Retinal and Choroidal Thickness in relation to C-Reactive Protein on Swept-Source Optical Coherence Tomography by Dawei Fang, Qingjian Li, Ke Yan, Sennan Xu, Jing Jiang, Xin Che, Yu Zhang, Yiwen Qian, Zhiliang Wang

“…Purpose. To evaluate the relationships between C-reactive protein (CRP) and retinal and choroidal thickness by swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT). …”
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Soil Quality and Heavy Metal Source Analyses for Characteristic Agricultural Products in Luzuo Town, China by Zhaoyu Zhou, Zeming Shi, Linsong Yu, Haiyin Fan, Fang Wan

“…The spatial distribution characteristics of the elements were determined through geostatistical analysis, and Positive Matrix Factorization (PMF) was used for source apportionment. The results show the following: (1) The average concentrations of all heavy metals exceeded local background values, with Cr and Hg surpassing the screening thresholds from China’s “Soil Pollution Risk Control Standards” (GB 15618-2018). (2) The results of the Moran’s index show that, except for Hg and Cd, all the elements had a high spatial autocorrelation, and there are two potential highly polluted areas in the study area. (3) Soils were generally uncontaminated or low risk, with Hg and Cd as the primary ecological risk contributors. (4) Five sources were quantified: fertilizer and pesticide sources (32.28%); mixed sources of fertilizer, pesticides, and manure (14.15%); mixed sources of traffic activities and agricultural waste discharge (19.95%); natural sources (20.55%); and incineration sources (13.07%). …”
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Medial Sesamoidectomy as a Local Autograft Source in Revision or Complex First Metatarsophalangeal Joint Arthrodesis by Aaron Tran MD, Brennan Enright MD, Rachel Reichenbach BS, Jordan Henderson BS, David Jaffe MD

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Regional Soil Moisture Estimation Leveraging Multi-Source Data Fusion and Automated Machine Learning by Shenglin Li, Pengyuan Zhu, Ni Song, Caixia Li, Jinglei Wang

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Bus driver deceleration behavior modeling at intersections using multi-source on-board sensor data by Yancheng Ling, Zhenliang Ma, Yuchen Song, Qi Zhang, Xiaoxiong Weng, Xiaolei Ma

“…We develop a comprehensive model data extraction framework and corresponding methods to effectively estimate/calculate the bus deceleration rate (dependent variable) and its influencing factors (independent variables). …”
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BirdRecon: A free open source tool for image based bird species recognition by Hari Kishan Kondaveeti, Nabin Kumar Upadhaya, Dheeraj Sai Tukkugudam, Rahul Panigrahi, Sirivella Madhan Chandra Mouli, Valli Kumari Vatsavayi, Nagendra Panini Challa

“…A benchmark dataset comprising 525 bird species with over 84,000 training images is used to evaluate the system. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed ensemble model achieves a classification accuracy of 99.6%, precision of 99.7%, and recall of 99.6%, outperforming the existing state-of-the-art methods by a margin of 0.51%.BirdRecon is implemented as both a web and mobile application, offering real-time bird species identification with multilingual support (English, Hindi, and Telugu) and additional features, such as species descriptions through Google Gemini and visual references from Wikimedia Commons. …”
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Segmentation Performance and Mapping of Dunes in Multi-Source Remote Sensing Images Using Deep Learning by Pengyu Zhao, Jiale An, Jianghua Zheng, Wanqiang Han, Nigela Tuerxun, Bochao Cui, Xuemi Zhao

“…This study focuses on the Gurbantünggüt Desert in China, utilizing the Google Earth Engine (GEE) cloud platform alongside multi-source remote sensing data from Landsat-8 (30 m) and Sentinel-2 (10 m). …”
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Spatial distribution and source apportionment of nitrogen in typical plain river networks and bacterial community response by Aiju You, Aiju You, Qiaoxi Zheng, Pengcheng Yao, Pengcheng Yao

“…Therefore, it is of great significance to explore the mechanisms by which different anthropogenic contamination sources-namely domestic, aquaculture, industrial, and agricultural-affect nitrogen content, as well as the composition of nitrifying, denitrifying, and other bacterial communities.MethodsThis study determined δ15N and δ18O by bacterial denitrification, and quantitatively evaluate the contribution of pollution source through MixSIAR. …”
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Ensemble Learning for Spatial Modeling of Icing Fields from Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data by Shaohui Zhou, Zhiqiu Gao, Bo Gong, Hourong Zhang, Haipeng Zhang, Jinqiang He, Xingya Xi

“…(CSPGRI) during the winter of 2023. Our method integrates static geographic information, dynamic meteorological factors, and ice_kriging values derived from parameter-optimized Empirical Bayesian Kriging Interpolation (EBKI) to create a spatiotemporally matched, multi-source fused icing thickness grid dataset. …”
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Multidrug-resistant E. Coli in wastewater sources: a comparative study and identification of resistance hotspots by Reham R. Abdelgalel, Reham Ali Ibrahem, Doaa Safwat Mohamed, Abo Bakr F. Ahmed

“…Conclusion Even though resistance was less in community wastewater than hospital wastewater, community outlets might be a source of spreading resistance. Furthermore, wastewater treatment might not be enough to eliminate resistant bacteria from the effluent; as a result, the effluent quality should be continuously monitored and evaluated.…”
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Potential source of bias in AI models: lactate measurement in the ICU in sepsis patients as a template by Pratiksha Pradhan, Pratiksha Pradhan, Fredrik Willumsen Haug, Fredrik Willumsen Haug, Nebal S. Abu Hussein, Nebal S. Abu Hussein, Dana Moukheiber, Lama Moukheiber, Mira Moukheiber, Sulaiman Moukheiber, Luca Leon Weishaupt, Jacob G. Ellen, Helen D'Couto, Ishan C. Williams, Leo Anthony Celi, Leo Anthony Celi, Leo Anthony Celi, Joao Matos, Joao Matos, Joao Matos, Tristan Struja, Tristan Struja, Tristan Struja

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Comparative Analysis of Proximal Tubule Cell Sources for In Vitro Studies of Renal Proximal Tubule Toxicity by Courtney Sakolish, Han-Hsuan D. Tsai, Hsing-Chieh Lin, Piyush Bajaj, Remi Villenave, Stephen S. Ferguson, Jason P. Stanko, Richard A. Becker, Philip Hewitt, Weihsueh A. Chiu, Ivan Rusyn

“…<b>Methods:</b> This study compared a wide range of RPTEC sources, including primary cells (Lonza) and various RPTEC lines from different vendors, such as ciPTECs (Cell4Pharma), TERT1/RPTECs (ATCC), and HEK293 (GenoMembrane), including OAT1-overexpressing variants. …”
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Development and testing of an open source mobile application for audiometry test result analysis and diagnosis support by Michał Kassjański, Marcin Kulawiak, Tomasz Przewoźny, Dmitry Tretiakow, Andrzej Molisz

“…Abstract Hearing impairments are typically assessed using pure tone audiometry, a diagnostic method that allows for the identification of the degree, type and configuration of hearing loss. …”
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Research on Corrosion Fatigue Performance and Multiple Fatigue Sources Fracture Process of Corroded Steel Wires by Ying Wang, Yuqian Zheng

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Research on Fuzzy Self-tuning Defrosting Technology of Air Source Heat Pump Air conditioners by 王铁军, 刘向农, 吴昊, 倪宜华, 高日新

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Analysis on Energy Efficiency of Water Chiller and Water Source Heat Pump Systems with Thermodynamic Perfectibility by Ma Yitai, Tian Hua, Liu Chuntao, Yuan Qiuxia, Liu Zhongyan

“…To set up a platform for evaluating energy efficiency of water chiller and water source heat pump systems with EER or COP, the method of the second thermodynamic perfectibility was introduced. …”
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A Freeform Mirror Design of Uniform Illumination in Streetlight From a Split Light Source by Cheng-Mu Tsai, Bo-Xiang Wang

“…According to light distribution, a method is proposed to evaluate the equal luminance at each RP-divided area. …”
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Advancing Dynamic-Time Warp Techniques for Correcting Eye Tracking Data in Reading Source Code by Naser Al Madi

“…Furthermore, we utilize three real datasets to evaluate the algorithms in correcting data from reading source code and see if the proposed algorithms generalize to correcting data from reading natural language text. …”
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Molecular Detection of CRISPR-Cas System in Staphylococcus epidermidis Isolated from Different Sources in Iraq by Thuraya Hashosh et al

“…&nbsp; The partial sequencing of the 16s rRNA gene was evaluated and compared with those in the Gene Bank to find differences in the sequence using the BLAST tool (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov).…”
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Occurrence, antimicrobial susceptibility and genomic characterization of Salmonella enterica isolated from milk and related sources by Frederick Adzitey, Boniface Awini Tibile, Francis Addy, Gideon Adu-Bonsu, Alvin Senatu Atsu Amagloh, Ernest Junior Noyoro, Victor Edem Tsigbey

“…The study sought to identify and characterize the genetics and antimicrobial resistance attributes of Salmonella enterica isolated from milk and related sources, totally 250 samples. Bacteria identification was done using a modified procedure of BAM of US-FDA and antimicrobial resistance was evaluated using the Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion method whereas a partial fragment of the invA gene was amplified and sequenced for molecular characterization. …”
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