Université de Tours

A Survey on Clustered Federated Learning: Taxonomy, Analysis and Applications

As Federated Learning (FL) expands, the challenge of non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID) data becomes critical. Clustered Federated Learning (CFL) addresses this by training multiple specialized models, each representing a group of clients with similar data dist...

Unraveling HBV Life Cycle by Fluorescent Microscopy Imaging

The hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a worldwide hepatotropic virus despite the availability of a highly effective vaccine. Currently, the most efficacious treatment against HBV infection is the use of interferon and nucleos(t)ide analogs, which effectively suppress viral replication b...

Exposure to workplace and domestic violence as differential risk factors for stress and depression

Exposure to interpersonal violence is a well-established determinant of poor mental health. However, violence often occurs across multiple life domains rather than in isolation, and its psychological consequences may differ depending on the context and outcome considered. This st...

Comparison of Materno-Neonatal Outcomes Between Cook Balloon and Prostaglandin Methods in Labor Induction Among Pregnancies Complicated by Fetal Growth Restriction: A Retrospective Cohort Study from France

Background: To evaluate whether the methods of induction of labor (IOL) used for pregnancies complicated with fetal growth restriction (FGR) have different impacts on materno-fetal outcomes. Methods: This was a single-center, retrospective cohort study conducted over a one-year p...

On the effects of using nonlinear springs in mono-coupled periodic structures

Abstract Many strategies are employed to control structural vibration. One of them is to design structural elements in a periodic arrangement to obtain the so-called bandgap effect. For infinite periodic structures, bandgaps are defined as frequency ranges where waves do not prop...

Queen loss fails to elicit physiological and transcriptional responses in workers of the invasive garden ant Lasius neglectus.

Colonies of insects with morphologically distinct castes have been called superorganisms because the function of their queens and workers is analogous to the germline and soma in metazoan bodies. In the case of formicoid ants, workers typically have lost the sperm storage organ,...