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Automatic Pollen Classification and Segmentation Using U-Nets and Synthetic Data

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2022
Pollen allergies have become one of the most wide-spread afflictions that impact quality of life. This has made automatic pollen detection, classification and monitoring a very important topic of research.
Mihai Boldeanu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Visual Dialogue without Vision or Dialogue

open access: yesCoRR, 2018
We characterise some of the quirks and shortcomings in the exploration of Visual Dialogue - a sequential question-answering task where the questions and corresponding answers are related through given visual stimuli. To do so, we develop an embarrassingly simple method based on Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) that, on the standard dataset ...
Massiceti, D   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Performance evaluation of a 20-kW solar-powered EV charging station in Bangladesh: a post commissioning review

open access: yesEnergy Conversion and Management: X
This study develops and evaluates the solar-powered electric rickshaw charging station based on experimental data and provides a detailed performance comparison of pre- and post-commissioning phase.
Md. Mehadi Hasan Shamim   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

From Religious Bubble to Interreligious Dialogue: A Personal Story of Transformation

open access: yesReligions, 2023
This paper argues that interreligious dialogue through study and friendships across the religious divide makes participants less susceptible to religious and cultural misinformation that is often used to maintain social bubbles, in which members draw ...
Cornelis Hulsman
doaj   +1 more source

Bridging the Gap in Neuroblastoma Care: Consensus‐Based Statements With Recommendations for Improved Patient and Caregiver Experiences

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Neuroblastoma's complex, heterogeneous biology poses significant diagnostic and therapeutic challenges, often requiring caregivers to absorb complex information and participate in time‐sensitive decisions. However, caregivers often feel unprepared to evaluate options.
Vickie Buenger   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Next Generation of Our Work

open access: yesJournal of Deliberative Democracy, 2014
In this reflective piece, Sandy Heierbacher, Director of the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD), outlines some of the trends she has been noticing from her unique vantage point in the rapidly growing and innovating field of ...
Sandy Heierbacher
doaj   +2 more sources

Determining Parental Factors for Clinical Trial Attrition in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Despite high enrollment rates on Children's Oncology Group (COG) protocols, attrition after initial consent is challenging, introducing bias and prolonging trial completion. While adult oncology literature has identified predictors of withdrawal, little is known about caregiver decision‐making for child participation in ...
Kimberly L. Stathas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The 2016-2063 Sexual and Reproductive Health and Reproductive Rights Neo-Colonizing Plan for Africa

open access: yesChrześcijaństwo-Świat-Polityka, 2019
The article presents the arguments demonstrating that Africa is subjected to the politics aimed at changing the perception of the issues concerning sexual ethics.
Marguerite Peeters
doaj   +1 more source

BRICS immigration policies and visa regimes, strategic cooperation for a future BRICS African agenda

open access: yesJournal of BRICS Studies, 2023
Africa is a geostrategic point of interest for the BRICS. However, the BRICS have been severely criticised for how Africa is engaged; that the manner replicates the low levels of growth that other western partners had engaged in.
Arina Muresan
doaj   +1 more source

Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
wiley   +1 more source

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