Background/Objectives: The line bisection task (LBT) is a well-known test in which a horizontal line is presented in front of the subject and the subject is asked to draw a mark vertically bisecting the line. We developed the new LBT using three-dime...
The change from a consolidated manufacturing practice to a new solution is often a complex problem because of the operative limits of technologies and the strict constraints of industrial parts. Moreover, the new process must reflect or enhance the c...
Bisection tasks are commonly used to assess biases and asymmetries in visuospatial attention in both patients and neurologically intact individuals. In these tasks, participants are usually asked to identify the midpoint and manually bisect a horizon...
Transcranial static magnetic stimulation (tSMS) has been known to reduce human cortical excitability. Here, we investigated whether tSMS would modulate visuo-spatial cognition in healthy humans. Subjects performed a visuo-spatial task requiring judge...
Neuroscience research links alexithymia, the difficulty in identifying and describing feelings and emotions, with left hemisphere dominance and/or right hemisphere deficit. To provide behavioral evidence for this neuroscientific hypothesis, we explor...
Objectives: Alterations of spatial attention can have adverse effects, such a greater probability of accidents. Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) receiving dialysis have stronger left-sided spatial attentional bias, suggesting that this di...
The objective of this paper is to investigate a multi-objective linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control problem. Specifically, we examine an optimal control problem that minimizes a quadratic cost over a finite time horizon for linear stochastic syst...
In this paper, we propose a new approach for optimizing a large-scale non-convex differentiable function subject to linear equality constraints. The proposed method, RPCGB (random perturbation of the conditional gradient method with bisection algorit...
A novel quasi-twisted miniaturized wideband branch line coupler (BLC) is proposed. The design is based on bisecting the conventional microstrip line BLC transversely and folding bisected sections on double-layered substrates with a common ground plan...
The horizontal-vertical (HV) illusion is a classical example of an asymmetrical perception of size in the vertical and horizontal axes, also known as ‘anisotropy of the perceived space’. Several authors argued that the horizontally-orient...
This study tackles a risk-limiting scheduling problem of non-renewable power generation for large power systems, and addresses potential violations of the security constraints owing to the volatility of renewable power generation and the uncertainty...
Visual field loss is a debilitating impairment that can impact normal daily activities. The advancement of augmented and virtual realities brings opportunities for potential substitutive technologies for visual field loss. Here we outline a conceptua...
Finite Element Method (FEM) is a well known technique extensively studiedfor spatial and temporal modeling of environmental processes, weather predictioncomputations, and intelligent signal processing for wireless sensors. The need for hugecomputatio...
Background/Objectives: The main aim of this article is to introduce a novel tool that allows the automatic scoring of many of the subtests from the conventional subpart of the Behavioural Inattention Test (BIT) and its German adaptation, the Neglect...
The caudal-related homeobox protein 1 (CDX1) is a transcription factor, which is important in the development, differentiation, and homeostasis of the gut. Although the involvement of CDX genes in the regulation of the expression levels of a few glyc...
Currently, the teaching programming or offline programming used by an industrial manipulator can manually set the running speed of the manipulator. In this paper, to consider the running speed and stability of the manipulator, the time-optimal trajec...
Prostate cancer (PCa) is the second most common cancer. In this paper, the isolation and properties of exosomes as potential novel liquid biopsy markers for early PCa liquid biopsy diagnosis are investigated using two prostate human cell lines, i.e.,...
Obtaining the direction of a diameter line through the tree pith is the basis of effective sampling by a micro-drill resistance instrument. In order to implement non-destructive tree pith location in the radial direction, the geometric property of tr...
The article presents a novel circular substrate-integrated waveguide (SIW) bandpass filter (BPF) with controllable bandwidth. The proposed BPF was configured using two microstrip feed lines, semi-circular SIW cavities, capacitive slots, and inductive...
Aiming at the phenomenon of a large amount of roof subsidence and rib caving in the gob-side roadway under the special “umbrella” coal pillar in isolated panel No. 325 of Yangcun Coal Mine, the stress distribution regularity of the gob-si...
Patients suffering from Unilateral Spatial Neglect (USN) fail to pay attention to, respond to, and report sensory events occurring in the contralesional side of space. The traditional neuropsychological assessment of USN is based on paper-and-pencil...
The human cerebral cortex is asymmetrically organized with hemispheric lateralization pervading nearly all neural systems of the brain. Whether the lack of normal visual development affects hemispheric specialization subserving the deployment of visu...
Dengue virus (DENV), the pathogen that causes dengue fever, is mainly transmitted by Aedes aegypti. Surveillance of infected mosquitoes is a major component of integrated mosquito control methods for reducing the risk of vector-born disease outbreaks...
Rigid-body chain following on piecewise analytic paths is a fundamental subroutine in motion planning and multibody simulation. The problem is nontrivial when only the leader trajectory of the first node is available: enforcing fixed inter-node dista...
A right-hemispheric superiority has been shown for spatial symmetry perception with mono-dimensional stimuli (e.g., bisected lines). Nevertheless, the cerebral imbalance for bi-dimensional stimuli is still controversial, and the aim of the present st...
The golden ratio, also known as Phi (ϕ ≈ 1.618034), attracted the interest of mathematicians, artists, and intellectuals for many centuries, probably from when it was discovered in human anthropometry. Even in recent times, researchers fou...
Background and Objectives: The human brain presents a functional asymmetry for every cognitive function, and it is possible that sexual hormones could have an impact on it. Visual–spatial attention, one of the most lateralized functions and one that...
Cancer cells are known to release extracellular vesicles that often promote disease development and progression. The present study investigated the protein content and glycosylation pattern of ectosomes released in vitro by a human primary uveal mela...
In this paper, we investigate a low probability of intercept (LPI)-based optimal power allocation strategy for a joint bistatic radar and communication system, which is composed of a dedicated transmitter, a radar receiver, and a communication receiv...
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled mobile relaying is regarded as an important wireless connectivity component in areas without infrastructure coverage due to its rapid response, strong mobility, and low cost. This paper studies a delay tolerant U...
Background: Oral and enteral mucositis due to high-dose cytostatic treatment administered during autologous and allogeneic stem-cell transplantation increases mortality. Salivary secretory immunoglobulin A (sIgA) is a basic pillar of local immunity i...
Pseudoneglect phenomenon refers to a condition in which healthy subjects tend to perceive the left side of exactly bisected lines as being slightly longer than the right one. However, behavioural data showed that athletes practising an open-skill spo...
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has emerged as a promising technique to enhance spectral efficiency and coverage in fifth- and sixth-generation wireless networks. However, asymmetric indoor prop...
In this paper, we explore intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted physical layer security (PLS) in a wireless-powered Internet of Things (IoT) network (WPIN) by combining an IRS, a friendly jammer, and energy harvesting (EH) to maximize sum sec...
Hydro-dominant distribution grids with high penetrations of distributed photovoltaic (PV) generation exhibit a clear operational asymmetry. PV output changes rapidly at the minute scale, whereas hydropower regulation is constrained by reservoir water...