The role of hospital school education in reducing anxiety among hospitalized children by Ana Padillo-Andicoberry, Ana Padillo-Andicoberry, Francisco de Asís Díaz-Beato, Encarnación Sánchez-Lissen, Clara Romero-Pérez

“…Sixty children aged 9 to 14 completed the State–Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children (STAIC) at admission and before discharge. An adapted Likert-based visual scale was used to assess satisfaction with educational activities. …”
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WeatherClean: An Image Restoration Algorithm for UAV-Based Railway Inspection in Adverse Weather by Kewen Wang, Shaobing Yang, Zexuan Zhang, Zhipeng Wang, Limin Jia, Mengwei Li, Shengjia Yu

“…Existing algorithms for removing rain, snow, and fog have two main limitations: they do not adaptively learn features under varying weather complexities and struggle with managing complex noise patterns in drone inspections, leading to incomplete noise removal. …”
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Enhanced Collaborative Edge Intelligence for Explainable and Transferable Image Recognition in 6G-Aided IIoT by Chen Chen, Ze Sun, Jiale Zhang, Junwei Dong, Peng Zhang, Jie Guo

“…Extensive simulations demonstrate the superior accuracy, explainability, and adaptability of IRCE compared to those of the traditional methods. …”
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Level of acceptance of illness and its association with quality of life of patients with epilepsy by Michał Rychlicki, Magdalena Babuśka-Roczniak, Barbara Brodziak-Dopierała, Agnieszka Świcińska, Magdalena Wojtanowska-Kaczka, Paula Szumniak, Wojciech Roczniak

“…The collected information was visualized using tables and figure. Results: Most of the subjects had trouble adapting to the restrictions imposed by the illness. …”
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MetaSeeker: sketching an open invisible space with self-play reinforcement learning by Bei Wu, Chao Qian, Zhedong Wang, Pujing Lin, Erping Li, Hongsheng Chen

“…MetaSeeker constructs a narcissistic internal world to mirror the stochastic physical world, capable of autonomous preferment, evolution, and adaptation. In the perception-decision-execution experiment, multiple RL agents automatically interact with the ever-changing environments and integrate a post-hoc explainability to visualize the decision-making process. …”
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Flexible modular dwelling for rural environments; specific case: Cebadas – Ecuador [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Karina Elizabeth Cajamarca Dacto, Maikol Josueé González Espinosa, Dany Marcelo Tasan Cruz, Erick Fabricio Nieto Páez, Jean Carlos Montero Riofrio

“…These houses must be adaptable, safe and have basic services, satisfying the needs and stages of families’ development. …”
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Maize landraces as useful donors of genetic diversity for resilience to drought by Santiago R, R.A. Malvar, P. Revilla, A. Butrón

“…A multiplicative site regression model was employed to visualize the performance of landraces across various environments, thereby facilitating interpretations in terms of mean performance and stability. …”
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Optimizing Esophageal Cancer Diagnosis with Computer-Aided Detection by YOLO Models Combined with Hyperspectral Imaging by Wei-Chun Weng, Chien-Wei Huang, Chang-Chao Su, Arvind Mukundan, Riya Karmakar, Tsung-Hsien Chen, Amey Rajesh Avhad, Chu-Kuang Chou, Hsiang-Chen Wang

“…<b>Objective</b>: Esophageal cancer (EC) is difficult to visually identify, rendering early detection crucial to avert the advancement and decline of the patient’s health. …”
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Application of an improved spherical omnidirectional loudspeaker array model in environmental noise pollution control by Yinsheng Li, Wenping Li, Maixia Fu, Zhaoying Wang, Yueyang Li

“…Then, the three-dimensional spatial model is simplified to establish a spatial latitude and longitude mapping model, enabling real-time perception and visual management of target positions. Subsequently, according to the target position, the center node of the loudspeaker is adaptively selected, and an online secondary path modeling algorithm with variable power auxiliary noise is adopted to construct a quiet zone in the target area. …”
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Evaluating the automated measurement of abnormal rising and lying down behaviours in dairy cows using 3D pose estimation by Adrien Kroese, Niclas Högberg, Elena Diaz Vicuna, David Berthet, Nils Fall, Moudud Alam, Lena-Mari Tamminen

“…Assessing posture transitions relies on visual observations. This study presents a framework for complementing these assessments with kinematic measurements using 3D pose estimation. …”
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Using S-Curve Transforms and Gamma Correction for MR Images Contrast Enhancement by Manar Al-Abaji, Zohair Al-Ameen

“…The results showed that the proposed method outperformed many existing CE algorithms and provided satisfactory visual details and contrast-adjusted results.…”
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A real-time environmental translator for emotion recognition in autism spectrum disorder by Lital Levy, Asmare Ambaw, Esther Ben-Itzchak, Eldad Holdengreber

“…Testing with adults with ASD showed they could adapt to the system in about 19 min, enabling them to intuitively and immediately recognize others’ emotions. …”
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Digital chefs and intelligent cooking systems based on multimodal large language model by LI Xinyuan, LI Bai, SUN Yueshuo, ZHANG Tantan, TIAN Yonglin, YIN Zhuyan, WANG Fei-Yue

“…In the offline phase, visual, auditory and thermal sensors record professional chefs' continuous cooking operations. …”
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Translating War and Migration in Children’s Literature by Araceli María Alanís Corral

“…Drawing on the notion of translatio as a transportation of meaning, the framework of intersemiotic translation (Jakobson 1959) and  refraction (Lefevere 1992), and Vidal Claramonte’s perspective on storytelling as a form of translation, we explore how visual and verbal elements adapt historical narratives for a contemporary audience. …”
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Unifying Culture Through Language: An Analysis of the Emergence of Classical Judeo-Arabic Writing by Aaron Levi Forman

“…This paper compares twelfth-century Cairo Geniza fragments of Saadia’s Tafsir and Siddur, analyzing the visual interplay of Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic in these sources. …”
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EFL Students’ Learning Styles on Basic Reading in Higher Education by Yulmiati Yulmiati

“…It has been proposed that the lecturers should assess the learning styles of their students and adapt their classroom activities and assessment to best suit of student’s learning style. …”
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Orbital asymmetries in tamarins of the genus Saguinus (Primates, Callitrichidae) by Pere M. Parés-Casanova, Juan F. Vélez-García

“…Detected orbital asymmetry can be assumed as a normal although unconspicous anatomic adaptative pattern in Saguinus, as it has been described in other primates. …”
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Zwischen logos und icon by Ulrich Engel

“…Following Foucault's theory of heterotopias (other-places), the study focuses on works of contemporary visual art, which as other-places can expose and make visible hidden, overlooked, misunderstood mechanisms of exclusion. …”
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Du Transperceneige de Jacques Lob et Jean-Marc Rochette à Snowpiercer de Bong Joon-Ho : une inspiration mutuelle entre arts visuels dans le domaine de la science-fiction. by Suk Hee Joo

“…Moreover, these different kinds of visual art are combined in the making of Bong Joon-Ho’s film, whose aesthetic influences Jean-Marc Rochette in turn and leads him to draw another volume of the graphic novel after it. …”
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"Josef K von 1963...": Orson Welles' ‘Americanized’ Version of The Trial and the changing functions of the Kafkaesque in Postwar West Germany by Anne-Marie Scholz

“…This article investigates the reception of the American auteur and actor Orson Welles' adaptation of Franz Kafka's The Trial in West Germany in 1963. …”
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