Abstract Background Human infection of avian influenza virus (AIV) remains a great concern.Although live poultry markets are believed to be associated with human infections, ever more infections have been reported in rural areas with backyard poultry, especially in the fifth epidemic of H7N9.However, limited information is available on backyard pou

Mediterranean countries play a crucial role as olive oil producers and consumers compared to other world regions.This work focusses on the development of the world production, trade and consumption where the Mediterranean region stands out from the rest of the world, in particular, the Northern Mediterranean countries.Aspects such as how communicat

The evacuation path from inside a building to safe point outside becomes highly unpredictable due to changes in the local geometry or presence of obstacles during a disaster like a fire.During emergencies, Evacuees need appropriate information and hence prediction of an unobstructed path, as it emerges, needs to be computed well.Understanding the e

Proterosuchidae represents the oldest substantial diversification folk rivet sweat of Archosauromorpha and plays a key role in understanding the biotic recovery after the end-Permian mass extinction.Proterosuchidae was long treated as a wastebasket taxon, but recent revisions have reduced its taxonomic content to five valid species from the latest

Abstract Model compression is a technique for transforming large neural network models into smaller ones.Knowledge distillation (KD) is a crucial model compression technique that involves transferring knowledge from a large teacher model to a lightweight student model.Existing knowledge distillation methods typically facilitate the knowledge transf