Women's empowerment and contraceptive use: the role of independent versus couples' decision-making, from a lower middle income country perspective. by Waqas Hameed, Syed Khurram Azmat, Moazzam Ali, Muhammad Ishaque Sheikh, Ghazunfer Abbas, Marleen Temmerman, Bilal Iqbal Avan

“…Effort needs to be made to educate women and their husbands equally, with particular focus on highly effective contraceptive methods.…”
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Hierarchical Feature Fusion and Enhanced Attention Mechanism for Robust GAN-Generated Image Detection by Weinan Zhang, Sanshuai Cui, Qi Zhang, Biwei Chen, Hui Zeng, Qi Zhong

“…As a result, the generated fake images are becoming more difficult to visually distinguish from real ones. Existing deepfake detection methods primarily rely on training models with specific datasets. …”
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Approaches to setting weights in composite indicators of sports development: the case of the Football Development Index by I. V. Solntsev, N. A. Osokin

“…Results: The authors were able to calculate five different variations of the FDI using the different weighting methods. The calculations concluded that the derived weight values significantly varied depending on the adopted weighting approaches even though the three indicator groups comprising the overall FDI were given equal importance. …”
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Comparative effectiveness of local treatment of afthous stomatitis by Yu. A. Makedonova, E. S. Aleksandrina, S. A. Vargina, T. A. Sinenko

“…Today, dentists face a diffcult task: in conditions of unfavorable environmental conditions, increased stress, high allergization of the body, tolerance of microorganisms to antibiotic therapy, to fnd a treatment method that will stop the inflammatory process, accompanied by an abundance of opportunistic microflora, improve the quality of life of the patient and reduce the cost of treatment of patients with diseases of the oral mucosa.Aim. of the study: to conduct a comparative analysis of the effectiveness of the treatment of the method of ozone therapy and the drug "Kolegel" relative to the generally accepted methods of treatment of patients with aphthous stomatitis.Materials and methods. …”
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Interpretability Study of Gradient Information in Individual Travel Prediction by Ziheng Su, Pengfei Zhang, Xiaohui Song, Yifan Li

“…To address the shortcomings of existing XAI methods in analyzing the dynamic features of historical travel sequences, this paper introduces an alternative interpretability method based on gradient information, overcoming the interpretability bottleneck of travel prediction models. …”
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A re-analysis of the Cochrane Library data: the dangers of unobserved heterogeneity in meta-analyses. by Evangelos Kontopantelis, David A Springate, David Reeves

“…<h4>Background</h4>Heterogeneity has a key role in meta-analysis methods and can greatly affect conclusions. However, true levels of heterogeneity are unknown and often researchers assume homogeneity. …”
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Early termination of a judge's powers as a measure of legal responsibility: problems of legal regulation and law enforcement by I. V. Glazunova, A. V. Nikitina

“…The specific scientific methods are applied: the formal legal method, the methods of legal modelling and the methods of forecasting.Main results and field of application. …”
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Enhancing VINS with Smart Feature Grading: Overcoming Cautious and Excessive Removal of Dynamic Features for Robust Urban Localization by M. Adham, M. Adham, W. Chen, A. Mansour, A. Mansour, M. Mahmoud, M. Mahmoud, Y. Li

“…To address these issues, we propose a novel VINS method that combines visual and inertial information with a smart feature grading module to overcome cautious and excessive dynamic feature removal, effectively handling the complexities of dominant and ambiguous dynamic objects beyond the limitations of traditional DL and vision-based methods. …”
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Bibliometric analysis of hydrogels in bone regeneration: Research trends and future perspectives by Alimujiang Abudourousuli, Aikebaierjiang Aisaiti, Kan Jiang, Shalayiding Aierxiding, Kutiluke Shoukeer, Ran Han, Aikeremujiang Muheremu

“…Objective: To analyze the research status and development prospects of hydrogels in the field of bone regeneration based on bibliometric methods. Methods: In the Web of Science Core Collection database, a total of 1382 representative articles related to the application of hydrogels in bone regeneration were selected as of the end of 2023. …”
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A theory of measuring natural selection and genetic monitoring by A. I. Yuriev

“…The first method, based on the FST-statistics, employs the dependence of genetic diversity of a species on the value of gene flow between subpopulations of the species, derived from the assumption that all the mutations are close to selective neutrality, and subpopulations effect each other equally. …”
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Enhanced detection of malaria infected red blood cells through phase driven classification by Charlotte Kyeremah, Aditya S. Paul, Daniel Haehn, Manoj T. Duraisingh, Chandra S. Yelleswarapu

“…Additionally, our features-based approach outperforms feature-specific methods that rely on individual attributes. The parasitemia detection rate improved from 48% (feature-specific method) to 61% (phase-based features method) on the same sample set, demonstrating enhanced detection accuracy. …”
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Multi-marker Similarity Enables Reduced-Reference and Interpretable Image Quality Assessment in Optical Microscopy by Elena Corbetta, Thomas Bocklitz

“…However, current methods often show poor agreement with visual perception and lead to the generation of various full-reference metrics tailored to specific applications. …”
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Copy-move forgery detection using binary discriminant features by Priya Mariam Raju, Madhu S. Nair

“…The method is an integration of the conventional block-based and keypoint based methods. …”
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Toward unsupervised building extraction from very high-resolution remote sensing images using SAM and CLIP by Chenxiao Zhang, Peng Yue

“…Next, we present a hybrid feature fusion network that combines CLIP patch tokens with task-specific features, achieving high data adaptability while maintaining text-related visual features. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our proposed method achieves F1 scores of 56.00% and 62.53% on the Manhattan and WHU Building datasets, respectively, outperforming or matching supervised methods that require 700 training samples. …”
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Comparative analysis of the organelle genomes of seven Rosa species (Rosaceae): insights into structural variation and phylogenetic position by Rongxiang Zhang, Shuwen Liu, Ying Liu, Pei Wei, Niyan Xiang, Yuemei Zhao, Xiaoman Gao, Xiaoman Gao, Yebing Yin, Lijun Qin, Tao Yuan, Tao Yuan

“…At present, the complete mitochondrial genome of Rosa spp. is still rarely reported, and studies on the mitochondrial genome of Rosa spp. are limited.MethodsIn this study, the R. laevigata mitochondrial genome was sequenced using both Pacbio Sequel II and DNB-SEQ-T7 platforms. …”
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Two-stage ship detection at long distances based on deep learning and slicing technique. by Yanfeng Gong, Zihao Chen, Jiawan Tan, Chaozhong Yin, Wen Deng

“…Ship detection over long distances is crucial for the visual perception of intelligent ships. Since traditional image processing-based methods are not robust, deep learning-based image recognition methods can automatically obtain the features of small ships. …”
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PERAMALAN DERET WAKTU MENGGUNAKAN MODEL FUNGSI BASIS RADIAL (RBF) DAN AUTO REGRESSIVE INTEGRATED MOVING AVERAGE (ARIMA) by DT Wiyanti, R Pulungan

“…The results of ARIMA-RBF forecasting method will be compared with ARIMA method and RBF method individually. …”
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Participatory Drawing Methodology for Light in Architecture: Drawing Experienced Space by Ulrika Wänström Lindh

“…Visual techniques can capture information about visual experiences in ways that differ from speaking and writing. …”
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Application of UAV and satellite technologies for assessing phytophthora root rot severity in avocado orchards by S. Duncan, A. McLeod, C. Poblete-Echeverria

“…The current commercially accepted method for determining PRR severity in canopies consists of a visual estimation using the ‘Ciba-Geigy’ rating scale. …”
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Palpation versus Ultrasound-Guided Dynamic Needle Tip Positioning Technique for Radial Artery Cannulation by Sujan Dhakal, Gentle S. Shrestha, Ritesh Lamsal, Priska Bastola, Elija Gautam, Anil Shrestha

“…Methods: In the operation theater of a university hospital, a total of 52 adult patients requiring arterial cannulation were randomized into two equal groups. …”
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