Effect of surface treatment on the micro-shear bond strength to zirconia by Esam Tashkandi

“…Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the resin-composite micro-shear bond strength to zirconia using different techniques of surface treatment. Materials and methods: Fully sintered zirconia (LAVA, 3M-ESPE, Seefeld, Germany) discs were used in combination with resin-composite (Filtek Supreme, 3M-ESPE, Seefeld, Germany) discs and divided into four groups of surface treatments. …”
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Laboratory-based assessment of the Underwater Laser Scanner ULi by E. Heffner, A. L. Walter, A. Scheider, H. Sternberg

“…Optical measurement methods are widely used for precise and high-resolution underwater monitoring applications, however, remain limited in range as they are strongly affected by visibility. …”
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Modern Concepts of Fibromuscular Dysplasia of the Coronary Arteries by E. L. Trisvetova

“…Additional diagnostic methods ‒ intravascular ultrasound and optical coherence tomography allow differentiation of fibromuscular dysplasia with atherosclerosis of the coronary artery, vasculitis, and other diseases. …”
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FMPOD: A Novel Focus Metric Based on Polynomial Decomposition for Infrared Microscopy by Raphael Abele, Redouane El Moubtahij, Daniele Fronte, Pierre-Yvan Liardet, Jean-Luc Damoiseaux, Jean-Marc Boi, Djamal Merad

“…It discusses the difficulties inherent to the optical system and explores several inefficient methods used for natural scenes. …”
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Measurements and Characterization for Millimeter-Wave Massive MIMO Channel in High-Speed Railway Station Environment at 28 GHz by Shuangde Li, Yuanjian Liu, Leke Lin, Qi Sun

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A portable system to measure knee extensor spasticity after spinal cord injury by Dalia De Santis, Monica A. Perez

“…Results Measurements were taken on separate days to assess test–retest reliability and device agreement in humans with and without SCI. We found no differences between FSA values obtained with the optical tracking system and the IMU-based system in control subjects and individuals with SCI. …”
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Infrared Small Target Detection Based on Entropy Variation Weighted Local Contrast Measure by Yuyang Xi, Yushan Zhang, Ying Jiang, Liuwei Zhang, Qingyu Hou

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A modality separation approach for facial sketch synthesis by Kangning Du, Chaoyi Wang, Lin Cao, Yanan Guo, Wenwen Sun

“…Abstract The technology for face‐to‐sketch synthesis transforms optical face images into a sketch‐style format. However, traditional style losses are insufficient to discern the modal differences between optical and sketch domain images, leading to unclear images. …”
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Tunable Electromagnetically Induced Transparency-Like Spectrum in Lithium Niobate on Insulator Platform With Narrow Linewidth by Wenqi Yu, Shuangxing Dai, Yiru Zhao, Qinfeng Zhao, Jinye Li, Jianguo Liu

“…The structure is a normal all-pass racetrack-resonator with two Bragg gratings inscribed within the straight waveguides, which introduces two different optical pathways in essence, inducing EIT-like spectrum as a result. …”
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Observing the Poisson Distribution of a Coherent Microwave Field With a Parametric Photon Detector by Jiaming Wang, Kirill Petrovnin, J. Pertti Hakonen, Gheorghe Sorin Paraoanu

“…We show that these tests provide conclusive evidence for the Poissonian statistics in the case of a coherent state, in agreement with the experimental data. In addition, this method enables us to distinguish between different statistics of the incoming probe field. …”
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Bunch of Grape-Like Shape PANI/Ag2O/Ag Nanocomposite Photocatalyst for Hydrogen Generation from Wastewater by N. M. A. Hadia, Ali Hajjiah, Asmaa M. Elsayed, S. H. Mohamed, Mansoor Alruqi, Mohamed Shaban, Fatimah Mohammed Alzahrani, Ahmed Adel A. Abdelazeez, Mohamed Rabia

“…Polyaniline (PANI) and PANI/Ag2O/Ag composites I and II were prepared under different AgNO3 oxidant concentrations using the oxidative photopolymerization method. …”
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Visual change-related brain potentials elicited by changes in doll hair color in school-aged children by Mizuki Kozaki, Ryo Mizuno, Masaya Suzuki, Yasuyuki Koike, Natsuko Doi, Koji Inui

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Type-II heterostructure of semiconducting CdS nanoparticle-ZnO nanoflake arrays for visible light dependent enhanced photocatalytic activity by Amit Kumar Bhunia

“…The array of nano flake (NF)-particle (NP) morphology of the Hs was observed from FESEM images. Different optical parameters like refractive index, optical conductivity, energy functions, and others were studied from UV-Vis spectroscopy. …”
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Approaches to predict future type 2 diabetes mellitus and chronic kidney disease: A scoping review. by Anna Bußmann, Christian Speckemeier, Alexandra Ehm, Bettina Kollar, Anja Neumann, Silke Neusser

“…Prediction approaches were included from 25 literature reviews, eight primary studies and nine studies found in additional searches. Several different approaches were identified, including methods based on clinical parameters, biological parameters (blood, urine, microbiome, genetics), the combinations of those, sequential approaches, and exposure and lifestyle factors. …”
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Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for SAR Ship Detection Based on Multitask Decoupling by Yirong Yang, Xi Yang, Dong Yang

“…Facing the challenge, we propose an unsupervised domain adaptation method for SAR ship detection based on multitask decoupling, which leverages data annotated with optical images instead of SAR annotations. …”
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Experimental Study on the Photothermal Properties of Thermochromic Glass by Mingyi Gao, Dewei Qian, Lihua Zhao, Rong Jin

“…The method uses a spectrophotometer and a PID heater to achieve the dynamic optical parameter testing of TCGs at different temperatures. …”
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Physical Properties of Cu Doped ZnO Nanocrystiline Thin Films by Nada K. Abbas, Zainab J. Shanan, Teeba H. Mohammed

“…Thin films of ZnO nano crystalline doped with different concentrations (0, 6, 9, 12, and 18 )wt. % of copper were deposited on a glass substrate via pulsed laser deposition method (PLD). …”
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Azimuthally-variant perfect vector beams for the control of arbitrary phase and polarization ring patterns by Andrea Vogliardi, Gianluca Ruffato, Daniele Bonaldo, Simone Dal Zilio, Filippo Romanato

“…Using dual-functional silicon metaoptics, we achieve the compact generation of a novel class of perfect vortices, termed azimuthally-variant perfect vector beams. The optical characterization of the generated beams, performed through a filtering method, confirms their intrinsic azimuthally-variant vectorial nature. …”
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SAR Image Target Segmentation Guided by the Scattering Mechanism-Based Visual Foundation Model by Chaochen Zhang, Jie Chen, Zhongling Huang, Hongcheng Zeng, Zhixiang Huang, Yingsong Li, Hui Xu, Xiangkai Pu, Long Sun

“…As a typical visual foundation model, SAM has been extensively utilized for optical image segmentation tasks. However, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) employs a unique imaging mechanism, and its images are very different from optical images. …”
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Characterization of Synthetic Brushite Material Precipitated at Room Temperature Developed for Kidney Stone Treatment by Erhan Ozkan

“…In this study, for the first time in the literature, the synthesis of Brushite at room temperature by using simple electrolyte, characterization of the precipitates with different methods, and the details of their electrochemical and mechanical behaviour were shared with the readers. …”
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