Improved YOLOv8n based helmet wearing inspection method by Xinying Chen, Zhisheng Jiao, Yuefan Liu

“…Abstract This paper proposes the YOLOv8n_H method to address issues regarding parameter redundancy, slow inference speed, and suboptimal detection precision in contemporary helmet-wearing target recognition algorithms. The YOLOv8 C2f module is enhanced with a new SC_Bottleneck structure, incorporating the SCConv module, now termed SC_C2f, to mitigate model complexity and computational costs. …”
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Investigation and Analysis of Anchor Status of Small Coastal Fishing Vessels for Response to Submarine-Cable Risk Factors by Tae-Ho Lee, Bong-Kyu Jung

“…This study investigated the status of anchors for small fishing vessels that correspond with the risk factors of submarine cables, which are essential elements for offshore wind farms. As for target vessels, small coastal fishing vessels of less than ten tons were divided into four categories by tonnage, and 71 locations were compared from a total of 59 fishing vessels. …”
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Real-Time Control System for Improved Precision and Throughput in an Ultrafast Carbon Fiber Placement Robot Using a SoC FPGA Extended Processing Platform by Gilberto Ochoa-Ruiz, Romain Bevan, Florent de Lamotte, Jean-Philippe Diguet, Cheng-Cong Bao

“…Therefore, a custom real-time solution was imperative in order to ameliorate the performance and to meet the stringent requirements of the target industry (avionics, aeronautical systems). …”
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Pharmacoeconomic analysis of using belimumab for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus by A. G. Tolkushin, N. L. Pogudina

“…The use of belimumab in the target population of patients is pharmacoeconomically justified and expedient because it leads to increased treatment efficiency and reduction of direct and indirect costs.…”
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A population representation of the confidence in a decision in the parietal cortex by Ariel Zylberberg, Michael N. Shadlen

“…Shortly before the choice report, LIP neurons with response fields overlapping the contralateral choice target (Tin neurons) convey information about choice accuracy. …”
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Annexin V–CLIO: A Nanoparticle for Detecting Apoptosis by MRI by Eyk A. Schellenberger, Alexei Bogdanov, Dagmar Högemann, Jonathan Tait, Ralph Weissleder, Lee Josephson

“…Annexin V, which recognizes the phosphatidylserine of apoptotic cells, was conjugated to crosslinked iron oxide (CLIO) nanoparticles, a functionalized superparamagnetic preparation developed for target-specific magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). …”
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Livestock Breeders’ Conflicts in the Steppe Rangelands of Naâma Region (Western Algeria) by Youcefi Ahmed Toufik, Marouf Abderrazak

“…The approach taken to carry out this analysis is based on a field survey whose target population is the holders of the herd. The sample size exceeds 364 surveyed spread across the 12 municipalities in our study area. …”
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Equity-oriented monitoring in the context of universal health coverage. by Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor, Nicole Bergen, Theadora Koller, Amit Prasad, Anne Schlotheuber, Nicole Valentine, John Lynch, Jeanette Vega

“…When measuring inequality absolute and relative measures should be reported together, along with disaggregated data; inequality should be reported alongside the national average. We recommend targets based on proportional reductions in absolute inequality across populations. …”
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Research on an intelligent coagulant dosing system based on alum floc image recognition by FU Yuan, LEI Zhifeng, CUI Dongfeng, GUO Zhongquan, CAI Bohan, XIAO Yan, ZHOU Aijiao*

“…The production test showed that the detection accuracy of alum floc target was 83.5%, and the predicted dosage was 11.0% lower than the original empirical value. …”
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Metal surface defect detection using SLF-YOLO enhanced YOLOv8 model by Yuan Liu, Yilong Liu, Xiaoyan Guo, Xi Ling, Qingyi Geng

“…Additionally, an improved FIMetal-IoU loss function is introduced to boost generalization performance, particularly for fine-grained and small-target defects. Experimental results demonstrate that SLF-YOLO achieves a mean Average Precision (mAP) of 80.0% on the NEU-DET dataset, outperforming YOLOv8’s 75.9%. …”
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Understanding Adolescents and Teachers at Vocational Schools From a Health Promotion Perspective by Margit Dall Aaslyng, Jacob Suhr Bisschop-Thomsen, Liv Juncker Harsløf

“…Students at vocational schools in Denmark have, on average, a lower health status than that of comparable young people in high schools for several parameters. …”
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Is the vocabulary level of the reading section of the TOEFL internet-based test beyond the lexical level of Japanese senior high school students? by Masaya Kaneko

“…First, this study aims to examine how well a vocabulary of 3,000 word families, which is the lexical size target for Japanese high school graduates set by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, enables students to comprehend reading passages in the TOEFL iBT. …”
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Heterogeneity in mode choice behavior: A spatial latent class approach based on accessibility measures by Jaime Pablo Orrego-Oñate, Kelly Clifton, Ricardo Hurtubia

“…We believe this is a very intuitive way to spatially analyze travel behavior trends, allowing policymakers to identify target areas of the city and the accessibility levels required to attain desired modal splits. …”
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The impact of signal variability on COVID-19 epidemic growth rate estimation from wastewater surveillance data. by Ewan Colman, Rowland Kao

“…The number of copies of a target gene found in a sample is modelled as time-dependent random variable whose distribution is estimated using maximum likelihood. …”
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G&G Attack: General and Geometry-Aware Adversarial Attack on the Point Cloud by Geng Chen, Zhiwen Zhang, Yuanxi Peng, Chunchao Li, Teng Li

“…In this paper, we integrate adversarial transfer networks with the geometry-aware method to introduce adversarial loss into the attack target. A state-of-the-art autoencoder is employed, and sensitivity maps are utilized. …”
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Stochastic Regulation of her1/7 Gene Expression Is the Source of Noise in the Zebrafish Somite Clock Counteracted by Notch Signalling. by Robert P Jenkins, Anja Hanisch, Cristian Soza-Ried, Erik Sahai, Julian Lewis

“…Rather, the analysis predicts that clock desynchronisation, in the absence of Notch signalling, is due to the stochastic dissociation of Her1/7 repressor proteins from the oscillating her1/7 autorepressed target genes. Using in situ hybridisation to visualise sites of active her1 transcription, we measure an average delay of approximately three minutes between the times of activation of the two her1 alleles in a cell. …”
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The threshold effects of inflation rate, interest rate, and exchange rate on economic growth in Nigeria by Olajide O. Oyadeyi, Tolulope T. Osinubi, Munacinga Simatele, Oluwadamilola A. Oyadeyi

“…The results of interest rate-economic growth thresholds suggest targeting an average monetary policy rate of 16.5%, a prime lending rate of 20%, and a maximum lending rate of 30%. …”
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PHARMACO-EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION IN RUSSIA: THE RESULTS OF THE PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY PIFAGOR III by M. V. Leonova, Yu. B. Belousov, L. L. Steinberg, A. A. Galitskyi, D. Yu. Belousov

“…Target blood pressure levels (<140/90 mm Hg) were achieved in 69%. …”
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Direct 3-D printing of complex optical phantoms using dynamic filament mixing by Rahul Ragunathan, Miguel Mireles, Edward Xu, Aiden Lewis, Morris Vanegas, Qianqian Fang

“…Future studies will target the usage of additional filament materials to expand potential imaging applications.…”
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Analysis on Black Shale Sedimentary Paleoenvironment and Tectonic Setting of the First Member of Luzhai Formation of Lower Carboniferous, Rongshui Area of Guangxi, China by Juan Li, Yinglun Qin, Huanpeng Chi, Yukun Tian, Yufang Wang, Liyun Kong

“…In order to promote the discovery of new shale gas exploration areas in Guangxi, based on the latest drilling data, through detailed observation and description of logging data and cores, this paper selects high-quality shale samples of the target layer for X-ray diffraction analysis and testing of clay minerals and whole rock, major and trace elements (including rare-earth elements), TOC, and other related analysis and testing. …”
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