RFreeTrack: RFID non-contact robust positioning system based on differential phase holography by Linqing GUI, Yi JIANG, Qingyun ZHANG, Fu XIAO

“…To address the issue of large positioning errors in complex environments within non-contact RFID-based positioning systems, RFreeTrack system was proposed.Commercial RFID equipment was used to calculate the reflected signals from targets, achieving high-precision non-contact positioning in complex environment.Firstly, a search method based on time-series similarity was proposed to employ for calibrating static signals, thus significantly enhanced the robustness of target reflection signal extraction.Secondly, a non-contact positioning method based on differential phase holography was introduced to eliminate the influence of the reader antenna’s position, thus the accuracy of positioning was improved and the complexity of system was deployment reduced as well.Finally, a high-precision non-contact positioning system prototype was realized.Experimental results indicate that in complex environments, the phase of the target reflection signals extracted using the calibrated static signals has a 68.8% lower error compared to existing methods.Based on the previously calibrated static reflection signals, the average positioning error using differential phase holography in complex environments is 0.040 8 m, and has a 50.6% improvement on location over existing methods.…”
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Thermal conductivity of different bio-based insulation materials by Sergej Medved, Eugenia Mariana Tudor, Marius Catalin Barbu, Timothy M. Young

“…To present a possible solution for wood residues like wood chips, wood particles and bark, we investigated the possibility of using wood and bark residues as constituents for the production of single layer insulation panel with a target thickness of 40 mm and target density of 0.2 g·cm-3. …”
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The Effect of Differential Attentional Focus Strategies on the Performance of Military Elite Shooters by Amin Amini, Mohammad Vaezmousavi

“…The results of the study support the hypothesis that external-relevant attentional focus produced better scores, better accumulation, more stability at the target center, and less average fluctuation. Therefore, this attentional focus strategy improves performance precision of military elite shooters.…”
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Novel Gain-Optimized Two-Step Fusion Filtering Method for Ranging-Based Localization Using Predicted Residuals by Bo Chang, Xinrong Zhang, Na Sun, Hao Ni

“…Secondly, the exact position of the target is obtained using the reconstructed Gaussian white noise statistics and the Kalman filtering algorithm. …”
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Analyzing the Measurement Equivalence of a Translated Test in a Statewide Assessment Program by Jorge Carvajal-Espinoza, Greg Welch

“…The study used samples of native speakers of the target language of the translation taking the test in both the source and target language, specifically Hispanics taking the test in English and Spanish. …”
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The pupil near response is short lasting and intact in virtual reality head mounted displays by Hidde Pielage, Adriana A. Zekveld, Sjors van de Ven, Sophia E. Kramer, Marnix Naber

“…Experiment 2 did not find that average pupil dilation differed when fixating targets at different distances, suggesting that the pupil near response is transient and does not result in sustained pupil size changes.…”
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Digital Melting Curve Analysis for Multiplex Quantification of Nucleic Acids on Droplet Digital PCR by Xiaoqing Dai, Meng Cao, Zunliang Wang

“…An experimental protocol for digital MCA on the ddPCR platform was established, enabling accurate quantification of six target pathogen genes using a single fluorescence channel, with an average accuracy of 85%. …”
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Vehicle Detection and Shape Refinement Based on LiDAR by YU An, HU Dongfang, WANG Xuepeng, ZHANG Jin, ZHOU Yan, XIE Guotao, QIN Xiaohui, HU Manjiang

“…Although the existing vehicle detection algorithm based on lidar can accurately detect and classify each target vehicle, there is a problem of unstable estimation when the vehicle point cloud contour is partially obscured in an "L" shape. …”
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Analysis of vehicle and pedestrian detection effects of improved YOLOv8 model in drone-assisted urban traffic monitoring system. by Huili Dou, Sirui Chen, Fangyuan Xu, Yuanyuan Liu, Hongyang Zhao

“…Experimental results show that the improved YOLOv8 model exhibits excellent detection performance on the VisDrone2019 dataset, and outperforms other classic target detection models and the baseline YOLOv8 model in key indicators such as precision, recall, F1 score, and mean average precision (mAP). …”
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Design of 3 DOF hexapod leg movement using inverse kinematics: bridging gaps in multilegged robot kinematics literature by Heru Suwoyo, Nur Aziz Taufikurohman, Yingzhong Tian, Achmad Burhanudin

“…The testing results show an average Inverse Kinematics error of 1.56 mm on the X-axis, 0.88 mm on the Y-axis, and 0.78 mm on the Z-axis. …”
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Acute medicine: discharge lounge utilisation QI by James Larsen, Kaenat Mulla, Nasrin Moatamedi, Shahin Barati, George Tharakan

“…The current 4-h performance for AMU at St Mary’s Hospital (SMH) is ∼20% for this financial year. The NHS 4-h target is 76%.1 Problem statement: AMU capacity at SMH currently sits at 98% daily, with an average discharge time of 15:24 h. …”
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THE APPLICATION OF SHIFT METHOD USING MOVING LASER ON CANCER CASES IN HEAD AREA USING 3DCRT AND VMAT TECHNOLOGY by Samsun Samsun, Nursama Heru Apriantoro, Rudi Kurniawan, Agnes Dwika Septiti

“…Therefore, before radiotherapy, the isocenter of the patient must be determined to find out the target location. Verification serves to determine the isocenter that shifts from the reference point on the CT simulator. …”
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Assessing tuna populations around fads in Tabam waters for coastal management by Mutmainnah Ridwan, Alfi Umahuk, Martini Djamhur, Yuliana Recar, Saptariani Putri Ridwan, Edy Miswar, Edwarsyah Edwarsyah

“…Tabam waters are waters in Ternate City where the average population works as fishermen using gillnet fishing gear with the target fish being tuna (Eutynnus affinis) locally called Tongkol. …”
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YOLOv10n-Based Defect Detection in Power Insulators: Attention Enhancement and Feature Fusion Optimization by Zhihao Wei, Yan Wei

“…The Concat module in Neck is replaced by a two-way weighted feature fusion mechanism, which constructs a top-down and bottom-up two-way information flow, reduces the loss of cross-layer information, and significantly enhances the model’s ability to detect multi-scale defects, such as insulator cracks and fouling, and especially improves the resolution of details of small targets in long-distance shooting scenarios. The channel-space dual attention mechanism (CBAM) is integrated into the C2f module, and the channel weights are computed by global average pooling and maximum pooling in parallel, combined with the spatial attention features extracted by convolution, to realize the accurate focusing on defect-related channels and spatial regions, and the experimental results show that the improved model’s mAP@50 reaches 94.2%, which is 2.4% better than that of the baseline model YOLOv10n, and better than that of YOLOv5n. …”
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G2Grad-CAMRL: An Object Detection and Interpretation Model Based on Gradient-Weighted Class Activation Mapping and Reinforcement Learning in Remote Sensing Images by Shoulin Yin, Liguo Wang, Muhammad Shafiq, Lin Teng, Asif Ali Laghari, Muhammad Faizan Khan

“…Aiming at the complex background of RSIs and the lack of interpretability of existing target detection models, and the problems in feature extraction between different network structures, different layers, and the accuracy of target classification, we propose an object detection and interpretation model based on gradient-weighted class activation mapping and reinforcement learning. …”
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Research on Calf Behavior Recognition Based on Improved Lightweight YOLOv8 in Farming Scenarios by Ze Yuan, Shuai Wang, Chunguang Wang, Zheying Zong, Chunhui Zhang, Lide Su, Zeyu Ban

“…The results show that the number of parameters, floating point operations (FLOPs), model size, and mean average precision (mAP) of the model after introducing the P2 small-target detection layer and pruning with the Lamp strategy are 0.949 M, 4.0 G, 2.3 Mb, and 90.9%, respectively. …”
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Fresh frozen plasma: A solution to heparin resistance during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) by Fayaz Mohammed Khazi, Ashraf Mahmoud Elhoufi, Tarek Ahmed AbdelAziz, Nayyer R Siddiqui, Bassil Al-Zamkan, Suresh Babu Robert, Pradeep Kumar Pillai, Obaid Aljassim

“…Heparin infusion was increased incrementally to achieve target ACT in HG group and plasma administered in FFPG group in heparin resistance (HR) patients. …”
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Optimization with a Very Simple Hybrid Grey Wolf—JAYA Metaheuristic Optimizer by Chiara Furio, Luciano Lamberti, Catalin I. Pruncu

“…In fact, SHGWJA always found the global optimum or a best cost at most 0.0121% larger than the target optimum. Furthermore, SHGWJA was very robust: (i) in most cases, SHGWJA obtained a 0 or near-0 standard deviation and all optimization runs practically converged to the target optimum solution; (ii) standard deviation on optimized cost was at most 0.0876% of the best design; (iii) the standard deviation on function evaluations was at most 35% of the average computational cost. …”
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A Dynamic Evaluation Method for Collaborative Search Efficiency of Multi-Sonar Systems Under Uncertain Situations by Shizhe Wang, Weiyi Chen, Zongji Li, Xu Chen

“…It discretizes the sonar search path and target motion trajectory in the time and space, and calculates the sonar detection efficiency point by point, which can overcome the challenge of uncertain situation conditions due to the uncertainty of target motion by dynamic spatial-temporal deduction. …”
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Effect of Triage Education on knowledge, attitude and practice of nurses in Poursina Educational and Therapeutic Emergency center in Rasht by zahra haghdoost, mahbuobeh safari, hosein yahyavi

“…Samples were selected by method of sampling based on target and 40 nurses employed in emergency center were selected. …”
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