The pervasive spread of Android malware poses significant threats to users and systems worldwide. In most existing studies, differences in feature importance are often overlooked, and the calculation of feature weights is conducted independently of t...
In satellite remote sensing images, the existence of clouds has an occlusion effect on ground information. Different degrees of clouds make it difficult for existing models to accurately detect clouds in images due to complex scenes. The detection an...
Loess landslide disasters are influenced by a multitude of factors, including slope conditions, triggering mechanisms, and spatial attributes. Extracting these factors from unstructured geological texts is challenging due to nested entities, semantic...
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is an emerging foodborne pathogen in Europe, primarily associated with the consumption of pork products. While conventional destructive TRIzol extraction methods followed by RT-qPCR can detect HEV RNA in processed meat, this a...
Mechanical methods to extract undesired graffiti paints on ornamental stones are efficient cleaning methods from an economical point of view. However, effort on the optimization of mechanical cleaning procedures to avoid any damage to the substrate i...
Early detection of internal short circuit which is main cause of thermal runaway in a lithium-ion battery is necessary to ensure battery safety for users. As a promising fault index, internal short circuit resistance can directly represent degree of...
This work provides new knowledge on natural yellows used in Iran. Seven biological sources were selected based on interviews with dye masters in Isfahan workshops (Iran). Delphinium semibarbatum, Eremostachys laevigata, Prangos ferulacea, Morus alba,...
Objective. To evaluate the antimicrobial activity of soft and purified propolis extracts. Study object and methods. Antimicrobial activity of soft and purified propolis extracts was determined with reference cultures of Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 259...
Segmentation and visualization of three-dimensional digital cultural heritage are important analytical tools for the intuitive understanding of content. In this paper, we propose a semantic segmentation and visualization framework that automatically...
We introduce the notion of the reduct of soft contexts, which is a special notion of a consistent set for soft contexts. Then, we study its properties and show that this notion is well explained by the two classes,
Rapid and complete soft tissue healing after tooth extraction minimizes surgical complications and facilitates subsequent implant placement. We used four treatment methods and assessed changes in soft tissue socket closure following tooth extraction...
Soft sensors based on deep learning approaches are growing in popularity due to their ability to extract high-level features from training, improving soft sensors’ performance. In the training process of such a deep model, the set of hyperparam...
Recent advances in 3D scanning have enabled the digital recording of complex objects as large-scale point clouds, which require clear visualization to convey their 3D shapes effectively. Edge-highlighting visualization is used to improve the comprehe...
Extracting the peak value of the X-ray signal in the original magnetopause detection method of soft X-ray imaging (SXI) for the SMILE satellite is problematic because of the unclear interface of the magnetosphere system under low solar wind density a...
The current lack of harmonized standard test conditions for marine shipping hinders the comparison of performance and compliance assessments for different types of ships. This article puts forward a method for extracting ship loading cycles using mac...
The soft surrounding rock in tunnels has the characteristics of low strength, easy softening after soaking, and poor self-stability, which makes the inverted arch structure in soft rock tunnels prone to uplift deformations. Therefore, a deformation m...
An endoscopy is a tool that is used to examine the interior of a hollow organ or cavity of the body by inserting directly into the organ. However, intestinal endoscopy is not friendly to patients due to discomfort, and it can easily cause intestinal...
The ability to grow in anchorage-independent conditions is an important feature of malignant cells, and it is well-established that cellular phenotypes in adherent cultures can differ widely from phenotypes observed in xenografts and anchorage-indepe...
Aiming at the problems of nonlinearity and serious confusion of fault characteristics in analog circuits, this paper proposed a fault diagnosis method for an analog circuit based on ensemble empirical pattern decomposition (EEMD) and improved multifr...
With the growth of factory automation, deep learning-based methods have become popular diagnostic tools because they can extract features automatically and diagnose faults under various fault conditions. Among these methods, a novelty detection appro...
The pharmaceutical industry usually utilizes either hydrophobic or hydrophilic substances extracted from raw plant materials to prepare a final product. However, the waste products from the plant material still contain biologically active components...
Soft sensors based on deep learning have been growing in industrial process applications, inferring hard-to-measure but crucial quality-related variables. However, applications may present strong non-linearity, dynamicity, and a lack of labeled data....
Background: Alveolar ridge preservation (ARP) is widely used in clinical practice to prevent horizontal and vertical bone loss following tooth extraction. Conventional ARP uses a single coverage material with bone graft materials on a simple tooth ex...
Background: This pilot study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of digitally crafted customized healing abutments in stabilizing peri-implant soft tissues following tooth extraction and assess the preservation of peri-implant soft tissue architectur...
Heating extraction steam (HEXTR) flow rate is the key parameter to determine the heat load of a combined heat and power (CHP) plant and the safe operation area of the steam turbine of CHP plant. Due to the difficulty of direct measurement, a soft mea...
Background: The nasolabial angle (NLA) is one of the most critical parameters of the soft tissue profile when orthodontic treatment is required. The primary aim of this prospective cohort study was to compare the differences in the evaluation made on...
In order to find the optimal expansion effect of a new curing expansion material so that it can better meet the requirements of the efficient sealing of drilled holes, the expansion and creep characteristics of the new curing expansion material were...
Purpose: To evaluate the effectiveness of immediate implant placement and loading combined with autologous dentin grafting in reducing post-extraction tissue remodelling, with particular emphasis on peri-implant soft tissue stability in the esthetic...
Background/Objectives: One of the plants found in Indonesian forests that has potential as an herbal medicine is andaliman (Zanthoxylum acanthopodium DC.). The fruit of Z. acanthopodium contains phenolic compounds that are known to modulate the immun...
(1) Objectives: This study aimed to compare a collagen matrix to a hemostatic gelatin sponge as a socket seal in alveolar ridge preservation (ARP). (2) Methods: Systemically healthy patients planned for ARP at two sites with more than 50% of the bucc...
In this paper, we propose a new spectroscopic method to explore the behavior of molecules near polymeric molecular networks of water-containing soft materials such as hydrogels. We demonstrate the analysis of hydrogen bonding states of water in the v...
Despite hard sensors can be easily used in various condition monitoring of energy production process, soft sensors are confined to some specific scenarios due to difficulty installation requirements and complex work conditions. However, industrial pr...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the soft tissue thickness and marginal bone loss around dental implants with sloped micro-threaded shoulder (30° angle) in comparing with conventional design, inserted 30° degrees angulated in post extraction soc...
Studying the thermodynamic properties of soft rocks is critical for geothermal energy extraction, as it elucidates their temperature-dependent mechanical behaviors and heat transfer mechanisms, thereby optimizing reservoir stimulation, enhancing extr...
In medical texts, temporal information describes events and changes in status, such as medical visits and discharges. According to the semantic features, it is classified into simple time and complex time. The current research on time recognition usu...
Long short-term memory (LSTM) networks demonstrate superior time-series feature extraction capabilities and have exhibited significant advantages in the soft sensing of key indicators in complex industrial processes. However, conventional LSTM networ...
Soft sensor technology has become an effective tool to enable real-time estimations of key quality variables in industrial rubber-mixing processes, which facilitates efficient monitoring and a control of rubber manufacturing. However, it remains a ch...
Silk fibroin (SF) extracted from silk is non-toxic and has excellent biocompatibility and biodegradability, making it an excellent biomedical material. SF-based soft materials, including porous scaffolds and hydrogels, play an important role in accur...
Captured low-light images typically suffer from low brightness, low contrast, and blurred details due to the scattering and absorption of light and limited lighting. To deal with these issues, we propose a self-calibrating depth network with soft-edg...
Experimental protocols are fundamental for quantifying the mechanical behaviour of soft tissue. These data are crucial for advancing the understanding of soft tissue mechanics, developing and calibrating constitutive models, and informing the develop...
Backgroud: Orthodontic treatment plans face challenges when deciding on tooth extraction, particularly when the retraction of incisors leads to a flattening of the lip curvature. Despite the significance of this issue, quantitative measurements of cu...
Background/Objectives: Traditional medicinal plants play a crucial role in infants’ healthcare in underdeveloped countries and communities where access to modern medicine is limited. In Limpopo, the Vhavenda tribe has a custom of feeding babies...
Background: The aim of this systematic review was to evaluate the clinical efficacy, benefits, and limitations of piezosurgery in tooth extractions compared to conventional methods. Piezosurgery has emerged as a minimally invasive alternative, promot...
Adequate soft-tissue dimensions have been shown to be crucial for the long-term success of dental implants. To date, there is evidence that placement of dental implants should only be conducted in an area covered with attached gingiva. Modern implant...
Background/Objectives: Tooth extraction induces significant alveolar ridge dimensional changes and soft tissue modifications, often leading to challenges in implant placement or conventional prosthetic rehabilitation. Alveolar Ridge Preservation (ARP...
The soft coral genus Sarcophyton contains the enzymatic machinery to synthesize a multitude of cembrene-type diterpenes. Herein, highly oxygenated cembrenoids, sarcoconvolutum A–E (1–5) were purified and characterized from an ethyl acetate extract of...
An efficient matrix cleanup method was developed for the rapid screening of 92 illegal adulterants (25 erectile dysfunction drugs, 15 steroids, seven anabolic steroids, 12 antihistamines, 12 nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), four diureti...
In this paper, we explore learning methods to improve the performance of the open-circuit fault diagnosis of modular multilevel converters (MMCs). Two deep learning methods, namely, convolutional neural networks (CNN) and auto encoder based deep neur...
This overview aimed to evaluate the methods, quality, and outcomes of systematic reviews (SRs) conducted to investigate the effects of platelet-rich fibrin (PRF) in dental sockets on promoting bone regeneration and soft tissue healing and diminishing...
Background and objectives: Preservation of alveolar ridge contour following tooth extraction is important to allow for restoration with prosthetics and implants. Socket seal surgery was introduced more than two decades ago for preservation of the for...
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