Global Feature Focusing and Information Enhancement Network for Occluded Pedestrian Detection by ZHENG Kaikui, JI Kangyou, LI Jun, LI Qiming

“…Therefore, developing a more effective method to address pedestrian occlusion detection is essential for enhancing the performance of pedestrian detectors.MethodsProposed the Global Feature Focusing and Information Enhancement Network (GFFIE-Net). …”
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Antenatal group B streptococcus detection in pregnant women: culture or PCR? by Gerasimos Gerolymatos, Paraskevi Karlovasiti, Argiri Sianou, Emmanuel Logothetis, George Kaparos, Charalampos Grigoriadis, Stavroula Baka

“…PCR proved to be a rapid and useful GBS screening method allowing a shorter detection time, while identifying more colonized women than culture. …”
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Factors Affecting the Counterproductive Behaviors of Employees in the Organization; Emphasizing the Role of Organizational Embeddedness, Emotional Intelligence and Psychological Ow... by Marziyeh Dehghanizadeh, Mehdi Kheirandish, Hojjat Kheirandish

“…The validity of the questionnaires was confirmed a panel of experts in the field, and Cronbach's alpha coefficient and composite reliability were used to estimate the reliability of the instruments. The analysis method used in this research was the structural equation modeling technique.…”
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Developing the Process of Value Estimation and Modeling the Project Cost by O. N. Kalinina

“…This methodology can allow us with more trustworthiness to identify the future cot of the project and to give possibility to change the cost. …”
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Raman Laser Polymerization of C60 Nanowhiskers by Ryoei Kato, Kun'ichi Miyazawa

“…Short C60NWs with a mean length of 4.4 μm were synthesized by LLIP method (liquid-liquid interfacial precipitation method). …”
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Financial Behaviors and Their Predictive Power on Stress: A Neutrosophic QCA Approach by Suly Sendy Pérez-Castañeda, Blanca Estela Hernández-Bonilla, Dorie Cruz-Ramírez, Beatriz Sauza-Ávila, Gisela Janeth Espinosa-Martínez

“…On the other hand, the QCA method is a more flexible alternative to statistical correlation, since it uses set-based measures in situations where there are causal relationships between concepts, rather than equivalence. …”
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Incorporating preference uncertainty in best worst scaling. by Francisco J Areal, Rubén Perez

“…Applying this novel extended BWS method to a sample of Argentinian wine consumers (n = 342), we aim to a) provide a more informative elicitation of consumers' relative preferences for 16 wine attributes; b) identify the level of uncertainty with each of the attributes, exploring differences between the most and least important wine attributes influencing purchasing wine; and c) compare the results of the extended BWS with the standard BWS. …”
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Combining whole genome sequencing and non-adaptive group testing for large-scale ethnicity screens by Elior Avraham, Noam Shental

“…Conclusions Our computational approach aims to reduce the costs of large-scale ancestry testing by up to 4-fold in many real-life scenarios while not compromising accuracy. We hope this method will allow more efficient large-scale ethnicity screenings.…”
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Expaining model of affecting factors on e-learning effectiveness in post graduate courses by Mahdi Kheyrandish

“…Regarding the aims, the present research is descriptive and regarding the application is practical. Data collection method is research made questioner. In order to reach this aim, 106 samples including deans, experts and lecturers of e-learning programs have been randomly chosen and by application of partial least square method five different factors affecting the effectiveness of e-leaning including university-related, student features and characteristics, lecturer’s features and characteristics, learning conditions and environmental factors have been determined. …”
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新編中學生考試焦慮因應量表：以潛在類別分析取向探究學生因應組型及預測因子 Coping Scale With Test Anxiety (COSTA) for Adolescent Students: Exploring Coping Profiles and Predictors Through a Latent Class Analysis Approa... by 趙子揚 Tzu-Yang Chao

“…To achieve this, changes in research methods are also necessary. First, researchers should strive to identify more nuanced coping strategies. …”
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THERMOPHYSICAL BASES OF PRODUCTION OF EFFECTIVE EQUIPMENT FOR GENERAL CRYOTHERAPEUTIC EXPOSURE by A. Yu. Baranov, A. V. Vasilenok, E. V. Sokolova, O. A. Shestakova

“…These articles describe research performed on foreign-made equipment, which is significantly inferior to Russian samples. Such publications discredit the WBC method, hamper the export of Russian equipment, and hinder the spread of effective treatment methods in Russia.Result. …”
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Formulation of solution to prevent lysis time erythrocyte and detecting blood type by Ria Amelia, Elfira Maya Sari

“…Background: In the examination of blood type using the tube method, a test cell containing 5% erythrocytes of the solution volume is required. …”
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Improved chemiluminescence behavior of Cu-etched sulfur quantum dots for Rizatriptan sensitive assay by Sima Mojarrad, Tooba Hallaj, Abdolhossein Naseri, Mohammad Amjadi, Aligholi Niaei

“…The accuracy of the proposed method was evaluated by spiking the known concentrations of the analyte and the calculated percent recoveries are in the range of 94.51–104.05% indicating the good analytical performance of the developed method.…”
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Determination of Lappaconitin, Diterpene Alkaloide Obtained from Plants <i>Aconitum leucostomum</i>, and its Active Metabolite N-desacetyllappaconitin in Human Plasma and Blood by O. A. Archakova, T. N. Komarov, A. V. Rogov, D. S. Shchelgacheva, A. A. Aleshina, N. S. Bagaeva, I. E. Shohin

“…Pharmacokinetics of lappaconitine should be more studied for safety medical use of lappaconitine drugs.Aim. …”
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Mixed Helminthosis in Sheep Intestines in Dagestan by M. M. Zubairova, A. M. Ataev, N. T. Karsakov, Z. M. Dzhambulatov, S. T. Ataeva

“…The purpose of the research is studying mixed zoonosis of sheep intestines and helminth biodiversity in the altitudinal zonation of Dagestan. Materials and methods. We used materials in our work that were collected in 1985-2018 from sheep (young animals up to 1 year old, 1 to 2 years old, and 3 years old and older) by seasons of the year. 5,000 fecal samples were tested and 180 intestinal dissections were performed. …”
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Improved Confidence-Interval Estimations Using Uncertainty Measure and Weighted Feature Decisions for Cuff-Less Blood-Pressure Measurements by Soojeong Lee, Mugahed A. Al-antari, Gyanendra Prasad Joshi

“…The study confirmed that the BP estimates were within the CI based on the test samples of almost all subjects. The weighted feature decisions combining GPR and GBA were more accurate and reliable for cuff-less BP estimation.…”
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Advancing breast cancer circulating tumour cell research at the Institute of Oncology Ljubljana by Tanja Jesenko, Cvetka Grašič Kuhar, Živa Pišljar, Simona Miceska, Veronika Kloboves-Prevodnik, Maja Čemažar

“…We found that the physical method is more suitable, as it enables the isolation of higher numbers of morphologically intact CTCs. …”
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Rapid and Precise Approaches for XRF Analysis of Rare Earth Niobates by Alexandra Alexandrovna Arkhipenko, Galina Evgenievna Marina, Mikhail Alexandrovich Ryumin, Marina Sergeevna Doronina, Natalia Alexandrovna Korotkova, Tatiana Dmitrievna Ksenofontova, Vasilisa Borisovna Baranovskaya

“…Calibration samples were prepared using the same synthesis method as the study samples to construct the calibration curves. …”
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Attention-based hybrid contrastive learning for unsupervised person re-identification by Weihao Qin, Yongxia Li, Jianguang Zhang, Xianbin Wen, Jiajia Guo, Qi Guo

“…Meanwhile, it can extract more discriminative information by comparing the sample with hard samples in instance-level contrastive loss. …”
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Research on Wood Defects Feature Imbalance Optimization and Recognition by Xiao Wang

“…Firstly, Cross Entropy loss is modified to allow the model to pay more attention to individual sample discrepancy during training. …”
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