Neurodevelopmental disorders among term infants exposed to antenatal corticosteroids during pregnancy: a population-based study by Nir Melamed, Elizabeth Asztalos, Kellie Murphy, Arthur Zaltz, Donald Redelmeier, Baiju R Shah, Jon Barrett

“…Despite their immediate beneficial effects, the long-term safety of ACS has been an ongoing source of concern. In the current study, we assessed the likelihood of neurodevelopmental problems among term infants exposed to ACS earlier in pregnancy compared with non-exposed term infants.Design Retrospective cohort study (2006–2011). …”
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Application of Enhanced Weighted Least Squares with Dark Background Image Fusion for Inhomogeneity Noise Removal in Brain Tumor Hyperspectral Images by Jiayue Yan, Chenglong Tao, Yuan Wang, Jian Du, Meijie Qi, Zhoufeng Zhang, Bingliang Hu

“…The image processed by this method has almost no residual non-uniform noise, the image is clear, and the best visual effect is achieved. It can be concluded that different denoising methods designed for different noises have better denoising effects on hyperspectral images. …”
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Age-related differences in eye blink-related neural activity and functional connectivity during driving by Emad Alyan, Stefan Arnau, Stephan Getzmann, Julian Elias Reiser, Melanie Karthaus, Edmund Wascher

“…Furthermore, functional connectivity analysis revealed that aging most significantly affects the visual network in the beta band. More specifically, younger participants showed an increase in the clustering coefficient and degrees of the networks, reflecting more robust neural network integration. …”
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The microbiome analysis of ripen grape berries supports the complex etiology of sour rot by Chiara Brischetto, Chiara Brischetto, Vittorio Rossi, Vittorio Rossi, Giorgia Fedele, Giorgia Fedele

“…., without rot symptoms) and rotten (i.e., exhibiting visual and olfactory SR symptoms) ripe bunches were characterized across 47 epidemics (39 vineyards in six Italian grape-growing areas) over three years. …”
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Unbiased statistical length analysis of linear features: adapting survival analysis to geological applications by G. Benedetti, G. Benedetti, S. Casiraghi, D. Bertacchi, A. Bistacchi

“…As a second objective, we propose a novel approach for selecting the most representative parametric model. We combine a direct visual approach and the calculation of four statistics to quantify how well proposed models reflect the data. …”
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Quantifying winter forage resources for reindeer: Developing a method to estimate ground lichen cover and biomass at a local scale by Erik Cronvall, Sven Adler, Per Sandström, Anna Skarin

“…In addition, we compared methods for assessing lichen cover in the field and found that visual estimates resulted in lower values than a point-intercept method. …”
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Assessing landslide susceptibility in the Upper Ravi river catchment, Himachal Pradesh, India: a comprehensive analysis using the logistic regression model by Pooja Sharma, Vishwa Bandhu Singh Chandel, Simrit Kahlon, Som Nath Thakur

“…Methods A landslide inventory of 513 events was prepared using visual interpretation of high-resolution satellite imagery from Landsat, Sentinel, PlanetScope, and Google Earth and field work from 2001-2020. …”
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Comprehensive Monitoring of Construction Spoil Disposal Areas in High-Speed Railways Utilizing Integrated 3S Techniques by Xiaodong Hu, Bo Xia, Yongqi Guo, Yang Yin, Huihua Chen

“…By integrating multi-source data, this framework provides robust support for sustainable resource management, reduces the environmental impact, and advances circular economy practices. …”
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Using New York City’s Geographic Data in an Innovative Application of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to Produce Cooling Comparisons of Urban Design by Yuanyuan Li, Lina Zhao, Hao Zheng, Xiaozhou Yang

“…This model can rapidly generate visual LST predictions under various configuration scenarios. …”
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Monitoring and benchmarking Earth system model simulations with ESMValTool v2.12.0 by A. Lauer, L. Bock, B. Hassler, P. Jöckel, L. Ruhe, M. Schlund

“…Here, we introduce the new capability of the open-source community-developed Earth System Model Evaluation Tool (ESMValTool) to monitor running simulations or benchmark existing simulations with observations in the context of results from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP). …”
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The Significance of Probiotics in Aquaculture: A Review of Research Trend and Latest Scientific Findings by Elshafia Ali Hamid Mohammed, Abdelhakam Esmaeil Mohamed Ahmed, Béla Kovács, Károly Pál

“…Millions of people around the world rely on aquaculture as a major source of food. In the recent few years, probiotics have gained considerable attention as an alternative agent to antibiotics. …”
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CLINICAL-IMMUNOLOGIC CHARACTERISTICS OF ACUTE BRUCELLOSIS IN CHILDREN by D. R. Atakhodjayeva

“…Results and discussion: The analysis of epidemiologic anamnesis showed, that 78.3% of the examined patients with brucellosis were villagers keeping sheep, goats and cattle. In 73.9% cases source of infection was sheep and goats, 8.7% - cattle, and in 17.4% cases we could observe mixed type of infection. 78% of patients applied to hospital during prodromal period. …”
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Multimodal Imaging Features of Bilateral Choroidal Ganglioneuroma by Zhaoxin Jiang, Ting Zhang, Xing Liu, Dan Liang, Yimin Zhong, Chi-chao Chan, Xiaoyan Ding

“…Over the past 2 years, the patient’s best-corrected visual acuity had gradually decreased to hand motions at 10 cm in the right eye and 20/63 in the left, with axial length growth to 25.89 mm in the right and 28.99 mm in the left. …”
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How do the resting EEG preprocessing states affect the outcomes of postprocessing? by Shiang Hu, Jie Ruan, Pedro Antonio Valdes-Sosa, Zhao Lv

“…Plenty of artifact removal tools and pipelines have been developed to correct the resting EEG waves and discover scientific values behind. Without expertised visual inspection, it is susceptible to derive improper preprocessing, resulting in either insufficient preprocessed EEG (IPE) or excessive preprocessed EEG (EPE). …”
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Oxidative Stress in Dry Eye Disease: A Bibliometric Analysis by Lei Y, Huang XY, Guo H, Huang R, Shi Y, Hong J, Yang Y, Ma X

“…The data were then analyzed using VOSviewer, CiteSpace, and R package Bibliometrix to visualize the network of countries, organizations, journals, authors, and keywords related to oxidative stress in DED.Results: A total of 491 publications were identified over a 30-year period from 1995 to 2024. …”
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Diarrhea treatment center (DTC) based diarrheal disease surveillance in settlements in the wake of the mass influx of forcibly displaced Myanmar national (FDMN) in Cox's Bazar, Ban... by Abu S G Faruque, Azharul Islam Khan, S M Rafiqul Islam, Baitun Nahar, M Nasif Hossain, Yulia Widiati, A S M Mainul Hasan, Mukeshkumar Prajapati, Minjoon Kim, Maya Vandenent, Tahmeed Ahmed

“…FDMN often used public taps (n = 263; 36%), deep tube-well (n = 243; 33%), and shallow tube well (n = 188; 26%) as the source of drinking water. Nearly 96% (n = 698) of the admitted FDMN used pit latrines as opposed to 79% (n = 842) from the host community (p<0.001). …”
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SkelETT&#x2014;Skeleton-to-Emotion Transfer Transformer by Pedro Victor Vieira Paiva, Josue Junior Guimaraes Ramos, Marina Gavrilova, Marco Antonio Garcia de Carvalho

“…Traditionally, this field has heavily relied on visual and auditory cues, such as facial expressions and speech analysis. …”
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DBA-ViNet: an effective deep learning framework for fruit disease detection and classification using explainable AI by Saravanan Srinivasan, Lalitha Somasundharam, Sukumar Rajendran, Virendra Pal Singh, Sandeep Kumar Mathivanan, Usha Moorthy

“…Grad-CAM was used to visualize the regions that contributed to each prediction, helping to interpret the model. …”
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Fungi That Live Within Animals: Application of Cell Cytometry to Examine Fungal Colonization of Ambrosia Beetle (<i>Xyleborus</i> sp.) Mycangia by Ross A. Joseph, Kamaldeep Bansal, Jane Nguyen, Michael Bielanski, Esther Tirmizi, Abolfazl Masoudi, Nemat O. Keyhani

“…<i>X. affinis</i> pre-oral mycangial pouches were visualized using fluorescent and light microscopy, revealing that newly emerged pupae displayed uncolonized mycangia prior to feeding, whereas beetles fed <i>H. lauricola</i> contained single-celled fungi within 6 h post-feeding. …”
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Comparison of the Effect of Ranibizumab and Aflibercept on Changes in Macular Choroidal Thickness in Patients Treated for Diabetic Macular Edema by Valérie Sarda, Pauline Eymard, Linda Hrarat, Franck Fajnkuchen, Audrey Giocanti-Aurégan

“…DME was defined by a central retinal thickness ≥300 μm on swept-source OCT (Triton DRI OCT, Topcon Corporation, Itabashi, Japan). …”
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