Increases in vegetation cover increase response more to climate change than to human activities in the Baiyangdian watershed by Jiashan Gao, Jianying Yang

“…Utilizing the Google Earth Engine (GEE) and Landsat remote sensing images, the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) of the Baiyangdian watershed from 1992 to 2022 was extracted. …”
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A Case Report of Obstructive Shock from an Esophageal Bolus Leading to Left Atrial Compression by Sharmin Kalam, Sergio Marquez, Emmelyn J. Samones, Tammy Phan, Vi Am Dinh

“…Even with direct visualization and imaging, immediate history and patient-centered approach are still useful to complete the clinical picture and treat the reversible cause of undifferentiated shock.…”
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Round Window Accessibility Prediction in Cochlear Implant Surgery by Salah-eddine Youbi, Omar Oulghoul, Youssef Lakhdar, Atmane Zaroual, Mohamed Chehbouni, Othmane Benhoummad, Youssef Rochdi, Abdelaziz Raji

“…Surgical accessibility of the RW was assessed according to 2 methods, similar to the ones introduced by Mandour et al and Elzayat et al. Pre-operative imaging findings were then compared to the actual surgical accessibility of the RW by reviewing surgical notes and video recordings. …”
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Integrating piecewise and symbolic regression with remote sensing data for spatiotemporal analysis of surface water total dissolved solids in the Karun River, Iran by Javad Zahiri, Mohammad Reza Nikoo, Adell Moradi-Sabzkouhi, Mitra Cheraghi, Nazmi Mat Nawi

“…Field sampling of TDS, as the output variable, was conducted along the Karun River on three dates, synchronized with Landsat satellite images. The innovative use of a fuzzy-based uncertainty analysis, coupled with AHP weighting, allowed for a comprehensive assessment of TDS estimation accuracy and uncertainty. …”
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Expanding the Diversity of <i>Actinobacterial Tectiviridae</i>: A Novel Genus from <i>Microbacterium</i> by Jacqueline M. Washington, Holly Basta, Angela Bryanne De Jesus, Madison G. Bendele, Steven G. Cresawn, Emily K. Ginser

“…Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) imaging analysis revealed that the six novel phages have six-sided icosahedral double-layered capsids with an internal lipid membrane that occasionally forms protruding nanotubules. …”
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Altered cytoskeleton dynamics in patient-derived iPSC-based model of PCDH19 clustering epilepsy by Rossella Borghi, Stefania Petrini, Valentina Apollonio, Marina Trivisano, Nicola Specchio, Sandra Moreno, Enrico Bertini, Marco Tartaglia, Claudia Compagnucci

“…Finally, performing live-imaging experiments using fluorescence recovery after photobleaching and by monitoring GFP-tagged end binding protein 3 (EB3) “comets,” we observe an impairment of the plus-end polymerization speed in PCDH19-mutated cortical neurons, therefore confirming the impaired MT dynamics. …”
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Scanning Electron Microscopic Assessment of Stent Coating Integrity in Jailed Wire Technique for Bifurcation Treatment by Lijian Gao, Ce Zhang, Huanhuan Wang, Yiqun Zhang, Zhan Gao, Bo Xu, Jue Chen, Jinqing Yuan, Shubin Qiao, Jilin Chen

“…A total of 27 samples were tested. Analyses of SEM images showed a significant difference in the degree of coating damage among the three types of wire after the procedure of JWT (P<0.001). …”
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Harmonizing the past: EEG-based brain network unveil modality-specific mechanisms of nostalgia by Hu Shuxiang, Hu Shuxiang, Liu Ying, Liu Ying, Yue Qizong, Yue Qizong, Zhao Huan, Zhao Huan, Zheng Maoping, Zheng Maoping

“…Participants' emotions were elicited using nostalgic and non-nostalgic stimuli presented through three different sensory channels: auditory (sound only), visual (e.g., still images or synchronized lyrics related to music), and audiovisual (a combination of sound and visual elements, such as music videos).ResultsThe results demonstrated that nostalgic stimuli elicited significantly higher levels of emotional arousal, pleasure, nostalgia, and dominance compared to non-nostalgic stimuli. …”
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Bamboo/Wood Composites and Structures Shear and Normal Strain Distributions in Multilayer Composite Laminated Panels under Out-of-Plane Bending by Jan Niederwestberg, Jianhui Zhou, Ying Hei Chui, Dongsheng Huang

“…During the tests, the digital imaging correlation (DIC) technique was used to measure the normal and shear strain in areas of interest. …”
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Neuromorphic Vision Based Multivehicle Detection and Tracking for Intelligent Transportation System by Guang Chen, Hu Cao, Muhammad Aafaque, Jieneng Chen, Canbo Ye, Florian Röhrbein, Jörg Conradt, Kai Chen, Zhenshan Bing, Xingbo Liu, Gereon Hinz, Walter Stechele, Alois Knoll

“…Instead of wastefully sending entire images at fixed frame rate, neuromorphic vision sensor only transmits the local pixel-level changes caused by the movement in a scene at the time they occur. …”
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Autoencoder Reconstruction of Cosmological Microlensing Magnification Maps by Somayeh Khakpash, Federica B. Bianco, Georgios Vernardos, Gregory Dobler, Charles Keeton

“…Rubin Legacy Survey of Space and Time, including thousands of lensed quasars and hundreds of multiply imaged supernovae, faster approaches become essential. …”
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Novel Fast-Setting and Mechanically-Strong Calcium Phosphate Pulp-Capping Cement with Metformin Release to Enhance Dental Pulp Stem Cells by Mohammad Alenizy, Abdullah Alhussein, Nader Almutairi, Ibrahim Ba-Armah, Tao Ma, Suping Wang, Nageswara R. Pilli, Maureen A. Kane, Michael D. Weir, Abraham Schneider, Hockin H. K. Xu

“…The optimized CPCC formulation was loaded with 0, 50, 100, and 150 µg of metformin to measure release and assess hDPSCs attachment and proliferation (1, 4, and 7 d) via live/dead imaging and SEM. One-way ANOVA was used for statistical analysis. …”
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Chalcogenide perovskites: enticing prospects across a wide range of compositions and optoelectronic properties for stable photodetector devices by Shilpa Mariam Samuel, Sadasivan Shaji, David Avellaneda Avellaneda, Bindu Krishnan

“…Photodetectors are indispensable components of many modern light sensing and imaging devices, converting photon energy into processable electrical signal through absorption, carrier generation and extraction using semiconducting thin films with appropriate optoelectronic properties. …”
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Flood hazard monitoring and modeling systems for improving climate risk management using machine learning and geospatial models in the Hennops River catchment, Centurion, South Afr... by Paidamwoyo Mhangara, Eskinder Gidey, Matilda Mbazo

“…To achieve this, we obtained Sentinel-2A and Landsat images from the United States Geological Survey Archive and processed them using SVM and RF models, along with TWI and NDWI. …”
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Varicella Zoster Virus-induced Acute Retinal Necrosis Following Acute Meningoencephalitis in a Patient with Presumed COVID-19 by Kiana Hassanpour, Faezeh Khorasanizadeh, Mahmood Nabavi, Narsis Daftarian, Alireza Ramezani

“…Case Report: A 58-year-old female presented to our emergency department with sudden unilateral visual loss following a recent hospitalization for viral meningoencephalitis. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) of the aqueous humor, reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RTPCR) of the nasopharyngeal swab specimen, chest computed tomography (CT), and fundus photography were performed for the patient. …”
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First Report of Two Cases of Acute Gastric Ischemia after Robot-Assisted Radical Cystectomy by Nikolaos Grivas, Alexander D. Horsch, Esther Wit, Annemarie Bruining, Johanna van Sandick, Henk G. van der Poel

“…On abdominal computed tomography imaging, subcutaneous emphysema, intra-abdominal air, and calcification at the origin of the coeliac trunk were found. …”
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XCF-LSTMSATNet: A Classification Approach for EEG Signals Evoked by Dynamic Random Dot Stereograms by Tingting Zhang, Xu Yan, Xin Chen, Yi Mao

“…Stereovision is the visual perception of depth derived from the integration of two slightly different images from each eye, enabling understanding of the three-dimensional space. …”
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Corneal Nerve Parameter Reference Values for Chinese Adults Assessed by Corneal Confocal Microscopy by Juan Cao, Jingru Qu, Bekzod Odilov, Bin Lu, Yuanpin Zhang, Lili Li, Yuan Zhang, Qian Xiong, Yu Hong, Jianqiao Li, Yunfeng Shen, Xinguo Hou

“…Two experts captured and selected images of the central corneal subbasal nerve plexus at each center using the same corneal confocal microscopy instrument according to a commonly adopted protocol. …”
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ADMNet: adaptive deformable convolution large model combining multi-level progressive fusion for Building Change Detection by Liye Mei, Haonan Yu, Zhaoyi Ye, Chuan Xu, Cheng Lei, Wei Yang

“…Building Change Detection (BCD) based on high-resolution Remote Sensing Images (RSI) simplifies urban surface monitoring. …”
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Performance Evaluation and Optimization of 3D Gaussian Splatting in Indoor Scene Generation and Rendering by Xinjian Fang, Yingdan Zhang, Hao Tan, Chao Liu, Xu Yang

“…The key dimensions of focus included the number of images, rendering time, and overall rendering effectiveness. …”
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