Phonation differentiation by non-contact laryngeal magnetomyography by Justus Marquetand, Nima Noury, Hongyu Lu, Haodi Yang, Chrystina Montuori Sorrentino, Lukas Rüttiger, Marlies Knipper, Christoph Braun, Hubert Löwenheim, Johannes von Fraunberg, Anke Tropitzsch, Markus Siegel, Stephan Wolpert

“…Here we present a new noncontact method, laryngeal magnetomyography. As a proof-of-concept, we investigated the feasibility of differentiating various vocalization conditions using laryngeal MMG in two healthy subjects using optically pumped magnetometers (OPM). …”
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Efficiency and safety of the Russian-made KERATOLINK device used to treat patients with stage I–II keratoconus and pellucid marginal corneal degeneration by A. T. Khandzhyan, E. N. Iomdina, A. V. Ivanova, A. S. Sklyarova, N. V. Khodzhabekyan, I. V. Manukyan

“…Ultraviolet cross-linking (UVCL) of corneal collagen is one of the leading methods for treating primary progressive keratectasia. …”
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DTFA-Net: Dynamic and Texture Features Fusion Attention Network for Face Antispoofing by Xin Cheng, Hongfei Wang, Jingmei Zhou, Hui Chang, Xiangmo Zhao, Yilin Jia

“…According to experiments, the DTFA-Net proposed in this paper achieved 6.9% EER on CASIA and 2.2% HTER on Replay Attack that was comparable to other methods.…”
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Side-polished silica-fluoride multimode fibre pump combiner for Mid-IR fibre lasers and amplifiers by Boris Perminov, Kirill Grebnev, Uwe Hübner, Maria Chernysheva

“…These benefits are particularly important for all-fibre lasers and amplifiers operating in the mid-IR wavelength range and based on soft-glass optical fibres. However, conventional fabrication methods face limitations due to significant differences in the thermal properties of pump-delivering silica fibres and signal-guiding fluoride-based fibres. …”
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Axial Length, Anterior Chamber Depth, and Lens Thickness in Normal Libyan Eyes; Measured by the Aladdin Ocular Biometer by Samar A. Bukhatwa, Masuod Suliman

“…Ocular parameters were measured using the Aladdin optical biometer that is a noninvasive machine and without the use of drugs. …”
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Extant life detection using label-free video microscopy in analog aquatic environments. by Carl D Snyder, Manuel Bedrossian, Casey Barr, Jody W Deming, Chris A Lindensmith, Christian Stenner, Jay L Nadeau

“…The ability of microbial active motion, morphology, and optical properties to serve as biosignatures was investigated by in situ video microscopy in a wide range of extreme field sites where such imaging had not been performed previously. …”
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Comparative In silico Analysis of Enzymatic Degradation Resistance in Resin-matrix Ceramics by Özay Önöral, Ahmet Ozer Sehirli, Emine Erdag

“…Background: Resin-matrix ceramics (RMCs) are commonly used in prosthetic dentistry due to their ability to closely replicate the optical and mechanical characteristics of natural teeth. …”
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Changes in Lacrimal Punctum Position and Tear Meniscus Height after Correction of Horizontal Laxity in Involutional Lower Eyelid Entropion by Tatsuro Yokoyama, Aric Vaidya, Shinjiro Kono, Hirohiko Kakizaki, Yasuhiro Takahashi

“…TMH was measured using anterior segment optical coherence tomography. All measurements were performed preoperatively, at postoperative 3-month and at postoperative 6-month. …”
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Improving IoRT Networks: Cross-Tier Resource Allocation for Multi-Antenna UAV Relays in SAGIN by Zahra Khodadadi, Foroogh S. Tabataba, Mohammad Sadegh Fazel, Mehdi Naderi Soorki, Halim Yanikomeroglu

“…By jointly adopting proposed size-constrained PSO-K-means clustering, Simulated Annealing (SA) method, and Successive Convex Approximation (SCA) method, a two-stage scheme is devised to solve the proposed NP-hard and non-convex problem. …”
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Radiation Diagnostics of the Maxillofacial Region and Skeleton Bone Density in the Case of Vitamin D Insufficiency: A Pilot Study by Ekaterina Diachkova, Svetlana Tarasenko, Marina Skachkova, Yury Zhilkov, Natalia Serova, Anna Babkova, Beatrice Volel, Ekaterina Blinova, Elizaveta Kytko, Renata Meylanova, Victoria Zaborova, Olesya Kytko

“…At the same time, the question of using a specific densitometry method—DXA or QCT—remains open, as their results correlating with CBCT optical density was not approved.…”
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Fluorescence Quenching of Graphene Quantum Dots from Orange Peel for Methyl Orange Detection by Weitao Li, Yang Liu, Xinglong Pang, Yuanhao Huang, Zeyun Dong, Qian Niu, Yuping Xiong, Shang Li, Shuai Li, Lei Wang, Huazhang Guo, Saisai Cui, Shenpeng Hu, Yuenan Li, Tiantian Cha, Liang Wang

“…Cyan (c-GQDs) and yellow (y-GQDs) graphene quantum dots were synthesized through a bottom-up hydrothermal method. The difference in color is attributed to the redshift caused by the varying ratio of pyridine nitrogen to pyrrole nitrogen. …”
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An improved hybrid approach involving deep learning for urban greening tree species classification with Pléiades Neo 4 imagery—A case study from Nanjing, Eastern China by Min Sun, Stephane G.P. Debulois, Zhengnan Zhang, Xiaolei Cui, Zhili Chen, Mingshi Li

“…We compared deep learning (DL)-based shadow detection methods with classical index methods in urban green spaces to identify shaded vegetation areas, with the optimal method being selected for subsequent use. …”
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Speckle-Based Transmission and Dark-Field Imaging for Material Analysis with a Laboratory X-Ray Source by Diego Rosich, Margarita Chevalier, Tatiana Alieva

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Two-Dimensional Code-Based Indoor Positioning System With Feature Graphics by Huichao Lv, Lihui Feng, Aiying Yang, Bo Lin, Heqing Huang, Shufen Chen

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Application of Asymptotic and Rigorous Techniques for the Characterization of Interferences Caused by a Wind Turbine in Its Neighborhood by Maria Jesús Algar, Lorena Lozano, Javier Moreno, Iván González, Felipe Cátedra

“…To achieve this, both high-frequency techniques, such as Geometrical Theory of Diffraction/Uniform Theory of Diffraction (GTD/UTD) and Physical Optics (PO), and rigorous techniques, like Method of Moments (MoM), have been used. …”
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Automated analysis of retinal microcirculation in type 1 diabetes mellitus by Yu. N. Yusef, M. H. Durzhinskaya, V. G. Pavlov, D. V. Petrachkov, I. B. Gurevich, V. V. Yashina, A. T. Tleubaev, V. V. Fadeyev, I. V. Poluboyarinova, A. E. Goldsmid, R. А. Karamullina, D. V. Lipatov, M. V. Budzinskaya

“…BACKGROUND: The paper is dedicated to the assessment of the retinal microvasculature in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) with various features of the clinical course and different stages of diabetic retinopathy (DR). Automatic analysis of optical coherence tomogram angiograms (OCT-A) was carried out with specially developed software that provides the ability to estimate quantitative vascular parameters.AIM: The purpose of the study was to assess diagnostic accuracy of clinical parameters and imaging biomarkers in type 1 diabetes using a new algorithm for OCT-A analysis.MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study involved 186 people (365 eyes) with type 1 diabetes. …”
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Dimethyl α-ketoglutarate ameliorates cisplatin-induced acute kidney injury by modulating mitophagy through the PINK1/Parkin pathway by Haijing Dou, Huihui Hao, Ruoyi Zhao, Hailun Li, Fangshu Wei, Yong Xu, Donghui Zheng, Juan Xie, Xiang Li

“…However, the role of AKG in AKI therapy remains incompletely understood. Methods Cisplatin (CIS) was employed to establish acute kidney injury models in mice and cells, with DM-AKG administered as an intervention. …”
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First results of long-term follow-up of children in Russia after gene therapy for hereditary retinal dystrophies associated with biallelic mutations in the RPE65 gene by V. V. Neroev, L. A. Katargina, M. P. Kharlampidi, L. V. Kogoleva, I. V. Zolnikova, P. A. Ilyukhin, E. V. Denisova, S. V. Milash, N. A. Osipova, S. I. Kutsev, A. V. Polyakov, R. A. Zinchenko, V. V. Kadyshev, Yu. A. Bobrovskaya

“…Purpose: to evaluate the results of gene therapy by the recombinant adeno-associated viral vector voretigene neparvovec (VN) in children with follow-up periods of 1, 3, 6, and 12 months.Material and methods. The study included 6 children (12 eyes) aged 5 to 15 with a confirmed biallelic mutation in the RPE65 gene, treated with VN (Luxturna, USA). …”
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Masked Feature Residual Coding for Neural Video Compression by Chajin Shin, Yonghwan Kim, KwangPyo Choi, Sangyoun Lee

“…In addition, we introduce a Motion Refiner to enhance the quality of the decoded optical flow. Experimental results show that our model achieves an 11.76% bit saving over the model without the proposed methods, averaged over all HEVC test sequences, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed methods.…”
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Robust quantitative assessment of collagen fibers with picrosirius red stain and linearly polarized light as demonstrated on atherosclerotic plaque samples. by Cherry Greiner, Stephanie Grainger, Samantha Farrow, Alena Davis, Jimmy L Su, Matthew D Saybolt, Robert Wilensky, Sean Madden, Stephen T Sum

“…However, linear polarizers are more commonly available and easier to optically align. The objective of the present study is to demonstrate a novel image acquisition technique and analysis method using linearly polarized light. …”
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