Advanced Pedestrian Distance Estimation for ADAS with Canny Edge Detection and Stereo Vision by Rachidi Oumayma, Ed-Dahmani Chafik, Bououlid Idrissi Badr

“…Pedestrian detection is a vital aspect of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), crucial for ensuring driving safety and minimizing collision risks. While detecting pedestrians is important, it must be paired with precise distance estimation to create a robust safety solution. …”
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Influence of Preparation Reconstruction on the Compressive Strength of CAD/CAM Ceramic Inlays by Bruna Salamoni Sinhori, Luiz Clovis Cardoso Vieira, Luiz Narciso Baratieri

“…All groups were subjected to compressive strength test (1mm/min crosshead speed). The results showed that the fracture strength of G1 (control group) was significantly higher than G2 and G3, while within these groups there were no statistically significant differences. …”
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Determination of the oral carcinoma and sarcoma in contrast enhanced CT images using deep convolutional neural networks by Kritsasith Warin, Wasit Limprasert, Teerawat Paipongna, Sitthi Chaowchuen, Sothana Vicharueang

“…Additionally, multiclass object detection models, including Faster R-CNN, YOLOv8, and YOLOv11, were designed to autonomously identify and localize lesions by placing bounding boxes on CT images. Performance evaluation on a test dataset showed that the best classification model achieved an accuracy of 0.97, while the best detection models yielded a mean average precision (mAP) of 0.87. …”
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Use of ICT to Confront COVID-19 by Yousry Saber El Gamal

“…Drones were transporting both medical equipment and patient samples, saving time and enhancing the speed of deliveries, while preventing contamination of medical samples. …”
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Personality affects dynamics of an experimental pathogen in little brown bats by Quinn M. R. Webber, Craig K. R. Willis

“…We captured 10 groups of 16 bats at a time and held each group in an outdoor flight tent equipped with roosting-boxes. We used hole-board and Y-maze tests to quantify exploration and sociability of each bat and randomly selected one individual from each group for ‘infection’ with non-toxic, UV fluorescent powder. …”
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A Hybrid Approach for the Container Loading Problem for Enhancing the Dynamic Stability Representation by Ana María Montes-Franco, Juan Camilo Martinez-Franco, Alejandra Tabares, David Álvarez-Martínez

“…The stability indicators are obtained from the mechanical model, allowing the user to know the percentage of damaged boxes in a packing pattern. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is tested using a set of classical benchmark instances, obtaining adequately accurate solutions within a short computational time. …”
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Factors Responsible for Wheel - Rail Interaction in Curves by Y. S. Romen

“…Not only maximum but also averaged values of the interaction indices ought to be taken into consideration while analyzing the respective calculation and test results. …”
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Lightweight YOLOv8s-Based Strawberry Plug Seedling Grading Detection and Localization via Channel Pruning by CHEN Junlin, ZHAO Peng, CAO Xianlin, NING Jifeng, YANG Shuqin

“…To verify the effectiveness of the proposed two-stage seedling-hole matching algorithm, tests were conducted using a variety of complex images from the test set. …”
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VRU-YOLO: A Small Object Detection Algorithm for Vulnerable Road Users in Complex Scenes by Yunxiang Liu, Yuqing Shi

“…Additionally, a lightweight Optimized Shared Detection Head (OSDH-Head) is introduced, reducing computational complexity while improving detection efficiency. Finally, to alleviate the deficiencies of traditional loss functions in shape matching and computational efficiency, we propose the Wise-Powerful Intersection over Union (WPIoU) loss function, which further optimizes the regression of target bounding boxes. …”
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Microbiological quality of some selected fresh fruit juices served in Dessie town’s charming cafes and restaurants, nestled in the heart of north-eastern Ethiopia by Moges Kibret Wondimagegn, Siraj Assen Mohammed

“…The antibiogram tests were conducted for isolated bacteria following the Kirby-Bauer, disk diffusion method. …”
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Building resilience through self-defense: the role of martial arts in enhancing psychological strength among women by Aydın Pekel, Mehmet Behzat Turan, Meriç Eraslan, Mujahid Iqbal, Osman Pepe, Keziban Yoka, Osman Yoka

“…IntroductionThis study aimed to investigate differences in psychological resilience between women who participate in martial arts and those who do not, while also examining the influence of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics.MethodsA total of 802 women voluntarily participated, including 407 martial arts practitioners (Muay Thai, kickboxing, boxing, or taekwondo) and 395 women who practiced Pilates. …”
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Enhance the Concrete Crack Classification Based on a Novel Multi-Stage YOLOV10-ViT Framework by Ali Mahmoud Mayya, Nizar Faisal Alkayem

“…For the classification part, a concrete crack dataset consisting of 12,000 images of three classes is utilized, while for the detection part, a dataset composed of various materials from historical buildings containing 1116 concrete images with their corresponding bounding boxes, is utilized. …”
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Effect of salbutamol-based anti-asthmatic medication on surface roughness and color stability of different types of hybrid ceramics by Noha Attia, Waleed Elshahawy, Abeer Atef Younes

“…They were exposed to salbutamol in acrylic boxes and then kept in artificial saliva for 30, 60, and 90 days which was equivalent to 4, 8, and 12 months. …”
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TIAR-SAR: An Oriented SAR Ship Detector Combining a Task Interaction Head Architecture with Composite Angle Regression by Yu Gu, Minding Fang, Dongliang Peng

“…First, we propose a task interaction detection head (Tihead) capable of predicting both oriented bounding boxes (OBBs) and horizontal bounding boxes (HBBs) simultaneously. …”
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A weakly-supervised deep learning model for end-to-end detection of airfield pavement distress by Zefeng Tao, Hongren Gong, Liming Liu, Lin Cong, Haimei Liang

“…By utilizing class activation map (CAM) information, our model significantly reduces the need for manual annotations, automatically generating pseudo bounding boxes with a 71% overlap with the ground truth. To evaluate WSDD-CAM, we tested it on a self-made dataset and compared it with other weakly-supervised and fully-supervised models. …”
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Enhancing motivation for initiation and continuation of physical activity in older adults using sensory augmentation devices: a preliminary pre–post study by Yusuke Sakaue, Yurie Kondo, Masaaki Makikawa, Naruhiro Shiozawa, Motoyuki Iemitsu, Tetsuo Yoshimoto, Shima Okada

“…In our previous works, a boxing glove-type sensory augmentation system was developed to solve this problem by inducing enjoyment during PA. …”
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Association Between Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior and Sleep Disorders in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study by Ma X, Zhang Q, Gao X, Sun M

“…Longer sedentary time was correlated with a higher risk of sleep disorders, while LTPA showed no significant correlation with sleep disorders. …”
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PregNut survey: knowledge, attitude, and practices of midwives regarding plant-based diets during pregnancy by Stephanie C. McLeod, Jessica C. McCormack, Jade Wratten, Lorna Davies, Yvonne Mosley-Martin, Indrawati Oey, Tamlin S. Conner, Mei Peng

“…Descriptive statistics, chi-square tests, and content analysis were used to interpret data. …”
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Evaluating the performance of three packing methods for long-distance transport of sterile adult Aedes albopictus males by Wadaka Mamai, Arianna Puggioli, Thomas Wallner, Fabrizio Balestrino, Teresa Brandolini, Mario Marinozzi, Giulia Celli, Thabo Mashatola, Simran Singh Kotla, Maylen Gomez, Hanano Yamada, Romeo Bellini, Chantel Janet de Beer

“…The results indicated that while transportation significantly impacted the quality of sterile males, all the three packing methods (IAEA V.1.0, IAEA V.2.0, and CAA) tested under simulated transportation durations of 25–48 h resulted in average mortality rates below 12%, with male escape rates ranging between 30 and 50% after a 24-h recovery period. …”
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SCSFish2025: a large dataset from South China sea for coral reef fish identification by Meng Wang, Wei Xiao, Ying Wang, Houlei Jia, Yang Gao, Zhiguang Chen, Fudan Zheng

“…However, deep learning is essentially a data-driven technique that relies on high-quality datasets for training, while existing fish identification datasets suffer from low resolution and inaccurate labeling, which limits the application of deep learning techniques to coral reef fish identification. …”
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