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Lighting quality in interior spaces is not determined solely by horizontal illuminance at the workplace, but to a large extent by the spatial distribution of light, in particular by the luminance of ceilings and walls. Building on classical principle...

In this study, a zearalenone (ZEN) hapten was designed and prepared against the mycotoxin ZEN, and the original coating ZEN-ovalbumin (ZEN-OVA) was prepared by conjugation with OVA. Based on the gold nanorods (AuNRs) of uniform size and stable proper...

Geography textbooks have many visuals, such as maps, graphs, tables, photographs, and illustrations, which makes geography a highly visual school subject. However, previous studies show that geography students can pay surprisingly little attention to...

The loss of localization in robots navigating GNSS-denied environments poses a critical challenge that can compromise mission success and safe operation. This article presents a method that fuses visual odometry outputs from both direct and feature-b...

Auxins mediate various processes that are involved in plant growth and development in response to specific environmental conditions. Its proper spatio-temporal distribution that is driven by polar auxin transport machinery plays a crucial role in the...

In recent decades, rural buildings have proliferated in the rural environment, in many cases clashing with the surroundings. One of the main objectives in rural areas must be to maintain a balance between economic and sustainable development. In the...

This study aimed to determine the relative efficacy of bevacizumab gamma (an ophthalmic formulation of bevacizumab) versus alternative interventions relevant to the treatment of neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) in the United Kingdo...

Placing a nasogastric tube (NGT) is a frequent nursing technique in intensive care units. The gold standard for its correct positioning is the chest X-ray due to its high sensitivity, but it represents a radiation source for critically ill patients....

When driving a partially automated vehicle, maintaining situation awareness is essential for users to be better prepared to take over. A primary challenge is maintaining awareness while the user is occupied with another task without tunneling attenti...

The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether there are associations between polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) blood levels, reading/writing performance and performance in neuropsychological tasks. Moderate to strong correlations were f...

Colistin is an antibiotic of critical importance in human medicine, while its use in animal production may result in the occurrence of residues in food products and contribute to the spread of antimicrobial resistance. Therefore, rapid and sensitive...

Tylosin (TYL) is a macrolide antibiotic widely used in animal husbandry. Due to associated health risks, there is a demand for sensitive methods for mass screening of TYL in products of animal origin. This article describes the development of lateral...

As urban renewal shifts from expansion-led development toward quality improvement of existing urban areas, the restorative quality of urban village public spaces has become an important concern in high-density human settlements. Existing restorative...

Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) has received a great deal of attention in recent years due to the relationship between worker comfort and productivity. Many academics have studied IEQ from both a building design and an IEQ assessment perspective....

Outdoor comfort is influenced by thermal, visual, and acoustic stimuli, whose relative roles may vary across functional spaces. This study compared multisensory comfort characteristics across five frequently used public outdoor functional spaces in t...

This paper presents the construction of a new objective method for estimation of visual perceiving quality. The proposal provides an assessment of image quality without the need for a reference image or a specific distortion assumption. Two main proc...

This study examined the frequency and nature of alcohol marketing references in broadcasts of the 2016 UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) European Championships football tournament in the United Kingdom (UK). Eighteen matches from across...

Social media research rarely explains whether visual esthetics, trust, and engagement jointly influence purchase decisions through content acceptance in local food retailing. This study examines their direct and indirect associations among bakery con...

Objective: To answer the question of whether the anatomical center of the subthalamic nucleus (STN), as calculated indirectly from stereotactic atlases or by direct visualization on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), corresponds to the best functional...

One of the major limitations for sugarcane genetic improvement is the low heritability of yield in the early stages of breeding, mainly due to confounding inter-plot competition effects. In this study, we investigate an indirect selection index (S_i),...

Modern mediation analysis techniques supplement the primary intention-to-treat analysis with the aim to shed light onto the treatment mechanism. We investigate to what extent the anatomic marker vitreomacular adhesion resolution (VMAR) mediates visio...

Auditory and visual pathways may be affected as a consequence of temporal lobe epilepsy surgery because of their anatomical relationships with this structure. The purpose of this paper is to correlate the results of the auditory and visual evoked res...

The highly regarded and award-winning tourism destination that is the autonomous region of Madeira (ARM), in the Madeira and Porto Santo islands, has suffered the consequences that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to tourism through the mobility lim...

In recent years, the undeclared presence of various anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) in commercial supplements has been confirmed. This fact can be a potential threat to all athletes using these supplements, and therefore, there is of increased int...

In the present study, we investigated the development of Chinese character reading and its predictors in 55 children from K3 (the last year of kindergarten) to G1 (first grade) in Mainland China. It was examined to what extent first graders’ Ma...

Augmented reality (AR) is an emerging technology that is applied in many fields. One of the limitations that still prevents AR to be even more widely used relates to the accessibility of devices. Indeed, the devices currently used are usually high en...

Reading comprehension among deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students may depend partly on how semantic information embedded in Chinese characters is used. This cross-sectional study examined associations among working-memory updating, semantic and pho...

With the rapid growth of e-commerce platforms, consumers increasingly make purchase decisions without direct physical interaction, particularly for tactile-dependent categories such as furniture and home décor. Drawing on embodied cognition, t...

This study aims to bridge the research gap emerging from the relationships between Visual electronic Word-of-Mouth (VeWOM) and brand factors, and their impact on consumers’ behavior by exploring the causal effects of eWOM attributes on hotel br...

Background: The visual forms of individual trees in peri-urban forests are driven by a complex array of simultaneous cause-and-effect relationships. Materials and Methods: Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), as a specialized analytical technique, was...

Genetic transformation of citrus is essential for functional genomics and trait improvement, yet remains limited by prolonged regeneration cycles, genotype-dependent responses, and inefficient screening of transformed tissues. Here, we established an...

Urban parks contribute to emotional well-being, yet the relationship among park environments, users’ perceptions, recreational activities, and emotions across seasons remains insufficiently understood. Using Jiefang Park in Wuhan, China, as a c...

Implicitly harmful visual content represents a growing challenge in digital environments, particularly when offensive narratives are conveyed through stylized images, cartoons, or other indirect visual representations. Convolutional neural networks (...

Smart glasses for wearable augmented reality (AR) are widely used in various applications, such as training and task assistance. However, as the field of view (FOV) in the current AR smart glasses is narrow, it is difficult to visualize all the infor...

This contribution exposes the relative uncertainties associated with prediction patterns of landslide susceptibility. The patterns are based on relationships between direct and indirect spatial evidence of landslide occurrences. In a spatial database...

Soundscape perception is a very weak link in the national park landscape evaluation system in China. A thorough understanding of soundscapes and their effects on visual aesthetics is important for the management of national park landscapes. In this s...

Architectural space is produced through decisions about form, material, construction, structure, program, and environment, and design education centers on it. In design studios, generative AI (GenAI) most often enters through visual representation, r...

Greenspace exposure (GSE) may have a positive impact on mental health. However, existing research lacks a classification analysis of the influence pathways of different GSE on mental health. Meanwhile, the research method is limited to the measuremen...

Traditional Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) (with loop closure detection), or Visual Odometry (VO) (without loop closure detection), are based on the static environment assumption. When working in dynamic environments, they perform poorl...

Visual generative artificial intelligence (visual GenAI) is increasingly used to communicate urban regeneration proposals, but how public evaluations relate to scheme support remains insufficiently understood. Using the Fengtian Factory in Shenyang,...

For many aquatic species, vision is important for detecting prey, predators, and conspecifics; however, the potential impacts of visual cues from offshore wind turbines have not been investigated in these crucial contexts. There is the possibility of...

Landscape design, construction and management should no longer be the result of superficial approaches based exclusively on designers’ and planners’ ideas. This research starts with the assumption that the aesthetic component constitutes an essential...

This cross-sectional study examined the association between physical fitness and visuospatial working memory (VSWM) in preschool children and explored the statistical role of task-related cortical activation in this association. Ninety preschool chil...

Ugly–cute memes, which blend visual incongruity with cuteness, have become a prominent form of nonconventional online esthetics on social media, yet little is known about who prefers them and why. The present research examined how perfectionist...

Combined intrastromal corneal ring segment implantation with corneal collagen cross-linking (CXL) aims to improve optical regularity and reduce the risk of ectatic progression in selected eyes with keratoconus. In this retrospective, single-center, c...

Sodium iodate (NaIO₃) has been shown to cause severe oxidative stress damage to retinal pigment epithelium cells. This results in the indirect death of photoreceptors, leading to a loss of visual capabilities. The aim of this work is the morphologica...

Traumatic optic neuropathy is one of the causes of visual loss caused by blunt or penetrating head trauma and is classified as both direct and indirect. Clinical history and examination findings usually allow for the diagnosis of traumatic optic neur...

Soundscapes are important resources and contribute to high-quality visiting experiences in scenic areas. Based on a public investigation of 195 interviewees in the Kulangsu scenic area, this study aimed to explore the relationships between the harmon...

Health and wellbeing form a core dimension of urban resilience. Addressing this dimension requires attention to the everyday environments that support healthy living. To explore how daily activity may connect community environments with health, this...

Efficient communication infrastructure is essential for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) operating beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS). Both terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks struggle with coverage gaps and are susceptible to disruptions. This...