Study on Water Characteristic Curve and Shear Characteristics of Typical Unsaturated Silty Clay in Shaoxing by Ruiqian Wu, Youzhi Tang, Shaohe Li, Wei Wang, Ping Jiang, Guang Yang

“…In order to probe into one simplified method to predict the shear strength of Shaoxing unsaturated silty clay, the test method combining unsaturated soil consolidation instrument and conventional direct shear instrument is used to study the shear strength, and the method is compared and verified with the results of equal suction direct shear test. …”
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The Optimum design of arch dam shape using Particle Swarm optimization algorithm by seyed reza mousvi, نادر برهمند, Akbar Ghanbari, Arash Totonchi

“…First, the dam-water-foundation system was simulated using the finite element method. Then the optimization was done using the particle swarm optimization (PSO).…”
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DRGNet: Enhanced VVC Reconstructed Frames Using Dual-Path Residual Gating for High-Resolution Video by Zezhen Gai, Tanni Das, Kiho Choi

“…Under the same bitrate conditions, the proposed method significantly improves the Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) value, thereby optimizing video coding quality and providing users with a clearer and more detailed visual experience. …”
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Surgical Treatment of Previously Unclosed Macular Holes by R. R. Faizrakhmanov, E. A. Larina, O. A. Pavlovskii

“…The macular hole is the acquired disease which is a defect of a foveola part of retina on all thickness from an internal limiting membrane to an external segment of a photoreceptor layer. The standard method of treatment is surgery method: a microinvasive vitrectomy with membrane peeling in macular area. …”
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Utilizing ChatGPT-3.5 to Assist Ophthalmologists in Clinical Decision-making by Samir Cayenne, Natalia Penaloza, Anne C. Chan, M.I. Tahashilder, Rodney C. Guiseppi, Touka Banaee

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Surgical treatment of bone tumors using segmental bone allografts by O. Ye. Vyrva, Ya. O. Holovina, R. V. Malyk, Z. M. Danishchuk, N. O. Ashukina, P. M. Vorontsov

“…Material and method. The authors have improved the method of surgical treatment of patients with tumor bone lesions using segmental allografts. …”
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Separation effectiveness of ideal ion exchange membranes: Application of the Gibbs-Donnan theory. by Jacek Waniewski, Leszek Pstras, Mauro Pietribiasi

“…Here, we apply the principles of mass balance, charge neutrality, and equality of electrochemical potentials in the state of thermodynamic equilibrium to provide a simple method for estimating the Gibbs-Donnan factors and the equilibrium concentrations of permeating ions in two compartments separated by an ideal IEM, i.e. an IEM that is not permeable to co-ions. …”
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Adaptive Pre-Distortion Compensation for LED Nonlinear Distortion in VLC-OFDM Systems Using Frequency Symbol Spreading by Koichi Seimiya, Ren Oshima, Geonuk Kang, Chang-Jun Ahn

“…This approach reduces computational costs at the transmitter compared to conventional methods requiring high-performance processing. Additionally, we incorporate Frequency Symbol Spreading (FSS) to further enhance robustness against channel impairments such as Rician fading by equalizing the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) across subcarriers. …”
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Wineinformatics: Wine Score Prediction with Wine Price and Reviews by Yuka Nagayoshi, Bernard Chen

“…To explore the relationship between wine price and wine score, naive Bayes classifier and support vector machine (SVM) classifier are employed to predict the scores as either equal to or above 90 or below 90. The price values are normalized using four different methods: mean, median, boxplot mean, and boxplot median. …”
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Deep-Reticular Pseudodrusen-Net: A 3-Dimensional Deep Network for Detection of Reticular Pseudodrusen on OCT Scans by Amr Elsawy, PhD, Tiarnan D.L. Keenan, PhD, MD, Alisa T. Thavikulwat, MD, Amy Lu, MD, Sunil Bellur, MD, Souvick Mukherjee, PhD, Elvira Agron, MS, Qingyu Chen, PhD, Emily Y. Chew, MD, Zhiyong Lu, PhD

“…Objective: To propose Deep-RPD-Net, a 3-dimensional deep learning network with semisupervised learning (SSL) for the detection of reticular pseudodrusen (RPD) on spectral-domain OCT scans, explain its decision-making, and compare it with baseline methods. Design: Deep learning model development. …”
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A hybrid of fuzzy FMEA-AHP to determine factors affecting alternator failure causes by Reza Kiani Aslani, Hamid Reza Feili, Hassan Javanshir

“…Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is one of the first systematic techniques for failure analysis based on three factors including Probability (P), Severity (S) and Detection (D). Traditional FMEA method considers equal weights for all three factors, however, in read-world cases; one may wish to consider various weights. …”
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Discovery of Characteristic Patterns from Transactions with Their Classes by Shigeaki Sakurai

“…This paper proposes a new method that efficiently discovers patterns whose characteristic supports are larger than or equal to the predefined minimum support by using their possible supports. …”
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Diachronic image construction in the documentary Seven Up: a multimodal critical discourse analysis by Danyang Wang, Yunhua Xiang

“…Abstract Based on the Visual Grammar (VG) of Kress and van Leeuwen, the sound analysis of Machin, the context model of Wodak and Meyer, multimodal frameworks of Zhang and Bateman et al., this paper proposes a method for Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (MCDA) to study the diachronic construction of the interviewees’ images in the BBC documentary series Seven Up. …”
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Analysis and Synthesis of Outside Geneva Combined Mechanism with Uniform Movement by Zhou Hongying, Han Jiguang

“…The forming condition of the outside geneva mechanism with uniform movement are analyzed,then on this basis the design method and the mechanism parameters are proposed. …”
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Enhancing Tip Detection by Pre-Training with Synthetic Data for Ultrasound-Guided Intervention by Ruixin Wang, Jinghang Wang, Wei Zhao, Xiaohui Liu, Guoping Tan, Jun Liu, Zhiyuan Wang

“…State-of-the-art detectors also show performance gains of 1.14–1.76% when applying the proposed method. <b>Conclusions:</b> The experimental results demonstrate that our method enhances the generalization of tip detectors without relying on expert annotations or large amounts of real data, offering significant potential for more accurate visual guidance during US-guided interventions and broader clinical applications.…”
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Three-dimensional imaging of Drosophila melanogaster. by Leeanne McGurk, Harris Morrison, Liam P Keegan, James Sharpe, Mary A O'Connell

“…In addition this clearing method used for OPT was tested for imaging with confocal microscopy. …”
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The characteristics of a professional soldier in combat based on the content analysis of the movie The Wall (2017) directed by Doug Liman by Asghar Asgharzadeh

“…Therefore, the purpose of this research is to explain the characteristics of a professional soldier in combat based on the content analysis of the movie The Wall (2017) directed by Doug Liman.Method: The research method in this study is qualitative content analysis to systematically explain information and reveal hidden meanings. …”
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An Improved Scale-Adaptive Simulation Model for Massively Separated Flows by Yue Liu, Xiaorong Guan, Cheng Xu

“…As expected, the proposed ISAS approach with the concept of scale-adaptive appears more efficient than the original SAS method in obtaining a convergent resolution, meanwhile, comparable with DES in visually capturing the fine-scale unsteadiness. …”
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Mapping hippocampal glutamate in healthy aging with in vivo glutamate-weighted CEST (GluCEST) imaging by Maggie K. Pecsok, Heather Robinson, Ally Atkins, Monica E. Calkins, Monica E. Calkins, Mark A. Elliott, Arianna Mordy, Jacquelyn Stifelman, Ruben C. Gur, Ruben C. Gur, Paul J. Moberg, Ravi Prakash Reddy Nanga, Kosha Ruparel, Kosha Ruparel, Russell T. Shinohara, David A. Wolk, Ravinder Reddy, David R. Roalf, David R. Roalf

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Intelligent Recognition Technology for the Segmentation of Traffic Indication Images Concerning Different Pavement Materials by Juanhong Xie, Guojian Shi, Weizhi Zhu

“…For example, the proposed method reaches a higher sensitivity performance of 96%.…”
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