Which Metrics Can I Monitor? Test-Retest Reliability of Countermovement Jump and Countermovement Rebound Jump Force-Time Metrics in Youth Soccer Players In-Season by Andrew Badby, Paul Comfort, Nicholas Ripley, Matthew Cuthbert, Francisco Robles-Palazón, Peter Mundy, John McMahon

“…Objective measures provide the most effective means of monitoring the magnitude and time course of changes in neuromuscular function (NMF) resulting from physical activity if measurements are repeatable (reliability). …”
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A comprehensive assessment of physical image quality of five different scanners for head CT imaging as clinically used at a single hospital centre-A phantom study. by Patrizio Barca, Fabio Paolicchi, Giacomo Aringhieri, Federica Palmas, Daniela Marfisi, Maria Evelina Fantacci, Davide Caramella, Marco Giannelli

“…CT image quality for each scanner/acquisition protocol was assessed through noise level, noise power spectrum (NPS), contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR), modulation transfer function (MTF), low contrast detectability (LCD) and non-uniformity index analyses. …”
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Predictive model for the therapeutic effect of bilateral subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation on the freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease by Qi Limuge, Yuqing Zhang, Xiaofei Jia, Fang Wang, Dongsheng Yu, Lixia Chen, Li Zhang, Yongqiang Jiang, Yongqiang Jiang

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Same data, different results? Machine learning approaches in bioacoustics by Kaja Wierucka, Derek Murphy, Stuart K. Watson, Nikola Falk, Claudia Fichtel, Julian León, Stephan T. Leu, Peter M. Kappeler, Elodie F. Briefer, Marta B. Manser, Nikhil Phaniraj, Marina Scheumann, Judith M. Burkart

“…We investigated the impact of using different feature extraction (spectro‐temporal measurements, linear and Mel‐frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC), as well as highly comparative time‐series analysis) and classification methods (discriminant function analysis, neural networks, random forests (RF), and support vector machines) on the consistency of caller identity classification accuracy across 16 mammalian datasets. …”
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Investigating Whether AI Will Replace Human Physicians and Understanding the Interplay of the Source of Consultation, Health-Related Stigma, and Explanations of Diagnoses on Patien... by Weiqi Guo, Yang Chen

“…The main effects and interaction effects of the variables were examined on individuals’ functional, relational, and emotional evaluations of the medical consultation. …”
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Global path planning algorithm for mining vehicles integrating simplified visibility graph and A* algorithm by ZHANG Chuanwei, LU Siyan, QIN Peilin, ZHOU Rui, ZHAO Ruiqi, YANG Jiajia, ZHANG Tianle, ZHAO Cong

“…To address the low path planning efficiency of mining vehicles in narrow, winding underground tunnels with unknown obstacles, a global path planning algorithm, DVGA*, was proposed, integrating simplified visibility graphs (SVG) and the A* algorithm. …”
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Drying kinetics and thermodynamic analysis; enhancing quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) quality profile via pre-treatments assisted germination and processing by Jabir Khan, Palwasha Gul, Qingyun Li, Kunlun Liu

“…Principal Component Analysis revealed significant correlations between analyses, explaining 80.37 % variability. The intensity of functional groups decreased in the infrared spectra, although the transmission of signals was greater in pretreated samples than in control. …”
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Emerging Healthcare Technologies in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy: 75 Years of Evolution by Irina Florina CHERCIU HARBIYELI, Elena Daniela BURTEA, Vlad IOVANESCU, Dan Nicolae FLORESCU, Ion ROGOVEANU, Dan Ionut GHEONEA, Adrian SAFTOIU

“…Future capsules will feature AI-driven lesion detection and therapeutic functions, higher-resolution imaging, wider fields of view, controllable movement bringing the concept of "swallowing the gastroenterologist" closer to reality. …”
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Adult education and training for the development of problem-solving skills by I. A. Korshunov, S. V. Lubnikov, N. N. Shirkova

“…Currently, the presence of employees with developed basic skills of working with textual and numerical information can no longer explain how effectively a person functions in society and the professional sphere. This is due to the rapid transformation of the innovative economy and the renewal of production technologies and business processes. …”
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Research and Design of an Active Light Source System for UAVs Based on Light Intensity Matching Model by Rui Ming, Tao Wu, Zhiyan Zhou, Haibo Luo, Shahbaz Gul Hassan

“…Extensive qualitative and quantitative experiments confirm that the UAV active light source system based on light intensity matching proposed in this paper effectively enhances the effectiveness and robustness of vision-based tracking for multi-UAVs, particularly in complex and variable environments. This research provides an efficient and computationally effective solution for vision-based multi-UAV systems, further enhancing the visual tracking capabilities of multi-UAVs under complex conditions.…”
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MANAGING FRAUD IN CONTEMPORARY BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT, THE ROLE OF INFORMATION SECURITY MANAGEMENT: A STUDY OF QUOTED DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS (DMBs) IN NIGERIA by Onajero Kensington OHWO

“…Cronbach’s alpha reliability coefficients for the constructs ranged from 0.864 to 0.952. …”

Improving Electrical Distance Accuracy for Cable Fault Location Based on the Prony Method by Xiang Ren, Zhiqiang Feng, Kai Zhou, Xueming Zhou, Jianjun Yuan, Yefei Xu, Li Zhang

“…By establishing a frequency-variable coupling model containing the transfer function of the cable with double joint structure, studying the mapping relationship between the cable attenuation constant and the electromagnetic wave velocity, and adopting the Prony estimation method combined with the singular value decomposition noise reduction algorithm to achieve the extraction of the attenuation constant and the decoupling of the segmented wave velocity, thus improving the electrical accuracy of fault location. …”
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Monitoring Abiotic Stressors in Rainfed Vineyards Involves Combining UAV and Field Monitoring Techniques to Enhance Precision Management by Federico Valerio Moresi, Pasquale Cirigliano, Andrea Rengo, Elena Brunori, Rita Biasi, Giuseppe Scarascia Mugnozza, Mauro Maesano

“…However, precise vineyard management is a crucial component of adaptation strategies aimed at optimizing resource efficiency, which is essential for sustainable farming practices. …”
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Signatures of Rapidly Rotating Stars with Chemically Homogeneous Evolution in the First Galaxies by Boyuan Liu, Yves Sibony, Georges Meynet, Volker Bromm

“…We find that the rest-frame UV luminosity of star-forming galaxies can be significantly enhanced by a factor of  ∼3−6 when CHE stars above a minimum initial mass of ${m}_{\star ,\min }^{\mathrm{CHE}}\sim 2-10\,{M}_{\odot }$ account for more than half of the total stellar mass following a Salpeter initial mass function. As a result, the UV luminosity functions observed at z  ∼ 12−16 can be reproduced with less extreme values of star formation efficiency and UV luminosity stochastic variability. …”
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Path following control of underground mining articulated vehicle based on the preview control method by MENG Yu, GAN Xin, BAI Guo-xing

“…By considering the relationship between the position and situation of the vehicle, the objective function of the predictive control was optimized by minimizing the lateral deviation of the following path and the heading angle deviation of the vehicle. …”
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REALITIES AND EFFECTIVENESS OF THE UKRAINIAN BANKING SYSTEM by Maryna Korol, Olena Bazhenova, Ihor Korol, Grygoriy Starchenko, Volodymyr Bazhenov, Oksana Banna

“…The simulation results (mainly the analysis of impulse response functions) allow concluding that interbank lending in post-crisis conditions recovers relatively rapidly (with a lag of two years). …”
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Strategies to support the mental health and well-being of health and care workforce: a rapid review of reviews by Cindy E. Frias, Nimesh Samarasinghe, Cecilia Cuzco, Jaseem Koorankot, Andrés de Juan, Husameldin Mohamed Ali Rudwan, Hanan F. Abdul Rahim, Adela Zabalegui, Iain Tulley, Sanaa T. Al-Harahsheh, Mona Shaheen S. T. Al-Homaiddi, Meredith Fendt-Newlin, Jim Campbell

“…The call to action for a paradigm shift must be embraced and we must strive to build resilient healthcare systems and invest in active support and sustain them, incorporating structural, non-structural and functional aspects of organizational resilience.…”
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AER-Net: Attention-Enhanced Residual Refinement Network for Nuclei Segmentation and Classification in Histology Images by Ruifen Cao, Qingbin Meng, Dayu Tan, Pijing Wei, Yun Ding, Chunhou Zheng

“…Moreover, the coarse predictions and refined predictions are combined by using a loss function that employs cross-entropy loss and generalized dice loss to efficiently tackle the challenge of class imbalance among nuclei in histology images. …”
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Developing CGMap: Characterizing Continuous Glucose Monitoring Data in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes by Shuzhen Bai, Chu Lin, Xiaoling Cai, Suiyuan Hu, Jing Wu, Ling Chen, Wenjia Yang, Linong Ji

“…However, glucose variability decreased with increased BMI. Meanwhile, greater glycemic variability was associated with worse islet function, higher baseline glucose level, and higher hemoglobin.…”
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Quantitative comparison between single-photon emission computed tomography and positron emission tomography imaging of lung ventilation with 99mTc-technegas and 68Ga-gallgas in pat... by Enrique Gustavo Cuna, Juan Pablo Gambini, Liliana Servente, Eduardo Savio, Henry William Engler, Gabriel Adrián González, Omar Alonso

“…The aim of this study was quantitative comparison between 68Ga-Gallgas positron emission tomography (PET) and 99mTc-Technegas single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) for lung ventilation function assessment in patients with moderate-to-severe obstructive pulmonary disease and to identify image-derived texture features correlating to the physiologic parameters. …”
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