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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Nursing Value Analysis and Risk Assessment of Acute Gastrointestinal Bleeding Using Multiagent Reinforcement Learning Algorithm by Fang Liu, Xiaoli Liu, Changyou Yin, Hongrong Wang

“…Feature extraction is done using local binary patterns (LBP). Classification is performed using a fuzzy support vector machine (FSVM) classifier. …”
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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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Color characteristics and psychological healing effects in Rokuon-ji Temple Garden: a quantitative analysis by Jinyang Wang, Yoichi Kunii

“…The findings provide evidence-based guidelines for therapeutic garden design while demonstrating that the healing efficacy of traditional Japanese gardens derives from sophisticated orchestration of color complexity, diversity, and concentration patterns.…”
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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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Socio-Demographic Factors and Health-Oriented Behaviors of University Students in the Podkarpackie Region. Long-Term Prospective Research by Paweł Więch, Dariusz Bazaliński, Zdzisława Chmiel, Józef Ratajczyk, Paweł Januszewicz, Monika Binkowska-Bury

“…It was conducted in 2009 and repeated two years later. The rating of the behavior patterns of students was conducted in accordance with the following schedule: October 2009 – January 2010 (T1), October 2011 – January 2012 (T2). …”
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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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Rational strategies for improving the efficiency of design and discovery of nanomedicines by Xiaoting Shan, Ying Cai, Binyu Zhu, Lingli Zhou, Xujie Sun, Xiaoxuan Xu, Qi Yin, Dangge Wang, Yaping Li

“…Abstract The rise of rational strategies in nanomedicine development, such as high-throughput methods and computer-aided techniques, has led to a shift in the design and discovery patterns of nanomedicines from a trial-and-error mode to a rational mode. …”
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Analyzing RNA Localization Using the RNA Proximity Labeling Method OINC-seq by Megan Pockalny, Hei-Yong Lo, Raeann Goering, J. Taliaferro

“…Thousands of RNAs are localized to specific subcellular locations, and these localization patterns are often required for optimal cell function. …”
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Clutter Mitigation in Indoor Radar Sensors Using Sensor Fusion Technology by Srishti Singh, Ha-Neul Lee, Yuna Park, Sungho Kim, Si-Hyun Park, Jong-Ryul Yang

“…Notably, the inherent blur present in low-resolution images closely corresponds to the distortion patterns induced by clutter in radar signals, making such data particularly suitable for effective sensor fusion. …”
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Underwater acoustic classification across diverse sea environments using adaptive regularization and knowledge encoding by Muhammad Azeem Aslam, Muhammad Irfan, Xu Wei, Wang Jun, Hu Hongfei, Wang Shiyu, Xin Liu, Shahid Ali

“…Factors such as temperature, pressure, and salinity create complex sound propagation patterns, causing feature space variations. These variations cause degraded performance of classifications systems when deployed in unseen conditions. …”
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Seasonal Trends and Sociodemographic Influences on Long-Distance Trips - A Full Year of GPS Tracking Data from Munich by Nico Nachtigall, Miriam Magdolen, Markus Lienkamp

“… This study provides insights into the rarely observed long-distance travel patterns of individuals. Collected smartphone tracking data from June 2022 to May 2023, focused on the Munich metropolitan region, allows us to investigate travel behavior and the occurrence of long-distance travel throughout the year. …”
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Heat transfer test method development: Consideration for design and safety of household oven mitts by Adriana Petrova, Semra Peksoz, Aditya Jayadas

“… The purpose of this study was to develop a test method – an apparatus and a protocol for evaluating the rate of heat transfer across a sample of layered materials commonly used in oven mitts. …”
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Clustering analysis of volatile organic compound biomarkers with tobacco exposure and the association with cardiovascular health outcomes in an observation study cohort by Juan Zhao, Haoyun Hong, Joseph Zhai, Remy Poudel, Sanjay Srivastava, Andrew C. Stokes, Pawel K. Lorkiewicz, Tian Jiang, Rose Marie Robertson, Aruni Bhatnagar, Jennifer L. Hall, Naomi M. Hamburg, Rachel J. Keith

“…After adjustment for age, sex, and race, Cluster 2 was associated with a higher heart rate (β=3.29; 95% CI: -0.26–6.84; p<0.05) compared to Cluster 1. …”
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Paradox of Low CA-125 in Patients with Decompensated Congestive Heart Failure by Raquel López-Vilella, Borja Guerrero Cervera, Víctor Donoso Trenado, Julia Martínez-Solé, Sara Huélamo Montoro, Valero Soriano Alfonso, Franco Appiani, Luis Martínez Dolz, Luis Almenar-Bonet

“…Scheduled admissions, transfers from other hospitals, pulmonary congestion patterns, mixed patterns, and low output were the exclusion criteria. …”
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Exploring cognitive and emotional symptoms associated with hippocampal subfield atrophy in drug-induced Parkinsonism by Wei Zhou, MengYue Tang, Bo Cheng, Ling Sun, HongYu Lin, Yang Fan, Nian Liu, Shushan Zhang

“…This study explores hippocampal subfield volumes in DIP compared to Parkinson’s disease (PD) and healthy controls (HCs), investigating correlations with cognitive (Montreal Cognitive Assessment, MoCA), emotional (Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, HAMD; Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale, HAMA), and motor (Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale, UPDRS) symptoms.MethodsA total of 19 DIP patients, 20 PD patients, and 20 HCs were enrolled. …”
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Effect of the Sampling of a Dataset in the Hyperparameter Optimization Phase over the Efficiency of a Machine Learning Algorithm by Noemí DeCastro-García, Ángel Luis Muñoz Castañeda, David Escudero García, Miguel V. Carriegos

“…Also, a level of gain is assigned to each partition allowing us to study patterns and allocate whose samples are more profitable. …”
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Epidemic Trends and Spatial Distribution Characteristics of Hepatitis B in China: Surveillance Study by Xiaoxue Li, Jie Liang, Lanqing Ma, Shijie Shen, Xueying Han, Tao Sun, Heng Guo

“…The age effect showed that the incidence rate of hepatitis B reached its peak at the age of 22 years, with an average incidence rate of 176.173/100,000. …”
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Sine Power Unit Inverse Lindley Model: Bayesian Analysis and Practical Application by Amal S. Hassan, Diaa S. Metwally, Mohammed Elgarhy, H. E. Semary, Abdoulie Faal, Rokaya Elmorsy Mohamed

“…The SPUIL distribution demonstrates greater flexibility in modeling various hazard rate behaviors, including increasing, decreasing, N‐shaped, U‐shaped, and J‐shaped patterns. …”
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