Pilot study evaluating lipoma reduction with injected physiologic ice slurry by Kristen K. Arango, Cheryl A. London, William M. Karlin, Jacqueline Milton Hicks

“…Future studies could explore using coolants with more sustained coolant function and multiple injections to promote more efficient tumor reduction.…”
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Speech-dependent data augmentation for own voice reconstruction with hearable microphones in noisy environments by Mattes Ohlenbusch, Christian Rollwage, Simon Doclo

“…In this paper, we investigate several data augmentation techniques to simulate a large amount of in-ear own voice signals from a limited amount of recorded own voice signals. More specifically, we consider different models for the own voice transfer characteristics between the outer microphone and the in-ear microphone, ranging from a fixed talker-averaged relative transfer function to a phoneme-dependent individual model. …”
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SABO-Optimized VMD for Seismic Damage Assessment of Frame Structures Considering Soil–Structure Interaction by Jian Zhou, Yaokang Zhang, Hehe Wang, Jinping Yang, Peizhen Li, Jingxia Wang

“…The core innovation is the application of the Subtraction Average-Based Optimizer (SABO) algorithm, coupled with permutation entropy as the fitness function, to optimize the critical VMD parameters. …”
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Research on Side Lobe Suppression of Time-Modulated Sparse Linear Array Based on Particle Swarm Optimization by Lei Liang, Jie Sun, Hailin Li, Jialing Liu, Yachao Jiang, Jianjiang Zhou

“…With respect to the time modulation model, variable aperture sizes (VAS) and more flexible pulse-shifting (PS) schemes are used in this paper. …”
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Experimental study on impact fracture characteristics and energy dissipation law of coal under water confining pressure by WANG Kai, FENG Guorui, BAI Jinwen, ZHANG Junliang

“…The greater the impact load, the higher the total energy input to the coal body and the dissipated energy used for damage and deformation, and the more serious the deformation of the coal body. With the increase of water confining pressure, the total input energy shows a trend of gradual increase, and more energy is required from the outside when the coal body is damaged.…”
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Heuristic Global Optimization for Thermal Model Reduction and Correlation in Aerospace Applications by João P. Castanheira, Beltran N. Arribas, Rui Melicio, Paulo Gordo, André R. R. Silva

“…Moreover, a comparative analysis of fitness function performance across various optimization methods underscores both the potential and computational challenges inherent in these approaches. …”
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Cost-Effectiveness of the Aerobika® Oscillating Positive Expiratory Pressure Device in the Management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbations in Canada by Nguyen Xuan Thanh, Philip Jacobs, Jason Suggett, Andrew McIvor, Alan Kaplan

“…The Aerobika® oscillating positive expiratory pressure (OPEP) device is a hand-held, drug-free medical device that has been shown to improve lung function and improve health-related quality of life in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). …”
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Mobile malware detection method using improved GhostNetV2 with image enhancement technique by Yao Du, CaiXia Gao, Xi Chen, MengTian Cui, LiLi Xu, AoJi Ning

“…Second, we make three improvements to GhostNetV2 to more effectively identify malicious code, including introducing channel shuffling in the Ghost module, replacing the squeeze and excitation mechanism with a more efficient channel attention mechanism, and optimizing the activation function. …”
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Development Trend of Information Technology and AdvancedNuclear Power Generation by Tao ZHOU, Haolei ZHANG, Yao YAO, Chunmei LIU

“…Quantum technology can enhance the core fuel function. Artificial intelligence machine data capture and neural networks learn to process and apply information more precisely. …”
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Assessing preference heterogeneity for nature-based flood control measures: An econometric analysis using a choice experiment by Takahiro Tsuge, Ayumi Onuma, Jun Nishihiro, Yuki Shibata, Taro Shoji, Yasutaka Satake, Takehito Yoshida

“…Additionally, results from the latent class model identified two respondent groups with distinct preferences. The group that was more concerned about flooding was more proactive in supporting countermeasures and had higher WTP for each function that nature-based countermeasures provide than the other group. …”
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How to map soil organic carbon stocks at field scale in South Africa? by Willie Herman Cloete, Gerhard du Preez, George Munnik Van Zijl

“…For dry bulk density (ρb), a pedo-transfer function was created for predicting the ρb at unsampled locations. …”
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Implantation of porcine amniotic epithelial cells model for myocardial infarction combined with cardiomyocyte therapy of pigs (Sus scrofa domestica) by Arni Diana Fitri, Deni Noviana, Gunanti Gunanti, Anita Esfandiari, Mawar Subangkit

“…Notably, single pAEC therapy significantly improved more than combining them with cardiomyocytes. Conclusion: Treatment with AEC stem cells alone resulted in more significant improvements in heart valve function and large blood vessels compared to combining AEC with cardiomyocytes. …”
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Prevalence of Malaria and Associated Risk Factors among the Community of Mizan-Aman Town and Its Catchment Area in Southwest Ethiopia by Tadesse Duguma, Abdulrezak Nuri, Yayeh Melaku

“…Individuals who lived near stagnant water were more likely to become infected with the malaria parasite (AOR=8.996, 95% CI: 5.087-15.908) compared to those who lived further away, in warm climates, and those who did not use insecticide-treated bed nets were more susceptible to malaria parasite infection (AOR=4.647, 95% CI: 1.257-17.184) compared to those who did use ITN and With (AOR=0.466, 95% CI: 0.218-0.996 and AOR=0.352, 95% CI: 0.206-0.604); participants with a history of antimalarial medication appear to have a protective function against malaria infection, respectively. …”
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Stabilization of diastolic calcium signal via calcium pump regulation of complex local calcium releases and transient decay in a computational model of cardiac pacemaker cell with... by Alexander V Maltsev, Victor A Maltsev, Michael D Stern

“…Intracellular Local Ca releases (LCRs) from sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) regulate cardiac pacemaker cell function by activation of electrogenic Na/Ca exchanger (NCX) during diastole. …”
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The use of dance to improve the health and wellbeing of older adults: A global scoping review of research trials. by Martha Waugh, Gregory Youdan, Courtney Casale, Rachel Balaban, Emily S Cross, Dafna Merom

“…Less than 40% of health assessments showed positive change, with more consistent benefits to physical endurance, strength, and function, moderate impacts on psychosocial health, and limited benefits to cognitive and brain health, and falls and falls risk.…”
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Optimal Control Strategy for Stability Performance Improvement of Hybrid Power Systems With Electric Vehicle Integration by Zahid Farooq, Shameem Ahmad Lone, Taha Selim Ustun, Asadur Rahman, Ahmet Onen, Cagil Ozansoy

“…This is shown by the objective function values and demerit index calculations. The settling time of a fuzzy logic‐optimized‐PID (FPID) controller is more than 10 percent faster than that of a COVID‐19‐optimized PID controller. …”
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Automatic Acne Detection Model Based on Improved YOLOv7 by Delong Zhang, Chunyang Jin, Zhidong Zhang, Xiyuan Cao, Chenyang Xue

“…Specifically, the ELAN module in backbone is improved to enhance feature extraction functionality. Meanwhile, We added the EPSA module in Backbone to extract the multi-scale spatial feature information more effectively. …”
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Sludge holding tanks performance in wastewater treatment: Techno-economic assessment by Hossam Mostafa Hussein, Sayed Ismail Ali, Marwan Mohamed Ali, Mahmoud Abd Elmoamen

“…Economically, these tanks are more cost-effective than traditional thickeners and digesters, requiring less volume and lower operational costs. …”
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Quantitative detection of macular microvascular abnormalities identified by optical coherence tomography angiography in different hematological diseases by Tianzi Jian, Fabao Xu, Guihua Li, Boxuan Song, Helei Wang, Xueying Yang, Weibin Zhai, Xiangchen Li, Zhiwen Li, Qi Feng, Shuqian Xu, John W. Semple, Li Zhang, Jun Peng

“…Abstract It is now understood that hematological diseases can have detrimental effects on the retina, reducing retinal capillaries, compromising visual function, and potentially causing irreversible visual impairment. …”
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Research Status and Development Trend of Greenhouse Gas in Wetlands: A Bibliometric Visualization Analysis by Gege Zhu, Yan Wang, Anshu Huang, Yingying Qin

“…In recent years, “water” has become an emerging core topic. More and more studies have focused on enhancing wetland pollutant treatment capacity, improving wetland ecosystem productivity, maintaining water level stability, strengthening blue carbon sink function, exploring remote sensing applications in wetlands, and promoting wetland restoration to reduce GHG emissions. …”
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