Hybrid Offset Position Encoding for Large-Scale Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation by Yu Xiao, Hui Wu, Yisheng Chen, Chongcheng Chen, Ruihai Dong, Ding Lin

“…The experiment conducted on multiple datasets demonstrates that our module helps the deep encoders of the network capture more robust features, thereby improving model performance on various baseline models. …”
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Examining the influence of port ship activities on pollutant emissions in port environments by Xinjia Gao, Qifeng Yu, Wei Dai, Qinyang Chen

“…With advancements in technology, AIS data can accurately capture the operational status of ships, facilitating a macro-level analysis of ship behavior and emission characteristics. …”
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hERGAT: predicting hERG blockers using graph attention mechanism through atom- and molecule-level interaction analyses by Dohyeon Lee, Sunyong Yoo

“…Scientific contribution: hERGAT is a deep learning model for predicting hERG blockers by combining GAT and GRU, enabling it to capture complex interactions at atomic and molecular levels. …”
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Cost-benefit analysis of VKA versus NOAC treatment in German patients with atrial fibrillation utilizing patient self-testing by Roland Diel, Niklas Lampenius

“…Univariate sensitivity analysis was performed to examine the extent to which our calculations were affected by varying the parameters considered in our model within plausible extremes. To capture the interactions between multiple inputs, we also provided a probabilistic sensitivity analysis (PSA). …”
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A scoping review on U.S. undergraduate students with disabilities in STEM courses and STEM majors by Maura Borrego, Ariel Chasen, Hannah Chapman Tripp, Emily Landgren, Elisa Koolman

“…Results We considered extensive lists of disability types and diagnoses and concluded that “disability” as a search term best captured educational experiences rather than medical approaches. …”
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“Scarlet Cloak and the Forest Adventure”: a preliminary study of the impact of AI on commonly used writing tools by Barbara Bordalejo, Davide Pafumi, Frank Onuh, A. K. M. Iftekhar Khalid, Morgan Slayde Pearce, Daniel Paul O’Donnell

“…The paper recommends a shift toward teaching responsible AI usage rather than pursuing rigid bans or relying on detection metrics that may not accurately capture misconduct.…”
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Comparison of Option Pricing with Stochastic Volatility in Heston and Heston Nandi Model by Mohammad Reza Haddadi, Hossein Nasrollahi

“…The Heston-Nandi model outperforms the Black-Scholes and Heston models by capturing unusual patterns like skewness and elongation. …”
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Economía circular y ambiente: una evaluación económico-financiera para la instalación de una planta de reciclaje de residuos de aparatos eléctricos y electrónicos en la ciudad de B... by José Ignacio Diez, Lorena Tedesco, Agustín Imaz-Harguindeguy

“…Las dinámicas productivas y de consumo actuales no contemplan la existencia de recursos naturales finitos y de un planeta incapaz de procesar los desperdicios que el modo de vida habitual genera. …”
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Caracterización de trabajos finales de graduación de Licenciatura en Educación Especial, Universidad de Costa Rica 2013-2023 by Julieta Solórzano Salas, Eugenia García Artavia, Leonora Herrera Ulloa, Jorge Montero Segura

“…Dentro de los principales hallazgos, se rescata la importancia de motivar TFG la investigación interdisciplinaria como interés del estudiantado, utilizar diferentes niveles de la taxonomía de Bloom, coherentes con las temáticas que se investigan, promover la implementación de metodologías mixtas en la investigación, así como incorporar temáticas poco analizadas, como lo es el trabajo con familias y la autonomía de personas adultas en situación de discapacidad, y otras actuales referentes a espacios educativos inclusivos. …”
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Examining patient distress and unmet need for support across UK renal units with varying models of psychosocial care delivery: a cross-sectional survey study by Daiga Kamerāde, Maaike Seekles, Paula Ormandy

“…Logistic regression analysis was used to examine patient distress, as captured by the Distress Thermometer, and need for support, across different renal units.Setting Seven renal units across England, Wales and Scotland. …”
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A wave-resolving two-dimensional vertical Lagrangian approach to model microplastic transport in nearshore waters based on TrackMPD 3.0 by I. Jalón-Rojas, D. Sous, D. Sous, V. Marieu

“…</a> (<a href="#bib1.bibx19">2020</a>)</span> were simulated to validate the model's ability to reproduce the transport of diverse microplastics (varying in density, shape, and size) along a comprehensive beach profile, capturing the whole water column. Our results underscore the robustness of the proposed model, showing good agreement with experimental data. …”
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Self-assessed health of adult Australian sport club participants during and after COVID-19 restrictions: a longitudinal study by Rochelle Eime, Jack Harvey, Melanie Charity

“…The first wave also captured retrospective pre-COVID19 (2019) data. For each year 2019–2021 each survey respondent was categorized as participating (Yes/No) in club sport. …”
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More than a communication disorder: inequities in the financial toxicity of post-stroke aphasia by Molly Jacobs, Charles Ellis

“…Interaction terms were included in the models to capture the differential financial impacts of aphasia on Black and Hispanic individuals, compared to other racial and ethnic groups. …”
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Acceptability of artificial intelligence in breast screening: focus groups with the screening-eligible population in England by Jo Waller, Rumana Newlands, Lauren Gatting, Angie A Kehagia, Syeda Ahmed, Priscilla Meccheri

“…Data were analysed using a reflexive thematic analysis.Results Four themes described public perceptions of AI in breast screening found in this study: (1) Things going wrong and being missed summarises a predominant and pervasive concern about an AI tool being used in breast screening; (2) Speed of change and loss of control captures a positive association of AI with technological advances held by the women but also feelings of things being out of their control, and that they were being left behind and in the dark; (3) The importance of humans reports concern around the possibility that AI excludes humans and renders them redundant and (4) Desire for thorough research, staggered implementation and double-checking of scans included insistence that any AI be thoroughly trialled, tested and not solely relied on when initially implemented.Conclusions It will be essential that future decision-making and communication about AI implementation in breast screening (and, likely, in healthcare more widely) address concerns surrounding (1) the fallibility of AI, (2) lack of inclusion, control and transparency in relation to healthcare and technology decisions and (3) humans being left redundant and unneeded, while building on women’s hopes for the technology.…”
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From Heritage Building Information Modelling Towards an ‘Echo-Based’ Heritage Digital Twin by Hord Arsalan, David Heesom, Nigel Moore

“…Many of these studies have focused on the use of BIM software tools to generate intelligent 3D models using information gathered from a range of data capture techniques including laser scanning and photogrammetry. …”
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Developing AI Smart Sprayer for Punch-Hole Herbicide Application in Plasticulture Production System by Renato Herrig Furlanetto, Ana Claudia Buzanini, Arnold Walter Schumann, Nathan Shawn Boyd

“…The sprayer utilized a global shutter camera to capture real-time video input for the YOLOv8x model, which activates or disactivates a TeeJet solenoid for precise herbicide application upon detecting a punch-hole. …”
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Estrategias de mitigación de emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero en sistemas ganaderos bovinos extensivos del sur de San Luis, Argentina. Estudio de casos by María NIETO, C.A. FRASINELLI, K. FRIGERIO, R. REINÉ, O. BARRANTES

“…Para ello se analizaron 6 casos de estudios en sus características actuales (SPA) y se plantearon y simularon dos propuestas mejoradoras de sus sistemas productivos (SPM1 y SPM2), se estimaron emisiones de CH. por fermentación entérica y N.O de suelos gestionados. …”
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Do changing medical admissions practices in the UK impact on who is admitted? An interrupted time series analysis by Jennifer Cleland, Amanda J Lee, Sandra Nicholson, Paul Alexander Tiffin, Rachel Greatrix, Shona Fielding, Fiona Patterson

“…However, evidence to what extent this shift in practice has actually widened access is conflicting.Aim To examine if changes in medical school selection processes significantly impact on the composition of the student population.Design and setting Observational study of medical students from 18 UK 5-year medical programmes who took the UK Clinical Aptitude Test from 2007 to 2014; detailed analysis on four schools.Primary outcome Proportion of admissions to medical school for four target groups (lower socioeconomic classes, non-selective schooling, non-white and male).Data analysis Interrupted time-series framework with segmented regression was used to identify the impact of changes in selection practices in relation to invitation to interview to medical school. …”
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A Lightweight CNN-Transformer Implemented via Structural Re-Parameterization and Hybrid Attention for Remote Sensing Image Super-Resolution by Jie Wang, Hongwei Li, Yifan Li, Zilong Qin

“…Convolutional neural network (CNN)-based methods excel at extracting intricate local features but fall short in terms of capturing global representations. While transformer methods are capable of learning long-distance dependencies, they often overlook local feature details, which can diminish the discriminability between the background and the foreground. …”
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Alterations of Dopamine-Related Transcripts in A11 Diencephalospinal Pathways after Spinal Cord Injury by Shunyi Zhao, Jaclyn H. DeFinis, Shaoping Hou

“…Meanwhile, A11 neurons in the brain were explicitly isolated by laser capture microdissection, and single-cell qPCR was employed to evaluate mRNA levels in the soma. …”
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