Image segmentation with minimal human supervision by Shin, G

“…</p> <br> <p>In the first part, we demonstrate that considering a model's uncertainty in predictions can significantly reduce the number of annotations required to train a segmenter that performs nearly as well as a fully-supervised one. This finding underscores the critical role of pixels around semantic boundaries in helping the model to learn representations suitable for segmentation.…”

An immunoinformatic approach for identifying and designing conserved multi-epitope vaccines for coronaviruses by Ong, Yu Chuan, Tejo, Bimo Ario, Yap, Wei Boon

“…In the past two decades, coronaviruses (CoV) have been responsible for three major viral outbreaks, and the likelihood of future outbreaks caused by these viruses is high and nearly inevitable. Therefore, effective prophylactic universal vaccines targeting multiple circulating and emerging coronavirus strains are warranted. …”
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Ultrastable shear jammed granular material by Zhao, Yiqiu, Zhao, Yuchen, Wang, Dong, Zheng, Hu, Chakraborty, Bulbul, Socolar, Joshua E. S.

“…The stress response of these states to small imposed shear is nearly elastic, in contrast to the original shear jammed state.…”
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Personality traits bias the perceived quality of sonic environments by Lindborg, PerMagnus, Friberg, Anders

“…Emotional stability and noise sensitivity were notable predictors whose contribution to explaining the variation in quality ratings was between one-tenth and nearly half of the soundscape indicators, as measured by squared semipartial correlation. …”
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Self-concordance theory and the goal-striving reasons framework and their distinct relationships with hedonic and eudaimonic well-being by Ehrlich, Christian, Cripps, Karen, Ehrlich, Susanne

“…Here, self-concordance achieves nearly similar correlations to the goal-striving reasons framework. …”
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The Expansion of Incentive (Performance-Based) Regulation of Electricity Distribution and Transmission in the United States by Joskow, Paul L.

“…The new obligations are a consequence primarily of aggressive targets for decarbonizing the electricity sector in nearly half the states and the goal of using “clean” electricity to electrify transportation, buildings, and other sectors. …”
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Assessing United States Energy Poverty Policy: Regulatory Design Alternatives and Resource Allocation by Heller, Peter J.

“…Specifically, current allocations under the US Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) to states have been nearly static since 1984, while the distribution of energy poverty is dynamic in location and time. …”
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Nature-Centered Materiomics: Experimental and Computational Design by Shen, Sabrina C.

“…Industrial material production simultaneously contributes nearly 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions each year, which in conjunction with solid waste accumulation and deterioration of ecological processes, threatens the livelihood of current and future generations of both human and non-human species. …”
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Multi-view human action recognition in meeting scenarios by Yin, Haixiang

“…The method proposed in this project can improve by up to nearly 10 percent of the mAP (Mean Average Precision) on AMI meeting corpus compared to single-view recognition approaches.…”
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Insights into thermal hydrolyzed sludge liquor - identification of plant-growth-promoting compounds by Lu, Dan, Qian, Tingting, Le, Chencheng, Pan, Chaozhi, Cao, Shenbin, Ng, Wun Jern, Zhou, Yan

“…The holistic approach of using TH liquor as organic fertilizer and producing biochar could realize nearly zero-waste discharge in sludge management.…”
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How gender influence translation-a comparative case study on two Chinese versions of the Villette from the feminist translation perspective by Jiang, Yang

“…Feminist translation theory sought to identify and criticize the causes for the marginalization of women and translation, as well as to increase the visibility of women in society and translation. In the nearly thirty years since feminist translation entered China, Chinese scholar’s research perspectives on feminist translation have developed from the theoretical to translation practice in the context of China. …”
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Beyond the pause by Loke, Eden Hui Yi, Leong, Nicia Qiao Xin, Priyanka D/O Tamilarasan Thevar, See, Wenwei

“…Despite being a critical life phase for nearly half of the population, perimenopause remains shrouded in ambiguity, contributing to significant delays in seeking and receiving appropriate care and support. …”
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Additive friction stir processing by Lin, Longyi

“…The SLM AlSi10Mg, with a density of nearly 99.5%, was found to have comparable mechanical properties to heat treated cast AlSi10Mg. …”
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Synchronous reluctance motor-drive for energy efficiency solution by Xu, Han

“…The energy saving potential in industries and utilities is enormous. Nearly 70 percent of all electrical energy consumed by industry is used by the millions of electrical motors installed worldwide. …”
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Portfolio management system by Hemang, Hitesh Shah

“…Although they were successful at getting reasonable returns in the range of about 20%, the risk associated with the same was nearly 10%-20%. There were also certain other limitations in that approach, and therefore, there is a need to design a new model that can generate higher returns at the same risk levels. …”
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Thermodynamic modelling and performance study of an engine waste heat driven adsorption cooling for automotive air-conditioning by Ali, Syed Muztuza, Chakraborty, Anutosh

“…From the simulation results, it is found that the exhaust energy of a six cylinder 3000 cc private car is able to produce nearly 3 kW of cooling power for the car cabin. It is also observed that the driving heat source temperature does not remain constant throughout the cycle time unlike the conventional adsorption chiller, and the hot water temperatures as driving source vary from 65 to 95 °C. …”
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The association between the proportion of Brexiters and COVID-19 death rates in England by Phalippou, L, Wu, B

“…</p> <p><strong>Results:</strong> Districts where people voted most heavily in favor of remaining in the EU (top quintile) had nearly half the death rate of districts in the bottom quintile. …”

Efficacy of cannabinoids for the prophylaxis of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting—a systematic review and meta-analysis by Chow, R, Basu, A, Kaur, J, Hui, D, Im, J, Prsic, E, Boldt, G, Lock, M, Eng, L, Ng, TL, Zimmermann, C, Scotte, F

“…Results: A total of 26 studies were included in this meta-analysis, of which 23 were published before the 2000s. Nearly half of the included studies had some concern for bias. …”

A systematic review of transanal total mesorectal excision: is this the future of rectal cancer surgery? by Simillis, C, Hompes, R, Penna, M, Rasheed, S, Tekkis, PP

“…The mesorectal excision was described as complete in 88% cases, nearly complete in 6% and incomplete in 6%. The circumferential resection margin was negative in 95% of cases and the distal resection margin was negative in 99.7%. …”

How ready is general practice to improve quality in chronic kidney disease? A diagnostic analysis by Crinson, I, Gallagher, H, Thomas, N, de Lusignan, S

“…Some sought to implement the full guidance, others only the pay-for-performance targets. Nearly all practitioners had reservations as to whether CKD was really a disease; problematised the diagnosis of CKD purely on an estimate of glomerular filtration rate; questioned whether CKD in older people was part of natural ageing; and had experienced difficulty in explaining the condition to patients without frightening them. …”