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Open AccessAssociation of hyperhomocysteinemia and chronic kidney disease in the general population: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Increasing evidence shows that an elevated homocysteine(Hcy) level is associated with an increased risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD). This study systematically evaluated the correlation between homocysteine...
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Strengthening Skeletal Action Recognizers via Leveraging Temporal Patterns
Skeleton sequences are compact and lightweight. Numerous skeleton-based action recognizers have been proposed to classify human behaviors. In this work, we aim to incorporate components that are compatible wit...
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High sensitivity plasmonic refractive index and temperature sensor based on square ring shape resonator with nanorods defects
A high sensitivity plasmonic temperature sensor via a metal–insulator–metal (MIM) waveguide system is presented in this paper, the waveguide structure is composed of a square ring shape resonator with nanorods...
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GeoRefine: Self-supervised Online Depth Refinement for Accurate Dense Map**
We present a robust and accurate depth refinement system, named GeoRefine, for geometrically-consistent dense map** from monocular sequences. GeoRefine consists of three modules: a hybrid SLAM module using l...
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Open AccessClinicopathological and molecular genomic features of monomorphic epitheliotropic intestinal T-cell lymphoma in the Chinese population: a study of 20 cases
Monomorphic epitheliotropic T-cell lymphoma (MEITL) is an aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma with a high fatality rate. This study was aimed to explore the clinicopathological and molecular genetic features of ME...
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Channel Recurrent Attention Networks for Video Pedestrian Retrieval
Full attention, which generates an attention value per element of the input feature maps, has been successfully demonstrated to be beneficial in visual tasks. In this work, we propose a fully attentional netwo...
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Learning Monocular Visual Odometry via Self-Supervised Long-Term Modeling
Monocular visual odometry (VO) suffers severely from error accumulation during frame-to-frame pose estimation. In this paper, we present a self-supervised learning method for VO with special consideration for ...
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Pseudo RGB-D for Self-improving Monocular SLAM and Depth Prediction
Classical monocular Simultaneous Localization And Map** (SLAM) and the recently emerging convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for monocular depth prediction represent two largely disjoint approaches towards ...
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Scalable Deep k-Subspace Clustering
Subspace clustering algorithms are notorious for their scalability issues because building and processing large affinity matrices are demanding. In this paper, we introduce a method that simultaneously learns ...
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Open AccessEffect of heat shock on hot water plumbing microbiota and Legionella pneumophila control
Heat shock is a potential control strategy for Legionella pneumophila in hot water plumbing systems. However, it is not consistently effective, with little understanding of its influence on the broader plumbing m...
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Open AccessWater heater temperature set point and water use patterns influence Legionella pneumophila and associated microorganisms at the tap
Lowering water heater temperature set points and using less drinking water are common approaches to conserving water and energy; yet, there are discrepancies in past literature regarding the effects of water h...
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Significant spatial variability of bioavailable PAHs in water column and sediment porewater in the Gulf of Mexico 1 year after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
One year after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill accident, semipermeable membrane devices (SPMDs) and polyethylene devices (PEDs) were deployed in wetland areas and coastal areas of the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) to m...
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Robust Motion Segmentation with Unknown Correspondences
Motion segmentation can be addressed as a subspace clustering problem, assuming that the trajectories of interest points are known. However, establishing point correspondences is in itself a challenging task. ...
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Characteristic microbial community of a dry thermophilic methanogenic digester: its long-term stability and change with feeding
Thermophilic dry anaerobic digestion of sludge for cellulose methanization was acclimated at 53 °C for nearly 5 years using a waste paper-based medium. The stability of the microbial community structure and th...
