Low-light image enhancement (LLE) remains challenging due to the unfavorable prevailing low-contrast and weak-visibility problems of single RGB images. In this paper, we respond intriguing learning-related question -- if leveraging both accessible unpaired over/underexposed images high-level semantic guidance, can improve performance cutting-edge LLE models? Here, propose an effective semantica...

Abstract In our previous work, we have proved that the spatial coherence length (SCL) of the incident waves around the target together with the target configuration play a leading role in the determination of the enhancement in the radar cross-section (ERCS) of a target in a random medium. Owing to the double-passage effect, the ERCS is almost two when the SCL is much smaller or larger than the...

OBJECTIVE Mental illness is prevalent among general hospital ward patients but often goes unrecognised. The aim of this study was to validate the SCL-8d as a brief questionnaire for mental disturbances for use in general hospitals. METHODS The study included 2040 patients, 18 years or older, consecutively admitted to 11 general internal medicine wards in seven European countries. All patients...

BACKGROUND Sclerodermatous chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease (scl-cGVHD) is one of the most severe form of cGVHD. The Platelet-derived Grotwth Factor (PDGF) and the Transforming Growth Factor-β (TGF-β) play a significant role in the fibrosing process occurring in scl-cGVHD. This prompted us to assess the impact of the PDGF-r and c-Abl tyrosine kinase inhibitor imatinib on scl-cGVHD. METHODS T...

The “Spot Check List” (SCL) is an important tool developed to help detect and deter fraud, waste, abuse in the U.S. crop insurance program. This article examines whether SCL program affects extent of losses provides insights into effectiveness this Using proprietary, county-level data panel econometric procedures (which control for both observable unobservable confounding factors), we find evid...

The molecular determinants that render specific populations of normal cells susceptible to oncogenic reprogramming into self-renewing cancer stem cells are poorly understood. Here, we exploit T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) as a model to define the critical initiating events in this disease. First, thymocytes that are reprogrammed by the SCL and LMO1 oncogenic transcription factors ...

Screening of a strongly charged macroion by its multivalent counterions cannot be described in the framework of a mean-field Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) theory because multivalent counterions form a strongly correlated liquid (SCL) on the surface of the macroion. It was predicted that a distant counterion polarizes the SCL as if it were a metallic surface and creates an electrostatic image. The attr...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to establish the sternal skin conductance level (SCL) increase that would optimally detect hot flashes among breast cancer patients. METHODS Fifty-six women who had completed a similar treatment protocol for a first diagnosis of breast cancer within the previous 3 months wore an ambulatory sternal skin conductance device for one home-based daytime recording of hot f...

Transcription factors, such as those of the basic-helix-loop-helix (bHLH) and homeodomain classes, are primary regulators of cell fate decisions and differentiation. It is considered axiomatic that they control their respective developmental programs via direct binding to cognate DNA sequences in critical targets genes. Here we test this widely held paradigm by in vivo functional assay of the l...