SwinClustering: a new paradigm for landscape character assessment through visual segmentation by Tingting Huang, Tingting Huang, Bo Huang, Bo Huang, Sha Li, Haiyue Zhao, Xin Yang, Jianning Zhu

“…By extracting semantic features through the GIS-aware Swin Transformer backbone network and leveraging the Feature Pyramid Decoder for segmentation clustering, SwinClustering offers a comprehensive analysis of landscape characteristics. …”
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Language and Sustainability, Linguistic Sustainability: Between Economization and Simulative Democracy? by Goranka Rocco

“…The considerations lead to a reflection on the possibilities and limits of linguistic sustainability with regard to the progressive economization of knowledge and science, which influence language use, and on the other hand with regard to the gap between real developments, which seem to privilege one or at best a few languages, and the official narratives on the promotion of multilingualism. …”
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Semidissonanzen. Ein Beitrag zur Didaktik der Harmonielehre by Hans Aerts

“…Der Ansatz verfolgt somit das Ziel, Schüler*innen und Studierende erkennen zu lassen, dass das Umkehrungsdenken ältere Vorstellungen überlagert, aber nicht ausgelöscht hat, und dass sie beide Sichtweisen je nach satztechnischer und analytischer Fragestellung gleichermaßen einnehmen können. This article offers suggestions for a teaching method that introduces students to the organization of tonal music without positing the inversion principle right from the start. …”
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Molecular dynamics simulations reveal key roles of the LIF receptor in the assembly of human LIF signaling complex by Bo Gao, Hanrui Liu, Mengkai Zhu, Shun Zhang, Meiniang Wang, Yijun Ruan, Yue Zheng

“…Together, these findings provide valuable insights into the molecular basis of LIF recognition and binding, offering a dynamic foundation for cytokine engineering.…”
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Carbon footprint reduction practices in the Olympic Games: a policy mobility approach by Wesselia Isa Ngoenha

“…However, the effectiveness of these policies is often hampered by the performative nature of environmental commitments, with actual results falling short of stated ambitions, as evidenced by the Paris 2024 case study. …”
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Territorios competitivos y gestión estratégica para el desarrollo local: caso la Zona Libre Cultural y Científica del estado Mérida (ZOLCCYT) by Katty Marisabel Díaz Morales, Nidia Josefina Dávila Villarroel

“…De acuerdo con el diagnóstico, el territorio de la zona ofrece una serie de ventajas competitivas correspondientes a actividades económicas impulsadas por el desarrollo del capital humano y otras que obedecen a vocaciones endógenas. …”
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A comparative framework to develop transferable species distribution models for animal telemetry data by Joshua A. Cullen, Camila Domit, Margaret M. Lamont, Christopher D. Marshall, Armando J. B. Santos, Christopher R. Sasso, Mehsin Al Ansi, Mariana M. P. B. Fuentes

“…In predictive modeling, practitioners often use correlative SDMs that only evaluate a single spatial scale and do not account for differences in life stages. …”
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Pablo Matzel y sus gignates by Viviana Rossetti

“…El Museo de La Plata ostentaba una importante variedad de restos fósiles de los verdaderos gigantes que la provincia de Buenos Aires podía ofrecer al mundo. La obra estudiada amplía esta dimensión material al presentarse como un lugar donde observar la construcción y circulación de múltiples y diversos saberes.     …”
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Catastrophic Brain Aspergillosis after Liver Transplantation by Mohammadmahdi Abbasi, Shirin Shams Ardakani, Nasir Fakhar, Hamid Eshaghi, Hosein Alimadadi, Toktam Faghihi, Behdad Gharib, Meisam Sharifzadeh, Masoomeh Safaei

“…Although voriconazole is a highly effective antifungal drug, cerebral aspergillosis is often fatal.…”
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Unity in diversity: navigating global connections through cultural exchange by Dwi Mariyono, Annis Nur Alifatul Kamila, Akmal Nur Alif Hidayatullah

“…Practical implications – The study offers actionable insights for policymakers, educators and cultural leaders to promote inclusive cultural exchange and hybridization strategies. …”
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A Contribuição do Neuromarketing para o Estudo do Comportamento do Consumidor by Claudia Almeida Colaferro, Edson Crescitelli

“…Concluise ao final que o neuromarketing - ou a aplicação da neurociência na área de marketing - pode oferecer ganhos no entendimento das reações dos consumidores.…”
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¿Donde esta el pollo? Cuba, sovranità alimentare e ontologia della scarsezza by Elena Zapponi

“…It is considered in its production as a habitus but also as a contradictory object, a metaphor for scarcity, a promise of the guarantee of food that is concretely often unavailable. Moreover, a metaphor for the recent changes in Cuban resolver is the chicken, an imported food, a sign par excellence of the problems of disruption of food chains, of the difficulties of distribution and purchase queues that modify the practice of everyday time. …”
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Product collaborative filtering based recommendation systems for large-scale E-commerce by Trang Trinh, Van-Ho Nguyen, Nghia Nguyen, Duy-Nghia Nguyen

“…The rapid growth in e-commerce and the increasing diversity of customer preferences necessitates the development of an effective recommender system for a business offering a wide range of products. This paper introduces a product-based collaborative filtering approach utilizing Apache Spark, a powerful parallel processing framework to address the scalability issues of recommender systems in the cloud computing environment. …”
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Use of Minimal Residual Disease Status to Reduce Uncertainty in Estimating Long-term Survival Outcomes for Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma Patients by Naomi van Hest, Peter Morten, Keith Stubbs, Nicola Trevor

“…**Background:** Demonstrating the cost-effectiveness of new treatments for multiple myeloma (MM) often relies on the extrapolation of overall survival (OS) trial data. …”
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Intraspecific variation for heat stress tolerance in wild emmer-derived durum wheat populations by Mohammed Yousif Balla, Mohammed Yousif Balla, Nasrein Mohamed Kamal, Nasrein Mohamed Kamal, Izzat Sidahmed Ali Tahir, Izzat Sidahmed Ali Tahir, Yasir Serag Alnor Gorafi, Yasir Serag Alnor Gorafi, Modather Galal Abdeldaim Abdalla, Hisashi Tsujimoto

“…However, the morphology of wild emmer is different from that of durum and bread wheat, in particular, the spikelets are fragile and naturally fall off, making it difficult to study its agronomic traits. …”
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Biology of Incidental Catch Sea Star Stellaster childreni Gray, 1840 (Echinodermata: Asteroidea), from Malaysian Borneo Exclusive Economic Zone by Ruhana Hassan, Suet Yee Lee, Wan Zabidii Wan Morni

“…Stellaster childreni were found at depth of 45 m to 185 m in the South China Sea off Sarawak Malaysia, with various sea bottom substrata. …”
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The Pathology of T Cells in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus by Anselm Mak, Nien Yee Kow

“…T cells have been recognized to be crucial in the pathogenicity of SLE through their capabilities to communicate with and offer enormous help to B cells for driving autoantibody production. …”
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Advanced Approach of Multiagent Based Buoy Communication by Gediminas Gricius, Darius Drungilas, Arunas Andziulis, Dale Dzemydiene, Miroslav Voznak, Mindaugas Kurmis, Sergej Jakovlev

“…Usually, a hydrometeorological information system is faced with great data flows, but the data levels are often excessive, depending on the observed region of the water. …”
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A General System for Automatic Biomedical Image Segmentation Using Intensity Neighborhoods by Cheng Chen, John A. Ozolek, Wei Wang, Gustavo K. Rohde

“…While extensively researched, generally, current segmentation methods perform adequately in the applications for which they were designed, but often require extensive modifications or calibrations before being used in a different application. …”
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Tracking over 30 years of coral reef infrastructure degradation in Barbados by Aliyah Griffith, Max Buglisi, Sandra Lee, Karl Castillo

“…This research enhances understanding of reef dynamics and offers a framework for identifying vulnerable areas, which are crucial for effective conservation efforts.…”
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