From physical activity patterns to cognitive status: development and validation of novel digital biomarkers for cognitive assessment in older adults by Ling-Jie Fan, Feng-Yi Wang, Jun-Han Zhao, Jun-Jie Zhang, Yang-An Li, Jia Tang, Tao Lin, Quan Wei

“…These features, particularly those capturing activity variability and rhythmicity, provide complementary information beyond traditional cumulative PA measures. …”
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Tomato yellow leaf curl virus detection based on cross-domain shared attention and enhanced BiFPN by Henghui Mo, Linjing Wei

“…A Cross-Domain Shared Attention mechanism (CDSA) deconstructs the backbone network’s input feature map into two parts, each assigned different attention weights for spatial and channel domains, facilitating shared computation and redistribution, and reconstructing key information to capture subtle semantic features of leaf yellowing and curling. …”
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Sistematización de la experiencia en la realización de la Jornada Académica en Orientación Vocacional de la Universidad Nacional by Evelyn Yirlana Vargas-Hernández, Kattia Salas-Pérez

“…Como resultado, se logró potenciar las habilidades y conocimientos de las personas participantes, al brindarles herramientas prácticas para enfrentar los retos actuales en sus respectivos campos laborales. Las conclusiones obtenidas subrayan el impacto positivo de este tipo de eventos en el desarrollo y fortalecimiento de la disciplina orientadora; ya que fomenta la actualización integral y contemporánea acerca de la orientación vocacional en Costa Rica, aborda teorías y enfoques claves, asume una perspectiva crítica de su aplicación en el contexto nacional y profundiza en el desarrollo de la Orientación para el cumplimento de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible de la Agenda 2030 de la UNESCO.…”
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Access to Diagnostics and Treatment for People With Metastatic EGFR-Positive NSCLC: Lessons From Project PRIORITY by Jill Feldman, MA, Ivy Elkins, MBA, Zofia Piotrowska, MD, Bellinda L. King-Kallimanis, PhD, Tendai Chihuri, MD, Carly Johnson, BS, Alecia Clary, PhD, Teri Kennedy, MA, Upal Basu Roy, PhD, MPH

“…Methods: An online survey was distributed among the EGFR Resisters community between April 2019 and January 2020. The survey captured participants’ demographics and lung cancer risk factors, diagnostic and treatment pathways, and prevalence of side effects. …”
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Analysis of a Family with Brugada Syndrome and Sudden Cardiac Death Caused by a Novel Mutation of SCN5A by Yao-Bin Zhu, Jian-Hui Zhang, Yuan-Yuan Ji, Ya-Nan Hu, Han-Lu Wang, Dan-Dan Ruan, Xiao-Rong Meng, Xin-Fu Lin, Jie-Wei Luo, Wei Chen

“…Next-generation sequencing was carried out in the proband, and candidate genes and mutations were screened using the full exon capture technique. The family members who participated in the survey were tested for possible mutations using Sanger sequencing. …”
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Elevated Rates of Tidal Disruption Events in Active Galactic Nuclei by Karamveer Kaur, Nicholas C. Stone

“…Here, we study the loss wedge problem for an evolving AGN disk, which can capture large number of stars into the growing loss wedge over much shorter times. …”
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Photovoltaic Farm Production Forecasting: Modified Metaheuristic Optimized Long Short-Term Memory-Based Networks Approach by Aleksandar Stojkovic, Bosko Nikolic, Miodrag Zivkovic, Nebojsa Bacanin

“…Machine learning models have proven to be a prospective resolution due to their ability to process large datasets and capture intricate patterns within the data. This study investigates the application of metaheuristics optimization techniques to enhance light-weighted long short-term memory (LSTM) based models with and without attention for predicting power generation from photovoltaic plants. …”
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Research on Lean Planning and Optimization for Precast Component Production Based on Discrete Event Simulation by Zhenmin Yuan, Yaning Qiao, Yaru Guo, Yaowu Wang, Chen Chen, Wenshun Wang

“…The important findings are as follows: (1) this method can minimize the difference between the processing time of each workstation to avoid bottleneck stations as much as possible; (2) this method can capture the uncertainty during precast component production, and the most likely production time calculated by the method is 12.05 hours instead of the 11.50 hours originally estimated by the component factory; (3) this method can identify some unnecessary waste in the production process of precast components, including less than 50% utilization of workstations and unnecessary equipment purchases; (4) this method also provides some suggestions regarding production optimization. …”
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Clasificación de enfermedades en hojas de papa utilizando Transformadores de Visión by Fernando David Valle-Medina, Luis Javier Castillo-Herdia, Mirella Azucena Correa-Peralta, Jomar Elizabeth Guzmán-Seraquive

“…La visión por computadora aporta soluciones en este campo, no obstante, las investigaciones actuales se centran en el uso de redes neuronales convolucionales (Convolutional Neural Networks, CNNs), las cuales tienen una limitada capacidad para ubicar de forma precisa las características de mayor relevancia en una imagen. …”
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Eating and Grooming Abilities Predict Outcomes in Patients with Early Middle Cerebral Infarction: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Yumi Suzuki, Sachiko Tsubakino, Hiromi Fujii

“…We hypothesized that activities of daily living (ADL) from the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) that were actually performed regularly are useful to predict prognosis. …”
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Methane emissions of extensive grazing breeding herds in relation to the weaning and yearling stages in the Eastern Plains of Colombia by C. A. Ramírez-Restrepo, R. R. Vera-Infanzón

“…Se concluyó que nuevos cuestionamientos y datos de pastoreo de mediano y largo plazo son apropiados para entender contextos innovadores y adaptaciones a las condiciones climáticas actuales. Sin embargo, el manejo convencional en las fincas será menos vulnerable al medio ambiente si prácticas de destete temprano son introducidas considerando el uso estratégico y temporal de pastos mejorados. …”
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PORTERAGE OPERATION IN RURAL MARKETS - A PIVOTAL LINK AND TRANSFORMATION IN AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM: CASE OF SOUTH-WESTERN NIGERIA by D.O TORIMIRO, D.L. ALABI, A.S. OLAWORE

“…Also, on-site photographs were captured to reinforced transformational innovation in rural porterage. …”
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Role of 25 MHz Ultrasound Biomicroscopy in the Detection of Subluxated Lenses by Mingyu Shi, Liwei Ma, Jinsong Zhang, Qichang Yan

“…Different cross-sectional images of the lens position were captured in axial and longitudinal scanning modes using 25 and 50 MHz UBM. …”
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Development of a sequential laser microdissection tissue cuts workflow for the spatial and quantitative analysis of drugs in fresh frozen tissue sections. by Elias Maris, Farid Jahouh, Kathleen Allaerts, Rob Vreeken

“…To combine compound quantification with spatial information on fresh frozen unstained tissue sections, laser (capture) microdissection has been used to isolate tissue sections for compound extraction and LC-MS/MS quantification. …”
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Benchmarking passive-microwave-satellite-derived freeze–thaw datasets by A. Bartsch, X. Muri, M. Hetzenecker, K. Rautiainen, H. Bergstedt, J. Wuite, T. Nagler, D. Nicolsky

“…</p> <p>Fusion can improve the representation of thaw and freeze-up, but a multi-purpose applicability cannot be obtained since the transition periods are not fully captured by any of the operational coarse-resolution products.…”
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Age effects on measurements of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activation in laying hens by Meagan E. Abraham, Priscila Serpa, Gregory S. Fraley, Darrin M. Karcher

“…Corticosterone may have some utility in capturing a physiological stress response in pullets and adult hens but requires further investigation.…”
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Effectiveness of Retail Promotions in the Green Industry by Age Group: A Case Study by Hayk Khachatryan, Alicia Rihn

“…Consequently, identifying how different age groups respond to in-store marketing efforts could aid in capturing additional market share and ultimately improve green industry performance and profitability. …”
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Modeling Ebola Virus Disease transmissions with reservoir in a complex virus life ecology by Tsanou Berge, Samuel Bowong, Jean Lubuma, Martin Luther Mann Manyombe

“…We propose a new deterministic mathematical model for the transmission dynamics of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in a complex Ebola virus life ecology. Our model captures as much as possible the features and patterns of the disease evolution as a three cycle transmission process in the two ways below. …”
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Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Biomechanical Factors During 90° Change of Direction are Associated to Non-Contact ACL injury in Female Soccer Players by Stefano Di Paolo, Alberto Grassi, Filippo Tosarelli, Matteo Crepaldi, Laura Bragonzoni, Stefano Zaffagnini, Francesco Della Villa

“… # Hypothesis/Purpose The purpose of the present pilot study was to prospectively investigate the biomechanical predictors of ACL injury during a COD task in female football players using both gold standard 3D motion capture and a qualitative scoring system based on 2D video-analysis…”
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A reproducible representation of healthy tibiofemoral kinematics during stair descent using REFRAME – part I: REFRAME foundations and validation by Ariana Ortigas-Vásquez, William R. Taylor, Barbara Postolka, Pascal Schütz, Allan Maas, Matthias Woiczinski, Thomas M. Grupp, Adrian Sauer

“…While not claiming to improve the accuracy of joint kinematics or reference frame axes, REFRAME does enable a representation of knee kinematic signals that accounts for differences in local frames (regardless of how these differences were introduced, e.g. anatomical heterogeneity, use of different data capture modalities or joint axis approaches, intra- and inter-rater reliability, etc.), as evidenced by peak root-mean-square errors of 0.24° ± 0.17° and 0.03 mm ± 0.01 mm after its implementation. …”
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