Otimização de Layout através do método SLP – um estudo de caso da eficiência produtiva em uma empresa de confecção by Cassiano Rodrigues Moura, William José Borges, Edson Meincheim

“…O Layout proposto foi projetado de modo a utilizar o espaço disponível, onde foi possível manter os corredores dentro do estabelecido pela norma, além de projetar os maquinários e postos de trabalho de modo a promover um fluxo eficiente, reduzindo assim a movimentação desnecessária de materiais e pessoas. …”
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A 2-Year, Phase IV, Multicentre, Observational Study of Ranibizumab 0.5 mg in Patients with Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration in Routine Clinical Practice: The EPICOHORT... by Sergio Pagliarini, Stephen Beatty, Blandina Lipkova, Eduardo Perez-Salvador Garcia, Stefaan Reynders, Margarita Gekkieva, Abdelkader Si Bouazza, Stefan Pilz

“…Being observational in nature, the study did not impose diagnostic/therapeutic interventions/visit schedule. …”
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Modeling dynamics on the dance floor with directional swarmalators by Petri Toiviainen, Petri Toiviainen, Joshua S. Bamford, Joshua S. Bamford, Joshua S. Bamford, Marc R. Thompson, Marc R. Thompson

“…The model is initially tested against motion capture recordings of two groups dancing in a silent disco, however, it is theoretically adaptable to a variety of scenarios, including varying group sizes, adjustable degrees of auditory and visual coupling, as well as modifiable interaction ranges, making it a generic tool for exploring collective behavior in musical settings. …”
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Deep Learning in Oral Hygiene: Automated Dental Plaque Detection via YOLO Frameworks and Quantification Using the O’Leary Index by Alfonso Ramírez-Pedraza, Sebastián Salazar-Colores, Crystel Cardenas-Valle, Juan Terven, José-Joel González-Barbosa, Francisco-Javier Ornelas-Rodriguez, Juan-Bautista Hurtado-Ramos, Raymundo Ramirez-Pedraza, Diana-Margarita Córdova-Esparza, Julio-Alejandro Romero-González

“…This study focuses on detecting three plaque stages—new, mature, and over-mature—using state-of-the-art YOLO architectures to enhance early intervention and reduce reliance on manual visual assessments. …”
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Economic impact of cholera in households in rural southern Malawi: a prospective study by Florian Marks, Wilm Quentin, Vittal Mogasale, Amber Hsiao, Enusa Ramani, Hye-Jin Seo, GiDeok Pak, Dan Vuntade, Maurice M’bang’ombe, Bagrey Ngwira

“…The present study estimated the COI of cholera in Nsanje, southern Malawi, as part of the Cholera Surveillance in Malawi (CSIMA) programme following a mass cholera vaccination campaign in 2015.Methods Patients ≥12 months of age who were recruited as part of CSIMA were invited to participate in the COI survey. The COI tool captured household components of economic burden, including direct medical and non-medical costs, and indirect lost productivity costs.Results Between April 2016 and March 2020, 40 cholera cases were enrolled in the study, all of whom participated in the COI survey. …”
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Deep learning and hyperspectral features for seedling stage identification of barnyard grass in paddy field by Siqiao Tan, Qiang Xie, Wenshuai Zhu, Yangjun Deng, Lei Zhu, Xiaoqiao Yu, Zheming Yuan, Zheming Yuan, Yuan Chen, Yuan Chen

“…Subsequently, a deep convolutional feature extraction module, ensembled with a bilayer LSTM module, is deployed to capture both global and local correlations inherent within hyperspectral bands. …”
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Developing a semi-automated technique of surface water quality analysis using GEE and machine learning: A case study for Sundarbans by Sheikh Fahim Faysal Sowrav, Sujit Kumar Debsarma, Mohan Kumar Das, Khan Mohammad Ibtehal, Mahfujur Rahman, Noshin Tabassum Hridita, Atika Afia Broty, Muhammad Sajid Anam Hoque

“…Comparative analyses showed that ML-based models effectively captured spatial and temporal variations, aligning closely with field measurements. …”
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IMPLANTAÇÃO DO PROGRAMA 5S NO ESTOQUE DE UMA CONTRUTORA CIVIL: ESTUDO DE CASO NA CIDADE DE PASSOS – MG by Leticia Ferreira de Souza, Lo-Ruana Karen Amorim Freire Sanjulião, Thales Volpe Rodrigues, Adna Amorim dos Santos, Carlos Henrique Fernandes

“…Para fidelizar um cliente e se manter competitiva, faz se necessário que as empresas busquem por melhorias em seus processos internos e externos. …”
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Measuring Chinese negative emotion towards climate change: Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of Climate Change Anxiety Scale by Sam SS Lau, Kubi Appiah, Cherry CY Ho, Marco CH Cheng, Bo-Yi Yang

“…Results: Unlike the two-factor structure of the original scale, our results revealed a three-factor structure of the 13-item CCAS version that captured three dimensions of climate change anxiety: intrusive symptoms, reflections on climate anxiety, and functional impairment. …”
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A Weighted Bayesian Kernel Machine Regression Approach for Predicting the Growth of Indoor-Cultured Abalone by Seung-Won Seo, Gyumin Choi, Ho-Jin Jung, Mi-Jin Choi, Young-Dae Oh, Hyun-Seok Jang, Han-Kyu Lim, Seongil Jo

“…This approach accommodates heteroscedasticity, capturing varying levels of variance across observations, and models complex, non-linear relationships between environmental factors and abalone growth. …”
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Deep Learning Model for CS-Based Signal Recovery for IRS-Assisted Near-Field THz MIMO System by Vaishali Sharma, Prakhar Keshari, Sanjeev Sharma, Kuntal Deka, Ondrej Krejcar, Vimal Bhatia

“…This method introduces an IRS signal-matched (IRSSM) measurement matrix with beam squint for capturing the transmitted signal at a sub-Nyquist rate, taking advantage of the sparsity in the signal and THz channels, and signal recovery using the deep learning (DL) model. …”
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Fine-scale forest classification with multi-temporal sentinel-1/2 imagery using a temporal convolutional neural network by Rongfei Duan, Chunlin Huang, Peng Dou, Jinliang Hou, Ying Zhang, Juan Gu

“…This study focused on the Tao River National Nature Reserve in southern Gansu Province, China, where over 6,000 vegetation samples were collected. …”
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2.5D Inductive Intertwined Frequency Selective Surface for Band-Pass and High Miniaturization Applications by Juan Andres Vasquez-Peralvo, Rocio Chueca Lasheras, Juan Carlos Merlano Duncan, Shuai Zhang, Pavel Pechac, Vaclav Kabourek, Symeon Chatzinotas

“…To elucidate the underlying physics, an equivalent circuit model was developed, accurately capturing the fundamental harmonic behavior of the structure. …”
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Odnaleziony kodeks Schwedlera z Kłodzka i Nysy (1626‒38) by Katarzyna Spurgjasz

“…Właścicielem rękopisu (i kopistą znacznej jego części) był Christoph Schwedler, kantor nyskiej kolegiaty, wcześniej pełniący tę funkcję także w kościele parafialnym w Kłodzku. …”
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Left-Right Brain-Wide Asymmetry of Neuroanatomy in the Mouse Brain by Andrew Silberfeld, James M. Roe, Jacob Ellegood, Jason P. Lerch, Lily Qiu, Yongsoo Kim, Jong Gwan Lee, William D. Hopkins, Joanes Grandjean, Yangming Ou, Olivier Pourquié

“…Our results recapitulate and extend previous patterns of asymmetry from two published studies as well as capture well-established, bilateral male-female differences in the mouse brain as a positive control. …”
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Changes in Anterior Segment Morphology of Iris Bombe before and after Laser Peripheral Iridotomy in Patients with Uveitic Secondary Glaucoma by Wakako Ikegawa, Takashi Suzuki, Koji Namiguchi, Shiro Mizoue, Atsushi Shiraishi, Yuichi Ohashi

“…AS images of eight eyes were captured before and after iris bombe and more than 2 weeks after LPI (post-LPI) using AS-OCT. …”
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CONFLICT BETWEEN PASTORALISTS AND FARMERS IN NIGERIA AND ITS POTENTIALS FOR REGIONAL INSECURITY IN AFRICA by Angela Ajodo-Adebanjoko, Joy Ede Ukoje

“…For instance, climate change, drought, desertification and flooding have necessitated the movement of herders from their base in the northern part of the country to the south for greener pastures, a move that has pitched them against southern farmers whose crops are often destroyed during such migrations. …”
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Spatio-Temporal Feature Aware Vision Transformers for Real-Time Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Tracking by Hao Zhang, Hengzhou Ye, Xiaoyu Guo, Xu Zhang, Yao Rong, Shuiwang Li

“…Addressing the shortcomings of existing tracking systems in capturing temporal relationships between consecutive frames, NT-Track meticulously analyzes the positional changes in targets across frames and leverages the similarity of the surrounding areas to extract feature information. …”
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Enhancing paddy leaf disease diagnosis -a hybrid CNN model using simulated thermal imaging by Jagamohan Padhi, Kunal Mishra, Ashoka Kumar Ratha, Santi Kumari Behera, Prabira Kumar Sethy, Aziz Nanthaamornphong

“…A dataset of 5,932 self-generated rice leaf images was augmented with simulated thermal images to capture subtle temperature variations indicative of early stress responses prior to visible symptoms. …”
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Quantitative Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Erbium Glass Laser Therapy for Acne Scars by Wiktoria Odrzywołek, Anna Deda, Dagmara Kuca, Małgorzata Bożek, Krzysztof Makarski, Sławomir Wilczyński

“…The Antera 3D system and high-frequency ultrasound device demonstrated high efficacy in capturing subtle changes, supporting its value in clinical applications for optimizing treatment parameters.…”
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