This paper presents a comparative study of differences in energy consumption while applying 2004 and 2014 releases of the CEN/TR 13201 standard for lighting designs. Street lighting optimal design and its optimization is discussed. To provide a relia...
2 October 2020
As a critical factor in the built environment, lighting presents considerable influence on occupants. Previous research across static lighting conditions has found that both illuminance and correlated color temperature (CCT) affect occupants’ p...
The importance of reducing discomfort glare during the dynamic development of high luminance LEDs is growing fast. Smart control systems also offer great opportunities to reduce electricity consumption for lighting purposes. Currently, dynamic “intel...
Residential street lighting plays a crucial role in enhancing the reassurance for pedestrians returning home late at night. However, street lighting is sometimes recommended and required to be kept at lower levels at night, due to problems such as li...
The quality of sleep during lunch breaks will affect the work efficiency, concentration, and mood of workers, and then increase the performance of workers. In this study, Dynamic CCT lighting is proposed as a method to control sleep quality, and a no...
T8 LED tubes with adjustable brightness and color temperature are installed in the workshop for workers to adjust their lighting independently. The illuminance of the workers’ working surface is dynamically monitored for one year, and the colle...
The deployment of dynamic street lighting, which adjusts lighting levels to fulfill particular needs, leads to energy savings. These savings contribute to the overall lighting infrastructure maintenance cost. Yet another contribution is the cost of t...
This paper presents and compares the possible energy savings in various approaches to outdoor lighting modernization. Several solutions implementable using currently-available systems are presented and discussed. An innovative approach using real-tim...
The article describes the use of light dynamic penetration on potentially unstable terrain. Geophysical and geological surveys were carried out, including two core boreholes with samples for lab analysis. DPL (Dynamic penetration light) results were...
Determination of the concentration and size of the circulating immune complexes in the blood is an essential part of diagnostics of immune diseases. In this work, we suggest using the dynamic light scattering method to determine the sizes of circulat...
Hybrid-carrageenan hydrogels are characterized using novel techniques based on high-resolution speckle imaging, namely image dynamic light scattering (IDLS) and ultra-small-angle light scattering (USALS). These techniques, used to probe the microscop...
A wide range of ultrafast phenomena in various atomic, molecular and condense matter systems is governed by electron dynamics. Therefore, the ability to image electronic motion in real space and real time would provide a deeper understanding of such...
While light-based external human–machine interfaces (eHMIs) on automated vehicles (AVs) are increasingly studied to mediate pedestrian–vehicle conflicts, gaps persist in understanding how specific dynamic features of the AV’s headli...
Ambient light sensors are becoming increasingly popular due to their effectiveness in extending the battery life of portable electronic devices. However, conventional ambient light sensors are large in area and small in dynamic range, and they do not...
The dynamic light scattering method was successfully applied to determine the molar mass of nitrocellulose. The methodology of nitrocellulose fractionation in acetonic solutions is described in detail; six polymer fractions with monomodal distributio...
In this paper, we propose a novel method to address dynamic blur and low-light issues in smart cabinets, which is named the MIMO-IMF (Multi-input Multi-output U-Net Integrated Motion Framework). This method combines a Frequency-Domain Adaptive Fusion...
With the rapid development of science and technology, social competition becomes more and more fierce, and work pressure becomes more and more intense. The problem of sleep has become a disease of modern civilization, and in order to alleviate sleep...
In Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) systems, accurate gantry topology data are crucial for fair and efficient toll collection. Currently, inaccuracies in the topology data can cause tolls to be based on the shortest route rather than the actual dista...
In addition to investigations of the three-dimensional protein structure, information on the dynamical properties of proteins is indispensable for an understanding of protein function in general. Correlations between protein dynamics and function are...
By using different weights to deal with the autocorrelation function data of every delay time period, the information utilization of dynamic light scattering can be obviously enhanced in the information-weighted constrained regularization inversion,...
Protein phase separation and protein liquid cluster formation have been observed and analysed in protein crystallization experiments and, in recent years, have been reported more frequently, especially in studies related to membraneless organelles an...
Dynamic Light Scattering is a technique currently used to assess the particle size and size distribution by processing the scattered light intensity. Typically, the particles to be investigated are suspended in a liquid solvent. An analysis of the pa...
Traffic lights are an important part of urban roads. They improve traffic conditions but bring about a limitation of driving speed in the space–time domain for vehicles. In this paper, a traffic light model based on a vehicle–road cooperative system...
Accurate characterization of oleosome particle size distribution is needed for understanding their functionality in various applications. Traditionally, high-cost methods such as static laser diffraction and confocal or electron microscopy have been...
Accurate determination of the intensity-average diameter of polystyrene latex (PS-latex) by dynamic light scattering (DLS) was carried out through extrapolation of both the concentration of PS-latex and the observed scattering angle. Intensity-averag...
Due to the excellent photonic and electrical properties of metal halide perovskite materials, perovskite light-emitting devices have the potential to replace OLED devices as the next-generation of commercial light-emitting devices. In this article, w...
This study aimed to evaluate the static and dynamic pupil changes, and light sensitivity following a single dose of low-dose atropine at concentrations of 0.01%, 0.025%, and 0.05% over a 24 h period. Healthy young adults (20–22 years; n = 25) p...
A pressing health problem, both in clinical and socio-economic terms, is the increase in the number of patients with liver damage caused by viral diseases (hepatitis), cancer, toxicological damage, or metabolic disorders. Liver function assessment is...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) visual object tracking under low-light conditions serves as a crucial component for applications, such as night surveillance, indoor searches, night combat, and all-weather tracking. However, the majority of the existi...
A Dynamic Light Scattering time series can be analyzed using several well-established procedures. An alternative is to compute a co-occurrence matrix of the time series and to establish a correlation between the moments of the intensity level distrib...
Stable nighttime light (NTL) data, derived from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program’s Operational Linescan System (DMSP/OLS), are typically considered a proxy measure of the dynamics of human settlements and have been extensively used to qua...
Nighttime light data derived from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program’s Operational Linescan System (DMSP-OLS) in conjunction with the Soumi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (NPP-VIIRS) possess gr...
Most people with dementia live at home supported by informal caregivers, but disturbed sleep patterns may induce a heavy burden of care. The beneficial effects of bright light on their sleep, health, and well-being have been demonstrated in clinical...
Vehicle collisions with street lighting poles generate extremely high impact forces, often resulting in serious injuries or fatalities. Therefore, enhancing the structural resilience of pole bases is a critical engineering objective. This study inves...
Natural regeneration of sessile oak forests is a complex process whose final outcome is influenced by numerous factors. The initial phase of development of sessile oak seedlings stands out as the most critical period in the process of natural regener...
Infrared-visible image fusion quality is critical for nighttime perception in autonomous driving and surveillance but suffers severe degradation under extreme low-light conditions, including irreversible texture loss in visible images, thermal bounda...
Numerous studies have demonstrated that appropriate use of daylight in educational spaces significantly enhances students’ health and academic performance. However, classrooms in Tehran still suffer from considerable daylighting challenges. In...
This paper reviews dynamic light scattering (DLS) of gold nanoparticle-protein interactions for the model protein bovine serum albumin (BSA), as well as in complex biofluids, at the example of mouse serum. DLS data of nanorods of various aspect ratio...
Violence among spectators at sports events has become a serious problem, not only for its evident impact on safety, but also from the perspective of environmental, cultural, economic and social sustainability. Although it could be considered a purely...
Dynamic Light Scattering is a well-established technique used in particle sizing. An alternative procedure for Dynamic Light Scattering time series processing based on spectral entropy computation and Artificial Neural Networks is described. An error...
Accurate grid frequency prediction is essential for maintaining the stability and reliability of power systems. However, the complex dynamic characteristics of grid frequency and the nonlinear correlations among massive time series data make it chall...
Abnormal shutdown detection in oilfield pumping units presents significant challenges, including degraded image quality under low-light conditions, difficulty in detecting small or obscured targets, and limited capabilities for dynamic state percepti...
Due to surface effects and quantum size effects, nanomaterials have properties that are vastly different from those of bulk materials due to surface effects. The particle size distribution plays an important role in chemical and physical properties....
The angular dependency of light scattering intensity from differently sized particles strongly influences the apparent particle size distribution, as determined by dynamic light scattering (DLS) methods. Manufactured nanomaterials have size distribut...
Wheels are very important for the safety of a train. The diameter of the wheel is a significant parameter that needs regular inspection. Traditional methods only use the contact points of the wheel tread to fit the rolling round. However, the wheel t...
9 March 2023
Dust particles exist in the form of mineral aerosols and play a significant role in climate change patterns, while also having the potential to affect human health. The size of these particles is crucial, as it determines the atmosphere’s albed...
The controlled delivery and release of drug molecules at specific targets increases the therapeutic efficacy of treatment. This paper presents a triple complex which is a new potential drug delivery system. Triple complex contains single-walled carbo...
Digital light processing (DLP) as a vat photopolymerization technique is one of the most popular three-dimensional (3D) printing methods, where chains are formed between liquid photocurable resin molecules to crosslink them and solidify the liquid re...
The brightness of pixels in nighttime light images (NTL) has been regarded as the proxy of the urban dynamics. However, the great difference between the pixel values of NTL from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program’s Operational Linesca...
Small-target detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) aerial images remains a significant and unresolved challenge in aerial image analysis, hampered by low target resolution, dense object clustering, and complex, cluttered backgrounds. In order to...
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