An integrated index for the identification of diabetic retinopathy stages using texture parameters by Acharya, U. Rajendra, Ng, Eddie Yin-Kwee, Tan, Jen Hong, Sree, Subbhuraam Vinitha, Ng, Kwan-Hoong

“…We used 238 retinal fundus images in our analysis. Five different texture features such as homogeneity, correlation, short run emphasis, long run emphasis, and run percentage were extracted from the digital fundus images. …”
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Impact of structural eurocodes on steel and composite structures by Jin, Y. F., Cai, Y. Q., Chiew, Sing Ping, Lee, Chi King

“…The introduction of Structural Eurocodes to replace the existing British Standard design codes will benefit the construction industry in the long run. However, in the short term, to help our engineers migrate over to the new Eurocodes, it is useful to conduct a comparative study on both Eurocodes and British Standards to identify some of the key changes and impact on the performance of the steel and composite structures. …”
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Development of metric system to measure an innovation district by Poh, Jin An

“…Therefore, a metric system is proposed in this paper to measure the level of success of an innovation district in a quantitative manner by obtaining an overall performance score. There are five main key performance indicators selected to be used in the metric system. …”
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Experimental and numerical investigation on precast CECFST column-to-column connections subjected to axial and eccentric compression by Zhu, Gaoming, Tan, Kang Hai

“…In this paper, an experimental programme including five connection tests was conducted to investigate compression performance of the developed precast connection. …”
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Synergizing strategies: integrating fundamental, technical and news analysis for stock evaluation in energy & commodity market by Fang, Qian

“…Finally, use news analysis to aid decision making. Study five key news categories to understand their short - and long-term impact on stock prices. …”
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A study on business development strategies and tactics in the shipping industry to improve customer satisfaction (port sector) by Lau, Benedict Yew Fei

“…As Internet of Things (IoT) and Big data analytics are one of the top five evolving trends in the global maritime industry, it creates both new opportunities and additional uncertainties into the future of the industry. …”
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Sign language detection and translation using Smart Glove by Maharjan, Sunila, Shrestha, Subeksha, Fernando, Sandra

“…To handle the sensor input, a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) with Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) is developed, which allows the recognition and categorization of sign language gestures. …”
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Differences between neonatal units with high and low rates of breast milk feeding for very preterm babies at discharge: a qualitative study of staff experiences by McLeish, J, Aloysius, A, Gale, C, Quigley, M, Kurinczuk, JJ, Alderdice, F

“…Interviews were analysed using comparative thematic analysis. Results: Five themes were developed: ‘The role of the infant feeding specialist’, ‘Achieving a whole team approach to breast milk feeding’, ‘Supporting initiation of breastfeeding’ ‘Supporting long-term expressing’, ‘Supporting the transition to breastfeeding’. …”

Temporal evolution of mechanical properties in PDMS: A comparative study of elastic modulus and relaxation time for storage in air and aqueous environment by Zhang, Y, Adam, C, Rehnstrom, H, Contera, S

“…These variations in mechanical properties could significantly influence the long-term functionality of PDMS in various biomedical applications.…”

Cognitive diagnostic assessment in educational testing: a score strategy-based evaluation by Muhamad Firdaus Mohd Noh, Mohd Effendi @ Ewan Mohd Matore, Nur Ainil Sulaiman, Mohd Tarmizi Azeman, Hamzah Ishak, Nursohana Othman, Nurbaya Mohd Rosli, Siti Hannah Sabtu

“…The SCORE model of CDA is evaluated across five key elements: Strengths (S), Challenges (C), Options (O), Responses (R), and Effectiveness (E) by analyzing past literature sourced from reputable databases such as Google Scholar, SCOPUS, and Web of Science. …”
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Septic patients with cancer : do prehospital antibiotics improve survival? A sub-analysis of the PHANTASi trial by Panday, Rishi Nannan, Wang, S., Schermer, E. H., Cooksley, T., Alam, N., Nanayakkara, P. W. B.

“…Results: 357(13.4%) of the 2658 included patients had cancer in the past five years, of which, 209 (58.5%) were included in the intervention and 148 (41.5%) usual care groups; 28-day mortality was significantly higher in patients who were diagnosed with cancer in the past five years than those without cancer in the past five years: 15.2% vs. 7.1%, respectively (p < 0.001). …”
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Comprehensive analysis of feature extraction methods for emotion recognition from multichannel EEG recordings by Yuvaraj, Rajamanickam, Thagavel, Prasanth, Thomas, John, Fogarty, Jack, Ali, Farhan

“…The FD-CART feature-classification method attained the best mean classification accuracy for valence (85.06%) and arousal (84.55%) across the five datasets. The stability of these findings across the five different datasets also indicate that FD features derived from EEG data are reliable for emotion recognition. …”
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Neotropical understory birds and mammals show divergent behaviour responses to human pressure by Negret, Pablo Jose, Luskin, Mathew Scott, Gomez-Valencia, Bibiana, Diaz-Pulido, Angelica, Romero, Luis Hernando, Restrepo, Adriana, Zaehringer, Julie G., Jones, Kendall R., Ochoa-Quintero, Jose Manuel, Mendes, Calebe Pereira

“…We found that diel activity significantly changed with higher human pressure for 45% of the birds (five species) and 36% of the mammals (five species) assessed, with four of five birds becoming more diurnal and all five mammals becoming more nocturnal. …”
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Co-designing the implementation of a rural health systems-strengthening rheumatic heart disease program with remote First Nations Australian communities using Theory of Change by Jones, B, Mitchell, A, Haynes, E, Howard, NJ, Wade, V, Pears, C, Rossingh, B, Gatti, J, Ramadani, S, Corpus, E, Yan, J, Marangou, J, Kaethner, A, Bailey, M, Francis, JR, English, M, Nagraj, S

“…Methods: A qualitative study using a Theory of Change approach and ‘yarning’ methods, was conducted with five remote First Nations Australian communities. …”

Understanding Environmental Knowledge Sharing Behaviour Using a Modified Theory of Planned Behaviour (S/O 13603) by Muhammad Jamil, Che Zuriana, Mohamed, Rapiah, Abd Mutalib, Hafizah

“…The objective of the study is to identify factors that influence the intention to share environmental knowledge among accounting educators and students at the universities level in Malaysia in order to improve their involvement on sustainable development process, thus, can lead to knowledge and responsibility sharing. Five (5) universities were chosen as sample, representing the five (5) regions; UUM, UITM, UTM, UMT and UMS. …”
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Analysis of the knowledge export industry : exploration of the management education market in China. by Fu, Xiao Fang., Tan, James., Parthasarathi Sathya Veerappan.

“…This study is organized into five sections. The first section examines the evolution of Internationalization of Management Education and the factors impending the evolution and the resultant variant process of Internationalization of Management Education. …”
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Investigating the genetics and immunopathogenesis of ankylosing spondylitis by Liu, F

“…<p>Ankylosing spondylitis is an immune-mediated inflammatory arthritis mainly affecting the spine, although the peripheral joints, skin, intestine, and eyes could also be affected. …”

Criminality in patients with autoimmune encephalitis: a case series by Michael, S, Varley, J, Williams, R, Bajorek, T, Easton, A, Irani, SR

“…All five were adult males, with LGI1 autoantibodies (n = 3), CASPR2 autoantibodies, or seronegative AE. …”

Synthesizing photorealistic images with deep generative learning by Zheng, Chuanxia

“…To mitigate this issue, in Chapter 5 I propose treating image completion as a directionless sequence-to-sequence prediction task, and deploy a transformer to directly capture long-range dependencies in the encoder in a first phase. …”
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Crushing of patterned shells by Lim, Tariene Zi Yi.

“…The hexagonal tube on the other hand, folds into five sections. Hence there is five of each pattern cut on each side of the hexagon. …”
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