DEEP LEARNING-BASED SUPER-RESOLUTION TECHNIQUES: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS WITH RECENT INSIGHTS by Renuka Sambhaji Sindge, Maitreyee Dutta, Jagriti Saini

“…However, DL-based super-resolution methods have outperformed the competition due to their efficient mapping and feature extraction abilities. This study strives to provide details of significant progress in DL-based SR approaches based on single and multiple input frames. …”
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Continuous Short-Term Pain Assessment in Temporomandibular Joint Therapy Using LSTM Models Supported by Heat-Induced Pain Data Patterns by Aleksandra Badura, Maria Bienkowska, Andrzej Mysliwiec, Ewa Pietka

“…Significant differences are found between EDA features extracted from experimental and clinical datasets in pain and no pain events. …”
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Urinary Elimination of Bile Acid Glucuronides under Severe Cholestatic Situations: Contribution of Hepatic and Renal Glucuronidation Reactions by Martin Perreault, Ewa Wunsch, Andrzej Białek, Jocelyn Trottier, Mélanie Verreault, Patrick Caron, Guy G. Poirier, Piotr Milkiewicz, Olivier Barbier

“…The similar BA-glucuronidating abilities of hepatic and renal extracts suggest that both the liver and kidney may contribute to the urine BA-G pool.…”
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Assessment of decisional capacity. A systematic review and analysis of instruments regarding their applicability to requests for assisted suicide by Leonie Kupsch, Jakov Gather, Jochen Vollmann, Stephan Nadolny, Jan Schildmann

“…Next to more cognitive abilities, some instruments directly incorporated emotions and values. …”
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Exploring Condition-Specific Variability in the Ureteral Stent Microbiome by Ava Mousavi, Karan N. Thaker, James E. Ackerman, Niccole Diaz, Rick Martin, Craig D. Tipton, Nick Tallman, Lina Marcella Henao, Nima Nassiri, Jeffrey Veale, Anne Lenore Ackerman, Kymora B. Scotland

“…Our objective was to characterize these microbiomes in order to inform urological health practice and help prevent ureteral stent-associated infections. (2) Methods: Stents were collected from kidney stone and renal transplant recipients undergoing routine cystoscopic stent removal. Microbial DNA was extracted from stents and analyzed using 16S Next Generation Sequencing. …”
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Effect of family doctor contract services on non-communicable disease management among the elderly: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Rong Wu, Fei Fei, Tingting Lu, Jing Zhu, Jing Zhu, Dan Hu, Dan Hu

“…Relevant randomized controlled studies (RCTs) were extracted from seven databases: PubMed, Coherence, Embase, Web of Science, CNKI, Wanfang Data, and WeiPu. …”
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Unraveling Reduction Mechanisms from Np(Ⅵ) to Np(Ⅴ) by Acetaldoxime by LI Xiaobo1, 2, ZHANG Meng1, , WU Qunyan2, , SHI Weiqun2

“…The separation of neptunium (Np) from spent nuclear fuel was accomplished by availably changing the oxidation state of Np from +Ⅵ to +Ⅴ during the plutonium uranium reduction extraction (Purex) process. Therefore, a lot of salt-free reductants were explored experimentally, including hydroxylamine, hydroxamic acid, aldehydes, hydrazine, oxime, and their derivatives. …”

CNN Issues in Skin Lesion Classification: Data Distribution and Quantity by Giuliana Ramella, Luca Serino

“…To mitigate this, we also randomly extracted a balanced image subset from ISIC 2018 for evaluation purposes. …”
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Psychometric characteristics of the Chinese version of the patient participation scale by Yanan Wang, Tingting Lu, Chen Zheng, Huijun Zhang

“…The content validity index (S-CVI/AVE) was 0.952, and four factors were extracted from the exploratory factor analysis. In confirmatory factor analysis, the fit indices were as follows: χ2/df=1.591, Root Mean Square Error of Approximation (RMSEA) = 0.050, Goodness of Fit Index (GFI) = 0.902, Incremental Fit Index (IFI) = 0.965, and Comparative Fit Index (CFI) = 0.946. …”
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An improved chilli pepper flower detection approach based on YOLOv8 by Zhi-Yong Wang, Cui-Ping Zhang

“…To begin, the CBAM structure that incorporates edge information is integrated into Backbone to expand the feature extraction receptive field and facilitate the learning of long-distance dependency. …”
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Toward Causal and Evidential Open-Set Temporal Action Detection by Zhuoyao Wang, Rui-Wei Zhao, Rui Feng, Cheng Jin

“…It accomplishes expressive video feature pyramid extraction, discriminative causal action feature representation learning, and reliable EDL-based prediction uncertainty estimation with our tailored network architectures and modified loss functions. …”
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Integrating multimodal imaging and peritumoral features for enhanced prostate cancer diagnosis: A machine learning approach. by Huadi Zhou, Mei Xie, Hemiao Shi, Chenhan Shou, Meng Tang, Yue Zhang, Yue Hu, Xiao Liu

“…Radiomic features from both the tumor and peritumoral regions were extracted, and a random forest model was used to select the most contributive features for classification. …”
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Genome Analysis and In Vitro Assay of Probiotic Properties of <i>Bacillus paranthracis</i> YC03 with Urate-Lowering Potential by Xiaoyu Cao, Yu Zhang, Qianqian Xu, Hai Yan

“…Meanwhile, the cell-free extracts of YC03 were also found to catalyze and remove inosine and guanosine. …”
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Children with HIV: A scoping review of auditory processing skills. by Gouwa Dawood, Daleen Klop, Elrietha Olivier, Haley Elliott, Mershen Pillay

“…Two researchers reviewed the articles and extracted data on sample descriptors, auditory processing testing procedures, and auditory processing skills. …”
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Deep CNN ResNet-18 based model with attention and transfer learning for Alzheimer's disease detection by Sofia Biju Francis, Sofia Biju Francis, Jai Prakash Verma

“…Alzheimer's disease leads to a rapid and irreversible decline in cognitive abilities by damaging memory cells.MethodsA ResNet-18-based system is proposed, integrating Depth Convolution with a Squeeze and Excitation (SE) block to minimize tuning parameters. …”
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Motor imagery decoding network with multisubject dynamic transfer by Zhi Li, Mingai Li, Yufei Yang

“…Subsequently, the shallow spatial-temporal features are extracted using a spatial-temporal convolution block. …”
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Emergency and Disaster Preparedness in Nurses: A Concept Analysis by SeyedehNegar Pourvakhshoori, Hamid Reza Khankeh, Farahnaz Mohammadi

“…Conclusion: According to the present study, disaster preparedness in nurses refers to the knowledge, skills, abilities and comprehensive functions required for responding to natural or man-made events and disasters. …”
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Network meta-analysis of treatments for perineal extramammary paget's disease: Focusing on performance of recurrence prevention. by Xiaobin Yuan, Ruizhi Xue, Xiaoming Cao

“…After screening by inclusion and exclusion criteria, we extracted the data relevant to recurrence rate, and conducted network meta-analysis (NMA) by using Bayesian random-effects approach.…”
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Development of Machine Learning Models to Categorize Life Satisfaction in Older Adults in Korea by Suyeong Bae, Mi Jung Lee, Ickpyo Hong

“…Objectives This study aimed to identify factors associated with life satisfaction by developing machine learning (ML) models to predict life satisfaction in older adults living alone. Methods Data were extracted from 3112 older adults participating in the 2020 Korea Senior Survey. …”
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Functional Assessments Used by Occupational Therapists with Older Adults at Risk of Activity and Participation Limitations: A Systematic Review. by Kylie Wales, Lindy Clemson, Natasha Lannin, Ian Cameron

“…Two authors screened and extracted data independently. A second search then identified papers investigating measurement properties of each assessment. …”
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