A robust, evidence-informed knowledge base for initial teacher education (ITE) is essential for preparing prospective teachers. Although a growing body of research addresses the content of ITE curricula, there is little consensus on what constitutes...
Fabricating large-scale porous bioactive glass bone scaffolds presents significant challenges. This study aims to develop formable, in situ setting scaffolds with a practical gelation time of about 10 min by mixing 45S5 bioactive glass with sodium si...
The European Union (EU) has assigned municipal governments a key role in the transformations needed to achieve its climate and energy objectives. One of the main initiatives of the EU has been the “The Covenant of Mayors”, launched in 200...
In this article, we present the progress of the Erasmus+ Coalition European project. The aim of this project is to promote the development of inclusive practices in higher education so that optimal learning scenarios can be experienced which allow fo...
The mapping relation between the emission angle of the photoelectron and its ionization time (i.e., the angle–time mapping) is important for the attoclock measurement. For a long time, the angle–time mapping was assumed to be angularly un...
Recently, the stereo imaging-based image enhancement approach has attracted increasing attention in the field of video analysis. This paper presents a dual camera-based stereo image defogging algorithm. Optical flow is first estimated from the stereo...
Aiming at some shortcomings of the genetic algorithm to solve the path planning in a global static environment, such as a low efficiency of population initialization, slow convergence speed, and easy-to-fall-into the local optimum, an improved geneti...
In this paper, a global amplitude-controlled discrete hyperchaotic memristive map is designed utilizing the hyperbolic tangent function. This map exhibits fixed points arranged in a line along the y-axis, and the stability distributions of these fixe...
Heterogeneous nucleation and grain initiation are two different processes in early-stage solidification (ESS), although both are deterministic. Heterogeneous nucleation refers to the formation of a 2-dimensional (2D) nucleus (a crystal plane of the s...
The 2021–2022 flood is one of the most serious flood events in Malaysian history, with approximately 70,000 victims evacuated daily, 54 killed and total losses up to MYR 6.1 billion. From this devastating event, we realized the lack of extreme...
Recently, the Global Map of Salt-affected Soils (GSSmap) was launched, which pursued a country-driven approach and aimed to update the global and country-level information on salt-affected soils (SAS). The aim of this paper was to present how Hungary...
Background/Objectives: Studies have indicated that forgoing lung shunt fraction measurement in select patients undergoing Yttrium 90 (Y90) transarterial radioembolization (TARE) may be safe without sacrificing efficacy. This study evaluated the safet...
Depth completion aims to achieve high-quality dense depth prediction from a pair of synchronized sparse depth map and RGB image, and it plays an important role in many intelligent applications, including urban mapping, scene understanding, autonomous...
Sepsis-induced acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common complication in patients with severe illness and leads to increased risks of mortality and chronic kidney disease. We investigated the association between monocyte distribution width (MDW), red-blo...
In order to improve the initialization robustness of visual inertial SLAM, the complementarity of the optical flow method and the feature-based method can be used in vision data processing. The parallel initialization method is proposed, where the op...
Vision sensor systems (VSS) are widely deployed in surveillance, traffic and industrial contexts. A large number of images can be obtained via VSS. Because of the limitations of vision sensors, it is difficult to obtain an all-focused image. This cau...
Multi-line LiDAR and GPS/IMU are widely used in autonomous driving and robotics, such as simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Calibrating the extrinsic parameters of each sensor is a necessary condition for multi-sensor fusion. The calibrati...
This work investigates the classification of finger-tapping task images constructed for the initial dip duration of hemodynamics (HR) associated with the small brain area of the left motor cortex using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). D...
Map-matching is a core functionality of pedestrian navigation applications. The localization errors of the global positioning systems (GPSs) in smartphones are one of the most critical factors that limit the large-scale deployment of pedestrian navig...
Image-based localization is one of the most widely researched localization techniques in the robotics and computer vision communities. As enormous image data sets are provided through the Internet, many studies on estimating a location with a pre-bui...
Trigonometric functions were used to construct a 2-D symmetrical hyperchaotic map with infinitely many attractors. The regime of multistability depends on the periodicity of the trigonometric function, which is closely related to the initial conditio...
In this paper we investigate the use of games technologies for the research and the development of 3D representations of real environments captured from GIS information and open source map data. Challenges involved in this area concern the large data...
Large-Scale land cover mapping (LLCM) based on deep learning models necessitates a substantial number of high-precision sample datasets. However, the limited availability of such datasets poses challenges in regularly updating land cover products. A...
In recent years, secondary schools and university departments related to geography have begun to teach various topics using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). In particular, WebGIS, available online without installing additional software, is recog...
Land cover maps are fundamental materials for resource management and change detection. Remote sensing technology is crucial for fast mapping with low cost. However, besides the inherent classification errors in the land cover products, numerous illo...
In the monocular visual-inertia mode of ORB-SLAM3, the insufficient excitation obtained by the inertial measurement unit (IMU) will lead to a long system initialization time. Hence, the trajectory can be easily lost and the map creation will not be c...
As integrated circuit processes become more advanced, feature sizes become smaller and smaller, and more and more processing cores and memory components are integrated on a single chip. However, the traditional bus-based System-on-Chip (SoC) communic...
Accurate apple orchard mapping plays a vital role in managing agricultural resources. However, national-scale apple orchard mapping faces challenges such as the “same spectrum with different objects” phenomenon between apple trees and oth...
This study introduces a visual SLAM real-time system designed for small indoor environments. The system demonstrates resilience against significant motion clutter and supports wide-baseline loop closing, re-localization, and automatic initialization....
In Network-on-Chip (NoC) research, the task mapping problem has attracted considerable attention as a core issue influencing system performance. As an NP-hard problem, it remains challenging, and existing algorithms exhibit limitations in both mappin...
This study assessed the safety and performance of ARTFit, a new tool embedded in MAESTRO, the cochlear implant (CI) system software by MED-EL GmbH (Innsbruck, Austria). ARTFit automatically measures thresholds of the electrically evoked compound acti...
Presently, although many impressed SLAM systems have achieved exceptional accuracy in a real environment, most of them are verified in the static environment. However, for mobile robots and autonomous driving, the dynamic objects in the scene can res...
This work presents an initial analysis of using bijective mappings to extend the Theory of Functional Connections to non-rectangular two-dimensional domains. Specifically, this manuscript proposes three different mappings techniques: (a) complex mapp...
Utility as-built plans, which typically provide information about underground utilities’ position and spatial locations, are known to comprise inaccuracies. Over the years, the reliance on utility investigations using an array of sensing equipm...
Solutions to current complex environmental challenges demand the consultation and involvement of various groups in society. In light of the WFD’s requirements of public participation, this paper presents an analysis of the establishment and developme...
In this paper, we introduce an automatic room segmentation approach based on morphological processing. The inputs are registered point-clouds obtained from either a static laser scanner or a mobile scanning system, without any required prior informat...
In the digital information age, although digital images are widely used, the security issues associated with them have become increasingly severe. Consequently, ensuring secure image transmission has become a critical challenge in contemporary inform...
Aims: To assess the spatiotemporal stability of extra-pulmonary vein (PV) sources in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation (AF). Methods and results: Nine patients (mean age 63 ± 9 years, 55% male) with persistent AF were included who u...
The aim of this work is to highlight the contribution of geological maps and mapping to industrial scale design. To achieve this goal, the site selection of a new quarry area is used as an example. For the development of a new quarry, the materials t...
Arguments inspired by algorithmic information theory predict an inverse relation between the probability and complexity of output patterns in a wide range of input–output maps. This phenomenon is known as simplicity bias. By viewing the paramet...
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The notion of quiet areas has received increasing attention within the EU in recent years. The EU Environmental Noise Directive (END) of 2002 stipulates that member states should map existing quiet areas and formulate strategies to keep these quiet....
Phosphorus recovery from wastewater can reduce dependence on phosphate rock and help control eutrophication. Struvite crystallization is a promising recovery route, but conventional processes often require soluble magnesium salts and alkaline reagent...
In this paper, a novel path planning algorithm with Reinforcement Learning is proposed based on the topological map. The proposed algorithm has a two-level structure. At the first level, the proposed method generates the topological area using the re...
The aim of this work is the extraction of edges from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) images by a deformable contour procedure, using an external force field derived from an anisotropic flow. Moreover, we introduce...
Indoor RF-based localization using fingerprint mapping requires an initial training step, which represents a time consuming process. This location methodology needs a database conformed with RSSI (Radio Signal Strength Indicator) measures from the co...
The paper presents a novel depth-estimation method for light-field (LF) images based on innovative multi-stereo matching and machine-learning techniques. In the first stage, a novel block-based stereo matching algorithm is employed to compute the ini...
The emergence of hyperspectral imagery paved a new way for rapid mineral mapping. As a classical hyperspectral classification method, spectral matching (SM) can automatically map the spatial distribution of minerals without the need for selecting tra...
Tropical evergreen forests represent the richest biodiversity in terrestrial ecosystems, and the fine spatial-temporal resolution mapping of these forests is essential for the study and conservation of this vital natural resource. The current methods...
Based on an elastic rub-impact model, a dynamic model of a rubbing rotor system with an initial deflection was set up and motion equations were derived and solved numerically. Poincaré maps, rotor orbits and bifurcation diagrams were drawn to investi...
Accurately quantifying water inundation dynamics in terms of both spatial distributions and temporal variability is essential for water resources management. Currently, the water map is usually derived from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data with th...
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