The comfort of knitted fabrics: interaction of sportswear and athlete’s body by Ivana Salopek Cubric, Goran Cubric, Vesna Marija Potocic Matkovic, Alenka Pavko Cuden

“…The thermal camera was used to measure the upper body temperatures of the players and the professional software was used for further processing of the thermal images. In the analysis of the thermal data, the average temperatures for 9 anterior and 9 posterior zones of the upper body were obtained. …”
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A study on plant root apex morphology as a model for soft robots moving in soil. by Anand Kumar Mishra, Francesca Tramacere, Roberto Guarino, Nicola Maria Pugno, Barbara Mazzolai

“…In this paper, we propose a method to translate morphological features of Zea mays roots into a new design of soft robots that will be able to move in soil. The method relies on image processing and curve fitting techniques to extract the profile of Z. mays primary root. …”
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Continual Learning for Time Series Forecasting: A First Survey by Quentin Besnard, Nicolas Ragot

“…Deep learning has brought significant advancements in the field of artificial intelligence, particularly in robotics, imaging, sound processing, etc. However, a common major challenge faced by all neural networks is their substantial demand for data during the learning process. …”
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Feasibility of Radiotherapy Fiducial Marker Tracking via Single-Shot X-ray Acoustic Tomography by Norman Alexis Cantú-Delgado MSc, Héctor Mauricio Garnica-Garza PhD

“…Results It is shown that the use of a homogeneous model to approximate the actual patient material composition during the reconstruction process, necessary as the geometry of the internal structures is not known at the time of the treatment, severely degrades the quality of the x-ray acoustic tomography images, but that it is still possible to determine the fiducial marker position with an accuracy of or better than 1 mm. …”
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Biodegradable nanocomposites based on PLA/PHBV blend reinforced with carbon nanotubes with potential for electrical and electromagnetic applications by A. P. B. Silva, L. S. Montagna, F. R. Passador, M. C. Rezende, A. P. Lemes

“…PHBV has a great potential to improve the processing and toughness of PLA. The addition of CNT contributes to the electrical and electromagnetic properties of polymeric nanocomposites. …”
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Developments and Drivers of Low-Cost Smartphone Instrumentation by Md Arafat Hossain, John Canning

“…Particularly, sensing technologies are rising, and advanced analytics both at the edge and exploiting online computing and camera imaging are growing. The data generated from these are already being collated, stored, processed, and used by various commercial enterprises, raising considerable regulatory and ethical challenges across multiple sectors. …”
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The Obvious and Illusory “Trace” of Saadi in Ivan Bunin’s Poetry (Source Studies Aspect) by Anton V. Bakuntsev

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IMPLEMENTING EDUCATIONAL DIGITAL GAMES INTO TEACHER-TRAINING PRO- GRAMMES: A CASE-STUDY BASED ON GERMAN EXPERIENCE by Amélia Lopes, Anasatasiia Tokarieva, Іnna Chyzhykova

“…This is partially attributed to a still prevalent image of video games as a leisure time activity with little or no pedagogic value, low familiarity with digital game-based learning and teaching processes, wide scope of issues to be addressed while implementing digital games into educational contexts. …”
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Drawing on the Walls: Graffiti, Street Art or Walls in Time. Analysis of the Torrevieja Experience. by Pablo Jeremías Juan Gutiérrez, Carlos L. Marcos

“…Thus, it reflects on the impact of urban tattoos and their elaboration process. It discusses some of the characteristics that graffiti possess when they are understood as a minority’s social action or a critical protest, and how they constitute a process of action on the urban built environment that is based and is often spurred by graphic expression. …”
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Thresholds of Abnormality Perception in Facial Esthetics among Laypersons and Dental Professionals: Frontal Esthetics by Raed H. Alrbata, Ayham Kh. Alfaqih, Mohammad R. Almhaidat, Ahmad M. Al-Tarawneh

“…To find thresholds at which laypersons and dental professionals perceive abnormalities in two facial frontal esthetics variables: facial symmetry and vertical harmony. Materials and Methods. A baseline frontal image of a young male face with optimum facial proportions was generated from a real image using a photo editing software. …”
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The playing field of the text in the artpractice of the “last avant-garde artist”, Sergei Maslov by G. G. Gizdatov

“…The texts created by the Kazakhstani author in various modifications of contemporary art were chronologically different: they appeared before, during and after the creation of the visual image. The features identified in the article include the creation by this post-avant-garde author not so much of a work-result, but more of a work-process, with the author’s obligatory manipulation of the text in space and time, when artistic practice turns into a multilayered game in front of the audience (readers). …”
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Social Transparency in the Fashion World by Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli

“…For this reason, fashion brands are keen to highlight their actions to address such concerns, while seeking to enhance perceptions of transparency, convey an image of trustworthiness, and distinguish themselves from competitors. …”
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Neurons Communication in the Hippocampus of Field CA3 of the White Rat Brain after Acute ischemia by A. S. Stepanov, V. A. Akulinin, S. S. Stepanov, D. B. Avdeev, A. V. Gorbunova

“…The aim of this study was to compare the pyramidal neurons, their processes and synapses in the stratum lucidum, stratum radiatum and stratum lacunosum of the molecular layer of the field CA3 of the hippocampus of the brain of white rats in the normal state and after acute ischemia caused by a 20-minute occlusion of the common carotid arteries.Materials and methods. …”
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Cemeteries as places of memory: Media presentation and cultural significance by Maria A. Belyaeva, Ekaterina K. Osadchaia

“…Halbwachs) and the concept of "place of memory", but in this case the focus is only on media commemorative practices, considered as a tool for forming a particular image of a place of memory. Such general logical methods of scientific research as theoretical analysis, synthesis, classification are used; and at the empirical level – observation, analysis of documents (materials from city news media, websites of travel agencies and aggregators, websites of funeral service organizations), design. …”
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Perspectives on terahertz honey bee sensing by Andreas Prokscha, Fawad Sheikh, Mandana Jalali, Pieterjan De Boose, Eline De Borre, Vera Jeladze, Felipe Oliveira Ribas, David Toribio Carvajal, Jan Taro Svejda, Tobias Kubiczek, Basem Aqlan, Pooya Alibeigloo, Enes Mutlu, Jonas Watermann, Jonathan Abts, Robin Kress, Christian Preuss, Simone Clochiatti, Livia Wiedau, Nils G. Weimann, Jan C. Balzer, Arno Thielens, Thomas Kaiser, Daniel Erni

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Hybrid enrichment of Ti13Nb13Zr alloy with zinc ions and silver nanoparticles using a combination of micro-arc oxidation and electrophoretic deposition by Joanna Sypniewska, Łukasz Pawłowski, Aleksandra Mirowska, Marek Szkodo

“…Both elements are important for the potential medical applications of the carved base material. To investigate the effects of the modification, morphological imaging by SEM, and spectroscopy analysis like EDS, XPS, and FTIR were performed. …”
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Inkjet‐printed reconfigurable and recyclable memristors on paper by Jinrui Chen, Mingfei Xiao, Zesheng Chen, Sibghah Khan, Saptarsi Ghosh, Nasiruddin Macadam, Zhuo Chen, Binghan Zhou, Guolin Yun, Kasia Wilk, Georgios Psaltakis, Feng Tian, Simon Fairclough, Yang Xu, Rachel Oliver, Tawfique Hasan

“…We demonstrate a sustainable process covering material exfoliation, device fabrication, and device recycling. …”
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Matrix metalloproteinases (MMP-1, -8, -13) in chronic periapical lesions by Andonovska Biljana, Dimova Cena, Panov Sašo

“…For rapid analysis of MMP-1, -8, -13 collagenase activities in the examined material Chemicon Collagenase Activity Assay Kit were used. …”
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A Data-Driven Machine Vision Framework for Quality Management in Photovoltaic Module Manufacturing by In-Bae Lee, Youngjin Kim, Sojung Kim

“…As renewable energy production grows, the photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturing process has received worldwide attention. In 2019, the total sales of PV modules were 1.7 billion U.S. dollars, and 78.7% of PV modules were made in South Korea. …”
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Research on Indoor Object Detection and Scene Recognition Algorithm Based on Apriori Algorithm and Mobile-EFSSD Model by Wenda Zheng, Yibo Ai, Weidong Zhang

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