In this paper, the Multistage Bipolar method is developed. The paper presents a synthesis of three streams related to multiple criteria decision-making: the reference point-based approach, the interactive approach and multistage decision processes. A...
Methods for No-Reference Video Quality Assessment (NR-VQA) of consumer-produced video content are largely investigated due to the spread of databases containing videos affected by natural distortions. In this work, we design an effective and efficien...
Background: In vivo Hounsfield Unit (HU) values have traditionally been determined using direct CT image measurements. These measurements are dependent on the window/level used to examine the CT image and the individual conducting the fat tissue trac...
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The nutrient reference conditions of lakes play a key role for lake water quality control and water resource management. The inferential models are important methods for calculating reference values; however, the dependence and “cluster” in time seri...
This paper presents a novel reference current calculation method for harmonics mitigation and reactive power compensation in power systems. This method was applied to a unique hybrid power filter topology. The motivation for this study comes from the...
Many studies have investigated the accuracy of the numerical parameters in the application of the quasi steady-state calculation method. The aim of this study is to derive the reference numerical parameters of the ISO 13790 monthly method by reflecti...
The Food and Agriculture Organization has proposed the current version of the Penman–Monteith method (FAO56-PM) as the standard for calculating reference evapotranspiration (ET0); however, high meteorological data requirements limit its applica...
The identification of damage based on Lamb waves can hardly avoid obtaining the reference signal under healthy conditions. A non-reference damage localization (NRDL) method is proposed in this paper. The NRDL method is established by the improved two...
The error motion of the precision rotary stage, particularly the tilt error motion, significantly influences the accuracy of machining and measuring equipment. Nonetheless, reliable and effective in situ measurement methods for tilt error motion are...
African horse sickness (AHS) is a disease affecting equids caused by the AHS virus (AHSV). The World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) includes AHS as a notifiable disease and, upon detection within the European Union, immediate control and eradi...
Objectives: The erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) is a diagnostic test that is employed worldwide to assess a patient’s inflammatory status. Like all laboratory tests, it requires reference intervals (RIs) to support clinical decision making...
In the course of the development of automated driving, there has been increasing interest in obtaining ground truth information from sensor recordings and transferring road traffic scenarios to simulations. The quality of the “ground truth&rdqu...
Global land cover (GLC) data are an indispensable resource for understanding the relationship between human activities and the natural environment. Estimating their classification accuracy is significant for studying environmental change and sustaina...
Several studies have highlighted the essential role of taurine in maintaining the health of small animals, particularly dogs. Taurine deficiency has been linked to various health issues, especially in certain dog breeds. Therefore, accurately assessi...
For products such as smartphones, the technology gap between companies is gradually narrowing with the advancements in technology. Therefore, product design can be a visible strategy for differentiation. However, it is difficult to apply automated pr...
The cost of offloading tasks is a crucial parameter that influences the task selection of fog nodes. Low-cost tasks can be completed quickly, while high-cost tasks are rarely chosen. Therefore, it is essential to design an effective incentive mechani...
The acquisition of precise deformation data, including the entirety of the subsidence basin resulting from subterranean mining operations, assumes critical significance in the context of surface impairment monitoring during the course of mining activ...
The agar dilution method (ADM) recommended for IV fosfomycin (IV FOS) is complex and labor-intensive. Keeping in mind the reality of everyday laboratory work, we have evaluated the agreement of IV FOS susceptibility results obtained using the E-test...
In the field of photogrammetric engineering, computer vision, and graphics, local shape description is an active research area. A wide variety of local shape descriptors (LSDs) have been designed for different applications, such as shape retrieval, o...
Photosafety assessments are a key requirement for the safe development of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and agrochemicals. Although in vitro methods are widely used for phototoxicity and photoallergy testing, their limited applicability and predictive...
Reference evapotranspiration (ET0) is a key element of the water cycle in tropical areas for the planning and management of water resources, hydrological modeling, and irrigation management. The objective of this research is to assess twenty methods...
Background: Thyroid function tests are frequently requested, but manufacturer reference intervals often lack age- or sex-based stratification. This study established indirect reference intervals for thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), free thyroxine (...
Reference evapotranspiration (ET) is crucial for effective agricultural and water resource management, with the FAO-56 Penman-Monteith (FAO PM) method being the standard for its estimation. However, in regions with incomplete or poor-quality meteorol...
The performance of a time difference of arrival (TDOA) localization system is severely affected by time synchronization errors, and making use of reference signals is a common solution for the problem. The traditional method has two steps, first to m...
The FAO-56 Penman–Monteith (PM) equation is regarded as the most accurate equation to estimate reference evapotranspiration (ETo). However, it requires a broad range of data that may not be available or of reasonable quality. In this study, nine temp...
Mesoionics are neutral compounds that cannot be represented by a fully covalent or purely ionic structure. Among the possible mesomeric structures of these compounds are the diradical electronic configurations. Theoretical and experimental studies in...
As smartphones become widespread, a variety of smartphone applications are being developed. This paper proposes a method for indoor localization (i.e., positioning) that uses only smartphones, which are general-purpose mobile terminals, as reference...
Background/Aims: Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) is becoming a valuable cancer biomarker for clinical decision-making. Nevertheless, the lack of quality control materials to assess the reliability of test results remains a challenge. This study aimed t...
Thick cloud and shadows have a significant impact on the availability of optical remote sensing data. Although various methods have been proposed to address this issue, they still have some limitations. First, most approaches rely on a single clear r...
Assessment of conservation effectiveness in biodiversity ecological function zones (BEFZs) is important for biodiversity in China. However, a scientific and practical method for effectively comparing biodiversity conservation between different BEFZs...
In the present study, a new methodology for reference evapotranspiration (ETo) prediction and uncertainty analysis under climate change and COVID-19 post-pandemic recovery scenarios for the period 2021–2050 at nine stations in the two basins of...
This work introduces a new method for inserting a Lithium reference electrode into commercially available 18650-type cells in order to obtain electrode potentials during cell operation. The proposed method is simple and requires limited equipment. Fu...
To address the limitations of conventional mobile robot path planning results in terms of geometric continuity, kinematic executability, and adaptability to dynamic environments, this study proposes a reference trajectory generation method oriented t...
In recent years, hyperspectral (HS) sharpening technology has received high attention and HS sharpened images have been widely applied. However, the quality assessment of HS sharpened images has not been well addressed and is still limited to the use...
The real-time kinematic (RTK) positioning technique of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) has been widely used for deformation monitoring in the past several decades. The RTK technique can provide relative displacements in a local reference f...
The ultrasonic guided wave-based structural damage diagnosis method has broad application prospects in different fields. However, some environmental factors such as temperature and loads will significantly affect the monitoring results. In this paper...
The article is devoted to solving the problem of charge equalization of multi-element batteries with rated voltage up to 1000 V, operating in dynamic modes with different charge and discharge depths. This article proposes a method of balancing the vo...
During a heating experiment, there are two sources of heat that increase the temperature of a coal sample: the heat released by the oxidation reaction of the coal itself, and the heat provided by the experimental system. Here, we propose a method for...
A simple and fast high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) fingerprint method combining reference standard extract for the identification of bilberry extract was developed and validated. Six batches of bilberry extract collected from different m...
Reference signal reconstruction serves as a crucial technique for suppressing multipath interference and noise in the reference channel of passive radar. Aiming at the challenge of detecting Low-Slow-Small (LSS) targets using Digital Terrestrial Mult...
We improved the surface spline method to make the centers of the base functions fixed. This improvement makes it meaningful to analyze the time series of coefficients. Based on the revised surface spline (RSS) method and 2382 geomagnetic data measure...
Non-destructive testing (NDT) aims to assess components without compromising their functionality by identifying internal defects. Ultrasonic testing, a key NDT method, uses sound waves (0.5–20 MHz) to detect imperfections and requires tool cali...
This paper presents a robust and efficient method for validating the accuracy of orientation sensors commonly used in practical applications, leveraging measurements from a commercial robotic manipulator as a high-precision reference. The key concept...
Remote physiological monitoring has become increasingly important in improving quality of life, with remote photoplethysmography (RPPG) being a popular choice. This paper introduces an envelope–based method for RPPG channels to improve wave mor...
Inertial measurement unit (IMU)-based joint angle estimation is an increasingly mature technique that has a broad range of applications in clinics, biomechanics and robotics. However, the deviations of different IMUs’ reference frames, referring to I...
The echo of shipborne high-frequency surface wave radar (HFSWR) is modulated by six-degrees-of-freedom (6-DOF) motion, affecting the detection of the target and the remote sensing of ocean surface dynamics parameters. Commonly, motion compensation me...
The goal of full-reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) is to predict the perceptual quality of an image as perceived by human observers using its pristine (distortion free) reference counterpart. In this study, we explore a novel, combined appr...
Current distortion degrades power quality and affects system performance, especially for sensitive loads that require pure sinusoidal waves. Owing to its excellent dynamic response, a well-designed active power filter (APF) can achieve a total harmon...
One of the most important applications of remote imaging systems in agriculture, with the greatest impact on global sustainability, is the determination of optimal crop irrigation. The methodology proposed by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FA...
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This work focuses on an experimental study of the influence of e-liquid composition on the mass of vaporized e-liquid after standardized emission generation using a U-SAV (Universal System for Analysis of Vaping) vaping machine. All the experiments w...
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