi Zhao

“…The LODs (0.36 μg/g) and LOQs (1.10 μg/g) of the proposed method met the requirements for 3-MCPD detection in oil samples by the Commission Regulation issued of EU. The method proposed by CNN model with hybrid preprocessing was superior to the traditional model, and contributed to the quality monitoring of edible oil processing industry.…”
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