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Features combination for art authentication studies: brushstroke and materials analysis of Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso

This work presents a tool to support authentication studies of paintings attributed to the modernist Portuguese artist Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso (1887-1918). The strategy adopted was to quantify and combine the information extracted from the analysis of the brushstroke with information on the pigments present in the paintings. The brushstroke analysis was performed combining Gabor filter and Scale Invariant Feature Transform. Hyperspectral imaging and elemental analysis were used to compare the materials in the painting with those present in a database of oil paint tubes used by the artist. The outputs of the tool are a quantitative indicator for authenticity, and a mapping image that indicates the areas where materials not coherent with Amadeo's palette were detected, if any. This output is a simple and effective way of assessing the results of the system. The method was tested in twelve paintings obtaining promising results.
Recent Advances in Neuropsychological Outcomes and Intervention in Pediatric Stroke

Over the past 15 years, there have been significant advances in the treatment of acute and chronic medical consequences of stroke in childhood. Given high rates of survival in pediatric stroke, practitioners are tasked with treating the ongoing motor and neuropsychological sequelae in patients over the course of their development. This article provides a review of the current literature on neuropsychological outcomes in pediatric stroke, including intelligence, academics, language, visual-spatial skills, attention, executive functions, memory, and psychosocial function. Recent developments in functional neuroimaging are discussed, with a particular focus on language outcomes. We further review the current research on cognitive and behavioral rehabilitation and introduce intervention models in pediatric stroke. In the final section, we discuss future directions for clinical practice and research in pediatric stroke.
Update on management of genitourinary syndrome of menopause: A practical guide

The term genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM) emerged following a consensus conference held in May 2013. GSM is a more descriptive term than vulvovaginal atrophy (VVA) and does not imply pathology. However there are concerns that GSM is all encompassing and includes not only symptoms resulting from estrogen deficiency, but also those arising from the effects of ageing and other processes on the bladder and pelvic floor. Focusing on symptoms related to estrogen deficiency, the update provides a practical guide for health and allied health professionals on the impact of GSM on women and their partners, assessment, management and areas for future research. As GSM is a chronic condition, long term therapy is required. Hormonal, nonhormonal, laser and alternative and complementary therapies are described.
MyStoryPlayer: experiencing multiple audiovisual content for education and training

There are several education and training cases where multi-camera view is a traditional way to work: performing arts and news, medical surgical actions, sport actions, instruments playing, speech training, etc. In most cases, users need to interact with multi camera and multi audiovisual to create among audiovisual segments their own relations and annotations with the purpose of: comparing actions, gesture and posture; explaining actions; providing alternatives, etc. Most of the present solutions are based on custom players and/or specific applications which force to create custom streams from server side, thus leading to restrictions on the user activity as to establishing dynamically additional relations. Web based solutions would be more appreciated and are complex to be realized for the problems related to the video desynchronization. In this paper, MyStoryPlayer/ECLAP solution is presented. The major contributions to the state of the art are related to: (i) the semantic model to formalize the relationships and play among audiovisual determining synchronizations, (ii) the model and modality to save and share user experiences in navigating among lessons including several related and connected audiovisual, (iii) the design and development of algorithm to shorten the production of relationships among media, (iv) the design and development of the whole system including its user interaction model, and (v) the solution and algorithm to keep the desynchronizations limited among media in the event of low network bandwidth. The proposed solution has been developed for and it is in use within ECLAP (European Collected Library of Performing Arts) for accessing and commenting performing arts training content. The paper also reports validation results about performance assessment and tuning, and about the usage of tools on ECLAP services. In ECLAP, users may navigate in the audiovisual relationships, thus creating and sharing experience paths. The resulting solution includes a uniform semantic model, a corresponding semantic database for the knowledge, a distribution server for semantic knowledge and media, and the MyStoryPlayer Client for web applications.
Low-Complexity Methodology for Complex Square-Root Computation

In this brief, we propose a low-complexity methodology to compute a complex square root using only a circular coordinate rotation digital computer (CORDIC) as opposed to the state-of-the-art techniques that need both circular as well as hyperbolic CORDICs. Subsequently, an architecture has been designed based on the proposed methodology and implemented on the ASIC platform using the UMC 180-nm Technology node with 1.0 V at 5 MHz. Field programmable gate array (FPGA) prototyping using Xilinx' Virtex-6 (XC6v1x240t) has also been carried out. After thorough theoretical analysis and experimental validations, it can be inferred that the proposed methodology reduces 21.15% slice look up tables (on FPGA platform) and saves 20.25% silicon area overhead and decreases 19% power consumption (on ASIC platform) when compared with the state-of-the-art method without compromising the computational speed, throughput, and accuracy.
Assessing genetic and agronomic gains in rice yield in sub-Saharan Africa: A meta-analysis

Research for development efforts for increasing rice yield in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have largely concentrated on genetic improvement and agronomy for more than 50 years. Here we perform the first meta-analysis to quantify genetic gain - yield increase through use of new variety and calculated by yield difference between new variety and variety popularly grown in the target site, and agronomic gain - difference in yield between improved agronomic practices and the control in SSA using 208 paired observations from 40 studies across 12 countries. Among the studies, 41 %, 34 %, and 25 % were from irrigated lowland, rainfed lowland, and rainfed upland rice, respectively. Seventy percent of the studies reported in this paper were conducted on research stations. In agronomic practices, inorganic fertilizer management practices accounted for 78 % of the studies, of which 48 % were nitrogen (N) management. In each study, we identified four types of varieties: check variety (VC), variety with highest yield in the control (VHC), variety with highest yield under improved agronomic practices (VHT), and variety with largest yield difference between improved agronomic practices and control (VHR). VHT was the same as VHC in 35 % of observations, whereas VHR and VHT were the same in 51 %. These indicate that it is possible to develop varieties adapted to different agronomic practices and high-yielding varieties tend to be responsive to improved agronomic practices. On average, total gain in yield with improved agronomic practices and VHT was 1.6 t/ha. Agronomic practice accounted for 75 % of the total variation in total yield gain with variety and agronomic practice by variety interaction responsible for 19 % and 6 %, respectively. Genetic gains in yield with VHC, VHT, and VHR were 0.7, 0.3, and -0.3 t/ha in control, and 0.4, 0.9, and 0.5 t/ha in improved agronomic practices. Agronomic gain in yield averaged 0.5, 0.8, 1.4, and 1.6 t/ha in VHC, VC, VHT, and VHR, respectively. Agronomic gain in yield of VHT was higher than genetic gain under improved agronomic practices in 54 % of observations. Agronomic gain was highest in irrigated lowland rice, followed by rainfed lowland rice. Higher agronomic gain in yield was also associated with larger difference in N application rate between improved agronomic practices and control. Whereas agronomic practices had larger contribution to total gain in yield than genetic improvement in this study, future assessment of agronomic and genetic gains in yield is warranted. Such assessment should focus more on rainfed rice systems, where agronomic gain was small, take into account genetic improvement rate over time and integrated agronomic practices rather than single intervention like nutrient management practice only, and be conducted in farmers' fields.
ICT Usage for Cross-Curricular Connections in Music and Visual Arts during Emergency Remote Teaching in Slovenia

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the entire process of teaching and learning moved online. This forced teachers and pupils to heavily rely on information and communications technology (ICT) and make adjustments to the new mode of teaching and learning in educational institutions. We conducted a qualitative case study by interviewing 24 teachers from Slovene primary schools focusing on the implementation of cross-curricular connections in music and visual arts content with the support of ICT during the period of emergency remote teaching. We found that when planning and implementing the cross-curricular learning process, teachers insufficiently took advantage of possibilities offered by modern ICT. The manner of implementing cross-curricular connections showed uncertainties in terms of understanding their specifics, resulting in the inefficient transfer of concepts taught, the results of which were seen in pupils' work. This might additionally show the negative influence of parental supervision on the creative thinking and expression of pupils. The present study emphasizes the lack of ICT competences on the part of all participants in the educational process. Our findings show the need to educate teachers by eliminating the uncertainties related to the implementation of distant cross-curricular connections while meaningfully applying ICT adapted to pupils' competences.
Molecular and functional characterization of a ladderlectin-like molecule from ayu (Plecoglossus altivelis)

Ladderlectin is a member of C-type lectins (CTLs) in teleost fish and involved in innate immune defense. In this study, ayu (Plecoglossus altivelis) ladderlecin-like (PaLL-like) sequence was cloned, which encodes a polypeptide of 172 amino acids that includes a signal peptide and characteristic C-type lectin-like domains (CTLDs). Phylogenetically, PaLL-like was most closely related to its teleost counterpart from shishamo smelt (Spirinchus lanceolatus). Expression analysis revealed a ubiquitous expression profile, with highest expression detected in liver and its expression was up-regulated following Vibiro anguillarum infection. Similar to canonical CTLs, PaLL-like exhibited carbohydrate-binidng capacities to a wide range of well-defined mono-/di-saccharides and likely confer PaLL-like the ability to agglutinate all tested bacterial, including three Gram-positive species (i.e., Listeria monocytogenes, Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus iniae) and eight Gram-negative species (i.e., Edwardsiella tarda, Aeromonas (A.) hydrophila, Escherichia coli, Vibrio (V.) harveyi, V. anguillarum, V. parahemolyticus, A. versoni and V. vulnificus), in a calcium-dependent manner. Further functional studies revealed that PaLL-like displayed immunomodulatory activities leading to enhanced bactericidal activity of serum, pathogen opsonization and macrophage activation with increased expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines (i.e., PaIL-1β and PaTNF-α). Collectively, these immunomodulatory activities of PaLL-like suppressed proliferations of V. anguillarum in targeted tissued in vivo and likely contributed to the increased survival rate of infected-fish. Overall, our results demonstrated PaLL-like is a critical component of innate immunity and provides protective effects against bacterial infection.
Learning an Occlusion-Aware Network for Video Deblurring

Video deblurring is a challenging task since the blur is caused by camera shake, object motions, etc. The success of the state-of-the-art methods stems mainly from exploiting the temporal information of neighboring frames through alignment. When there exists occlusion among the sequence, these approaches become less effective for inaccurate alignment. In this paper, we propose an effective occlusion-aware network to handle the occlusion for video deblurring. The proposed module first generates a coarse pixel-wise alignment filter to explore the temporal information and then learns an adaptive affine transformation to deal with the occluded areas. In addition, a self-attention mechanism is developed to better model the occluded pixels. To further improve the performance, we progress a multi-scale strategy and train the network in an end-to-end manner. Both quantitative and qualitative experimental results show that the proposed method achieves favorable performance against state-of-the-art methods on the benchmark datasets. The code and trained models are available at: https://github.com/XQLuck/code.git
Map art style transfer with multi-stage framework

We propose a multi-stage framework to create the stylized map art images. Existing techniques are successful in transferring style in photos. Yet, the noise in results and the harmonization in the generated art images still need to be investigated. We address these issues with a proposed algorithm that defines a good portrait for map art application in the initial round. A refinement strategy is then applied to produce the final map arts that meet the aforementioned expectations. Beside our plausible results, the objective evaluation presented in this paper shows that our proposed method can interactively achieve better and appealing map art results in the comparison with those of other works. In addition, our method can also create ocean or landscape stylized paintings using our map art collage.
Abstraction-perception preserving cartoon face synthesis

Portrait cartoonization aims at translating a portrait image to its cartoon version, which guarantees two conditions, namely, reducing textural details and synthesizing cartoon facial features (e.g., big eyes or line-drawing nose). To address this problem, we propose a two-stage training scheme based on GAN, which is powerful for stylization problems. The abstraction stage with a novel abstractive loss is used to reduce textural details. Meanwhile, the perception stage is adopted to synthesize cartoon facial features. To comprehensively evaluate the proposed method and other state-of-the-art methods for portrait cartoonization, we contribute a new challenging large-scale dataset named CartoonFace10K. In addition, we find that the popular metric FID focuses on the target style yet ignores the preservation of the input image content. We thus introduce a novel metric FISI, which compromises FID and SSIM to focus on both target features and retaining input content. Quantitative and qualitative results demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms other state-of-the-art methods.
Experimental investigation of multistage electrodialysis for seawater desalination

Electrodialysis (ED) is currently used for selective removal of ions and brackish water desalination, while for seawater desalination ED is considered to be too energy intensive. This research focuses on the viability of ED using multiple stages for seawater desalination. With staging, the driving force is adapted to the governing conditions at that specific stage, operating at its individual optimum at lower energy consumption. An ED multistage configuration is examined that contains up to four stages. We compare single stage with multistage ED and investigate the effect of operation parameters. Different current densities are applied and optimized and residence time is compared to describe both transmembrane salt and water fluxes. We showed that desalination from 500 mM to 200 mM is possible, but that for these desalination conditions a multistage and single-stage system perform equal. Operation of each stage of the multistage close to limiting current density shows that desalination of synthetic seawater close to drinking water quality is possible. To reach this, the energy consumption is 3.6 kWh/m3 and at least 4 stages are needed. Although outlet concentrations between ED and RO are different, this non-optimized ED system showed double the energy consumption of the state-of-the-art desalination technology RO.
Model-Based Generation of Large Databases of Cardiac Images: Synthesis of Pathological Cine MR Sequences From Real Healthy Cases

Collecting large databases of annotated medical images is crucial for the validation and testing of feature extraction, statistical analysis, and machine learning algorithms. Recent advances in cardiac electromechanical modeling and image synthesis provided a framework to generate synthetic images based on realistic mesh simulations. Nonetheless, their potential to augment an existing database with large amounts of synthetic cases requires further investigation. We build upon these works and propose a revised scheme for synthesizing pathological cardiac sequences from real healthy sequences. Our new pipeline notably involves a much easier registration problem to reduce potential artifacts, and takes advantage of mesh correspondences to generate new data from a given case without additional registration. The output sequences are thoroughly examined in terms of quality and usability on a given application: the assessment of myocardial viability, via the generation of 465 synthetic cine MR sequences (15 healthy and 450 with pathological tissue viability [random location, extent, and grade, up to myocardial infarct]). We demonstrate that: 1) our methodology improves the state-of-the-art algorithms in terms of realism and accuracy of the simulated images and 2) our methodology is well-suited for the generation of large databases at small computational cost.
STUDIES AND EXPERIMENTS FOR DETERMINATION OF DEGRADATION OF PAINTINGS IN MUSEUM ART GALLERIES CAUSED BY ARTIFICIAL LIGHT SOURCES

Light displays a vital role in the exhibition environment especially in Art gallery. The exhibits' colour details cannot be realized without light. Both natural light and artificial light affect the exhibits, it reduces the strength of the paint and material, causes the fading of paper and paint colour, this damage cannot be recovered. So, the relationship between the exhibits protection and the art visual became one of the core issues of Art gallery design research. Museums and art galleries collect, preserve, and display historical /cultural artefacts and various achievements of historical days. Effective exhibit lighting must balance with exhibition and observation and museums visual lighting effects. This should be done by providing lighting levels as per standard as well as keeping the IR (infrared) and UV (ultraviolet) components of light sources minimum. There are different types of light sources (i.e. fluorescent, halogen and incandescent lamps) with IR and / or UV components, and those sources are being used for many years. Now in present days, there is tremendous development in lighting industries (i.e. lighting sources, lighting design etc.). Recently, solid state light sources (i.e. LEDs and OLEDs) are being developed and they have less power consumption and contains no IR range and minimum UV interval of radiation. So in modern art galleries, low wattage highly efficient LEDs are being used to minimize the fading effect on painting. It should be remembered that till now the inefficient halogen sources have best colour rendering property. The experimental work described in this paper reveals that colour rendering of a painting is different under different light sources, it is true but the colour fading of the painting fades very much slow when LEDs are being used.
Electrical measurement of the junction temperature and thermal resistance of HBTs

A simple method is proposed to derive the junction temperature and the bias- and temperature-dependent thermal resistance of heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) using a radio frequency (RF) signal. The method exploits the thermal dependence of the current gain of a transistor whose dissipated power is modified by applying an RF signal. The new method is used to derive the junction temperature and thermal resistance of a power HBT. The results are compared with state-of-the-art techniques.
Application of spray-dried erythromycin fermentation residue as a soil amendment: antibiotic resistance genes, nitrogen cycling, and microbial community structure

Erythromycin fermentation residue (EFR) after spray drying could be reused as a soil amendment. However, the effects of spray-dried EFR on antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), nitrogen cycling, and microbial community structure in soil are rarely reported. In this study, a pot experiment was conducted by adding spray-dried EFR to soil. For the application of 1.0% spray-dried EFR, the residual erythromycin (ERY) could be rapidly removed with the half-life of 22.2 d; the total relative abundance of ARGs increased at first, but decreased to the initial level of the control group in the end; genes related to ammonium assimilation (glnA, gltB, gltD), ammonification (gdhA, gudB, cynT, cynS, ncd2), denitrification (narI, narG, narH), assimilatory nitrate reduction (nirA, nasA), and dissimilatory nitrate reduction (nirD) were enriched; soil microbial community structure presented temporary variation. Network analysis showed significant negative correlations between ARGs and nitrogen cycling genes. The addition of 6.0% spray-dried EFR resulted in the amplification of ARGs and inhibition of nitrogen cycling. This work provides new insights into the effects of spray-dried EFR on ARGs, nitrogen cycling, and microbial community structure within the fertilized soil.
Management of patient with acrometageria for routine dental treatment: A case report

The population of special needs patients in dental offices is growing. Therefore, the demand for well-trained, educated practitioners must increase to fit the need. Conditions such as intellectual developmental disorder, Down syndrome, and autism spectrum disorder are more readily encountered in dental settings. However, it is equally appropriate to identify management techniques for patients with less common conditions. A case is reported in which a 38-year-old Caucasian male with a history significant for acrometageria and associated signs of Mallampati Class IV, micrognathia, decreased mouth opening, decreased thyromental distance, and decreased cervical range of motion presented for routine dental treatment under intravenous sedation. Providers should recognize appropriate management techniques to safely and effectively care for a wide patient demographic.