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Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is widely performed to treat several types of intractable chronic pain. To maintain lasting SCS, epidural electrode leads must be replaced sometimes due to problems like lead breakage. However, in lead replacement, guiding the new lead to the original position may be difficult because granulation tissue sheath forms ar...

We compare two cases of primary spinal atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor (AT/RT), which rarely occurs in adults marked by SMARCA4 inactivation, and SMARCB1 inactivation for pediatric cases. AT/RT represents a highly malignant neoplasm comprising poorly differentiated constituents and rhabdoid cells, with SMARCB1 (INI1) or infrequently SMARCA4 (BRG1)...

Treating ruptured aneurysms in deep collateral arteries in moyamoya disease is difficult. Two cases of intracranial hemorrhage due to ruptured aneurysms in the deep collateral vessels after indirect revascularization for moyamoya disease were treated via direct surgery with the assistance of surgical simulation using three-dimensional computer grap...

In recent years, there has been significant research focusing on addressing security concerns in single-modal person re-identification (ReID) systems that are based on RGB images. However, the safety of cross-modality scenarios, which are more commonly encountered in practical applications involving images captured by infrared cameras, has not rece...

Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) have emerged as a promising interpretable method whose final prediction is based on intermediate, human-understandable concepts rather than the raw input. Through time-consuming manual interventions, a user can correct wrongly predicted concept values to enhance the model's downstream performance. We propose Stochas...

Quantifying image quality in the absence of a reference image continues to be a challenge despite the introduction of numerous no-reference image quality assessments (NR-IQA) in recent years. Unlike most existing NRIQA methods, this paper proposes an efficient NR-IQA method based on deep visual interpretations. Specifically, the main components of...

This work demonstrates DISCERN (Detection Image System with Commonsense Efficient Ranking Network), a novel generalizable task-ranking approach to improve human-robot collaboration via "discern"-ing with commonsense knowledge (CSK) derived from huge data repositories, augmented with image models and other everyday premises. It is an explainable, ef...

The emergence of adversarial examples poses a significant challenge to hyperspectral image (HSI) classification, as they can attack deep neural network-based models. Recent adversarial defense research tends to establish global connections of spatial pixels to resist adversarial attacks. However, it cannot yield satisfactory results when only spati...

It is known that Z _p^s -linear codes, which are the Gray map image of Z _p^s -additive codes (linear codes over Z _p^s ), are systematic and a systematic encoding has been found. This makes Z _p^s -linear codes suitable to apply the permutation decoding method, bas...

Several female actresses have begun to diversify both their roles and the ways in which celebrities are experienced, the latter being mainly attributable to social media and direct contact with their fans. Drawing on the work of Tasker, who argues that the female performer is repeatedly framed within an opposition between her body as spectacle and...

This article focuses on the term *Rijāl* as mentioned in the Qur'an, emphasizing its metaphorical usage rather than its literal meaning. In this context, *Rijāl* transcends its conventional definition to portray the image of a true believer in the Qur'anic sense—someone who has wholly entrusted every aspect of their life to Allah. The article elabo...

Imaging is critical to HCC management, including surveillance, diagnosis, staging, and treatment response assessment, which requires it be performed consistently at a high level. The Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System (LI-RADS) was developed to standardize the acquisition, interpretation, and reporting of liver imaging, but until now, has not...

A phytochemical investigation on the flesh fruits of atemoya led to the isolation of seven new kaurane type diterpenoids, (4S*,5S*,8S*,9R*,10S*,13R*,16R*)-16-hydro-18-nor-kauran-4,17-diol (1), (4S*,5S*,8S*,9R*,10S*,13R*,16S*)-18-nor-kauran-4,16,17-triol (2), (4S*,5S*,8S*,9R*,10S*,13R*,16S*)-17-acetoxy-18-nor-kauran-4,16-diol (3), (4S*,5S*,8S*,9R*,1...

This study introduces a novel method for ring-closing chlorosulfenylation of alkenoic thioesters using N-chlorosuccinimide in hexafluoroisopropanol under mild conditions. This reaction efficiently forms five-membered cyclic sulfur compounds with high selectivity, representing a significant advancement in the synthesis of chlorinated S-heterocycles....

The purpose of this study is to determine the correlation between self-esteem and interpersonal relationship with body image. Using quantitative methods with a survey approach. A sample of 88 people from 118 populations with purposive sampling technique. Based on the results of the analysis using the linear regression analysis method, it is known t...

Being capable of accurately predicting morphological parameters of the plant weeks before achieving fruit maturation is of great importance in the production and selection of suitable ornamental pepper plants. The objective of this article is evaluating the feasibility and assessing the performance of CNN-based models using RGB images as input to f...

Purpose: This study aimed to compare the compressed SENSE (C-SENSE) accelerated fat-suppressed 3D-turbo spin echo (TSE) method and the conventional SENSE accelerated fat-suppressed 3D-TSE method to examine the usefulness of C-SENSE technology in reducing imaging time. Methods: Fat-suppressed 3D-TSE using either C-SENSE or SENSE technology was utili...

Jasmine Trinca, a self-taught actress who has risen quickly to the top of auteur cinema, embodies some of the main peculiarities of this profession in the contemporary Italian film industry. From 2016 to the present day, one can observe a strengthening or a rebirth of her career. This chapter follows this trajectory not only through the roles she i...

XX века. Пейзаж анализируется как одно из важнейших средств описания идеи произведения и душевного состояния героев в современном узбекском романтизме. Ключевые слова: психологический портрет, внутренний душевный мир, анализ душевного состояния, пейзаж, внутренний монолог. Abstract: in the article women's image and her spirit of the Uzbek identity...

Hyperspectral object-detection algorithms based on deep learning have been receiving increasing attention due to their ability to operate without relying on prior spectral information about the target and their strong real-time inference performance. However, current methods are unable to efficiently extract both spatial and spectral information fr...

We study entropy numbers and box dimension of (the image of) homogeneous polynomials and holomorphic functions between Banach spaces. First, we see that entropy numbers and box dimensions of subsets of Banach spaces are related. We show that the box dimension of the image of a ball under a homogeneous polynomial is finite if and only if it spans a...

Kawasan Wisata Nusa Penida yang merupakan salah satu daya tarik wisata favorit di Kabupaten Klungkung perlu prioritas dalam mengoptimalkan realisasi pengembangan destinasi wisata demi mempertahankan tingkat kunjungan wisatawan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui dan menganalisis pengaruh destination image dan self-congruity terhadap revisit...

Wavefront coding technique has been used to extend the depth of focus in an optical imaging system. An optical element called a phase mask allows coded images to be obtained since the point spread function remains almost invariant in an axial range. Subsequently, a computational technique is required to decode the acquired images. An optical-comput...

We start from the papers of Karpio[1][2]to envelop the structures of elementary states as cohomological comprehension of twistor theory for singularity[13]. From canonical dot product to twistor transform It is proved in[3][4]as dot product is the cup product with Mayer-Vietoris sequence. Elementary states[18] are expression of quotients of rationa...

Objectives Prostate imaging quality (PI-QUAL) was developed to standardise the evaluation of prostate MRI quality and has recently been updated to version 2. This study aims to assess inter-reader agreement for PI-QUAL v1 and v2 scores and investigates changes in MRI quality score categories. Materials and methods The study retrospectively analyse...

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The categories of the fuzzy logic set have been described as the fuzzy variables and fuzzy functions to be further interpreted in terms of the classical functions of modern analysis, especially, if a classical function carries the non-fuzzifying argument. Furthermore , the extension principle is augmented for the various types of a convexity in the...

WDFY3 (MIM#617485) defects may manifest neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) and opposite effects on brain size based on allelic effect. This case highlights a heterozygous WDFY3 nonsense variant linked to mild‐to‐moderate NDDs, macrocephaly, and unique facial features. Findings emphasize the importance of exome sequencing in NDDs for accurate diagn...

Image Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) adopt a neural network to learn a continuous function for mapping the pixel coordinates to their corresponding values. This task has gained significant attention for representing images in a continuous manner. Despite substantial progress regarding natural images, there is little investigation of INRs fo...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the interface condition between graphene and a Si-faced SiC substrate. We evaluated the interface condition by measuring the interface using time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectroscopy. The detected intensities dependence on depth changed depending on the type of carbon molecular ion, indicating that this...

Slobodan Antonić DISPUTE ABOUT SOLZHENJITSIN Summary: The first part of the paper describes the influence of Solzhenitsyn's prose on readers in Serbia, during the socialist era, as well as the political background of that influence. The second part presents the image of Soviet socialism, which we find in Solzhenitsyn's literature and journalism....

Although the total variational model can significantly suppress noise and make blurred images sharper, it will unavoidably produce blocky artifacts. In this paper, a new hybrid model based on overlapping group sparsity (OGS) was proposed to effectively prevent the above problems, which combines the advantages of the fractional-order total variation...

This article presents CapFlow, an integrated approach to detailed image captioning and hashtag generation. Based on a thorough performance evaluation, the image captioning model utilizes a fine-tuned vision-language model with Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA), while the hashtag generation employs the keyword extraction method. We evaluated the state-of-t...

The article deals with measurements of the parameters of the Jecklin disc. The first part examines reflections, refractions and wrapping of waves around the disc, the next practical part focuses on the measurement of the directivity and width of the stereo image when changing the configuration of the array. There are a lot of articles on the Jeckli...

This research is motivated by the challenges in facial identification for forensic investigations due to poor image quality, especially from low-resolution CCTV recordings. Images with noise, low lighting, and suboptimal angles often hinder accurate facial recognition. This study aims to examine the effectiveness of the Enhanced Super-Resolution Ge...

We consider the space $\mathcal{P}_d$ of smooth complex projective plane curves of degree $d$ . There is the tautological family of plane curves defined over $\mathcal{P}_d$ , which has an associated monodromy representation $\rho _d: \pi _1(\mathcal{P}_d) \to \textrm{Mod}(\Sigma _g)$ into the mapping class group of the fiber. For $d \le 4$ , class...

Introduction: The objective of the study was to assess the knowledge on physical principles of ultrasound and its application for image acquisition and optimisation among emergency medicine trainees in Sri Lanka.Methods: A self-administered questionnaire consisting of 5 multiple choice questions and 10 single best response questions on ultrasound p...

An efficient method has been developed for the preparation of 1,4‐naphthoquinones via a palladium‐catalyzed reaction of 2‐aryl‐1,3‐indandiones with olefins. This reaction involves the tertiary C−H alkylation of 2‐aryl‐1,3‐indandiones with olefins to produce a tertiary alcohol, followed by C−C bond cleavage. image

Photo‐enzyme coupling system are receiving widespread attention due to the unique opportunity by integrating photochemistry with nature's enzymatic machinery. Here we highlight a recent work about MOF encapsulated tandem enzymes for photoenzymatic CO2 conversion, and provide an outlook for the further development of photo‐enzyme systems for green b...

This paper introduces a new method for the region segmentation of images. The approach is based on the raster-scan paradigm and builds the segments incrementally. The pixels are processed in the raster-scan order, while the construction of the segments is based on a distance metric in regard to the already segmented pixels in the neighbourhood. The...

The article analyses Paweł Kludkiewicz’s ‘drawn book’ Hoża. My street in the perspective of logovisuality studies. The problem of the relationship between drawing (image) and writing (word) in the context of autobiography is explored, and the relationship of the book’s bi-media form with the transitional crises (of the autobiographical self, the ec...

In the process of gradually upgrading aquaculture to the information and intelligence industries, it is usually necessary to collect images of underwater fish. In practical work, the quality of underwater images is often affected by water clarity and light refraction, resulting in most fish images not fully displaying the entire fish body. Image in...

In contemporary exegesis, the image prevails that the interpreters of the Reformation period read the Pauline Epistles as timeless theological treatises and not as situational and contextual letters. Melanchthon’s characterization of the Epistle to the Romans as a «doctrinae christianae compendium» is often cited as evidence for this. In contrast,...

The article covers elements of performance used by Preiļi conceptualism group in their activities besides or within conceptual writing examples, appearances that are considered a part of the public image they have constructed and upkept, and practices of self-mythology. To better understand context that surrounds the group and their place in Latvia...

In this paper, we propose a novel curvature-guided saturation-value total variation model for color image restoration. Specifically, we incorporate the curvature prior into the traditional variational model to guide the evolution in the direction that maintains the curvature information. Theoretically, we investigate the properties of the proposed...

This paper studies a method to improve the accuracy of a deep learning model for detecting brain abnormalities based on computed tomography images. The process begins with image preprocessing using the Histogram Equation algorithm and Gabor filter. Then, features are extracted from the fully connected layer of the AlexNet model. To optimize feature...

Vijay Nair, one of India's most prominent organic chemists, passed away on April 12, 2024 at the age of 82. After a distinguished research career in the U.S. pharmaceutical industry, he returned to India to lead what was to become the National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST). During this second phase of his career, he...

Durante a pandemia da covid-19, muitos pesquisadores e cientistas se apropriaram das tecnologias disponibilizadas pela web para combater a desinformação, conquistando inclusive uma expressiva parcela do público jovem. Sob esse viés, este artigo analisa o vídeo mais curtido e comentado do perfil do tiktoker Antonio Miranda, publicado ainda durante a...

Assessing image quality is crucial in image processing tasks such as compression, super-resolution, and denoising. While subjective assessments involving human evaluators provide the most accurate quality scores, they are impractical for large-scale or continuous evaluations due to their high cost and time requirements. Pairwise comparison subjecti...

Artificial Neural Networks excel at identifying individual components in an image. However, out-of-the-box, they do not manage to correctly integrate and interpret these components as a whole. One way to alleviate this weakness is to expand the network with explicit knowledge and a separate reasoning component. In this paper, we evaluate an approac...

Loss‐of‐function ABCC8 variants are the commonest cause of congenital hyperinsulinism. On a systematic search of our databases, the p.(Gly111Arg) ABCC8 variant was identified in 26 individuals, of which 23 were from the Indian Agarwal community. Haplotype analysis subsequently confirmed that p.(Gly111Arg) is a founder variant in the Agarwal populat...

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models have shown promising potential for parameter-efficient scaling across various domains. However, the implementation in computer vision remains limited, and often requires large-scale datasets comprising billions of samples. In this study, we investigate the integration of MoE within computer vision models and explore...

Considering that territorial identity plays an important role, this study explores industrial identity contributions to the image projection of a destination using local testimonies and narratives as a differentiating practice. The methodology consists of a case study using exploratory research through a direct observation approach. The findings in...

In This study, the problem examined is how dhe use of visual media can enhance vocabulary mastery in Arabic language. The objective of this research is to describe dhe use of visual media in impriving vocabulary mastery in Arabic language for students. The benefits of this research for learners are anhanching their Arabic language proficiency. Mean...

Plants, People, Planet provides a forum for innovative research at the intersection of plants, society and the planet. We are particularly keen to publish studies that generate societal impact and address global issues with plant‐focused solutions. Since 2022, we have been celebrating societal impact at Plants, People, Planet by showcasing articles...

Rafflesia flower appearance of Choroidal neovascular membrane in Oculocutaneous albinism.

An efficient Pd‐catalyzed C(sp³)−H anomeric activation approach has been developed for the synthesis of cyclophane‐braced glycopeptides. This technique is versatile and can be applied to glycopeptides of various cyclic sizes. In addition, biological evaluations of some glycophanes revealed that this series exhibits promising antiproliferative activ...

Short-pulsed solid-state lasers (SSLs) are the most commonly employed light sources in optoacoustic imaging applications. However, their bulky size hinders compact and portable system implementations. Here we developed a compact laser diode (LD)-based optoacoustic mesoscopy (CoLD-OAM) scanner that employs a fiber-coupled laser diode source with 46...

Navigating choice of JAK inhibitor (JAKi) therapy for patients with myelofibrosis who are JAKi‐naïve and for those who have previously been treated with a JAKi. image

Personalized image generation has been significantly advanced, enabling the creation of highly realistic and customized images. However, existing methods often struggle with generating images of multiple people due to occlusions and fail to accurately personalize full-body shapes. In this paper, we propose PersonaCraft, a novel approach that combin...

The concentricity error of automotive brake piston components critically affects the stability and reliability of the brake system. Traditional contact-based concentricity measurement methods are inefficient. In order to address the issue of low detection efficiency, this paper proposes a non-contact concentricity measurement method based on the co...

Existing Score Distillation Sampling (SDS)-based methods have driven significant progress in text-to-3D generation. However, 3D models produced by SDS-based methods tend to exhibit over-smoothing and low-quality outputs. These issues arise from the mode-seeking behavior of current methods, where the scores used to update the model oscillate between...