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A novel approach to quantify calcifications of thyroid nodules in US images based on deep learning: predicting the risk of cervical lymph node metastasis in papillary thyroid cancer patients
Based on ultrasound (US) images, this study aimed to detect and quantify calcifications of thyroid nodules, which are regarded as one of the most important features in US diagnosis of thyroid cancer, and to fu...
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Open AccessA comparative analysis on characteristics and mortalities of four key transmission populations on antiretroviral therapy: a retrospective cohort study in Northwest China
This study explored disparities in characteristics and mortalities among four major transmission groups on antiretroviral therapy in northwest China as well as the survival impact of each transmission route.
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Nuclear-localized eukaryotic translation initiation factor 1A is involved in mouse preimplantation embryo development
Preimplantation embryo development is characterized by drastic nuclear reprogramming and dynamic stage-specific gene expression. Key regulators of this earliest developmental stage have not been revealed. In t...
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Akt plays indispensable roles during the first cell lineage differentiation of mouse
The first cell lineage differentiation occurs during the development of mouse 8-cell embryo to blastocyst. Akt is a potent kinase whose role during blastocyst formation has not been elucidated. In the present ...
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An advanced operating environment for mathematics education resources
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Learning to sketch human facial portraits using personal styles by case-based reasoning
This paper employs case-based reasoning (CBR) to capture the personal styles of individual artists and generate the human facial portraits from photos accordingly. For each human artist to be mimicked, a serie...
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The Rise of Religious Extremism in the Middle East: A Triptych View?
This chapter explores why religious extremist is on the rise in the Middle East. It highlights how the Salafi’s textualization of faith has inadvertently enabled theocratic regimes to cement their dictatorship...
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Extreme Groups Propaganda War Under a Free Speech Lens: The Unwinnable Battle
This chapter examines the viability of free speech norms in the United States and Europe in cubing the surge of extreme speech online. It concludes that, in the United States, criminalizing pro-Jihad propagand...
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Who Speaks for Islam? Extreme Religious Groups, the Exception that Proves the Rule
This chapter examines the streams of thought contributing to the emergence of the Jihadi Salafism. It highlights the scholarly works of key Salafi scholars who have shaped the ideology of the al-Salafiyya al-J...
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Extreme Groups and the Militarization of Social Media
The qualitative research in this chapter serves as a supplement and support of the theoretical discourse analysis. It provides a dataset of the most prominent religious clerics in the Middle East and their inf...
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Technology to the Rescue: A Software-Based Approach to Tackle Extreme Speech
This chapter discusses how a variety of software technologies can be leveraged tackle extreme speech on social media. The chapter first overviews Google’s strategy to direct extremist searches towards anti-rad...
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Intelligent bus routing with heterogeneous human mobility patterns
Optimal planning for public transportation is one of the keys hel** to bring a sustainable development and a better quality of life in urban areas. Compared to private transportation, public transportation u...
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Detecting Rumors Through Modeling Information Propagation Networks in a Social Media Environment
In the midst of today’s pervasive influence of social media content and activities, information credibility has increasingly become a major issue. Accordingly, identifying false information, e.g. rumors circ...
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Residential Mobility and Lung Cancer Risk: Data-Driven Exploration Using Internet Sources
Frequent relocation has been linked to health decline, particularly with respect to emotional and psychological wellbeing. In this paper we investigate whether there is an association between frequent relocati...
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Open AccessCategorizing biomedicine images using novel image features and sparse coding representation
Images embedded in biomedical publications carry rich information that often concisely summarize key hypotheses adopted, methods employed, or results obtained in a published study. Therefore, they offer valuab...
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Cylindrical panoramic mosaicing from a pipeline video through MRF based optimization
Stratum structure detection is a fundamental problem in geological engineering. One of the most commonly employed detection technologies is to shoot videos of a borehole using a forward moving camera. Using th...
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Light source estimation of outdoor scenes for mixed reality
Illumination consistency is important for photorealistic rendering of mixed reality. However, it is usually difficult to acquire illumination conditions of natural environments. In this paper, we propose a nov...
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Virtual hairy brush for digital painting and calligraphy
The design of user friendly and expressive virtual brush systems for interactive digital painting and calligraphy has attracted a lot of attention and effort in both computer graphics and human-computer intera...
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Virtual hairy brush for digital painting and calligraphy
The design of user friendly and expressive virtual brush systems for interactive digital painting and calligraphy has attracted a lot of attention and effort in both computer graphics and human-computer intera...
