Optimized ReXNet variants with spatial pyramid pooling, CoordAttention, and convolutional block attention module for money plant disease detection by Parul Nasra, Jaibir Singh, Suman Rani, Gunjan Shandilya, Salil Bharany, Sandeep Sood, Ateeq Ur Rehman, Seada Hussen

“…The CoordAttention-enhanced ReXNet improved both spatial and channel-wise feature extraction, attaining 96% accuracy by leveraging coordinate-separated pooling to highlight relevant features. The SPP-integrated ReXNet further enhanced performance through multi-scale feature aggregation, reaching 98% accuracy and demonstrating robustness in classifying images with overlapping features. …”
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Semantic Segmentation Network for Unstructured Rural Roads Based on Improved SPPM and Fused Multiscale Features by Xinyu Cao, Yongqiang Tian, Zhixin Yao, Yunjie Zhao, Taihong Zhang

“…In this study, we propose an enhanced PP-LiteSeg model specifically designed for rural road segmentation, incorporating a novel Strip Pooling Simple Pyramid Module (SP-SPPM) and a Bottleneck Unified Attention Fusion Module (B-UAFM). …”
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A comparison Analysis of Knowledge Management Process in International and Local Non-governmental Organizations Operating in Northeast Syria by Nechirvan A. Othman, Bartok I. Istivan

“…The study suggests that future research should explore the practical implications of KM processes within NGOs to enhance organizational performance and mission fulfillment. Specifically, an in-depth investigation into why LNGOs lag in holding knowledge compared to INGOs. …”
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Graph-based vision transformer with sparsity for training on small datasets from scratch by Peng Li, Lu Huang, Jin Li, Haiyan Yan, Dongjing Shan

“…However, when training from scratch on small datasets, there is still a significant performance gap between ViTs and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), which is attributed to the lack of inductive bias. …”
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A novel deep neural network-based technique for network embedding by Sabrina Benbatata, Bilal Saoud, Ibraheem Shayea, Naif Alsharabi, Abdulraqeb Alhammadi, Ali Alferaidi, Amr Jadi, Yousef Ibrahim Daradkeh

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ENHANCING DISEASE DETECTION PREDICTION ACCURACY OF GRAPE LEAVES USING VGG16 MODEL AND INCEPTION V3 MODEL by Deepshikha Yadav, Archana Balyan, Suman Mann, Aayush Ranga

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TOSD: A Hierarchical Object-Centric Descriptor Integrating Shape, Color, and Topology by Jun-Hyeon Choi, Jeong-Won Pyo, Ye-Chan An, Tae-Yong Kuc

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Metal Transfer Behavior and Molten Pool Dynamics in Cold Metal Transfer Pulse Advanced Additive Manufacturing of 7075 Aluminum Alloy by Yili Wang, Dongbin Zhang, Chen Zhang

“…The Direct Current Electrode Positive period of the arc accelerates droplet spray transition, significantly increasing molten pool flow. In contrast, the Direct Current Electrode Negative period of the arc predominantly features droplet short-circuiting transition with low heat input and a weak impact on the molten pool. …”
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Draft genome dataset of Streptomyces griseoincarnatus strain R-35 isolated from tidal pool sedimentsMendeley DataNCBI by Danielle Dana Mitchell, Jo-Marie Vreulink, Alaric Prins, Marilize Le Roes-Hill

“…The genomic DNA was sequenced using the Ion Torrent GeneStudio™ S5 platform, and the de novo assembly was performed using the SPAdes assembler on the Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) Lengau Cluster located at the CSIR, Rosebank, South Africa. …”
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Pooled safety analysis of two phase 3 studies investigating trifluridine/tipiracil plus bevacizumab in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer by Julien Taieb, Marwan Fakih, Gabor Liposits, Gerald W. Prager, Eric Van Cutsem, Fortunato Ciardiello, Nadia Amellal, Elizabeth Calleja, Mei Liu, Lucas Roby, Josep Tabernero, Thierry André

“…Treatment-related adverse events (TRAEs) were analyzed by age and Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status (ECOG PS).ResultsThe pooled safety population comprised 669 patients (SOLSTICE, n = 423; and SUNLIGHT, n = 246). …”
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Gestational exposure to environmental chemical mixtures and cognitive abilities in children: A pooled analysis of two North American birth cohorts by Jagadeesh Puvvula, Wei-Ting Hwang, Lawrence McCandless, Changchun Xie, Joseph M. Braun, Ann M. Vuong, Youssef Oulhote, Enrique F. Schisterman, Russell T. Shinohara, Linda Booij, Maryse F. Bouchard, Kristin Linn, Michael M. Borghese, Jean R. Seguin, Angelika Zidek, Christine Till, William Fraser, Kimberly Yolton, Kim M. Cecil, Jillian Ashley-Martin, Tye E. Arbuckle, Bruce Lanphear, Aimin Chen

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Association between S100B Levels and Long-Term Outcome after Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Systematic Review and Pooled Analysis. by Pui Man Rosalind Lai, Rose Du

“…The weighted Stouffer's Z method was used to perform a pooled analysis of outcome measures with greater than three studies. …”
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Cigarette smoking and associated factors among men in five South Asian countries: A pooled analysis of nationally representative surveys. by Md Shariful Islam, Mamunur Rashid, Monaemul Islam Sizear, Raafat Hassan, Mahbubur Rahman, Sarker Masud Parvez, Shuvon Chandra Hore, Rehnuma Haque, Farjana Jahan, Supta Chowdhury, Tarique Mohammad Nurul Huda, K M Saif-Ur-Rahman, Arifuzzaman Khan

“…The outcome variable was the prevalence of cigarette smoking. We performed both pooled and country-specific analyses using multivariable logistic regression. …”
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The Sensitivity and Specificity of Potassium Hydroxide Smear and Fungal Culture Relative to Clinical Assessment in the Evaluation of Tinea Pedis: A Pooled Analysis by Jacob Oren Levitt, Barrie H. Levitt, Arash Akhavan, Howard Yanofsky

“…To evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of KOH smear and fungal culture for diagnosing tinea pedis. Methods. A pooled analysis of data from five similarly conducted bioequivalence trials for antifungal drugs was performed. …”
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Higher resolution pooled genome-wide CRISPR knockout screening in Drosophila cells using integration and anti-CRISPR (IntAC) by Raghuvir Viswanatha, Samuel Entwisle, Yanhui Hu, Ah-Ram Kim, Kelly Reap, Matthew Butnaru, Mujeeb Qadiri, Stephanie E. Mohr, Norbert Perrimon

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Predictive Value of C-Reactive Protein for Major Complications after Major Abdominal Surgery: A Systematic Review and Pooled-Analysis. by Jennifer Straatman, Annelieke M K Harmsen, Miguel A Cuesta, Johannes Berkhof, Elise P Jansma, Donald L van der Peet

“…<h4>Study design</h4>A systematic review was performed for CRP levels as a predictor for complications after major abdominal surgery (MAS). …”
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Fatty acid biomarkers of dairy fat consumption and incidence of type 2 diabetes: A pooled analysis of prospective cohort studies. by Fumiaki Imamura, Amanda Fretts, Matti Marklund, Andres V Ardisson Korat, Wei-Sin Yang, Maria Lankinen, Waqas Qureshi, Catherine Helmer, Tzu-An Chen, Kerry Wong, Julie K Bassett, Rachel Murphy, Nathan Tintle, Chaoyu Ian Yu, Ingeborg A Brouwer, Kuo-Liong Chien, Alexis C Frazier-Wood, Liana C Del Gobbo, Luc Djoussé, Johanna M Geleijnse, Graham G Giles, Janette de Goede, Vilmundur Gudnason, William S Harris, Allison Hodge, Frank Hu, InterAct Consortium, Albert Koulman, Markku Laakso, Lars Lind, Hung-Ju Lin, Barbara McKnight, Kalina Rajaobelina, Ulf Risérus, Jennifer G Robinson, Cécilia Samieri, David S Siscovick, Sabita S Soedamah-Muthu, Nona Sotoodehnia, Qi Sun, Michael Y Tsai, Matti Uusitupa, Lynne E Wagenknecht, Nick J Wareham, Jason Hy Wu, Renata Micha, Nita G Forouhi, Rozenn N Lemaitre, Dariush Mozaffarian, Fatty Acids and Outcomes Research Consortium (FORCE)

“…Study-specific results were pooled using inverse-variance-weighted meta-analysis. …”
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A Two-Tiered Bidirectional Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling-Based Semantic Segmentation Model for Landslide Classification Using Remote Sensing Images by G. NaliniPriya, E. Laxmi Lydia, Reem Alshenaifi, Radhika Kavuri, Mohamad Khairi Ishak

“…A wide range of investigations is performed to highlight the superiority of the BASPP-SSCM method using a benchmark dataset. …”
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DAA-UNet: A Dense Connectivity and Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling Attention UNet Model for Retinal Optical Coherence Tomography Fluid Segmentation by Tianhan Hu, Jiao Ding, Yuting Liu, Yantao Zhang, Li Yang

“…The proposed model incorporates dense connectivity, Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP), and attention gate (AG) in the paths of UNet. …”
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Automated Road Extraction from Satellite Imagery Integrating Dense Depthwise Dilated Separable Spatial Pyramid Pooling with DeepLabV3+ by Arpan Mahara, Md Rezaul Karim Khan, Liangdong Deng, Naphtali Rishe, Wenjia Wang, Seyed Masoud Sadjadi

“…The present work proposes the utilization of DeepLabV3+, the latest version of the DeepLab series, by introducing an innovative Dense Depthwise Dilated Separable Spatial Pyramid Pooling (DenseDDSSPP) module and integrating it in the place of the conventional Atrous Spatial Pyramid Pooling (ASPP) module. …”
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