Defect Detection in Concrete Structures Based on Characteristics of Hammer Reaction Force and Apparent Stiffness of Concrete by Koki Shoda, Jun Younes Louhi Kasahara, Qi An, Atsushi Yamashita

“…Our method employs wavelet transformation to convert short-duration force signals into high-resolution time-frequency features, capturing their non-stationary behavior in detail. …”
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Multiscale guided attention network for optic disc segmentation of retinal images by A Z M Ehtesham Chowdhury, Andrew Mehnert, Graham Mann, William H. Morgan, Ferdous Sohel

“…MSGANet-OD was trained and tested on an in-house clinical color retinal image dataset captured during ophthalmodynamometry as well as on several publicly available color fundus image datasets, e.g., DRISHTI-GS, RIM-ONE-r3, and REFUGE1. …”
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Contribuições de Paulo Freire e Muniz Sodré ao enfrentamento das guerras culturais: uma análise da pauta indígena na Agência Brasil 2015-2023 by Akemi Nitahara Souza, Adilson Vaz Cabral Filho

“…Traremos como exemplo as táticas de resistência dos trabalhadores da Empresa Brasil de Comunicação (EBC), em conjunto com a sociedade civil, para manter a comunicação pública ativa, mesmo sob forte censura e vigilância durante os governos Michel Temer e Jair Bolsonaro. …”
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Senses of justice after managed retreat in New York city by Veronica Olivotto, Veronica Olivotto, Katinka Wijsman, Timon McPhearson, Timon McPhearson, Timon McPhearson

“…It grounds this analysis in 18 in-depth interviews with local residents capturing their perceptions of vacant land and its reuse, flood risk and neighborhood needs. …”
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Uncertainties of the rainfall regime in a tropical semi-arid region: the case of the State of Ceará by Eunice Maia de Andrade, Maria Gina Torres Sena, Antonio Givanilson Rodrigues da Silva, Francisco Jairo Soares Pereira, Fernando Bezerra Lopes

“…The rural population of a tropical semi-arid region such as the northeast of Brazil is directly dependent on rainfall for agricultural production, pasture for livestock, and the storage of drinking water for human consumption. …”
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Cactus Bug, Chelinidea vittiger aequoris McAtee (Insecta: Hemiptera: Coreidae) by Frank W. Mead, J. R. Herring

“…In Australia, for example, over 30,000,000 acres of pasture land were rendered useless because of dense stands of exotic prickly pear cacti. …”
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A Framework for Promoting Passive Breast Cancer Monitoring: Deep Learning as an Interpretation Tool for Breast Thermograms by Mohamad Firouzmand, Keivan Majidzadeh, Maryam Jafari, Shahpar Haghighat, Rezvan Esmaeili, Leila Moradi, Nima Misaghi, Mahsa Ensafi, Fatemeh Batmanghelich, Mohammadreza Keyvanpour, Seyed Vahab Shojaedini

“…Introduction: Several types of cancer can be detected early through thermography, which uses thermal profiles to image tissues in recent years, thermography has gained increasing attention due to its non-invasive and radiation-free nature. There is a growing need for thermographic images of breast cancer lesions in different nationalities and ages to develop this technique, however. …”
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Neuroeconomically dissociable forms of mental accounting are altered in a mouse model of diabetes by Chinonso A. Nwakama, Romain Durand-de Cuttoli, Zainab M. Oketokoun, Samantha O. Brown, Jillian E. Haller, Adriana Méndez, Mohammad Jodeiri Farshbaf, Y. Zoe Cho, Sanjana Ahmed, Sophia Leng, Jessica L. Ables, Brian M. Sweis

“…Here, we characterized value-based decision-making behavior of a streptozocin-induced diabetic mouse model on Restaurant Row, a naturalistic neuroeconomic foraging paradigm capable of behaviorally capturing multiple decision systems known to depend on dissociable neural circuits. …”
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Effective Connectivity Study Guiding the Neuromodulation Intervention in Figurative Language Comprehension Using Optical Neuroimaging by Tania Alexandra Couto, Shiyang Xu, Paulo Armada da Silva, Chenggang Wu, Karl Neergaard, Meng-Yun Wang, Juan Zhang, Yutao Xiang, Zhen Yuan

“…The method is aimed at mapping significant causal relationships across language brain networks, captured by functional near-infrared spectroscopy measurements (fNIRS): (i) definition of regions of interest (ROIs) based on significant channels extracted from spatial activation maps; (ii) inspection of significant causal relationships in temporal resolution, exploring the experimental task agreement; and (iii) early identification of stronger causal relationships that guide neuromodulation intervention, targeting impaired connectivity pathways. …”
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CLIMATE CHANGE AND FARMERS-HERDERS CONFLICT IN NORTHERN NIGERIA by OLUFUNKE .A. MOSES-OJO, ARUYA KINGSLEY JOSEPH, RILWAN ABDULLAHI ALIYU

“…The main resources fanning the embers of conflicts are water, land, and pasture. This study, therefore, assesses the effect of climate change-induced farmer-pastoralist conflict in Northern Nigeria. …”
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Characterizing the agroecological transition of Italian farming systems using FADN database by Sarah Stempfle, Simone Russo, Vincenzo Fiore, Ruggiero Sardaro, Piermichele La Sala, Luigi Roselli

“…Although essential environmental and social information will be included in the forthcoming Farm Sustainability Data Network, further integrative sources should be explored to capture multifaced aspects of agroecological transition within broader agri-food systems, while in-depth studies based on primary data collection could offer more detailed and nuanced insights.…”
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Understanding and Modeling the Dynamics of Storm‐Time Atmospheric Neutral Density Using Random Forests by K. Murphy, A. J. Halford, V. Liu, J. Klenzing, J. Smith, K. Garcia‐Sage, J. Pettit, I. J. Rae

“…During quiet‐times, all three models perform well; however, during geomagnetic storms, the combined high cadence solar iradiance/geomagnetic model performs significantly better than the models based solely on solar activity. The combined model capturing an additional 10% in the variability of density and having an error up to six times smaller during geomagnetic storms then the solar models. …”
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Betalain–Chickpea Protein Particles Produced by Freeze Drying and Spray Drying: Physicochemical Aspects, Storage Stability, and In Vitro Digestion by Mary H. Grace, Roberta Targino Hoskin, Malak Alghamdi, Mary Ann Lila, Vesela I. Chalova

“…The encapsulation method affected particles’ morphology, water activity, hygroscopicity, solubility, and color. Particles captured total betalains of 9.30 ± 0.61 and 4.40 ± 0.92 mg/g for CB-SD and CB-FD, respectively. …”
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Gamified Shoulder Rehabilitation for Mild Stroke Patients Using Virtual Reality by Roy Francis Navea, Vincent Mao Talde, Francisco Luis Armintia, Sarrah Mae Dela Cruz, Gabriel Medina, Alvin Decena

“…Gamification in VR has the potential to transform traditional methods in healthcare, education, training, and entertainment by providing an engaging, interactive experience that captures users' attention and fosters positive outcomes.…”
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Effect of interface morphology on tensile response of Ti6Al4V alloy fabricated by laser hybrid additive manufacturing: Experiments & simulations by Wei Fan, Guang Hu, Yuguang Chen, Yue Du, Yijie Peng, Yongxia Wang, Yunlong Li, Hua Tan, Fengying Zhang, Xin Lin

“…A novel numerical simulation approach is employed to capture the transitional properties of the interface, which are often simplified in traditional models. …”
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Thermal limits to stoloniferous leaves and root growth in Paspalum notatum, a south American native grass by Áurea Rodrigues Cordeiro, Alexandre Aparecido Duarte, Ana Paula de Faria, José Pires de Lemos Filho, Marcel Giovanni Costa França

“…Results indicate that P. notatum has potential to grow in a wide range of temperatures and that the increase of global average temperature should not affect its distribution in its current habitat, presenting promising traits as an option for pastures in all tropical regions.…”
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Two Cases of Iatrogenic Lumbar Foraminal Disc Herniations by Ryota Taniguchi, Osamu Kawano, Takeshi Maeda, Yasuharu Nakajima, Yuichiro Morishita

“…The injection of liquid medicine into the nucleus led the intradiscal pressure increased, and the disc fragment might prolapsed through the raptured region of annulus fibrosus and migrated to cranial central spinal canal by anatomical reason. …”
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Effect of digital elevation model’s resolution in producing flood hazard maps by J.L. Ogania, G.R. Puno, M.B.T. Alivio, J.M.G. Taylaran

“…Flooding is one of the most devastating natural disasters occurring annually in the Philippines. …”
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Complementarity-Oriented Feature Fusion for Face-Phone Trajectory Matching by Changfeng Cao, Wenchuan Zhang, Hua Yang, Dan Ruan

“…Specifically, a Cycle Heterogeneous Trajectory Translation Network (CCTTN) is proposed to realize a TFE (Trajectory Feature Extractor) which captures the latent transforming relationships between the face and phone modalities. …”
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One size does not fit all: revising traditional paradigms for assessing accuracy of QSAR models used for virtual screening by James Wellnitz, Sankalp Jain, Joshua E. Hochuli, Travis Maxfield, Eugene N. Muratov, Alexander Tropsha, Alexey V. Zakharov

“…We show that training on imbalanced datasets achieves a hit rate at least 30% higher than using balanced datasets, and that the PPV metric captured this difference of performance with no parameter tuning. …”
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