Comparative Analysis of the Physicochemical Properties of Fresh, Solar-Dried, Oven-Dried and Commercial <i>Royal Gala</i> Apple Snacks by Lisete Fernandes, Pedro B. Tavares, João Siopa, Carla Gonçalves, Fernando M. Nunes

“…The findings highlight that drying method significantly affects snack quality. While solar- and oven-dried samples better preserve bioactive compounds, industrial processes enhance sweetness and visual appeal but increase the formation of potentially undesirable compounds. …”
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Focused radiofrequency treatment of postpartum vaginal relaxation syndrome by Yu. E. Dobrokhotova, T. S.K. Nagieva, E. N. Kareva

“…Diagnostic methods included medical history collection, objective examination, assessing condition of the perineum by visual inspection; standard clinical and laboratory studies; using the questionnaire for calculating the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI-19). …”
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Topology-aware pathway analysis of spatial transcriptomics by Siras Hakobyan, Maria Schmidt, Hans Binder, Arsen Arakelyan

“…Traditional ST workflows typically involve clustering spots, performing differential expression analyses, and annotating results via gene-set methods such as overrepresentation analysis (ORA) or gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA). …”
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A Handheld IoT Vis/NIR Spectroscopic System to Assess the Soluble Solids Content of Wine Grapes by Xu Zhang, Ziquan Qin, Ruijie Zhao, Zhuojun Xie, Xuebing Bai

“…The data can be sent in real time to the cloud configuration, where it can be backed up and visualized. After simultaneously removing outliers detected by both Monte Carlo (MC) and principal component analysis (PCA) methods from the raw spectra, the SSC prediction model was established, resulting in an <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msubsup><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">R</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>V</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msubsup></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> of 0.697. …”
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Incidence of postoperative pain after single-visit and multiple-visit root canal therapy: a systematic review by Gunjan Kumar, Samikshya Jena, Nisha Manila, Mohammad Fareed, Mohmed Isaqail Karobari

“…RESULT- Most surveys utilized VAS (Visual Analogue Scale) to estimate the degree of pain among the participants. …”
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Weak Fiber Bragg Grating Array-Based In Situ Flow and Defects Monitoring During the Vacuum-Assisted Resin Infusion Process by Xiao Liu, Zuoyin Tang, Xin Gui, Wenchang Yin, Jingyi Cao, Zhigang Fang, Zhengying Li

“…During the resin-filling stage, three trends of strain curve were identpified in relation to the different placement setups of embedded OFs, the resin flow direction, and the different vacuum-bagging methods. The monitoring criteria were analyzed and the results were compared with the visual inspection, showing good agreement and indicating the ability of the fiber Bragg grating array. …”
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Research on fault feature enhancement and diagnosis of marine water pump bearing based on BM-MTF by Zhiqiang LIAO, Zhende HUANG, Xuewei SONG, Guanlong LIANG, Baozhu JIA

“…ResultsThe proposed method demonstrates a 100% accuracy on three bearing fault datasets. …”
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Lean Management Framework in Healthcare: Insights and Achievements on Hazardous Medical Waste by Adela Dana Ciobanu, Alexandru Ozunu, Maria Tănase, Adrian Gligor, Cristina Veres

“…The findings emphasize the role of data-driven decision tools, sustainability assessment methods, and cross-sectoral integration in enhancing medical waste systems.…”
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OCT RNFL and Macular GCC by Nisha Chaudhary, Neha Sachdeva, Umesh Sharma

“…Subjective errors in disc evaluation and visual field analysis is one of the major factor which reduces reliability of diagnosing and monitoring glaucoma progression. …”
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Efficacy of pain management for cattle castration: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Emeline Nogues, Jane Stojkov, Biljana Jonoska Stojkova, Marina A.G. von Keyserlingk, Daniel M. Weary

“…Much research has assessed methods of pain control for cattle castration, but there remains a lack of consensus regarding best practice. …”
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Development of OCR Service for Page-Level Recognition for Camera-Captured Document Images by Junyoung Park, Wonjun Kang, Seonji Park, Keuntek Lee, Hyung Il Koo, Nam Ik Cho

“…However, most existing methods have primarily focused on scene text or well-structured document images, and typically limit text detection and recognition to the word level. …”
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A Comparative Analysis of Structural Brain MRI in the Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease by Jason Appel, Elizabeth Potter, Qian Shen, Gustavo Pantol, Maria T. Greig, David Loewenstein, Ranjan Duara

“…Multiple neuroimaging methods utilizing visual rating scales, volumetric measurements, and automated methods have been developed to identify, quantify, and track anatomic sequelae of Alzheimer’s Disease.…”
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Robust Drone Video Analysis for Occluded Urban Traffic Monitoring Based on Deep Learning by Carlos Gellida-Coutino, Reyes Rios-Cabrera, Alan Maldonado-Ramirez, Anand Sanchez-Orta

“…However, existing video-based methods struggle with occlusions and complex trajectories in multi-directional intersections, limiting their applicability. …”
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Nonlinear multi-head cross-attention network and programmable gradient information for gaze estimation by Yujie Li, Yuhang Hong, Ziwen Wang, Jiahui Chen, Rongjie Liu, Shuxue Ding, Benying Tan

“…Recent gaze estimation methods are primarily based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) or attention Transformers. …”
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IQA Vision Transformed: A Survey of Transformer Architectures in Perceptual Image Quality Assessment by Mobeen Ur Rehman, Imran Fareed Nizami, Farman Ullah, Irfan Hussain

“…In an era dominated by visual content, perceptual image quality assessment (IQA) is crucial for enhancing user experiences and driving technological advancements across various domains. …”
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ACT-SR: Aggregation Connection Transformer for Remote Sensing Image Super-Resolution by Yingdong Kang, Xinyu Wang, Xuemin Zhang, Shaoju Wang, Guang Jin

“…Experimental results confirm the effectiveness of the proposed modules, with ACT-SR outperforming several state-of-the-art RSISR methods in both objective metrics and visual quality.…”
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Glaucoma secondary to intraocular tumors key aspects of etiopathogenesis by A.A. Yarovoy, T.V. Sokolovskaya, E.O. Krasnova, A.D. Matyaeva

“…To analyze the literature on the main aspects of etiology, pathogenesis of secondary glaucoma in tumor diseases of visual organs. Material and methods. PubMed, Scopus and eLIBRARY databases for the period up to 2022 were used for article selection, and the following keywords were used in the mesh: secondary glaucoma, tumor, neovascularization, pigment dispersion (and the same phrases in Russian). …”
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Intensity-modulated Radiation Therapy in the Management of Diffuse Choroidal Hemangioma in Sturge-Weber Syndrome by Saeed Karimi, Sadra Ashrafi, Zahra Siavashpour, Mona Malekzadeh Moghani

“…All patients exhibited notable reduction in subretinal fluid, significant tumor regression, and minimal side effects. Visual acuity improved in patients with pre-IMRT vision of hand motion or better. …”
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Despeckle Filtering for Multiscale Amplitude-Modulation Frequency-Modulation (AM-FM) Texture Analysis of Ultrasound Images of the Intima-Media Complex by C. P. Loizou, V. Murray, M. S. Pattichis, M. Pantziaris, A. N. Nicolaides, C. S. Pattichis

“…In this study, we perform a comparative evaluation of several despeckle filtering methods, on 100 ultrasound images of the CCA, based on the extracted multiscale Amplitude-Modulation Frequency-Modulation (AM-FM) texture features and visual image quality assessment by two clinical experts. …”
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Inverse power XLindley distribution with statistical inference and applications to engineering data by Amal S. Hassan, Najwan Alsadat, Christophe Chesneau, Mohammed Elgarhy, Mohamed Kayid, Suleman Nasiru, Ahmed M. Gemeay

“…Using three real data sets and comparisons with other distributions, the effectiveness of the proposed distribution is demonstrated and visually presented.…”
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