A Unified Approach to Video Anomaly Detection: Advancements in Feature Extraction, Weak Supervision, and Strategies for Class Imbalance by Rui Z. Barbosa, Hugo S. Oliveira

“…Key findings include the impact of class imbalance on the Cross-Modal Awareness-Local Arousal (CMALA) architecture and the effectiveness of techniques like pseudo-curriculum learning in mitigating noisy classes, such as “Car Accident.…”
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3M: Multi-style image caption generation using Multi-modality features under Multi-UPDOWN model by Chengxi Li, Brent Harrison

“…We demonstrate the effectiveness of our model on generating human-like captions by examining its performance on two datasets, the PERSONALITY-CAPTIONS dataset, and the FlickrStyle10K dataset. …”
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On the analytical model for jitter by Saralees Nadarajah, Alassane Ba

“…Jitter in Internet Protocol (IP) networks refers to the variation in packet arrival times, which can cause delays or disruptions in real-time communications like voice or video calls. Managing jitter is crucial for applications requiring consistent data flow, such as voice over internet protocol, online gaming, and video conferencing, to maintain quality and reliability. …”
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Observational properties of regular black holes in asymptotic safety by Abdybek Urmanov, Hrishikesh Chakrabarty, Daniele Malafarina

“…We investigated null and time-like geodesics around the AS metric, including circular orbits, photon rings and lensing effects. …”
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BELARUSIANS’ SELFIDENTIFICATION IN THE CONTEXT OF CIVILIZATIONAL BORDERLAND by L. Volakhava

“…Lukashenko’s pendulum-like foreign policy highlights the national identity reference points and defines its either pro-Russian or pro-Western leaning. …”
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Moiré Effect: Index and the Digital Image by Stella Baraklianou

“…Most widely recognisable in colour printing practices, generally viewed on screens (computer and TV) they are in most cases examples of interference within a signal or a code, unwanted visual mis-alignment. Especially in digital image capture, moiré patternings appear when a geometrically even pattern, like a fabric or close-up of fine texture, has an appearance of rippled water with blue or red hues of concentric circle formations. …”
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Drawing Boundaries Between Data Protection and Privacy: the Centre for Reforming the Data Protection Paradigm by Haodi Deng

“…Similarly, China has firmly separated data protection and privacy through legislation like the Civil Code and the Personal Information Protection Law. …”
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Dɛnkyɛm: Identity Development and Negotiation Among 1.5-Generation Ghanaian American Millennials by Jakia Marie

“…The findings suggest that many individuals of this generation had unrealistic expectations of what life in the United States was like, which made the initial transition difficult. …”
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A Tutorial and Use Case Example of the eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) Artificial Intelligence Algorithm for Drug Development Applications by Matthew Wiens, Alissa Verone‐Boyle, Nick Henscheid, Jagdeep T. Podichetty, Jackson Burton

“…This tutorial focuses on the concepts and implementation of the popular eXtreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) algorithm for classification and regression of simple clinical trial‐like datasets. Emphasis is placed on relating the underlying concepts to the code implementation. …”
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The effect of flaw on rock mechanical properties under the Brazilian test by Yu Zhou, Guang Zhang, Shunchuan Wu, Li Zhang

“… Tensile strength is one of the most significant parameters for rock. Rock-like materials were used to prefabricate Brazilian disc specimens containing a single flaw. …”
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Using d2d for Writing XML by Markus Lepper, Baltasar Trancón y Widemann

“…All source texts are in the public domain; a publication on an open-source code repository is in preparation.…”
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Assessing the prevalence of unethical behaviour in the South African police service by Maxwell Haurovi, Alouis Chilunjika

“…SAPS encountered challenges like police corruption, bribery, illegal protection, and extortion. …”
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نماز میں عورت کی امامت سے متعلق قدیم اور جدید افکار کا تجزیاتی مطالعہ by Hafiz Muhammad Ramzan, Muhammad Akram Rana

“…Recently, this complicated issue rose all over afresh, when woman like Dr. Amina Wadud and Rahil Raza led mixed gender in prayer. …”
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Proposal of a New Isogeny-Based Cryptographic Protocol: Formal Analysis and Comparison by mohammed EL BARAKA, Siham Ezzouak

“…The proposed protocol‎, ‎Isogeny-Based Key Exchange with Error-Correcting Codes (IKEC)‎, ‎offers enhanced security‎, ‎computational efficiency‎, ‎and practical applicability‎, ‎making it a viable alternative to existing schemes like SIDH‎. ‎…”
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Reactor criticals and spent fuel systems similarities by Matěj Šikl

“…In this paper a possibility of using commercial reactor critical states for code validations and for subcriticality assessments of storage systems is discussed and potential approach for criticality safety analysis is given.…”
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How Do WE Address the Instructors in the Expanding Circle? Perspectives from Turkish EFL Speakers by Ahmet Can Uyar, İsmail YAMAN

“…Far from the norm-referenced approach which focuses on labeling non-native-like practices as failures, this study casts light on the underlying mechanisms of the identified address preferences from a variationist point of view. …”
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Justice for the Parties to the Standard Agreement Relating to the Freedom Contract Principle by Nadia Aurynnisa Prihandini, Ery Agus Priyono

“…The findings showed that the standard contracts may not violate the principle of freedom of contract outlined in Article 1320 and Article 1338 of the Civil Code, conflicts may arise, particularly due to restrictive clauses like exoneration clauses. …”
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Tjieng Tjang Tjerries and other stories by Jolyn Phillips by Naledi Msimang

“…She stays true even to the mix of English and Afrikaans spoken in the town, and code-switches from one language to the other regularly and unapologetically so. …”
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Unveiling pressure-driven tunability of structural, electronic, mechanical and optical characteristics in CsPbBr3 based on a DFT study by Sheeza Mumtaz, M. Rizwan, M. Abaid Ullah, S.S. Ali, Z. Usman, T. Mahmood

“…Numerous beneficial optoelectronic characteristics of perovskites like lead halide have gained much attention due to their light-based and solar cell applications. …”
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Nursing students’ experiences of clinical teaching: A qualitative study by Parand Pourghane

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