Improving BI-RADS Mammographic Classification With Self-Supervised Vision Transformers and Cascade Learning by Abdelrahman Abdallah, Mahmoud Salaheldin Kasem, Ibrahim Abdelhalim, Norah Saleh Alghamdi, Ayman El-Baz

“…To validate the effectiveness of PatchCascade-ViT, we conducted extensive evaluations on a dataset of 4,368 mammograms across three BI-RADS classes. …”
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SMAP Validation Experiment 2019–2022 (SMAPVEX19–22): Field Campaign to Improve Soil Moisture and Vegetation Optical Depth Retrievals in Temperate Forests by Andreas Colliander, Michael H. Cosh, Laura Bourgeau-Chavez, Victoria R. Kelly, Simon Kraatz, Paul Siqueira, Victoria A. Walker, Xingjian Chen, Alexandre Roy, Tarendra Lakhankar, Kyle C. McDonald, Nicholas Steiner, Mehmet Kurum, Seung-bum Kim, Aaron Berg, Xiaolan Xu, Sidharth Misra, Mehmet Ogut, Cristina Vittucci, John S. Kimball, Dara Entekhabi, Simon H. Yueh

“…NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission, with its partners, conducted the SMAP Validation Experiment 2019–2022 (SMAPVEX19–22) to improve the SMAP SM and VOD retrievals in temperate forests of the northeastern USA. …”
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Clinical, Genetics, and Bioinformatic Characterization of Mutations Affecting an Essential Region of PLS3 in Patients with BMND18 by Ting Chen, Haiying Wu, Chenxi Zhang, Jiarong Feng, Linqi Chen, Rongrong Xie, Fengyun Wang, Xiuli Chen, Huiting Zhou, Hui Sun, Fei Xiao

“…Bioinformatic analyses mainly including homology modelling and molecular dynamics stimulation were conducted to explore the impact of the previously reported mutations on plastin-3. …”
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The Disks In Scorpius–Centaurus Survey (DISCS). I. Four Newly Resolved Debris Disks in Polarized Intensity Light by Justin Hom, Thomas M. Esposito, Katie A. Crotts, Gaspard Duchêne, Jennifer Patience, Johan Mazoyer, Robert J. De Rosa, Christine H. Chen, Paul Kalas, Bruce Macintosh, Brenda C. Matthews

“…The presence of infrared excesses around stars directly correlates with spatially resolved imaging detections of circumstellar disks at both millimeter and optical/near-infrared wavelengths. …”
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Operational wind plants increase planetary boundary layer height: an observational study by A. Abraham, M. Puccioni, A. Jordan, E. Maric, N. Bodini, N. Hamilton, S. Letizia, P. M. Klein, E. N. Smith, S. Wharton, J. Gero, J. D. Jacob, R. Krishnamurthy, R. K. Newsom, M. Pekour, W. Radünz, P. Moriarty

“…Using both of these methods, the values of PBLH measured at spatially distributed sites are compared under a range of atmospheric conditions. …”
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Repetitive magnetic stimulation with iTBS600 induces persistent structural and functional plasticity in mouse organotypic slice cultures by Han Lu, Shreyash Garg, Maximilian Lenz, Andreas Vlachos

“…Despite the widespread electric field generated by rTMS, its effects were spatially and temporally precise, driving Hebbian plasticity and region-specific spine dynamics. …”
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Monitoring Vertical Urban Growth in Rapidly Developing Cities with Persistent Scatterer Interferometry: A Multi-Temporal Assessment with COSMO-SkyMed Data in Wuhan, China by Zeeshan Afzal, Timo Balz, Francesca Cigna, Deodato Tapete

“…Although the study is focused on one city with accuracy assessed on a spatially confined sample of more than 500 buildings, the findings suggest that PSInSAR height estimates from high-resolution SAR imagery can complement global settlement datasets (e.g., Global Human Settlement Layer, GHSL) in order to achieve better accuracy for individual building heights. …”
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Mapping temperature, humidity, air quality, and noise-related comfort conditions to identify urban planning issues: a case study of Ljubljana, Slovenia by Živa Ravnikar, Alfonso Bahillo, Barbara Goličnik Marušić

“…Using a previously developed microclimate and user-comfort street assessment protocol, the study conducts an in-depth case analysis of five distinct streets in Ljubljana. …”
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Association of Antibiotic Resistance Traits in Uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) Isolates by Md. Mostafizer Rahman, Mridha Md. Kamal Hossain, Rubaya Rubaya, Joyanta Halder, Md. Ekramul Karim, Anjuman Ara Bhuiya, Anwara Khatun, Jahangir Alam

“…Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health problem which is constantly evolving and varies spatially and temporally. Resistance to a particular antibiotic may serve as a selection and coselection marker for the same or different antibiotic classes. …”
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Physical modeling experiments to study periodic activation of faults in seismic zones by S. A. Bornyakov, I. A. Panteleev, A. V. Cheremnykh, A. A. Karimova

“…The experiments were conducted on elastoviscoplastic and elastic models of the lithosphere. …”
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Predicting the passive control of fluid forces over circular cylinder in a time dependent flow using neuro-computing by Atif Asghar, Rashid Mahmood, Afraz Hussain Majeed, Hammad Alotaibi, Ahmed Refaie Ali

“…The nonlinear partial differential equations are spatially discretized with the finite element method, while temporal derivatives are addressed using a backward implicit Euler scheme. …”
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Analysis of Sandbar–Trough Bed Level Changes Under Regular Wave Conditions—A Case Study of Ten-Mile Silver Beach, Hailing Island, China by Xiaodong Bian, Zhiqiang Li, Yan Sun, Daoheng Zhu, Tao Chen, Chunhua Zeng

“…As the sandbar–trough system developed, the explanatory power of hydrodynamic factors on bed elevation decreased by 41% in the trough region and increased by 3.7% in the sandbar region, indicating a spatially differentiated pattern characterized by weakened forcing in the trough and enhanced response over the sandbar. …”
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Agricultural Drought Dynamics With Satellite Soil Moisture and Impacts on Crop Loss in China During 2003–2022 by Yuhan Gu, Qisheng He, Shuqi Miao, Mingru Zhou, Zhihao Shen

“…At the national scale, correlation analyses were conducted between SSMI-based and SPEI-based drought intensity and crop loss metrics. …”
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Geodetic data inversion to estimate a strain-rate field by introducing sparse modeling by Yohei Nozue, Yukitoshi Fukahata

“…To investigate the validity and limitation of the proposed method, we conduct synthetic tests, in which we consider an anti-plane strain problem due to a steady slip on a buried strike-slip fault. …”
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Exploring the impact of pelvic radiotherapy dose distribution on lymphocyte counts: a voxel-based analysis by Sanghyeok Lee, Seohan Kim, Sangseok Ha, Kyu-Hye Choi, Wonmo Sung

“…Materials and methods A retrospective analysis was conducted on 122 patients who underwent pelvic RT. …”
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Current geological processes affecting the environment of the Caspian region by E. M. Aliyev, S. A. Guryanov, A. S. Belyaeva

“…Natural oil and gas showings are spatially and genetically linked primarily with geological processes—vertical and horizontal movements, seismicity, including sedimentary—small-focus seismicity, mud volcanism, the migration and emigration of hydrocarbons, as well as the accumulation of free gas in the upper part of the sedimentary sequence.   …”
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Comparison of the economic efficiency and sustainability of two debonding processes for structurally bonded sills by Alex Jordan, Lucas Hermelingmeier, Julian Gilich, Gerson Meschut, Marco De Santis, Alexander Schlüter

“…The resulting temperature profiles were recorded using spatially distributed thermocouples. Subsequently, the outer panel was selectively debonded to replicate a repair scenario, and the mechanical integrity of the remaining adhesive joint was evaluated through Mode I testing of l-shaped specimens. …”
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Cerebellar white and gray matter abnormalities in temporal lobe epilepsy: a voxel-based morphometry study by Yini Chen, Jingyu Pan, Andong Lin, Lu Sun, Yufei Li, Hongsen Lin, Renwang Pu, Ying Wang, Yiwei Qi, Bo Sun

“…In the TLE patient group, we conducted partial correlation analysis between the volumes of different cerebellar regions and cognitive rating scale scores, such as MMSE and MoCA. …”
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Hydrodynamic exposure – on the quest to deriving quantitative metrics for mariculture sites by Oliver Lojek, Nils Goseberg, Nils Goseberg, Heidi Moe Føre, Tobias Dewhurst, Thea Bölker, Kevin Gerald Heasman, Bela H. Buck, Bela H. Buck, David W. Fredriksson, Samuel Rickerich

“…A sensitivity analysis was conducted that quantified the relationship between the exposure indices and storm event return period. …”
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Longitudinal monitoring of sewershed resistomes in socioeconomically diverse urban neighborhoods by Jangwoo Lee, Kevin Xiang, Emily Au, Shahrzad Sarabi, Nicole Acosta, Srijak Bhatnagar, Jennifer Van Doorn, Stefania Bertazzon, John M. Conly, Elissa Rennert-May, Johann D. D. Pitout, Bonita E. Lee, Xiaoli Pang, Christine O’Grady, Kevin Frankowski, Casey R. J. Hubert, Michael D. Parkins

“…Methods We explored the relationship between SES and AMR in Calgary, Canada using spatially-resolved wastewater-based surveillance of resistomes detected by metagenomics across eight socio-economically diverse urban neighborhoods. …”
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