INFLUENCE OF LASER BEAM PROFILE ON LIGHT SCATTERING BY HUMAN SKIN DURING PHOTOMETRY BY ELLIPSOIDAL REFLECTORS by M. A. Bezuglyi, N. V. Bezuglaya, S. Kostuk

“…The correct accounting of laser emitter parameters for improvement of diagnostic authenticity of methods of optical biomedical diagnostic is important problem for applied biophotonic tasks. …”
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Novel electroretinography devices to detect hydroxychloroquine retinopathy: study protocol for a diagnostic accuracy and feasibility study by James Galloway, Chan Ning Lee, Omar A Mahroo, Timothy L Jackson, George Murphy, Hatem A Wafa

“…Three groups of 35 participants on HCQ, categorised by HCQ retinopathy (definite, possible and no retinopathy), and 35 healthy control participants, recruited by consecutive sampling, will have full field and multifocal ERG index tests, delivered using skin-contact electrodes by two devices—RETEval full-field and UTAS multifocal ERG, both manufactured by LKC Technologies (Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA), compared with spectral-domain optical coherence tomography and autofluorescence reference tests graded by two masked, independent retinal specialists. …”
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Electronic ferroelectricity in monolayer graphene moiré superlattices by Le Zhang, Jing Ding, Hanxiao Xiang, Naitian Liu, Wenqiang Zhou, Linfeng Wu, Na Xin, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Shuigang Xu

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DETERMINATION OF HEAVY METALS AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH STATUS OF AGRO SOILS IN IKOT ABASI, NIGER DELTA, NIGERIA by Usoro M. Etesin, Iniobong J. Ogbonna

“…The soil samples were air-dried and subjected to heavy metal determination (iron, Fe; cadmium, Cd; lead, Pb; zinc, Zn; copper, Cu; vanadium, V; nickel , Ni; chromium, Cr ; mercury, Hg ) by inductively coupled plasma– optical emission spectrometer (AGILENT 720 ICP-OES). …”
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Valorization of Food Waste to Produce Eco-Friendly Means of Corrosion Protection and “Green” Synthesis of Nanoparticles by Georgii Vasyliev, Victoria Vorobyova

“…The antimicrobial activity of AgNPs was tested against Escherichia coli using the agar diffusion method and optical density.…”
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A Novel Network for Choroidal Segmentation Based on Enhanced Boundary Information by Wenbo Huang, Chaofan Qu, Yang Yan

“…Due to the inherent imaging characteristics of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), the contrast between the choroid and sclera is low, presenting significant challenges in choroidal segmentation, such as subchoroidal boundary blurring and difficulty in accurate boundary delineation. …”
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Unveiling antidiabetic and antioxidant activities of biogenically synthesized red fluorescent graphene quantum dots using Bauhinia variegata L. leaves by Pooja Kadyan, Jaya Saini, Parul Singh, Ponnusamy Thillai Arasu, Sudhir Kumar Kataria

“…UV–visible spectroscopy, FT-IR, fluorescence spectrophotometry, XRD, DLS and TEM to confirm their structural and optical properties. The bio-functional properties of the GQDs were explored, focusing on their antidiabetic and antioxidant activities. …”
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Identification of Saharan-Dust Intrusions over Sofia, Bulgaria, Using Near-Ground PM10 and PM2.5 Mass Concentration Measurements by Tsvetina Evgenieva, Elena Vakareeva, Ljuan Gurdev, Tanja Dreischuh

“…In the present work, results were analyzed of: concurrent measurements of near-ground aerosol PM10 and PM2.5 mass concentrations and the aerosol’s optical and microphysical characteristics as obtained by an AERONET Cimel CE318–TS9 sun/sky/lunar photometer, the MONARCH Saharan-dust forecasting model and the HYSPLIT air-mass back-trajectory-recovering model. …”
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Features of therapy selection in patients with glaucoma and “dry eye” syndrome by Zh.G. Oganezova, E.A. Egorov

“…Egorov<br> <br> Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russian Federation<br> <br> Along with the main focus of antiglaucomatous therapy — a reduction of IOP, there is a need to support the function of the optic nerve and retinal ganglion cells (RGC). In the prescription of neuroprotective therapy, the possibility of maintaining the functional activity of the RGC it should be considered primarily. …”
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Effects of urban sprawl due to migration on spatiotemporal land use-land cover change: a case study of Bartın in Türkiye by Gökhan Şen

“…The LULCC was assessed under nine classes using optical remote sensing methods on stand-type maps created from aerial photos. …”
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A review of the application of CIELAB colour systems for the development of gold and silver nano-enabled colorimetric assays for the detection of chromium by Sindisiwe Fortunate Shange, Phumlane Selby Mdluli, Nirmala Deenadayalu

“…Due to their fundamental optical characteristics, well-spaced colloidal solutions of gold nanoparticles and silver nanoparticles exhibit higher extinction coefficients and a distinct colour in the visible portion of the spectrum than aggregated samples. …”
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Rapid Identification of Potassium Nutrition Stress in Rice Based on Machine Vision and Object-Oriented Segmentation by Lisu Chen, Shihan Huang, Yuanyuan Sun, Enyan Zhu, Ke Wang

“…In this research study, two years of hydroponic experiments on rice (providing 5 levels of potassium nutrition from extremely short to normal) were carried out and the leaf images were acquired by optical scanning at four growth periods. To diagnose the potassium nutrition content, the special symptoms including the yellowish brown leaf margin and the necrotic spots were segmented and quantized by the object-oriented method from leaf images, and the 6 further spectral characteristics of leaf were extracted by the image color analyzing function of MATLAB software. …”
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Bounding elastic photon-photon scattering at s≈1 MeV using a laser-plasma platform by R. Watt, B. Kettle, E. Gerstmayr, B. King, A. Alejo, S. Astbury, C. Baird, S. Bohlen, M. Campbell, C. Colgan, D. Dannheim, C. Gregory, H. Harsh, P. Hatfield, J. Hinojosa, D. Hollatz, Y. Katzir, J. Morton, C.D. Murphy, A. Nurnberg, J. Osterhoff, G. Pérez-Callejo, K. Põder, P.P. Rajeev, C. Roedel, F. Roeder, F.C. Salgado, G.M. Samarin, G. Sarri, A. Seidel, C. Spindloe, S. Steinke, M.J.V. Streeter, A.G.R. Thomas, C. Underwood, W. Wu, M. Zepf, S.J. Rose, S.P.D. Mangles

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CALPHAD-aided synthesis and characterization of an Al–Co–Cr–Fe–Ni–W high-entropy alloy prepared by arc melting and spark plasma sintering by L. Fenocchio, A. Saviot, S. Gambaro, S. Le Gallet, F. Valenza, M.R. Ardigo-Besnard, G. Cacciamani

“…Samples were characterized by low optical microscopy (LOM), scanning and transmission electron microscopy (SEM and TEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and microhardness measurements. …”
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Investigating the Electron-capture Supernova Candidate AT 2019abn with JWST Spectroscopy by Sam Rose, Ryan M. Lau, Jacob E. Jencson, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Kishalay De, Michael E. Ressler, Ori D. Fox, Matthew J. Hankins

“…Similar to the prototypical examples of this class of objects, NGC 300 2008-OT and SN 2008S, AT 2019abn has an extremely red and dusty progenitor detected only in pre-explosion Spitzer/IRAC imaging at 3.6 and 4.5 μ m and not in deep optical or near-infrared Hubble Space Telescope images. …”
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Detectability of Emission from Exoplanet Outflows Calculated by pyTPCI, a New 1D Radiation-hydrodynamic Code by Riley Rosener, Michael Zhang, Jacob L. Bean

“…H α and Mg i 457 nm are moderately strong for some planets at some metallicities, but they are almost always optically thin, so some of their emission may not be from the outflow. …”
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Photometric Selection of Type 1 Quasars in the XMM-LSS Field with Machine Learning and the Disk–Corona Connection by Jian Huang, Bin Luo, W. N. Brandt, Ying Chen, Qingling Ni, Yongquan Xue, Zijian Zhang

“…The relation between the optical-to-X-ray power-law slope parameter ( α _OX ) and the 2500 Å monochromatic luminosity ( L _2500Å ) for this subsample is ${\alpha }_{{\rm{OX}}}=(-0.156\pm 0.007)\,{\rm{log}}\,{L}_{2500\,\mathring{\rm A} }+(3.175\pm 0.211)$ with a dispersion of 0.159. …”
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An Integrated Time-Series Relative Soil Moisture Monitoring Method Based on a SAR Backscattering Model by Xin Bao, Rui Zhang, Xu He, Age Shama, Gaofei Yin, Jie Chen, Hongsheng Zhang, Guoxiang Liu

“…Addressing the inconsistency in spatiotemporal resolution between optical vegetation indices and SAR data, we establish a unique SAR water cloud model (SWCM) in conjunction with the dual-polarization SAR vegetation index. …”
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Characterization of two iron bullets from the royal ammunition factory of Eugi (Spain) by Zalakain I., Berlanga C., Alvarez L., Asa L., Labé P., Rivero P., Valencia J., Rodríguez R.

“…Several techniques such as microhardness, X-ray fluorescence (XRF), light (LM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM), optical mission spectroscopy (OES) and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) analysis were used in order to identify the manufacturing process of the two bullets. …”
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Assessment of retinal pigment epithelium tears in eyes with submacular hemorrhage secondary to age-related macular degeneration by Tomoko Ueda-Consolvo, Syogo Takahashi, Toshihiko Oiwake, Tomoko Nakamura, Masaaki Ishida, Shuichiro Yanagisawa, Atsushi Hayashi

“…RPE tears were investigated using spectral-domain or swept-source optical coherence tomography images with raster scan, combined confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscope near-infrared images and color fundus photographs. …”
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