Federated Deep Learning for Scalable and Privacy-Preserving Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack Detection in Internet of Things Networks by Abdulrahman A. Alshdadi, Abdulwahab Ali Almazroi, Nasir Ayub, Miltiadis D. Lytras, Eesa Alsolami, Faisal S. Alsubaei, Riad Alharbey

“…The model performed well on CIC-DDoS2019, UNSW-NB15, and IoT23 datasets, with 99.0% accuracy, 2.5% false alert rate, and 99.3% AUC. …”
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SFTA-Net: a self-supervised approach to detect copy-move and splicing forgery to leverage triplet loss, auxiliary loss, and spatial attention by Amerah Alabrah

“…Our findings demonstrate that the SFTA-Net surpasses the baseline ResNet18 model and previous state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods. …”
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Simplifying Two-Stage Object Detectors for On-Board Remote Sensing by Jaemin Kang, Hoeseok Yang, Hyungshin Kim

“…In this paper, we propose a model simplification method for two-stage object detectors. …”
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MCTGNet: A Multi-Scale Convolution and Hybrid Attention Network for Robust Motor Imagery EEG Decoding by Huangtao Zhan, Xinhui Li, Xun Song, Zhao Lv, Ping Li

“…While multi-scale feature extraction is a promising approach for generalized and robust MI decoding, conventional classifiers (e.g., multilayer perceptrons) struggle to perform accurate classification when confronted with high-order, nonstationary feature distributions, which have become a major bottleneck for improving decoding performance. …”
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Two-photon absorption under few-photon irradiation for optical nanoprinting by Zi-Xin Liang, Yuan-Yuan Zhao, Jing-Tao Chen, Xian-Zi Dong, Feng Jin, Mei-Ling Zheng, Xuan-Ming Duan

“…We demonstrate that a feature size of 26 nm (1/20 λ) and a pattern period of 0.41 λ with a laser wavelength of 517 nm can be achieved by performing digital optical projection nanolithography under few-photon irradiation using the in-situ multiple exposure technique, improving printing efficiency by 5 orders of magnitude. …”
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Enhancing State of Health Prediction Accuracy in Lithium-Ion Batteries through a Simplified Health Indicator Method by Dongxu Han, Nan Zhou, Zeyu Chen

“…Accurately predicting the state of health (SOH) of lithium-ion batteries is crucial for optimizing battery performance and achieving efficient energy management, especially in electric vehicle applications. …”
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Medical image segmentation network based on multi-scale cross-attention and wavelet transform by Fan Qin, Yongjie Liang, Chaofeng Yang, Yulong Cao, Jiaying Fan, Peiyuan Wang, Bizhong Wei

“…However, challenges persist when processing complex medical images, including insufficient multi-scale feature capture, limited long-distance dependency modeling, and inadequate integration of global contextual information. …”
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A Hierarchical Machine Learning-Based Strategy for Mapping Grassland in Manitoba’s Diverse Ecoregions by Mirmajid Mousavi, James Kobina Mensah Biney, Barbara Kishchuk, Ali Youssef, Marcos R. C. Cordeiro, Glenn Friesen, Douglas Cattani, Mustapha Namous, Nasem Badreldin

“…Eighty-nine multitemporal raster-based variables, including spectral bands, SAR backscatters, and digital elevation models (DEM), were input for ML models. RF had the highest classification accuracy at 69.96% overall accuracy (OA) and a Kappa value of 0.55. …”
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L-Acetylcarnitine in dysthymic disorder in elderly patients: a double-blind, multicenter, controlled randomized study vs. fluoxetine by Giuseppe Bersania, Giuseppe Meco, Alessandro Denaro, Damien Liberati, Chiara Colletti, Raffaella Nicolai, Francesco Saverio Bersania, Aleardo Koverech

“…L-Acetylcarnitine (LAC), the acetyl ester of carnitine naturally present in the central nervous system and involved in several neural pathways, has been demonstrated to be active in various animal experimental models resembling some features of human depression. …”
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Late Byzantine spiritual guidance in the letters of the metropolitan of Chalcedon to the nun Eulogia by Alevtina Matveeva

“…The article illustrates how employing these guiding models the spiritual father endeavors to regulate the emotional and physical experiences of his spiritual daughter. …”
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Epidemiology and management of atopic dermatitis in England: an observational cohort study protocol by Simon de Lusignan, Carsten Flohr, John Dennis, Helen Alexander, Conor Broderick, Andrew McGovern, Claire Feeney

“…We will stratify findings by age, national Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD), ethnicity, urban-rural environment and geographic location; and explore independent associations of these features with AD in multivariable models.In the management theme, we will explore healthcare utilisation and treatment in people with AD. …”
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Evaluating cholesterol de novo synthesis biomarkers: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cancer prognosis and clinical outcomes by Eman Taha Osman Ali, Nouh Saad Mohamed, Emmanuel Edwar Siddig, Mai Abdul Rahman Mohammed Masri

“…Data extraction and quality assessment were performed by two independent researchers. Pooled HRs and odds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated using random-effects models. …”
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Host HLA B*allele-associated multi-clade Gag T-cell recognition correlates with slow HIV-1 disease progression in antiretroviral therapy-naïve Ugandans. by Jennifer Serwanga, Leigh Anne Shafer, Edward Pimego, Betty Auma, Christine Watera, Samantha Rowland, David Yirrell, Pietro Pala, Heiner Grosskurth, Jimmy Whitworth, Frances Gotch, Pontiano Kaleebu

“…<h4>Methodology/principal findings</h4>Multilevel regression modeling was used to stratify clade A or D HIV-infected individuals into disease progression groups based on CD4 T cell slopes. …”
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Isoform profile of NOS enzyme in structure of rats’ solitary-vagal complex in arterial hypertension of various origin by M. V. Danukalo, O. V. Hancheva

“…It was found that in rats with both models of AH, the expression indices of all three nitric oxide synthase (NOS) isoforms in the studied structures increased. …”
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An Improved Generative Adversarial Network for Generating Multi-Scale Electronic Map Tiles Considering Cartographic Requirements by Wei Zhu, Qingsheng Guo, Nai Yang, Ying Tong, Chuanbang Zheng

“…The results showed that compared to other image-to-image translation models (Pix2Pix and CycleGAN), the MsM-GAN shows average increases of 10.47% in PSNR and 9.92% in SSIM and has the minimum MSE values at all four map scales. …”
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The impact of adenomyosis on intrauterine insemination success in unexplained infertile women: a retrospective cross-sectional study by Sefa Arlıer, Sadık Kükrer, Fikriye Işıl Adıgüzel, Ahmet Zeki Nessar, Gülsüm Uysal, Cevdet Adıgüzel, Dilek Kaya Kaplanoğlu

“…Logistic regression models were used to analyze the independent effects of adenomyosis on clinical pregnancy rates, adjusting for potential confounders. …”
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Legal Regulation of Relations in the Sphere of Crowdfunding in the Republic of Belarus by A. V. Vasilevskii

“…The probable contract models of the parties’ legal relations registering were named. …”
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Experimental study on the impact of perpendicular and parallel bedding planes on the physical and geomechanical characteristics of carbonate rocks by Ahmed K. Abd El-Aal, Ahmed E. Radwan, Jabir Hussain, Mahrous A. M. Ali

“…UCS relationship values do not agree with the typical tensile strength assumption (0.1 of UCS) provided by various authors, so care must be exercised when predicting these values in the geomechanical modeling of carbonate formations. Drilling wells into the subsurface should be performed at a lower attack angle to enable easier drilling and more stable holes. …”
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JWST-TST DREAMS: A Precise Water Abundance for Hot Jupiter WASP-17b from the NIRISS SOSS Transmission Spectrum by Dana R. Louie, Elijah Mullens, Lili Alderson, Ana Glidden, Nikole K. Lewis, Hannah R. Wakeford, Natasha E. Batalha, Knicole D. Colón, Amélie Gressier, Douglas Long, Michael Radica, Néstor Espinoza, Jayesh Goyal, Ryan J. MacDonald, Erin M. May, Sara Seager, Kevin B. Stevenson, Jeff A. Valenti, Natalie H. Allen, Caleb I. Cañas, Ryan C. Challener, David Grant, Jingcheng Huang, Zifan Lin, Daniel Valentine, Mark Clampin, Marshall Perrin, Laurent Pueyo, Roeland P. van der Marel, C. Matt Mountain

“…Additionally, we constrain the abundance of log(H ^− ), −10.19 ${}_{-0.23}^{+0.30}$ , finding that our model including H ^− is preferred over our model without H ^− to 5.1 σ . …”
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MRI-based radiomics for predicting pathological complete response after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in locally advanced rectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Zhongfan Liao, Dashuang Luo, Xiaoyan Tang, Fasheng Huang, Xuhui Zhang

“…The pooled sensitivity, specificity, positive likelihood ratio, negative likelihood ratio and DOR were 0.83, 0.82, 5.1, 0.23 and 27.22 respectively, with an area under the summary receiver operating characteristic (sROC) curve of 0.91. According to joint model analysis, publication year, country, multi-magnetic field strength, multi-MRI sequence, ROI structure, contour consistency, feature extraction software, and feature quantity after feature dimensionality reduction were potential sources of heterogeneity. …”
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