LHB-YOLOv8: An Optimized YOLOv8 Network for Complex Background Drop Stone Detection by Anjun Yu, Hongrui Fan, Yonghua Xiong, Longsheng Wei, Jinhua She

“…In addition we compare the LSKAttention mechanism with other attention mechanisms to verify the effectiveness of the improvements. Compared with the baseline model, our method improves the average accuracy mAP@0.5 by 4.8%. …”
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Cancer caregivers are primarily motivated by love and sense of duty by Avi Gupta, Cate Hurley, Rohan Mangal, Anjali Daniel, Latha Ganti

“…The number of participants who face overwhelming or high stress nearly quintupled from baseline, from 13% to 59.5%. This cross-sectional survey of US adults demonstrates that there are clear negative impacts on cancer caregivers on their physical, financial, social, and mental health. …”
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Efficacy of parenteral rabeprazole at acute ulcer gastroduodenal bleeding in patients with high risk of relapse after endoscopic hemostasis by S. G. Shapovalyants, S. A. Chernyakevich, A. I. Mikhalev, I. V. Babkova, G. N. Storozhuk, Ye. K. Mayat, P. L. Chernyakevich

“…To determine efficacy of ulcer bleeding treatment at high risk of relapse after endoscopic hemostasis: the baseline intensive therapy including antisecretory treatment including parenteral form of rabeloc (rabeprazole) was applied.Material and methods. …”
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Modelling the Impacts of the Changing Climate on Streamflow in Didesa Catchment, Abay Basin, Ethiopia by Amsalu Gudeta Awetu, Tadesse Tujuba Kenea

“…The Didesa catchment, which is the second largest subbasin of the Abay basin, significantly contributes to the Blue Nile’s outflow. …”
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Multigraph-based Deep Programming Ability Tracing Method for Students by Yue Wang, Guanwen Zhang

“…Finally, extensive results on two real world datasets, especially on the Atcoder_C dataset, ACC shows a 5.06% improvement compared to the second best result, verify that MDPAT conducts a new standard baseline in the programming ability tracing.…”
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The Burden of Cost in Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome: Predictions for the Next Decade by Christopher A. Jones, David G. Chapman, Peter Weimersheimer, Luca Fernandez, Oscar Alejandro Mesa, Christian Peters, Bart M. Vanaudenaerde, Mitchell C. Norotsky, Robin Vos

“…BOS is currently diagnosed as a 20% decline in the forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) from the best (baseline) post-transplantation value, and is a major cause of morbidity and mortality amongst lung and stem cell transplant patients. …”
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Influence of Community-Based Interventions on Routine Immunization Uptake among Children Under Five Years in Ntungamo District-Uganda by Topher, Byamukama, Margaret, Keraka, Eliphas, Gitonga

“…Structured and key informant interviews were used as data collection tools. Phase one provided baseline data before the intervention, the second phase was a community-based intervention, and the third phase was post-intervention evaluation. …”
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Various Techniques to Increase Keratinized Tissue for Implant Supported Overdentures: Retrospective Case Series by Ahmed Elkhaweldi, Carmen Rincon Soler, Rodrigo Cayarga, Takanori Suzuki, Zev Kaufman

“…The data set was extracted as deidentified information from the routine treatment of patients at the Ashman Department of Periodontology and Implant Dentistry at New York University College of Dentistry. …”
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Interval Colorectal Cancers following Guaiac Fecal Occult Blood Testing in the Ontario ColonCancerCheck Program by Lawrence Paszat, Rinku Sutradhar, Jill Tinmouth, Nancy Baxter, Linda Rabeneck

“…Interval cancers comprised 38.70% of CRC following the baseline screen and 50.86% following the subsequent screen. …”
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Assessment of Spontaneous Retinal Arterial Pulsations in Acute Central Retinal Vein Occlusions by Nicolas Arej, Vivien Vasseur, Elyse Jabbour, Anthony Manassero, Céline Giraud, Sébastien Bruneau, Yannick Le Mer, Martine Mauget-Faÿsse

“…BCVA tended to be higher in the presence of SRAP at the 6-month follow-up when adjusted to baseline. This study demonstrates that SRAPs are a frequent finding, easily detected by infrared fundus video recording, and associated with a younger age and lesser macular edema.…”
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A Comparison of Pitching Biomechanics and Sport Specialization in High School Pitchers by Tyler J. Hamer, Adam B. Rosen, Samuel J. Wilkins, Kristen F. Nicholson, Garrett S. Bullock, Brian A. Knarr

“…# Background The prevalence of sport specialization in high school athletes continues to rise, particularly among baseball players. Previous research has focused on the incidence of injury among specialized and non-specialized athletes but has yet to examine the level of sport specialization and pitching biomechanics…”
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New horizons for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis treatment through PosturalSpine^® D’Amanti Method by Francesca Campoli, Maria Chiara Parisi, Antonino Zoffoli, Donatella Di Corrado, Vincenzo Francavilla, Elvira Padua, Giuseppe Messina

“…The two groups are similar in the anthropometric characteristics, in baseline Risser index and in the Cobb angles average and no statistically significant differences were found between the two groups. …”
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A Local–Transit Percolation and Clustering-Based Method for Highway Segment Importance Ranking by Huizhe Lyu, Yang Li, Chenxu Liu, Zhonghao Li, Lin Xu, Wei Wang, Jun Chen

“…Subsequently, a local–transit percolation model is constructed to generate an initial ranking of segments based on the size of the second-largest clusters during the percolation phase transition. …”
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Clinical and Capillaroscopic Modifications of the Psoriatic Plaque during Therapy: Observations with Oral Acitretin by Giuseppe Stinco, Cinzia Buligan, Enzo Errichetti, Francesca Valent, Pasquale Patrone

“…In the present work we evaluated the effects of acitretin (0.8 mg/kg/day) on videocapillaroscopic alterations and the clinical response in 11 patients affected by plaque psoriasis at the baseline (T0) and after 4 (T1), 8 (T2), and 12 (T3) weeks. …”
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Evaluation of Clinical Effectiveness and Subjective Satisfaction of a New Toothbrush for Postsurgical Hygiene Care: A Randomized Split-Mouth Double-Blind Clinical Trial by Marco Montevecchi, Annalisa Moreschi, Maria Rosaria Gatto, Luigi Checchi, Vittorio Checchi

“…Following the first periodontal surgery, a test (TB1) or control (TB2) toothbrush was randomly assigned. After the second surgery, the remaining toothbrush was given. …”
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Multimodal Autism Spectrum Disorder Method Using GCN With Dual Transformers by Tianming Song, Zhe Ren, Jian Zhang, Yawei Qu, Yingying Cui, Zhengda Liang

“…The experimental results reveal that our approach significantly outperforms existing baseline and state-of-the-art models. The method achieves 79.47% of accuracy, 78.97% precision, 82.11% recall, and 0.85 of AUC metrics. …”
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VRU-YOLO: A Small Object Detection Algorithm for Vulnerable Road Users in Complex Scenes by Yunxiang Liu, Yuqing Shi

“…Experimental results on a custom-built multi-source VRU dataset show that the proposed model enhances precision, recall, mAP50, and mAP50:95 by 1.3%, 3.4%, 3.3%, and 1.8%, respectively, in comparison to the baseline model. Moreover, in a generalization test conducted on the remote sensing small target dataset VisDrone2019, the VRU-YOLO model achieved an mAP50 of 31%. …”
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Neuromuscular and structural tendon adaptations after 6 weeks of either concentric or eccentric exercise in individuals with non-insertional Achilles tendinopathy: protocol for a r... by Deborah Falla, Eduardo Martinez-Valdes, Ignacio Contreras-Hernandez

“…Additionally, we want to compare these variables at baseline between individuals with NIAT and asymptomatic controls.Methods and analysis A total of 26 individuals with chronic (>3 months) NIAT and 13 healthy controls will participate in the study. …”
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Improving sonographic visualisation of the appendix in a regional referral hospital by Shyr Chui, Carly Phinney, Karina Hansen, Deanna Danskin

“…Using the Model of Improvement framework and a team approach, we generated and trialled multiple plan-do-study-act interventions over a project term of 12 months. In the second half of the project term, we saw a sustained rise in appendix visualisation exceeding our original stretch goal of 75% visualisation which was sustained 6 months after the formal project end (p<0.001). …”
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Development and Feasibility of an Adolescent Dancer Screen by Kynaston Schultz, Kathleen Sun Worrall, Zoe Tawa, Joanna Binney, Jessica Boyle, Laurel Daniels Abbruzzese

“…Screening can be implemented to obtain baseline values, inform wellness recommendations, and establish relationships with medical professionals…”
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