the purpose of food packaging is to preserve the quality and safety of the food it contains from the time of manufacture to the time it is used by the consumer. recently, the demand for safe and high quality foods, as well as changes in consumer preferences have led to the development of innovative and novel approaches in food packaging technology. one such development is the active food packag...

Background: Infertility leads to profound human suffering, particularly on the women. Women's lack of pregnancy is both physically and socially visible, especially in high fertility societies where women are typically blamed for reproductive failures, even in cases of male infertility. Childless women are more likely to be the victims of domestic violence and may also endure various forms ...

Background The purpose of this prospective randomized study was to compare ovarian response as well as oocytes embryo yields and pregnancy rates in women who underwent ovulation induction for intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) with recombinant human FSH (rFSH) alone or in combination with human menopausal gonadotropin (HMG). MaterialsAndMethods Out of 300 patients in assisted reproductive ...

Assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) represent the best chance for infertile couples to conceive, although increased risks for morbidities exist, including imprinting disorders. This increased risk could arise from ARTs disrupting genomic imprints during gametogenesis or preimplantation. The few studies examining ART effects on genomic imprinting primarily assessed poor quality human embry...

Voice conversion is a process which converts or transforms one speaker’s voice towards that of another. The literature shows that voice conversion can be used to spoof or fool an automatic speaker verification system. State-of-the-art voice conversion algorithms can produce high-quality speech signals in real time and are capable of fooling both human listeners and automatic systems, including ...

High quality 3D content generation requires high quality depth maps. In practice, depth maps generated by stereo-matching, depth sensingcameras, or decoders, have a low resolution and suffer from unreliable estimates and noise. Therefore depth post-processing is necessary. In this paper we benchmark state-of-the-art filter based depth upsampling methods on depth accuracy and interpolation quali...

Software testing is a crucial part of software development. It enables quality assurance, such as correctness, completeness and high reliability of the software systems. Current state-of-the-art software testing techniques employ search-based optimisation methods, such as genetic algorithms to handle the difficult and laborious task of test data generation. Despite their general applicability, ...

The importance of modeling speech articulation for high-quality audiovisual (AV) speech synthesis is widely acknowledged. Nevertheless, while state-of-the-art, data-driven approaches to facial animation can make use of sophisticated motion capture techniques, the animation of the intraoral articulators (viz. the tongue, jaw, and velum) typically makes use of simple rules or viseme morphing, in ...

This paper proposes an adaptive color-guided auto-regressive (AR) model for high quality depth recovery from low quality measurements captured by depth cameras. We formulate the depth recovery task into a minimization of AR prediction errors subject to measurement consistency. The AR predictor for each pixel is constructed according to both the local correlation in the initial depth map and the...