Harnessing fear of predators and competitors as deterrents for an invasive predator by Sze Wing Yiu, Justin P. Suraci, Grant Norbury, Patrick M. Garvey

“…We tested the effectiveness of sound cues to induce fear behaviors and deter cats from food patches in captive and urban environments. Human playbacks protected the greatest proportion of food patches, were more likely to reduce time spent feeding, and induced fleeing responses and spatial avoidance to a greater degree than competitor or control treatments. …”
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High Overlap in Niches and Suitable Habitat Between an Imperiled and Introduced Cottontail by Kathryn E. Bischoff, Danielle Katz, Chadwick D. Rittenhouse, Tracy A. G. Rittenhouse

“…Increasing habitat heterogeneity could improve the habitat suitability of existing patches or create new patches for New England cottontail. …”
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Treatment of severe plaque psoriasis complicated with HIV infection using secukinumab: a case report by JING Xiaolei, MENG Zhaoying, ZHU Yan

“…On the scalp, there were multiple scaly red patches with bundled hair. On the elbows, anterior tibia, lumbosacral area, and lateral waist, the rashes merged into large patches. …”
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Memory Efficient Local Features Descriptor for Identity Document Detection on Mobile and Embedded Devices by Daniil P. Matalov, Elena E. Limonova, Natalya S. Skoryukina, Vladimir V. Arlazarov

“…The retrieved dataset of patches relevant to the domain, which includes splits for features training, features selection, and testing, is made public. …”
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Hyperspectral imaging in animal coloration research: A user-friendly pipeline for image generation, analysis, and integration with 3D modeling. by Benedict G Hogan, Mary Caswell Stoddard

“…This was true of both pigmentary and structurally colored plumage patches. Using visual system-dependent methods, we showed that only some of the differences in plumage patches among the hybrid and its parent species would be perceivable by birds. …”
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Multi-task feature integration and interactive active learning for scene image resizing by Ludan Shi, Xianhua Yan, Sen Wang

“…Subsequent to this, we introduce a multi-task feature selector for the dynamic integration of multi-channel features across disparate scene patches. To capture human perception in recognizing critical scenic patches, we introduce a strategy known as locality-preserved and interactive active learning (LIAL). …”
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Lost cost savings to the NHS in England due to the delayed entry of multiple generic low-dose transdermal buprenorphine: a case scenario analysis by Raymond William Fitzpatrick

“…We estimated that more cost savings could have been achieved if other generic LDTB patches had entered the market at the same time to drive competition between rivals. …”
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Comparison Of Different Auxetic Enhancement Layers For Shunted Piezoelectric Control by Daraki Maria-Styliani, Michali Aikaterini-Maria, Marakakis Konstantinos, Foutsitzi Georgia A., Stavroulakis Georgios E., Deü Jean-François, Ohayon Roger

“…Piezoelectric patches connected to passive shunt circuits can be applied to structures for effective vibration attenuation. …”
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Aerobic Exercise Effects on Ocular Dominance Plasticity with a Phase Combination Task in Human Adults by Jiawei Zhou, Alexandre Reynaud, Robert F. Hess

“…Several studies have shown that short-term monocular patching can induce ocular dominance plasticity in normal adults, in which the patched eye becomes stronger in binocular viewing. …”
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Image Quality Predictor with Highly Efficient Fully Convolutional Neural Network by Cao Yu-Dong, Liao Xin-Lin, Liu Hai-Yan

“…The DFCN consists of two branches, one scoring local patches and the other estimating the weights of local patches to enhance quality prediction. …”
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Thermal and Isothermal Methods in Development of Sustained Release Dosage Forms of Ketorolac Tromethamine by Dimple Chopra, Vivek Ranjan Sinha, Manjeet Singh

“…Batches of tablets which gave desired sustained release profile were subjected to stability testing according to ICH guidelines. …”
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Bird assemblage structure in the Desert Puna in areas with different disturbance activity of a subterranean herbivorous rodent by Natalia Andino, Viviana Fernández, Stella M. Giannoni, Carlos E. Borghi

“…Transects of 50 m in length and 40 m in width were established: 56 located in highly disturbed patches and 53 in patches with low disturbance by tuco-tucos. …”
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Post-joining thermal characteristics and repair integrity of carbon fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composites during ultrasonic reconsolidation at 20 kHz by Balaji Ragupathi, Lena Burger, Frank Balle

“…Ultrasonic reconsolidation offers significant potential to replace traditional adhesive bonding techniques used in the aerospace industries for bonding repair patches to damaged composite structures without resin additives. …”
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A Dual-Band Base Station Antenna with a Split Ring for Sub-6 GHz Communication by Bei Huang, Jie Cao, Weifeng Lin, Jun Zhang, Gary Zhang, Fugen Wu

“…The proposed antenna is composed of baluns, bowtie patches, and a split ring. The two pairs of bowtie patches excited by the two orthogonal balun structures can achieve dual polarization. …”
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IMAGE SYNTHESIS OF METAL FOAM MICRO-STRUCTURE WITH THE USE OF WANG TILES by Lukáš Zrůbek, Martin Doškář, Anna Kučerová, Marcela Meneses-Guzmán, Francisco Rodríguez-Méndez, Bruno Chiné

“…In the presented analysis the performance of raw and patched tiles of different sizes in conjunction of various tile sets is investigated.…”
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Quality Evaluation of Market Acacia catechu by Fingerprint-Chemical Pattern Recognition by Leilei Gao, Xiaochen Sun, Meng Mei, Fang Wang, Jun Yang, Huasheng Peng, Zhilai Zhan

“…The HPLC chromatograms of 47 batches of Acacia catechu samples were analyzed by the “Similarity Evaluation System for Chromatographic Fingerprint of TCM” software (version 2012A). …”
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Spectrum-Effect Relationship between HPLC Fingerprint and Anti-Inflammatory and Analgesic Activities of Chloranthus fortunei (A. Gray) Solms-Laub by Junhao Shi, Qin Qiu, Xianxing Lu, Dandan Zhen, Xiaofang Liu, Baojun Gu, Chunping Qin, Huiqing Mo, Pengfei Li, Hanshen Zhen

“…The HCA results presented that the ten batches of CF samples were clustered into 3 categories, which was consistent with the PCA results. …”
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AnoViT: Unsupervised Anomaly Detection and Localization With Vision Transformer-Based Encoder-Decoder by Yunseung Lee, Pilsung Kang

“…While existing vision transformers perform image classification using only a class token, the proposed approach constructs a feature map that maintains the existing location information of individual patches by using the embeddings of all patches passed through multiple self-attention layers. …”
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Could Road Structures Impact the Avian Community? A Study Case from the South Coast Remained Forest in Malang Region, East Java Province, Indonesia by Agus Nurrofik, Luchman Hakim, Luhur Septiadi, Nia Kurniawan

“…The avian communities were richer outside the road structure, but their abundance qualitatively reveals that both different ecosystem patches showed relatively good condition. Overall, road structures generate both positive (unique habitat patches) and negative (physical barriers that could disrupt natural ecological processes) impacts on avian diversity. …”
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Two-Step Decoupling Design of a Microstrip Antenna Array by Using Waveguided Complementary Split-Ring Resonators and a Fully Connected Neural Network by Wen-Ying Zhou, Zhong-Lei Mei, Mai Lu, Ya-Bo Zhu

“…To suppress the mutual coupling between closely-spaced patches, we propose a two-step decoupling design approach for a microstrip antenna array with the dimensions of 44.9 × 30.495 mm2. …”
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