Central alterations of brain networks in patients with optic neuritis: a resting state fMRI study by Liang Huang, Dan Song, Lei Zhong, Xuan Liao, Xian-Mei Zhou, Qian-Min Ge, Qian Ling, Yan-Mei Zeng, Xiao-Yu Wang, Jin-Yu Hu, Cheng Chen, Liang-Qi He, Qiong Zhou, Yi Shao

“…AIM: To assess the alterations in the resting-state function connections between the two cerebral hemispheres in patients with optic neuritis (ON) and healthy controls (HCs). METHODS: A total of 12 ON patients (six males and six females) and 12 HCs (six males and six females) who were highly matched for sex, age, and educational level were recruited. …”
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Multispectral Imaging-Based System for Detecting Tissue Oxygen Saturation With Wound Segmentation for Monitoring Wound Healing by Chih-Lung Lin, Meng-Hsuan Wu, Yuan-Hao Ho, Fang-Yi Lin, Yu-Hsien Lu, Yuan-Yu Hsueh, Chia-Chen Chen

“…In this study, a tissue oxygen saturation detecting (TOSD) system that is based on multispectral imaging (MSI) is proposed to quantify the degree of tissue oxygen saturation (StO2) in cutaneous tissues. Methods: A wound segmentation algorithm is used to segment automatically wound and skin areas, eliminating the need for manual labeling and applying adaptive tissue optics. …”
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Diagnostic value of nuclear medicine modaities for the detection of sentinel lymph nodes in patients with breast cancer by E. A. Nikolaeva, A. S. Krylov, A. D. Ryzhkov, Kh. Kh. Batyrov, A. A. Parokonnaya, M. E. Bilik, T. V. Zakharova, A. V. Svetlyakova, A. I. Pronin

“…To determine and compare the diagnostic efficacy of planar scintigraphy, SPECT (including SPECT/CT) and intraoperative gamma probe radiometry in the detection of sentinel lymph nodes (SLN) in patients with breast cancer.Material and methods. The study included 200 patients with diagnosed breast cancer who underwent SLN biopsy in the period 2020–2021. …”
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Enhanced transdermal delivery of lidocaine cream via ultrasound and microneedle rollers by Jiaxiao Sun, Yang Yang, Yang Yang, Juanjuan Zheng, Hao Liang, Feng Yan, Wensheng Zhang, Wensheng Zhang, Wenqin Xie

“…ObjectiveThe aim of this study is to determine the most effective physical parameters for optimizing the transdermal delivery of lidocaine cream.MethodsPreliminary experiments were conducted to optimize ultrasound settings while ensuring safety, guided by visual and histopathological evaluations following observations of skin burns in rats. …”
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Vision-Based Drone Detection in Complex Environments: A Survey by Ziyi Liu, Pei An, You Yang, Shaohua Qiu, Qiong Liu, Xinghua Xu

“…Finally, we systematically organize and introduce the commonly used datasets and evaluation metrics and conduct experiment comparisons based on the representative methods. We not only reveal the current development status of visual UAV detection but also analyze the deficiencies in current research. …”
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Women in the Paintings of Johannes Vermeer and (Edward Hopper) A Comparative Research by Mohammad Salh Rostam Zadeh

“… Women have always been one of the most important subjects of works of visual arts, especially painting. And this shows the importance and status of women in different societies. …”
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DEVELOPMENT OF AN INFORMATION SySTEM FOR CALCULATING PARAMETERS OF THERMOELECTRIC COOLERS by A. К. Steshenko, A. V. Dudarev

“…At the first stage, the functions of the measured quantities are calculated by the method of least squares. On their basis the iterative calculation of the main parameters, and also the calculation of a number of additional parameters of the branches are carried out. …”
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A SURVEY OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF SYNANTHROPIC COCKROACHES IN ANIMAL FARMS AND FOOD PROCESSING PLANTS IN BULGARIA by B. Boneva, Pl. Marutsov, G. Zhelev

“…The survey was carried out in 52 sites (42 AFs and 10 FPPs), by questionnaire-visual survey and monitoring catch method. The presence of cockroaches was found in 78.57% of AFs and 0% of FPPs. …”
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The Application of Digital Holographic Speckle Pattern Interferometry to the Structural Condition Study of a Plaster Sample by Kyriaki Kosma, Vivi Tornari

“…The fringe patterns in the interferometric images reveal features and characteristics of the interior of the material, with the experimental method and the post-process analysis adopted in this work offering accuracy, sensitivity and full-field diagnosis, in a completely non-destructive manner, without the need of sampling.…”
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uArm Swift simulation and control by Schütz Damien, Hepworth J.H.

“…The testing illustrated that the proposed simulation was precise and a viable method to showcase the operation of this robot.…”
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DyTAM: Accelerating Wind Turbine Inspections with Dynamic UAV Trajectory Adaptation by Serhii Svystun, Lukasz Scislo, Marcin Pawlik, Oleksandr Melnychenko, Pavlo Radiuk, Oleg Savenko, Anatoliy Sachenko

“…To overcome these limitations and enhance inspection efficacy, we introduce the Dynamic Trajectory Adaptation Method (DyTAM), a novel approach for automated wind turbine inspections using UAVs. …”
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Strategic fertilizer placement in containers influences liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha) growth, reproduction, and competitiveness with ornamentals by Manjot Kaur Sidhu, Sushila Chaudhari, Roberto Lopez, Eric L Patterson, Debalina Saha

“…Liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha L.) is a problematic weed for nurseries and greenhouses, and currently, no effective method exists for controlling it in greenhouses. This study assessed liverwort growth, reproduction, and its competitiveness with ornamental plants in response to the strategic placement of controlled-release fertilizers (CRFs). …”
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Estimates of the statistical correlation between the extreme ice pressure patterns with various spatial resolution by S. V. Klyachkin

“…The most widely used method of obtaining the ice pressure information is model simulations. …”
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A Novel Approach to Optimize Key Limitations of Azure Kinect DK for Efficient and Precise Leaf Area Measurement by Ziang Niu, Ting Huang, Chengjia Xu, Xinyue Sun, Mohamed Farag Taha, Yong He, Zhengjun Qiu

“…To correct RGB–depth misalignment, a unified recalibration method was developed to ensure accurate alignment between RGB and depth data. …”
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The Suitability of Tomini Bay Gorontalo for Marine Tourism: Opportunities and Challenges by Sri Nuryatin Hamzah, Femy M Sahami, Sitty Ainsyah Habibie, Sandrianto Djunaidi

“…Coral reef conditions were assessed using the underwater photo transect method, while reef fish data were collected using the underwater visual census method. …”
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USSD: Unsupervised Sleep Spindle Detector by Edgardo Ramirez, Pablo A. Estevez, Martin D. Adams, Claudio A. Perez, Marcelo Garrido Gonzalez, Patricio Peirano

“…An unsupervised adaptive threshold method based on the distribution of the automatically detected SS lengths is developed, which allows the adaptation of the USSD algorithm to different datasets in an unsupervised way. …”
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Health-related quality of life in Singapore: Population norms for the EQ-5D-5L and EORTC QLQ-C30 by Jaclyn Tan, Mervyn JR Lim, Ravindran Kanesvaran, Richard Norman, Wen Yee Chay, Mohamad Farid Bin Harunal Rashid, Mihir Gandhi, Madeleine King, Nan Luo

“…Regression-based population norms were computed for each subgroup using a post-stratification method. Results: In multiple linear regression analysis, age was significantly associated with EQ-5D-5L index and visual analogue scale (VAS) scores, while no sociodemographic characteristics were significantly associated with EORTC QLQ-C30 summary scores. …”
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The Modeling of the Probable Behaviour of Insider Cyber Fraudsters in Banks by Hanna Yarovenko, Aleksandra Kuzior, Alona Raputa

“…Conducting a cluster analysis using the k-means method made it possible to form 3 main groups of search queries, which included 12 of the selected variables. …”
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Oil-Painting Style Classification Using ResNet with Conditional Information Bottleneck Regularization by Yaling Dang, Fei Duan, Jia Chen

“…We implement this conditional term using a matrix-based Rényi’s entropy estimator, thereby avoiding costly variational approximations and ensuring computational efficiency. We evaluate our method on two public benchmarks: the Pandora dataset (7740 images across 12 artistic movements) and the OilPainting dataset (19,787 images across 17 styles). …”
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Polythermal study of phase behavior and extractive crystallization of salt in the ternary system ammonium sulfate – water – polyethylene glycol-1500 by Karagulova, Madina A., Kirilina, Diana R., Danilina, Veronika V., Tsesarenkova, Victoria M., Cherkasov, Dmitry G.

“…Phase equilibria and solubility have been studied by the visual polythermal method in mixtures of components in nine sections of the composition triangle in the range of 10–70° C in the ternary system ammonium sulfate – water – polyethyleneglycol-1500 (PEG-1500). …”
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