Inspecting Instrument-Based Variability: Effects of Enriching Willingness to Communicate Questionnaire - A Mixed Methods Approach by روح اله ملکی, احمد محسنی, علی مالمیر

“…<p>The purpose of this cross-sectional mixed methods sequential explanatory study was to find out the effects of enriching McCroskey's (1992) Willingness to Communicate (WTC) questionnaire using oral-visual role-play on EFL responses from comparing the responses of 117 pre-intermediate EFL learners to this instrument before and after the enriching act. …”
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StatFaRmer: cultivating insights with an advanced R shiny dashboard for digital phenotyping data analysis by Daniil S. Ulyanov, Alana A. Ulyanova, Dmitry Y. Litvinov, Alina A. Kocheshkova, Alexandra Yu. Kroupina, Nadejda M. Syedina, Nadejda M. Syedina, Viktoria S. Voronezhskaya, Viktoria S. Voronezhskaya, Andrey V. Vasilyev, Andrey V. Vasilyev, Gennady I. Karlov, Mikhail G. Divashuk

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Novel feature-based method for multi-modal biomedical image registration compared to intensity-based technique by Mohammad Javad Shojaei, Lichen Yang, Kazem Shojaei, Jeerapat Doungchawee, Richard W. Vachet

“…We present a novel feature-based approach for multimodal image registration, alongside traditional intensity-based methods. Our method, inspired by SPP-net architecture, employs multi-level feature extraction for robust image alignment. …”
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Risk Assessment Method and Application of Urban River Ecological Governance Project Based on Cloud Model Improvement by JunKe Xu, Xia Zhang

“…According to the evaluation results, the overall risk level of the project was medium, which is consistent with the risk level of the Jinghe River ecological management project at the current stage. (2) The limitation of the subjective qualitative concept caused by the traditional fuzzy comprehensive evaluation was fully considered in the improved method, and the application of the cloud-model based improved method in risk evaluation of the urban river ecological management project significantly improved the reliability and visualization of the evaluation results. …”
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Retail technology use in sustainability practices: A mixed-methods analysis of implementation approaches and future directions by Noptanit Chotisarn, Thadathibesra Phuthong

“…This study investigated the evolution and effectiveness of retail technology in sustainability practices through a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of 52 key publications (2006–2024). A mixed-methods approach was employed by combining bibliometric analysis with the theory-context-characteristics-methods framework, utilizing the SPAR-4-SLR protocol and VOSviewer software for network visualization and thematic clustering. …”
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Study on the Compressive Strength Predicting of Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete Based on an Interpretable Deep Learning Method by Huiming Wang, Jie Lin, Shengpin Guo

“…Additionally, the SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) interpretability method is employed to analyze and interpret the prediction outcomes. …”
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Evaluation of seasonal variation of groundwater quality by using the correlation matrices method in Koppal Taluk, Karnataka, India by Ramesh Basanagouda, Avinash Pandurang, Maradi Nayaka

“…The method used was ArcGIS 10.8, which visualizes spatial distribution for data quality control, identification of erroneous data, and classification of different data types. …”
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Enhancing Hybrid Classification for Plant Diseases With Deep Feature Selection Based on Analytical Entropy and Statistical Method by Phanthawat Phiphatkamtorn, Sutasinee Jitanan

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From rectangle to parallelogram: an area-weighted method to make time-space diagrams incorporate traffic waves by Ning Wang, Xingye Wang, Hai Yan, Zhengbing He

“…However, it is not realistic to immediately change the fundamental method of TS diagram construction that has been well embedded in various systems. …”
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Using a refracto-densimetric method for control of secon­dary oil-refining processes: Hydrotreating and hydrocracking by V.F. Nikolaev, R.K. Nurgaliev, N.D. Zalaltdinova, I.O. Vyachkileva, O.O. Kolonenkova, R.B. Sultanova

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Mixed Reality in Therapeutic Education for Diabetes: Grayscale and Color Passthrough Compared with Augmented Reality and Traditional Methods by Marcelo Calle, Francisco Abad, M.-Carmen Juan

“…The results indicate that all four learning methods positively influenced patient increase in knowledge (post–pre). …”
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A method for pre-determining edges in 3D point clouds using contour detectors in images by D. G. Filipov, S. L. Katsarska-Filipova, P. L. Raeva

“…The article proposes a method for isolating the part of the point cloud representing the structural elements of the object. …”
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Coordinated mining technology based on GIS reservoir area model and probability integral method under reservoirs by Feng Zhang, Yang Li, Shoubin Hu, Jiuxin Zhang, Zhengyi Ti, Haidong Wang

“…Abstract In order to solve the tough problem of safety and reasonable exploration of coal resources under the reservoir, through developing GIS reservoir area model and the surface mining subsidence visualization system by probability integral method, it is expected to achieve the precise calculation of the working face underwater mining area, it is also proposed that optimal criterion of coordinating mining for the selection of minimum reservoir water covering area of the working face under the reservoir, the safety and reasonable working order of working face is determined. …”
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Assessment of two novel methods for detecting non-cavitated, smooth surface enamel lesions: an in vitro study by Joel M. White, Pragati Nahar, Puja Kukreti, Jonathan Mangum, Ann Solterbeck, Rachel Jensen, Leslie Plack, Ram Vaderhobli, Larry Jenson

“…Abstract Background The objective of this study was to compare two new non-cavitated caries lesion detector methods, LumiCare (LC) and BlueCheck (BC), to each other and to the traditional visual/tactile method (TM) of non-cavitated enamel caries lesion detection on smooth surface lesions. …”
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Generalized Hierarchical Co-Saliency Learning for Label-Efficient Tracking by Jie Zhao, Ying Gao, Chunjuan Bo, Dong Wang

“…Since our method enables the model to explore valuable visual information from unlabeled frames, and calculate co-salient attention maps based on multiple frames, our weakly supervised methods can obtain competitive performance compared to fully supervised baseline trackers, using only 3.33% of manual annotations. …”
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A real-time 3D modeling method for buildings driven by IMU and RGB-D fusion by Yuhan Gao, Chao Dang, Jun Zhu, Yakun Xie, Ya Hu, Chunli Yan, Kun Yi, Chuan Yi, Xue Li

“…However, 3D reconstruction faces challenges such as redundant data acquisition, inaccurate pose estimation, and insufficient reconstruction precision, making it difficult to support rapid visualization and measurement analysis. Therefore, this paper proposes an innovative real-time 3D modeling method for buildings driven by IMU and RGB-D fusion. …”
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Validity and reliability of a smartphone-based photographic method for detection of dental caries in adults for use in teledentistry by Victor F. Lamas-Lara, Victor F. Lamas-Lara, Manuel A. Mattos-Vela, Teresa A. Evaristo-Chiyong, Maria Eugenia Guerrero, Juan F. Jiménez-Yano, Dora N. Gómez-Meza

“…In this sense, the study aimed to validate a smartphone-based remote photographic method for diagnosing dental caries in adults attending a polyclinic in Lima, Peru.MethodsA cross-sectional, descriptive research was conducted; 87 patients were selected, and 2020 teeth were evaluated. …”
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STUDY OF GROUND PORK THAWING DYNAMICS USING MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING by Vladimir M. Stefanovskiy, Evgeny V. Morozov, Vyacheslav M. Bоuznik

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COMPARISON OF DATASET OVERSAMPLING ALGORITHMS AND THEIR APPLICABILITY TO THE CATEGORIZATION PROBLEM by Denys Teslenko, Anna Sorokina, Artem Khovrat, Nural Huliiev, Valentyna Kyriy

“…For clarity, we considered datasets with varying degrees of imbalance (the number of instances of the minority class was equal to 15, 30, 45, and 60% of the number of samples of the majority class). The following methods are used: analytical and inductive methods for determining the necessary set of experiments and building hypotheses regarding their results, experimental and graphic methods for obtaining a visual comparative characteristic of the selected algorithms. …”
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Integrating Historical Learning and Multi-View Attention with Hierarchical Feature Fusion for Robotic Manipulation by Gaoxiong Lu, Zeyu Yan, Jianing Luo, Wei Li

“…Furthermore, inspired by human visual system which processes both global context and local texture details, we have devised a method that merges semantic and texture features, aiding robots in understanding the task and enhancing their capability to handle fine-grained tasks. …”
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