A case report of bioprosthetic valve dysfunction after tricuspid valve replacement in a preschool patient: the contribution of pannus and calcification by T. V. Glushkova, E. A. Ovcharenko, A. V. Batranin, K. Yu. Klyshnikov, Yu. A. Kudryavtseva, L. S. Barbarash

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A contrast enhanced representation normalization approach to knowledge distillation by Zhiqiang Bao, Di Zhu, Leying Du, Yang Li

“…We observe that the existence of a large number of negative sample pairs in the knowledge transfer process leads to the issue of information redundancy. To mitigate this issue, we propose a representation normalization method and apply it to contrastive representation distillation. …”
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Magistratura e gênero: um olhar sobre as mulheres nas cúpulas do judiciário brasileiro by Roberto Fragale Filho, Rafaela Selem Moreira, Ana Paula de O. Sciammarella

“…The data collected is analysed by functional segment. The text also addresses key issues related to gender distribution in the judicial system through a literature review and interviews with female magistrates in top positions in Brazilian courts. …”
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Potential of diagnostic electron microscopy of calcification, pathological neovascularization and elastolysis in combination with phenotyping of cell populations in large arteries by R. A. Mukhamadiyarov, K. Yu. Klyshnikov, V. A. Koshelev, A. G. Kutikhin

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Material Visual Perception and Discharging Robot Control for Baijiu Fermented Grains in Underground Tank by Yan Zhao, Zhongxun Wang, Hui Li, Chang Wang, Jianhua Zhang, Jingyuan Zhu, Xuan Liu

“…Addressing the issue of excessive manual intervention in discharging fermented grains from underground tanks in traditional brewing technology, this paper proposes an intelligent grains-out strategy based on a multi-degree-of-freedom hybrid robot. …”
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SiUNet3+-CD: a full-scale connected Siamese network for change detection of VHR images by Bo Zhao, Panpan Tang, Xiaoyan Luo, Linze Li, Shi Bai

“…Change detection is a core issue in the study of global change. Inspired by recent success of the UNet3+ architecture originally designed for image semantic segmentation, in this article we proposed a densely connected siamese network for change detection, namely Pre-SiUNet3+-CD (the combination of Pre-processing, Siamese network and UNet3+). …”
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Spectral decomposition unlocks ascidian morphogenesis by Joel Dokmegang, Emmanuel Faure, Patrick Lemaire, Edwin Munro, Madhav Mani

“…In order to achieve this goal, biologists often have to submit movies issued from live imaging of developing embryos either to a qualitative analysis or to basic statistical analysis. …”
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Self-Supervised Pretraining and Quantization for Fault Tolerant Neural Networks: Friend or Foe? by Rosario Milazzo, Sophie M. Fosson, Lia Morra, Luca Sterpone

“…This study investigates the error tolerance of different DNN and SSL techniques in image classification and segmentation tasks, including those relevant to Earth Observation. …”
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Wavelet-Driven Multi-Band Feature Fusion for RGB-T Salient Object Detection by Jianxun Zhao, Xin Wen, Yu He, Xiaowei Yang, Kechen Song

“…Many methods fail to fully utilize high-frequency and low-frequency features during information interaction among different scale features, limiting detection performance. To address this issue, we propose a method for RGB-T salient object detection that enhances performance through wavelet transform and channel-wise attention fusion. …”
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A Multi-Strategy Visual SLAM System for Motion Blur Handling in Indoor Dynamic Environments by Shuo Huai, Long Cao, Yang Zhou, Zhiyang Guo, Jingyao Gai

“…Prevailing methods address this issue by employing semantic information for the identification and processing of dynamic objects in scenes. …”
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MUTFER2024: A new dataset for South African emotion recognitionMendeley DataGithub repository by Rogerant Tshibangu, Jules R Tapamo

“…Subsequently, the images were meticulously segmented and categorized into the specified emotion classes. …”
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OPEN SURGERY FOR TREATING MULTIPLE ANEURYSMS OF INTRACRANIAL CEREBRAL ARTERIES by ANTON N. Kazantsev, ANDREY V. Mironov, ROMAN S. Tarasov, AMIN R. Shabaev, NIKITA K. Firsov, ELENA V. Ruban

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The Role of Context Definition in Choice Experiments: a Methodological Proposal Based on Customized Scenarios by Fabio Boncinelli, Caterina Contini, Francesca Gerini, Caterina Romano, Gabriele Scozzafava, Leonardo Casini

“…In particular, when dealing with products characterized by a large number of attributes, the construction of the experiment poses the issue of how to express the choice question providing sufficient information. …”
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Mental Health Status of Lactating Women Residing in Urban Slums and Rural Areas of South India: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study by Chimata Naveen, Srinivas Rao Darimisetty, T. Madhu, Chittooru Chandra Sekhar, Niharika Borugadda, A. Sreedevi, Mandava Harshita, Shaik Arif

“…Results: The overall prevalence of mental health issues in lactating women from rural and urban slums was 23.6% and 27.3%, respectively. …”
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Comprehensive multi-phase 3D contrast-enhanced CT imaging for primary liver cancer by Jiawei Luo, Xiaoyu Wan, Jinchao Du, Li Liu, Ling Zhao, Xin Peng, Min Wu, Shixin Huang, Xixi Nie

“…Abstract Primary liver cancer is a significant global health issue with high incidence and mortality rates worldwide. …”
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A Real-Time Video Watermarking Algorithm for Authentication of Small-Business Wireless Surveillance Networks by Shaohui Liu, Daniel Bo-Wei Chen, Long Gong, Wen Ji, Sanghyun Seo

“…Fortunately, video watermark just provides an effective technology to resolve this issue. This paper proposes a real-time video watermarking scheme for MPEG, where firstly exploits fast scenes segmentation to original video sequence and adaptively selects appropriate scenes to be embedded. …”
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Collaborative Superpixelwised PCA for Hyperspectral Image Classification by Chao Yao, Junrui Gu, Zehua Guo, Miao Ma, Qingrui Guo, Gong Cheng

“…In this article, a novel method called collaborative superpixelwised PCA (CSPCA) is proposed to address this issue. The main idea behind CSPCA is to collaboratively learn the projections for each superpixel. …”
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The Initial Attitude Estimation of an Electromagnetic Projectile in the High-Temperature Flow Field Based on Mask R-CNN and the Multi-Constraints Genetic Algorithm by Jinlong Chen, Miao Yu, Yongcai Guo, Chao Gao

“…This edge image was then processed using the line segment detector (LSD) algorithm to identify the main structural components, characterized by line segments. …”
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Research on Intelligent Identification Technology for Bridge Cracks by Yumeng Su, Yunlong Song, Zhaomin Zhan, Zhuo Bi, Bang Zhou, Youling Yu, Yanting Song

“…The infrastructure construction of bridges is growing rapidly, and the quality of concrete structures is becoming increasingly stringent. However, the issue of cracks in concrete structures remains prominent. …”
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SFPFMformer: Short-Term Power Load Forecasting for Proxy Electricity Purchase Based on Feature Optimization and Multiscale Decomposition by Chengfei Qi, Yanli Feng, Junling Wan, Xinying Mao, Peisen Yuan

“…In this paper, a model SFPFMformer for short-term power load forecasting is proposed to address the issue of balancing accuracy and timeliness. In SFPFMformer, the random forest algorithm is applied to select the most important attributes, which reduces redundant attributes and improves performance and efficiency; then, multiple timescale segmentation is used to extract load data features from multiple time dimensions to learn feature representations at different levels. …”
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