Gut microbiome research turns sequencing reads into taxa and functions by matching them against a reference database of isolate and metagenome-assembled genomes. That database is the measuring instrument, yet its sensitivity is never reported. Refere...
An enhanced dynamic bias comparator with a reference-compensated offset calibration technique is implemented in a 180 nm CMOS process. In order to reduce the delay time of the comparator, an enhanced structure is used. To reduce the power consumption...
In this study, a reference bias control (RBC) algorithm for variable speed and variable pitch wind turbines was designed and validated. To improve the performance of conventional PI control algorithms, the RBC algorithm applies biased references to p...
Genomic characterization of Cannabis sativa has accelerated rapidly in the last decade as sequencing costs have decreased and public and private interest in the species has increased. Here, we present seven new chromosome-level haplotype-phased genom...
Many continuous industrial processes are non-linear, multi-variable, subject to transport or reaction delays, and described by operating-point-dependent parameters. These characteristics reduce the reliability of fixed models used in model predictive...
Genomics plays a crucial role in addressing health disparities, yet most studies rely on the hg38 linear reference genome, limiting the potential of pangenomic approaches, particularly for underrepresented populations. In this study, we focus on char...
The high uncertainty of megaproject results in increasing complexity in the decision-making and ultimately leads to different degrees of cost overrun and project delays. One of the critical reasons for cost overrun and delay is the optimism bias of d...
There are many studies in the scientific literature that present predictions from parametric statistical models based on maximum likelihood estimates of the unknown parameters. However, generating predictions from maximum likelihood parameter estimat...
Accurate track association is essential for multi-radar fusion, since incorrect associations may result in significant errors in integrated information. To address the track association problem in multi-radar systems, particularly the challenges pose...
Leakage diodes cause deviations in the thermal drift of ultra-low-power two-transistor (2T) reference circuits, resulting in either convex or concave output voltages against temperature, depending on the reference transistor types (n-type/p-type). Th...
Climate change (CC) is a growing threat to water security in agricultural regions, particularly in semi-arid areas. This study evaluates the impact of CC on reference evapotranspiration (ET0) in Irrigation District 001 Pabellón de Arteaga, Agu...
Crustal movement is one of the main factors influencing the change of the Earth system, especially in its vertical direction, which affects people’s daily life through the frequent occurrence of earthquakes, geological disasters, and so on. In order...
At field strengths of 7 T and above, T1-weighted imaging of human brain suffers increasingly from radiofrequency (RF) B1 inhomogeneities. The well-known MP2RAGE (magnetization prepared two rapid acquisition gradient echoes) sequence provides a soluti...
The phenomenon of self-positivity bias refers to the common tendency for individuals to perceive themselves in a more positive light than is objectively warranted. The current study seeks to investigate the impact of enhanced self-positivity bias on...
The European bison is a non-model organism; thus, most of its genetic and genomic analyses have been performed using cattle-specific resources, such as BovineSNP50 BeadChip or Illumina Bovine 800 K HD Bead Chip. The problem with non-specific tools is...
The need for low power consumption in highly integrated systems-on-chip (SoCs), such as IoT-based smoke detection systems, has made frequent power-ups and power-downs a common practice. Although the device performance degradation caused by such frequ...
Systematic biases in general circulation models (GCM) and regional climate models (RCM) impede their direct use in climate change impact research. Hence, the bias correction of GCM-RCMs outputs is a primary step in such studies. This study compares t...
This study aims at assessing the accuracy of estimating daily reference evapotranspiration (ETo) computed with NASA POWER reanalysis products. Daily ETo estimated from local observations of weather variables in 14 weather stations distributed across...
The Meghna River basin is a transboundary basin that lies in Bangladesh (~40%) and India (~60%). Due to its terrain structure, the Bangladesh portion of the basin experiences frequent floods that cause severe human and economic losses. Bangladesh, as...
The differential code bias (DCB) of the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) receiver should be precisely corrected when conducting ionospheric remote sensing and precise point positioning. The DCBs can usually be estimated by the ground GNSS n...
Reference voltage/current generation is essential to the Analog circuit design. There have been several ways to generate quality reference voltage using bandgap reference (BGR) and there are mainly two types: current mode and voltage mode. The curren...
Accurate clinical sensors and devices are essential to support optimal medical decision-making, and accuracy can be demonstrated through the conduct of clinical validation studies using validated reference sensors and/or devices for comparison. Typic...
Inaccuracies in cost estimation on construction projects is a contested topic in praxis. Among the leading explanations for cost overrun (CO), factors accounting for large variances in actual cost are shown to have psychological or political roots. T...
The emergence of pangenome graphs represents a paradigm shift in genomics, moving beyond linear reference genomes to embrace the full spectrum of genetic diversity within and across species. These graph-based models provide a unified framework for re...
Human-in-the-loop pipelines are widely used in artificial intelligence (AI)-based inspection systems, coupling an automated model, human reviewers, and an organizational reporting layer that drives decisions and, potentially, model retraining. The cl...
The accuracy reported for detecting apical periodontitis using artificial intelligence (AI) is generally interpreted as accuracy against the disease; however, this is usually not the case. Compared with histopathology, single-view periapical radiogra...
Monitoring of patients with inherited metabolic disorders (IMDs) using dried blood spot (DBS) specimens has been routinely used since the inception of newborn screening (NBS) for phenylketonuria in the 1960s. The introduction of flow injection analys...
Clinical biochemical reports should reflect the clinical perspective, be well organized and biologically oriented, and present accurate reference values based on clinically relevant distributions. To illustrate possible quality issues, we selected Cl...
Background: There is evidence that temporal duration is spatially represented on a horizontal mental timeline (MTL) with relatively short durations represented on the left and long duration on the right side. Most of this evidence comes from the visu...
Gesture elicitation studies are a popular means of gaining valuable insights into how users interact with novel input devices. One of the problems elicitation faces is that of legacy bias, when elicited interactions are biased by prior technologies u...
Modern electronic devices, such as smartphones and drones, integrate various sensors to enable diverse sensor-based applications. Yet, sensor measurements exhibit significant variations across different device models, even under the same environment....
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In recent years, advances in experimental psychology have led to a better understanding in automatic, unconscious processes, referred to as attentional and approach biases amongst individuals with substance use disorders. Attentional biases refer to...
Climate change will continue to bring about unprecedented climate extremes in the future, and buildings and infrastructure will be exposed to such conditions. To ensure that new and existing buildings deliver satisfactory performance over their desig...
This article describes a closed-loop detection MEMS accelerometer for acceleration measurement. This paper analyzes the working principle of MEMS accelerometers in detail and explains the relationship between the accelerometer zero bias, scale factor...
Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) and anthropometry are considered alternatives to well-established reference techniques for assessing body composition. In team sports, the percentage of fat mass (FM%) is one of the most informative parameters,...
Background/Objectives: Clinical risk measures such as pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) and gestational weight gain do not distinguish the expansion of fluid, lean, and adipose compartments. Standardized obstetric reference curves for bioelectrical...
Forest above-ground biomass (AGB) can be estimated based on light detection and ranging (LiDAR) point clouds. This paper introduces an accurate and detailed quantitative structure model (AdQSM), which can estimate the AGB of large tropical trees. AdQ...
When one is using climate simulation outputs, one critical issue to consider is the systematic bias affecting the modelled data. The bias correction of modelled data is often used when one is using impact models to assess the effect of climate events...
ESA’s Earth explorer mission CryoSat-2 has an ice-monitoring objective, but it has proven to also be a valuable source of observations for measuring impacts of climate change over oceans. In this paper, we report on our long-term ocean data ana...
This paper presents a low-power CMOS voltage reference with low supply sensitivity, designed and verified in a 180 nm standard CMOS technology. A DIBL-based line-sensitivity (LS) compensation path is incorporated into the conventional PTAT generation...
In this article, the sources of DC bias and its effects on power transformers are first summarized. Secondly, the article classifies and summarizes the current DC bias calculation problems of power transformers, and puts forward some interesting view...
The signals in numerous fields usually have scaling behaviors (long-range dependence and self-similarity) which is characterized by the Hurst parameter H. Fractal Brownian motion (FBM) plays an important role in modeling signals with self-similarity...
Caries diagnostic studies differ with respect to their design, included patients/tooth samples, use of diagnostic and reference methods, calibration, blinding and data reporting. Such heterogeneity makes comparisons between studies difficult and coul...
The quantitative structure model (QSM) contains the branch geometry and attributes of the tree. AdQSM is a new, accurate, and detailed tree QSM. In this paper, an automatic modeling method based on AdQSM is developed, and a low-cost technical scheme...
Triggering hydrological simulations with climate change gridded datasets is one of the prevailing approaches in climate change impact assessment at a river basin scale, with bias correction and spatio-temporal interpolation being functions routinely...
Sentinel-3A and -3B satellite SAR altimeter wind speeds are routinely validated against moored buoys but increasingly benchmarked against ERA5 reanalysis when buoys are unavailable. We assess both reference choices over the Chinese nearshore seas usi...
This study aimed to establish a hand-to-hand (HH) model for bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) fat free mass (FFM) estimation by comparing with a standing position hand-to-foot (HF) BIA model and dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA); we also ve...
Background/Objectives: Point-of-care testing (POCT) is increasingly adopted in primary healthcare to facilitate rapid screening and monitoring of chronic conditions. Ensuring that its analytical quality is comparable to central laboratory testing is...
Body composition measurement plays an important role in the nutritional diagnosis and treatment of diseases. In the past 30 years, the detection of body composition based on bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) has been widely used and explored in...
Background: Point-of-care testing (POCT) devices offer a rapid alternative for lipid assessment, but comprehensive analytical validation against reference laboratory methods remains limited. Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the agreement, syst...
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