Indoor Drone 3-D Tracking Using Reflected Light From Floor Surfaces by Yusei Onishi, Hiroki Watanabe, Masanari Nakamura, Hiromichi Hashizume, Masanori Sugimoto

“…For a linear flight path, the error was 0.31 m. The computation time for 3-D position estimation was 1.12 s. We also discussed limitations related to real-time and real-world applications, together with approaches to addressing these limitations.…”
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Ion Transport through Diffusion Layer Controlled by Charge Mosaic Membrane by Akira Yamauchi

“…Current-voltage curve gave the limiting current density that indicates the ceiling of conventional flux. From chronopotentiometry above the limiting current density, the transition time was estimated. …”
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Virtual digitization of caves with parietal paleolithic art from Bizkaia. Scientific analysis and dissemination through new visualization techniques by Andoni Iturbe, Rocio Cachero, David Cañal, Antonio Martos

“…In addition, the georeferencing of the caves has allowed the research team to generate cartography of elevations of floor and ceiling by means of contour lines and to overlap the cartography of the National Geographic Institute (IGN) to measure the distance that separates the ceiling of the cave from the external surface. …”
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Determination cardinal temperatures of vetch (Vicia sativa; Vicia pannonica) in response to temperature and different water potential using segmented model by حسین صفری, Batool Mahdavi

“…Estimated parameters and the relations can be used to prediction time to germination or emergence in two species of vetch under different water potentials.…”
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Genetics of callous-unemotional behavior in children. by Essi Viding, Thomas S Price, Sara R Jaffee, Maciej Trzaskowski, Oliver S P Davis, Emma L Meaburn, Claire M A Haworth, Robert Plomin

“…This GCTA ceiling is very low for CU in our study, despite its high twin study heritability estimate. …”
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A shortened 10-item Spine Functional Index: clinimetric properties indicate a reliable, responsive and practical measure by Hamid Reza Mokhtarinia, Antonio Cuesta-Vargas, Almir Vieira Dibai-Filho, Markus Melloh, Agnieszka Bejer

“…Ascertain the psychometric characteristics’ consistency with the developmental study findings for structural and criterion validity, internal consistency, and floor/ceiling effect; establish the longitudinal characteristics for test–retest reliability, responsiveness, construct validity, and error scores; and clarify practical characteristics of readability, missing responses, and time/errors for completion/scoring related to administrative burden. …”
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Comparing EQ-5D-5L and IPOS among residents with malignant tumors in a community home hospice: a longitudinal study by Takeshi Miura, Masato Kaneko, Kei Kawano, Yuka Kanoya, Makoto Kuroki

“…Data were collected at three main time points: the initial admission date, one week after admission, and when residents’ conditions changed. …”
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Validity and reliability of telephone administration of the patient-specific functional scale for the assessment of recovery from snakebite envenomation. by Rebecca G Theophanous, Joao Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci, Fan Hui Wen, S Michelle Griffin, Victoria E Anderson, Michael E Mullins, Nicklaus P Brandehoff, Eugenia B Quackenbush, Sean P Bush, Eric A Toschlog, Spencer C Greene, Kapil Sharma, Kurt Kleinschmidt, Nathan P Charlton, S Rutherfoord Rose, Richard Schwartz, Brandon Lewis, Eric J Lavonas, Charles J Gerardo

“…Floor effects were seen in the early post-injury time points (median: 3 (IQR: 0, 5) at 3 days post-enrollment) and ceiling effects in the late time points (median: 9 (IQR: 8, 10). …”
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LiFi for Industry 4.0: Main Features, Implementation and Initial Testing of IEEE Std 802.15.13 by Kai Lennert Bober, Anselm Ebmeyer, Falko Dressler, Ronald Freund, Volker Jungnickel

“…The standard specifies deterministic medium access control (MAC), based on dynamic time division multiple access (TDMA), as well as two physical layers (PHYs) for extended range and robustness, and for spectral efficiency, respectively. …”
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Experimental study on thermal management of data center with non-uniform heat load by Wei-Mon Yan, Hao Kao, Uzair Sajjad, Chun-Han Li, Saman Rashidi

“…Servers, which need to run on full load for a long time, can be placed in the bottom area of the cabinet to maintain a better working environment.…”
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Responsive Envelopes: the Fabric of Climatic Islands by Georges Teyssot

“…In a 1971 article titled “Biotopology”, he wrote “Infolding: imagine working through into depths with the help of a media that provides instantaneous feedback and thereby allows infolding with time, memory, energy, relation… TV networks do not have walls….” …”
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, who is the Fairest of them All? by Asmi Wood, Nicole Watson

“…For the lucky few Indigenous scholars who broke through the glass ceiling, the experience was often clouded by isolation and unrealistic faculty expectations. …”
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The Arabic Version of Injury-Psychological Readiness to Return to Sport Scale: Translation and Psychometric Validation by Osama R. Abdelraouf, Amr A. Abdel-Aziem, Nouf H. Alkhamees, Zizi M. Ibrahim, Mohamed A. Elhosiny, Shaza E. Ibrahim, Amal A. Elborady

“…Floor and ceiling effects, internal consistency, reliability, discriminate validity, convergent validity, and factor construct were analyzed. …”
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Measuring implicit sequence learning and dual task ability in mild to moderate Parkinson´s disease: A feasibility study. by Malin Freidle, Hanna Johansson, Alexander V Lebedev, Urban Ekman, Martin Lövdén, Erika Franzén

“…There were indications of task fatigue that demand careful choices for how best to analyse the data from such tasks in future trials. Ceiling effects were present in several accuracy outcomes, but not in the reaction time outcomes. …”
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Le lieu-dit des « Trois-Piliers » : un ensemble à caractère monumental du iiie s. apr. J.-C. dans la périphérie nord-est de Reims/Durocortorum ? by Philippe Rollet, Émilie Jouhet

“…The excavation of 59 rue Belin in 1998-1999 demonstrated for the first time the presence of massive structures in this neighborhood, known since the 19th c. for its strong archaeological potential, but only through ancient sources. …”
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The German version of the self-efficacy questionnaire (SE-12-G) for measuring clinical communication skills in a sample of healthcare professionals: translation and psychometric pr... by Wiebke Frerichs, Lene Marie Johannsen, Laura Inhestern, Corinna Bergelt

“…Afterwards, n = 152 HCPs completed the SE-12-G at two measurement time-points. We descriptively analyzed completion rate as indicator for acceptance, reliability (Cronbach’s α) and item characteristics (i.e., item difficulty, corrected item-total correlations, inter-item correlations). …”
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Design of specific situation estimation function using multi-robot system in military operations by Donggyu Choi, Jaeuk Baek, Chang-eun Lee

“…Operations inside buildings result in numerous hiding spots and chal-lenges, such as stairs and varying ceiling heights, which can endanger friendly forces. …”
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RILS: RFID indoor localization system using mobile readers by Jinkai Liu, Yanqing Qiu, Kezhao Yin, Wentong Dong, Jiaqing Luo

“…In particular, we install two guide rails, which can allow a reader to move horizontally or vertically, on the ceiling of a warehouse or workshop. We then propose a continuous scanning algorithm to improve the accuracy for locating a single tagged object and a category-based scheduling algorithm to shorten the time for locating multiple tagged objects. …”
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A Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Concurrency Control of Federated Digital Twin for Software-Defined Manufacturing Systems by Rubab Anwar, Jin-Woo Kwon, Won-Tae Kim

“…Modern manufacturing demands real-time, scalable coordination that legacy manufacturing management systems cannot provide. …”
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The generic version of China Health Related Outcomes Measures (CHROME-G): psychometric testing and comparative performance with the EQ-5D-5L and SF-6Dv2 among the Chinese general p... by Shitong Xie, Jing Wu, Pinan Chen, Xiaoning He, Kun Zhao, Feng Xie, for the CHROME Study Group

“…The mean ± SD completion time was 2.03 ± 0.58 min for the CHROME-G, and 1.37 ± 0.54 and 1.13 ± 0.38 min for the EQ-5D-5L and SF-6Dv2. …”
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