Spatial Analysis of Building Density and Liquefaction Spread in Izmit Bay and its Surroundings by Arzu Erener, Metin Aşcı, Gül Gülsoy, Aydın Üstün, Muhammed Ali Güvenaltın, Erman Şentürk, Sefa Yalvaç, Fatma Canaslan Çomut, T. Serkan Irmak, Haluk Konak, Pakize Küreç Nehbit, Efdal Kaya, Burak Kotan, Selin Öye

“…Liquefaction areas and risky areas are defined by categorizing liquefaction values for different depths according to liquefaction potential thresholds. As a result, buildings in liquefaction risk areas were determined. …”
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Thiol-Disulfide Homeostasis in Noise-Induced Hearing Loss in Rats by Enes Aydın, Serpil Mungan Durankaya, Osman Yilmaz, Günay Kirkim, Safiye Aktaş, Salim Neşelioğlu, Özcan Erel, Yüksel Olgun, Abdullah Dalgıç

“…Auditory brainstem response thresholds were recorded at 8, 12, 16, 20, and 32 kHz frequencies. …”
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An Arctic sea ice concentration data record on a 6.25 km polar stereographic grid from 3 years of Landsat-8 imagery by H.-S. Jung, S.-M. Lee, S.-M. Lee, J.-H. Kim, K. Lee

“…The normalized difference snow index and OLI band-5 reflectivity were used to differentiate between ice and open water within each selected Landsat-8 pixel. …”
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Estimated Interval-Based Checkpointing (EIC) on Spot Instances in Cloud Computing by Daeyong Jung, JongBeom Lim, Heonchang Yu, Taeweon Suh

“…Our scheme sets the thresholds of price and execution time based on history. …”
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Assessing Sensitivity of Hyperspectral Sensor to Detect Oils with Sea Ice by Bingxin Liu, Ying Li, Qiang Zhang, Liang Han

“…The visible and infrared bands, from 468 nm to 933 nm, are more suitable to identify the crude oil. …”
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Saliency-Based Bleeding Localization for Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Diagnosis by Hongda Chen, Shaoze Wang, Yong Ding, Dahong Qian

“…Fusing the three maps together, the proposed system can detect bleeding regions by thresholding the fused saliency map. Results demonstrate the accuracy of 98.97% for our system to mark bleeding regions.…”
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Urban Surface Water Mapping from VHR Images Based on Superpixel Segmentation and Target Detection by Qingwei Liu, Yugang Tian, Lihao Zhang, Bo Chen

“…Stable results can be acquired by the suggested parameters and thresholds of SSWE.…”
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Adaptive Handover Management in High-Mobility Networks for Smart Cities by Yahya S. Junejo, Faisal K. Shaikh, Bhawani S. Chowdhry, Waleed Ejaz

“…It dynamically adjusts handover thresholds by incorporating an offset based on real-time network conditions and user mobility patterns. …”
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Efficiency of Automated Viral RNA Purification for Pediatric Studies of Dengue and Zika in Hyperendemic Areas by Sandra L. Delgado, Piedad M. Perilla, Doris M. Salgado, María Clemencia Rojas, Carlos F. Narváez

“…The concentration of RNA (5.2 vs. 7.5 ng/μL, P=0.03) and the number of integral bands (9 vs. 11) were higher with the high-throughput protocol. …”
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