In the present report, we offer a novel way for studying (via optical and digital means) features in Renaissance Leonardo’s (and of course any other painter who followed this canon) paintings, based on software that separately recognizes white, red, green, blue colors measures intensity single bright spots canvasses. After mapping distribution individual colors, proposes trajectory considering ...

Background: A pneumatized superior turbinate is a rare cause of headache. Nasal endoscopy alone, does not provide us with adequate information for this inaccessible area of the superior nasal cavity. A coronal computed tomography (CT) must be obtained to confirm the diagnosis. Case presentation: We present a 40-year-old female with migraine-type headache and nasal obstruction. Nasal endoscopy r...

The long-term goal of this work is an integrated defense system that provides protection of Navy assets, while in port, from the threat posed by covert swimmers. The general concept is to hail, deter, and/or incapacitate the threat by directing a controlled level of low-frequency acoustic energy at the target location. At the system level, the concept requires combining elements of target detec...

Understanding the trend of localized severe weather under the changing climate is of great significance but remains challenging which is at least partially due to the lack of persistent and homogeneous severe weather observations at climate scales while the detailed physical processes of severe weather cannot be resolved in global climate models. Based on continuous and coherent severe weather ...