FLA-UNet: feature-location attention U-Net for foveal avascular zone segmentation in OCTA images by Wei Li, Li Cao, He Deng

“…Although the U-Net and its existing improvement methods have achieved good performance on FAZ segmentation, their generalization ability and segmentation accuracy can be further improved by exploring more effective improvement strategies.MethodsWe propose a novel improved method named Feature-location Attention U-Net (FLA-UNet) by introducing new designed feature-location attention blocks (FLABs) into U-Net and using a joint loss function. …”
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Automated skin lesion detection and prevalence estimation in Tamanend's bottlenose dolphins by Colin J. Murphy, Melissa A. Collier, Ann-Marie Jacoby, Eric M. Patterson, Megan M. Wallen, Janet Mann, Shweta Bansal

“…Anthropogenic global change is occurring at alarming rates, leading to increased urgency in the ability to monitor wildlife health in real time. Monitoring sentinel marine species, such as bottlenose dolphins, is particularly important due to extensive anthropogenic modifications to their habitats. …”
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Mitochondria-targeted nanovesicles for ursodeoxycholic acid delivery to combat neurodegeneration by ameliorating mitochondrial dysfunction by Shizheng Zhang, Mengmeng Li, Yuan Li, Shike Yang, Jian Wang, Xiaoxiang Ren, Xiuhui Wang, Long Bai, Jianping Huang, Zhen Geng, Guosheng Han, Yibin Fang, Jiacan Su

“…However, multiple barriers, including the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and cellular/mitochondrial membranes, significantly hinder the efficient delivery of therapeutic agents to the damaged neuronal mitochondria. …”
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THE LEVEL OF DEMONSTRATION OF VARIETY GENETIC POTENTIAL DEPENDING ON THE GROWING CONDITIONS by L. A. Radchenko, A. F. Radchenko

“…The varieties ‘Zorepad’, ‘Turunchuk’ and ‘Missiya Odesskaya’ show the most efficient combination of these indexes, that demonstrates their abilities to give stable yields under various growing conditions.…”
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Teacher Training by Lee Hsia Carmel Heah

“…Therefore, the guiding principle in training is to help teachers perceive options available, extend their repertoire or skill and, by familiarizing them with the principles under the courses, improve their ability to select appropriately from these skill options. …”
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Cow Math—Using Weaning Weight to Estimate Cowherd Productivity by Phillip Lancaster, John Arthington

“… “You can’t get where you’re going unless you know where you are.” The ability to measure performance is a key component in all beef cow operations, and measuring production efficiency is becoming increasingly important. …”
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Teacher Training by Lee Hsia Carmel Heah

“…Therefore, the guiding principle in training is to help teachers perceive options available, extend their repertoire or skill and, by familiarizing them with the principles under the courses, improve their ability to select appropriately from these skill options. …”
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Teacher Training by Lee Hsia Carmel Heah

“…Therefore, the guiding principle in training is to help teachers perceive options available, extend their repertoire or skill and, by familiarizing them with the principles under the courses, improve their ability to select appropriately from these skill options. …”
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Teacher Training by Lee Hsia Carmel Heah

“…Therefore, the guiding principle in training is to help teachers perceive options available, extend their repertoire or skill and, by familiarizing them with the principles under the courses, improve their ability to select appropriately from these skill options. …”
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Teacher Training by Lee Hsia Carmel Heah

“…Therefore, the guiding principle in training is to help teachers perceive options available, extend their repertoire or skill and, by familiarizing them with the principles under the courses, improve their ability to select appropriately from these skill options. …”
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A Cloud Computing-Based Intelligent Forecasting Method for Cross-Border E-Commerce Logistics Costs by Yanting Li

“…Aiming at the problems of poor forecasting effect and low accuracy and low efficiency in current cross-border e-commerce logistics cost prediction methods, a cloud computing-based intelligent method for cross-border e-commerce logistics cost prediction is proposed. …”
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Investigating the Effect of Injection Start Time in Compression Ignition Engine: A Reactive Control on Waste Heat Recovery Capacity by Hamed Asghari, Amin Farzin

“…Their effects on exergy destruction, productivity coefficient, engine output power, and produced pollutants have been studied. …”
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TIMA-Net: A Lightweight Remote Sensing Image Change Detection Network Based on Temporal Interaction Enhancement and Multi-Scale Aggregation by Zhijun Zhou, Xuejie Zhang, Xiaoliang Luo, Lvchun Wang, Wei Yu, Shufang Xu, Longbao Wang

“…Specifically, TIMA-Net designs a temporal interaction enhancement module based on dual-branch and coordinate attention and combines channel segmentation and multi-scale features to enhance the representation ability of the changed region. The comparative experimental results show that TIMA-Net outperforms several state-of-the-art methods on multiple remote sensing datasets, especially in terms of accuracy and computational efficiency. …”
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Mathematical modeling describing the performance of open loop multivariable vapor compression chiller model: implications for sustainable HVAC in social housing development by Basim Touqan, Basim Touqan, Muna Salameh

“…The simplified model offers an accurate yet computationally efficient representation of the system’s dynamics. …”
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Interleaved Landsman Converter with Class Topper Optimized PI Control in Sensorless BLDC Motor Drive for Electric Vehicle by Suresh V., Jahnavi V.G., Manjula D., Lokesh M.

“…The most important results are the achievement of high voltage conversion efficiency of 97.42%, a minimized settling time of 0.1 seconds, and rapid convergence speed, which collectively demonstrate the system's ability to provide reliable and efficient operation for EV propulsion. …”
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Applications of Ferric Oxide in Water Splitting by Electrolysis: A Comprehensive Review by Bruno G. Pollet, Shankara S. Kalanur

“…In water electrolysis, the use of an efficient catalyst derived from earth-abundant materials which is cost-effective and stable is essential for the economic sustainability of hydrogen production. …”
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Rede neural artificial aplicada à previsão de vazão da Bacia Hidrográfica do Rio Piancó Artificial neural network applied to the forecast of streamflow in the Piancó River Basin... by Wanderson dos S. Sousa, Francisco de A. S. de Sousa

“…The ANN architecture that produced the better result was RC315L with values for the determination coefficient, efficiency coefficient and standard estimate error (SEE) equal to 92.0, 77.0% and 8.29 respectively.…”
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Therapeutic hemoglobin levels after gene transfer in β-thalassemia mice and in hematopoietic cells of β-thalassemia and sickle cells disease patients. by Laura Breda, Carla Casu, Sara Gardenghi, Nicoletta Bianchi, Luca Cartegni, Mohandas Narla, Karina Yazdanbakhsh, Marco Musso, Deepa Manwani, Jane Little, Lawrence B Gardner, Dorothy A Kleinert, Eugenia Prus, Eitan Fibach, Robert W Grady, Patricia J Giardina, Roberto Gambari, Stefano Rivella

“…However, previous studies have not addressed whether the ability of lentiviral vectors to increase hemoglobin synthesis might vary in different patients.We generated lentiviral vectors carrying the human β-globin gene with and without an ankyrin insulator and compared their ability to induce hemoglobin synthesis in vitro and in thalassemic mice. …”
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The Rewiring of Ubiquitination Targets in a Pathogenic Yeast Promotes Metabolic Flexibility, Host Colonization and Virulence. by Delma S Childers, Ingrida Raziunaite, Gabriela Mol Avelar, Joanna Mackie, Susan Budge, David Stead, Neil A R Gow, Megan D Lenardon, Elizabeth R Ballou, Donna M MacCallum, Alistair J P Brown

“…Efficient carbon assimilation is critical for microbial growth and pathogenesis. …”
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‌Rockburst intensity grading prediction based on the LOF-ENN-KNN model‌ by Haoran Ge, Jiyong Zhang, Congbo Ma, Kai Hui, Yicong Li, Ziniu Wu

“…Through engineering examples, it is further confirmed that high-precision prediction ability can still be preserved in complex nonlinear parameters, which provides an efficient and reliable technical scheme for rockburst warning in deep engineering.…”
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