Abstract: Estimating the direction in which the ridges and valleys of the fingerprint pattern are aligned often serves as a pivotal first step in fingerprint recognition systems. The ridge orientation ...

Objective To analyse the causes of death and factors associated with mortality among NBA players using verifiable open-source data and a time-to-event approach accounting for competing risks.Methods ...

Background Aortic valve calcification (AVC) is a disease process driven by inflammation and lipid infiltration, serving as a ...

Objectives To estimate the population-level incidence of emergency department (ED) visits for violent behaviour, identify associated factors and quantify the contribution of people presenting to ED ...

All models use multi-GPU setting with a total batch size of 4096 on ImageNet-1k and 1024 on ImageNet-22k. Training from scratch on ImageNet-1k. python -m torch.distributed.launch --nproc_per_node=8 ...

Objectives Despite reducing exposures to wood dust, woodworkers remain at increased risk of asthma. There have been no recent studies of wood dust exposure, respiratory symptoms or asthma in British ...

Conclusions This study suggests that a decrease in positive leadership behaviours has a hazardous effect on workers’ level of ...

Objective This prospective longitudinal study of a general population sample investigates whether maternal experience of out-of-home care (OHC) constitutes an independent risk factor for the ...

Near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy is a promising tool for optimizing seed analyses quickly and assertively. The aim of this study was to investigate the viability of NIR in association with chemometric ...