The use of ethanol as contrast enhancer in synchrotron X-ray phase-contrast imaging leads to heterogeneous myocardial tissue shrinkage: a case report by Gabriel Bernardino, Àngels Calvet-Mirabent, Hector Dejea, Eduard Guasch, Anne Bonnin, Patricia Garcia-Canadilla

“…Some authors have shown that ethanol shrinks and hardens the tissue too much, also causing small tissue ruptures due to fast dehydration. However, the local tissue deformation occurring as a consequence of tissue dehydration and whether tissue shrinkage can modify myocardial architecture has not been quantified yet. …”
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An interaction-fair semi-decentralized trajectory planner for connected and autonomous vehicles by Zhengqin Liu, Jinlong Lei, Peng Yi, Yiguang Hong

“…Finally, we conduct Monte Carlo experiments in multiple situations at an intersection, where the empirical results show the advantages of SVEP, including the fast computation speed, a small communication payload, high scalability, equilibrium concordance, and safety, making it a promising solution for trajectory planning in connected traffic scenarios. …”
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Prediction Method for Overconsolidation Ratio of Marine SoftSoil Based on the Piezocone Penetration Tests by Yanbin Fu, Sizhan Zhang, Guiyang Lv, Kaihang Han

“…CPTU has the advantages of being fast and convenient, no sampling, low disturbance to soil, large amount of data, and reliable testing. …”
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Detection of Phage’s Lytic Activity Against Carbapenemase-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolates Using a High-Throughput Microbroth Growth Inhibition Assay by Paschalis Paranos, Spyros Pournaras, Joseph Meletiadis

“…Conclusions The microbroth growth inhibition assay provided fast, reliable, and objective results for K. pneumoniae phage host-range lytic activity differentiating different patterns of lysis in a high-throughput format.…”
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High sensitivity flexible strain sensor for motion monitoring based on MWCNT@MXene and silicone rubber by Muhammad Luthfi Hakim, Zufar Alfarros, Herianto Herianto, Muhammad Akhsin Muflikhun

“…The sensor also has a fast response time of about 70 ms, it also has good stability during low (1–5%) and high (20–100%) strain cycle testing and can withstand up to 1200 loading and unloading cycles. …”
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Enhancing the Hybrid Microgrid Performance with Jellyfish Optimization for Efficient MPPT and THD Estimation by the Unscented Kalman Filter by Nivedita Singh, M. A. Ansari, Manoj Tripathy, Pratiksha Gupta, Ikbal Ali, Adel Saleh Rawea

“…The system’s performance is analyzed using fast Fourier transform (FFT) to evaluate harmonic distortions, which consistently meet the limits specified in IEEE STD 1547-2018. …”
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Research on Mine-Personnel Helmet Detection Based on Multi-Strategy-Improved YOLOv11 by Lei Zhang, Zhipeng Sun, Hongjing Tao, Meng Wang, Weixun Yi

“…In addition, when compared to models such as YOLOv5s, YOLOv8s, YOLOv3 Tiny, Fast R-CNN, and RT-DETR, GCB-YOLOv11 demonstrates superior performance in both detection accuracy and model complexity. …”
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A cell-based Papain-like Protease (PLpro) activity assay for rapid detection of active SARS-CoV-2 infections and antivirals. by Anahi G Jimenez-Campos, Lucas I Maestas, Nileena Velappan, Brian Beck, Chunyan Ye, Keith Wernsing, Yaniksa Mata-Solis, William J Bruno, Silas C Bussmann, Steven Bradfute, Justin T Baca, Frauke H Rininsland

“…An urgent need remains for simple and fast tests that reliably detect active infections with SARS-CoV-2 and its variants in the early stage of infection. …”
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Inversion Methods of Soil Hydraulic Parameters Based on Hyperspectral Characteristics by WU Yanmei, ZHU Han, LI Ji, LI Zixin, HE Jianliang, LIN Kairong, DONG Chunyu, ZHUANG Luwen

“…To enrich remote inversion methods of soil hydraulic parameters and achieve a fast and nondestructive prediction, 59 high-spectral in-situ soil samples in Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai City, were collected using Field Spec4 spectrometer. …”
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Beyond Basic Drag in Interplanetary CME Modeling: Effects of Solar Wind Pileup and High‐Speed Streams by C. Kay, T. Nieves‐Chinchilla, S. J. Hofmeister, E. Palmerio

“…Abstract Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) cause severe space weather effects throughout our solar system. As a fast CME propagates through interplanetary space, it accumulates solar wind materials at its front. …”
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Impact of alemtuzumab-mediated lymphocyte depletion on SIV reservoir establishment and persistence. by Benjamin Varco-Merth, Morgan Chaunzwa, Derick M Duell, Alejandra Marenco, William Goodwin, Rachel Dannay, Michael Nekorchuk, Danica Shao, Kathleen Busman-Sahay, Christine M Fennessey, Lorna Silipino, Michael Hull, William J Bosche, Randy Fast, Kelli Oswald, Rebecca Shoemaker, Rachele Bochart, Rhonda MacAllister, Caralyn S Labriola, Jeremy V Smedley, Michael K Axthelm, Miles P Davenport, Paul T Edlefsen, Jacob D Estes, Brandon F Keele, Jeffrey D Lifson, Sharon R Lewin, Louis J Picker, Afam A Okoye

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Automated MSCT Analysis for Planning Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion Using Artificial Intelligence by Kilian Michiels, Eva Heffinck, Patricio Astudillo, Ivan Wong, Peter Mortier, Alessandra Maria Bavo

“…The average runtime of the complete workflow, including data pre- and postprocessing, was 57.5 ± 34.5 seconds. Conclusions. A fast and accurate AI-based workflow is proposed to automatically analyze MSCT images for planning LAAO. …”
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A Series of Advances in Analytic Interplanetary CME Modeling by C. Kay, T. Nieves‐Chinchilla, S. J. Hofmeister, E. Palmerio, V. E. Ledvina

“…We also determine how the CME behavior changes with the HSS size and initial front distance. Generally, for a fast CME, we see that the drag is greatly reduced within the HSS, leading to faster CMEs and shorter travel times. …”
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A comprehensive review of remimazolam for sedation by Nazir Noor, Rhorer Legendre, Alexandra Cloutet, Ahish Chitneni, Giustino Varrassi, Alan D. Kaye

“…Remimazolam has presented a favorable alternative to some of the common intravenous anesthetic agents used given its fast onset of action, high safety profile, and reasonably short duration of action. …”
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Reaction Kinetics of Sodium Bentonite with Different Acid Systems: An Experimental Study by Yang Li, Xiaoming Ni, Zheng Zhao, Cixiang Yang, Zhongcheng Li

“…The results demonstrated that the rate of dissolution of Al was high and the reaction reached equilibrium in 1 h. Si showed a fast dissolution rate in the acid solution containing HF. …”
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Visuo-motor response of students living in areas of military threat by Vasyl Lutskyi, Sergii Iermakov, Iryna Kryventsova

“…Background and Study Aim. In the modern fast-changing world, university students face a range of complex situations and challenges that require quick and accurate decision-making. …”
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RELATIONSHIP OF SELF-REGULATION AND PERSONAL PROFESSIONAL PERSPECTIVE OF STUDENTS by D. P. Zavodchikov, P. O. Manyakova

“…Today, the problem of personal planning and realization of the individual professional future has become very urgent in the conditions of uncertainty of the social and economic environment development, fast updating of technologies and transformation of the world of professions. …”
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Adversarial examples defense method based on multi-dimensional feature maps knowledge distillation by Baolin QIU, Ping YI

“…The neural network approach has been commonly used in computer vision tasks.However, adversarial examples are able to make a neural network generate a false prediction.Adversarial training has been shown to be an effective approach to defend against the impact of adversarial examples.Nevertheless, it requires high computing power and long training time thus limiting its application scenarios.An adversarial examples defense method based on knowledge distillation was proposed, reusing the defense experience from the large datasets to new classification tasks.During distillation, teacher model has the same structure as student model and the feature map vector was used to transfer experience, and clean samples were used for training.Multi-dimensional feature maps were utilized to enhance the semantic information.Furthermore, an attention mechanism based on feature map was proposed, which boosted the effect of distillation by assigning weights to features according to their importance.Experiments were conducted over cifar100 and cifar10 open-source dataset.And various white-box attack algorithms such as FGSM (fast gradient sign method), PGD (project gradient descent) and C＆amp;W (Carlini-Wagner attack) were applied to test the experimental results.The accuracy of the proposed method on Cifar10 clean samples exceeds that of adversarial training and is close to the accuracy of the model trained on clean samples.Under the PGD attack of L2 distance, the efficiency of the proposed method is close to that of adversarial training, which is significantly higher than that of normal training.Moreover, the proposed method is a light-weight adversarial defense method with low learning cost.The computing power requirement is far less than that of adversarial training even if optimization schemes such as attention mechanism and multi-dimensional feature map are added.Knowledge distillation can learn the decision-making experience of normal samples and extract robust features as a neural network learning scheme.It uses a small amount of data to generate accurate and robust models, improves generalization, and reduces the cost of adversarial training.…”
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Unravelling the Methylene Blue Adsorption Mechanism on Doped and Nondoped Polyaniline: A Combined Molecular Modeling and Experimental Investigation by Souad Djellali, Amani Touati, Abderrahmane Semmeq, Maya Kebaili, Michael Badawi, Adrián Bonilla-Petriciolet

“…Equilibrium adsorption studies with nondoped PANI revealed a fast removal of the dye molecules where the equilibrium adsorption was reached after 45 minutes. …”
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Enhancing work life through social cognition: the effect of SCIT in bipolar disorder by Zeynep Anaforoglu Bikmaz, Zeynep Mackali, Sibel Cakir

“…Outcome measures were assessed using a suite of tools, including the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS), Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS), Eyes Test (ET), Metacognition Scale (MCI), Internalized Stigma of Mental Illnesses (ISMI), and Functioning Assessment Short Test (FAST). Given the small sample size, non-parametric tests were employed for data analysis. …”
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