Growth kinetics and mechanical characterization of boride layers formed on Ti6Al4V by Özger Onur Yiğit, Avcı Şenol

“…This present study focuses on the characterization of the boride layer formed on Ti6Al4V alloy borided at 950, 1,050, and 1,150°C for 5 and 15 h using two different recipes (M-1 and M-2). In addition, the activation energies of boron diffusion calculated using the TiB2 layer thicknesses measured from optical images of all samples, including 10 h borided samples, are included in the article.…”
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Plasma Cleaning Technology: Mechanisms, Influencing Factors, and Applications by Jianan Sun, Yanmei Yu, Jianming Tang, Yan Zeng, Jiaxuan Chen

“…The characteristics of plasma cleaning technologies with different excitation methods, such as direct current discharge, low-frequency discharge, radio frequency discharge, and microwave plasma cleaning, are analyzed. …”
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Automated Characterization of Intrastromal Corneal Cuts Induced by Two Femtosecond Laser Systems Using OCT Imaging by Masoud Mehrjoo, Pooja Khamar, Soodabeh Darzi, Shwetabh Verma, Rohit Shetty, Samuel Arba Mosquera

“…However, recent semi-automated methods rely on manual markers, which can introduce bias and variability. …”
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Morphological Features of Red Blood Cells in Patients with Severe Concomitant Injury by V. V. Moroz, E. A. Myagkova, V. A. Sergunova, O. E., Gudkova, D. A. Ostapchenko, A. M Chernysh, V. I. Reshetnyak

“…Calculation of 1000 cells by light optical microscopy and AFM showed significantly different counts of macro- and microcytes in the comparison group. …”
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The Significance of Screening Questionnaire in the Evaluation of Age-Related Macular Risk Degeneration Development by L. A. Kochmasheva, Z. Yu. Prokhorova, A. G. Grinev

“…All patients were referred without suspicion or established diagnosis of AMD of any other retinal pathology. Optical coherent tomography (OCT) and macular pigment optical density (MPOD) were carried out in order to objectify questionnaire score points and retinal structural changes. …”
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Results of Scanning Electron Microscopy of Explanted Hydrophilic Acrylic IOLs by A. A. Gamidov, I. A. Novikov, A. A. Tsymbal, R. A. Gamidov

“…Purpose: study the microscopic examination and microtopography of explanted hydrophilic acrylic IOLs with opacification.Material and methods. 5 samples of soft hydrophilic acrylic IOLs produced in European countries and the USA were studied. …”
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Maximizing the biochemical resolving power of fluorescence microscopy. by Alessandro Esposito, Marina Popleteeva, Ashok R Venkitaraman

“…To improve the precision and the resolution of quantitative imaging methods, we demonstrate strategies for the optimization of fluorescence lifetime, fluorescence anisotropy and hyperspectral detection, as well as different multi-dimensional techniques. …”
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Directed energy deposition of chromium-molybdenum-vanadium cold work tool steel Vanadis 4 Extra© by Dominic Bartels, Dimitrios Nikas, Raphaela März, Maximilian Marschall, Julian Schrauder, Marion Merklein, Aydin Şelte, Pavel Krakhmalev

“…Optical light microscopy proves a high relative part density above 99.5 % for different parameter combinations. …”
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The combination of paclitaxel and ipatasertib affects the death, proliferation, and autophagy response of oral squamous cell carcinoma cells by CHE Di, XU Pengkun, SONG Zhenyu, REN Baorui, GUAN Jian

“…[Objective:] To investigate the effect of paclitaxel combined with ipatasrtib on the oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) cell line Cal-27 to study the changes of the proliferation level and autophagy level, which will provide the basis for further research and clinical application of oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). [Methods:] The optical density values ​​of paclitaxel and ipatasertib alone and in combination in Cal-27 cell line were determined by CCK8 assay, and the lethality of the corresponding drugs was further compared to find the most suitable concentration of combination therapy. …”
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Dual Branch Encoding Feature Aggregation for Cloud and Cloud Shadow Detection of Remote Sensing Image by Naikang Shi, Haifeng Lin, Huiwen Ji, Min Xia

“…Cloud detection is a critical preprocessing step for optical remote sensing imagery. However, traditional CNN-based methods have limitations in global feature modeling, while Transformer models, despite their strong global modeling capability, struggle to capture fine-grained local details effectively. …”
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Surface Roughness Evaluation of Resin Composites after Finishing and Polishing Using 3D-Profilometry by Alexandra Vinagre, Catarina Barros, Joana Gonçalves, Ana Messias, Filipe Oliveira, João Ramos

“…The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of two finishing and polishing methods on the surface roughness of different resin composites. …”
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Data-driven model reconstruction for nonlinear wave dynamics by Ekaterina Smolina, Lev Smirnov, Daniel Leykam, Franco Nori, Daria Smirnova

“…Here, we present an interpretable machine learning framework for analyzing the nonlinear evolution dynamics of optical wave packets in complex wave media. We use sparse regression to reduce microscopic discrete lattice models to simpler effective continuum models, which can accurately describe the dynamics of the wave packet envelope. …”
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Modeling and Simulation of Athlete’s Error Motion Recognition Based on Computer Vision by Luo Dai

“…In this article, a multifeature fusion error action expression method based on silhouette and optical flow information is proposed to overcome the shortcomings in the effectiveness of a single error action expression method based on the fusion of features for human body error action recognition. …”
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Interpretable multimodal classification for age-related macular degeneration diagnosis. by Carla Vairetti, Sebastián Maldonado, Loreto Cuitino, Cristhian A Urzua

“…In this paper, we analyze the performance of three different XAI strategies for medical image analysis in ophthalmology. …”
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Two-dimensional coronene fractals: modified reverse degree indices, comparative analysis of information entropy and predictive modeling of spectral properties by A. R. Abul Kalaam, A. Berin Greeni

“…Topological characterization through graph-theoretical methods translates chemical and structural data into quantitative values that represent the molecular system. …”
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Highly compact circulators in square-lattice photonic crystal waveguides. by Xin Jin, Zhengbiao Ouyang, Qiong Wang, Mi Lin, Guohua Wen, Jingjing Wang

“…By applying the finite-element method together with the Nelder-Mead optimization method, an extremely low insertion loss of 0.02 dB for the transmitted wave and ultra high isolation of 46 dB∼48 dB for the isolated port are obtained. …”
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Double-slit holography—a single-shot lensless imaging technique by Flavio Wicki, Tatiana Latychevskaia

“…The proposed method can be particularly practical for X-rays, where optical elements such as beam splitters are not available and conventional off-axis holography schemes cannot be realised.…”
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Evaluating sensitivity and specificity of the DPP Vet TB assay in badgers using Bayesian latent class models. by Rachel C Jinks, Sandrine Lesellier, Freya Smith, Fraser D Menzies, Roland T Ashford, Laura Waring, Dipesh Dave, Paul Anderson, Lesley A Stringer, Ana V Pascual-Linaza, David Corbett, Suzan Thompson, Mark E Arnold

“…Two measures were used for the interpretation of test results: qualitative visual interpretation and quantitative measurement using an optical reader for a range of cut-offs. To overcome the absence of a gold standard comparison test, we used Bayesian latent class methods, applied to results from different sub-populations. …”
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Exploiting Bacterial Pigmentation for Non-Destructive Detection of Seed-Borne Pathogens by Using Photoacoustic Techniques by Lucia Cavigli, Dario Gaudioso, Cecilia Faraloni, Giovanni Agati, Stefania Tegli

“…These techniques leverage the photoacoustic effect to measure optical absorption, offering high sensitivity and accuracy. …”
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Jointly designed quasi-cyclic LDPC-coded cooperation with diversity combining at receiver by Muhammad Asif, Wuyang Zhou, Qingping Yu, Saifullah Adnan, Md Sadek Ali, Muhammad Shahid Iqbal

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