Rosin was used to treat round bamboo culm using the impregnation method. The quantitative color and gloss measurements combined with a qualitative eye tracking experiment were used to evaluate the effect of rosin treatment under different temperature...
3 September 2026
Digital visual marketing increasingly relies on aesthetically modified social media content to attract consumers, yet such practices may also create authenticity risks when online representations are compared with actual experiences. This study exami...
Paulownia elongata wood is characterized by rapid mass gain, but its limited mechanical strength hinders engineering applications. This study aimed to determine the effect of thermal modification in a steam atmosphere (at temperatures of 180 °C a...
Background/Objectives: Malnutrition among older adults, particularly those in aged care, is a major contributor to morbidity and healthcare costs. Reduced visual contrast sensitivity, common with ageing and dementia, may impair the ability to disting...
10 November 2019
The association between visual impairment and higher mortality remains unclear. In addition, evidence is lacking on the interaction between visual function and physical activity on mortality. We used data of individuals with no disability or with vis...
Periodic, wave-like modifications of 2D shape contours are often applied to convey quantitative data via images. However, to the best of our knowledge, there has been no in-depth investigation of the perceptual uniformity and legibility of these kind...
Heterogeneous ion-exchange membranes (IEMs) are cost-effective but suffer from low electrochemical efficiency due to surface inhomogeneities. While surface coating with homogeneous ionomers is a known modification strategy, its direct impact on elect...
Biometric signals can be acquired with different sensors and recognized in secure identity management systems. However, it is vulnerable to various attacks that compromise the security management in many applications, such as industrial IoT. In a rea...
12 September 2019
Advances in experimental psychology have provided evidence for the presence of attentional and approach biases in individuals with substance use disorders. Traditionally, reaction time tasks, such as the Stroop or the Visual Probe Task, are commonly...
Why do the eyes remain comparatively large, whereas the cornea is reduced in most troglobiont mysids? Are there any important organ size-dependent functions served by non-visual eye rudiments? This issue was approached by measuring eye structures in...
Nucleic acid chemistry is a huge research area that has received new impetus due to the recent explosive success of oligonucleotide therapy. In order for an oligonucleotide to become clinically effective, its monomeric parts are subjected to modifica...
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a hereditary blinding disease characterized by gradual photoreceptor death, which lacks a definitive treatment. Here, we demonstrated the effect of 4-phenylbutyric acid (PBA), a chemical chaperon that can suppress endopla...
Robust and precise visual localization over extended periods of time poses a formidable challenge in the current domain of spatial vision. The primary difficulty lies in effectively addressing significant variations in appearance caused by seasonal c...
microRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding ribonucleic acids (RNAs), which regulate gene expression via the RNA interference (RNAi) system. miRNAs have attracted enormous interest because of their biological significance and disease relationship. In cel...
Attention bias describes the differential allocation of attention towards one stimulus compared to others. In humans, this bias can be mediated by the observer’s affective state and is implicated in the onset and maintenance of affective disord...
The Flutter framework with Dart programming allows developers to effortlessly build applications for both web and mobile from a single codebase. It enables efficient conversions to native codes for mobile apps and optimized JavaScript for web browser...
The authors focus on innovating the research tool Urban’s Test of Creativity to enhance the evaluation and efficiency of the educational process. This paper presents the possibility of measuring creativity and spatial imagination in the SketchU...
Combination of reverse transcription (RT) and deep sequencing has emerged as a powerful instrument for the detection of RNA modifications, a field that has seen a recent surge in activity because of its importance in gene regulation. Recent studies y...
20 April 2023
There are many cognitive, physical, and social–emotional benefits for youths from participating in outdoor adventure activities. However, youths with visual impairments are not given the same opportunities to participate in outdoor adventure ac...
There is a huge group of algorithms described in the literature that iteratively find solutions of a given equation. Most of them require tuning. The article presents root-finding algorithms that are based on the Newton–Raphson method which ite...
Background: The Orbay approach to volar distal radius described a volar zig-zag incision across the wrist crease, allowing a more distal exposure than traditional approaches. This adaptation enhances mobilization of the proximal radial fragment and i...
Steganography is the art and practice of communication using hidden messages. The least significant bits (LSB) based method is the well-known type of steganography in the spatial domain. Usually, achieving the larger embedding capacity in LSB-based m...
The influence of the thermal modification process on wood machinability was investigated with four minor species of low economic importance. A set of representative experimental samples was machined to the form of disks with sharp and dull tools. The...
There are many expressive visualization techniques for analyzing graphs. Yet, there is only little research on how existing visual representations can be employed to support data editing. An increasingly relevant task when working with graphs is the...
8 October 2022
Running is a popular sport, and, with simple modifications, it can be accessible for individuals with visual impairments, particularly with a sighted running guide. The purpose of this study is to examine the experiences of runners with visual impair...
Glucose homeostasis is a fundamental aspect of life and its dysregulation is associated with important diseases, such as cancer and diabetes. Traditionally, glucose radioisotopes have been used to monitor glucose utilization in biological systems. Fl...
Composed Video Retrieval (CoVR) enables flexible video search by retrieving a target video that reflects a specified modification to a query video. The triplet datasets—consisting of query videos, query text, and target videos—required fo...
Modification to a thin beverage consistency is frequently recommended when swallowing is impaired, but proper thickening during preparation is essential. Contemporary technologies provide innovative ways of addressing quality control due to ongoing c...
Uneven air distribution in chamber dryers is a common and serious technological challenge. A study using CFD (Computer Fluid Dynamics) simulation, supported by measurements in a heat pump chamber dryer, confirmed irregular airflows. Performing simula...
Visual discomfort or visual stress is an uncomfortable subjective experience that occurs in response to specific visual stimuli. It affects a large proportion of the population to various degrees, disproportionately impacting those with heightened se...
RNA modification plays a crucial role in cellular regulation. However, traditional high-throughput sequencing methods for elucidating their functional mechanisms are time-consuming and labor-intensive, despite extensive research. Moreover, existing m...
N6-methyladenosine (m6A) has been identified in various biological processes and plays important regulatory functions in diverse cells. However, there is still no visualization database for exploring global m6A patterns across cell lines. Here we col...
Wood surface treatment aims to improve or reduce the surface activity of wood by physical treatment, chemical treatment, biological activation treatment or other methods to achieve the purpose of surface modification. After wood surface modification,...
One of the key goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is to create inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable cities. A fundamental aspect of this goal is ensuring barrier-free mobility and access to public spaces, particularly for peo...
Auditory and visual pathways may be affected as a consequence of temporal lobe epilepsy surgery because of their anatomical relationships with this structure. The purpose of this paper is to correlate the results of the auditory and visual evoked res...
In this paper, we briefly present several modifications and generalizations of the concept of self-organizing neural networks—usually referred to as self-organizing maps (SOMs)—to illustrate their advantages in applications that range fro...
Objectives: Lesion localization, associated vascular structures, and corticotomy selection pose key challenges when planning cerebral cavernous malformation (CCM) resections in eloquent areas. Head-mounted augmented reality (HMAR) may improve visuali...
The algorithm here described concerns generation, visualization, and modification of molecular nanostructures of single-walled nanotubes (NTs) of particular configurations (armchair, zipper, multiple zipper, zigzag, or chiral) by means of a Graphical...
The visual scanpath to emotional facial expressions was recorded in BR, a 35-year-old male with chronic severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), both before and after he underwent intervention. The novel intervention paradigm combined visual scanpath tra...
The proliferation of intelligent sensor networks in urban surveillance and remote sensing has triggered the explosive growth of unstructured visual sensor data. Accurately retrieving targets from these massive streams based on complex cross-modal use...
Background: Proteoforms are the critical functional species that drive biological processes. However, conventional proteogenomic (“shotgun”) analyses discard relevant proteoform-level information through bulk protein digestion. This study...
Introduction The diagnosis of glomerular diseases is primarily based on visual assessment of histologic patterns. Semi-quantitative scoring of active and chronic lesions is often required to assess individual characteristics of the disease. Reproduci...
Brain plasticity is the capacity of cerebral neurons to change, structurally and functionally, in response to experiences. This is an essential property underlying the maturation of sensory functions, learning and memory processes, and brain repair i...
Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to search a target database for images that best align with a user’s intent, conditioned on a reference image paired with modification requirements. Existing CIR architectures typically treat the visual refer...
The present review describes the current achievements in the applications of a planar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF) method for the diagnostics of liquid films, bubbles, individual droplets, and sprays. Such flows are related with strongly curved...
Cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) has emerged as a crucial radiographic technique for orthodontic diagnosis and treatment planning, particularly for cases requiring the assessment of complex anatomical relationships. In the first part of the study...
The article investigates the possibility of using cartographic redundancy to reduce the change blindness effect on spatio-temporal maps. Unlike in the case of previous research, the authors take a look at various methods of cartographic presentation...
Human emotions are an element of attention in various areas of interest such as psychology, marketing, medicine, and public safety. Correctly detecting human emotions is a complex matter. The more complex and visually similar emotions are, the more d...
Purpose: To assess preliminarily the efficacy and safety of a relatively new surgical modification of phacovitrectomy in eyes with cataract and visually significant asteroid hyalosis (AH). Materials and methods: Prospective, noncomparative, intervent...
Detecting and understanding emotions are critical for our daily activities. As emotion recognition (ER) systems develop, we start looking at more difficult cases than just acted adult audio–visual speech. In this work, we investigate the automa...
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