Lightweight Road Environment Segmentation using Vector Quantization by J. Kwag, A. Yilmaz, C. Toth

“…Vector quantization offers three primary advantages for road environment segmentation. (1) Each continuous feature from the encoder is mapped to a discrete vector from the codebook, helping the model discover distinct features more easily than with complex continuous features. (2) Since a discrete feature acts as compressed versions of the encoder’s continuous features, they also compress noise or outliers, enhancing the image segmentation task. (3) Vector quantization encourages the latent space to form coarse clusters of continuous features, forcing the model to group similar features, making the learned representations more structured for the decoding process. …”
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INVESTIGATION OF PROCESSES ON TREATMENT OF PLASMA COATINGS MADE OF MATERIALS BASED ON MULTIFUNCTIONAL OXIDE CERAMICS WITH LASER IRRADIATION IMPULSES by V. A. Okovity, F. I. Panteleenko, O. G. Devoino, A. F. Panteleenko, V. V. Okovity

“…The following main processes of hardened plasma coating formations have been revealed in the paper: com paction of sprayed materials due to thermal and shock-wave impacts of laser irradiation impulses. …”
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Parrot politics: social decision-making in wild parrots relies on both individual recognition and intrinsic markers by Julia Penndorf, Damien R. Farine, John M. Martin, Lucy M. Aplin

“…In these cases, three potential mechanisms have been proposed. First, the complex decision-making required could increase selection for social cognition. …”
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On the problem of estimating the snowiness of winters by different methods by the example of the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk city by E. N. Kazakova

“…The following nine methods have been applied: the maximum winter snow reserve; by the amount of solid precipitation; by the average winter thickness of snow cover from the weather station and by snow survey; by the average greatest ten-day thickness of snow cover; by the amount of precipitation in the form of snow; the method of N. …”
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Modulation of Stress-Related Protein in the African Catfish (<i>Clarias gariepinus</i>) Using <i>Bacillus</i>-Based Non-Ribosomal Peptides by Alexey Mikhailovich Neurov, Anna Andreevna Zaikina, Evgeniya Valer’evna Prazdnova, Ranjan Anuj, Dmitriy Vladimirovich Rudoy

“…The mechanisms of their action at the molecular level are complex and less explored. Both previous research and our own investigations have highlighted that incorporating probiotics into the feed of commercial fish can increase growth and influence the expression of genes related to stress and immunity. …”
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Novel cross-dimensional coarse-fine-grained complementary network for image-text matching by Meizhen Liu, Anis Salwa Mohd Khairuddin, Khairunnisa Hasikin, Weitong Liu

“…The fundamental aspects of multimodal applications such as image-text matching, and cross-modal heterogeneity gap between images and texts have always been challenging and complex. Researchers strive to overcome the challenges by proposing numerous significant efforts directed toward narrowing the semantic gap between visual and textual modalities. …”
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Morphological and Histological Study of the Lung in the Pterocles alchata by Amar Hussein Abd Ali, Nahla A. Al-Bakri, Noor Mohammed Jaafer Hammodi

“…The parabronchi also include halls known as atria, which open at their ends into cones, which in turn connect to a complex network of bronchial and blood tubules, and these structures forming the tissue responsible for gasexchange. …”
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Role of bacteria in cancers and their therapeutic potential: Review of current knowledge by Wojciech Wawrety, Anna Kedziora

“…Bacteria also reside inside tumors, forming part of the tumor microenvironment (TME), where they interact with immunological and cancer cells in many complex ways. …”
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Developmental nature of pedagogical technologies by Karimova Sevinc

“…The most important issue facing the education system in modern times is to form personalities who meet the requirements of the time, who have high intellectual skills, cultural behavior, who are able to react flexibly and actively to the changes, and who are cognitively active. …”
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La multi-activité et ses appuis : l’exemple de la « présence obstinée » des messages dans l’environnement de travail by Caroline Datchary, Christian Licoppe

“…Within a pragmatic perspective we show how the “obstinate presence” of some artefacts in the setting, that is the persistence and the salience which they acquire by design and/or use as long as they have not been treated (which characterizes for instance most messaging systems) support multi-activity. …”
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Does topography of rocky intertidal habitat affect aggregation of cerithiid gastropods and co-occurring macroinvertebrates? by Soniya Jethva, Kiran Liversage, Rahul Kundu

“…Species aggregation has important implications for population survivorship and ecological functioning in many habitats, including rocky intertidal shores, which have been valuable to research for understanding ecological patterns and process. …”
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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

“…Recent advances in machine learning (ML) have opened new opportunities to improve prediction accuracy. …”
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Intelligent Computerized Video Analysis for Automated Data Extraction in Wave Structure Interaction; A Wave Basin Case Study by Samuel Hugh Wolrige, Damon Howe, Hamed Majidiyan

“…Despite advancements in direct sensing technologies, accurately capturing complex wave–structure interactions remain a significant challenge in ship and ocean engineering. …”
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Solving the Mind-Body Problem through Two Distinct Concepts: Internal-Mental Existence and Internal Mental Reality by Ion G. Motofei, David L. Rowland

“…These two psycho-physiological subunits of the mind interact each other in the form of an internal-mental interaction, having no sense if one is isolated/ studied separately from the other. …”
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Automated system of passenger accounting, committed illegal actions in trains of JSC “FPK” formation, and provision of information to train crews by A. T. Sungatullina, I. B. Gumina, V. A. Dobychina

“…For this purpose the developers of ACS “Express-3” have developed the analytical report system that provides business-processes of accounting and controlling the wrongdoing in long-distance trains and solves the following problems: prepare initial information on the classification of illegal actions and passengers disturbing public order in the trains of JSC “FPK”; form for train crew the information on passengers with previously committing illegal actions in trains of JSC “FPK”; form and provide reference and analytical information on the actions to the branches forming trains. …”
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MicroRNA exporter HuR clears the internalized pathogens by promoting pro‐inflammatory response in infected macrophages by Avijit Goswami, Kamalika Mukherjee, Anup Mazumder, Satarupa Ganguly, Ishita Mukherjee, Saikat Chakrabarti, Syamal Roy, Shyam Sundar, Krishnananda Chattopadhyay, Suvendra N Bhattacharyya

“…We have found that during Leishmania infection, the pathogen targets HuR to promote onset of anti‐inflammatory response in mammalian macrophages. …”
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Plant-derived antiviral drugs as novel hepatitis B virus inhibitors: Cell culture and molecular docking study by Mohammad K. Parvez, Md. Tabish Rehman, Perwez Alam, Mohammed S. Al-Dosari, Saleh I. Alqasoumi, Mohammed F. Alajmi

“…Docking of lamivudine indicated strong interaction with the modeled HBV Pol active-site residues that formed stable complex (∆G = −5.2 kcal/mol). Similarly, all the docked antiviral compounds formed very stable complexes with HBV Pol (∆G = −6.1 to −9.3 kcal/mol). …”
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Transglutaminase 2 regulates endothelial cell calcification via IL-6-mediated autophagy by Bo Liu, Zhiyuan Cai, Yan Wang, Xinye Liu, Bin Zhang, Qian Zheng, Jingye Li, Cien Li, Yuanbo Cui, Pengju Lv, Dongwei Yang

“…Our results demonstrated that TG2 forms complexes with NF-κB components inhibition of autophagy promoted endothelial cell calcification through EndMT. …”
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Colon-Targeted Mucoadhesive PLGA Microspheres Loaded with <i>Ramulus Mori</i> Alkaloids for Enhanced Water-Soluble Drug Delivery in Ulcerative Colitis Treatment by Mo Wang, Yu Jiang, Zhiyang Chen, Dengbao Jiang, Xuan Jiang, Jun Ye, Hongliang Wang, Yuling Liu

“…In this study, we used the complex formed by thiolated hyaluronic acid, which has mucosal adhesion and inflammation-targeting properties, and SZ-A as an intermediate carrier and prepared sodium alginate-modified PLGA microspheres (SZ-A@MSs) with the double emulsion method to achieve efficient encapsulation of SZ-A. …”
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Phosphorene-Supported Au(I) Fragments for Highly Sensitive Detection of NO by Huimin Guo, Yuhan Liu, Xin Liu

“…Single-site heterogeneous reaction centers are analogous to metal centers in enzymes and transition-metal complexes: they are charged and decorated with ligands and would exhibit superior reactivity and selectivity in chemical conversion. …”
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