Microbial Diversity and Antibiotic Resistance Patterns in Burn and Wound Infections: A Study from the Al-Kindy Teaching Hospital, Iraq by Sumayah Ibraheem, Wafaa Hazim Salih, Shatha Zuheir Majeed

“… Objective: Comprehending microbial diversity and antibiotic resistance patterns is essential for efficient treatment protocols. This study sought to determine the incidence of bacterial and fungal pathogens responsible for burn and wound infections and their antibiotic susceptibility profiles. …”
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Magnitude of the benefit of progression-free survival as a potential surrogate marker in phase 3 trials assessing targeted agents in molecularly selected patients with advanced non... by Katsuyuki Hotta, Yuka Kato, Natasha Leighl, Nagio Takigawa, Rabab Mohamed Gaafar, Hiroe Kayatani, Taizo Hirata, Kadoaki Ohashi, Toshio Kubo, Masahiro Tabata, Mitsune Tanimoto, Katsuyuki Kiura

“…A PFS-HR cutoff of ∼0.6 may help detect clinical benefit of molecular targeted agents in which OS is of limited use, although desired threshold might differ in an individual trial.…”
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Semi-supervised anomaly detection from Chlorella vulgaris cultivations using hyperspectral imaging by Salli Pääkkönen, Ilkka Pölönen, Pauliina Salmi

“…More evolved anomaly detection methods are needed to ensure efficient quality control of microalgae cultivations. …”
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Optimizing crop type mapping for fairness by Ilya Gorbunov, Caroline M. Gevaert, Mariana Belgiu

“…Results showed that RO-DOWCE was the most effective method at addressing class imbalance across the datasets, though not significantly different from RO-R, RO, and RO-FL. Additionally, cost-sensitive methods were generally less efficient at addressing class imbalance than sample balancing and hybrid approaches. …”
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Physics-informed deep learning with Kalman filter mixture for traffic state prediction by Niharika Deshpande, Hyoshin (John) Park

“…Accurate traffic forecasting is crucial for understanding and managing congestion for efficient transportation planning. However, conventional approaches often neglect epistemic uncertainty, which arises from incomplete knowledge across different spatiotemporal scales. …”
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Design of a Thermoelectric Cool Box with Electronic Mobile-Based Temperature Control and Monitoring System by Moh. Abdul Gofur, Rahajeng Kurnianingtyas, Fauzan Amri, Rofan Aziz

“…This system is expected to provide an efficient solution for temperature management and improve user comfort. …”
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Meta Ag: An automatic agricultural contextual metadata collection app by Md. Samiul Basir, Yaguang Zhang, Dennis Buckmaster, Ankita Raturi, James V. Krogmeier

“…These results highlight its effectiveness as a deployable, efficient solution for agricultural metadata collection. …”
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Chinese Paper-Cutting Style Transfer via Vision Transformer by Chao Wu, Yao Ren, Yuying Zhou, Ming Lou, Qing Zhang

“…Therefore, this paper proposes a new method for Chinese paper-cutting style transformation based on the Transformer, aiming at realizing the efficient transformation of Chinese paper-cutting art styles. …”
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HC-means clustering algorithm for precision marketing on e-commerce platforms by Dan Wu, Xin Liu

“…In this context, e-commerce enterprises urgently need a more accurate and efficient marketing method to meet the growing business needs. …”
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Discretization-independent surrogate modeling of physical fields around variable geometries using coordinate-based networks by James Duvall, Karthik Duraisamy

“…Both methods exhibit promising potential as viable options for surrogate modeling, being able to process snapshots of data that correspond to different mesh topologies.…”
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Spatiotemporal Climate Variation and Analysis of Dry-Wet Trends for 1960–2019 in Jiangsu Province, Southeastern China by Mengsheng Qin, Liting Zhang, Shiquan Wan, Yuan Yue, Qiong Wu, Lu Xia

“…Our findings provide a theoretical basis for adjusting irrigation programs and efficient utilization of water resources at the regional scale in humid southeastern China.…”
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Vigabarina no tratamento da epilepsia de difícil controle em pacientes com síndrome de West e esclerose tuberosa Vigabatrin in the treatment of epilepsy in patients with West syndr... by Newra Tellechea Rotta, Alexandre Rodrigues da Silva, Lygia Ohlweiler, Rudimar Riesgo

“…CONCLUSION: Vigabatrin was efficient in seizures control, leading to a better prognosis.…”
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Clustered Federated Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous UAV Control in Air Corridors by Meng Xiang Xuan, Liangkun Yu, Xiang Sun, Sudharman K. Jayaweera

“…Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) aims to integrate unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into urban airspace for efficient cargo and passenger transport, relying on autonomous navigation within designated 3D air corridors. …”
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Versatile waste sorting in small batch and flexible manufacturing industries using deep learning techniques by Arso M. Vukicevic, Milos Petrovic, Nebojsa Jurisevic, Marko Djapan, Nikola Knezevic, Aleksandar Novakovic, Kosta Jovanovic

“…The proposed two-step procedure for generic versatile visual waste sorting is based on the SAM architectures (original SAM, FastSAM, MobileSAMv2, and EfficientSAM) for waste object extraction from raw images, and the use of classification architecture (MobileNetV2, VGG19, Dense-Net, Squeeze-Net, ResNet, and Inception-v3) for accurate waste sorting. …”
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A Multi-Objective Sensor Placement Method Considering Modal Identification Uncertainty and Damage Detection Sensitivity by Xue-Yang Pei, Yuan Hou, Hai-Bin Huang, Jun-Xing Zheng

“…By formulating the problem as Pareto-based multi-objective optimization, the method efficiently explores a trade-off between the two competing objectives and provides a diverse set of optimal sensor placement solutions. …”
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Quality of Life Philosophy V. Seizing the Meaning of Life and Becoming Well Again by Søren Ventegodt, Niels Jørgen Andersen, Joav Merrick

“…But today, reality is different. We have grown up and now life is about shaping our own existence. …”
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Blockchain-Assisted Generation Rescheduling in Imperfect Market Environments by Salman Tariq, Mohamed Shaaban, Hazlie Mokhlis, Nurulafiqah N. Mansor, Hasmaini Mohamad

“…The proposed BC-based structure allows generators to participate in the short-term scheduling mechanism (such as day-ahead) in a trust-free environment without sharing their vital data yet achieving efficient, market-grade solutions. The feasibility of this new proposition is demonstrated through three different application scenarios, utilizing real-world load and renewable generation profiles sourced from the respective Grid System Operators databases. …”
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Root segmentation of horticultural plants in X-Ray CT images by integrating 2D instance segmentation with 3D point cloud clustering by Mary E. Cassity, Paul C. Bartley, Yin Bao

“…A pretrained Mask R-CNN model was fine-tuned on images selected along different axes of the three-dimensional scans to identify the best view selection strategy for volumetric root segmentation. …”
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Determination of the Optimal Spraying Application Rate for Improving the Vegetative Growth of Maize Crop Using Knapsack sprayer by Majid H. Alheidary, Sadiq J. Muhsin, Anhar M. Alshummary

“…The most popular and efficient way for fertilization is soil application which needs to be applied in more significant quantities. …”
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Preparation of Chitosan-Gelatin Sustained-Release Film Incorporated with Resveratrol-Loaded Emulsion and Its Preservation Effect on Prepared Steak by DU Liying, REN Guoyan, ZHAO Bing, SHI Yuxuan, CHENG Xiaoyu

“…In order to develop efficient preserving materials for meat products, sustained-release preservative composite films (CS-GEL-PE) were prepared by casting a mixed solution of chitosan (CS) and gelatin (GEL) added with different volume proportions (2%, 4%, 6% and 8%) of Pickering emulsion (PE) loaded with resveratrol (RES). …”
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