Relationship Between Soil Aggregate Stability and Associated Carbon and Nitrogen Changes Under Different Ecological Construction Measures in the Karst Region of Southwest China by Meiting Li, Keqin Wang, Xiaoyi Ma, Mingsi Fan, Biyu Li, Yali Song

“…Furthermore, both plantation and contour reverse slope terrace treatments demonstrated an equal contribution of carbon and nitrogen across all aggregate sizes. …”
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Diversity in patient and public involvement in healthcare research and education—Realising the potential by Sarah Hatch, Jim Fitzgibbon, Amanda Jayne Tonks, Liz Forty

“…This needs to be recognised and harnessed to ensure public contributor networks are representative of society. Equality Impact Assessments should be undertaken in relation to all PPI opportunities. …”
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The Development of a Forage Harvester Ensuring Two-Level Mowing of Tall Stalk Forage by Tokhtar Abilzhanuly, Daniyar Abilzhanov, Nurakhmet Khamitov, Olzhas Seipataliyev, Dimitar Karaivanov, Dauren Kosherbay

“…This research proposes a two-level mowing method for tall stalks. According to the obtained analytical expressions, the technological distance between the vertical axes of the mowing rotors is determined to be 700 mm. …”
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Investigation of freshwater production and temperature changes of various components of a conventional and enhanced solar desalination ponds by Elnaz Kouh Zad, Farshad Farahbod, Omid Alizadeh

“…Solar desalination ponds are a simple yet efficient technology that utilizes solar energy to convert saline water into fresh water. This method is especially useful in arid and semi-arid regions with limited access to fresh water. …”
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Remineralization ability of different root canal sealers by Raghad A Al-Askary, Wiaam M.O. AL-Ashou, Sawsan H. Al-Jubori

“…Aims: This research was designed to contrast the biocompatibility and remineralization ability of different sealers (BioRoot, MTA-FillApex and GuttaFlow-Bioseal). Method: Twenty rabbits were used in this study, they were randomly divided into 4 groups equally depending on the observation time“3,7,14, and 28 days” post-implantation. …”
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Sources of spring barley resistance to helminthosporium and its use in breeding by T. K. Sheshegova, I. N. Shchennikova, L. M. Shchekleina, L. P. Kokina

“…Line 917-01 (Forward) created by a method of agricultural biotechnology passes State Tests. …”
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Real-Time Thermoacoustic Imaging-Guidance for Breast Tumor Resection by Huan Qin, Yongsheng Cui, Zhujun Wu, Qun Chen, Da Xing

“…More importantly, by mapping the distribution of microwave absorbers, this method can also provide a new perspective for noninvasively observing the anatomy and functional structure of the target. …”
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Fast Intrinsic–Extrinsic Calibration for Pose-Only Structure-from-Motion by Xiaoyang Tian, Yangbing Ge, Zhen Tan, Xieyuanli Chen, Ming Li, Dewen Hu

“…Structure-from-motion (SfM) is a foundational technology that facilitates 3D scene understanding and visual localization. However, bundle adjustment (BA)-based SfM is usually very time-consuming, especially when dealing with numerous unknown focal length cameras. …”
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Management of fracture and displacement of a previously successful bilateral transconjunctival ab-externo XEN gel stent: a case report by Qi Zhang, Chengshou Zhang, Xin Liu, Min Chen, Kaijun Wang

“…Abstract Background The XEN45 Gel Stent (XGS) is an innovative, minimally invasive glaucoma surgery device, which is typically inserted via an ab-interno method, avoiding conjunctival dissection. With increasing experience, some surgeons have advocated for a transconjunctival ab-externo approach, with or without conjunctival dissection, for the delivery of XGS. …”
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Wearable Technology Adoption Among Romanian Students: A Structural Model Based on TAM by Mihai Felea, Mihaela Bucur, Cristian Negruțiu, Maria Nițu, Dragoș Andrei Stoica

“…The results of Structural Equation Modelling (SEM), based on the Partial Least Squares (PLS) method, led to the acceptance of eight out of the nine issued hypotheses, indicating that the three exogenous variables (perceived usefulness, perceived enjoyment and visual attractiveness of wearable devices) have a significant positive influence (with one exception) on endogenous variables (intention to use and attitude towards the use of wearable devices)…”
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Effects of personal states and personality traits on work performance of commissioning workers in nuclear power plants by Qiongdan Mai, Kai Lv, Qi Wang, Ying Lin, Junhao Pan, Yuyin Wang

“…This study makes a pioneering contribution to the field by integrating the effect of personal states and personality traits on work evaluation.Method A total of 101 commissioning workers in nuclear power plants were recruited and monitored for ten consecutive workdays. …”
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PFFNet: A pyramid feature fusion network for microaneurysm segmentation in fundus images by Jiaxin Lu, Beiji Zou, Xiaoxia Xiao, Qinghua Peng, Junfeng Yan, Wensheng Zhang, Kejuan Yue

“…Its automatic segmentation is key to realizing intelligent screening for early DR, which can significantly reduce the risk of visual impairment in patients. However, the minute scale and subtle contrast of MAs against the background pose challenges for segmentation. …”
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Fluorescent diagnostics with chlorin e6 in surgery of low-grade glioma by A. Yu. Rynda, V. E. Olyushin, D. M. Rostovtsev, Y. M. Zabrodskaya, G. V. Papayan

“…The sensitivity of the method for LGG surgery was 72%, the specificity was 56,7%. …”
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Research on the Flow Mechanism of a Large-Scale Wind Turbine Blade Based on Trailing Edge Flaps by Yifan Liu, Mingming Zhang, Bingfu Zhang, Haikun Jia, Na Zhao, Zhaohuan Zhang

“…Additionally, a simulation method that allows for the real-time observation of the flow field was optimized with CFD as a flow field visualizer. …”
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Does Percutaneous Kyphoplasty Have Better Functional Outcome Than Vertebroplasty in Single Level Osteoporotic Compression Fractures? A Comparative Prospective Study by F. Omidi-Kashani, F. Samini, E. G. Hasankhani, A. R. Kachooei, K. Z. Toosi, F. Golhasani-Keshtan

“…We used visual analogue scale (VAS) and short form 36 (SF36) questionnaire to measure functional recovery and followed them for six months. …”
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Progress and prospect of surface self-cleaning technology of machine vision system in underground mining by Shengli YANG, Yongsheng CHEN, Jiachen WANG, Lianghui LI, Fengqi LIU, Shixiong SONG, Dingheng HUI

“…It is bound to install more intelligent sensing systems such as machine vision and lidar, and make use of the self-cleaning device of visual system, which can effectively improve the image quality of visual system, so as to ensure the accuracy of unmanned mining.…”
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Research on Recognition of Green Sichuan Pepper Clusters and Cutting-Point Localization in Complex Environments by Qi Niu, Wenjun Ma, Rongxiang Diao, Wei Yu, Chunlei Wang, Hui Li, Lihong Wang, Chengsong Li, Pei Wang

“…A K-means++-based cluster separation algorithm (K = 1~10, optimized via the elbow method) was developed and was combined with OpenCV to iteratively solve the minimum circumscribed triangle vertices. …”
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Sentinel lymph node mapping with Indocyanine green fluorescence (ICG) for pediatric and adolescent tumors: a prospective observational study by Luca Pio, Celine Richard, Tarek Zaghloul, Andrew J. Murphy, Andrew M. Davidoff, Abdelhafeez H. Abdelhafeez

“…Presently, the gold standard method employing Technetium 99 (99mTc) for localization carries a notable false-negative rate. …”
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Classification of SD-OCT Volumes Using Local Binary Patterns: Experimental Validation for DME Detection by Guillaume Lemaître, Mojdeh Rastgoo, Joan Massich, Carol Y. Cheung, Tien Y. Wong, Ecosse Lamoureux, Dan Milea, Fabrice Mériaudeau, Désiré Sidibé

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Entropy-Regularized Attention for Explainable Histological Classification with Convolutional and Hybrid Models by Pedro L. Miguel, Leandro A. Neves, Alessandra Lumini, Giuliano C. Medalha, Guilherme F. Roberto, Guilherme B. Rozendo, Adriano M. Cansian, Thaína A. A. Tosta, Marcelo Z. do Nascimento

“…We introduce a unified framework that adds an attention branch and CAM Fostering, an entropy-based regularizer, to improve Grad-CAM visualizations. Six backbone architectures (ResNet-50, DenseNet-201, EfficientNet-b0, ResNeXt-50, ConvNeXt, CoatNet-small) were trained, with and without our modifications, on five H&E-stained datasets. …”
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