Assessing ground stability of a vertical backfilled stope considering creep behaviors of surrounding rocks by Ruofan Wang, Lang Liu, Mengbo Zhu, Huafu Qiu, Bingbing Tu, Huisheng Qu, Hao Cui

“…Using the Soft Soil constitutive model, the compressibility of backfill under large pressure was captured. It is found that the creep deformation of rock mass exercises compression on backfill and results in a less void ratio and increased modulus for fill material. …”
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Distribution and Evolution of Chorus Waves Modeled by a Neural Network: The Importance of Imbalanced Regression by Xiangning Chu, Jacob Bortnik, Wen Li, Xiao‐Chen Shen, Qianli Ma, Donglai Ma, David Malaspina, Sheng Huang

“…The feature selection process suggests that the auroral electrojet index alone captures most of the variations of chorus waves. The large amplitude of strong chorus waves can be predicted for the first time. …”
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Operationalizing goal setting as an outcome measure in trials involving patients with frailty, multimorbidity or complexity by Emma Tenison, Katherine Lloyd, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Emily J. Henderson

“…We needed a meaningful outcome measure which could capture effects across multiple symptoms and domains; be suitable across the spectrum of disease stage/phenotype, including for participants with multimorbidity and/or cognitive impairment. …”
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Prevalence, Causes, and Factors Associated with Visual Impairment and Blindness among Registered Pensioners in Ghana by Benjamin D. Nuertey, Kwesi Nyan Amissah-Arthur, Joyce Addai, Victor Adongo, Augustine D. Nuertey, Clement Kabutey, Isaac Asimadu Mensah, Richard Bekoe Biritwum

“…(iii) Observation procedures: data were captured through the use of questionnaires, physical examinations including eye examinations, and urine and blood sample analysis. …”
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Monitoring the Maize Canopy Chlorophyll Content Using Discrete Wavelet Transform Combined with RGB Feature Fusion by Wenfeng Li, Kun Pan, Yue Huang, Guodong Fu, Wenrong Liu, Jizhong He, Weihua Xiao, Yi Fu, Jin Guo

“…Images of maize canopies during the jointing, tasseling, and grouting stages were captured using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) remote sensing to extract color, texture, and wavelet features and to construct a color and texture feature dataset and a fusion of wavelet, color, and texture feature datasets. …”
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Reconfiguration of brain network dynamics in bipolar disorder: a hidden Markov model approach by Xi Zhang, Lan Yang, Jiayu Lu, Yuting Yuan, Dandan Li, Hui Zhang, Rong Yao, Jie Xiang, Bin Wang

“…Dynamic functional connectivity (dFC) has the potential to more accurately capture the evolving processes of emotion and cognition in BD. …”
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STFCropNet: A Spatiotemporal Fusion Network for Crop Classification in Multiresolution Remote Sensing Images by Wei Wu, Yapeng Liu, Kun Li, Haiping Yang, Liao Yang, Zuohui Chen

“…STFCropNet consists of a temporal branch, which captures seasonal spectral variations and coarse-grained spatial information from TS data, and a spatial branch that extracts geometric details and multiscale spatial features from HR images. …”
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Mallard Hybridization With Domesticated Lineages Alters Spring Migration Behavior and Timing by Nicholas W. Bakner, Nicholas M. Masto, Philip Lavretsky, Cory J. Highway, Allison C. Keever, Abigail G. Blake‐Bradshaw, Ryan J. Askren, Heath M. Hagy, Jamie C. Feddersen, Douglas C. Osborne, Bradley S. Cohen

“…We aimed to investigate differences in spring migratory behavior among 296 GPS‐tagged mallards captured during winter in Tennessee and Arkansas with varying levels of hybridization. …”
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The epididymal microenvironment in Akodon cursor (Muridae, Sigmodontinae, Akodontini): The lifetime of spermatozoa from production to maturation by Tatiana Prata Menezes, Fernanda Carolina Ribeiro Dias, Nara Clara Lazaroni e Merchid, Camila Folly Batista, Camilo Jose Ramirez-Lopez, Arabela Guedes de Azevedo Viana, Renner Philipe Rodrigues Carvalho, Adrielli Ribeiro Araújo, José Lino-Neto, Gisele Lessa, Arlindo A. Moura, Mariana Machado-Neves

“…Eight A. cursor males were captured from a preserved area of the Atlantic Forest in Viçosa (MG, Brazil). …”
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Understanding co-production of injury research in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities: a comprehensive scoping review by Genevieve Westacott, Victoria McCreanor, Susanna Cramb, Silvia Manzanero, Kim Vuong, Michelle Allen, Shannon Dias, Geoffrey Binge, Arpita Das

“…This co-production helps decolonise the research process to privilege Aboriginal voices, however, more work is needed to appropriately capture Indigenous perspectives.…”
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Medical rehabilitation: a study of problems of legal definition. The intersection of the concepts of medical rehabilitation, prevention and treatment by E. V. Gameeva, A. A. Kostin, G. S. Alekseeva, E. U. Ogneva, P. G. Gabay, L. V. Pashigorova, E. V. Kalita

“…At the same time, the main difficulty in distinguishing the mentioned above definitions is related to the fact that the method underlying the medical service is actually licensed, but the same tools and methods can be used both in treatment and medical rehabilitation. …”
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Identification of a distal enhancer of Ucp1 essential for thermogenesis and mitochondrial function in brown fat by Duo Su, Tingting Jiang, Yulong Song, Die Li, Siyuan Zhan, Tao Zhong, Jiazhong Guo, Li Li, Hongping Zhang, Linjie Wang

“…Here, we employed circularized chromosome conformation capture coupled with next-generation sequencing (4C-seq) to generate high-resolution chromatin interaction profiles of Ucp1 in interscapular brown adipose tissue (iBAT) and epididymal white adipose tissue (eWAT) and revealed marked changes in Ucp1 chromatin interaction between iBAT and eWAT. …”
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What Time Is It? Finding Which Temporal Features is More Useful for Next Activity Prediction by Lerina Aversano, Martina Iammarino, Antonella Madau, Giuseppe Pirlo, Gianfranco Semeraro

“…Process Mining merges data science and process science that allows for the analysis of recorded process data by capturing activities within event-logs. It finds more and more applications for the optimization of the production and administrative processes of private companies and public administrations. …”
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Adaptive evolution of stress response genes in parasites aligns with host niche diversity by Armando J. Cruz-Laufer, Maarten P. M. Vanhove, Lutz Bachmann, Maxwell Barson, Hassan Bassirou, Arnold R. Bitja Nyom, Mare Geraerts, Christoph Hahn, Tine Huyse, Gyrhaiss Kapepula Kasembele, Samuel Njom, Philipp Resl, Karen Smeets, Nikol Kmentová

“…We comparatively investigated antioxidant, heat shock, osmoregulatory, and behaviour-related genes (foraging) in two model parasitic flatworm lineages with contrasting ecological diversity, Cichlidogyrus and Kapentagyrus (Platyhelminthes: Monopisthocotyla), through whole-genome sequencing of 11 species followed by in silico exon bait capture as well as phylogenetic and codon analyses. …”
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Age of Insomnia Onset Correlates with a Reversal of Default Mode Network and Supplementary Motor Cortex Connectivity by Emiliano Santarnecchi, Chiara Del Bianco, Isabella Sicilia, Davide Momi, Giorgio Di Lorenzo, Salvatore Ferrone, Giulia Sprugnoli, Simone Rossi, Alessandro Rossi

“…This might lead to alterations in brain connectivity patterns as those captured by functional connectivity fMRI analysis, leading to potential insight about primary insomnia (PI) pathophysiology as well as the impact of long-term exposure to sleep deprivation. …”
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Space Weather Forecasts of Ground Level Space Weather in the UK: Evaluating Performance and Limitations by A. W. Smith, I. J. Rae, C. Forsyth, J. C. Coxon, M.‐T. Walach, C. J. Lao, D. S. Bloomfield, S. A. Reddy, M. K. Coughlan, A. Keesee, S. Bentley

“…The model appears to capture multiple modes of magnetospheric activity, including substorms and viscous interactions, but poorly predicts impulsive phenomena (i.e., storm sudden commencements) and longer timescale coupling processes. …”
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Multiscale modeling of reservoir systems using geostatistical methods by Chihi, Hayet, Hammami, Mohamed Amin, Mezni, Imen, Belayouni, Habib, Ben Mammou, Abdallah

“…This provides a detailed input for the geostatistical modeling procedures that enabled to precisely capture the varying extent and shape of the hydrogeological units at regional scale.Geophysical data, available along the Jeffara plain, were added as a complement to the Jeffara geodatabase and used to establish the fault network and to build a local architectural model of the coastal aquifer system, based on time-to-depth conversion using kriging with external drift.The results have allowed (i) a major update of the geological configuration of the Jeffara basin, (ii) more precision on the geometries and extent of the stratigraphic sequences and (iii) an accurate prediction of the main characteristics of water reservoirs, i.e. their occurrence, thickness, facies and dynamic properties variation at the basin and reservoir scale. …”
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Changes in sensor recorded activity patterns and neuropsychiatric symptoms after deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease: 5 case reports by Lena C. Bruhin, Michael Single, Aileen C. Naef, Katrin Petermann, Mario Sousa, Matilde Castelli, Ines Debove, Marie E. Maradan-Gachet, Andreia D. Magalhães, Andreas A. Diamantaras, M. Lenard Lachenmayer, Gerd Tinkhauser, Julia Waskönig, Christopher M. el Achkar, Alia Lemkaddem, Mathieu Lemay, Paul Krack, Tobias Nef, Deborah Amstutz

“…Conclusion Changes in neuropsychiatric symptoms are associated with distinct activity patterns after STN-DBS, and wearable and ambient sensors may aid to capture those gradual shifts in behavior.…”
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G-UNETR++: A Gradient-Enhanced Network for Accurate and Robust Liver Segmentation from Computed Tomography Images by Seungyoo Lee, Kyujin Han, Hangyeul Shin, Harin Park, Seunghyon Kim, Jeonghun Kim, Xiaopeng Yang, Jae Do Yang, Hee Chul Yu, Heecheon You

“…Hybrid models incorporating CNNs and transformers that can capture long-range dependencies have shown promising performance in liver segmentation with the cost of high model complexity. …”
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Mach Number Scaling of Foreshock Magnetic Fluctuations at Quasi-parallel Bow Shocks and Their Role in Magnetospheric Driving Throughout the Solar System by Brandon L. Burkholder, Li-Jen Chen, Katariina Nykyri, Norberto Romanelli, Menelaos Sarantos, Dave Sibeck, Jaye Verniero, Gina A. DiBraccio, Daniel Gershman, Martin Lindberg, Erin Kincade

“…However, the solar wind flow is highly irregular, and on top of solar cycle variations these values for average M _A at each planet do not capture extreme events. Statistical analysis of OMNIWeb observations from 2015 to 2023 shows that sustained (30 minutes or more) high M _A (30–100) occurs at Earth about once a month. …”
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