Advanced Brain Tumor Segmentation With a Multiscale CNN and Conditional Random Fields by Ala Guennich, Mohamed Othmani, Hela Ltifi

“…Our innovative solution incorporates several significant enhancements, including the use of variable-sized filters between layers and the early incorporation of residual connections from the very first layer. …”
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The Effects of Using Gamma Irradiated Wheat and Barley in Layer Diets on Egg Product Parameters and Quality by Turgay Yıldız, Necmettin Ceylan

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Comparative Staging of Blastoderm Development at Oviposition in Eggs from Layer and Broiler Grandparent Breeder Flocks by Serdar Özlü

“…The effects of different strains of chickens on egg weight, stage of blastoderm, variation of the blastoderm development and Pearson correlation between egg weight and stage of blastoderm at oviposition were studied in the current study. Hatching eggs were randomly collected from three layer chicken lines (Layer-1, Layer-2, and Layer-3) raised in Poultry Research Institute, and two broiler grandparent flocks (Female and Male) from Aviagen Anadolu. …”
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Improving Age Estimation in Occluded Facial Images with Knowledge Distillation and Layer-Wise Feature Reconstruction by Shuangfei Yu, Qilu Zhao

“…Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach achieves superior performance in age estimation with randomly occluded images on the MORPH-2, AFAD, CACD, and IMDB-WIKI datasets, with mean absolute errors (MAE) of 4.27, 4.83, 5.15, and 5.71, respectively. …”
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Effects of virtual reality and layered tooth model training on manual dexterity in preclinical dental education by Esra Yildirim Manav, Sema Yazici Akbiyik, Aydan Büşra Ceylan, Ayfer Ezgi Yilmaz Çakiroğlu, Duygu Tuncer

“…Methods Forty-eight second-semester dental students were randomly assigned to four groups: Group 1 (the layered model + VR), Group 2 (the layered model only), Group 3 (VR only), and Group 4 (Control; extracted teeth only). …”
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Zn-Al layered double hydroxide nanoparticles for efficient removal of food dyes from wastewater by Rasheed M.A.Q. Jamhour, Ashraf M. Al-Msiedeen, Renad Z. Al-Sharaydeh, Mohannad R. Jamhour, Abdelmnim M. Altweiq

“…The ability of layered double hydroxides clay (LDH) produced from ZnAl-NO3 to remove Sunset Yellow FCF (E110), Azorubine (E122), Tartrazine (E102), and Brilliant Blue FCF (E133) from an aqueous solution was studied. …”
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MCFTNet: Multimodal Cross-Layer Fusion Transformer Network for Hyperspectral and LiDAR Data Classification by Wei Huang, Tianren Wu, Xueyu Zhang, Liangliang Li, Ming Lv, Zhenhong Jia, Xiaobin Zhao, Hongbing Ma, Gemine Vivone

“…More importantly, to reduce the loss of valuable information during the layer-by-layer propagation, we designed cross-layer skip connections. …”
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The Crop Succession Systems Under No-Tillage Alters the Surface Layer Soil Carbon Stock and Stability by Paloma Pimentel de Souza, Deivid Lopes Machado, Micael Silva de Freitas, Aracy Camilla Tardin Pinheiro Bezerra, Tiara Moraes Guimarães, Eder Marcos da Silva, Natanael Moreira do Nascimento, Rafael da Silva Borges, Vladimir Eliodoro Costa, Claudio Hideo Martins da Costa, Simério Carlos Silva Cruz

“…The objective of this study was to test the effects of agricultural crop succession systems on the stock and stability of soil organic carbon in different surface layers of the soils. The research was carried out in the state of Goiás, Brazil, in an experiment set up in 2016, designed in randomized blocks with a split-plot scheme (treatments and soil layers), comprising four repetitions (blocks). …”
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Boosting skin cancer diagnosis accuracy with ensemble approach by Priya Natha, Sivarama Prasad Tera, Ravikumar Chinthaginjala, Safia Obaidur Rab, C. Venkata Narasimhulu, Tae Hoon Kim

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Stability Analysis of Soil and Rock Mixed Slope Based on Random Heterogeneous Structure by Yafei Wang, Zhanrong Zhang, Xingpei Kang, Hao Xie, Chenchen Wang, Kun Liu

“…Rocks distributed in the middle layer of the slope may improve the overall antisliding performance of the slope. …”
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Experimental Study of Random Secret Key Extraction From Atmospheric Optical Channels by Shengya Zhao, Zixin Dou, Chunyi Chen, Yihao Hou, Hui Li, Yan Lou

“…Utilizing reciprocal atmospheric turbulence as a physical entropy source for extracting random secret key is an effective means to achieve physical layer security in wireless channels. …”
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Algorithm for Cloud Particle Phase Identification Based on Bayesian Random Forest Method by Fu Tao, Yang Zhipeng, Tao Fa, Hu Shuzhen, Lu Yuxiang, Fu Changqing

“…However, the cloud radar detects composite information about multiphase particles and lacks temperature data within cloud layers, leading to significant aliasing of phase state characteristics of cloud particles. …”
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Analysis of Secret Key Randomness Exploiting the Radio Channel Variability by Taghrid Mazloum, Alain Sibille

“…A few years ago, physical layer based techniques have started to be considered as a way to improve security in wireless communications. …”
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Randomized Purifier Based on Low Adversarial Transferability for Adversarial Defense by Sangjin Park, Yoojin Jung, Byung Cheol Song

“…Then, based on this analysis, we replace the existing layers with a combination of components with low transferability, and randomly select the components of each layer during the forward pass. …”
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Study on a Quantitative Evaluation Method of Goaf Instability Risk of Phosphate Deposits in Layered Rock Mass by Dongfang CHEN, Mengke WANG, Dingping XU, Haiwang YE, Qizhou WANG, Jian LIU, Bin XIANG

“…Goaf instability accidents such as roof falling, rib spalling, or pillar spalling often occur during the room-pillar mining process in layered phosphate deposits, severely affecting mine production safety. …”
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PROFITABILITY ANALYSIS OF POULTRY LAYERS PRODUCTION IN THREE SELECTED LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS OF KANO STATE - NIGERIA by Zarewa Muhammad NALAMI, Sikiru Adekunle OLAYIWOLA, Sunusi Abdullahi BELI

“…Random sampling techniques were used to select 150 layer poultry farmers. …”
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RESOURCE USE EFFICIENCY OF POULTRY LAYERS PRODUCTION IN ROGO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA KANO STATE, NIGERIA by Zarewa Muhammad NALAMI

“…The study was carried out to determine the resource use efficiency of poultry-layers production in Rogo Local Government Area of Kano State. …”
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Accurate segmentation of localized fuel cladding chemical interaction layers in SEM micrographs with deep learning method by Liang Zhao, Yachun Wang, Fei Xu

“…Fuel/cladding chemical interaction (FCCI) is a random, localized, complex interdiffusion phenomenon occurring at the fuel cladding interface under irradiation, thinning the cladding wall. …”
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Sensitivity Analysis of Mechanical Parameters of Different Rock Layers to the Stability of Coal Roadway in Soft Rock Strata by Zeng-hui Zhao, Wei-ming Wang, Xin Gao, Ji-xing Yan

“…Selecting the tunnel position, deformation modulus, and strength parameters of each layer as influencing factors, the sensitivity coefficient of roadway deformation to each parameter was firstly analyzed based on a Mohr-Columb strain softening model and nonlinear elastic-plastic finite element analysis. …”
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Investigation of solution-processed tungsten disulfide as switching layer in flexible resistive memory devices for performance and stability by Shalu Saini, Shree Prakash Tiwari

“…Solution-processed tungsten disulfide (WS _2 ) is demonstrated as a promising resistive switching layer for flexible resistive random access memory (RRAM) devices. …”
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