Twenty-four participants, consisting of six sibling pairs and six non-sibling pairs, participated in this study investigating the familiality of auditory evoked potentials (AEPs). The auditory brainstem response (ABR) recorded at high stimulus rates, revealed that Wave V latency increases, while amplitude decreases as stimulus rate increases. ABR Wave V latency was also found to increase with c...

On 21 July 1969, during the first manned lunar mission, Apollo 11, the first retroreflector array was placed on the moon, enabling highly accurate measurements of the Earthmoon separation by means of laser ranging. Lunar laser ranging (LLR) turns the Earthmoon system into a laboratory for a broad range of investigations, including astronomy, lunar science, gravitational physics, geodesy, and ge...

The use of a priori speaker-dependent thresholds has been shown convenient for speaker verification. However, their estimation is highly affected by the difficulty of obtaining data from impostors, the mismatched conditions, the scarcity of data in real applications and the need of setting the threshold a priori, during enrollment. In this context, possible outliers, i.e., those client scores w...

Abstract Background In patients with rectal cancer, enlarged lateral lymph nodes (LLNs) result in increased local recurrence (LLR) and lower cancer-specific survival (CSS) rates, which can be improved (chemo)radiotherapy ((C)RT) LLN dissection (LLND). This study investigated whether different locations affect oncological outcomes. Methods Patients low cT3–4 cancer without synchronous distant me...

Abstract The Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) retroreflector arrays have been on the Moon for half a century. During that time, laser range uncertainty has improved by factor of 100. Consequently, science results also orders magnitude. New retroreflectors are scheduled to go Commercial Lander Payload Services missions and Geophysical Network mission. new single 10 cm corner cube will not spread pulse ...

The quality assessment (QA) of restored low-light images is an important tool for benchmarking and improving restoration (LLR) algorithms. While several LLR algorithms exist, the subjective perception has been much less studied. Challenges in capturing aligned well-lit image pairs collecting a large number human opinion scores training, warrant design unsupervised (or unaware) no-reference (NR)...

Laparoscopic liver resection (LLR) is safer and more advantageous than open surgery regarding morbidity, blood loss, length of hospital stay. Several radiological studies surgical strategies confirmed that the anatomy complex what Couinad described. Intraoperative ultrasound (IOUS) has become an indispensable tool to identify “real anatomy” plan a tailored LLR because wide sub-segmentary variab...