Fruit Detection and Yield Mass Estimation from a UAV Based RGB Dense Cloud for an Apple Orchard by Marius Hobart, Michael Pflanz, Nikos Tsoulias, Cornelia Weltzien, Mia Kopetzky, Michael Schirrmann

“…The model underestimated the number of apples per block, which is reasonable, as leaves cover some of the fruits. However, a good relationship to the yield mass per block was found when the estimated apple volume per block was combined with a mean apple density per variety. …”
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Use of Imaging Modalities in Real Life: Impact on Visual Acuity Outcomes of Ranibizumab Treatment for Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration in Germany by Joachim Wachtlin, Georg Spital, Steffen Schmitz-Valckenberg, Sandra Liakopoulos, Jessica Vögeler, Bettina Müller, Focke Ziemssen, Ocean study group

“…Low number of visits as well as high number of treatment decisions without the use of OCT may contribute to undertreatment and poorer functional outcomes in patients undergoing ranibizumab treatment for nAMD in Germany. One potential reason for this could be that OCT was not covered by insurance for all patients during the study.…”
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Nouveaux éléments concernant l’amphithéâtre antique de Saintes (Charente-Maritime) : l’arène aux iiie et ive s. apr. J.-C. by Bastien Gissinger

“…Several indications made it possible to establish –with a reasonable degree of reliability– the date of construction of the arena in its final state, as it exists today, which totally obliterated evidence of the previous states as far as it was possible to judge within the trenches made. …”
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Modelling district heating demand: A synthetic dataset for two residential neighbourhoodsZenodo by Katia Ritosa, Ina De Jaeger, Dirk Saelens, Staf Roels

“…The extensive artificial datasets developed in this study capture the energy demands of two districts and, with reasonable constraints, emulate monitoring campaigns typically conducted on-site in inhabited houses. …”
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Borogon: Ethnonym and Ethnic History by Bair Z. Nanzatov, Vladimir V. Tishin

“…At the same time, it is impossible to claim whether for some reason this was the accepted name of a historical group with an awareness of such meaning of the word, or whether the name goes back to the personal name of some authority person reflected in folklore as an eponym. …”
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Status survey of uncrossmatched type O suspended RBCs in patients with emergency transfusion by PENG Zhuoyue, XU Shilan, YANG Xinxin, CHEN Chunxia, TAN Bin

“…The analysis included reasons for emergency blood transfusion, time of receiving transfusion application and blood distribution, total bilirubin, indirect bilirubin, lactate dehydrogenase before and after transfusion, blood group of patients, and disease outcome. …”
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A theory-based analysis of the implementation of online asynchronous telemedicine platforms into primary care practices using Normalisation Process Theory by Cara Leighton, Natalie Joseph-Williams, Annavittoria Porter, Adrian Edwards, Alison Cooper

“…Further research should explore patient groups or needs for which online platforms are most suitable, reasons why online platforms work better for different patients and how different patient groups can be supported to benefit from asynchronous telemedicine.…”
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Spatio-temporal Evolution of Land Surface Temperature and Its Response to LULC in the Urban Agglomeration of Central Yunnan by LIN Zhiqiang, PENG Shuangyun, SHI Shuangfu, HUANG Bangmei, MA Dongling, ZHU Ziyi, MA Xiaoliang, GONG Luping

“…[Conclusion] LULC is an important factor affecting the LST, and reasonable configuration of LULC structure can improve the thermal environment of urban agglomeration. …”
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Using CT imaging to identify sarcopenia as a risk factor for severe falls in older adults by Nadja Fries, Angeliki Kotti, Mischa Woisetschläger, Anna Spångeus

“…Body composition, including skeletal muscle quantity (SKM), adipose tissues, and BMD were assessed from abdominal CT-scans performed for any reason maximal 6 months before or after the fall. …”
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Protection of housing rights of Ukrainian citizens in conditions of armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine by Samoylenko G., Kosyrev D.

“…Results: it is proposed to divide the protection of housing rights according to the criterion of the nature of violations, since the choice of protection methods is directly determined by the nature of the violation and the ability of a certain protection method to satisfy the purpose of protection, in particular: caused by the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine or caused by other reasons; according to the criterion of territoriality: in the territory under the control of Ukraine, the territory of the direct conduct of hostilities or in the temporarily occupied territories; by subject: individuals, legal entities, the state of Ukraine in the form of state authorities or the Russian Federation, its bodies, including the armed forces of the Russian Federation. …”
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Enigma of the cholesterol paradox in acute myocardial infarction: lessons from an 8-year follow-up of all-cause mortality in an age-matched and sex-matched case–control study with... by Göran Nilsson, John Öhrvik, Jerzy Leppert

“…This LDL-C decrease was reasonably caused by ongoing AMI and reflects the difference in LDL-C levels between patients and controls.Conclusions In patients with AMI, lower TC and LDL-C levels independently predict higher ACM. …”
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Epilepsy Treatment Outcome and Its Predictors among Ambulatory Patients with Epilepsy at Mizan-Tepi University Teaching Hospital, Southwest Ethiopia by Ameha Zewudie, Yitagesu Mamo, Desalegn Feyissa, Mohammed Yimam, Gosaye Mekonen, Ahmed Abdela

“…Epilepsy is among the most common neurological disorders which is highly treatable with currently available antiepileptic drugs at a reasonable price. In Ethiopia, despite a number of studies revealed high prevalence of epilepsy, little is known on predictors of poorly controlled seizures. …”
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Development of a Peltier-based chilled-mirror hygrometer, SKYDEW, for tropospheric and lower-stratospheric water vapor measurements by T. Sugidachi, M. Fujiwara, K. Shimizu, S.-Y. Ogino, J. Suzuki, R. J. Dirksen

“…Data from several SKYDEW and CFH measurements predominantly agree within their respective uncertainties, although a systematic difference of <span class="inline-formula">∼</span> 0.5 K between SKYDEW and CFH was found in the stratosphere, the reason for which is unknown. SKYDEW shows good agreement with Aura MLS for profiles that are not affected by contamination.…”
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The Effects of Employee Relations, Workplace Well-Being, and Compensation on Turnover Intentions: The Mediation Role of Work Stress by Tine Yuliantini, Abdul Rahmat, Eri Marlapa, Fadhila Dhia Malihah, Endri

“…Background: An employee who works at a company may intend to resign from his job for various reasons. Employee Turnover Intention (TI) occurs because it is related to career commitment and the expected utility of the current job in achieving valuable career outcomes. …”
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Kombinasi Feature Selection Fisher Score dan Principal Component Analysis (PCA) untuk Klasifikasi Cervix Dysplasia by Krisan Aprian Widagdo, Kusworo Adi, Rahmat Gernowo

“…In term of computational time, this combination needed a reasonable time. In this work, it was proved that applying feature selection and feature extraction could improve performance classification with a promising time. …”
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Comparison of anterior versus posterior approach for the treatment of cervical compressive myelopathy due to ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament by Amr A. A Gaber, Mohamad Alaa El-Din Habib, Mohamed AR AbdelFatah, Mostafa K. Ghobashy

“…Cervical spondylotic myelopathy is the primary reason for spinal cord impairment in older individuals. …”
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The science and politics of ‘knowledge’ in safe sport research by Benjamin Carr

“…The scientific curiosity of their research is reasonably then called into question, when it is conducted with an objective of achieving a certain result. …”
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Isotope analysis of birds’ eye lens provides early-life information by Emi A. Hasegawa, Jun Matsubayashi, Ichiro Tayasu, Tatsuhiko Goto, Haruka Inoue, Axel G. Rossberg, Chikage Yoshimizu, Masaru Hasegawa, Takumi Akasaka

“…This analysis has mostly been confined to fish for practical reasons and remains to be resolved for application to other animals. …”
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Differentiation Potential of Early- and Late-Passage Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells Cultured under Hypoxia and Normoxia by Ashley G. Zhao, Kiran Shah, Julien Freitag, Brett Cromer, Huseyin Sumer

“…The necessity to scale up the production of cells in vitro under normoxia may affect important attributes of MSCs. For these reasons, our study investigated the effects of normoxic and hypoxic culture condition on early- and late-passage adipose-derived MSCs. …”
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A land-cover-assisted super-resolution model for retrospective reconstruction of MODIS-like NDVI data across the continental United States by blending Landcover300m and GIMMS NDVI3... by Zhicheng Zhang, Zhenhua Xiong, Xuewen Zhou, Kun Xiao, Wei Wu, Qinchuan Xin

“…The model exhibits reasonable predictive capabilities in reconstructing retrospective data when assessed using Landsat data prior to 2000. …”
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