An Improved Deep Learning Unsupervised Approach for MRI Tissue Segmentation for Alzheimer’s Disease Detection by Karan Kumar, Isha Suwalka, Adaora Uche-Ezennia, Celestine Iwendi, Cresantus N. Biamba

“…Alzheimer’s disease (AD) ranks as the sixth leading cause of death, emphasizing the need for early-stage prediction to prevent its progression. Due to the complexity and heterogeneity of medical tests, manually comparing, visualizing, and analyzing data is often difficult and time-consuming. …”
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SysML-based compositional verification and safety analysis for safety-critical cyber-physical systems by Jian Xie, Wenan Tan, Zhibin Yang, Shuming Li, Linquan Xing, Zhiqiu Huang

“…With the increased acceptance of Model-Driven Development (MDD) in the safety-critical domain, the SysML language has been broadly used. Increasing complexity results in the formal verification of the SysML models of SC-CPS often faces the so-called state-explosion problem. …”
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International alliance of Urolithiasis (IAU) guideline on percutaneous nephrolithotomy by G. Zeng, W. Zhong, G. Mazzon, S. Choong, M. Pearle, M. Agrawal, C. M. Scoffone, C. Fiori, M. I. Gökce, W. Lam, K. Petkova, K. Sabuncu, N. K. Gadzhiev, A. Pietropaolo, E. Emiliani, K. Sarica

“…The recommendations, tips and tricks across the PCNL procedures would provide adequate guidance for urologists performing PCNLs to ensure safety and efficiency in PCNLs.…”
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Blood Exposure Accidents Among Nursing and Health Techniques Students: Reactions and Behaviors by Wahoud Fatima, Essadki Samia, Lamsyah Rajae, Hajjaji Wissam, Boughoufa Radia, ElKhallouki Radouane, Elouadi Yassir, Zarouali Abdelbacit, Elmsellem Hicham

“…BEA reporting was significantly associated with knowledge of procedures and their perceived complexity (p< 0.005). These findings highlight the significant under-reporting of BEAs among nursing and health technology students. …”
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Application of Categorical Boosting to Modelling the Friction Behaviour of DC05 Steel Sheets in Strip Drawing Test by Marek Szewczyk, Krzysztof Szwajka, Sherwan Mohammed Najm, Salwa O Mohammed

“…It is important to choose the appropriate process parameters carefully when creating analytical models to overcome the challenges posed by complexity. This will ensure the production of sheet metal formed components that meets the required quality standards and is free from faults. …”
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Single-dose replicon RNA Sudan virus vaccine uniformly protects female guinea pigs from disease by Kyle L. O’Donnell, Hanna Anhalt, Greg Saturday, Nikole L. Warner, Troy Hinkley, E. Taylor Stone, Kiara Hatzakis, Amit P. Khandhar, Logan Banadyga, Jesse H. Erasmus, Andrea Marzi

“…This result warrants further studies in larger animal species to ensure that protective efficacy is maintained with the single-dose LION-SUDV vaccine.…”
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Enhancing PV power forecasting through feature selection and artificial neural networks: a case study by Mokhtar Ali, Abdelhalim Rabehi, Abdelkerim Souahlia, Mawloud Guermoui, Ali Teta, Imad Eddine Tibermacine, Abdelaziz Rabehi, Mohamed Benghanem, Takele Ferede Agajie

“…These findings confirm that careful feature selection enhances model performance, reduces complexity, and ensures better generalization, offering valuable insights for more efficient solar energy management and grid stability.…”
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Efficient pressure regulation in nonlinear shell-and-tube steam condensers via a Novel TDn(1 + PIDn) controller and DCSA algorithm by Mostafa Jabari, Serdar Ekinci, Davut Izci, Mohit Bajaj, Vojtech Blazek, Lukas Prokop

“…Effective pressure regulation is crucial to ensure operational efficiency and equipment safety. …”
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Barriers to the implementation of large-scale electronic health record systems in primary healthcare centers: a mixed-methods study in Saudi Arabia by Haitham Alzghaibi, Hayley A. Hutchings

“…However, nearly half of these initiatives have failed to achieve their intended objectives due to various challenges, including financial constraints and implementation complexities. The Saudi Ministry of Health (MoH) launched a nationwide initiative to implement an Electronic Health Record System (EHRS) across approximately 2,200 Primary Healthcare Centers (PHCs). …”
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A modern mode of activation for nucleic acid enzymes. by Dominique Lévesque, Francis P Brière, Jean-Pierre Perreault

“…Through evolution, enzymes have developed subtle modes of activation in order to ensure the sufficiently high substrate specificity required by modern cellular metabolism. …”
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Stretched at Both Ends: Pressure on Student Services and the Impact on Academic Staff at UK Universities by Gareth Hughes, Michael Priestley, Leigh Spanner

“…Participants described being ‘stretched at both ends’ in response to a significant and ongoing increase both in overall demand and complexity of presentation, further compounded by capacity challenges in public mental health services. …”
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Perspectives of midwives on respectful maternity care by Petronella Lunda, Catharina Susanna Minnie, Welma Lubbe

“…Conclusion Midwives emphasized the importance of understanding respectful maternity care to ensure optimal outcomes for women, families, and communities. …”
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Performance measurement in data envelopment analysis: a BCC-based approach by Azam Pourhabib Yekta, Mahnaz Maghbouli

“…Notably, the proposed model does not require any prior information on weights or the classification of units, reducing the complexity of the problem.Originality/Value: To highlight the strength of the proposed method, the model is implemented on two case studies and compared with the results obtained from standard BCC models and those of Ramon and colleagues. …”
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Using role-playing games in virtual exchanges: Global experiences in intercultural and multidisciplinary approaches to learning about environmental sustainability by Eduardo Verri Liberado, Kelly Tzoumis

“…These games simulate the complexity of multi-stakeholder decisions that are frequently problematic for implementing environmental sustainability projects. …”
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The Narrative of the Northern Territories in the Socio-Political Discourse of Contemporary Japan by D. V. Streltsov

“…The article examines the organizational structure of state, public, and socio-political organizations designed to ensure public policy to popularize this narrative and shows the features of its reflection in school textbooks, museums, and memorial complexes. …”
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Integrative Model of Building the Education System as a Tool of Providing Well-Balanced Transforming Labour Market by A. N. Kuzminov, S. G. Tyaglov, L. S. Arhipova, N. V. Sedova

“…To attain the set goal tools are used, which take into account complexity of all sub-systems being investigated, including versatile nature of processes taking place on labour market and their interconnection, which leads to impossibility to single out and research in detail separate phenomena. …”
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Improved sliding mode path tracking control for automated guided vehicles with the disturbances compensation by Jun Nie, Xinyu Zhang, Chunyang Sheng, Haixia Wang, Xiao Lu

“…The observed values of state observer are used as the inputs of the RBF neural network to compensate for unknown disturbances affecting the AGV, diminishing the complexity of manual parameter tuning of traditional ESO, and the disturbance estimation error can be demonstrated to converge to zero. …”
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Path Planning and Funnel Control for Wheeled Mobile Robot Based on Signal Temporal Logic by TIAN Chang, ZHU Huajie, YANG Yan, SHI Zhongjiao, LIU Zhijie

“…Temporal logic can ensure the accurate description and execution of task specifications by providing a rich specification language. …”
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Enterprise digital transformation and inefficient investment: from the perspective of diversified operations and environmental uncertainty by Ziqian Peng, Haiyang Zhang, Peng Zhou, Junlin Ren, Yanbai Chen

“…Abstract Amid escalating economic complexity, can digital transformation address persistent corporate investment inefficiencies? …”
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BLACKMAIL AS A METHOD OF EXTORTION by KHOMUTOVA RUSLANA, DAVTYAN DAVID

“…The relevance of the topic is due to the growing number of crimes, the increasing complexity of extortion methods, as well as the transformation of criminal practice in the context of the digitalization of society. …”
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