Hardware-Accelerated Infrared Small Target Recognition Based on Energy-Weighted Local Uncertainty Measure by Xiaoqing Wang, Zhantao Zhang, Yujie Jiang, Kuanhao Liu, Yafei Li, Xuri Yao, Zixu Huang, Wei Zheng, Jingqi Zhang, Fu Zheng

“…It then constructs a confidence assignment function and uses the mutation entropy operator to measure local uncertainty. …”
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Nomogram for Predicting 1‐, 3‐, and 5‐Year Survival in Hemodynamically Significant Aortic Regurgitation: The ARISE Score by Kang Liu, Meng‐Han Tsai, Wei‐Jyun Wang, Jui Wang, Seanson Chance Ju, Masashi Amano, Chisato Izumi, Yi‐Lwun Ho, Masaaki Takeuchi, Li‐Tan Yang

“…In multivariable analysis, age (P<0.001), Charlson Comorbidity Index (P<0.001), New York Heart Association functional class IV (P<0.001), left ventricular ejection fraction (P<0.001), left ventricular end‐systolic dimension index (P=0.03), and aortic valve surgery in 3 months (P=0.03) were associated with all‐cause death. …”
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Enhancing direct carbonation performance of basic oxygen furnace slag through potassium chloride activation by Rong SUN, Weicheng XU, Hongming LONG, Rufei WEI

“…In the theoretical calculations, a first-principle computational approach based on density functional theory was used to gain deeper insights into the effect of K on CO2 adsorption at the microstructural level. …”
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Impact of Plateau Grassland Degradation on Ecological Suitability: Revealing Degradation Mechanisms and Dividing Potential Suitable Areas with Multi Criteria Models by Yi Chai, Lin Xu, Yong Xu, Kun Yang, Rao Zhu, Rui Zhang, Xiaxing Li

“…Our findings reveal that while grasslands exhibit superior carbon sink potential relative to forests, their productivity and ecological functionality are undergoing considerable declines due to the compounded effects of multiple interacting factors. …”
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Magnitude of antigen-specific T-cell immunity the month after completing vaccination series predicts the development of long-term persistence of antitumor immune response by Mary L Disis, John B Liao, Jessica L Reichow, Lupe G Salazar, Sasha E Stanton, Katie M Hitchcock-Bernhardt, James Y Dai, Jong-Baeck Lim, Theodore A Gooley

“…Immunity was modeled by non-linear functions using generalized additive models.Results Antigen-specific T-cell responses at baseline were associated with a 0.33-log increase in response at long-term follow-up, 95% CI (0.11, 0.54), p=0.003. 63% of patients that had HER2/neu specific T cells at baseline continued to have responses at long-term follow-up. …”
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ETHIOPATHOGENETIC PARALLELS OF MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES IN CHRONIC DENTAL CARIES AND ITS COMPLICATIONS by B.M. Fylenko

“…Dental plaque (biofilm) is resulted from structurally and functionally ordered colonization of microorganisms on the tooth surface. …”
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Building Energy Optimization Using an Improved Exponential Distribution Optimizer Based on Golden Sine Strategy Minimizing Energy Consumption Under Uncertainty by Mohammad Ali Karbasforoushha, Mohammad Khajehzadeh, Suraparb Keawsawasvong, Lapyote Prasittisopin, Thira Jearsiripongkul

“…The results demonstrate that IEDO outperforms other methods, reaching the optimal solution with the lowest annual initial energy consumption of 132.7519 kWh/m²a, compared to 132.9356 kWh/m²a for the grey wolf optimizer (GWO) and 133.0000 kWh/m²a for POSCO, as reported in previous studies for a single office building. …”
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SİYASET FELSEFESİ NEDİR? by Neşet Toku

“…The philosophy of politics is an intellectual activity which has emerged in order to reach the information of a qualified life and society and thus it looks for the answers of the following fundamental questions; "who gets what?" …”
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Public Relations in Librarianship and Mass Media by Erol Yılmaz

“…Public relations is an indispensable management function for an organization to reach its target audiences so as to serve them better and, at the same time, to upgrade its status in society as an organization. …”
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Human and environmental feature-driven neural network for path-constrained robot navigation using deep reinforcement learning by Nabih Pico, Estrella Montero, Alisher Amirbek, Eugene Auh, Jeongmin Jeon, Manuel S. Alvarez-Alvarado, Babar Jamil, Redhwan Algabri, Hyungpil Moon

“…A novel reward function is proposed to accommodate path constraints and steer the robot’s navigation policies during neural network training. …”
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Kombucha: An Old Tradition into a New Concept of a Beneficial, Health-Promoting Beverage by Dhuelly Kelly Almeida Andrade, Boying Wang, Emília Maria França Lima, Sergei Konstantinovich Shebeko, Alexey Mikhailovich Ermakov, Valentina Nikolaevna Khramova, Iskra Vitanova Ivanova, Ramon da Silva Rocha, Manuela Vaz-Velho, Anthony Nhamo Mutukumira, Svetoslav Dimitrov Todorov

“…The findings of this study will contribute to a deeper understanding of the functional properties of kombucha and provide scientific support for its safe and beneficial applications.…”
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Metagenomics-based analysis of microbial community dynamics and flavor compound correlations during rice-flavor Baijiu brewing by Qun Li, Long Zhang, Long Zhang, Rui Li, Jie Tang, Bin Lin, Chunyu Qin, Wei Jiang, Longxu An, Fan Zhang, Xingxing Shi, Shengzhi Yang, Qiang Yang, Shenxi Chen

“…This study aimed to explore the microbial contribution to flavor compound production by analysing the succession patterns and metabolic functional characteristics of microbial communities during Jiuqu preparation, saccharification, and fermentation processes of rice-flavor Baijiu (RFB). …”
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Impact of Hybrid and Complex N-Glycans on Cell Surface Targeting of the Endogenous Chloride Cotransporter Slc12a2 by Richa Singh, Mohammed Mashari Almutairi, Romario Pacheco-Andrade, Mohamed Y. Mahmoud Almiahuob, Mauricio Di Fulvio

“…The Na+K+2Cl− cotransporter-1 (Slc12a2, NKCC1) is widely distributed and involved in cell volume/ion regulation. Functional NKCC1 locates in the plasma membrane of all cells studied, particularly in the basolateral membrane of most polarized cells. …”
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Enhancing room temperature electron mobility at high carrier concentration in transparent BaSnO3/La:BaSnO3/BaSnO3 heterostructures by Yingli Zhang, Haopeng Du, Dirui Wu, Jinxin Ge, Jiahao Song, Mengkang Xu, Qingjiao Huang, Jiangyu Li, Changjian Li

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Distributed Adaptive Neural Consensus Tracking Control for Multiple Euler-Lagrange Systems with Unknown Control Directions by Fanfeng Meng, Lin Zhao, Jinpeng Yu

“…Motivated by the Nussbaum-type function and command-filtered backstepping technique, the error compensations and neural network approximation-based adaptive laws are established, which can not only overcome the computation complexity problem of backstepping but also make the consensus tracking errors reach to the desired region although the control directions and system nonlinear dynamics are both unknown. …”
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OPTIMIZATION OF IMID-BASED THERAPIES by Murat Çınarsoy

“…Although there are classical findings such as anemia, bone disease, loss of renal function, hypercalcemia, a significant proportion of patients suffer from sleep disorders, anxiety and depression, pain, malnutrition, which are not less common than classical signs and symptoms and lead to serious deterioration in the patient's quality of life.Due to the advanced age of most patients, polypharmacy, defined as the use of 4 or more drugs, can reach 80% in multiple myeloma patients, while inappropriate drug complications can reach 50%.Treatment compliance was 68% and treatment discontinuation rate was 36%. …”
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A Simultaneous Study on Wire-Loop, Plate-Loop, and Plate Antennas for Wideband Circular Polarization by Kazuhide Hirose, Mitsuki Hirose, Hisamatsu Nakano

“…We evaluate the 3 dB axial ratio bandwidth as a function of the loop-arm width using the moment method. …”
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Thallium-induced neurocardiotoxicity in zebrafish: Protective role of adaptive UPR and DNA repair by Yung Chang, Chia-Hsien Wu, Jia-Huang Chen, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Chih-Kang Chiang

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A Review on Puerulus (Panulirus spp.) Resource Utilization in Indonesia Based on the Sense of Hearing: Auditory Receptor Organs by Hari Subagio, Evron Asrial, Yusnaini Yusnaini, Nurul Rosana, Gatut Bintoro, Nuhman Nuhman, I Made Kawan

“…• The lobster's sense of hearing begins to function from the puerulus stage   Abstract Indonesia is a country that produces abundant lobster seeds (puerulus), however, there is a paradox, where natural mortality in the first year since entering the settlement phase can reach 96.0-99.4%. …”
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Carbon Emissions From Low‐Order Streams in a Tropical, High‐Elevation, Peatland Ecosystem Are Mediated by Catchment Morphology by Keridwen M. Whitmore, Amanda G. DelVecchia, Elizabeth Farquhar, Gerard Rocher‐Ros, Esteban Suárez, Diego A. Riveros‐Iregui

“…However, few studies have examined the spatial variability of CO2 concentrations and fluxes occurring within these systems, particularly as a function of catchment morphology. Here we evaluated spatial patterns of CO2 in three tropical, headwater catchments in relation to the river network and stream geomorphology. …”
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