Experiences and perceptions of clinical research participation at an academic medical center by Joshua T. CLARK, Angela BURRELL, Amber ARNOLD, Travis W. SCHMITZ, Lei ZHANG, Daniel W. JONES, Richard L. SUMMERS, Whitney BONDURANT, Vinayak K. NAHAR

“…Introduction: The purpose of this study was to capture experiences and explore perceptions of clinical faculty research participation at an academic medical center in the southeastern United States to allow leadership to train, recruit, and retain faculty members and increase research production by better understanding motivations for and barriers to academic research participation. …”
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Modal-Guided Multi-Domain Inconsistency Learning for Face Forgery Detection by Zishuo Guo, Baopeng Zhang, Jack Fan, Zhu Teng, Jianping Fan

“…To effectively and comprehensively capture the various inconsistencies, we propose implementing heterogeneous inconsistency learning (HIL) with a three-level joint extraction paradigm. …”
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Taking stock of the social determinants of health: A scoping review. by Kelsey Lucyk, Lindsay McLaren

“…We also conducted a search on "inequity" or "inequality" or "disparity" or "social gradient" and "Canad*" to ensure that we captured articles where this language was used to discuss the SDOH. …”
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Efficient ear alignment using a two‐stack hourglass network by Anja Hrovatič, Peter Peer, Vitomir Štruc, Žiga Emeršič

“…For the first (landmark detection) step, the authors implement and train a Two‐Stack Hourglass model (2‐SHGNet) capable of accurately predicting 55 landmarks on diverse ear images captured in uncontrolled conditions. For the second (alignment) step, the authors use the Random Sample Consensus (RANSAC) algorithm to align the estimated landmark/fiducial points with a pre‐defined ear shape (i.e. a collection of average ear landmark positions). …”
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Identifying relevant EEG channels for subject-independent emotion recognition using attention network layers by Camilo E. Valderrama, Camilo E. Valderrama, Anshul Sheoran

“…ConclusionThese results emphasize the importance of capturing relevant electrical activity from these EEG channels, thereby facilitating the prediction of emotions evoked by audiovisual stimuli in subject-independent approaches.…”
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Empathy is associated with older adults’ social behaviors and verbal emotional expressions throughout the day by Meng Huo, Kate A. Leger, Kira S. Birditt, Karen L. Fingerman

“…Participants wore electronically activated recorders (EAR), an app that captured 30-second snippets of ambient sounds every 7 minutes. …”
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Improving legal accountability for domestic violence by Ostrohliad O.

“…Matters of taking into account the conclusions of specialized committees, substantiating budget expenditures, compliance with the requirements of the legislative technique by people’s deputies are actually critical, since a poor-quality draft law will lead to problems in law enforcement in the future. …”
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The influence of the use of regulatory codes on the diagnosis of pathologies of reinforced concrete frame bridges by Lakhal Sebahi, Mohamed Bensoula, Mohamed Zaoui, Tahar Kadri

“…The safety of these bridges must also be ensured in view of the increase in the load of the heavy goods vehicles actually travelling and passing through them. The aim of this research is to study the influence of the utilization of the Algerian and the European regulatory codes on the diagnosis of the pathologies of reinforced concrete frame bridges. …”
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Adaptive algorithms for change point detection in financial time series by Alexander Musaev, Dmitry Grigoriev, Maxim Kolosov

“…Traditional statistical methods, grounded in stationary models, are often ill-suited to capture the dynamics of processes governed by stochastic chaos. …”
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A Study on the Understanding of Chemical Compositions of Deposited Fog Water over Central Indo-Gangetic Plain in India by Shahina Raushan Saikh, Md Abu Mushtaque, Sanat Kumar Das

“…Abstract Fog preserves information about air pollution by pausing air movement and capturing chemical compositions of pollutants into fog droplets. …”
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Relationship of Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition to Soil Nitrogen Cycling Along an Elevation Gradient in the Colorado Front Range by Deborah A. Repert, Ruth C. Heindel, Sheila F. Murphy, Kaitlyn M. Jeanis

“…The contrast in N transformation rates between the plains and foothills, both of which receive elevated N deposition, may be due to spatial heterogeneity not captured in this study and warrants further investigation. …”
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The process of pain assessment in people with dementia living in nursing homes: a scoping review by Caroline Kreppen Overen, Maria Larsson, Adelheid Hummelvoll Hillestad, Ingela Karlsson, Siren Eriksen

“…Important perspectives on self-reporting are touched upon in several of the included studies, though direct descriptions of attempts to capture the residents’ own experience of pain are sparse. …”
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Model of an automated control system for the positioning of radio signal transmission/reception devices by Bohdan Boriak, Alina Yanko, Oleksandr Laktionov

“…The subjects of this article are methods and means for ensuring precise and stable antenna positioning using web-based controllers with integrated sensors and actuators. This research aimed to develop a model of an automated control system for the positioning of radio signal transmission/reception antennas, including directional antennas with a radiation pattern angle of 60-90 degrees, ensuring the minimization of azimuth positioning error. …”
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China’s peacekeeping activities within the UN: Features, challenges, and prospects by Qian Li

“…The author notes that China’s objective contribution to peacekeeping activities and international recognition of its efforts are actually very asymmetrical. To this should be added the active efforts of Western countries aimed at discrediting the peacekeeping activities of the PRC, manifested in pushing of narratives about the exceptional selfishness of Chinese initiatives and China’s desire to achieve unilateral advantages in the ‘Taiwan issue’ by exploiting peacekeeping agenda. …”
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Impact of Stochastically Perturbed Terminal Velocities on Convective-Scale Ensemble Forecasts of Precipitation by Shizhang Wang, Xiaoshi Qiao, Jinzhong Min

“…This work demonstrates the sensitivity of precipitation ensemble forecasts to terminal velocity perturbations and the potential benefits of adopting these perturbations; however, whether the perturbations actually result in significant improvements in precipitation forecast skill needs further study.…”
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Smartphone-based health monitoring in India: Data collection and evaluation for pulse rate estimation by Achal Shetty, Sanjana S. Narasimhamurthy, KS Nataraj, Srilakshmi M. Prabhu, Neha Jagadeesh, Kunal Katre, Sumit Kumar, Neelesh Kapoor, Sudhir P. Haladi, Sankalp Gulati

“…Conclusion: Results indicate that the smartphone-based PPG signal captures sufficient information of the cardiac cycle to reliably estimate the pulse rate. …”
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Procedural aspects of the crime scene inspection as an investigative (search) activity: some issues for discussion by Y. Yu. Koniushenko

“…Based on the experience of the United States, including the Crime Scene Units and The Crime Scene Investigations Bureau, it was concluded that during the crime scene inspection to identify, capture and seize relevant objects,  which carry information about the circumstances of the criminal offense, a group of specialists from different fields of knowledge in accordance with their specialization but not one specialist should be involved according to Part 3 of Art. 237 of the PCP of Ukraine. …”
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Effects of Housing Systems on Production Performance, Egg Quality, Tonic Immobility and Feather Score in Laying Hens by Mert Erek, Erdal Matur

“…The housing system did not impact fearfulness; however, the deep‐litter housing increased the sensitivity to touch or capture. Whole body and regional plumage condition scores of free‐range hens elicited more favourable results than those kept in conventional cages. …”
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Feature engineering on climate data with machine learning to understand time-lagging effects in pasture yield predictionGitHub by Thirunavukarasu Balasubramaniam, Wathsala Anupama Mohotti, Kenneth Sabir, Richi Nayak

“…To address this, our study proposes an averaging-based feature engineering approach, effectively capturing the varying temporal dependencies across pasture species and also allowing interpretation of the dependencies. …”
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Application, opportunities, and challenges of digital technologies in the decarbonizing shipping industry: a bibliometric analysis by Guangnian Xiao, Lei Pan, Fengbo Lai

“…Concerning emission prediction, future research efforts could focus on integrating more diverse external data sources into emission prediction models, adopting emerging technology applications, such as ship-based carbon capture (SBCC), introducing blockchain into smart emission monitoring systems, etc. …”
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