Seismic hazard assessment of strike-slip faults is based partly on the identification and mapping of landforms laterally offset due to fault activity. The characterization of these features affected by slow-moving faults is challenging relative to st...
Background/Objectives: Global femoral offset (GFO) and leg length discrepancy (LLD) affect outcomes after total hip arthroplasty (THA). Moreover, the sum of the difference in GFO between the THA and non-surgical sides and LLD (SGL) reportedly affects...
Background: The femoral neck system (FNS) was introduced as a minimally invasive fixation device for managing femoral neck fractures. Objective: To compare radiographic, clinical, and patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) of femoral neck fracture...
8 August 2022
Information about when to apply an appropriate eccentric hamstring strength training stimulus during long-term athlete development is essential for effective programming and improving balance performance. This study examined the effects of six-week e...
This paper introduces a new method for detecting onsets, offsets, and transitions of the notes in real-time solo singing performances. It identifies the onsets and offsets by finding the transitions from one note to another by considering trajectory...
Due to the complex structure of high-canopy-density forests, the traditional individual tree segmentation (ITS) algorithms based on ALS point cloud, which set segmentation threshold manually, is difficult to adequately cover a variety of complex situ...
We propose an approach for the synchronization of video streams using correntropy. Essentially, the time offset is calculated on the basis of the instantaneous transfer rates of the video streams that are extracted in the form of a univariate signal...
Estimating the complete 3D points of crop plants from incomplete points is vital for phenotyping and smart agriculture management. Compared with the completion of regular man-made objects such as airplanes, chairs, and desks, the completion of corn p...
The aims of this research were to analyze the differences in kinanthropometric characteristics and physical performance as a function of biological maturation, as well as to analyze these differences with the inclusion of the covariates age, maturity...
Net-zero pledges have become a paradigm of ambitious climate change action for companies, governments, and other organisations. However, there is no international standard or criteria to assess whether those commitments are feasible or truly represen...
5 October 2021
With the progress of medical treatment for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), several joint-preserving forefoot surgical procedures have been established and performed. In this situation, we have been choosing the combined surgery: modified scarf osteotomy f...
Accurately matching the LIDAR scans is a critical step for an Autonomous Land Vehicle (ALV). Whilst most previous works have focused on the urban environment, this paper focuses on the off-road environment. Due to the lack of a publicly available dat...
Satellite videos typically employ image registration techniques for video stabilization in order to achieve persistent observation. However, existing methods largely neglect the residual stabilization offsets, particularly when exceeding the physical...
In this study, we investigated the performance of four deep learning frameworks of U-Net, U-NeXt, DeepLabV3+, and ConResNet in multi-class pixel-based segmentation of the extraocular muscles (EOMs) from coronal MRI. Performances of the four models we...
The COVID-19 pandemic created abnormal credit risk conditions that did not align well with pre-2020 credit scores. Since the pandemic, most organizations have either excluded the period 2020–2021 from their modeling or included it without adjus...
Hip osteoarthritis (OA) is a major contributor to reduced quality of life and concomitant disability associated with lost working life months. Intra-articular injection of various biological materials has shown promise in alleviating symptoms and pot...
Natural disasters, such as floods, can cause significant damage to both the environment and human life. Rapid and accurate identification of affected areas is crucial for effective disaster response and recovery efforts. In this paper, we aimed to ev...
This paper presents a novel approach that applies WiFi-based IQ data and time–frequency images to classify human activities automatically and accurately. The proposed strategy first uses the Choi–Williams distribution transform and the Margenau–Hill...
Deep learning-based point cloud semantic segmentation has gained popularity over time, with sparse convolution being the most prominent example. Although sparse convolution is more efficient than regular convolution, it comes with the drawback of sac...
In a sight-reading task, the position of the eyes on the score is generally further ahead than the note being produced by the instrument. This anticipation allows musicians to identify the upcoming notes and possible difficulties and to plan their ge...
Repackaged Android applications pose a significant threat to mobile ecosystems, acting as common vectors for malware distribution and intellectual property infringement. Addressing the challenges of existing repackaging detection methods—such a...
Fatigue risk to the pilot has been a deterrent for conducting direct flights longer than 12 h under normal conditions, but such flights were a necessity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Twenty (N = 20) pilots flying across five humanitarian missions bet...
Individual tree segmentation (ITS) from terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) point clouds is foundational for deriving detailed forest structural parameters, crucial for precision forestry, biomass calculation, and carbon accounting. Conventional ITS alg...
Many motion sensor-based applications have been developed in recent years because they provide useful information about daily activities and current health status of users. However, most of these applications require knowledge of sensor positions. Th...
Background: Additional metabolic indicators ought to be combined as outcome variables when exploring the impact of breastfeeding on obesity risk. Given the role of a healthy lifestyle in reducing obesity, we aimed to assess the effect of breastfeedin...
MicroRNAs are small RNAs that regulate gene expression through complementary base pairing with their target mRNAs. A substantial understanding of microRNA target recognition and repression mechanisms has been reached using diverse empirical and bioin...
The study objective was to compare the palatability of beef strip loin steaks from young and mature grain-finished cattle across a range of marbling scores. Grain-finished beef carcasses were selected from two maturity groups: old maturity (O; >30...
16 May 2017
Background: Schools have been identified as important settings for health promotion through physical activity participation, particularly as children are insufficiently active for health. The aim of this study was to investigate the child and school-...
Single-level principal component analysis (PCA) and multi-level PCA (mPCA) methods are applied here to a set of (2D frontal) facial images from a group of 80 Finnish subjects (34 male; 46 female) with two different facial expressions (smiling and neu...
Hip arthroplasty is a common procedure in elective orthopaedic surgery that has excellent outcomes. Hip replacement surgery aims to create a “forgotten” joint, i.e., a pain-free joint akin to a native articulation. To achieve such goals,...
Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications enable vehicles to interact with each other and various components of the traffic system, forming the backbone of modern intelligent transportation systems. However, V2X communications are highly susceptible...
In this study, we investigate the effects of high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) applied over the left upper limb primary motor cortex (M1) on the offset analgesia (OA) phenomenon, a measure of endogenous pain modulatio...
Background: Malpositioning of the glenoid component in total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) remains the primary source of loosening. The purpose of this study is firstly, to quantify postoperative glenoid component position in patients having a TSA and...
The aim of this study is to address the challenge of 12-lead ECG delineation by different encoder–decoder architectures of deep neural networks (DNNs). This study compares four concepts for encoder–decoders based on a fully convolutional...
Optical tracking of unknown space objects requires both spatial accuracy and temporal stability to enable high-resolution identification through narrow field-of-view sensors. Traditional performance indices such as RMS error and persistence time (PT)...
Object detection is challenging in large-scale images captured by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), especially when detecting small objects with significant scale variation. Most solutions employ the fusion of different scale features by building mult...
The long-term sustainability of crop production depends on the complex network of interactions and trade-offs between biotic, abiotic and economic components of agroecosystems. An integrated arable management system was designed to maintain yields, w...
Geomorphosite inventory remains an urgent task for many geographical domains where it can facilitate the exploration of geoheritage resources. The present study reports a new and sufficient portion of information from Mountainous Adygeya in southwest...
The rapid economic and social development in the past decades has greatly increased the societal acceptance of divorce and non-marital pregnancies in China, which leads to a soaring number of single-parent children. This paper aimed to investigate th...
In view of the fact that entity nested and professional terms are difficult to identify in the field of power dispatch, a multi-task-based few-shot named entity recognition model (FSPD-NER) for power dispatch is proposed. The model consists of four m...
Personal lifestyle choices contribute up to 75% of national emissions and yet the greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories included in the National Inventory Report (NIR) of Canada provide limited insight on these choices. Better insight can be found using c...
Caffeine is commonly consumed to help offset fatigue, however, it can have several negative effects on sleep quality and quantity. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between caffeine consumption and sleep quality in adults using...
2 April 2022
Despite the common belief that sleep quality at altitude is poor, the scientific evidence to support this notion is still modest. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to evaluate possible changes of actigraphy-based and subjective sleep pa...
(1) The COVID-19 pandemic is a global epidemic crisis situation with negative health consequences. This study aimed to determine the mediatory role of self-efficacy in correlations between dispositional optimism and loneliness (both general lonelines...
Background: Glenoid wear is a common complication of anatomical total shoulder arthroplasty (aTSA) with a metal-backed glenoid (MBG), and the clinical and radiological results of historical implants are poor. The aim of this work was to evaluate the...
Oriented object detection in optical remote sensing images (ORSIs) is a challenging task since the targets in ORSIs are displayed in an arbitrarily oriented manner and on small scales, and are densely packed. Current state-of-the-art oriented object...
Background: Evidence is limited regarding the association between lifestyles and cardiovascular disease (CVD), and the extent to which healthy lifestyles could offset the genetic risk of CVD in females with breast cancer (BC). Methods: Females diagno...
To clarify the ways in which Black Americans’ experiences of structural racism may influence their mental and physical health in distinct ways, the present study evaluated whether major discrimination moderates the association between depressive symp...
The mechanisms of glenoid component loosening in anatomic total shoulder arthroplasty (aTSA) are still unclear, and it remains undetermined which specific radiographic features are associated with clinical outcomes. Patients with primary osteoarthrit...
Several studies have shown that depression increases the risk of metabolic syndrome (MetS), which is often exacerbated by the fact that both exist concurrently. People with depression are more likely to have unhealthy eating habits, which can eventua...
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