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Estimation of Maize Residue Cover Using Landsat-8 OLI Image Spectral Information and Textural Features

Remote Sensing, 2015
The application of crop residue has become increasingly important for providing a barrier against water and wind erosion and improving soil organic matter content, infiltration, evaporation, temperature, and soil structure.
Xiuliang Jin, Jianhang Ma, Zhidan Wen, Kaishan Song   +3 more
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Can diffusion tensor imaging lesion patterns predict the outcome of ischemic stroke?

The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery, 2020
Background Stroke can affect any portion of the central nervous system leading to a wide variety of symptoms depending on the part that is involved. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is an emerging neuroimaging technique that allows measuring the integrity ...
Mervat Mostafa, Maged Abdel Naseer, Ramy Edward, Mohammad Edrees, Dalia M. Labib   +4 more
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Read-All-in-Once (RAiO): Multi-Layer Contextual Architecture for Long-Text Machine Reading Comprehension

IEEE Access, 2023
Machine reading comprehension (MRC) is a cutting-edge technology in natural language processing (NLP), which focuses on teaching machines to read and understand the meaning of texts based on the emergence of large-scale datasets and neural network models.
Tuan-Anh Phan, Jason J. Jung, Khac-Hoai Nam Bui   +2 more
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Psychological distress and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the Renfrew and Paisley (MIDSPAN) study [PDF]

, 2006
Background: This study examined whether psychological distress might be a predictor of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Method: The relation between psychological distress at baseline, measured by the general health questionnaire (GHQ ...
Rasul, F., Hart, Carole L., Stansfeld, SA, Pembroke, T.P.I., Hart, CL, Pembroke, TPI, Hart, C., Rasul, F, Smith, George Davey, Stansfeld, S.A., Pembroke, Thomas P I, Davey Smith, G., Davey Smith, G, Stansfeld, Stephen A., Rasul, Farhat   +14 more
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The early clinical and laboratory predictors of GBS outcome: hospital-based study, Assiut University, Upper Egypt

The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery, 2023
Background This study was designed to identify factors that influence outcomes in a large group of well-defined Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) patients with a 3-month follow-up period.
Eman M. Khedr, Mohamed Zayed Mohamed, Mohamed Mostafa M. Shehab   +2 more
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Study protocol: Delayed intervention randomised controlled trial within the Medical Research Council (MRC) Framework to assess the effectiveness of a new palliative care service

, 2006
Background: Palliative care has been proposed to help meet the needs of patients who suffer progressive non-cancer conditions but there have been few evaluations of service development initiatives.
Polly Edmonds, Vivat, B, Irene J Higginson, Edmonds, P, Hart, S, Bella Vivat, Saleem, T, Tariq Saleem, Salem, T, Higginson, IJ, Silber, E, Higginson, I; id_orcid, Rachel Burman, Burman, R, Eli Silber, Sam Hart   +15 more
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Comparing the NIS vs. MRC and INCAT sensory scale through Rasch analyses

Journal of the Peripheral Nervous System, 2015
AbstractWe performed a comparison between Neuropathy Impairment Scale‐sensory (NISs) vs. the modified Inflammatory Neuropathy Cause and Treatment sensory scale (mISS), and NIS‐motor vs. the Medical Research Council sum score in patients with Guillain‐Barré syndrome (GBS), chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP), and IgM ...
Draak, Thomas H. P., Vanhoutte, Els K., van Nes, Sonja I., Gorson, Kenneth C., van der Pol, W.-Ludo, Notermans, Nicolette C., Nobile-Orazio, Eduardo, Lewis, Richard A., Léger, Jean-Marc, van den Bergh, Peter Y. K., Lauria, Giuseppe, Bril, Vera, Katzberg, Hans, Lunn, Michael P. T., Pouget, Jean, van der Kooi, Anneke J., Hahn, Angelika F., van den Berg, Leonard H., van Doorn, Pieter A., Cornblath, David R., Faber, Catharina G., Merkies, Ingemar S. J., Barreira, A. A., Bennett, D., Hadden, R. D., Hughes, R. A. C., Lunn, M. P. T., Reilly, M. M., van den Berg, L. H., van Doorn, P. A., Faber, C. G., Merkies, I. S. J., Notermans, N. C., Raaphorts, J., van Schaik, I. N., de Visser, M., Cats, E. A., van den Bergh, P. Y. K., Bombelli, F., Costa, R., Franques, J., Léger, J.-M., Pouget, J., Bril, V., Hahn, A. F., Katzberg, H., Campanella, A., Devigili, G., Gallia, F., Lauria, G.   +49 more
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Measuring symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder in people with intellectual disabilities: the development and psychometric properties of the Impact of Event Scale – Intellectual Disabilities (IES-IDs) [PDF]

, 2014
Background: The aims of the study were to (a) revise the Impact of Event Scale – Revised for use with people with intellectual disabilities (IDs), creating the Impact of Event Scale – Intellectual Disabilities (IES-IDs), (b) assess the reliability of the
Langdon, Peter E., Langdon, Peter E.; id_orcid, Hall, JC, Hall, James C., Jobson, Laura   +4 more
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MRCS: matrix recovery-based communication-efficient compressive sampling on temporal-spatial data of dynamic-scale sparsity in large-scale environmental IoT networks [PDF]

EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2019
Abstract In the past few years, a large variety of IoT applications has been witnessed by fast proliferation of IoT devices (e.g., environment surveillance devices, wearable devices, city-wide NB-IoT devices). However, launching data collection from these mass IoT devices raises a challenge due to limited computation, storage, bandwidth, and energy ...
Zhonghu Xu, Linjun Zhang, Jinqi Shen, Hao Zhou, Xuefeng Liu 0001, Jiannong Cao 0001, Kai Xing   +6 more
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Anomalous scales of Tillandsia usneoides (L.) L. (Bromeliaceae) exposed in the Metropolitan Region of Campinas, SP, Brazil as air pollution markers

Hoehnea
Tillandsia usneoides is an epiphytic bromeliad that has been used as a universal bioindicator. The species accumulates metals and presents foliar scale variations when exposed to air pollutants.
Patrícia Giampaoli, Natalie do Valle Capelli, Armando Reis Tavares, Francine Faia Fernandes, Marisa Domingos, Edenise Segala Alves   +5 more
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