Mine yOur owN Anatomy: revisiting medical image segmentation with extremely limited labels by You, C, Dai, W, Liu, F, Min, Y, Dvornek, NC, Li, X, Clifton, DA, Staib, L, Duncan, JS

“…However, they face three common pitfalls: (1) tailness: medical image data usually follows an implicit long-tail class distribution. Blindly leveraging all pixels in training hence can lead to the data imbalance issues, and cause deteriorated performance; (2) consistency: it remains unclear whether a segmentation model has learned meaningful and yet consistent anatomical features due to the intra-class variations between different anatomical features; and (3) diversity: the intra-slice correlations within the entire dataset have received significantly less attention. …”

Experiences, perceptions and ethical considerations of the malaria infection study in Thailand by Naemiratch, B, Kulpijit, N, Ruangkajorn, S, Day, NPJ, Prachumsri, J, Cheah, PY

“…Conclusions: Our study revealed widespread concerns about long-term health effects and safety. Ethical considerations, including obtaining valid informed consent and ensuring participant inclusivitiy, were deem essential. …”

An analysis of heavy silicone oil treatment for inferior proliferative vitreoretinopathy by Hammer, M, Ie, A, Eibenberger, K, Auffarth, GU, Xue, K

“…In 20% of cases, an increased medication was continued long-term after Densiron removal. Significant cataract progression occurred in all phakic patients. …”

Industrial policy refraction: how corporate strategy shapes development outcomes in Brazil by Zylberberg, E

“…</p> <p>Multinational firms based in industrialized countries have long been seen as sources of technology (Evans, 1979). …”

Development of Attention-based Prediction Models for All-cause Mortality, Home Care Need, and Nursing Home Admission in Ageing Adults in Spain Using Longitudinal Electronic Health... by Carrasco-Ribelles, LA, Cabrera-Bean, M, Khalid, S, Roso-Llorach, A, Violán, C

“…However, nursing home admission and home care need in the long term were harder to predict, suggesting their dependence on more abrupt changes. …”

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

“…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’. …”

Nonlinear evolution and acceleration of unstable fuel-lean hydrogen/air flame at normal and cryogenic temperatures by Yang, L, Zhang, T, Wang, Y, Fang, X, Leach, F, Chen, Z

“…In contrast, for stoichiometric or fuel-rich flames without DTI, flames propagate in a steady single-cusp regime. Analyses show that long-term dynamics for fuel-lean flames including cell splitting, merging and lateral movement are caused by flow-flame-chemistry interaction. …”

Unfinished business: legalisation and implementation in business and human rights by Palmer, C

“…The empirical chapters demonstrate that efforts in implementation are often undertaken for the purpose of strengthening one or more other legalisation characteristics in the long run. This suggests that agents will be willing to accept lower levels of obligation, precision and/or delegation if they believe a focus on implementation will help strengthen these characteristics over time.…”

Interventions for prevention and treatment of trastuzumab-induced cardiotoxicity: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses by Wang, Y, Xu, J, Xie, Y, Zhou, D, Guo, M, Qin, Y, Yi, K, Tian, J, You, T

“…Further research should focus on optimizing personalized approaches and evaluating long-term outcomes.…”

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.…”

Elucidating the mechanism of mRNA transport using novel imaging technologies by Stoychev, D

“…One of defining features of the cells of the nervous system is their strong polarity. They have long projections that extend to distances that could be thousands of times the length of the cell body. …”

Building fabric improvement and heat pump deployment: a set of policy conundrums by Killip, G, Topouzi, M, Fawcett, T

“…<p>Minimum building energy efficiency standards and retrofit targets for fabric improvement have long been a cornerstone of effective policy for energy demand. …”

The effect of meteorology and air quality to the COVID-19 cases in Malaysia: a multivariate deep learning approach by Peggy, Yeo, Azuraliza Abu Bakar, Zalinda Othman, Mazrura Sahani, Suhaila Zainudin, Zailiza Suli

“…Our model, which employs a neural network architecture incorporating both Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), was trained using multivariate time-series data. …”
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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

“…Future studies are recommended to explore the long-term impacts of CDA on student achievement and educational equity, scalability across educational levels, and development of user-friendly tools to enhance accessibility for educators.…”
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Leveraging transfer learning for spatio-temporal human activity recognition from video sequences by Muneer Butt, Umair, Aman Ullah, Hadiqa, Letchmunan, Sukumar, Tariq, Iqra, Hafinaz Hassan, Fadratul, Wei Koh, Tieng

“…For temporal sequence, this study uses dense optical flow following the two-stream ConvNet and Bidirectional Long Short TermMemory (BiLSTM) to capture longtermdependencies. …”
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The (un)straight truth about trees by Ab Shukor, Nor Aini

“…Forest and forest products have long contributed to the global economic base, provided environmental services and housing for biodiversity, including carbon sequestration, storage and supply for both flora and fauna resources. …”
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Predicting and modeling the effects of turbines noise on operator’s mental task performance in AL-DORA power plant by Mosa, Ali I., Al-Sadawi, Laith A., Attia, Osam H., Adam, Nor Mariah

“…Moreover, low noise levels can still affect the performance of workers who are exposed to noise for long durations. With this clear relationship between noise levels, exposure time, and mental work efficiency, organizations can implement certain strategies to optimize their acoustic environments.…”
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Edible bird’s nest mitigates histological alterations in the cortexes of rats’ brains subjected to lead toxicity by Albishtue, Abdulla A., Yimer, Nurhusien, Zakaria, MD Zuki A., Haron, Abd Wahid

“…Lead (Pb) is a heavy metal which possesses a long half-life and a distinct negative effect on the bodies of humans and animals. …”
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Machine learning baseline energy model (MLBEM) to evaluate prediction performances in building energy consumption by Mustapa, Rijalul Fahmi, Hairuddin, Muhammad Asraf, Mohd Nordin, Atiqah Hamizah, Dahlan, Nofri Yenita, Mohd Yassin, Ihsan, Khirul Ashar, Nur Dalila

“…Three models with different categories involving Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), Support Vector Regression (SVR), and AutoRegressive Integrated Moving Average with Exogenous inputs (ARIMAX) were compared, concluding that SVR was the best and can be used as a universal model in the Machine Learning Baseline Energy Model (MLBEM) studies. …”
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Heavy metals distribution in mangrove leaves in various sudanese coastal zones at the red sea by Mohammad Khalil, Rabha Khalil, Solangi, Kashif Ali, Alhassan, Abdullahi Bala, Khan, Waseem Razzaq, Aljahdali, Mohammed Othman

“…These results could be useful as a database for prospective ecological research, preservation efforts, and long-term sustainable management of the Sudanese mangrove ecosystems throughout the Red Sea coastal.…”
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