Evaluation of liver fibrosis in HCV-infected patients using two-dimensional shear-wave elastography (2D-SWE) before and after antiviral treatment by Inglot Marcin, Pozowski Patryk, Misiak Paula, Fleischer-Stępniewska Katarzyna, Lewandowski Łukasz, Bilski Mateusz, Zaleska-Dorobisz Urszula

“…Among non-invasive options, one of the most recent methods is two-dimensional shearwave elastography, which allows real-time visualization of liver stiffness. …”
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Feasiblity Study on the Longitudinal Section of the Fetal Esophagus by Prenatal Ultrasound between 21 and 23 Gestational Weeks by Xiulan Chen, Yongsheng Zhu, Ning Zhou, Li Ma, Mingfen Xu, Siyao Zhong

“…Methods: A detailed prenatal anatomic survey was performed, followed by dedicated esophageal imaging. …”
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Cold-Plasma Ablation Use in Endoscopic Endonasal Dacryocystorhinostomy by G. S. Shkol'nik, S. F. Shkol'nik, V. N. Krasnozhen, N. P. Pashtaev

“…The aim is to evaluate efficacy of the method of cold-plasma ablation when performing endonasal of dacryocystorhinostomy. …”
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The shielding effect of SH wave propagation in porous unidirectional infinite enclosed structure by Zhiyu Fan, Hui Qi, Runjie Yang, Hao Wu, Yufeng Zhang, Jing Guo

“…This paper develops an accurate analytical method based on the wave function expansion for analyzing wave shielding in porous structures. …”
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Cluster analysis of social determinants of health and HIV/AIDS knowledge among Peruvian youths using Kohonen’s self-organized maps: a data-exploration study based on a Demographic... by Alejandro Aybar-Flores, Alvaro Talavera, Elizabeth Espinoza-Portilla

“…An SOM network model for clustering individuals with similar attributes and clustering prototype vectors based on the agglomerative hierarchical clustering (AHC) method and their visualization on an SOM was applied to the study sample. …”
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IMPORTANCE OF CAD/CAM TECHNOLOGIES IN ECTOPROSTHETICS OF THE MAXILLOFACIAL AREA (LITERATURE REVIEW) by N. I. Tcherezova

“…The presence of one  or another defect in the maxillofacial region forms a number of  psychological problems in the patient, causing a feeling of shame from his  inferior appearance. Materials and methods. The literature analysis of the applied methods of ectoprosthetics in the maxillofacial region was carried out. …”
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Validation of mixed reality in planning orbital reconstruction with patient-specific implants by K. Dubron, E. Shaheen, R. Jacobs, C. Politis, R. Willaert

“…Abstract This study aims to evaluate and compare the usability and performance of mixed reality (MR) technology versus conventional methods for preoperative planning of patient-specific reconstruction plates for orbital fractures. …”
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‘Stratigraphically Homogeneous Zones’: automated construction and restitution procedure for engineering geology use by A. D’Agostino, A. Porchia, G. Tortorici, F. Pavano, G. Cavuoto, M. Moscatelli, G. Ortolano, S. Catalano

“…This study presents an automated method for the construction and spatialization of stratigraphic columns, facilitating the creation of maps of Stratigraphically Homogeneous Zones (SHZ). …”
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Block-Wise Domain Adaptation for Workload Prediction from fNIRS Data by Jiyang Wang, Ayse Altay, Leanne Hirshfield, Senem Velipasalar

“…Predicting cognitive workload from fNIRS data has taken on a diffuse set of methods. To be applicable in real-world settings, models are needed, which can perform well across different sessions as well as different subjects. …”
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DETERMINATION OF THE BASIC PARAMETERS OF SENSOR DEVICES FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PSYCHONEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF MULTITOUCH TECHNOLOGY by Karina Selivanova, Oleg Avrunin, Nikita Kazimirov

“…The methods of computer modeling and visualization of dynamic tests using the multi-platform programming language Python were used. …”
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AlignFusionNet: Efficient Cross-Modal Alignment and Fusion for 3D Semantic Occupancy Prediction by Ziyi Xu, Legan Qi, Hongzhou Du, Jiaqi Yang, Zhenglin Chen

“…Compared to the previous state-of-the-art method, OccGen, mIoU is improved by 5.9%. Further qualitative visualization analysis shows that the proposed method achieves higher representation accuracy for small objects.…”
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Using UMAP for Partially Synthetic Healthcare Tabular Data Generation and Validation by Carla Lázaro, Cecilio Angulo

“…This work makes a dual contribution by not only proposing an innovative method for synthetic data generation, but also studying and establishing a formal framework to understand and solve synthetic data generation and imputation problems in sensor-driven environments.…”
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Research on Pantograph Defect Classification Based on Vibration Signals by Vytautas Gargasas, Kęstas Rimkus, Mindaugas Alekna, Andrius Knyš, Mindaugas Žilys, Algimantas Valinevičius

“…Many scientific publications describe ideas for pantograph visualization and automated condition monitoring. These ideas are based on analyzing mechanical vibrations generated by the pantograph, acoustic vibration signal analysis, 3D geometric data of the pantograph surface captured by laser scanning, and combinations of several methods. …”
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Insecticide resistance in dengue vectors from hotspots in Selangor, Malaysia. by Rosilawati Rasli, Yoon Ling Cheong, M Khairuddin Che Ibrahim, Siti Futri Farahininajua Fikri, Rusydi Najmuddin Norzali, Nur Ayuni Nazarudin, Nur Fadillah Hamdan, Khairul Asuad Muhamed, Afiq Ahnaf Hafisool, Ruziyatul Aznieda Azmi, Harith Aswad Ismail, Roziah Ali, Nurulhusna Ab Hamid, Mohd Zainuldin Taib, Topek Omar, Nazni Wasi Ahmad, Han Lim Lee

“…<h4>Background</h4>In Malaysia, dengue remains a top priority disease and usage of insecticides is the main method for dengue vector control. Limited baseline insecticide resistance data in dengue hotspots has prompted us to conduct this study. …”
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A multidisciplinary evaluation of robotic-assisted surgery effectiveness and its implications for healthcare education and practice - review of literature by Justyna Korus, Natalia Hopej, Aleksandra Grzegorczyk, Nicol Dardzińska, Marta Dziedziak

“…All of the above should be taken into account when qualifying the patient for the method of performing the surgery and considering the possible benefits that he or she is able to achieve. …”
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Index approach to the assessment of the formation of human capital of the enterprise by M. B. Flek, E. A. Ugnich

“…Purpose: of the article is to develop a methodology for assessing the formation of an enterprise human capital, which is based on the calculation of indices of formal and informal learning of its employees.Methods: this article is based on the key provisions of the theory of human capital. …”
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Analysis of Persian News Agencies on Instagram, A Words Co-occurrence Graph-based Approach by Mohammad Heydari, Babak Teimourpour

“…To the author's knowledge, this method has not been employed in the Persian language before on Instagram social network. …”
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LDAViewer: An Automatic Language-Agnostic System for Discovering State-of-the-Art Topics in Research Using Topic Modeling, Bidirectional Encoder Representations From Transformers,... by Timothy Dillan, Dhomas Hatta Fudholi

“…Advancements in knowledge are pivotal to academic progress, necessitating efficient methods for discovering the state-of-the-art in various fields. …”
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Detection of Shape Manufacturing Defects of Flat Fan-Pattern Nozzle Orifices Using Elliptic Fourier Descriptors by Bahadır Sayıncı

“…and shapes shape factor, elongation and roundness of the nozzle orifices were obtained using an image processing method. The next process, to evaluate the nozzles’ orifice shape using elliptic Fourier analysis EFA , the progresses of generating the orifice’s contour data, derivation of EFDs, principal component analysis PCA of EFDs and visualization of shape variations estimated by the principal component scores PCs were followed respectively. …”
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SUBDISTRICT CLUSTERING IN WEST JAVA PROVINCE BASED ON DISEASE INCIDENCE OF JKN PARTICIPANTS PRIMARY SERVICES by Husnun Nashir, Anang Kurnia, Anwar Fitrianto

“…Based on the evaluation results, the optimal method is hierarchical clustering with complete linkage. …”
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