Many cases encountered by forensic anthropologists involve commingled remains or isolated elements. Common methods for analysing these contexts are characterised by limitations such as high degrees of subjectivity, high cost of application, or low pr...
The tiny magnetic steel pair (TMSP), composed by two tiny magnetic steel blocks (TMSBs), is critical for some precision instruments. Incorrect matching of TMSP may result in insufficient instrument performance. Herein, the matching method of TMSP bas...
The performance of conventional minutiae-based fingerprint authentication algorithms degrades significantly when dealing with low quality fingerprints with lots of cuts or scratches. A similar degradation of the minutiae-based algorithms is observed...
Structure from motion (SfM) has been treated as a mature technique to carry out the task of image orientation and 3D reconstruction. However, it is an ongoing challenge to obtain correct reconstruction results from image sets consisting of problemati...
In this paper, an efficient data hiding method that embeds data into absolute moment block truncation coding (AMBTC) codes is proposed. The AMBTC method represents image blocks by trios, and each trio consists of two quantization levels and an asymme...
We apply matched molecular pair (MMP) analysis to data from ChirBase, which contains literature reports of chromatographic enantioseparations. For the 19 chiral stationary phases we examined, we were able to identify 289 sets of pairs where there is...
Astrocytomas are primary human brain tumors including diffuse or anaplastic astrocytomas that develop towards secondary glioblastomas over time. However, only little is known about molecular alterations that drive this progression. We measured multi-...
The notion of matched pair
Background: This retrospective matched-pair analysis compared functional outcomes and complications of prostate artery embolization (PAE) using 250 µm microparticles and holmium laser enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP) in patients with lower u...
Geriatric trauma is expected to increase due to the lifestyle and activity of the aging population and will be among the major future challenges in health care. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate differences between polytraumatized g...
Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) has demonstrated its potential as a curative option for patients with r/r lymphoma. With the introduction of post-transplant cyclophosphamide-based (PTCY) graft-versus-host disease (GvHD)...
The stereo vision system has several potential benefits for delivering advanced autonomous vehicles compared to other existing technologies, such as vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) positioning. This paper explores a stereo-vision-based nighttime V2V positio...
The two pillars of therapy for oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC) are upfront surgery and primary chemoradiotherapy. Substantial regional preferences exist with regard to the selection of treatment. Despite new therapeutic approaches, pati...
Background: This study compared survival outcomes between upfront surgery +/−radiotherapy (RT) and definitive RT with or without chemotherapy (RT/CRT) in HPV-negative oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC). Methods: A retrospective match...
Previous randomized trials have not provided conclusive evidence about dose escalations and associated toxicities for salvage radiotherapy (SRT) in prostate cancer. Here, we retrospectively analyzed whether dose escalations influenced progression-fre...
Activity cliffs (ACs) are formed by two structurally similar compounds with a large difference in potency. Accurate AC prediction is expected to help researchers’ decisions in the early stages of drug discovery. Previously, predictive models based on...
The high infectivity, difficulty to diagnose, and high drug resistance of melioidosis limited the timeliness of treatment. Lateral flow assay (LFA) was operated in this research to provide an instant diagnosis method, and a fast antibody rapid matchi...
Perverse incentives are ubiquitous in different economic settings. In sports, they often take the form of temptation to deliberately lose matches (the phenomenon known as tanking or sandbagging). In practice, there were even such pathological situati...
Three-dimensional feature description for a local surface is a core technology in 3D computer vision. Existing descriptors perform poorly in terms of distinctiveness and robustness owing to noise, mesh decimation, clutter, and occlusion in real scene...
To further improve maneuverability and passability, new heavy-duty vehicles place higher demands on the service space and strength performance of transmission systems. The new surface gear transmission stands out for its unique technical advantages,...
Virtual anthropology (VA) has recently produced an additional tool for the analysis of commingled remains and is based on the distance analysis between three-dimensional (3D) models of bones. To date, the pair-matching of the innominate bone through...
We propose an efficient image-matching method for deformable-object image matching using discrimination of deformable objects and geometric similarity clustering between feature-matching pairs. A deformable transformation maintains a particular form...
This study proposes a local edge matching method with a sequence alignment technique for adjacent spatial datasets. By assuming that the common boundary edges of the datasets are point strings, the proposed method obtains the sequence for point edit...
Fully pairing all elements of a set while attempting to maximize the total benefit is a combinatorically difficult problem. Such pairing problems naturally appear in various situations in science, technology, economics, and other fields. In our previ...
Companies are relying more on artificial intelligence and machine learning in order to enhance and automate existing business processes. While the power of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technologies can be harnessed for the digitization of imag...
Recent advances of high-quality lithium niobate (LN) on insulator technology have revitalized the progress of novel chip-integrated LN-based photonic devices and accelerated application research. One of the promising technologies of interest is the g...
We investigated the high-purity entangled photon-pair generation in five kinds of “non-poled” potassium titanyl phosphate (KTP) isomorphs (i.e., KTiOPO4, RbTiOPO4, KTiOAsO4, RbTiOAsO4, and CsTiOAsO4). The technique is based on the spontan...
The main result of this paper is a matched-pair decomposition of the space of symmetric contravariant tensors
We investigate the potential of frequent repeat imagery acquired by the PlanetScope Dove small satellite constellation to overcome temporal and spatial limitations in automated surface topography mapping. While individual PlanetScope Dove stereo pair...
We investigate the high-purity entangled photon pair generation in a recently developed borate crystal, Ba3Mg3(BO3)3F3. The technique is based on the spontaneous parametric down-conversion under the extended phase matching (EPM), where the phase matc...
Peer tutoring through a structured low-cost approach to reading in pairs using the Paired Reading programme has resulted in attainment gains in reading in English (UK) and Spanish (Colombia), using developer-led training in schools. Given the continu...
Analogue series play a key role in drug discovery. They arise naturally in lead optimization efforts where analogues are explored based on one or a few core structures. However, it is much harder to accurately identify and extract pairs or series of...
Structure from Motion (SfM) for large-scale UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) images has been widely used in the fields of photogrammetry and computer vision. Its efficiency, however, decreases dramatically as well as with the memory occupation rising st...
Wet-weather driving is a shared environmental and occupational hazard; transportation workers’ occupational fatality rate is nearly four times the all-worker average. We quantified wet-weather crash frequency in Harris County, Texas, over 2006&...
The purpose of this analysis was primarily to analyze biochemical-recurrence free survival (BRFS) after positron emission tomography (PET)-guided salvage radiotherapy (sRT) in a large cohort, and to further compare BRFS after PSMA vs. choline PET/ co...
A left-Alia algebra is a vector space together with a bilinear map satisfying the symmetric Jacobi identity. Motivated by invariant theory, we first construct a class of left-Alia algebras induced by twisted derivations. Then, we introduce the notion...
Peptidylarginine deiminase 4 (PAD4) is an increasingly prominent therapeutic target in oncology, inflammatory disease, and neutrophil extracellular trap (NET)-associated pathologies, yet public bioactivity data for PAD4 inhibitors remain fragmented a...
The use of high-resolution satellite stereo pairs for dense image matching is a core technology for the low-cost generation of large-scale digital surface models (DSMs). However, water areas in satellite imagery often exhibit weak texture characteris...
The tribological behavior of 42CrMo4/17NiCrMo6-4 under grease lubrication was explored in terms of load, speed, hardness matching, and lubrication quantity. Optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and a surface profilometer were used to inv...
Human monoamine transporters (MATs) are cation transporters critically involved in neuronal signal transmission. While inhibitors of MATs have been intensively studied, their substrate spectra have received far less attention. Polyspecific organic ca...
The generation and detection of nonclassical light of about 2 μm has good potential in an emerging field of high-sensitivity metrology, especially gravitational wave detection, as well as free-space quantum communication. A pair of photons is generat...
In this paper, we first introduce the notion of a 3-Hom–Lie bialgebra and give an equivalent description of the 3-Hom–Lie bialgebras, the matched pairs and the Manin triples of 3-Hom–Lie algebras. In addition, we define
3D building models are widely used in many applications. The traditional image-based 3D reconstruction pipeline without using semantic information is inefficient for building reconstruction in rural areas. An oblique view selection methodology for ef...
Multiservice cellular in Radio Access Network (RAN) Slicing has recently attained huge interest in enhancing isolation and flexibility. However, RAN slicing in heterogeneous networks (HetNet) architecture is not adequately explored. This study propos...
Background/Objectives: Large language models and automated analytical tools show potential for biomedical text understanding, knowledge integration, and single-cell data interpretation, but interpretations of specific gene regulatory relationships st...
The objective of this research is to present a qualitative methodology for the empirical investigation of enterprises’ responses to economic shocks. Annual balance sheets and income statements of nearly 26,000 Hungarian small- and medium-sized...
With the informationization of social processes, the amount of related data has greatly increased, making traditional storage media unable to meet the current requirements for data storage. Due to its advantages of a high storage capacity and persist...
Pedicle screw insertion with robot assistance dramatically improves surgical accuracy and safety when compared with manual implantation. In developing such a system, hand–eye calibration is an essential component that aims to determine the tran...
Anecdotal reports suggest children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) ambulate differently than peers with typical development (TD). Little empirical evidence supports these reports. Children with ASD exhibit delayed motor skills, and it is importan...
In this paper, the problem of two-dimensional (2D) direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation with parallel linear arrays is addressed. Two array manifold matching (AMM) approaches, in this work, are developed for the incoherent and coherent signals, resp...
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