Lightweight deep neural network for contour detection and extraction of wheat spikes in complex field environments by Xin Xu, Haiyang Zhang, Jiangchuan Lu, Ziyi Guo, Juanjuan Zhang, Jibo Yue, Hongbo Qiao, Xinming Ma

“…Ablation studies confirm LDSNet-ELA integration reduces false positives by 27.6%, while the enhanced loss function system improves small-object recall by 19.4%. …”
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“Sensing, learning but forgetting”: the inability of strawberry plants to transmit the infochemically-mediated stress priming under salinity by Costanza Ceccanti, Giulia Lauria, Fabrizio Araniti, Ermes Lo Piccolo, Ylenia Pieracci, Guido Flamini, Lucia Guidi, Marco Landi

“…In step 2, a subset of NaCl-S plants was exposed to salt stress (NaCl-S+NaCl), while others were co-grown in a plastic box with additional unstressed strawberry plants (super receiver - NaCl-SS). …”
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Effect of Consumption of Cape Gooseberries on Blood Glucose Control Among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Kampala, Uganda: A Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial by Ndahura NB, Nambooze J, Mangusho G, Najjuuko R

“…Fasting blood glucose (FBG) will be assessed at baseline and bi-weekly, while the glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) levels will be assessed at baseline, 6 weeks and 12 weeks. …”
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Asymmetric reactions of the crude oil and natural gas markets on Vietnamese stock markets by Jassim Aladwani

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The Relationship Between Preferred Learning Styles and Academic Achievement of Undergraduate Health Sciences Students Compared to Other Disciplines at a Middle Eastern University U... by Gangadharan S, Al Mezeini K, Gnanamuthu SS, Al Marshoudi KA

“…Auditory (A) was the most preferred unimodal style (Mean/SD - 3.72/2.181), while kinesthetic (Mean/SD - 0.54/.864) was the least preferred. …”
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Uncovering the evidence: An innovative board game approach to teaching Forensic Sci-ence through active learning by Diana Cunha Fernandes, Rui Azevedo, Áurea Madureira-Carvalho

“… Introduction: The use of innovative pedagogical resources in teaching, framed in the set of methodologies of the so-called active learning, promotes the understanding of scientific concepts, while motivating their effective assimilation. The use of pedagogical strategies in this domain, including gamification, has been increasing in recent years, proving to be efficient in several areas of knowledge. …”
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PENGARUH EKSTRAK LIMBAH DAUN TEMBAKAU MADURA TERHADAP AKTIVITAS MAKAN LARVA Spodoptera exigua by Harwanto -, Edhi Martono, Andi Trisyono, Wahyono -

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Genistein Reduces Anxiety-like Behavior During Metestrus–Diestrus Phase Without Changing Estradiol or Progesterone Levels in Wistar Rats by Juan Francisco Rodríguez-Landa, Oscar Jerónimo Olmos-Vázquez, Carlos Fabrizio Quiñonez-Bailón, Gabriel Guillén-Ruiz, Ana Karen Limón-Vázquez, Jonathan Cueto-Escobedo, Eduardo Rivadeneyra-Domínguez, Blandina Bernal-Morales

“…<b>Methods</b>: The effect of the administration of 0.09 mg/kg of genistein or 17β-estradiol was evaluated using the elevated plus maze (EPM) test, locomotor activity test (LAT), and light/dark box (LDB) test, as well as by assessing the plasma concentrations of estradiol and progesterone, while considering the ovarian cycle phases. …”
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Automatic Detect Incorrect Lifting Posture with the Pose Estimation Model by Gee-Sern Jison Hsu, Jie Syuan Wu, Yin-Kai Dean Huang, Chun-Chieh Chiu, Jiunn-Horng Kang

“…<b>Material and Method:</b> We recruited 50 healthy adults who participated in lifting tasks using correct and incorrect postures to build a robust dataset. Participants lifted boxes of varying sizes and weights while their movements were recorded from multiple angles and heights to ensure comprehensive data capture. …”
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Evaluation of the cytotoxicity and anthelmintic activity of Olea europaea (stem and leaves) methanolic extract: in vitro investigation by Al-Shaebi E. M., Abdel-Gaber R., Al-Hoshani N., Al-Quraishy S.

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Evaluating temporal changes in water quality due to urbanization: a multi-year observational study in Khalid Khor, Sharjah, UAE by Norhan Ahmed, Areej Mohammad, Sandra L. Knuteson, Sandra L. Knuteson, Fatin Samara, Fatin Samara, Fatin Samara

“…Descriptive statistics, box plots, and scatter plots were used to visualize trends, while the Kruskal–Wallis test and Mann–Whitney U test were applied to determine statistically significant differences across years.ResultsThe analysis revealed a significant increase in temperature, peaking in 2017 (p = 0.0002), indicative of urban heat island effects and reduced water flow. …”
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Superclustering with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and Dark Energy Survey. II. Anisotropic Large-scale Coherence in Hot Gas, Galaxies, and Dark Matter by M. Lokken, A. van Engelen, M. Aguena, S. S. Allam, D. Anbajagane, D. Bacon, E. Baxter, J. Blazek, S. Bocquet, J. R. Bond, D. Brooks, E. Calabrese, A. Carnero Rosell, J. Carretero, M. Costanzi, L. N. da Costa, W. R. Coulton, J. De Vicente, S. Desai, P. Doel, C. Doux, A. J. Duivenvoorden, J. Dunkley, Z. Huang, S. Everett, I. Ferrero, J. Frieman, J. García-Bellido, M. Gatti, E. Gaztanaga, G. Giannini, Vera Gluscevic, D. Gruen, R. A. Gruendl, Y. Guan, G. Gutierrez, S. R. Hinton, R. Hlozek, D. L. Hollowood, K. Honscheid, D. J. James, K. Kuehn, O. Lahav, S. Lee, Z. Li, M. Madhavacheril, G. A. Marques, J. L. Marshall, J. Mena-Fernández, F. Menanteau, R. Miquel, J. Myles, M. D. Niemack, S. Pandey, M. E. S. Pereira, A. Pieres, A. A. Plazas Malagón, A. Porredon, M. Rodríguez-Monroy, A. Roodman, S. Samuroff, E. Sanchez, D. Sanchez Cid, B. Santiago, M. Schubnell, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, C. Sifón, M. Smith, S. T. Staggs, E. Suchyta, M. E. C. Swanson, G. Tarle, C-H. To, N. Weaverdyck, P. Wiseman, E. J. Wollack

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Integrative analysis of DNA methylation, RNA sequencing, and genomic variants in the cancer genome atlas (TCGA) to predict endometrial cancer recurrence by Jin Hwa Hong, Yung Taek Ouh, Sohyeon Jeong, Yoonji Oh, Hyun Woong Cho, Jae Kwan Lee, Hayeon Kim, Chungyeul Kim, Sanghyun Roh, Eun Na Kim, Yikyeong Chun, Jeong-An Gim

“…These were visualized through volcano plots and heat maps, while decision trees and random forests classified and stratified the samples.ResultsA machine learning analysis combined with box plots showed that in the copy number-high (CN-H) recurrence group, PARD6G-AS1 had decreased methylation, CSMD1 had increased methylation, and TESC expression was higher than the non-recurrence group. …”
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Novel trimetallic (TiO2–MgO–Au) nanoparticles: Biosynthesis, characterization, antimicrobial, and anticancer activities by Soliman Mohamed Khalil Yousef, Doghish Ahmed Soliman, Hashem Amr Hosny, Abdel-Maksoud Mostafa, El-Dakroury Walaa Ahmed, Alamri Abdulaziz, Ebaid Hossam, Hasanin Mohamed Sayed, Saied Ebrahim

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Post-stroke changes in brain structure and function can both influence acute upper limb function and subsequent recovery by Catharina Zich, Nick S. Ward, Nina Forss, Sven Bestmann, Andrew J. Quinn, Eeva Karhunen, Kristina Laaksonen

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Enhanced prediction of heat transfer in jet impingement cooling using an artificial intelligence: A case study by Mehmet Berkant Özel, Ufuk Durmaz, Muhammed Ali Nur Öz, Ahmet Ümit Tepe, Cemil Öz, Ünal Uysal, Orhan Yalçinkaya, Ali Cemal Beni̇m, Norah Alomayrah, M.S. Al-Buriahi

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Natural soils’ shear strength prediction: A morphological data-centric approach by Maher Omar, Mohamed G. Arab, Emran Alotaibi, Khalid A. Alshibli, Abdallah Shanableh, Hussein Elmehdi, Dima A. Hussien Malkawi, Ali Tahmaz

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Protist communities are correlated with abiotic soil factors, but not resources, prey, or predators along a subalpine secondary succession by Ajuan Zhang, Anton M. Potapov, Ruyi Luo, Yan Zhang, Wei Qiang, Bing Liu, Xueyong Pang

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UNCOVER: The Rest-ultraviolet to Near-infrared Multiwavelength Structures and Dust Distributions of Submillimeter-detected Galaxies in A2744 by Sedona H. Price, Katherine A. Suess, Christina C. Williams, Rachel Bezanson, Gourav Khullar, Erica J. Nelson, Bingjie Wang, John R. Weaver, Seiji Fujimoto, Vasily Kokorev, Jenny E. Greene, Gabriel Brammer, Sam E. Cutler, Pratika Dayal, Lukas J. Furtak, Ivo Labbe, Joel Leja, Tim B. Miller, Themiya Nanayakkara, Richard Pan, Katherine E. Whitaker

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Contraceptive uptake and compliance after structured contraceptive counseling ‐ secondary outcomes of the LOWE trial by Isabella Bizjak, Niklas Envall, Karin Emtell Iwarsson, Helena Kopp Kallner, Kristina Gemzell‐Danielsson

“…Women counseled at abortion (aOR 2.97, 95% CI: 1.36–6.75) and youth clinics (aOR 1.81, 95% CI: 1.08–3.03) were more likely to be using a LARC method, while no significant difference was seen in maternal health clinics (aOR 1.84, 95% CI: 0.96–3.66). …”
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