A deep learning-based computed tomography reading system for the diagnosis of lung cancer associated with cystic airspaces by Zeyang Hu, Xia Zhang, Jinqiu Yang, Bailing Zhang, Hang Chen, Wei Shen, Hongxiang Li, Yipeng Zhou, Jiaheng Zhang, Keyue Qiu, Zijun Xie, Guodong Xu, Jian Tan, Chaoyi Pang

“…The performance of LungSSFNet was compared with other models such as UNet, M2Snet, TANet, MADGNet, and nnUnet to evaluate its effectiveness in recognizing and segmenting LCCA and pulmonary bulla. …”
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Multimodal Learning for Traffic Risk Prediction: Combining Aerial Imagery With Contextual Data by Hanlin Tian, Yuxiang Feng, Mohammed Quddus, Yiannis Demiris, Panagiotis Angeloudis

“…These findings underscore the effectiveness of a multimodal approach in traffic risk assessment, offering a more precise tool for urban planning and traffic management interventions. …”
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Modeling Atmospheric Alteration on Titan: Hydrodynamics and Shock-induced Chemistry of Meteoroid Entry by Ryushi Miyayama, Laura Kay Schaefer, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Andrea Zorzi

“…By tracking thermodynamic parameters along streamlines, we analyze the effects of shock heating and subsequent expansion cooling on chemical reaction pathways. …”
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Exploration of the primary antibiofilm substance and mechanism employed by Lactobacillus salivarius ATCC 11741 to inhibit biofilm of Streptococcus mutans by Nan Ma, Nan Ma, Wei Yang, Wei Yang, Bairu Chen, Bairu Chen, Meihua Bao, Meihua Bao, Yimin Li, Yimin Li, Meng Wang, Meng Wang, Xiaopeng Yang, Xiaopeng Yang, Junyi Liu, Chengyue Wang, Chengyue Wang, Lihong Qiu

“…The influence of temperature, pH and other factors on the supernatant were measured and non-targeted metabolome analysis was performed to analyze the effective components.ResultsThe findings indicated that the supernatant derived from Lactobacillus salivarius could inhibit the biofilm formation of Streptococcus mutans at different times. …”
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New Theoretical Fe ii Templates for Bright Quasars by Ashwani Pandey, Mary Loli Martínez-Aldama, Bożena Czerny, Swayamtrupta Panda, Michal Zajaček, Jian-Min Wang, Yan-Rong Li, Pu Du

“…We shortly discuss the most likely effects responsible for the Fe ii UV/optical mismatch problem: the assumption of the constant density clouds and the heating mechanism for Fe ii emitting clouds.…”
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Formation of H+ PUI Tails Downstream of Distant Interplanetary Shocks by E. J. Zirnstein, D. J. McComas, B. L. Shrestha, H. A. Elliott, P. C. Brandt, S. A. Stern, A. R. Poppe, J. Parker, E. Provornikova, K. Singer, A. Verbiscer, New Horizons Heliophysics Team

“…Different studies have analyzed the effects of these shocks on the solar wind ion (SWI) and interstellar pickup ion (PUI) distributions. …”
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AlphaBind, a domain-specific model to predict and optimize antibody–antigen binding affinity by Aditya A. Agarwal, James Harrang, David Noble, Kerry L. McGowan, Adrian W. Lange, Emily Engelhart, Miranda C. Lahman, Jeffrey Adamo, Xin Yu, Oliver Serang, Kyle J. Minch, Kimberly Y. Wellman, David A. Younger, Randolph M. Lopez, Ryan O. Emerson

“…AlphaBind weights and code are publicly available at: https://github.com/A-Alpha-Bio/alphabind.…”
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Community-based reconstruction and simulation of a full-scale model of the rat hippocampus CA1 region. by Armando Romani, Alberto Antonietti, Davide Bella, Julian Budd, Elisabetta Giacalone, Kerem Kurban, Sára Sáray, Marwan Abdellah, Alexis Arnaudon, Elvis Boci, Cristina Colangelo, Jean-Denis Courcol, Thomas Delemontex, András Ecker, Joanne Falck, Cyrille Favreau, Michael Gevaert, Juan B Hernando, Joni Herttuainen, Genrich Ivaska, Lida Kanari, Anna-Kristin Kaufmann, James Gonzalo King, Pramod Kumbhar, Sigrun Lange, Huanxiang Lu, Carmen Alina Lupascu, Rosanna Migliore, Fabien Petitjean, Judit Planas, Pranav Rai, Srikanth Ramaswamy, Michael W Reimann, Juan Luis Riquelme, Nadir Román Guerrero, Ying Shi, Vishal Sood, Mohameth François Sy, Werner Van Geit, Liesbeth Vanherpe, Tamás F Freund, Audrey Mercer, Eilif Muller, Felix Schürmann, Alex M Thomson, Michele Migliore, Szabolcs Káli, Henry Markram

“…Finally, we make data, code, and model available through the hippocampushub.eu portal, which also provides an extensive set of analyses of the model and a user-friendly interface to facilitate adoption and usage. …”
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Educational community intervention with nonformal caregivers in a rural population to improve knowledge and resources related to palliative care: Study protocol by Antonia Vélez-López, Juan Manuel Carmona-Torres, Ángel López-González, José Alberto Laredo-Aguilera, Esperanza Barroso-Corroto, Joseba Rabanales-Sotos

“…Main objective: To determine the effectiveness of an educational community intervention on knowledge of care for nonformal caregivers in a rural area. …”
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A plant secretory sequence enhances immunogenicity of electroporated COVID-19 DNA vaccines by Olivia Costantina Demurtas, Flavia Novelli, Doriana Triggiani, Caterina Merla, Emanuela Pasquali, Silvia Massa, Rosella Franconi, Claudio Pioli

“…Remarkably, constructs including the plant secretory signal sequence resulted to be highly expressed and triggered higher antibody and CD4T cell responses, highlighting that the combination of this sequence and EGT can be used to boost the immunogenicity of DNA-vaccine coded proteins, ultimately helping in their design.…”
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Toward equity in cultivating a “garden of mentors:” An exploration of networking experiences in an implementation research training program by Loni J. Parrish, Amanda Gilbert, Kate Hoppe, Gloria D. Coronado, Karen M. Emmons, Amy A. Eyler, Debra Haire-Joshu, Rebekah R. Jacob, Alison B. Hamilton, Shelly J. Kannuthurai, Ross C. Brownson

“…To build knowledge on effective networking and mentoring, this study sought to 1) conduct a social network analysis to determine whether underrepresented scholars have equivalent levels of connection and 2) gain insights into the differences in networking among racial/ethnic subgroups of scholars. …”
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Parametric study of MHD mixed convection heat transfer in a trapezoidal cavity with NEPCM suspension and rotating star-shaped heat source by Aissa Abderrahmane, Houssem Laidoudi, Abdeldjalil Belazreg, Obai Younis, Hamoud A. Al-Nehari, Riadh Marzouki

“…Grid independence and code verification against benchmark solutions are demonstrated. …”
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Social determinants of health and rehabilitation service areas: an urban and rural mediation analysis by Sanghun Nam, Susanne Schmidt, Julianna M. Dean, Alex F. Bokov, Timothy A. Reistetter, Timothy A. Reistetter

“…Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses identified five social determinants of health domains—social, economic, educational, physical infrastructure, and healthcare—which were assessed using structural equation modeling to evaluate their direct and mediated effects on community discharge rates.ResultsSignificant disparities in community discharge rates were observed across urban and rural areas. …”
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A novel prediction of the PV system output current based on integration of optimized hyperparameters of multi-layer neural networks and polynomial regression models by Hussein Mohammed Ridha, Hashim Hizam, Seyedali Mirjalili, Mohammad Lutfi Othman, Mohammad Effendy Ya’acob, Noor Izzri Bin Abdul Wahab, Masoud Ahmadipour

“…The experimental results demonstrated that the proposed IMGO algorithm is very effective in addressing complex problems with high accuracy, capability, and speedy convergence. …”
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Patterns and characteristics of dyslipidemia subtypes among community-dwelling elderly in Eastern China: a cross-sectional study by Xiaomeng Mi, Suting Xiong, Wenguo Xu, Fang Yao, Jie Huang, Lan Cui, Yu Qin, Jian Su, Wenchao Xu, Ran Tao, Jinyi Zhou

“…Multifactorial analyses revealed gender-based effects of age, education, income, and lifestyle, but consistent risks from comorbidities and urban-rural factors. …”
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A Novel Differential Exchange Parallel Great Wall Construction Algorithm for Efficient Multilevel Image Segmentation by Jeng-Shyang Pan, Rongli Zhang, Shu-Chuan Chu, Xiao Sui, Junzo Watada

“…Parallel strategies are an effective approach to enhancing the performance of algorithms. …”
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The Theory of Resonant Cosmic Ray–driven Instabilities—Growth and Saturation of Single Modes by Rouven Lemmerz, Mohamad Shalaby, Christoph Pfrommer, Timon Thomas

“…The feedback strength of CRs depends on their coupling to the background plasma and, as such, on the effective CR transport speed. Traditionally, this has been hypothesized to depend on the balance between the wave growth of CR-driven instabilities and their damping. …”
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Improved optimization based on parrot’s chaotic optimizer for solving complex problems in engineering and medical image segmentation by Adil Sayyouri, Ahmed Bencherqui, Hanaa Mansouri, Hicham Karmouni, Hassane Moustabchir, Mhamed Sayyouri, Abderrahim Bourkane, Abdeljabbar Cherkaoui, S. S. Askar, Mohamed Abouhawwash

“…Its integration with Kapur entropy also enabled precise segmentation of medical images, underlining its strong potential for critical biomedical applications. The CPO source code will be available on the Github account: adil.sayyouri@etu.uae.ac.ma after acceptance.…”
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Disruption of seasonal trends in mental health help-seeking behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic by Fernanda Talarico, Julie Tian, Yipeng Song, Yang S Liu, Derek Pierce, Dan Metes, Rong-Cai Yang, Guofeng Wu, Yanbo Zhang, Jake Hayward, Mengzhe Wang, Bo Cao

“…The International Classification of Diseases codes were used to identify mental health disorders, and we examined data by service types and demographic subgroups. …”
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Evaluation of solar photovoltaics on university buildings: A case study toward campus sustainability by Antônia Sônia Alves Cardoso Diniz, Gisele Mol da Silva, Raphaela E. Alves Nunes, Vinícius Augusto Camatta Santana, Daniel Sena Braga, Cristiana Brasil Maia

“…The student-led case study provides an implementation roadmap that includes a coordinated methodology of evaluating the campus power and energy consumption, documenting the seasonal solar irradiance, evaluating the solar-available rooftop areas, simulating the daily and seasonal shadowing effects from existing surrounding structures, determining the panel placements following Brazil's codes and standards, and calculating the contributions of the PV to displacing grid-supplied electricity and potential lowering of the University's energy bills. …”
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