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BackSplit: The Importance of Sub-dividing the Background in Biomedical Lesion Segmentation

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Study on the shielding efficiency of water, HDPE, and boron-loaded HDPE for neutron background of plastic scintillator neutrino detector

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Replacing Gaussian Processes with Neural Networks in Pulsar Timing Array Inference of the Gravitational-Wave Background

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Causal inference clarifies the roles of background selection and mutation rate variation in shaping human genetic diversity

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Twisha Sharma death: How Giribala Singh’s background makes case extraordinary

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Chameleon: Style-Content Disentangled Framework for Cross-Domain Object Compositing

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