GSBYOLO: A lightweight Multi-Scale fusion network for road crack detection in complex environments by Yuhao Wang, Heran Zhu, Yirong Wang, Jianping Liu, Jun Xie, Bi Zhao, Siyue Zhao

“…This method enhances the model’s detection robustness in complex backgrounds and effectively addresses the issue of insufficient emphasis on positive samples. …”
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Development of an instrument to measure students’ and teachers’ perceptions of understanding by design-based mathematics learning evaluation in inclusive schools by I Wayan Sumandya, Amirul Mukminin, I Wayan Widana, I Putu Pasek Suryawan, Ni Wayan Dian Permana Dewi, Robi Hendra, Mohd Faiz Mohd Yaakob

“…The content validity index values exceeded 0.8 and the Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin values of 0.910 for teachers and 0.926 for students confirmed the sample’s adequacy. Exploratory factor analysis revealed four valid and reliable factors for each group. …”
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Comparative Efficacy of Iron Chelation Therapies on Cardiac and Liver Iron Levels in Thalassemia Patients: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis by Abdulsalam Aleid, Dhiyaa Almu, Nada Almuwalad, Muhannad Alruwaili, Khalid Alaryani, Zeyad Alhaboob, Mohammed Alwabari, Saja Albenayyan, Wahaj AlHarbi, Abbas Shamsan, Abbas Al Mutair

“…This iron accumulation can result in severe health issues, including cardiac complications and liver diseases. …”
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Seasonal, weekly, and individual variations in long-term use of wearable medical devices for diabetes management by Yanjun Cui, Catherine Stanger, Temiloluwa Prioleau

“…In this study, we investigate patterns of consistent versus disrupted use of continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) through analysis of more than 118,000 days of data, with over 22 million blood glucose samples, from 108 young adults with type 1 diabetes (average: 3 years of CGM data per person). …”
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Species Delimitation and Cryptic Diversity in <i>Rheotanytarsus</i> Thienemann & Bause, 1913 (Diptera: Chironomidae) Based on DNA Barcoding by Yuan Yao, Jia-Yu Chen, Xiao-Ling Gong, Chen-Hong Li, Zheng Liu, Xiao-Long Lin

“…Therefore, to resolve these potential cryptic species issues, more extensive sampling and morphological examination of specimens from geographically distant regions—supplemented by nuclear and ecological data—are required.…”
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DO-MDS&DSCA: A New Method for Seed Vigor Detection in Hyperspectral Images Targeting Significant Information Loss and High Feature Similarity by Liangquan Jia, Jianhao He, Jinsheng Wang, Miao Huan, Guangzeng Du, Lu Gao, Yang Wang

“…To address the above issues, this study proposes an improved dynamic optimize MDS (DO-MDS) dimensionality reduction algorithm based on multidimensional scaling transformation. …”
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Using UMAP for Partially Synthetic Healthcare Tabular Data Generation and Validation by Carla Lázaro, Cecilio Angulo

“…In addition, the common case of lack of information due to technical issues, transcript errors, or differences between descriptors considered in different health centers leads to the need for data imputation and partial data generation techniques. …”
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Robust multi-label surgical tool classification in noisy endoscopic videos by Adnan Qayyum, Hassan Ali, Massimo Caputo, Hunaid Vohra, Taofeek Akinosho, Sofiat Abioye, Ilhem Berrou, Paweł Capik, Junaid Qadir, Muhammad Bilal

“…Furthermore, we employ strategies such as weighted data loaders and label smoothing to enable the models to learn difficult samples and address class imbalance issues. The proposed methodology achieves an average F1-score of 85.88% for the ensemble model-based self-training with class weights, and 80.88% without class weights for noisy tool labels. …”
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“intelligent Read Across (iRA)”- A tool for read-across-based toxicity prediction of nanoparticles by Souvik Pore, Kunal Roy

“…Experimental evaluation of NP toxicity is resource-intensive and raises ethical issues; therefore, various computational methods are used for toxicity assessments. …”
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Using Mesenchymal Stem Cells to Treat Female Infertility: An Update on Female Reproductive Diseases by Yun-xia Zhao, Shao-rong Chen, Ping-ping Su, Feng-huang Huang, Yan-chuan Shi, Qi-yang Shi, Shu Lin

“…Owing to the advantages of convenient samples, abundant sources, and avoidable ethical issues, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) can be applied widely in the clinic. …”
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Incorporating long-tail data in complex backgrounds for visual surface defect detection in PCBs by Liying Zhu, Sen Wang, Mingfang Chen, Aiping Shen, Xuangang Li

“…Next, an auxiliary supervision method with a soft label assignment strategy is designed to help LLM-Net learn more accurate defect features. Finally, the issue of inadequate tail data detection is addressed by employing the devised Binary Cross-Entropy Loss Rank Mining method (BCE-LRM) to identify challenging samples. …”
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The Effect of Red Fruit Oil (Pandanus conoideus) to the Histophysiology of Rat (Rattus norvegicus) Liver Exposed to Cigarette Smoke by Albertina Dhiu Kio, Tyas Rini Saraswati, Enny Yusuf Wachidah Yuniwarti

“…Free radicals in cigarette smoke may interfere the balanced of body molecules and cause the damage of hepatic cells. This issues may be prevented by using red fruit oil (Pandanus conoideus L) due to its antioxidant content. …”
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Tomato Pomace Ketchup: Physicochemical, Microbiological, and Sensory Characteristics by Stefanny Heriyanto, Andreas Romulo

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Evaluation of N-alkanes as Faecal Markers to Estimate Diet Composition, Feed Intake, and Digestibility in European Bison (Bison bonasus) by Luis Miguel Mendes Ferreira, Daniela Pereira, Ana Lourenço, Miguel Rodrigues

“…Utilization of faecal markers may allow us to fill this gap, accommodating animal welfare and intensive labour issues that are major limitations of traditional techniques. …”
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Predicting the Probability of Failure in Truss Structures Using Artificial Neural Networks by Mohammadreza Gholami, Seyed Ahmad Mobinipour, Mohammad Javad Haji Mazdarani, Seyed Rohollah Hoseini Vaez

“…Reliability and safety evaluation is a significant topic in structural engineering. The main issues in structural reliability assessment are the excessive computational cost as well as the accuracy. …”
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Investigation on Optimization of Finite Element Model for Stress Analysis of 12Cr1MoV Main Steam Pipeline Elbow by Shutao Wang, Renqiang Shi, Jian Wu, Chao Yang, Huan Liu

“…During the manufacturing process of elbows, issues such as cross-sectional elliptical deformation and uneven wall thickness frequently occur. …”
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An Improved Crop Disease Identification Method Based on Lightweight Convolutional Neural Network by Tingzhong Wang, Honghao Xu, Yudong Hai, Yutian Cui, Ziyuan Chen

“…Then a neural network with nine convolutional layers is built to work on crop images, the first stage of training loads data samples, and divide the training set and verification set, and then set the learning rate, image intensifier, and optimizer and compile the training convolution model. …”
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Who Is Mrs. McNab? A Cognitive Stylistic Approach to This Narrative Agent and Narrative Device in Virginia Woolf’s <i>To the Lighthouse</i> by Giuseppina Balossi

“…Literary critics agree that this character is given a narrative voice, but how this voice functions, and whether this character is granted narrative agency in terms of the class issues and social relations in the period of transition between Victorian England and the early twentieth-century, is an issue which still remains open. …”
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Continuous reuse of polyamide 12 in powder bed fusion by Aleksander Kubeczek, Michał Olejarczyk, Piotr Gruber, Arkadiusz J. Antończak

“…Abstract The thermal degradation of polymers in powder bed fusion (PBF) is one of the major issues preventing wider adoption of this technology at the production scale. …”
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Bio‐Based Nanofiber Membranes for Effective Air Filtration: Fabrication and Evaluation of Flame‐Retardant Behavior, Mechanical Properties, and Filtration Performance by Sepideh Keyvani, Farideh Golbabaei, Rasoul Esmaeely Neisiany, Oisik Das, Abbas Rahimi Foroushani, Saba Kalantary

“…The morphological results show that the samples containing BA have no beads on the nanofibers. …”
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