Visibility - Science topic

Since the onset of COVID-19, gender violence has significantly increased, affecting the lives of cis and trans girls and women due to the lack of visibility and overall normalization established through several patriarchal patterns in society. Maven Road analyzed the 8.6M million social media mentions on the topic that occurred in the US since Marc...

Little survives of Early Hellenistic Epic, so much so that different scholars have come to opposite conclusions about its significance: for Konrad Ziegler, it was once widespread and plentiful; but for Alan Cameron, it was practically non-existent. The truth of the matter almost certainly lies somewhere between these two extremes. But in this contr...

Over the years, as the all-encompassing processes of globalization and neoliberalization unfolded, the Popular Republic of China increasingly deepened its developmental policies intended to increase its technological and economic competitiveness. Chinese universities experimented with various forms of managerial techniques imported from the West, i...

The machine tool industry plays a major role in the execution of high-quality and efficient complex manufacturing processes. The adoption of digital technologies can transform production systems into more connected, adaptive, efficient, and potentially sustainable systems. A key enabler of this transformation is servitization, a business model that...

This study aims to investigate the fexural behavior of reinforced concrete (RC) beams strengthened using aluminum hon�eycomb sandwich panels (AHSPs) with three diferent thicknesses (6, 10, and 15 mm) and CFRP U-Jackets with diferent cross-section confgurations (i.e. support and middle sections). The experimental performance of RC beams was evaluat...

Notations are cognitive systems involving distinctive psychological functions, behaviors, and material forms. Seen through this lens, two main types—semasiography and visible language—are fundamentally differentiated by their material prehistories, emphasis on iconography, and the centrality of language’s combinatorial faculty. These fundamental di...

Introduction: Encephalocoeles are relatively rare congenital abnormalities. There have been a few classifications of encephalocoeles, but these are predominantly anatomical. A more clinical classification system would assist in planning treatment, surgical procedures and assessing outcomes. Materials and methods: All encephalocoeles presenting a...

We proposed a well known model for quality estimation based on compression artifacts which are principal factor for determining the Quality of Experience(QoE). Moreover, contents with strong compression have been rejected by viewers and one who graded quality of distorted videos have judged unacceptable in my past research work. It happened due to...

Different from the traditional passive optical sensors, hyperspectral LiDAR emits the active, full-waveform and gaussian laser pulse. After interacting with the vegetation leaf surface, the backscattered intensities for different waveforms return to the receiver and then are recorded. Previous researches on spectral reflection characteristic have o...

Getting from A to B has never been easier. Mobile navigation systems allow universal access to spatial information. However, following detailed route instructions leads to a decrease in spatial exploration behaviour and therefore a reduction of spatial knowledge acquisition. Facilitating spatial exploration has the potential to counteract this nega...

Objectives: To assess the usefulness of linked color imaging (LCI), a recently developed image-enhanced endoscopy technique, in the endoscopic diagnosis of eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE). Methods: Thirty white light images (WLIs) and 30 WLI+LCI images collected from patients with and without EoE were randomly and blindly reviewed by 10 endoscopi...

Objectives: Overlooking early gastric cancer (EGC) during endoscopy is an issue to be resolved. Image-enhanced endoscopy is expected to improve EGC detection. This study investigated the usefulness of third-generation narrow band imaging (3G-NBI) and texture and color enhancement imaging (TXI) in improving the visibility of EGC using the color dif...

Technology ethics is increasingly at the forefront of human-computer interaction scholarship, with increasing visibility not only to end users of technology, but also regulators, technology practitioners, and platforms. The notion of "dark patterns" has emerged as one common framing of technology manipulation, describing instances where psychologic...

A fully-metallic periodic leaky-wave antenna well-suited for angle-of-arrival estimation with a reduced frequency bandwidth is presented. The design is based on a leaky rectangular waveguide loaded with corrugations and periodically modulated by longitudinal slots, which produces a frequency beam scanning in the H-plane. By exploiting multiple visi...

Bifacial dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) were fabricated utilizing dye cocktails of two dyes, Z-907 and SQ-140, which have complementary light absorption and photon harvesting in the visible and near-infrared wavelength regions, for panchromatic photon harvesting. The investigation of the rate of dye adsorption and the binding strengths of the d...

To provide backup and supplementation for the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), Doppler shift from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites can be used as signals of opportunity to provide positioning, navigation, and timing service. In this contribution, we first investigate the model and performance of instantaneous velocity determination and po...

Due to the exponentially increasing number of scholarly papers, academic information overload has caused significant difficulties for researchers. Papers recommendation is one of the methods proposed to help readers find interesting papers related to their work. According to a recent study by Nature journal, ResearchGate, with more than 15 million...

Herein, a novel core-shell material Fe3O4@MIL-100(Fe) was synthesized for developing a novel LFIA by a two-step solvothermal method with good magnetic properties and high specific surface area. It was used as both magnetic separation and label agents in LFIA for the detection of Listeria monocytogenes. The enrichment of target bacteria can be achie...

Due to their asynchronous interactions, testing reactive systems is a laborious activity present in any software development project. In this setting, the finite memory formalism of Labeled Transition Systems has been used to generate test suites that can be applied to check ioco conformance of implementations to a given specification. In this work...

Research on the utilization of sustainable and renewable energy sources has increased as a result of the world’s expanding energy demand. In this regard, we report the photocatalytic performance of two synthesized Mn-MOFs: MnII3(tp)6/2(bpy)2.(dmf) (C47H35Mn3N5O13) and Mn2(tpa)2(dmf)2 (C22H22Mn2N2O10). The two MOFs were characterized using different...

Driven by high energy prices and strict legal requirements on CO2 emissions, high-strength sheet steel materials are increasingly gaining importance in the automotive industry regarding electric vehicles and their battery range. Simulation-based design of forming processes can contribute to exploiting their high potential for lightweight design. Ho...

Purpose: To develop strategies that enable bars and restaurants to improve their relationship marketing with their consumers using digital media as auxiliary tools. Method: This is an applied research, with a problem approach configured as quantitative, whose objectives present a descriptive character, having as technical procedures the survey, it...

This article investigates the development of wh-in-situ questions in French by examining a three-year kindergarten dataset of spontaneous productions with 16 children between 2;5 and 5;11. The distribution of the wh-phrases is statistically examined in relation to age, verb form (Fixed be form c'est 'it is' vs. Free be forms vs. Free lexical verbs)...

p>This paper discusses an analysis of Very High Frequency (203.25 MHz and 182.25 MHz) signal strength measurement variation over a sizeable hilly-forested region in the northern part of Aizawl, Mizoram. In this, we discussed the Line of Sight (LOS) analysis using Geographic Information System program and the area assessment within a specified regio...

Graph property prediction tasks are important and numerous. While each task offers a small size of labeled examples, unlabeled graphs have been collected from various sources and at a large scale. A conventional approach is training a model with the unlabeled graphs on self-supervised tasks and then fine-tuning the model on the prediction tasks. Ho...

El objetivo de este trabajo es reflexionar sobre las causas del fin del Trabajo asalariado como sujeto político, o, en otras palabras, sobre el perenne proceso de la irrevocabilidad del trabajo asalariado materialmente desvalorizado que comenzara en la década de los 80. A tal fin, el análisis se sitúa en el marco de la Teoría Crítica del Derecho Co...

Conflicts swept the earth and Iraq had a big share of there effects. Some of these effects that were visible had many solutions and took a great deal of care ,but a lot of effects were not visible and they are hardly getting any care not even a little and so came the research in the field of "the invisible effects of conflicts on msajed", because o...

p>This paper discusses an analysis of Very High Frequency (203.25 MHz and 182.25 MHz) signal strength measurement variation over a sizeable hilly-forested region in the northern part of Aizawl, Mizoram. In this, we discussed the Line of Sight (LOS) analysis using Geographic Information System program and the area assessment within a specified regio...

In this article, we propose a broadband reconfigurable multifunctional meta-structure for the first time in the visible range. This device can be reconfigured between an achromatic metalens and a broadband absorber by switching the state of the phase change material (VO₂). Our designed VO₂ based novel multistage meta-atoms helped us overcome the in...

Published in 2014 in French as "Par-delà la montagne visible" in the catalogue of the photographic festival Allers-Retours "Les âmes grises. Récits photographiques d’après-guerre", Albert-Kahn, Musée et Jardin Départementaux, Paris

Various materials have been investigated at the nanoscale to improve the solar absorber’s efficiency in the absorption of solar energy. Here in this paper various structures having multiple layers of thin film combination of Fe2O3 and CuO have been investigated. The thickness of both layers is varying from 500 to 1000 nm with a step size of 100 nm....

In this article, we propose a broadband reconfigurable multifunctional meta-structure for the first time in the visible range. This device can be reconfigured between an achromatic metalens and a broadband absorber by switching the state of the phase change material (VO₂). Our designed VO₂ based novel multistage meta-atoms helped us overcome the in...

In the realm of providing space-based internet access services, utilizing large-scale low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite networks have emerged as a promising solution for bridging the digital divide and connecting previously unconnected regions. The deployment of LEO satellites can augment terrestrial networks, with increased efficiency and reduced co...

Semantic Scene Completion (SSC) transforms an image of single-view depth and/or RGB 2D pixels into 3D voxels, each of whose semantic labels are predicted. SSC is a well-known ill-posed problem as the prediction model has to "imagine" what is behind the visible surface, which is usually represented by Truncated Signed Distance Function (TSDF). Due t...

We report a case of a 14-year-old female who presented to the outpatient department with a complaint of upper lip swelling. She had a visible PWS since birth on the left side of her face, which was extending onto the right side of the face as well. She had two episodes of paroxysmal hemiparesis that were four years apart. Moreover, she was diagnose...

While infrared images have prominent targets and stable imaging, it can hardly maintain such detailed information or quality as texture or resolution. In contrast, although visible images have rich texture information and high resolution, the imaging is easily disturbed by the circumstance. Therefore, it is desirable to make up for shortcomings and...

Zusammenfassung: Unter hartem Sex (engl. rough sex) wird aggressiver konsensueller Sex verstanden. Dazu gehören beispielsweise Aktivitäten wie Aufs-Bett-Werfen, Kleider-Herunterreißen, Haare-Ziehen, Schlagen oder Würgen. Rough-Sex-Praktiken sind in den letzten Jahren medial sichtbarer und vermutlich auch populärer geworden. Ihnen sind ganze Pornogr...

With the advantages of large field of view, low cost and simple structure, the freeform optical system has extensive requirements in space exploration and other fields. However, the current machining methods for freeform are difficult to meet the requirements of optical use. Based on a developed fast servo tool (FTS) device, this paper proposes an...

We report here a novel series of halide alloyed Ge-containing 2D perovskites including decylammonium as organic spacer, namely DA2Ge(Br1-xIx)4. This system forms a continuous solid solution on the halide site with a modulation of the band gap from 2.74 to 2.17 eV with a rapid decrease up to x=0.5 followed by a plateau. Iodide-rich compositions show...

We propose the concept of pair-wise coherence to study the relation between the l1 norm of coherence and the quantum interference in Young's multi-photon multi-path experiments, where the input photons may be entangled each other. We find that only the local coherence of each single photon can make quantum interference and the collective coherence...

The implementation of quantum repeaters needed for long-distance quantum communication requires the generation of quantum entanglement distributed among the elementary links. These entanglements must be swapped among the quantum repeaters through Bell-state measurements. This study aims to improve the entanglement generation rate by frequency multi...

This study is an attempt to investigate the walkability or otherwise of Sabon Gari L.G.A. Kaduna state. For this study, 18 street locations in the study area with high pedestrian traffic were identified, selected and coded for assessment. Data needed for this study such as street space measurements, photographs, unobtrusive observations (at differe...

We report the first lattice QCD study of the heavy dibaryons in which all six quarks have the bottom (beauty) flavor. Performing a state-of-the-art lattice QCD calculation we find clear evidence for a deeply bound Ωbbb−Ωbbb dibaryon in the S01 channel, as a pole singularity in the S-wave Ωbbb−Ωbbb scattering amplitude with a binding energy −81( −16...

Se describen los componentes del MTG_I Satélite Meteosat de Tercera Generacion Imager y del MTG_S sondeador. Se explican las diferencias del Flexible Combined Imager y el radiómetro Spining Enhanced Visible and Infrared. El aumento a prodcutos cada 10 minutos e imagenes en 16 canales hacen de este satélite un aliado para la mejora del Plan Nacional...

The paper has emphasized on the downside potential of the stock market faced by G-7 countries in the times of COVID-19 relative to other economic crises. The results of VaR models, ES, and correlation suggests that most of the nations in G-7 group experienced highest risk during COVID-19 relative to other regimes and also increased inter-linkage of...

Descriptive representation is commonly understood as the proportion of women or racial minorities in an institution. While useful, this approach is limited in its ability to capture intersectional identities, less visible characteristics, and the extent to which particular characteristics are more or less central to one’s identity. Traditional appr...

The hot Saturn population exhibits a boundary in mass–radius space, such that no planets are observed at a density less than ∼0.1 g cm ⁻³ . Yet, planet interior structure models can readily construct such objects as the natural result of radius inflation. Here, we investigate the role X-ray and extreme UV irradiation (XUV)-driven mass loss plays in...

A Street is a public thoroughfare in the built environment. In an urban environment every person as an individual comes in contact either physically or visually with the street at least once in a day. Circulation, or transportation, is a street's most visible and important use. A very careful and detail analysis of design of such corridors is neces...

The southbound migration of the eastern North Pacific stock of gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) was documented by the National Marine Fisheries Service from 13 December 1997 to 24 February 1998, 13 December 2000 to 5 March 2001 and from 12 December 2001 to 5 March 2002. Research protocol was essentially identical to that used in previous surveys...

This paper proposes information transmission without media transmission from the information source to destination based on Bohr complementarity principle. When a single photon passes through Young's double slit, its particle degree characteristics increase with the path distinguishability increasing. After the single photon passes through double s...

Introduction: Penile compression using a tourniquet is common with several materials and designs that have been previously described. The objective of the tourniquet is to induce an artificial erection through corporal occlusion for intra-operative penile curvature assessment or to obtain a clear visible bloodless surgical field. Objective: We sou...

Various topological laser concepts have recently enabled the demonstration of robust light-emitting devices that are immune to structural deformations and tolerant to fabrication imperfections. Current realizations of photonic cavities with topological boundaries are often limited by outcoupling issues or poor directionality and require complex des...

This study discusses why South Korea has not always succeeded in the ‘entrepreneurial state’ approach – defined as policy efforts to move away from the old developmental state model to a new industrial system of innovation in which small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are incorporated – by focusing on the limitation of new semiconductor indus...

Online annotations, which enable information to be added to existing data without altering it, have emerged as a crucial technique for engaging with web pages and user queries. Annotations become a tool for targeted collaboration between users (Annotators) with similar interests when the visibility of annotations is restricted to groups of users. M...

À la différence des modèles classiques d’accompagnement, un laboratoire d’innovation ne propose pas d’offre de service ni de solutions « clé en main ». Dès lors, la mise en œuvre d’un laboratoire d’innovation dans le paysage institutionnel se heurte à une difficulté : celle de rendre visible et intelligible son mode et processus de fonctionnement q...

Since the early sixties, our view of radio galaxies and quasars has been drastically shaped by discoveries made thanks to observations of radio sources listed in the Third Cambridge Catalog and its revised version (3CR). However, the largest fraction of data collected to date on 3CR sources was performed with relatively old instruments, rarely repe...

Visual sensors are widely employed for real-time maritime surveillance. But they always suffer from some low-visibility problems, typically low light and haze, which greatly reduce the effectiveness of maritime management. In practical applications, the most common strategy is using separate networks to overcome different low-visibility problems. I...

This research paper aims to present the feminist side of translation. It aims to reconsider and reshape translation from the feminist point of view. It does so by introducing the feminist theory to translation and apply- ing it to some excerpts. These excerpts are taken from the great English novelist Virginia Woolf’s (1977) A Room of one’s own...

International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education (IJATE) is one of the educational journals that is indexed in major worldwide databases such as Web of Science (WoS) and ERIC. This study presents the bibliometric characteristics of articles published in IJATE between 2014 and 2021 through the bibliometric analyses. Harzing's “Publish or Peris...

Titanium-clad (TC) bimetallic steel is an advanced composite steel consisting of metallurgically bonded titanium alloy and structural steel. This paper compared the high-cycle fatigue properties of three types of TC bimetallic steels, including two hot-rolled bonding types with different bonding strengths and an explosion-bonded type. The three typ...

There is still a lack of reliable intraoperative tools for glioma diagnosis and to guide the maximal safe resection of glioma. We report continuing work on the optical biopsy method to detect glioma grades and assess glioma boundaries intraoperatively using the VRR-LRRTM Raman analyzer, which is based on the visible resonance Raman spectroscopy (VR...

Recent years have seen both a fresh knowledge of cancer and impressive advancements in its treatment. However, the clinical treatment paradigm of cancer is still difficult to implement in the twenty-first century due to the rise in its prevalence. Radiotherapy (RT) is a crucial component of cancer treatment that is helpful for almost all cancer typ...

Amphibians are famous for their ability to change colours. And a considerable number of studies have investigated the internal and external factors that affect the expression of this phenotypic plasticity. Evidence to date suggests that thermoregulation and camouflage are the main pressures that influence frogs’ adaptive colour change responses. Ho...

In 2D van der Waals (vdW) materials, rotational misalignment by a twist angle between adjacent layers can significantly affect their properties, referred as twistronics. Accurate tuning of twist angle of vdW materials in a controllable and efficient way is highly required. Here a thin-film assisted transfer (TAT) technique that can controllably fab...

A photodetector based on a hybrid dimensional heterostructure of laterally aligned multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) and multilayered MoS2 was prepared using the micro-nano fixed-point transfer technique. Thanks to the high mobility of carbon nanotubes and the efficient interband absorption of MoS2, broadband detection from visible to near-infrar...

HD 53143 is a mature Sun-like star and host to a broad disk of dusty debris, including a cold outer ring of planetesimals near 90 au. Unlike most other inclined debris disks imaged at visible wavelengths, the cold disk around HD 53143 appears as disconnected “arcs” of material, with no forward-scattering side detected to date. We present new, deepe...

Accuracy and transparency of scientific data are becoming more and more relevant with the increasing concern regarding the evaluation of data reproducibility in many research areas. This concern is also true for quantifying coding and non-coding RNAs, with the remarkable increase in publications reporting RNA profiling and sequencing studies. To ad...

The sociological study of video games from the perspective of Translation Studies is a largely uncharted territory. The present study seeks to address this gap by shedding light on the (in)visible agency of video games translators. It achieves this through highlighting the concept of interactivity as the distinctive feature of video games. To this...

Zero-shot sketch-based image retrieval (ZS-SBIR) is an important computer vision problem. The image category in the test phase is a new category that was not visible in the training stage. Because sketches are extremely abstract, the commonly used backbone networks (such as VGG-16 and ResNet-50) cannot handle both sketches and photos. Semantic simi...

Energy moderation of the road transportation sector is required to limit climate change and to preserve resources. This work is focused on the moderation of vehicle consumption by optimizing the speed policy along an itinerary while taking into account vehicle dynamics, driver visibility and the road’s longitudinal profile. First, a criterion is pr...

As a typical self-supervised learning strategy, Masked Image Modeling (MIM) is driven by recovering all masked patches from visible ones. However, patches from the same image are highly correlated and it is redundant to reconstruct all the masked patches. We find that this redundancy is neglected by existing MIM based methods and causes non-negligi...

This review article is based on re-reading the Joas vs. Weber discussion about the macro-concept of "disenchantment". For Joas, the Weberian thesis brings together, in a single explanatory model, different social processes that must be differentiated. Joas's proposal highlights the need to build research models sensitive to the interaction and the...

In order to study the characteristics of fire smoke spread and temperature distribution of a large indoor pedestrian street under different heat release rates and smoke exhaust modes, this paper focuses on the analysis of fire smoke spread, visibility, smoke temperature distribution and variation curves in an atrium. This paper uses a numerical sim...

This study presents a secondary data analysis of the survey data collected as part of the American Trends Panel series by the Pew Research Center. A logistic regression was performed to ascertain the effects of the perceived risk of sharing, perceived problems on Twitter, and motivation of using Twitter on the likelihood that participants regret sh...

The content of proclamation cannot go unqueried if the much-needed work of addressing the structures of marginalities that play out in Christianity is to be completed. This task is urgent in order to address the role of Christianity in contemporary societies. To think that the proclamation of Christ is itself neutral, is to refuse to address how th...