This paper addresses the issue of reducing the computational complexity of Stochastic Maximum Likelihood (SML) estimation of Direction-of-Arrival (DOA). The SML algorithm is well-known for its high accuracy of DOA estimation in sensor array signal pr...
Strip-mined land (SML) disturbed by coal mining is a non-crop land resource that can be utilized to cultivate high-yielding energy crops such as miscanthus for bioenergy applications. However, the biomass yield potential, annual availability, and env...
Artificial light supplementation is widely used in modern agriculture. Due to their numerous advantages, light emitting diodes (LEDs) are widely used to effectively increase the yield or control the development of crops. In the present study, the eff...
The sea surface microlayer (SML) is a critical biogeochemical boundary, playing a key role in air–sea exchange processes, yet its sampling remains challenging due to potential dilution from subsurface water layers, susceptibility to contaminati...
With the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology, location based service in context awareness has received increasing attention. As one of the main localization technologies, UHF RFID technology has been widely used in many field...
The rapid increase in pig production has become a major contributor to environmental issues due to the mismanagement of organic waste. The sustainable and effective transformation of this waste into a fertilization resource has become an urgent topic...
Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is performed to obtain less than 1 nm thick yttria-doped ceria (YDC) layers as cathode functional layers to increase the surface oxygen incorporation rate for low-temperature solid oxide fuel cells (LT-SOFCs). Introducin...
Background: The anatomical and functional changes after intravitreal dexamethasone implant (IDI) alone and combined with navigated subthreshold micropulse laser (NSML) in diabetic macular oedema (DMO) were compared. Methods: Patients with a clinicall...
In February 1963, a huge landslide (ca. 1,950,000 m3) blocked the Visočica River and, thus, formed Zavoj Lake. The primary objective of this research was to investigate the importance of snowmelt in relation to landslide occurrence and to define...
In the last 15 years or so, soft selective sweep mechanisms have been catapulted from a curiosity of little evolutionary importance to a ubiquitous mechanism claimed to explain most adaptive evolution and, in some cases, most evolution. This transfor...
Circular synthetic aperture radar (CSAR) has attracted a lot of interest, recently, for its excellent performance in civilian and military applications. However, in CSAR imaging, the result is to be defocused when the height of an object deviates fro...
The rapid development of remote sensing and space technology provides multisource remote sensing image data for earth observation in the same area. Information provided by these images, however, is often complementary and cooperative, and multisource...
Multi-modality image fusion provides more comprehensive and sophisticated information in modern medical diagnosis, remote sensing, video surveillance, etc. Traditional multi-scale transform (MST) based image fusion solutions have difficulties in the...
Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks remain a significant threat to the stability and reliability of modern networked systems. This study presents a hierarchical stacking ensemble that integrates multiple Shallow Machine Learning (S-ML) and D...
Seed film-coatings used for seed treatment often contain microplastics which must be replaced. The objective of this study is to analyze the influence of substitutes (maltodextrin, waxy maize glucose syrup (WMGS), methylcellulose, tragacanth gum (TG)...
The integration of renewable energy into residential microgrids presents significant challenges due to solar generation intermittency and variability in household electricity demand. Traditional forecasting methods, reliant on historical data, fail t...
Marine polymer gels play a critical role in regulating ocean basin scale biogeochemical dynamics. This brief review introduces the crucial role of marine gels as a source of aerosol particles and cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) in cloud formation pro...
Legume cultivation is important for a wide array of reasons, including its positive effects on the environment, the economy, and human health. Legumes have different amino acid profiles that complement those of the three globally most important stapl...
Scene matching-based localization systems (SMLSs) offer an effective solution to the failure of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning in complex environments. This paper designs and implements a vision-based autonomous localization sy...
The ocean surface microlayer (SML), with physicochemical characteristics different from those of subsurface waters (SSW), results in dense and active viral and microbial communities that may favor virus–host interactions. Conversely, wind speed and/o...
Our study evaluated visual function changes after subthreshold micropulse laser (SML) treatment in persistent central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC) and SML safety profile. We conducted a prospective study including 31 fovea-involving CSC patients. T...
The present study investigates the role of microplastics (MPs) (polystyrene (PS) microbeads) in copper (Cu) binding within the sea surface microlayer (SML) and underlying water (ULW). A mesocosm experiment was conducted, with both SML and ULW samples...
Transparent exopolymer particles (TEP) act as a major transport mechanism for organic matter (OM) to the sea surface microlayer (SML) via bubble scavenging, and into the atmosphere via bubble bursting. However; little is known about the effects of bu...
Due to increasing rates of periprosthetic joint infections (PJI), new approaches are needed to minimize the infection risk. The first goal of this study was to modify a well-established infection model to test surface-active antimicrobial systems. Th...
The aim of this study was to investigate the longitudinal change in muscle mass over 10 years according to serum calcium levels and calcium intake. A total of 1497 men and 1845 women aged 50 years and older were included. Significant muscle loss (SML...
Background and Objectives: This study aimed to verify the validity of markerless gait analysis using both single-camera markerless system (S-ML) and multi-camera markerless system (M-ML) approaches by comparing them with a gold-standard marker-based...
Background/Objectives: Esophagectomy is the mainstay of treatment in esophageal cancer. Minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE) remains a challenging procedure and has been associated with a high rate of complications and mortality. Routine lymphadene...
Plastic particles are ubiquitous in the marine environment. Given their low density, they have the tendency to float on the sea surface, with possible impacts on the sea surface microlayer (SML). The SML is an enriched biofilm of marine organic matte...
Both atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition and soil microbial legacy (SML) can affect plant performance, the activity of soil N-cycling functional microbes and the relative abundance of N-cycling functional genes (NCFGs). In the grassland vegetation su...
Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a widely used method for solving single-objective optimization problems. However, PSO suffers from diversity loss and premature convergence, leading to suboptimal performance in complex problems. To address these...
Background: Diabetic macular edema (DME) is the primary cause of visual impairment in individuals with diabetes. Anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is the current first-line treatment for DME owing to its effectiveness. However, frequent...
The concentration of chemical and biological parameters in the ecotone of the surface microlayer (SML) occurring between the hydrosphere and the atmosphere of urban water bodies was investigated. Parallel, sub-surface water (SUB) analyses were carrie...
The abundance, distribution, and composition of microparticles (MPs) in the sea-surface microlayer (S-SML, less than 100 μm of sea surface in this experiment) and in bulk water (1 m under the sea surface) were investigated to evaluate the pollutio...
The sea-surface microlayer (SML) forms the uppermost boundary layer between atmosphere and ocean, and has distinctive physico-chemical and biological features compared to the underlying water. First findings on metabolic contributions of microorganis...
The depletion of natural resources and greenhouse gas emissions related to the manufacture and use of ordinary Portland cement (OPC) pose serious concerns to the environment and human life. The present research focuses on using alternative binders to...
The global healthcare sector continues to grow rapidly and is reflected as one of the fastest-growing sectors in the fourth industrial revolution (4.0). The majority of the healthcare industry still uses labor-intensive, time-consuming, and error-pro...
The aim of this work was to evaluate the antibacterial activities and mode of action of sucrose monolaurate (SML) with a desirable purity, synthesized by Lipozyme TL IM-mediated transesterification in the novel ionic liquid, against four pathogenic b...
Improving resource utilization efficiency is critical for achieving high yields and long-term agricultural development in arid and semi-arid settings. Using potato as the research material, a field trial was carried out from 2020 to 2022 in dryland a...
Landslide susceptibility prediction (LSP) has been widely and effectively implemented by machine learning (ML) models based on remote sensing (RS) images and Geographic Information System (GIS). However, comparisons of the applications of ML models f...
Stimuli-responsive liposomes are a class of nanocarriers whose drug release occurs, preferentially, when exposed to a specific biological environment, to an external stimulus, or both. This work is focused on the design of solid magnetoliposomes (SML...
In this study, a novel biomass adsorbent based on activated carbon incorporated with sulfur-based binary metal oxides layered nanoparticles (SML-AC), including sulfur (S2), manganese (Mn), and tin (Sn) oxide synthesized via the solvothermal method. T...
The prevention of biofilm formation on orthopedic implants is essential, as biofilms are the main challenge in the effective treatment of periprosthetic joint infection (PJI). A silver multilayer (SML) coating was developed to prevent biofilm formati...
Background: Central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC) is a common macular condition characterized by detachment of the neuroretina and is a frequent cause of central vision loss in adults. Among the various therapeutic strategies, subthreshold microseco...
This study’s aim is to examine the environmental performance of the South Korean manufacturing industry and suggest performance-oriented policies. The manufacturing industry is classified into seven sub-sectors based on individual sectoral diff...
Despite the growing interest in realized stochastic volatility models, their estimation techniques, such as simulated maximum likelihood (SML), are computationally intensive. Based on the realized volatility equation, this study demonstrates that, in...
This paper presents a novel framework to enable automatic re-training of the supervisory powertrain control strategy for hybrid electric vehicles using supervised machine learning. The aim of re-training is to customize the control strategy to a user...
Concentrations of dissolved and particulate polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were determined seasonally in sea surface microlayer (SML) and sub-surface water (SSW) within the Saronicos Gulf, Greece, close to a highly industrialized coastal zon...
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Objectives: To describe a rare case of delayed diagnosis of a subglottic foreign body (FB) in an adult, resulting in subglottic stenosis, and to evaluate the effectiveness of Suspension Microlaryngoscopy (SML) as a minimally invasive technique for it...
During a water treadmill (WT) exercise, horses change their accelerometric patterns. We aimed to analyze if these changes persist during terrestrial locomotion. Six horses were randomly subjected to 40 min duration WT exercises, without water (WW), a...
Background and Objectives: The aim of the present study is to analyze choroidal and choriocapillaris structural and functional changes in eyes affected by Central serous chorioretinopathy after Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) and Subthreshold Micropulse l...
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