Publications by authors named "N Becerra"

Article Synopsis
  • The Eastern Tropical and South-Eastern Pacific region is really important for nature and biodiversity.
  • Countries like Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Ecuador made a promise to protect the ocean by creating a big protected area called a Mega MPA.
  • Researchers found plastic pollution is a big problem in these areas, and it's everywhere, even inside protected zones, so we need to learn why it's happening to help fix it.
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The health of humans, domestic and wild animals, plants, and the environment are inter-dependent. Global anthropogenic change is a key driver of disease emergence and spread and leads to biodiversity loss and ecosystem function degradation, which are themselves drivers of disease emergence. Pathogen spill-over events and subsequent disease outbreaks, including pandemics, in humans, animals and plants may arise when factors driving disease emergence and spread converge.

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Purpose: The manual delineation of organs at risk is a process that requires a great deal of time both for the technician and for the physician. Availability of validated software tools assisted by artificial intelligence would be of great benefit, as it would significantly improve the radiation therapy workflow, reducing the time required for segmentation. The purpose of this article is to validate the deep learning-based autocontouring solution integrated in syngo.

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