A precise Bicoid gradient is nonessential during cycles 11-13 for precise patterning in the Drosophila blastoderm. by Elena M Lucchetta, Meghan E Vincent, Rustem F Ismagilov

“…Therefore, it has not been tested explicitly whether a temporally stable Bicoid gradient prior to cellularization is required for precise patterning.…”
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TECs (v1): A Terrestrial Ecosystem Carbon Cycle Simulator Integrated With Spectral Reflection and Emission by Haoran Liu, Min Chen

“…Therefore, a sophisticated radiative transfer model in TBMs, which explicitly links satellite‐observable surface reflectance to biophysical and biochemical processes within the vegetation canopy, and allows directly using remote sensing data to effectively constrain or optimize TBMs. …”
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Metric‐based pill recognition with the help of textual and visual cues by Richárd Rádli, Zsolt Vörösházi, László Czúni

“…Moreover, it is shown that besides the visual features of drug samples, even free text of drug leaflets (processed with a natural language model) can be used to set the value of the margin in the triplet loss and thus increase the recognition accuracy of testing. Thus, besides using the conventional metric learning approach, the given discriminating features can be explicitly injected into the metric model using the NLP of the free text of pill leaflets or descriptors of images of selected pills. …”
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Reconstructing the course of the COVID-19 epidemic over 2020 for US states and counties: Results of a Bayesian evidence synthesis model. by Melanie H Chitwood, Marcus Russi, Kenneth Gunasekera, Joshua Havumaki, Fayette Klaassen, Virginia E Pitzer, Joshua A Salomon, Nicole A Swartwood, Joshua L Warren, Daniel M Weinberger, Ted Cohen, Nicolas A Menzies

“…To do so we employed a Bayesian modeling approach that explicitly accounts for reporting delays and variation in case ascertainment, and generates daily estimates of incident SARS-CoV-2 infections on the basis of reported COVID-19 cases and deaths. …”
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The Relationship between Health Literacy and Health Disparities: A Systematic Review. by Sarah Mantwill, Silvia Monestel-Umaña, Peter J Schulz

“…Further, many studies lacked a specific description of the nature of the disparity that was explored and a clear account of possible pathways tested.…”
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Best Siting for Small Hill Reservoirs and the Challenge of Sedimentation: A Case Study in the Umbria Region (Central Italy) by Lorenzo Vergni, Nicola Pasquini, Francesca Todisco

“…Given the economic and environmental implications of sedimentation, this study recommends explicitly incorporating sedimentation risk criteria into SHRBS methodologies to enhance the effectiveness of siting decisions.…”
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Nonsurgical Rhinoplasty: A Modified Rino-4-Puntos Technique With Hyaluronic Acid Improves the Appearance of Nasal Septal Deviation by Fernando Silikovich, MD, George Kroumpouzos, MD, PhD, FAAD

“…However, no nonsurgical rhinoplasty procedure has been explicitly tested for improving the appearance of nasal septal deviation (NSD). …”
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Age-stratified analysis of adverse event signals for clarithromycin: a disproportionality analysis using the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System by Haiyan Mai, Zhenpo Zhang, Yankun Liang, Jingping Zheng, Ling Su

“…Statistical analyses included descriptive statistics and Chi-square tests. Results: A total of 7319 reports of clarithromycin AEs were retrieved from the FAERS database. …”
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Spatial overlap, proximity, and habitat use of individual wolves within the same packs by John F. Benson, Brent R. Patterson

“…Researchers commonly assume, either explicitly or implicitly, that telemetry data from ≥1 individual wolf can be used to represent the space use, distribution, presence, and resource selection of the pack. …”
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From communication to action: using ordered network analysis to model team performance in clinical simulation by Vitaliy Popov, Lauryn R. Rochlen

“…Network visualizations and statistical tests compared communication patterns between groups. …”
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Is a quantifier mismatch a problem for L1 Japanese learners of English? by Paul N. Nehls, Kodai Aramaki, Tomohiro Fujii

“…As this semantic difference is not explicitly taught in a classroom environment, acquisition by learners would need to take place through experiencing most in contexts where they might receive contextual clues. …”
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Effective k-nearest neighbor models for data classification enhancement by Ali A. Amer, Sri Devi Ravana, Riyaz Ahamed Ariyaluran Habeeb

“…The results, supported by statistical tests, demonstrate that, on average, our proposed models are extremely competitive without being appreciably slower than their competitors.…”
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Efficiency-based methodology for the selection of electric motors for mini-tractor propulsion by Alibek Ibraim, Bakhyt Absadykov, Troha Sanjin, Marković Kristina, Vrcan Željko

“…The dynamic tests carried out during the research have provided valuable insight into the relation of the overall power efficiency of the vehicle to the weight and transmission ratio variations.…”
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A lifetime of experiences: Modelling habitat quality through cumulative effects on individual survival by Anna K. Moeller, Molly C. McDevitt, Andrew J. Lindbloom, Winsor Lowe, Paul M. Lukacs

“…SHQ is a conceptual and methodological advance that explicitly integrates individuals' day‐to‐day interactions with their surroundings to identify ultimate sources of mortality. …”
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An Autonomous Drone for Avalanche Search and Rescue: Integrating ArduPilot and Tracking-Beacon Detection by Jedrzej Stasik, Tomasz Szandala

“…This paper presents an innovative autonomous drone system explicitly designed to enhance avalanche search and rescue (SAR) operations in challenging mountainous terrains. …”
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Rawls´ legacy: a limited possibility of a non-speciesist environmental justice by Sônia T. Felipe

“…Publishing A Theory of Justice in 1971 John Rawls defined a conceptual realm of justice as that of a well-ordered society in which some principles of justice should be tested before seeking to apply them to distribute primary goods among co-operative representative subjects (considered as equals within the basic structure of society) and other subjects, who are not necessarily co-operative, even if they are included in the contract of justice by the representatives through the indirect moral duties theory. …”
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Recording behaviour of indoor-housed farm animals automatically using machine vision technology: A systematic review. by Kaitlin Wurtz, Irene Camerlink, Richard B D'Eath, Alberto Peña Fernández, Tomas Norton, Juan Steibel, Janice Siegford

“…Training and validation sample sizes were generally small (mean±s.d. groups = 3.8±5.8) and in data collection and testing took place in relatively controlled environments. …”
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Resident primary care practitioners’ awareness and handling of zoonotic diseases: an explorative online survey in the Hameln-Pyrmont district, Lower Saxony, Germany by Michael W. Scheider, Lothar Kreienbrock, Thomas von Lengerke

“…Data were analyzed descriptively and by Wilcoxon signed-rank tests and t-tests for paired samples. Results N = 43 of the 88 practitioners in the district took the survey (response rate: 48.9%). …”
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Treegraph: tree architecture from terrestrial laser scanning point clouds by Wanxin Yang, Phil Wilkes, Matheus B. Vicari, Kate Hand, Kim Calders, Mathias Disney

“…In a broader application to 603 trees from tropical, temperate and urban forests, we demonstrate that the derived morphological and topological traits support testing of structure‐related metabolic scaling theories. …”
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Deploying UAV-based detection of bridge structural deterioration with pilgrimage walk optimization-lite for computer vision by Jui-Sheng Chou, Chi-Yun Liu, Pin-Jun Guo

“…This integration facilitates precise, automated deterioration quantification and supports accurate, efficient maintenance cost estimation. Explicitly designed for detecting underside deterioration in composite bridges, this system provides bridge management authorities and construction firms with a comprehensive tool. …”
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