Low-cost mini-drones with advanced sensing and maneuverability enable a new class of intelligent sensing systems. Œis trend motivated several research e‚orts to employ drones as standalone systems or to assist legacy deployments. However, several fundamental challenges remain unsolved including: 1) Adequate coverage of sizable targets; 2) Target orientation that render coverage e‚ective only fr...

Introduction New Hypothesis formation may be an analyst-initiated activity, an automated process whereby a novel trend is discovered and tracked, or a hybrid one. In the hybrid case, the system offers its discovery of novel, potentially interesting patterns for analyst review, leading to new hypothesis being formed and tracked, or to discarding the novelty as coincidental or uninteresting. The ...

The Northern snakehead (Channa argus), a member of the Channidae family of the Perciformes, is an economically important freshwater fish native to East Asia. In North America, it has become notorious as an intentionally released invasive species. Its ability to breathe air with gills and migrate short distances over land makes it a good model for bimodal breath research. Therefore, recent resea...

Purpose Visual scanning by sighted individuals is done using eye and head movements. In contrast, scanning using the Argus II is solely done by head movement, since eye movements can introduce localization errors. Here, we tested if a scanning mode utilizing eye movements increases visual stability and reduces head movements in Argus II users. Methods Eye positions were measured in real-time ...

The snakehead fish Channa argus is an important food fish in China. We identified six microsatellite loci for C. argus. These six microsatellite loci and four other microsatellite markers were used to analyze genetic diversity in four cultured populations of C. argus (SD, JX, HN, and ZJ) and determine their relationships. A total of 154 alleles were detected at the 10 microsatellite loci. The a...

OBJECTIVE The objective was to evaluate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) issues (magnetic field interactions, heating, artifacts and functional alterations) at 1.5 T and 3 T for the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis (Second Sight Medical Products, Sylmar, CA, USA). MATERIALS AND METHODS Standardized protocols were used to assess magnetic field interactions (translational attraction and torque; 3 T,...

Scale samples of Channa marulius were collected and studied for age determination and calculation of growth parameters. The fish were sampled from Harike Wetland during 1998 to 1999. Linear relationship with a high degree of correlation was observed between total fish length and the lateral scale radius. Age determination studies revealed 5 age groups. The harvestable size falls just below the ...

1. Introduction As the title of this paper shows, the objective of the deliverable is to publish the results of a test on microaggregation techniques implemented in µ-Argus 3.2 using real data and, more specifically, business data, a new aspect in the analysis. Particulary, it has been tested the microaggregation method that, according to the present bibliography, has provided the best results....