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The study analyzed the relationship of attitudes toward one’s appearance and appearance of the partner with attitude toward the own personality and that of the other persons’ in married men and women. The empirical object of the study inc...

The visual appearance of oil spills at sea is often used as an indicator of spilled oil properties, state and slick thickness. These appearances and the oil properties that are associated with them are reviewed in this paper. The appearance of oil sp...

Excessive focus on appearance or lookism requires social attention as it can have negative consequences on individuals’ psychological and mental states related to health and sustainable social practice. As part of a healthy and sustainable social pra...

This study is aimed to scrutinize the relationship between satisfaction and concern with an individual’s physical appearance and the subjective estimation of economic status, which is considered as one of main predictors of life satisfaction. R...

A 2D topology optimization algorithm is proposed, which integrates the control of hole shape, hole number, and the minimum scale between holes through the utilization of an appearance target image. The distance between the structure and the appearanc...

Optical factors affecting hair appearance are reviewed based on hair structures from macroscopic to microscopic viewpoints. Hair appearance is the result of optical events, such as reflection, refraction, scattering, and absorption. The effects of ha...

In the realm of commercial trade, the appearance quality of wheat is a crucial metric for assessing its value and grading. Traditionally, evaluating wheat appearance quality is a manual process conducted by inspectors, which is time-consuming, labori...

Road detection is a crucial research topic in computer vision, especially in the framework of autonomous driving and driver assistance. Moreover, it is an invaluable step for other tasks such as collision warning, vehicle detection, and pedestrian de...

Let ${\left(F_n\right)}_{n\ge 0}$ be the Fibonacci sequence. The order of appearance function (in the Fibonacci sequence) $z:{\mathbb{Z}}_{\ge 1}\to {\mathbb{Z}}_{\ge 1}$ is defined as $z\left(n\right):=min\{k\ge 1:F_k\equiv 0(modn)\}$. In this paper, among other things, we prove that $z\left(n\right)$ is an even number for almost all positive int...

We conducted a virtual reality study to explore virtual hand illusion through three levels of appearance (Appearance dimension: realistic vs. pixelated vs. toon hand appearances) and two levels of tactile feedback (Tactile dimension: no tactile vs. t...

Physical appearance comparison has been widely studied because of its strong relationship with body dissatisfaction and disordered eating. The main objective of this study was to validate the physical appearance comparison scales (PACS-Revised and PA...

Let ${\left(F_n\right)}_{n\ge 0}$ be the Fibonacci sequence. The order of appearance $z\left(n\right)$ of an integer $n\ge 1$ is defined by $z\left(n\right)=min\{k\ge 1:n\mid F_k\}$ . Marques, and Somer and Křížek proved that al...

In recent years, the research and application of ginseng, a famous and valuable medicinal herb, has received extensive attention at home and abroad. However, with the gradual increase in the demand for ginseng, discrepancies are inevitable when using...

In this work, a framework is proposed to build topological models in mobile robotics, using an omnidirectional vision sensor as the only source of information. The model is structured hierarchically into three layers, from one high-level layer which...

This study investigates the influence of the main process parameters of injection molding(mold temperature, melt temperature, and injection rate) on the appearance of defects of flake-pigmented metallic polymer parts. To understand the influence of p...

To improve the recognition rate of chip appearance defects, an algorithm based on a convolution neural network is proposed to identify chip appearance defects of various shapes and features. Furthermore, to address the problems of long training time...

Solid-state lamps including Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) lighting could facilitate a wide variety of lighting conditions by controlling the spectral power distribution and the spatial distribution of the light source. The appearance of the sur...

The appearance of pest insects can lead to a loss in yield if farmers do not respond in a timely manner to suppress their spread. Occurrences and numbers of insects can be monitored through insect traps, which include their permanent touring and chec...

The importance of innovation for architectural products in the building industry increases due to global competitive markets and users’ increased value given to the visual aesthetics of products. Visual appearance is crucial in architecture and...

Composite materials are characterized by multiple layers, which leads to a complexity in the design in order to ensure the effective operation of the constituent elements. This article provides information on the use of fractal dimension in assessing...

A photo-realistic representation of material appearance can be achieved by means of bidirectional texture function (BTF) capturing a material’s appearance for varying illumination, viewing directions, and spatial pixel coordinates. BTF captures many...

In recent years, semantic segmentation has made significant progress in visual place recognition (VPR) by using semantic information that is relatively invariant to appearance and viewpoint, demonstrating great potential. However, in some extreme sce...

Let $F_n$ be the nth Fibonacci number. Order of appearance $z\left(n\right)$ of a natural number n is defined as smallest natural number k, such that n divides $F_k$ . In 1930, Lehmer proved that all solutions of equation $z\left(n\right)=n\&pl$...

A high-pressure CO₂ process applied to ready-to-eat food products guarantees an increase of both their microbial safety and shelf-life. However, the treatment often produces unwanted changes in the visual appearance of products depending on the adopt...

In order to meet the defect-detection requirements of chips in high-precision surface mount technology (SMT) equipment widely used in the electronic industry, a chip appearance defect-detection method based on multi-order fractional discrete wavelet...

This paper addresses appearance-based robot localization in 2D with a sparse, lightweight map of the environment composed of descriptor–pose image pairs. Based on previous research in the field, we assume that image descriptors are samples of a low-d...

Let $F_n$ be the nth Fibonacci number. The order of appearance $z\left(n\right)$ of a natural number n is defined as the smallest positive integer k such that $F_k\equiv 0(modn)$. In this paper, we shall find all positive solutions of the Diophantine equation $z\left(\phi \right(n$...

Machine vision systems are an important part of modern intelligent manufacturing systems, but due to their complexity, current vision systems are often customized and inefficiently developed. Generic closed-source machine vision development software...

The conventional approach to appearance prediction for 3D printed parts is to print a thin slab of material and measure its reflectance or transmittance with a spectrophotometer. Reflectance works for opaque printing materials. Transmittance works fo...

Given the nexus between food insecurity and body dissatisfaction, a deeper understanding of this complex relationship in college students is needed. The purpose of this cross-sectional study, using the American College Health Association—Nation...

A possible solution of the problem of time in the Wheeler–DeWitt quantum geometrodynamics is that time appears within a semiclassical limit. Following this line of thinking, one can come to the Schrodinger equation for matter fields in curved s...

The rapid proliferation of electric vehicle adoption has brought about significant changes in energy consumption patterns, but improper disposal of retired batteries poses new challenges to the environment. In order to promote the sustainable develop...

In the current study, the effects of steam blanching, saline immersion, and ultrasound pretreatment on the drying time, three-dimensional (3D) appearance, quality characteristics, and microstructure of potato slices were investigated. All the pretrea...

The application of materials with changing visual properties with lighting and observation directions has found broad utility across diverse industries, from architecture and fashion to automotive and film production. The expanding array of applicati...

Physical appearance comparisons have been theorized to be associated with negative indicators of body image. This study aimed to study appearance comparisons and their association to affect, body dissatisfaction, and eating pathology. Three hundred a...

This study investigated the effects of different drying methods on the drying characteristics, three-dimensional (3D) appearance, color, total polysaccharide content (TPC), antioxidant activity, and microstructure of Pleurotus eryngii slices. The dry...

This paper proposes an objective glossiness index for objects in halftone color images. In the proposed index, we consider the characteristics of the human visual system (HVS) and associate the image’s structure distortion and statistical infor...

Nowadays, mobile robots have become a useful tool that permits solving a wide range of applications. Their importance lies in their ability to move autonomously through unknown environments and to adapt to changing conditions. To this end, the robot...

Due to the poor adaptability of traditional methods in the cigarette detection task on the automatic cigarette production line, it is difficult to accurately identify whether a cigarette has defects and the types of defects; thus, a cigarette appeara...

Appearance quality is one of the most important indexes for many injection-molded products, like optical parts, automotive parts etc., especially at the area near the injection gate. Different from the work that focused on designing the dimensions of...

In the digital age, social media has not only transformed the way individuals interact but has also become a significant platform for self-presentation, especially among young people. Social comparison regarding appearance has become more prevalent i...

The appearance of fair-faced concrete is crucial, and it can be enhanced by incorporating an appropriate amount of mineral admixture. Different mineral admixtures have varying effects on the appearance quality of fair-faced concrete. For instance, th...

Fair-faced concrete has garnered substantial attention in recent years owing to its aesthetic appeal and eco-friendly attributes. However, as a construction material, its long-term performance is highly dependent on its service environment, particula...

Eating disorders among adolescents have emerged as a significant global public health concern, with attachment anxiety identified as a critical risk factor for anorexia nervosa (AN) symptoms. Individuals with attachment anxiety often exhibit heighten...

Over the last few years, mobile robotics has experienced a great development thanks to the wide variety of problems that can be solved with this technology. An autonomous mobile robot must be able to operate in a priori unknown environments, planning...

Accurate posture detection of elderly people is crucial to improve monitoring and provide timely alerts in homes and elderly care facilities. Human posture recognition is experiencing a great leap in performance with the incorporation of deep neural...

Accumulating data indicates that certain microRNAs (miRNAs or miRs) are differently expressed in samples of tumors and paired non-tumorous samples taken from the same patients with colorectal tumors. We examined the expression of onco-related miRNAs...

Participation in physical activity and sport is on the decline and there is a poor understanding of the psychosocial factors that contribute to people’s reluctance to participate. We examined whether there were relationships between factors such as w...

We explored imaging methods to perform in situ field measurements of physical correlates of the visual appearance of snow. Measurements were performed at three locations in Norway between February and March 2023. We used a method to estimate the abso...

Map building and localization are two crucial abilities that autonomous robots must develop. Vision sensors have become a widespread option to solve these problems. When using this kind of sensors, the robot must extract the necessary information fro...