Multimodal Fall Detection Using Spatial–Temporal Attention and Bi-LSTM-Based Feature Fusion by Jungpil Shin, Abu Saleh Musa Miah, Rei Egawa, Najmul Hassan, Koki Hirooka, Yoichi Tomioka

“…The GSTCAN model uses AlphaPose for skeleton extraction, calculates motion between consecutive frames, and applies a graph convolutional network (GCN) with a CA mechanism to focus on relevant features while suppressing noise. …”
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DNA Methylation: Insights into Human Evolution. by Irene Hernando-Herraez, Raquel Garcia-Perez, Andrew J Sharp, Tomas Marques-Bonet

“…We hope to encourage the scientific community to address the many challenges posed by the field of comparative epigenomics.…”
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Evolution of instruments for harvest of the skin grafts by Faisal Ameer, Arun Kumar Singh, Sandeep Kumar

“…Results: This article traces the evolution of instrumentation for harvest of skin grafts from free hand techniques to precise modern automated methods. …”
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Cheating leads to the evolution of multipartite viruses. by Asher Leeks, Penny Grace Young, Paul Eugene Turner, Geoff Wild, Stuart Andrew West

“…The existence of multipartite viruses poses a problem, because replication is only possible when all segments are present within the same host. …”
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EBFA-6D: End-to-End Transparent Object 6D Pose Estimation Based on a Boundary Feature Augmented Mechanism by Xinbei Jiang, Zichen Zhu, Tianhan Gao, Nan Guo

“…We further conduct a bottom-up feature fusion to enhance the location capability of EBFA-6D. EBFA-6D is evaluated on the ClearPose dataset, outperforming the existing methods in accuracy while achieving an inference speed near real-time. …”
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M18K: A Multi-Purpose Real-World Dataset for Mushroom Detection, 3D Pose Estimation, and Growth Monitoring by Abdollah Zakeri, Mulham Fawakherji, Jiming Kang, Bikram Koirala, Venkatesh Balan, Weihang Zhu, Driss Benhaddou, Fatima A. Merchant

“…With a total of 2000 images for object detection, instance segmentation, and 3D pose estimation—containing over 100,000 mushroom instances—and an additional 3838 images for yield estimation featuring eight mushroom scenes covering the complete growth period, it fills the gap in mushroom-specific datasets and serves as a benchmark for detection and instance segmentation as well as 3D pose estimation algorithms in smart mushroom agriculture. …”
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A Low-Cost Environment-Interactive Patrol Inspection System With Navigation Based on Sensor-Fusion and Robotic Arm Contact Pose Feedback by Zhesheng Zhang, Long Chen

“…Experimental results indicate that our system can efficiently patrol designated routes, interact with the environment at checkpoints, and recalibrate pose using robotic arm feedback. In real-world evaluations, the system achieves a 24.35% improvement in positional accuracy and a 26.70% improvement in orientation accuracy, demonstrating its effectiveness and robustness.…”
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Elliptical Model-Based Robust Pedestrian Pose Tracking by LiDAR via Bi-Level Moving Horizon Random Sample Consensus by Haziq Muhammad, Zool H. Ismail, Kazuma Sekiguchi, Kenichiro Nonaka

“…Recent advancements in autonomous vehicle research have heightened the need for precise pedestrian pose tracking to ensure safe navigation. Utilizing LiDAR sensors, conventional bounding box (BB) methods are generally used but are sensitive to limb motion. …”
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2D Pose Estimation vs. Inertial Measurement Unit-Based Motion Capture in Ergonomics: Assessing Postural Risk in Dental Assistants by Steven Simon, Jonna Meining, Laura Laurendi, Thorsten Berkefeld, Jonas Dully, Carlo Dindorf, Michael Fröhlich

“…While pose estimation might be useful for quick general posture assessment, it may not be reliable for evaluating joint-level differences, especially in body areas such as the upper extremities. …”
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Dynamic Multi-Behaviour, Orientation-Invariant Re-Identification of Holstein-Friesian Cattle by Maarten Perneel, Ines Adriaens, Jan Verwaeren, Ben Aernouts

“…To perform reliable animal re-identification, most available algorithms require standardised animal poses. However, this lack of versatility prevents widespread application of these algorithms in behavioural research and commercial environments. …”
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A human pose estimation network based on YOLOv8 framework with efficient multi-scale receptive field and expanded feature pyramid network by Shaobin Cai, Han Xu, Wanchen Cai, Yuchang Mo, Liansuo Wei

“…Finally, Wise-IoU replaces the traditional Intersection over Union (IoU) to improve detection accuracy through precise overlap measurement between predicted and ground-truth bounding boxes. We evaluate EE-YOLOv8 on the MS COCO 2017 dataset. Compared to YOLOv8-Pose, EE-YOLOv8 achieves an AP of 89.0% at an IoU threshold of 0.5 (an improvement of 3.3%) and an AP of 65.6% over the IoU range of 0.5–0.95 (an improvement of 5.8%). …”
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Reliability and Validity Examination of a New Gait Motion Analysis System by Tadamitsu Matsuda, Yuji Fujino, Tomoyuki Morisawa, Tetsuya Takahashi, Kei Kakegawa, Takanari Matsumoto, Takehiko Kiyohara, Hiroshi Fukushima, Makoto Higuchi, Yasuo Torimoto, Masaki Miwa, Toshiyuki Fujiwara, Hiroyuki Daida

“…Recent advancements have made two-dimensional (2D) clinical gait analysis systems more accessible and portable than traditional three-dimensional (3D) clinical systems. This study evaluates the reliability and validity of gait measurements using monocular and composite camera setups with VisionPose, comparing them to the Vicon 3D motion capture system as a reference. …”
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Carbon-based electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction by Khalid Ahmed, Summaiya Hameed, Kumar Patchigolla, Nashwan Dawood, Zafar Khan Ghouri

“…However, the cost and scarcity of Pt-group metals as effective electrocatalysts hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) poses challenges for widespread application. …”
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Epidemiology, Transmission, and Evolution of Japanese Encephalitis Virus by Chengcheng Peng, Huiling Qin, Fan Yu, Yujia Hao, Yuge Yuan, Wenzhou Ma, Duo Zhang, Pengpeng Xiao, Nan Li

“…At present, there are still 67,900 cases of Japanese encephalitis worldwide every year, which poses a global public health concern and causes great economic losses to animal husbandry. …”
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Exploiting a natural instance of vertebrate-posed chemical aposematism for tick bite prevention: Repellency of Ixodes scapularis with (E)-Oct-2-enal. by Eric L Siegel, Sophia Goodnow, Lucy Thompson, Sarah Nicolson, Elizabeth MacLeod, Andrew Y Li, Guang Xu, Stephen M Rich

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The Transformation of Planning Theories: "Paradigm Shift" or "Evolution of Theories"? or Evolution of Theories? A Brief Critique of the Situation of Planning Theories in Iran by Behzad MalekpourAsl, Razieh Mousavi Khorshidi

“…The present paper poses the claim that the use of the term ‘paradigm shift’ in relation to the evolution of planning theory in general on one hand, and explaining the theoretical development of planning in Iran on the other, lacks scientific accuracy, and that from this perspective the validity of indigenous theories such as the ‘strategic-structural’ theory must be re-examined. …”
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Posture Detection of Passengers’ Movement When Boarding and Alighting an Urban Bus: A Pilot Study in Valparaíso, Chile by Heilym Ramirez, Sebastian Seriani, Vicente Aprigliano, Alvaro Peña, Bernardo Arredondo, Iván Bastias, Gonzalo Farias

“…Using the AlphaPose pose estimator and an activity recognition model based on Random Forest, video data were processed to analyze the poses and activities of passengers. …”
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Enhancing feature selection for multi-pose facial expression recognition using a hybrid of quantum inspired firefly algorithm and artificial bee colony algorithm by Mu Panliang, Sanjay Madaan, Siddiq Ahmed Babikir Ali, Gowrishankar J., Ali Khatibi, Anas Ratib Alsoud, Vikas Mittal, Lalit Kumar, A. Johnson Santhosh

“…The evaluated features are utilized for classifying face expressions by utilizing the deep neural network model, ResNet-50. …”
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The Evolution of Language in the Age of Social Media: Impacts on Communication by Mohammed BENKHEDDA & Abdelkader HOCINI

“… Abstract: This study examines the multifaceted influence of social media on language evolution, communication patterns, and the psychological well-being of younger generations. …”
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Fractional Evolution Equations Governed by Coercive Differential Operators by Fu-Bo Li, Miao Li, Quan Zheng

“…We show that such equations are well posed in the sense that there always exists an α-times resolvent family for the operator A.…”
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