Weakly supervised segment annotation via expectation kernel density estimation
Since the labelling for the positive images/videos is ambiguous in weakly supervised segment annotation, negative mining‐based methods that only use the intra‐class information emerge. In these methods, negative instances are utilised to penalise unknown
Liantao Wang, Qingwu Li, Jianfeng Lu
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
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SVM and Ensemble Majority Voting Algorithm on Sentiment Analysis of Using chatGPT in Education
The pros and cons of using ChatGPT in education have caused academic debate as it has influenced current educational praxis. Discussions about the possibility of ChatGPT for writing manuscripts or doing assignments are rife on social media, one of which ...
Hildegardis Yayukristi Weko +1 more
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U.S. Consumer Preferences for Cage‐Free Eggs and Hen Housing Policies
ABSTRACT Farm animal welfare (FAW) continues to be a divisive issue in the egg industry. In the United States, 10 states and most major retailers have implemented policies or voluntary pledges to transition to 100% cage‐free egg sales. We use best‐worst scaling and discrete choice experiments to evaluate U.S.
Vincenzina Caputo +3 more
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Sincere voting, strategic voting : A laboratory experiment using alternative proportional systems
Strategic voting is classically defined as voting for one’s second preferred option to prevent one’s least preferred option from winning when one’s first preference has no chance. Voters want their votes to be effective, and casting a ballot that will have no influence on an election is undesirable.
Baujard, Antoinette +4 more
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ABSTRACT The US hemp market is a new and nascent industry that has been devoid of research for about half a century. This study examined the effects of exogenous shock on price at each phase of the value chain—Farm (hemp biomass), and its impact on prices at other phases of the value chain—Intermediary Processor (crude cannabidiol hemp) and Final ...
Solomon Odiase +2 more
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The Influence of Common Language on the Trade of Wheat and Bakery Products
ABSTRACT This study examines whether sharing a common official language increases the probability that two countries engage in bilateral trade of wheat and bakery products. Using a binary choice framework applied to 54,780 country‐pair observations for 2023, probit and logit models of the extensive margin of trade are estimated, with a focus on whether
Felipe Durães do Nascimento Monteiro Barbosa +1 more
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Election procedures for the appointment of representatives in the northern European states
The study intends to present the voting systems and procedures that the Nordic states use to the designate their representatives in the national parliaments. The long history of the voting practice highlighted the stability of the voting systems in place
Claudia Gilia
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Voters’ Rationality Under Four Electoral Rules: A Simulation Based on the 2010 Colombian Presidential Elections [PDF]
In this work we analyze the impact of the voting rule on individual behavior. We use a sample of individuals naturally motivated by real candidates. Then, in our methodology we do not induce preferences.
Julián Parada
doaj
Cell Segmentation Beyond 2D—A Review of the State‐of‐the‐Art
Cell segmentation underpins many biological image analysis tasks, yet most deep learning methods remain limited to 2D despite the inherently 3D nature of cellular processes. This review surveys segmentation approaches beyond 2D, comparing 2.5D and fully 3D methods, analyzing 31 models and 32 volumetric datasets, and introducing a unified reference ...
Fabian Schmeisser +6 more
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