Academic Articles & Research Papers

Evaluation of Respiratory Protection Program in Petrochemical Industries: Application of Analytic Hierarchy Process

Background: Respiratory protection equipment (RPE) is the last resort to control exposure to workplace air pollutants. A comprehensive respiratory protection program (RPP) ensures that RPE is selected, used, and cared properly. Therefore, R...

Diversity of Rickettsia species in collected ticks from Southeast Iran

Abstract Rickettsia occurs worldwide and rickettsiosis is recognized as an emerging infection in several parts of the world. Ticks are reservoir hosts for pathogenic Rickettsia species in humans and domestic animals. Most pathogenic Rickett...

Metabolomic Profile Alterations Associated with the SLC16A11 Risk Haplotype Following a Lifestyle Intervention in People With Prediabetes

Background: A risk haplotype in SLC16A11 characterized by alterations in fatty acid metabolism emerged as a genetic risk factor associated with increased susceptibility to type 2 diabetes (T2D) in Mexican population. Its role on treatment r...

The prevalence and trends of waterpipe tobacco smoking: A systematic review.

IntroductionWaterpipe tobacco smoking is harmful to health however its prevalence estimates remain uncertain. We aimed to systematically review the medical literature on waterpipe tobacco prevalence and trends.MethodsWe searched Medline, Em...

The Effects of N-acetylcysteine on Inflammatory Markers and Homocysteine: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

Background: Recently a number of trials investigated the effect of N-acetylcysteine (NAC) administration on inflammatory markers and homocysteine (Hcy). However, their findings are controversial. The aim of this paper is to present a meta-a...

Morbidity and mortality of urological procedures: an analysis of outcomes according to residents' experience.

Purple reign: the outsized impact and potential of Chromobacterium on quorum sensing research.

Uptake of paediatric surgical interventions in the face of catastrophic health expenditure and a declining global economy.

Mixed infection of Microsporum, Candida, and Malassezia spp. in a Persian cat: A unique case in Rohilkhand region of Uttar Pradesh, India.

A comparative empirical evaluation of semantic clustering algorithms on static word embeddings

Objective: This study conducts a comprehensive empirical evaluation of semantic clustering algorithms to identify the most effective approach for automatically organizing and extracting meaning from textual data. By systematically comparing...

Caps Captioning: A Modern Image Captioning Approach Based on Improved Capsule Network

In image captioning models, the main challenge in describing an image is identifying all the objects by precisely considering the relationships between the objects and producing various captions. Over the past few years, many methods have b...

Content Analysis of Medical Research Articles: A corpus-based study

Introduction: Content analysis applied for comparing texts, a writer’s works with others or the same author, the texts written in a natural language with texts in other languages literature and review of specialized field. The present study...

Natural language processing: state of the art, current trends and challenges

Exploring Scientific Outputs about Globalization: A Conceptual Framework Study

IntroductionBibliometric analysis is widely acknowledged as a robust and systematic approach for examining extensive scholarly literature. It serves as a vital tool for mapping the landscape of contemporary research across various academic ...

The Impact of Word Regularity on the Reading of Normal and Aphasic Gilak-Persian Adults

Background: Various factors influence the natural processing of words. The present study sought to investigate the effect of the regularity variable on the reading of words. Objectives: The participants in the study were 50 normal and 5 aph...

Lightweight Two-Layer Control Architecture for Human-Following Robot

(1) Background: Human detection and tracking are critical tasks for assistive autonomous robots, particularly in ensuring safe and efficient human–robot interaction in indoor environments. The increasing need for personal assistance among t...

Log‐Euclidean bag of words for human action recognition

Representing videos by densely extracted local space–time features has recently become a popular approach for analysing actions. In this study, the authors tackle the problem of categorising human actions by devising bag of words (BoWs) mod...

A Taxonomy of Deep Convolutional Neural Nets for Computer Vision

Traditional architectures for solving computer vision problems and the degree of success they enjoyed have been heavily reliant on hand-crafted features. However, of late, deep learning techniques have offered a compelling alternative -- th...

Low-Power Computer Vision

Energy efficiency is critical for running computer vision on battery-powered systems, such as mobile phones or UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones). This book collects the methods that have won the annual IEEE Low-Power Computer Visio...

Integrating Computer Vision: Advancements in Fire and Smoke Detection Using CNNs

Conventional fire detection systems, which depend on smoke and fire sensors, frequently have problems with calibration, susceptibility to environmental changes, and the requirement for ongoing maintenance. These flaws can result in unfavora...