Background and Objectives: The treatment of duodenal injuries remains one of the most challenging issues in clinical surgery due to their high morbidity and mortality rates. The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the histopathology and o...
1 November 2021
Purpose: The Iowa Oral Performance Instrument (IOPI) is commonly used to measure tongue strength and endurance. The tongue, however, is reported to periodically move from its intended placement on the IOPI bulb during measurement. This study sought t...
An attention-aware patch-based deep-learning model for a blind 360-degree image quality assessment (360-IQA) is introduced in this paper. It employs spatial attention mechanisms to focus on spatially significant features, in addition to short skip co...
Background and Objective: Buprenorphine is an opioid drug indicated for the management of severe and persistent pain. The buprenorphine transdermal patch provides a non-invasive method of rate-controlled drug release, ensuring constant and predictabl...
10 July 2020
Preanaesthesia health assessment is gradually transitioning from paper-based, face-to-face assessment to digitized assessment, self-administered by the patient. This transition could potentially optimize the various goals of assessment, notably facil...
Global burned area (BA) datasets from satellite Earth observations provide information for carbon emission and for Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (DGVM) benchmarking. Fire patch identification from pixel-level information recently emerged as an addi...
As an emerging immersive media format, point clouds (PC) inevitably suffer from distortions such as compression and noise, where even local degradations may severely impair perceived visual quality and user experience. It is therefore essential to ac...
Rapid urbanisation has reshaped Shanghai’s ecological land base and intensified fragmentation of its green infrastructure (GI). This study evaluates the spatiotemporal evolution of Shanghai’s GI network from 2000 to 2020 using a resilienc...
Background: Conventional approaches in treating psoriasis demonstrate several complications. methotrexate (MTX) has been frequently used for its efficacy in managing moderate to severe psoriasis. However, MTX acts as an antagonist in regular dosage,...
Myocardial infarction causes scar tissue formation and poor electrical conduction. Cardiac patches are used to functionally support damaged cardiac tissue. Electrospun polycaprolactone (PCL) membranes, one of the most investigated biocompatible and b...
Autophagy is essential for ovarian physiology and is implicated in pathological conditions such as Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS). The evaluation of autophagy-related markers in histopathological images is often subjective and observ...
Driven by the rapid development of digital imaging and network technologies, the opinion-unaware blind image quality assessment (BIQA) method has become an important yet very challenging task. In this paper, we design an effective novel scheme for op...
Background: Combination devices to monitor heart rate/rhythms and physical activity are becoming increasingly popular in research and clinical settings. The Zio XT Patch (iRhythm Technologies, San Francisco, CA, USA) is US Food and Drug Administratio...
(1) Background: We reviewed a stem cell-derived therapeutic strategy for advanced neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) using a human embryonic stem cell-derived retinal pigment epithelium (hESC-RPE) monolayer delivered on a coated, syn...
Accurate assessment of hypoxia-related fetal risk during labour is essential for improving perinatal outcomes while avoiding unnecessary operative interventions. Although deep learning has shown promise for automated fetal risk assessment, most exist...
Sandwich composite floor panels are widely used in aircraft interior structures because of their lightweight and high stiffness-to-weight characteristics. However, the guided-wave response of such panels is strongly influenced by their multilayer con...
Background and Objectives: Although cyanoacrylate–polylactic acid (CA + PLA) patches shorten the time to hemostasis after partial hepatectomy, their long-term biocompatibility remains uncertain. We compared the 5-month histopathological footpri...
This study presents a unified mechanics-based framework for evaluating bonded composite patch repairs. Discrete fracture, fatigue, and adhesive responses are transformed into continuous master equations over the design space. Low-order polynomial sur...
Although sample matrices are available for assessing cortisol output over hours/days (serum, saliva, or urine) or months (hair or nails), there is no current method for measuring integrated cortisol output over a period of 1 week. Therefore, the prim...
Rhizoctonia large patch (Rhizoctonia solani AG2-2 LP) significantly reduces turfgrass quality, aesthetics, and playability. Synthetic fungicides are commonly used for managing this disease, but they present high costs, potential for fungicide resista...
The source region of the Yellow River (SRYR) is an important water conservation and animal husbandry resource in China. It is of great significance to understand the patch pattern and ecological risk of alpine grassland in the SRYR for ecological env...
A common form of damage encountered in marine structures is the accumulation of corrosion in susceptible areas, which leads to material wastage. As a result, the structural strength of the members affected is compromised, endangering their safe opera...
The following paper focuses on evaluating the quality of image prediction in the context of searching for plants of a single species, using the example of Heracleum sosnowskyi Manden, in a given area. This process involves a simplified classification...
There are many local fragmentation metrics, but most can be grouped into four types (composition/area, isolation, edge, and shape), and none of them alone determines the degree of fragmentation of a patch. Here, we grouped together the main fragmenta...
Shifting cultivation is a widely practiced agriculture system in the tropics. Regardless of the dominant land use, the dynamics of shifting cultivation over large areas are of limited knowledge. We conducted patch-based assessments and characterizati...
The spatial and temporal dynamics of the Siberian larch (Larix sibirica Ledeb.) at the upper limit of its growth on the south-eastern macroslope of the Rai-Iz massif (Polar Urals, Russia) during the second half of the 20th to the beginning of the 21s...
Shrub patches have an impact on soil fertility and vegetation, influencing species composition and diversity. The unique context of the Eastern Qilian Mountains provides insights into alpine ecosystems’ responses to environmental challenges. Th...
Understanding stream thermal heterogeneity patterns is crucial to assess and manage river resilience in light of climate change. The dual acquisition of high-resolution thermal infrared (TIR) and red–green–blue-band (RGB) imagery from unmanned aerial...
Accurate assessment of the response to the antiarrhythmic drug (AAD) in atrial fibrillation (AF) is crucial to achieve adequate rhythm control. We evaluated the effectiveness of extended cardiac monitoring using an adhesive ECG patch in the detection...
Sweat, which contains a rich array of biomarkers, serves as a vital biological fluid for non-invasive biosensing. Wearable sweat sensors have garnered significant interest owing to their portability and capacity for continuous monitoring. However, th...
Cropland fragmentation remains a major constraint on agricultural mechanization, land consolidation, and cropland protection in hilly and mountainous regions. In terraced landscapes, cropland patches that appear close in planar space may nevertheless...
Recently, Automatic Program Repair (APR) has shown a high capability of repairing software bugs automatically. In general, most of the APR techniques require test suites to validate automatically generated patches. However, the test suites used for p...
Abnormalities in cardiorespiratory measurements have repeatedly been found in patients with panic disorder (PD) during laboratory-based assessments. However, recordings performed outside laboratory settings are required to test the ecological validit...
Agriculture plays a significant role in economic development and livelihood and is a key contributor to food security and nutrition. However, global concerns regarding the sustainability of the agricultural sector (mainly environmental damage) is lin...
Net primary production (NPP) is a key indicator of the terrestrial carbon cycle, and its response to disturbance and subsequent recovery is important for understanding regional carbon sink dynamics. Conventional region-based statistical approaches ha...
Existing video Quality-of-Experience (QoE) metrics rely on the decoded video for the estimation. In this work, we explore how the overall viewer experience, quantified via the QoE score, can be automatically derived using only information available b...
Land use and land cover changes are critical drivers of terrestrial carbon stock dynamics, as they alter native vegetation and land-based production activities. Scenario-based simulation of land use and carbon stock evolution offer valuable insights...
Vegetation is often retained in river channels for habitat conservation and restoration and to facilitate nature-based flood management, and its hydraulic effects are typically represented using flow resistance coefficients in two-dimensional (2D) mo...
Multi-cohort forest management in northern hardwood stands may well be the best way to successfully regenerate tree species of intermediate shade tolerance, such as yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis Britt.). The creation of large enough gaps in the...
Hydrocarbon biodegradation in cold environments is constrained not only by microbial catabolic capacity but also by interfacial access to poorly soluble substrates and by the way remediation materials interact with microbial envelope-related structur...
In this study, nonlinear Lamb wave-based higher harmonic detection is employed to assess the tensile-induced microdamage in patch-repaired carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) structures. With respect to the external repair design optimization mode...
A biodegradable hybrid polymer patch was invented at the University of Cincinnati to cover gaps on the skin over the spinal column of a growing fetus, characterized by the medical condition spina bifida. The inserted patch faces amniotic fluid (AF) o...
Tropical peat swamp forests, found mainly in Southeast Asia, have been threatened by recurring El Niño fires. Repeated burnings form a complex and heterogeneous landscape comprising a mosaic of burned patches of different fire frequencies, req...
This study describes morphological changes with a vegetation patch using both laboratory experiments and numerical simulations. Four experimental cases are carried out with two patch densities and without a patch. The patch is constructed with emerge...
Patching is a common technology used in repairing asphalt-pavement potholes. Due to the differences in material properties between patched- and unpatched-asphalt mixtures, significant strain and stress concentrations could be induced; thus, further c...
The precise identification of priority areas for conservation based on connectivity can significantly enhance protection efficacy and mitigate biodiversity loss in fragmented landscapes. Priority area selection efforts are typically conducted in land...
Hairy prairie-clover [Dalea villosa (Nutt.) Spreng. var. villosa] is a threatened Canadian wildflower. To facilitate the efforts of conserving this threatened plant, amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) technique was applied to assess geneti...
A two-patch epidemic model is considered in order to assess the impact of virtual dispersal on disease transmission dynamics. The two-patch system models the movement of individuals between the two-patches using a residence-time matrix P, where P dep...
Deep learning-based algorithms for single object tracking (SOT) have shown impressive performance but remain susceptible to adversarial patch attacks. However, existing adversarial patch generation methods primarily focus on generating patches within...
Distinguishing the contributions of different vegetation cover such as shrubs and grasses components into the primary production in arid and semi-arid rangelands is a key step to understanding changes at a landscape scale. The aim was to assess the c...
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