Geomorphology and Hydroclimate Control Regional Urban Expansion by Serena Ceola, Giulia Grandi, Enrico Bertuzzo

“…Existing studies acknowledge that several environmental, hydroclimatic, socioeconomic, policy, and institutional factors control urban growth, yet key information about its detailed spatial and temporal dynamics is still missing. The ability to reproduce observed patterns of urban expansion is essential for projecting reliable scenarios for the near future. …”
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MCO Perspectives on Medicaid Policy: Racial Equity in Pregnancy and Child Health by Christine McClure, Cynthia Salter, Dara D. Méndez, Evan S. Cole, Sarah A. Sanders, Sydney Sharp, Marquita Smalls, Linda Adodoadji, Adena Bowden, Marian Jarlenski

“…The current study addresses gaps in the research about MCO perceptions regarding the ability of financial policy incentives to improve racial health inequities. …”
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A Network Traffic Characteristics Reconstruction Method for Mitigating the Impact of Packet Loss in Edge Computing Scenarios by Jiawei Ye, Yanting Chen, Aierpanjiang Simayi, Yu Liu, Zhihui Lu, Jie Wu

“…To address this issue, TCReC leverages masked autoencoder techniques to reconstruct missing traffic features, ensuring reliable input for downstream tasks in edge computing scenarios. …”
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Traits contributing to the autistic spectrum. by Colin D Steer, Jean Golding, Patrick F Bolton

“…The factors were labelled: verbal ability, language acquisition, social understanding, semantic-pragmatic skills, repetitive-stereotyped behaviour, articulation and social inhibition. …”
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A Space-Vector Analysis of the Twelve-Pulse Diode Bridge Rectifier Operation for the Auxiliary Circuit Current Determination Providing the Optimal Line Currents’ THD by Jaroslaw Rolek, Grzegorz Utrata

“…When the auxiliary circuit is connected to the interphase reactor (IPR) additional (secondary) winding, the ability of the rectification system to reduce the line current THD depends mainly on the auxiliary circuit current waveform and its parameters. …”
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FBiLSTM-Attention short-term load forecasting based on fuzzy logic by Yan ZHANG, Zepeng KANG, Xiaozhi GAO, Nan YANG, Zhaolei WANG

“…Firstly, the raw data, including filling in missing values, conducting correlation analysis and normalizing the data, was preprocessed. …”
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Differences in Sexual Function Between Trimesters During Pregnancy: An Observational Study by Sunullah Soysal, Abdullah Sarioz, Umran Kilincdemir Turgut, Gokce Anik Ilhan, Yusuf Arman, Begum Yildizhan, Tanju Pekin

“…Seventy-two of the women did not complete the questionnaire (rejections or missing data) and the overall response rate was 80.6%. …”
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Autoregulation of the glial gene reversed polarity in Drosophila by Jamie L. Wood, Saroj Nepal, Bradley W. Jones

“…In this paper we further explore the ability of repo to activate reporter constructs in transgenic embryos and in cultured S2 cells. …”
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Hybrid Machine Learning in Hydrological Runoff Forecasting: An Exploration of Extreme Gradient-Boosting and Categorical Gradient Boosting Optimization in the Russian River Basin by Reza Seifi Majdar, Ali Rahnamaei, Vahid Babazadeh

“…These models are known for handling complex, non-linear relationships and offering high accuracy with efficient computation. Their ability to manage missing and categorical data also adds to their practical advantages. …”
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CCD-Rice: a long-term paddy rice distribution dataset in China at 30 m resolution by R. Shen, Q. Peng, X. Li, X. Chen, W. Yuan

“…Yet, there are no long-term high-resolution rice distribution maps in China, which hinders our ability to estimate greenhouse gas fluxes and crop production. …”
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Research on Breast Cancer Detection Methods Based on ODMV-MulDyHead-YOLO by Yanhong Zhang, Pei Li, Yihua Lan, Xiao Jia, Yingjie Lv

“…Second, a lightweight backbone network, MobileNetV2-ODConv, is used to improve the ability of the network to extract features of lumps in breast X-ray images while reducing the number of parameters and floating-point operations. …”
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From prediction to practice: mitigating bias and data shift in machine-learning models for chemotherapy-induced organ dysfunction across unseen cancers by Heather Shaw, Pinkie Chambers, Matthew Watson, Luke Steventon, James Harmsworth King, Angelo Ercia, Noura Al Moubayed

“…Model bias and data heterogeneity concerns have hampered the ability of machine learning (ML) to be deployed into clinical practice. …”
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Wearable co-thinking device to assist strawberry packaging task by Osamu Fukuda, Wen Liang Yeoh, Yuta Esaki, Jin Yien Lee, Mitsuru Higashimori, Makoto Kaneko, Satoshi Muraki

“…The most significant feature of this system is its ability to seamlessly integrate system-generated decisions with human input, resulting in optimal task performance. …”
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Wavelet Guided Visual State Space Model and Patch Resampling Enhanced U-Shaped Structure for Skin Lesion Segmentation by Shuwan Feng, Xiaowei Chen, Shengzhi Li

“…It utilizes selective scanning to learn frequency and spatial features that guide the extraction of relevant characteristics from the original image, thereby improving feature representation and enhancing the model’s ability to distinguish complex lesion shapes. On the other hand, RSIF tackles the issue of information loss that often occurs during the upsampling process, which can result in blurred or missing fine-grained details critical for accurate segmentation. …”
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Evaluation of the performance of three pulse oximeters at different probe positions in awake rabbits. by Giulia Maria De Benedictis, Barbara Contiero, Daniele Bovo, Vincenzo De Rosa, Martina Cardinali, Francesca Zanusso

“…The Edan devices showed superior ability to detect reliable values of SpO2 and PR compared to the Masimo in rabbits. …”
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Retained austenite in multipass high-strength weld metal with a yield strength exceeding 1100 MPa by Daniel Schrittwieser, Nicole Rinnhofer, David Obersteiner, Hannes Pahr, Oleksandr Glushko, Ronald Schnitzer

“…Retained austenite is an essential phase in various types of steel due to its ability to positively influence mechanical properties. …”
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An algorithm for road target detection of autonomous vehicles based on improved YOLOv8 by Jianping Gao, Haotian Li, Zhe Li, Chengwei Xie, Xiaolei Ji, Yuzhuo Zhang

“…To address the issue of missed detections in long-distance road target recognition, we have added a P2 small target detection layer for improvement. …”
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A scoping review of burden of disease studies estimating disability-adjusted life years due to Taenia solium. by Andrew Larkins, Mieghan Bruce, Carlotta Di Bari, Brecht Devleesschauwer, David M Pigott, Amanda Ash

“…Published data relating to disease models, data sources, disability-adjusted life years, sensitivity, uncertainty, missing data, and key limitations were collected.<h4>Results</h4>15 studies were included for review, with seven global and eight national or sub-national estimates. …”
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Energy consumption prediction using modified deep CNN-Bi LSTM with attention mechanism by Adel Binbusayyis, Mohemmed Sha

“…In the beginning, data pre-processing addresses missing values and performs feature scaling for normalizing independent variables. …”
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Association between conicity index and prevalence of periodontitis in US adults: the 2009–2014 NHANES cross-sectional study by Jie Xu, Jiaming Cui, Jingwen Xiong, Xiatian Jiang, Meng Chen, Xiaobing Luo

“…Notably, the predictive ability of the C-index for periodontitis was significantly superior to that of traditional BMI and WC, indicating higher sensitivity in the early diagnosis and assessment of periodontitis. …”
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