Evaluating the role of AI-simulated patients compared with peer-to-peer learning models in the enhancement of medical education: is it beyond theoretical functionality? by Pegin Poulose

“…Compared with peer-to-peer learning, SIMPAT was perceived as more time-efficient, because, traditionally, one peer within a pair had to be the ‘patient actor’. …”
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Synthesis, Antibacterial, and Antioxidant Activities of Thiazolyl-Pyrazoline Schiff Base Hybrids: A Combined Experimental and Computational Study by Demis Zelelew, Milkyas Endale, Yadessa Melaku, Fedlu Kedir, Taye B. Demissie, Japheth O. Ombito, Rajalakshmanan Eswaramoorthy

“…Thiazole-pyrazoline Schiff base hybrids have a broad range of pharmacological potential with an ability to control the activity of numerous metabolic enzymes. …”
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Research on High-Accuracy, Lightweight, Superfast Model for Nitrogen Diagnosis and Plant Growth in Lettuce (<i>Lactuca sativa</i> L.) by Xuyang Li, Iftikhar Hussain Shah, Xiaohao Gong, Muhammad Azam, Wu Jinhui, Pengli Li, Yidong Zhang, Qingliang Niu, Liying Chang

“…Nondestructive techniques have the ability to handle complex relationships in the data, enabling more accurate and efficient nitrogen diagnosis. …”
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Global context-aware attention model for weakly-supervised temporal action localization by Weina Fu, Wenxiang Zhang, Jing Long, Gautam Srivastava, Shuai Liu

“…It aims to locate the start and end timestamps of the actions in a video and recognize their categories. However, efficient action localization often requires extensive precise annotations. …”
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Airway epithelial stem cell renewal and differentiation: overcoming challenging steps towards clinical-grade tissue engineering by Davide Adamo, Vincenzo Giuseppe Genna, Giulia Galaverni, Chiara Chiavelli, Alessia Merra, Fabio Lepore, Federica Boraldi, Daniela Quaglino, Jessica Evangelista, Filippo Lococo, Graziella Pellegrini

“…Methods Stem cell depletion is often due to suboptimal culture conditions, therefore we tested the ability of a clinical-grade culture system to support the safe and efficient in vitro expansion and differentiation of primary human tracheal and bronchial epithelial cells. …”
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Experimental investigation of heterotrophic Micro-Algae Oil biodiesel production processes by Folayan Adewale Johnson, Bilal Patel, Bolanle Deborah Ikotun

“…Similarly, the fuel's ignition and combustion qualities and oxidation stability were measured through cetane rating, heating value and induction periods experiments respectively.An oil yield of 68.7 % was obtained. This supports the efficiency of the SCCO2 extraction process and the ability of heterotrophic growth to bring about increased biomass feed stock and higher accumulation of lipids (triglycerides) in its biomass. …”
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Poly-ε-caprolactone/chitosan/whitlockite electrospun bionic membrane conjugated with an E7 peptide for bone regeneration by Guangzi Chen, Tao Xu, Ran Gao, Wenbin Liu, Weigang Li, Delu Zeng, Jian Li, Xuan Fang, Gaohong Sheng, Hongqi Zhao, Chaoxu Liu

“…Matrigel was applied to evaluate the ability of the different composite nanofibers samples to promote angiogenesis. …”
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The impact of online situational interventions on hostile attribution bias and emotion regulation difficulties: an empirical study from the perspective of crime prevention by Weixuan Ye, Zhiqiang Wang, Shuhui Xu

“…Conclusions (1) Hostile attribution bias and emotion regulation difficulties significantly predict adolescent aggression; (2) Online contextual interventions effectively reduce hostile attribution bias and improve emotion regulation abilities in adolescents; (3) The study provides theoretical and empirical support for using online interventions in behavioral correction and crime prevention in adolescents; (4) Online interventions offer a convenient, efficient approach to preventing aggression and crime among adolescents. …”
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Optimized extraction and kinetic study of cholesterol oxidase from a newly isolated Escherichia fergusonii strain from local whey samples: insights through a combined experimental... by Simin Khataee, Gholamreza Dehghan, Samaneh Rashtbari, Arezu Marefat, Sina Jamei, Hamed Farzi-Khajeh

“…This study aimed to isolate a novel ChoX-producing bacterial strain from whey samples. Results The most efficient strain was selected based on extracellular ChoX-producing ability and characterized as Escherichia fergusonii (E. fergusonii) through molecular and biochemical analysis. …”
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Rice Disease Detection: TLI-YOLO Innovative Approach for Enhanced Detection and Mobile Compatibility by Zhuqi Li, Wangyu Wu, Bingcai Wei, Hao Li, Jingbo Zhan, Songtao Deng, Jian Wang

“…This study aims to develop a rice disease detection model that is highly accurate, resource efficient, and suitable for mobile deployment to address the limitations of existing technologies. …”
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Defect and solvent engineering of optoelectronic response in 2D materials: A DFT study on graphene, silicon carbide, and boron nitride for solar cell sensitizers by Mohammed A. Al-Seady, Lina Abd Oun AL-Jamal, Eman Ahmed, Mousumi Upadhyay Kahaly

“….), open-circuit voltage (VOC), and light-harvesting efficiency (LHE) were calculated. The results of the photovoltaic parameters indicated that G, SiC, and BN have a high ability to inject electrons into the conduction band minimum (CBM) of titanium dioxide (TiO2) semiconductor. …”
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YOLOv8-eRFD-AP: A Novel Domain Generalization Model for UAV-Based Insulator Inspection Under Adverse Weather Conditions by Badr-Eddine Benelmostafa, Rita Aitelhaj, Hicham Medromi

“…To address this, we present YOLOv8-eRFD-AP, an enhanced YOLOv8 variant designed to improve generalization ability across varied weather scenarios for insulator anomaly detection. …”
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Variational autoencoder-based model improves polygenic prediction in blood cell traits by Xiaoqi Li, Elena Kharitonova, Minxing Pang, Jia Wen, Laura Y. Zhou, Laura Raffield, Haibo Zhou, Huaxiu Yao, Can Chen, Yun Li, Quan Sun

“…We show that the variational autoencoder-based model for PRS construction (VAE-PRS) outperforms currently state-of-the-art methods for biobank-level data in 14 out of 16 blood cell traits, while being computationally efficient. Through comprehensive experiments, we found that the VAE-PRS model offers the ability to capture interaction effects in high-dimensional data and shows robust performance across different pre-screened variant sets. …”
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Generative spatial artificial intelligence for sustainable smart cities: A pioneering large flow model for urban digital twin by Jeffrey Huang, Simon Elias Bibri, Paul Keel

“…Despite recent progress, research on integrating GenAI and FMs into UDT frameworks remains scant, leaving gaps in our ability to capture complex urban flows and multimodal dynamics essential to achieving environmental sustainability goals. …”
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A shorter linker in the bispecific antibody RmAb158-scFv8D3 improves TfR-mediated blood-brain barrier transcytosis in vitro by Inga Petersen, Jamie I. Morrison, Alex Petrovic, Neira Babic, Nicole G. Metzendorf, Ana Godec, Andrés de la Rosa, Fadi Rofo, Sina Bondza, Jos Buijs, Farahnaz Ranjbarian, Anders Hofer, Dag Sehlin, Greta Hultqvist

“…At therapeutically relevant concentrations, bivalent binding to TfR appears to reduce the transcytosis efficiency by receptor crosslinking. In this study, we aimed to improve BBB transcytosis of symmetric antibodies through minimizing their ability to cause TfR crosslinking. …”
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Addressing the Knowledge Worker AI Literacy Gap with AI Technology by Shuyi WANG, Wen ZENG, Weishi ZHANG, Junjie LI

“…[Purpose/Significance] With the proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, knowledge workers' basic understanding of AI and their ability to evaluate its application, known as AI literacy, is particularly important. …”
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Fault diagnosis method of mine hoist main bearing with small sample based on VAE-WGAN by Fan JIANG, Hongyan SONG, Xi SHEN, Zhencai ZHU, Shuman CHENG

“…At the data level, VAE-WGAN was tested using the Case Western Reserve University dataset, and hyperparameters were optimized by evaluating the generation ability of VAE-WGAN through quantitative indicators. …”
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Breast lesion classification via colorized mammograms and transfer learning in a novel CAD framework by Abbas Ali Hussein, Morteza Valizadeh, Mehdi Chehel Amirani, Sedighe Mirbolouk

“…As a result, Computer-Aided Design (CAD) systems have become increasingly popular due to their ability to operate independently of human analysis. …”
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RSM-YOLOv11: Lightweight Steel Surface Defect Segmentation Algorithm Research Based on YOLOv11 Improvement by Zenghai Shan, Hu Haoyan, Changjian Zhu, Shaowen Du, Hongtao Jing, Wang Haibin

“…Additionally, generalization experiments using other types of datasets confirm that the algorithm has good generalization ability.…”
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Evaluation of deep learning models for RGB image-based detection of potato virus y strain symptoms (O, NO, and NTN) in potato plants by Charanpreet Singh, Gurjit S. Randhawa, Aitazaz A. Farooque, Yuvraj S. Gill, Lokesh Kumar KM, Mathuresh Singh, Khalil Al-Mughrabi

“…Potato virus Y (PVY) has been a long-standing problem for potato growers over the world, due to its ability to cause significant reductions in crop yields. …”
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