Recently, research attention has been drawn to the application of novel, unique, and innovative types of construction materials to fulfil diverse objectives associated with the ground-breaking concept of “Greener Architecture”, in order to improve th...
Light-transmitting concrete as a building material already exists in many forms, but its light properties and the possibilities of using it to improve the lighting of interior spaces have not been investigated in detail yet. This paper focuses on the...
This study characterizes the transmittance behavior of structural light-transmitting concrete under natural sunlight. The experimentation involves the use of a novel test setup and a detailed analysis considering the variation and dependence on time...
In recent years, the use of new and unique building materials to achieve green building goals has attracted a lot of attention. Optical fiber light-transmitting concrete (LTC) makes it possible for light to pass through concrete. Its ornamental value...
In multiuser visible light communication (VLC) systems, many transmit precoding (TPC) techniques have been investigated to suppress multiuser interference. However, these conventional works restrict their modulation to the special case of zero mean,...
The development of special concrete focussed on sustainability and energy conservation has been approached through the use of recycled materials, novel techniques and processes, and materials that harness natural energy. This paper presents the resul...
This paper presents a model to describe the polarization patterns of celestial light, which includes sunlight and skylight, when refracted by wavy water surfaces. The polarization patterns and intensity distribution of refracted light through the wa...
The World Health Organization indicates that more than 1.5 billion people are infected with geohelminths. Soil-transmitted helminths prevail mostly in tropical and subtropical regions, in areas with inadequate hygiene and sanitation conditions, and b...
New therapeutic strategies are urgently needed to overcome drawbacks in the treatment of some infections, particularly sexually transmitted infections (STI). STIs are easily spread by the transmission of various bacteria, viruses, and parasites with...
This study identifies the optimal conditions for enhancing the performance of the Color Picker System, a device designed for colorimetric sensing using plasmonic paper. A simulation study was conducted toanalyze the transmittance spectra of plasmonic...
The ability to simultaneously heat and image samples using transmitted light is crucial for several biological applications. However, existing techniques such as heated stage microscopes, thermal cyclers equipped with imaging capabilities, or non-con...
Liquid-Infused Surfaces (LISs), particularly known for their liquid-repelling feature, have demonstrated plenty of applications in the medical, marine, and energy fields. To improve the durability and transparency highly demanded on glass-based visio...
This study aims to investigate the potential impact of commercial low-vision filters on intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs), which have significantly advanced our understanding of non-image-forming visual functions. A compreh...
In this study, for the first time, a cluster-plus-glue-atom model was used to optimize the composition of lithium aluminosilicate glass-ceramics. Basic glass in glass-ceramics was considered to be a 16-unit combination of three-valence {M2O3} and one...
This paper introduces the Watermark Imaging System (WImSy) which can be used to photograph, document, and study sheets of paper. The WImSy provides surface images, raking light images, and transmitted light images of the paper, all in perfect alignme...
Reasonable dense planting is an important measure to increase crop yield per unit area and save resources. However, there is no unified view of the competition for photosynthetic radiation in different stratification structures of maize plants due to...
Post-Renaissance ceramics (XVI–XIX) obtained in the Emilia Romagna region (north of Italy) demonstrate the difficulty in correctly identifying two different main types of artifacts: (i) enamel terracotta (or majolica) and (ii) glazed engobed te...
In Visible Light Communication (VLC) Systems, data are transmitted by modulating light from an illumination source, that could be an ordinary lamp or light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Photovoltaic cells based on massive heterojunctions of semiconductor p...
This study presents a novel transmission-based method for characterizing local structural features, including the grammage, thickness, and fiber orientation, of paper materials. Some non-destructive techniques, such as micro-computed tomography (μ...
The fact that outdoor light environment is an important suppressive factor against myopia led us to invent violet light-transmitting eyeglasses (VL glasses) which can transmit violet light (VL), 360–400 nm in wavelength, for the suppression of...
One of the main challenges for the mass introduction of the molecular diagnostics of soil-transmitted helminths (STHs) into clinical practice is the lack of a generally recognized effective method for isolating parasitic DNA from fecal samples. In th...
Twin pregnancies are highly undesirable in dairy cattle; they compromise the health and wellbeing of a cow and dramatically impair the farm economy. Recently, a genomic prediction for twin pregnancies has been developed. The objective of this study w...
Pod counting of rapeseed is a critical step in breeding, cultivation, and agricultural machinery research. Currently, this process relies entirely on manual labor, which is both labor-intensive and inefficient. This study aims to develop a semi-autom...
This study was designed to identify factors, including estrous cycle length, affecting the incidence of double ovulations in dairy cows. The study population comprised 748 primiparous cows undergoing spontaneous estrous cycles that had undergone thei...
This goal of our research was to show that E-glass fiber bundles used for reinforcing composites can be enabled to transmit light in a common resin without any special preparation (without removing the sizing). The power of the transmitted light was...
Comparative experiments on trapping major rice pests using different methods showed that a light-transmitting three-combination trapping method, using different combinations of color plates + insect sex pheromones + transmitting (shielding) light cov...
Plants conduct light from their aboveground tissues belowground to their root system. This phenomenon may influence root growth and perhaps serve to stimulate natural biological functions of the microorganisms associating with them. Here we show that...
Semitransparent plastic films containing red-fluorescent pigments can increase the growth of some greenhouse crops despite a lower transmitted photosynthetic photon flux density (PPFD), but the underlying mechanism by which this occurs is not fully u...
Optical wireless power transfer (OWPT) has been employed in the literature as a wireless powering approach for implanted and wearable devices. However, most of the existing studies on this topic have not studied the performances of OWPT systems when...
The human eye perceives the color of visible light depending on the spectrum of the incident light. Hence, the ability of color expression is very important in display devices. For practical applications, the transmitted color filter requires high tr...
This paper analyzes the light-scattering standards currently used for calibration (verification) and systematic research in photo and spectrophotometry tools. The application specificities in studying the diffuse reflected and transmitted light durin...
The light reflected by the dorsal side of butterfly wings often functions as a signal for, e.g., mate choice, thermoregulation, and/or predator deterrence, while the ventral wing reflections are generally used for crypsis and camouflage. Here, we pro...
Autumn grazing management aims to accumulate herbage for defoliation prior to a decrease in growth rates for the extension of the grazing season. The current study investigated the impact of building different target herbage masses (THMs) in autumn a...
Photonics is a field of sciences that focuses on the pursuit of the understanding basic properties of light, the interaction of light with materials, the fundamental concepts and technologies for generating and controlling the properties of light, th...
This article focuses on a beacon-less Inter-satellite optical wireless communication (Is-OWC) system. This system uses the same wavelength for the transmitted and received laser beams and uses part of communication light beam as beacon light instead...
In this paper, a novel optical approach to double the sensitivity to angular rate of interferometric fiber optic gyroscope (IFOG) is proposed. Two fiber polarization combiner/splitters (FPCSs), as the key components, are added in the traditional IFOG...
This invention proposes a novel light emitting diode (LED) lighting (dimmable) control scheme to transmit digital data through a magnetic field generated by a flyback driver that utilizes digitized data to adjust the brightness of LEDs for potential...
An optical fiber is a flexible glass or plastic fiber that can transmit light from one end to the other [...]
This article reports the variation in incident and transmitted light through four different computer-aided-designed/computer-assisted-manufactured (CAD/CAM) resin-based composites (RBC) of thicknesses up to 4 mm after simulating clinically relevant b...
Optogenetics is a new neuroscience technology, consisting of biological technology that activates a nerve by light and engineering technology that transmits light to the nerve. In order to transmit light to the target nerve, fiber optics or light-emi...
Autonomous vehicles and intelligent traffic transportation are widely investigated for road networks. Context-aware traffic light scheduling algorithms determine signal phases by analyzing the real-time characteristics and contextual information of c...
As one of the main projects of facility agriculture promotion, the PV (photovoltaic) greenhouse has the problems of PV power generation competing for light with crop production, strong indoor chiaroscuro, and uneven light distribution. The internal l...
In the present paper, we investigate the performance of the simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) based cooperative cognitive radio networks (CCRNs). In particular, the outage probability is derived in the closed-form expressio...
Hundreds of kilometers of optical fibers are installed for optical meshes (OMs) to transmit data over long distances. The visualization of these deployed optical fibers is a highlighted issue because the conventional procedure can only measure the op...
The detection of the spectral fingerprint of chemical sensors through the combined use of an LCD and a webcam is an alternative approach for chemical sensor characterization. This technique allows the development of more compact, cheap, and user-frie...
An in vivo validation study was performed to confirm the accuracy of extraoral photobiomodulation therapy (PBMT) dosimetry determined by modelling. The Monte Carlo technique was utilized to calculate the fluence rate and absorbed power of light deliv...
We demonstrate an integrated fiber optic photoluminescence sensing platform using a novel single-multi-mode fiber coupler (SMFC)-based probe with high collection efficiency for fluorescence signals. The SMFC, prepared using fused biconical taper tech...
In this study, a portable desktop analyzer for the determination of fat content in milk is introduced. The prototype of the sensor consists of three light-emitting diodes (red, green, and blue) as a light source. The transmitted light is detected by...
To overcome the disadvantages of small and random samples in static detection, this paper presents a study on dynamic measurements of solid particles in jet fuel using large samples. In this paper, the Mie scattering theory and Lambert-Beer law are u...
Bonellia nervosa is an understory tree with reverse phenology in tropical dry forests (TDFs), where seasonal water and temperature stress typically shape plant phenology and trait expression. This species is heliophytic and phreatophytic, relying on...
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