Towards fair decentralized benchmarking of healthcare AI algorithms with the Federated Tumor Segmentation (FeTS) challenge by Maximilian Zenk, Ujjwal Baid, Sarthak Pati, Akis Linardos, Brandon Edwards, Micah Sheller, Patrick Foley, Alejandro Aristizabal, David Zimmerer, Alexey Gruzdev, Jason Martin, Russell T. Shinohara, Annika Reinke, Fabian Isensee, Santhosh Parampottupadam, Kaushal Parekh, Ralf Floca, Hasan Kassem, Bhakti Baheti, Siddhesh Thakur, Verena Chung, Kaisar Kushibar, Karim Lekadir, Meirui Jiang, Youtan Yin, Hongzheng Yang, Quande Liu, Cheng Chen, Qi Dou, Pheng-Ann Heng, Xiaofan Zhang, Shaoting Zhang, Muhammad Irfan Khan, Mohammad Ayyaz Azeem, Mojtaba Jafaritadi, Esa Alhoniemi, Elina Kontio, Suleiman A. Khan, Leon Mächler, Ivan Ezhov, Florian Kofler, Suprosanna Shit, Johannes C. Paetzold, Timo Loehr, Benedikt Wiestler, Himashi Peiris, Kamlesh Pawar, Shenjun Zhong, Zhaolin Chen, Munawar Hayat, Gary Egan, Mehrtash Harandi, Ece Isik Polat, Gorkem Polat, Altan Kocyigit, Alptekin Temizel, Anup Tuladhar, Lakshay Tyagi, Raissa Souza, Nils D. Forkert, Pauline Mouches, Matthias Wilms, Vishruth Shambhat, Akansh Maurya, Shubham Subhas Danannavar, Rohit Kalla, Vikas Kumar Anand, Ganapathy Krishnamurthi, Sahil Nalawade, Chandan Ganesh, Ben Wagner, Divya Reddy, Yudhajit Das, Fang F. Yu, Baowei Fei, Ananth J. Madhuranthakam, Joseph Maldjian, Gaurav Singh, Jianxun Ren, Wei Zhang, Ning An, Qingyu Hu, Youjia Zhang, Ying Zhou, Vasilis Siomos, Giacomo Tarroni, Jonathan Passerrat-Palmbach, Ambrish Rawat, Giulio Zizzo, Swanand Ravindra Kadhe, Jonathan P. Epperlein, Stefano Braghin, Yuan Wang, Renuga Kanagavelu, Qingsong Wei, Yechao Yang, Yong Liu, Krzysztof Kotowski, Szymon Adamski, Bartosz Machura, Wojciech Malara, Lukasz Zarudzki, Jakub Nalepa, Yaying Shi, Hongjian Gao, Salman Avestimehr, Yonghong Yan, Agus S. Akbar, Ekaterina Kondrateva, Hua Yang, Zhaopei Li, Hung-Yu Wu, Johannes Roth, Camillo Saueressig, Alexandre Milesi, Quoc D. Nguyen, Nathan J. Gruenhagen, Tsung-Ming Huang, Jun Ma, Har Shwinder H. Singh, Nai-Yu Pan, Dingwen Zhang, Ramy A. Zeineldin, Michal Futrega, Yading Yuan, Gian Marco Conte, Xue Feng, Quan D. Pham, Yong Xia, Zhifan Jiang, Huan Minh Luu, Mariia Dobko, Alexandre Carré, Bair Tuchinov, Hassan Mohy-ud-Din, Saruar Alam, Anup Singh, Nameeta Shah, Weichung Wang, Chiharu Sako, Michel Bilello, Satyam Ghodasara, Suyash Mohan, Christos Davatzikos, Evan Calabrese, Jeffrey Rudie, Javier Villanueva-Meyer, Soonmee Cha, Christopher Hess, John Mongan, Madhura Ingalhalikar, Manali Jadhav, Umang Pandey, Jitender Saini, Raymond Y. Huang, Ken Chang, Minh-Son To, Sargam Bhardwaj, Chee Chong, Marc Agzarian, Michal Kozubek, Filip Lux, Jan Michálek, Petr Matula, Miloš Ker^kovský, Tereza Kopr^ivová, Marek Dostál, Václav Vybíhal, Marco C. Pinho, James Holcomb, Marie Metz, Rajan Jain, Matthew D. Lee, Yvonne W. Lui, Pallavi Tiwari, Ruchika Verma, Rohan Bareja, Ipsa Yadav, Jonathan Chen, Neeraj Kumar, Yuriy Gusev, Krithika Bhuvaneshwar, Anousheh Sayah, Camelia Bencheqroun, Anas Belouali, Subha Madhavan, Rivka R. Colen, Aikaterini Kotrotsou, Philipp Vollmuth, Gianluca Brugnara, Chandrakanth J. Preetha, Felix Sahm, Martin Bendszus, Wolfgang Wick, Abhishek Mahajan, Carmen Balaña, Jaume Capellades, Josep Puig, Yoon Seong Choi, Seung-Koo Lee, Jong Hee Chang, Sung Soo Ahn, Hassan F. Shaykh, Alejandro Herrera-Trujillo, Maria Trujillo, William Escobar, Ana Abello, Jose Bernal, Jhon Gómez, Pamela LaMontagne, Daniel S. Marcus, Mikhail Milchenko, Arash Nazeri, Bennett Landman, Karthik Ramadass, Kaiwen Xu, Silky Chotai, Lola B. Chambless, Akshitkumar Mistry, Reid C. Thompson, Ashok Srinivasan, J. Rajiv Bapuraj, Arvind Rao, Nicholas Wang, Ota Yoshiaki, Toshio Moritani, Sevcan Turk, Joonsang Lee, Snehal Prabhudesai, John Garrett, Matthew Larson, Robert Jeraj, Hongwei Li, Tobias Weiss, Michael Weller, Andrea Bink, Bertrand Pouymayou, Sonam Sharma, Tzu-Chi Tseng, Saba Adabi, Alexandre Xavier Falcão, Samuel B. Martins, Bernardo C. A. Teixeira, Flávia Sprenger, David Menotti, Diego R. Lucio, Simone P. Niclou, Olivier Keunen, Ann-Christin Hau, Enrique Pelaez, Heydy Franco-Maldonado, Francis Loayza, Sebastian Quevedo, Richard McKinley, Johannes Slotboom, Piotr Radojewski, Raphael Meier, Roland Wiest, Johannes Trenkler, Josef Pichler, Georg Necker, Andreas Haunschmidt, Stephan Meckel, Pamela Guevara, Esteban Torche, Cristobal Mendoza, Franco Vera, Elvis Ríos, Eduardo López, Sergio A. Velastin, Joseph Choi, Stephen Baek, Yusung Kim, Heba Ismael, Bryan Allen, John M. Buatti, Peter Zampakis, Vasileios Panagiotopoulos, Panagiotis Tsiganos, Sotiris Alexiou, Ilias Haliassos, Evangelia I. Zacharaki, Konstantinos Moustakas, Christina Kalogeropoulou, Dimitrios M. Kardamakis, Bing Luo, Laila M. Poisson, Ning Wen, Martin Vallières, Mahdi Ait Lhaj Loutfi, David Fortin, Martin Lepage, Fanny Morón, Jacob Mandel, Gaurav Shukla, Spencer Liem, Gregory S. Alexandre, Joseph Lombardo, Joshua D. Palmer, Adam E. Flanders, Adam P. Dicker, Godwin Ogbole, Dotun Oyekunle, Olubunmi Odafe-Oyibotha, Babatunde Osobu, Mustapha Shu’aibu Hikima, Mayowa Soneye, Farouk Dako, Adeleye Dorcas, Derrick Murcia, Eric Fu, Rourke Haas, John A. Thompson, David Ryan Ormond, Stuart Currie, Kavi Fatania, Russell Frood, Amber L. Simpson, Jacob J. Peoples, Ricky Hu, Danielle Cutler, Fabio Y. Moraes, Anh Tran, Mohammad Hamghalam, Michael A. Boss, James Gimpel, Deepak Kattil Veettil, Kendall Schmidt, Lisa Cimino, Cynthia Price, Brian Bialecki, Sailaja Marella, Charles Apgar, Andras Jakab, Marc-André Weber, Errol Colak, Jens Kleesiek, John B. Freymann, Justin S. Kirby, Lena Maier-Hein, Jake Albrecht, Peter Mattson, Alexandros Karargyris, Prashant Shah, Bjoern Menze, Klaus Maier-Hein, Spyridon Bakas

“…Weight aggregation and client selection techniques were compared using a multicentric brain tumor dataset in realistic federated learning simulations, yielding benefits for adaptive weight aggregation, and efficiency gains through client sampling. Quantitative performance evaluation of state-of-the-art segmentation algorithms on data distributed internationally across 32 institutions yielded good generalization on average, albeit the worst-case performance revealed data-specific modes of failure. …”
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The effectiveness of the educational package of happiness skills based on Islamic approach and comparison with Fordyce's happiness package on happiness, life satisfaction and anger... by Tayebe Vahdani Khorram, Fatemeh Fayyaz, j avad Eynypour

“…It can be argued that using a happiness training packages based on people's culture and beliefs can increase the mental health of Iranian families more efficiently.Ethical ConsiderationCompliance with Ethical Guidelines: We strictly observed all ethical considerations during the research process. …”
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Synthesis and investigation of the physicochemical properties of 2-(5-((theophylline-7'-yl)methyl)-4-phenyl-4H-1,2,4-triazole-3-ylthio)-acetic acid salts by A. S. Gotsulya, O. O. Mikolasyuk, O. I. Panasenko, Ye. G. Knysh

“…Like different synthons in the structure of 1,2,4-triazoles in various kinds of biological activity of the reaction products with an aim of new and highly efficient low-toxicity compounds reception. The aim of work was to study synthesis and properties of substances among salts of 2-(5-((theophylline-7'-yl)methyle)-4-phenyle-4Н-1,2,4-triazole-3-ylthio)acetate acid. …”
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Improving health-promoting workplaces through interdisciplinary approaches. The example of WISEWORK-C, a cluster of five work and health projects within Horizon-Europe by Deborah De Moortel, Michelle C Turner, Ella Arensman, Alex Binh Vinh Duc Nguyen, Víctor Gonzalez

“…While such developments offer important opportunities to improve sustainability, flexibility, and efficiency, they also present challenges for ensuring healthy and equitable working conditions—especially if workplace policies and practices do not keep pace with these transformations (1). …”
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Quasiparticle picture of topological phase transitions induced by interactions by S. S. Krishtopenko, A. V. Ikonnikov, F. Hartmann, S. Höfling, B. Jouault, F. Teppe

“…We show that topological invariants in the presence of interactions can be efficiently calculated by means of a non-Hermitian quasiparticle Hamiltonian introduced on the basis of the Green's function. …”
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Secure communication approach for Internet of things based on C-RAN fronthaul compression by Yong WANG, Mu ZHOU, Zengshan TIAN, Jinjun WU

“…A resource allocation algorithm was proposed for downlink C-RAN secure communication system.This algorithm jointly optimized the parameters of base station (BS) mode,quantized noise and beamforming under the constraints of SINR requirements of Internet of things information receiver,eavesdropped receiver and fronthaul link capacity.Such a design was a non-convex optimization problem,and a step-by step optimization algorithm was proposed to decompose the original optimization problem efficiently.Semi-definite technique and function smoothing approach were adopted,and the local optimization solution of the original problem was obtained by the iterative different of convex method.Bi-section approach was further proposed to determine BS mode,and the transmitting power of the BSs were finally optimized.Simulation results indicate that the proposed joint optimization algorithm achieves better performance than group sparse optimization algorithm and baseline algorithm,and it has approximate optimal performance as the exhaustive search algorithm.…”
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Measurement-induced entanglement entropy of gravitational wave detections by Preston Jones, Quentin G. Bailey, Andri Gretarsson, Edward Poon

“…The bipartite measurement-induced entanglement is part of the detection process, which avoids the challenges associated with developing signatures of production-induced entanglement, due to the extremely low gravitational wave detector efficiencies. The calculation of normalized measurement-induced entanglement entropy demonstrates the potential of developing physically meaningful signatures of non-classicality based on bipartite detections of gravitational radiation. …”
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Reliability Evaluation of Service-Oriented Architecture Systems Considering Fault-Tolerance Designs by Kuan-Li Peng, Chin-Yu Huang

“…Sensitivity analysis of SOA at both coarse and fine grain levels is also studied, which can be used to efficiently identify the critical parts within the system. …”
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Nested Bi-level scheduling strategy for energy storage systems in hybrid microgrid considering uncertainties of battery dynamic performances by Jiazhi Lei, Zhao Liu

“…Firstly, the uncertainties in dynamic performances caused by fitting error including efficiencies, self-discharge rate, cycle life and capacity fading were modeled by interval method and probability distribution method. …”
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Analysis of Nonstationary Change of Annual Maximum Level Records in the Yangtze River Estuary by Guofang Li, Xinyi Xiang, Caixiu Guo

“…In this study, the efficiencies of trend test methods such as Spearman rank correlation test and Mann-Kendall test, as well as the efficiencies of change-point test methods such as moving T test, moving rank sum test, Pettitt test, and sequential Mann-Kendall test were analyzed quantitatively through Monte Carlo simulation. …”
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Ultrasound-based Eigenfrequency Analysis to Determine Material Parameters of Tissue Mimicking Phantoms by Heim Christian, Huber Christian M., Ullmann Ingrid, Lyer Stefan, Rupitsch Stefan J.

“…In order to understand the processes involved in MDT in more detail and to be able to perform this therapy as efficiently as possible, a monitoring system for the spatial distribution of SPIONs in biological tissue is required. …”
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Application of the similarity theory to analysis of photocatalytic hydrogen production and photocurrent generation by Dina V. Markovskaya, Ekaterina A. Kozlova

“…In this research some methods of the similarity theory were quantitatively applied to the description of the relationship between the efficiencies of the photocatalytic hydrogen production and photocurrent generation for the first time. …”
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_maria_: A novel simulator for forecasting (sub-)mm observations by J. van Marrewijk, T. W. Morris, T. Mroczkowski, C. Cicone, S. Dicker, L. Di Mascolo, S. K. Haridas, J. Orlowski-Scherer, E. Rasia, C. Romero, J. Würzinger

“…Submillimeter single-dish telescopes offer two key advantages compared to interferometers: they can efficiently map larger portions of the sky and recover larger spatial scales. …”
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Utility Optimization of Federated Learning with Differential Privacy by Jianzhe Zhao, Keming Mao, Chenxi Huang, Yuyang Zeng

“…First, the impact of data heterogeneity of participants on global model accuracy is analyzed quantitatively based on 1-Wasserstein distance. Then, we design a multilevel and multiparticipant dynamic allocation method of privacy budget to reduce the injected noise, and the utility can be improved efficiently. …”
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Droit de propriété, externalité et problèmes environnementaux by Jean-Pierre LOFANDJO BONGENGE, Ezéchel KAMBALE MATHUM

“…L’échange de droits de propriété définie favorise l’efficience. Il est possible d’illustrer ce point en étudiant les avantages dont les consommateurs et les producteurs bénéficient lorsque le système de droits de propriété mise en place est bien défini. …”
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Formation Damage due to Drilling and Fracturing Fluids and Its Solution for Tight Naturally Fractured Sandstone Reservoirs by Tianbo Liang, Fuyang Gu, Erdong Yao, Lufeng Zhang, Kai Yang, Guohua Liu, Fujian Zhou

“…Experimental results indicate that the drilling fluid causes the major damage, and the chosen treating fluid can enhance rock permeability both effectively and efficiently at least at the room temperature with the overburden pressure.…”
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Multiple-Site Hemodynamic Analysis of Doppler Ultrasound with an Adaptive Color Relation Classifier for Arteriovenous Access Occlusion Evaluation by Jian-Xing Wu, Yi-Chun Du, Ming-Jui Wu, Chien-Ming Li, Chia-Hung Lin, Tainsong Chen

“…For 30 long-term follow-up patients, the experimental results show the proposed screening model efficiently evaluates access occlusion.…”
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Quality Dimensions for Automatic Assessment of Structured Cyber Threat Intelligence Data by Algimantas Venčkauskas, Vacius Jusas, Dominykas Barisas

“…Extensive experiments on real datasets demonstrate that our proposed method can quantitatively and efficiently assess CTI data quality.…”
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Study on Rotation and Scaling Invariance of Retina-Like Imaging by Qun Hao, Mingyuan Tang, Jie Cao, Saad Rizvi, Huan Cui, Zhimin Wu

“…Currently, there is no effective method to quantitatively estimate the effects from this mismatch. …”
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Scaling behavior of public procurement activity. by António Curado, Bruno Damásio, Sara Encarnação, Cristian Candia, Flávio L Pinheiro

“…However, while governments are expected to execute them as efficiently as possible, there is a lack of methodologies for an adequate comparison of procurement activity between institutions at different scales, which represents a challenge for policymakers and academics. …”
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