Ship Contour: A Novel Ship Instance Segmentation Method Using Deep Snake and Attention Mechanism by Chen Chen, Songtao Hu, Feng Ma, Jie Sun, Tao Lu, Bing Wu

“…Furthermore, a Mish activation function replaces ReLU to better adapt deep network learning. …”
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The Growth and Yield of Rice (Oryza sativa L.) with Organic and Inorganic Fertilizer Application by Cellulolytic Microbes in Peat by Atrisina Allamah, Hapsoh Hapsoh, Wawan Wawan, Isna Rahma Dini

“…Damage criteria peat in government regulations to function cultivation is more than 0,4 m below the peat surface. …”
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Image acquisition technology for unmanned aerial vehicles based on YOLO - Illustrated by the case of wind turbine blade inspection by Zhenjun Dai

“…Subsequently, the YOLOv5 model is improved in terms of structure and regression function, and a novel damage detection model is proposed. …”
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A patient-centered qualitative evaluation of meaningful change on the NSAA and PUL in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy by Aviva Gillman, Teofil Ciobanu, Louise Barrett, Evan W. Davies, Alexander P. Murphy, Alex Johnson, Jessica Mills, Phoebe Heinrich, Krystian Przydzial, Bethany Ewens, Gerrit Vandenberg, Stefan Cano, Anna Mayhew

“…For the PUL, participants underscored the importance of maintenance of their functional abilities, and highlighted key themes related to maintaining independence in ADLs, reaching, eating/drinking, and finger function for technology use across score categories.…”
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Serum AMH in Physiology and Pathology of Male Gonads by Ewa Matuszczak, Adam Hermanowicz, Marta Komarowska, Wojciech Debek

“…This altered serum profile of AMH in boys with varicoceles may indicate an early abnormality in the regulation of the seminiferous epithelial function. Serum AMH is known to be valuable in assessing gonadal function. …”
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The therapeutic role of the alcoholic extract of <i>Gundelia tourneofortti</i> l. in <i>Salmonella</i> typhimurium infection and its health effects in laboratory rats by Ya. I. Al-Hadidy, Gh. H. Abdulkreem, Ch. M. Werdi, S. T. Hadi, A. B. Altemimi, T. G. Abedelmaksoud

“…This study investigates the effectiveness of the alcoholic extract of Gundelia tournefortii L. in mitigating the effects of Salmonella Typhimurium infection on hematological parameters and liver and kidney function in laboratory animals. S. Typhimurium was isolated from 23 samples of food and stool collected from pediatric patients (aged 1–6 years) with diarrhea at Salah al-Din Hospital. …”
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A Rare Case of a Patient with a Myocardial Bridge in Combination with Bicuspid Valve and Subaortic Stenosis by Stoitsev G.

“…Two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiography demonstrated left ventricular hypertrophy with preserved systolic function without anomalies of cardiac wall motion. …”
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Robust H∞ Control for Nonlinear Uncertain Switched Descriptor Systems with Time Delay and Nonlinear Input: A Sliding Mode Approach by Mourad Kchaou, Saleh Al Ahmadi

“…An integral sliding function is designed and an adaptive sliding mode controller for the reaching motion is then synthesised such that the trajectories of the resulting closed-loop system can be driven onto a prescribed sliding surface and maintained there for all subsequent times. …”
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Encephalic death. ¿life or death? Ethic aspects. by Ariel Uriarte Méndez, Jesús Vila Díaz

“…A revision is made about the evolution of these criteria until reaching encephalic death, clinical situation that comes to light as a consequence of the intensive care development and that asks for a safe and opportune recognition due to its importance for organs donation. …”
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Shear and Bending Stresses in Prismatic, Non-Circular-Profile Shafts with Epitrochoidal Contours Under Shear Force Loading by Masoud Ziaei

“…The conformal mapping function is deduced from the contour equation of the profile. …”
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New insights into strange-quark hadronization measuring multiple (multi-)strange hadron production in small collision systems with ALICE by Pucillo Sara

“…Among the most important results from the Run-1 and Run-2 of the LHC is the observation of an enhanced production of (multi-)strange to non-strange hadron yields, gradually rising from low-multiplicity to highmultiplicity pp and p–Pb collisions, reaching values close to those measured in peripheral Pb–Pb collisions [1]. …”
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Incidental Renal Infarction on imaging for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm by Cevdet Donmez, Asma Bitar De Zayas-Enriquez, Hosny Hamza, Humayun Bashir

“…Technetium-99m dimercaptosuccinic acid (Tc-99m DMSA) renal scan was done to document the extent of the infarction and for differential function of the kidneys. Keywords: Renal infarction, Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm, Contrast Enhanced CT, DMSA. …”
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Limitations of quantum approximate optimization in solving generic higher-order constraint-satisfaction problems by Thorge Müller, Ajainderpal Singh, Frank K. Wilhelm, Tim Bode

“…Here we analyze the QAOA's performance on random Max-kXOR as a function of k and the clause-to-variable ratio. As a classical benchmark, we use the mean-field approximate optimization algorithm and find that it performs better than or equal to the QAOA on average. …”
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Underlag till ramverk för en provbank i grundskolan by Anders Jönsson, Gunilla Svingby

“…That the item bank could indeed have this function is shown by the analysis of international experiences. …”
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ECMS-Based MPC Strategy for Multi-Mode Hybrid Electric Trucks by Longjian Li, Changqing Du, Xiangyu Gongye, Jinhai Wang

“…Next, the ECMS is combined with MPC to solve for the minimum objective function value within the prediction horizon, thus obtaining the corresponding power distribution results. …”
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Finite-time fault-tolerant tracking control for a QUAV with mixed faults and external disturbances based on adaptive global fast terminal sliding mode neural network control method by Xiyu Zhang, Chun Feng, Youjun Zhou, Xiongfeng Deng

“…Third, to address the design complexity caused by unknown control coefficients arising from mixed faults, a Nussbaum gain function is introduced. Subsequently, based on the designed global fast terminal sliding mode (GFTSM) functions, adaptive GFTSM neural network control strategies are proposed for position and attitude tracking control. …”
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Fire and Smoke Detection Based on Improved YOLOV11 by Zhipeng Xue, Lingyun Kong, Haiyang Wu, Jiale Chen

“…In addition, the loss function CIOU in YOLOV11 is replaced with IOU to consider the irregular shape of fire and smoke and the problem of multi-scale targets. …”
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Effect of a Novel Training Program in Patients With Chronic Shoulder Pain Based on Implicit Motor Learning: Pilot and Feasibility Study. by Annelies Maenhout, Wieger Heijenk, Peter Glashouwer, Lore Quatacker, Luna Praet, Dorien Borms

“…The program comprised five exercises designed to challenge overall body balance, simultaneously engaging the upper limbs in a range of reaching tasks. The tasks included reaching above the head, at and below waist level, in various directions. …”
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Thickness and Wavelength Optimizations of a High-Performance SPR Sensor Employing a Silver Layer and Black Phosphorus in Principal Directions by Jakub Chylek, Dalibor Ciprian, Petr Hlubina

“…Sensing parameters such as the refractive index (RI) sensitivity, the reflectance minimum, and the figure of merit (FOM) are investigated in the first step of this study as a function of the thickness of the silver layer together with the RI of a coupling prism. …”
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Thigh muscle features in female patients with severe knee osteoarthritis: a cross-sectional study by Tingting Liu, Hao Xie, Songhua Yan, Jizhou Zeng, Kuan Zhang

“…Abstract Background Muscle function deterioration in female patients with severe knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is linked to alterations in muscle morphology, composition, and mechanical properties. …”
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