Efficient Image Processing Technique for Detecting Spatio-Temporal Erosion in Boron Nitride Exposed to Iodine Plasma by Ahmed S. Afifi, Janith Weerasinghe, Karthika Prasad, Igor Levchenko, Katia Alexander

“…Utilising atomic force microscopy (AFM) images from both untreated and treated BN samples, the technique uses a modified semi-automated image registration method that accurately aligns surface profiles—even after substantial erosion—and overcomes challenges related to changes in the eroded surface features. …”
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The Application of Resonance-Enhanced Multiphoton Ionization Technique in Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry by Adan Li, Jianzheng Song, Yang Sun, Tifeng Jiao

“…Thus, GC/REMPI-TOFMS is a more reliable method for the determination of PAHs present in the environment.…”
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Predictors of adverse postoperative course of cholecystectomy in mini-incision access and laparoscopic cholecystectomy by V. N. Klimenko, D. V. Syvolap, S. M. Kravchenko, V. V. Vakulenko, A. V. Zakharchuk

“…Parametric (t-test for dependent and independent variables, ANOVA ANOVA, paired Pearson correlation) and nonparametric (Wald-Wolfowitz runs test, Kolmogorov-Smirnov two-sample test, Mann-Whitney U test, correlation Spearman) statistic methods were used. …”
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Precise mycobacterial species and subspecies identification using the PEP-TORCH peptidome algorithm by Duran Bao, Sudipa Maity, Lingpeng Zhan, Seungyeon Seo, Qingbo Shu, Christopher J Lyon, Bo Ning, Adrian Zelazny, Tony Y Hu, Jia Fan

“…Furthermore, a targeted proteomics method was validated in 63 clinical samples using the taxa-specific peptides selected by PEP-TORCH, making them suitable as biomarkers in more clinically friendly settings. …”
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Anti-ultraviolet and Super-Hydrophobic Finishing of Amino-modified Nano-SiO2 Grafted Cotton Fabric by ZHANG Guangyu; CHENG Ran; WANG Dao; XIAO Yao; WANG Hailou; ZHANG Wei

“…The 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane(APTES) is used to prepare amino-modified nano-SiO2 sol by sol-gel method, and the surface of pretreated cotton fabric with citric acid is coated with nano-SiO2 by dipping method to construct a rough surface structure, and then the hexadecyl trimethoxy silane(HDTMS) is used for low surface energy modification to obtain a super-hydrophobic cotton fabric. …”
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Fitting Geometric Shapes to Fuzzy Point Cloud Data by Vincent B. Verhoeven, Pasi Raumonen, Markku Åkerblom

“…Our proposed method fits the geometry more accurately, albeit generally with greater uncertainty, and shows promise for geometry reconstruction with laser-scanned data.…”
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The The Status of Forest elephant in the world heritage DJA Faunal Reserve, Cameroon by Rajan Amin, Oliver Fankem, Oum Ndjock Gilbert, Thomas Bruce, Constant Ndjassi, David Olson, Andrew Fowler

“…Cet inventaire par la méthode distance sampling a permis de couvrir 5,260 km2 de la Réserve de Faune du Dja (RFD) site du patrimoine mondial avec 298.2 km de transects linéaires et 1,681.4 km de recces. …”
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Rapid and Sensitive Determination of Methylxanthines in Commercial Brands of Tea Using Ultra-High-Performance Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry by Ahmad Aqel, Ahmed Almulla, Asma’a Al-Rifai, Saikh M. Wabaidur, Zeid A. ALOthman, Ahmed-Yacine Badjah-Hadj-Ahmed

“…On the contrary, theophylline was not detected at all in most samples. When compared with all previous studies that dealt with the same compounds in different matrices, the developed method was found to be the fastest, allowing high-throughput analyses with more than 100 samples/h. …”
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Topologically inferring active miRNA‐mediated subpathways toward precise cancer classification by directed random walk by Ziyu Ning, Chenchen Feng, Chao Song, Wei Liu, Desi Shang, Meng Li, Qiuyu Wang, Jianmei Zhao, Yuejuan Liu, Jiaxin Chen, Xiaoyang Yu, Jian Zhang, Chunquan Li

“…The results showed that the proposed method yielded a more robust and accurate overall performance compared with other existing pathway‐based, miRNA‐based, and gene‐based classification methods. …”
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BIODIVERSITY STUDY OF OLIVES IN NORTH OF SYRIA BY USING FRACTALS AND MOMENTS by Saher Al Bakeer

“…Therefore we tried to use an alternative method of morphological characterization based on study the seed characters in term of its length, surface grooves by using geometrical equations, this method could be considered more accurate than the morphological characterization by using the naked eye due to the fact that this method is based on the photos which is taken with high resolution camera and analyze these images using the computer software especially programmed for these studies is purposes which is guaranteed the high accuracy and impartiality in the results .The results shows that the studied wild types and the cultivated varieties were divided into two groups where the first group contains Sorani variety collected from Afrin, Salqin and Harem and samples from Maari local variety. …”
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Few-Shot Classification Study for Prototype Fusion and Completion by Yuheng Wang, Yanguo Sun, Zhenping Lan, Nan Wang, Jiansong Li, Xincheng Yang

“…Deep learning models face significant challenges in image classification due to the limited availability of training samples. To address this issue, few-shot learning, which enables model training with a small number of samples, has emerged. …”
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Jump amplitude inference in SDEs with cosine kernel by Wuchen Li, Luwen Zhang, Jian Xu, Linghui Li, Liping Bai

“…Our approach addresses these systematic errors, especially under large sample conditions, enabling more accurate statistical inference for the jump amplitude in stochastic differential equations with jumps. …”
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Optimized Application of CGA-SVM in Tight Reservoir Horizontal Well Production Prediction by Chao Wang, Ruogu Wang, Yuhan Lin, Jiafei Zhang, Xiaofei Xie, Zidan Zhao, Yunlin Xu

“…The results show that the improved support vector machine method has high accuracy in the prediction of small sample data, and the method can be widely used in the production prediction of horizontal Wells in tight reservoirs, providing a reference for the efficient development of tight reservoirs.…”
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Optimizing Class Imbalance in Facial Expression Recognition Using Dynamic Intra-Class Clustering by Qingdu Li, Keting Fu, Jian Liu, Yishan Li, Qinze Ren, Kang Xu, Junxiu Fu, Na Liu, Ye Yuan

“…This indicates that the DICC method can effectively enhance classification precision, especially in the recognition of minority class samples. …”
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Spherical Harmonics for Robust Next-Best-View Estimation by Alexandru Pop, Levente Tamas

“…The convex hull is afterwards used to simulate views, and a set covering optimisation is applied to make a one-shot selection of the best views for surface coverage reconstruction. This method is robust to changes in view space, as shown in the tests applied on Shapenet models along with more complex synthetic shapes from HomebrewDB, Stanford 3D Scanning Repository, and Linemod.…”
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Eff-ReLU-Net: a deep learning framework for multiclass wound classification by Sifat Ullah, Ali Javed, Muteb Aljasem, Abdul Khader Jilani Saudagar

“…These results validate the effectiveness of our proposed Eff-ReLU-Net method for classifying chronic wounds.…”
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Performance of Polymerase Chain Reaction Analysis of the Amniotic Fluid of Pregnant Women for Diagnosis of Congenital Toxoplasmosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. by Christianne Terra de Oliveira Azevedo, Pedro Emmanuel A A do Brasil, Letícia Guida, Maria Elizabeth Lopes Moreira

“…The sensitivity of the method, if performed up to five weeks after maternal diagnosis, was 87% and specificity was 99%.…”
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Optimized submerged cultivation for γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-enriched sprouts from brown riceThe data that support the findings of this study are openly available in Mendeley dat... by Yu Li, Minh-Quan Nguyen, Thi Bao Chau Bui, Yutaka Kitamura, Mito Kokawa

“…This study focuses on developing a more efficient cultivation method for sprouted brown rice (SBR), with particular emphasis on enhancing γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) accumulation. …”
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An efficient surface electromyography-based gesture recognition algorithm based on multiscale fusion convolution and channel attention by Bin Jiang, Hao Wu, Qingling Xia, Hanguang Xiao, Bo Peng, Li Wang, Yun Zhao

“…It uses fast dimensionality reduction, asymmetric convolution decomposition, and pooling to suppress the accumulation of parameters, then reducing the algorithmic complexity; The ECA is adopted to reweight the output features of Inception in different channels, enabling the RIE model to focus on information that is more relevant to gestures. 52-, 49-, and 52-class gesture recognition experiments are conducted on NinaPro DB1, DB3, and DB4 datasets, which contain 14,040, 3234, and 3120 gesture samples, respectively. …”
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Research on Surrogate Model of Variable Geometry Turbine Performance Based on Backpropagation Neural Network by Liping Deng, Hu Wu, Yuhang Liu, Qi’an Xie

“…Therefore, this study developed a quasi-two-dimensional (quasi-2D) method for variable geometry turbine performance considering cooling air mixing based on the elementary blade method and the cooling airflow mixing model. …”
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