In this study, the biospeckle technique was evaluated for monitoring of apple bull's eye rot development and product quality in general, during storage under various conditions and during subsequent shelf life. This non-destructive optical method is based on the analysis of laser light variations scattered from the sample. Apples of the cultivars 'Pinova' and 'Topaz', susceptible to bull's eye ...

In the present work, we develop a deep-learning approach for differentiating the eyemovement behavior of people with neurodegenerative diseases over healthy control subjects during reading well-defined sentences. We define an information compaction of the eyetracking data of subjects without and with probable Alzheimer’s disease when reading a set of well-defined, previously validated, sentence...

24 When generating a saccade toward a moving target, the target displacement that 25 occurs during the period spanning from its detection to the saccade end must be taken 26 into account in order to accurately foveate the target and to initiate its pursuit. 27 Previous studies have shown that these saccades are characterized by a lower peak 28 velocity and a prolonged deceleration phase. In som...

Understanding the neural control and mechanics of human eye movement has significant implications for treating vision disorders. A computational model incorporating physiological properties and nonlinear kinematics of the oculomotor plant’s geometry and extraocular muscle (EOM) mechanics is desirable for scientific studies and clinical applications. We simulate realistic three-dimensional eye f...

Learners can have difficulty in decomposing conventionally designed animations to obtain raw material suitable for building high quality mental models. A composition approach to designing animations based on the Animation Processing Model was developed as a principled alternative to prevailing approaches. Outcomes from studying novel and conventional animation designs (independent variable) wer...

19 The direction-selective ganglion cells (DSGCs) and orientation-selective ganglion 20 cells (OSGCs) encode the directional and the orientational information of a moving 21 object, respectively. It is unclear how DSGCs and OSGCs mature in the mouse retina 22 during postnatal development. Here we investigated the development of DSGCs and 23 OSGCs after eye-opening. We show that (1) DSGCs and OS...

This paper presents a novel technique for improving face recognition performance by predicting system failure, and, if necessary, perturbing eye coordinate inputs and repredicting failure as a means of selecting the optimal perturbation for correct classification. This relies on a method that can accurately identify patterns that can lead to more accurate classification, without modifying the c...

In the age of global economy, the cooperation among enterprises is becoming more and more frequent and important. Although many enterprises have constructed their own information systems to help intro-enterprise management, challenges of integrating multi-organization data and processes cost effectively, reliably and securely in the real time and maintaining clear paths of communication and col...

Taste stimuli applied to the tongue can elicit facial responses in humans [1] [2]. The authors have previously reported that solutions of the four basic tastes and several commercial confections can also elicit eye-blink responses [3] [4]. Among the eye-blink parameters, the latency of the eye-blinks is particularly important for providing an estimate of the conduction path and the central proc...

For porcine myocardium, ultrasonic regional deformation parameters, systolic strain (epsilon(sys)) and peak systolic strain rate (SR(sys)), were compared with stroke volume (SV) and contractility [contractility index (CI)] measured as the ratio of end-systolic strain to end-systolic wall stress. Heart rate (HR) and contractility were varied by atrial pacing (AP = 120-180 beats/min, n = 7), incr...