Threats and Mitigation Strategies for Electroencephalography-Based Person Authentication by Zaib Unnisa, Asadullah Tariq, Irfan Ud Din, Danish Shehzad, Mohamed Adel Serhani, Abdelkader N. Belkacem, Nadeem Sarwar

“…According to research findings, in February 2022, a significant milestone was achieved when the EEG signals of a deceased person were successfully captured for the first time in recorded history. However, this groundbreaking discovery may threaten EEG-based authentication. …”
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Interlimb coordination in Parkinson’s Disease is minimally affected by a visuospatial dual task by Hill, Allen, Nantel, Julie

“…Seventeen volunteers with mild to moderate PD (11 males, 65 ± 8 years, 173 ± 8 cm, 74 ± 20 kg, Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale motor section 10 ± 5) participated in gait trials in an Extended-CAREN system, which includes a treadmill, 12-camera Vicon motion capture system, and a 180° field-of-view virtual reality projection screen. …”
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Real-time trajectory imaging of alpha particles emitted from actinium-225 and its daughter radionuclides by Seiichi Yamamoto, Masao Yoshino, Kenji Shirasaki, Kohei Nakanishi, Kei Kamada, Akira Yoshikawa, Jun Kataoka

“…Alpha particles were projected onto the GAGG scintillator, producing magnified images that were captured at 100 ms intervals. We successfully tracked particle trajectories with varying lengths and intensities for 4 different alpha particles emitted from Ac-225 and its daughter radionuclides with a spatial resolution of 1.0 μm. …”
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Physicians’ moral distinctions between medical assistance in dying (MAiD) and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment in Canada: a qualitative descriptive study by Midori Matthew, Kieran Bonner, Andrew Stumpf

“…The bioethical literature has attempted to differentiate MAiD from withdrawing life-sustaining treatment (WLT) in an effort to examine the nature of the moral difference between the two. However, this research has often neglected the firsthand experiences of the clinicians involved in these procedures. …”
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Digitalization of the Workflow for Drone-Assisted Inspection and Automated Assessment of Industrial Buildings for Effective Maintenance Management by Jorge Torres-Barriuso, Natalia Lasarte, Ignacio Piñero, Eduardo Roji, Peru Elguezabal

“…This system has also enabled the capture of geo-located images intended to generate 3D photogrammetric models for quantifying the pathological process evolution. …”
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Characterisation of the antibody-mediated selective pressure driving intra-host evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in prolonged infection. by Michael Schoefbaenker, Theresa Günther, Eva Ulla Lorentzen, Marie-Luise Romberg, Marc Tim Hennies, Rieke Neddermeyer, Marlin Maybrit Müller, Alexander Mellmann, Chiara Robin Bojarzyn, Georg Lenz, Matthias Stelljes, Eike Roman Hrincius, Richard Vollenberg, Stephan Ludwig, Phil-Robin Tepasse, Joachim Ewald Kühn

“…A detailed analysis of the variant-specific immune response by pseudotyped virus neutralisation test, surrogate virus neutralisation test, and immunoglobulin-capture enzyme immunoassay showed that the onset of an IgM-dominated antibody response coincided with the appearance of escape mutations. …”
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Deep learning powered single-cell clustering framework with enhanced accuracy and stability by Yi Zhang, Xi Feng, Yin Wang, Kai Shi

“…This enriches the graph representation by capturing the spatial relationships between cells in addition to their pairwise similarities. (2) Dual-topology adaptive graph convolutional network (TAGCN): The framework employs a TAGCN architecture with residual concatenation. …”
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Emic definitions of empowerment for just development: learnings from Kenya by Haley Zaremba, Eileen Bogweh Nchanji, Nadia Guettou Djurfeldt, Hanna North, Vanya Slavchevska, Annarita Macchioni Giaquinto

“…These findings suggest that capturing and accounting for multiple and diverse emic definitions of empowerment for different social groups, which lies beyond the scope of standardized quantitative measures, is essential to measuring and supporting empowerment in ways that are valuable and recognizable to the target group(s) of a given development initiative. …”
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The relationship between maternal age, obesity and child mortality: a cross-sectional study using 2013–2014 Demographic and Health Survey in Democratic Republic of the Congo at nat... by Zacharie Tsala Dimbuene, Raphaël Muanza Nzuzi, Severin Mabanza Matondo

“…Child mortality was captured with five binary variables measuring the risk of dying in specific age intervals (neonatal, post-neonatal, infant, childhood and under-five mortality). …”
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The good, the bad, and the ugly: Compliance of e-pharmacies serving India and Kenya with regulatory requirements and best practices. by Gautam Satheesh, Sammy Masibo, Sasi Kumar Tiruttani, Irene Khayoni, Benjamin Palafox, Devaki Nambiar, Jaison Joseph, Emmanuel Kweyu, Abdul Salam, Francis Wafula, Catherine Goodman

“…We identified the universe of e-pharmacies through online searches, and captured data using a structured questionnaire (Jan-May 2023). …”
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Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency and Sickle Cell Trait among Prospective Blood Donors: A Cross-Sectional Study in Berekum, Ghana by Patrick Adu, David Larbi Simpong, Godfred Takyi, Richard K. D. Ephraim

“…Demographic data and other pertinent information were captured using questionnaire. Sickle cell haemoglobin variants were determined using cellulose acetate electrophoresis (pH 8.6). …”
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Seroprevalence and Risk Factors of African Horse Sickness in Three Agroecological Zones of Cameroon by Mohamed M. F. Ndebé, Mohamed M. M. Mouiche, Frédéric Moffo, Rodrigue N. S. Poueme, Julius Awah-Ndukum

“…Horse sera were subjected to the ELISA blocking test for the determination of antibodies against African horse sickness virus, and positive samples were submitted to capture ELISA to determine the presence of antigens. …”
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A decade-long overview of adverse events in a tertiary surgical service in South Africa by H Wain, D L Clarke, S Wall

“…After categorisation, a total of 14 537 adverse events were captured, giving an adverse event rate of 22%. Adverse events were categorised into four groups. …”
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Enhancing Underwater Video from Consecutive Frames While Preserving Temporal Consistency by Kai Hu, Yuancheng Meng, Zichen Liao, Lei Tang, Xiaoling Ye

“…Furthermore, existing enhancement methods struggle to accurately capture features in underwater scenes. This makes it difficult to handle challenges such as uneven lighting and edge blurring in complex underwater environments. …”
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சிந்தனைத் தளத்தில் சுகுமாரனின் வண்டு குண்டு / Thoughts in Sukumaran's Vandu Kundu by முனைவர் ந. இரஞ்சன் / Dr. N. Ranjan

“…It explores the cognitive and psychological dimensions of children as depicted in Sukumaran’s stories by analyzing how he captures their thoughts, emotions and behaviours. This analysis also employs descriptive, analytical and statistical methods to examine the narrative structure, themes and rhetorical techniques used in “Vandu Kundu”. …”
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Optimizing Hydrogen Production in the Co-Gasification Process: Comparison of Explainable Regression Models Using Shapley Additive Explanations by Thavavel Vaiyapuri

“…SVR outperformed other models in capturing non-linear dependencies and demonstrated effective overfitting mitigation. …”
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A Cross-Sectional Study to Assess Diabetes as a Risk Factor for Root Caries Amongst the Elderly Population in Udupi District, Karnataka State, India by Kush Kalra, Ramprasad Vasthare, Shivashankar K. N., Nishu Singla, Deepak Kumar Singhal, Ritesh Singla

“…Additionally, those who used removable partial dentures (RPDs) were found to be 4.65 times more likely to have root caries than those who did not use RPDs. …”
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Spatial Cognitive EEG Feature Extraction and Classification Based on MSSECNN and PCMI by Xianglong Wan, Yue Sun, Yiduo Yao, Wan Zuha Wan Hasan, Dong Wen

“…Finally, the MSCNN model captures local and global features using convolution kernels of varying sizes, enhancing classification accuracy and robustness. …”
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The Association of Joint Power Kinetic Variables with Running Injuries: A Case-Control Study by Matt Dewald, Jennifer Dalland, Josie Stockland

“… # Study Design Case-Control Study # Methods Kinetic data were collected on 122 runners (26 non-injured and 96 injured) over three years with a Bertec force plated treadmill and Qualisys 3D motion capture. The subjects were considered eligible if they self-identified themselves as runners or had running as a key component of their activity. …”
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Anti-vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Outpatient Treatment Patterns in Patients with Exudative Age-related Macular Degeneration from a Japanese Hospital Claims Database by Tomohiro Iida, Aya Narimatsu, Kenji Adachi, Edward CY Wang

“…Within a treatment period of at least 12 months, the frequency of anti-VEGF injections and AMD-related visits, and time intervals between AMD-related visits and anti-VEGF injections were captured for patients who had neither cataracts nor glaucoma. …”
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