Analytical biosimilarity assessment relies on two implicit conditions. First, the analytical method must meet a set of requirements known as fit for intended use related to trueness and precision. Second, the manufacture of the reference drug product...
Ground-based oblique incidence sounding (OIS) is an important means to investigate the ionosphere. As the OIS ionogram is a visual representation of the OIS parameters, such as group distance and maximum usable frequency (MUF), it is of great signifi...
The Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) provides an important case for examining high-quality economic development and its implications for sustainable and coordinated regional development. However, systematic assessments of...
Background: The manufacture of biologics is a complex, controlled, and reproducible process that results in a product that meets specifications. This should be based on data from batches used to demonstrate manufacturing consistency. Ten batches of o...
In high-pier bridge construction, the quality and accuracy of embedded rebar placement are critical to ensuring structural safety and durability. However, conventional manual inspection methods are inefficient, subjective and pose significant safety...
The proposed forest monitoring photo trap ecosystem integrates a cost-effective architecture for observation and transmission using Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and long-range digital radio systems such as LoRa (Chirp Spread Spectrum—C...
The paper presents the results of an evaluation of the quality of eggs from laying hens kept in caged and free range systems using traditional methods and ultra-weak luminescence (USL). It was found that the tested eggs were fresh and were characteri...
At present, existing wide range Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) inertial sensors have relatively lower precision and direct measurement of the missile’s high-rotation motion inevitably uses a large-range sensor. To achieve high-precisio...
Extending the dynamic range can present much richer contrasts and physical information from the traditional low dynamic range (LDR) images. To tackle this, we propose a method to generate a high dynamic range image from a single LDR image. In additio...
Butyric acid is a short-chain saturated fatty acid with four carbon atoms in its molecule. It is unique to butter made from cow’s milk and is an indicator to evaluate the quality of butter and milk products as stated in their ingredient labels....
Methods for evaluating the fluctuation of texture patterns that are essentially regular have been proposed in the past, but the best method has not been determined. Here, as an attempt at this, we propose a method that applies AI technology (learning...
Lq (0 < q ≤ 1) regularization has been confirmed effective when applied to sparse SAR imaging. However, the inaccuracies caused by motion errors in the observation model will lead to various degradations and defocus in the reconstructed image....
The availability of high-quality and ample synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image datasets is crucial for understanding and recognizing target characteristics. However, in practical applications, the limited availability of SAR target images significan...
Squinted multi-channel spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) offers wide-swath coverage and flexible observation geometry. However, imaging algorithms based on chirp scaling (CS) may broaden the range spectrum beyond the available sampling bandwi...
Automatic assessing the quality of an image is a critical problem for a wide range of applications in the fields of computer vision and image processing. For example, many computer vision applications, such as biometric identification, content retrie...
Dams are regarded as crucial pieces of structure that store water for irrigation and municipal uses. Given their vital role, the dam’s water quality assessment is considered to be an important criterion and requires constant monitoring. In this...
To explore the effects of different preservation methods on the quality of loquat after fresh-keeping treatment, various preservation techniques were employed. These included natural preservation (NP), vacuum freezing preservation (VFP), vacuum at ro...
Improving the quality of products remains a challenge. This is due to the turbulent environment and the dynamics of changing customer requirements. Hence, the key action is to predict beneficial changes in products, which will allow one to achieve cu...
Inverse Tone Mapping (ITM) methods attempt to reconstruct High Dynamic Range (HDR) information from Low Dynamic Range (LDR) image content. The dynamic range of well-exposed areas must be expanded and any missing information due to over/under-exposure...
The presence of potentially hazardous substances in fruit wines poses a threat for human health. However, the management standards and specifications of hazardous substances contained within various types of fruit wines are currently insufficient. Th...
Objectives: Given the widespread adoption of CBCT in clinical and research activity, it seems reasonable to critically evaluate the evidence produced on the investigations over the relationship between upper airway morphology and skeletal malocclusio...
Background: Glucose transporter type 1 deficiency syndrome (GLUT1DS) is a rare, genetically determined neurological disorder, for which Ketogenic Diet (KD) represents the gold standard life-long treatment. The aim of this study is to investigate heal...
Background: This systematic review evaluates articles investigating the use of iterative reconstruction (IR) algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI)-based noise reduction techniques to improve the quality of oral CBCT images. Materials and Method...
Neuromuscular re-education through therapeutic exercise has a determinant role in chronic shoulder pain rehabilitation. Smartphones are an interesting strategy to extend the rehabilitation to a home-based scenario as it can increase the attraction an...
High dynamic range (HDR) images give a strong disposition to capture all parts of natural scene information due to their wider brightness range than traditional low dynamic range (LDR) images. However, to visualize HDR images on common LDR displays,...
Background: Mendelian randomization (MR) is a genetic epidemiological method used to infer causal relationships between exposures and outcomes. Its application in hyperuricemia and gout has grown exponentially owing to the ready availability of summa...
Side-scan sonar (SSS) is an important underwater imaging method that has high resolutions and is convenient to use. However, due to the restriction of conventional pulse compression technology, the side-scan sonar beam sidelobe in the range direction...
Investigation into non-destructive testing and evaluation of 3D printing quality is relevant due to the lack of reliable methods for non-destructive testing of 3D printing defects, including testing of the surface quality of 3D printed parts. The art...
At present, in order to comply with the development of the “the Belt and Road Initiatives”, the country is accelerating the pace of construction and increasing the demand for construction river sand. However, the quality of construction r...
In order to not only solve the technical problems of quantifying the degree and range of the effect that is caused by the water quality of upstream on that of downstream portions of a river, and of dividing the responsibility of transboundary water p...
In recent years, the High-Dynamic-Range (HDR) image has gained widespread popularity across various domains, such as the security, multimedia, and biomedical fields, owing to its ability to deliver an authentic visual experience. However, the extensi...
Gallium-68 (68Ga) is characterized by relatively high positron energy compared to Fluorine-18 (18F), causing substantial image quality degradation. Furthermore, the presence of statistical noise can further degrade image quality. The aim of this lite...
The technology and methods of testing the properties of varnish coatings used in motor vehicles are constantly and successfully developed. However, in the case of automotive varnish renovation coatings used in the repair of car bodies, the problem of...
Frequency response analysis (FRA) is a popular method for assessing a transformer’s mechanical condition. The paper proposes a new method for interpreting the frequency response measurement results. The currently used numerical indices only giv...
The aim of this systematic review was to assess the scientific literature on the accuracy of guided implant surgery and the methods used for its quantification. Two reviewers searched PubMed and the Cochrane Library to identify relevant articles publ...
Multi-sensor data fusion systems entail the optimization of a wide range of parameters related to the selection of sensors, signal feature extraction methods, and predictive modeling techniques. The monitoring of automated machining systems enables t...
Chinese steamed bread (CSB) is a traditional food of the Chinese nation, and the preservation of its quality and freshness during storage is very important for its industrial production. Therefore, it is necessary to study the storage characteristics...
The freshness of raw fish has become one of the industry’s and consumers’ main concerns regarding quality, safety, and shelf-life estimation. To determine the freshness of the king weakfish (Macrodom ancylodom), the quality index method (...
1 January 1975
Objective: To determine if auditory-perceptual voice ratings performed using the GRBAS scale correlate with acoustic and aerodynamic measures of voice. A secondary aim was to examine the relationship between GRBAS ratings and patient-reported quality...
1 January 1975
Objective: To determine if auditory-perceptual voice ratings performed using the GRBAS scale correlate with acoustic and aerodynamic measures of voice. A secondary aim was to examine the relationship between GRBAS ratings and patient-reported quality...
Background: This study evaluates the ability of six popular chatbots; ChatGPT-3.5, ChatGPT-4.0, Gemini, Copilot, Chatsonic, and Perplexity, to provide reliable answers to questions concerning keratoconus. Methods: Chatbots responses were assessed usi...
Range ambiguity is one of the factors which affect the SAR image quality. Alternately transmitting up and down chirp modulation pulses is one of the methods used to suppress the range ambiguity. However, the defocusing range ambiguous signal can stil...
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Air quality is assessed on the basis of air monitoring data. Monitoring data are often not complete enough to carry out an air quality assessment. To fill the measurement gaps, predictive models can be used, which enable the approximation of missing...
High dynamic range (HDR) imaging offers an enhanced visual experience by capturing a wider range of real-world luminance levels in digital images. Driven by the increasing demand for high-quality visuals, HDR monitor technology has seen significant a...
Water is an essential element for every plant to survive, absorb nutrients, and perform photosynthesis and respiration. If water is polluted, plant growth can be truncated. The aim of this research is to develop a water quality monitoring system for...
8 March 2017
Optimization of existing measurement tools is necessary to explore links between aspects of the neighborhood built environment and health behaviors or outcomes. We evaluate a scoring method for virtual neighborhood audits utilizing the Active Neighbo...
New stability indicating chromatographic methods have been developed for estimation of Assay and Impurities of Docetaxel in Docetaxel injection for evaluation of pharmaceutical quality. With this method, the process related impurities and degradants...
Camera shaking and object movement can cause the output images to suffer from blurring, noise, and other artifacts, leading to poor image quality and low dynamic range. Raw images contain minimally processed data from the image sensor compared with J...
A method based on ultra performance liquid chromatography with a diode array detector (UPLC-DAD) was developed for quantitative analysis of five active compounds and chemical fingerprint analysis of Rosa rugosa. Ten batches of R. rugosa collected fro...
Image adjustment methods are one of the most widely used post-processing techniques for enhancing image quality and improving the visual preference of the human visual system (HVS). However, the assessment of the adjusted images has been mainly depen...
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