This paper presents the Master’s Dissertation Marking Framework (MDMF), a longitudinally developed framework designed to support fairer and more transparent master’s dissertation assessment. The framework was developed through a multi-pha...
Laser marking technology employs a high-energy-density laser beam to irradiate material surfaces along a predefined path. Through photothermal, photochemical, or photomechanical effects, it can generate clear and machine-readable surface marks withou...
The marking of Drosophila suzukii can be an important instrument for studying the ecology and behaviour of this economically important fruit pest, aiding the development of new Integrated Pest Management (IPM) tools or strategies. There is, however,...
Abstract: Lane marking detection and localization are crucial for autonomous driving and lane-based pavement surveys. Numerous studies have been done to detect and locate lane markings with the purpose of advanced driver assistance systems, in which...
The widespread implementation of lung cancer screening and thin-slice computed tomography (CT) has led to the more frequent detection of small nodules, which are commonly referred to thoracic surgeons. Surgical resection is the final diagnostic and t...
Primates are traditionally considered to have a poor sense of smell. However, olfaction is important for non-human primates as demonstrated by conspicuous scent-marking behaviours in lemurs. We studied two pairs (n = 4) of crowned lemurs (Eulemur cor...
This study presents UV radiation sensors for use as paper marking. The sensors turn pink under exposure to UVA radiation and the color change is reversible. Additionally, a UV radiation retarder was applied to the sensor to delay the reaction and wea...
Road markings, including road lanes and symbolic road markings, can convey abundant guidance information to autonomous driving cars. However, recent works have paid less attention to the recognition of symbolic road markings compared with road lanes....
The term “metal marking” is widely used to define the common phenomenon of tableware glazes being damaged by metallic cutlery. Appearing as unaesthetic gray marks and scratches resulting from normal conditions of use, these defects deeply...
Pavement markings constitute an effective way of conveying regulations and guidance to drivers. They constitute the most fundamental way to communicate with road users, thus, greatly contributing to ensuring safety and order on roads. However, due to...
The construction and facilities management sectors are increasingly adopting automation technologies to improve productivity and reduce manual labor. In parallel, decorative and informational floor-marking is widely used in indoor environments such a...
This paper presents a robust, efficient lane-marking feature extraction method using a graph model-based approach. To extract the features, the proposed hat filter with adaptive sizes is first applied to each row of an input image and local maximum v...
In order to test camera- and LiDAR-based perception of road markings for automated driving, vehicle developers have started to utilize concepts for the agile alteration of road marking patterns on proving grounds. Road marking materials commonly used...
This article explores the conditions that underlie the differential marking of objects in Spanish. It is argued here that the A-marker of the direct object is the realization of features in D (class and animate) and features in the verb (affectedness...
Road markings and signs provide vehicles and pedestrians with essential information that assists them to follow the traffic regulations. Road surface markings include pedestrian crossings, directional arrows, zebra crossings, speed limit signs, other...
Precision forestry and traceability services for the certification of timber products require reliable systems for the identification of items throughout the supply chains, starting from the inventory of standing trees. AutoID systems based on radio...
The marking and surface structuring of various materials is important in various industrial fields such as biomaterials, luxury goods, anti-counterfeiting, automotive and aerospace, electronics and semiconductor industries, and others. Recent advance...
Russian’s six cases and multiple noun classes make case marking potentially challenging ground for heritage speakers. Indeed, morphological levelling, “probably the best-described feature of language loss”, has been substantiated. O...
Laser marking of polymer materials is a technology that is increasingly used in industry. Polypropylene (PP) shows a low ability to absorb electromagnetic radiation in the near-infrared range (λ = 1064 nm). The paper presents the influence of...
Strontium marking technology is commonly used for extensive marking in stock enhancement and releasing activities. In order to explore the feasibility of this technology for juvenile Takifugu obscurus, five different concentrations of strontium (0, 1...
With the continuous advancement of autonomous driving technology, lane marking-based environment perception has become a critical component of autonomous vehicle systems. However, long-term vehicle loads cause road markings to deteriorate and fade, s...
Background/Objectives: Laser has a prominent place in pharmaceutical industry, especially in the marking of solid dosage forms (SDFs). To combat falsified medicines, this study evaluates QR code marking on the surface of tablets as a supplement to se...
Due to the short range of the sensor technology used in automated vehicles, we assume that the implemented driving strategies may initially differ from those of human drivers. Nevertheless, automated vehicles must be able to move safely through manua...
This study examined how drivers’ eye fixations change before, during, and after recognizing road markings, and how these changes relate to driving speed, visual complexity, cognitive functions, and demographics. 20 licensed drivers viewed on-board mo...
In the implementation of mosquito control strategy programs using Sterile Insect Technique and other rear and release strategies, knowledge on the dispersion, competitiveness and survival of mosquitos is considered essential. To assess these paramete...
Differential Object Marking (DOM) is a cross-linguistic phenomenon in which the overt marking of direct objects of certain transitive verbs exhibits distinct morpho-syntactic properties. In Turkish, DOM is realized by the accusative suffix -(y)I and...
In this paper, we focus on the internal structural characteristics of permutation tableaux and their correspondence with linked partitions. We begin by introducing new statistics for permutation tableaux, designed to thoroughly describe various posit...
Identifying road markings is a very important part of the vehicle environment sensing system and plays a crucial role in a vehicle’s correct understanding of a current traffic situation. However, road traffic markings are interfered with by a v...
This study aims to explore the effects of healthy aging and Parkinson’s disease on speech motor performance. One area of speech production which requires fine speech motor control is prominence marking. Therefore, strategies of prominence marki...
Robust visual perception and geometric alignment are crucial for intelligent automation in various domains, such as industrial processes and infrastructure monitoring. Accurately aligning structured visual elements, such as floor markings or road-mar...
Security is a pivotal issue for wireless sensor networks (WSNs), which are emerging as a promising platform that enables a wide range of military, scientific, industrial and commercial applications. Traceback, a key cyber-forensics technology, can pl...
This study examines the influence of key technological parameters—marking speed, raster step (Δx), pulse duration, power density, and effective energy—on the laser marking of copper using Yb-doped fiber and CuBr MOPA lasers. Two exp...
In recent years, research on self-driving cars has been conducted in connection with road infrastructure in order to overcome the limitations of self-driving, such as the video detecting capability at day and night time. This study evaluates the oper...
Recent advancements in vehicle automation and driver-assistance systems that detect pavement markings has increased the importance of the detectability of pavement markings through various sensor modalities across weather and road conditions. Among t...
Road marking point cloud segmentation is essential for autonomous driving perception and high-definition map updating. However, road markings are typically represented by elongated, sparse, and irregular point structures, while non-uniform point dens...
The study concerns the influence of some basic parameters (speed, raster step, scan overlap coefficient, and surface modification at different processing angles) on the process of color laser marking with a fiber laser on AISI 304 stainless steel sam...
There are two phenotypes in the natural populations of Marsupenaeus japonicus, which is an ideal model for studying the formation of markings and body color in crustaceans. In a previous study, we used comparative transcriptome technology to screen s...
While marking queens is an optional rather than mandatory technique, it is increasingly becoming a standard practice in modern beekeeping. Finding queens in strong colonies and large apiaries is a time-consuming process. The visible and durable marki...
To counteract accuracy degradation in micrometer-scale precision marking—where the precision marking (PM) system denotes the precision marking platform and the Optical Microscope (OM) system denotes the camera-based visual guidance module&mdash...
The main goal of this article is to examine in detail an area of the grammar where standard Romanian, a Balkan Sprachbund language of the Romance phylum, and the Romance dialects of Southern Italy (here we used the dialect of Ragusa, in South-East Si...
Recent studies on agglutinative languages, such as Japanese, Finnish, and Turkish, have reported case marking deficits in children with developmental language disorder.In this study, we investigate case marking in bilingual children speaking Turkish...
Ensuring the visibility of road markings is critical for traffic safety, yet current inspection methods remain either prohibitively expensive (retroreflectivity) or subjective (manual assessment). This article introduces the Random Generated Referenc...
Pavement markings could wear out before their expected service life expires, causing traffic safety hazards. However, assessing pavement-marking conditions at the city scale was a great challenge in previous studies. In this article, we advance the m...
Mobile Mapping Technology (MMT) is one of the most important 3D spatial data acquisition technologies. The state-of-the-art mobile mapping systems, equipped with laser scanners and named Mobile LiDAR Scanning (MLS) systems, have been widely used in a...
The intratumor heterogeneity represents one of the most difficult challenges for the development of effective therapies to treat pediatric glioblastoma (pGBM) and diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG). These brain tumors are composed of heterogeneo...
There are over four million miles of roads in the United States, and the prioritization of locations to perform maintenance activities typically relies on human inspection or semi-automated dedicated vehicles. Pavement markings are used to delineate...
Fog (from core to edge) computing is a newly emerging computing platform, which utilizes a large number of network devices at the edge of a network to provide ubiquitous computing, thus having great development potential. However, the issue of securi...
In this study, the development of a multi-layer marking toolkit was investigated to improve construction quality and mitigate the problem of irregular designs in the layout-printing work performed at construction sites. The quality of conventional la...
The tire marking points of dynamic balance and uniformity play a crucial guiding role in tire installation. Incomplete marking points block the recognition of tire marking points, and then affect the installation of tires. It is usually necessary to...
Vision-based identification of lane area and lane marking on the road is an indispensable function for intelligent driving vehicles, especially for localization, mapping and planning tasks. However, due to the increasing complexity of traffic scenes,...
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