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Matrix Certified Reference Materials

  • Tadeusz Gorewoda,
  • Justyna Kostrzewa,
  • Marta Wolska,
  • Ewa Jamroz and
  • Jacek Anyszkiewicz

Matrix certified reference materials (mCRMs) are materials characterized by suitable homogeneity, stability, and traceability, with certified values, including uncertainties, and a specific matrix. mCRMs constitute a reference for instrumental analyt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,832 Views
15 Pages

A Large Payload Data Hiding Scheme Using Scalable Secret Reference Matrix

  • Jason Lin,
  • Chia-Wei Tsai,
  • Chun-Wei Yang and
  • Kuan-Hung Liu

15 April 2022

When imperceptibility is an issue, data-hiding techniques typically become limited to small payloads. In this paper, a novel data-hiding scheme is proposed that allows embedding large payloads while maintaining high stego-image quality. The scheme ut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,634 Views
34 Pages

A Feasibility Study into the Production of a Mussel Matrix Reference Material for the Cyanobacterial Toxins Microcystins and Nodularins

  • Andrew D. Turner,
  • Daniel G. Beach,
  • Amanda Foss,
  • Ingunn A. Samdal,
  • Kjersti L. E. Løvberg,
  • Julia Waack,
  • Christine Edwards,
  • Linda A. Lawton,
  • Karl J. Dean and
  • Adam M. Lewis
  • + 1 author

30 December 2022

Microcystins and nodularins, produced naturally by certain species of cyanobacteria, have been found to accumulate in aquatic foodstuffs such as fish and shellfish, resulting in a risk to the health of the seafood consumer. Monitoring of toxins in su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,172 Views
14 Pages

Development of a Water Matrix Certified Reference Material for Volatile Organic Compounds Analysis in Water

  • Liping Fang,
  • Linyan Huang,
  • Gang Yang,
  • Yang Jiang,
  • Haiping Liu,
  • Bingwen Lu,
  • Yaxian Zhao and
  • Wen Tian

20 July 2021

Water matrix certified reference material (MCRM) of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is used to provide quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) during the analysis of VOCs in water. In this research, a water MCRM of 28 VOCs was developed using...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,851 Views
11 Pages

Digital PCR-Based Characterization of a g10evo-epsps Gene-Specific Matrix Reference Material for Its Food and Feed Detection

  • Xiaoyun Chen,
  • Huiru Yu,
  • Pengfei Wang,
  • Cheng Peng,
  • Xiaofu Wang,
  • Xiaoli Xu,
  • Junfeng Xu,
  • Jingang Liang and
  • Liang Li

25 June 2022

g10evo-epsps is a novel glyphosate herbicide-resistant gene that has been transferred to various crops such as soybean, corn, cotton, and rice. Here, we developed a gene-specific digital Polymerase Chain Reaction (dPCR) detection method for absolute...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,462 Views
23 Pages

17 December 2020

Accuracy assessment of maps relies on the collection of validation data, i.e., a set of trusted points or spatial objects collected independently from the classified map. However, collecting spatially and thematically accurate dataset is often tediou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,343 Views
11 Pages

9 June 2023

This paper selects a set of reference points in the form of an arithmetic progression for planning an experiment to evaluate the parameters of systems of differential equations. This choice makes it possible to construct estimates of the parameters o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,891 Views
12 Pages

Beryl Reference Materials for In Situ Oxygen Isotope Determination

  • Xiaoxiao Ling,
  • Qiuli Li,
  • Lianjun Feng,
  • Di Zhang,
  • Yu Liu,
  • Guoqiang Tang,
  • Jiao Li,
  • Shitou Wu,
  • Liangliang Huang and
  • Xianhua Li
  • + 3 authors

29 October 2021

The mineral beryl (Be3Al2(SiO3)6) has the most abundant phase with industrial value for extracting a critical metal—beryllium. Due to multi-stage, fluid-induced growth, individual beryl grains may yield complex geochemical records, revealing variatio...

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  • Open Access
1,029 Views
18 Pages

12 November 2024

Reversible data hiding (RDH) is an approach that emphasizes the imperceptibility of hidden confidential data and the restoration of the original cover image. To achieve these objectives at the same time, in this paper, we design a matrix-based crosso...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,123 Views
12 Pages

Decision-Making with Fuzzy Soft Matrix Using a Revised Method: A Case of Medical Diagnosis of Diseases

  • Taiwo Olubunmi Sangodapo,
  • Babatunde Oluwaseun Onasanya and
  • Sarka Mayerova-Hoskova

19 September 2021

In this paper, we study the matrix representation of fuzzy soft sets, complement of fuzzy soft sets, product of fuzzy soft matrices and the application of fuzzy soft matrices in medical diagnosis presented by Lavanya and Akila. Additionally, a new me...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,328 Views
16 Pages

29 June 2020

Up to now, the Fe content of nonmetallic particles has often been neglected in chemical evaluations due to the challenging analysis of matrix elements in nonmetallic inclusions (NMI) in steel by scanning electron microscope and energy dispersive spec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,704 Views
12 Pages

Development and Calibration of a Vertical High-Speed Mueller Matrix Ellipsometer

  • Jiamin Liu,
  • Song Zhang,
  • Bowen Deng,
  • Lei Li,
  • Honggang Gu,
  • Jinlong Zhu,
  • Hao Jiang and
  • Shiyuan Liu

21 September 2023

In order to meet the requirements of dynamic monitoring from a bird’s eye view for typical rapidly changing processes such as mechanical rotation and photoresist exposure reaction, we propose a vertical high-speed Mueller matrix ellipsometer th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
11,021 Views
20 Pages

13 July 2012

Navigation employing low cost MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) sensors in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is an uprising challenge. One important part of this navigation is the right estimation of the attitude angles. Most of the existent algori...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,226 Views
12 Pages

16 January 2023

With the help of low-dimensional reference equations (ordinary differential equations) and the corresponding coordinate transformations, the non-stationary 4D quantum oscillator in an external field is reduced to an autonomous form. The latter, in pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,020 Views
21 Pages

Large multiple datasets were simulated through sampling, and regression modeling results were compared with known parameters—an analysis undertaken here for the first time on such a scale. The study demonstrates that the impact of multicollinea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,106 Views
13 Pages

Ferritin: A Biomarker Requiring Caution in Clinical Decision

  • Baptiste Lemaire,
  • Miguel A. Frias,
  • Olivier Golaz,
  • Jean-Luc Magnin,
  • Véronique Viette,
  • Nicolas Vuilleumier and
  • Sophie Waldvogel Abramowski

10 February 2024

Objectives. To determine the ferritin inter-assay differences between three “Conformité Européenne” (CE) marked tests, the impact on reference intervals (RI), and the proportion of individuals with iron deficiency (ID), we u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
574 Views
30 Pages

Effect of Imaging Range on Performance of Terahertz Coded-Aperture Imaging

  • Yan Teng,
  • Haodong Yang,
  • Xinhong Cui,
  • Xiaoze Li and
  • Yanchao Shi

11 September 2025

This paper reveals a counterintuitive, non-monotonic dependence of terahertz coded-aperture imaging (TCAI) performance on the imaging range. This phenomenon stems from phase-induced spatiotemporal correlations in the reference-signal matrix (RSM), go...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
4 Citations
9,783 Views
8 Pages

8 December 2009

Mycotoxin contamination in rice is less reported, compared to that in wheat or maize, however, some Fusarium fungi occasionally infect rice in the paddy field. Fumonisins are mycotoxins mainly produced by Fusarium verticillioides, which often ruins m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,278 Views
13 Pages

20 September 2024

This study investigates the formation and impact of Endogenous Quasi-Pathogens (EQPs) within cellular environments, focusing on the role of Endogenous Smart Medicine (ESM) as a therapeutic intervention. This work elucidates how induced vibrations fac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,657 Views
23 Pages

13 January 2023

There are a variety of land cover products generated from remote-sensing images. However, misclassification errors in individual products and inconsistency among them undermine their utilities for research and other applications. While it is worth de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,389 Views
21 Pages

8 January 2025

Model Reference Adaptive Control (MRAC) guarantees closed loop stability and desired steady state performance of dynamical systems without undue dependence upon their mathematical models. However, the applicability of MRAC may not be suitable for sys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,084 Views
10 Pages

Commutable Blood Materials from the Fixed-Cell Method for Performance Evaluation of Blood Glucose by a Glucose Meter

  • Napaporn Apiratmateekul,
  • Jintana Nammoonnoy,
  • Gerald J. Kost and
  • Wanvisa Treebuphachatsakul

Glucose meters provide a rapid blood glucose status for evidence-based diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of diabetes mellitus. We aimed to evaluate the commutability of processed blood materials (PBMs) and their use in the performance evaluation o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,860 Views
21 Pages

11 January 2019

A subtopic of visual secret sharing (VSS) is information hiding-based VSS (IH-VSS), which embeds secret messages into images using an information hiding technique. In the IH-VSS scheme, stego-images are divided into shadows under the guidance and con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,234 Views
22 Pages

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Designs for Low-Cost Digital Manufacturing Systems

  • Jan Kaiser,
  • Gregory Hawkridge,
  • Anandarup Mukherjee and
  • Duncan McFarlane

23 November 2023

There are many well-known systematic approaches to design the digital systems used in manufacturing. However, there are only a few approaches that specifically deal with low-cost components. Such components may not provide the same level of completen...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,845 Views
13 Pages

The Dairy Matrix: Its Importance, Definition, and Current Application in the Context of Nutrition and Health

  • Ana-Isabel Mulet-Cabero,
  • Moises Torres-Gonzalez,
  • Jan Geurts,
  • Ashley Rosales,
  • Bita Farhang,
  • Corinne Marmonier,
  • Ellen Kathrine Ulleberg,
  • Erica Hocking,
  • Isabelle Neiderer and
  • Stephan Peters
  • + 7 authors

31 August 2024

Nutrition research has shifted from single nutrients to examining the association of foods and dietary patterns with health. This includes recognizing that food is more than the sum of the individual nutrients and relates to the concept of the food m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,110 Views
23 Pages

Underdetermined blind source separation is a signal processing technique that is more suitable for practical applications and aims to separate the source signals from the mixed signals. The mixing matrix estimation is a major step in the underdetermi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,946 Views
12 Pages

30 March 2021

In this study a real-time PCR method has been developed for the specific quantification of the foodborne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes on meat products through the gene hlyA. The PCR was combined with a matrix lysis that allowed the obtaining of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,857 Views
10 Pages

11 February 2023

As optimization methods to identify the best animals for dense genotyping to construct a reference population for genotype imputation, the MCA and MCG methods, which use the pedigree-based additive genetic relationship matrix (A matrix) and the genom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,389 Views
24 Pages

Acoustic Emission-Based Analysis of Damage Mechanisms in Filament Wound Fiber Reinforced Composite Tubes

  • Parsa Ghahremani,
  • Mehdi Ahmadi Najafabadi,
  • Sajad Alimirzaei and
  • Mohammad Fotouhi

7 August 2023

This study investigates the mechanical behavior and damage mechanisms of thin-walled glass/epoxy filament wound tubes under quasi-static lateral loads. The novelty is that the tubes are reinforced in critical areas using strip composite patches to pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,997 Views
15 Pages

9 February 2023

This paper investigates the spatial dependency of job and worker densities for the Minneapolis–St. Paul (Twin Cities) metropolitan area using census block level data from 2002 to 2017. A spatial weight matrix is proposed, considering the statis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,801 Views
17 Pages

31 October 2023

Light field imaging involves reconstructing a 4D light field from a 3D focal stack, which makes it challenging to reconstruct the light field from incomplete projection data. To address this problem, a linear projection system is established to model...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,224 Views
24 Pages

Comparison of Risk Assessment Schemes in GHPs and HACCP, FSMA Preventive Controls for Human Food, ISO 22000, and GFSI Recognized Standards with Risk Scoring Guidance in General Use with Fresh Produce

  • Suwimol Surareungchai,
  • Chaleeda Borompichaichartkul,
  • Chitsiri Rachtanapun,
  • Nutthachai Pongprasert,
  • Pongphen Jitareerat and
  • Varit Srilaong

The intention of this qualitative research study was to provide a basic risk concept by comparing food risk assessment schemes and preparing general food risk scoring guidance for developing a simple and reliable practical fruit and vegetable qualita...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,195 Views
23 Pages

13 April 2018

This work addresses crucial questions about the robustness of the PSDization process for applications in insurance. PSDization refers to the process that forces a matrix to become positive semidefinite. For companies using copulas to aggregate risks...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,185 Views
10 Pages

4 June 2019

The exploiting modification direction scheme is a well-known data hiding method because of its high payload and low distortion. Its most criticized drawback is that the secret data must be converted to a non-binary numeral system before the embedding...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,528 Views
20 Pages

2 February 2023

The Craig–Bampton method is frequently applied in most commercial multibody dynamic software. Nevertheless, the Craig–Bampton modes only represent the free-free modes in flexible multibody systems. However, the free-free modes are incapab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,211 Views
15 Pages

11 October 2021

The novel sensing technology airborne passive bistatic radar (PBR) has the problem of being affecting by multipath components in the reference signal. Due to the movement of the receiving platform, different multipath components contain different Dop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,907 Views
19 Pages

New Thermal-Conductivity Constitutive Matrix in Fourier’s Law for Heat Transfer Using the Cell Method

  • Pablo Ignacio González-Domínguez,
  • José Miguel Monzón-Verona and
  • Santiago García-Alonso

24 October 2019

In this paper, a new constitutive matrix [ M τ ] for thermal conduction, for tetrahedral meshes, in a steady state thermal regime is developed through a new algebraic methodology, using the Cell Method as a computational method, whi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,931 Views
10 Pages

Endoscopic Imaging Using a Multimode Optical Fibre Calibrated with Multiple Internal References

  • Petr Jákl,
  • Martin Šiler,
  • Jan Ježek,
  • Ángel Cifuentes,
  • Johanna Trägårdh,
  • Pavel Zemánek and
  • Tomáš Čižmár

10 January 2022

The interferometric acquisition of the transmission matrix (TM) of a multimode optical fibre (MMF), which is at the heart of multimode fibre-based endoscopic imaging methods, requires using a reference beam. Attempts to use an internal reference, tha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,096 Views
12 Pages

Square Integer Matrix with a Single Non-Integer Entry in Its Inverse

  • Arif Mandangan,
  • Hailiza Kamarulhaili and
  • Muhammad Asyraf Asbullah

10 September 2021

Matrix inversion is one of the most significant operations on a matrix. For any non-singular matrix A∈Zn×n, the inverse of this matrix may contain countless numbers of non-integer entries. These entries could be endless floating-point numbers. Storin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,542 Views
18 Pages

20 October 2023

Eye-in-hand robotic binocular sensor systems are indispensable equipment in the modern manufacturing industry. However, because of the intrinsic deficiencies of the binocular sensor, such as the circle of confusion and observed error, the accuracy of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,365 Views
21 Pages

Novel Steganographic Method Based on Hermitian Positive Definite Matrix and Weighted Moore–Penrose Inverses

  • Selver Pepić,
  • Muzafer Saračević,
  • Aybeyan Selim,
  • Darjan Karabašević,
  • Marija Mojsilović,
  • Amor Hasić and
  • Pavle Brzaković

6 November 2024

In this paper, we describe the concept of a new data-hiding technique for steganography in RGB images where a secret message is embedded in the blue layer of specific bytes. For increasing security, bytes are chosen randomly using a random square Her...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,132 Views
17 Pages

Environmentally Friendly Supplier Selection Using Prospect Theory

  • Wei Song,
  • Zhiya Chen,
  • Xuping Wang,
  • Qian Wang,
  • Chenghua Shi and
  • Wei Zhao

This paper proposes an optimal selection method to address the real-world problem of environmentally friendly supplier selection, based on prospect theory. This study adopted the manufacturer’s point of view, and considered the manufacturer’s psychol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,116 Views
15 Pages

In Vitro and In Vivo Evaluation of Oral Controlled Release Formulation of BCS Class I Drug Using Polymer Matrix System

  • Mosab Arafat,
  • Muhammad Sarfraz,
  • Mohammad F. Bostanudin,
  • Anna Esmaeil,
  • Aisha Salam and
  • Salahdein AbuRuz

16 September 2021

Diltiazem hydrochloride is a calcium channel blocker, which belongs to the family of benzothiazepines. It is commonly used to treat hypertension and atrial fibrillation. Even though the drug has high solubility, its high permeability and rapid metabo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,127 Views
25 Pages

3 August 2022

The existence of a small amount of rare earth metal oxides (REMOs) can greatly affect the structure and function of copper matrix composites owing to improvement of surface and interface properties between REMOs and metal matrix, and there are still...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,708 Views
15 Pages

Toxicological Effects of Leachates Extracted from Photocatalytic Concrete Blocks with Nano-TiO2 on Daphnia magna

  • Fernanda Facin,
  • João Victor Staub de Melo,
  • Rodrigo Costa Puerari and
  • William Gerson Matias

4 September 2024

The incorporation of titanium dioxide nanoparticles into concrete blocks for paving adds photocatalytic functionality to the cementitious matrix, providing self-cleaning and pollutant-degrading properties. However, wear and leaching from these paveme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,668 Views
15 Pages

Robust Output Tracking of Boolean Control Networks over Finite Time

  • Yuan Zhao,
  • Xiaoyu Zhao,
  • Shihua Fu and
  • Jianwei Xia

2 November 2022

With an increase in tracking time, the operating cost of the controller will increase accordingly. Considering the biological applications of Boolean control networks (BCNs), it is necessary to study the control problem of BCNs over finite time. In t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,260 Views
13 Pages

Evaluation of Bond Properties of a Fabric-Reinforced Cementitious Matrix for Strengthening of Concrete Structures

  • Min-Jun Kim,
  • Hyeong-Gook Kim,
  • Yong-Jun Lee,
  • Dong-Hwan Kim,
  • Min-Su Jo and
  • Kil-Hee Kim

29 May 2020

In the present study, pull-out and pull-off tests were conducted to examine the bond strength between an inorganic cement adhesive (hereinafter referred to as the “matrix”) and a textile, which composed a fabric-reinforced cementitious ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,619 Views
8 Pages

Classical Chaos Described by a Density Matrix

  • Andres Mauricio Kowalski,
  • Angelo Plastino and
  • Gaspar Gonzalez

1 September 2021

In this paper, a reference to the semiclassical model, in which quantum degrees of freedom interact with classical ones, is considered. The classical limit of a maximum-entropy density matrix that describes the temporal evolution of such a system is...

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