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Calendar Plants in Southern Vanuatu
(2023-05-03)One noteworthy example of these is the use of “ecological calendars,” in which natural cycles are observed as guides in time-reckoning. In southern Vanuatu, what we here call “calendar plants” represent the majority of ... -
CapNext: Unifying Capsule and ResNeXt for Medical Image Segmentation
(2022)Capsule Network is a contemporary approach to image analysis that emphasizes part-whole relationships. However, its applications to segmentation tasks are limited due to training difficulties such as initialization and ... -
Causation in a Virtual World: a Mechanistic Approach
(2022-01-15)Objects appear to causally interact with one another in virtual worlds, such as video games, virtual reality, and training simulations. Is this causation real or is it illusory? In this paper, I argue that virtual causation ... -
Characteristics And Treatment Outcomes Of Prediabetic Patients In Vinmec Times City International Hospital, Vietnam: A Retrospective Observational Study
(2024-02-29)Objectives Prediabetes is a global health concern, warranting effective management strategies to prevent the progression to type 2 diabetes and associated complications. The American Diabetes Association (ADA) guidelines ... -
"The children of the Sun and Moon are the gardens"—How people, plants, and a living Sun shape life on Tanna, Vanuatu
(2024-11-20)Based on original ethnographic and ethnobotanical research, we share how in the cosmology of Tanna, an island in Vanuatu’s southernmost province of Tafea, the Sun is viewed as a living, interactive being. Our initial ... -
Clearing payments in dynamic financial networks
(2023-12)This paper proposes a novel dynamical model for determining clearing payments in financial networks. We extend the classical Eisenberg–Noe model of financial contagion to multiple time periods, allowing financial operations ... -
Clinical characteristics of autoimmune liver diseases in Vietnamese patients
(2024-02-29)Background: Autoimmune liver diseases (ALD) consist of autoimmune hepatitis (AIH), primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), and overlapping syndrome. These are rare disorders that are assumed ... -
Coexistence of surface lattice resonances and bound states in the continuum in a plasmonic lattice
(2022-03-14)We present a numerical study on a 2D array of plasmonic structures covered by a subwavelength film. We explain the origin of surface lattice resonances (SLRs) using the coupled dipole approximation and show that the ... -
Cognitive and Emotional Motivation to Explain Infection-Prevention Behaviors with Social Support as a Mediator During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study in Korea
(2023-04-18)Purpose: To predict the performance of infection-prevention behaviors among adults in Korea based on the health belief model, using social support as a mediator. Patients and Methods: A nationwide cross-sectional survey ... -
Cognitive and Emotional Motivation to Explain Infection-Prevention Behaviors with Social Support as a Mediator During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study in Korea
(2023)Purpose: To predict the performance of infection-prevention behaviors among adults in Korea based on the health belief model, using social support as a mediator. Patients and Methods: A nationwide cross-sectional survey ... -
Collaborative Curating for Discovery and Expansion of Visual Clusters
(2021-10)In many visually-oriented applications, users can select and group images that they find interesting into coherent clusters. For instance, we encounter these in the form of hashtags on Instagram, galleries on Flickr, or ... -
ColorRL: Reinforced Coloring for End-to-End Instance Segmentation
(2021)Instance segmentation, the task of identifying and separating each individual object of interest in the image, is one of the actively studied research topics in computer vision. Although many feed-forward networks produce ... -
Combatting anthrax outbreaks across Nigeria’s national land borders: need to optimize surveillance with epidemiological surveys
(2024-12)Background: Anthrax is a non-contagious zoonotic disease caused by the Gram-positive, spore-forming bac‑ terium Bacillus anthracis. Infection is common in livestock and wild animals such as cattle, goats, sheep, camels, and ... -
Combination of Reverse Shoulder Prosthesis, Elbow Prosthesis, and Polyetheretherketone: A Modified Total Humeral Replacement for Osteosarcoma Humerus Treatment
(2021-09-11)Total humeral replacement is a complex surgery that requires many challenges to overcome such as the weight of the implant material and the shoulder function due to extensive resection of the rotator cuff. Improvements in ... -
Combination of reverse shoulder prosthesis, elbow prosthesis, and polyetheretherketone: A modified total humeral replacement for osteosarcoma humerus treatment
(2022-09-11)Total humeral replacement is a complex surgery that requires many challenges to overcome such as the weight of the implant material and the shoulder function due to extensive resection of the rotator cuff. Improvements in ... -
Community Gardens and Social Connectedness Among Rural Older People
(2020-09-24)Community gardens are growing in popularity as a strategy to effectively deal with population health at a local level. Community gardens can offer a range of psychosocial and health benefits to individuals who utilize them, ... -
Concurrent multiscale topology optimisation towards design and additive manufacturing of bio-mimicking porous structures
(2022-11-16)This paper presents a novel multiscale explicit topology optimisation approach for concurrently optimizing the structure at the macro level and the bio-mimicking porous infillings at the micro level. Solid bar components ... -
Concurrent multiscale topology optimisation towards design and additive manufacturing of bio-mimicking porous structures
(2023)This paper presents a novel multiscale explicit topology optimisation approach for concurrently optimizing the structure at the macro level and the bio-mimicking porous infillings at the micro level. Solid bar components ... -
Conducting cross-cultural research qualitatively in social science: setting the scene
(2022-12)Globally, cross-cultural research has become increasingly essential. In multicultural societies such as the UK, the USA, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, there has been an increasing number of people from different ... -
Contraception decision making by Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Australian youth: an exploratory study
(2021-09)Context: Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) youth may become early parents, with some aspiring to parenthood. Yet, the factors that influence CALD youths' contraceptive decision-making are less well known, although ...
