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  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,636 Views
12 Pages

Racial geography, mapping spatial distributions of different racial groups, is of keen interest in a multiracial society like the United States. A racial dot map is a method of visualizing racial geography, which depicts spatial distribution, populat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,710 Views
14 Pages

Complexity Level of People Gathering Presentation on an Animated Map—Objective Effectiveness Versus Expert Opinion

  • Beata Medyńska-Gulij,
  • Łukasz Wielebski,
  • Łukasz Halik and
  • Maciej Smaczyński

The aim of the following study was to present three alternative methods of visualization on animated maps illustrating the movement of people gathered at an open-air event recorded on photographs taken by a drone. The effectiveness of an orthorectifi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,035 Views
26 Pages

The overcrowding of first aid facilities creates considerable hardship and problems which have repercussions on patients’ wellbeing, the time needed for a diagnosis, and on the quality of the assistance. The basic objective of this contribution, base...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,557 Views
18 Pages

Ratiometric Fluorescent pH Sensing with Carbon Dots: Fluorescence Mapping across pH Levels for Potential Underwater Applications

  • Wiktoria Karolina Szapoczka,
  • Chiara Olla,
  • Cristina Carucci,
  • Adam Leo Truskewycz,
  • Tore Skodvin,
  • Andrea Salis,
  • Carlo Maria Carbonaro,
  • Bodil Holst and
  • Peter James Thomas

2 September 2024

Ocean acidification has become a major climate change concern requiring continuous observation. Additionally, in the industry, pH surveillance is of great importance. Consequently, there is a pressing demand to develop robust and inexpensive pH senso...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,352 Views
12 Pages

The Co-Occurrence of 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome and Epithelial Basement Membrane Dystrophy: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

  • Marta Armentano,
  • Ludovico Alisi,
  • Francesca Giovannetti,
  • Valeria Iannucci,
  • Luca Lucchino,
  • Alice Bruscolini and
  • Alessandro Lambiase

13 August 2024

Background: 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11.2DS) is a genetic disorder caused by the deletion of the q11.2 band of chromosome 22. It may affect various systems, including the cardiovascular, immunological, gastrointestinal, endocrine, and neurocogni...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,442 Views
20 Pages

Continuous Wave-Diffuse Optical Tomography (CW-DOT) in Human Brain Mapping: A Review

  • Shuo Guan,
  • Yuhang Li,
  • Yuanyuan Gao,
  • Yuxi Luo,
  • Hubin Zhao,
  • Dalin Yang and
  • Rihui Li

25 March 2025

Continuous wave-diffuse optical tomography (CW-DOT) has emerged as a promising non-invasive neuroimaging technique for assessing brain function. Its ability to provide brain mapping with high spatial resolution over traditional functional near-infrar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,283 Views
18 Pages

Mapping the Stability and Dynamics of Optically Injected Dual State Quantum Dot Lasers

  • Michael Dillane,
  • Benjamin Lingnau,
  • Evgeny A. Viktorov and
  • Bryan Kelleher

10 February 2022

Optical injection is a key nonlinear laser configuration both for applications and fundamental studies. An important figure for understanding the optically injected laser system is the two parameter stability mapping of the dynamics found by examinin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,634 Views
27 Pages

18 July 2024

Most visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems are based on the assumption of a static environment in autonomous vehicles. However, when dynamic objects, particularly vehicles, occupy a large portion of the image, the localization a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
477 Views
21 Pages

1 December 2025

In public safety scenarios, such as large-scale event security and urban crowd management, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) serve as a vital tool for crowd localization, offering high mobility and broad coverage. However, UAV-based overhead localizati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,404 Views
16 Pages

Traditionally, chorochromatic maps with a qualitative measurement level are used for land use presentations. Along with the use of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), it became possible to register dynamic phenomena in a small space. We analyze the appli...

  • Review
  • Open Access
158 Citations
12,699 Views
28 Pages

10 May 2012

With the fast development, in the last ten years, of a large choice of set-ups dedicated to routine in vivo measurements in rodents, fluorescence imaging techniques are becoming essential tools in preclinical studies. Human clinical uses for diagnost...

  • Article
  • Open Access
502 Views
18 Pages

1 January 2026

This study presents the development of a smart packaging material utilizing garlic-derived nitrogen-doped carbon dots (CDs) integrated into a whey protein–starch (WP-S) emulsion. The research aimed to create a real-time, non-invasive biosensor...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,642 Views
22 Pages

Detection of Genomic Uracil Patterns

  • Angéla Békési,
  • Eszter Holub,
  • Hajnalka Laura Pálinkás and
  • Beáta G. Vértessy

The appearance of uracil in the deoxyuridine moiety of DNA is among the most frequently occurring genomic modifications. Three different routes can result in genomic uracil, two of which do not require specific enzymes: spontaneous cytosine deaminati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,056 Views
12 Pages

Diffuse Optical Tomography Provides a High Sensitivity at the Sensory-Motor Gyri: A Functional Region of Interest Approach

  • Estefania Hernandez-Martin,
  • Francisco Marcano,
  • Oscar Perez-Diaz,
  • Cristina de Dios and
  • Jose Luis Gonzalez-Mora

27 November 2023

Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) technology enables a differentiation between oxyhemoglobin (HbO) and deoxyhemoglobin (HbR) in the sensory and motor cerebral gyri, resulting in greater sensitivity for cerebral activation compared to functional magnet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,231 Views
11 Pages

Electron Correlations in Local Effective Potential Theory

  • Viraht Sahni,
  • Xiao-Yin Pan and
  • Tao Yang

Local effective potential theory, both stationary-state and time-dependent, constitutes the mapping from a system of electrons in an external field to one of the noninteracting fermions possessing the same basic variable such as the density, thereby...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,551 Views
12 Pages

19 July 2022

The nonuniform magnetic vortex gyrotropic oscillations along the cylindrical dot thickness were calculated. A generalized Thiele equation was used for describing the vortex core motion including magnetostatic and exchange forces. The magnetostatic in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,018 Views
11 Pages

Edge States and Strain-Driven Topological Phase Transitions in Quantum Dots in Topological Insulators

  • Benjamin Puzantian,
  • Yasser Saleem,
  • Marek Korkusinski and
  • Pawel Hawrylak

1 December 2022

We present here a theory of the electronic properties of quasi two-dimensional quantum dots made of topological insulators. The topological insulator is described by either eight band k·p Hamiltonian or by a four-band k&middo...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,032 Views
11 Pages

3 August 2020

Sailors in premodern China performed various types of rituals to pray for safe voyages. This article investigates a unique seven-dot image discovered from shipwrecks dated to thirteenth- and fourteenth-century China. Comparing the seven-dot image wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,114 Views
15 Pages

Filling dot maps with a regular pattern is a key step in visual representation of land use data. The traditional methods cannot adapt well to shape features of complex areas, leading to an unreasonable symbol arrangement in the inner region and area...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,122 Views
10 Pages

Investigation of Nonlinear Optical Properties of Quantum Dots Deposited onto a Sample Glass Using Time-Resolved Inline Digital Holography

  • Andrey V. Belashov,
  • Igor A. Shevkunov,
  • Ekaterina P. Kolesova,
  • Anna O. Orlova,
  • Sergei E. Putilin,
  • Andrei V. Veniaminov,
  • Chau-Jern Cheng and
  • Nikolay V. Petrov

We report on the application of time-resolved inline digital holography in the study of the nonlinear optical properties of quantum dots deposited onto sample glass. The Fresnel diffraction patterns of the probe pulse due to noncollinear degenerate p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,790 Views
14 Pages

Learnable Priors Support Reconstruction in Diffuse Optical Tomography

  • Alessandra Serianni,
  • Alessandro Benfenati and
  • Paola Causin

Diffuse Optical Tomography (DOT) is a non-invasive medical imaging technique that makes use of Near-Infrared (NIR) light to recover the spatial distribution of optical coefficients in biological tissues for diagnostic purposes. Due to the intense sca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,440 Views
13 Pages

Imaging the Human Thyroid Using Three-Dimensional Diffuse Optical Tomography: A Preliminary Study

  • Tetsuya Mimura,
  • Shinpei Okawa,
  • Hiroshi Kawaguchi,
  • Yukari Tanikawa and
  • Yoko Hoshi

12 February 2021

Thyroid cancer is usually diagnosed by ultrasound imaging and fine-needle aspiration biopsy. However, diagnosis of follicular thyroid carcinomas (FTC) is difficult because FTC lacks nuclear atypia and a consensus on histological interpretation. Diffu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,802 Views
18 Pages

8 March 2020

After an electromagnetic railgun launch, a series of damage phenomena may cause the inner bore surface to become complex, such as gouging and deposition. Furthermore, the rail surface will be uneven and blackened by oxidation. To understand these for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,951 Views
19 Pages

This article presents the results of research on users concerning six thematic maps made with various mapping techniques and related to various aspects of the activities of the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service. The aim of the survey was to determ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,984 Views
35 Pages

30 September 2024

A derivation of a tight-binding model from Schrödinger formalism for various topologies of position-based semiconductor qubits is presented in the case of static and time-dependent electric fields. The simplistic tight-binding model enables the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
328 Views
18 Pages

Transcutaneous Vagus Nerve Stimulation During Motor Activity in Healthy Volunteers: A High-Density Diffuse Optical Tomography Study

  • Sheharyar S. Baig,
  • Caitlin H. Illingworth,
  • Breanna McQueen,
  • Amy Gibbons,
  • Joanna Ravenscroft,
  • Charlotte Morton,
  • Gavin Brittain,
  • Emilia Butters,
  • Sabrina Di Lonardo Burr and
  • Li Su
  • + 2 authors

29 January 2026

Background: Stroke is a leading cause of long-term disability worldwide. Non-invasive or transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) shows promise in promoting neuroplasticity and supporting motor recovery. There are currently no validat...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,676 Views
32 Pages

The pursuit of cleaner environments and healthier ecosystems has driven the development of innovative strategies for detecting and mitigating toxic pollutants. Among emerging nanomaterials, carbon dots (CDs) have gained prominence due to their low to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,323 Views
20 Pages

5 August 2025

The hybrid inorganic–organic material concept plays a bold role in multifunctional materials, combining different features on one platform. Once varying properties coexist without cancelling each other on one matrix, a new type of supermaterial...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,090 Views
14 Pages

28 June 2022

The epitaxial deposition of a precise number, or even fractions, of monolayers of indium (In)-rich semiconductors onto gallium arsenide (GaAs) substrates enables the creation of quantum dots based on InAs, InGaAs and indium phosphide (InP) for infrar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,425 Views
18 Pages

23 October 2015

In this paper, a new method for mass air flow (MAF) sensor error compensation and an online updating error map (or lookup table) due to installation and aging in a diesel engine is developed. Since the MAF sensor error is dependent on the engine oper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,908 Views
15 Pages

Design of Nanoscale Quantum Interconnects Aided by Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks

  • Amanda Teodora Preda,
  • Calin-Andrei Pantis-Simut,
  • Mihai Marciu,
  • Dragos-Victor Anghel,
  • Alaa Allosh,
  • Lucian Ion,
  • Andrei Manolescu and
  • George Alexandru Nemnes

29 January 2024

Interconnecting nanodevices with the aim of assembling quantum computing architectures is one of the current outstanding challenges. At the nanoscale, the quantum interconnects become comparable in complexity with the active devices and should be tre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,230 Views
17 Pages

Haemodynamic Signatures of Temporal Integration of Visual Mirror Symmetry

  • Cayla A. Bellagarda,
  • J. Edwin Dickinson,
  • Jason Bell and
  • David R. Badcock

28 April 2022

EEG, fMRI and TMS studies have implicated the extra-striate cortex, including the Lateral Occipital Cortex (LOC), in the processing of visual mirror symmetries. Recent research has found that the sustained posterior negativity (SPN), a symmetry speci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,379 Views
9 Pages

O-Band Emitting InAs Quantum Dots Grown by MOCVD on a 300 mm Ge-Buffered Si (001) Substrate

  • Oumaima Abouzaid,
  • Hussein Mehdi,
  • Mickael Martin,
  • Jérémy Moeyaert,
  • Bassem Salem,
  • Sylvain David,
  • Abdelkader Souifi,
  • Nicolas Chauvin,
  • Jean-Michel Hartmann and
  • Thierry Baron
  • + 4 authors

7 December 2020

The epitaxy of III-V semiconductors on silicon substrates remains challenging because of lattice parameter and material polarity differences. In this work, we report on the Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) and characterization of InAs/...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,399 Views
23 Pages

Augmenting Printed School Atlases with Thematic 3D Maps

  • Raimund Schnürer,
  • Cédric Dind,
  • Stefan Schalcher,
  • Pascal Tschudi and
  • Lorenz Hurni

Digitalization in schools requires a rethinking of teaching materials and methods in all subjects. This upheaval also concerns traditional print media, like school atlases used in geography classes. In this work, we examine the cartographic technolog...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,656 Views
16 Pages

26 March 2022

Johne’s disease affects ruminants causing an economic burden to dairy, meat and wool industries. Vaccination against Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (Map), which causes Johne’s disease, is a primary intervention for diseas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,825 Views
18 Pages

Time–Frequency Signatures of Electronic Coherence of Colloidal CdSe Quantum Dot Dimer Assemblies Probed at Room Temperature by Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy

  • James R. Hamilton,
  • Edoardo Amarotti,
  • Carlo N. Dibenedetto,
  • Marinella Striccoli,
  • Raphael D. Levine,
  • Elisabetta Collini and
  • Francoise Remacle

18 July 2023

Electronic coherence signatures can be directly identified in the time–frequency maps measured in two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy (2DES). Here, we demonstrate the theory and discuss the advantages of this approach via the detailed appli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,986 Views
21 Pages

28 April 2022

Motor faults, especially mechanical faults, reflect eminently faint characteristic amplitudes in the stator current. In order to solve the issue of the motor current lacking effective and direct signal representation, this paper introduces a visual f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
221 Views
21 Pages

A Data Augmentation Method for Shearer Rocker Arm Bearing Fault Diagnosis Based on GA-WT-SDP and WCGAN

  • Zhaohong Wu,
  • Shuo Wang,
  • Chang Liu,
  • Haiyang Wu,
  • Jiang Yi,
  • Yusong Pang and
  • Gang Cheng

26 January 2026

This work addresses the challenges of inadequate data acquisition and the limited availability of labeled samples for shearer rocker arm bearing faults by developing a data augmentation methodology that synergistically incorporates the Genetic Algori...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,035 Views
19 Pages

9 May 2020

The traveling public judges the quality of a road mostly by its roughness and/or ride quality. Hence, mapping, monitoring, and maintaining adequate pavement smoothness is of high importance to State Departments of Transportation in the US. Current me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,917 Views
10 Pages

Wafer-Scale Emission Energy Modulation of Indium Flushed Quantum Dots

  • Nikolai Spitzer,
  • Nikolai Bart,
  • Hans-Georg Babin,
  • Marcel Schmidt,
  • Andreas D. Wieck and
  • Arne Ludwig

30 November 2023

Semiconductor self-assembled quantum dots (QDs) have garnered immense attention for their potential in various quantum technologies and photonics applications. Here, we explore a novel approach for fine-tuning the emission wavelength of QDs by buildi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,209 Views
12 Pages

1 October 2022

Dot-product attention is a powerful mechanism for capturing contextual information. Models that build on top of it have acclaimed state-of-the-art performance in various domains, ranging from sequence modelling to visual tasks. However, the main bott...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,509 Views
10 Pages

Spectral Imaging of UV-Blocking Carbon Dot-Based Coatings for Food Packaging Applications

  • Benedetto Ardini,
  • Cristian Manzoni,
  • Benedetta Squeo,
  • Francesca Villafiorita-Monteleone,
  • Paolo Grassi,
  • Mariacecilia Pasini,
  • Monica Bollani and
  • Tersilla Virgili

18 April 2023

Nowadays, there is an increased demand to develop alternative non-plastic packaging to be used in the food industry. The most popular biodegradable films are cellulose and poly(lactic acid) (PLA); however, there is still the need to increase their UV...

  • Article
  • Open Access
300 Views
22 Pages

14 January 2026

In semiconductor packaging and microelectronic manufacturing, inkjet printing technology is widely employed in critical processes such as conductive line fabrication and encapsulant dot deposition. However, dynamic printing defects, such as missing d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,961 Views
13 Pages

RoCS: Knowledge Graph Embedding Based on Joint Cosine Similarity

  • Lifeng Wang,
  • Juan Luo,
  • Shiqiao Deng and
  • Xiuyuan Guo

28 December 2023

Knowledge graphs usually have many missing links, and predicting the relationships between entities has become a hot research topic in recent years. Knowledge graph embedding research maps entities and relations to a low-dimensional continuous space...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,445 Views
20 Pages

20 May 2024

Traditional data-driven tool wear state recognition methods rely on complete data under targeted working conditions. However, in actual cutting operations, working conditions vary, and data for many conditions lack labels, with data distribution char...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,461 Views
17 Pages

Traceable and Biocompatible Carbon Dots from Simple Precursors: A Pre-Deployment Safety Baseline

  • Christian Silva-Sanzana,
  • Plinio Innocenzi,
  • Luca Malfatti,
  • Federico Fiori,
  • Francisca Blanco-Herrera,
  • Juan Hormazabal,
  • María Victoria Gangas,
  • Oscar Diaz and
  • Iván Balic

Carbon dots (CDs) are promising for agro-environmental applications; however, clear connections between synthesis, photophysical properties, size, and biosafety are often not well established. In this study, we map these relationships for glucose&nda...

  • Article
  • Open Access
990 Views
19 Pages

While there are studies on bicycle crashes, no study has investigated the spatial analysis of fatal and injury bicycle crashes in the state of Ohio. This study fills this gap in the literature by mapping and investigating the bicycle crash-prone area...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,428 Views
16 Pages

In this paper, we propose a multiple kernel relevance vector machine (RVM) method based on the adaptive cloud particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm to map landslide susceptibility in the low hill area of Sichuan Province, China. In the multi-ke...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,655 Views
12 Pages

Application of Quartz LA-ICP-MS Analysis in the Evaluation of High-Purity Quartz Deposits

  • Hongjie Wang,
  • Fangyue Wang,
  • Yan Zhao,
  • Xueyi Xu,
  • Baodi Wang,
  • Yu Fan,
  • Liang Zhang and
  • Feng Guo

10 April 2025

High-purity quartz is considered one of the world’s scarce mineral resources. During the evaluation process of high-purity quartz raw material deposits, metallurgical purification evaluation experiments are often required to assess the quality...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,041 Views
23 Pages

Intelligent Bearing Fault Diagnosis Based on Multivariate Symmetrized Dot Pattern and LEG Transformer

  • Bin Pang,
  • Jiaxun Liang,
  • Han Liu,
  • Jiahao Dong,
  • Zhenli Xu and
  • Xin Zhao

Deep learning based on vibration signal image representation has proven to be effective for the intelligent fault diagnosis of bearings. However, previous studies have focused primarily on dealing with single-channel vibration signal processing, whic...

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