Radiative corrections to the R and R 2 invariants from torsion fluctuations on maximally symmetric spaces by Riccardo Martini, Gregorio Paci, Dario Sauro

“…We also examine the conditions required to avoid ghost instabilities and ensure the validity of our assumption to neglect metric quantum fluctuations, demonstrating the compatibility between these two assumptions. …”
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(Post)Feminist Genealogies in Kate Muir’s Suffragette City ad Lisa Evans’ Old Baggage by Mariana Ripoll Fonollar

“…Suffragette City reproduces the conversations and encounters between the ghost of a Scottish suffragette fighting for her enfranchisement in the twentieth century, and her great-great-granddaughter living in New York at the beginning of the following century. …”
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An eastern Congolian endemic, or widespread but secretive? New data on the recently described Afrixalus lacustris (Anura, Hyperoliidae) from the Democratic Republic of the Congo by Tadeáš Nečas, Gabriel Badjedjea, Janis Czurda, Václav Gvoždík

“…Comparison of the advertisement call of A. lacustris from Salonga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo, indicates similarity to its sister species from montane areas of the Albertine Rift, the ghost spiny reed frog (A. phantasma). Phylogeographic analysis suggests that A. phantasma and A. lacustris speciated allopatrically during the Early Pleistocene, with the former having refugia in montane forests and the latter in transitional and also lowland forests. …”
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Haunted Houses, Haunted Bodies: Spectral Presence in Arlington Park by Claire WROBEL

“…The novel stages uncanny moments when women feel estranged from themselves, as when Amanda finds herself “strangely tranfigured” in Liz Connelly’s eyes: “a sort of ghost passed through her that was both herself and not herself.” …”
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A Review of Fish Anomalies in Türkiye’s Waters by İsmail Reis, Sercan Yapıcı, Hasan Cerim, Özgen Yılmaz

“…According to the literature, possible factors causing anomalies can be discussed under four general headings; environmental (anthropogenic factors, industrial activities, industrial chemicals, trace elements, pollution, light intensity, pesticide usage), biological (endocrine system, genetic, teratological cases, epigenetic, nutritional problems, parasitic or physiologic reasons, oxidative stress, pigment deficiency), ecological (attacked by carnivores, competition, changes in water parameters), and fishery-related (ghost fishing). This review also presents some possible causes of particular anomaly types in detail. …”
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EFT of interacting spin-2 fields by Lasma Alberte, Claudia de Rham, Arshia Momeni, Justinas Rumbutis, Andrew J. Tolley

“…Performing a decoupling and ADM analysis, we point out the existence of a ghost present at a low scale for the first class of interactions. …”
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Antioxidant, Antibacterial, and Cytoprotective Activity of Agathi Leaf Protein by A. S. Zarena, Shubha Gopal, R. Vineeth

“…ALP was able to reduce oxidative damage by scavenging lipid peroxidation against erythrocyte ghost (85.50 ± 6.25%), linolenic acid (87.67 ± 3.14%) at 4.33 μM, ABTS anion (88 ± 3.22%), and DNA damage (83 ± 4.20%) at 3.44 μM in a dose-dependent manner. …”
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Toxin-antitoxin genes are differentially expressed in Escherichia coli relA and spoT mutans cultured under nitrogen, fatty acid, or carbon starvation conditions by Monika Maciąg-Dorszyńska, Paweł Olszewski, Monika Karczewska, Lidia Boss

“…However, the exact link between (p)ppGpp and toxin-antitoxin systems’ activation, as well as toxin-antitoxin role in stress adaptation remains disputed.MethodsIn this study, we performed a complex analysis of changes (RNA-Seq) in the toxin-antitoxin operons’ transcription in response to nitrogen, fatty acid, or carbon starvation, in bacteria with different abilities of (p)ppGpp accumulation.Results and discussionAlthough we observed that in some cases (p)ppGpp accumulation appears to be crucial for transcriptional activation of TA genes (e.g., ghoST, ryeA), our data indicates that the general pattern of chromosomally encoded TA gene expression in E. coli differs depending on the nutrient distribution in the environment, regardless of the alarmone accumulation.…”
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DBnet: A Lightweight Dual-Backbone Target Detection Model Based on Side-Scan Sonar Images by Quanhong Ma, Shaohua Jin, Gang Bian, Yang Cui, Guoqing Liu

“…To address these issues, we designed DBnet, a lightweight target detector featuring two lightweight backbone networks (PP-LCNet and GhostNet) and a streamlined neck structure for feature extraction and fusion. …”
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An Improved YOLOv7-Tiny-Based Algorithm for Wafer Surface Defect Detection by Mengyun Li, Xueying Wang, Hongtao Zhang, Xiaofeng Hu

“…Next, a lightweight convolutional module, ghost shuffle convolution (GSConv), is introduced into the feature fusion network to reduce the network’s parameter count while maintaining a certain level of detection accuracy. …”
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Precision Target Spraying System Integrated with Remote Deep Learning Recognition Model for Cabbage Plant Centers by ZHANG Hui, HU Jun, SHI Hang, LIU Changxi, WU Miao

“…This innovative combination resulted in the creation of a YOLOv8-Ghost-Backbone lightweight model specifically tailored for agricultural applications. …”
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First scientific research on common bottlenose dolphins in the Calabrian (Italy) Ionian Sea by Maria Assunta Menniti, Adriana Vella, Jessica Alessi

“…The project involved a multi-action approach including scientific field research, citizen science in order to increase the knowledge and awareness regarding the marine environment and dolphins’ conservation, and removal of the marine litter in the SAC Fondali di Stalettì in order to reduce the negative impact these could have on the health of the bottlenose dolphins (entrapment in abandoned fishing ghost nets, plastic ingestion, etc.). Preliminary results on the presence and distribution of bottlenose dolphins scientifically investigated year-round are presented here. …”
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Using Particle Filter for Estimating Velocity of Maneuvering Target Being Tracked by Passive Radar by Anas Almanofi, Ali Kazem

“…Processing the bistatic geometry (Multiple non-cooperative transmitters or multiple receivers) has the following disadvantages: Extra signal processing and a ghost target phenomenon, compared with processing the bistatic geometry (One TX and One RX). …”
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Obscene beasts: the stage behind the scenes in A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Mathilde La Cassagnère

“…This is a fairly convincing anticipation of Gaston Bachelard’s statement in Water and Dreams, “a ghost [a beast in this particular instance] complacently described loses its effect.” …”
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Small target detection in UAV view based on improved YOLOv8 algorithm by Xiaoli Zhang, Guocai Zuo

“…Secondly, in the head part of the model, the original C2f module is replaced with the C3Ghost module. This change maintains the model’s performance while significantly reducing the computational load. …”
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AFF-LightNet: A Lightweight Ship Detection Architecture Based on Attentional Feature Fusion by Yingxiu Yuan, Xiaoyan Yu, Xianwei Rong, Xiaozhou Wang

“…Moreover, a lightweight convolution GhostConv was introduced into the head network to reduce the number of parameters and computation cost. …”
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Improvements on the discretisation of boundary conditions to the momentum balance for glacial ice by Constantijn J. Berends, Roderik S. W. van de Wal, Paul A. Zegeling

“…We show that a discretisation scheme based on the concept of ghost nodes, which substitutes the boundary conditions directly into the momentum balance equations, yields second-order numerical convergence and errors that can be up to four orders of magnitude smaller. …”
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Malignant Pilomatricoma with Lung Metastases: A Case Report and Literature Review by Nae-Ho Lee, Jung Kyun Park, Si-Gyun Roh, Jin Yong Shin, Yoon Kyu Chung, Kyu Yun Jang

“…Additionally, it possesses unique histological features that aid in differentiating it from its benign counterpart, including atypical cells, multiple mitoses with ghost cells, nuclear polymorphisms, and necrosis accompanied by serial desmoplasia. …”
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Traum-A-Rhythmia On Debbie Tucker Green’s In-Yer-Ear Stage by Lea Sawyers

“…Armed with silence and the weight of the unsaid, tucker green carves a musical score haunted by ghost melodies produced by compositional techniques akin to musical counterpoint, arpeggios and the canon. …”
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Navigating the Editorial Gauntlet for Excellence in Radiology Publishing by Chander Mohan, Manphool Singhal, Ashish Verma

“…The EiC also has to tackle issues of salami slicing, duplicate submissions, secondary publications, and guest and ghost authorship while adhering to constantly evolving guidelines of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). …”
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