The three-dimensional measurement system with a binary defocusing technique is widely applied in diverse fields. The measurement accuracy is mainly determined by out-of-focus projector calibration accuracy. In this paper, a high-precision out-of-focu...
This paper investigates the acceptability of focused Objects with [+corrective, +exhaustive] features in Italian and French, considering the role of syntactic rigidity, Exhaustivity Markers (EMs), and argument structure. We conducted two parallel acc...
The present cross-sectional study assessed the role of multimodal cues in marking focus types during early childhood, focusing on prosodic prominence, gesture presence, and gestural prominence. A total of 116 Catalan-speaking three-, four- and five-y...
Extended depth-of-focus (EDoF) presbyopia-correcting intraocular lens (IOL) models differ in their optical design and performance. In the laboratory, we compared the ray propagation and light intensity profiles of four IOLs: the non-diffractive AcryS...
Background/Objectives: A new, purely refractive extended depth-of-focus (EDOF) intraocular lens (IOL) was designed with a continuous change in power to bridge the gap between monofocal and multifocal IOLs. This study aimed to evaluate the real-world...
Focus is cross-linguistically associated with a number of different strategies, such as fronting, clefting, markers, and prosody. In some cases, the choice between one strategy or another is determined by language-specific rules, while in others, two...
Ageing results in the progressive loss of near vision, known as presbyopia, which impacts individuals and society. Existing corrective methods offer only partial compensation and do not restore dynamic focusing at varying distances. This work present...
Somatic stem cells ensure tissue renewal along life and healing of injuries. Their safe isolation, genetic manipulation ex vivo and reinfusion in patients suffering from life threatening immune deficiencies (for example, severe combined immunodeficie...
Delay-and-sum (DAS) beamforming of backscattered echoes is used for conventional ultrasound imaging. Although DAS beamforming is well suited for imaging in soft tissues, refraction, scattering, and absorption, porous mineralized tissues cause phase a...
Correction of terrestrial Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) intensity data has been increasingly studied in recent years. The purpose is to obtain additional insight into the scanned environment that is not available from the geometric information...
10 January 2023
Peripheral refraction can lead to the development of myopia. The aim of this study was to compare relative peripheral refraction (RPR) in the same cohort of uncorrected (WCL) and corrected eyes with two different soft contact lenses (CL) designed for...
This study employs a numerical simulation approach to investigate argon bubble flow behavior within a steel continuous casting mold, with a focus on the impact of bubble swarm correction models. Three scenarios are compared: one without any correctio...
Foundational Black Womanist Christian Theology has suffered from the focus on Alice Walker’s 1983 four-part womanist definition at the exclusion of her 1979 short story, Coming Apart. The focus on the 1983 definition and the exclusion of Coming Apart...
This study compared how well native Mandarin and native English speakers can perceive prosodically marked focus in English echo questions. Twenty-five yes–no echo questions were produced with a sentence focus, a verb focus, and an object focus....
The systemic biases of Regional Climate Models (RCMs) impede their application in regional hydrological climate-change effects analysis and lead to errors. As a consequence, bias correction has become a necessary prerequisite for the study of climate...
We focus on an estimation method based on deep learning in terms of fault correction time for the operation reliability assessment of open-source software (OSS) under the environment of an edge computing service. Then, we discuss fault severity level...
The Cruising Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (CUAV) exemplifies an advanced system integrating UAV and munitions technology. The primary challenge lies in devising strategies to achieve precision strikes. Achieving precision strikes is a critical combat miss...
For correct chromosome segregation in mitosis, eukaryotic cells must establish chromosome biorientation where sister kinetochores attach to microtubules extending from opposite spindle poles. To establish biorientation, any aberrant kinetochore&ndash...
In this paper, we present our results on the formal reliability analysis of the behavioral correctness of our cognitive middleware ARMET. The formally assured behavioral correctness of a software system is a fundamental prerequisite for the system’s...
In this article, we start by presenting state-of-the-art methods allowing us to compute moments related to the globally conserved baryon number, by means of first principle resummed perturbative frameworks. We focus on such quantities for they convey...
This study aims to address the challenges posed by uneven energy amplitude and a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in the total focus imaging of coarse-crystalline elastic anisotropic materials. A novel method for acoustic field correction vector-coher...
The problem of stripe non-uniformity in array-based infrared imaging systems has been the focus of many research studies. Among the proposed correction techniques, total variation models have been proven to significantly reduce the effect of this typ...
This paper presents an approach to error correction in wireless communication systems, with a focus on the Bluetooth Low Energy standard. Our method uses the redundancy provided by the cyclic redundancy check and leaves the transmitter unchanged. The...
Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) studies of ground displacement are often plagued by tropospheric artifacts, which are phase delays resulting from spatiotemporal variations in the refractivity of air within the troposphere. In this st...
This paper reports the precision of shape-from-focus (SFF) imaging according to the texture frequencies and window sizes of a focus measure. SFF is one of various depth measurement techniques for optical imaging, such as microscopy and endoscopy. SFF...
The overlaying rib cage is a major hindrance in treating liver tumors with high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU). The problems caused are overheating of the ribs due to its high ultrasonic absorption capability and degradation of the ultrasound in...
This study investigates the horizontal positioning accuracy of a low-cost, multi-frequency GNSS receiver operating in static mode using a newly released PPP-RTK correction service delivering localized corrections. To the authors’ knowledge, thi...
The Actuator Disc/Navier-Stokes (AD/NS) method has played a significant role in wind farm simulations. It is based on the assumption that the flow is azimuthally uniform in the rotor plane, and thus, requires a tip loss correction to take into accoun...
26 August 2015
This paper applies probabilistic risk assessment in quantifying risks from cumulative and aggregate risk pathways for selected goitrogens in water and food. Results show that the percentages of individuals with a Hazard Index (HI) value above 1 range...
Adaptive optics (AO) systems are capable of correcting wavefront aberrations caused by transmission media or defects in optical systems. The deformable mirror (DM) plays a crucial role as a component of the adaptive optics system. In this study, our...
In space optical communication, owing to the influence of atmospheric turbulence, optical beams lose focus and become phase-distorted, which reduces the communication quality. Considering the polarization dependence of liquid crystal spatial light mo...
This review covers important anticancer and antifungal compounds reported from filamentous fungi and in particular from Aspergillus, Penicillium and Talaromyces. The taxonomy of these fungi is not trivial, so a focus of this review has been to report...
In this study, we focus on invariant algebraic curves of generalized Liénard polynomial differential systems x′=y, y′=−fm(x)y−gn(x), where the degrees of the polynomials f and g are m and n, respectively, and we correct...
The radio-wave refraction error caused by the troposphere and ionosphere badly affects accuracy in terms of the navigation, positioning, measurement, and control of a target; it is the main source of errors in high-accuracy measurement and control sy...
Proteins are large biomolecules with a specific structure that is composed of one or more long amino acid chains. Correct protein structures are directly linked to their correct function, and many environmental factors can have either positive or neg...
We consider a class of panel tests of the null hypothesis of no cointegration and cointegration. All tests under investigation rely on single-equations estimated by least squares, and they may be residual-based or not. We focus on test statistics com...
Precise knowledge of the antenna pointing direction is a key facet to ensure the accuracy of observations from scanning weather radars. The sun is an often-used reference point to aid accurate alignment of weather radar systems and is particularly us...
Introducing ionospheric information into a precise point positioning (PPP) solution enables faster ambiguity resolution and significantly improves positioning accuracy. To compute such corrections over wide areas, sparse networks with potentially irr...
Purpose: Data stability is a critical factor in Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) single-cell analysis. However, various factors, such as sample processing, instrument condition, and data acquisition, can introduce uncertainti...
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Background: Due to scientific advancements in high-throughput data production technologies, omics studies, such as genomics and metabolomics, often give rise to numerous measurements per sample/subject containing several noisy variables that potentia...
The topic of underwater (UW) image colour correction and restoration has gained significant scientific interest in the last couple of decades. There are a vast number of disciplines, from marine biology to archaeology, that can and need to utilise th...
Image dehazing is a crucial task in computer vision, aimed at restoring the clarity of images impacted by atmospheric conditions like fog, haze, or smog, which degrade image quality by reducing contrast, color fidelity, and detail. Recent advancement...
The mountainous vegetation is important to regional sustainable development. However, the topographic effect is the main obstacle to the monitoring of mountainous vegetation using remote sensing. Aiming to retrieve the reflectance of frequently-used...
Oral and periodontal diseases, chewing disorders, and many destructive inflammatory diseases of the supporting tissues of the teeth are usually caused by an imbalance between host defense and environmental factors like smoking, poor nutrition, and a...
The reliability of memory is an important issue. The rapid development of transistor technology makes the memory more prone to soft errors. Several recent efforts have proposed various designs to avoid the corruption of stored data by using Error Cor...
Accurate correction of the corrupting effects of the atmosphere and the water’s surface are essential in order to obtain the optical, biological and biogeochemical properties of the water from satellite-based multi- and hyper-spectral sensors. The ma...
14 December 2018
In an effort to reduce newborn mortality, a newly developed strap-on electronic fetal heart rate monitor was introduced at several health facilities in Tanzania in 2015. Training sessions were organized to teach staff how to use the device in clinica...
In recent years, the digitization of documents has progressed, and opportunities for handwritten document creation have decreased. However, handwritten notes are still taken for memorizing data, and automated digitalization is needed in some cases, s...
The TanDEM-X Digital Elevation Model (DEM) is limited by the radar side-view imaging mode, which still has gaps and anomalies that directly affect the application potential of the data. Many methods have been used to improve the accuracy of TanDEM-X...
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