Enhancing Stress Assessment in Sledge Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus): APilot Study on Infrared Thermal Imaging and its Opportunities for Advancement as a Welfare Assessment Tool by Océane Liehrmann, Anne Ollila, Virpi Lummaa, Léa Lansade, Martin W. Seltmann

“…Measuring immediate physiological stress responses in animals can be challenging; saliva and blood sampling, while invasive, may also generate confounding stress responses, and equipping animals with heart rate sensors is not always feasible. Nevertheless, emerging technologies offer a non-invasive and contactless method to measure additional body surface temperature changes induced by acute stress, using infrared thermal measurement of the eye caruncle region. …”
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Dynamic brain-heart interaction in sleep characterized by variational phase-amplitude coupling framework by Juntong Lyu, Chien-Hung Yeh, Wenbin Shi, Thomas Penzel

“…Moreover, delta-range slow cortical oscillations exhibit robust coupling with both the low- (HRV-LF) and high-frequency (HRV-HF) constituents of RR-interval heart-rate variability, thereby constituting a cardinal electrophysiological signature of ANS-CNS modulation. …”
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Spatial quality measurement of commercial streets in old cities of medium-sized cities in China by Tongwen Wang, Hongkai Li, Xinmeng Cao, Chaohui Yue, Yuanyuan Yang, Weijie Huang, Haidong Li

“…This study finds that (1) crowd activities on commercial streets have different temporal and spatial patterns on weekdays and days off; (2) the external characterization of urban street space quality has a significant positive correlation with objective material spatial elements such as the density of public transportation stops, functional density, functional mixing, interface continuity, and spatial green visibility rate; (3) the enhancement of street accessibility and fine-tuning of functions are key to improving the spatial quality of commercial streets.This study provides theoretical basis and ideas for improving the spatial quality of commercial streets in medium-sized cities in China and promoting sustainable urban development.…”
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The main drivers of labour cost dynamics in Central and Eastern European countries by Maria Denisa VASILESCU, Larisa STĂNILĂ, Amalia CRISTESCU, Maria Berta BELU, Silvana CRIVOI

“…Additionally, the share of exports in GDP and the employment rate influence labour costs in Hungary and the Czech Republic, but with distinct country-specific patterns.…”
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Compact Broadband Dual ZOR Antenna for Multiband Smart Mobile Phone Applications by Jeong Keun Ji

“…The measured results show that it has the active performance of good total radiated power, total isotropic sensitivity, and specific absorption rate, which can meet the requirement of the smart mobile phone.…”
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CAs-Net: A Channel-Aware Speech Network for Uyghur Speech Recognition by Jiang Zhang, Miaomiao Xu, Lianghui Xu, Yajing Ma

“…Experiments conducted on a real Uyghur speech recognition dataset demonstrate that CAs-Net achieves the best performance across multiple subsets, with an average Word Error Rate (WER) of 5.72%, significantly outperforming existing approaches. …”
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Cell-type specific repertoire of responses to natural scenes in primate retinal ganglion cells by Alexandra Kling, Nora Brackbill, Colleen Rhoades, Alex Gogliettino, Alexander Sher, Alan Litke, E. J. Chichilnisky

“…Responses to thousands of natural images were used to examine the average firing rate kinetics in each RGC type as well as the repertoire of distinct firing patterns that each type produced. …”
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Study on Satisfaction Evaluation of Ecotourism Through Advanced Network Text Mining by Jia Gao, Leong Mow Gooi, Kim Mee Chong, Xiang Lyu, Jin Zhang

“…The LSTM model was further optimized using GA to improve its performance by fine-tuning hyperparameters such as learning rate and network depth. Key findings indicate that the GA-optimized LSTM model achieved a 15% increase in accuracy, a 20% improvement in precision, and a 25% boost in recall compared to the unoptimized model. …”
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Research on a PCA-transformer-based prediction algorithm for gas concentration in working face by YANG Jian, SHU Longyong, ZHANG Shulin, QIN Kai, CUI Cong

“…Then, PCA was applied to reduce the dimensionality of seven influencing factors (methane concentration at the upper corner, return airflow methane concentration, oxygen concentration, carbon monoxide concentration, temperature, net flow rate, and wind speed), effectively eliminating weakly correlated features. …”
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DiffCoRank: a comprehensive framework for discovering hub genes and differential gene co-expression in brain implant-associated tissue responses by Anirban Chakraborty, Erin K. Purcell, Michael G. Moore

“…A key innovation of our approach is false discovery rate (FDR) based selection of strongly connected genes (SCGs), by which we improve detection of strong coexpression patterns that otherwise could be lost to spurious correlations. …”
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Water production efficiency and economic benefits under diversified planting modes of intercropping-multiple cropping in arid regions. by Na Zhang, Jianxin Jin, Jing Chen

“…It can be seen that diversified planting patterns can improve the yield and economic benefits per unit land area, and are a highly promising planting pattern.…”
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Workplace determinants of social capital: cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence from a Finnish cohort study. by Tuula Oksanen, Ichiro Kawachi, Anne Kouvonen, Soshi Takao, Etsuji Suzuki, Marianna Virtanen, Jaana Pentti, Mika Kivimäki, Jussi Vahtera

“…<h4>Methods</h4>This is a cohort study of 43,167 employees in 3090 Finnish public sector workplaces who responded to a survey of individual workplace social capital in 2000-02 (response rate 68%). We used ecometrics approach to estimate social capital of work units. …”
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Evaluation of the daily routines and health behaviors of primary school children and their parents: what has changed with a pandemic? by Derya Ceyhan, Betül Karagür Çakmak, Furkan Burkay Gürel

“…For both parents (68.9%) and children (68.5%), the proportion of those who experienced changes in daily routines was high, and who experienced stress due to the pandemic changed their daily routines more (p < 0.01). The rate of unchanged oral hygiene habits was higher for both parents (74.0%) and their children (77.1%). …”
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Analysis of major human and foodborne pathogens and their resistance to antimicrobials in the USA in the past two decades: Implications for surveillance and control of antimicrobia... by PAN Hang, LI Xiaoliang, FANG Weihuan, YUE Min

“…Potential links between consumption of antimicrobials and patterns of antimicrobial resistance were discussed. …”
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Evaluation of Worker Fatigue During Exoskeleton-Assisted Tasks with Varying Intensities by Daehwi Jo, Gu Young Cho, Kyung-In Kang, Hyunsoo Kim

“…Time-series analysis further revealed that exoskeletons not only decrease overall fatigue accumulation but also slow the rate of fatigue increase, extending the period in which workers can maintain safe and efficient movement patterns. …”
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Contemporary problems of budget development of regional centers by M. A. Pechenskaya

“…It is shown that the risk of budget reduction in the social sphere and economy financing increased due to the growing cost of servicing municipal debt, which in the North-Western federal district regional centers increased 14 times in 2011-2018, while the average growth in Russia in that period was four-fold. The increase in the rate of budget expenditures centralization was revealed, which was manifested in an eight-fold increase in the delegated authority from higher levels to the budgets of regional centers of the North-Western federal district in 2011-2018.Scientific novelty: modern patterns of budget systems development of regional centers of Russia and the North-Western federal district are defined and justified, in particular for 2011-2018.Practical significance: the materials of the article can be used by professors of higher educational institutions in the educational process, and by researchers as a research base. …”
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Electricity Theft Detection Using Rule-Based Machine Leaning (rML) Approach by Sheyda Bahrami, Erol Yumuk, Alper Kerem, Beytullah Topçu, Ahmetcan Kaya

“…With an astounding 93% recall rate for the rule-based feature space combination of the random forest classifier, this novel approach has produced outstanding results. …”
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A multimodal functional structure-based graph neural network for fatigue detection by Dongrui Gao, Zhihong Zhou, Zongyao Peng, Haokai Zhang, Shihong Liu, Manqing Wang, Hongli Chang

“…The framework employs differential entropy (DE) features extracted from filtered EEG signals and heart rate variability (HRV) features derived from ECG signals as dual input streams, capturing distinct internal–external interaction patterns. …”
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Impact of stratifin/14-3-3σ on survival and interstitial lung disease in patients with non-small cell lung cancer receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors by Daiki Murata, Koichi Azuma, Kenta Murotani, Yoshiaki Zaizen, Tomoaki Hoshino

“…Meanwhile, delta-SFN, representing the change in SFN values between ICI initiation and at the 6-week point, was associated with progression-free survival, overall survival, disease control rate, and ICI-ILD image patterns. Conclusion SFN levels in plasma were associated with therapeutic efficacy and ICI-ILD pattern in patients with NSCLC receiving cancer immunotherapy. …”
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Numerical Flow Simulation in a Centrifugal Pump at Design and Off-Design Conditions by K. W. Cheah, T. S. Lee, S. H. Winoto, Z. M. Zhao

“…The current investigation is aimed to simulate the complex internal flow in a centrifugal pump impeller with six twisted blades by using a three-dimensional Navier-Stokes code with a standard k-ε two-equation turbulence model. Different flow rates were specified at inlet boundary to predict the characteristics of the pump. …”
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