What they Don’t Want You to Know about Globalization: It’s impact on employment in Nigeria and India by Mashael Jassim Nasser, Gyanendra Singh Sisodia, Rajesh Mohnot

“…This study attempts to investigate the historical and economic narratives, highlighting missed points in the comprehension of globalization and the effects on present-day labor markets in developing countries – India and Nigeria, between 1990 and 2023. …”
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Optimized Multi-Scale Detection and Numbering of Teeth in Panoramic Radiographs Using DentifyNet by Salih Taha Alperen Ozcelik, Huseyin Uzen, Abdulkadir Sengur, Muammer Turkoglu, Adalet Celebi, Nebras M. Sobahi

“…The architecture effectively detects challenging cases, such as adjacent similar teeth and missing teeth. These findings suggest that DentifyNet surpasses standard Faster R-CNN architectures, offering a reliable solution for automated tooth detection and numbering. …”
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Visible-infrared person re-identification with region-based augmentation and cross modality attention by Yuwei Guo, Wenhao Zhang, Licheng Jiao, Shuang Wang, Shuo Wang, Fang Liu

“…Moreover, a lightweight hybrid compensation module, i.e., a Modality Feature Transfer (MFT) module, is proposed to integrate cross attention and convolution networks to avoid introducing interfering information while preserving minimal computational overhead. …”
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An unsupervised cluster analysis of multimorbidity patterns in older adults in Shenzhen, China by Xiaolong Guo, Peiyi Liu, Jing Guo, Naiwen Zhang, Haiyan Huang, Jianjun Liu, Zhen Tan, Guo Dan

“…Studies on multimorbidity in Shenzhen have primarily focused on the quantity of multimorbidity, lacking in-depth exploration of multimorbidity patterns.MethodsBased on baseline data from the Shenzhen aging-related disease cohort, this study analyzed information from 8,911 people aged 60 and above after excluding missing and abnormal values from interview results. …”
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A novel reconstruction-based video anomaly detection with idempotent generative network by Wenmin Dong, Lifeng Zhang, Wenjuan Shi, Xiangwei Zheng, Yuang Zhang

“…Meanwhile, the Pyramid Deformation Module (PDM), as an integral part of PSVAE, computes offset maps of original video frames for anomaly detection supplementation. …”
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Microbiological contamination in broiler– a narrative overview on recent data and documentation in routine slaughter by Bastian Wyink, Henrike von Haacke, Felix Reich, Anja Beterams, Niels Bandick, Thiemo Albert, Michael Südbeck, Thomas Alter, Lothar Kreienbrock, Alina Kirse

“…To assess the effectiveness of reduction measures integrated into the slaughtering process, a baseline of contamination needs to be defined. …”
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Cybersecurity requirements for medical devices in the EU and US - A comparison and gap analysis of the MDCG 2019–16 and FDA premarket cybersecurity guidance by Max Ostermann, Rebecca Mathias, Fatemeh Jahed, Mitchell B. Parker, Florence D. Hudson, William C. Harding, Stephen Gilbert, Oscar Freyer

“…Second, the guidance documents were compared with real-world cybersecurity incidents, showing that the current guidance documents would help to mitigate the weaknesses of important vulnerability examples, while recommendations are missing in both guidance documents, but more so in MDCG 2019–16, for the most important weaknesses. …”
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Change Detection on Remote Sensing Images Using Multidimensional Attention Network by Yiming Zhang, Mingliang Xue, Yao Lu, Xuan Liang, Pengyuan Niu, Xueqian Wang, You He

“…Second, the multiscale feature enhancement module is employed, integrating multiscale convolution branches to capture a broader context, thus addressing the issue of missing small-scale changes. …”
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International study opportunities in the dentistry degree programme at the University of Münster – a needs assessment of student interest and demand by Hettkamp, Julian, Becker, Jan C., Scherzer, Sönke, Marschall, Bernhard, Ehmke, Benjamin, Scheutzel, Petra, Junga, Anna

“…The new ZApprO (date of issue: 8 July 2019) offers the opportunity to integrate stays abroad into the degree programme through the introduction of modules, ECTS points and clinical traineeships, among other things. …”
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Electric vehicle battery state of charge estimation using metaheuristic-optimized CatBoost algorithms by Mohd Herwan Sulaiman, Zuriani Mustaffa, Ahmad Salihin Samsudin, Amir Izzani Mohamed, Mohd Mawardi Saari

“…A comprehensive data preprocessing pipeline was implemented, including missing value treatment, outlier removal, and feature normalization using Min-Max scaling. …”
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The ‘photosynthetic C1 pathway’ links carbon assimilation and growth in California poplar by Kolby J. Jardine, Luiza Gallo, Melissa Roth, Shivani Upadhyaya, Trent Northen, Suzanne Kosina, Guillaume Tcherkez, Aymerick Eudes, Tomas Domigues, Markus Greule, Suman Som, Frank Keppler

“…Here, we show that the phosphorylated serine pathway is part of a ‘photosynthetic C1 pathway’ and demonstrate its high activity in foliage of a C3 tree where it rapidly integrates photosynthesis and C1 metabolism contributing to new biomass via methyl transfer reactions, imparting a large natural 13C-depleted signature. …”
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CA-STIM: an interpolation model with spatio-temporal evolution characteristics and cross-attention mechanism for 2D island morphology sequences by Peng Zhang, Wenzhou Wu, Shaochen Shi, Fengyu Li, Fenzhen Su

“…However, issues such as cloud cover and atmospheric interference often lead to poor image quality, resulting in significant missing in the 2D morphology sequences extracted from remote sensing images. …”
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Global strategies and local implementation of health and health-related SDGs: lessons from consultation in countries across five regions by Sameen Siddiqi, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Sara Causevic, Peter Friberg, Luis Huicho, Roman Mogilevskii, Fahad Javaid Siddiqui, Johanna Lindgren-Garcia, Anil Khamis, Mashal Murad Shah

“…While the momentum towards universal health coverage is notable, explicit linkages with non-health SDGs and integrated multisectoral implementation strategies are lacking. …”
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Enhancing Last-Mile Logistics: AI-Driven Fleet Optimization, Mixed Reality, and Large Language Model Assistants for Warehouse Operations by Saverio Ieva, Ivano Bilenchi, Filippo Gramegna, Agnese Pinto, Floriano Scioscia, Michele Ruta, Giuseppe Loseto

“…However, existing approaches often treat these aspects in isolation, missing opportunities for optimization and operational efficiency gains through improved information visibility across different roles in the logistics workforce. …”
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Retrieving total transpirable soil water in a rainfed vineyard using vine shoot growth, weather, and Sentinel-2 data by Yulin Zhang, Léo Pichon, Sébastien Roux, Anne Pellegrino, Guillaume Coulouma, Bruno Tisseyre

“…The method performed best in plots without dead or missing vines and required less than one hour of fieldwork per plot, offering substantial operational advantages over traditional soil profile analysis. …”
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Stochastic cell-intrinsic stem cell decisions control colony growth in planarians by Tamar Frankovits, Prakash Varkey Cherian, Yarden Yesharim, Simon Dobler, Omri Wurtzel

“…These mechanisms enable robust production of diverse cell types and facilitate regeneration of missing tissues.…”
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Research on Time Series Interpolation and Reconstruction of Multi-Source Remote Sensing AOD Product Data Using Machine Learning Methods by Huifang Wang, Min Wang, Pan Jiang, Fanshu Ma, Yanhu Gao, Xinchen Gu, Qingzu Luan

“…This study aims to develop a high-precision method to fill spatial AOD missing values and generate daily full-coverage AOD products for the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region in 2021 by integrating multi-dimensional data, including meteorological models, multi-source remote sensing, surface conditions, and nighttime light parameters, and applying machine learning methods. …”
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A progressive attention-based cross-modal fusion network for cardiovascular disease detection using synchronized electrocardiogram and phonocardiogram signals by Wei Peng Li, Joon Huang Chuah, Guo Jeng Tan, Chengyu Liu, Hua-Nong Ting

“…A key innovation is its four-layer progressive fusion mechanism, which integrates multi-modal information from low-level morphological details to high-level semantic representations. …”
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Accidental hypothermic cardiac arrest and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: a case report by P. Daniel Patterson, Taylor C. Hupfeld, Nia Forbes, Zach J. Blickley, Jared A. Collins, Ashley M. Pegram, Francis X. Guyette

“…Case Report Emergency medical services (EMS) were dispatched to a 34‐year‐old female who had been missing for several hours during a January snowfall. …”
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Construction and Application of Carbon Emissions Estimation Model for China Based on Gradient Boosting Algorithm by Dongjie Guan, Yitong Shi, Lilei Zhou, Xusen Zhu, Demei Zhao, Guochuan Peng, Xiujuan He

“…Key variables were selected through correlation analysis, missing values were interpolated using K-means clustering, and model parameters were systematically optimized via grid search and cross-validation. …”
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