Concrete Spalling Severity Classification Using Image Texture Analysis and a Novel Jellyfish Search Optimized Machine Learning Approach by Nhat-Duc Hoang, Thanh-Canh Huynh, Van-Duc Tran

“…To characterize concrete surface condition, image texture descriptors of statistical measurement of color channels, gray-level run length, and center-symmetric local binary pattern are used. Based on these texture-based features, the support vector machine classifier optimized by the jellyfish search metaheuristic is put forward to construct a decision boundary that partitions the input data into two classes of shallow spalling and deep spalling. …”
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Nursing Value Analysis and Risk Assessment of Acute Gastrointestinal Bleeding Using Multiagent Reinforcement Learning Algorithm by Fang Liu, Xiaoli Liu, Changyou Yin, Hongrong Wang

“…Feature extraction is done using local binary patterns (LBP). Classification is performed using a fuzzy support vector machine (FSVM) classifier. …”
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A density-based MS disease diagnosis model using the capuchin search algorithm and an ensemble of deep neural networks by LiJuan Bai, Jiao Wu, Li Chen, Xin Jiang, ZhuYin Song

“…When the target view is detected, the features of each ROI are extracted through three techniques: local binary pattern (LBP), multi-linear principal component analysis (MPCA), and gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM). …”
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EU water directives through a semiotic lens: framing quality, risk, and circularity by Cheryl Marie Cordeiro

“…These framings provide legal clarity and facilitate enforcement, but they also limit flexibility and reduce alignment with ecosystem dynamics. Social semiotic patterns show a consistent privileging of state and industrial actors, often marginalizing local communities and multispecies perspectives. …”
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MB-MSTFNet: A Multi-Band Spatio-Temporal Attention Network for EEG Sensor-Based Emotion Recognition by Cheng Fang, Sitong Liu, Bing Gao

“…A multi-scale CNN-Inception module extracts hierarchical spatial features via diverse convolutional kernels and pooling operations, capturing localized sensor activations and global brain network interactions. …”
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Impact of short-term aircraft noise on cardiovascular disease risk in the area surrounding London Heathrow airport: the RISTANCO epidemiological study by Xiangpu Gong, Nicole Itzkowitz, Calvin Jephcote, Kathryn Adams, Glory O Atilola, John Gulliver, Marta Blangiardo, Anna Hansell

“…In our experiment, we therefore used the natural feature of wind direction changes that alter the flight paths as aircraft take off into the wind (broadly speaking 70% of the time Heathrow operates on a westerly pattern and 30% on an easterly), which meant that we could select from all days between 2014 and 2018 and all areas near the airport. …”
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Evaluation of parenting interventions for those with additional health and social care needs during pregnancy: THRIVE a multi-arm RCT with embedded economic and process components by Marion Henderson, Anja Wittkowski, Katie Buston, Karen Crawford, Alice MacLachlan, Alex McConnachie, Emma McIntosh, Claudia-Martina Messow, Catherine Nixon, Rosaleen O’Brien, Shona Shinwell, Daniel Wight, Yiqiao Xin, Rachel Calam, Ruth Dundas, James Law, Helen Minnis, Lucy Thompson, Philip Wilson

“…AWS outwardly expressed irritability subscale. CARE Index co-operative behaviour. The intervention group was entered in the regression models in the following ways: Binary as active intervention (ETPB or MB) versus CAU. …”
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