Tea Disease Recognition Based on Image Segmentation and Data Augmentation by Ji Li, Chenyi Liao

“…However, the complex environment of tea plantations—affected by weather variations and uneven lighting—poses significant challenges for building effective disease recognition models using raw field-captured images. …”
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Convolutional neural network prediction of the particle size distribution of soil from close-range images by Enrico Soranzo, Carlotta Guardiani, Wei Wu

“…The soil images were captured under standardised lab conditions using a dark chamber with constant lighting to ensure consistency. We implemented the model in Python and explored various neural network architectures, image resolutions and data augmentation techniques to optimise performance. …”
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A Novel Edge-Map Creation Approach for Highly Accurate Pupil Localization in Unconstrained Infrared Iris Images by Vineet Kumar, Abhijit Asati, Anu Gupta

“…In this paper, we propose a pupil localization method for locating the pupils in the non-close-up and frontal-view iris images that are captured under near-infrared (NIR) illuminations and contain the noise, such as specular and lighting reflection spots, eyeglasses, nonuniform illumination, low contrast, and occlusions by the eyelids, eyelashes, and eyebrow hair. …”
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Pre-Occupancy Evaluation of Affective Experiences in Building Information Modeling Through SLR and an e-Delphi Survey by Balamaheshwaran Renganathan, Radhakrishnan Shanthi Priya, Ramalingam Senthil

“…Building information modeling (BIM) is increasingly used during the conceptual design phase, which focuses on simulations such as energy usage analysis and comfort levels, like temperature and lighting conditions, to enhance user experience and well-being, which are key factors for meeting Sustainable Development Goal 3. …”
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Hand Detection Using Cascade of Softmax Classifiers by Yan-Guo Zhao, Feng Zheng, Zhan Song

“…The experiments are implemented under various scenarios with complicated background and challenging lightings. Results show the superiority of the proposed SftB classifiers over the traditional binary classifiers such as logistic regression, as well as the accuracy and efficiency improvements brought by the softmax-based cascade architecture compared with the noncascade multiclass softmax detectors.…”
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New ways to communicate: Intensive care nurses’ perspectives on using the digital application Talk2Care. A qualitative study by Serine Ramsdal, Heidi Jerpseth

“… Background: An increasing proportion of mechanically ventilated patients are held awake or lightly sedated. These patients require advanced communication skills and sufficient time from the intensive care nurses. …”
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Safety Considerations When Dry Needling the Multifidi in the Thoracolumbar Region: A Cadaveric Study by Christi L. Williams, Christian R. Falyar, Ryan C. McConnell, Stacey Lindsley

“… # Purpose The purpose of this cadaveric ultrasound-guided dry needling exploration was to determine if a dry needle can penetrate the ligamentum flavum at the T12/L1 interspace and enter the spinal canal using a paramedian approach in a fresh-frozen, lightly fixed cadaver in the prone position. # Study Design Cadaveric study…”
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Summary of the 2023 (1st edition) Report of TCEP (Tracking Clean Energy Progress) by the International Energy Agency (IEA), and Proposed Process for Computing a Single Aggregate Ra... by Marzouk Osama A.

“…Out of the TCEP’s 53 assessed components, only three were rated as “On track”, and these are (1) Solar Photovoltaic (PV), (2) Electric Vehicles (EV), and (3) Building Lighting. For the remaining 50 assessed components of TCEP; 28 were rated as “More efforts needed”, and 22 were rated as “Not on track”. …”
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Thermal performance evaluation of phase changing materials in double glazing units for office buildings in Egypt by Omar Abdel-Rahman, El Rouby, Mohamed Moemen Afify

“…Abstract Nowadays glass curtain walls are used widely in modern buildings as they offer a significant aesthetic appearance and provide the building with natural lighting. However, their poor thermal resistance leads to excessive usage of mechanical systems to achieve thermal comfort which in turn increases the energy consumption in buildings. …”
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Checkmate to Bioethics? by Fabio Alberto Garzón Díaz

“… Bioethics, as the first cousin of philosophy, suffers from what philosopher Hegel told us during his lifetime, “When philosophy paints lights and shadows, an aspect of life has grown old, and cannot be rejuvenated, but only understood. …”
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A Feature-Enhanced Small Object Detection Algorithm Based on Attention Mechanism by Zhe Quan, Jun Sun

“…However, due to factors such as the environment, lighting, altitude, and angle, UAV images face challenges like small object sizes, high object density, and significant background interference, making object detection tasks difficult. …”
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Challenges in the Implementation of Fiscal Decentralization and It’s Effects on the Health Sector in Uganda by George Stanley, Kinyata, Siraje, Kaaya

“…The study reviews various writers on fiscal decentralization Programmes and high lights the problems affecting Uganda’s Health sector service delivery. …”
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Degradation of PVDF-Coated Fabrics after Engineering Applications: Correlations between Surface Microstructure, Physical Properties, and Mechanical Properties Based on Statistical... by Yingying Shang, Bin Yang, Minger Wu, Youji Tao, Jiaxiang Qin

“…Firstly, spectrocolorimetry tests were carried out to determine the evolution of chromaticity and lightness. Other methods such as contact angle and thickness measurements were used to characterize the physical properties. …”
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Chemical Characteristics and Physical Properties of Functional Snacks Enriched with Powdered Tomato by Wójtowicz Agnieszka, Zalewska-Korona Marta, Jabłońska-Ryś Ewa, Skalicka-Woźniak Krystyna, Oniszczuk Anna

“…Snacks enriched with tomato exhibited a lower expansion ratio, water absorption and solubility indices, lightness and sensory characteristics but higher density, hardness and redness than corn snacks. …”
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How Color Properties Can Be Used to Elicit Emotions in Video Games by Erik Geslin, Laurent Jégou, Danny Beaudoin

“…Our results show a significant correlation between luminance, saturation, lightness, and the emotions of joy, sadness, fear, and serenity experienced by participants viewing 24 video game images. …”
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Design and Development of a Wayside AI‐Assisted Vision System for Online Train Wheel Inspection by Muhammad Zakir Shaikh, Sanaullah Mehran, Enrique Nava Baro, Agata Manolova, Mohammad Aslam Uqaili, Tanweer Hussain, Bhawani Shankar Chowdhry

“…Further avenues for countering lighting issues and defect detection are provided.…”
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MLPR: YOLOv3 for Real-Time License Plate Recognition in Moroccan Video Streams by Hatim Derrouz, Hamza Alami, Reda Rabie

“…However, ALPR is a challenging task due to several factors, including differences in vehicle license plates between countries, a lack of public datasets, environmental factors that can decrease the performance of recognition models, and challenging lighting conditions for vehicle license plates. In this work, we present an ALPR system for real-time applications specifically designed to detect and recognize Moroccan license plates. …”
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A hypothetical comparative evaluation system for arctic indoors by Seyed-Amin Tabatabaeifard, Jean-François Lalonde, Marc Hébert, André Potvin, Claude MH. Demers

“…Preliminary experiments contrast indoor environments in terms of circadian lighting, thermal uniformity, and view access to outside in the 360° field of view (VAR360). …”
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Attention-Based Convolutional Neural Network for Pavement Crack Detection by Haifeng Wan, Lei Gao, Manman Su, Qirun Sun, Lei Huang

“…Achieving high detection accuracy of pavement cracks with complex textures under different lighting conditions is still challenging. In this context, an encoder-decoder network-based architecture named CrackResAttentionNet was proposed in this study, and the position attention module and channel attention module were connected after each encoder to summarize remote contextual information. …”
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Emulsion-Type Chicken Sausage Quality with Fat Substitution by Rice Starches during Freeze-Thaw Cycles by A. Kosim, P. Rumpagaporn, K. Vangnai

“…The result showed that the incorporation of non-waxy and waxy rice starch up to 9% increased the emulsion stability, lightness (L*), and the value of hardness, gumminess, and chewiness of chicken sausage (p<0.05). …”
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