Effective Skin Cancer Diagnosis Through Federated Learning and Deep Convolutional Neural Networks by Mabrook S. Al-Rakhami, Salman A. AlQahtani, Abdulaziz Alawwad

“…To evaluate the proposed architecture, we tested it on three datasets of varying complexity and size. The results demonstrate the applicability of the proposed solution and its efficiency for skin cancer classification.…”
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Innovative Expert-Based Tools for Spatiotemporal Shallow Landslides Mapping: Field Validation of the GOGIRA System and Ex-MAD Framework in Western Greece by Michele Licata, Francesco Seitone, Efthimios Karymbalis, Konstantinos Tsanakas, Giandomenico Fubelli

“…GOGIRA is a low-cost system for efficient georeferenced data collection, while ExMAD uses AI and multitemporal Sentinel-2 imagery to detect landslide triggering times. …”
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Enhancing knee osteoarthritis diagnosis with DMS: a novel dense multi-scale convolutional neural network approach by Di Zhang, Yuting Dong, Yao Xu, Junhui Qian, Miaoyu Ye, Qiang Yuan, Jian Luo

“…There is a critical need for an automated, efficient, and accurate diagnostic method to improve early detection and treatment. …”
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XGBoost Algorithm for Cervical Cancer Risk Prediction: Multi-dimensional Feature Analysis by Sudi Suryadi, Masrizal

“…Cervical cancer continues to pose a significant global health challenge, with early detection remaining the cornerstone for effective intervention. …”
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Development and Perfection of Marine-Based Insecticide Biofilm for Pea Seed Protection: Experimental and Computational Approaches by Fatouma Mohamed Abdoul-Latif, My Ismail El Mhamdi, Ayoub Ainane, Ali Merito Ali, Khadija Oumaskour, Sanaa Cherroud, Stefano Cacciatore, Tarik Ainane

“…Moreover, the computational approach showed that Calothrixin A interacts more efficiently with the OR5-Orco complex than with the small OBP, disrupting the olfactory detection of insects. …”
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A Perspective on Software-in-the-Loop and Hardware-in-the-Loop Within Digital Twin Frameworks for Automotive Lighting Systems by George Balan, Philipp Neninger, Enrique Ruiz Zúñiga, Elena Serea, Dorin-Dumitru Lucache, Alexandru Sălceanu

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Enhancing Maritime Navigation: A Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Signal Quality Monitoring System for the North-Western Black Sea by Petrica Popov, Maria Emanuela Mihailov, Lucian Dutu, Dumitru Andrescu

“…This paper presents the implementation of a complex system for monitoring the quality of signals within the GNSS spectrum at the Maritime Hydrographic Directorate (MHD). …”
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Thyroid nodule segmentation in ultrasound images using transformer models with masked autoencoder pre-training by Yi Xiang, Rajendra Acharya, Quan Le, Jen Hong Tan, Chiaw-Ling Chng

“…However, overall improvements are modest: the model achieves Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC) scores of 0.63, 0.64, and 0.65 on AIMI, TN3K, and DDTI, respectively, highlighting limitations under small-sample conditions. …”
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EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF SULPIRIDE TOXICITY AT DIFFERENT FORMS OF ITS INTAKE INTO THE BODY by Лариса Геннадьевна Горохова, Татьяна Георгиевна Корсакова, Татьяна Дмитриевна Логунова

“…The study medication had a marked ability to cumulation, the cumulation coefficient was 2.9. No immunotoxic, mutagenic and embryotoxic action was detected in sulpiride. …”
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A Robotic grinding station based on an industrial manipulator and vision system. by Guoyang Wan, Guofeng Wang, Yunsheng Fan

“…The measurements indicate that this system can work stably and efficiently, and the experimental results demonstrate the high accuracy and high efficiency of the proposed method. …”
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Determination of High Content of Molybdenum in Molybdenum Ore by Emission Spectrometry with Solid Sampling Technique by Xinwei GUO, Kun LI, Zhihong HAO, Jianzhen YAO, Jinli XU, Jinfeng BAI

“…., which are primarily based on liquid injection, with a lengthy analytical procedure, complex steps, and a measurable range of 0.01%-5.17%[16]. …”
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Identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and its Drug Resistance by Targeted Nanopore Sequencing Technology by Chen Tang, Feng Xu, Xiaoqun Zheng, Guangxin Xiang

“…The main causative agents of TB are known as Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), which exhibits a highly complex drug resistance profile. Traditional culture-based phenotypic drug susceptibility testing is time-consuming, and PCR-based assays are restricted to detecting known mutational hotspots. …”
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Systems Biology of Recombinant 2G12 and 353/11 mAb Production in CHO-K1 Cell Lines at Phosphoproteome Level by Eldi Sulaj, Felix L. Sandell, Linda Schwaigerlehner, Gorji Marzban, Juliane C. Dohm, Renate Kunert

“…However, the efficiency of high-quality protein production can vary significantly for monoclonal antibody-producing cell lines, within the CHO host cell lines or by extrinsic factors. …”
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Photothermal Therapeutic Gold Nanoparticles Loaded with PD-L1 siRNA Enhanced Killing of NSCLC Cells by Immune Cells by Gao L, Yang LH, Jiang FC, Ye WY, Chen X, Liu ZJ, He RQ, Huang WY, Feng ZB, Kong JL, Lai ZF, Chen G

“…Combining ICB therapy with other strategies that is able to stimulate tumor immunogenicity or increase infiltration of T cells aroused great concern in cancer therapy.Results: Herein, we constructed a kind of AuNP@NH2-PEG-SH/PD-L1 siRNA nanoparticle complex which showed prominent photothermal therapeutic (PTT) effects triggered by NIR laser and could efficiently deliver PD-L1 siRNA into NSCLC cells (knock-down efficiency were 75.8% and 83% in HCC827 and A549 cells). …”
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COVID-19 Pandemic as an Indicator of «Blank Spots» in Epidemiology and Infectious Pathology by M. V. Supotnitskiy

“…High transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 is possible because: the binding energy of S1 protein of the virus with its receptor ACE2 is higher than that of viruses of closely related species; the virus penetrates into the endosomes of the cells more efficiently; because of the work of the replication-transcription complex, which counteracts the innate protective response of cells. …”
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Advancement in PMN-PT transparent piezoelectric ceramic for photoacoustic/ultrasound dual-mode imaging by Pengkun Guo, Wen Gao, Riqiang Lin, Xiatian Wang, Jiale Lan, Jiaming Zhang, Yanan Wang, Lin Zhu, Yongcheng Zhang, Feng Li, Weijie Zheng, Tianlong Zhao, Kwok-Ho Lam, Xiaojing Gong, Zhihua Xie, Yalin Qin, Shujun Zhang

“…In traditional dual-mode imaging systems, however, the opaque ultrasound transducers are integrated in complex optical and ultrasound paths, leading to compromises in imaging efficiency and sensitivity. …”
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Reveal genomic insights into cotton domestication and improvement using gene level functional haplotype-based GWAS by Guoan Qi, Yiqian Li, Wanying Zhang, Zegang Han, Jinwen Chen, Ziqian Zhang, Lisha Xuan, Rui Chen, Lei Fang, Yan Hu, Tianzhen Zhang

“…Abstract Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are widely used to detect associations between genetic variants and phenotypes. …”
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Multiple active site metal-based catalysts for C-N coupling reactions and the beyond by Mingzheng Shao, Yangbo Ma, Yuecheng Xiong, Liang Guo, Yunhao Wang, Guozhi Wang, Fu Liu, Fengkun Hao, Xiang Meng, Xintao Ma, Zhanxi Fan

“…However, the low Faradaic efficiency and poor selectivity of C-N coupling reactions, arisen from obscure understanding of the complex multi-step reactions and competitive side reactions, hinder their practical applications. …”
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Issues in shale oil core porosity measurement by Jinqing ZHANG, Guoliang TAO, Dai HUANG, Cuijuan LUO, Lingbo LIU, Yunfeng YANG

“…Bulk samples require a long time for pressure equilibrium due to their complex pore tortuosity, while grain samples exhibit improved nanopore connectivity in shale with more pore space detected, making the measurement more accurate and reliable. …”
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Adaptively evolved human oral actinomyces‐sourced defensins show therapeutic potential by Shunyi Zhu, Bin Gao, Yoshitaka Umetsu, Steve Peigneur, Ping Li, Shinya Ohki, Jan Tytgat

“…Signatures of natural selection were detected in defensins from the actinomyces colonized in human oral cavity and ruminant rumen and dental plaque, highlighting their role in adaptation to complex multispecies bacterial communities. …”
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