The current study aimed to establish a fine-grained, efficient characterization of the concurrent neuropsychological contributions to social functioning in neuropsychologically-referred youth. A secondary aim was to demonstrate a useful statistic approach for such investigations (Partial Least Squares Regression; PLSR), which is underutilized in this field. Forty-five participants (70 - 164 mon...

With 298 heterogeneous soil samples from Yixing (Jiangsu Province), Zhongxiang and Honghu (Hubei Province), this study aimed to combine a successive projections algorithm (SPA) with a support vector machine regression (SVMR) model (SPA-SVMR model) to improve the estimation accuracy of soil organic carbon (SOC) contents using the laboratory-based visible and near-infrared (VIS/NIR, 350−2500 nm) ...

Malaria is a mosquito-borne lifethreatening disease. Though it is treatable but due to emerging resistance against well-known drugs like 8aminoquinolines and artemisinin analogs, it is urgent need to develop novel drugs for the treatment of malaria. In order to develop a new drug, imidazolopiperazine derivatives have been shown antimalarial efficacy against wild-type as well as drug resistant m...

Soil spectroscopy has shown to be a fast, cost-effective, environmentally friendly, non-destructive, reproducible and repeatable analytical technique. Soil components, as well as types of instruments, protocols, sampling methods, sample preparation, spectral acquisition techniques and analytical algorithms have a combined influence on the final performance. Therefore, it is important to charact...

We present a new regression method derived from standard PLSR which has a geometric point of view and consists of two projections. In the first, scores are obtained after an oblique projection of the spectra onto the loadings. In the second, the vector of response values is projected orthogonally onto the scores. A metric is introduced for the oblique projection and a new algorithm for calculat...

Anthocyanins are severity indicators for apple mosaic disease and can be used to monitor tree health. However, most of the current studies have focused on healthy leaves, few estimated anthocyanin content in diseased leaves. In this study, we obtained hyperspectral data leaves with disease, analyzed spectral characteristics different degrees Mosaic constructed screened index sensitive content, ...