The control of parasitic nematode infection in sheep and other animals is threatened by the evolution of drug resistance in parasite populations. One recommendation to delay the onset of drug resistance is to estimate the flock mean faecal egg counts...
The box-counting method is a fundamental tool for estimating fractal dimensions from 2D binary images, but its accuracy depends heavily on the sampling strategy used to select box sizes. Traditional approaches—such as geometric and arithmetic s...
This paper proposes a novel pixel interval down-sampling network (PID-Net) for dense tiny object (yeast cells) counting tasks with higher accuracy. The PID-Net is an end-to-end convolutional neural network (CNN) model with an encoder–decoder ar...
In the image plane configurations frequently used in digital holographic microscopy (DHM) systems, interference patterns are captured by a photo-sensitive array detector located at the image plane of an input object. The object information in these p...
Integration of remote sensing (RS) data in forest inventories for enhancing plot-based forest variable prediction is a widely researched topic. Geometric consistency between forest inventory plots and areas for extraction of RS-based predictive metri...
In this study, a high sampling rate data acquisition system with the ability to provide timestamp, pulse shape information, and waveform simultaneously under a sub megahertz pulse counting rate was developed for radiation diagnostics for magnetic con...
We apply hierarchical clustering (HC) of DNA k-mer counts on multiple Fastq files. The tree structures produced by HC may reflect experimental groups and thereby indicate experimental effects, but clustering of preparation groups indicates the presen...
Maize (Zea mays) is the most consumed food in the world. The leafhopper, Dalbulus maidis, (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) is one of the most important maize pests, and due to its direct and indirect damage, it can cause losses of up to 100%. Sampling plans...
The fast multi-pulse spectrum is a spectrum acquisition method that obtains an average pulse amplitude in a dynamic window, which improves the energy resolution by sharpening peaks in the acquired spectra, but produces the counting loss. Owing to the...
Counting blood cells in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is indispensable for diagnosing several pathological conditions in the central nervous system, such as meningitis, even though collecting CSF samples is invasive. Cell counting methods, such as hemocy...
Hypergraph motifs characterize recurring local interaction patterns among hyperedges and provide structural signatures for higher-order network analysis. Exact motif counting is computationally expensive on large hypergraphs because it requires exami...
Traditional attribute control charts for defect counts are commonly developed under the assumption that count data follow a homogeneous Poisson distribution. However, this assumption is often violated in practical applications. To overcome this limit...
Butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) have been suggested for the environmental monitoring of genetically modified (GM) crops due to their suitability as ecological indicators, and because of the possible adverse impact of the cultivation of current tr...
The total viable count (TVC) of bacteria is an important index to evaluate the freshness and safety of dishes. To improve the accuracy and robustness of spectroscopic detection of total viable bacteria count in a complex system, a new method based on...
Cox processes, also called doubly stochastic Poisson processes, are used for describing phenomena for which overdispersion exists, as well as Poisson properties conditional on environmental effects. In this paper, we consider situations where spatial...
Due to the relevance of cleaning and disinfection in farm hygiene management, accurate evaluation of the success of such procedures remains a fundamental challenge for producers. This study aimed to use boot swab sampling to quantify the effects of s...
Temporal networks can describe multiple types of complex systems with temporal information in the real world. As an effective method for analyzing such network, temporal graph pattern (TGP) counting has received extensive attention and has been appli...
When explaining the dynamics of individual trees, the incorporation of size and distance of neighboring trees into a model can improve the prediction of growth and mortality. Several methods have been proposed to define the number of competing trees...
Studies on indoor air quality (IAQ) have linked exposure to microorganisms in indoor air to a variety of illnesses. The association between indoor air quality, surface contamination, and IAQ under heterogeneous cleaning procedures are all crucial fac...
We conducted point counts in the alpine zone of the Presidential Range of the White Mountains, New Hampshire, USA, to estimate the distribution and density of the rare endemic White Mountain Fritillary (Boloria chariclea montinus). Incidence of occur...
In many statistical and machine learning applications, without-replacement sampling is considered superior to with-replacement sampling. In some cases, this has been proven, and in others the heuristic is so intuitively attractive that it is taken fo...
Environmental monitoring (EM) is the cornerstone for the assurance of sterility during aseptic manufacturing. In this study, the EM quality aspects in the radiopharmaceutical cleanrooms of the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), The Netherlan...
Counting of droppings is often, with great effect, used as an indirect method to monitor the appearance and usage of an area by a population covering longer time spans. However, manual detecting and counting of droppings can be time-consuming and ted...
Obtaining reliable estimates of population sizes and their temporal trends is essential for assessing the conservation status and guiding the management of threatened species. Parrots (order Psittaciformes) are among the most diverse yet most threate...
Background: Tinnitus is a frequent symptom, and is present in 10–15% of people who suffer from chronic tinnitus, defined as heard every day for at least 6 months. Among these, 1–2% develop a strong emotive reaction, anxiety, and depressio...
Due to the expansion of the internet, we encounter various types of big data such as web documents or sensing data. Compared to traditional small data such as experimental samples, big data provide more chances to find hidden and novel patterns with...
In the last two centuries, since the dawn of modern geology, heavy minerals have been used to investigate sediment provenance and for many other scientific or practical applications. Not always, however, with the correct approach. Difficulties are di...
Continuous-variable quantum communication (CVQC) operates under finite-resolution inference (finite data windows, calibration uncertainty, and estimator tolerances) and hardware control/readout limits that can be exploited by structured and adversari...
The performance of platelet (PLT) counting in thrombocytopenic samples is crucial for transfusion decisions. We compared PLT counting and its reproducibility between Mindray BC-6800Plus (BC-6800P, Mindray, Shenzhen, China) and Sysmex XN-9000 (XN, Sys...
This paper presents a channel segmentation proofreading network for crack counting with imbalanced samples. The network is built by stacking basic blocks called channel segmentation proofreading blocks, which are composed of the Approximate Overlappi...
Milk sample collection before attaching the milking cluster for bacteriological and cytological examination is a standard clinical diagnostic procedure in dairy production. Collecting samples premilking can be difficult under certain field conditions...
Background: Reliable platelet (PLT) measurement is crucial for the accurate diagnosis of thrombocytopenia. Several methods exist for automated PLT counting, including the impedance method (PLT-I), as well as optical and fluorescence methods (PLT-F)....
The sum of diseases has been associated with many personal, behavioral, and psychological variables as well as with many biochemical, inflammatory, oxidative stress, and epigenetic biomarkers. However, the search for the association between some of t...
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(1) Background: More time spent on social media has been linked to increased alcohol use, with exposure to peer alcohol-related content on social media (content exposure) named as a critical factor in this relationship. Little is currently known abou...
In this species differentiation study of Corynebacterium spp. (C. spp.), quarter foremilk samples from 48 farms were included. These were obtained from both clinically healthy cows and those with clinical mastitis. First, all samples were examined cy...
Background/Objectives: In case of EDTA-induced pseudothrombocytopenia (PTCP), MgSO4-anticoagulated tubes are recommended for platelet counting, requiring the collection of an additional tube. The aim of this study was to analyze whether complete bloo...
The European Union’s mussel production industry is dependent on obtaining mussel larvae as seed for cultivation, a process traditionally monitored through labor-intensive manual sampling and microscopic counting prone to human error and time-co...
Objectives: To investigate the impact of α-chymotrypsin treatment on sperm recovery rate and total motile sperm count (TMC) in highly viscous semen for intrauterine insemination (IUI) and in vitro fertilization (IVF), particularly in cases of s...
Fibrous-type dust filters are used in flooded-bed dust scrubbers to capture dust from underground room and pillar mining atmospheres. They have 10–30 layers of finely woven strands that trap particles through the interception and impaction process. A...
Spatial capture models are broadly used for population analysis in ecological statistics. Spatial capture models for unidentified individuals rely on data augmentation to create a zero-inflated population. The unknown true population size can be cons...
We study discrete-time quantum walks on generalized Birkhoff polytope graphs (GBPGs), which arise in the solution-set to certain transportation linear programming problems (TLPs). It is known that quantum walks mix at most quadratically faster than r...
Weighting rules and mileage coding can change the apparent fit, uncertainty, and predictive performance of regression models built from grouped emission summaries. We examine these choices in a computational case study of 18 supplied age–mileag...
The tortuosity of retinal blood vessels is an important phenomenon, and it can act as a biomarker in the diagnosis of several eye diseases. The study of abnormalities in the tortuosity of retinal arteries and veins provides ophthalmologists with impo...
Normal and damaged microorganisms are related to food safety. The colony-forming unit (CFU) assay and viability of microorganisms have broad applications in food. Traditionally, the CFU assay has been the benchmark for assessing microbial viability a...
Arnica montana L. is a medicinal plant with significant conservation importance. It is crucial to monitor this species, ensuring its sustainable harvesting and management. The aim of this study is to develop a practical system that can effectively de...
Conservation of wildlife depends on precise and unbiased knowledge on the abundance and distribution of species. It is challenging to choose appropriate methods to obtain a sufficiently high detectability and spatial coverage matching the species cha...
Metallic materials are formed with grain structures which are naturally formed during solidification or modified after any manufacturing process, such as rolling, cutting, machining, welding, etc. Grains with different sizes and geometrical morpholog...
Intramammary infections, which cause mastitis, can increase treatment and labor costs, decrease milk production, and affect milk quality. Meters that measure quarter somatic cell count (SCC) could be used to make more informed dry cow therapy decisio...
In the decommissioning of nuclear facilities, activated steel often contains radionuclides such as 55Fe and 63Ni, which are categorized as hard-to-measure due to their emission of only low-energy beta particles or X-rays. In samples exhibiting very l...
In this paper, the uniaxial compression tests of coal under different loading rates are carried out by using the MTS rock mechanics loading system and the DS5 acoustic emission instrument, and the mechanical parameters and damage characteristics of c...
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