Capsule Endoscopy in Patients with Implantable Electromedical Devices is Safe by Lucinda A. Harris, Stephanie L. Hansel, Elizabeth Rajan, Komandoor Srivathsan, Robert Rea, Michael D. Crowell, David E. Fleischer, Shabana F. Pasha, Suryakanth R. Gurudu, Russell I. Heigh, Arthur D. Shiff, Janice K. Post, Jonathan A. Leighton

“…A secondary purpose was to determine whether IEDs have any impact on images captured by CE. Patients and Methods. A retrospective chart review of all patients who had a capsule endoscopy at Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, AZ, USA, or Rochester, MN, USA, (January 2002 to June 2010) was performed to identify CE studies done on patients with IEDs. …”
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A deep learning model based on RGB and hyperspectral images for efficiently detecting tea green leafhopper damage symptoms by Yang Xu, Yilin Mao, He Li, Jiazhi Shen, Xiuxiu Xu, Shuangshuang Wang, Shah Zaman, Zhaotang Ding, Yu Wang

“…The results showed that both RGB and hyperspectral images can effectively capture the different levels of damage to tea buds caused by the leafhopper. …”
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A Dual-Band Dual-Polarized Antenna for Harvesting in Cellular and Digital Terrestrial Television Bands by Khatereh Nadali, Neeraj Kumar Maurya, Patrick McEvoy, Max J. Ammann

“…Such a design meets our primary objectives of capturing RF energy effectively, with its omnidirectional pattern enabling it to collect ambient RF signals from different polarizations and directions.…”
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LMFUNet: A Lightweight Multi-fusion UNet Based on Spiking Neural Systems for Skin Lesion Segmentation by Ningkang Hu, Bing Li, Hong Peng, Zhicai Liu, Jun Wang

“…LMFUNet uses an Efficient Multi-scale Feature Extraction block (EMFE) in deep stages, which uses grouping of features by convolution with different dilation rates to reduce model complexity and effectively capture multi-scale features. By using the Multi-level Feature Fusion module (MFF) in skip connections, different levels of information are combined step by step, realizing the first step of fusion of low-level details and high-level contextual information, which helps to accurately localize the lesion area. …”
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Posthospital Discharge Medical Care Costs and Family Burden Associated with Osteoporotic Fracture Patients in China from 2011 to 2013 by Zhao Xie, Russel Burge, Yicheng Yang, Fen Du, Tie Lu, Qiang Huang, Wenyu Ye, Weihua Xu

“…Data were collected using a patient questionnaire from osteoporosis-related fracture patients (N = 123) who aged 50 years and older who were discharged between January 2011 and January 2013 from 3 large hospitals in China. The survey captured posthospital discharge direct medical costs, indirect medical costs, lost work time for caregivers, and patient ambulatory status. …”
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The Mother's Day Geomagnetic Storm on 10 May 2024: Aurora Observations and Low Latitude Space Weather Effects in Mexico by J. A. Gonzalez‐Esparza, E. Sanchez‐Garcia, M. Sergeeva, P. Corona‐Romero, L. X. Gonzalez‐Mendez, J. F. Valdes‐Galicia, E. Aguilar‐Rodriguez, M. Rodriguez‐Martinez, C. Ramirez‐Pacheco, C. I. Castellanos, M. Pazos, B. Mendoza, V. J. Gatica‐Acevedo, A. Melgarejo‐Morales, R. Caraballo, E. Andrade‐Mascote, P. Villanueva‐Hernandez, R. Bonifaz‐Alfonzo, P. Sierra, E. Romero‐Hernandez, I. Peralta‐Mendoza, E. Perez‐Tijerina, J. C. Mejia‐Ambriz, C. Guerrero‐Peña, A. Caccavari, G. Cifuentes‐Nava, E. Hernandez‐Quintero

“…Citizen science efforts documented auroras and regional responses, capturing variations in geomagnetic indices, ionospheric disturbances, cosmic ray fluxes, GICs, and technological impacts. …”
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Assessment of Vaccination Impact in PPR-Control Program Implemented in Southern States of India: A System Dynamics Model Approach by Govindaraj Gurrappanaidu, Naveen Kumar Gajalavarahalli Subbanna, Francis Wanyoike, Sirak Bahta, Yeswanth Raghuram Reddy, Dwaipayan Bardhan, Balamurugan Vinayagamurthy, Kennady Vijayalakshmy, Rahman Habibur

“…The SD model relies on interdependence, interaction, information feedback, and circular causality and captures potential feedback between disease control interventions and their impact on various epidemiological and economic outcomes. …”
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Experiences of eating disorder services for people caring for a loved one with an eating disorder in the UK: national survey by Hannah Cribben, Rachel Batchelor, Pamela Macdonald, Janet Treasure, Erica Cini, Dasha Nicholls, Carol Kan

“…Conclusions This survey captures the experiences of individuals caring for a loved one with an eating disorder in the UK. …”
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Innovative Grouting Process Monitoring: Design and Implementation of a Measurement Device With Datalogger Function by Gabriel Gaspar, Roman Budjac, Stefan Sedivy, Maximilian Stremy, Denis Benka, Eduard Nemlaha, Rastislav Elias

“…This paper focuses on designing and implementing a device that captures physical data during the grouting process and stores it in a defined format on a microSD card. …”
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A sedimentological oxymoron: highly evolved glauconite of earliest diagenetic origin by Tribovillard, Nicolas, Bout-Roumazeilles, Viviane, Guillot, François, Baudin, François, Deconinck, Jean-François, Abraham, Romain, Ventalon, Sandra

“…Glauconite formation allegedly requires protracted episodes of ion capture from the water column, which is no longer possible when glauconite gets trapped within authigenic carbonates. …”
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Process, dynamics and bioeffects of acoustic droplet vaporization induced by dual-frequency focused ultrasound by Yubo Zhao, Yi Feng, Liang Wu

“…Our results demonstrated that the proposed model accurately captured the entire ADV process, ensuring continuous vapor bubble formation and evolution throughout the phase transition process. …”
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Thermospheric Neutral Density Data Assimilation System Based on the Whole Atmosphere Model During the November 2003 Storm by Ching‐Chung Cheng, Timothy Fuller‐Rowell, Eric K. Sutton, Tzu‐Wei Fang, Jann‐Yenq Liu, Daniel R. Weimer

“…With these changes, results show that IDEA effectively captures the thermospheric neutral density at the CHAMP satellite altitude and follows the time‐dependence through the November 2003 storm period. …”
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Defect Detection in Concrete Structures Based on Characteristics of Hammer Reaction Force and Apparent Stiffness of Concrete by Koki Shoda, Jun Younes Louhi Kasahara, Qi An, Atsushi Yamashita

“…Our method employs wavelet transformation to convert short-duration force signals into high-resolution time-frequency features, capturing their non-stationary behavior in detail. …”
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Multiscale guided attention network for optic disc segmentation of retinal images by A Z M Ehtesham Chowdhury, Andrew Mehnert, Graham Mann, William H. Morgan, Ferdous Sohel

“…MSGANet-OD was trained and tested on an in-house clinical color retinal image dataset captured during ophthalmodynamometry as well as on several publicly available color fundus image datasets, e.g., DRISHTI-GS, RIM-ONE-r3, and REFUGE1. …”
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Social Justice and Health Equity in the Teaching and Learning Environment: Perspectives of Academic Leaders in Health Profession Education Programmes by Benita Cohen, Debra Beach Ducharme, Moni Fricke, Alan Katz, Laura MacDonald, Donna Martin, Christen Rachul, Gayle Restall, Dana Turcotte

“…The objective of this study was to explore the perspectives of health profession education leaders about their individual and collective vision for a TLE that promotes SJ/HE and its actualization. A qualitative descriptive approach was utilized to gather, synthesize and make meaning of the perspectives of academic leaders in one Canadian health professional faculty. …”
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Design of a wasp-inspired biopsy needle capable of self-propulsion and friction-based tissue transport by Jette Bloemberg, Suzanne van Wees, Suzanne van Wees, Vera G. Kortman, Aimée Sakes

“…The resulting biopsy needle features six parallel needle segments interconnected by a ring passing through slots along the length of the needle segments, enabling a wasp-inspired reciprocating motion. Actuation employs a cam and follower mechanism for controlled translation of the segments. …”
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Senses of justice after managed retreat in New York city by Veronica Olivotto, Veronica Olivotto, Katinka Wijsman, Timon McPhearson, Timon McPhearson, Timon McPhearson

“…It grounds this analysis in 18 in-depth interviews with local residents capturing their perceptions of vacant land and its reuse, flood risk and neighborhood needs. …”
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Deep Spatio-Temporal Illuminant Estimation Under Time-Varying AC Lights by Jun-Sang Yoo, Kang-Kyu Lee, Chan-Ho Lee, Ji-Min Seo, Jong-Ok Kim

“…Using a high-speed camera, we capture the intensity variations of AC lights. Then, we use these variations as an important cue for illuminant learning. …”
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Midlatitude mesosphere and lower thermosphere variations during the extreme gannon geomagnetic storm in May 2024 by Tao Yuan, Tao Yuan, P. D. Pautet, P. D. Pautet, M. J. Taylor, M. J. Taylor

“…The temperature enhancement (∼10 K) of the hydroxyl layer during the same period is also captured by the AMTM. Intriguingly, significant storm time depletion of sodium (Na) abundance on the topside of the mesospheric Na layer above 105 km, as much as more than 80%, was also observed. …”
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Evaluation of e-Lung automated quantitative computed tomography biomarkers in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis by Peter M. George, Christian Rennison-Jones, Giacomo Benvenuti, Aliki Sifostratoudaki, Finja A. Ottink, Wassim Bou-Zeid, Roberta E. Ledda, Roqia F. Abul Kadir, Bushra Johari, Claire Fernandez, George W.J. Harston, Olivier Joly, Stephen Gerry, Anand Devaraj

“…Conclusions WRVS is an automated CT biomarker which can identify patients with IPF at increased risk of progression and is able to reliably capture disease progression over time.…”
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