Genetic testing for monogenic forms of motor neuron disease/amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in unaffected family members by Howard, J, Chaouch, A, Douglas, AGL, MacLeod, R, Roggenbuck, J, McNeill, A

“…Additionally, there is limited research on the psychosocial impact of predictive genetic testing for MND, with studies suggesting potential difficulty in adjusting to the news, in part due to a lack of support and follow-up. …”

Epidemiology and transmission of carbapenemase-producing enterobacteriaceae in a health care network of an acute-care hospital and its affiliated intermediate- and long-term-care f... by Aung, Aung-Hein, Kanagasabai, Kala, Koh, Jocelyn, Hon, Pei-Yun, Ang, Brenda, Lye, David C., Chen, Swaine L., Chow, Angela

“…CPE prevalence was 1.3% in the ACH and 0.7% in ILTCFs (P = 0.029). After adjusting for sociodemographics, screening year, and facility type, the odds of CPE colonization increased significantly with a hospital stay of ≥3 weeks (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 2.67; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.17 to 6.05), penicillin use (aOR, 3.00; 95% CI, 1.05 to 8.56), proton pump inhibitor use (aOR, 3.20; 95% CI, 1.05 to 9.80), dementia (aOR, 3.42; 95% CI, 1.38 to 8.49), connective tissue disease (aOR, 5.10; 95% CI, 1.19 to 21.81), and prior carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) carriage (aOR, 109.02; 95% CI, 28.47 to 417.44) in the ACH. …”
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The potential of microalgae in chitosan and cellulose as sustainable materials for edible bioplastic applications: A review by Nur Nadiah, Che Aziz, Nur Hidayah, Mat Yasin, Fatmawati, Adam, Tarigan, Dafni Mawar

“…Hence, utilizing microalgae for bioplastic production offers a significant opportunity to enhance moisture barrier capacity, alter the structural properties, and adjust the flow behaviour. Moreover, these materials can also serve as the key nanocomposites components in the food packaging industry. …”
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Architecture-independent reactivity tuning of Ni/Al multilayers by solid solution alloying by Danzi, S, Schnabel, V, Zhao, X, Käch, J, Spolenak, R

“…Here, we propose a method for the adjustment of reaction kinetics in Ni/Al multilayers via solid solution alloying with elements having different reactivities toward aluminum. …”
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Nuptiality in Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia by Dommaraju, Premchand, Agadjanian, Victor

“…Explanations of these trends are proposed based on the literature on demographic adjustments to social crises and the specifics of Central Asia's historico-cultural and socio-economic contexts.…”
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Blind parameter estimation of turbo convolutional codes : noisy and non-synchronized scenario by Swaminathan, Ramabadran, Madhukumar, A. S.

“…Any imperfection in synchronization of received data for the proposed code parameter estimation algorithm is compensated through a bit position adjustment parameter. The performance of the proposed algorithms in terms of parameter estimation accuracy is investigated for different modulation order, code rate, and constraint length values. …”
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Semantic map for indoor positioning system (floorplan enhancement with semantic SLAM) by Lim, Han Quan

“…Systems such as ORB-SLAM manages this by performing Bundle Adjustment on loop closures, as such relatively accurate point-cloud maps may be generated from simple visual input only. …”
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Experimental demonstration of a band-notched line-defect waveguide in a surface-wave photonic crystal by Xu, Hongyi, Zhang, Youming, Zhang, Baile, Gao, Zhen, Gao, Fei

“…We also demonstrate that both the filtering levels and filtering frequencies of the band-notched line-defect waveguide can be adjusted through changing the number and the height of metallic pillars of the side-coupled defect cavities. …”
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Visualizing vein patterns from color skin images based on image mapping for forensics analysis by Tang, Chaoying, Zhang, Hengyi, Craft, Noah, Kong, A. W.

“…In addition, an NN weight adjustment scheme is proposed to improve the robustness of the algorithm. …”
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Solving combinatorial optimization problems using augmented lagrange chaotic simulated annealing by Wang, Lipo., Tian, Fuyu, Soong, Boon Hee, Wan, Chunru

“…It is often difficult to adjust the relative magnitude of the penalty term, so as to achieve a high quality solution which is at the same time valid. …”
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Colon Cancer Disparities in Stage at Presentation and Time to Surgery for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders: A Study with Disaggregated Ethnic Groups by Jain, Bhav, Bajaj, Simar S., Patel, Tej A., Vapiwala, Neha, Lam, Miranda B., Mahal, Brandon A., Muralidhar, Vinayak, Amen, Troy B., Nguyen, Paul L., Sanford, Nina N., Dee, Edward C.

“…Multivariable ordinal logistic regression defined adjusted odds ratios (AORs), with 95% confidence intervals (CI), of (1) patients presenting with advanced stage colon cancer and (2) patients with stage 0–III colon cancer receiving surgery at ≥ 60 days versus 30–59 days versus < 30 days postdiagnosis, adjusting for sociodemographic/clinical factors. …”
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Uncertainty-Inclusive Contrastive Learning for Leveraging Synthetic Images by Cai, Fiona X.

“…Extending the framework of supervised contrastive learning, we add a learned hyperparameter that weights the synthetic input images per class, adjusting the influence of synthetic images during the training process. …”
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Prospects of a multipolar international monetary order by Alam Md Whaheed

“…As the US has been unable to make necessary fiscal adjustments, there has been growing concerns on the future prospects of US dollar as a dominant international currency. …”
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Noise cancellation algorithm for respiratory sound classification by Soh, Marianne Hui Ying

“…An adaptive filter has self-adjusting characteristics and adapts to changes in its input signals automatically. …”
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Strategies to deal with volatility in shipping by Chua, Ming Han

“…Lastly, it is best recommended that having a balance mix of these strategies and adjusting them accordingly is the most optimal.…”
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Automated image generation by Goh, Shan Ying

“…However, CycleGAN’s automatic training approach eliminates the need for such paired samples, thus simplifying the training process while enhancing the potential of image translation, allowing for imaginative and lifelike adjustments. For instance, CycleGAN can effortlessly transform styles like cats into dogs and vice versa, extending to practical domains like art, fashion, and medical imaging. …”
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Design of an exoskeleton for lifting by Lim, Ernest Zhen Xuan

“…Improvements could be made selecting the materials used to manufacture the actual product. A height adjusting mechanism could be added in future works.…”
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Additive manufacturing: DED process parameters optimization via experiments (E) by Tong, Gao Rui

“…The study explores the impact of five DED process parameters: Laser Power, Scanning Speed, Powder Mass Flow Rate, XY-Incremental Ratio, and Z-Incremental Ratio. Adjustments to these parameters are scrutinized for their correlation with key microstructural aspects, namely Grain Area, Grain Ellipse Aspect Ratio, and Grain Angle, as well as their collective influence on the Ultimate Tensile Strength of multi-layer multitrack depositions. …”
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OOD detection for 1D LiDAR scans by Mishra, Pradyumn

“…This paper focuses on enhancing OOD detection in the context of LiDAR-based autonomous vehicle navigation, using VAEs and β-VAEs, the latter designed to encourage disentanglement in the latent space by adjusting a regularization parameter, β. Additionally, this study evaluates the models on varied track environments using the F1tenth framework, to measure of these OOD detection architectures across varied environments.…”
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Designing negotiation agents for automated negotiating agents competition (ANAC) by Chen, Kevin Xian Fa

“…XianFaAgent takes an exploitative stance at the start of a negotiation session and estimates the opponent’s concessive behavior to make adjustments on how much it should concede. XianFaAgent also bases its own concessive function based on the degree of similarity of preferences amongst the competing agents, ensuring that it is not short-change of too much utility in cases where optimal social welfare can be achieved. …”
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