Effect of autoclaving process on trueness and qualitative marginal fit of intraoral scan body manufactured from two materials: An in vitro study. by Fábio Henrique de Paulo Costa Santos, Patrícia Santos de Melo, Paulo Sérgio Borella, Flávio Domingues das Neves, Karla Zancope

“…<h4>Methods</h4>Two models, each with 10 implants, were created to evaluate scan body trueness made of two materials (Titanium and PEEK), and implant junction positioned at two levels (implant and abutment levels). …”
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LCFC-Laptop: A Benchmark Dataset for Detecting Surface Defects in Consumer Electronics by Hua-Feng Dai, Jyun-Rong Wang, Quan Zhong, Dong Qin, Hao Liu, Fei Guo

“…To address this issue, the present study introduces a specialized optical sampling system with six distinct lighting configurations, each designed to highlight different surface defect types. …”
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Errors in stereoscopic retrievals of cloud top height for single-layer clouds by J. Loveridge, J. Loveridge, L. Di Girolamo

“…<p>Multi-angle stereoscopic methods are a promising means for retrieving high-resolution cloud volumes and their temporal evolution. …”
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LONG-TERM OUTCOMES OF PREVENTIVE MEASURES IN CHILDREN FOLLOWING RADICAL URANOSTAPHYLOPLASTY by P.I. Tkachenko, S.O. Bilokon, N.M. Lokhmatova, Yu.V. Popelo, O.B. Dolenko, N.M. Korotych, K.Yu. Rezvina

“…The purpose of the work is to study the long-term outcomes of the effectiveness of treatment and preventive measures after the radical uranostaphyloplasty. Research methods. In order to objectively assess the dental situation in 17 patients, we assessed the hygiene indices of Green-Vermillion, Silness-Loe, РМА SBI, saliva secretion rate, oral fluid pH, optical density, viscosity, α-amylase activity, medium molecular weight content, the presence of sialic acids, and the content of total protein and oxyproline. …”
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Restoration of Degraded Images Using Pupil-Size Diversity Technology With Stochastic Parallel Gradient Descent Algorithm by Zongliang Xie, Haotong Ma, Bo Qi, Ge Ren, Yufeng Tan, Bi He, Hengliang Zeng, Chuan Jiang

“…The spatial difference of pupil areas generates pupil diversity. …”
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Spectral-Spatial Collaborative Pretraining Framework With Multiconstraint Cooperation for Hyperspectral&#x2013;Multispectral Image Fusion by Jia Jia, Haoyang Yu, Chengjun Wang, Ke Zheng, Jiaxin Li, Jiaochan Hu

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Mapping Design for <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$2^{M}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>-Ary Bit-Interleaved Polar Coded Modulation by Qingping Yu, Zhiping Shi, Xingwang Li, Muhammad Asif, Jiayi Zhang, Khaled M. Rabie

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Influence of Pedestal Fiber Splice on Tm-Doped Fiber Laser Performance by Sijie Wang, Hui Shen, Xiaolong Chen, Qiubai Yang, Meng Wang, Yunfeng Qi, Xisheng Ye

“…Based on the measured refractive-index of splice with different arc-fusion parameters, the influence of the Tm-doped pedestal splice on laser propagation was analyzed using the beam propagation method (BPM). …”
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Surface Modification of SnO2 with Phosphonic Acids by Ramona Gheonea, Carmen Mak, Eleonora Cornelia Crasmareanu, Vasile Simulescu, Nicoleta Plesu, Gheorghe Ilia

“…The synthesized materials were investigated by using FT-IR, TGA (in air and in nitrogen), EDX, ESEM, and TEM methods. This synthetic approach has many advantages: films with optical quality and controlled thickness can be obtained using low temperatures and cheap raw materials, by using “green chemistry” synthetic routes. …”
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Comparing the corneal temperature of dry eyes with that of normal eyes via high-resolution infrared thermography by Chunbo Wu, Yuanshen Huang, Banglian Xu, Baicheng Li, Songlin Zhuang, Guofan Cao, Yan Hu, Zhensheng Gu

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Measurement and analysis of the thermal conductivity of borehole core samples from Huizhou, Guangdong, China by TANG Ke, HUANG Shaopeng, WEI Zheng’an, ZHANG Min, ZHAO Xinnan, LIU Yuanzhou

“…The core samples were measured with the TCS optical scanning method. The measured values of thermal conductivity of the 207 samples range from 1.74 to 5.46 W/(m·K) with a mean of (3.25 ± 0.52) W/(m·K). …”
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Multi-Model Synergistic Satellite-Derived Bathymetry Fusion Approach Based on Mamba Coral Reef Habitat Classification by Xuechun Zhang, Yi Ma, Feifei Zhang, Zhongwei Li, Jingyu Zhang

“…Therefore, the apparent differences in the reflectance of different bottom types in specific wavelength bands are a core component of SDB. …”
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Implementation of QKD-based system using Nano PCF for healthcare applications by Ajay Kumar Vyas, Achyutesh Dixit, Subhashish Tiwari, Prem Shankar Mishra, Dileep Kumar Gupta, Sanjeev K Srivastava, Vijay Singh

“…This arrangement could be used in various optical communications where one is required to interface different types of PCF. …”
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DERMA-OCTA: A Comprehensive Dataset and Preprocessing Pipeline for Dermatological OCTA Vessel Segmentation by Giulia Rotunno, Massimo Salvi, Julia Deinsberger, Lisa Krainz, Benedikt Weber, Christoph Sinz, Harald Kittler, Leopold Schmetterer, Wolfgang Drexler, Mengyang Liu, Kristen M. Meiburger

“…The dataset contains the original 2D and 3D OCTA acquisitions, as well as versions processed with five different preprocessing methods, and the reference 2D and 3D segmentations. …”
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Synthesis and Characterization of K-Ta Mixed Oxides for Hydrogen Generation in Photocatalysis by Beata Zielińska, Ewa Mijowska, Ryszard J. Kalenczuk

“…The crystallographic phases, optical and vibronic properties were examined by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and diffuse reflectance (DR) UV-vis and resonance Raman spectroscopic methods, respectively. …”
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Effect of Adding Al2O3 on the Macrostructure of Friction Stir Welding Polypropylene Sheet by Dinda Clara, Frantisek Miksik, Bambang Kusharjanta, Triyono Triyono, Aniddya Salsabila Kurnia Putri

“…Polypropylene is a thermoplastic material used mostly as a non-metallic material. One of the joining methods that can be applied in Polypropylene is Friction Stir Welding (FSW). …”
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Research on the Influence of Refractive Index Distribution of Ytterbium-doped Fiber Core on Stable Laser Output Power by QIN Yu, ZHANG Junyi, DING Song, TANG Jiang, ZHANG Zelin, CHEN Yali, XIAO Limin, SHEN Yichun

“…【Methods】This research theoretically analyzed the optical mode distributions for various RIP designs. …”
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C-reactive protein prolongs blood coagulation time in phospholipids-dependent coagulation tests by L D Kozmin, A I Martinov, T A Lisitsina, T M Reshetnyak, V. I. Lauga, O P Bliznukov

“…Material and methods. Purified native CRP. monomeric CRP (0-1.6 M), immune complexes of native CRP and rabbit polyclonal anti-CRP antibodies (1.6 M) were added to blood plasma of healthy donors. …”
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Advances in Gallium Oxide: Properties, Applications, and Future Prospects by Swapnodoot Ganguly, Krishna Nama Manjunatha, Shashi Paul

“…In this review, the properties of gallium oxide, several methods for epitaxial growth, its energy band, and its broad spectrum of applications are discussed. …”
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Interocular asymmetry of the superonasal retinal nerve fibre layer thickness and blood vessel diameter in healthy subjects. by Angelica Ly, Jennifer Banh, Patricia Luu, Jessie Huang, Michael Yapp, Barbara Zangerl

“…The aim of this study was to explore the interocular asymmetries in retinal nerve fibre layer thickness in a group of normal eyes and to investigate the influence of blood vessel diameter on local retinal nerve fibre layer thickness.<h4>Methods</h4>In this prospective study, retinal nerve fibre layer thickness and blood vessel diameter across 100 healthy participants were measured using two optical coherence tomography instruments. …”
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