Due to the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT), many feasible deployments of sensor monitoring networks have been made to capture the events in physical world, such as human diseases, weather disasters and traffic accidents, which gener...
Measures of physical performance captured within a clinical setting are commonly used as a surrogate for underlying health or disease risk within an individual. By measuring physical behaviour within a free-living setting, we may be able to better qu...
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are changing global ecosystems and bearing profound socio-economic impacts, yet our understanding of the spatial features, temporal evolution characteristics, and regional differences in China’s marginal seas remains ins...
Photon-counting analysis of nucleic acids plays a key role in many diagnostics applications for its accurate and non-invasive nature. However, conventional photon-counting instrumentations are bulky and expensive due to the use of conventional optics...
The federally threatened eastern indigo snake (EIS; Drymarchon couperi) is an active ophiophagous snake once found throughout the southeastern US that is now restricted to southeastern Georgia and peninsular Florida. There are concerns regarding the...
The present study was carried out in the northeastern part of Bangladesh to investigate organochlorine pesticide (OCP) residues in and microbiological quality of dried barb (Puntius sophore). Samples were collected from both producers and retailers f...
While acoustic emission (AE) testing can be used as a valuable technique in structural health monitoring and non-destructive testing, little research has been conducted to establish its sources, particularly in 2024-T3 aluminium alloys. The major con...
The present study aims to examine the relationships between temperature and humidity and milk composition, microbial load, and somatic cells in the milk of Holstein dairy cows. For this purpose, the temperature–humidity index, ambient temperatu...
The accurate estimation and prediction of lithium-ion battery state of health are one of the important core technologies of the battery management system, and are also the key to extending battery life. However, it is difficult to track state of heal...
Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites produced by certain fungal species. In this study, the aim was to investigate mycotoxins, which pose a serious health problem. For this purpose, a total of 140 spice samples (black pepper, red pepper, cumin, and t...
The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of gamma irradiation, applied to different cheese sample sizes (250g and 500 g), against Listeria monocytogenes, Escherichia coli, coliforms and aerobic colony counts. The effects on cheese phy...
The pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, tolerability, and food effect of cenerimod, a potent sphingosine-1-phosphate subtype 1 receptor modulator, were investigated in three sub-studies. Two double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomised studies in hea...
Soil moisture sensors in hyper-arid rangeland face temperatures beyond the range over which their electronics are specified, yet insulation placed around a neutron detector is a scatterer and risks being read as a change in soil water. We evaluate th...
We study underwater optical communication under photon-counting (Poisson) detection with realistic attenuation, background radiance, directionality, and pointing uncertainty. Information is embedded in (i) a temporal dictionary of pseudo-random noise...
The fluorescence anisotropy of photosensitizers Radachlorin and chlorin e6 was studied using the time-resolved single photon-counting technique under one- and two-photon excitation within the Soret absorption band. A very small negative anisotropy wa...
This study examined associations between GPS-derived external match-load variables and official refereeing performance in elite football referees. The cohort comprised all 17 main referees eligible to officiate in the highest Croatian national compet...
Conventional assessments count facilities within binary service areas and evaluate districts against a single citywide average. This study presents a reproducible geospatial diagnostic workflow integrating road-network isochrones at 50–200% of...
Circulating tumor cells (CTC) count and characterization have been associated with poor prognosis in recent studies. Our aim was to examine CTC count and its association with metabolic parameters and clinical outcomes in non-small cell lung carcinoma...
In order to test the performance of laser devices for attacking miniature UAVs, we studied the principle of laser devices on soft killing and hard killing. Then, the flight test conditions of miniature UAVs were constructed, and the laser devices wer...
It is known that valproate inhibits platelet functions; however, the exact mechanisms are not clearly identified. We studied 12 healthy adult volunteers (1 female, 11 male; age range 31.7 ± 7.8 years) before and after valproate 500 mg and comp...
Cooperative automated driving technology has emerged as a potential way to increase the efficiency of transportation systems and enhance traffic safety by allowing vehicles to exchange relevant information via wireless communication. Truck platooning...
For the first time, the time-resolved two-photon excited autophosphorescence of non-labeled biological specimens was investigated by phosphoresce lifetime imaging with microscopic spatial resolution. A modified multiphoton tomograph was employed to r...
An efficient method for detecting the end of a count of a linear feedback shift register (LFSR) is presented. We show how this detector can be used to extend a maximum-length LFSR sequence by a number of states up to one less than the degree of the p...
Optical microfiber biosensors demonstrate exceptionally ultra-high sensitivity at the dispersion turning point (DTP). However, the DTP is highly susceptible to variations in dimensional and external environmental factors, and the spectral response is...
Cupuaçu [Theobroma grandiflorum (Wild ex Spreng.) K. Schum] seeds have been employed for a long time in the Amazon region for food purposes. Similar to cocoa, processed cupuaçu pulp and seeds can be used to produce juices, ice creams, c...
Accurate identification and intelligent counting of pig herds can effectively improve the level of fine management of pig farms. A semantic segmentation and counting network was proposed in this study to improve the segmentation accuracy and counting...
The problem of how to properly quantify redundant information is an open question that has been the subject of much recent research. Redundant information refers to information about a target variable S that is common to two or more predictor variabl...
Currently projected supersonic business jets target selected supersonic flight missions with Mach numbers of about 1.4 and a larger number of long-range subsonic flight missions. They form a new type of aircraft that is specially tailored to these re...
Apical periodontitis, an inflammatory lesion causing bone resorption around the apex of teeth, is treated by eradicating infectious bacteria from the root canal. However, it has a high recurrence rate and often requires retreatment. We investigated t...
Abstract: Climate change looms as the biggest threat of the 21st century, and its effect on urban mortality is exacerbated by urban heat islands. This study analyzes the impact of high temperatures, heatwaves, and the urban heat island on the cardiov...
In addition to environmental pollution issues, social concerns about the sustainability, safety, and quality of conventionally grown fruits and vegetables have been increasing. In order to evaluate if there were any microbiological differences betwee...
Wireless sensor networks have gained significant attention in recent years due to their wide range of applications in environmental monitoring, surveillance, and other fields. The design of a groundwater quality and quantity monitoring network is an...
Background: Diet is an important source of microbial exposure, potentially protecting against allergic disease. However, changes in dietary habits may have altered the intake of live food microbes. Aim: We quantitatively assessed the intake of live f...
This paper presents a method to integrate and package an accelerometer within a textile to create an electronic textile (e-textile). The smallest commercially available accelerometer sensor (2 mm × 2 mm × 0.95 mm) is used in the e-textile...
Resistance bands are widely used nowadays to enhance muscle strength due to their high portability, but the relationship between resistance band workouts and conventional dumbbell weight training is still unclear. Thus, this study suggests a convolut...
The Port of Gdynia is the largest Baltic Sea port handling agricultural products and has adopted green port policies focused on sustainable development. Despite these measures, minor, unavoidable losses occur at transhipment points. With monthly grai...
In recent years, the increasing use of mulching in agricultural practices has been driven by its benefits in weed suppression, soil moisture retention, and improved soil structure. However, Korean farms typically perform mulching and soil covering se...
Lignocellulosic residues, such as straw, are currently considered as candidates for biogas production. Therefore, straw fermentations were performed to quantitatively estimate methane yields and cell counts, as well as to qualitatively determine the...
The antimicrobial effect of Eucalyptus radiata essential oil nanoemulsion (EON) on Staphylococcus aureus and spoilage microorganisms was evaluated on fresh beef chunks during cold storage at days 0, 2, 4, 6, and 8. For this purpose, nanoemulsion was...
Among scores and staging systems used for HCC, none showed a good prognostic ability in patients with advanced HCC treated with Sorafenib. We aimed to evaluate predictive factors of overall survival (OS) and drug response in HCC patients undergoing S...
Biomass burning (BB) emits a large volume of trace gases and aerosols into the atmosphere, which can significantly affect the earth’s radiative balance and climate and has negative impacts on air quality and even human health. In late June 2017...
For ground-based lidars in atmospheric observation, their data acquisition unit and control unit usually work independently. They usually require the cooperation of large-volume, high-power-consumption Industrial Personal Computer (IPC). However, the...
Background and Objectives: Microvascular invasion (MVI) significantly impacts recurrence and survival rates after liver resection in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Pre-operative prediction of MVI is crucial in determining the treatment strategy. Thi...
Terraces play a crucial role in regulating the water cycle. The management and restoration of, and the conservation strategies and plans for basins rely heavily on the assessment of alterations in hydrological characteristics, whether natural or man-...
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Malaria remains a significant public health problem in India. Although temperature influences Anopheline mosquito feeding intervals, population density, and longevity, the reproductive potential of the Plasmodium parasite and rainfall influence the a...
This study presents our first discovery about two abnormal problems in the blackbody calibration target associated with the antenna unit A2 in the Metop-C AMSU-A instrument. The problems include the anomalous patterns in both blackbody kinetic temper...
Wireless sensing is the utmost cutting-edge way of monitoring different health-related activities and, concurrently, preserving most of the privacy of individuals. To meet future needs, multi-subject activity monitoring is in demand, whether it is fo...
Psittaciformes are one of the bird orders with the highest number of threatened species and the most marked declining population trends. At present, the lack of information on the population size, reproductive fraction, and productivity of most parro...
This paper proposes a novel approach for semi-supervised domain adaptation for holistic regression tasks, where a DNN predicts a continuous value
During the 2019 breeding season (October-December), a battery-powered DIJ Inspire 2 drone was used to investigate a breeding southern elephant seal colony located at Patelnia Point (ASPA 128, King George Island, South Shetland Islands, maritime Antar...
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