A Systematic Review of Surface Electromyography in Sarcopenia: Muscles Involved, Signal Processing Techniques, Significant Features, and Artificial Intelligence Approaches by Alessandro Leone, Anna Maria Carluccio, Andrea Caroppo, Andrea Manni, Gabriele Rescio

“…Sarcopenia, affecting between 1–29% of the older population, is characterized by an age-related loss of skeletal muscle mass and function. Reduced muscle strength, either in terms of quantity or quality, and poor physical performance are among the criteria used to diagnose it. …”
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Nonlinear Calibration and Temperature Sensitivity of Makrofol Solid-State Nuclear Track Detectors for Radon Measurement by Tuukka Turtiainen, Jussi-Pekka Laine, Salla Rantanen, Tiina Oinas

“…The calibration employs a nonlinear log-logistic quantile function, which is nearly linear at low exposures but accounts for the reduced efficiency at high exposures due to overlapping alpha tracks. …”
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Effect of Vitamins B12 and D Deficiency in Thyroid, Skin, Oral, and Respiratory Disease by Praveen K. Tagore, Prashant Harit, Manish K. Sachan, Mahendra K. Bharti, Pratima Singh, Gauri Harit

“…Results: Vitamins B12 and D deficiencies were significantly associated with hypothyroidism (P = 0.003), increased prevalence of skin conditions such as eczema and psoriasis (P = 0.021), higher incidence of recurrent aphthous stomatitis and burning mouth syndrome (P = 0.017), and impaired pulmonary function with reduced FEV1/FVC ratio (P = 0.038). Mean vitamin B12 levels in the deficient group were 180 ± 45 pg/mL, while mean vitamin D levels were 12.4 ± 3.7 ng/mL. …”
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Beyond N-Grams: Enhancing String Kernels With Transformer-Guided Semantic Insights by Nazar Zaki, Reem Alderei, Mahra Alketbi, Alia Alkaabi, Fatima Alneyadi, Nadeen Zaki

“…Particularly, the Transformer-Guided N-gram Selection and the Custom Kernel Function consistently outperform baseline models, achieving near-perfect detection accuracy with significantly reduced computational complexity. …”
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Prevalence and predictors of kidney dysfunction among people living with HIV in Tanzania. by Daniel Msilanga, Elizabeth Msangi

“…Comorbid conditions, especially hypertension, are major contributors to reduced kidney function and integrating non-communicable disease screening and management into HIV care is needed to enable earlier detection and improve long-term renal outcomes.…”
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Port terminal mobile recognition based on combined YOLOv5s-DeepSort. by Chengzhi Wang, Donghong Chen, Zhen Liu, Yuanhao Li, Yifei Wang, Sanglan Zhao

“…Finally, the original classification loss function was enhanced using a distributed sorting loss approach to mitigate the imbalance among loaded objects and the influence of background variations in the dock image sequence. …”
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The analysis of landscape design and plant selection under deep learning by Lian Li, JiYon Lee

“…Moreover, background noise interference is reduced by using object detection techniques. Additionally, a domain-adaptive transfer learning strategy and region-weighted loss function are designed, further enhancing the model’s accuracy and robustness in plant classification tasks. …”
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The Female Athlete by Schwalm LC, Bäcker S, Weisser B, Kusche-Vihrog K

“…Here, we showed that polarized and periodized running training has positive effects on the vascular system, with the augmentation index being a suitable marker for early detection of vascular changes. Of note, only young subjects benefited from a greater increase in performance regarding vascular function. …”
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Expression of a humanized viral 2A-mediated lux operon efficiently generates autonomous bioluminescence in human cells. by Tingting Xu, Steven Ripp, Gary S Sayler, Dan M Close

“…While this was disproven when the bacterial luciferase (lux) cassette was demonstrated to function in a human cell, its expression required multiple genetic constructs, was functional in only a single cell type, and generated a significantly reduced signal compared to substrate-requiring systems. …”
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Rice Leaf Disease Image Enhancement Based on Improved CycleGAN by YAN Congkuan, ZHU Dequan, MENG Fankai, YANG Yuqing, TANG Qixing, ZHANG Aifang, LIAO Juan

“…Ablation studies were further performed to validate the effectiveness of the CBAM residual module and the perception similarity loss function in the network's overall architecture. Based on the generated rice disease samples, transfer learning experiments were conducted using various object detection models. …”
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EDPNet: A Transmission Line Ice-Thickness Recognition End-Side Network Based on Efficient Dynamic Perception by Yangyang Jiao, Yu Zhang, Yinke Dou, Liangliang Zhao, Qiang Liu

“…Then, a new dynamic loss function is adopted in the training process to guide the model to perform refined detection of ice-covered boundaries. …”
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MRI-Driven Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis Using Deep Network Fusion and Optimal Selection of Feature by Muhammad Umair Ali, Shaik Javeed Hussain, Majdi Khalid, Majed Farrash, Hassan Fareed M. Lahza, Amad Zafar

“…Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a degenerative neurological condition characterized by cognitive decline, memory loss, and reduced everyday function, which eventually causes dementia. …”
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Research on Personnel Image Segmentation Based on MobileNetV2 H-Swish CBAM PSPNet in Search and Rescue Scenarios by Di Zhao, Weiwei Zhang, Yuxing Wang

“…Compared to the ResNet50 version, parameters are reduced by approximately 18.6 times, while detection accuracy improves, underscoring the efficiency and practicality of the proposed algorithm.…”
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Vestibular perception following acute unilateral vestibular lesions. by Sian Cousins, Diego Kaski, Nicholas Cutfield, Barry Seemungal, John F Golding, Michael Gresty, Stefan Glasauer, Adolfo M Bronstein

“…We investigated vestibulo-ocular (VO) and VP function in 25 patients with vestibular neuritis (VN) acutely (2 days after onset) and after compensation (recovery phase, 10 weeks). …”
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The research on full-waveform inversion method and its application based on Hessian operator preprocessing by Fei-Long Yang, Fei-Long Yang, Fei-Long Yang, Hui-Li Zhang, Feng-Ming Yao, Lei Wang, Yun-Hong Zhu

“…The inversion results indicated that the FWI method with Hessian operator pre-processing significantly reduced the impact of abnormal amplitude of wave field gradient on structures near the shot detection point and deep structure, and enhanced the accuracy and resolution of FWI modeling. …”
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Inhibition of diacylglycerol O-acyltransferase 1 provides neuroprotection by inhibiting ferroptosis in ischemic stroke by Youjie Zeng, Ren Guo, Songhua Chen, Yuxin Lin, Si Cao, Xia Wang, Siyi Zhang, Huilin Xu, Wenxiang Qing, Heng Yang, Wen Ouyang

“…In vitro, DGAT1 inhibition increased mitochondrial membrane potential and reduced ROS, whereas rotenone, a mitochondrial function inhibitor, decreased Gpx4 and impaired cell viability. …”
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Four challenging cases of eosinophilic endocarditis or myocarditis with literature review by Ping Chen, Huiling Cheng, Yun Mou

“…Cardiac ultrasound showed ventricular wall thickening with or without reduced cardiac systolic function, apical thrombosis or restrictive cardiomyopathy.one of these patients showed myocardial enhancement by CMR, and one of these patients showed endocardial enhancement by CMR. …”
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Musculoskeletal Ultrasound: An Essential Tool in Diagnosing Patellar Tendon Injuries by Robert C. Manske, Phil Page, Michael Voight, Chris Wolfe

“…As technology advances, MSK ultrasound is set to revolutionize the early detection and management of patellar tendon injuries.…”
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Effects of Gas–Surface Interaction Conditions on the Performance of Knudsen Force-Based, Low-Pressure Micro Hydrogen Sensors by Yanli Wang, Xiaowei Wang, Chunlin Du, Zhijun Zhang

“…In addition, Knudsen force is almost a linear function of temperature difference. The peak value of Knudsen force can be increased by roughly 28 times when the temperature difference rises from 10 K to 300 K. …”
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Towards Non-Contact Glucose Sensing in Aqueous Turbid Medium at ∼1.1 Meters Distance by Daqing Piao, John O'Hara, Satish Bukkapatnam, Sabit Ekin

“…Non-contact diffuse reflectance over 1.1–1.3 µm was developed according to a center-illumination-area-detection (CIAD) geometry. The modeled response of diffuse reflectance in the CIAD geometry was examined with phantoms by altering independently the size of the collection geometry and the reduced scattering and absorption properties of the medium. …”
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