Restoring South African subtropical succulent thicket using Portulacaria afra: rooting variation across three soil types by Alastair J. Potts, Duncan Liddell, Catherine E. Clarke, Nicholas C. Galuszynski

“…These factors, particularly high pH and low P availability, likely suppressed root initiation and development, which may limit P. afra establishment in restoration efforts on calcareous soils. …”
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Emerging liposomal therapies for diabetic retinopathy: a review of novel targeting approaches and advances in retinal health outcomes by Ravi Parashar, Preeti K. Suresh

“…Diabetic retinopathy (DR), which affects over millions of individuals globally, is the leading cause of permanent visual loss. Current therapies, including as intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) medications and laser photocoagulation, are limited by frequent dosing and side effects. …”
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Dual-Contrast Cellular Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Rohan Dharmakumar, Zhouli Zhang, Ioannis Koktzoglou, Sotirios A. Tsaftaris, Debiao Li

“…Specifically, we show that low flip-angle steady-state free precession MRI can be used to generate fast three-dimensional images of tissue that can be rapidly processed to generate quantitative metrics enabling color overlays indicative of regions containing labeled cells. …”
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Scleral-fixated IOLs – A comprehensive review of current practices and emerging trends by Manasi Tripathi, Siddhartha Rao, Rajesh Sinha

“…Scleral-fixated intraocular lenses (SFIOLs) have emerged as a vital option for visual rehabilitation of aphakia in cases where capsular support is inadequate or absent. …”
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A sword from Gdańsk – a technological revolution or a pageant replica? by Grzegorz Żabiński, Janusz Stępiński

“…Piaskowski, who said that the sword was an example of Late Medieval mass manufacture of cheap and low quality weaponry with the use of cast refined iron. …”
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Current concepts in the diagnosis of ocular tuberculosis: A narrative review by Vinaya Kumar Konana, Kalpana Babu

“…If untreated, it can result in poor visual prognosis. Prompt diagnosis of OTB is met with challenges. …”
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Rough Beauty. The Case of Ice Glass. Finds from the Tykocin Castle, Poland, and Beyond by Magdalena Bis

“…Its distinctive surface texture made it an original and very visually appealing item, desirable as fine tableware in the modern era. …”
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Research on Full Digital Simulation Test System for Locomotive Intelligent Driving by HUANG Wang, LIU Buqi, LIU Mengqi, PENG Huishui

“…In view of the problems of high construction cost of test environment, large area occupation of test equipments, poor system generality and low test execution efficiency encountered by traditional software testing methods in the process of locomotive intelligent driving software testing, this paper presented a test method based on full digital simulation. …”
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Research on power efficient autonomous UAV navigation algorithm: an edge intelligence driven approach by Chunmin LIN, Liekang ZENG, Xu CHEN

“…Autonomous drone navigation has received growing attention in the recent community.Compared with traditional navigation approaches which rely on location-based services highly, deep learning based visual methods have showed superior performance in self-adaption and generalization, which are a promising solution for autonomous navigation.Running the resource-hungry deep learning execution in the resource-constrained unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), however, significant challenges were presented in power efficiency.To tackle this challenge, following the idea of edge intelligence, a deep reinforcement learning approach was introduced to dynamically configure the computational scale of the deep learning model on UAV and hence realize the autonomous navigation with low latency and high energy efficiency.Evaluations based on both simulation and real prototype experiments show that the proposed approach has the less energy consumption, longer navigation trail and higher obstacle avoidance rate.…”
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Modeling and Simulation of Cuttlefish-imitating Underwater Sampling Manipulators by Zhang Xuehai, Yang Zehui, Wang Rugui, Zeng Qineng

“…There is a bias impeller pump inside the manipulator, which forms a low pressure area to drive the water flow to draw the samples that are difficult to collect without contact. …”
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Quality of life of women with lymphedema after surgery for breast cancer by Marislei Sanches Panobianco, Natalia Campacci, Letícia Meda Vendrusculo Fangel, Maria Antonieta Spinoso Prado, Ana Maria de Almeida, Thais de Oliveira Gozzo

“…Overall, the scales showed satisfactory results of quality of life, but low values showed factors that must be worked out, such as participation in sports, work and learning activities. …”
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Chaotic moving video quality enhancement based on deep in-loop filtering by Tong Tang, Yi Yang, Dapeng Wu, Ruyan Wang, Zhidu Li

“…However, for chaotic moving video encoding with low bitrates, serious blocking artifacts still remain after in-loop filtering due to the severe quantization distortion of texture details. …”
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Passive human touch cannot recognize the shape of a pattern imprinted on the fingertip by Scinob Kuroki, Takumi Hamazaki, Hiroyuki Kajimoto, Shin’ya Nishida

“…Previous electrophysiological and behavioral research suggested that the tactile system can process complex spatial patterns in the same way as the visual system and can be modeled as a low-pass version of visual spatial perception. …”
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Temperature-induced corrosion of the TRIGA 2000 research reactor tank liner in long-term normal operation by Veri Trisnawan, Prasetyo Basuki, Hakimul Wafda, Yayat Supriyatna, Djoko Hadi Prajitno, Maykel Manawan, Roziq Himawan, Deddy Kurniadi

“…Aluminum alloy AA-6061-T6 is widely used as the tank liner in nuclear reactors due to its corrosion resistance and low neutron absorption. However, prolonged exposure induces degradation, threatening structural integrity and operational safety. …”
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Late gadolinium enhancement cardiovascular magnetic resonance with generative artificial intelligence by Omer Burak Demirel, Fahime Ghanbari, Christopher W. Hoeger, Connie W. Tsao, Adele Carty, Long H. Ngo, Patrick Pierce, Scott Johnson, Kathryn Arcand, Jordan Street, Jennifer Rodriguez, Tess E. Wallace, Kelvin Chow, Warren J. Manning, Reza Nezafat

“…The generative AI-based model improved visual image sharpness, resulting in lower blur metric compared to low-resolution counterparts (AI-enhanced from 1.5 × 3 mm2 resolution: 0.3 ± 0.03 vs 0.35 ± 0.03, P < 0.01). …”
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A Novel Hypoxia-Related Gene Signature with Strong Predicting Ability in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Identified by Comprehensive Profiling by Huajun Yang, Zhongan Wang, Ling Gong, Guichuan Huang, Daigang Chen, Xiaoping Li, Fei Du, Jiang Lin, Xueyi Yang

“…Based on the optimal threshold, the patients were divided into the high-risk score and low-risk score groups. The survival rate in the high-risk score group was lower than that in the low-risk score group. …”
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A pyramid Gaussian pooling based CNN and transformer hybrid network for smoke segmentation by Guiqian Wang, Feiniu Yuan, Hongdi Li, Zhijun Fang

“…Abstract Visual smoke semantic segmentation is a challenging task due to semi‐transparency, variable shapes, and complex textures of smoke. …”
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Role of the functional status of the autonomic nervous system in the clinical course of purulent meningitis by D. A. Zadiraka, O. V. Ryabokon

“…At the moment of dismissal from hospital most patients (72,7%) had, however, both visual and clinical signs of autonomic disorders. …”
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Uncertainty-Aware Deep Learning for Robust and Interpretable MI EEG Using Channel Dropout and LayerCAM Integration by Óscar Wladimir Gómez-Morales, Sofia Escalante-Escobar, Diego Fabian Collazos-Huertas, Andrés Marino Álvarez-Meza, German Castellanos-Dominguez

“…This integration represents a significant step forward by offering, for the first time, a dedicated solution to concurrently mitigate spatiotemporal uncertainty and provide fine-grained neurophysiologically relevant interpretability in motor imagery classification, particularly demonstrating refined spatial attention in challenging low-performing subjects. We evaluate three DL architectures (<i>ShallowConvNet</i>, <i>EEGNet</i>, <i>TCNet Fusion</i>) on a 52-subject MI-EEG dataset, applying channel dropout to simulate structural variability and LayerCAM to visualize spatiotemporal patterns. …”
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Feasibility and Applicability of Implementing the Framework for Comprehensive Understanding of Structural Stigma in Mental Healthcare Systems: A Case Example of Nepal by Dristy Gurung, Bhawana Subedi, Binita Acharya, Mani Neupane, Brandon A. Kohrt, Graham Thornicroft, Petra C. Gronholm

“…ABSTRACT Introduction Mental health‐related structural stigma is a multifaceted issue that significantly impacts access to quality mental healthcare, particularly in low‐resource settings like Nepal. Therefore, there is a clear need to understand the complexities and identify gaps for targeted interventions through evaluations of various dimensions of structural stigma within healthcare systems. …”
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