Urbanization is inevitably accompanied by drastic changes in regional land use and therefore presents an evident influence on ecosystems. Habitat quality (HQ) reflects the ability of a habitat to provide suitable conditions for the survival of an ind...
This study evaluated the safety and effectiveness of HYDRAGEL A2, an injectable medical device containing hyaluronic acid (HA), polynucleotides (PN), and niacinamide, for improving facial skin quality. These ingredients are increasingly recognized fo...
As a traditional delicacy in China, preserved eggs inevitably experience instances of substandard quality during the production process. Chinese preserved egg production facilities can only rely on experienced workers to select the preserved eggs. Ho...
The aim of this study was to perform a bibliometric analysis to discover what topics of dental YouTube videos have been investigated by the scientific literature, and evaluate how video characteristics were related to citation count. The Scopus elect...
Modeling is a useful way to understand human and climate change impacts on the water resources of agricultural watersheds. Calibration and validation methodologies are crucial in forecasting assessments. This study explores the best calibration metho...
The Global Quality Score (GQS) is one of the most frequently used tools to evaluate the content quality of online health information. To the author’s knowledge, it is frequently misnamed as the Global Quality Scale, and occasionally secondary s...
Large-scale food fortification is an effective, sustainable, and scalable intervention to address vitamin and mineral deficiencies, however, pressing gaps exist globally around ensuring the quality of fortified foods. This paper summarizes the global...
Cancer is a challenge for the majority of the population’s health-related quality of life (HRQoL), compromising their physical health and emotional well-being. This study aimed to assess the QoL, differentiate QoL among different groups, and ex...
Single-image super-resolution (SISR) techniques have become a vital tool for improving image quality and clarity in the rapidly evolving field of digital imaging. Convolutional neural network (CNN) and transformer-based SISR techniques are very popul...
With the growing demand for ecological monitoring and geological exploration, high-quality satellite remote-sensing imagery has become indispensable for accurate information extraction and automated analysis. However, haze reduces image contrast and...
Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) aims to evaluate image quality in a way that closely matches human perception. To achieve this goal, the strengths of deep learning and the characteristics of the human visual system (HVS) can be combined. In thi...
Background/Objectives: The relationship between multiple sclerosis (MS) disability and co-occurring non-motor symptomatology is not well understood. This study examined the association between disability status and non-motor symptoms—sleep qual...
Previous research has found that elite athletes have insufficient sleep, yet the specific kinds of sleep disturbances occurring as compared to a control group are limited. Here we compare the subjective sleep quality and chronotype of elite athletes...
16 January 2024
Air pollution control and air quality monitoring are global priority, which also applies to local scales. Ground-based monitoring stations provide high quality values, but their number and cost make them insufficient for use at certain scales and for...
Background: To date, evidence about sleep disturbances among post-COVID-19 patients is limited. This study aimed to evaluate sleep quality after hospitalization due to SARS-CoV-2 infection. Methods: In-person follow-up was conducted in patients with...
Sports and quality of life have a well-established connection. Karate-Dō is now a global scale sport, although it preserves traditional values and behaviors. The main aim of this study is to compare the difference in subjective quality of life l...
The ANEMI model is an integrated assessment model of global change that emphasizes the role of water resources. Securing water resources for the future is a key issue of global change and ties into global systems of population growth, climate change...
Numerical simulation studies of the dispersion of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) in the air have increased over the last two decades in parallel with the interest in understanding its role as a precursor of non-sea salt aerosols in the lower to middle levels...
Mental illnesses represent a significant public health challenge on a global scale, contributing substantially to morbidity, mortality, disability, and impaired health-related quality of life, while exacerbating regional health inequities [...]
The transportation industry is one of the major sources of energy consumption and CO2 emissions, and these emissions have been increasing year by year. Vehicle exhaust emissions have had serious impacts on air quality and global climate change, with...
Underwater imaging is generally subject to complex degradation issues such as color distortion, contrast degradation, and detail blurring due to the selective absorption and scattering of light wavelengths by water. Existing deep learning methods hav...
The COVID-19 pandemic led to an unprecedented slowdown in global economic and transportation activities, offering a unique opportunity to assess the relationship between human activity and atmospheric pollution. This study analyzes global variations...
Modeling inland water quality by remote sensing has already demonstrated its capacity to make accurate predictions. However, limitations still exist for applicability in diverse regions, as well as to retrieve non-optically active parameters (nOAC)....
A reduced reference quality assessment algorithm for image retargeting by earth mover’s distance is proposed in this paper. In the reference image, all the feature points are extracted using scale invariant feature transform. Let the histograms of im...
Eliminating mixed noise from images is a challenging task because accurately describing the attenuation of noise distribution is difficult. However, most existing algorithms for mixed noise removal solely rely on the local information of the image an...
Image distortion correction is a fundamental yet challenging task in image restoration, especially in scenarios with complex distortions and fine details. Existing methods often rely on fixed-scale feature extraction, which struggles to capture multi...
Development remains a central concept for policy design and implementation aimed at improving the quality of life of the world population, despite a manifest rise in neoliberalist economic growth policy strategic guidance rationales. In accepting the...
The spatial extent and values of nighttime light (NTL) data are widely used to reflect the scope and intensity of human activities, such as extracting urban boundaries, spatializing population density, analyzing economic development levels, etc. DMSP...
The quality of global cropland products could affect our understanding of the impacts of cropland reclamation on global changes. With the advancement of remote sensing technology, several global land cover products and synergistic datasets have been...
Shipping emissions contribute significantly to air pollution at the local and global scales and will do so even more in the future because global maritime transport volumes are projected to increase. The Mediterranean Sea contains the major routes fo...
Background: Sleep is critical to a person’s overall physical and mental health. The current study investigated the relationship between mindfulness and sleep quality, to determine if this relationship is influenced by emotion regulation and per...
Background: A chronic disease occurring in a person’s life is a stressor, disrupting every aspect of their life. Objectives: This study aims to assess the relationship between functioning in chronic illness and quality of life with the prevalen...
12 January 2021
It is necessary to develop self-reported instruments that evaluate the process of living with chronic heart failure (HF) holistically. The Living with Chronic Illness Scale—HF (LW-CI-HF) is the only available tool to evaluate how patients are l...
Sea surface salinity (SSS) is one of the Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) as defined by the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS). Acquiring high-quality SSS datasets with high spatial-temporal resolution is crucial for research on the hydrologica...
Traditional beers, such as palm wine, kombucha and others, are notable beverages consumed all over the globe. Such beverages historically contribute to food security on a global scale. Umqombothi is a South African traditional beer nutritionally pack...
With the wide application of generative models in the field of SAR image inpainting, inadequate reconstruction quality of scattering characteristics and insufficient global coherence of semantic logic remain the core challenges of such tasks. To addr...
Background and Objectives: Apathy and sleep problems are frequently observed among non-motor symptoms (NMSs) in Parkinson’s disease (PD), but the relationship between the two has not been well investigated. This study aimed to determine the ext...
In the field of bookbinding, accurately and efficiently detecting signature sequences during the binding process is crucial for enhancing quality, improving production efficiency, and advancing industrial automation. Despite significant advancements...
Assessments of long-term changes of air quality and global radiative forcing at a large scale heavily rely on satellite aerosol optical depth (AOD) datasets, particularly their temporal binning products. Although some attempts focusing on the validat...
Semantic segmentation of remote sensing images is a fundamental task in geospatial analysis and Earth observation research, and has a wide range of applications in urban planning, land cover classification, and ecological monitoring. In complex geogr...
The estimation of water quality properties through satellite remote sensing relies on (1) the optical characteristics of the water body, (2) the resolutions (spatial, spectral, radiometric and temporal) of the sensor and (3) algorithm(s) applied. Mor...
Underwater image enhancement (UIE) is a key technology in the fields of underwater robot navigation, marine resources development, and ecological environment monitoring. Due to the absorption and scattering of different wavelengths of light in water,...
There is a great need for paediatric palliative care (PPC) services globally, but access to services is lacking in many parts of the world, particularly in resource-poor settings. Globally it is estimated that 21.6 million children need access to pal...
This article reviews the role that photogrammetry plays in evaluating the geometric quality of satellite products in connection to the long-term monitoring of essential climate variables (ECVs). The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) is responsib...
When image quality is evaluated, the human visual system (HVS) infers the details in the image through its internal generative mechanism. In this process, the HVS integrates both local and global information about the image, utilizes contextual infor...
Allogeneic cell therapy products, such as therapeutic cells derived from pluripotent stem cells (PSCs), have amazing potential to treat a wide variety of diseases and vast numbers of patients globally. However, there are various challenges related to...
Background: Fractures of the distal radius are among the most common bone injuries, and their frequency is constantly increasing, leading to an elevated need for subsequent rehabilitation. This growing need has led to the emergence of online content...
During the image compositing process, there may be inconsistencies in tone and illumination between the foreground and background, leading to poor visual quality and low realism in the composite images. To address these issues, image harmonization te...
Satellites frequently encounter atmospheric haze during imaging, leading to the loss of detailed information in remote sensing images and significantly compromising image quality. This detailed information is crucial for applications such as Earth ob...
(1) Background: There is a need to scale and transform health professional education (HPE) globally to not only improve the quantity but also the quality of health workers. This paper describes the approach undertaken by a Health University in Lao PD...
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