Noninvasive imaging biomarker reveals invisible microscopic variation in acute ischaemic stroke (≤ 24 h): a multicentre retrospective study by Kui Sun, Rongchao Shi, Xinxin Yu, Ying Wang, Wei Zhang, Xiaoxia Yang, Mei Zhang, Jian Wang, Shu Jiang, Haiou Li, Bing Kang, Tong Li, Shuying Zhao, Yu Ai, Jianfeng Qiu, Haiyan Wang, Ximing Wang

“…Patients in five institutions (n = 592) were combined to generate training and internal validation sets, remaining in three institutions as external validation sets (n = 204, 53 and 273). …”
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FL-QNNs: Memory Efficient and Privacy Preserving Framework for Peripheral Blood Cell Classification by Meenakshi Aggarwal, Vikas Khullar, Nitin Goyal, Bhavani Sankar Panda, Hardik Doshi, Nafeesh Ahmad, Vivek Bhardwaj, Gaurav Sharma

“…Further FL-QNNs approach is used with these baseline models and achieved 98-99% accuracy and while optimizing memory, preserving data and resources. This makes the technique exceptionally appropriate for implementation in real-world, privacy-sensitive, and resource-limited healthcare settings. …”
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Rapid diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis using machine-learning-assisted surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy of human vaginal fluids by Xin-Ru Wen, Jia-Wei Tang, Jie Chen, Hui-Min Chen, Muhammad Usman, Quan Yuan, Yu-Rong Tang, Yu-Dong Zhang, Hui-Jin Chen, Liang Wang

“…Vaginal fluid samples were classified as BV positive or BV negative using the BVBlue Test and clinical microscopy, followed by SERS spectral acquisition to construct the data set. Preliminary SERS spectral analysis revealed notable disparities in characteristic peak features. …”
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Validation of a handheld electrocardiogram 6 lead recorder to obtain chest lead equivalents: An Africa Heart Rhythm Association study by Thomas A. Slater, PhD, Redemptar Kimeu, MD, Mohamed Jeilan, MD, Kamilu M. Karaye, PhD, Reuben K. Mutagaywa, PhD, Isiaka Alfa, BMBCh, Vincent Y. Shidali, MBBS, Emmanuel Gushi, MBBS, Julius C. Mwita, MD, Omphemetse Mocheko, RN, Lamyaa Allam, PhD, Okechukwu S. Ogah, PhD, Bashir G. Ahmad, MBBS, Ashley Chin, MPhil, Razeen Gopal, MD, Philip Durkin, BSc, Robert Bowes, BSc, Lucy Leese, BSc, Marcus Ngantcha, MSc, Berthold Stegemann, PhD, Muzahir H. Tayebjee, MD

“…This could improve accessibility of high-quality ECG recording and interpretation in rural, low-income settings.…”
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Efficacy, Kinetics, and Mechanism of Tetracycline Degradation in Water by O₃/PMS/FeMoBC Process by Xuemei Li, Qingpo Li, Xinglin Chen, Bojiao Yan, Shengnan Li, Huan Deng, Hai Lu

“…The experiments showed that, for the O₃/PMS/FeMoBC process, the optimum conditions were obtained at pH 6.8 ± 0.1, an initial concentration of TC of 0.03 mM, an FeMoBC dosage set at 200 mg/L, a gaseous O₃ concentration set at 3.6 mg/L, and a PMS concentration set at 30 μM. …”
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An Experimental Approach to the Measurement of Wall Pressure Generated by an Underwater Spark-Generated Bubble by a Hopkinson Bar by Xiongliang Yao, Xiongwei Cui, Kai Guo, Yingyu Chen

“…The wall pressure loading due to the underwater spark-generated bubble, having served as an efficient technique to study the underwater explosion, has drawn much attention. …”
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Performance measurement in data envelopment analysis: a BCC-based approach by Azam Pourhabib Yekta, Mahnaz Maghbouli

“…Purpose: Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a technique used to assess performance and measure the relative efficiency of Decision Making Units (DMUs) through linear programming. …”
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Contextual Peano Scan and Fast Image Segmentation Using Hidden and Evidential Markov Chains by Clément Fernandes, Wojciech Pieczynski

“…Transforming bi-dimensional sets of image pixels into mono-dimensional sequences with a Peano scan (PS) is an established technique enabling the use of hidden Markov chains (HMCs) for unsupervised image segmentation. …”
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Influencia de la intervención humana en procesos modernos de manufactura: un enfoque de simulación de procesos centrado en el factor humano by Carmen Elena Madriz, Magaly Sánchez, Olga Sánchez, Juan B. Hernández-Granados

“…Este caso de estudio se basa en un proceso automatizado típico en una empresa metalmecánica.  Error del set-ut, especificación y medidas tienen una probabilidad de ocurrencia de 0.1, 0.05 y 0.2 respectivamente. …”
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Arabic web pages clustering and annotation using semantic class features by Hanan M. Alghamdi, Ali Selamat, Nor Shahriza Abdul Karim

“…Therefore, in this paper, we aim to retrieve machine-understandable data with the help of a Web content mining technique to detect covert knowledge within these data. …”
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Advanced Design of Naval Ship Propulsion Systems Utilizing Battery-Diesel Generator Hybrid Electric Propulsion Systems by Youngnam Park, Heemoon Kim

“…The power management control technique of the proposed propulsion system sets the operating modes (depending on the specific fuel oil consumption of the generators) to minimize fuel consumption based on the operating load. …”
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Mental toughness and self-confidence of volleyball extracurricular participants: a study of gender differences by amri hartanto, Aditya Tito Aji Darmawan, Pamuji Sukoco, Agus Susworo Dwi Marhaendro, Rafidhiya Mohammad

“…The instrument used is a questionnaire. Data analysis technique using ANOVA test. The level of statistical significance was set at p-value <0.05. …”
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Behavioural Aspects of Customers’ Preference for Participation Banks: Evidence with Turkish Data by Tolga Ergün, Hüseyin Dağlı

“…In line with the maximum likelihood calculation technique due to normal distribution of collected data, the question of whether or not the measurement model is compatible with the data set has been tested using methods of Exploratory Factor Analysis and Confirmatory Factor Analysis. …”
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Advanced bearing fault detection at varying rotational speeds using PSO-optimized SVM and CDET feature selection by Hongxu Chai, Xiaoshi Ma, Feng Zhu, Yandong Hu

“…Critically, we present an enhanced distance compensation evaluation technique (CDET) for feature selection, in which the threshold parameter is automatically optimized using particle swarm optimization (PSO) rather than being set arbitrarily. …”
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Artificial Intelligence-Driven Multimodal Route Planning: Addressing Dynamic Unavailability and Disruptions by Surya Prakash, Utkal Mehta, Bibhya Sharma

“…While LSTM is a well-established technique for sequence prediction, our approach uniquely leverages Monte Carlo simulations to generate a diverse and comprehensive training dataset that captures the stochastic nature of transport networks. …”
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Observational study of administering intranasal steroid sprays by healthcare workers by Corine Rollema, Tjalling de Vries, Marielle de Boer, Eric van Roon

“…Since the majority of patients does not administer these sprays correctly, we investigated whether healthcare workers know how to administer INCS.Settings We studied participants at their working place: pharmacy, outpatient clinic or general practitioner centre for emergencies.Participants Pharmacist assistants, general practitioners, paediatricians and ear nose throat doctors.Design Observational study. …”
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Evolution of Erosion and Deposition Induced by an Impinging Jet to Manage Sediment by P. Buffon, W. S. J. Uijttewaal, D. Valero, M. J. Franca

“…Our goal is to characterize and quantify key processes of an idealized and reduced physical model of water injection dredging, applicable as a sediment management technique. Three sets of experiments were conducted, varying the following parameters: (a) jet discharge; (b) jet angle; (c) bed angle. …”
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Cancer Discrimination Using Fourier Transform Near-Infrared Spectroscopy with Chemometric Models by Hui Chen, Zan Lin, Chao Tan

“…Near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy technique offers many potential advantages as tool for biomedical analysis since it enables the subtle biochemical signatures related to pathology to be detected and extracted. …”
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Modelling and Prediction of Particulate Matter, NOx, and Performance of a Diesel Vehicle Engine under Rare Data Using Relevance Vector Machine by Ka In Wong, Pak Kin Wong, Chun Shun Cheung

“…With RVM, only a few experimental data sets can train the model due to the property of global optimal solution. …”
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Assessing the resilience of coastal cities with emphasis on the role of tourism Case study: West coastal cities of Mazandaran province by zinat ranjbar, pari Shokri Firoozjah, gholamreza janbaz ghobadi

“…Also, according to the results of the Idas technique, out of five cities studied, three cities are in weak groups, ie "low resilience status and non-resilience". …”
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