Each year millions of nonhuman animals suffer in biomedical experiments for human health benefits.Clinical ethics demand that nonhuman animals are used in the development of pharmaceuticals and vaccines.Nonhuman animals are also used for fundamental biomedical research.Biomedical research that uses nonhuman animals is big business but the financial

Self-supervised learning methods have received much attention in skeleton-based human action recognition.These methods rely on pretext tasks to utilize unlabeled data and learn an effective feature encoder.In this paper, a novel self-supervised learning method is proposed.First, we design a new pretext task called view enhanced jigsaw puzzle (VEJP)

Abstract Periodontitis is a chronic inflammatory disease that leads to the destruction of both soft and hard periodontal tissues.Complete periodontal regeneration in clinics using the currently available treatment approaches is still a challenge.Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have shown promising potential to regenerate periodontal tissue in various

A synergic integration of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and optical time series offers an unprecedented opportunity in vegetation phenology monitoring for mountain agriculture management.In this paper, we performed a correlation analysis of radar signal to vegetation and soil conditions by using a time series of Sentinel-1 C-band dual-polarized (V

The systemic nature of risk is increasingly acknowledged within scholarship, policy and practice relating to disaster management.However, a number of conceptual and methodological challenges arise in advancing empirical inquiry in this regard.These challenges relate to how the boundaries of the system are determined both spatially Lactoferrin and t