Among Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Methods, Automated Gradient-Boosting Models Accurately Score Intraoral Plaque in Non-Standardized Images by Eric Coy, William Santo, Bonnie Jue, Helen Betts, Francisco Ramos-Gomez, Stuart A. Gansky

“…The objectives were to develop and test automated image selection and intraoral plaque-scoring (primary outcome measure in a prevention trial for preschoolers).Methods Evaluating 1650 plaque-disclosed primary teeth (teeth D, E, F, G) from 435 photographs from UCSF/UCLA clinical trials, data were cleaned, transformed, and modeled with statistical and machine learning (ML) algorithms; data visualizations utilized Jupyter Notebooks, Python, OpenCV, and Sci-kit Learn libraries, with Laplacian filter preprocessing. …”
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Development of an Online Scenario-Based Tool to Enable Research Participation and Public Engagement in Cystic Fibrosis Newborn Screening: Mixed Methods Study by Louise Moody, Samantha Clarke, Matt Compton, Rachael Hughson-Gill, Felicity Boardman, Corinna Clark, Pru Holder, James R Bonham, Jane Chudleigh

“…Stakeholders were recruited to take part in the development workshops via purposeful and snowball sampling methods to achieve a diversity of views across roles and organizations, with email invitations sent to representative individuals with lived, clinical, and academic experience related to CF and screening. …”
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A novel investigation of quaternion Julia and Mandelbrot sets using the viscosity iterative approach by Nabaraj Adhikari, Wutiphol Sintunavarat

“…This paper presents a novel technique for visualizing quaternion Julia and Mandelbrot sets of a quaternion-valued polynomial mapping T(q)=qn+mq+c, where q is a quaternion variable, n∈N∖{1}, and m,c are quaternion parameters, by employing the viscosity approximation method. …”
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Workspace Enveloping Area Analysis of 5-DOF Manipulator with Link Offset by Li Fei, Wang Jie, Zhou Zhiyuan, Jiang Wei, Liu Yawen, Li Hongjun

“…Based on the theoretical analysis and simulation of the two methods,the correctness of the kinematics positive solution and the Monte Carlo method is verified,and can visually see that there is a surface envelope in the workspace which is not included in the cavity. …”
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A novel in-situ rapid crack detection approach for reinforced concrete structures using improved active contour contraction image segmentation method by Boxu Lin, Qing Chun, Zhengdong Mi, Yu Yuan

“…Comprehensive crack information is essential but laborious to acquire. Computer-based visual detection methods, while promising, demand substantial computing resources and labeled training data, often unmet in real-world scenarios. …”
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Advanced Numerical Scheme for Solving Nonlinear Fractional Kuramoto–Sivashinsky Equations Using Caputo Operators by Muhammad Nadeem, Loredana Florentina Iambor

“…By using the homotopy perturbation method (HPM), we construct a homotopy with an embedding parameter to solve this recurrence relation. …”
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Determining the regional disaster risk analysis of buildings in Erzincan by Ayşe Başgöze, Arzu Güncü

“…This study aims to assess the seismic vulnerability of existing buildings in Erzincan using a rapid visual screening method and create a regional-scale inventory. …”
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Fa'ālῑyat istikhdām 'ard al-suwar fῑ tadrῑs al-mufradāt ladā tullāb qism al i'dād al-lughawῑ bῑ jāmi’ati al- rāyah by Muhammad Khanif, Muhammad Farhan Bahrun, Mukhlishoh

“…this study aims to assess the effectiveness of one visual teaching method, namely the use of picture presentation, among students in the Language Preparation Department at Al-Raya University. …”
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GIS-based longitudinal analysis of female education and domestic violence in India by Sadiya, Iffat, Hasan, Iqra

“…A mixed-method approach was employed, incorporating both quantitative and qualitative data. …”
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Safety risk assessment of weak tunnel construction with rich groundwater using an improved weighting cloud model by Danjie Sheng, Fei Tan, Yu Zhang, Haijun Zhu, Changqun Zuo, Jiahe Lv

“…Second, the improved combination weight method was applied to obtain the optimal weights of each indicator. …”
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Electric Motor Vibration Signal Classification Using Wigner–Ville Distribution for Fault Diagnosis by Jian-Da Wu, Wen-Jun Luo, Kai-Chao Yao

“…This study proposes a technique for visualizing sound signals using the Wigner–Ville distribution (WVD) method to extract vibration signal characteristics and artificial neural networks as the signal classification basis. …”
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Web of science-based literature review of peri-urban areas: a comparison between Europe and China by Zhen Shi, Manshu Liu, Guohang Tian, Krisztina Filepné Kovács

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Assessing compatibility of clayey soils using state variables for sustainable DMM in Saga Lowland, Kyushu, Japan by Kimihiro Mitsuse, Ryota Nakao, Mathiro José Sindete, Takenori Hino, Tri Harianto

“…Abstract The deep mixing method (DMM) has become a leading ground improvement technique in Japan over 60 years. …”
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Comprehensive study of stochastic soliton solutions in nonlinear models with application to the Davey Stewartson equations by Yasir A. Madani, Shabbir Hussain, Mohammed A. Almalahi, Blgys Muflh, Khaled A. Aldwoah, Mukhtar Y. Y. Abdalla

“…We employ the modified extended direct algebraic method for finding exact stochastic soliton solutions to the stochastic Davey–Stewartson equations. …”
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Diagnostic accuracy of intraoral mobile photography for oral health screening in children: a pilot study by Lia Mania, Ketevan Nanobashvili, Tinatin Manjavidze, Mamuka Benashvili, Ia Astamadze

“…This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of intraoral mobile photography in assessing caries experience intensity (decayed, missing/extracted, filled teeth [DMFT/deft]), simplified oral hygiene index, and modified gingival index. Methods This study included 358 children of 7–12 years of age. …”
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Novel Aerogel Structure of β-Eucryptite: Featuring Low Density, High Specific Surface Area, and Negative Thermal Expansion Coefficient by Haoren Ma, Sijia Liu, Jinyi Ren, Xiaochan Liu, Weiyi Zhang, Ying Zhu, Zhipeng Yuan, Jinxu Zhu, Xibin Yi

“…In this study, β-eucryptite was fabricated into an aerogel structure through the sol–gel process and supercritical drying method and using alumina sol as a cost-effective precursor. …”
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Assessing the direct and spillover protective effectiveness of Wolbachia-mediated introgression to combat dengueResearch in context by Jo Yi Chow, Somya Bansal, Borame S.L. Dickens, Pei Ma, Ary Hoffmann, Yoon Ling Cheong, Nazni Wasi Ahmad, Jue Tao Lim

“…This study estimates the spillover protective effectiveness (PE) of Wolbachia-mediated introgression on dengue. Methods: We used the synthetic control method (SCM) under assumption of partial interference to evaluate the direct and spillover PEs of Wolbachia-mediated introgression in a long-running operational trial of the intervention in Malaysia. …”
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Improvement Algorithm of ViBe in Moving Target Detection by YIN Fang, MENG Di, LI Ao

“…Aiming at the problem that Visual Background Extractor（ViBe） algorithm is not sensitive to light mutation and is mistakenly detected as foreground due to a large number of high-frequency disturbed objects in the background, an improved method is proposed based on the classical ViBe algorithm. …”
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CAD-ViT: Coordinate Attention-Enhanced Vision Transformer With Dilated Feature Fusion for Diabetic Retinopathy Staging by Ye Wang, Xiaofang Gou, Wenman Li

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VERTICAL VELOERGOMETRY AND TRANSOESOPHAGEAL STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY by A. B. Trivozhenko

“…Transoesophageal (TE) assess in stress echocardiography (EchoCG) enables us to overcome the principal limitation of the method – poor visualization quality in patients with “non-diagnostic windows”. …”
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