Use of information-fusion deep-learning techniques to detect possible electricity theft: A proposed method by Maria Chuwa, Daniel Ngondya, Rukia Mwifunyi

“…With the SGCC dataset, the method achieved an AUC (area under the curve) of 96.7%, a mAP@100 (mean average precision at 100) of 95.7%, and an FPR (false positive rate) of 8.1%. With the CER dataset, the method achieved an AUC of 96.7%, a mAP@100 of 97.3%, and an FPR of 5.2%. …”
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Two-step skeletization of binary images based on the Zhang-Suen model and the producing mask by J., Ma, V. Yu. Tsviatkou, V. K. Kanapelka

“…The aim of the work is to limit excessive thinning and increase the resistance to contour noise of skeletons resulted from arbitrary binary image shape while maintaining a high skeletonization rate. The skeleton is a set of thin lines, the relative position, the size and shape, which conveys information of size, shape and orientation in space of the corresponding homogeneous region of the image. …”
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Revisiting biomarker discovery by plasma proteomics by Philipp E Geyer, Lesca M Holdt, Daniel Teupser, Matthias Mann

“…However, existing biomarkers are far from comprehensive and often lack specificity and new ones are being developed at a very slow rate. As described in this review, mass spectrometry (MS)‐based proteomics has become a powerful technology in biological research and it is now poised to allow the characterization of the plasma proteome in great depth. …”
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Estimating the Impact of Technical Barriers to Trade in WTO Regime: The Case of Pakistan by Amir Mustafa, Ihtsham Ul Haq Padda, Sadia Safdar

“…The findings depict that GDP of Pakistan and partners, exchange rate, tariff, distance, and contiguity are vital factors; along with TBT cases initiated by Pakistan have also impacted import from WTO members. …”
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NEW POSSIBILITIES OF RADIOLOGIC DIAGNOSTICS OF BREAST CANCER by A. B. Abduraimov, S. K. Ternovoy

“…Early breast cancer diagnosis is contemporary and actual problem due to the increase of breast cancer incidence and low detection rate of the disease.Multispiral computed tomography of mammary gland with intravenous contrast agent injection allows resolving diagnostic tasks aris- ing in patients with high density mammary gland tissue, considerable edema, fibrosis, postoperative conditions. …”
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LEFT VENTRICULAR WALL THICKNESS AND AUTONOMIC REGULATION IN PATIENTS WITH HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY by O. Allaberganov, T. A. Abdullaev, G. A. Nagaeva

“…In addition, Group II patients demonstrated autonomic disbalance, sympathetic hyperactivity, and disturbed circadian patterns of heart rate.…”
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The Convallis rule for unsupervised learning in cortical networks. by Pierre Yger, Kenneth D Harris

“…Implementation of the rule caused a recurrent cortex-like network of simulated spiking neurons to develop rate representations of real-world speech stimuli, enabling classification by a downstream linear decoder. …”
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Geomorphic index alterations and socioeconomic implications: A case study of a Coastal River system in Bangladesh by Sukhen Goswami, Md. Masum Billah, Md Sabbir Hossen, Mehedi Hasan Ovi, Shacin Chandra Saha, Mir Md. Tasnim Alam, Probir Kumar Bhowmik, Atikul Haque Farazi, Md. Ashraful Islam, Dhiman Kumer Roy

“…Mid-channel bar formation, absent before 2000, reached 4.0 km2 by 2023, affecting flow patterns. The widening rate shifted from a maximum of 19 m/year (1980–2000, pre-sand mining) to 27 m/year (2000–2023, post-sand mining), with a peak near Doarika Bridge, which increased the vulnerability of the Barishal Airport area, averaging 3.65 m/year. …”
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Radiocleavable rare-earth nanoactivators targeting over-expressed folate receptors induce mitochondrial dysfunction and remodel immune suppressive microenvironment in pancreatic ca... by Tanvi Gupta, Shang-Rung Wu, Li-Chan Chang, Forn-Chia Lin, Yan-Shen Shan, Chen-Sheng Yeh, Wen-Pin Su

“…Abstract Pancreatic cancer is a fatal cancer with poor prognosis and survival rate, often diagnosed usually in the advanced stage of disease. …”
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COMBINED TREATMENT OF LOCALLY-ADVANCED BLADDER CANCER by I. V. Chernyshev, Y. V. Samsonov, D. V. Perepechin, A. M. Ulbashev

“…In the group of CE + ACT the indicator achieved only 3‑year survival rate, which amounted to 43%. In the group of CE — none of the patients did not live up to 3 years, with 2‑year survival rate was 30%. …”
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Machine learning and microfluidic integration for oocyte quality prediction by Hassan Saffari, Davood Fathi, Peyman Palay, Hamid Gourabi, Rouhollah Fathi

“…Additionally, oocyte diameter and the critical flow rate (Q)—defined as the minimum flow rate necessary for an oocyte to pass through the channel—were included as predictive variables. …”
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Impact of Sodium Ion Stress on the Mechanism of Lead Ion Migration in Electrochemical Treatment of Lead-Contaminated Soil by Yinyin Zhang, Jiangtao Han, Libin Zang

“…This study specifically validates the migration patterns of lead ions under sodium ion stress in soil and concludes that a high concentration of sodium ions, when coexisting with lead ions, diminishes the migration rate of lead ions, consequently reducing the removal efficiency of lead ions. 1. …”
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Combining Autoregressive Models and Phonological Knowledge Bases for Improved Accuracy in Korean Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion by Sung-Ki Choi, Hyuk-Chul Kwon, Minho Kim

“…Experimental results show that a BiLSTM-LSTM AR model based on ELECTRA embeddings achieves a phoneme error rate (PER) of 0.2%, word error rate (WER) of 0.68%, and a sentence accuracy of 95.16%, outperforming both a traditional rule-based approach (24.51% sentence accuracy) and non-autoregressive variants implemented on the same dataset (achieving 81.32%–85.72% sentence accuracy). …”
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¹³C metabolic flux analysis identifies an unusual route for pyruvate dissimilation in mycobacteria which requires isocitrate lyase and carbon dioxide fixation. by Dany J V Beste, Bhushan Bonde, Nathaniel Hawkins, Jane L Ward, Michael H Beale, Stephan Noack, Katharina Nöh, Nicholas J Kruger, R George Ratcliffe, Johnjoe McFadden

“…Here we show that deletion of one of the two icl genes impairs the replication of Mycobacterium bovis BCG at slow growth rate in a carbon limited chemostat. In order to further understand the role of isocitrate lyase in the central metabolism of mycobacteria the effect of growth rate on the in vivo fluxes was studied for the first time using ¹³C-metabolic flux analysis (MFA). …”
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Identification and Validation of the lncRNA BACE1-AS as Immune-Related Influencing Factor in Tumorigenesis following Pan-Carcinoma Analysis by Mengmeng Wang, Di Chen, Yushuang Xu, Mengjun Qiu, Xin Jiang, Zhifan Xiong

“…Overall, our results suggest that BACE1-AS is associated with the expression, prognosis, and rate of immune cell infiltration of most tumors. …”
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Spatial proximity effects on cognitive processing of multimedia learning among college students: evidence from functional near-infrared spectroscopy by Yan Ma, Yan Ma, Qiuyue Peng, Qiuyue Peng, Bowen Long, Bowen Long

“…In addition, the study also explored how disciplinary differences affect the strength of spatial proximity effects and corresponding brain activation patterns.ResultsThe findings revealed that activation levels in the middle temporal gyrus, frontal pole, and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex were significantly higher in the spatial proximity condition compared to the spatial separation condition, accompanied by an improved rate of correct answers. …”
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The 'Antiretrovirals, Sexual Transmission Risk and Attitudes' (ASTRA) study. Design, methods and participant characteristics. by Andrew Speakman, Alison Rodger, Andrew N Phillips, Richard Gilson, Margaret Johnson, Martin Fisher, Ed Wilkins, Jane Anderson, Rebecca O'Connell, Monica Lascar, Kazeem Aderogba, Simon Edwards, Jeffrey McDonnell, Nicky Perry, Lorraine Sherr, Simon Collins, Graham Hart, Anne M Johnson, Alec Miners, Jonathan Elford, Anna-Maria Geretti, William J Burman, Fiona C Lampe

“…In this paper we describe the study rationale, design, methods, response rate and the demographic characteristics of the participants. …”
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Adaptive AI-enhanced computation offloading with machine learning for QoE optimization and energy-efficient mobile edge systems by Dinesh Kumar Nishad, Vandna Rani Verma, Pushkar Rajput, Sandeep Gupta, Anurag Dwivedi, Dharti Raj Shah

“…The system’s security analysis yields a 98% threat detection rate, with response times under 100 ms. Meanwhile, reliability metrics indicate a 99.8% task completion rate and a mean time to failure of 1,200 h. …”
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The Role of Intrinsic Factors in Explaining Range Shifts of European Breeding Birds: A Meta‐Analysis by Femke E. M. Warmer, Wessel A. vanVliet, Pim vanHooft, Anouschka R. Hof

“…However, the observed range shift patterns are idiosyncratic in rate and direction. Species traits, such as ecological, life‐history and movement traits, may play an important role in determining range shifts by influencing a species' capacity to shift successfully. …”
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Rehabilitation and Motion Symmetry Analysis With a TACX Smart Cycling Trainer Using Computational Intelligence by Hana Charvatova, Daniel Martynek, Alexandra Molcanova, Ales Prochazka

“…The research objectives include analysis of motion patterns, evaluation of motion symmetry under varying loads, and examination of heart rate responses to load variations. …”
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