Gradient boosting regression for faster Partitioned Iterated Function Systems‐based head pose estimation by Paola Barra, Riccardo Distasi, Chiara Pero, Stefano Ricciardi, Maurizio Tucci

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Brown Fat and Metabolic Health: The Diverse Functions of Dietary Components by Zachary Brown, Takeshi Yoneshiro

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Bumblebee social learning outcomes correlate with their flower-facing behaviour by Yuyi Lu, Zhenwei Zhuo, Mark Roper, Lars Chittka, Cwyn Solvi, Fei Peng, Ying Zhou

“…While both groups showed a negative correlation between time spent facing non-rewarding flowers and learning outcomes, the observer bees in the blue group benefited from time spent facing occupied rewarding flowers, whereas the yellow group showed that time facing unoccupied rewarding flowers by the observer bees positively correlated with their learning outcomes. …”
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Novel Algorithm to Estimate Fat‐Free Muscle Volumes in Women Using the Urinary Deuterated‐Creatine Dilution Method by Darren Yuen Zhang Tan, Wei Fun Cheong, Shanshan Ji, Amaury Cazenave‐Gassiot, Jane Cauley, Liang Shen, Eu‐Leong Yong

“…Our aim was to develop a new D3Cr algorithm incorporating anthropomorphic variables that can estimate fat‐free muscle mass, using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as the reference standard. …”
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Relationship of actual nutrition with estimates of the cognitive function of the population of Novosibirsk by A. K. Kuntsevich, S. V. Shishkin, E. G. Verevkin, S. V. Mustafina, O. D. Rymar

“…To study in cross-sectional research the association of actual nutrition with estimates of cognitive function (CF) in the population of men and women of middle and older age (45–69 years).Materials and methods. …”
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Respiratory Rate Estimation from Thermal Video Data Using Spatio-Temporal Deep Learning by Mohsen Mozafari, Andrew J. Law, Rafik A. Goubran, James R. Green

“…Thermal recordings from 22 subjects, with simultaneous gold standard respiratory effort measurements, were studied while sitting or standing, both with and without a face mask. The RR estimation results showed that our proposed method outperformed existing models, achieving an error of only 1.6 breaths per minute across the four conditions. …”
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LittleFaceNet: A Small-Sized Face Recognition Method Based on RetinaFace and AdaFace by Zhengwei Ren, Xinyu Liu, Jing Xu, Yongsheng Zhang, Ming Fang

“…Retinaface-Resnet is designed for face detection and localization, while adaface is employed to address low-resolution face recognition by using feature norm approximation to estimate image quality and applying an adaptive margin function. …”
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Covariance-based decoding reveals a category-specific functional connectivity network for imagined visual objects by Francesco Mantegna, Emanuele Olivetti, Philipp Schwedhelm, Daniel Baldauf

“…In this magnetoencephalography study, we used a minimally constrained experimental paradigm wherein imagery categories were prompted using visual word cues only, and we decoded face versus place imagery based on their underlying functional connectivity patterns as estimated from the spatial covariance across brain regions. …”
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Ethnic differences in beta cell function occur independently of insulin sensitivity and pancreatic fat in black and white men by Stephanie A Amiel, Riccardo C Bonadonna, Louise M Goff, Meera Ladwa, Oluwatoyosi Bello, Olah Hakim, Fariba Shojaee-Moradie, Maria Linda Boselli, Geoff Charles-Edwards, Janet Peacock, A Margot Umpleby

“…Therefore, we aimed to compare postprandial insulin secretion and the relationships between insulin secretion, insulin sensitivity and pancreatic fat in men of black West African (BA) and white European (WE) ancestry.Research design and methods A cross-sectional, observational study in which 23 WE and 23 BA men with normal glucose tolerance, matched for body mass index, underwent a mixed meal tolerance test with C peptide modeling to measure beta cell insulin secretion, an MRI to quantify intrapancreatic lipid (IPL), and a hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic clamp to measure whole-body insulin sensitivity.Results Postprandial insulin secretion was lower in BA versus WE men following adjustment for insulin sensitivity (estimated marginal means, BA vs WE: 40.5 (95% CI 31.8 to 49.2) × 103 vs 56.4 (95% CI 48.9 to 63.8) × 103 pmol/m2 body surface area × 180 min, p=0.008). …”
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A comparison between radiomic biological age and chronological age in estimating kidney function by Radin Alikhani, Steven R. Horbal, Manjunath P. Pai

“…Abstract Accurate kidney function estimation hinges on essential markers of age and body size. …”
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Approximate power flow solutions‐based forecasting‐aided state estimation for power distribution networks by Zhenyu Wang, Zhao Xu, Donglian Qi, Yunfeng Yan, Jianliang Zhang

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Thymoquinone controlled obesity and invigorated cognitive and memory performance in rats consuming a high-fat diet via modulating oxidative stress, inflammation and apoptosis by Mostafa D. Mostafa, Maggie E. Amer, Magda A. ElKomy, Azza I. Othman, Mohamed A. El‑Missiry

“…The effects of TQ were estimated by neurobehavioral testing, biochemical analysis, DNA damage, molecular docking, and histopathological examination of brains and visceral fat. …”
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Associations of abdominal adiposity, lean body mass, and fat body mass with dementia and cognitive change in older age by Zimu Wu, Alice Owen, Robyn L. Woods, Zhen Zhou, Trevor T.‐J. Chong, Suzanne G. Orchard, Raj C. Shah, Kerry M. Sheets, Anne M. Murray, Joanne Ryan

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Physicochemical characterization, determination of total concentration and estimation of bioaccessible fraction of elements in fruit functional flours by Gabriel di Giovani Belinati, Heloisa Mariano Pedroso de Carvalho, Eduardo Leite de Almeida, Ana Rita de Araújo Nogueira, Alex Virgilio

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Fatness, fitness and the aging brain: A cross sectional study of the associations between a physiological estimate of brain age and physical fitness, activity, sleep, and body comp... by David Wing, Lisa T. Eyler, Eric J. Lenze, Julie Loebach Wetherell, Jeanne F. Nichols, Romain Meeusen, Job G. Godino, Joshua S. Shimony, Abraham Z. Snyder, Tomoyuki Nishino, Ginger E. Nicol, Guy Nagels, Bart Roelands

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Buckling Analysis of Sandwich Timoshenko Nanobeams with AFG Core and Two Metal Face-Sheets by Masoumeh Soltani

“…The section of the considered beam element is composed of two metal face layers and an axially functionally graded (AFG) core. …”
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Relationship between bmi and glomerular filtration rate in a large cohort initiating a weight loss program: differential contributions of fat mass, fat-free mass, and abdominal fat... by Alessandro Leone, Francesca Menichetti, Laila Vignati, Federica Sileo, Ramona De Amicis, Andrea Foppiani, Simona Bertoli, Alberto Battezzati

“…Conclusions Our study highlights the importance of considering body composition and fat distribution when assessing renal function.…”
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Effect of allopurinol on renal function in chronic kidney disease patients with asymptomatic hyperuricemia by 王垚, 于博

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ESTIMATION OF THE TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY OF WHEAT FARMS UNDER THE SUPPLEMENTARY IRRIGATION SYSTEM USING THE STOCHASTIC FRONTIER APPROACH (NINEVEH GOVERNORATE- ALBAAJ DISTRICT AS A MO... by Emad Ahmed, Mohammed Ahmed, Osama Mohamed, Ahmed Ali

“…Wheat production in Iraq under permanent farming systems faced sharp seasonal fluctuations during the previous years resulting from Climate fluctuations that affected the output , and for the rational use of scarce water resources, an effective system to improve irrigation, and the research aimed To estimate the technical efficiency of wheat farms by means of random correlation analysis using the logarithmic production function, based on field data for a random sample of 30 farms in the district of Al-Baaj Nineveh Governorate for the agricultural season 2020-2021. …”
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Early life factors and variation in adult kidney function in the Swedish LifeGene cohort by Agne Laucyte-Cibulskiene, Sara Hägg, Anders Christensson, Peter M. Nilsson

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