AntBot-EX: Enhancing robot search efficiency in complex post-disaster environments. by Yao Xue, Chee Keong Tan, Wai Peng Wong

“…Simulation results show that our method can basically achieve complete coverage in complex and unknown environments.…”
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Fast Depth Imaging Denoising With the Temporal Correlation of Photons by Zhenchao Feng, Weiji He, Jian Fang, Guohua Gu, Qian Chen, Ping Zhang, Yuanjin Chen, Beibei Zhou, Minhua Zhou

“…Due to selecting a proper threshold, our method can effectively filter out the false alarm of system and use the ToFs of detected signal photons to rebuild the depth image of the scene. …”
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Quantification of Viable <i>Salmonella</i> by Propidium Monoazide Real-Time PCR After Long-Term Storage of Peanut Products by Aline M. von Hertwig, André A. Pereira, Dionisio Pedro Amorim Neto, Maristela S. Nascimento

“…For peanut-based products, after 540 d, only <i>paçoca</i> showed a significant difference (<i>p</i> < 0.05) among the three methods evaluated. …”
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A topology-guided high-quality solution learning framework for security-constraint unit commitment based on graph convolutional network by Liqian Gao, Lishen Wei, Shichang Cui, Jiakun Fang, Xiaomeng Ai, Wei Yao, Jinyu Wen

“…Secondly, an adaptive threshold-based method is designed to fix binary variables to achieve model reduction. …”
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Identifying opioid agonist treatment prescriber networks from health administrative data: A validation study. by Megan Kurz, Mark Tatangelo, Kristen A Morin, Michelle Zanette, Emanuel Krebs, David C Marsh, Bohdan Nosyk

“…We defined connections two different ways, by including the number of clients shared or a relative threshold on the percentage of shared OAT clients per physician. …”
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Length of Polarization-Correlation Based on Speckle Pattern for Optical Coherent Detection by Longkun Zhang, Jianfeng Sun, Qian Xu, Weibiao Chen

“…A gradually expanding window centered at the brightest spot of the speckle pattern, is designed to calculate the degree of polarization (DOP) of different speckle sizes. Moreover, the magnitude of LPC is equal to the speckle size that reaches a particular threshold on the DOP curve. …”
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Multiscale-Band K-Distribution Model for Molecules in High-Temperature Gases by Lei Shi, Yuyue Zhang, Fangyan Li, Yuefan Du, Bo Yao

“…In the model, the 7-point Gauss–Lobatto method is employed to obtain the optimized absorption coefficients. …”
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Physics-Based Compact Model of Independent Dual-Gate BEOL-Transistors for Reliable Capacitorless Memory by Lihua Xu, Kaifei Chen, Zhi Li, Yue Zhao, Lingfei Wang, Ling Li

“…The short channel behaviors on sub-threshold swing, mobility and threshold voltage are investigated, and contact effects are validated by the transfer-line method (TLM). …”
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Productivity Formula of Horizontal Well in Low-Permeability Gas Reservoir considering Multiple Factors by Yan Feng, Mingqiu Li, Qingyuan Deng, Peng Yu, Xiuqing Li, Xi Yang

“…Then, a new productivity formula is established based on the steady-state seepage theory and the equivalent seepage resistance method, with the consideration of threshold pressure gradient, stress sensitivity, and gas slippage effect. …”
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Kinematic Constrained RRT Algorithm with Post Waypoint Shift for the Shortest Path Planning of Wheeled Mobile Robots by Sisi Liu, Zhan Zhao, Jun Wei, Qianqian Zhou

“…The most significant difference from traditional RRT-based methods is that the proposed method optimizes the path based on Dubins curves through a post waypoint shift after a random path is generated, rather than through parent node selection and rewiring during the exploring tree growth. …”
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Denoise Digital Images Depending on Contourlet Transform by Khalil Al-Saif, Ahmed Saleh

“…In this paper a new, proposed way to denoise an image under the impact of different types of noise experienced by the image acquired during media, where the reliance on contourlet transform because of their ability to maintain the edges in the image(high-high frequency)in addition to its potential to capture information <strong>smooth contours</strong>, which is one of the most important information that must be maintained by the methods of restoration to get to an estimate of the original image. …”
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Prediction of Residual Life of Rolling Bearings Based on Multi-Scale Improved Temporal Convolutional Network (MITCN) Model by Keru Xia, Qi Li, Luyuan Han, Zhaohui Ren, Hengfa Luo

“…By introducing a multi-scale expanded causal convolution residual structure, improved temporal convolutional network (ITCN) modules with different expansion factors capture information on different time scales and combine soft threshold functions and channel attention mechanisms to adaptively generate thresholds and eliminate redundant information. …”
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Interval analysis-based Bi-iterative algorithm for robust TDOA-FDOA moving source localisation by Ningning Qin, Chao Wang, Changxu Shan, Le Yang

“…This method is developed by utilising the time difference of arrival and frequency difference of arrival measurements of a signals received from several receivers. …”
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Measurement of contact pattern displacement of hypoid gears with optical thermal camera by Stefan GERDHENRICHS, Manuel OEHLER, Daniel BUSCHMANN, Robert Heinrich SCHMITT, Oliver KOCH

“…On the other hand, purely simulation approaches need to be validated because the models are getting extensive through many boundary conditions between the different components of the drive unit. To address these challenges, this paper presents a method for measuring the deflection of hypoid gear sets by an evaluation of thermographic contact pattern. …”
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The relationship of gastrointestinal complications and ventilator related status with gastric residual volume in intensive care patients by Dilek Destegül, Muhammet Bayraktar, Zeynep Yüksel Turhan, Fazilet Şahin Kocaöz, Mustafa Kaçmaz

“…Aim: Our study aimed primarily to determine whether there was a relationship between total gastric residual volume (GRV) amounts and two different GRV thresholds and the development of gastrointestinal intolerance in patients on mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit (ICU) and secondarily, to determine the effects of different GRV quantities on ventilator-related conditions (VAC).Methods: Seventy patients above the age of 18 who were scheduled to be fed with enteral nutrition (EN) for at least three days, were divided into two groups including 35 patients according to GRV threshold values of 250 ml and 500 ml. …”
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Improving the navigation optimization of hospital logistics robots under complex lighting changes by using improved ORB-SLAM3 and deep learning visual SLAM algorithm by Feng Xiao, Youhai Zhang, Jie Fang, Xing Guo, Rubing Huang

“…The improved ORB-SLAM3 algorithm extracts feature points of different scales by constructing an image pyramid to ensure that effective visual information can be stably obtained under different lighting conditions; the strategy of combining adaptive threshold and dual threshold methods is used to optimize the accuracy of feature point extraction, and the feature points are efficiently managed through a four-tree model to ensure the uniform distribution of feature points. …”
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Stabilization of cultural innovations depends on population density: Testing an epidemiological model of cultural evolution against a global dataset of rock art sites and climate-b... by Richard Walker, Anders Eriksson, Camille Ruiz, Taylor Howard Newton, Francesco Casalegno

“…Methods similar to those described can be used to test the model for other classes of archaeological artifact and to compare it against other models.…”
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Big Data Cleaning Based on Improved CLOF and Random Forest for Distribution Networks by Jie Liu, Yijia Cao, Yong Li, Yixiu Guo, Wei Deng

“…However, due to the difficulty in determining the LOF threshold, a method of dynamically calculating the threshold based on the transformer districts and time is proposed. …”
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Improving remote sensing dehazing quality through local hybrid correction and optimization of atmospheric attenuation model based on wavelength by Daihong Zhao, Kun Shi, Zheng Li, Zheng Li, Meixiang Chen

“…We calculated the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of Weber contrast for the dehazed image and analyzed the impact of different contrast thresholds on the effectiveness of improving image clarity and reducing artifacts. …”
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Ultrasound assessment of muscle mass in the diagnosis of sarcopenia in cardiovascular patients by A. S. Erokhina, E. D. Golovanova, M. A. Miloserdov

“…The incidence of sarcopenia of varying severity was 55,7% (n=44). The differences in RAM thickness, arm and lower leg circumference between the groups of patients with/without sarcopenia were significant (p&lt;0,001), but were less than the threshold only for RAM thickness. …”
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