PSNet: Patch-Based Self-Attention Network for 3D Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation by Hong Yi, Yaru Liu, Ming Wang

“…Point-based semantic segmentation methods allow for more efficient use of the rich geometric information contained in 3D point clouds, so it has gradually replaced other methods as the mainstream deep learning method in 3D point cloud semantic segmentation. …”
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Pilot Study: Moving Towards a Scalable Intervention for Postgraduate Communication Skills Training by Warren Lewin, Helen James, Nikolina Mizdrak, Ben Kaasa, Shira A. Strauss, J. Thomas Toguri

“…Conclusion: Scalable time-efficient teaching strategies are needed to fill a known education gap. …”
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Automatic Detection of Urban Trees from LiDAR Data Using DBSCAN and Mean Shift Clustering Methods in Fatih, Istanbul by Z. Cetin, N. Yastikli

“…However, this labour-intensive approach can be replaced with the more efficient LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) systems, an active remote sensing technology. …”
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Multi-Vehicle Object Recognition Method Based on YOLOv7-W by Xin Liu, Jingbin Zhao, Zhi Zhang, Rongxing Wu, Xun Li

“…The Context-aware Transformer (CoT) block is adopted to replace the original E-ELAN module in the neck network, guiding dynamic attention matrix learning and optimizing visual representations. …”
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Processo sustentável de produção de carvão vegetal quanto aos aspectos: ambiental, econômico, social e cultural Sustainable charcoal production process focusing the environmental,... by Sueli de Fátima de Oliveira Miranda Santos, Kazuo Hatakeyama

“…The pressure for ecologically-right, socially fair and economically feasible production has driven the search for cleaner and more efficient technologies. Researching a metallic vertical cylinder at an industrial charcoal production unit and a traditional handcraft unit, both located on the State of Parana, this paper intends to show that the industrial production process can replace the traditional one. …”
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Bioactivity of Walnut: Investigating the Triterpenoid Saponin Extracts of Juglans regia Kernels for Antioxidant, Anti-diabetic, and Antimicrobial Properties by Youssef Elouafy, Salma Mortada, Adil El Yadini, Mohamed Hnini, Youssra Aalilou, Hicham Harhar, Asaad Khalid, Ashraf N. Abdalla, Abdelhakim Bouyahya, My El Abbes Faouzi, Mohamed Tabyaoui

“…The increasing demand for plant-based medicines makes plant research attractive to find natural alternatives that can replace synthetic products or at least reduce their use. …”
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Performance of geopolymer paste as adhesive and resin material for bonding fiber externally and hardening reinforcing rebars by Marawan Ashraf Saad, Bassam Abdelsalam Abdelsalam, Omar Mohamed Omar Ibrahim, Hassan A. Mohamadien

“…Nowadays the construction of buildings confronts numerous challenges, environmentally, economically, and structurally efficiently. In addition, the saving of raw sources becomes essentially required especially for the building and construction sector. …”

FEL-FRN: fusion ECA long-CLIP feature reconstruction network for few-shot classification by Yuanyuan Wang, Ao Zhang, Jiange Liu, Kexiao Wu, Hauwa Suleiman Abdullahi, Pinrong Lv, Yu Gao, Haiyan Zhang

“…First, we use FRN to deeply reconstruct feature maps, replacing the traditional method of using cosine similarity for category average aggregation. …”
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High-yield spidroin mimics for bioinspired fibers via computational design by Yufan Huang, Junzi Qi, Bingrui An, Bensheng Zhang, Yukang Yang, Cheng Cheng, Bingfang He, Bingfang He

“…Addressing these challenges, the study integrates deep learning and bioengineering to design water-soluble, β-sheet-rich spidroin mimics optimized for efficient prokaryotic expression. By replacing polyalanine motifs in Nephila clavipes MaSp1 with computationally screened sequences (e.g., ITVQQ from Burkholderia OspA), five functional spidroins were engineered and solubly expressed in E. coli, achieving yields up to 0.99 g/L. …”
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Enhancing stone matrix asphalt performance with sugarcane bagasse ash: Mechanical properties and machine learning-based predictions using XGBoost and random forest by Hamed Khani Sanij, Rezvan Babagoli, Reza Mohammadi Elyasi

“…The findings support broader adoption of industrial by-products in pavement materials and the use of artificial intelligence for efficient material design.…”
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Development and characterization of reverse genetics systems of feline infectious peritonitis virus for antiviral research by Guoqian Gu, To Sing Fung, Wong Tsz Hung, Nikolaus Osterrieder, Yun Young Go

“…This integrated system promises to significantly streamline the investigation of virus replication within host cells, enabling efficient screening for anti-FIPV compounds and evaluating emerging drug-resistant mutations within the FIPV genome.…”
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A Novel BoHV-1-Vectored Subunit RVFV Vaccine Induces a Robust Humoral and Cell-Mediated Immune Response Against Rift Valley Fever in Sheep by Selvaraj Pavulraj, Rhett W. Stout, Shafiqul I. Chowdhury

“…Therefore, the BoHV-1qmv-vectored subunit RVFV vaccine is safe and highly immunogenic in sheep and can potentially be an efficient subunit vaccine for sheep against RVFV.…”
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Real-Time Human Action Recognition With Dynamical Frame Processing via Modified ConvLSTM and BERT by Raden Hadapiningsyah Kusumoseniarto, Zhi-Yuan Lin, Shun-Feng Su, Pei-Jun Lee

“…In our proposed architecture, we replace global average pooling (GAP) with Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) to address the limitations of temporal processing in a two-dimensional convolutional neural network (2D-CNN). …”
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Towards accurate measurement of incidental vocabulary acquisition: input-matched assessments of reading, listening, and reading-while-listening by Eric Michael Firestone, Stuart John McLean, Adam Dabrowski

“…A 2716-word narrative containing nine pseudowords that replaced concrete nouns at a frequency of 10, 15, or 20 encounters in the text was used. …”
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The impact of a risk assessment tool on hospital pressure injury prevalence and prevention: a quantitative pre-post evaluation by Ragnar Seton, Elisabeth Wetzer, Lisa Hultin

“…The use of an evidence-based risk assessment instrument is, therefore, crucial to enable efficient, effective, and reliable assessments. Objective: The evidence-based pressure injury risk assessment instrument PURPOSE T was widely introduced at a university hospital in 2021, replacing another commonly used assessment tool, the Modified Norton Scale. …”
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ZEMBA v1.0: an energy and moisture balance climate model to investigate Quaternary climate by D. F. J. Gunning, K. H. Nisancioglu, E. Capron, R. S. W. van de Wal, R. S. W. van de Wal

“…<p>The Zonally Averaged Energy and Moisture BAlance (ZEMBA) climate model is introduced as a simple and computationally efficient tool for studies of the glacial–interglacial cycles of the Quaternary. …”
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A Validation Tool (VaPCE) for Postcoordinated SNOMED CT Expressions: Development and Usability Study by Tessa Ohlsen, Viola Hofer, Josef Ingenerf

“… Abstract BackgroundThe digitalization of health care has increased the demand for efficient data exchange, emphasizing semantic interoperability. …”
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Valium endovenoso no tratamento do estado de mal epiléptico Intravenous Valium in treatment of status epilepticus by Décio Mega, Michel P. Lison

“…The treatment proved to be extremely efficient in the control of the seizures, specially in the cases with chronic lesions. …”
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PatchTSFL: Patch Fourier Enhanced Linear for Long-Term Time-Series Forecasting by Ling Li, Xianyun Wen, Weibang Li, Chengjie Li, Chengfang Zhang

“…These findings establish PatchTSFL as an effective and efficient solution for long-term time series prediction. …”
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Recognition of Maize Tassels Based on Improved YOLOv8 and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles RGB Images by Jiahao Wei, Ruirui Wang, Shi Wei, Xiaoyan Wang, Shicheng Xu

“…In the new network, a microscale target detection head is added to increase the ability to perceive small-sized maize tassels; In addition, Spatial Pyramid Pooling—Fast (SPPF) is replaced by the Spatial Pyramid Pooling with Efficient Layer Aggregation Network (SPPELAN) in the backbone network part to connect different levels of detailed features and semantic information. …”
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