Landscape context mediates avian habitat choice in tropical forest restoration. by J Leighton Reid, Chase D Mendenhall, J Abel Rosales, Rakan A Zahawi, Karen D Holl

“…Restoration sites were established on degraded farmlands in a variety of landscape contexts, and each included a 0.25-ha plantation, island treatment (trees planted in patches), and unplanted control. We analyzed four attributes of bird communities including frugivore abundance, nectarivore abundance, migrant insectivore richness, and compositional similarity of bird communities in restoration plots to bird communities in old-growth forests. …”
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Efficiency-oriented phased urban green space planning framework to mitigate heat-stress exposure by Zhiwei Yang, Jian Peng

“…Applied to Kunming’s urban core, the framework identified 783 additional-UGS patches whose cooling-zones intersected 9.14 × 106 person·°C of heat-stress exposure (23.7% of the total). …”
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Morphological and Anatomical study of Phlomis kurdica (Lamiaceae) in Kurdistan Region of Iraq by Iman Hassan Ahmad, Khalid Faiq Darwish, Chro Fouad Wahid

“…The stem is quadrangular, with four collenchyma patches at the corners. The leaf was amphistomatic. …”
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Developing Site-Specific Prescription Maps for Sugarcane Weed Control Using High-Spatial-Resolution Images and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) by Kerin F. Romero, Muditha K. Heenkenda

“…The density and average heights of weed patches were extracted from the canopy height model (LiDAR). …”
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Challenges and Solution for Corrosion under Pipe Supports by Sachin Sajeev, Arun Nair

“…A study was done at our workshop with QSR-1 on a 10-inch pipe with artificial corrosion patches. Sizing capability for various defect orientation along the pipe circumference was also studied. …”
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The role of oceanographic scales in shaping highly mobile marine predator distributions by Jérôme Pinti, Aaron B. Carlisle, Helga S. Huntley, Matthew Shatley, Barbara A. Block, Matthew J. Oliver

“…These processes occur over multiple spatio-temporal scales, from fine scale phytoplankton blooms and zooplankton patches to larger scale climatic events such as El Niño or climate change. …”
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Noncovarying storage effect: Balancing and positive directional selection on mutant alleles that amplify random fitness and demographic fluctuations. by Yuseob Kim

“…To further understand these eco-evolutionary dynamics and test their generality in natural populations, this study built more realistic models that assume randomly, not cyclically, fluctuating selection and common demographic features, including heterogeneous ecological patches or an age-structured population. Mathematical analysis elucidated that whether balanced polymorphism or fixation occurs depends on the relative magnitudes of demographic versus fitness fluctuations and that both results require the discordant oscillation in the population sizes of the field and refuge. …”
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YOLOv8 and point cloud fusion for enhanced road pothole detection and quantification by Junkui Zhong, Deyi Kong, Yuliang Wei, Bin Pan

“…To further refine detection accuracy, elevation thresholds are applied to evaluate pothole depth, effectively filtering out false positives such as road surface stains and patches. The experiments were conducted over a 4.7-kilometer road section, demonstrating that on well-maintained road surfaces, the proposed method improves detection accuracy by $$6.5\%$$ compared to the standalone use of YOLOv8, achieving a precision of $$95.8\%$$ , a recall of $$93.3\%$$ , and an F1 score of $$94.53\%$$ . …”
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Review of alternative practices to cigarette smoking and nicotine replacement therapy: How safe are they? by O.B. Omole, G.A. Ogunbanjo, O.A. Ayo-Yusuf

“…Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) formulations, such as chewing gums and skin patches, have been well studied and evidence suggests that all forms are effective smoking cessation aids, either used alone and in combination with other NRT or cessation medication and behavioural therapy. …”
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AKR1D1 and CFTR homozygous variants in an infant with combined bile acid synthesis defect and cystic fibrosis: first case report and management plan by Nehal M. Elkoofy, Heba F. ElGebaly, Mohamed A. Elmonem

“…This was rapidly followed by severe respiratory distress and persistent pneumonic patches. Since his parents were first cousins, a genetic etiology was highly suspected. …”
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Ecological tourism suitability evaluation and landscape ecological risk analysis of the Yangtze River Delta Region from 2000 to 2020 based on the MaxEnt model by Junjie Li, Xiaodong Liu, Yonggang Wang, Xiangbin Peng, Huanchen Tang, Maoguo Li

“…Over the 20-year period, 60.10% of the area remained stable, 16.70% increased, and 23.20% decreased; (2) LP indicates increased fragmentation and enhanced diversity, with decreased connectivity of ecological patches; (3) LER overall increased, with more medium-risk areas; (4) After 2005, a significant spatial coupling between ETS and LER emerged, with some areas showing a “high suitability – high risk” pattern, indicating ecological pressure. …”
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Screen shooting resistant watermarking based on cross attention by Lianshan Liu, Peng Xu, Qianwen Xue

“…Specifically, we segment the image and watermark into smaller patches for positional embedding. Afterward, we calculate the attention scores through multi-head attention layers and generate the encoded image through concatenation. …”
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Facultative myrmecophily in a highly endangered population of Plebejus idas (Linnaeus, 1761) in the northern Upper Rhine Valley (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) by Robert Güsten, Matthias Sanetra, Robert Trusch

“…Shifts in the ant fauna and structure of broom patches are supposedly not very important factors in the species’ regional decline. …”
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Identifying pollinator‐friendly sites within urban green spaces for sustainable urban agriculture by Ehsan Rahimi, Chuleui Jung

“…Subsequently, employing Graphab 2.8 software, we categorised 10 major cities in South Korea based on the connectivity of green space patches. Clusters exhibiting greater green space coverage, size, and connectivity displayed higher modularity values. …”
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BIOART ‒ A NEW CHALLENGE IN CONTEMPORARY ART by Ionel PAPUC

“…Another challenge in contemporary art is biotech art that provides the public with another field of representation that has as main themes its living tissues, cells and nucleus, DNA, bacteria, grafts, patches of tattooed skin, guinea pigs, phosphorescent rabbits, and a wide floral palette. …”
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Taiwanese Dermatological Association consensus on the diagnosis and management of alopecia areata by Chao-Chun Yang, Chih-Chiang Chen, Tzu-Kai Lin, Ming-Hsiu Lin, Sung-Jan Lin, Ching-Chi Chi, Ren-Yeu Tsai, Cheng-Che Lan, Wen-Hung Chung

“…Alopecia areata (AA), an autoimmune disorder that causes well defined patches of scalp hair loss, significantly impacts the quality of life and mental well being of patients and their families. …”
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PerMSCA-YOLO: A Perceptual Multi-Scale Convolutional Attention Enhanced YOLOv8 Model for Rail Defect Detection by Jialiang Zhang, Ruiqi Zhang, Fengkai Luan, Hu Zhang

“…Furthermore, the model exhibits strong adaptability and efficiency when dealing with complex track defects, such as microcracks and corrosion patches, indicating its broad practical application potential. …”
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Comparative Study of the Histopathological Changes of Liver and Lung of Two Lines of laying Chickens Experimentally Infected by Ascaridia galli by Wurood Saadoon Al-Alwani, howaida hamle abed

“…The lung of Lohmann brown-classic showed congestion in inflammatory cell blood vessels and infiltration with alveolar congestion and eosinophils inflammation and necrotic patches, whereas histopathological changes of the lung of Lohmann lsl-lite showed eosinophils proliferation within an alveolar wall, deterioration of their lumina as a result of haemorrhage. …”
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Human Action Recognition from Videos Using Motion History Mapping and Orientation Based Three-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Network Approach by Ishita Arora, M. Gangadharappa

“…The proposed method extracts oriented rectangular patches over the entire human body to represent the human pose in an action sequence. …”
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Fatal mycosis fungoides, misdiagnosed as contact dermatitis by Ghazal Shadmani, Justin Dumrongkulraksa, Amin Haghighat Jahromi

“…Its slow progression over several years and diverse clinical presentations—including itchy patches, plaques, or tumors—often lead to initial diagnosis of inflammatory dermatoses such as eczema or psoriasis, making accurate diagnosis challenging. …”
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