Image Matting using Superpixels Centroid by Anam Akbar, Aniqa Shirazi, Mohammad Sarim Farooqui

“…The proposed method approaches the ill-posed nature of image matting via non-parametric sampling based method along with the clustering technique known as Superpixel. …”
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Inference with Pólya-Gamma Augmentation for US Election Law by Adam C. Hall, Joseph Kang

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A Multi-Scale Feature Attention Image Recognition Algorithm by Xin MingYuan, Ang Ling Weay, Sellappan Palaniappan

“…A proposed solution is a small-sample image classification system that leverages attention mechanisms and meta-learning to capture more comprehensive image information. …”
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Exploring the awareness of organic food consumption in Algeria: a gender based-study by Chems Eddine Boukhedimi, Abderrahmane Batache, Noureddine Sahali, Yacine Redjouani

“…Organic foods have greatly increased in recent years as people become more concerned about their health, the environment, and the sources of their food. …”
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Vital exhaustion as a marker of chronic social stress and smoking among people aged 25-44 years by V. V. Gafarov, E. A. Gromova, I. V. Gagulin, D. O. Panov, A. V. Gafarova

“…To analyze the associations of exhaustion, as a marker of chronic social stress, with smoking in a random representative sample of people aged 25-44 years in Novosibirsk.Material and methods. …”
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Diagnostic utility of auramine O smear microscopy for the detection of non-tuberculous mycobacteria vs Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in adult clinical samples: a 3-year retros... by Dr Leong Tung Ong, Dr Azwani Abdullah, Dr Thian Chee Loh, Dr Chandramathi Samudi Raju, Ms Jennifer Chong, Dr Nadia Atiya

“…Fluorochrome smear microscopy using auramine O staining is a more rapid and less expensive method to identify mycobacteria. …”
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Prevalence of oral HPV infection and genotype distribution in Iranian children during the early ages of life by Mona Sadat Larijani, Amir Javadi, Alireza Fahimzad, Rahim Soleimani, Farbod Tabatabaei, Amir Houshang Nejadeh, Mahboubeh Jamshidi, Anahita Bavand, Ladan Moradi, Fatemeh Ashrafian, Amitis Ramezani

“…The present study aimed to determine the oral HPV prevalence and genotyping in Iranian children during first-5-year of life for the first time. Methods This cross-sectional study was conducted in Pasteur Institute of Iran. …”
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Tagus River microbial profile through nanopore sequencing on samples gathered from Prainha do Braco de Prata, Lisbon [version 3; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservatio... by Mariana Pestana, Cristiano Pedroso-Roussado, Mónica Nunes, Ricardo Dias, Marcelo Pereira, Pedro Pascoal, Nuno Nunes

“…However, there is not much knowledge about the microbial profiles and their relevance for the ecosystem balance is still unclear. Methods In this Brief Report three freshwater samples collected in the Tagus River north margin were analysed through 16S-targeted nanopore sequencing and by customized bioinformatics pipeline. …”
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Diabetes-related distress and psychological burden in patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes – the role of child maltreatment, personality functioning, and epistemic trust: findi... by Sandra Zara, Imogen Carla Ullrich, Anna Maria Leveling, Friederike Gisela Genoveva Saretzki, Jana Schmitz, Michael Eckhard, Johannes Kruse, Johannes Kruse, Johannes Kruse, Hanna Kampling, Hanna Kampling

“…We included epistemic trust (openness for social learning) and its impairments mistrust (the tendency to consider information sources as unreliable or ill-intended) and credulity (lack of vigilance and discrimination between trustworthy and untrustworthy information) as covariates.MethodsIn a sample of n=119 patients with type 1 or 2 diabetes aged 18-69, self-report questionnaires assessed diabetes-related distress (PAID-5), psychological burden (PHQ-D, PHQ-9, PHQ-15), child maltreatment (CTQ), personality functioning (OPD-SQS), and epistemic trust, mistrust, and credulity (ETMCQ). …”
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Medicinal management of oral submucous fibrosis in the past decade- A systematic review by Chandramani B. More, Deepa Jatti Patil, Naman R. Rao

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Non-invasive electrophysiological monitoring vs conventional monitoring during labour in a tertiary obstetric care centre in the Netherlands: study protocol of a cohort interventio... by S G Oei, P B Q Berben, N D de Klerk, M van der Ven, A F Fransen, H J Niemarkt, E R van den Heuvel, M B van der Hout-van der Jagt, J O E H van Laar

“…Both NI-fECG and EHG have been proven to be more accurate and reliable than conventional non-invasive methods and are less affected by maternal Body Mass Index. …”
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Nanostructured titanium dioxide-based photocatalysts for self-cleaning concrete: аssessment of effects of phase composition on photocatalytic activity of TiO2 by Artemy S. Balykov, Denis B. Chugunov, Vladimir M. Kyashkin, Natalia S. Davydova

“…X-ray powder diffractometry was the method used to investigate the structure parameters of TiO2 samples. …”
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Prediction of Thyroid Classes Using Feature Selection of AEHOA Based CNN Model for Healthy Lifestyle by Rachappa Jopate, Piyush Kumar Pareek, DivyaJyothi M. G, Ariam Saleh Zuwayid Juma Al Hasani

“…This research presents the Adaptive Elephant Herd Optimisation Algorithm (AEHOA) model for selecting optimal attributes in order to circumvent these limitations. At first, employ a method called the Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique (SMOTE) to even out the data. …”
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A retrospective study on prevalence and profile of reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction positive severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 samples tested in a ter... by Ramalatharani Shanmugam, Meerah Srinivasagam

“…Materials and Methods: Nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal samples from suspected COVID-19 patients were collected and tested by real-time RT-PCR and the targeted genes were identified. …”
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Noninvasive diagnostics for colorectal cancer: molecular genetic fecal DNA analysis by G. M. Butrovich, E. D. Mirlina, I. G. Habarova, O. A. Vostrukhina

“…Such methods have high potential to collect and deliver samples. …”
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OptWake-YOLO: a lightweight and efficient ship wake detection model based on optical remote sensing images by Runxi Qiu, Nan Bi, Chaoyue Yin

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Recent Advances in Microfluidics-Based Monitoring of Waterborne Pathogens: From Isolation to Detection by Guohao Xu, Gaozhe Cai, Lijuan Liang, Jianxin Cheng, Lujie Song, Rui Sun, Feng Shen, Bo Liu, Shilun Feng, Jin Zhang

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Do summaries of evidence enable informed decision-making about COVID-19 and influenza vaccination equitably across more and less disadvantaged groups? Study protocol for a multi-ce... by Felix G Rebitschek, Christin Ellermann, Nicolai Savaskan

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Antibiotic susceptibility patterns of Salmonella isolates from clinical, food, and environmental sources in Addis Ababa and surrounding towns, Ethiopia by Abebe M. Aga, Demise Mulugeta, Dassalegn Muleta, Adugna Abdi Woldesemayat, Abera Motuma, Musin Kelel, Bilise Wakitole, Shambel Tadesse, Zinash Teferi, Fanos Tadesse Woldemariyam, Serkadis Oljira, Henok Ferede, Natnael Berihun, Samson Girma, Dereje Nigussie, Mesfin Tafesse Gemeda

“…Salmonella was isolated and screened through selective culture methods and biochemical tests. Antimicrobial sensitivity tests were done by the Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion method. …”
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Effect of RICAS (Remote Ischemic Preconditioning on Collaterals of Atherosclerosis Stroke): Rationale and Design by Zi‐Ai Zhao, Yan Lv, Hui‐Sheng Chen

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