Quality evaluation of Polygonatum sibiricum slices from different regions based on appearance traits and multi-index metabolites combined with TOPSIS and gray relation analysis by Cheng Wang, Cheng Wang, Ju Ye, Sisi Jiang, Sisi Jiang, Xuguang He, Xuguang He, Min Ma, Min Ma, Li Yin

“…PCA showed that the first three principal components contributed over 80% of the cumulative variance, and 16 batches of slices were clustered into three categories by origin. …”
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High Resolution Sea Ice Concentration Using a Sentinel-1 U-Net Ice-Water Classifier by Jozef Rusin, Anthony P. Doulgeris, K. Andrea Scott, Thomas Lavergne, Catherine Taelman

“…To address SAR noise challenges, we incorporate multilooking, adaptive noise correction, and overlapping patches at inference to improve SIC accuracy while preserving fine-scale features. …”
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Intracardiac Echocardiography to Assist Anatomical Isthmus Ablation in Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot Patients With Ventricular Tachycardia by Nathan C. Denham, BM, PhD, Raja Selvaraj, MBBS, MD, DM, Jayant Kakarla, MBBS, Sirish Chandra Srinath Patloori, MBBS, MD, DM, S Lucy Roche, MBChB, MD, Sara Thorne, MD, Erwin Oechslin, MD, PhD, Danielle Massarella, MD, Rachel Wald, MD, Rafael Alonso-Gonzalez, MD, MSc, FESC, Candice Silversides, MD, Eugene Downar, MD, Krishnakumar Nair, MD

“…However, significant interindividual variability in the size and location of surgical patches means careful mapping is required to design ablation lines to block the isthmus. …”
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Landslide mapping with deep learning: the role of pre-/post-event SAR features and multi-sensor data fusion by Aiym Orynbaikyzy, Frauke Albrecht, Wei Yao, Mahdi Motagh, Wandi Wang, Sandro Martinis, Simon Plank

“…The U-Net models are trained and tested using globally distributed and limited reference data (563 unique patches). Optical features consisted of one pre-/post-event feature, whereas SAR features had three for each reference sample. …”
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Hydroclimatic and Land Use Drivers of Wildfire Risk in the Colombian Caribbean by Yiniva Camargo Caicedo, Sindy Bolaño-Diaz, Geraldine M. Pomares-Meza, Manuel Pérez-Pérez, Tionhonkélé Drissa Soro, Tomás R. Bolaño-Ortiz, Andrés M. Vélez-Pereira

“…Fire-prone zones were dominated by pastures (62.39%), grasslands and shrublands (19.61%) and forests (15.74%), and exhibited larger, more complex high-risk patches, despite similar spatial connectedness with non-fire-prone zones. …”
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Individualized functional brain mapping machine learning prediction of symptom-change resulting from selective kappa-opioid antagonism in an anhedonic sample from a Fast-Fail trial by Matthew D. Sacchet, Joseph L. Valenti, Poorvi Keshava, Shane W. Walsh, Moria J. Smoski, Andrew D. Krystal, Diego A. Pizzagalli

“…Here, we applied machine learning models to individualized neural patches derived from fMRI data during the Monetary Incentive Delay Task in anhedonic participants (N = 67) recruited for a clinical trial examining K-opioid receptor (KOR) antagonism in the treatment of anhedonia. …”
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Pantethine ameliorates dilated cardiomyopathy features in PPCS deficiency disorder in patients and cell line models by Fangfang Zhang, Tatjana Dorn, Barbara Gnutti, Yair Anikster, Sarah Kuebler, Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas, Rachel Gosselin, Shamima Rahman, Ronen Durst, Enrica Zanuttigh, Miriam A. Güra, Christine M. Poch, Anna B. Meier, Karl-Ludwig Laugwitz, Hans-Joachim Schüller, Ana C. Messias, Ody C. Sibon, Dario Finazzi, Alyssa Rippert, Dong Li, Kristen Truxal, Deipanjan Nandi, Brent C. Lampert, Mildrid Yeo, Alice Gardham, Batel Nissan, Smadar Horowitz Cederboim, Alessandra Moretti, Arcangela Iuso

“…Functional evaluation of cardiac cells and engineered heart patches was conducted to investigate contractile performance and arrhythmogenicity. …”
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Jak inhibitors in the treatment of alopecia areata - a literature review by Paulina Krzeszowska, Aleksandra Kujawa, Karolina Krochmal, Wojciech Pisarek, Adrianna Samoraj, Jakub Zajączkowski, Kacper Stępniak, Jan Wilk, Karolina Marrodán-Wojtczak, Radosław Kuźma

“… Introduction Alopecia areata (AA) is a chronic autoimmune disorder causing non-scarring hair loss, which can range from isolated patches to complete scalp (alopecia totalis, AT) or body hair loss (alopecia universalis, AU). …”
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Energy Infrastructure Clears the Way for Coyotes in Alberta's Oil Sands by Jamie F. Clarke, Larissa Bron, Madison Carlson, Sophia S. Labiy, Zoe Penno, Hayley Webster, Jason T. Fisher, Marissa A. Dyck

“…ABSTRACT Energy extraction and development are fragmenting the landscape in Canada's oil sands region, creating patches of boreal forest connected by millions of kilometers of cleared linear features. …”
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Characterization of Irrigated Rice Cultivation Cycles and Classification in Brazil Using Time Series Similarity and Machine Learning Models with Sentinel Imagery by Andre Dalla Bernardina Garcia, Ieda Del’Arco Sanches, Victor Hugo Rohden Prudente, Kleber Trabaquini

“…Omission errors were reduced below 10% in most models when using both sensors, but commission errors remained above 15%, especially for patches in which rice fields represent less than 10% of area. …”
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Local Classification Guiding Attention for <italic>Malania Oleifera</italic> Recognition by Yongke Sun, Yong Cao, Weili Kou, Chunjiang Yu, Ning Lu, Yi Yang, Lei Liu, Juan Wang

“…The LCG module segments the feature map into small patches to enhance the contribution of pixels within the local region, and employs a classification guiding attention module to establish relationships between the pixels and classes. …”
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High light availability offsets low naturalness regarding diversity but cannot compensate for reduced ecological value: A case study of near-natural forests and tree plantations in... by Khanh Vu Ho, Mirjana Ćuk, Andraž Čarni, Dragana Vukov, Miloš Ilić, László Erdös

“…In Eastern Europe, near-natural forest patches are decreasing and are gradually replaced by non-native plantations. …”
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Zoning the soil salinization levels in the northern China’s coastal areas based on high-resolution soil mapping by Yuan Chi, Minglei Fan, Zhiwei Zhang, Yubing Qu

“…The soil salinization levels presented the following spatial heterogeneities: (1) The levels showed distinct polarization, that is, extremely low and high levels covered the most of the study area. (2) The SS exhibited a distinct decrease from the coastline to the inner land, and wetlands and water areas exhibited much higher SS than the remaining land cover types. (3) Muddy coasts suffered more severe soil salinization than rocky and sandy coasts in the alongshore areas. (4) The inner land was generally free from the salinization but some small patches of bare lands and water areas were still at risk. (5) Dongying, Binzhou, Weifang, and Yancheng Cities suffered much more distinct soil salinization than the remaining cities. …”
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Forest cover is more important than its integrity or landscape configuration in determining habitat use by mammals in a human-modified landscape in Colombia by Lain E. Pardo, Bibiana Gómez-Valencia, Nicolas J. Deere, Yenifer Herrera Varón, Carolina Soto, Elkin A. Noguera-Urbano, Lina M. Sánchez-Clavijo, Luis Romero, Angélica Díaz-Pulido, José Manuel Ochoa-Quintero

“…Our results suggest that conservation strategies in the study area should focus on conserving and expanding as much forest as possible rather than only improving the quality of already existing forest patches.…”
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Gynecologic postoperative anti-adhesion barriers: From biomaterials to barrier development by Abbas Fazel Anvari-Yazdi, Daniel J. MacPhee, Ildiko Badea, Xiongbiao Chen

“…Cutting-edge fabrication strategies—such as electrospinning, 3D bioprinting, melt electrowriting, Janus hydrogels, and microneedle patches—are reviewed with an eye toward uterine conformity, minimally invasive deployability, and on-demand release of drugs or exosomes. …”
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DeSa COVID-19: Deep salient COVID-19 image-based quality assessment by Risnandar

“…The salient COVID-19 image map is also gauged in the minuscule COVID-19 image patches. The exploratory results attest that DeSa COVID-19 and the recommended DCNN methods are very good accomplishment compared with other advanced methods on COVID-chestxray and COVID-CT datasets, respectively. …”
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Using an Area-Weighted Loss Function to Address Class Imbalance in Deep Learning-Based Mapping of Small Water Bodies in a Low-Latitude Region by Pu Zhou, Giles Foody, Yihang Zhang, Yalan Wang, Xia Wang, Sisi Li, Laiyin Shen, Yun Du, Xiaodong Li

“…The models were trained on 14,509 manually annotated PlanetScope image patches (512 × 512 pixels each). We implemented the AWBCE loss function in State-of-the-Art segmentation models (UNet, DeepLabV3+, HRNet, LANet, UNetFormer, and LETNet) and evaluated them using overall accuracy, F1-score, intersection over union, and Matthews correlation coefficient as accuracy metrics. …”
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Monitoring paddy rice cultivation adjustments in Northeast China through time series remote sensing and deep learning by Shihao Wang, Chong Huang, Lingxiao Huang, Xinliang Xu, Huading Shi, Qingbao Gu, Qiang Xue, Shiai Liu, Chenchen Zhang

“…Our proposed mapping method effectively identified small patches of paddy rice and reduced confusion with wetlands. …”
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Long Dark Gaps in the Lyβ Forest at z < 6: Evidence of Ultra-late Reionization from XQR-30 Spectra by Yongda Zhu, George D. Becker, Sarah E. I. Bosman, Laura C. Keating, Valentina D’Odorico, Rebecca L. Davies, Holly M. Christenson, Eduardo Bañados, Fuyan Bian, Manuela Bischetti, Huanqing Chen, Frederick B. Davies, Anna-Christina Eilers, Xiaohui Fan, Prakash Gaikwad, Bradley Greig, Martin G. Haehnelt, Girish Kulkarni, Samuel Lai, Andrea Pallottini, Yuxiang Qin, Emma V. Ryan-Weber, Fabian Walter, Feige Wang, Jinyi Yang

“…By comparing the results to predictions from simulations, we find that the data are broadly consistent both with models where fluctuations in the Ly α forest are caused solely by ionizing ultraviolet background fluctuations and with models that include large neutral hydrogen patches at z < 6 due to a late end to reionization. …”
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Four-dimensional, dynamic mosaicism is a hallmark of normal human skin that permits mapping of the organization and patterning of human epidermis during terminal differentiation. by Yun Wang, Taro Masaki, Sikandar G Khan, Deborah Tamura, Christiane Kuschal, Megan Rogers, John J DiGiovanna, Kenneth H Kraemer

“…These groups of cells abruptly flatten into large sheets at the surface providing patches of uniform SNP sequence. This four-dimensional mosaicism is a normal, previously unrecognized form of dynamic mosaicism in human skin.…”
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