PURPOSE The hypothesis that outdoor exposure might protect against myopia has generated much interest, although available data find only modest clinical efficacy. We tested the effect of outdoor rearing on form-deprivation myopia in chicks, a myopia model markedly inhibited by high-intensity indoor laboratory lighting. METHODS Unilaterally goggled cohorts of White Leghorn chicks were maintain...

BACKGROUND Despite an increasing preference of consumers for beef produced from more extensive pasture-based production systems and potential human health benefits from the consumption of such beef, data regarding the health status of animals raised on pasture are limited. The objective of this study was to characterise specific aspects of the bovine peripheral and the gastrointestinal muscosal...

This paper presents a framework to perform outdoor photometric stereo by utilizing environment light. We present the main considerations in designing the framework and steps of the processing pipeline. Our framework extends existing algorithms to meet the robustness and variability necessary to operate out of a laboratory environment. We verify our environment light photometric stereo framework...

The 720P outdoor dome camera from Bosch is a professional surveillance cameras that provides high quality HD images for demanding security and surveillance network requirements. This robust dome is a true day/night camera offering excellent performance day or night. The camera is also available with a built-in active infrared illuminator that provides high performance in extreme low-light envir...

420 Introduction Going back to the starting point of the development, the following question arises: What are the desirable parameters of stabilized outdoor earthen plaster? To be able to reply to this question, we must first define onto what surfaces the plaster will be applied. Modern earthen structures built in our climatic zone must be fitted with thermal insulation and treated as compositi...

Location-based Services are often required to cover indoor and outdoor environment, while indoor/outdoor detection for seamless positioning remains a longstanding challenge for Location-based Services. This paper presents an indoor/outdoor detection based on the variation of signals from multi-base stations. After study previous work, we put forward a new sampling algorithm, and then optimized ...

The task of indoor/ outdoor audio classification using foreground speech segmentation is attempted in this work. Foreground speech segmentation is the use of features to segment between foreground speech and background interfering sources like noise. Initially, the foreground and background segments are obtained from foreground speech segmentation by using the normalized autocorrelation peak st...

The personal dose equivalent for 36 Marumori residents living in wooden houses was evaluated using optically stimulated luminescent dosemeters after the Fukushima nuclear accident. The cumulative doses to residents over 200 d from 1 September 2011 ranged from 536 to 1490 µSv. In each resident's house, the indoor and outdoor ambient dose equivalents were measured with an NaI scintillation survey...

This study investigated correlates of outdoor advertising panel density in predominantly African American neighborhoods in New York City. Research shows that black neighborhoods have more outdoor advertising space than white neighborhoods, and these spaces disproportionately market alcohol and tobacco advertisements. Thus, understanding the factors associated with outdoor advertising panel dens...