The separation of pure polyolefins, polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP), from post-consumer plastic waste is of increasing interest in the last years according to market requirements for their further recycling. In this paper new analytical inspection strategies, based on HyperSpectral Imaging (HSI) in the VIS-NIR and NIR fields (400-1000 and 1000-1700 nm, respectively), have been investig...

With EO-1 Hyperion and MightySat in orbit NASA and the DoD are showing their continued commitment to hyperspectral imaging (HSI). As HSI sensor technology continues to mature, the ever-increasing amounts of sensor data generated will result in a need for more cost effective communication and data handling systems. Lockheed Martin, with considerable experience in spacecraft design and developing...

The Current Issue of the Sudanese Journal of Paediatrics (SJP) reflects on the engraved old heritage of the Sudanese to help the needy by highlighting the story of the Hawadith Street Initiative (HSI) [1]. Named after the street on which it was founded, which translates indirectly to “Accidents Lane”, HSI was established in 2012 to meet Sudan’s child health insurance gap by crowdfunding medical...

Hyperspectral image (HSI) denoising is a prerequisite for many subsequent applications. For an HSI, the level and type of noise often vary with different bands and spatial positions, which make it difficult to effectively remove noise while preserving textures and edges. To alleviate this problem, we propose a new total-variation model. The main contribution of the proposed approach lies in tha...

Studies examining acute oxygenation and perfusion changes in irradiated skin are limited. Hyperspectral imaging (HSI), a method of wide-field, diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, provides noninvasive, quantified measurements of cutaneous oxygenation and perfusion. This study examines whether HSI can assess acute changes in oxygenation and perfusion following irradiation. Skin on both flanks of nu...

The search for invariants is a fundamental aim of scientific endeavors. These invariants, such as Newton’s laws of motion, allow us to model and predict the behavior of systems across many different problems. In the nascent field of Human-Swarm Interaction (HSI), a systematic identification of fundamental invariants is still lacking. Discovering and formalizing these invariants will provide a f...

Compression of Hyper Spectral Image (HSI) is an important issue in remote sensing applications due to its huge data size. An efficient technique for HSI compression is proposed based on Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) and Tucker Decomposition (TD) with Adaptive Least Squares (ALS) method. This technique exploits both the spatial and spectral information in the images. ALS method is used to com...

Dietary salt intake modulates the renin-angiotensin system (RAS); however, little is known about the effect of salt intake on the progression of glomerulonephritis. We investigated the glomerular expression of TGF-beta1 type I (TbetaRI) and II (TbetaRII) TGF-beta receptors and RAS components in rats with antithymocyte serum (ATS) nephritis on normal (NSI)-, low (LSI)-, and high-salt intake (HSI...

The development of improved preservation techniques and the reliable assessment of donor grafts are main fields of research in transplantation medicine. Normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) is a promising alternative to static cold storage of organs, maintaining physiological conditions during preservation. In combination with NMP, we introduce hyperspectral imaging (HSI) as a novel approach fo...

The purpose of this study is to apply the Human Security Index (HSI) as a tool to detect social and economic cumulative risk burden at a county-level in the state of Texas. The HSI is an index comprising a network of three sub-components or "fabrics"; the Economic, Environmental, and Social Fabrics. We hypothesized that the HSI will be a useful instrument for identifying and analyzing socioecon...