The vulnerability of coastal systems to hazards such as storms and sea-level rise is typically characterized using a combination of ground and manned airborne systems that have limited spatial or temporal scales. Structure-from-motion (SfM) photogrammetry applied to imagery acquired by unmanned aerial systems (UAS) offers a rapid and inexpensive means to produce high-resolution topographic and ...

When investigating the recovery of three-dimensional structure-from-motion (SFM), vision scientists often assume that scaled-orthographic projection, which removes effects due to depth variations across the object, is an adequate approximation to full perspective projection. This is so even though SFM judgements can, in principle, be improved by exploiting perspective projection of scenes on to...

Giardia and Cryptosporidium have caused several outbreaks of gastroenteritis in humans associated with drinking water. Contaminated sewage effluents are recognized as a potential source of waterborne protozoa. Due to the lack of studies about the occurrence of these parasites in sewage samples in Brazil, we compared the efficiency of two procedures for concentrating cysts and oocysts in activat...

Molybdenum doped strontium ferrite, Sr2Fe1.5O0.5O6 (SFM), is a promising perovskite-type hydrogen electrode material in solid oxide cells (SOCs), but usually suffers from insufficient electro-catalytic activity. Herein, Ni nanoparticles with high properties have been infiltrated into SFM scaffold to form Ni-SFM activity for power generation and CO2 electro-reduction. Pre-sintering temperature l...

Processes of intestinal absorption, metabolism, and secretion must be considered simultaneously in viewing oral drug bioavailability. Existing models often fail to predict route-dependent intestinal metabolism, namely, little metabolism occurs after systemic dosing but notable metabolism exists after oral dosing. A physiologically based, Segregated-Flow Model (SFM) was developed to examine the ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the accuracy and utility of intraoperative frozen section examination (iFSE) in patients with a preoperative fine-needle aspiration (FNA) cytology of "suspicious for malignancy" (SFM)-Bethesda V, after the adoption of the Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology. STUDY DESIGN Case series with chart review. SETTING Tertiary medical center. SUBJECTS AND METH...

BACKGROUND The vaccine was efficiently effective against bladder cancer in earlier studies. However, a part of the mouse bladder tumour regrew due to regression after a period of time as the cancer stem cells could not be eliminated. In this study, we showed a modified method for the isolation of MB49 bladder cancer stem cells (MCSCs). METHODS Through a comparison of different serum-free cult...

This study explores the use of structure from motion (SfM), a computer vision technique, to model vine canopy structure at a study vineyard in the Texas Hill Country. Using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and a digital camera, 201 aerial images (nadir and oblique) were collected and used to create a SfM point cloud. All points were classified as ground or non-ground points. Non-ground points, ...

BACKGROUND Serum-containing medium (SCM), which has a number of poorly defined components with varying concentrations, hampers standardization of lymphocyte cultures. In order to develop a serum-free medium (SFM) for the expansion of human lymphocytes from peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), a statistical optimization approach based on a fractional factorial method and a response surfac...

Joint attention (JA) and spontaneous facial mimicry (SFM) are fundamental processes in social interactions, and they are closely related to empathic abilities. When tested independently, both of these processes have been usually observed to be atypical in individuals with autism spectrum conditions (ASC). However, it is not known how these processes interact with each other in relation to autis...